Weight Issues
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Food, activity and sleep: How to improve ‘sluggish’ metabolism
A ‘slow’ metabolism is the first thing to be blamed when weight loss becomes a struggle.
Nick Fuller, The Conversation
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Trying to lose weight? Increasing daily water intake does not really help
The claim is that water helps burn calories and reduce appetite, which in turn leads to weight loss. But there’s little evidence to support this.
Duane Mellor, The Conversation
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Fibre, balanced with carbs, could hold the key to weight management
Modern processed grains like white rice and white flour as well as many ultraprocessed foods have removed fibres that are naturally a part of many types of food
Christopher Damman, The Conversation
Trending
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This holiday season, who’s ‘Uninvited’ from Goa?
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‘Finding a long-term solution’: More farmers turn to ‘natural farming’ amid climate change challenge
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A new book re-examines Bill Gates and Melinda Gates’s philanthropic work
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Supreme Court upholds abrogation of Article 370 that gave Jammu and Kashmir special status
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Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the two winning poems
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After decades of being the standard, BMI is no longer the most accurate indicator of obesity
As the index does not directly measure body fat for an individual, the healthcare professionals now recommend using other measures of assessment.
Scott Hagan, The Conversation
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Is it better to lose weight slowly or quickly? Here’s what researchers say
Regardless of how you lose the weight, it is very difficult to maintain losses.
Nick Fuller, The Conversation
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Want to lose weight? Watch others eat junk food, say researchers
Dieters imagining themselves eating junk food consciously associate it with a failure to reach their weight loss goals.
Birau Mia, The Conversation & Carolina OC Werle, The Conversation
Video
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Watch: Boulders rolling down hillside halt traffic movement on Jammu and Kashmir National Highway
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Watch: Iranian guests at Nobel Prize ceremony sing to celebrate Narges Mohammadi’s Peace Prize
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Watch: Actor Bradley Cooper makes sandwiches and serves them from a food truck in New York
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Watch: Meet Captain Fatima Wasim, the first woman medical officer to be deployed at Siachen Glacier
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Watch: British PM Rishi Sunak, Dutch PM Mark Rutte get locked out of Sunak’s residence briefly
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Why exercise probably can’t help you target fatty areas of the body
We can’t choose where our body stores fat, we can’t choose where we lose it either.
Christopher Gaffney, The Conversation
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Policeman fat-shamed by Shobhaa De on Twitter undergoes weight loss surgery
Doctors at Mumbai’s Saifee Hospital hope that Daulatram Jogawat, who is diabetic and weighs 180 kg, will lose 80 kg over the next year.
Scroll Staff
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Online courses, diets, and going to the gym: The science of why we give up
People who have measurable traits of higher self-control are more successful in staying the course.
David Glance, The Conversation
The Reel
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The Yemenese film about abortion that grabbing attention – and its Indian connections
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Start the week with a film: ‘Somewhere’ is a sensitive look at an actor’s empty life
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Mining town-set film ‘Whispers of Fire and Water’ is an immersive experience
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In Ken Loach’s ‘The Old Oak’, a solidarity that transcends differences
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In animated film ‘The Siren’, a reminder that ‘democracy and peace are never eternal’