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Posted: April 9, 2021 at 1:47 am

A FEW YEARS AGO, The New Yorker ran an essay entitled Anorexia, the Impossible Subject, an autobiography-meets-literature-review of the disorder. The critic dubbed anorexia an impossible subject because any writing about anorexia makes it more interesting than it really is. If we want to protect young girls pliant brains and bodies from self-starvation many writers professed purpose for committing hundreds of pages to the subject then wed paint anorexics as they are: slowly suicidal obsessives who avoid other people and expend ninety-five per cent of their mental energy counting the calories in green vegetables. Two years later, a different critic, in an essay in Slate, declared anorexia the enemy of writing. And then, two years after that, a third critic, in another New Yorker piece, criticized filmmakers tendency, in movies on the subject, to draw from the poisonous worship of bodily discipline and deprivation that already surrounds young women to fascinate viewers. She goes on to wonder if its even possible to make responsible art about anorexia. Two writers with novels coming out this winter didnt heed these warnings to avoid the subject, and one of them proves that anorexia actually can be fodder for interesting writing.

Ill start with that book. Scarlett Thomass Oligarchy originally published in 2019 in the UK and out now in paperback from Counterpoint follows a crew of long-limbed, rich 15-year-olds at a British boarding school. In one dorm, theres Tiffanie (the hot French one), Bianca (a looming skeleton), Rachel (huge and doughy), Lissa (greasy), and Donya (unremarkable). Then, theres our protagonist Tash, the new girl, fresh off the plane from Russia where her absentee oligarch dad suddenly entered her life and promptly shipped her off to Britain. At school, she adjusts quickly: she grows just as bored and morose as her roommates. Their parents barely call. Their dowdy teachers silo them away from the boys at the brother school across the lake. The headmaster limits their wi-fi to one hour a day and pares down the endless web with parental controls until its basically useless. Theyre the boarders, the imprisoned. So, whats a group of over-surveilled, underloved teenage girls who want to learn everything but know close to nothing supposed to do? Invent and follow new diets, of course. Heres Tashs: no farmed fish, any meat at all. Any dairy at all. [] Tomatoes. Aubergines. Any nightshade fruit at all. Sure, theres little logic behind the cans and cannots, but theres even less logic behind the arbitrary rules parents and teachers impose.

Only silent, sullen Bianca actually sticks to the diets, crumbling her dessert into tiny pieces that she feeds to the birds. Bianca hides her bony body under knee-length skirts. Still, the girls can see her brittle talon arms. Biancas severe frame reflects a sense of peril lurking in the school. Will their go-to snack, meat paste, add inches to their hips? If it doesnt, could it infect their brains with mad cow disease? At first, the threat of something sinister seems like wishful thinking, adolescent girls desperately forcing drama into their mundane countryside days. But these girls arent simply prone to hyperbole. One night around bedtime, Bianca goes to the headmasters house for a late-night scolding (she cussed out the ballet teacher who claimed she was too thin to dance). A few days later, Dr. Moone calls at the dorm. They all expect their own scolding. Instead, he tells them, Bianca is dead she drowned herself in the lake.

The school supplies no real explanation for how or when Bianca went from the headmasters house to the bottom of the lake the headmaster tentatively brands it an anorexia-driven suicide. Tash thinks: what, Bianca walked anorexically past the lake and then slipped anorexically into it? As the girls invent theories and pass around their wisdom as whispered gossip, someone else dies their beloved biology teacher, Dr. Morgan. By suicide, in the same lake. One mysterious death could be a fluke, but two makes it a pattern. This twist swiftly redeems the teens. Dont disregard the shallow girls hunches: they obsess over nothing, until it suddenly proves to be something. It also orients the reader to the girls true danger: theyre trapped and controlled by drab, nefarious adults who stockpile secrets.

