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2009-05-08T12:10:05+0000">May 8, 2009 – 12:10 pm
Most recent research now shows the importance of dietary fat in causing increases in body fat. National health targets recommend a reduction in the contribution of fat as a proportion of daily energy intake in adults to 30 per cent. This is a conservative recommendation and takes into consideration what is realistic for individuals to [...]
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2009-04-23T04:42:01+0000">April 23, 2009 – 4:42 am
Although self-starvation in men is rare, it does occur. In fact, a paper published in 1694 by the physician Richard Morton-generally recognized as the first unequivocal description of anorexia- describes two cases, one of whom was a sixteen-year-old boy. As the author stated:
[The boy] fell gradually into a total want of appetite, occasioned by his [...]
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2009-04-23T03:55:32+0000">April 23, 2009 – 3:55 am
For most of her life, Cindy Arvayo was an active person. Then, she started climbing the corporate ladder at an electronics firm in pressure-packed Silicon Valley. “With that came all the stress,” says Cindy, age 45. “I got into the habit of numbing out with food.”
After about 13 years, her weight had crept up to [...]
