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New York - Good news for people who don't have time for a full-blown work out. Studies now show that brief intense exercise can be just as beneficial for your heart-health, help lower blood pressure, and ward off diabetes. With brief periods of intense exercise the arteries delivering blood to your muscles and heart can improve in function and structure, resulting in better blood flow and a healthier heart. Brief intense exercise has also been shown to improve blood glucose and insulin levels in ... Read More

London - The weight loss drug Orlistat is slated to go on sale in European pharmacies without the requirement of a prescription within the next few months. Although early approval was first given several months ago in October 2008, the European Commission has just now given the go ahead for public distribution of the anti-obesity drug, which will be marketed under the name Alli by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the makers of the product. The estimated price for Alli is £1.50 a day. Although consumers ... Read More

London - A weight loss drug made by GlaxoSmithKline, Alli, has just been approved to be sold in Europe. Alli has been sold in the U.S. for over a year now. The drug is for those who are overweight or obese and the European Medicines Agency gave their approval on January 21, 2009. The drug will be available in all 27 member countries that includes Norway in Europe in the next few months when the drug is launched. The price has not been ... Read More

New York - Men are better at suppressing their hunger than women, according to a new study. Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory asked male and female volunteers to resist hunger when presented with their favorite foods The study consisted of 23 non-obese men and women. Participants were asked to fast for 17 hours prior to the experiment.  They were then directed to either focus on a favorite food or practice a technique called cognitive inhibition to suppress thoughts of eating and hunger. When researchers asked ... Read More

New York - Normally it is Steve Jobs who is introducing new technology from Apple, but to start off this years surprises from the company, Apple announced that it will actually be Phil Schiller, Senior VP, who will be announcing the new products. A lot of speculation has been going around about what Apple will be pulling out of its hat this year at the Macworld event that has been held annually since 1997. Some say a smaller iPhone, a new iMac and ... Read More

New York - The first few weeks of the New Year are the busiest for gyms and fitness centers worldwide. And indeed, the most common New Year resolution is to promise yourself to start going to the gym and taking care of your health and body. Most of us make this promise to ourselves every year, and not many of us indeed keep true to this promise. Even those who actually start going to a gym in January usually don't last longer ... Read More

Seattle - The experimental drug Qnexa, although in its first developmental stages, has shown that when given the highest dose of the drug obese patients were able to lose, on average, about 9% of their total weight in half the time and without the side effects of other drugs on the market. This study lasted 28 weeks and included 755 patients. Half the patients received a placebo and the other half received the highest dose of the drug. When the study concluded, patients ... Read More

New York - Typically a weight loss program is difficult to stick to without falling off the wagon. However, it has been found that when money is involved as a reward to the participant they tend to stick to the program and lose the weight they are wanting to lose. Researchers wanted to start a weight loss program where the participants would meet their weight loss goals by not having to wait for the future reward of the hard work it was going ... Read More

New York - To help fight against the risk of metabolic syndrome and heart disease a researchers are saying that a Meditteranean diet that includes nuts is the best way to go. Metabolic syndome consists of many health issues that contribute to heart disease. This new study was done in Spain with about 1,200 volunteers ages 55 to 80, which included about one third that already had metabolic syndrome. The study was based on the diets of these volunteers. The researchers had the ... Read More

Seattle - Adding a handful of nuts to a a Mediterranean Diet diet rich in fruits, vegetables and fish is useful to control a set of cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, high cholesterol levels, obesity, excess blood sugar), known as metabolic syndrome. This is the main conclusion of a Spanish study whose findings are published in the latest issue of the journal'Archives of Internal Medicine. The studies lead author Jordi Salas-Salvadó, a professor at the University Rovira i Virgili of Tarragona, says that habitual ... Read More