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January 28th, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Links have been suggested between high fat diets during pregnancy and obesity in the child during their life. Studies on mice in the Yale School of Medicine have found that there are links between a pregnant mother eating a high fat diet and the...
January 24th, 2014 at 12:00 AM

The University of East Anglia has carried out a study that has shown that both chocolate and red wine contain components that could help prevent Type 2 diabetes. The component of the red wine and chocolate that the scientists, including Prof Aedin...
January 22nd, 2014 at 12:00 AM

A new weight loss gastric balloon pill has been launched in the UK. The pill - called Obalon - does not require surgery, like other gastric balloon treatments. Instead, it is a ten-minute procedure during which the patient swallows a pill - the...
January 20th, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Dr. Peter D'Adamo opened up a new avenue of enquiry and research about dieting and ways to live healthier with his book 'Eat Right 4 Your Type' in which he suggested each blood type should follow a different diet in order to maximise health and, as...
January 16th, 2014 at 12:00 AM

The United Nations World Health Assembly set out in 2012 to save the world from avoidable deaths caused by non-communicable diseases, or NCDs. The aim was to lower the amount of deaths by 25% by 2025. The regulations of alcohol and tobacco have...
January 15th, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Kim Kardashian has revealed that she is back on the diet that helped her to shed her baby weight. The reality TV star was doing a question and answer session on Mobio Insider and said to a fan who complimented her post-baby figure: "Thank you! I did...
January 13th, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Weight Watchers have launched their new 2014 campaign, and it is still not too late to sign up. The new campaign's ad reaches from the TV to the cinema, and a re-branding and make-over of the website has kept it up-to-date and given it a fresh...
January 9th, 2014 at 12:00 AM

High fibre diets have been found to alleviate the symptoms of asthma and other allergic airway inflammation based diseases in mice by a recent study in Switzerland. An increase in asthma sufferers in developing countries where fibre content in the...
January 8th, 2014 at 12:00 AM

More than half of Great Britain tried to lose weight last year, according to new statistics. Research from Mintel shows that over half of the population - equivalent to 29 million or 55 per cent - made the effort to diet in the 12 months leading up...
January 6th, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Dr Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer's dieting book 'The Fast Diet' was reportedly the best-selling book on Amazon through Christmas and is the origin of the 5:2 Diet that took the last quarter of 2013 by storm. The premise is simple; eat for 5 days,...
December 19th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Jennifer Lawrence has risen into acting stardom fairly quickly over the last few years, fronting the Hunger Games film series which has exploded globally. But none of this stardom and fame seems to have gone to her head. The 23 year old has a...
December 18th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Ear acupuncture could be effective in helping weight loss, according to a new study. The study, published in the 'Acupuncture in Medicine' journal, consisted of three groups; a five-point treatment, which is the standard Korean treatment, a...
December 13th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

It is not just the mothers who should be watching what they eat on the run up to pregnancy . New research has shown that Dad's diet could have an impact on the long term health of the child as well. Folic acid is an important component in a...
December 12th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

Kim Kardashian is like marmite; some people love her, some people can't stand her. Either way, it is pretty hard to avoid her, as she is splashed across all manner of media. No matter what your opinion of her is, you can't fault her for her positive...
December 11th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

American celebrities Beyonce and Jay Z have gone vegan for the three weeks leading up to Christmas. Jay Z announced on his website that he and Beyonce would turn vegan the day before his 44th birthday, and would adhere to the diet up until...
December 11th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

There are many different forms of medication available to help dementia patients, but there is no definitive cure. Medical professionals and researchers have stated however that a healthy diet could help to prevent the onset of dementia...
December 6th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

New research has suggested that healthy diets are nowhere near as expensive as people usually presume. 27 studies in 10 countries revealed that a healthy diet will cost about £1 per day, per person more than a usual, unhealthy diet. This is the...
December 4th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

An American Pastor, Rick warren, is releasing his very own dieting guide after it came to his attention how overweight a lot of his congregation is. The Pastor of the Saddleback Church in Southern California lost 65 pound in 2011 using a tailored...
December 4th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

A Norwegian-based diet could help people lose weight, according to new research. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that 181 overweight volunteers lost double the amount of weight on the Nordic diet, than they did on an average Danish diet. The diet...
November 27th, 2013 at 12:00 AM

A computer chip that tells you when to stop eating is being developed by scientists. The chip, which would be implanted in your arm, constantly checks for fat in the blood. When you have eaten too much, it releases a hormone that quells hunger...
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