Posted: May 27, 2012 at 8:19 am
Zoey Ripple Weight Loss 2012 Zoey Ripple Diet Programs - Isn't amazing how all of the celebrities you see have a celebrity diet plan for weight loss to maintain their weight. Some of them are shapely and healthy looking, and look good on camera. Others look like they haven't eaten in weeks, like they just got back from the famine in Ethiopia for a few weeks. Like they had been starving themselves to lose weight, and that is probably what they have been doing. You see it in all the tabloids, this person lost 100 pounds again, this one gained 100 pounds, and then lost 150 pounds. Some are not as dramatic; this one lost 40 pounds and is a television spokesperson, because the previous celebrity diet spokesperson gained the weight back. The fact is they may be starving themselves to lose weight, fasting like they are going through a famine.
Celebrities make dieting look so easy, don't they? One month they're on the cover of US Weekly for gaining too much weight and the next they're headlining the "sexiest beach bods" story. It is true that seriously overweight people can lose large amounts of fat in a quick amount of time, because of the large fat content in their cells. But those that are only a few pounds overweight, losing 40 pounds in a month, is not only starvation, it is malnutrition and can have serious side effects. Our body weight can fluctuate day to day and the best diets take the weight off gradually, the way it came on.
Researches indicate that individuals who indulge in a weight loss program by taking prepared meals end up losing an additional 31% weight as against those who cook their own meals. With help, losing weight is made easier and at times much faster as against doing it on your own.Diet delivery is gaining popularity in a big way as it is fairly affordable by even the common man, roughly around $20 a day with an increasing variety to choose from. A few of which include: Zone-compliant meal, low carbs plan, veggie meals, and gourmet too.
"Click Here to Watch Weird VIDEO About The 7 Foods that KILL Abdominal Fat!"
With the rapidly increasing epidemic of obesity and increasing BMI levels, there is an array of products and diet plan to aid in combating obesity. Celebrity slim diet, the basic idea is to educate people and not to depict food as an enemy. Like a lot of famous diets in Hollywood, if your body thinks you are starving, it is going to hold on to every calorie you take in to keep you from starving to death instead of burning them for energy. When you follow a properly balanced weight loss diet, your metabolism will hardly notice the decrease in calories and continue to burn fat it doesn't need to store. This is a more long-term weight loss strategy.
Celebrities do not have secrets about dieting. They are normal people like the rest of us but, unlike most of us, they have people working for them such as diet advisors and personal trainers. Celebrity diets involve a level of commitment and dedication which we struggle with. The best celebrity diets involve eating sensibly and limiting our calorie intake. Having these factors in mind will allow you to have safe and easy weight loss that will provide you with short term and long term consistent results.
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Posted: May 27, 2012 at 8:19 am
Lolo Jones Weight Loss 2012 Lolo Jones Diet Programs - Isn't amazing how all of the celebrities you see have a celebrity diet plan for weight loss to maintain their weight. Some of them are shapely and healthy looking, and look good on camera. Others look like they haven't eaten in weeks, like they just got back from the famine in Ethiopia for a few weeks. Like they had been starving themselves to lose weight, and that is probably what they have been doing. You see it in all the tabloids, this person lost 100 pounds again, this one gained 100 pounds, and then lost 150 pounds. Some are not as dramatic; this one lost 40 pounds and is a television spokesperson, because the previous celebrity diet spokesperson gained the weight back. The fact is they may be starving themselves to lose weight, fasting like they are going through a famine.
Celebrities make dieting look so easy, don't they? One month they're on the cover of US Weekly for gaining too much weight and the next they're headlining the "sexiest beach bods" story. It is true that seriously overweight people can lose large amounts of fat in a quick amount of time, because of the large fat content in their cells. But those that are only a few pounds overweight, losing 40 pounds in a month, is not only starvation, it is malnutrition and can have serious side effects. Our body weight can fluctuate day to day and the best diets take the weight off gradually, the way it came on.
