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Weight-loss shakes, also called liquid meal replacements, are calorie-controlled beverages that replace one or more meals or snacks as part of a weight-loss program.
Don't let its spiny skin or sweet flesh fool you.
Soda is packed with sugar, preservatives and artificial colors and has been linked to both obesity and diabetes.
Your body loses 1 to 3 percent of its muscle strength per year after age 30 if you don't do resistance exercises.
A group of scientists recently suggested, in a review that appeared in the International Journal of Obesity, that Americans are simply spending too much time talking about how our toxic food environment and our couch potato ways are making us obese. Perhaps there are other reasons that we’re plumping up, they proposed. Among their alternate obesity theories: we’re not sleeping enough, air pollution messes up our metabolism, we’ve adapted to air conditioning—and so we don’t need to regulate our internal temperatures by ramping up our metabolic rates (thus, burning more calories).
