Calcium Scoring Helps Predict Cardio Events
By Todd Neale | www.medpagetoday.com

Adding a measure of coronary artery calcification to traditional risk factors significantly improved the prediction of coronary heart disease events in asymptomatic patients, researchers found.

The addition of a calcium score, obtained with a chest CT scan, increased the area under the receiver operating characteristics curve from 0.76 to 0.81 (P<0.001), according to Philip Greenland, MD, of Northwestern University in Chicago, and colleagues.

Diet Mistakes that Slow Down your Metabolism
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You probably don’t need scientists to tell you that your metabolism slows with age. But they’re studying it anyway — and coming up with exciting new research to help rev it up again. The average woman gains 1 1/2 pounds a year during her adult life — enough to pack on 40-plus pounds by her 50s, if she doesn’t combat the roller coaster of hormones, muscle loss, and stress that conspires to slow her fat-burning engine. But midlife weight gain isn’t inevitable: We’ve found eating strategies that will tackle these changes.

How NOT to Diet for the Next 100 Years
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I never set out to write a book about how to lose weight. However, while researching The Hundred Year Diet. America’s Voracious Appetite For Losing Weight, I learned a great deal about what works, what doesn’t and why, which is what today’s blog is all about.

Dieters Underestimate How Many Calories They Are Eating
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The Dukan Diet – Lose Weight Quickly and Eat Protein on Thursdays
By Sharon Kirby | www.news.suite101.com

The Dukan diet, devised by French doctor Dr Pierre Dukan, has been popular in France for the last decade. Released in Britain in May 2010, this diet claims that dutiful followers will experience rapid weight loss and keep it off for good, while still being able to eat the foods they love. But there is a catch. Dieters can eat nothing but protein foods on Thursdays.

Amazing! Cookie Diet – Lose Weight Fast With the Cookie Diet
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The Cookie Diet – Lose Weight Fast – Start Cookie Diet

One year ago today, I weighed in at an incredible 316lbs, about 125lbs overweight for someone my height. With my line of work, the extensive workout routine my doctor recommended to save my life was not going to happen – but I had to do something – quick! After an exhaustive internet search, I found the Cookie Diet, which promised to help me lose weight fast! In less than one year, I have lost over 66lbs. I’m not to my healthy weight yet, but the results have quite honestly been amazing!

Study Finds Cereal is Effective Diet Food; Suggests Weight Loss Doesn’t Require Tight Restrictions
By Brian Willett | www.bloginity.com

If you’ve ever embarked on a weight-loss program, a structured, rigid diet, or just a simple weight-management plan, you’re aware that there are certain foods that are considered “diet-worthy” and certain others that are frowned upon and avoided at all costs.

Is your Sun Cream Making you Fat, Old and Depressed?
By Sarah Richardson | www.mirror.co.uk

For years we’ve had it drummed into us that we need to cover up and slap on the high SPF sunscreen in hot, sunny weather.

But experts fear some people are taking it too far.

10 Nutritional Players: Some Good, Some Bad
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Fresh Smoothies are a Natural Meal Replacement
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My husband, a former collegiate football player, stands a little over six feet and 240 lbs. Let’s just say, to cook a big meal wasn’t an option, but a must in order to keep him happy. Yet, he would probably agree that eating a healthy, mainly plant based diet has allowed him to keep his playing weight of 300 lbs off permanently.