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Dietitian promotes heart-healthy diet

Posted: March 13, 2012 at 2:23 am

March 12, 2012 08:04:14 PM

PANAMA CITY The Mediterranean diet is a heart-healthy diet that incorporates olive oil and even a glass of red wine and can reduce the risk of heart disease, a local dietitian said Monday.

A survey of more than 1.5 million healthy adults showed those utilizing the Mediterranean diet had a reduced risk of cardiovascular mortality, a reduced incident of cancer and cancer mortality, and reduced incidences of Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases, according to the Mayo Clinic.

The Mediterranean diet has been shown to reduce the incidents of many chronic diseases and it can improve health, said Cindy Shipman, a registered dietitian at Bay Medical Center. The thing that is important to remember is that its not just a diet; its a lifestyle. It promotes meals that are satisfying and healthy.

The key concepts is it is a plant-based diet that uses fish, low fat, dairy and produce with a small amount of meat and sweets.

It is a diet of super foods that make you feel good, and with less meat you can cut shopping costs, Shipman said. It also stresses fruits that are in season.

The Mediterranean diet also emphasizes daily exercise, whole grains, replacing butter with healthy fats such as olive and canola oil, and using herbs and spices instead of salt to flavor foods. The Mediterranean diet was ranked as a top three diet by U.S. News and World Report.

Its not a fad diet; its been around for 200 years, Shipman said. Avoid fad diets. Instead of improving health, it can give people health problems.

The Mediterranean diet encourages eating fish and poultry at least twice a week and eating red meat no more than a few times a month. Another healthy diet Shipman recommends is the DASH diet, which was developed to fight high blood pressure.

The DASH diet is not as well-known, but it can help prevent and control diabetes and is heart-healthy. The diet DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension aims at reducing the amount of sodium consumed. The basic diet includes lots of whole grains, fruits, vegetables and low-fat dairy products, and is low in saturated fat and cholesterol.

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Weight Watchers sees growth in slimming men

Posted: March 13, 2012 at 2:23 am

CHICAGO (Reuters) - David Kirchhoff, chief executive officer of Weight Watchers International Inc, shed 35 pounds (15.9 kg) with his company's program and sees a growth opportunity in helping more men shrink their waistlines.

"Dealing with weight was not a thing a lot of guys thought about, frankly, until fairly recently," Kirchhoff said at the Reuters Food and Agriculture Summit in Chicago on Monday.

"Men are as likely to be measured overweight or measured clinically obese as women. The ill-health effects that come with that are the same for men as for women, yet women are twice as likely to do something about it," said Kirchhoff, who attended his first Weight Watchers meeting in New York in 2000 and remains svelte.

Men historically have accounted for less than 10 percent of Weight Watchers' business and the company last year signed up former NBA star Charles Barkley as its first male spokesman in a bid to drive that higher.

"Men have to take a hold of the issue of obesity and health. It's just as important for guys as it is for women," said Kirchhoff, who also blogs about weight loss, nutrition and exercise at http://manmeetsscale.blogspot.com/.

When asked by Reuters Insider if men could one day account for half of its members, he said: "I'd like to think that that was a possibility one day, but I think it's going to take us a little while to get there."

Rivals in the roughly $61 billion U.S. weight management industry also are keen to add male customers.

Nutrisystem Inc, whose pitchmen include legendary football player Terry Bradshaw, aggressively markets to men on sports channels and other mainstream media.

Elsewhere, Nestl S.A.'s Jenny Craig weight-loss system offers a program called Jenny for Men.

Roughly two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. Increasing affluence in developing countries is contributing to global obesity.

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Robben Island: Triumph of spirit over tyranny against breath-taking backdrop

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 6:22 pm

ROBBEN ISLAND, South Africa - It is hard to imagine a more idyllic setting in which the sadistic horrors of South Africa's apartheid played out than Robben Island.

Just a few kilometres across the frigid Atlantic from the modern bustle of Cape Town and the panoramic sweep of Table Mountain and Lion's Head, it is a place still haunted by the ghosts of its recent past.

