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Posted: June 21, 2017 at 9:41 pm
Tis the season of beaches, ballgames and BBQs! But just because summer is here, you shouldnt take a vacation from healthy eating. Use these slimming strategies to avoid summers worst diet saboteurs:
Summer Saboteur #1: Beaches and Ballparks
Days spent at the beach or in the bleachers can be some of the best ways to savor the summer but they can also lead to diet disasters. Corn dogs, fried dough, nachos and cheese, burgers and fries at the ballpark may fill you up, but theyll also add on pounds if theyre more than just an occasional indulgence.
Smart Solutions: Save money, time, and your waistline by packing your own meals and snacks. For a lunch that satisfies, pack a hummus and veggie wrap. TRY: Pump up the protein by using a protein-rich wrap like Flatout Light (9 grams protein, 8 grams fiber for just 90 calories).
Summer Saboteur #2: Ice Cream
Nothing feels like summer more than a cold dish of creamy ice cream on a sweltering day. According to the International Dairy Foods Association, the average American consumes more than 23 pounds of ice cream per year! But the sweet delight of one of summers best treats comes with a high calorie price: a cup of premium ice cream has a whopping 500 calories 25 grams of sugar (about 6 teaspoons).
The good news is you dont have to give up ice cream to keep your hard-earned swimsuit body. New, creamier lower calorie options can help you enjoy your favorite frozen treat -- guilt-free. TRY: Halo Tops Vanilla Bean ice cream has just 120 calories per cup thats a fraction of typical premium brands. Whats more, a one-cup serving has 10 grams of filling protein to keep you satisfied. Another option is portion-controlled novelties like 100 percent fruit pops, light ice cream sandwiches and fudge bars that have about 100-150 calories each.
Summer Saboteur #3: Cookouts
For most people, BBQ season means burgers, brats, and hot dogs. Navigating a summer cookout without blowing your calorie budget may seem impossible, but with a few smart swaps you can cut calories and boost nutrition, without sacrificing taste.
Smart Solutions: If its burgers youre craving, use the leanest ground beef possible (ground sirloin is leaner) or ground turkey breast. Add moisture and nutrition by mixing meat with an egg, chopped onion and other veggies. If youre like me, you may want to skip the meat altogether and grill up delicious Portabello mushroom burgers. TRY: One of my favorite summer meals is a rich Portabello mushroom burger topped with greens, avocado, tomato, grilled onion and a slice of Swiss cheese.
For hot dogs, you can slash saturated fat by choosing chicken or turkey based varieties over beef. There are also some great tasting vegetarian dogs on the market that are low in both calories and saturated fat. TRY: Applegates turkey hot dogs have just 50 calories, 7 grams of protein and 1gram of saturated fat compared to 150 calories and five grams of saturated fat in most beef hot dogs.
Summer Saboteur #4: High Calorie Sips
Remember that hydration needs are greater in the summer time heat, but shakes and smoothies, energy drinks, sweet iced coffee concoctions topped with whipped cream, and even sweetened iced tea and lemonade can add hundreds of calories a day to your diet not to mention calorie-laden alcoholic beverages like frozen daiquiris, pia coladas, and margaritas.
Smart Solutions: If you want a quick and (relatively) painless way to slash calories from your daily diet, opt for low and no calorie drinks like water. (Hint: Make it fun and fizzy by using sparkling water, fresh berries, and a twist of lemon or lime.) Also try unsweetened iced tea, and remember to keep alcohol to 1 drink or less per day.
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Posted: June 20, 2017 at 9:46 am
Theres a stunning dieting statistic that has been tossed around since 1959, when the clinical study revealing this fact was conducted and its still shocking: 95% of all dieters will regain the weight they lose within one year. While we would like to believe things have changed since 1959, in this case, its only gotten worse. Currently, we have even more dieters, (approximately 45 million people dieting on any given day, in the US) and because of that, an ever growing diet industry. And thats just the people we can keep track of!
One thing we know for certain, however, is that most of these diets are not concerned with long-term weight loss because if they were we wouldnt have a 33 billion dollar diet industry. They would do their job and we would move on.
