Archive | October, 2013

Which Weight Loss Mobile App Should Doctors Recommend Most? Almost None Of Them

12 Oct

They found that those who ate the most kinds of produce — as well as just the most produce in general — had the lowest diabetes risk, Medical Daily reported. Moderate Alcohol Consumption (For Some) Drinking alcohol at a moderate level is linked with a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes for some people, according to an American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study. Harvard researchers found that for women with refined carb-heavy diets, moderate alcohol consumption is linked with a decreased diabetes risk of 30 percent, compared with non-imbibing women who eat similar diets, Reuters reported. “If you eat a high carb diet without drinking alcohol, your risk of developing diabetes is increased by 30 percent,” study researcher Frank Hu told Reuters. “However, if you eat a high carb diet, but (drink) a moderate amount of alcohol, the increased risk is reduced.” Coffee Drinking Chinese researchers found earlier this year that coffee may stop a protein linked with Type 2 diabetes from building up, thereby possibly lowering the risk of the disease, WebMD reported.
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Why Weight-loss Apps Are a Waste of Money

I do a little of this, a little of that, some biceps here, a few push-ups there, 10 minutes Garcinia Cambogia Extract on the treadmill and maybe some sets of assisted pull-ups. But I tend to blank on more complicated exercises that I’ve done a million times and can’t pull them out of my brain’s vault to actually do them at the gym. Then I feel like I didn’t have a “real” workout because I didn’t go in with a plan. No matter how many years of workouts I have under my belt, my brain lacks the part that commits exercises to memory. I need to have a list in front of me, or a trainer pushing me-something to keep me on track. And because I don’t have a lot of spare time in my day to plan workouts-I can barely make it to the gym to actually do the workout-my saving workout grace lately has been workout apps.
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