ABU DHABI // An Egyptian once believed to be the worlds heaviest woman arrived in Abu Dhabi late last night where she will continue treatment after weight-loss surgery in India.

Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty weighed about 500 kilograms when she arrived in Mumbai in February, but has shed an astonishing 323kg since undergoing a series of medical procedures.

With her weight now at 176.6kg, she will begin a year-long course of physiotherapy at VPS Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, her doctors in Mumbai said.

Dr Yassin El Shahat, the hospitals chief medical officer, said Ms El Aty had a comfortable journey to Abu Dhabi with no complications and arrived safely.

"I asked her personally how the journey was and she said she was very happy and it went very smooth," said Dr El Shahat.

Doctors are planning her treatment and will do an assessment.

"Twenty doctors and specialists have been assigned to make a proper assessment and come up with a proper management plan, both short and long term," said Dr El Shahat.

"The idea is to complete the treatment the patient received in [Mumbai]. We are going to assess the patient and see what has been done and complete it."

The treatment could take six months to a year.

"The target is to make her normal or at least close to normal and, inshallah, it will take time, but we will have a proper plan of rehabilitation and treatment for her complications of obesity and do the best for her."

Doctors hope expect her treatment to last at least six months, but it could take as long as a year.

"We are working with a special dietician and diabetic dietician and will control her diet in a very strict way," he said.

Sanet Meyer, director of medical evacuation at Burjeel, said the hospital "arranged for a hydraulic stretcher from Italy for Emans journey".

"She will have doctors, paramedics and nurses with her during the journey."

Ms El Aty was put on a special liquid diet in India to reduce her weight enough so that doctors could perform bariatric surgery.

The stomach-shrinking bypass procedure is increasingly common in India, which has a growing problem with obesity, particularly in urban areas.

She had not left her home in Egypts Mediterranean port city of Alexandria for two decades until she was moved to India on a specially-modified Airbus plane in February.

Her family told doctors that as a child she had elephantiasis diagnosed, a condition that causes the limbs and other body parts to swell, leaving her almost immobile.

Ms El Aty has suffered a stroke and faced a series of other serious ailments owing to her weight, including diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension and sleep deprivation.

She is unable to speak properly and is partially paralysed.

India is a major destination for medical tourists seeking services and no waiting lists at a fraction of the cost of western countries.

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Professional athletes dont get to the top by accident. It takes superhuman levels of time, dedication, and focusand that includes paying attention to what they put in their bellies. In this series, GQ takes a look at what athletes in different sports eat on a daily basis to perform at their best. Heres a look at the daily diet of Nets guard Jeremy Lin, who spent most of the season recovering from injury.

This wasn't the season Jeremy Linenvisioned when he signed with the Brooklyn Nets last summer. With an opportunity to start, and returning to the city where he rose to prominence, he foresaw proving himself capable of leading the Nets back to respectability. (And all while continuing to push the boundaries of his mane.) Instead, he missed 46 games due to hamstring and ankle injuries. So, we caught up with the point guard to discuss a season where the focus was mostly on recovery and rest, and what he learned along the way.

GQ: On most game days, there might be a shootaround in the morning and a lot of guys dont get meals in their body until right before the game and afterwards. Are you the same way?

Jeremy Lin: Mostly, I just have two meals before the game. It does change from two to three meals, depending on when I wake up. I definitely eat in the morning, and in the afternoon and once before the game for sure. If Im up early, Ill have an even earlier breakfast.With any meal, it's justclean everything; lean proteins, veggies and clean, good carbs.

So whats an earlier breakfast look like?

Something light, like a ham, onion and avocado omelet.

I did see your tweet a couple of weeks ago about dreaming about In-N-Out Burger. How much not-so-good performance food do you allow yourself to have throughout the season?

Im still thinking about it. With that, I think its all about timing and you have to be smart about when you do that. So usually, if I have a cheat meal, it will be after a game or if there are days in between games. You dont want to have a cheat meal right before a game. Even the night before (a game), you still have to be careful because you could be putting something in your system that would inflame your body and make you feel sluggish the next day.

Have you found a go-to spot to eat in Brooklyn?

Theres this place called Carnems. I like them a lot. They have this deliciousbone marrow and I always try and get some of that when I go. There's also thechicken and veggie stock to help with recovery. They also have really good steaks and seafood also.

Being a fan of bone marrow gives me an idea of just how broad your foodie palate is.

Oh yeah. A bunch of restaurants make it. It usually comes with bread andyou can put whatever you want on it to kind of dress it up. (Carnems) usually puts uni on there, so it usually looks like this [he shows me a photo on his phone]. You can just scoop it up, and put it on some bread and if you haven't tried it. I recommend it.

