Posts by: Zero to Hero Fitness

This Diet Surprisingly Doesn’t Work, Say Researchers

For famed naturopath Peter J. D'Adamo, it's the simplest way to lose weight. Called the Blood Type Diet, D'Adamo claims that how you slim down depends all on your blood type--something that not only determines which foods help you lose weight, but which diet helps you digest food more easily (and have a higher metabolism to boot). "I think the blood type diet was an astounding leap of consciousness that really had to come from the mind of a naturopath,…
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Doing This Decreases Your Diabetes Risk By 40%!

If you're a woman, you may balk at the idea of lifting weights in lieu of aerobic exercise, but now a new study says there's a good reason to: It could lower your diabetes risk. The study, which was published in the health journal PLOS Medicine, reveals that resistance training, such as lifting weights, lowered a woman's risk of diabetes by a whopping 40 percent--something that ought to motivate women to start pumping iron. "Notably, women who did more than…
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Why Experts Don’t Want You To Try This Diet

At 226 lbs., celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito knew his weight was out of control. And with the threat of heart disease looming on the horizon, he knew he had to make a decision. In turn, he developed his own diet--the Pound A Day Diet. "It’s a chef’s point of view that’s been missing in the world of health," says DiSpirito to ABC News. "These recipes are easy to make and they taste great." What is A Pound a Day Diet?…
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The 1 Simple Workout That Fights Back Pain

The statistics don't lie: With more than 25 percent of Americans reportedly suffering from lower back pain, it's turning into an epidemic. Worse yet, spending thousands of dollars of medications, injections, and surgery often make the pain worse. "A broken leg, and the acute pain it causes, can often be treated relatively quickly," says Perry Fine, M.D., a University of Utah pain specialist. "But chronic pain is more akin to bigger problems like diabetes or advanced cancer, which can't be…
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The 1 Diet Drug That Could Kill You

For some people, it's the easiest trick to lose weight: Swallowing a package of laxatives after a heavy meal. And while countless research shows that laxatives don't actually help people lose weight, it's still a decades-old technique people rely on as a last-ditch effort. But now the FDA says there's a new reason why you shouldn't abuse laxatives to lose weight--it could kill you. "The bottom line is that these products are safe for otherwise healthy adults and older children…
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This Can Help Stop Osteoarthritis Naturally

For many older Americans, the pain and embarrassment of osteoarthritis is often too much to bear. However, now a new study from researchers in Ohio say there may be one way to ease arthritis pain naturally--through yoga. "Yoga reduces stress which is known to exacerbate arthritis," say the authors of the study, who work on behalf on the University of Cincinnati's Health Promotion and Education Program in Cincinnati, Ohio. "Yoga can improve coping and by altering perspective toward life provide…
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The Diet Product the FTC Doesn’t Want You To Try

Patti Stanger, star of The Millionaire Matchmaker, says she was never blessed with a good metabolism. Though never obese by any comparison, Stanger was never able to get thin--until she tried a weight loss product called Sensa. "I was skeptical but I thought--what the hell, I've tried lots of other celebrity weight loss programs," says Stanger. "After about 2 weeks I noticed my body was changing and I was losing weight. I kept doing what I was doing, continued eating…
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The Diet That Reduces Diabetes By 40 Percent

Worried about your diabetes risk? Turns out there's a new way to reduce your risk--by up to as much as 40 percent. Published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, editor-in-chief and Jefferson Medical College associate professor of medicine Dr. Christine Laine says this study reveals how important diet is when it comes to reducing a person's type 2 diabetes risk. "The study suggests it is possible to reduce the risk of diabetes by changing the composition of your diet,"…
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This Controversial Diet Helped This Man Lose Nearly 40 Pounds

While some experts claim that calories don't matter when it comes to weight loss, one Iowa biology teacher is proving that may not always be the case--even on a diet of McDonald's. John Cisna, a high school biology teacher from Ankeny, Iowa, says he originally started his McDonald's diet to prove to his students that it's possible to lose weight on any food--as long as you watch your calorie and nutrient intake. Following a diet of 2,000 calories per day,…
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This Exercise Gets You in Shape in Just 4 Minutes a Day

Imagine this: You're pinched for time, so you head to your living room to do a quick bout of interval training. Then, 4 minutes later, you end your workout and head out the door to work. Sound like heresy? Believe it or not, it's reality now, thanks to a Norwegian study reported by LifeHacker earlier this week. "Regular exercise training improves maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), but the optimal intensity and volume necessary to obtain maximal benefit remains to be defined,"…
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