Tag: months

You Can Now Get Paid to Eat Avocados for 6 Months

Avocado fiends, if you could get paid eating avocados, would you do it? Because the opportunity has finally arrived thanks to a researcher at the Loma Linda University in Southern California. Dr. Joan Sabaté, who directs the Center for Nutrition, Lifestyle and Disease Prevention at the university, is looking for 250 people to eat a

Real Life Weight Loss: How Alexandra Lost 13kg In 6 Months

Lifelong athlete Alexandra Shipper, now 26, kept up a steady exercise routine through uni. Still, the fashion designer could never balance her love of oversized dishes. “I usually ate pretty healthy, but I also ate a lot,” says Shipper. After uni, her thrice‑weekly 30-minute workouts just weren’t cutting it. A year after graduation, Shipper, 165cm,

How Running Helped This Couple Lose 84 Kilograms Together in 8 Months

Name: Kelsey Jura and Paul DaileyAge: 25 and 23Occupation: Nursing Student and 5th Grade TeacherHometown: Butte, Montana How long have you been running?We began running in February of 2017, so we are on our seventh month of running at this point in August. RELATED: 6 Reasons To Start Running What prompted you to start?We started running to supplement our healthier

Major heart attacks are more deadly during colder months

Heart attacks are more likely to kill you in the winter than in the summer, according to new research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society Conference in Manchester today. Cardiologists at Leeds General Infirmary compared information from 4,056 people who received treatment for a heart attack in four separate years, and found the most severe