You missed a lot of time this season with injuries. How much more conscious do you have to be with what youre putting into your body while rehabbing?

I think with any injury, what you're putting in your bodyis very important because most injuries consist of some type of inflammation or swelling. Food can definitely contribute or aid in that. Also, with the rehab process, the better you eat, the less work you have to make up for. If you dont take care of your body [when youre injured], and then youre trying to get back in shape, that can create more risk of re-injury that can create a longer rehab process and create a lot more issues. You don't want that.

With an extended offseason and the injuries this season, are you going to take more time to heal your body or try and get right back into the gym?

Usually,that's all mental for me. Obviously, I need the physical rest but when my mind gets locked in to getting ready, Im ready. That usuallytakes only two to three weeks. Within two weeks, Im already really missing the game a lot.Within three weeks, it gets really bad and no matter whats going on, I just really want to toucha basketball and do anything to be around the game. I have to reallypush myself not to workout because the urge comes back pretty quickly in the offseason. So, I don't think there will be too much time off for me.

While injuries suck, it also teaches guys to really pay more attention to their bodies. Would you say thats true?

I would definitely agree with that. I think with every year you go through in the league, theres more focus on maintainingyour body. Every year, I learn a little bit more. Every year, my body changes. This year, I did a lot more sleeping. I spent a lot more time focusing on sleep. I slept more this year than I ever have in my life, in terms of any other year since being in the league. Man, I slept a lot. [laughs]

Was that a conscious effort on your part or have youjust done all you can in New York?

It was a focus of mine. I worked with Cheri Mah [Sleep Research Fellow at the UCSF Human Performance Center], and she has taught me a ton about sleep and weve done a great job with that. It has pushed me to be a better sleeper. Her studies showed that [better sleep] improves shooting percentages and performance. I had a career-high from three this season (37.2 percent). Sleep and obviouslyrecovery are two major things I focused on this year.

What are some of the specific things you had to do?

Well, she taught me like 1,000 things. [laughs] The most important thing was just the emphasis on a ton of sleep every night and remaining consistent with my sleeping routine.

What other areas did you notice improvement in with better sleeping habits?

You know its important, but you dont realize how important it really is. [Mah] was teaching me everything from deep sleep and REM Sleep. When I get the right amount of sleep, I definitely feel better during the game and throughout the day. Im more aware and it helps solidifies my memory in remembering things and patterns during the course of the game. I feel sharper and I feel better with my shot because its more in tune and in rhythm.

So, is it safe to say you'rein favor ofmore rest for players?

[Laughs] I'm in favor of getting the proper rest.

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What gives.

The day the meals that were going to turn me into Tom Brady arrived, I carried the oversize Purple Carrot TB12 Performance Meals box into my buildings elevator. There was a dude in there. He noticed my box, clearly sensing the power of the gluten-free, 100 percent plant-based ingredients contained inside.

Whats Purple Carrot? he asked.

Its, like, a food-delivery service.

So, kinda like Blue Apron? he replied.

Yeah, sort of, if Blue Apron came straight from Tom Bradys kitchen and could help you throw a goddam country mile, I thought. A half-hearted I guess came out instead.

You see, as part of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Bradys TB12 Sports business, the handsome, five-time Super Bowl winner joined with plant-based food-delivery organization Purple Carrot to create a jacked-up meal-delivery kit. Its inspired by the strict nutritional regimen that helps him remain, at the NFL dinosaur age of 39, the greatest man to ever throw an oblong ball to other men for points. Theres no gluten, no nightshades (a vegetable family that includes eggplant and our beloved tomato), no sugar. It is not a diet that sounds like a lot of fun, but it is a diet that sounds like it might make your muscles just as pliable as Tom Brady wants them to be.

I was never expecting to enjoy the plan, but I did want to better understand who on Earth would do this. Who would take one of the extremely unsexy means by which Tom Brady achieves the very sexy end that is his life, and make that into an end itself? And also: Did anyone actually think it would work? Would it? If GQ agreed to pay for it, then I figured I might as well take three weeks and try to find out.

The meals are delivered every Tuesday in a giant red-and-white box decorated with the unfortunate slogan #eatlikeaGOAT and some other aspirational words (What we get out of our bodies is a direct result of what we put in. Food is fuel, and we believe that food can help you achieve and sustain your peak performance). For $78 a week, you receive ingredients for three meals, along with three detailed, step-by-step recipe cards. The finished dishes on these cards look like what Tom and Gisele look like in photos, which is to say: not at all realistic. Every ingredient, aside from whole vegetables, comes in a perfectly parceled-out portion size: Theres the little baggy of turmeric, the pat of vegan butter, the sac of cauliflower florets. Probably not super awesome for the environment, but convenient for me. The first box came with a letter from Tom, written in all-caps block letters.

