weight loss
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Eating Breakfast Maybe Not Be That Helpful For Weight Loss After All
Breakfast is often said to be the most important meal of the day, but according to a new review out Wednesday in the BMJ, it won’t help you lose weight. The study found no good evidence that regularly eating breakfast helps us cut down on calories or avoid weight gain. More damning, it even found…
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The Bizarre Scheme Using Viral Abuse Stories And Stolen Pics To Sell Diet Pills On Twitter
Last weekend, a Twitter user shared a disturbing story that verged on the surreal.In a 32-tweet thread, Ashley recounted an abusive relationship with a boyfriend who forced her to eat until it caused her pain — seemingly for his own sexual pleasure.
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23andMe Wants To Tell You How To Lose Weight
The quest to figure out the right diet for maintaining an optimal weight is often less a quest and more a life-long battle. We cycle through fad diet after fad diet, hoping to eventually one day strike diet gold. Now, the consumer DNA testing company 23andMe is hoping to cut out some of the mystery…
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New Weight-Loss Device Sucks Food Directly Out Of Your Stomach
Though it bears some resemblance to a Tim and Eric sketch, the AspireAssist is a very real medical device, approved by the US FDA for installation in people 22 or older “with a body mass index of 35 to 55, and who have failed to achieve and maintain weight loss through non-surgical weight-loss therapy”. It…