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Posted: July 6, 2012 at 4:18 am
(PRWEB) July 05, 2012
hCGTreatments / Diet Doc Weight Loss has developed the only modern-day, prescription hCG diet based on natural medicines, a low glycemic diet, and clinical support to gain back the control lost while celebrating the holiday, with fast weight loss results of up to a pound a day. They have developed the only hCG weight loss diet plan to date that is a healthy alternative to weight loss surgery, and the ever growing new diet pill industry, to get extreme weight loss results.
The average American diet consists of The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service estimated in 2000 that the average American consumes slightly under 2,700 calories per day. This number has increased by about 25 percent since 1970, according to the USDA. Couple that with the 155 million hotdogs eaten each Fourth of July, the math is frightening. Is it any wonder the number of Americans suffering with obesity related health issues increases each year? Something must be done to turn the tide and help Americans regain control over their diets.
hCGTreatments / Diet Doc Weight Loss has put a new spin on a proven method of weight loss to address the health issues behind weight gain. Weve taken the old protocol of a diet that has been prescribed by Doctors for the past 50 years and modernizing it with the knowledge and technology of today, states Julie Wright, CEO.
The Weight Loss Doctors and specialists at hCGTreatments / Diet Doc Weight Loss combined natural medicine in the form of Prescription grade HCG, strong supplements to address individual health concerns, a low gylcemic diet recently support by Harvard University to be the strongest healthiest weight loss diet out there, with four levels of clinical support as published on 6/27/12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. They have increased the original 500 calorie protocol to 700-900 calories based on medical and health history as prescribed by the attending physician. This increase in calories not only supports over all good health by allowing enough nutrition for the body to function properly, it also promotes rapid weight loss because the body is getting all it needs, while the hcg allows the dieter not to feel hungry due to the lower calorie intake .
This new twist to a weight loss diet plan that has been used by medical professionals for over a half century, allows the patient to consume enough nutrition to function, even thrive and still achieve extreme weight loss results without invasive surgeries, starvation diets or the consumption of dangerous diet pills every time a new cure all diet pill comes out.
We have learned so much since the 1950s. The weight loss doctors at hCGTreatments / Diet Doc Weight Loss took that original ground breaking diet and made it even better by creating the only modernized version of the hCG Diet. The adjusted protocol makes the hCGTreatments / Diet Doc Weight Loss hCG diet healthy, and easy to follow. Proven lasting results make their diet a powerful alternative for weight loss in a world full of extreme measures and a way to gain control over their weight lost journey.
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Posted: July 5, 2012 at 6:15 pm
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire -07/05/12)- Noom, Inc. today announced that a new version of their Noom Weight Loss Coach will be available for their 5 million users later this month. The new Noom Weight Loss Coach, currently the #1-ranked weight loss app for Android devices, will begin rolling out to current users in a staggered approach in July and will be available for download for all new subscribers later this summer.
Based on a person's daily eating and exercise behaviors, the Coach gives them a customized program to help them lose weight, get fit, and stay on track. Noom is the first company to bring together three core concepts into one mobile weight loss application: tracking, motivation and coaching. Currently with the Noom Weight Loss Coach users have lost more than a combined 6 million pounds.
The new features include:
"Noom Weight Loss Coach brings together everything we've learned since our first launch -- and we've learned a lot. This new version is a focused, streamlined evolution of our vision and we completely overhauled the application to focus on coaching. We want to keep users engaged by guiding them through a set of tasks selected by Noom's artificial intelligence, while also building healthy habits," says Noom co-founder, Artem Petakov.
About Noom, Inc.: Noom is a NYC-based startup that creates technology to help people lead healthier lives. The company's suite of easy-to-use apps (Noom Weight Loss Coach, CardioTrainer, Calorific) are designed to get people fit and teach them how to make the best nutritional decisions. The company is comprised of 13 world-class engineers, including 4 ex-Googlers, machine learning experts, world AI champions, a famed Korean businessman, a senior marketer from Weight Watchers and a personal chef.
To download Noom Weight Loss Coach, visit the Google Play store here.
For more information and screenshots of the redesigned app, contact press@noom.com
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Posted: July 4, 2012 at 12:10 pm
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7/3/2012
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Leaders of the Truckload Carriers Association (TCA) are so pleased with the success of the inaugural Truckings Weight Loss Showdown that they have decided to launch a second Showdown this fall.
The Showdown brings together teams of drivers and staff from TCA-member truckload carriers to determine which individual and which company can achieve the greatest percentages of weight loss.
Over the course of 10 weeks, participants follow the Lean for Life On-the-Road program offered by the Lindora Clinic, a leading clinical weight management provider. Tailored to the unique trucking lifestyle, this program incorporates a sensible eating plan with rapid, safe weight loss results. Participants receive the resources and education they need not only to drop pounds now, but also to keep the weight from returning later on.
The motivation for a second Showdown came after the winners were recognized during TCAs Safety & Security Division Annual Meeting in May. Attendees were impressed that 90 percent of the participants managed to complete the program, losing a total collective weight of 3,022 pounds.
