If it really is what‘s on the inside that counts, then a lot of thin people might be in trouble. Some doctors now think that the internal fat surrounding vital organs like the heart, liver or pancreas — invisible to the naked eye — could be as dangerous as the more obvious external fat that bulges underneath the skin.

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Consumer Reports have chosen the “best” diets and diet books. The Volumetrics eating plan was chosen as the best diet, and Bob Greene’s Best Life Diet chosen as the best book.

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Cancer is a group of diseases. It can attack any part of the body. It is the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. About 500,000 people die from cancer each year. The cause of most kinds of cancer is unknown. Scientists think some kinds of cancer can run in families. Other kinds of cancer are caused by what we eat and the way we live.

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Time was, diabetes struck mostly in middle age. But in the past 8 years, the onset of diabetes among people 30 to 39 years of age has skyrocketed by 70 percent–enough for the American Diabetes Association to call it an epidemic.

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The low-carb lifestyle - with its emphasis on eating meat and dairy products - has removed the stigma of dieting, reports Judith Woods. That’s welcome news for the quarter of men estimated to be obese. (more…)