The double suicide turns the novel into a thriller. Tiffanie and Tash dont believe the headmasters far-fetched explanation for Dr. Morgans death (he allegedly hoarded nudes of underage girls, including ones of Tash and Tiff, and, when confronted by the school, drowned himself out of shame, or fear, or something). While Tash determines to solve the mystery of why the headmaster lied, the other students mourn their teachers death it turns out that even the most heartless of the girls actually loved Dr. Morgan, although of course no one can love him now. As the girls grieve silently and puzzle over the deaths, they get serious about their diets. Rachel, one of the chubbier girls in the class, returns from winter break much thinner. The other girls watch her at meals, fascinated by someone with a plan, a girl who lives by a set of rules they can identify and mimic. Plus, she looks amazing. Tiffanie stops eating carbs. Lissa aims to lose so much weight that shell be hospitalized before her sisters wedding. Eventually, no one eats anything, at least not in public. They all cry. They say bitchy things, point out their friends cellulite. Everyone has sort of flopped. They are hanging over their chairs like old coats.

The school hires Tony and Dominic, two Scottish therapists who look like pedophiles, to run militarized group therapy sessions in which they force the girls to share their [r]eally, really real worst memories of food. If a girl insists that she doesnt binge, purge, or starve, the therapists declare her defensiveness the ultimate evidence that she is very sick in the head. These scenes verge on schlock the meathead therapists are a bit too brainless but they culminate in a point. Mindlessly diagnosing every girl with an eating disorder placates the teachers and helps the girls not at all. Two people inexplicably died in the same lake and all these girls got was the same bland psychiatric diagnosis.

Following girls who purposely starve themselves into a stupor could easily become grating, but it never does in Oligarchy. We stick with the girls through various diets, when their weight swings up and down and back up again because Thomas laces the lowest of lows with the enduring allure of not eating, taunting the reader with the hopes that keep the girls shaving off calories. Take Rachel; when she gains two pounds, she looks down at the number on the scale, sobs, then wonders if she could cry it all out. That it is, of course, herself her skin and bones and muscles but it feels like some foreign substance hijacking her carefully cultivated frame. She cuts her calories down to 500 a day. Only then, does the weight start to shift again to declare itself beaten and slink back off to wherever it came from Its a victory against some horrible error in biology that prevents her from being that is, appearing as the person shes supposed to be. Its only two pounds, but the moment feels devastating, not ridiculous, because Thomas neither conceals nor qualifies just how good Rachel thinks she will feel if she dropped the weight. Once she loses another stone, shell get her belly button pierced with a silver dreamcatcher crystal belly bar. For the first time ever, she knows that something like that could be hers. Thomass girls remain compelling because they so badly want whatever thinness offers that the origin or soundness of the impulse is beside the point.

Which brings me to the other novel Milk Fed by Melissa Broder, published in February by Scribner. The novel follows another Rachel, a 24-year-old talent agency assistant in Los Angeles. She spends her days calculating, then recalculating, the calories she will eat, planning when she will eat them, stretching out the actual eating process, and then burning off those calories on a stationary bike. Heres her lunch routine: a double turkey salad from Subway (no dressing), consumed alone, outside (to protect her habits from the employees wandering eyes). She caps this off with frozen yogurt, either from Yogurt World (a self-serve place where she can control her portions) or Yo!Good (better yogurt and fewer calories), also consumed outside, alone. She inherited this preoccupation with calories from her overbearing mother, the high priestess of food who always preached to abstain, abstain abstain. Rachels therapist prescribes a communication detox 90 days without talking to her mother. Hungry, lonely, and neglected on day seven, Rachel drags herself into Yo!Good and discovers that her usual frozen yogurt server, a gangly, mute boy, has been replaced by zaftig 21-year-old Miriam. Shes immediately taken with Miriam because it was as though she didnt know or care she was fat. In need of a substitute mom, Rachel interprets Miriams insistence on overfilling her frozen yogurt cups and ladling on-the-house full-fat fudge over the top as some version of love or, at the very least, some much-needed affection.