Many carriers who had participated in the first event said they were interested in doing it again. Also, after a video was shown that highlighted the enthusiasm, teamwork and results from the first challenge, several carriers indicated they would love to get involved in a second Showdown if given the opportunity.
Applications can be found at http://www.TruckingsWeightLossShowdown.com and will be accepted through July 31.
Kathy Ayres, Lean for Life On-the-Road project manager for Lindora Clinic, was present at the awards ceremony and said, Through the first Showdown, we met so many amazing truck drivers and support staff. Each of them deserves to be happy, healthy and enjoy a long, productive life. We join TCA in its commitment to extend the life of every professional truck driver and are looking forward to seeing the next challenge come together to continue showing the industry what its people can do when they set their minds to it.
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Posted: July 4, 2012 at 12:10 pm
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Posted: July 3, 2012 at 6:25 am
A link between homophobia and weight loss?
Last month, the delicious tasting cookie brand Oreo posted an image of a rainbow-layered cookie, accompanied with the word Pride in support of Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender Pride month in the US
In a matter of hours, the gay cookie generated over 100,000 likes and nearly 20,000 comments, ranging from admiration of the brand for promoting tolerance and love and of course quite a few comments calling for boycotts.
Busybody group One Million Moms wrote in their campaign to boycott not only Oreo but their mother ship brand Kraft.
The group said: Kraft needs to hear from you. Supporting the homosexual agenda verses remaining neutral in the cultural war is just bad business. If Christians cannot find corporate neutrality with Kraft then they will vote with their pocketbook and support companies that are neutral.
While overall Oreos support of Pride has been well received, YouTuber Franchesca Leigh Ramsey has come out with a important announcement that finds a link between homophobia and weight loss.
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Posted: July 3, 2012 at 6:25 am
People with a high body mass index who lose weight reduce the risk of health problems such as diabetes or heart disease. Image: Jose Luis Pelaez, Inc./Blend Images/Corbis
From Nature magazine
After 13 suspenseful years, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a pill that could help to fight the US obesity epidemic.
Belviq (lorcaserin) is no wonder drug, but it can help people to lose about 34% of their body weight when combined with a healthy diet and exercise. The drug has been approved for use by obese people with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30, and for a subset of overweight people (with a BMI of more than 27) who have health conditions such as high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and type 2 diabetes.
Its a start in the right direction, says Abraham Thomas, head of endocrinology at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, who chairs the FDAs Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee. We dont have the tools to really treat obesity.
Developed by Arena Pharmaceuticals of San Diego, California, Belviq faced a high bar for safety. In 1997, the weight-loss drug fenfluramine was pulled from the market for causing heart-valve problems. In the past two years, the FDA has rejected a total ofthree obesity drugs because of concerns over safety or lack of efficacy. The FDA advisory committee recommended in March that all obesity drugs should go through tests for cardiovascular risks, which would extend already lengthy clinical trials.
The FDA had already rejected Arenas first application for approval of Belviq in September 2010 because the compound seemed to produce tumours in rats and because the company could not statistically rule out an increase in the risk of heart-valve problems. Similar to fenfluramine, Belviq suppresses food cravings by mimicking the effects of serotonin in the brain, making people eat less and feel full. However, Belviq seems to activate only the serotonin 2C receptor in the brain, not the serotonin 2B receptor that is present in heart muscle.
The FDAs turnaround this week came after Arena performed echocardiograms in nearly 8,000 people to measure heart-valve function, which revealed that there was no increase in heart-valve abnormalities among those taking the drug. The firm has agreed to run six post-marketing studies, including a long-term cardiovascular trial, and patients with congestive heart failure are advised not to take the drug.
I felt the benefits outweighed the risk, says Ida Johnson Spruill, the consumer representative on the FDA advisory committee and a diabetes specialist at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. One-third of adults in the United States are obese, so regulators must balance the risks of a new weight-loss drug with the health consequences of obesity, including rising diabetes rates.
Weighing the benefits Compared to the placebo, Belviqs efficacy is about the same as that of orlistat, which was first approved in 1999 and blocks the uptake of fat calories. A 90-kilogram patient on Belviq loses, on average, an extra 3 kilograms (67 pounds) or so after a year. The good minimum weight loss would be in the 1015-pound range, notes endocrinologist Peter Savage of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, That doesnt mean that people who lose 58 pounds dont do well.
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Posted: July 3, 2012 at 6:25 am
NEW YORK, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Weight Watchers International, Inc. (WTW) applauds the updated clinical guidelines from the USPSTF that, when implemented, increase the number of adults screened for obesity as well as referrals to intensive, multicomponent behavioral interventions, including community-based programs.
The USPSTF found that effective interventions were of high intensity (no fewer than 12 sessions in a year) and successful interventions include multiple behavioral management activities, such as group sessions, individual sessions, setting weight-loss goals, improving diet or nutrition, physical activity sessions, addressing barriers to change, active use of self-monitoring, and strategizing how to maintain lifestyle changes.
