102.3 Blake FM » health http://1023blakefm.com Plays New Country Sun, 19 May 2013 17:38:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 New Study Says Impulsive People Weigh More http://1023blakefm.com/new-study-says-impulsive-people-weigh-more/ http://1023blakefm.com/new-study-says-impulsive-people-weigh-more/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:14:38 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=27700 We all know eating too much and moving too little can add a little extra around the waist. But can your personality lead to weight gain too?

A new study published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology says it’s possible.

Three researchers from the US Department of Health and Human Services followed nearly 2,000 people over a 50-year life span and found those who were more impulsive were likely to be about 24 pounds heavier than those who weren’t. They also found that subjects who weren’t terribly friendly may experience  “a greater increase in the Body Mass Index across the adult life span.”

]]> http://1023blakefm.com/new-study-says-impulsive-people-weigh-more/feed/ 0 Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images Diet Soda May Make You Pack on the Pounds http://1023blakefm.com/diet-soda-may-make-you-pack-on-the-pounds/ http://1023blakefm.com/diet-soda-may-make-you-pack-on-the-pounds/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:24:44 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://tsminteractive.com/?p=21368 By analyzing the results of a 10-year longitudinal study of 474 people, researchers  were able to determine that the participants who drank two or more diet sodas a day experienced a waist size increase 70 percent greater than those who stayed away from diet soda.

Dr. Martin P. Paulus, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, and an author of the study, offered this theory as to why something without calories can lead to weight gain:

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