So the question we need to answer is, with so many different diets, and so many differing approaches, and so many experts and books why are we not losing weight? It turns out that the very premise of dieting works directly against our biology, psychology and our inborn need for pleasure. And its these three dimensions that can help us understand the 3 key reasons why diets dont work.
It does seem counterintuitive that when working our hardest to shed pounds, our body is working against us, but its true. This is because our body experiences dieting as a stressor. When were stressed, we produce high-levels of cortisol and adrenaline (stress hormones). These hormones cause our body to slow down the rate at which we burn calories. Our body is intentionally slowing down our weight loss efforts, because it perceives our reduced calorie intake as a threat to survival. And all our body is trying to do is keep us alive and as healthy as it can, every day, all day long.
When we cut caloric intake too much, as far as our body is concerned, we might as well be on a desert island with limited food and fuel, and so we have thousands of years of evolutionary conditioning informing our biology that its in our best interest to conserve fat, just in case were going to be in low-calorie survival-mode for a long time. The bodys job is to keep you alive.
Most of us can change our eating habits for a week or two, or sometimes even a month or two, but most often dietary induced changes are external changes eat this, and dont eat that. Of course what we eat is important, but changing the type of food we ingest alone does not necessarily create long lasting change, because it doesnt touch on theedeep rooted beliefs, patterns, and behaviors that inform our food choices and eating habits in the first place.
If a diet only focuses on food choices and doesnt touch upon why, we keep reaching for foods that diminish our energy and health, then we are likely stuck working only on the surface level. In order to make sustainable changes in our eating habits, we need to explore why we eat, how we eat and who we are as an eater.
Long-lasting change comes from making shifts on both the external level of food choices and eating behavior, as well as on the inside, which we know as the psychology of eating. The mindset that we bring to the table, consciously or unconsciously is the key to our relationship with our food and body.
All diets have an element of deprivation, and theres often a no-no list of foods that we must avoid if we want to be successful. Restrictive diets require us to have willpower and an ability to stick to the rules. But the problem with this constraining, tough-it-out attitude, is that its no fun! Theres no pleasure, and theres no joy involved in becoming healthier! Theres no ease in our eating when we are being tight-lipped and controlling around our food.
And, whenever we are in this state of tension around our food, we create an environment of stress within our body. As mentioned above, stress causes a rise in cortisol and adrenalin, which diminishes our calorie burning potential. So were creating the exact conditions that makes losing weight difficult.
If youre not willing to enjoy what you eat and how you eat, then weight loss will be like the battle so many believe it to be. Diets dont work, but stepping into pleasure and exploring the deeper psychology of eating can
By creating a positive relationship with food and body we will actually support our biology and psychology in generating the ideals conditions for reaching our natural weight. Dieting is concerned with the exterior, but eating psychology deeply addresses who we are as eaters.
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Posted: June 20, 2017 at 9:46 am
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On a recent Sunday afternoon at the D1 fitness center, Jill Lane revealed the latest, most state-of-the-art fitness equipment to a group of high school athletes and their parents.
On the opening slide of her PowerPoint presentation was a picture of a dinner fork.
Nutrition is the most overlooked part of training, but thats changing, said Lane, a certified nutrition consultant and health fitness specialist in Dallas.
If the role that nutrition plays in athletic performance is trending up, Lane has much to do with that. In the last 10 years, her clients have included such professional luminaries as recently retired football star Demarcus Ware and former Texas Rangersstar Josh Hamilton. If we are what we eat, then Lane believes we should be putting only the best into our bodies.
To me, its the No. 1 training tool, she said. Its the gas, its the oil, its the tires.
Lanes presentation was geared toward athletes, whom she defined as people who work out at least an hour a day three to four times a week and participate in at least one athletic event a week. One of her first points was to dispel the myth that their kids could eat anything and that their metabolism would burn it off. She said the proper diet could not only increase performance, but also help them recover quicker and improve focus for school work.
Among the foods she recommended were walnuts and pumpkin seeds, grass-fed beef, free-range chicken, sweet potatoes, broccoli and Brussels sprouts, berries and coconut oil, and unsweetened coconut milk.
