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Speed of weight loss may have little impact on success at keeping it off

By Roxanne Nelson (Reuters Health) – In a trial of weight loss approaches, the rate at which people dropped excess pounds was not linked to their success in keeping the weight off over the next three years. Researchers say the small study shows that current guidelines advising slow and steady weight loss should be revised, and the focus should be instead on improving methods for helping people maintain their weight

The World Is About To Fall Into A Terrifying Deflationary Crater

With gold, silver, oil, and other commodities getting hit, today Michael Pento warned King World News that the world is about to fall into a terrifying deflationary crater.  Pento also discussed what he is doing with his firm’s money ahead of the coming chaos. Pento:  “Eric, there was a crucial central bank action taken yesterday.  A surprisingly hawkish Fed decided at its October meeting to end QE and keep a

6 Head-to-Toe Toning Moves

By Amy Gallo for Self.com Experts agree that moves that challenge your balance fire muscles in your core, legs and booty in order to stabilize your body. Do the following strength routine in your toning shoes for an even bigger focus on balance. Plus, adding dumbbells to the workout sculpts your upper body for head-to-toe toning. The expert Amy Dixon, group fitness manager at Equinox fitness club in Santa Monica,

5 Food Label Items You Need to Start Reading

New food labels are coming to stores near you. First, the bad: If terms on food labels like “all natural,” “free range” and “light,” confused you in the past, they will continue to be confusing. I tried to help clear up some of that confusion by including a whole chapter on these tricky terms in my book, “Read It Before You Eat It,” but I’ll admit, sometimes these health halo

AstraZeneca wins U.S. approval for two-in-one diabetes pill

LONDON (Reuters) – A new two-in-one diabetes pill from AstraZeneca has been approved by U.S. regulators, the British drugmaker said on Thursday. The green light from the Food and Drug Administration is for Xigduo XR, which combines the company’s recently launched diabetes treatment dapagliflozin with an older kind of medicine called metformin. Xigduo XR is the first once-daily tablet combining a so-called SGLT2 inhibitor drug and metformin to win U.S.

Nintendo to develop 'quality of life' device to track sleep, fatigue: CEO

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co Ltd will develop a device to measure a user’s fatigue and map their sleep, Chief Executive Satoru Iwata said on Thursday, the first offering from the company’s newly created healthcare division. The device will be developed with U.S. firm ResMed Inc, which currently makes products to treat sleep disorders, and will be available in the financial year ending March 2016. “By