One large bucket of popcorn contains 1,800 calories, according to reports. And so no, movie theaters in the United Kingdom are being pushed to put calorie content information on their snacks.

Some of the most popular movie theater snacks are:

* Large popcorn: around 1,800 calories - the entire daily energy requirement of an average 5-10 year old
* Nachos: 716 calories - a big pasta dinner
* Large cola: 328 calories - enough for a light lunch (sandwich and fruit)

And so what do we need to do in order to cut from our calorie intake during movie theater days? You can try buying the smallest size of drinks and going for diet sodas…

It has been a widely known fact that fructose, particularly in the form of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), has a very high percentage of increasing your weight and other such illnesses. A YouTube video from Dr. Robert Lustig has, in fact, made a very detailed explanation of the evils of fructose.

But this video has been combated by another video from a fitness and health blog that then raised questions on whether fructose is just highly misunderstood or is there some truth to what Lustig had laid out.

According to Lustig, too much fructose can have negative effects on a man’s diet. It can also have health impacts like making the…

Since you probably have some leftover chocolates from Valentine’s Day hounding your refrigerators, here’s a good reason why you should not feel guilty about indulging on them. Chocolates, according to a recent study, are good for the health.

Studies have always linked dark chocolates with reducing the risk of cancer, lowering blood pressure, slowing clumping of platelets and increasing blood flow to the brain. In fact, another study even found out that participants were better at counting backwards when they have just drunk a cup of cocoa.

Also, this new study resulted that among 44,000 participants, it is those who ate chocolates weekly who posted 22-percent decrease in risk of getting strokes.

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A research recently showed that a low-carb diet is much more effective than a low-fat diet and even against the drug, Xenical.

According to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, an experiment of 146 overweight participants (divided into two groups) for 48 months showed that the low-carb group marked a reduction in blood pressure, and also that 47 percent of the low-carb group reduced or discontinued their blood pressure medication.

Although both groups lost nearly 10 percent of their body weight and saw relative changes in their body weight, cholesterol level and blood sugar levels, it is still the low-carb group that reflected a more reasonable plumage of risk…