She said to avoid partially hydrogenated and hydrogenated oils, high fructose corn syrup, MSG, artificial sweeteners and artificial food colorings.
When it comes to hydration, she said to start with water and begin drinking the day before an event to maintain focus. Sports drinks have their place, she said, but also contain a lot of sugar.
Lane recommended organic foods, but suggested that people work them into their diets, especially if they are just starting to change the types of foods that they eat.
Another part of the equation is when to eat. For young athletes, she said, thats fairly easy to figure out.
I call that the puppy dog phase, she said. Theyre fueling growth. Start at age 8 and dont stop until theyre 18.
Specifically, she said young athletes should eat breakfast within an hour of waking up, a snack within an hour of practice and eat periodically throughout the day, particularly proteins.
Another important aspect of conditioning is sleep. She said its recommended that young athletes get 10 hours of sleep.
I havent seen anyone who gets 10 hours of sleep, she admitted. But youll see professional athletes like LeBron James get 10 hours of sleep. Professional athletes have a little more control over their time because they dont have to go to class.
Lane said that the young athletes should learn to prepare their breakfasts and snacks, calling it a life lesson that will help them when they leave home and continue to play sports.
Lane, a former college soccer player, has been advising athletes on nutrition for more than a decade and she says she runs across athletes whose diets make her wonder how they can perform.
She recounted the story of how NFL running back Marshawn Lynch would eat Skittles candy at halftime.
I wish he hadnt told that, she said. At some point, your genetics run out.
For a more positive example, Lane pointed to Tom Brady of the New England Patriots.
When someone is 39 and they win the Super Bowl and theyre talking about playing five more years, that should get your attention, she said.
However, the most powerful influences on a childs nutrition dont come from professional athletes, but from parents.
Modeling is a big thing, said Lane. Our kids have to see us doing healthy things.
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Posted: June 20, 2017 at 9:46 am
European sea bass production can be supported with less methionine supplementation and no added taurine, even when using a low-fishmeal diet, say researchers.
An international team of researchers from Brazil, Portugal and Spain examined the use of supplemental methionine (Met) and taurine (Tau) in low-fishmeal diets for juvenile European sea bass. The team published its work in the journal Aquaculture .
The present study aimed at evaluating the effect of Met and Tau supplementation to a practical plant-based diet on growth performance, body composition, and oxidative status in juvenile European sea bass, a major marine finfish species of interest for the European aquaculture, said the researchers.
The group found that the amount of methionine recommended for use in sea bass diets may be higher than is needed, the researchers said. However, both amino acids were found to modulate the antioxidant response in fish.
Overall, results of the present study indicate that European sea bass juveniles perform well with a plant feedstuff based diet with a Met level 12% below the established requirement for the species and without Tau supplementation, said the researchers. Dietary Met and Tau supplementation to the diet modulate both hepatic and intestinal antioxidant response, but do not affect overall liver and intestine oxidative status.
Increases to both the cost of, and demand for, fishmeal (FM), along with efforts to improve the sustainability of aquaculture have had producers searching for alternative feed formulations, said the researchers. Plant-based feed ingredients have been substituted for FM, although they may not offer balanced amino acids (AA), include anti-nutritional factors, have less protein and reduced digestibility and palatability.
High levels of FM replacement often supplement limiting AAs including methionine, lysine (Lys) to support growth, feed efficiency and survival, they said. Met is required for protein synthesis and for several methylation reactions, they said. And, oxidation of Met residue protects cells from oxidative stress.
Met also indirectly alters glutathione synthesis (GSH) and influence cells oxidative status, they said. In fact, previous observations in mammals revealed that an increase of oxidative stress, with consequent reduction of GSH, led to an enhancement of Met trans-sulfuration in order to meet Cys [cysteine] demand for GSH synthesis, they added.
Taurine, another indirect antioxidant, can be synthesized by some fish, but the ability varies between species, said the researchers. It is now considered a conditionally indispensable amino acid (CIAA) and to play a role in cell membrane stabilization, modulation of calcium levels, anti-inflammation, osmoregulation and bile acid conjugation.
