Weight Loss News May 8th
Stay on Track with Grandma’s Ten Commandments for Healthy Weight Loss
Weight loss goals can seem unattainable with the road blocks that our everyday lives can create. Hectic schedules can force us to eat unhealthy on the go and everyday stress can tempt us to reach for a candy bar instead of a banana. With this in mind, weight loss expert Grandma Bev Grey offers a list of wall-mountable rules to live by when the going gets tough which is available for download at www.grandmashealthykidsclub.com.
Grey developed the Ten Commandments of Healthy Weight Loss as portable tip sheet that will reminds us of weight loss goals even in the most trying situations. Post it on a refrigerator door, bathroom mirror or in the break room at work to keep weight loss efforts focused and reduce the risk of “cheating.”
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Fitness and Weight Loss Help on Zipidee
Zipidee, an online digital marketplace, announced that instructional videos designed to help viewers of all ages stay healthy, young, and active are now available for download. Video and audio content featuring expert tips on nutrition, fitness, and weight loss are available on-demand on the Zipidee site.
Internationally known television cooking personality and award-winning author Graham Kerr shares his expert opinion on nutrition and healthy living in his “Graham Kerr Lifestyle” series. In “A ‘Weighty’ Issue,” Kerr discusses information from the National Weight Registry on people who have successfully kept off weight they lost. Viewers get an inside perspective of weight loss and strategies to maintain their new weight.
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Study participants ’shocked’ by new weight loss test
A new weight-loss shock therapy treatment is currently being tested at Scripps Clinic Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center in California.
The treatment involves no diet, no exercise, no pills and no surgery.
The first FDA human trial of Entero-Medics V-BLOC therapy is under way.
A device inserted beneath the skin emits electronic impulses that essentially block the signals that tell you you’re hungry.
It targets the Vagus nerve, which sends hunger signals to your stomach.
The device is designed to interrupt the signal with a painless electric shock.
Web site offers free weight-loss support
These days, there are Web sites devoted to just about everything, including weight loss.
SparkPeople.com is one such site that provides advice and support free of charge.
With headquarters in Cincinnati, it started about seven years ago as a general goal-setting Web site founded by Chris Downie, after he found financial freedom by selling another Web site he had founded, up4sale.com, to eBay.
“Once that had given him financial freedom, his goal was to help millions of people reach their own goals,” said Grant Miller of SparkPeople from his Los Angeles office.
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Blocking Brain Enzyme for Weight Loss
Scientists say they have found a simple way to promote weight loss, reduce appetite and improve blood sugar levels. It’s a brain enzyme called CaMKK2 in mice that, when blocked, has all of these health benefits.
“We believe we have identified an important drug development target that could potentially turn into a metabolic triple play: appetite control, weight loss and blood sugar management,” Tony Mean, Ph.D., a Nanaline H. Duke Professor and Chairman of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, was quoted as saying.
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URAC Honors SENSEI For Weight Loss™ During Its Best Practices In Consumer Empowerment Awards
Sensei, Inc. (http://www.senseicorp.com), a Humana joint venture, was among 22 healthcare industry leaders honored during URAC’s Best Practices in Consumer Empowerment and Protection Awards competition. The nationwide competition attracted entries detailing innovative and proven programs that are empowering consumers to be more active participants in their health care. Other Winners included, Aetna, Inc., BlueCross BlueShield and Eli Lilly and Company.
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Your Exercise May Be Causing You to Overeat!
It has almost become cliché, the statement reading, “All you need to do to lose weight is eat less and move more!” Everyone in the world knows that eating less is the best policy when trying to lose weight, but moving more seems to be the hurdle that causes the weight loss or diet plan to fall off the wagon again and again. But, what if I told you that exercise was causing you to lose less weight?
