Lose Weight and Be Happy: Go Low-Fat vs. Low-Carb
A new study that compared the long-term effects of diets specifically a weight loss program focused on low-carbs and high-fats versus a low-fat and high-carb diet found that both programs will help you lose weightbut one will also help you feel happier too.
Both a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet such as the popular Atkins program and a low-fat, high-carb diet help people lose pounds over the course of a year. But as for mood? Only the low-fat diets will result in long-term improvement in mood, according to a recent study.
Both an energy-reduced, very low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet and a conventional high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet are equally effective for achieving weight loss in overweight and obese individuals, explained study author Grant D.
Mobile Phone–Cancer Link Still Elusive, Story Not Concluded
Despite having been declared a by the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, studies on the link between . As we reported last week, scientists analyzing the long-running Interphone study concluded that not enough evidence exists to know whether , and a few days ago, another group of scientists from Denmark published a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology showing no conclusive links between mobile phones and another form of auditory tumor.
In the new study, the researchers analyzed the health records of nearly 3 million people to see how many developed something called vestibular schwannomas, a slow-growing benign tumor that grows in the inner ear.
LGBT in high school
Tempest Cartwright, 17, is the president of the Gay Straight Alliance at her school.
— “Mama thinks you’re gay,” Tempest Cartwright’s younger sister told her as they walked to Wendy’s one day.
“That’s … ’cause I am,” Tempest, who was 15 at that time, told her. And with that admission, relief and joy flooded over Tempest. She’d spent much of her life hiding how she felt about girls; she’d made sure to have a boyfriend whenever she could, but secretly would inevitably have a crush on his mother.
Eventually she told her father about her sexuality, and then her mother. Both support her fully.
Female Athletes’ Achilles Heels? Their Knees
Alexa Yow of Farmington was the captain of her high school soccer team at Loomis Chaffee high school and is a forward on her premier team, which recently won the State Cup. Given her talent, she had good reason to believe that one day shed play on a Division I college team. But last June, during the State Cup finals, it looked like those plans might be derailed.
I was trying to keep the ball from going out, Yow recalled. My foot landed, but my body kept twisting.
Leptin Diet – Get the Basics Right, please!
Its scary what people will put themselves through these days so that they can lose weight (or fat).