• Few Extra Pounds Don't Raise Risk of Death From Cancer, Heart Disease - The L...

Few Extra Pounds Don't Raise Risk of Death From Cancer, Heart Disease
The Ledger, FL - 21 minutes ago
However, having a little extra weight actually seemed to help people survive some illnesses ? results that baffled several leading health researchers. ...

• Pig sitter charged with misdemeanor cruelty as portly pet is put ... - Intern...

Pig sitter charged with misdemeanor cruelty as portly pet is put ...
International Herald Tribune, France - 26 minutes ago
AP WINONA, Minnesota: A pet pig whose weight tripled while it was in the care of a sitter has been placed on a diet ? and an animal cruelty charge has been ...

• Few extra pounds don't raise risk of death from cancer, heart ... - Journal G...

Few extra pounds don't raise risk of death from cancer, heart ...
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, IL - 26 minutes ago
However, having a little extra weight actually seemed to help people survive some illnesses _ results that baffled several leading health researchers. ...

• Few extra pounds don't raise risk of death from cancer, heart ... - The South...

Few extra pounds don't raise risk of death from cancer, heart ...
The Southern, IL - 28 minutes ago
However, having a little extra weight actually seemed to help people survive some illnesses _ results that baffled several leading health researchers. ...

• High-Fat Diet Can Disrupt Body's Clock (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
TUESDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- There's more bad news about a high-fat diet -- it disrupts the body's 24-hour internal (circadian) clock, which regulates sleeping, waking, eating, as well as the daily rhythms of many metabolic functions, U.S. researchers say.

• High-fat Atkins diet damages blood vessels: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
The high-fat Atkins diet can cause long-term damage to blood vessels, as well as some of the inflammation linked with heart and artery disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

• Modest gain in visceral fat causes dysfunction of blood vessel lining in lean...
The fat-gainer group put on an average of 4 kg of fat and significantly increased their visceral and subcutaneous fat. In the weight-maintainer group, the two kinds of flow measurements taken in the brachial artery of the upper arm to assess endothelial dysfunction remained unchanged.

• Smoking burns muscle not fat (The West Australian)
This we know: smoking takes the edge off appetite and so helps people lose weight. Australian researchers have found that the reduction is from muscle mass and not from stored fat. We might look thinner, we might be lighter, but the weight loss has been damaging to our health.