Far more forcefully than in Oligarchy, anorexia here is pinned on the parents: Rachel points to maternal neglect as the obvious origin of her eating problems. This very neat line from a bad relationship with mom to a bad relationship with food flattens Rachel but not in the way she wants. Broder relies on hyperbole to inflate anorexia into pure horror, the grim aftermath of a central childhood trauma. Free food at work is an avalanche of vegan donuts that threatened to suffocate me. At lunch, a client extended a basket of carbs threateningly close to my head and the overdressed arugula salad was but a slippery cadaver: death by oil, goodbye. Comparing an oily salad to death doesnt illuminate why eating oil feels deathly but, rather, sets up Rachels fear of fat as an obvious, borderline ridiculous neurosis. This melodrama (Broder often describes eating as like dying) simplifies Rachels psyche a terrible mother inflicted a terrible eating disorder that makes Rachel terribly miserable. Simple problems require simple solutions. Suddenly, theres a stranger who all but forces Rachel to fill her taut tummy, supplies her with so many sweets that her hunger doesnt just subside but disappears. And so Rachel keeps returning to Yo!Good, despite her years-long diet, to visit the doting Jewish mother she always wanted. Halfway into the novel, when she briefly sleeps with Miriam, Rachel improbably starts eating in the way she imagined normal people ate: three squares, some snacks, whatever I wanted, really, with a feeling of impunity, and without bingeing to the point of illness.

Broder seems too intent on proving that anorexia is bad. That 2013 New Yorker critic called anorexia an impossible subject in part because refusing food at the expense of bodily function is not an easy addiction to convey. Constantly playing up anorexia as totally grotesque and bizarre doesnt convey the appeal of starving, which is essential to understanding why Rachel would do something like scarf down a diet protein bar in the bathroom stall (next to someone defecating) at a work party. Broder evokes the appeal of starving in a few throwaway lines, cycling through vague, psychologist-supplied wisdoms about why girls go anorexic. Skinny girls seem cocooned by an absence of flesh from judgment, hurt, or shame, [w]hile the algebraic formula was imperfect, it allowed me some illusion of control, and I wanted to be perfect. And by perfect, I meant less. It sounds like WebMDs anorexia summary: symptoms include feelings of inadequacy, low self-esteem, anxiety, anger, or loneliness, people with anorexia often use food and eating as a way to gain a sense of control, and they tend to be perfectionists. Its a one-size-fits-all explanation that feels hollow and turns Rachel into an anorexic cribbed from the DSM rather than a character in a novel.

Take the first time Rachel eats one of Miriams caloric sundaes in lieu of half-filled, fat-free froyo. Rachel cant determine the calories in the peanuts, fudge, and strawberry syrup so she resolves to bury it under more food, otherwise known as a binge. Before she inaugurates this binge with a slice of carrot cake, she likens the impulse to cutting off my head because of a headache. This habit Broders undermining of the allure of starving and binging with didactic asides that prove Rachel knows her habits are wrong and silly alienates us from the character. Rachels relentless awareness of her diets misguidedness an awareness that the young girls in Oligarchy lack thwarts the sense of longing and danger that presumably prompted a diet in the first place, making her behavior inscrutable. I dont understand why she endured these years of starving and binging if she never even believed, however navely, in some payoff.

The girls we follow in Oligarchy arent obsessed with being pro-ana or anti-ana they are obsessed with what they want. They dont always know what they want, or why they want it. But Thomas doesnt ignore or justify their desires, which is why the girls desperation e.g., subsisting only on pineapple isnt irritating or pitiable. Broders almost exclusive focus on the woes of anorexia doesnt make her book responsible, a cautionary tale about eating disorders; rather, it estranges us from the protagonist. Marya Hornbachers 1998 memoir Wasted now the anorexia ur-text summarizes the anorexic impulse like this: I remember wanting. And I remember being at once afraid and ashamed that I wanted. The only reason the fear and shame hold any weight is because they qualify something that is so plainly, so clearly wanted.

