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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:22 pm
If making healthy eating choices was easy, our fridges would be covered with gold stars. But even the best eating intentions get derailed on a daily basis. Why? According to a new poll of more than 1,000 women by ShopSmart magazine, four obstacles in particular make eating well harder than it needs to be. Lucky for you, ladies, weve rounded up the best ways to combat each diet-busting excuse:
1. Excuse: Healthy foods are too expensive. More than half of the women polled said cost was the reason they dont eat healthy foods.
Busted! Popular to contrary belief, eating fresh produce and other healthy foods actually costs less than foods high in fat, sugar, and salt, finds a new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Comparing the cost of foods by weight or portion size shows that grains, vegetables, fruit, and dairy foods are less expensive than junk foods. Add in the countless benefits of eating healthy foods, and youve got a price than cant be beat. Check out our advice on how to slash your grocery bill the healthy way.
2. Excuse: Lunch just isnt a healthy meal to eat. Seventy-two percent of women said lunch was their least healthy meal of the day.
Busted! Acing your lunchtime meal is all about thinking ahead; its making decisions on the flywhen youre hungry and likely stressedthat gets you into trouble. "Have your go-to thing, said Keri Glassman, author of Slim Calm Sexy Diet. For people in an office, have your three go-to restaurants, and have two meals at each place you know are healthythat way, your healthy choices are already mapped out," she said. Another smart option is bringing your lunch from home. Make it after dinner, said Glassman, so you're not hungry and it's not an impulse decision." For more ways to guarantee healthy lunch success, check out our lunchtime meal planner.
3. Excuse: My friends made me do it. Forty-seven percent of women say social temptations are a barrier to eating healthy, and 44% say theyre more likely to eat poorly when theyre with people compared to eating alone.
Busted! No question, it can be hard to stick to your healthy eating plan when your buddies are downing dinner rolls by the half-dozen. But with a little pre-dinner planning, you can save a girls night out from being a diet disaster. Start by having a snack beforehand (so you wont dive headfirst into the first appetizer you see), and check out the menu online to make your selection before peer pressure can take hold. Find more advice with this guide to dining out wisely.
4. Excuse: I cant curb my cravings. If the bakery aisle of the grocery store calls your name a little too loudly, youre in good company: 63% of women admit to having regular cravingswith the number one culprit being chocolate.
Busted! What should you do the next time a craving hits? I always tell people, don't eat around a craving," said Glassman. Instead, find a healthy way to enjoy it. For example, if chocolate is what youre jonesing for, have a green tea latte with an ounce of dark chocolate, she says. Or try a couple squares of dark chocolate in your Greek yogurt, so you're getting calcium and protein, too." Follow these six other tips for keeping cravings in check.
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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
GRAND RAPIDS, MI Just when you'd become familiar with your now-detoured drive to work around the construction on Fulton Street and U.S. 131, this happens.
Plainfield Avenue is slated to close for three months this coming Monday, June 11, between Leonard and Ann streets for $1.7 million worth of storm sewer work and resurfacing, as well as installation of a one-of-a-kind storm water filtration system. The work is expected to conclude in early September.
The project also makes Plainfield Avenue the latest major city thoroughfare to undergo a "road diet," reducing the avenue's number of drivable lanes. City leaders have argued the diets slow traffic and create safer conditions for motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists and other users.
(Other streets to be put on a diet include Division Avenue and Burton Street, the latter being a controversial choice for local businesses.)
The Plainfield diet, once finished, will create one lane in each direction between Leonard and Ann streets, with a center turn lane broken only by the seven bioretention islands.
The lengthy project will detour through traffic throughout its duration, although local access is expected to be maintained for businesses and residents.
The project's first phase will close Plainfield between Lafayette and Ann streets, with a second phase expected to close Plainfield between Leonard and Quimby. Construction will resurface Plainfield and upgrade Creston Neighborhood sanitary and storm sewer systems. Water main work also is scheduled, as is work on sidewalks.