"As the world's leading provider of weight management services provided within communities, we're thrilled the USPSTF continues to recognize the efficacy of behavior-based solutions," said Karen Miller-Kovach, Chief Scientific Officer, Weight Watchers International. "Through more than 20,000 Weight Watchers meetings around the country every week, we remain committed to being an accessible, scalable, affordable and most important, effective option for communities and workplaces throughout the U.S. to help treat obese and overweight adults."
Weight Watchers also commends the USPSTF for recognizing the importance of screening and referral by primary care physicians. A growing body of research that was part of the USPSTF review process in updating the recommendation shows that physician referral to a community-based program like Weight Watchers is a powerful combination. In fact, Weight Watchers has published more than 70 publications over the past 15 years that demonstrate the efficacy of the Weight Watchers approach to weight loss and long-term health.
For example, a September 2011 study published in The Lancet (i) showed that a partnership between primary care physicians and the Weight Watchers program works. The one-year global study demonstrated that overweight and obese participants who were referred to Weight Watchers by a health care provider lost, on average, more than twice as much weight as those in the standard care group. The data demonstrates how a brief intervention by a health care provider including referral to Weight Watchers can be successful on a large scale in helping those with excess weight to achieve medically significant health benefits from losing weight.
In addition, research conducted in Birmingham, UK, and funded by NHS (National Health Service South Birmingham), examined the effectiveness of eight weight management options in a randomized, controlled 12-week trial with follow-up after one year.(ii) The study found that community-based weight management programs are more effective and more cost-effective than health professional primary care-based weight management counseling alone. In fact, the only groups in the trial that achieved statistically significant and sustained weight loss were those participating in group, community-based programs.
"More than 72 million Americans are obese(iii) but there are only 246,000 primary care physicians in the U.S.(iv), a ratio of nearly 300 obese adults for every one physician," says David Kirchhoff, CEO of Weight Watchers International. "Obviously, the obesity epidemic cannot be contained within the confines of the doctor's office. We stand ready to help physicians help their patients in the battle against weight-related chronic disease."
The updated recommendations, which were published online June 26, 2012 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, recognize this, stating "Although intensive interventions may be impractical within many primary care settings, patients may be referred from primary care to community-based programs for these interventions."
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Posted: July 3, 2012 at 6:24 am
New Zealand consumers face a long wait before they know if they can get a weight-loss pill which has been approved in the United States. It is the first to be given the legislative nod by US health regulators in 13 years.
Anti-obesity pill Belviq was designed to block appetite signals in the brain, making patients feel fuller with smaller amounts of food.
Manufacturer Arena Pharmaceutical is targeting adults with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater, or those with a BMI of 27 who also have high blood pressure, type-two diabetes or high cholesterol.
BMI estimates how much body fat a person has by dividing weight by height squared. A healthy BMI score is between 18.5 and 26.
In the United States, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) reviewed the safety of the drug in three trials lasting between 52 and 104 weeks. It involved more than 8000 overweight people.
Those who took Belviq for up to 12 months lost three to four percent more of their body weight than those who took a placebo. Possible side effects included migraines, depression and memory lapses.
Medsafe has not received an application for consent to distribute Belviq in New Zealand, Ministry of Health media advisor Anna Chalmers said.
Before a medicine is approved here an application must be lodged outlining its safety, quality and efficacy.
How long it took to be approved depended on how quickly the applicant addressed deficiencies or concerns raised, she said.
It would then have to be considered for funding by Pharmac, the government drug-buying agency.
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Posted: July 3, 2012 at 6:24 am
By Dr. Emily Coatney-Smith, Contributing Writer Updated 7:41 AM Monday, July 2, 2012
Now that we have covered the rising concern for obesity in our pet population, we can explore weight loss in our pets.
Dogs
First, find an appropriate calorie food and then feed the correct amount. There is an unbelievable variety ofcompanies with just as many types of foods.And most brands do not give the exact calories or exact percentages for the protein, fat or fiber content. With a little investigating that information can be obtained directly from the company on its website. Once the right food is found, then the amount of food should be calculated based on the calories of the food and the weight of the dog. The dog should be fed for its ideal weight, not its current weight. Second, limit the treats and human food that are given throughout the day. Find lower- calorie treats and breakthem into smaller pieces.
Third, it is very hard to just rely on food management to control their weight.
Walking helps, but so does more strenuous exercise like playing fetch or playing with other dogs.
Cats
Weight control is much more difficult in cats because rarely can you get a cat to exercise,especially as it gets older. Some cats love to chase laser lights or feather toys, so those might work.
It also can be difficult when there are multiple cats in one house. Onecat may need to lose weight.Another cat may only need to maintain weight. And yet another cat may havetrouble gaining weight. So just leaving one food out for all the cats is a bad idea, as the cat that needs to lose weight will be the one eating the most.
Restrict calories, but also find the right type of food. Some cats do better with a high-protein, low-carbohydrate food, while others do better with a high-fiber diet.
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