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Mikki Reilly: In Fight Against COVID-19, Dont Ignore Exercise, Diet and a Healthy Lifestyle – Noozhawk

Posted: April 9, 2021 at 1:47 am

Last month marked the one-year anniversary of Gov. Gavin Newsoms first stay-at-home order to try to thwart the coronavirus as it took hold in California.

As I look back over the past year I realize that, while there has been a strong focus on mask wearing, social distancing and getting vaccinated, we have not received any information or health education on how to stay healthy and fit.

Perhaps this would be understandable at the beginning of the pandemic, since we did not know how lifestyle-based approaches would affect outcomes for this pathogen. However, now there is plenty of research to support the premise that exercise, real food and a healthy lifestyle are critically important in reducing our susceptibility.

Just last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a study that found almost 80 percent of those who died from COVID-19 were overweight or obese. And according to the latest statistics, 42 percent of the U.S. population is considered obese!

For decades, health-care professionals have cautioned people about the dangers of obesity. But those warnings have been largely ignored.

There could not be a better time than right now for public health to step up and educate the masses on what a healthy lifestyle looks like. COVID-19 is a much needed wakeup call for an overweight and out-of-shape America!

Everyone knows that exercise promotes good health. Countless studies have shown that people who work out are less likely than sedentary people to develop numerous health problems, including obesity, diabetes and hypertension, the most prevalent comorbiditiesassociated with COVID-19.

One of the greatest benefits of exercise is how it affects metabolism. Metabolism is the set of cellular mechanisms that generate energy from the food we eat and the oxygen we breathe in order to power every cell in the body, including the immune system. When these energy-producing pathways are running smoothly we have optimal metabolic health.

Beyond exercise, the Paleo diet has been shown to be effective in providing long-term weight loss, reductions in blood pressure and even reversal of type-2 diabetes.

The Paleo diet is primarily anti-inflammatory; it is naturally low in carbohydrates, high in omega-3s and low in omega-6s, which makes it very effective for reducing inflammation. This diet consists of a variety of nutrient dense foods such as grass-fed meats, wild seafood and shellfish, fruits and vegetables, and nuts and seeds.

Others may benefit from the low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet. With a keto diet, you drastically reduce your carbohydrate intake and replace it with healthy fats like coconut oil, olive oil, avocados, nuts, and the fats from fish, eggs and grass-fed meat.

Reducing your carbohydrates puts your body into ketosis, a metabolic state where your energy comes from ketone bodies instead of glucose.

The ketogenic diet is a natural way to recalibrate your bodys metabolism and dramatically improve its overall ability to function. In following the diet, your body will reward you by feeling and performing better, while dropping unnecessary body fat fast.

Time-restricted eating is another dietary approach that aims to help you lose weight and boost metabolic health. Time-restricted eating is a form of intermittent fasting in which you compress your food intake into a certain number of hours each day. People who practice time-restricted eating typically eat during an 8-12-hour window and fast the remaining 12-16 hours.

From an evolutionary perspective, time-restricted eating makes sense because early humans did not have access to food all day long as we do today in our modern world. Thus, eating without periods of fasting, which occurred naturally when food was scarce, may lead to disruption of the circadian rhythm and contribute to obesity and metabolic disease, over time.

Santa Barbara fitness professional Mikki Reilly is the owner of Fitness Transform and the author of Your Primal Body: The Paleo Way to Living, Lean, Fit and Healthy at Any Age. She can be contacted at [emailprotected]. The opinions expressed are her own.

