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Posted: January 10, 2020 at 4:45 pm
Tortoise and hare methods of weight loss could both work, says Phil Hammond
New year, new weight-loss books. In this seasons crop the bariatric surgeon Andrew Jenkinson and the former MP Tom Watson go head to head with Why We Eat (Too Much) and Downsizing. They both advocate a familiar approach: improving sleep, reducing stress, cutting back on alcohol, keeping muscles active, shunning sugary food and drink and learning to cook nutritious and delicious meals from a variety of whole foods with a predominance of vegetables but no industrial vegetable oils (which, Jenkinson reminds us, we used to use for candles and lantern fluid).
The key difference is speed. Jenkinson, who has spent two decades operating on those whose repeated cycles of diets and exercise programmes have failed, advises a steady approach that slowly lowers the bodys genetic
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Posted: January 10, 2020 at 4:45 pm
Fawehimi says she's also a better mum to her young sons.
"I would usually opt to take them to soft play so I can sit down and watch them but now I love to bring them to the park to run around in the fresh outdoors.
"Before everything was a chore but now I have so much more energy.
She shared a glimpse into her daily menu before the surgery, and after.
BREAKFAST - Brie and bacon panini with cranberry sauce
LUNCH - Dauphinoise potatoes with extra cheese or large cheese pizza
DINNER - Large portion of loaded fries with cheese and bacon, or a beef burger with cheese
SNACKS - Chocolate and crisps
BREAKFAST - Smoothie with oats, frozen berries and protein powder
LUNCH - Chicken salad
DINNER - Grilled salmon with vegetables and potatoes or prawn salad
SNACKS - Fruit
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Posted: January 10, 2020 at 4:45 pm
The same day that WW, the company formerly known as Weight Watchers, launched their New Years resolution promotion on Twitters trending page (#ThisIsMyWW), the United States government was launching something else. And it just wasnt a hashtag.
A week ago, the United States launched an airstrike that ended the life of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Right around the same time, WW launched a promotion intended for users of their weight-loss program to share their customized food and exercise plans for the new year with the #ThisIsMyWW as a promoted hashtag.
The timing was not the greatest, to say the least, making WW the first brand of the year to prove that timing is still everything for brands coming into 2020. The question is, however, how brands can make sure that they are following this rule and not launching a campaign the same day that World War III is a top trending topic on Twitter.
Below are my top tips on how to carefully monitor not only what you do and the community youre a part of, but everything else happening in our nonstop world to ensure that you dont make the same mistake that WW made.
This may seem obvious to most, but its been proven time and time again that there is nothing better than a good plan with data and insights to back it up. Theres a reason this is one of the oldest and most constant practices in advertising. We should really know better than making the mistakes our industry has made in the past.
Put your campaign in a doomsday situation and imagine the absolute worst that could come of it and of any correlating factors that could also hurt it. This is an exercise that may seem unnecessary, but when youre going against the meme generation and internet trolls, youll see social media users can turn anything into a negative.
Within the first few days of launching a new campaign, hire someone to monitor the promotion as much as possible or invest in a social listening tool. Social listening tools have developed over the last decade faster than almost any social media tool. These can be used to ensure that if a crisis like this happens, you have the ability to set alerts based on keywords that come up in your what if scenario. This allows you to pull or pause the campaign at any given time, and quickly. Not like the two days it took WW to act.
If something like this does happen, know its OK to take the promotion down, like WW eventually did. If you do have to pull the campaign, dont hide from it. Make sure you acknowledge the fact that the company has realized whats going on in the world and actually cares. If something starts on social media then suddenly disappears, usually it only gets worse for the brand. The trolls dont go away. WW saw this with people retweeting and commenting for nearly five days after they made the decision to stop their promotion.
No matter how much research you have done or scenarios youve put your campaign through, there are things that come up in which you may not be able to predict. WW is a perfect example of this. Unfortunately, they handled it poorly by reacting slowly and not having the proper systems in place. Because of these mistakes, it allowed over 870,000 people to discuss the topic just on Twitter alone in less than three days.
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4 Lessons From WWs Ill-Timed Promoted Tweet That Ran While WWIII Was Trending - Adweek
Posted: January 10, 2020 at 4:45 pm
BRIAN Fletcher never thought he would ever join a slimming group.
