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Calorie-restricted diet doesn't help monkeys live longer, study shows

Posted: August 30, 2012 at 12:12 am

A photograph of 27-year-old male rhesus monkeys used in the study. The one on the left had a restricted calorie diet. The one on the right was fed a normal weight diet.

A 23-year study by the National Institute on Aging shows that calorie-restricted rhesus monkeys - which have a similar genetic code, median lifespan and physiology to humans - didn't live any longer than monkeys who ate a heavier diet.

"One thing that's becoming clear is that calorie restriction is not a Holy Grail for extending the life span of everything that walks on earth," lead author Rafael de Cabo, an experimental gerontologist at the U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Baltimore, Md., said to the Wall Street Journal.

Previous research has shown that calorie restriction has helped animals including rats, mice, yeast, fruit flies and round worms live 30 to 50 percent longer. In these cases, caloric intake was reduced by 10 to 40 percent compared to other creatures that were allowed to eat as much as they want.

Then, a landmark study published in 2009 from the University of Wisconsin showed that reducing calories in the diet of rhesus monkeys over a 20 year period helped extend their lives. Only 13 percent of the monkeys of a diet died because of age-related instances, compared to 37 percent of the monkeys who could eat whatever they wanted.

In the new study, 121 monkeys split into a group between the ages of 1 to 14 and another group between the ages of 16 to 23 were either fed a normal diet or a diet that was 30 percent fewer calories than their normal diet.

By 2006, the calorie-restricted monkeys had seemingly younger immune systems and were less likely to get heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other diseases of aging. But, at the end of the study, the oldest animals had the same amount of tumors, heart disease and overall decline in health as the group that was allowed to eat more.

The monkeys who had caloric restriction starting in the earlier period of life didn't live longer, with scientists calculating that the probability that they would outlive their peers who had more to eat at .1 percent. The young restricted diet group were also more likely to die of causes not related to aging than the other group. They did have less incidence of cancer, however.

As for the group that started eating fewer calories later in life, they did show lower levels of triglycerides, which have been linked to heart disease risk. But, neither calorie-restricted group lived longer.

Scientists believe several factors allowed the Wisconsin monkeys to live longer, according to a Nature blog post. First, the Wisconsin monkeys had seven times the table sugar - about 28 percent of calories, similar to an average American's diet - than the NIA monkeys. The Wisconsin monkeys that were not calorie restricted were also allowed to eat as much as they wanted to, meaning they could have eaten themselves to death. The NIA monkeys who had the higher caloric diet were eating closer to a normal diet, but were considerably lighter than the Wisconsin monkeys. Also, in the NIA study, the monkeys were from India and China accounting for more genetic variety, where the Wisconsin monkeys were only from India.

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Post-Menopausal Women Have Special Weight Loss Challenges

Posted: August 29, 2012 at 3:13 pm

By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on August 29, 2012

Maintaining weight loss can be a challenging task that becomes more difficult with age.

Post-menopausal women have it particularly tough as hormonal changes and the aging process slow energy expenditure.

Researchers have found that some behaviors that help a woman lose or control her weight earlier in life, may not be effective or sustainable for the long term.Researchers thus suggest that attention to these behaviors may improve long-term obesity treatment outcomes.

Long-term improvements in weight control are tied to learning to eat a healthy diet, such as enhanced consumption of fruit and nuts, rather than the total avoidance of substances such as fried foods.

Lead investigator Bethany Barone Gibbs, Ph.D., explains that a number of factors work against long-term weight loss.

Not only does motivation decrease after you start losing weight, there are physiological changes, including a decreased resting metabolic rate. Appetite-related hormones increase. Researchers studying the brain are now finding that you have enhanced rewards and increased motivation to eat when youve lost weight.

Thus biological changes in response to losing weight and as a function of the aging process, contribute to make it very difficult for older women to lose weight and maintain weight loss.

Traditional behavioral treatments for obesity, focused on caloric intake, have had poor long-term results.

In the study, investigators sought to determine if changes in eating behaviors and selected foods were associated with weight loss at six and 48 months in a group of overweight post-menopausal women.

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Keys to Weight Loss After Menopause

Posted: August 29, 2012 at 3:13 pm

Fewer Desserts, Sugary Drinks Linked to Long-Term Weight Loss

By Salynn Boyles WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Aug. 28, 2012 -- As she approached her 50s, Susan Williams found it harder and harder to maintain her weight, let alone shed the extra pounds she had been working to lose for some time.

"I was working out as hard as I ever have, but I was gaining weight," the Atlanta-based film production executive says. "It's a constant struggle."

Now 52, Williams says she has recently revamped her diet to include more fruits and vegetables and less sugar and white flour -- and she's managed to lose a few pounds.

Conventional wisdom says weight gain is inevitable with menopause and that losing weight is difficult. But a new study questions this wisdom.