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Faces of InnoVAtion: Kwynn Mason and Emily Hood – VAntage Point – VAntage Point Blog

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Face of InnoVAtion is a regular series from the VHA Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE) focusing on VA employees who are working to change and save Veteran lives through innovation. This month meet Emily Hood, RDN, LDN, certified intuitive eating counselor, from the Memphis VA Medical Center; and Kwynn Mason MPH, RDN, LDN, CLS (Certified Lactation Specialist), from the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System.

Emily Hood and Kwynn Mason may work at separate VA facilities, but they both saw the same issue: Veterans do not have a good relationship with food. The two registered dietitians came to VA to improve the diets of the Veterans they had always admired, but often they would find that a Veterans relationship with food was based around dieting and guilt instead of healthy attitudes. Engaging with Veterans and hearing their personal stories was a privilege that strengthened the intimate connection both women have with their mission.

I became passionate about my project [Intuitive Eating] specifically because I constantly heard stories of my Veterans feeling burdened with the guilt or fault from their own diet failures, Mason said. They may even avoid seeking medical care because of the shame placed on them for their health status.

The pair, independently of each other, began working on programs that help Veterans develop healthier relationships with food instead of simply trying to diet to lose weight. After discovering they were both running similar programs, they merged their efforts into the Intuitive Eating: Improving Food Relationships Using Mindfulness (Intuitive Eating) program. This blended intuitive and mindful eating group meets once a week for 16 weeks and focuses on readjusting Veterans mindsets towards food and exploring how to re-shape negative behaviors into a more positive relationship with food. This is what helps the programs Veterans ultimately reach their health goals.

We wanted Veterans to have the opportunity to work toward improving their relationship with food without emphasis on weight loss, said Hood. Instead, Veterans are learning to recognize the subtle messages their body is sending them in terms of hunger, fullness, and satisfaction.

Feedback for Intuitive Eating has been extremely positive, with one Veteran participant saying, Intuitive Eating has helped me feel less crazy with food. I can learn to trust my body I have learned that my body doesnt want sugar 24/7.

When VHA Innovators Network (iNET) Innovation Specialist Dr. Indra Sandal discovered their work, she encouraged them to apply for the Spark-Seed-Spread Innovation Investment Program at the Seed level to test and pilot their program at other sites. Mason and Hood are now working with iNET to discover the tools and networks they need to advance their work.

Sometimes you just need to know where and how to start, said Mason. As in, who can help you bring your idea into fruition? Where can you go to assemble a team so that you can move forward with your project? What materials do you need? Those are the tougher hurdles to overcome when getting started. The innovators network can help you get those answers!

Allison Amrhein is the director of operations for the VHA Innovators Network and communications lead for the VHA Innovation Ecosystem.

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IBS and Diabetes: What’s the Connection? – Healthline

Posted: April 9, 2021 at 1:47 am

If you have diabetes, and you also have gut issues, like diarrhea, constipation, gas, and bloating, youre certainly not alone. As many as 75 percent of people with diabetes also report having issues with their stomach or digestion.

Diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are both fairly common conditions, and its possible to have both at the same time. In fact, the two conditions may be related. Diabetes can damage the nerves around the gut and lead to symptoms of IBS, such as:

Some diabetes medications, as well as some foods that people with diabetes eat, such as foods high in fiber and sugar alcohols like sorbitol, can also affect the bowels, leading to diarrhea or constipation.

With a little extra effort, both IBS and diabetes can be managed through diet, medications, and stress reduction.

Diabetes and irritable bowel syndrome are two different conditions, and its possible to have them both.

IBS is a gastrointestinal disorder characterized by a group of symptoms that typically occur together. These symptoms may include:

IBS is thought to be related to problems with how your brain and your gut work together.

Diabetes occurs when your body cant make enough of the hormone insulin or cant use insulin effectively. Diabetes is a systemic disease. This means it affects many parts of the body at once.

People with diabetes have higher than normal levels of sugar (glucose) in the blood. This is known as hyperglycemia. Over time, high blood sugar can lead to complications in many parts of the body, including the gastrointestinal tract.