Not only did he think such groups were made up of women, but he did not think he needed to lose weight.
I didnt think I was that big, says the train driver. But his outlook changed when his doctor advised he lose weight to improve his health.
In August 2017 the father-of-three, who lives in Wrose, was involved in a car accident which left him in hospital for three and a half months.
As well as needing spinal surgery following the collision he developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and became depressed.
I was unable to walk and be mobile for nearly a year - a lot of the times I was in bed, he recalls. When I could move it was with the aid of crutches and a walking stick. I started eating for comfort and drinking daily to help me sleep and relax.
When Brian left hospital he weighed 15stone 5lbs, but as he battled back to health his weight rose to 19 stone 4llbs - the heaviest he had ever been.
I went to my G.P and hospital and was told I had a fatty Liver and I had to make changes to my lifestyle or I would have serious health issues, he says.
He decided that he was not going to join a slimming group. I told my wife, Michelle, I can do it myself, he says.
But Michelle, who herself attended a weekly Slimming World class, persuaded him to give it a go. When I arrived I was shocked to see two other men sitting in the hall, he recalls. I was met by Amanda the class consultant. She was so friendly and everyone welcomed me - I felt at ease straight away.
At the class, exactly a year ago, he stepped on the scales for the first time. That day that changed my life, he says. I weighed in at 18st 11lbs.
At that first meeting I listened as Amanda read out the weight losses and a few gains that people had reported during the last week. I thought how supportive everyone was, he says. I listened with interest to the journeys that everyone was going on. How they had lost the weight, what they had made for their dinners and teas and how they could change what they were doing.
With help from Michelle, as well as the booklets and communication from the Facebook group, Brian was able to plan his first week.
My eating habits changed straight away. I ate healthier foods at the right times. I could not believe what I could eat and still diet. I thought I would have to starve myself to succeed but I was wrong.
He returned to class to find he hear the words Well done Brian. I had managed to lose 7lbs in my first week, I was ecstatic - never did I think I would be able to do this. The other members in the group clapped and I felt so good in myself, I felt like I belonged there We have a laugh and a joke at the meetings and exchange ideas for meals.
By October Brian had lost 6st 4oz. My health has improved, my physical looks are far better, my energy levels are higher and I feel great, he says. I am now at my target weight and maintaining.
Brian has received many slimming awards and proudly displays his stickers and certificates on his fridge.
I also got Man of the Year and together with Michelle we got the Couple of the Year award.
He adds: I hope my story encourages people, in particular men, to join and succeed as I have.
Danielle Pearlman has her mum to thanks for her new look. But her journey towards a slimmer self has not been easy.
I began my journey in May 2019, kicking and screaming, she says.
Ive struggled with my weight all my life, she says. Yo-yoing, fad diets, irregular exercise - it would work short term and I lost a bit here and there.
I also have an under-active thyroid for which I take medication.
She adds: After I had my youngest in 2017, my weight became out of control and I piled it on, juggling a newborn, studying for my degree, being a single parent. I ate what I could, when I could, without thinking.
By 2019 her weight had become such that she was approved for a gastric bypass - surgery which reduces the size of the stomach so a patient feels full quickly.
Even though Id finally got the green light that I was a suitable candidate, I was
told that I would still have to wait a further 12-18 months for a surgery date, she says.
At more than 20 stone, she felt she needed to act straight away.
My mum asked, in a way that made it hard to say no, if Id go to Slimming World with her as moral support, says Danielle, 36, of Eccleshill, who has three sons aged 12, ten and two. I knew that what she really wanted to do was to help me with my spiralling weight, so, after sulking and kicking up a fuss, I reluctantly agreed.
After the first week, even after losing 6lb, Danielle wasnt convinced, But, I kept coming back. After my third week, my attitude started to change, I was making healthy food decisions without even thinking about it and had less interest in takeaways and sweets.
Instead she opted for what the plan calls free foods - everyday foods like lean meat and fish, pasta, rice, grains, vegetables, fruit, eggs and fat-free dairy - that you can eat a lot of of without piling on the pounds.
She also ate plenty of so-called speed foods such as blueberries, cucumber, radishes, celery and grapes, which are not only good for you, but can potentially speed up weight loss.
