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Featured: Burnout at work leads to emotional eating

Work related stress and burnout increases emotional and uncontrolled eating in women. Managing work stress may be critical to healthy dietary changes.

Posted on Mon, 12 Mar 12

Sleep deprivation hardwires your hungry brain

Lack of sleep is a major risk factor for weight gain and obesity and a new study helps explain why, it changes the way your brain behaves.

Posted on Mon, 29 Aug 11

Super Size Me: the Study

In award winning documentary Super Size Me Morgan Spurlock eats only McDonalds for 30 days and manages to gain 11.1 kg (24.5 lbs) develop high cholesterol, liver damage, mood swings and sexual dysfunction. A study in Sweden has also found that 4 weeks of fast-food is tremendously detrimental.

Posted on Wed, 29 Jun 11

What are the most fattening foods and behaviours?

Focusing on the single biggest causes of weight gain may improve your success. To find out what are the most important dietary and lifestyle factors a team from Harvard University studied over 120,000 men and women for 12 to 20 years and the findings have just been published.