Weight Loss News May 13th, 2008
Drug petition could strip supplements of weight loss claims
A petition filed with the US FDA calling for the agency to treat weight loss claims as disease claims could wipe the weight loss category from the dietary supplement map.
The citizen petition was filed at the end of last month by drug firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) together with the American Dietetic Association, The Obesity Society and Shaping America’s Health, an association for weight management.
The petitioners are asking the Food and Drug Association (FDA) to prevent dietary supplement products from claiming they can promote, assist or otherwise help in weight loss. Such claims, they say, should be considered as disease claims.
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Dr. Sanford Siegal’s COOKIE DIET™
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The Integrated Approach to Weight Loss
Content provided by Mayo Clinic Health Solutions
(ARA) - Two-thirds of American adults are overweight and one in three are considered to be obese. An integrative approach can be an effective strategy for losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight.
“This is a transitional time in medicine. New therapies and treatments, once called alternative, are emerging to meet the needs of our physical, mental and spiritual health. Good health is more than your physical health because you are more than just a body,” says Dr. Brent Bauer, director of complementary and integrative medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “This blending of the best of conventional and alternative medicine is known as integrative medicine.”
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Top Secret Fat Loss Secret Offers an Alternative to the Usual Diet for Weight Loss
Top Secret Fat Loss Secret is now available at www.topsecretfatlosssecret.com This fat loss program offers people seeking to lose weight and keep it off an alternative to the regular diet and exercise routine. Top Secret Fat Loss Secret targets plaque and parasites in the body that hold onto food in order to live in colons and bowels. Dr. Susanne Gudakunst explains on this website how these parasites come to be and why they are harmful to the body and detrimental to weight loss. This cleansing system rids the body of such plaque and parasites. The Top Secret Fat Loss Secret is available in two affordable packages; the Pro Version and the Hardcore Elite Version, discounts on those prices are currently available.
Dr. Susanne Gudakunst weight loss system targets unhealthy parasites in the body surviving in the colon and bowels on semi-digested food matter. The Top Secret Fat Loss Secret claims to be the secret system that is otherwise left unspoken of by 99% of weight loss experts and other doctors. The reason behind this is other systems work on a cyclical effect at depend on people remaining unhealthy in order to sell these systems, programs, and diets many times to make more money off the consumer. Dr. Susanne boasts a level of compassion for all people and wants them to uncover the truth behind this other approaches to weight loss that are difficult. The Top Secret Fat Loss Secret cleanses the body of harmful parasites making it possible for the weight to come off and stay off.
Top Secret Fat Loss Secret aims to be the solution to people in a situation where everything else has failed, not of their own doing but because of the unhealthy choices around them. Even when eating seemingly healthy choices, parasites and plaque form in the colon and bowels holding onto food so it can survive. This food they live on remains in the body staying on as excess, unhealthy weight. If these parasites are not addressed they can mineralize, not unlike a fossil, in the human body and become potentially dangerous. In this situation it may become impossible for nutrients to be absorbed properly by the body. Dr. Susanne boasts the Top Secret Fat Loss Secret is the answer to these dangerous parasites and ultimately the answer to shedding those dangerous extra pounds.
Top Secret Fat Loss Secret, now available at www.topsecretfatlosssecret.com, is the alternative to regular diet and exercise. This system of weight loss cleanses the body of potentially dangerous parasites living in the human body. Dr. Susanne Gudakunst believes it is the secret answer to weight loss in modern day life.
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Dr. Sanford Siegal’s COOKIE DIET™
Eat cookies, lose weight!
Beware of Imitators - Buy It Here
Calories count, but what about fat, sugar and carbs?
Kevin Kopjak doesn’t care much about carbs, fat, sodium or high fructose corn syrup.
He generally reads only two things on a nutrition label: the portion size and the calories. He says the strategy has helped him lose and keep off 100 pounds.
“Counting calories seems to work for me,” says Kopjak, 29, of San Francisco, Calif., who initially did Atkins and several other diets before switching to counting calories. “But it’s a lot of discipline. When I first started, I had an Excel log, where I literally wrote everything I ate down.”
Kopjak may be on to something. The past few decades have brought us diets like Atkins, Sugar Busters, The Zone, Slim Fast and Jenny Craig.
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The Costs of Weight on Business
Epidemic or not, the rate of obesity in the U.S. has skyrocketed in recent decades. Those extra pounds can be as bad for an employer’s bottom line as they are for a person’s health and waistline.
In the last 30 years, the rate of obesity in the United States has more than doubled. In a 1976-1980 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the prevalence of obesity among adults aged 20-74 years was 15 percent. In 2003-2004, NHANES found that number had increased to 32.9 percent.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 32 percent of adults in the U.S. are overweight and 34 percent are obese, as defined by the World Health Organization. Likewise, a recent Conference Board report entitled Weights and Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity determined that 34 percent of American adults currently fit the definition of “obese.”
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Diet pills in the time of rice shortage
Hi, boys and girls, it’s no longer that cool to talk about dieting and staying thin.
As you may know, we are facing a global food crisis. The threat of a shortage in the supply of rice and some other essential foods seems real enough. The United Nations, among other august international agencies, has warned about “social unrest on an unprecedented scale” if the crisis is allowed to worsen.
So, stop preaching the gospel of dieting. You’re not going to be so callous as to tell your starving neighbor that skipping meals will make him or her look good. Food crisis or not, the obsession with thinness is beginning to be challenged in some trendy circles. It’s about time.
Mariah Carey finds dieting ‘boring’
She has a figure to die-for, but Mariah Carey insists that it’s really tough to maintain her stats, because she finds fatty food fun and dieting “boring”.
The vocal queen owes her fabulous figure to a gruelling workout and a restrictive eating regime, but she reasserts that she craves for something tasty to eat.
“Working out and dieting and eating boring food. I can’t go to the barbeque spot,” Contactmusic quoted her, as saying.
However, she vouches for the fact that the diet is working, and she feels good when she is fit.
“I need to work out more. But the diet thing is what works best for me. But it’s good for health. It’s good to be healthy, yes? Everybody needs to be how ever they feel best, that’s what I think,” she said.
Binge eating then dieting risky - study
Binge eating then dieting may significantly reduce a person’s lifespan, the results of a new study indicate.
A team of Scottish researchers found that despite having no effect on body size or reproduction rate, animals given a ‘binge then diet’ food regime had a reduced lifespan of up to 25%.
The researchers from the University of Glasgow compared the growth rate, reproduction success and lifespan of stickleback fish who were given a constant amount of food every day, with those given the same overall amount of food but in a more erratic feeding pattern.
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