Low-Calorie Chocolate Bar Being Developed Tastes as Good As Regular Chocolate

August 3, 2009
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If you’re on a diet and chocolate is something that you’ve sacrificed for a long time, then this news just might make drastic change in your life—in a positive way.  A new low-calorie type of chocolate has just been invented by lab workers at the Swiss chocolate manufacturer Barry Callebaut.

This new invention was some sort of a miracle as it was discovered only by accident.  Good thing the scientists involved realized that they had produced something noteworthy in the form of “Vulcan,” the name of the new chocolate, which is due to its volcanic rock texture.

Simone Cantz, a food engineer, said, “Suddenly we realized we’d produced a very special chocolate,…

How Junk Food to Obese People is Like Heroine to a Drug User

July 30, 2009
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Campaign ads against illegal drug use flock the TV, magazines, and billboards.  This is ironic because potato chips, soda, chocolates and other junk food plague the media, too.  Why so?  Because a new study claims that snack foods may trigger a drug addiction-like response in obese women.

Actually, even without a study, with Lay’s potato chips’ marketing slogan, anyone would agree that junk food has quite a similar effect as drugs: “Betcha you can’t eat just one.”

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published its new study revealing obese women having a different reaction to so-called high-energy snacks, particularly junk food, compared to that of non-obese women.  The obese ones just could…

How Athletes Benefit More from Yoga

July 29, 2009
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If you are not an athlete or some gym buff, but know you how to do yoga properly and are regularly practicing it, then you are well aware of its many benefits already.  However, athletes who stick to their routine exercise and training are deprived of this knowledge.  So here, we will be discussing the general benefits of yoga, as well as its many advantages to the more sporty ones.

It is important to note that yoga has short-term and long-term benefits.  It’s up to you if you want to reap them all.  It depends on how often you practice and on how serious you are in achieving these beneficial outcomes:

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Seasonal Flu Shots Highly Recommended by CDC This Year

July 28, 2009
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With the H1N1 virus still on the loose and still hot on the news, U.S. health officials have just reminded people today that seasonal flu could be just as deadly especially to children.  So, they are encouraging everyone to take extra precautions this year.

Children ages six months to 18 years are recommended by the CDC to get the seasonal flu vaccine when it becomes available in the next couple of months.  Such stronger term, “recommendation” was preferred over the usual “encouragement” when it comes to getting a flu shot “when feasible,” says CDC’s Anne Schuchat.

Schuchat also said that these measures to be taken are for the protection of people and…

Fast Food Diet May Case Alzheimer’s Disease

January 27, 2009
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Want to avoid Alzheimer’s Disease? Then better stay away from fast food joints like KFC, McDonalds and similar restaurants. Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institute found the link between junk food and Alzheimer’s by studying mice that were fed junk food.

The study established that there is a link between dementia and a diet of sugar, fat and cholesterol—all of which are contained in the food served by fast food joints.  This is bad news for Americans who are at the top of the race when it comes to consuming McDonalds.

Researcher Susanne Akterin however said the result of their study is not conclusive and needs further tests.  But staying away from…