Researchers examined eating behaviors among postmenopausal women in their 50s enrolled in a weight-loss study. They identified those behaviors that were common in women who managed to shed pounds and keep them off.

Cutting way back on sugary desserts and drinks topped the list, followed by limiting meats and cheeses and eating more fruits and vegetables.

"People who were able to decrease their consumption of desserts and sugar-sweetened beverages tended to have more success losing weight and keeping it off," says researcher Bethany Barone Gibbs, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh.

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Long-Term Weight Loss Strategies For Menopausal Women

Posted: August 29, 2012 at 3:13 pm

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online

Researchers recently looked at strategies related to long-term weight loss following menopause and found that, while some behaviors work for the short-term, other behaviors do not work in the long-term.

As women age and enter the post-menopausal period, energy expenditure declines and weight loss can be a more challenging task. Based on the results of the study, scientists concluded that it is necessary to focus on particular behaviors that can help long-term obesity treatment. The findings of the project were recently published in the September issue of Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Not only does motivation decrease after you start losing weight, there are physiological changes, including a decreased resting metabolic rate. Appetite-related hormones increase. Researchers studying the brain are now finding that you have enhanced rewards and increased motivation to eat when youve lost weight, noted lead investigator Bethany Barone Gibbs, a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Health and Physical Activity, in a prepared statement.

Researchers believe that some factors can fight against long-term weight loss. For example, traditional behavioral treatments that highlight caloric intake do not have strong long-term outcomes. As such, the researchers worked to identify how changes in eating behaviors and specific foods could affect weight loss for overweight post-menopausal woman.

According to The Guardian Express, 508 women were randomized into two different groups and studied over a four-year period. One group, the Lifestyle Change group, regularly met with exercise physiologists, nutritionist, and psychologists. They focused on reducing fats and caloric intake, continuing a moderate amount of exercise, as well as upping the consumption of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. The Health Education Group was offered seminars by health professionals on general womens health, but not specifically weight loss.

In the study, the researchers discovered that eating behaviors correlated with weight loss at six months; these behaviors included drinking less sugary drinks, increasing consumption of fish, decreasing consumption of desserts and fried foods, as well as frequenting restaurants less. After four years, eating less desserts and consuming less sugary beverages continued to be associated to long-term weight loss. However, important signs for weight-loss also proved to be increased consumption of fruits and vegetables along with less consumption of meat and cheese.

Some researchers believe those old habits die hard and some practices like prohibiting the consumption of fried food will not last in the long-term.

People are so motivated when they start a weight loss program. You can say, Im never going to eat another piece of pie, and you see the pounds coming off. Eating fruits and vegetables may not make as big a difference in your caloric intake. But that small change can build up and give you a better long-term result, because its not as hard to do as giving up French fries forever, explained Dr. Barone Gibbs in the statement.

If the goal is to reduce the burden of obesity, the focus must be on long-term strategies because changes in eating behaviors only associated with short-term weight loss are likely to be ineffective and unsustainable, continued Gibbs in the statement.

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Steak and peanut butter: the Liz Taylor diet Save

Posted: August 29, 2012 at 4:14 am

Aug. 29, 2012, 1:42 p.m.

An effective diet entails a balanced intake and plenty of exercise, right?

Not exactly, if you follow the dietary advice of Elizabeth Taylor.

We've heard our fair share of questionable dietary tips - not from least Karl Lagerfeld, who champions the highly dubious nutritional content of Diet Coke as key to slimming down from fashion heavyweight to fashion's dahling.

He's not alone. Who can forget the baby food diet (possibly not you, Jennifer Aniston), or those who are said to order water and Red Bull in place of a meal (we're looking at you, Paris Hilton), or those who favour ADD drug Adderall (Britney Spears, that was once you, we hear)? There are those who have experimented with laxatives and, of course, those who resort to a surgeon's scalpel to shift a few pounds.

Grapefruit diets - la Kylie Minogue may be less terrifying, but watching calories is nothing new. Nietzsche and Henry James were strict weightwatchers, while the Huffington Post reports that Greta Garbo and Gloria Swanson were ahead of their time in another way, choosing a vegetarian diet in days when meat was all but obligatory.

Reportedly a proponent if the distinctly unappealing steak-and-peanut butter sandwich, Taylor doled out some eyebrow-raising weight-loss tips, pushing a high saturated fat diet that has well and truly fallen by the wayside with current nutritionists (and anathema, surely, to those who criticise the Atkins diet).

What a difference 23 years makes - along with her take on steak, the Cleopatra actress mixed cottage cheese with sour cream and advised nothing but plain toast for breakfast in her 1987 diet book, Elizabeth Takes Off.

Not that the actress didn't have a good innings - she died in 2011 at the age of 79.