Researches indicate that individuals who indulge in a weight loss program by taking prepared meals end up losing an additional 31% weight as against those who cook their own meals. With help, losing weight is made easier and at times much faster as against doing it on your own.Diet delivery is gaining popularity in a big way as it is fairly affordable by even the common man, roughly around $20 a day with an increasing variety to choose from. A few of which include: Zone-compliant meal, low carbs plan, veggie meals, and gourmet too.
"Click Here to Watch Weird VIDEO About The 7 Foods that KILL Abdominal Fat!"
With the rapidly increasing epidemic of obesity and increasing BMI levels, there is an array of products and diet plan to aid in combating obesity. Celebrity slim diet, the basic idea is to educate people and not to depict food as an enemy. Like a lot of famous diets in Hollywood, if your body thinks you are starving, it is going to hold on to every calorie you take in to keep you from starving to death instead of burning them for energy. When you follow a properly balanced weight loss diet, your metabolism will hardly notice the decrease in calories and continue to burn fat it doesn't need to store. This is a more long-term weight loss strategy.
Celebrities do not have secrets about dieting. They are normal people like the rest of us but, unlike most of us, they have people working for them such as diet advisors and personal trainers. Celebrity diets involve a level of commitment and dedication which we struggle with. The best celebrity diets involve eating sensibly and limiting our calorie intake. Having these factors in mind will allow you to have safe and easy weight loss that will provide you with short term and long term consistent results.
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Posted: May 26, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Editor's Choice Main Category: Breast Cancer Also Included In: Obesity / Weight Loss / Fitness Article Date: 26 May 2012 - 0:00 PDT
Current ratings for: 'Breast Cancer Risk Associated With Sex Hormones Reduced By Losing Weight'
Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D., and her team from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center conducted the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to assess what impact weight loss may have on sex hormones in those with an elevated risk of breast cancer, i.e. overweight and obese postmenopausal women.
McTiernan, who is a director of the Hutchinson Center's Prevention Center and a member of its Public Health Sciences Division declared:
However, she warns that these results solely apply to women that are overweight or obese who do not take any hormone-replacement therapy.
Epidemiologists have known for quite some time about the association between obesity and a higher risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, and that the relationship between body fat and estrogen production may be a contributing factor.
For their study, the researchers randomized 439 overweight-to-obese, sedentary women from the Seattle area into four different groups. One group was assigned to exercise only, which consisted mainly of brisk walking, whilst the other group was assigned to only a diet. The third group was assigned to exercise plus diet, with the fourth group receiving no intervention. All women were aged between 50 to 75 years. The primary goal of the study was determined as an average weight loss of 10% of their starting weight. In comparison with the exercise only and the no intervention group, both the diet-only and diet-plus-exercise groups met the primary goal.
The researchers measured the impact of diet- and exercise-related weight loss on blood levels of various types of sex hormones, including:
The team discovered that a beneficial impact could be achieved on hormone levels by losing as little as 5% of one's total body weight. The effect was noted to increase with the amount of weight loss.
McTiernan explained: "The amount of weight lost was key to changes in hormone levels. The biggest effect was through diet plus exercise; exercise by itself didn't produce much of a change in weight or estrogen."
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Posted: May 26, 2012 at 7:13 pm
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Mila Kunis recently told "Harper's Bazaar" magazine that her petite body has never been the same since shrinking to 95 pounds for her role as Natalie Portman's ballerina rival in "Black Swan".
"When I gained it [the weight] back, it went to completely different areas," she says, referring to her hips and stomach. After filming, Kunis resumed her regular exercise and eating habits and returned to a healthy weight.
Rapid weight loss traumatizes the body, which wants to maintain its original form, says Andrea Giancoli, a Los Angeles-area registered dietitian and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. When there are no carbohydrates and protein left to use, the body goes into starvation mode and slows its metabolism to conserve energy.
