Carrying extra weight on your hips, bum and thighs is good for your health, protecting against heart and metabolic problems, UK experts have said.

Hip fat mops up harmful fatty acids and contains an anti-inflammatory agent that stops arteries clogging, they say.

Big behinds are preferable to extra fat around the waistline, which gives no such protection, the Oxford team said.

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What makes you suddenly dart into the bakery when you spy chocolate- frosted donuts in the window, though you certainly hadn’t planned on indulging? As you lick the frosting off your fingers, don’t blame a lack of self-control…

New research from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine reveals how hunger works in the brain and the way neurons pull your strings to lunge for the sweet fried dough.

Krispy Kremes, in perhaps their first starring role in neurological research, helped lead to the discovery. In the study, subjects were tested twice — once after gorging on up to eight Krispy Kreme donuts until they couldn’t eat anymore, and on another day after fasting for eight hours…

Mesulam noted the research demonstrates how our brain decides what to pay attention to in a world full of stimuli — not just sweets. “If you are in a forest and you hear rustling, the context urges you to pay full attention since this could be a sign of danger,” he said. “If you are in your office, the context makes the identical sound less relevant. A major job of the brain is to match response to context.”

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That exercise is the key to losing our collective weight is something that we know so deep in our cultural guts that to question it would be ridiculous.

Except that is what the most cutting-edge obesity researchers are now doing. The recent studies show that the benefits of exercise for weight loss have been overstated. This idea is shocking. It goes so far against the orthodoxy that it is not something many can accept. And certainly for governments and the food industry that places them under so much pressure, it is too much to swallow.

But, as Professor Boyd Swinburn, director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, says: “This is provocative in many ways . . . but my concern is that if we put the emphasis on exercise we are unlikely to tackle the obesity problem as we are not driving at the root cause.”

The idea that exercise will help to shed pounds is fairly recent — emerging at the same time that obesity began to boom in the 1980s.

A 107-year-old Malaysian woman says she is ready to marry for the 23rd time because she fears her current drug addict husband might leave her for a younger woman, a report said Monday.

Wook Kundor made headlines four years ago when she married Muhammad Noor Che Musa, a man 70 years her junior in northern Terengganu state, with pictures of the couple’s wedding splashed across regional newspapers.

When it comes to the question of who’s hot or not, research has found that beauty is skin deep for men and in the eye of the beholder for women.

The study by psychologists from a North Carolina university has found that men are much more likely to come to a consensus when defining what they find attractive in the opposite sex.

The study, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, could mean it’s not just money and security that lures many attractive young women to far less attractive older men, The Courier-Mail reports.

Wake Forest University researcher Dustin Wood polled 4000 men and women, aged 18 to more than 70, on how attractive they found the subjects of a range of photographs of people of the opposite sex aged 18 to 25.

The study, perhaps not surprisingly, found men’s view on the attractiveness of different women was defined by physical features, with women who looked thin and seductive getting the highest ratings.

Men also were particularly attracted to women who appeared confident.

Women showed a more diverse range of respo

Go to any bar in any city at any given time and you’ll likely see the same pattern: hordes of Katherine Heigls making small talk with rows of Seth Rogans (pre-weight loss, of course). Perhaps this was why Knocked Up struck such a reverberating tone and enjoyed so much success—afterall, how many times (a day!) do we see attractive women giving schlubby (but lovable) men a shot?

Well, it looks like science (once again!) is behind this phenomenon. New research suggests that evolution is making women more attractive and leaving men as frumpy as they’ve always been.

While we’ve always assumed women are so much hotter now due to gym memberships, breast implants and gift certificates to Sephora, several studies suggest that stunning ladies are not only more likely to have more children, but also more likely to have daughters. Thus gifting the world with more good-looking women.

Markus Jokela, a researcher at the University of Helsink, followed 1, 244 women and 997 men throughout four decades and found that beautiful women had 16% more children than average-looking ones. Previous studies, by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, say pretty women are 26% less likely to have sons.

We’ve had WAGS, yuppies and metrosexuals; now meet our newest social phenomenon, TWITs.

The TWITs are “Teenage Women In Their Thirties”.

Just like men with Peter Pan-syndrome who are not ready to grow up, TWITs are putting serious relationships and parenthood on hold, instead choosing to continue partying and enjoying the freedoms they discovered in their teens, the Sunday Herald Sun reports.

Melbourne fashion model Kelly Johns is proud to be a TWIT. Ms Johns keeps her age a secret but admits she is in her 30s. “People have a perception of me as being young and fun and when I tell them my age it changes the way they see me,” she said.

She doesn’t have children, is single and said the freedom of youth shouldn’t be a distant memory. “I am here to have good clean fun, party it up and live my life.” she said.

“If I found the right man I would settle down and have kids, but I am not going to sit around at home waiting.”

[ via - news.com.au ]

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1… Resistance training.

2… Eating less calories than you burn off.

3… And eating enough protein so that you can maintain your muscle mass.

There is simply no better way to put it.

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You have to do resistance training in order to maintain the healthy build that your body relies on. If you follow diet guidelines without doing resistance training, than you could lose muscle mass along the way. The reason you want to avoid this is because then even though you will lose weight, you won’t look any better, because to look better you need muscle.

This is because you need to focus on your percentage of fat instead of on your bodyweight. See, if you can lose 5 pounds of fat while gaining 3 pounds of muscle, than you will only see 2pounds in difference on the scale. But, you will LOOK 8 pounds different! And that is the difference that Eat Stop Eat can make!

That is why you must weight train as well as diet. Weight training is the most effective way to keep your body lean while you diet, which will help your overall health and look as you shed pounds. I mean, you really want to show off that lean body under the fat, right? Not just lose the fat…

The next key to losing weight is protein. You need to consume enough of it to allow your muscles to grow. This topic is a bit controversial, and some “experts” do not agree with it. But what you need to understand is that protein is your friend when it comes to weight loss, not your enemy.

If you can mix these three key elements, than you can successfully and healthily shed pounds while looking even better than the scales show. And, the best thing is that you can do it on YOUR schedule… and the only system that will help you do that is the Eat Stop Eat system.

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