I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR TB12 PERFORMANCE MEALS! I AM A BIG BELIEVER IN THE POWER OF PLANT-BASED NUTRITION, AND I AM EXCITED TO SHARE MEALS ILL BE EATING WITH YOU TOO. THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND HERES TO YOU ACHIEVING & SUSTAINING YOUR OWN PEAK PERFORMANCE!

[SIGNATURE OF TOM FAHCKIN BRADY!!!!!]

My enthusiasm did not match Tom Bradys enthusiasm, but maybe thats because Id been eating gluten.

Week 1 Okay, so I did not make the ramen bowl with gingered amaranth greens and watermelon radish. I did not make the crispy turnip cakes with quinoa tabouleh and Zaatar yogurt. I did not make the white lentil risotto with Meyer lemon and cashew gremolata. Things came up. Lesson number one: You can buy the raw ingredients for Tom Bradys meals, but you cannot buy his discipline. And by discipline, I mean: his chef.

Here is a little bit about me: I do not cook. I can cookjust not that well, because I never do it. My angel of a mothera truly tremendous cookbought me an All-Clad skillet and was so excited about it being an All-Clad that I figured it must be a good brand. I put it to use by cooking for a date once. She described the meal as pretty good. It was not pretty good. So asking me to make turnip cakeslet alone crispy ones with quinoa tabouleh and Zaatar yogurtcasually, on a weeknight, is like asking Bill Belichick to give expressive, eloquent soliloquies in response to reporters' press conference questions.

Week 2 My second week was only slightly more successful. The beluga lentil tacos with quick guacamole and radish slaw (610 calories, 20 grams of fat, 84 grams of carbs, and 26 grams of protein), which I forced myself to make the Thursday after they arrived, were easy enough to make and possessed a flavor profile I would describe as fineeven though the avocado was not quite ripe enough (maybe my fault since I left it in the fridge), leaving the guacamole chunky and weird. But it did not take thirty minutes to prepare, as the friendly card assured me. I got home at 8:17 that night, and was eating by 9:07. By that time, my night was already over. I had dishes to clean, and no supermodel wife to do them with as we lovingly sprayed water on each other, before tucking in our beautiful, glowing, nutrient-rich, gluten-free kids, and heading to our room where wed sleep under the watchful gaze of our five Super Bowl trophies.

The following Monday, my friends graciously invited me to join them for pizza, to which I had to say: No, I have to go home and makewhat did I have to make? It was a Monday, so I was forced to choose between six-day old saffron paella with walnut chorizo and fresh fava beans and six-day old creamy cauliflower Alfredo with radicchio and arugula salad. (Apparently Tom Brady only eats meals with three distinct componentsis that his real secret?) Easy choice, considering step four of the formers recipe begins In a food processor and if youll remember, I didnt know what All-Clad was, so no, I dont own a food processor. The assumption that I would tells you a lot about who Brady is writing his meals for. Alfredo it was, which was unfortunate since it called for chickpea pasta and nutritional yeast. (It also asked me to zest a lemon which I had only previously known as a noun.) The first instruction was to preheat my oven to 400. A strange instruction, considering I did not need to use the oven for the rest of the recipe.

The resulting pasta? Not good, though I will say: I did feel significantly less of the brick-in-the-stomach sensation I normally get post-pasta. Theres something to be said about a lightness that follows the consumption of the BradyMeals; I felt significantly less drained of energy. Unfortunately, that comes at a price: flavor. There is never a sauce or some overbearing ingredient that can help you save yourself from yourself if you botch the cookinga cooking ripcord, something flavorful, like marinara, that you can drown your food in if it comes out underwhelming. The taste of chickpea pasta was just as bland as the alfredo sauce (made of cauliflower, shallots, garlic, nutritional yeast, lemon juice, and almond milk) I doused it in. Not even salt could save it. But at least my oven was heated to 400 degrees.

Week 3 Meals Thursday of that same week, I opted to dive into the third week of meals that had arrived Tuesday (the day after I ate the pasta). The coconut tofu with mango fried cauliflower rice & spicy cucumbers was out again on account of my still not having a food processor, so I opted instead for mung bean dal with tamarind, popped sorghum, and flatbread. This recipe called for popping sorghum on the stove, which I tried, but did not ultimately do, even though the sorghum smoked out my apartment like it was really trying. But you know what? This dish was pretty good! I could not make out a single ingredient outside the salt and the lime and, yet, it was kind of pleasant? I actually saved the leftovers to eat later. (I did not eat them later.)

