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obesity

New Study: 30 is the New 45

April 10, 2013

A new study spanning different generations over 25 years indicates that today’s young adults are 15 years less healthy than previous age groups at the same age. Meaning, the prevalence of health issues related to things like high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, etc. among 40-year-olds today is similar to the levels older groups have at [...]

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Soda. All the Calories of Beer with None of the Positive Side Effects

November 15, 2012

After he lost about 324 pounds or so a few years ago to run for President, Mike Huckabee said something I’ll never forget: “never drink calories.” Although I’ll never eliminate the liquid calorie from my daily activities, I do try to cut back on certain things, like soda or Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee (that one [...]

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Don’t Just Sit There — You Could Die!

June 9, 2011

Catering the need-to-be-perpetually-freaked-out-crowd, scientists released a study indicating that a sedentary lifestyle isn’t good for you. In fact, sitting around too much could even be as dangerous as smoking! Maybe next they’ll say a non-sedentary lifestyle is good for you. At least in most cases, anyway, because you always hear of that random heart attack [...]

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