Seven Foods to Fire Up Your Metabolism, Burn Fat and Improve Athletic Performance

While there's no such thing as a magic potion that will enable you to burn fat and lose weight, by eating certain foods combined with a balanced diet and exercise program, you can burn fat quicker which will lead to improved athletic performance.

Colo. lawmakers consider trans-fat ban in schools

The nation's leanest state is taking aim at junk food in school cafeterias as it considers the nation's toughest school trans-fat ban.A Colorado House committee was scheduled to hear a bill Thursday to …

Colorado mulls toughest trans-fat ban in country

Ban would apply to all food served in Colorado schools, including vending machines and bake sales

The Truth About Fat Women and Self-Control

If the choice between being fat and thin were a simple, conscious decision, most of us would likely be slender. Nevertheless, new research suggests that the discrimination and prejudice faced by overweight people, especially women, are driven by the preconceived notion that body fat is somehow optional.

Calories count, but not where they come from: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Sticking to diets with strict proportions of fat, carbs and protein may not be more effective for people who want to lose weight and fat mass than simply cutting back on calories, according to a new comparison of four diets. The results suggest that it doesn't matter where the calories come from, as long as dieters reduce them. "If you're happier doing it low fat, or …

Calories count, but source doesn't matter: study

(Reuters) – People trying to lose weight may swear by specific diet plans calling for strict proportions of fat, carbs and protein, but where the calories come from may not matter as much as simply cutting back on them, according to a study. Researchers whose results were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found there were no differences in weight loss or the reduction of …

Fat Smitty's restaurant owner donates 10,000 dollar bills to charity

Carl 'fat Smitty' Schmidt struggled over his decision to remove the thousands of dollar bills that have slowly accumulated in his Discovery Bay, Washington, restaurant.

Karoun Dairies' Yanni Grilling Cheese the Lower Fat, High Protein Taste Sensation

TURLOCK, Calif., Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Research has been touting the benefits of high protein, low-fat diets for nearly a decade. According to a 2004 study done by the American Society of Nutritional …

Brown Fat Furnishes Physiological Furnace

Men with more brown fat burn more calories in the cold to keep warm. Katherine Harmon reports

Brown fat gives weight to dieters' hopes

fat people have less of it than thin people. Older people have less than younger people.

Brown Fat: New Hope for a New Way to Lose Weight

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Brown Fat Burns Ordinary Fat, Study Finds

In separate studies, researchers have determined that in cold conditions, people’s calorie-gobbling brown fat uses ordinary fat as fuel — and that exercise may convert ordinary fat to brown fat.

Why Brown Fat Is No Obesity Cure… Yet

If you were asked to envision a dream solution for the obesity epidemic, you couldn’t do much better than the concept of calorie-burning fat — in other words, “good” fat in the body that essentially burns calories. So it may come as little surprise that…

Burning brown fat to be slimmer has a hitch

Men burn brown fat for energy only when they're chilled, researchers have found.

Brown Fat Burns Ordinary Fat, Study Finds

In separate studies, researchers have determined that in cold conditions, people’s calorie-gobbling brown fat uses ordinary fat as fuel — and that exercise may convert ordinary fat to brown fat.

Brown fat burns calories in adult humans

Brown fat burns calories to generate body heat in rodents and newborn humans. Recently, adult humans have also been found to possess brown fat, leading to the suggestion that increasing the amount of brown fat a person has will make them slimmer. However, it has never been shown definitively that adult human brown fat burns energy. But now, researchers in Canada have provided this evidence.

Fat is not the enemy, say Harvard experts

A group of Harvard scientists has waged war against the low-fat diet myth, singling out the muffin as its first target.

Why eating fat doesn’t make you fat

It’s time to let go of your fear of fat.  Just like cholesterol, there are both good and bad types of fat, and including the right types of fat into your diet is a key player in overall health and wellbeing.  fat is an essential nutrient, and our bodies need it to function

The Fat Trap

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Your Taste for Fat May Reside in Your Genes

Title: Your Taste for fat May Reside in Your Genes Category: Health News Created: 1/16/2012 2:05:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 1/17/2012

Metabolic Workout Program That Lets People Lose Belly Fat In 10 Minutes Per Day Launched On-Line by Founder of Global …

Overweight dieters who don’t have enough time for conventional cardio and fat-loss exercises can now lose belly fat through optimized exercises designed to balance muscle tissues.

Your Taste for Fat May Reside in Your Genes

MONDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) — Variations in a certain gene can make people more or less sensitive to the taste of fat and affect their risk for obesity, researchers report.

Sugary soda ups risky fat deposits

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Drinking a liter of regular cola every day increases the amount of fat in the liver and in the muscles and surrounding the organs in the belly, according to a new Danish study. That kind of fat buildup has been linked in other studies to an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease. "This study suggests that the adverse effects of sugary beverages go beyond just …

Sugary soda increases risky fat deposits

Drinking a liter of regular cola every day increases the amount of fat in the liver and in the muscles and surrounding the organs in the belly

New, Groundbreaking Ultrasound Technology Delivers Permanent Non-Invasive Waistline Fat Reduction

New, Groundbreaking Ultrasound Technology Delivers Permanent Non-Invasive Waistline fat Reduction

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