The AHA says that the best way to maintain a healthy weight and to decrease the risk of heart disease is to eat a healthy diet and to limit added sugar to no more than 100 calories a day for women and 150 for men.

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Until we successfully decrease the weight of the country, many people with diabetes will need intensive treatment.

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The brains of those aged 40 and older decrease in volume and weight by 5% every ten years.

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Secondly, losing weight too quickly when you don't have a significant amount of weight to lose can result in muscle loss as well as fat loss, which can decrease your metabolism and make it more difficult to maintain your weight loss.

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Every 10% reduction in car weight results in a 6% to 8% decrease in gasoline consumption.

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To further trim raw material costs, which eat up 50% of revenue, he worked with engineers to decrease the standard half-liter bottle weight from 23 grams to 12 grams (nearest competitor Crystal Geyser has one weighing 14 grams).

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Weight gain is driven by two trends: increases in calories consumed and decrease in calories expended.

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The drug's potential is as a medicine to decrease the risk of heart attacks, but it's going to be used for weight loss first, where considerable attention is likely to be paid to possible overuse.

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