After about six weeks, I was noticing changes in my skin and my energy levels were up, she says. I was able to play in the park with my boys, chase after them and have a kick about. I was feeling so good.
To motivate her to carry on exercising she signed up for Body Magic, a stage-by-stage activity programme which complements the Slimming World eating plan by helping group members improve their overall health and wellbeing while aiding weight management.
Danielle, who studied graphic media design at Bradford College, goes to a gym and also enjoys roller derby, both activities helping to aid weight loss and keep her fit.
Now, eight months on, she has achieved a bronze, silver and gold Body Magic award from Slimming World, several Slimmer of the Week awards and a Slimmer of the Month title.
To date she has lost four and a half stone loss and instead of having to shop for clothes in size 24, she now wears 16/18.
She is not resting on her laurels. I keep a record of everything I eat and am eating far more healthily. I cook with fresh ingredients and dont buy takeaways, which is good for my sons to see.
As the months tick down, she is becoming less and less keen on the idea of surgery and is carrying on with Slimming World.
My proudest moment so far was being able to attend my graduation four stones lighter, wearing clothes that I wanted to wear, looking and feeling great, she says.
All this would not have been possible without the support and encouragement of Amanda, the fantastic people in the group and of course, my mum.
Amanda is extremely proud of both Brian and Danielle and of what they have achieved.
*Amandas Slimming World classes are held at Bolton Methodist Church, Bolton Junction, BD2 4LB at various times during the week. She can be contacted on 07971185089. She is also on facebook.com/amanda.firth.568.
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Posted: January 10, 2020 at 4:45 pm
Brooke Baker was sleeping soundly one night in 2005 when suddenly she woke up with new and excruciating pain in both shoulders. "I remember it so well, and I had no idea what was going on," recalls the Oklahoma native, now 39. "The pain was like someone was injuring me, and I couldn't go back to sleep for hours."
In the agonizing days to come, a perplexed and frightened Baker swapped out her mattress and her pillow and would prop herself up to try and alleviate the unrelenting stabbing sensations.
I just thought, Well, it must be one of those things, she says. But then that thing moved to her elbows, the next week to her wrists, and a week later, to her hands. I had never had any pain issues, and this all made me feel so debilitated. Having such painful arms and hands was especially unfair. Baker had been a full-time music minister at church for three years, playing the piano.
Realizing the continuing torment was anything but random, she went to see her OB/GYN. After all, she was eight weeks into a miracle pregnancy at the time (shed been told shed never be able to have children). The last thing she needed was unexplainable pain.
When I said: Something's wrong, during that office visit, both the nurse and the male doctor I saw told me I should be grateful to be pregnant and basically to suck it up, she says. Baker vowed to find a new OB/GYN, which she did four months into her pregnancy. At that point the pain was in every joint, from her neck to her toes.
This doctor was a little gentler, he did really listen, but he was also a poor communicator, Baker says. Because her symptoms were suspicious, the doctor did refer her to a local rheumatologist who ran some tests to confirm or rule out the possibility of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). That was the first mention that this disease could be the cause of her pain.
The rheumatologist later called me to report the results showed nothing, Baker says. Later, he also told me it definitely wasn't RA and that RA gets better when you're pregnant.
With her diagnosis still undetermined, the now-devastated and overwhelmed mother-to-be was in too much pain to work, so she quit and moved back in with her parents, because on top of all of this, her marriage had fallen apart.
I was on the couch for almost seven months, she says. The pain got better for about six weeks, between months seven and eight, says Baker. I finally felt better and hoped I was over it all.
It wasn't to be. The pain returned full force during her ninth and final month of pregnancy as she was also getting huge, she says. Almost sheepishly, she returned to her OB/GYN for pain relief. I didn't want anyone, including him, to think I was crazy.
That doctor told her: When you have the baby, you won't hurt anymore. Wrong: Her pain kept steadily increasing.
The calendar had flipped to 2006 now and the big day came to deliver. A c-section was complicated by my previous abdominal surgeries and resulted in a longer hospital stay and blood transfusions, Baker says. But my baby boy, Jackson, was healthy and I was thrilled!Still, her intense joint pain persisted. How would she manage being a single mother? Her doctor then told her: When you stop breastfeeding, you won't hurt anymore. But when she stopped after a year, her pain continued on.
