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7 Essential Beauty Tips
Beauty
Beauty is defined as the phenomenon of the experience of pleasure, through the perception of balance and proportion of stimulus. It involves the cognition of a balanced form and structure that elicits attraction and appeal towards a...
A Mediterranean Diet - How to Lose Weight Safely
Copyright 2005 Roy Barker
If you are looking for a way to lose fifteen pounds in two weeks, a high protein diet, a low carb diet, a fruit diet, a no fat diet, a blood type diet, a juice fast, a diet named after a place in Miami, a grapefruit...
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How To Maintain Your Weight Loss
Once you have started losing weight, it is crucial to think of how to maintain that weight loss in the days ahead.
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First of all, let’s define Menopause. Then we’ll take a look at some natural ways to make this one of the best times in your life!
Defined, Menopause means “the cessation of menses”, or in common terms, when a woman stops having her menstrual...
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The Atkins Diet: Is It Still Worthwhile or Worthless?
By now, almost everyone has heard of the Atkins diet. This is
the diet that promotes weight loss through the consumption of
foods low in carbohydrates and quite high in fat and protein
contents, but not necessarily low in calories.
It was the brain-child of Dr. R. C. Atkins who claimed that it
would initiate a greater weight loss than a conventional, low
calorie diet composed of a "balance" of carbohydrates, fats, and
proteins. In addition, it was supposed to be friendly to those
prone to diabetes because of the low intake of carbohydrate; it
might reduce the body's need for insulin. This diet concept is
diametrically opposed to that used for years by traditional
nutritionists and medical specialists.
Most experts initial response to this diet was that it might not
be safe because years of scientific evidence suggested that high
fat intake would surely raise serum cholesterol, thus increasing
the risk of cardiovascular disease.
What ensued were numerous heated debates in print and on
television about the worthiness of this diet. Unfortunately,
most of the battle lines were drawn on shaky grounds because
they were based on age-old dogma, and lacked serious scientific
inquiry. Fortunately, this was about to change. Some results of
very important research are now beginning to appear in the
scientific literature. Hopefully, this new information will
eventually determine unequivocally which side is right.
One of these studies was reported in the New England Journal of
Medicine in 2003. The investigators' aim was to conduct a
controlled experiment to determine the differences in weight
loss of both obese men and women who consumed either the basic
low carbohydrate Atkins diet or a conventional diet of reduced
total calories. The study lasted for one year. Besides weight
loss, a number of other tests also were conducted, including
blood sugar, blood cholesterol, HDL cholesterol (the
good
cholesterol), insulin levels, and blood pressure.
The results were interesting and different than most traditional
nutritionists would have expected. As Dr. Atkins had claimed all
along, after 3 months, the volunteers who ate the Atkins diet
lost 7-10% of their original body weight while those who ate the
conventional low-calorie diet only lost 3-5% of their original
weight. After 6 months, the results were similar to those at 3
months; however, after one year, those on the Atkins diet had
regained enough weight so that differences in weight loss
between the two diets were not significant.
Another interesting result supported the view of the traditional
nutritionists in that total serum cholesterol was increased
about 3% while those fed the conventional diet had reduced their
cholesterol about 5%. However, the "good" cholesterol was
increased about 20% in those consuming the Atkins diet but only
about 3% in those consuming the conventional diet. Neither diet
affected blood sugar, blood pressure, or insulin levels,
although the insulin levels of those consuming the Atkins diet
tended to be lower than of those consuming the low calorie
conventional diet.
The final results of the study suggested that volunteers who
consume the Atkins diet may initially lose weight faster than
those consuming the conventional diet, but after a long period
of consuming the diets, the differences may be lost. The
investigators suggested that a longer and larger study be
carried out before conclusive assessments are made about the
benefits or dangers of consuming low-carbohydrate, high-fat, and
high-protein diets. About the Author
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Hair Loss and Its Causes -- familydoctor.org |
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Hair transplant doctor & hair loss treatments - hair loss forum and information on Rogaine, Propecia, Dutasteride. |
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Provides consumer hair loss information. Devoted to finding a cure for hair loss and increasing worldwide awareness and understanding of this disease. |
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Advice on how to combat thinning hair, baldness plus hair replacement. Also suppliers of the hairmax LaserComb. |
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