Teenage girls who frequently read magazine articles about dieting were more likely five years later to practice extreme weight-loss measures such as vomiting than girls who never read such articles, a University of Minnesota study found.
CHICAGO -- Teenage girls who frequently read magazine articles about dieting were more likely five years later to practice extreme weight-loss measures, such as vomiting, than girls who never read such articles, a new study found.
It's the New Year, and, along with resolutions to go on a diet and hit the treadmill at the gym more often, it's time to get fiscally fit.
More than a quarter of people believe that fate alone will determine whether they get cancer, not their lifestyle choices, according to a survey conducted by charity Cancer Research UK.
London, Jan 3: The next time you decide to start a diet, do yourself a favour and stay away from the ones that celebs endorse, for boffins are warning that more often than not, the alternative health theories and fad diets that musicians, actors and models swear by, is all "mumbo jumbo".
Up until the holidays, you had been doing pretty good on your diet - eating well, exercising and dropping pounds.
Get started on your healthier diet for 2007 with trio of suggestions for healthy dishes.
We're fatter than we've ever been, but those diet books just keep on coming. And we keep on buying them -- to the tune of about a half a billion dollars in 2006, the best evidence yet that in our appearance-obsessed society, hope still triumphs over experience.
