Exercise and burn calories. Simple physics dictates you will drop weight. True, but our metabolism adjusts to compensate for the calories expended. Your metabolism sabotages your diet. It would be best to curtail the calories, but the implementation is challenging for most.... Read More
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How Many Steps to Improve Health?
A daily walk totaling 10,000 steps was associated with a lower risk of heart disease, cancer, and dementia.... Read More
Eliminating Visceral Fat
A simpler approach to evaluating your visceral fat (and its associated health risks) recognizes that approximately 10 percent of all body fat is visceral. If you calculate your total body fat and take 10 percent of it, you can get a rough estimate of your visceral fat amount.... Read More
Fasting and Weight
Intermittent fasting (IF) is an eating pattern in which individuals confine their food consumption to certain hours of the day. IF does not specify the foods you should eat; instead, intermittent fasting is about when you should eat them.... Read More
Thyroid Health
Hyperthyroidism affects women five to 10 times more often than men and is most common in individuals under 40. The prevalence of the condition in the United States is 1.2 percent.... Read More
Sugar and the Microbiome
The human microbiota comprises up to 100 trillion symbiotic microbes, mostly bacteria in the gut.... Read More