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Body Fat And Brain Shrinkage: Obesity May Put Even Your Brain Health Into A Vicious Cycle

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Body Fat And Brain Shrinkage: Obesity May Put Even Your Brain Health Into A Vicious Cycle
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Body Fat, Obesity And Brain Shrinkage, A Vicious Cycle:
Weight loss is something that comes with a lot of challenges and motivations.

Most of which starts with looking better, and maybe eventually even feeling better.

And while many of us just assume that excess bodyfat is an unsightly-inconvenience,

Science is finding out that it’s a lot more problematic than just looks.

And if you need to lose fat, then the study by Ilona Dekkers at the University of Leiden will make you want to put your running-shoes right on,

Because excess-bodyfat affects a lot more than just your looks…

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By: Will  /    /    

Diet Danger: Eating Fried Food Daily Could Increase Your Risk Of An Extra-Crispy Early Death

Filed Under: Nutrition

Diet Danger: Eating Fried Food Daily Could Increase Your Risk Of An Extra-Crispy Early Death
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Fried Food Dangers. Your Health Is Getting Smoked:
One of the problems many of us have is deciding how to help ourselves through diet.

This can involve anything from fad-diets to crazy movie-star weight-loss plans,

To something as simple as just trying to get less sugar.

But recently, it seems that some food may be damn-near poisonous.

Especially with the revelations about harmful chemicals in fast-food packaging materials.

And to add to that list of risks, a team from the University of Iowa is discovering that deep-fried foods may be particularly dangerous…

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By: Will  /    /    

Intermittent Fasting And Obesity: Time-Restricted Eating Makes You A Lean, Mean, Circadian Machine

Filed Under: Aging

Intermittent Fasting And Obesity: Time-Restricted Eating Makes You A Lean, Mean, Circadian Machine
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Intermittent-Fasting’s Sneak-Attack On Obesity & Metabolic-Illness:
So losing-weight is a very tough thing, and we seem destined to get fat.

Diets to get a movie-star body are just plain crazy,

Add-on the uncertainty introduced by new Fad Diets that seem to crop-up about every 3 years,

And you could understand how the average person could end-up discouraged, confused; and even-worse, looking nothing like Ryan Reynolds.

But researchers at the Salk Institute have just come-up with another amazing confirmation to the proof in a recent diet trend…

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Weight-Loss That’s Fast & Easy Could All Start With A Strange Change To Your Senses

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Weight-Loss That’s Fast & Easy Could All Start With A Strange Change To Your Senses
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Science Continues To Discover Human Freakonomics:
So as research on weight-loss and other health-concerns goes on, we’re reminded in new ways how quirky human beings really are.

Whether it’s the revelation that speed-eating makes you gain weight faster,

Or even the part of those studies that show the experience of tasting is actually more smelling the food than anything else.

And in its pursuit of the weird side of humanity, Science is discovering an even more interesting part of diet.

How you smell your food may affect your health in really unexpected ways…

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By: Will  /    /    

Before & After Fitness Transformations Show You How Long It Really Takes To Build Muscle & Lose Fat

Filed Under: Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Before & After Fitness Transformations Show You How Long It Really Takes To Build Muscle & Lose Fat
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The Struggle Is Real:
Anyone who’s ever had a little extra fat can relate to the struggle to lose it.

-Including all the different choices you have to make in both nutrition and exercise.

Because, the more factors you can stack in your favor, the better.

Well, BoredPanda’s Šarūnė Mac compiled a huge gallery of Weight-Loss Winners.

It’s worth a look, paying special attention to some of the claimed-timeframes for several of the results.

And so, we’ve picked-out a few of the more realistic examples for you…

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By: Will  /    /    

Strange Brew: Why Is Post-Drinking Munchies, or ‘The Aperitif Effect’ So Powerful?

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Stupid Health Tricks

Strange Brew: Why Is Post-Drinking Munchies, or ‘The Aperitif Effect’ So Powerful?
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Legacy Of Alcohol, The Ham-Fist Way:
Over time, we’ve tried to sing the praises of alcohol; from Beer BS to Hangover bro-science.

Along the way, we’ve discovered some strange contradictions, like: Thirst is often mistaken for Hunger, & Mars500 finding a great reason to control your salt-intake.

So in the spirit of Weird, !SCIENCE! brings us another “WTF, Mother Nature?!!”

That contradiction starts with our bizarre need to eat after Animal House-level symphonies of drinking…

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Happy Accident: Mission To Mars Discovers Trick To Help You Control Appetite & Lose Weight

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Happy Accident: Mission To Mars Discovers Trick To Help You Control Appetite & Lose Weight
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Weight-Loss Is Only 140 Million Miles Away:
So science usually has set ideas about the way things work. And every once in awhile, those assumptions will be proved wrong.

Most of the time it happens out of a very weird discovery or coincidence. -And this time is no different.

This diet-revelation started with the “Oh crap, we have to rescue Matt Damon again,”-level idea of actually sending people to Mars.

And on that mission, one of the strangest things the rocket-scientists had to do was manage Water…

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Thick Thighs Save Lives Not Just Amanda Lee’s Favorite Cheeky Retort. Because: Watch Out Men! -Your Belly Fat Is Officially The Most Unhealthy Type

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Thick Thighs Save Lives Not Just Amanda Lee’s Favorite Cheeky Retort. Because: Watch Out Men! -Your Belly Fat Is Officially The Most Unhealthy Type
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Body-Type Guesswork Might Have Been Right:
Apparently, “Thick Thighs Save Lives”, isn’t just the (kinda-NSFW) Instagram-stunner’s favorite cheeky retort. -It’s actually true.

So: Over time people have gone from the days of Titian when fat was rad, because it meant you actually had food, to something less desirable today.

And on that road, people started to describe horoscope-like body-types, such as Apples or Pears, to guess their potential health issues.

New research is showing their ideas were good; especially about men. And it all comes down to what you can see, versus what you can’t…

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