BEWARE OF THE ATKINS DIET. A little-known fact that people are choosing to forget. After following his own diet plan that “controls” carbohydrate consumption and emphasizes protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories for several years, the creator/inventor of the Atkins diet Dr. Robert Coleman Atkins became extremely depressed and died weighing […]
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A strict vegetarian diet has long been scrutinized for the toll it can take on a person’s physical wellbeing, but a new scientific report raises another important question: what about a vegetarian’s mental wellbeing? There’s a good deal of medical literature associating deficiencies of B12 and omega-3 with depression. These essential nutrients are most commonly […]
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Physical activity does nothing to cancel the harmful effects of excess body weight on cardiovascular health, according to a new study New research has just plunged a dagger through the core of the mentality that you can be “fat but fit.” Physical activity does nothing to cancel the harmful effects of excess body weight on cardiovascular […]
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Researchers from Denmark studied the fertility and family health of 9,232 adults They found that men born to obese women had a higher risk of being infertile The same did not appear to apply to the daughters of overweight women The team said the causes of the increased risk of male infertility were unclear However, such […]
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A first-of-its kind report on diets, food demand and waste found that the number of people who are obese or overweight is set to surge if trends continue Potsdam Institute researchers predict that within 30 years, four point billion worldwide will likely be overweight and 1.5 billion of them will be obese Meanwhile, 500 million […]
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