I thought, If I just tough it out longer, I'll be OK, she says. I was pretty gullible, believing everything I was told.
Being a single mom is hard enoughbut fate would deal her another unlucky hand. Baker was worried: It seemed that Jackson, then 17 months old, was drinking constantly. Then one day he began stumbling, he couldnt see normally, and he'd been losing weight. She knew something was terribly wrong.
A doctor visit and blood tests showed his blood sugar was more than 750 mg/dL when he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. (Normal blood sugar for a person without diabetes ranges from between 70 and 100 mg/dL.) Frequent urination, thirst, fatigue, and weight loss are common symptoms of the disease.
He was too young to tell me what was wrong, how he was feeling, says Baker. His behavior changes and voice gave her clues as she tested his blood sugar regularly.
Baker was in nursing school by this time, still living with her parents and not working, except to play music part-time at a little, bitty job, she says.
In those first stressful weeks after his diagnosis, I'd stay up studying until 2 a.m., check my son, then sleep till 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. and then start it all over again, Baker says, knowing it was all worth it, even though then, it all felt almost unbearable.
I went through the roof at that time, Baker says, recalling seemingly insurmountable stress. Three weeks after her son's diagnosis, she finally saw her primary-care provider, where she wished she'd started, and tearfully confessed that she couldn't move her arms.
I couldn't even lift my baby. I'd have to scoop him, she says. I'd spend 30 minutes in the shower, in the warm water, to help get my arms moving in the morning, because they were 'locked' at a 90-degree angle.
The situation was terrifying. The baby relied on me for everythingme, the single mother trying to do everythingand I could barely take care of myself. I couldn't open a baby food jar, and didn't feel safe bathing him alone, Baker says. Thank goodness for my mother. But this was about survival, and I had to go on.
Her healthcare provider immediately did new blood tests for RA and he called Baker the same night to confirm positive results. "I was so glad to have an answer that I wasn't even devastated by that news," she says. The previously reported test resultsthe ones that ruled out RA while she was pregnantmust have been a mistake, she thinks now.
Her doctor quickly referred her to another rheumatologist who didn't just mumble and grunt at me, she says. He prescribed medication, and I started it in December 2007.
As for why Bakers OB/GYN had earlier ruled out RA because her symptoms continued during pregnancy, which, he said, was not the normit turns out he was half right and half wrong.
The latest research in UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical resource, says approximately 50% to 60% of pregnant women diagnosed with RA do have improvement in their symptoms, usually starting in the first trimester. And no, it's not possible to predict which patients will improve and which will flare.
Even more specifically, a review recently published in The Journal of Rheumatology reported that disease activity improved in 60% of patients with RA in pregnancy and flared in 46.7% postpartum. The Arthritis Foundation says that may be because of the hormone and immune system changes that protect an unborn child may also help RA.
The RA medication her doctor started her on was methotrexate, and it still stabilizes Baker's RA. It's a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug also known as a DMARD and it's considered a first-line treatment for RA. As the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center shares, its benefits include that it works fairly quicklyin six to eight weeksit works well, is easy to use, and isn't expensive.
Bakers joints throbbed when she started taking it. She'd feel good for a few days, and then after the next week's injection, the pain would return. It took seven months before I started to feel normal, again, but a year later I was pretty much functional and able to play piano again! she says.
Baker has gone back and forth between methotrexate pills and now-weekly injections. She feels so much better now that she shudders to remember the two miserable years she spent with no pain medication except acetaminophen.
No one ever gave me any, she says. They just said: Everyone hurts when they're pregnant.
Jackson, Bakers now 13-year-old son, has clearly inherited his mother's indomitable, can-do attitude. His spirit is undefeatable, and he just bounces back with a resiliency that's amazing, Baker says of her son. His hasn't been an easy life and he makes it look so easy.
When Jackson doesn't feel well, he doesn't let it bother him. Instead he asks: "Can I go to school tomorrow? Baker patiently explains that he should rest and asks him to pace himself.
She homeschooled him until fifth grade and he thrived when he eventually attended school. Hes so motivated, just so driven, and wants to get into Harvard, she says. Hes also creative and talented and plays the lead in lots of school plays.
Getting to this point has meant thatmuch like his momJackson has had to overcome the awful moments that come with chronic illness. Baker recalls when, as a child, Jackson would say, I don't want to be diabetes, Mommy.
