Weight Loss News November 12th, 2008
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KDKA Radio Reporter Tells Weight Loss Story
You’ve surely heard the voice of KDKA Radio’s traffic reporter Kathy Berggren, but because you can’t see her, you probably don’t know that she has lost 100 pounds in the last year.
And she did it completely on her own with no drugs, no surgery and no fad dieting.
“I have more energy, I feel better about myself,” Berggren tells KDKA. “My kids think I’m a happier person all around. I do feel really good.”
Before Berggren’s old jeans were a size 18, but now she wears a size four.
“It’s hard to look at them,” Berggren said of her old jeans. “I mean, I’m excited over it, but I just can’t imagine that was me at one point.”
How to Lose Weight
“How to lose weight,” is a frequent issue psychotherapist Ken Donaldson currently confronts. The “how to lose weight” solution should be easy seeing how there’s almost always a new best selling weight loss or diet book.
However, “Diets don’t work,” Donaldson writes in his brand new Try It NON Diet™, “and yet there’s been a ‘diet’ book on all the Best Seller lists almost every week over the last 15 years. If these ‘diet’ books really worked and effectively taught people how to lose weight then why, according to The National Institutes of Health, is more than 66% of the U.S. population overweight?”
“The real weight loss challenge ,” Donaldson states emphatically, “is that food is something we have to consume every day. And we’re constantly surrounded by a barrage of very effective and highly hypnotic consumer messages to eat more. You can’t lose weight if you keep eating more!”
City rewards healthy choices
The English city of Manchester has come up with a simple formula it hopes will help keep its citizens trim: eat right, get stuff. Exercise, get more stuff.
Manchester is hoping to fight fat with a reward system that works like a retail loyalty card.
But instead of earning credit for opening their wallets, residents will be rewarded for keeping their feet on the treadmill and their fridge stocked with healthy food.
Starting next September, Manchester residents will be able to swipe their rewards cards and earn points every time they buy fruits and vegetables, use a community swimming pool, attend a medical screening or work out with a personal trainer.
Weight Loss and Medical News November 11th, 2008
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The Real Deal Behind Diet Pills
Now that the magical glow of Halloween is over, and in its wake you realize that you have decimated the entire tub of Halloween candy that failed to attract enough trick-or-treaters. You also realize that now that the winter months are approaching, bringing with them cold, rain, snow, wind, Thanksgiving turkey, Christmas feast and New Years debauchery.
So what does this all mean for you? Well for millions of Americans, it definitely means packing on some extra weight. Winter is the most common season for people to gain weight. It becomes colder outside, discouraging outside exercise; people become stressed during the holiday season, with more things to do than usual, leaving less time to exercise. Coupled with the celebrated notion of overeating during the holidays and a poor diet (deep fried turkey is not really that nutritious), numbers on the scale creep up over the last few months of the year.
A seemingly quick fix to this problem is to turn to the help of diet pills, weight loss supplements that have a notorious reputation. There are two commonly held opinions about diet pills. Either that they work and are a fine addition to any exercise and healthy eating plan or that diet pills are extremely dangerous for your health and should be avoided. Let’s take a closer look at diet pills, their composition and see what the truth is behind the intriguing infamy of diet pills.
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“Functional” the New Frontier in Foods, Drinks
According to MediaPost Communications/Marketing Daily, a new report finds a shift away from foods with reduced sugar or fat toward “functional” products that promise benefits such as appetite suppression and increased metabolism/calorie burning.
The Euromonitor International Trend Watch report, entitled “Opportunities Within Functional Weight Management Products,” reveals that “functional” is the new frontier for food and beverage companies looking to grab the attention and dollars of the growing number of overweight consumers at home and abroad.
Whereas “better-for-you” (BFY) or “lesser evil” ingredients and claims were once mainly the bailiwick of those diet supplements promoted on TV via startling before-and-after photos of women and men in bathing suits, mainstream companies are increasingly looking to get in on the action.
The reason: Worldwide BFY packaged foods sales reached $116 billion, and beverages reached $36 million last year, but together, their annual growth rate was only marginally higher than the 2 percent to 4 percent seen by the overall packaged F&B market, according to Euromonitor. Meanwhile, fortified/functional F&Bs continued to see growth of about 10 percent in 2007.
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New Year’s Resolution Diet Program
The New Year is a time to reflect on the changes we want or need to make and many Americans seem to make the same New Year resolutions each year to start a Diet or weight loss program.