Many people with diabetes complain of:

Over time, high blood sugar from diabetes can cause damage to the nerves, called neuropathy, in the gastrointestinal tract. This can impair your brains ability to communicate with your gut.

The damage can cause a slowing down or speeding up of intestinal function, leading to either constipation or diarrhea common symptoms of IBS.

There are other ways that high blood sugar can lead to gastrointestinal symptoms:

In general, its best for people with diabetes to eat healthy foods with a high fiber content, like whole grains and vegetables, to help stabilize blood sugar levels. People with diabetes should try to avoid highly processed foods and foods high in sugar.

Some people with IBS may also benefit from a high fiber, low sugar diet, but sometimes foods high in fiber can trigger symptoms of IBS. Foods high in fiber include:

If you tend to have diarrhea as a result of IBS or diabetes, you may want to reduce the amount of soluble fiber in your diet. Soluble fiber is found in foods such as:

If you tend to get constipated as a result of IBS or diabetes, you may want to increase your intake of insoluble fiber, which is found in foods like:

Many people with IBS experience symptoms when they eat certain types of vegetables called cruciferous vegetables. Examples include:

Legumes, such as beans, may also trigger symptoms of IBS, though this isnt true for everyone. You may need to keep a food diary to track which foods trigger your symptoms.

Many people with diabetes try to limit their sugar intake, so they instead opt for sugar substitutes. Unfortunately, many of these are linked to GI symptoms and may need to be avoided if you have both diabetes and IBS.

Sorbitol and xylitol are two sugar substitutes that have been linked to GI symptoms. A good substitute for people with IBS and diabetes is a natural sweetener known as stevia.

You may be able to alleviate symptoms of both diabetes and IBS by making the following changes to your diet and lifestyle:

IBS may make it difficult for your body to digest food at a normal rate. Because of this, blood sugar levels may be unpredictable after a meal. Checking your blood sugar levels before and after a meal can help you determine how your body responds.

Both constipation, which is too few bowel movements, and diarrhea, which is frequent, loose bowel movements, are common in people with diabetes.

Its estimated that around 20 percent of people with diabetes experience frequent diarrhea, while up to 60 percent of people with diabetes experience constipation.

Fecal incontinence, a loss of bowel control, may also occur in people with diabetes.

Gastroparesis is a digestive condition characterized by delayed gastric emptying. This means that food stays in the stomach for too long rather than moving into the small intestine to be digested further.

Diabetes is the leading cause of gastroparesis. High blood sugar from diabetes can damage the vagus nerve the nerve that connects the brain to the gastrointestinal tract.

When this happens, the vagus nerve can no longer send messages that tell the stomach muscles to empty the stomach.

Symptoms of gastroparesis include:

Metformin is the most widely used oral type 2 diabetes medication. People newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are often prescribed metformin to manage their blood sugar.

Some people who start taking metformin experience side effects in the digestive tract like diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal pain. These symptoms typically go away over time as the body adjusts to the medication. You can reduce these effects by taking metformin with a meal.

You should see your doctor if youre experiencing frequent diarrhea or constipation or both, or youre having trouble managing your blood sugar levels with diet, exercise, and medications.

A medical professional will want to know about your symptoms and any medications that youre taking.

If you have diabetes, IBS symptoms like diarrhea, constipation, and bloating could mean that blood sugars are not under control. Long-term, this can lead to nerve damage in the GI tract.

However, these symptoms could also be tied to eating certain foods, consuming sugar alcohols, or taking certain diabetes medications, such as metformin.

See a medical professional if youre experiencing frequent diarrhea or constipation or having trouble managing your blood sugar levels. The earlier you treat diabetes, the less likely youll be to develop more serious complications, such as nerve damage and gastroparesis.

