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Posted: October 16, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Many women look for a silver bullet to remove unwanted belly fat after pregnancy. hCGTreatments / Diet Doc hCG Diet & Weight Loss Plans can create a custom tailored hCG diet to help shed unwanted belly fat and produce fast weight loss with little to no side effects.
Orlando, FL (PRWEB) October 16, 2012
Diet Doc Weight Loss consultants have reported an increase of new mothers seeking help in minimizing stubborn post-pregnancy belly fat. Medical Director for Diet Doc Dr. Nishant Rao says, this hard-to-target area can be the toughest to lose the excess belly fat partly because of its location but mainly due to the type of fat that surrounds the area. The type of fat that surrounds the abdominal region comes in two different forms: subcutaneous and visceral. Subcutaneous fat is the fatty tissue located just beneath the skin and is actually functional, acting as a shock absorber, cushioning the skin for trauma and also storing energy, which the body will use as reserves when needed. Visceral fat, located deep inside the abdomen, is unhealthy and should be minimized. An excess of visceral fat is known as central obesity, or "belly fat", causing the abdomen to protrude markedly. The correlation between central obesity and cardiovascular disease is strong. Excess visceral fat is also linked to type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, inflammatory diseases, and other obesity-related diseases. Visceral fat is located around the organs and is the type of fat that is stubborn and hard to lose once it is gained. Women begin pregnancy overweight are more likely to develop higher amounts of visceral fat, in addition to simple subcutaneous fat.
Diet Docs modernized hCG diet has been known to effectively target both types of abdominal fat. A combination of prescription hCG drops fortified with energizing vitamin B12 and a personalized ketogenic diet allowing up to 1250 calories daily is used to burn unwanted belly fat. Dieters also have the option of hCG injections, which is found to be most effective, or hCG sublingual tablets. Dr. Rao adds that, each element of our hCG weight loss program was well thought out to target the problem areas, such as the abdominal region. Weve helped hundreds of new mothers get their pre-pregnancy body back within the first month of the program.
Diet Doc suggests that new mothers start the hCG diet plan at least six weeks after giving birth to allow the body to transition into its normal state, both physically and metobolically. Diet Doc will then give a complete health assessment to determine the best diet plan and proper dosage of hCG treatments. After the customized program is approved by a weight loss physician, it will be administered by a weight loss specialist and monitored weekly. Clients are given access to Diet Doc's team of weight loss experts 6 days a week.
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Posted: October 16, 2012 at 3:11 pm
Diet Doc creates customized weight loss programs using a modernized hCG diet plan that is found to have many health benefits according to sources.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 15, 2012
Diet Docs hCG diet plan is created and managed by a team of doctors, nutritionists and weight loss coaches. Following a personalized ketogenic diet, the hCG diet plan consists of four progressive stages with each re-introducing essential food groups. Dr. Rao Medical Director for Diet Doc says the goal of our weight loss diet plan is to have the body produce ketones which are compounds that the body can use to produce energy, a contrast to the average body that uses glucose from simple carbohydrates like breads and pastas for energy. A state of ketosis in the body is present with the lack of glucose in the bloodstream, the body draws on fat deposits for fuel, creating energizing ketones in the blood. Switching the body from being a carb-burning machine to a fat-burning one causes one to lose weight and even lower blood pressure.
Diet Doc also uses pharmaceutical-grade hCG fortified with energizing vitamin b12 as an integral part of their medical weight loss program. Offering the hCG treatments in three forms: injections, pills and drops, each patient has the freedom to choose how they would like to administer the hormone. hCG is a hormone that is naturally produced in pregnant women. It is known that this hormone works as a natural appetite suppressant as well as triggers the body to use fat as a source of energy.
Diet Doc shows their passion for helping people get on a healthy track by making their medical weight loss program affordable for almost anyone. Offering a promising solution to prevent the many health conditions that come with weight gain and obesity, Julie Wright Founder and CEO for Diet Doc says our mission is more just than getting people to lose weight and lower blood pressure, we truly work to make a life-long changes in people so they can live a long and healthy life.
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Posted: October 15, 2012 at 9:11 am
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New York, NY (PRWEB) October 15, 2012
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Posted: October 13, 2012 at 7:16 am
Carlos Boozer gets excited for his post-practice snack (Jesse D. Garrabrant/ Getty).