If you go back to your normal routine after rapid weight loss, your metabolism is already slow, so you gain weight faster than you lost it and it comes back as fat, Giancoli says.
It is not healthy for your body. It makes you more tired and doesn't allow you to perform well in daily life, Giancoli says.
"Why take the chance?" she says.
After gaining and losing weight for the first two "Bridget Jones's Diary" movies, Renee Zellweger said she felt panic listening to specialists talk about the damaging long-term effects of quick weight fluctuations. She said she might wear a fat suit for the third installment, which is scheduled to start filming this year.
Like Kunis, Anne Hathaway was asked to shed pounds quickly for her new role in the movie remake of "Les Misrables". She reportedly ate around 500 calories a day to achieve her goal of losing 16 pounds in three weeks.
"If she loses the weight, she can expect to gain it back," Giancoli says.
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Posted: May 26, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Contestants on the reality TV program "The Biggest Loser"not only lost weight fast, they "rapidly and substantially" lowered their blood pressure and improved their metabolic function, the physician who is the show's medical consultant reported Friday to the American Assn. of Clinical Endocrinologists.
Dr. Robert Huizenga, the medical director of the NBC program and several other shows, including Univision's "Dale Con Ganas," says the combination of moderate calorie restriction and roughly four hours of daily exercise yields bigger health gains, more cheaply and with fewer complications, than bariatric surgery.
The formula for weight loss a la "Biggest Loser": a daily regimen of one hour of intense resistance exercise, one hour of intense aerobic exercise and two hours of moderate aerobic activity, and calorie intake that ranges from 1,600 to 2,000 calories for men and 1,000 to 1,400 for women. The show's approach to weight loss has been highly controversial, with many dietitian and physicians denouncing "Biggest Loser" for promoting rapid and unsustainable weight loss and unrealistic expectations for physical activity.
In an interview after his presentation Friday, Huizenga defended the show's approach, saying that although slow weight loss can be effective, it rarely resolves patients' obesity-related health problems entirely before patients abandon it and weight regain ensues. He added that slow weight loss routinely results in muscle loss, leaving patients with a higher proportion of fat-to-lean muscle tissue: "Loser" participants, by contrast, changed their body composition in the opposite direction, ending with a higher ratio of lean muscle and bone to fat than they had had at the outset. Participants' average percentage of body fat decreased from a starting level of 48.9% to 30.4% at week 24.
Huizenga said that such changes had "never been documented before in the history of severe weight loss." He said he had applied to the National Institutes of Health for a study grant that would allow him to compare the health benefits of a "Biggest Loser"-type regimen with those of bariatric surgery.
At a minimum, said Huizenga, the health benefits seen in the "Loser" participants demonstrate that current definitions of intensive medical intervention for weight loss fall far short of what will be needed to restore the severely obese to health.
"What doctors call 'aggressive medical therapy' is laughable," said Huizenga, an assistant clinical professor at UCLA's Geffen School of Medicine.
In a study of 35 of the show's contestants from Seasons 11, 12 and 13, Huizenga said he had documented "absolutely unprecedented" drops in measures of metabolic dysfunction within five weeks of patients starting a grueling regimen of exercise and caloric restriction. Significant improvements in subjects' fasting glucose levels, insulin levels and adiponectin levels were evident at the end of their first week in the rigorous program, and persisted throughout an assessment period of 10 months.
Participants' average starting body mass index was 40, the cutoff for "severe obesity," and half arrived on the set of the show with Type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes. Thirty of the 35 participants were hypertensive and took medication to control their high blood pressure. Among participants who came in with an apparent clean bill of health, Huizenga said finer measures of metabolic function showed clear signs of trouble.
By Week 5 of their participation in the program, "all diagnostic criteria for pre-diabetes, diabetes and hypertension were absent in each participant," he said.
