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Can Using Smaller Plates Help You Lose Weight?
Can Using Smaller Plates Help You Lose Weight?
Can Using Smaller Plates Help You Lose Weight?
New research suggests most people could easily lose up to two pounds a month simply by eating off smaller plates and focusing more on their food during mealtimes. In one study, people ate 45 percent more popcorn when they were given a larger size of the snack food, and diners given a “bottomless bowl” of soup that automatically refilled ate 73 percent more without even realizing it.
What’s the Key to Living to 100?
What’s the Key to Living to 100?
What’s the Key to Living to 100?
According to a new study, people live to 100 because of good genes and luck, not healthy living habits. Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York interviewed 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112 on their lifestyle choices. They found that this long-lived group was just about as likely to smoke, drink, eat poorly, be obese and shun exercise as a control group of ab
McDonald’s Happy Meals to Get Healthy Makeover
McDonald’s Happy Meals to Get Healthy Makeover
McDonald’s Happy Meals to Get Healthy Makeover
In an effort to help stave off childhood obesity, McDonald’s announced Monday that its iconic Happy Meals are getting a healthy tune-up. Traditionally, the meals included a burger or chicken nuggets, fries and a soda. But starting this fall, a fruit or vegetable will also be in the shiny box.
Study Reveals Head Trauma May Increase Likelihood of Alzheimer’s
Study Reveals Head Trauma May Increase Likelihood of Alzheimer’s
Study Reveals Head Trauma May Increase Likelihood of Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease has long been a medical mystery, but new research may point to at least one cause for the debilitating condition. After a study involving 300,000 veterans aged 55 and up, scientists at the University of California-San Francisco learned that older people who’ve experienced a traumatic brain injury — or TBI — during their lives have more than twice the risk of developing dementia
New ‘Dyslexie’ Font Created to Help Dyslexia Sufferers [VIDEO]
New ‘Dyslexie’ Font Created to Help Dyslexia Sufferers [VIDEO]
New ‘Dyslexie’ Font Created to Help Dyslexia Sufferers [VIDEO]
Dyslexia sufferers have a tough time with basic reading– the learning disability actually causes those afflicted to view words differently than the rest of us. They sometimes see letters flipped upside down, mirrored or even rearranged within a word. A new typeface called Dyslexie is trying to change all that. Created by Netherlands designer Christian Boer, it thickens the bottom of some letters a
Can Romance Novels Be Hazardous To Your Health?
Can Romance Novels Be Hazardous To Your Health?
Can Romance Novels Be Hazardous To Your Health?
By promoting idealized relationships full of multiple orgasms, condom-less sex, and trouble-free pregnancies, relationship expert Susan Quilliam believes romance novels are having an adverse effect on the sexual health of women. In a paper published in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, Quilliam writes that “a huge number of the issues we see in our clinics and therapy ro
Could Getting Paid Be Harmful to Your Health? [VIDEO]
Could Getting Paid Be Harmful to Your Health? [VIDEO]
Could Getting Paid Be Harmful to Your Health? [VIDEO]
With the end of the month fast approaching, many people are looking forward to an upcoming payday. But researchers have found getting paid may actually be hazardous to your health. A study from Notre Dame says people are more likely to die during the week after being paid, citing a temporary but significant spike in traffic fatalities, heart attacks and increased substance abuse during that time p
New Site Offers Daily Deals to Help You Maintain Healthy Lifestyle
New Site Offers Daily Deals to Help You Maintain Healthy Lifestyle
New Site Offers Daily Deals to Help You Maintain Healthy Lifestyle
You know about Groupon — once a day, it offers you a cut-rate deal on everything from massages to restaurant dining. A new daily-deal site in San Francisco is now hoping to use the same method to improve your health. Zipongo doesn’t just save you money, it encourages you to make better decisions by pairing its deals on natural foods with a lifestyle tracking app to help monitor your eating, exer

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