SMOKING DAMAGES BRAIN, SAY BRITISH RESEARCHERS
Smoking not only damages the body, it could harm the mind as well. The B-B-C reports that researchers at London’s King’s College have concluded that smoking “rots” the brain by damaging memory,...
View ArticleTIPPING THE SCALES IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
About one-third of the world’s population is fat. And the same new report says no country has been able to curb obesity rates the past three decades. The study, published online in the journal...
View ArticleSTUDY: OVERWEIGHT ARTHRITIS PATIENTS SUFFER MORE
Zoomers, who are overweight – especially women – and have arthritis in their knees, tend to report more pain than those who are slimmer but suffer from similar issues. The health records of nearly...
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YO-YO DIETING DANGEROUS FOR OVERWEIGHT HEART PATIENTS: STUDY
Losing and regaining weight repeatedly may be dangerous for overweight heart patients. A new study says heart attacks, strokes and early death were more common in patients whose weight changed the most...
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OBESITY CAN SHORTEN YOUR LIFE, BUT BEING ‘JUST OVERWEIGHT’ HAS NO EFFECT ON...
It seems that being obese can shorten your life. Researchers from Northwestern University looked at more than 190-thousand people who, at the beginning of the study, did not have cardiovascular...
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WEIGHT LOSS IMPROVES QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE WITH KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS
If you have knee pain from arthritis, you may want to consider losing some weight. A new study out of Wake Forest University analyzed data from 240 overweight and obese adults with pain and knee...
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