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Posted: May 26, 2012 at 1:20 am
After overindulging in berries, flocks of cedar waxwings flew drunkenly to their doom. That's the conclusion of a new report in the Journal of Ornithology.
Cedar waxwings have evolved to live on a diet that averages 84 per cent fruit. But those evolutionary innovations backfired on several occasions between 2005 and 2007 when flocks of them died after crashing into windows and fences in broad daylight in the Los Angeles area.
Residents puzzled by the deaths sent the bodies to the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory in San Bernardino. Necropsies performed by Hailu Kinde and colleagues at the lab showed the birds had been healthy when they gorged on berries from the Brazilian pepper tree, then died from ruptured livers or other traumas caused by the collisions.
Cedar waxwings have the most fruit-rich diet of all North American birds, and dining on overripe berries can leave them visibly tipsy. Their short intestines can process large volumes of fruit, and their large livers about 5 per cent of body mass can break down toxic ethanol before it causes serious damage.
Yet although earlier studies had found isolated birds that had died from collisions when flying drunk, no one had seen whole flocks careen to their doom.
Now Kinde and colleagues report that the downfall of the flocks came from eating too many berries. Lacking a crop the expandable pouch near the throat used to store food waxwings stow meals in a distensible oesophagus. "When the fruit stays in the oesophagus, it ferments and produces ethanol," says Kinde.
The waxwings had ingested so many berries that their large livers "could not keep up with the alcohol produced by the fermentation", with ethanol concentration as high as 1000 parts per million. By the time they finished stuffing themselves with berries, they were too drunk to fly safely.
Journal reference: Journal of Ornithology (DOI: 10.1007/s10336-012-0858-7).
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Posted: May 26, 2012 at 1:20 am
Some Jefferson County employees are finding it easier to leave food on their plates and nosh a bit more slowly at social functions.
During a 10-week period, 30 employees lost a total of 328 pounds and 102 waistline inches, said Cary Erickson, director of human resources and risk management.
All of those pounds were dropped, according to Erickson, through a program called Naturally Slim, which is provided as part of county employees' health benefit package.
The three "biggest losers" report higher energy levels, greater mobility and decreased cholesterol and blood pressure as well as decreasing risk for diabetes and other health problems.
None of them minded their new, trimmer profiles either.
Capt. Mike Kirkpatrick of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office topped the list, dropping 50 pounds in about 2 months. He said that the most challenging thing was changing old habits and mindsets.
"I was always taught to clean your plate - that it's a sin to waste food," he said.
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Posted: May 26, 2012 at 1:20 am
A COUPLE who shed 15 stone between them following pioneering weight loss surgery have been hailed as shining examples by medical staff.
David and Debra Brassell, husband and wife from Bishop Auckland, County Durham, have struggled with weight issues for most of their lives.
After being referred to the bariatric service at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust, they were both keen to undergo weight loss surgery and change their lives for the better.
Mother-of-one Debra, 47, who works for Asda, had always been overweight. She was just nine when she had her first GP appointment to discuss her weight.
Tipping the scales at 20 stone, it was a holiday to the Dominican Republic in May 2011 which made Debra start thinking about weight loss surgery.
She said: While on holiday we got talking to another holidaymaker who had recently had weight loss surgery and was very pleased with the results.
It set me off thinking about my weight and I decided that I would go on a diet when we got back home and try to lose weight before going to Florida in the September.
However, I was disappointed to discover that during our break in Florida I was actually heavier than when we had been away earlier that year. Id been thinking about weight loss surgery so when we got home I said to David that Id been considering looking into surgery and he actually said hed been thinking the same thing.
Husband David, 44, had gained weight gradually over the years and weighing in at 21 stone, decided that he also needed to discuss the options with his GP.
Debra continued: Around September last year, we both went to see our GPs and I was referred straight away to the bariatric service while David was advised to try a course of medication first.
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Posted: May 26, 2012 at 1:20 am
Sara asks, "Why is it more difficult for women to lose weight than men?"
