Posted on March 2, 2008. Filed under: health, weightloss, wellbeing | Tags: artificial sweeteners, aspartame, fat, health, lose weight, metabolic, metabolism, saccharin, sugar, weight gain, weightloss, wellbeing, wellness |
“TO LOSE weight, bin the diet cola. That’s the message from studies showing rats got fatter on diets containing artificial sweeteners than on those with sugar.
Susan Swithers and Terry Davidson at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, gave rats set amounts of yogurt sweetened with either sucrose or saccharin, plus an unrestricted supply of ordinary [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2008. Filed under: Fitness, health, weightloss, wellbeing | Tags: fat, heart disease, insulin resistance, leptins, weight |
Carrying extra weight around your midsection is known to increase your risk of heart attacks, and a new study by University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center researchers may have figured out why this is so.
They discovered a link between belly fat, also known as visceral fat, inflammation and hardening of the arteries (atherosclerosis).
The discovery came while [...]
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