Chronic headaches are a real pain and although popping pills might help lasting relief could depend on making healthy lifestyle choices. Smoking, lack of exercise and being overweight are associated with migraine and tension headaches in adults and a new report has found that this is true for adolescents as well.
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Posted on Tue, 24 Aug 10
Caffeine and your mood: friend or foe?
Caffeine is the most widely consumed psychoactive drug in the world yet its effects on mood and anxiety are still unclear. Some people claim caffeine improves their mood while others find the opposite. Both are right.
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Posted on Mon, 23 Aug 10
Eat with your eyes, and dont trust your gut feelings
Are your eyes bigger than your stomach? Apparently not. Relying on feeling full, as opposed to visual cues such as an empty plate, could cause you to overeat considerably.
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Posted on Thu, 12 Aug 10
Is agave syrup really a health food?
An increasingly popular ingredient in health foods, agave syrup is little more than refined sugar in disguise. Products containing agave syrup are marketed as sugar free, healthy alternatives to sugar sweetened foods but this is not exactly true.
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Posted on Wed, 11 Aug 10
Eat patterns, not nutrients
Popular nutritional recommendations are outdated, misleading and missing the bigger picture suggest Dariush Mozaffarian and David Ludwig from Harvard University. The standard advice to avoid saturated fat, eat plenty of fibre, and avoid added salt and sugar are impractical, have been corrupted for commercial gain and may not be the best recommendations for your health.
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Posted on Wed, 4 Aug 10
If you have a big waistline is your brain smaller?
It is now normal to be overweight with most people in the western world being either overweight or obese. A serious consequence of an expanding waistline is a shrinking brain.
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