monglopexStudies more firmly tie sugary drinks to obesity
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A huge, decades-long study involving more than 33,000 Americans has yielded the first clear proof that drinking sugary beverages interacts with genes that affect weight, amplifying a person’s risk of obesity beyond what it would be from heredity alone.
This means that such drinks are especially harmful to people with genes that predispose them to weight gain. And most of us have at least some of these genes. In addition, two other major experiments have found that giving children and teens calorie-free alternatives to the sugary drinks they usually consume leads to less weight gain. Collectively, the results strongly suggest that sugary drinks cause people to pack on the pounds, independent of other unhealthy behavior such as overeating and getting too little exercise, scientists say. That adds weight to the push for taxes, portion limits like the one just adopted in New York City, and other policies to curb consumption of soda, juice drinks and sports beverages sweetened with sugar. Soda lovers do get some good news: Sugar-free drinks did not raise the risk of obesity in these studies. “You may be able to fool the taste” and satisfy a sweet tooth without paying a price in weight, said an obesity researcher with no role in the studies, Rudy Leibel of Columbia University. The studies were being presented Friday at an obesity conference in San Antonio and were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine. 5 Surprising Ways To Be Happier At Work
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He sent us five tips from his book "Are You Ready to Succeed? Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life." The book explores some unexpected ways that you can improve your outlook, relationships and careers. Here are a few of his tips:
Do nothing for a half-hour. Rao says that all the noise in our day-to-day lives makes us stressed. "Try doing nothing for a half-hour: no watching TV, no checking emails, no reading," he says. Make a list of what you are grateful for about your job. It's easy to hate your company and think it's all bad, according to Rao. But seeing the bright side will improve your attitude and performance at work. Cultivate a new skill for work. "If you have to make cold calls for work and you find that you dread making them, but you love writing, try working on developing compelling copy and using mass email marketing and other tactics to eliminate something that you hate and emphasize something you love," Rao says. Make a tape recording of yourself on a phone call. See how many times you use "I" and "me." Rao says that instead of focusing so much on yourself, you should try and think of others and make their lives better. Make a list of all of the people you blame for bad things that have happened to you. Then understand that they weren't out to get you, they were just motivated by their desire to be happy. "Most of our perceived i... « previous next » |
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