That was just heart-wrenching, Baker says. Now he's so calm, and he says to me: Diabetes isn't all that bad. There are more good things than bad things. That stumps me, and I just go blank, without a response.
He has said he doesn't quite understand it all, about why he hurts and can't get better, and why she hurts, too. Hes starting to assess when my hands and feet swell, and he says Im so sorry you have this rheumatism, she says.
Baker doesn't dwell on sorry, but stays active. She is part of the Diabetes Patient Advocacy Coalition that advocates for more affordable insulin. Shes been to Washington, D.C. three times in 2018 and 2019 to lobby her legislators to decrease the price of insulinand she intends to continue. As a partial result of the groups nationwide efforts, the Insulin Price Reduction Act was introduced July 22, 2019.
Baker isnt looking for a standing ovation, but she measures her lifes progress quietly every day, her eye firmly on the prizeand her goals.
With her pain controlled, and now her stress, Baker, who lives with her son, can focus on her accomplished life. She began that nursing degree in January 2008, around the time both she and her son were diagnosed with their diseases, and she finished in May 2010. Then in January 2019, she finished her masters degree in nursing and now works as a professor at a local university teaching the next generation of nurses. She will pursue her Ph.D. next, with the goal of becoming a university dean. Then there are more personal goals.
I want to be more active with my son when I can, Baker says. My body's getting physically stronger, and we're planning to do some runs together soon.
And theres travel. The pair plans to visit all 50 states. She's done 47, and Jackson has logged 10. Baker still plays music for therapy, not performing, but singing joyfully with her son in the car.
Shes relieved not to have to fight her body anymore. I'm trying to work with it instead of against it, she says. I dont accept it as: Boy, I love having this, but it's better than hating it all the time.
RA Reminds Her That Pain is Real, and Personal
Baker takes a whole-body approach to managing her RA. She consistently takes her medicationon timeand also likes to use essential oils for aromatherapy and for minor relief, applying them to her hands. To maintain her overall balance, she practices yoga, her favorite activity. She embraces deep breathing and calming apps on her phone, such as Calm and Headspace.
I do my part, and because I have a spiritual side, I leave the rest because I can't control it all, she says.
Baker remembers the time when doctors didnt hear her when she reached out for help with pain and she felt sheepish about pressing themnot so now. She encourages others with chronic illness to speak up for themselves. Youll experience a real difference between advocating and not, and if you dont find support in doctors you have, keep trying until someone really listens to you and works with you, she says.
It's made her a better nurse, especially when a patient shares about their pain. She learned in nursing school that pain is what the patient says it is. Baker knows this firsthand. Those months of gritting through intense pain during her pregnancy could have been shortened if only someone had really listened to her symptoms and pushed for treatment. Now Baker is doing the listening (and teaching) and her patients are lucky to have her.
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Posted: January 10, 2020 at 4:42 pm
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Jan. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --SlimFast, the weight loss brand with the clinically proven plan, which over the course of the last 40 years has helped millions of Americans shed pounds quickly and reliably, announced new product additions to its best-selling Keto line. The products bolster the 2020 SlimFast Keto lineup to 21 total products including ready-to-drink meal replacement shakes, meal replacement bars, snacks, and shake mixes delivering convenience and ease to men and women following the Keto diet.
SlimFast Keto Ambassador Hazely Lopez appeared on ABC's GMA3 to showcase the new line, as well as some easy Keto recipes, underscoring the buzz and rapidly growing popularity of the Keto lifestyle. Watch the clip HERE.
SlimFast Keto combines the effectiveness of the ketogenic diet with the proven power of the SlimFast Plan, which has helped millions of Americans lose weight fast and keep it off for over 40 years. Launched in October of 2018, SlimFast Keto has become the best-selling line of Keto products in the country accounting for 70% of all measured Keto sales in the past four weeks.
In response to incredible consumer demand, the newest products added to the fast-growing lineup include:
The meal replacement shakes and bars, along with the Fat Bomb snacks and other products in the best-selling SlimFast Keto line are formulated on the principles of ketogenic nutrition: high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and moderate-protein. This shifts the body's primary fuel source from carbohydrates to fat.