It is found in high levels in FM but is not readily available in plant proteins, they said. Plant-based feeds need to be supplemented with the AA.
Some marine fish raised on low-FM feeds have developed green liver syndrome from the reduced excretion of Tau-conjugated bile pigment and the over generation of hemolytic biliverdin, they said. But this can be offset with Tau supplementation.
In another species such as the totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi), supplementation of 1% Tau to a diet with 60% FM replaced by soy protein concentrate was shown to restore lipid peroxidation levels and to increase catalase activity and the activity of key enzymes of the intermediary metabolism to the levels observed in fish fed the FM control diet, said the researchers.
European sea bass, can be raised on a diet high in plant proteins, without Tau supplementation, they said. It is considered that, at least juvenile European sea bass have some ability to biosynthesize Tau.
However, more work is needed to better understand the link between Met, Cys and Tau with the use of low-FM feeds, said the researchers. Their physiological roles, especially at the oxidative status level, deserves our attention, they added.
In the study, fish were given one of four trial diets for a period of 12 weeks, said the researchers. The diets included 82% plant protein and 18% fishmeal and had either more methionine (HMet) than required or less (LMet), and either 1% supplemental taurine or no additional taurine.
Feed intake and mortality were noted daily, they said. At the end of the feeding trial sample fish were collected to test for whole-body analysis and to provide whole-fish, liver and viscera weights, which were checked for hepatosomatic index (HSI) and visceral index (VI).
Liver samples were assessed for enzyme activities and oxidative stress enzymes including superoxide dismutase (SOD) and, catalase (CAT), glutathione peroxidase (GPX), oxidized glutathione (GSSG), protein concentration and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), they said.
Total glutathione (tGSH) also was measured, said the researchers. And, growth performance, feed use and whole-body composition were established.
No influence from supplementation was seen on growth, feed utilization or whole body composition, said the researchers. At the end of the trial, there were no differences among groups on whole-body composition, HSI, and VI, except for the ash content that was higher in fish fed the high Met diets, they added.
However, boosting Met levels increased CAT and GPX presence in the liver and tGSH and glutathione in the intestine and lowered glutathione reductase (GR) and GPX in the intestine, they said. GR and SOD levels were not altered by diet.
In the present study, although the Met level of the LMet diet (0.75% diet) was lower than the reported Met requirement for this species, growth and feed utilization was not affected, indicating that fish were able to overcome this apparent marginal Met deficiency, said the researchers.Feed intake between dietary treatments was also not affected, and given that one primary consequence of feeding fish a diet with IAA [indispensable amino acids] imbalances is the reduction in voluntary feed intake (de la Higuera, 2001), this result also attests for the absence of a severe IAA deficiency.
Supplemental Tau lowered intestinal tGSH, GSH and oxidized glutathione content along with GPX activity in the liver and intestine, they said. It also reduced glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in the liver and altered both hepatic CAT and intestinal GR activity in conjunction with a high Met level.
Overall, European sea bass seems to cope well with a plant-protein rich diet without Met or Tau supplementation, said the researchers. Both dietary Met and Tau were shown to modulate fish antioxidant response but without altering the oxidative damage level.
Source: Aquaculture
Title: Effects of dietary methionine and taurine supplementation to low-fish meal diets on growth performance and oxidative status of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) juveniles
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.06.017
Authors: Coutinho, R. Simes, R. Monge-Ortiz, W. Furuya, P. Pouso-Ferreira, S. Kaushik, A. Oliva-Teles, H. Peres
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Posted: June 20, 2017 at 9:46 am
By NIRMALA GEORGE, Associated Press
NEW DELHI India's government is advising pregnant women to avoid all meat, eggs and lusty thoughts.
Doctors say the advice is preposterous, and even dangerous, considering India's already-poor record with maternal health. Women are often the last to eat or receive health care in traditionally patriarchal Indian households.
