Posts by: Zero to Hero Fitness

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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