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Study Shows Exercise Without Weight Loss Still Improves Cholesterol Levels
VOA News November 2, 2002
Overweight people might be pleased with a new U.S. study that shows they do not need to lose weight to improve the cholesterol levels in their blood. However, they must exercise.
But, low intensity exercise seems to be just as good as high intensity as long as there is enough of it. For the first time, researchers at Duke University in North Carolina have shown that exercise without weight loss has a positive impact on cholesterol. More...
Chocolate Lovers, Here’s to Your Health!
VOA News August 1, 2005
Chocoholics, eat to your heart's content. Many are aware that chocolate can be an aphrodisiac, and it certainly tickles our tastes buds, but a new study says it's good for us too!
Plant-derived compounds called flavonoids are found in a variety of foods: fruits, vegetables, tea and red wine. Flavonoids have long been known to doctors for their health benefits, and now, according to a new study, they're also found in some kinds of CHOCOLATE!
Losing Weight is a Snap -- of a Camera
VOA News June 27, 2005
O-K, that's it. We Americans have gone certifiably insane over our weight. It wasn't enough that the government completely re-designed its "food pyramid" nutrition guide into colored bands -- wide ones for recommended good stuff like grains and green veggies, skinny bands for naughty sugars and fats. Or that it tries, with little success, to teach us the difference between "good fats" and "bad fats.
"We did the grapefruit diet. Then the low-fat, low-carbohydrate, high-carbohydrate, South Beach, Detox, Protein Power, Atkins and Zone diets. We grunt through treadmill ordeals, jazzy exercises, and contorted workouts on machines straight out of the Inquisition. But in the mirror, we're still a long way from Adonis and Aphrodite. So someone has combined three American obsessions -- with weight, with technology, and with convenience and comfort -- into something called a "dieting service." More...
The Dangers of 'Fad Diets'
VOA News July 18, 2002
Studies show rates of obesity in the United States have surged in recent decades, with roughly two-thirds of the population classified as overweight. America's flabbiness has spawned an enormous weight loss industry, from fitness and weight loss centers to so-called "fad diets" that promise miraculous results. Yet a leading researcher and nutritionist says the fad diets are doing more harm than good.
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