And then the next night, a Friday, a miracle. This was going to be my last Tom Brady meal: stuffed sweet potatoes with crispy garbanzos & muhammara vinaigrette. It might have been the best meal Ive ever made (admittedly, a low bar). It actually cooked in roughly the time it said it would (about 40 minutes). The sweet potatoes were delicious (credit to Tom, who probably picked them by hand). The muhammara vinaigrette was shockingly complex in its taste, and yet incredibly simplistic in its design (throw roasted red pepper, lemon juice, pomegranate molasses, aleppo pepper flakes, walnuts, cumin, chopped scallion, olive oil, and salt in a blender and push the button that blends). The crispy garbanzos were easy to crisp (with an oven that was heated and used). Of the four potatoes, I ate three, and saved one to eat later. (I did eat it later.)

I may not have given this an earnest try, and I may not be the most competent cook, but when I asked myself, after four out of nine BradyMeals, who would actually eat these, the only answer I could come up with is: Tom Brady. This plan makes sense for Tom Brady! Tom Brady doesnt have impromptu, mid-week happy hours with coworkers. Tom Bradys friends probably dont ask Tom Brady to get pizza. Tom Brady has discipline. Tom Brady has a chefand a food processor. Tom Bradys entire life is optimized to achieve and sustain peak performance. Tom Bradys diet is one prong of a multi-pronged, holistic approach to being the best quarterback in the world. Im just a dude whos trying to be mostly healthy and not die. And so I want to eat healthy, but theres healthy food thats accessible, and delicious, and doesnt require me to cut out nightshades and use vegan butter, or make me skip dinners with friends. Food fuels your body, true. And yet thinking of it purely as fuel turns cooking and eating into a means to something else and negates the possibility that they can be enjoyed in and of themselves.

But I guess thats why I didnt turn into Tom Brady.

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In a perfect world, the upcoming Wonder Woman movie would be a big-budget, 3-D opportunity to reaffirm the strength of womankind, appreciate and laud women for who they are and not just what they offer to men and celebrate the female form not as a subject of desire but a source of power.

This is, as you may have noticed,not a perfect world.

SinceHollywood, capitalism and, lets face it, life itself are just plain unfair, Warner Bros. has turned to the dietand wellness industry to promote the upcoming Wonder Woman film. Thanks to the brilliant feminist geeks over atThe Mary Sue, we sawthis: Gaze at the corporate synergy and sigh.

Yes, thats a retail stander with Gal Gadot fiercely defending every womans right to calorie-reduced cereal emblazoned with the lovingly problematicbrand name thinkThin. Further commentary isnt necessary.

If that werent enough (it never is), thinkThin conducteda related customersurvey,which found that universal agreement across all age groups that Wonder Woman does not need anyone to complete her . . . though maybe they havent met Steve Trevor! Trevor isthe character who luresWonder Woman out ofher idyllic Amazonian island homewith calls to duty and the lure of normativeromance. Just thought you should know.

In case youre interested, thinkThin PR is also asking social-media users to post a comment or photo on Twitter, Instagram or the official thinkThin Facebook page about thinkThin or Wonder Woman using the hashtags #thinkWonderWoman. Have fun with that.

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This Guy Lost 32 Pounds On the 'Ice Cream Diet' Men's Health When we first told you about Anthony Howard-Crow, a 32-year-old online trainer and YouTuber in Loveland, Colorado, he had just embarked on a diet that would make the American Dietetic Association shit bricks: 2,000 calories a day of ice cream, 500 ...

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One of the most powerful ways to fight inflammation is to adjust your diet.

Oily fish, including salmon, mackerel, tuna and sardines, are high in Omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 acids have been shown to help reduce inflammation. Fresh is best, but can also be taken as a supplement (Omega 3 fish oil). This is available at Hornstein Family Chiropractic and backed by myself as a quality supplement and a way to add Omega 3 to your diet

Dark greens, such as spinach, kale, broccoli and collard greens are rich in Vitamin E

Red tomatoes are rich in lycopene, which has been shown to reduce inflammation

Berries, olive oil, almonds, basil, oregano, garlic, cilantro, ginger, rosemary, turmeric, cinnamon and cayenne pepper include as many of these in your daily diet as you can to combat all the other inflammatory foods we eat. Make these a majority of your diet and you may get ahead of the inflammatory battle, which can help your muscles and joints that were once inflamed feel better.

Dr. Andrea Hornstein owns and operates Hornstein Family Chiropractic in Wahpeton

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