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hCGTreatments / Diet Doc Announces the Only hCG Weight Loss Plan That Is Designed To Benefit Men’s Health

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 8:13 pm

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 04, 2012

hCGTreatments / Diet Doc Weight Loss announces the only hCG weight loss plan designed to benefit men specifically.

Diet Doc has created another diet program that promotes weight loss to complement mens health. The program combines a detoxifying ketogenic diet that incorporates essential supplements with daily doses of the hCG hormone. Men tend to be less proactive about preventative health measures and less diligent about maintaining their health than women. But nutritional supplements can help men avoid many chronic conditions, states Dr. Rao, Medical Director for Diet Doc.

Diet Docs personalized weight loss program for men includes a focus on heart, prostate and joint health by recommending necessary foods and supplements that support these health factors. With heart disease as the leading cause of death among American men, supplements along with a healthy diet are needed for preventative measures. Diet Doc suggests l-Carnitine and fish oil to their male patients. Research suggests that omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish and fish oil as well as some plant foods, can decrease the likelihood of cardiovascular disease. And l-carnitine, a supplement not recognized by the medical community just yet, is found to play an important role in preventing fatty buildup, especially in the heart, liver, and skeletal muscles, and it helps keep blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides in check. This supplement is popular among the health and fitness communities because it is also found to increase the use of fat as an energy source by transporting fatty acids into the energy which is a major source of energy for the muscles, including those of the heart.

Other key health factors for men are addressed by creating a diet plan that includes healthy foods that are full of antioxidants. For example, prostate health is considered by recommending tomatoes, a fruit that is abundant in the powerful antioxidant lycopene, an antioxidant that has been shown in several studies to reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer.

Diet Doc also uses a ketogenic diet as a base for all of their diet plans. This diet is popular among bodybuilders because it is found to be effective in burning fat and conserving muscle. A low-carbohydrate and low-glycemic diet that is ideal for most people and can be modified to fit anyones needs.

Diet Docs hCG weight loss plans are personalized for each of their patients and dramatic results can be seen in as early as two weeks. With many diets to choose from, Diet Doc seems to offer the most unique, thoughtful, well-planned and cost-effective solutions for anyones weight loss needs.

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Deal with Bariatric Support Brings GenoVive's DNA-based Weight Loss Program to Mexico

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 8:13 pm

CLC Bio said this week that it has appointed Richard Lussier as director of business for the Americas region. He has worked in life sciences sales and commercial operations, most recently as VP of worldwide sales at RainDance Technologies. He formerly held leadership positions in sales, service, and support at Solexa, Fluidigm, Applied Biosystems, and Celera Genomics.

NanoString said this week that it has hired Bruce Seeley to lead a new diagnostics business unit. In his position as senior vice president and general manager of diagnostics, Seeley will oversee the marketing of NanoString's breast cancer test to pathologists and oncologists. Seeley previously was executive VP of Seattle Genetics' commercial operations, he was senior director of marketing at Genentech, and he worked at Aventis Pharma as senior director of new product commercialization and marketing. He also held sales and marketing titles at Rhone-Poulenc Rorer and Bristol-Myers Squibb.

IntegenX has appointed David Smith to serve as its new COO. Smith most recently served as CFO of Thoratec, and previous to that was CFO at Chiron. He currently is chair of the audit committee and a director of OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals and previously was chair of the audit committee and a director of Perlegen Sciences.

What is the Best Way to Lose Weight?

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 8:13 pm

What is the best way to lose weight? Are you confused? It's bad enough that reaching and maintaining your ideal weight is such a challenge, but does it have to be so confusing too?

So how do you figure it out and discover what really is the best way to lose weight?

Some say low fat, high carb. Some say low carb, high fat. Some say you should count calories. Others tell you counting calories means you're obsessive. Some say the best way to lose weight is to eat only healthy foods, while others tell you to eat whatever you feel like eating whoops!

And many say "diets" don't work at all. But of course that's ridiculous!

The Proven Best Way to Lose Weight

Diet is what you eat and human beings have to eat to live. So everyone's on some kind of a diet. Whether or not it's a good healthy diet or a junk food diet, you're on a diet!

And your diet either keeps you slim, healthy and looking good or not.

When people say, "diets don't work," they mean temporary or fast weight loss diets. And then it's true. Temporary diets only give temporary results. They don't work in the long run.

The best way to clear up any confusion is to listen to those from the National Weight Control Registry who've lost 30 pounds or more and kept it off for at least three years. Here are the seven essential guidelines proven to be the best way to lose weight.

