Anyone working in a desk-based job will know the daily — almost hourly — temptations that arise. Whether it’s a colleague offering home-baked cookies, or your team deciding to order takeout, it’s all too easy to get led astray.
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In modern medicine obesity is classified not only as a cosmetic flaw, but as a disease which should be treated. Clinical studies in recent years that have been made by specialists of many countries, and confirm the fact that obesity is not the best way affect the performance of the whole organism, on the course of many diseases.

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Type 2 diabetes is on the increase. By the year 2010 the number of new cases is expected to double to reach 270 million, of whom 4 million will be in the UK. Until relatively recently, type 2 diabetes was perceived as a disease of middle-aged and older people, but this form of diabetes has now been reported in children in several countries worldwide including the UK (Ehtisham et al. 2000; Fagot-Campagna et al. 2001).

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Parents are getting used to the idea that there are certain foods they should encourage their kids to eat and others that they should avoid.

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A carbonated drink is something, which children as well as adults just like to gulp down their throat in just a few seconds. Actually the bubbly nature of the carbonated drink is so tempting, that one is just tempted to buy it, when one sees it, while passing through the street for no particular reason. It’s considered a good accompaniment with any fast food and there are some people, who can’t live without it. Some people drink it instead of water, which is very bad for health, since it’s carbonated as well as sugary.

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Scientists have theorized for years that eating eggs may help improve your memory.

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YOU REALLY SHOULD'VE HAD A V8 Want to help boost your immune system in 10 seconds? Chug 12 ounces of V8 juice, preferably the low-sodium kind.

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Green tea has appeared on our shelves relatively recently, but managed to find its admirers because it is filled with useful substances and health elixir. And experts say that in the East, where it has traditionally grown tea.

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BBC - The Truth about Food [Complete Set] (2007)
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Forget the different headlines you read about the food you eat. Discovery Health and the BBC present a series of landmark scientific investigations that deliver astounding insights on how your diet directly affects your body and mind -- and how you can use food to increase the quality of your daily life.

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The natural way of losing weight is the best way to do so. Rigorous fitness programs are hazardous to health. A fixed pattern of an exercise regime followed for a long time is the best way to lose weight naturally. It’s always good to increase the quantum of the time limit for an exercise regime, by increasing it slowly and steadily.

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Honey has been in kitchens since antiquity (Egyptians were cooking with it over 5,000 years ago), but there's a modern buzz surrounding the golden liquid. We're seeing two big trends: the increase in varietal honeys, and the rise of local honeys.

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All beauty, dreaming about how to reset a few kilograms overweight, as they think, weight, wishing to implement a combination of two seriously incompatible factors: long and lose weight fast. Of the available today myriad diets for weight loss, of course, can be identified and a more or less long term, and fast.

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