Once, its very name evoked desolation and dread a place where those who dared take on the power of the white minority state were banished.

Among the many political victims who laboured in its quarry hacking at white rock under the eye-damaging sun was Nelson Mandela. This was his home for 18 of his 27 years behind bars. His cell, with its simple bed, is now open to visitors who are led around by another former prisoner.

Today, Robben Island its name comes from the Dutch for Seal Island is a place to contemplate both the evil of state-sanctioned oppression and the indomitable spirit of those the jack-boots could not crush despite the regime's best efforts.

Hundreds of tourists now traipse quietly through the notorious cellblocks in which absolute power was wielded with absolute indifference.

Even here, the far-reaching pettiness of segregation was evident. No shoes or underwear and a subsistence diet for black prisoners made to wear short pants. "Coloured" inmates fared slightly better with their diets and long pants, the guide explains. White inmates were kept elsewhere.

One letter strictly censored, sometimes forged or altered by guards allowed every month or three. Tales of torture, both mental and physical.

The one-time leper colony turned gulag so achingly close to the mainland, yet so impossibly far away now functions as a museum and world heritage site against a backdrop that takes the breath away.

The small boats that ferried prisoners and later visitors to and from the island have been replaced by a large modern ferry that carries a few hundred people at a time from the glittering, modern waterfront development at the foot of Cape Town on the 30-minute ocean ride.

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Diagnosis gives Ellyn a new lease on life

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 6:22 pm

UPON discovering she had coeliac disease, Ellyn Palfreyman immediately went to the pantry only discover she could safely eat two items - peanut butter and rice.

Miss Palfreyman's family watched as she dropped to a staggering 50kg due to her immune system rejecting anything with gluten.

"I went to hospital with suspected appendicitis because I had really bad stomach pains,'' she said.

"The surgeon said 'this girl doesn't have appendicitis so find out what's wrong with her'.''

A trip to back to the family GP and a detailed history ended with a test for coeliac disease.

"In the end it made total sense because when I was younger, like seven or eight, I had gone through lots of bouts of sickness where I couldn't eat or would feel sick all the time.

"My parent's would say 'you will be right in the morning'' and my stomach would always feel better in the morning, which made sense because I hadn't eaten for 12 hours''.

Miss Palfreyman was diagnosed when she was 18.

Now 22 and a UTAS Rural Clinical School medical student, Miss Palfreyman said she didn't realise how unhealthy she felt until starting the gluten-free diet.

"I thought 'so this what it feels like to feel good'.

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Dr. Nalini Chilkov: The Anti Colon Cancer Diet

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm

8 Steps to Naturally Reduce Your Risk of Colon Cancer

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month. According to the Colon Cancer Alliance and the American Cancer Society, colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in men and women combined in the U.S.

Colon cancer is considered a preventable cancer. Why? Primarily because by changing our diet we can reduce risk dramatically. And if we get regular screenings (colonoscopies), we may be diagnosed only with precancerous or early stage cancer cells that are easily removed and treated.

8 Proven Steps You Can Take to Naturally Reduce Your Risk of Colorectal Cancer

Colorectal cancer is a "food-related" cancer. (1) Everything you eat passes over the lining of your digestive tract. The lining of the large intestine and the rectum at the lower end of the digestive tube contains waste, digestive fluids, bile acids and fiber. That lining is bathed by chemicals in food, your own hormones and secretions, and healthy and unhealthy bacteria. The contents of your intestines have a direct impact on the health of the cells lining the bowel. Colorectal cancer is directly impacted by your diet.

1. Eat Less Red Meat

Studies show eating red meat "frequently" increases the incidence of colon cancer. Eating red meat daily and especially more than one serving per day increased risk. Plant-based diets showed lowest risk (1). Increased risk is associated with increased inflammation associated with chemicals released by digestion of red meat. These chemicals increase damage to and inhibit the repair of DNA (genetic material) in the cells lining your intestines (2). Damage to DNA is a primary cause of all cancers.