This goes back to the age old question: what's the difference between the sexes? We have for centuries compared male verses female, and attempted to explain the difference in just about every category. We've seen the rise of feminism, and have established equality (in theory) in every aspect of human life. But, there really is a difference between the sexes, and it has to do with the basic functions for each through evolution. By evolution, I don't mean the evolution from lower species to a higher species, but by evolution for survival. Females ensure the survival of the species by the ability to reproduce. Males, while also necessary for that process, were necessary for protection, hunting and gathering. These basic roles allowed our species to evolve, and prosper. Each generation of offspring, naturally selected for the best possible options for each of the roles per gender. Meaning that the females that were the most fertile, and the males that were the most effective in hunting and protection, had the best chances of survival. So let's break down the basic differences between the sexes from a medical point of view. I am only going to compare the body in relation to weight. I will leave the more complicated and politically charged areas for those much smarter than me!
Men vs. Women
15% more weight - M>F
6inches taller - M >F
Larger chest, heart, lungs, and blood volume - M>F
Skeleton denser - M>F
Higher % of body fat - F>M
Higher estrogen content - F>M
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Posted: May 26, 2012 at 1:20 am
WASHINGTON, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The Better Hearing Institute (BHI) is raising awareness of the link between hearing loss and some chronic diseases during National Men's Health Week (June 11 17). Research shows that people with heart disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and/or Alzheimer's disease may have an increased risk of hearing loss. Research also links hearing loss to a three-fold risk of falling among working-aged people (40 to 69), depression and anxiety, cognitive decline, and reduced earnings.
BHI also is urging men to get their hearing checked and to be fitted with hearing aids, when needed, to reduce the toll that unaddressed hearing loss can take on their lives. BHI has made available a free online hearing check atwww.hearingcheck.org, where anyone can quickly and confidentially assess if they may have a hearing loss and need a more comprehensive hearing evaluation by a hearing healthcare professional.
"Hearing health is integral to a man's whole health and wellbeing," says Sergei Kochkin, PhD, Executive Director of BHI. "It affects his quality of life, relationships, family life, job performance, and even his earnings. And because hearing loss is linked to several chronic diseases, it's important that men and their healthcare providers routinely address hearing health as part of their medical care."
BHI hopes to raise awareness of the importance of hearing health among men, their healthcare providers, and their employers. And BHI is urging doctors to screen for hearing loss as part of annual physical exams. The institute is also encouraging employers to include hearing health in their workplace wellness programs.
Sixty percent of the 34 million people in the United States with hearing loss are male. And more than 15 million men in the United States suffer from unaddressed hearing loss. Yet the vast majority of them can benefit from hearing aids.
In a 2010 study, BHI found that people with untreated hearing loss lose as much as $30,000 in income annually, depending on their degree of hearing loss. The use of hearing aids, however, was shown to dramatically reduce the risk of income loss and unemployment.
Because most doctors don't screen or ask their patients if they have any hearing problemseven during annual examsit's especially important that men take the online hearing check (www.hearingcheck.org), Kochkin emphasizes.
BHI reminds men that there are simple things men can do to protect their hearing. Listening to their MP3 players at no more than 50 percent maximum volume and wearing earplugs while at rock concerts, using power tools, and riding motorcycles are a few examples.
"Hearing loss remains one of the most commonly unaddressed health conditions in America today, despite the pervasive ramifications it has on peoples' lives," says Kochkin. "We hope our participation in National Men's Health Week will raise awareness of the importance of hearing health and prompt men to seek help for their hearing loss."
Men's Health Week is celebrated each year as the week leading up to and including Father's Day. Its purpose is to heighten awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. Men's Health Week gives healthcare providers, public policy makers, the media, and individuals an opportunity to encourage men and boys to seek regular medical advice and early treatment for disease and injury. For more information on National Men's Health Week, visitwww.menshealthmonth.org.
