Posts by: Zero to Hero Fitness

This Simple Trick Reduces Your Stroke Risk By 26%

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 800,000 Americans have a stroke each year--most of which are preventable. And now Chinese scientists say preventing it could be as simple as adding more meat to your diet. Led by Dr. Xinfeng Liu from the Nanjing University School of Medicine, researchers say that people who ate a diet rich in protein faced a 20 percent reduced risk of stroke. The research was published in the June issue of Neurology,…
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Research Says These Carbs Could Make You FAT!

It's common sense: If you want to lose weight, watch your calories and exercise regularly. But is it really that simple? Researchers Dr. David Ludwig and Dr. Mark L. Friedman warn that there's an easier way to shed that stubborn belly fat. Ludwig even dares to say that calories don't matter. "If exercise and counting calories were the sole contributors of long-term weight loss results my colleagues and I would be out of job," says Ludwig, who serves as the…
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Eat This Diet to Avoid Diabetes

While most physicians recommend polyphenols to lower your risk of heart disease, researchers from Spain say there's a new reason to eat up--it could help control your blood sugar. The research, led by Dr. Lutgardo Bozzetto from the University of Naples, reveals that people who ate a diet rich in polyphenols significantly improved their glucose metabolism, especially if they faced a higher risk of diabetes or heart disease. The findings were presented at the European Atherosclerosis Society 2014 Congress in…
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This 1 Simple Trick Could Extend Your Life

For most people, maintaining an exercise routine isn't easy--but here's one reason why you should start. According to a new study published in the journal Cancer, researchers found that breast cancer survivors who exercised the most were 34 percent less likely to die as fast as those who didn't stay physically active. Unfortunately, researchers only found that 35 percent of the participants polled exercised enough according to national exercise guidelines--and this number increased to 40 percent for African American women.…
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This Diet Reduces Your Kidney Cancer Risk by 45%

Want to lower your risk of cancer--naturally? Well here's one way to kick cancer to the curb: Eat a lycopene-rich diet. In a new study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology in Chicago, researchers say that women who ate a diet rich in antioxidants called lycopenes faced a 45 percent reduced risk of kidney cancer. Kidney cancer, also know as renal cancer, currently accounts for 2 percent of all cancers among adult Americans. "The…
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Sleeping Like This Makes You FATTER?

Do you prefer staying up throughout the night instead of adopting a day schedule? Then chances are you could be a night owl--a trait also shared by the likes of Thomas Edison, Hunter S. Thompson, and Elvis Presley. However, now new research says that night owls have a harder time staying fit--a fact that could cause long term damage to their health. The research was reported this week at the SLEEP 2014 meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "We found that even…
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The Easiest Way to Prevent Cancer – Finally Revealed?

Despite evidence showing that fasting may actually help people live longer, nutritionists and scientists agree that it isn't healthy--or practical. Yet new research from the University of Southern California may finally prove everyone wrong. Looking at the effects of fasting in volunteers with compromised immune systems, researchers found that just fasting for three days kicked the body's stem cells into overdrive--causing it to produce more white blood cells, helping fight off infection. This is potentially groundbreaking news, as raising white…
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This is the EASIEST Way to Stop Breast Cancer–Naturally!

It's a fact: One out of eight women will develop breast cancer at some point in their life. But could you be increasing your risk of breast cancer without knowing it? Now research from the Netherlands says women are making one crucial mistake that could be upping their risk for this disease. Reporting at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting, researchers say that postmenopausal women who diet but don't exercise face a higher risk of breast cancer--by up…
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This Diet Cuts Your Heart Disease Risk by 10%!

It's a proven fact: Low-carb diets can make you thin. But could a vegan version of this popular weight loss plan also help improve your health? As it turns out, it can, according to new research from the University of Toronto. Led by researcher Dr. David Jenkins, researchers say that a low-carb vegan diet--dubbed the Eco-Atkins diet--reduced the risk of heart disease by 10 percent over a period of 10 years. For those at risk of heart disease, these numbers…
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Drinking This Boosts Your Metabolism Instantly!

If there weren't enough crazy ways to lose weight, here's one for the record books: The Ice Diet. Coined by Robert Wood Johnson Medical School assistant professor and gastroenterologist Brian Weiner, he claims that eating ice--in this case, flavored ice--isn't just a good way to eat fewer calories, it could even burn calories too. Now he's authored an e-book explaining his new diet, called The Ice Diet. "As a clinical gastroenterologist, I speak to patients all day long about what…
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