New research shows that new mothers who breastfeed their babies for longer periods of time may have a reduced risk of diabetes, at least for the first 15 years after giving birth.
Researchers found that for each year of breastfeeding there was a 15% reduction in the risk of diabetes for the mother. This […]

I took my daughter to the Pediatrician today and as I was sitting in the waiting room I took a look at a magazine. I think it was “Health”. Anyway, there was an article where they had compared 4 popular diets, Weight Watchers Online, Atkins, Dr. Ornish’s Eat more, Weigh less, and Dr. […]

A recent study from researchers at Brigham Young University has suggested that rather than “dieting” a new approach called “intuitive eating” will work better at producing lower cholesterol levels, body mass index and risk of cardiovascular diseases.
The idea is for us to listen and take heed to our internal cues, try to recognize […]

Oprah claims to hate exercise. Even though she looks better than she has ever looked for as long as we have known her, and we know that she is committed to exercising and does it daily, she claims that she doesn’t enjoy it, in fact sometimes even hates it and she just does it […]

The new trend in fitness is functional. That means adjusting our fitness routines to help us in the real world. Being fit no longer means just having bulging biceps and defined quadriceps that are just for show, it means being able to carry a large bag of groceries up a long flight of […]

Thanksgiving is not a day to be on a diet. No, No, just say No to dieting on Thanksgiving. It sounds good and we know that it is true but we also know that the typical Thanksgiving day dinner has something like 3500 calories, all at one sitting. That is not […]

Even though many people dream of being able to just pop a pill and have excess weight just fall off, it just doesn’t happen. New research has concluded that diet pills work much better when they are used in conjunction with the hard work of dieting and exercise.
A recent study that was backed […]

In a report in the Lancet medical journal, scientists have estimated that as many as one third of all cancer deaths could be prevented if people would avoid major risk factors for cancer.
Some of the major risk factors that they identified were-smoking, obesity, poor diet, unsafe sex, alcohol, lack of exercise, urban air […]