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• FDA Approves Diet Pill Belviq

  

  Posted 6:41 PM 6/27/2012

  June 27, 2012 -- For the first time in more than a decade, the FDA has approved a new drug to help people lose weight.

  Today, Arena Pharmaceuticals' Belviq (lorcaserin hydrochloride) became the first prescription weight loss drug approved by federal regulators in 13 years.

  The FDA approved Belviq as an addition to a (More)
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• All Calories Not Created Equal, Study Suggests

  

  Posted 10:12 PM 6/26/2012

  June 26, 2012 -- New research challenges the idea that a calorie is a calorie, suggesting that certain foods and diets may be better than others for burning calories and helping people maintain weight loss.

  The study appears this week in the Journal of the American Medical (More)
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• How to Choose the Healthiest Salad Dressing

  

  Posted 6:29 PM 6/22/2012

  June 22, 2012 -- When it comes to packing a nutritional punch, a colorful salad can't be beat. But the dressing you choose may be just as important as the vegetables for maximizing the body's intake of important nutrients, a new study shows.

  When researchers at Purdue University fed study participants vegetable salads topped with different types of oil, they found that dressings containing canola oil best promoted the absorption of fat-soluble (More)
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• Liposuction: Why You Still Have to Work Out After It

  

  Posted 10:25 PM 6/15/2012

  June 15, 2012 -- Liposuction can help get rid of muffin tops, love handles, and other pockets of fat. But new research shows that removing fat from your abdominal area may cause you to gain dangerous visceral or belly fat.

  This type of fat is stored around the organs deep within your abdomen, and it increases your risk for (More)
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• Eat Breakfast, Cut Diabetes and Obesity Risk

  

  Posted 5:03 PM 6/14/2012

  June 14, 2012 (Philadelphia) -- Your mom was right, again. Don't skip breakfast!

  A new study shows that people who eat breakfast every day are less likely to become obese, develop type 2 diabetes, or gain fat around their tummy.

  Even having breakfast just four to six (More)
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• Obesity, Depression Linked to Daytime Sleepiness

  

  Posted 3:14 PM 6/13/2012

  June 13, 2012 -- Being obese or depressed may make you more likely to be sleepy during the day, new research shows. About 20% of American adults have excessive daytime sleepiness, according to the National Sleep Foundation.

  Although poor sleep is often blamed for excessive daytime sleepiness, ''we found that (More)
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• Drinking Coffee May Delay Alzheimer's Disease

  

  Posted 4:11 PM 6/7/2012

  June 7, 2012 -- Drinking three cups of coffee per day may help turn the tide against Alzheimer's disease among older adults who are already showing signs of memory problems, a new study shows.

  According to the findings, people older than 65 who had higher blood levels of (More)
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• Cooking on Back Burners Better for Indoor Air?

  

  Posted 8:19 PM 6/1/2012

  June 1, 2012 -- Researchers say gas stoves can generate lung-irritating levels of nitrogen dioxide and other indoor air pollutants.

  The good news is that there's an easy fix. A new study shows that turning on the fan and cooking on the back burners can reduce levels of air pollutants by about half. The bad news is that most vent fans don't fix the problem (More)
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• Cash Helps People Make Healthy Lifestyle Changes

  

  Posted 4:49 PM 5/29/2012

  May 29, 2012 -- Knowing you need to make healthy lifestyle changes like exercising more and eating less fat is, as most anyone knows, a lot different from actually doing it.

  Now new research shows that cold, hard cash may help more people make -- and maintain -- such changes.

  According to the study, adults were more likely to eat better and spend less (More)
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• Picking Healthy Meals Harder Than Doing Taxes?

  

  Posted 5:14 PM 5/25/2012

  May 25, 2012 -- Fifty-two percent of Americans responding to an online survey said they think it's easier to do their own taxes than it is to figure out how to eat healthfully.

  Men, people lacking a college degree, overweight or obese adults, and people with (More)
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