SlimFast Keto products are available now at national retailers including Walmart, fine grocers like Publix, Kroger, Ahold, Wakefern, HyVee, and Meijer, and online at Amazon.com.
To get started and learn more, click HERE, to get the NEW SlimFast Keto mobile app that includes Keto meal plans, recipes and progress tracking at your fingertips.
About SlimFastSlimFast was founded in 1977 to help Americans lose weight safely, reliably, deliciously, and with ease, thereby creating the meal-replacement shake category. To date, the SlimFast Plan can boast credit coast-to-coast and around the world, for helping millions to lose weight and keep it off. SlimFast has developed the following product lines: Original, Advanced Nutrition, Advanced Energy, Keto, and Diabetic Weight Loss. SlimFast can point to clinical trials, conducted by independent researchers that demonstrate proven and sustainable weight loss. SlimFast is based inPalm Beach Gardens, Fla.
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Posted: January 10, 2020 at 4:42 pm
While were on our January health kicks, detox and flat tummy products are being widely promoted by influencers and celebrities. Can they really help you to achieve yourgoals or are they, at best, a waste of money?
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While the nation is set on achieving their diet related New Years resolutions, the diet industry is collectively rubbing their hands together. Just this week, Khlo Kardashain has posted to her millions of followers about her love of the supplements from Flat Tummy Co. This has led to outcry from the scientific and medical community warning people that the use of these products is at best unnecessary and at worst harmful. Detoxing in the medical sense is only used to refer to the detoxification process that victims of substance abuse must endure. Any other use of the term detox is not legitimate.
So here are three good reasons to never buy a detox product:
Your liver and your kidneys are detoxing your body every second of everyday. Adding artificial detox supplements into your system actually makes your detoxifying organs work harder and some will dehydrate you which makes them work less effectively. Drink plenty of water and eat plenty of brightly coloured fruit and veg to support your natural detoxification processes. They also wont work for weight loss. Remember, if there was a drink or a supplement you could take that worked safely and effectively for weight loss, we wouldnt have an obesity epidemic. Speaking as someone with 14 years experience as a dietitian...there are no secret formulas or supplements. Sorry about that.
Many of the detox products contain known laxatives. Taking laxatives is a method of purging used by people with eating disorders. It is not safe or ethical to sell laxatives for weight loss. In addition to the ethical issues, laxatives cause oral contraceptive failure and there have been a number of unwanted pregnancies associated with detox and skinny tea products. Despite this, they are heavily marketed at teenage girls and young women even in reputable high street pharmacies and health food shops. Actress Jameela Jamil has been using her social media platform to speak out against this.
As well as the risks associated with diarrhoea and dehydration, because detox isn't a recognised claim, you could be buying anything. The market is not well regulated, particularly for the products sold via social media. This means that the products you buy could have banned substances in them including ingredients that interact with prescribed medications and other supplements and they arent necessarily clearly labelled. There have been multiple cases of serious harm associated with detox products including (ironically) liver and kidney injuries.
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So remember, no credible company or individual would sell you a detox product or use the term detox in their marketing. It is synonymous with scams and is an expensive solution to a made up problem.
Posted: January 10, 2020 at 4:42 pm
Intermittent Fasting was the most searched diet trend of 2019, it has been revealed.
The diet, which encourages people to temporarily fast throughout the day, minimises the number of calories consumed.
And to mark the new year, Irish weight loss experts Unislim have launched a new plan on how to fast successfully and safely in 2020.
The 'Flexifast' system allows people to enjoy all the benefits of fasting, including improved sleep and a boosted metabolism, all while achieving their weight loss goals.
Unislim dietician Sarah Keogh said: Fasting was undeniably the hot topic for weight loss worldwide throughout 2019 and there is mounting evidence that taking a long, overnight fast can have some fantastic benefits for our weight, health and wellbeing.
"Unislim are the first weight loss company who have introduced a flexible overnight fast as part of their toolkit, to really help people to manage their weigh.
Evening fasting also allows people to realise how much food they might be snacking on after dinner.
"Flexifasting is a 14 hour overnight fast that aims to reduce night time nibbling and help people to manage their weight in a safe and healthy way.
"The real beauty of Unislims Flexifasting plan is that you mainly do it while you sleep!"