Professional athletes typically do whatever necessary to keep themselves in great shape, and they're willing to pay top dollar to do it. In many cases, that means spending time in hyperbaric chambers, or eating very healthy diets, or taking multi-hour naps. At bare minimum, they hire excellent trainers to design intense workouts and keep them at an elite level of fitness. (OK, in truth, the bare minimum is taking naps.)
These players usually don't like to take a chance with their bodies, or to hire trainers who don't have sterling reputations working with their peers. Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer has taken that chance. And he's doing so with an unlikely partner: his kids' trainer. From Scott Powers for ESPNChicago.com (via Blog a Bull):
During the summer, Boozer sought out a new basketball trainer to help him develop him into a more all-around player and touch up on his fundamentals. While the Miami-based trainer, Devel King, was an unlikely choice for Boozer as King had no previous experience with NBA players, Boozer believes this season will turn out differently because of his work with King.
"I felt like the trainer I had before, things I was doing before wasn't getting me to be where I wanted to be at," Boozer said. "I wanted to switch it up a little bit. Ran into coach King. He was actually training my kids at the time. I loved what he was doing with them, a lot of fundamental work, which is great, a lot of footwork, jabbing, different things I thought that I need for my game.
"Sometimes when you play so long in the NBA, sometimes you forget some of the basic stuff, and he was able to re-teach me some of the basic stuff that helps my game a lot. It's simple, but it's super effective. ... I was in the gym a lot, in the lab a lot working on everything, man. Defense, offense, ball handing, shooting, rebounding, going to be a complete player."
King said he nearly crashed his truck when he received the call from Boozer to work him out. But as much as King was shocked, he never treated Boozer differently than any of his other clients, who range from kindergartners to college players. King was critical of Boozer when he needed to be.
You may remember Boozer's kids as the awesome little guys who rooted against their father during a Bulls/Heat game last January. Truth be told, if King could get them to listen, then he can probably do good work with Boozer, as well.
Plus, although it might seem weird for a highly paid professional athlete to train with someone who'd previously worked with children, it's not as if King spends all day having his athletes jump around on trampolines and play Around the World while he checks his Facebook account. King is a serious trainer, and I'm sure he understands the value of the opportunity that Boozer has given him. They'll do real work.
Still, for the sake of jokes, I'm probably going to pretend that King and Boozer spend all day practicing free-throws on eight-foot baskets. Maybe, if he's lucky, Boozer will get to buy a soda from the vending machine when they're all done.
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Posted: October 13, 2012 at 7:16 am
Published: Oct. 12, 2012 at 5:50 PM
CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- The high-fat and sugar-rich Western diet typical of fast-food dramatically increases the risk of stroke or death at a younger age, Canadian researchers say.
Lead researcher Dr. Dale Corbett, scientific director of the Heart and Stroke Foundation Center for Stroke Recovery, and colleagues gave sedentary rats unlimited access to both nutritional food pellets and a daily selection of common junk food items including cookies, sausage and cupcakes.
The animals were given access to both water and a 30 percent sucrose solution designed to imitate soft drinks. Like humans, the rats greatly preferred to consume the treats.
The rats were at an age roughly equivalent to age 16-22 in humans.
The study found the high-sugar, high-sodium diet induced most symptoms of metabolic syndrome -- a combination of high levels of cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and obesity -- in rats after only two months.
"I think we'll soon start to see people in their 30s or 40s having strokes, having dementia, because of this junk food diet," Corbett said in a statement. "Young people will have major, major problems much earlier in life."
Corbett emphasized the importance of preventing metabolic syndrome with regular exercise and a balanced diet.
"We're not sure whether metabolic syndrome can be reversed," Corbett said. "If it can't, and we continue to live and eat like this, then we're each a ticking time bomb of health problems."
The findings were presented at the Canadian Stroke Congress in Calgary, Alberta.
Posted: October 13, 2012 at 7:16 am
THURSDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) -- For overweight people with diabetes, intensive exercise and dieting not only aids weight loss, it can also help train their fat cells to produce a hormone believed to boost production of "good" cholesterol, according to a new study.
And this so-called "good" cholesterol, or HDL cholesterol, has been linked to positive effects for cardiovascular health.
