TOP 100 WEIGHT LOSS SITES
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| When Television Set Is a Woman’s Lifeline to the Outside World Confined to her home because of her weight, a 74-year-old woman felt cut off from the outside world when her television stopped working. nytimes.com |
Fat Storage Depends On Gender It's a paradox that has flummoxed women for generations - their apparent ability to store fat more efficiently than men, despite eating proportionally fewer calories. While it has long been suspected that female sex hormones are responsible, a University of New South Wales (UNSW) research review has for the first time drawn a link between one hormone - oestrogen - and its impact on fat storage for childbearing. medicalnewstoday.com |
Probability Of Developing Precursor Of Heart Failure Increased By 4 Risk Factors Four well-known risk factors for heart attack significantly increased the size of the heart's left ventricle, a key precursor of heart failure, according to a study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. High blood pressure, excessive weight, smoking and diabetes were strongly correlated with greater size of the heart's left ventricle over the short term (four years) and the long term (16 years) in a study of more than 4,217 people. medicalnewstoday.com |
Psychological Reasons Why Diet Drug Works Psychologists are set to reveal the results of a study into obese people's behavioural responses to a prescription weight loss drug at the British Psychological Society's Division of Health Psychology annual conference today, 11th September 2009. Amelia Hollywood and Jane Ogden from the University of Surrey investigated the behaviour of 572 individuals who had been prescribed the weight loss drug, orlistat (also known as Xenical). medicalnewstoday.com |
Weight Concerns Affect Responses To Weight Loss Spam E Mails Young adults who believe they have a weight problem are more likely to receive, read, and respond to spam e-mail for weight loss products, reports a study in the January Southern Medical Journal, official journal of the Southern Medical Association... mnt.to |