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This Exercise Gets You in Shape in Just 4 Minutes a Day

Imagine this: You're pinched for time, so you head to your living room to do a quick bout of interval training. Then, 4 minutes later, you end your workout and head out the door to work. Sound like heresy? Believe it or not, it's reality now, thanks to a Norwegian study reported by LifeHacker earlier this week. "Regular exercise training improves maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), but the optimal intensity and volume necessary to obtain maximal benefit remains to be defined,"…
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Does Your Race Make It Harder to Lose Weight?

While dieticians claims that eating fewer calories leads to weight loss, a new study from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine reveals that isn't always the case--at least if you're an African American woman. Studying the effects of calorie-restricted diets on women of different races, lead researcher James Delany says that African American women have more trouble losing weight--and it's all due to their metabolisms. "African-American women have a lower energy expenditure," explains Delany. "They're going to have to…
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This Diet Lowers Your Breast Cancer Risk by 12%

For years researchers have known that a diet rich in tomatoes could lower a person's risk of heart disease--but now a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism reveals there's a new reason to load up on this key vegetable. Working on behalf of Rutgers University, lead researcher Adana Llanos says that eating a tomato-rich diet could decrease a woman's breast cancer risk by 12.4 percent. For Llanos, she believes this may be one way to…
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This 1 Trick Makes You Eat Fewer Calories

As a kid, you probably heard it all the time from your parents: Eat more slowly during dinnertime. But according to a new study published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, this just isn't a nagging concern--it could also help you lose weight. Investigating the effects of digestion on total calorie consumption among American adults, researchers from Texas Christian University found that people who ate more slowly consumed around 100 fewer calories than those who ate…
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Do This To Lose More Body Fat in 2014

For most people, it's one of their main resolutions: Lose weight and exercise more. But when it comes to weight loss, what's the better solution--aerobic exercise or resistance training? According to a study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology in December, they investigated just that--something that left many weightlifters sour-faced. In the study, which examined how aerobic exercise and resistance training affected weight loss for overweight and obese people, lead author Leslie H. Willis. M.S., an exercise physiologist at…
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This Exercise Could Stop Insomnia for Good

Mention the word menopause and most women recoil with horror--the hot flashes and rampant insomnia that often accompanies it hardly makes any woman happy. But now a new study in the journal Menopause may put an end to at least one of these symptoms. In the study, which was led by Katherine Newton, Ph.D., a senior investigator at Group Health Research Institute, taking a yoga class helped menopausal women overcome insomnia--though it didn't help lessen hot flashes or night sweats.…
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This 1 Simple Activity Could Stop Alzheimer’s Disease

You've probably heard it time and time again: If you want to live a healthy life, exercise is a must. But for those at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a type of memory loss disorder, there may be a bigger benefit to hitting the weights--it helps improve the physical and cognitive health of those diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. "I have complete confidence that any exercise will be of some benefit," says Dorothy Forbes, lead author of a new study published…
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This Diet Can Help Fix Diabetes

For years, doctors have told diabetics to avoid skipping meals in order to maintain healthy blood glucose levels--but now a new study challenges this claim. Reporting from Linkoping University in Sweden, researchers say skipping breakfast while eating a Mediterranean-style diet may be more effective than frequent eating when it comes to maintaining healthy blood glucose levels. "It is very interesting that the Mediterranean diet, without breakfast and with a massive lunch with wine, did not induce higher blood glucose levels…
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Doing This May Not Stop Holiday Weight Gain

While a previous study showed that men who exercised while eating more during the holidays kept a healthier metabolism, the same story doesn't fare as well for women, according to a new study from Texas Tech University. Following more than 100 participants during the holiday season--between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve--researchers found that those who exercised still gained weight, a factor that may lead to obesity down the road, says researcher Jamie Cooper. "That means holiday weight gain could be…
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This 1 Trick Could Keep Your Metabolism High During the Holidays

With the holidays approaching, there's no doubt many people are concerned about keeping their weight in check--and a new study published in the Journal of Physiology says there now is an easy way to do it. According to the research, which was conducted at the University of Bath in England, getting in a healthy bout of exercise--even if you're overindulging--may ward off the ill consequences of sudden holiday binges, such as increased blood pressure and a poorer metabolism. Unfortunately, it…
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