Interpreted research on fat loss nutrition and exercise.
Older adults sleeping 5 or less hours per night have much greater odds of being obese compared to those sleeping 7-8 hours per night. Men lacking sleep are almost 4 times as likely to be obese, women twice as likely. Reduced sleep also predicts obesity in both children and young adults. Abdominal obesity increases with [...]
Having a high WBC count increases your chance of abdominal obesity. Waist circumference, total body fat, and subcutaneous fat are all significantly higher in those with higher WBC’s. WBC count is positively associated with BMI, waist circumference, total body fat and subcutaneous fat. Neutrophils, one of the WBC components, are more strongly associated with increased [...]
If you are trying to lose weight, eating eggs for breakfast, instead of bagels, will improve your results. Overall egg eaters experienced a 61% greater reduction in BMI, 65% greater weight loss, 34% greater reduction in waist circumference and 16% greater reduction in percent body fat over bagel eaters. No difference was found between the [...]
Sodium alginate, a fiber extracted from seaweed that forms a gel-like goo when ingested, appears to be an effective appetite suppressant. Subjects ingesting the seaweed fiber consumed about 135 calories, or about 7% less, than the control group. Significant reductions were noted for carbohydrate, sugar, fat, saturated fat and protein intakes. No negative effects were [...]
Fruit and vegetable intake is associated with lower BMI and body fat percentage. But only 21.3% of female high school students and 24.7% of male high school students eat 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day. Students eating 5 or more servings daily had higher activity levels than students eating less than [...]
Hypothyroidism, or low thyroid output, does not significantly increase overweight and obesity rates. TSH levels in obese and overweight individuals are usually in the normal range. Subclinical hypothyroidism (as indicated by a TSH between 2.51 and 4.0 mU/L) was actually more common than clinical hypothyroidism (TSH above 4.0 mU/L) in overweight and obese subjects. While [...]
A meta-analysis of low fat diet studies has shown that fat restricting diets are no better than other reduced calorie diets for overweight and obese individuals. In several cases the control group achieved better results than the low fat group. There were no significant differences in cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure or blood glucose. PMID: 18646093
Olibra, a fat emulsion product derived from palm oil and oat oil, appears to be an effective appetite suppressant. Those consuming yoghurt with olibra experienced reduced hunger and had less desire to eat. They also had a longer time interval between consuming the yoghurt and the time when hunger scores returned to baseline. Olibra(R) was developed in [...]
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