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Transgender athletes and the impact on sports | State | tiogapublishing.com – The Wellsboro Gazette

Posted: April 9, 2021 at 1:46 am

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Researchers have attempted to quantify in recent years what, if any, advantage transgender athletes may have over their peers, and if this difference in ability is measurably greater than the natural physical variation that occurs among humans regardless of their sexual backstory.

The issue has taken on greater significance in Pennsylvania, as state lawmakers, including some locally, have introduced a bill that would effectively bar transgender women from competing in womens scholastic sports, arguing that they have inherent advantages.

The reality is significantly less clear-cut. A study published at the end of last year in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, for instance, found that transgender women retained a 12 percent advantage in distance running a year after starting hormone replacement therapy. But the study group consisted of individuals who began hormone therapy as adults while serving in the United States Air Force, limiting its usefulness for young athletes who started transitioning much earlier.

In litigation over Idaho House Bill 500which the Pennsylvania proposal mirrorsU.S. District Judge David Nye likewise noted that the key piece of data offered by proponents of the bill was a study that did not involve student athletes, but rather adults who were tested for proxies of athletic performance, such as muscle density before and after testosterone-suppressing therapy, and not performance in actual sports.

Although the connection between hormone levels and athletic performance is highly variable, athletic organizations have tried to create policies that generally assume testosterone correlates to athletic performance. The National Collegiate Athletic Association allows transgender women to compete as women as long as they have undergone testosterone suppression therapy for one year or more. The International Olympic Committee mandates athletes competing as women have testosterone levels below a certain limit in routine testing for at least one year prior to competition.

Midstate lawmakers use language from Idaho law to ban transgender athletes from women's sports

But at lower levels of competitiveness, such as the vast majority of high school sports, researchers have indicated that any edge gained by transgender athletes is highly situational and not one that requires governments to create one-size-fits-all definitions something that will create more problems for youth sports, not less, they say.

In an interview with NPR last month, for instance, geneticist Dr. Eric Vilain, one of the leading researchers on the issue, said he was a little disturbed to hear that these issues at the elite level are now reaching the middle and high schools and colleges, given that the advantages and disadvantages of transgender athletes are highly specific to certain sports at select levels of competition.

In his court opinion late last year, Nye also weighed the matter and found Idahos case to be lacking.

Ample evidence exists that forcing transgender women to compete as men is detrimental to their physical and psychological health, Nye wrote, let alone the risk that the implementation of the Idaho law would result in athletes being forced to endure a humiliating dispute process and/or invasive medical examination simply to play sports.

On the other hand, the claim that cisgender women, or women who identify with the sex with which they were born, were being denied opportunity because transgender women were participating alongside them was far more speculative, Nye wrote; a court would need to see empirical evidence that the Idaho laws advocates were unable to proffer.

In the absence of any empirical evidence that sex inequality or access to athletic opportunities are threatened by transgender women athletes in Idaho, the acts categorical bar against transgender women athletes participation appears unrelated to the interests the act purportedly advances, Nye wrote.

Because proponents fail to show that participation by transgender women athletes threatened sexual equality in sports or opportunities for women under these preexisting policies, the acts proffered justifications do not appear to overcome the inequality it inflicts on transgender women athletes, he continued.

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How many times, on average, have you opened your fridge and stared into it on any given day during COVID-19 lockdowns? Three? Five? Fifteen?

One year on, we're still spending most of our time at home, and often inactively, finding ourselves on our couch or bed with snacks in hand due to boredom. As terrible as these habits are, they are hard to break. This "new lifestyle" not only causes your clothes to fit a little snugger, but it could also gradually slow down your metabolism. Although it is wrong to immediately blame weight gain on a slow metabolism, an unhealthy diet and getting insufficient physical activity could contribute to metabolic slowdown.

If you have found yourself gaining weight unhealthily and seem to be having difficulty losing it, it may be time for some lifestyle changes.

So what part does your metabolism play in weight loss?

Metabolism is the process in which your body converts the foods and drinks you consume into energy to use to maintain bodily functions. Like a furnace, your body burns the calories, combined with oxygen, to heat or power up all of its systems.

