A new study shows that genetically-modified food is contributing to the obesity epidemic. Researchers found that GM corn fed to mice led to an increase in overall body weight of almost 4%, while also increasing the weight of their livers by up to 11%.
No matter how you feel about genetically-modified food, it’s interesting to discover how they are made.
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You may be eating and drinking some odd things in the future. There is striking new evidence that green, or unroasted, coffee beans can produce a substantial decrease in body weight in a relatively short period of time. Drinking coffee doesn’t do it–you have to eat the beans. And here’s another odd cure: Other research suggests that ingestion of components of afterbirth or placenta may offer benefits to mothers and maybe even to non-mothers and males.
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A new study shows that people with personality traits of high neuroticism and low conscientiousness are likely to go through cycles of gaining and losing weight throughout their lives.
Impulsivity was the strongest predictor of who would be overweight, the researchers found. Study participants who scored in the top 10% percent on impulsivity weighed an average of 22 lbs. more than those in the bottom 10%. Do you impulsively buy that bag of Cheetos instead of plan ahead by calculating what you’re going to eat today?
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Not all fat is the same: The GOOD kind of fat is what’s called "brown fat," because it helps you LOSE weight. Fat people have less of it than thin people. Older people have less of it than younger people. Men have less of it than younger women.
It’s actually is brown in color and it burns up calories as fast as you can ingest them. If scientists could find a pill that would increase our brown fat, obesity would be a thing of the past.
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