Do You Have Celiac Disease?
Migraines, diarrhea, chronic fatigue and weight loss — all symptoms caused by a disease most people have never heard of — celiac disease. Doctors say more than 1 million Americans have it, and many...
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Asian Diet and Breast Cancer
In America this year, about 185-thousand women will get breast cancer. But in Japan, far fewer women will. Researchers believe there’s something special about the Asian diet that protects women from breast cancer. Meal...
Low calorie, low carbohydrate diets
I’m always reading about new weight loss diets. Should I avoid them because I have diabetes? It depends on the eating plan that is being recommended. The most effective ways to lose weight healthily...
Reducing your risk of Type 2 diabetes?
Is it possible to prevent Type 2 diabetes? If you know that you are prone to diabetes because, for example, you have a family history of Type 2 diabetes or you had diabetes during...
Weight Loss Secrets: Cut Back Calories
At any given time, almost half of the women in the U.S. are on a diet. Americans dish our more than $40 billion each year on diet and diet-related products. Yet 95 percent of...
New Cause of Wasting Syndrome
About half of all patients with cancer and AIDS are affected by wasting syndrome. It is a condition that causes severe weight loss and weakness in patients. Department of Veterans Affairs researchers in San...
Are weight loss strategies effective?
There is little evidence that current weight loss strategies are very effective. Well over 30 percent of Americans are overweight and the number is growing. Those who do lose weight will drop an average...
How to Lose Weight
To lose weight, you need to create an energy deficit, or use up more calories than you consume. But before you cut calories or increase energy intake, it’s important to see where you’re starting...
The Benefits of Boosting Calcium: All the Way to Weight Loss
An estimated 44 percent to 87 percent of Americans don’t get enough calcium, including children, who are falling severely short on this mineral critical for proper growth and development. Unfortunately, there are not usually...
The Big Seven for Weight Loss
The top seven most important habits of successful dieting include Get eight hours of sleep every night. Eat breakfast! Walk briskly for at least 60 minutes a day. Write down what you eat. Weigh...