Malnutrition and anemia, or iron deficiency, are key factors behind India's having one of the world's highest rates of maternal mortality, with 174 of every 100,000 pregnancies resulting in the mother's death in 2015. That's better than five years earlier, when the maternal mortality rate was 205 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, but still far worse than China's 27 per 100,000 or the United States' 14 per 100,000, according to UNICEF.
"The government is doling out unscientific and irrational advice, instead of ensuring that poor pregnant women get to eat a nutritious, high-protein diet," said gynecologist Arun Gadre, who is based in the western Indian city of Pune but works in rural areas.
The government booklet, titled "Mother and Child Care," smacks of religious dogma and ignores widely accepted medical evidence that pregnant women benefit from eating protein-rich meats and can safely engage in sex, doctors said.
It says pregnant women should also shun "impure thoughts" and look at pictures of beautiful babies to benefit the fetus.
"Pregnant women should detach themselves from desire, anger, attachment, hatred and lust," reads the booklet, released last week by the Central Council for Research in Yoga and Naturopathy, a part of the government's ministry that promotes traditional and alternative medicine.
The traditional medicine minister defended the booklet as containing "wisdom accumulated over many centuries," and said it did not advise specifically against sex, only against all thoughts of desire or lust.
"The booklet puts together relevant facts culled out from clinical practice in the fields of yoga and naturopathy," Minister Shripad Naik said.
The advice is unlikely to be followed at the many government-run health centers across India. They are operated by the Health Ministry, which has had past conflicts with the traditional medicine ministry and follows more scientific practices.
The booklet is the latest push for vegetarianism by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist government, which already advocates avoiding beef and strictly limits the transportation and slaughter of cows, which are considered sacred by Hindus.
But the latest homily to pregnant women has outraged the medical community.
"This is a national shame. If the calories of expectant mothers are further reduced by asking them to shun meat and eggs, this situation will only worsen," Gadre said. "This is absurd advice to be giving to pregnant women in a country like India."
About a third of India's 1.3 billion people struggle to live on less than $2 a day. Many are lucky to eat more than one full meal a day, and women often give their portions up to their hungry children or husbands.
Malnourished women are more likely to give birth to underweight babies, who then are in danger of being "stunted" or not growing to their full height and weight. A full 48 percent of all Indian children under the age of 5 are considered stunted, according to a 2015 report by UNICEF.
"Undernourished girls grow into undernourished women. Married by their families while still in their teens, these girls become pregnant by the time they are 17 or 18, when their bodies have not matured enough to safely deliver a child," said Amit Sengupta, a physician and health care activist with the Delhi Science Forum, a public advocacy organization.
He said the government's advice to pregnant women betrayed "backward thinking" and hostility toward evidence-based science.
"This kind of advice is detrimental to women's health," he said.
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When Alicia Hunter, 49, heard about a diet where she could eat as much of her favorite fruit as she wanted, the Upper East Side woman was hooked. There was one small catch, though: It was the only thing she could eat.
In an attempt to lose weight for the holidays, I ate only melon for almost 30 days after I heard about the Mono Diet, says Hunter, an eyelash-extension professional. I lost 7 pounds, but I never want [to eat] melon again.
The diet dictates that you eat only one food for several weeks to lose weight fast, something that many experts warn is dangerous and only successful in the short term. Hunter, however, used it to kick-start a long-term weight-loss plan to shed the pounds, and raved about the benefits.
I kept the weight off and actually lost another 8 pounds since then on other diets, she says.
The Mono Diet (sometimes referred to as Banana Island or Monotrophic Diet) has become increasingly popular since a YouTube star nicknamed Freelee the Banana Girl (real name: Leanne Ratcliffe) boasted about her weight loss in 2014. She claimed to have lost 40 pounds eating close to 30 bananas a day.
Its an incredibly restrictive and unbalanced diet and I do not recommend that anyone follow it.
Since then, a new version, the Sweet Potato Diet, was released in April, touting how the spud can help you lose 12 pounds in just two weeks. Meanwhile, the hashtag #monomeal on Instagram, which highlights pictures of peoples meals containing a single food, has more than 38,000 posts, and the diet was one of the most searched in 2016, according to Google. Comedian and magician Penn Jillette even wrote a book last year about how he lost 100 pounds by eating nothing but potatoes for two weeks to kick off his diet. And Matt Damon revealed he ate only chicken breasts to drop weight for his role in Courage Under Fire.