Setting reasonable goals, staying focused and great diet supplements are the most important factors in sticking with a weight loss program, and the key to success for those millions of Americans who made a New Year’s commitment to shed extra pounds.
First you will need a great sound diet program.
Weight Loss and Medical News November 10th, 2008
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Caution Advised With Nonprescription Weight Loss Pills
Over-the-counter weight-loss pills are no quick fix to melt away extra pounds. Many local drugstores sell diet pills, and even more choices are available on the Internet. But most diet pills haven’t been proved safe or effective, and some are downright dangerous, according to a special report in the November issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource.
The report looks at popular weight-loss diets, eating plans and strategies, including diet pills.
Tesofensine: New Miracle Weight Loss Drug?
Weight loss drugs have been something of a flop. Between Acomplia being ordered off the shelves for making people mad, and the lackluster performance of the other popular weight loss drugs – there hasn’t been much to celebrate for the pharmaceutical companies *cue crocodile tears.
That is until now… maybe.
An experimental drug called tesofensine is said to produce double the weight loss of current diet drugs. The drug works on three different appetite regulatory centers of the brain – the neurotransmitters noradrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin.
The phase II study, reported in The Lancet, included 203 obese patients whose average weight was about 220 pounds.
The average weight loss was 28 pounds in the highest dose of tesofensine compared to the placebo group which lost an average of 5 pounds. Sounds great…until you read the squinty print:
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Weight-Loss Pills Lead to Positive Tests
A significant number of NFL players have tested positive under the league’s steroid policy because of their use of weight-loss pills containing a substance banned by the league, sources familiar with the cases said yesterday.
A Denver television station, KDVR-TV, reported six to 10 players tested positive, including tailback Deuce McAllister and defensive end Will Smith of the New Orleans Saints. One to two other Saints players also tested positive, according to the report, which cited an NFL source.
Most of the players, including McAllister and Smith, tested positive for bumetanide, described as a drug used to treat fluid retention. The diuretic reportedly also can be used as a steroid-masking agent and is on the NFL’s list of banned substances. According to the report, bumetanide belongs to a group of medicines called loop diuretics, or water pills.
Sources familiar with the case confirmed the report. The players are subject to possible suspensions, pending appeals.
Weight Loss and Medical News November 8th, 2008
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Melanin Production Discovered In Fat Tissue May Protect Some Individuals Against Chronic Diseases Associated With Obesity
A two-year study conducted by researchers at George Mason University, INOVA Fairfax Hospital and the National Cancer Institute may open the door to new therapies for combating chronic diseases associated with obesity, a condition that affected more than 33 percent of American adults in 2005-06 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While analyzing samples taken from morbidly obese patients undergoing weight loss surgery, the researchers discovered that substantial quantities of melanin—a pigment that gives the skin, the hair and the iris of the eye their natural color—were being produced in the study participants’ fat tissue.
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Cuppa could be a cancer killer
CAN green tea protect against breast cancer, bowel cancer and leukaemia? Australian researchers have been given almost $1million to find out.
The four-year study also hopes to identify the genetic make-up of people who are able to benefit most from certain chemicals, called polyphenols, which are present in green tea.
If successful, the study will add to a growing body of evidence linking green tea with health benefits such as weight loss, lower cholesterol levels and prevention of diabetes.
Professor D’Arcy Holman from the School of Population Health at the University of Western Australia said more than 70 laboratory and animal studies worldwide had consistently shown that green tea halts tumour cell growth.
This study hopes to find whether those anti-cancer effects translate to humans, particularly for breast, colorectal and blood cancers.
Raymond Mao imports six types of tea from China and serves them at My Tea House in Neutral Bay.
“I sit each customer down for five minutes and tell them which tea is good or not good for different conditions,” he said. “It’s a bit like wine tasting, but I do tea tasting.”
How To Design A Fibromyalgia Diet Plan
Fibromyalgia affects mainly people over the age of 50 and is more common among women as compared to men.It is the overall pain in the body and it causes people to feel sleepy and tired all the time. Considered as a common disease, fibromyalgia affects almost 2% of the general population. Some of the symptoms of fibromyalgia are insomnia,stiffness, poor memory, depression, pain and poor concentration. Some of the people may also suffer from migraines, tension, headache and pain in the jaw.
Designing a Fibromyalgia Diet Plan