Most people exercise early in the morning on an empty stomach. Maybe this is because they have read somewhere that the morning is the tight time to exercise or that the only free time in the day is during the morning. Whatever the reason, exercising on an empty stomach, fresh and early can wreak havoc on your stomach. Exercise burns calories and will make you more hungry after the workout. Paired with the euphoric state the body enters into after prolonged exercise (often as little as 30 to 45 minutes) can lead to overeating.
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Can fat people survive in the public eye?
national dementia over swimmer Grant Hackett’s non-existent pot belly and teeny-tiny actress Mischa Barton’s “horrific” cellulite you have to wonder where popular culture’s fat schizophrenia is going to lead us.
It’s no news-flash that Australians are bigger than ever but why are we taking to task Olympic athletes and 22-year-old, size 8 waifs for blubber that’s not even there?
The net effect may be that many people who have weight conditions will just shrug and give up on dieting and exercise - saying to themselves, “well, if he’s fat and he swims 50km a day and she’s fat and she’s a superstar with a personal trainer and chef, what chance do I have?”
On the go? Learn to make smart snacking choices
What do you do when you’re on the road, in the air, or at a rest stop — and you’re ravenous? Real Simple magazine shares helpful advice on how to make the best, healthiest choices:
Vending machines
Best picks: A small bag of plain pretzels — not honey-mustard or any other flavor, which can add fat. “Pretzels are a satisfying, low-fat crunch without any trans fats or added sugar, and the single-serving-size bag means you get built-in portion control,” says Keri Glassman, a registered dietitian in New York City and the author of “The Snack Factor Diet” (Crown, $20, www.amazon.com).
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Slim chances for weight loss
With bikini season looming on the horizon, many women are turning to drastic measures to get their bods beach-ready. But when your trusty magazines feed you sketchy slimming tricks like “stop swallowing air,” what’s a woman to believe?
“I always tell my clients that if any of this actually worked, it would be the cover story everywhere,” says Betty Kovacs at the New York Obesity Research Center’s Weight Loss Program in St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital. Kovacs and Self magazine’s diet and nutrition editor Erin Hobday weighed in on eight of the most outrageous ideas in weight-loss in order to separate the “fat” from the fiction.
What is Obesity
The fat may be equally distributed around the body or concentrated on the stomach (apple-shaped) or the hips and thighs (pear-shaped). For medical purposes, the body mass index (BMI) is used to determine if your weight is in the healthy range. Doctors use BMI because it compares your weight against your height.
Work out your BMI
The BMI figures used in this article apply to adults only.
Doctors use special charts to work out BMI for children to take account of differing rates of growth and development.
Take your weight (kg) and divide it by the square of your height (m).
For example, if you weigh 80kg and are 1.7m:
1. Multiply your height by itself 1.7×1.7=2.89
2. Divide your weight by this figure.
3. 80 ÷ 2.89= 27.7kg/m2.
27.7 is the BMI.
•You are in the normal range if your BMI is between 18.5 and 25 (kg/m2).
•You are overweight if your BMI is between 25 and 30.
•You are obese if your BMI is 30 or higher.
•You are morbidly obese if your BMI is 40 or higher.
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Atkins Diet Myths Busted
The following is a reprint from “Controlled Carbohydrate Nutrition”:
Facts and Myths about the Atkins lifestyle
It is common to hear misinformation about the Atkins lifestyle from almost everyone. What is fact and what is fiction? Many people have been discouraged from continuing to follow this program even when they have been successful losing weight, feeling better and improving their risk factors by uninformed or deliberately misleading comments.
How many people have regained their weight because of giving up the only program that worked for them or that they could follow long term?
Educating people about the facts is what is needed to dispel the many incorrect statements made by medical people, well meaning but uneducated friends or family and of course the media who sensationalizes and cherry-picks what it will report about Atkins.
Providing education and research data can go along way to demonstrating that a low carb way of eating is a safe, effective and healthy way of life. Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, low carb deserves to be considered a healthy choice if we are to address the ever increasing numbers of people with obesity and its complications.
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