The new study, from researchers at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, included data on overweight and obese people with type 2 diabetes who were taking part in a multicenter clinical trial examining how increased physical activity and reduced calorie intake affected their risk for cardiovascular disease.
The participants were randomly assigned to either an intensive diet and exercise program (the "lifestyle intervention" group) or a program that offered only diabetes support and education and no lifestyle changes (the "control" group).
After one year, the lifestyle intervention group had achieved significant improvements in a measure of total fat called "adiposity," fitness, blood sugar levels and fat levels, the investigators found.
In addition, while levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol did not change, levels of the fat hormone adiponectin and HDL cholesterol did increase: Total adiponectin produced by fat cells increased about 12 percent and HDL cholesterol increased nearly 10 percent in the people who made lifestyle changes, compared to those in the control group, the research showed.
It's well established that adiponectin plays a role in fat burning and sugar storage. This study suggests that the hormone also encourages the liver to produce HDL cholesterol, the study authors pointed out in a hospital news release.
"What we're learning is that even overweight people who are physically active and eating a healthy diet are getting benefits from the lifestyle change," principal investigator Dr. Christie Ballantyne, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, part of the Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, said in the news release.
"When you exercise and diet, you're improving the function of your adipose tissue, your heart and vascular systems, and even muscle performance. You're getting a lot of benefits that you may not see by just looking at the weight on a scale," he added.
The study was released online in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of the Journal of Lipid Research.
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Posted: October 12, 2012 at 12:11 am
The Herald News garnered a Distinguished Newspaper award and a Publick Occurrences Award for Outstanding Journalism on Thursday at the New England Newspaper and Press Associations fall conference.
As always, its great to be recognized for outstanding work, but these awards are particularly gratifying because they are decided by actual newspaper readers," said Lisa Strattan, associate publisher and editor in chief. "A lot of awards are given by the industry and they are wonderful but when real people, real readers give their seal of approval, thats just the icing on the cake."
The Herald News was named a Distinguished Newspaper for weekday editions in its circulation category. Focus groups of newspaper readers determine the winners of the Distinguished Newspaper award.
I witness every single day how hard our editorial team works to deliver relevant, timely news and information to our audience. It affirms the pride I feel when our team is recognized in this way, Strattan said.
The Autism Among Us series spearheaded by Lynne Sullivan, News Editor at The Herald News launched at the beginning of April, Autism Awareness Month, and was published throughout the month in various sections of the paper.
Judges said the first-person column by Sullivan, who has an autistic 10-year-old son, set the tone for the series that touched on all aspects of autism, from families personal experiences to health, education, special diets, autistic young adults aging out of services, and equestrian therapy. Several Herald News staffers contributed to the series.
The NENPA judges also praised the series for bringing an important issue to the community.
I couldnt be more proud of the dedication and commitment our employees demonstrate every day to our mission and responsibilities to community service," said Sean Burke, publisher. "These awards and recognition from our industry peers are a validation that were on the right track."
The Publick Occurrences award is of particular importance to us as it recognizes our efforts to not only inform our community about issues of importance to them, but to engage our audience in the conversation a key goal of ours that we will continue to pursue every day, Burke said.
The Autism Among Us series is available online at http://www.heraldnews.com/autism.
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Posted: October 12, 2012 at 12:11 am
More men and women consume diet drinks, according to government data. Meanwhile, the consumption of sugar in regular soda dropped. (Photo: Mario Tama, Getty Images)
by Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY Diet drink consumption has increased over the past decade, a trend that reinforces other research showing intake of calories from sugar in regular soda has decreased, government statistics out today show.
"The data suggest that diet drinks may have replaced sugar drinks during this time," says the study's lead author Tala Fakhouri, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new diet drink analysis shows that the change in diet drink consumption occurred for both women (up from 18% in 2000 to 21% in 2010) and men (up from 14% to 19% in the same period).
Still, only about 20% of people in the USA consume diet drinks on any given day with the majority (80%) not drinking them, the report finds. Diet drinks included calorie-free and low-calorie versions of soda, fruit drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks and carbonated water. Diet drinks did not include unsweetened teas or coffees or 100% fruit juice.
