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Kerala Fat Tax: Could Making Junk Food Expensive Curb Obesity?

July 30, 2016 SrijitaCould, Curb, expensive, fat, Food., Junk, Kerala, Making, Obesity, Tax

Spending money to lose weight does work at times. You could force yourself to wake up earlier every morning and head to the gym – if you have paid up a hefty fee, or bought fancy shoes and workout gear. But does the same motivation work when it comes to avoidant behaviour? Will you stop eating a Rs. 300 burger or pizza because it is now pricier, at roughly Rs. 345?Much has already been said on Kerala’s 14.5 per cent fat tax on “junk foods” like burgers and pizzas sold…

Time for fat tax in Kolkata?

July 13, 2016 Srijitafat, for, In, Kolkata, Tax, Time

Debjani Bhaumik of Behala is a self-confessed pizza-addict and she loves to punctuate her pizza meals with trips to a burger joint on Park Street. Despite being overweight, the homemaker has refused to go slow on her fast-food consumption. The imposition of a ‘fat-tax’ on fast-food by the Kerala government has set her thinking. Even though she isn’t planning to give up, Debjani has decided to cut down on her consumption to reduce the pocket pinch, in case the tax travels to Kolkata. “The tax is a steep one and…

Saturated Fat in Diet Linked with Higher Mortality

July 8, 2016 SrijitaDiet:, fat, higher, In, Linked, Mortality, Saturated, With

Replacing animal fats in your diet with a variety of liquid vegetable oils can help you live longer as researchers have confirmed that higher consumption of saturated and trans fats is linked with higher mortality. In a large study population that included 126,233 participants who were followed for more than three decades, researchers found that replacing saturated fats with unsaturated fats conferred substantial health benefits. The study suggests that replacing saturated fats like butter, lard, and fat in red meat with unsaturated fats from plant-based foods like olive oil, canola…

Copper essential for burning fat: Study

July 7, 2016 SrijitaBurning, Copper, Essential, fat, for, Study

Copper plays a critical role in metabolism by helping move fat out of cells and into the blood stream for use as energy, a study said. Findings about copper and fat cells, called adipocytes, by the group from the University of California, Berkeley, will be published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology in July, Xinhua news agency reported. “Unlike other studies that link copper levels both to increased or decreased fat metabolism, our study shows definitively how it works — it’s a signal that turns on fat cells,” said…

fat Burning sports: Get an appropriate frame everyone dreams Of

June 27, 2016 Srijitaan, appropriate, Burning, Dreams, everyone, fat, frame, Get, of, Sports

Is your summer time frame not ready but? Do belly fat, batwings and love handles nevertheless dread you? here’s all the help you want. while the consumption of calories exceeds the quantity you shed, they get partially saved as fat. This excess fats now not simplest affects our physical appearance however additionally our electricity, mobility, staying power in addition to immunity. according to statistics about 2.1 billion people, nearly 30% of the sector population, are either obese or obese. poor consuming alternatives and a sedentary way of life are the…

Too fat, Too skinny: file finds Malnutrition Fuels ailment worldwide

June 15, 2016 Srijitaailment, fat, File, Finds, Fuels, Malnutrition, skinny:, Too, worldwide

a third of human beings international are both undernourished or overweight, using increasing prices of disease and piling pressure on fitness offerings, a worldwide report showed on Tuesday.rates of overweight or obese humans are growing in every place of the world, and in almost each country, in step with the 2016 worldwide nutrients document – an annual independent inventory take of the state of the world’s nutrition.Malnutrition comes in many paperwork – which include terrible toddler increase and improvement and vulnerability to infection among those who do now not get…