We may be better off taking a leaf from Audrey Hepburn's lifestyle. According to Pamela Keogh's What Would Audrey Do?, she preferred organic produce and the odd plate of pasta, treating herself to a square of dark cooking chocolate in the afternoons. She drank wine, but was partial to the "occasional Scotch", said the Daily Mail.

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Steak and peanut butter: the Liz Taylor diet

Posted: August 29, 2012 at 4:14 am

High fat diet ... famously curvaceous Elizabeth Taylor stars in 1959 film Suddenly Last Summer. Photo: Reutersr

An effective diet entails a balanced intake and plenty of exercise, right?

Not exactly, if you follow the dietary advice of Elizabeth Taylor.

We've heard our fair share of questionable dietary tips - not from least Karl Lagerfeld, who champions the highly dubious nutritional content of Diet Coke as key to slimming down from fashion heavyweight to fashion's dahling.

He's not alone. Who can forget the baby food diet (possibly not you, Jennifer Aniston), or those who are said to order water and Red Bull in place of a meal (we're looking at you, Paris Hilton), or those who favour ADD drug Adderall (Britney Spears, that was once you, we hear)? There are those who have experimented with laxatives and, of course, those who resort to a surgeon's scalpel to shift a few pounds.

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Grapefruit diets - la Kylie Minogue may be less terrifying, but watching calories is nothing new. Nietzsche and Henry James were strict weightwatchers, while the Huffington Post reports that Greta Garbo and Gloria Swanson were ahead of their time in another way, choosing a vegetarian diet in days when meat was all but obligatory.

Reportedly a proponent if the distinctly unappealing steak-and-peanut butter sandwich, Taylor doled out some eyebrow-raising weight-loss tips, pushing a high saturated fat diet that has well and truly fallen by the wayside with current nutritionists (and anathema, surely, to those who criticise the Atkins diet).

Audrey Hepburn in 1957. The actress preferred to stay active rather than take any exercise - but seemed to eat worryingly few proteins.

What a difference 23 years makes - along with her take on steak, the Cleopatra actress mixed cottage cheese with sour cream and advised nothing but plain toast for breakfast in her 1987 diet book, Elizabeth Takes Off.

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Six quick weight loss strategies that backfire every time

Posted: August 29, 2012 at 4:13 am

As doctors we come across plenty of hype for losing weight, but we also see a number of weight loss strategies that sound good but backfire every time, even though they sound so good.

Here is a list of 6 weight loss strategies that many people use but do them no good.

1. SKIP BREAKFAST (or other meals)

When you cut calories, you will lose weight. That much is true. But skipping a meal is not the right way to do this - especially if the meal you skip is breakfast.

Much better than skipping any meal is eating more often - that's right we said eating more often.

Here's why When you skip a meal or two, your body reacts by slowing the metabolism. Then when it's time to eat, you're hungrier and you end up eating more than your metabolism can handle.

This means that if you normally eat 1,800 calories, but then decide to lose weight by skipping breakfast and lunch but then eat 1,200 calories at dinner, your metabolism isn't "up and running" to handle the sudden calorie load at dinner time and the extra calories get stored - as fat.

So skipping a meal or two might sound good and right for losing weight, but it is the wrong thing to do.

Much better is to eat more often - maybe 5 or 6 times per day. If you can graze on smaller portions all through the day, your body's metabolism can handle it and nothing is sent to fat storage - provided of course that you stay within the normal calorie guidelines for your body type.

2. CUT YOUR CALORIES WAY BACK

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Hashimoto calls Diet ranks to form party

Posted: August 28, 2012 at 7:10 pm

Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012

OSAKA Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto will personally appeal to Diet members to join a new political party he is forming in mid-September and run in the next Lower House election, sources in his local political group said Tuesday.

The formal announcement of the new party is expected to be made at a fundraiser for Hashimoto's Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka) on Sept. 12. A public discussion between Hashimoto and Diet members interested in Osaka Ishin no Kai's platform for the national election, which is expected to be finalized by the end of this week, will take place in Osaka on Sept. 9, immediately following the end of the current Diet session, the sources said.

"We're not going to call on political parties to participate in the public discussion. We want to speak to Diet members individually," Osaka Gov. and Osaka Ishin no Kai Secretary General Ichiro Matsui said Monday.

In addition to halving the number of Lower House seats to 240, the new party platform is expected to call for ending the prefectural system of government and creating a system of between nine and 13 regions with greater autonomy.

Fundamental reform of the tax system, including turning the national consumption tax into a local tax, will be part of the platform. Hashimoto is also expected to support Japan's participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement.

To become a national party, Hashimoto needs the formal participation of five current Diet members. Democratic Party of Japan Lower House member Yorihisa Matsuno and Liberal Democratic Party Lower House member Kenta Matsunami have been in talks with Hashimoto for the past few weeks about forming a new party and are expected to join, and Osaka Ishin no Kai officials are confident they already have five members lined up.