2. Eat More Garlic

According to the National Cancer Institute fact sheet on garlic and cancer prevention:

Protective effects from garlic may arise from its antibacterial properties or from its ability to block the formation of cancer-causing substances, halt the activation of cancer-causing substances, enhance DNA repair, reduce cell proliferation, or induce cell death ...

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Diet Soda May Cause Health Problems, Study Says

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm

Diet soda can cause health complications, a new study says. (CBS)

CHICAGO (CBS) People often drink diet sodas to be healthier, but new research suggests some potential health dangers.

CBS 2s Roseanne Tellez reports a look at the risk and has some advice on what to do if youre a fan of those drinks.

No doubt, millions of people cant seem to do without their diet soda. But some recent research suggests a link between diet soda and heart disease. That may cause some people to make a different choice the next time theyre thirsty.

The University of Miami/Columbia University study found the risk of heart attack and stroke was 43 percent higher among people who drank diet soda at least once a day.

For people who never or rarely drank diet beverages, the risk was just 22 percent. And, there was no increased risk for regular soda drinkers.

Dr. Annabelle Volgman, director of the Rush Heart Center for Women, believes those findings are cause for concern.

It worries me that we think diet sodas are better than regular sodas. It may be in terms of calorie intake, but it doesnt seem to be protective from heart disease and strokes, she says.

Dr. Volgman cautions that the study wasnt well-conducted because it didnt track soda consumption through the entire 10 years. She also points out that many of the study participants had pre-existing heart disease risk factors including high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.

But earlier studies have questioned the health effects of diet soda, too. Those have linked the drink to weight gain, metabolic syndrome and Type 2 diabetes.

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Gain Together, Lose Together: The Weight Loss 'Halo' Effect

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm

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Studies show that friends and family gain weight and lose weight together.

Here's another good reason to lose weight: It might benefit your friends, family and co-workers. Such altruism might be just the final "nudge" some of us need.

Researchers are finding that the friends and family of obese and overweight individuals who lose weight lost weight themselves, and sometimes a lot of it. Dr. John Morton, who directs Bariatric Surgery at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, calls obesity a "family disease."

"We all gather around the table to enjoy a meal together and we learn lessons when we do that," Morton says. "Just like you impart morals to your sons and daughters, you can do the same thing around the dinner table as well and it can be good or bad; we see that all the time."

In fact, studies have shown that friends and family tend to gain weight together, in large part because they share similar eating and exercise habits. But over the years, Morton picked up another trend among his patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery, and their families. The obese and overweight sons, daughters and spouses of his patients lost weight, too.

So Morton decided to do a formal study and track families of 35 patients who had gastric bypass. One year after the surgery, he found that indeed, other overweight and obese family members lost weight, between 8 and 45 pounds.

"This was noteworthy in that these patients were able to accomplish that just by coming to the same visits that the bariatric surgery patient did," he says.

The so-called "halo effect" has been shown among people who drink alcohol and people who smoke, as well as those who gain weight. But now, Morton showed a positive halo effect losing weight.

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Weight Loss Surgery at Marina Del Rey Hospital Can Change Lives, Hospital Celebrates Patients' Achievements

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm

L.A. Bariatrics, a leading weight loss program in Los Angeles, invited its patients to gather one recent Saturday afternoon and celebrate each other's weight-loss victories.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 12, 2012

65 Marina Del Rey Hospital bariatric surgery patients gathered that afternoon to celebrate each other's weight-loss triumphs. 15 patients who had reached their goal weight were honored by the attendees and staff members.

"My work as a surgeon starts them on the road to weight loss, but surgery isnt an easy way out," said Dr. Jeremy Korman, the medical director for Marina Del Reys bariatric program. These patients should feel very proud of the remarkable weight loss theyve achieved, as well as all the hard work and dedication it took."

The attendees included patients who have reached their goal weight with the aid of gastric bypass, lap band, sleeve gastrectomy, gastric plication, or other procedures; patients who are continuing to work toward their goal weight; and their loved ones.

Patients who had reached their goal weight were congratulated by the crowd. Pictures from before they began their weight loss journey were displayed on a projector, and the patients came forward to give brief speeches. They recounted how their procedures had changed their lives and gave encouragement to their fellow patients who had yet to achieve their goal weight.