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Posted: January 10, 2020 at 4:42 pm
In this age of renewed environmental awareness, few things are as frustrating as receiving a package and being left with a pile of foam packaging. Beyond creating more plastic waste, styrofoam is also bulky and, when you break it down, those annoying little white bits fly everywhere. Wouldnt it be great if we could just wash our foam packaging problem away? According to KTM Industries, we canand their biodegradable foam that you can literally dissolve down the drain has been gaining traction.
This week, Perdue Farms launched a new ecommerce website allowing shoppers to buy chicken and other meats directly from the company. But tucked into the announcement was news about how these frozen orders will be shipped to consumers: All packaging from online orders is 100 percent recyclable, Perdue wrote. The foam insulation is made from water-soluble cornstarch, which can be composted or even disintegrated under running water and safely rinsed down a kitchen sink.
If that last line has you doing a double-take, meet Green Cell Foam. The corn-based foam packaging replacement is billed as offering the most flexibility and convenience in disposal options of ANY packaging materialgoing far beyond just recycling.
KTM Industries, which produces the USDA Certified Biobased Product and 100 Percent Compostable foam, says you can compost it, dissolve large pieces in a bucket of water, or even put small pieces in the sink and watch it melt safely down the drain in under 60 seconds. (Heres there video evidence.) Green Cell Foam is safe for drains, septic tanks and waste treatment centers, the company further explains. (For the record, KTMs final suggestion for disposal is that the foam burns cleanly and safely in fireplaces, firepits and power plantsworks great to start your barbecue! Who wants burgers?)
Incredibly, Green Cell Foam has been around since 2002. So if its so great, why are we only hearing about it now? Speaking with CNN, David Zucker, Perdue Farms' senior vice president of e-commerce and new ventures, may have hinted at the answer. We've had significant conversations at the company in the past year about our sustainability efforts and what more we can do to reduce the impact on the environment, he said.
Perdue isnt the only big name thats jumped on the Green Cell Foam bandwagon: In the past year, Jenny Craig, Crowd Cow, and Canadas NIKU Farms have all added the packagingwhich purportedly also requires 70 percent less energy and produces 80 percent less greenhouse gases than petroleum based foams. So the likely explanation as to why this biodegradable foam is gaining visibility now is that more companies are looking for sustainable options and they want to show off those credentials once they have them.
The pharmaceutical company Sandoz began using Green Cell Foam in 2008, and in an interview with Packaging World a couple years later, Mark Kuhl, the companys then-packaging development and sustainability manager, hammered this point home.
Cost is important, but so is sustainability, he explained. It's worth going with the green solution even if it costs a bit more, because over the long haul, it normally ends up saving money and benefits the environment.
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Five swans covered in diesel were rescued from a lake by the RSPCA after a suspected pollution incident.
A specialist water rescue team was drafted in and captured them to be cleaned.
All five swans are expected to be returned to the wild diesel-free soon after treatment at a wildlife sanctuary.
The RSPCA said it received reports of what was described as a diesel spillage at fishing lakes off Scot Lane in Martland Mill, Wigan, on Wednesday.
Officers used a water rescue boat to locate then capture the affected swans.
They were taken to the charity's Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre in Nantwich, Cheshire, where the time-consuming task of cleaning their plumage has now started.
If oil isn't removed quickly from waterbirds it reduces the natural waterproofing in their plumage, leaving them at risk of dying from hypothermia.
The RSPCA said it was vital the swans were treated as soon as possible.
RSPCA Animal Welfare Officer Jonathan Brooks said: "We received a call that some swans appeared to be covered in oil from a spillage and I attended the scene.
"It was dark but I could see five swans on the lake which were contaminated with oil.
"We had a team of officers at the lake with a water rescue boat to capture the affected swans and we managed to get all five safely.
"Pollution on the feathers damages the structure of them and also when they are preening, they can ingest the contaminants and this makes them ill.
"When they are preening they are not eating so lose weight and become weak.
"With the feathers not protecting them they can also become hypothermic as they cant keep dry and warm so we will have fatalities if we dont intervene, which is why we have to act fast.
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"They will be taken to our wildlife centre where staff will clean the birds carefully with washing up liquid and once they have recovered they will be returned to the wild."
The RSPCA said the cause of the pollution was not yet known.
They said the Environment Agency were aware and had launched an investigation.
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