1. Make permanent changes. Permanent healthy weight loss requires knowing how to change habits permanently! Most people who lose weight regain it only because they go back to old eating and lifestyle habits. So you must begin with a commitment to creating new healthy habits.

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Jessica Simpson and Other Celebs Making Big Cash with Weight Loss Deals

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 8:13 pm

Jessica Simpson made the rumors official: She's signed on to lose the post-baby pounds with Weight Watchers.

"So excited to be part of the Weight Watchers family," she tweeted on May 30.

The singer has reportedly ditched fast food to get ready for the weight loss, but she's still considering which trainer she'll use to whip herself into shape. The two options are reportedly Danny Musico, her fiance Eric Johnson's trainer, and Mike Alexander, the man who got her into shape for 2005's "Dukes of Hazard," according to US Weekly.

"As soon as Jessica heals from the C-section, she is extremely determined to get back in the gym and work out," a source told US Weekly. "She wants to show the world and is excited to do it."

It's not confirmed how much weight she wants to lose with her $4-million Weight Watchers endorsement deal - we've heard anywhere from 60 lbs. to close to 100 lbs. However, we do know that she'll have plenty of motivation since other celebrities have dropped the lbs. with help of weight loss program endorsements.

Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson is basically the face of Weight Watchers these days. The singer dropped 80 lbs. on the program - it's like she just emerged one day with a dramatically smaller frame. According to a post on Weight Watchers, Hudson's did it by eating foods like Kashi GoLean Crunch Cereal, skim milk, sweet potatoes and lots of Greek yogurt.

Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley came out in January saying that Weight Watchers had helped him drop 38 lbs. off his famously hefty frame. However, he told fellow TNT sports announcers Reggie Miller and Kevin Harlan that it was all a scam.

"I thought this was the greatest scam going-getting paid for watching sports, this Weight Watchers thing is a bigger scam," he said, thinking that the microphones were off. He received some flack for the comment, though it seems like he meant that earning money for doing something he'd do for free - like eating - is just like getting money for something else he loves, sports.

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Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition Recap: Shedding For The Wedding?

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 8:13 pm

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Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition rebooted for its second season and trainer Chris Powells has his work cut out for him. 400-pound Tony looking to shed some major poundage on the way to his 50th birthday and wedding. Is it a pipe dream or can Tony make the life-changing commitment? Chris Powell takes on his latest weight-loss challenge with Tony, 49, who blames his work in the fast-food industry and the stresses of raising a special-needs child for helping him balloon up to 400 pounds. The shows Dr. Terry Schaack warns Tony that his fat has primarily gathered around his abdomen, hes at a very high risk for heart disease.

So cue the sappy generic reality-show music and lets get started. As many of these stories start, Tony had a rough go of it during childhood, which has affected his emotional eating habits. He supported himself starting at age 14 by shoveling snow and working at a fast food restaurant. He overate at his job because he never knew where his next meal would come from. He would rather have food than have sex. For most of us it depends on what kind of food and what kind of sex, but still, thats a problem.

This is the story of Tonys year long journey toward a healthier, happier life. Or is it?Many of us freak out if we gain an extra 5-10 pounds, but having to lose almost 225? Thats a major commitment that consumes your life while not consuming an entire extra-value meal. But life doesnt pause while you shed the weight, as Tony learns.

Chris Powell shows up in Tonys life when Tonys sampling wedding cakes. Now how surprised can Tony be when he has a camera crew following him? But boot camp starts right away and Tony is eager to get going. It proves hard to get 400 pounds moving on the treadmill and even harder when Tony finds out his 28-year old special-needs son is in the hospital fighting for his life.

A lot of time is spent watching this grown man cry, which was both heartbreaking and tedious. But apparently a dying son wasnt enough to get this guy to stop filming a reality show, so I suppose thats the dedication he needs to change.

His fiancee is reluctant to go on the journey with him. She seemed to be jealous that Tony decided to change his life without her. And now that hes starting to drop the pounds, he starts to question his future with her. Isnt that always the case. Lose 200 pounds, lose the bitchy girlfriend holding you back.

Tony moves out and moves on and even at the risk of becoming homeless. He even continues to eat healthy living out of his car and on friends couches. So for all of us losing those last few pounds, we have little excuse compared to this guy.

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'Fit2Fat2Fit' Author Drew Manning's Top 5 Weight-Loss Mistakes to Avoid

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 8:13 pm

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ABC News Sabina Ghebremedhin reports:

A little more than a year ago, personal trainer Drew Manning stopped working out, and started eating fast food, white bread, sugary cereal and soda.

Manning, a self-proclaimed fitness addict, started the weight-gain journey to better understand what his overweight clients go through. He let himself go completely, and chronicled the process in video blog on his website, Fit2Fat2Fit.com.

