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In the fight over best diet for health and weight loss, it's protein lovers vs. vegetarian zealots. So far, a clear winner has not emerged. Only one loser you, the victim of biased research. Here is an example of why you should keep your !**@! alarm on high alert when reading about weight loss di...
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The media says yes. Science says maybe. In the end, you decide. Here are the facts A truffle treatment for heart disease is imminent. That's what a recent article suggests, headlined in the New York Daily News as "Dark chocolate cuts heart deaths; Study shows benefits for high risk cardiac patients....
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With the decoding of the human genome came the hope of getting a lever on the chronic diseases, which kill most of us today heart disease, stroke, diabetes and many cancers. And since overweight and obesity are a common cause of those diseases, many obese people were, and still are, yearning for tha...
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Lack of time is the most often cited excuse for not exercising. I deliberately chose the word "excuse" over its less judgmental alternative "obstacle". Simply because I cannot see an "obstacle" when I compare two simple metrics the hours people spend watching TV and the minutes needed to maintain on...
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Let's face it, if exercise was really that much fun, everybody would do it and we wouldn't be fat, diabetic or die of heart disease. So when your doctor tells you that you better start exercising, your immediate question might be how much do I have to do The answer is, it depends. It depends on whet...
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