Is there a lot of graffiti and litter in your neighborhood? If so, you are more likely to be fat. Would people in these neighborhoods become slender and healthy if graffiti and litter were cleaned up? It may sound crazy, but some scientists are taking this idea seriously. And who is responsible for all this graffiti? It was the same in prehistoric times as it is now: teenage boys.
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Have you noticed that diet books are no longer the bestsellers they once were? This is because 85% of the people who go on diets gain back all the weight they work so hard to lose. Why does this happen and is it inevitable?
A new study offers insight into why it’s easier to lose weight than to keep it off for good. Body weight is regulated by our metabolism. The body interprets weight loss as a deficiency in the hormone leptin, which controls weight gain.
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Newswise – At unknowncountry.com, we know what it’s like to get fat, but we’re here to HELP you, by posting a new chapter of Anne Strieber’s diet book on this website every Monday. What makes people overeat? Researchers discovered that people eat too much when they are served large portions, even of foods they don’t like.
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