Meanwhile, the consumption of sugar found in regular soda has dropped from roughly 150 calories a day in 2000 to 91 calories a day in 2008.
But when it comes to calories from all sugary drinks, including sodas, fruit drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks and sweetened bottled waters, males consume an average of 178 calories a day; females consume 103 calories, according to other government data.
Overall, about half of the population, ages 2 and older, consume sugary drinks on any given day. Among boys 2 to 19, 70% consume these types of drinks while 40% of adult women consume them.
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Posted: October 10, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Washington, October 10 (ANI): A diet high in saturated fat raises levels of endothelial lipase (EL), an enzyme associated with the development of atherosclerosis, according to Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers.
Conversely their study, conducted in mice, found that a diet high in omega-3 polyunsaturated fat lowers levels of this enzyme.
The findings establish a "new" link between diet and atherosclerosis and suggest a novel way to prevent cardiovascular heart disease.
In addition, the research may help to explain why the type 2 diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) has been linked to heart problems.
Like other lipases, EL plays a role in the metabolism of blood lipoproteins, which are complexes of lipids (fats) and proteins. EL, which is secreted by macrophages (a type of white blood cell) and other cells in arteries, was discovered in 1999.
Studies have shown that elevated EL is associated with atherosclerosis and inflammation. Until now, however, little was known about how dietary fats might affect this enzyme, said study leader Richard Deckelbaum, MD, the Robert R. Williams Professor of Nutrition professor of pediatrics and of epidemiology and director of the Institute of Human Nutrition at CUMC.
In the current study, a strain of mice susceptible to atherosclerosis was fed a normal diet enriched with either palmitic acid (a common saturated fat) or eicosapentaenoic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid, or polyunsaturated fat, found in fish oil, among other foods).
After 12 weeks, the mice's aortas were examined for changes in the expression of EL and inflammatory factors. Aortas of mice fed the saturated fat diet showed a significant increase in EL and detrimental changes in inflammatory factors, while those of mice fed the polyunsaturated fat diet showed a significant decrease in EL and beneficial changes in inflammatory factors. Studies in cultured macrophages showed similar results.
"Our study identifies a new way in which the high-saturated-fat Western diet could lead to the development of atherosclerosis, though, of course, these results need to be confirmed in human studies," said Dr. Deckelbaum.
"The findings might also explain some of the cardiovascular benefits that have been attributed to omega-3 fatty acids," he said.
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Posted: October 10, 2012 at 2:18 am
Rabia Rahman is as much a detective as a dietitian when she works with her patients to help them avoid gluten.
"I had one patient who got really sick from licking an envelope," says Rahman, who's both a nutritional counselor and an instructor in the department of nutrition and dietetics at St. Louis University.
Ironically, gluten is used in the binders or coatings of some medications that patients may be taking to feel better. And many of Rahman's female patients are surprised to find out that gluten is sometimes an ingredient in makeup and lipstick.
Helping patients eliminate gluten from their diets is easier than ferreting out some of these more obscure uses, but it still poses significant challenges.
"We'll always go over food habits and cover the broad items like wheat, barley and rye, which means they shouldn't eat regular cakes, breads and pastas," Rahman says. "But then I work with them to go over ingredient lists on labels closely and avoid specific items hydrolized wheat starch, or anything that says malt, graham or spelt.
"There's often gluten where you really don't expect it. Soy sauce is a big one; broth soups, potato chips and even French fries, which are sometimes dipped in a starch to preserve them."
The medical reasons for going gluten-free, says Rahman, range from mild gluten intolerance to wheat allergies and celiac disease, an autoimmune disease in which consumption of gluten damages the small intestine. Blood tests can diagnose allergies and celiac disease, and Rahman calls a small-intestine biopsy the "gold standard" for diagnosis of celiac.
But there aren't any specific tests for gluten sensitivity.
"That diagnosis often comes after a patient has gone from doctor to doctor to find out why they just don't feel well," Rahman says. "Sometimes it's (gastrointestinal) symptoms, but many times the symptoms are less obvious tiredness, headache, or even sometimes depression."
Rahman has her patients keep a log of both their food consumption and their symptoms and eventually may recommend that they eliminate gluten from their diets. Or, in some cases, she may work the other way by having the patients go gluten free to see if it makes their symptoms go away.
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