Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

Harvard Prof says you shed IQ points when dieting and shedding pounds







Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of economics at Harvard, argues that dieting can make you dumber in the article below.


NYTimes article

Friday, September 20, 2013

Time for the Papaya Diet? LOL.

Papaya Diet – How Helpful Is It? (via Style Craze)
Image: Shutterstock Stay Healthy With Papaya Diet: Leading a healthy lifestyle can be a true challenge in this age of extreme pollution. Our hectic schedules often make us gobbling unhealthy foods that are not suitable for a healthy person. Consequently…

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Excercise, baby!

Yeah, as we been saying, like forever, studies published in The International Journal of Obesity and PLoS One say this:
Their appetites were noticeably blunted by each of the interval workouts, and in particular by the most strenuous 15-second intervals... They also displayed significantly lower levels of the hormone ghrelin, which is known to stimulate appetite, and elevated levels of both blood lactate and blood sugar, which have been shown to lessen the drive to eat, after the most vigorous interval session than after the other workouts... And the appetite-suppressing effect of the highly intense intervals lingered into the next day, according to food diaries that the men completed.