Its centerpiece, though, will be construction of seven bioretention islands, a unique storm water filtration system that will be the first of its kind in Grand Rapids. The islands vary in size and will be situated down the middle of Plainfield Avenue once complete.
The islands will contain special flora, trees and soil designed to filter out pollutants from storm water before it hits the Grand River.
They largely are being paid for by $152,000 in donations drummed up by Creston Neighborhood residents and local community foundations.
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More traffic: Plainfield Avenue closes next week to go on 'diet,' get unique green technology under $1.7 million project
Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
7 June 2012 Last updated at 12:18
A team of Japanese scientists have come up with a new invention that could be the answer to our greedy appetites.
If you put on a pair of their 'diet goggles', your food looks a lot bigger than it actually is in real life.
The goggles trick the person wearing them into thinking they can't manage to eat food that's so massive!
During experiments, the scientists found that when the goggles made the biscuit look twice as big, the users ate a tenth less.
They also tried it the other way, making food look about a third smaller with the goggles - and people ate more!
The scientists at the University of Toyko say the idea does seem to work.
It's early days for the research and the goggles won't be going on sale just yet.
But Professor Michitaka Hirose, whose team invented the goggles, says he hopes people wanting to lose weight could use them in the future.
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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
Tokyo University professor Michitaka Hirose and his team developed goggles that make cookies appear bigger to help users' diet. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP/GettyImages / June 6, 2012)
June 7, 2012, 7:40 a.m.
You've tried Atkins. You've tried South Beach. Now try the goggle diet.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have invented a pair of goggles that may help people lose weight by making it look like what they are eating is bigger than it is.
Put on the goggles and suddenly a normal-size Oreo looks like it's the size of a doughnut, and a doughnut looks the size of a personal pizza.
"There is this idea that depending on whether the size or portions are big and small, the amount of food people consume changes," said Michitaka Hirose in a YouTube video. "So we thought it would be interesting to try out the concept using computers."
The computerized goggles use an algorithm that lets them magnify the size of the food while keeping the hand holding it the actual size. That's what makes the food appear to be so much bigger. And the wearer of the goggles only sees the altered image.
The goggles look pretty clunky, but apparently they work. In experiments at Hirose's lab, volunteers ate nearly 10% fewer cookies when the cookies appeared to be 50% bigger, according to a report by AFP.
The goggles can also work for those who need to put on a few pounds. When the size of the cookies appeared to be two-thirds of their real size, volunteers ate 15% more.
Hirose has no plans to start selling his diet glasses, and they do seem a bit cumbersome and impractical for real-life use. However, we're wondering if down the road a similar product might be available for Google Glasses, and whether there might be other uses for this size-altering technology.
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Posted: June 6, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Dinosaurs have shed some extra pounds just in time for beach season, with a new analysis suggesting the mighty sauropod previously known as Brachiosaurus weighed tens of tons less than earlier estimates.
Artists' renderings of dinosaurs have long been plagued by discrepancies, with some depictions larger and heftier than others.
"The whole point is we were trying to get around the guesswork" of artistic reconstructions, study researcher Bill Sellers, of the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, told LiveScience. The researchers found that among the artists, "the ones reconstructing their dinosaurs as quite skinny are more right."
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To come up with their skinny dinosaur suggestion, the researchers analyzed the skeletons of living species and compared the skeletal sizes with those animals' actual weight. Using 3D images made by laser scans of full sets of bones from 14 large mammals, including a polar bear, giraffe and elephant, the researchers calculated the "minimum wrapping volume" needed to cover a skeleton with flesh.
- Study researcher Bill Sellers
"All we can do when we are looking at these long-dead fossil animals is rely on what we can find out from living animals," Sellers explained. They chose these large mammals instead of the dinosaur's closest relative, the crocodile, as comparison points because they are land-adapted. (Crocodiles are adapted to living in the water, where body mass is less of an obstacle.)
