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Get Healthy FAST! The Diet Proven to Reduce Heart Disease By 10%

So what's the best diet to prevent heart disease? As it turns out, a low-carbohydrate diet could be your best bet--but there's a catch. According to new research from the British Medical Journal Open, people who adopted an "Eco-Atkins" diet, or a low-carbohydrate diet that was also vegan, lowered their risk of heart disease by as much as 10 percent over a 10 year time span. In addition, they lost an average of four more pounds than those who ate…
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This 1 Simple Trick Helps You Lose 10 Pounds – EASY!

Having trouble shedding those last few pounds? No worries, say researchers from the University of Birmingham--just drink water. The findings, which appear in the journal Obesity, reveal that people who sipped 500ml of water just 30 minutes before a meal shed 10 pounds more than people that did not during a 12 week time span. That's definitely more than a few pounds--and an effortless way for dieters to speed up their weight loss. For researcher Dr. Helen Parretti, the findings…
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This 1 Simple Diet Change LOWERS Hunger Levels By 42%!

For a slimmer bod, controlling your appetite is key for obvious reasons--after all, if you're less hungry, you won't eat as many calories. Now there may be one strange--albeit effective--way to curb your appetite, say researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. According to their research, which now appears in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, consuming high amounts of iron, something people do when they eat too much red meat, could increase something called leptin by 42 percent. Leptin, a…
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Eating Food Like This RUINS Diets!

Never have time to sit down to enjoy a meal? Watch out, say researchers: Doing so could actually make you obese. Published in the Journal of Health Psychology, researchers say that women who ate while on the go were more likely to eat more food later on during the day, causing them to consume more calories--something that could ultimately lead to weight gain. That's definitely not good news if you're trying to lose weight. "Eating on the go may make…
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This Smartphone Game DESTROYS Food Cravings?

Have food cravings you just can't get rid of? Here's a new way to stop them: Play Tetris. Research led by scientists at the University of Plymouth in Australia reveal that people who played Tetris for just three minutes lowered their cravings for drugs, certain activities, or food by as much as 14 percent. Now researchers say this could be an effective tool for beating a multitude of cravings. The research appears in the journal Addictive Behaviors. "Playing Tetris decreased…
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Banish HUNGER! This 1 Simple Extract Makes You Full FAST

For a healthy bod, eating plenty of veggies is key--but now a certain vegetable could have additional benefits for dieters. According to new research published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, thylakoids, an extract taken from spinach, also helps release satiety hormones, helping cut hunger levels and making people feel fuller faster. As for how it works, it appears to slow down fat digestion--something which triggers the release of satiety hormones in the body. "By retarding fat…
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Doing This 32 Minutes a Day is Key to STOPPING Dementia!

According to recent research, a healthy brain could make the difference between a long life and a life ended by memory loss. But there's now an easy way to improve your brain health, say researchers. According to new research from the University of Kansas Medical Center, older adults who exercised for 225 minutes per week--around 30 minutes per day--were the most likely to have optimal brain function, reducing the risk of memory loss diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia.…
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Get Thin FAST! 3 Fruits PROVEN to Make You Skinny

Feeling a bit too curvy for bikini season? Don't fret--get in shape instead! Though summer is almost over, there's still time to shed enough weight to fit into your dream bikini; and better yet, it's a simple as biting into a juicy fruit. For starters, let's stock up on apples: here's why. Apples: The Ultimate Slim Down? They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but now it appears it can keep away those pesky pounds as well.…
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This Oil INCREASES Your Weight By 25%!

So what's worse: Soy or fructose? As it turns out, eating a diet higher in soybean oil could do more harm than fructose, according to new research from the University of California. According to the research, which was published earlier this week, eating a diet rich in coconut oil and fructose actually caused less weight weight than a diet rich in soybean oil, showing that fructose alone may not be bad for a person's figure. In addition, soybean oil increased…
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These 2 Simple Workouts PREVENT Osteoporosis!

Most people often think of osteoporosis as a woman's disease. Unfortunately, osteoporosis isn't just a problem women have to face--nearly 2 million American men also battle this debilitating condition, according to recent statistics. Now researchers say they've come across a simple way to reduce this risk for men. According to a recent study by University of Missouri researchers, men who did certain types of weightlifting and jumping exercises increased the density of their bones, lowering their risk of osteoporosis. Just…
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