You’ve got your diet and exercise plan in place, but when it comes to weight loss you might be overlooking a very important factor in achieving your goals: your genes.
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Why Calorie Counting Can be Wildly Inaccurate
The most common formula for weight loss is simply: calories consumed minus calories burned. However, if you belong to the more than two-thirds of American…
Read MoreStretching for 10 Minutes a Day Can Change Your Fitness Regimen – for the Better
Stretching may not always be on the top of your priority list when you are at the gym – why waste time sitting around when…
Read MoreCutting Calories Can Make You Happier and Hornier
Who doesn’t want more sleep, better sex, and a happier mood – ami’rite? Well, according a new study at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in…
Read MoreHow Important are Probiotics?
In the last few years, microbiome research, or the study of the bacteria in our gut, has exploded. Science tells us having a diversity of…
Read MoreThe Medical Screenings All Men Need, and When
They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure—and preventative medicine will always be the most powerful and cost-effective way to stay…
Read MoreStudy: Your Wife Is Hornier Than You Think She Is
This may come as great news to a lot of us – a recent study found that women are actually more interested in having sex…
Read MoreJust How Short Can Your Workout Be?
Here’s yet another resounding endorsement for HIIT, or high intensity interval training: LiveScience dovetailed the recent study that said you could get fit with only…
Read MoreDogs Test Drug Aimed at Humans’ Biggest Killer: Age
What do heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and cancer all have in common, besides being diseases that are major killers? For all of them, age…
Read MoreYour Brain Has a ‘Delete’ Button – Here’s How to Use It
Practice makes perfect. That’s because, from a neurological standpoint, the more you run a neuro-circuit in your brain, the stronger that circuit becomes. But it…
Read MoreScientists Develop ‘Second Skin’ to Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags
MIT researchers recently unveiled an invisible film that can be painted onto your skin to give it the elasticity of youth. The silicone-based polymer, which…
Read MoreRevolutionary New Procedure Could Replace Reading Glasses
Just like the LASIK procedure was a game changer for sufferers of farsightedness more than a decade ago, a new procedure claims to be able…
Read MoreAfter ‘The Biggest Loser’, Their Bodies Fought to Regain Weight
If you know anything about NBC’s The Biggest Loser, you know that the weight loss is epic – hundreds of pounds are lost per contestant…
Read More1 Minute of All-Out Exercise May Have Benefits of 45 Minutes of Moderate Exertion
We’re all busy. And for most of us, it’s hard to find time in the day for a full workout. So we sometimes wonder: How…
Read MoreWhat Happens When We Can Zap Our Brains Into Any Mood?
Neurostimulation as a way to alter mood is already a reality. An FDA-verified, peer-reviewed fact, neurostimulation was used by doctors at Mt. Sinai Beth Israel…
Read MoreScientists Locate ‘Happiness Genes’ For the First Time
According to new research, DNA may play a part in how we experience emotions – primarily happiness. Researchers from Amsterdam analyzed nearly 300,000 people to…
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