Category Archives: Health Facts

Report Reveals the Worst Sugary Cereal Offenders

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Regularly consuming a healthy and nutritious breakfast is an excellent way start your day. Several benefits include refueling your body, improving concentration, enhancing your mood, assisting in maintaining a healthy weight, to name a few. In other words, breakfast is the centerpiece of a healthy diet.

However, if you’re like millions of other Americans, you often start your day with a big bowl of cereal. Many whole grain cereals are excellent sources of nutrition, packed with vitamins, minerals and complex carbohydrates that provide a sense of fullness and the energy you need to make it until lunch.

However, not all breakfast cereals are created equal, and a new report from the Environmental Working Group has highlighted the worst sugary cereals.

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Study: Walking can Reduce Chocolate Cravings

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Greg Asseff

If you’re like many weight loss seekers, you might find yourself maintaining a fairly well disciplined dietary regimen, coupled with regularly performing an exercise routine, with the exception of a few key weaknesses, such as frequent cravings for chocolate.

Although eating a small amount of dark chocolate on a regular basis has been proven to boost your overall cardiovascular health, overindulging, without reducing your overall caloric intake or caloric expenditure, can cause you to quickly pack on the additional pounds thanks to chocolate’s high saturated fat and sugar content.

A new study is indicating that taking a short, brisk walk can significantly reduce chocolate cravings while providing some moderate physical exercise at the same time.

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FDA: HCG Weight Loss Products are Dangerous

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Weight loss seekers, listen up: Today the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) issued a warning stating that HCG (human chorionic gonadotropin), a hormone found in some weight loss products, could be very dangerous, not to mention ineffective and illegal as well.

HCG is found naturally in pregnant women’s urine, and has been touted as the active ingredient in a variety of over-the-counter weight loss products that are offered in the form of sprays, tablets and oral droplets.

Seven HCG weight loss product companies, all of whom have received warning letters from the FDA and the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), sell over-the-counter products containing HCG, advertising them as “natural” metabolism boosters.

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Regular Exercise can Help You Sleep, Study Shows

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Greg Asseff

Millions of Americans find themselves in an unfortunate cycle: they feel drowsy and fatigued throughout the day, however, they have difficulty falling asleep when it comes time to go to bed for the evening, leaving them feeling worn out and ill prepared for the next day.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) insufficient sleep is a public health epidemic in the United States. Insufficient sleep has been linked to motor vehicle accidents, industrial disasters, and other occupational and medical errors. In addition, individuals that regularly experience a sleep deficiency are more likely to suffer from several types of chronic diseases including hypertension, depression, diabetes, obesity, multiple types of cancer, increased mortality, and reduced quality of life and productivity..

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Eating Fish May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s, Study Suggests

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Greg Asseff

If you enjoy eating fish on a regular basis, you will be happy to know that you are already eating a natural whole food that prevents alzheimers, and are actively taking steps towards preventing the onset of Alzheimer’s disease altogether, a new study suggests.

Fish has long been considered a “brain food,” or a food whose consumption naturally improves brain functionality. However, until recently, there was a lack of clinical scientific evidence to conclusively prove that this was indeed true.

In fact, the aforementioned study presented recently in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America was the first to determine how eating fish might change the brain’s structure.

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