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Slumber Longer to Get Slimmer: Study Links Sleep Time to Weight Loss
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 5) -- Logging adequate sleep might be a key component of losing unneeded fat, rather than valuable lean body mass. A small study on 10 overweight or obese adults, published in this week's Annals of Internal Medicine, suggests that diet and exercise are only part of the solution in attaining a healthy body mass and composition. Study participants were sequestered to a controlled environment for four weeks, with their meals, exercise routines and sleep schedules strictly monitored. Because self-reporting is often skewed, the approach makes the research all the more intriguing. Longer ...
Study: More Than Weight, Larger Waistlines Shrink Lifetimes
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 9) -- No matter the number on the scale, a bigger waist significantly increases one's risk of death from a myriad of causes, including respiratory disease and cardiovascular conditions. That's the sobering reminder from a major new study that tracked more than 100,000 American adults and is published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine. A team of researchers with the American Cancer Society followed 48,500 men and 56,343 women, all of them older than 55. Participants' waist circumferences were first obtained in 1997 and tracked until 2006. Within all categories of the body ...
Christina Hendricks: Full-Figured Never Looked Better
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyClothes look good on thin bodies. But thin bodies naked? Not so much. Naked full bodies is another matter. Or near-naked, a la actress Christina Hendricks in a corset on the cover of New York Magazine. Hendricks, a breakout star of AMC's hit show "Mad Men," is undeniably beautiful. She's also a different body type than we're used to seeing in the glamor factories of Los Angeles and New York. But then "Mad Men" is a period drama, set half a century ago. It may be relevant that most fashion designers are gay men. Thin women look more male than their voluptuous counterparts in the general ...
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