Yes, this diet can produce weight loss, says Frances Largeman-Roth, registered dietitian and author of Eating in Color. But, the weight loss is a result of caloric restriction not because any particular food is magically producing weight loss. Its an incredibly restrictive and unbalanced diet and I do not recommend that anyone follow it.
In addition to a low caloric intake (Hunter estimates she ate about 800 calories a day worth of melon), which can cause symptoms like dizziness, a Mono Diet can also lead to some serious health problems. The diet landed Ashton Kutcher in the emergency room in 2013 after he followed the Mucusless Diet Healing System, and based his diet solely on fruit.
I ended up in the hospital two days before we started shooting [Jobs], he told reporters at the Sundance Film Festival. Months later, at a press conference, he said that, My insulin levels got pretty messed up and my pancreas kind of went ... crazy. The levels were really off, and it was painful.
Amy Gorin, a Jersey City-based registered dietitian and nutritionist, says such diets can have a negative effect on your metabolism and may cause muscle loss. By eating just one food, youd be taking in too much of certain vitamins or minerals for example, potassium from bananas. Additionally, it will be very hard to maintain any weight loss once you go back to eating a normal diet.
While Hunter didnt have an issue keeping off the initial weight she lost, and raved about her glowing skin, others who tried it didnt have as great an experience.
I was desperate to lose weight, so I decided to eat only carrots for an entire month, says New Jersey music teacher Beth Glickman, 58. I lost about 10 pounds in one month, but the palms of my hands turned orange! Needless to say, the diet didnt last much longer than that.
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Posted: June 20, 2017 at 9:45 am
The claims of a Breatharian couple who say theyve survived for nearly a decade on little more than air and sunlight are tough to swallow, according to experts interviewed by The Post.
Akahi Ricardo and Camila Castello said theyd eaten little more than a piece of fruit or vegetable broth just three times a week since 2008 in an interview with The Sun published last week. Castello even claimed to have gone without food during her entire first pregnancy, saying she fully lived on light and consumed no food.
The story of the couples extreme and implausible diet went viral, with numerous outlets picking up the story, including the New York Post. But Tanya Zuckerbrot, a registered dietitian and author of The F-Factor Diet: Discover the Secret to Permanent Weight Loss, on Monday threw doubt on the couples claims, saying they belie everything we know about anatomy and the role that food plays, particularly during pregnancy.
Its possible to survive up to 21 days without food due to glycogen and fat reserves in our bodies, according to Zuckerbrot. But the maximum time anyone could live without water is 7 days, she says. That drops to even less in extremely hot environments.
Its a faulty premise that they could survive off of the sun, Zuckerbrot told The Post in response to Castellos claims of a food-free lifestyle. If you dont provide your body with caloric intake, your body will begin to break down.
Zuckerbrot said the limits of how long people can go without food or water have been determined through observation of hospice patients. And any diet without protein would ultimately lead to conditions like osteoporosis and ultimately death, she said.
You wouldnt have muscle mass and youd waste away, Zuckerbrot said. It doesnt make sense; it defies all common knowledge of what our bodies need to survive. People would starve to death you cant live.
This couples dietary habits are not only unhealthy but quite dangerous, Lisa Moskovitz, CEO of New York Nutrition Group, told The Post. While there have not been vigorous studies on starvation in the human body we know that an individual cannot survive very long without food, and especially not without water.
These people, if telling the truth, are certainly the exception not the rule when it comes to restrictive eating, she added.
Asked how such a preposterous claim could be believed, Zuckerbrot said people are always looking for the latest and craziest diet fad, even if its not based on science.
Were always looking for something that seems holistic, or some new, great diet, she said. And theres something very elitist about this, like I can go without food for so long while you need to eat, you slovenly pig. We shouldnt overeat, but this is really going from one extreme to the other. Both of them are unhealthy and I cannot support either one.