Using the relationship between skeletal bones and amount of skin and fat needed, the researchers came up with a mathematical equation that also could be applied to dinosaurs. By using a computer to calculate mass, the researchers said, they took subjectivity out of the equation. In fact, when the researchers based their body-size estimates on artists' skeleton-informed reconstructions of dinosaurs, there were large discrepancies in the estimated weight. [Album: Colorful Dinosaur Art]
"They would take a scan, then produce an artistic reconstruction of the scan," Sellers said. "No two people would get exactly the same answers. Some would make them fat dinosaurs, and some would reconstruct them as skinny dinosaurs."
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Diet season? Dinosaurs weighed 'tens of tons' less than previously thought
Posted: June 6, 2012 at 10:17 pm
NEW YORK, June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --SouthBeachDiet today unveiled a state-of-the-art mobile app that offers one of the easiest to use, feature-rich weight loss experiences in the mobile environment. The app, designed to keep users motivated, committed, and focused on their weight-loss goals, is published by Everyday Health and available now at the App Store.
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"Technology continues to change the way we live, and now, through this new app, it's changing the way we eat; empowering people to make informed decisions on what they put in their bodies," said Cardiologist, Author and Creator of the South Beach Diet, ArthurAgatston, MD. Elise Donahue, CEO of the South Beach Diet, added "The South Beach Diet is more relevant than ever with over 300,000 active participants across our digital properties, robust book sales and now a mobile app for our consumers on the go. We are thrilled to provide another innovative platform to make South Beach Diet the total weight-loss solution for our users."
Some features of the new South Beach Diet app include:
"Everyday Health is the leading health and wellness app publisher, and we're proud to release the South Beach Diet App as it is one of our best yet." explained Chief Product Officer of Everyday Health, Goli Sheikholeslami. "Our company continually innovates to meet our users' everyday needs, and by utilizing Apple's in-app subscription platform the South Beach Diet app can unlock unique personalization features to better help our users reach their goal."
The fully featured South Beach Diet mobile app is available now for a one-time charge of $2.99 from the App Store on iPhone or at http://www.itunes.com/appstore. Users can sign up via a mobile device, without having to go online, and can also add the $4.99/week feature to subscribe to a premium suite of services and additional content which includes full access to the South Beach Diet website.
About South Beach Diet The South Beach Diet, a trusted choice for millions seeking a total solution for losing weight and gaining health, is a globally recognized brand with a portfolio that includes a substantial new offering of nutritionally balanced foods, available to consumers in over 30,000 doors nationwide (including Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, Kroger, Publix and Safeway); SouthBeachDiet.com, a compelling interactive web property that provides tools for maintaining a healthy lifestyle, recipes, exercise routines, customized meal plans, and support from registered dietitians; and a continuing series of #1 New York Times Bestselling books, with over 23 million copies in print, written by renowned preventive cardiologist Arthur Agatston, M.D. The South Beach Diet is where Healthy Never Looked so good.
About Everyday Health, Inc. Everyday Health is the leading digital health company. Attracting 38 million people monthly through its popular websites, mobile applications, and social media presence, Everyday Health inspires consumers to live healthier lives and helps doctors make more informed decisions for their patients. Everyday Health reaches an additional one million viewers per episode through its weekly TV series on ABC stations. The Company's broad portfolio of products spans the health spectrum, from in-depth medical content for condition prevention and management to healthy lifestyle offerings. Everyday Health was founded in 2002 by CEO, Ben Wolin, and President, Mike Keriakos.
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Posted: June 6, 2012 at 10:17 pm
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Vlad Averbukh, 29, a follower of the paleo diet, eats raw meat along the Hudson River in New York in 2010. (Averbukh did not weigh in on our blog post on the paleo diet.)
