Isolated Health Advice is Bad for Health

Another phrase for isolated health advice would be health myths. All health myths are born out of giving health advice with no context whatsoever. And the reason isolated health advice is bad for health is because you're working with half knowledge and just some of the facts. Given the number of new studies talking about the health benefits of this and the bad effects of that, it becomes even more important to look at the context that it comes with....

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Calories in Coffee Shops

Snacking between meals is the number one saboteur when trying to maintain a healthy diet. The calories in coffee shops come into play when you think about the number of meetings that take place in coffee shops and just how natural it is to order something to munch or sip on during the meeting. And this is such a natural practice that without realising it, you've eaten two meals worth of calories during your meeting before lunch. So keep this...

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To Detox or Not to Detox: Detox Diets and Weight Loss

Go on a detox diet for quick weight loss and help your body remove ‘harmful toxins’ along the way. Sounds familiar? Dozens of ‘detox diet’ books, magazines and portal content peddle detox diets for quick weight loss and good health. It’s easy to get confused about their real intentions. Do detox diets merely help us cheat weight loss, a.k.a crash diet, and can they really ‘flush’ toxins better than our livers, kidneys, intestines anyway do? Today we’re looking at some important questions about detox diets. And we start with the not so obvious one: What really is detoxification?
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Weekly News Digest – 16 April 2011

weekly round-up of health news stories that grabbed our attention from around the world over the last 7 days: Honey could fight the superbug, an apple a day does keep the doctor away, having children hurts your health and vegetarians have poor heart health...
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Laziness is the Top Cause of Obesity in India

In 2007, newspapers reported that India might be facing an obesity epidemic. Nearly four years later and experts are still looking everywhere for the cause of obesity in India even though the truth is staring at them, and everyone else, in the face. The fact is scary but cannot be denied: Laziness is the top cause of obesity in India. How else would you explain the near limitless amounts of information available and yet 1 in 5 urban Indian men...

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Myth – Bananas Are Fattening

Like all health myths, it's the ignorance of stating facts in isolation that is the biggest danger. Yes, there are 100 calories in a banana; but exactly how many bananas were you planning to eat every day that you believed them to be fattening? Bananas are called powerhouses for a reason: They are rich in sugar that gives you an instant energy boost and makes them a favourite pre-workout snack; they are rich in nutrients and dietary fibre and have...

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