By Wendy Chant,
Author of Crack the Fat Loss Code
When it comes to losing fat, success doesn’t happen overnight.
Sometimes it doesn’t even happen over a few weeks, a few months or a
few years. Don’t rush it, don’t crash and don’t expect too much of
yourself too soon. Life is for the living; for the making of mistakes
and [...]
I just attended a conference on the latest wonder drug to be launched in the battle against diabetes type 2 (the kind of diabetes you take pills for, not insulin injections). The drug, Byetta, was derived from an unlikely place, the saliva of the Gila Monster. These ugly and venomous lizards eat 3 times per [...]
High blood pressure, known as hypertension, is known as the ’silent killer’ because most people can’t tell when their blood pressure is high. Elevated blood pressure can lead to a greatly increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and other serious illnesses. Along with high cholesterol and smoking, hypertension is one of the most serious causes [...]
This month the Metabolink staff shares practical and useful information on how to look great and feel better, just by understanding your body and treating it right.
With the summer rapidly approaching, so many people start thinking about their weight and general health. Many of our readers have written us with concerns about their metabolism and [...]
Sometimes the things you think are safe to eat or drink, are the ones you should be the most careful about. For example, a website visitor writes that she switched from regular coffee to decaf about 6 months ago, and that about 1-1/2 years ago, she as diagnosed with hypothyroidism. She has also been fighting [...]
According to Webster, metabolism is “the chemical and physical processes continuously going on in living organisms.” Unfortunately, not all of us living organisms have metabolisms that “process continuously” in the same. Some have fast ones, others slow.
Many of our site visitors have written to us with questions about speeding up or slowing down their metabolisms. [...]
I write a lot about nutrition, good eating habits and healthy lifestyles. But as is so often the case, knowing what’s right, and doing what’s right are two different things.
When January rolled around, I realized I had gained a few pounds over the holidays, and hadn’t lost any of the weight I wanted to last [...]
In obese individuals, low cardiorespiratory fitness proved to be a strong predictor of mortality, with risks comparable to or greater than those for high cholesterol, diabetes, hypertension and smoking. This was the finding after analysis of data from an observational study of 25,714 men followed up for ten years.
Source: Wei, et al., JAMA, 282: 1547-53, [...]
Data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study, suggest that diets high in fiber may protect against obesity and cardiovascular disease by lowering insulin levels. This multicenter population based study evaluated change in CVD risk factors over ten years among 2,909 healthy adults 18 to 30 years of age. Researchers saw associations [...]
According to data from NHNESIII (the third National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey), of 16,884 adult subjects, 63% men and 55% women were classified as over weight or obese (BMI over 25). For all health outcomes studied [...]
