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For a Healthier Heart, Try the Mediterranean Diet

Chris Chaberski — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:09:21 +0000

A recent study explains that a so-called Mediterranean diet—specifically one high in extra-virgin olive oil—is a great way to keep your heart in good shape. The Mediterranean diet, which was first introduced in 1993, emphasizes fruits, vegetables and whole grains, with limitations on meats, especially red meat. When preparing fruits and vegetables, the less processed [...]

Bill Clinton Is Now a Vegan [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:45:09 +0000

Bill Clinton, the former US president usually associated with Big Macs and doughnuts, has so radically altered his diet that he now considers himself a vegan. Looking skinner than ever in a recent appearance, Clinton told CNN’s Sanjay Gupta that he had been lucky not have died from a heart attack, and conceded he had [...]

Diet Soda May Make You Pack on the Pounds

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:00:44 +0000

By analyzing the results of a 10-year longitudinal study of 474 people, researchers were able to determine that the participants who drank two or more diet sodas a day experienced a waist size increase 70 percent greater than those who stayed away from diet soda.

Dr. Martin P. Paulus, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, and an author of the study, offered this theory as to why something without calories can lead to weight gain:

Man Moves Into Mall of America in Attempt to Lose Weight [VIDEO]

Amory Gritta — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:00:35 +0000

Sometimes the best way to commit to a workout regiment is to tell a bunch of people about it, and then let the fear of being labeled the-guy-who-talks-a-big-game-about-getting-in-shape-but-never-follows-through take over.

That's what St. Paul, Minnesota resident Scott Jorgenson is doing, times a few thousand.