Formal solicitation of potential candidates for the new party is expected to begin following the Sept. 9 meeting. While the majority are expected to come from the Kansai region, Hashimoto aims to attract candidates in other parts of Japan where he and Osaka Ishin no Kai are particularly popular, especially Ehime Prefecture, northern Kyushu, Niigata Prefecture and parts of the Kanto region.

A number of candidates will also come from the political school that Hashimoto established in March. There are 888 students there currently studying the art of political campaigning.

Hashimoto intends to endorse the most promising students in the Lower House election. But many in Osaka Ishin no Kai have long been concerned that selecting only students from the school as its candidates could result in a group of Diet members with no governing experience. In recent weeks, they have been sounding out experienced Diet members about joining the party.

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Local woman loses weight, preps for surgery

Posted: August 28, 2012 at 7:10 pm

Weight loss became a necessity for Alice OQuinn when a knee replacement became inevitable.

OQuinn weighed just less than 300 pounds in February. After meeting with Dr. Kyle Ritter with HRH Othropedics and Sports Medicine, she learned that she needed to lose a substantial amount of weight before the surgery was possible.

In the beginning of OQuinns training, she met Keith Groppel, a physical therapist. She learned what exercises would strengthen her knee, as well as ways to progress those exercises for weeks.

The unique part of the training is that its done in water.

A nice feature about our pool is that we have an in-water treadmill that we can adjust resistance on, Groppel said. We started off on that with eight minutes, but the nice thing about it was that she could walk pain-free.

Groppel said the goal of using the pool is to allow the patient to adjust to doing the same exercises on land.

After being instructed to lose weight, OQuinn was sent to Pam Vidt, a wellness nurse.

She was my guidance, my conscience, my ego builder, OQuinn said. She does everything. She takes care of the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. Shes done it all and put in the right direction for what I needed to do.

Vidt refers to OQuinn as her star pupil.

Through her work with Groppel and Vidt, OQuinn has lost 80 pounds.

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Hi Score Corporation in Talks with Weight Loss Pill Company Regarding Possible Merger

Posted: August 28, 2012 at 7:10 pm

MIAMI, Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hi Score Corporation (HSCO) announced today that its President, Michael Zoyes, has been in serious discussion with a South Florida-based Weight Loss Supplement Company. The talks involve the acquisition of the Weight Loss Supplement Company by Hi Score Corporation.

The Weight Loss Supplement Company that is involved with the discussions is yet another private company that is in a growth stage. "If we can make this happen we will be entering an industry that grosses +- 70 billion dollars per year," said Mr. Zoyes. "We feel confident that we can enjoy tremendous revenues and profits ... the deal is centered more around the guy that founded the company that we are considering ... his marketing approach which is largely though the internet appears to be very, very efficient," Mr. Zoyes added. "Our discussions are becoming more definitive ... we expect to make a final determination regarding this possible acquisition within the next couple of months ... things look promising and we are hopeful ..."

This announcement comes just weeks after the Board of Directors issued a resolution approving the expansion of the company's business model. The expansion revolves around the company seeking out profitable existing companies for acquisition in three specific sectors: Energy Saving Lighting, Medical Solutions and Energy Drinks. "We are committed to expanding our base ... I recognize that Weight Loss is not listed the expansion model that we have been discussing but the potential profits are just too appealing. I feel it is absolutely in the company's best interest to thoroughly explore this opportunity," continued Mr. Zoyes.

The company continues to be very optimistic about the future.

About Hi Score Hi Score Corporation is a supplier of eco-friendly lighting products in the Western Hemisphere. It offers its customers the fiscal and ecological practicality of utilizing safe, efficient, solid state green lighting rather than conventional fluorescent and incandescent bulbs. The Company offers a wide selection of high quality, long lasting LED lighting products that that can replace existing incandescent, fluorescent and halogen bulbs as well as compact fluorescent lights. Additionally the Company offers Compact Fluorescent and Halogen Lighting under its EcoGreenBulb and REPCO Labels, respectively. The Company sells its products directly to distributors, consumers, businesses as well as to municipalities. In August of 2012 the Company resolved to explore acquisition of other profitable private companies in the Energy Saving Lighting as well as in the Medical Solutions and Energy Drinks Industries.

Safe Harbor Statement: This release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are based upon assumptions that in the future may prove not to have been accurate and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including statements as to the future performance of the company and the risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in reports filed by the company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in its forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations or any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. Factors that could cause results to differ include, but are not limited to, the company's ability to raise necessary financing, retention of key personnel, timely delivery of inventory from the company's contract manufacturers, timely product development, product acceptance, and the impact of competitive services and products, in addition to general economic risks and uncertainties.

CONTACT: Hi Score Corporation Michael Zoyes President (954) 990-6827 http://www.hiscorecorporation.com

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