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A growing trend in all-you-can-eat seating at sports venues is making baseball’s summer chorus sound more like “Take Me Out to the Buffet.”

Dozens of arenas, stadiums and tracks have offered tickets that come with unlimited snacks. The seats have been a hit with fans, a moneymaker for the venues and a worry for obesity-conscious health officials.

Instead of paying for a ticket and multiple trips to the concession stand, the ticket includes everything and costs about 50 percent more. Alcohol and desserts are sold separately.

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People should throw away cantaloupes from a Honduran manufacturer believed to be linked to a salmonella outbreak.

The Food and Drug Administration issued the alert Saturday for melons from Agropecuaria Montelibano. Grocers are advised to remove from their stock any cantaloupes from this company. People should check with stores to see if recently purchased cantaloupes came from Honduras.

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“I’m a very healthy eater,” says Emily, a 30-year-old, stick-thin investment banker. “My diet consists of fruits, vegetables, fish, whole grains, Tasti D-Lite frozen dessert, Diet Coke, lollipops, sugar-free gum, and 100-calorie packs. Thank God for the 100-calorie packs. They’ve changed my life.”

Emily is a card-carrying — make that banner-waving — member of the newest group of calorie counters: junk-food dieters. According to their credo, low-calorie is good; no-calorie is better — even if the food contains more chemicals than a can of hair spray. “If it’s associated with being a certain size, they’ll eat it freely,” says Lauren Slayton, director of Foodtrainers, a nutrition counseling center in New York City. Many believe ingesting a few artificial ingredients is a small price to pay for being able to eat the things they love while staying as thin as a Pringle.

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Overeating disrupts entire networks of genes in the body, causing not only obesity, but diabetes and heart disease, in ways that may be possible to predict, researchers reported.

The researchers developed a new method of analyzing DNA and used it to discover that obesity is not only complex — something already known — but complex in ways that had not been previously understood.

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These ingredients hold the power to truly transform your body, not to mention lengthen your life. The secret is their magical “MUFA” (Aka good fat!)

To the ancient Greeks, olive oil was liquid gold. For the Aztecs, chocolate was sacred. Almonds were prized by Egypt’s pharaohs, and avocados have symbolized fertility for centuries. These can’t-live-without-’em foods share more than history; they also share unique health properties. They’re packed with monounsaturated fatty acids (also known as MUFAs, pronounced MOO-fahs), those good-for-you fats that protect you from chronic disease and, according to new research, can help you lose fat, specifically around your middle. That’s why they’re at the heart of the Flat Belly Diet, a unique Prevention-tested weight loss plan.

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Here are 10 surprising reasons you’re not losing weight, and how to move the needle again.

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The Prevention Reshape Your Body plan incorporates easy food strategies you can follow for life. “Women succeed at weight loss when they get a handle on their portions and eat in a balanced way,” says nutritionist Lisa Young, PhD, RD, who dished out the dietary advice for our program. Her three key tips:

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Treadmills remain the most popular exercise machine available today. Buying a treadmill can be costly, but it’s a highly advantageous purchase that provides a myriad of health benefits. Treadmills allow users to train for a wide range of sports or activities. They keep endurance up, burn significant amounts of calories, and can help you efficiently maintain your weight. A high-quality treadmill can provide a safe and fun way for the whole family to start and stay on the path to a healthy lifestyle. It’s very important to choose a treadmill that can lead you toward your specific fitness goals, as well as sustain its performance through the amount of use you will give it. So buy accordingly.

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