Vlad Averbukh, 29, a follower of the paleo diet, eats raw meat along the Hudson River in New York in 2010. (Averbukh did not weigh in on our blog post on the paleo diet.)
Our post on the paleo diet moving from the CrossFit gym to the doctor's office generated a robust discussion here in our comments section (and on NPR's Facebook page).
Readers batted around the relative merits of the paleo diet, how to interpret Paleolithic man's short lifespan and the meaning of evolutionary medicine, among other issues.
As the comments show, the question of whether there is an ideal human diet and whether we should look to the past to find it is a provocative one. And many of our commenters, like the scientists studying these issues, aren't in agreement with each other.
We took a spin through the comments and pulled out some of those that struck us as most intriguing. Feel free to comment.
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Posted: June 5, 2012 at 9:21 pm
PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc. (ZLTQ) the medical technology company that developed CoolSculpting, a non-surgical, clinically proven procedure designed to selectively eliminate diet and exercise resistant fat using a patented cooling technology today announced a new agreement with CareCredit, a leading healthcare credit card, to provide payment options to patients.
Launched nationwide, the new agreement will provide ZELTIQs network of more than 400 physicians the opportunity to offer their patients special financing. Even if patients have the funds available, CareCredit provides payment options for patients to build cosmetic procedures such as CoolSculpting into their monthly budget.
Although CoolSculpting is thought to be attractively priced by consumers we speak with, this program provides payment options that patients have requested, said Mark Foley, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of ZELTIQ. Thanks to this strong relationship with CareCredit, CoolSculpting will further expand the aesthetic category by providing those considering treatment with more choices on how to budget and benefit from our differentiated procedure.
CareCredit is a healthcare credit card that provides patients with a revolving line of credit, specifically for elective procedures like CoolSculpting, said Tony Seymour, Senior Vice President, Sales, CareCredit. For over 25 years, we have provided payment options that patients value and enable them to get the care they want and need for themselves and their family members. We look forward to working with CoolSculpting practices and their patients.
CareCredit is currently accepted by over 150,000 providers. Patients can apply for CareCredit in the CoolSculpting providers office, online at carecredit.com, or via their mobile devices with the SmartPhone enabled application app. Cardholders and providers consistently share feedback about CareCredits value and ease-of-use. Results from regular surveys* of more than 1,500 cardholders confirm: more than 96 percent of cardholders say they are highly satisfied with the program and that the service meets or exceeds their expectations; more than 95 percent of both cardholders and providers consistently rate it a fair to excellent value; and more than 86 percent indicate they would recommend to a friend.
About CoolSculpting
CoolSculpting is a non-surgical, clinically proven procedure designed to selectively reduce fat bulges in problem areas using a patented cooling technology. Physicians report a 95 percent patient satisfaction rate1. It is a procedure cleared by the FDA that gently cools unwanted fat cells in the body to induce a natural, controlled elimination of fat cells. It is designed to reduce fat bulges in treated areas of the body without harming surrounding tissue. CoolSculpting is available through an elite network of CoolSculpting Centers worldwide. Dermatologists, plastic surgeons and leading aesthetic specialists that offer CoolSculpting can be found at http://www.coolsculpting.com.
About ZELTIQ
ZELTIQ Aesthetics, Inc. (ZLTQ) is a medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing products utilizing its proprietary controlled-cooling technology platform. ZELTIQs first commercial product, the CoolSculpting System, is designed to selectively reduce stubborn fat bulges that may not respond to diet or exercise. CoolSculpting is based on the scientific principle that fat cells are more sensitive to cold than the overlying skin and surrounding tissues. CoolSculpting utilizes patented technology of precisely controlled cooling to reduce the temperature of fat cells in the treated area, which is intended to cause fat cell elimination through a natural biological process known as apoptosis. ZELTIQ developed CoolSculpting to safely, noticeably, and measurably reduce the fat layer within a treated fat bulge without requiring the patient to diet or exercise.
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