One speaker, Lena, said that having surgery was the best decision she could have ever made.

The path I was on was clearly destructive, Lena said. I needed to put myself first and make my health top priority. Because I couldnt be a better person, a better wife and a better mother until I did. Now Im Dr. Kormans biggest fan and proud to have his staff on my team.

Lena has lost over 130 pounds and maintained her weight since undergoing gastric bypass in 2009.

Another patient, Rachel, said that after giving birth to her son, now 3, she was embarrassed to be seen because of the weight she had gained over the years.

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Weight loss has Bruce swinging well for Reds

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm

Published 1:06am Monday, March 12, 2012

GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) Jay Bruce hopes a weight loss will help him get through a long season. The Cincinnati Reds hope it will make him a heavy hitter.

Bruce and Miguel Cairo hit RBI singles and the Reds beat a split squad of Los Angeles Angels 5-4 Sunday.

Bruce came into camp 16 pounds lighter than he ended last year. He has hit safely in all five of his spring appearances.

Hes swinging good, Reds manager Dusty Baker said. Hes quick. Hes going to have to learn to wait (on the ball). He can wait a lot longer now. Anytime you gain weight or lose weight theres always a period of adjustment.

Bruce was listed at 225 pounds last season but dropped to 209.

I wanted to be a little quicker in the field and on the bases, Bruce said. Sixteen pounds off will make it easier on my knees over 162 games.

Cairo, the veteran utility player who filled in for third baseman Scott Rolen most of last season, is hitting .417 in exhibition play.

Mat Latos pitched three innings for the Reds. He allowed a two-run homer to minor leaguer Alexi Amarista.

It was fine today, Latos said. I just want to continue to work on throwing strikes.

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Sacred Lotus Leaf Linked to Effective Weight Loss

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 6:21 pm

Many health benefits have long been attributed to the sacred lotus leaf of the Far East. However, recent medical studies have confirmed how this natural plant has outstanding weight loss attributes as well. A recent article posted on health and wellness portal BeWellBuzz.com supported by empirical research studies explains several of the positive attributes of this plant of the lotus family.

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The Sacred Lotus or Nelumbo Nucifera as it is known by botanists, is a plant of the lotus family and is sometimes also referred to by the names Bean of India, Indian Lotus, or He Ye in Chinese cultures. The lotus is used in many cultures to stop bleeding, and is a common treatment for blood in the urine or for heavy menstrual bleeding. It is also thought to have overall invigorating qualities in regards to the circulatory system. It can be used to treat diarrhea and skin disorders. However, recent research explains how this natural element is effective in weight loss for humans.

According to a recent study conducted by Korean nutrition and metabolism scientists Ji-Yung Park and Huan Du at the Department of Food and Nutrition, Inha University, Incheon, Korea in 2010, scientists stated that lotus leaf extract, when combined with L-carnitine was shown to prevent adipogenesis, or the formation of fatty tissues. The study confirmed that lotus leaf slowed the absorption of fat and carbohydrates, increased energy expenditures and rapidly increased lipid metabolism. The study also confirmed that lotus leaf significantly reduced the increase of weight in those tested.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994410/ -- link to medical research provided by Korean Scientists.

In Chinese medicine it is used as a treatment for the digestive and circulatory systems. Because of its bitter qualities, it causes the stomach to secrete more stomach acid, which can aid in food digestion. The sacred lotus also causes the liver to secrete increased amounts of bile, which breaks down fats from your diet more quickly and efficiently.

Another animal study reported in "Nutrition and Metabolism" magazine suggested that sacred lotus interfered with the bodys digestion and absorption of fat and carbs. At the same time, it accelerated the breakdown of fat and helped the body burn it faster. The lotus flower has been eaten and taken as a holistic treatment for various disorders for centuries, without any ill effects.

To read about some of the ways people can introduce lotus leaf into their diets for weight loss, please review the following article posted at BeWellBuzz.com.

http://www.bewellbuzz.com/wellness-buzz/indian-lotus-and-weight-loss

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