Manning gained 21 pounds in the first month. As the weeks progressed, his confidence and his health took a downturn.

He started to get winded easily, and his glucose level and blood pressure were high. Its getting a little scary, he said in one of his video blogs.

Mannings wife, Lynn, was prepared to see the physical changes in her husband, but didnt expect the emotional and personality changes that came with the weight gain.

His self-confidence, that completely went away and depleted, she said, explaining that he was becoming lethargic, lazy, not helping around the house.

I was in denial at first until she kept pointing out the things I was doing, Manning said today on Good Morning America. But I did become lazier. I had less energy so I did become exhausted and I kept seeing how it affected our relationship because of that. And so thats where the biggest surprise was, the emotional [part].

When Manning started his experiment on May 7, 2011, he had a 34.5-inch waist and 17-inch neck, and he weighed 193 pounds. Six months later, he had a 48-inch waist, 19-inch neck and he weighed 265 pounds. His clothes didnt fit.

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Mediterranean Diet Good For Mental And Physical Health

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 12:15 am

Editor's Choice Academic Journal Main Category: Nutrition / Diet Article Date: 03 Jun 2012 - 11:00 PDT

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The diet is characterized by the consumption of fish, olive oil, nuts, pulses, vegetables, and fruit.

In order to determine how much the Mediterranean diet impacts quality of life, researchers examined over 11,000 university students over a period of four years. The study, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Navarra (both in Spain), is published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Patricia Henrquez Snchez, researcher at the centre in the Canary Islands and lead author of the study, said:

At the start of the study, the researchers asked participants to provide information on their dietary intake. In order to determine whether the diet was followed, consumption of fish, fruit, pulses, nuts, cereals, and vegetables was positively valued and consumption of meat, alcohol, and dairy products was negatively valued. The researchers measured self-perceived quality of life after the four year monitoring period using a questionnaire.

The Mediterranean diet is based on lots of fruit and vegetables, and lean animal sourced proteins

The researchers found that participants who stuck to the diet more had better physical and mental well-being and significantly better physical quality of life.

Henrquez said "the Mediterranean diet is an important factor associated with better quality of life and can be considered as a healthy food model."

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The diet dilemma

Posted: June 3, 2012 at 10:21 am

Keep pushing yourself ... you won't weigh less if you eat less.

Eat less, weigh less. Simple? Not quite, writes Nick Galvin.

Losing weight is simple in principle. The rule of thumb has been that if you cut out 2100 kilojoules a day - the equivalent of two large lattes or a blueberry muffin - you will lose about half a kilo a week until you reach that magic number on the scales.

Simple - but, as it turns out, probably way too simple.

It now appears that dietitians, doctors and others may have been getting it wrong all these years. There's a lot more to losing weight than just kilojoules in/kilojoules out.

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Losing weight ... just reducing your food intake is not enough.

When you start to lose weight, your body slows down your metabolism. In other words, you use less energy for the same activities.

This reaction has its roots in our primitive past, says Professor Michael Cowley, director of the Monash Obesity & Diabetes Institute. "If you go on a diet, your body says, 'Aha, here is a famine', and it decreases energy expenditure, so you need less energy just to stay at that weight," he says. "This is probably because we evolved in conditions where famine was frequent, and if you had an appropriate physiological response to famine, you were more likely to survive and your genes got propagated."

The result is that if you stay on the same reduced-kilojoule diet, over time the gap between kilojoules in and kilojoules out narrows. In a paper published last year in The Lancet, researchers from the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) found that for a given weight-loss goal, half the loss would occur in the first year, but the remaining kilos would take another two years to lose.

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The Paleo Diet Moves From The Gym To The Doctor's Office

Posted: June 2, 2012 at 11:18 pm

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Some physicians say the theory of "evolutionary medicine" can help guide the treatment of modern ailments like obesity.

By now the paleo diet and lifestyle has inched from the fringe a little closer to the mainstream, thanks to some very passionate followers sold on the notion that our Paleolithic hunter-gatherer ancestors avoided modern day ailments like obesity and diabetes because they ate what some consider an "ideal" diet of meat, fruit and vegetables.

Maybe you've met paleo dieters through CrossFit, or seen them organizing MeetUps online, and been amazed that they've managed to swear off sugar, dairy, grains and beans.

But the paleo way is now moving beyond the gym and Web to an entirely new space the doctor's office. There the somewhat amorphous idea of "evolutionary medicine" is taking shape.