Zuckerbrot, who advocates a high-protein and high-fiber diet, said calorie restriction has long been a way for severely obese people to lose weight and theres evidence that modified food intake does result in increased longevity among laboratory rats. Still, a very low-calorie diet or VLCD would call for at least 800 calories per day, she said.
It just makes no sense, Zuckerbrot said of the couple, who split their time between California and Ecuador, according to The Sun.
Attempts to reach them Monday for comment were unsuccessful.
Castello, 34, said the married couple of nine years didnt eat anything at all for three years and claimed to have done without food during her first pregnancy in 2011, a claim Zuckerbrot characterized as simply dangerous. In general, women who are pregnant need at least 300 additional calories per day, she said.
As a mother and a registered dietitian, that makes me angry because theres so much false information out there and this would really put a mother and her unborn child at risk, she said. She would be wasting away, along with that fetus.
Dr. Roshini Raj, a gastroenterologist and associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, was even more blunt about the couple, calling them delusional if they really believe in their diet without food.
Its obviously something thats not based in medical fact, Raj told The Post. Its incompatible with life. There is some evidence that caloric restriction may be beneficial to your health, but certainly nothing to this extreme. If they truly believe it themselves, theyre delusional. Theres just no way it would ever be possible.
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Posted: June 20, 2017 at 9:45 am
ANDERSON, Ind. A new study claims to have found a connection between drinking diet soda and being at higher risk of developing dementia and stroke.
However, the study's author is calling for more research to be done.
The study found an association between drinking at least one artificially sweetened beverage daily and having an increased risk of stroke or dementia by three times the risk of someone who drinks diet soda less than once a week.
The researchers who conducted the study analyzed the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort. The 2,888 people in the group for the stroke study were primarily Caucasian, over the age of 45. The 1,484 people in the dementia study were over the age of 60.
The authors quickly cautioned in the American Heart Association press release that the research only shows a trend among one group of people rather than an actual cause and effect.
The people who participated in the study had researchers check in with their drinking habits periodically over a seven-year period, according to the press release. The researchers then followed up 10 years later to see who developed the targeted diseases.
At the end of the 10-year period, 3 percent of the people had had a stroke and 5 percent had been diagnosed with dementia.
Matthew Pase, a senior fellow in the department of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, and the Framingham Heart Study, said more research needs to be done to confirm the findings since the sampling of people were primarily white and older. He also said they did not track how much regular soda the participants were drinking as well.
Even if someone is three times as likely to develop stroke or dementia, it is by no means a certain fate, Pase said in a press release. In our study, 3 percent of the people had a new stroke and 5 percent developed dementia, so we're still talking about a small number of people developing either stroke or dementia.
However, the study is one of many that point to artificially sweetened sodas, or diet soda, as not being a healthy option and even causing additional health issues of its own.
Studies since 2010 have showed various health concerns that could be linked to drinking diet soda, such as increased risks of Type 2 diabetes, heart attack and a slower metabolism. Diet sodas may have fewer calories, but some of the artificial sweeteners have been questioned.
Aspartame is one of the most commonly used artificial sweeteners, and its about 200 times sweeter than sugar, meaning much less of it needs to be used. Rumors and unscientific studies have claimed for years that the sweetener causes cancer, but the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies have found it to be safe, according to the American Cancer Society.
Marianne Spangler, patient navigation services director and dietitian at Community Hospital Anderson, said in 2016 that dietitians generally follow the guidelines of the FDA. She said while the FDA has said diet soda is safe, she encourages her patients to drink more water anyway.
Michelle Richart, registered dietitian at St. Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital, said she encourages her patients to drink less diet soda because it cuts down how much water they are drinking. If they are drinking enough water, a little diet soda is fine, she said in 2016.
What authors of the study published in the American Heart Associations journal Stroke are really trying to iterate is that while more research needs to be done, diet sodas may not be better for people than their sugary counterparts, said senior editorial author Ralph Sacco, a former president of the American Heart Association and the chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Miller School of Medicine at University of Miami in Florida.
Both sugar and artificially sweetened soft drinks may be hard on the brain, Sacco said in a press release.
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