A burgeoning industry of wellness advisers, counselors and consultants is booming as corporate America tries to increase productivity and control insurance costs by helping its employees get healthy and shed pounds. The change is fueled by well-meaning, cost-conscious executives who are looking for ways to trim bottom lines along with waist lines. “The truth is [...]
(HealthDay News) — In what doctors admit is a paradox, new European research shows that obese patients have half the risk of dying after a heart attack compared with normal-weight patients. “Once a heart attack has occurred and been optimally treated, obese patients switch to a more favorable prognosis compared to normal-weight patients,” said lead [...]
He may have come down from the trees, but prehistoric man did not stop swinging. New research into Stone Age humans has argued that, far from having intercourse simply to reproduce, they had sex for fun. Practices ranging from bondage to group sex, transvestism and the use of sex toys were widespread in primitive societies [...]
How to lose weight and not go hungry: Researcher develops drug that mimics feeling of ‘fullness’ Millions of people the world over suffer today from obesity, yet there is no “magic bullet†that has yet provided a universally accepted solution. However, a young researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem feels he has come up [...]
*Great expectations: Emily Barton with her enormous bump at 7 and a half months pregnant* Although mother-to-be Emily Barton was expecting only one child, passers-by would stop her and ask if she was having triplets. Her bump grew so rapidly that she put on an astonishing seven stone during her pregnancy.
