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By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Jan. 4, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Words matter when you’re trying to eat right, new research suggests. People tend to overeat when they’re consuming food that’s been labeled “healthy,” undermining their own efforts to improve their diet, the study found. People order larger portions, eat more and feel less full when they’re consuming food that’s been portrayed as “healthy” in its packaging, according to a report published recently in the  Journal of the Association for Consumer Research . “It’s quite ironic. The more we put out foods that are labeled healthy, we could be abetting the obesity epidemic rather than combatting it,” said study author Jacob Suher, a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. People appear to overeat “healthy” food because they subconsciously consider it less filling, Suher and his colleagues found. But they also found that this effect could be counterac...

Taking a month off drinking is an increasingly common New Year’s resolution, though it remains unknown how successful people are at staying sober for a month, or what distinguishes people who can keep it up compared to those who can’t, according to a new study. Researchers of the new report, published in the journal Health Psychology, looked at 857 British men and women who pledged to partake in a “Dry January,” and stay sober for the month. The researchers wanted to better understand what makes a person successful at staying sober for 31 days, and how the month-long sobriety affects future drinking behavior. The men and women in the study filled out three questionnaires: one at the start, one a month later, and one six months later. Overall, 64% of the people completed the Dry January, with a pretty even split of men and women. The people who successfully completed the month were more likely to report at the beginning of the month that they consume fewer drinks, are less often drun...

Photo: Getty Images Let’s face it: there are few things in this world more terrifying than walking into your gym’s weight room. It’s usually pretty scarce of female allies, it often wreaks of a not-so-appealing bro-stench (some mix of body spray and B.O.), and (worst of all) it’s filled to the brim with mysterious machines you have no idea how to use. Sure, you could probably figure it out if you tried, but if you’ve never been trained to use the equipment at your gym, it can be incredibly intimidating. What if you accidentally sit backwards on the machine, totally embarrassing yourself? Or worse, what if you use too much weight and hurt yourself? These are genuine (and totally reasonable) fears. To help move past your gym-fright, Curtis Williams, Under Armour sponsored trainer and owner of Training Camp NYC, gave us a crash course in the top 5 pieces of weight-lifting at the gym. Stick to his tips and you’ll be master of the machines in no time. RELATED: 4 Reasons Women...