One of the founders of the paleo movement, Loren Cordain, a professor at Colorado State University with a doctorate in exercise science, is the author of a must-read book for paleo followers, The Paleo Diet. Recently, he co-founded the Paleo Physicians Network. Its goal: connect consumers with "medical professionals who practice Darwinian/Evolutionary Medicine." The network lists hundreds of them around the country (53 in California alone).

Except there's a small problem, according to one of the people who helped coin the term evolutionary medicine: No one actually practices evolutionary medicine because it's only a theory.

Randolph Nesse, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Michigan, might be called a father of evolutionary medicine. He co-authored an influential paper in 1991 called "The Dawn of Darwinian Medicine," which made a persuasive case for more research into how evolution by natural selection can help explain what makes us sick.

When Shots asked him about his thoughts on the Paleo Physicians Network, he said, "I don't like it much."

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Gluten-Free Diet Craze Leads to Weight-loss Says Private Weight Loss Research Firm

Posted: June 2, 2012 at 7:16 am

Miami, FL (PRWEB) June 02, 2012

Americans are interested in gluten-free as they become more educated and have a better understanding of what is good and what is bad. Many diet fads are dangerous: skipping meals, only eating salads, eating only high protein. These diets can work temporarily and can result in not just regaining the weight plus more, but far harsher health problems. For this reason, Gluten-free diets have become popular. "Don't believe the hype of diets that claim you can lose 15 lbs. in 4 weeks without diet or exercise." The gluten-free diet is leading to weight-loss and healthier eating. In response, a private research firm, Ven Cleanse, is releasing a free copy of the 2012 Gluten-free meal plan and recipes to the public to help people get started the right way.

Starting at the beginning, gluten is a protein found in wheat, kamut, spelt, barley, rye, malts and triticale. It is used as a food additive in the form of a stabilizing agent. It is found primarily in cereals, certain grains, and wheat. Gluten makes bread chewy and prevents some foods from being sticky and doughy. Why is Gluten-free suddenly so popular? More and more everyday people are discovering that they are gluten-sensitive. Private industry is stepping up to help fill the needs of gluten free diets as well. One research firm is releasing a free white paper on their website, http://www.vencleanse.com, to help people make this lifestyle change. Because of the increase of gluten-sensitivity in the public doctors from a variety of fields are getting involved and researching the benefits of gluten-free living. Doctors are finding that gluten-free diets have the benefits of:

By choosing to follow a gluten-free diet people are actually eliminating a lot of foods they already know as unhealthy. Foods such as: fried foods, many desserts high in sugar and fat, and many processed foods. It is good for everyone to avoid processed foods. Many processed foods contain a lot of gluten, chemicals, and artificial flavors that are not healthy. These overly processed foods also often have fewer nutrients. Grocery stores are helping by carrying more gluten-free foods and making this life-style more accessible to all. In addition, by eating gluten-free one is more than likely eat more fresh food. Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables are a good source of nutrients that are non-starchy, and almost completely gluten-free. Another benefit is gluten-free diets will eliminate unhealthy oils and carbohydrates. These are often found in food items such as doughnuts and pastries. Many of the foods on a gluten-free plan are high in anti-oxidants, essential vitamins and minerals which will help ward off viruses, this making in a healthier life! Gluten-free is healthy, but it is also important be careful. Most foods on a gluten-free diet will assist with healthy weight loss, especially when eating a well-balanced diet. Many of the gluten-free foods are healthy. Keep in mind, reading labels and getting a healthy balance of proteins, carbs, healthy fats, and nutrients is vital. And, of course, portion control is still a must!

Portion size no matter how healthy the food will affect weight loss! Eating a gluten-free diet will definitely help people lose weight, feel better, and be healthier. But, portion control is necessary also! Even when eating healthy foods increased portion size can contribute to a growing waistline.

Gluten-free is a successful lifestyle, not a fad diet! It is a process that will require forgetting those fad diets, and making lifestyle and dietary changes that can lead to a richer, more fulfilling life. It can be difficult to know where to start. Creating a meal plan from scratch can be daunting especially when taking into account the need to not only eliminate gluten, but to ensure the diet includes enough protein, nutrients, and minerals. But you are not on your own, seeking the advice of a doctor is always important before starting any major lifestyle change. This gluten craze has inspired a breakthrough Diet Meal Plan, which you can get a free copy of for a limited time by calling 888-548-6661 or emailing support(at)vencleanse(dot)com.

Sources: http://vencleanse.com http://www.everydayhealth.com/diet-nutrition/weight-loss-programs.aspx, http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/whats-with-the-gluten-free-craze-anyway, http://www.bistromd.com/related-information/special-conditions/health-benefits-of-a-gluten-free-diet.aspx

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