By Bill Bradley for GQ.Anyone who cares about his health already knows to purge the cupboard of refined carbohydrates and added sugars–your white breads, your Tropicanas. And yet many of us live with a rising dread that we are accidentally ingesting terrible things that we don’t even know are terrible, or that are more terrible than we’d…

By Joseph D’Urso LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The environmental, health and animal welfare benefits of a meat-free diet are well known – but convincing people to forgo crispy bacon or juicy steak for the rest of their lives is not easy. “We’re at a place in society where very few people are vegan or vegetarian,” said Brian Kateman, an American researcher who co-founded the Reducetarian Foundation. “In order to move that movement forward we need more people, and I don’t think we’re going to be successful in doing that if we’re promoting an all or nothing message,” he told Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.

In the spirit of the upcoming New Year and the hullabaloo of resolutions, I feel an urge to help women be more successful in their efforts to get healthy this time around. I’m a nutrition and health coach that helps women successfully change their life by improving their health, increasing their energy, and losing weight. But I want everyone…

Parents in 12-week ‘Y Living Program’ may be setting good example for kids.Latino adults enrolled in a 12-week family-based lifestyle program lost weight, had less body fat, and reduced their…

Children who have asthma, hay fever or eczema may also have more risk factors for heart disease at a young age, as compared to kids who don’t have these allergy-related conditions, a new study suggests. Researchers found that kids with such allergies had higher rates of being overweight or obese — risk factors for heart disease — than…

(In this Nov 8 story, corrects name of Bydureon in paragraph 10 from Byetta.) By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – There’s little difference in the performance of five new once-a-week drugs to treat diabetes when they’re compared to one another, though small differences in side effects emerge, according to a new review of existing evidence. Past studies of the drugs known as glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists – or GLP-1RAs – have found that the medications improve blood sugar control and reduce body weight, but the review’s lead author said no research had compared the various versions head-to-head. “The main message is that today several drugs are available for the control of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes, as never before,” said Dr. Francesco Zaccardi, of the Diabetes Research Center at Leicester General Hospital in the U.K., “Therefore, it is even more important to know differences and similarities among drugs.” In type 2 diabetes, the body can’t properly use or make enough of the hormone insulin to convert blood sugar into energy.

It is well documented that a healthy diet and exercise are key in cancer prevention and management, but the exact mechanism hasn’t been clear.

Title: How Much Weight Must You Lose Before Others Notice?
Category: Health News
Created: 12/7/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Initiatives to eliminate food deserts, low-income geographic areas that lack access to a supermarket or large grocery store, may not have an effect on improving dietary quality or reducing…