Posts by: Zero to Hero Fitness

Need help losing more weight? Try adding this to your diet: A handful of prunes. While it isn't a miracle worker, say University of Liverpool researchers, they say that new evidence shows that prunes can boost your ability to lose more weight. The research was recently presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Sofia, Bulgaria. "Maintaining a healthy diet is challenging," says Jason Halford, a professor of experimental psychology and director of Human Ingestive Behavior Laboratory in Liverpool. "Along…
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For years, researchers have confirmed it: Drinking diet soda makes you fat. But how does it affect people who are already dieting? Believe it or not, new research from the University of Colorado's Anschutz Health and Wellness Center reveals that it actually helps people lose more weight. The results, according to lead researcher Dr. Jim Hill, aren't all that surprising. "The results, to us, were not at all surprising," says Hill, whose study was recently published in the health journal…
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In previous studies, researchers discovered that calorie restriction could extend an animal's lifespan--though the findings were met with controversy. Now, another study from Thomas Jefferson University reveals that calorie restriction may help in another way: By slowing down breast cancer. Published in the health journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, senior author Nicole Simone, M.D., says that feeding cancer-stricken mice 30 percent fewer calories caused a slowdown of the spread of cancer to new parts of the body. It did…
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Ask most paleo experts and they're adamant about it: Not only is the Paleo Diet healthier, it also naturally suppresses your appetite. Or does it? As it turns out, new research examining the Paleo Diet says this all could be a lie. "Getting to the bottom of how our gut bacteria and diets interact to control appetites is vitally important for tackling the problem of obesity," says Glenn Gibson, co-author of a new study conducted at the University of Reading.…
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For type 2 diabetics, eating a healthy diet, getting plenty of exercise, and maintaining a normal weight could help reverse its symptoms. But for those with type 1 diabetes, simply doing this won't cure it--although it can make it easier to manage. "Currently, there is no cure for diabetes," says Gary Gilles, an About.com expert on Type 1 Diabetes. "The closest we come to a cure for type 1 diabetes is a pancreas transplant. But this is risky surgery and…
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For the short term, diets such as the Paleo diet or Raw Food diet has helped people lose a lot of weight. But for the long term, these diets simply don't work, according to recent evidence. Now, researchers say the solution to keeping weight off--and not just losing it--may lie in a new diet method called intuitive eating. In fact, some nutritionists call it a "non-diet" diet--a diet where you don't have to watch what you eat, count calories, or even…
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Want to reduce your type 2 diabetes risk? Eating a balanced diet helps, but researchers now say the type of diet you follow also matters--and it isn't what you think it is. Reporting in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a health journal, researchers from Sweden's Linkoping University say low-carb diets help reduce glucose levels better than low-fat diets, making it a more effective treatment for type 2 diabetes. "It has been proposed that dietary strategies can modulate inflammatory activity," says…
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