And the number of calories your body needs to carry out basic functions such as breathing, growing or preparing cells and circulating blood, which continues even at rest, constitutes your basal metabolic rate. This is what most people would call metabolism, and it varies according to the individual. Your age, sex and body size are the main determinants of this number. For example, if you are a larger male, you require more calories to keep everything running, and therefore have a higher basal metabolic rate.

Your body composition can also play a role in this. Nutrition and Dietary Specialist Nur Ecem Bayd Ozman says that the higher the proportion of muscle tissue in your body compared to fat, the higher your metabolic rate will be.

As fat increases in the body, due to, say, inactivity and unhealthy eating habits or with age, the ratio of muscle in your body will decrease accordingly, resulting in your metabolic rate slowing down. "As a result, weight gain or difficulty in losing weight becomes inevitable," she says. Hormones can also dictate your metabolism.

Other than this, there are two other factors that determine how many calories you are able to burn each day. One of them is thermogenesis, or to put simply, the energy your body uses to digest, transport and absorb the foods and nutrients you consume. This equates to about 10% of your food intake. The second, meanwhile, is the calories your body uses during any physical movement or activity (household chores and fidgeting included) as well as exercise.

A person with a slow (or low) metabolism burns fewer calories both at rest and during activity, while a person with a fast (or high) metabolism burns more calories to support these functions. A fast metabolism will need more calories to maintain weight, while a slower metabolism could gain weight quicker if more calories are consumed as it needs less fuel (meaning calories) to run on.

Are there any ways you can get on the right track and perhaps give your metabolism a good headstart? Ozman shared eight tricks to accelerate your metabolism.

Ozman says proteins have what is referred to as "the thermal effect", which means that the energy spent while digesting them is higher than that of other food groups.

When you consume protein, the calories you burn increase as well as your calorie consumption. In addition, since proteins provide satiety for a long time, they should be included in your diet regularly." Ozman recommends including protein-rich foods such as eggs, yogurt, meat products and legumes during breakfast and either lunch or dinner.

"However, as protein-containing foods are generally very high in saturated fat, their excessive consumption can lead to cardiovascular diseases. So be careful not to exceed the ideal consumption amount," she warns.

Do not starve yourself for the sake of losing weight, say doctors, as you can do more harm than good. Long periods of hunger can slow your metabolism down because your body thinks it may be starving and it will try to ration its energy sources and start storing fat.

Here, we come across the importance of eating less and more often. If you get your daily calories at 4-6 more meals instead of 2 meals, your metabolic rate will increase," Ozman says.

When you follow extremely calorie-restricting diets, your body is deprived of the nutrients it needs to function properly, resulting in muscle loss. Muscle loss also results in a slowdown in metabolic rate. This can even backfire eventually, making it harder for you to maintain your weight or cause you to gain more.

The calories you need per day will be based on your age, sex, height, weight and activity status, says Ozman. "You need not to drop below 1,200 calories per day and make sure that the calories you consume are coming from the right food groups, rather than just counting calories."

Calorie-counting can also quickly turn into an obsession and lead to eating disorders. When in doubt, always enlist the help of a nutritionist or trained dietician to help you in your weight loss journey.

Drinking just 500 ml of water can increase the metabolic rate up by 30%. By consuming the recommended amount of water which is about 2-2.5 liters of water a day you can both increase your metabolic rate and reduce the risk of causing new problems to your parched body and cells.

Though physical activity cannot change the speed of your basal metabolism, it can help you burn more calories throughout the day, and the more you move, the more your burn. Don't forget that weight loss only happens when you burn more calories than you eat you need a calorific deficit. Although aerobic exercise such as walking, cycling or swimming is the most efficient way to burn calories, weight training is also important to build muscle.

Ozman says you should strive for 150-300 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise every week, which equates to at least 30 minutes of activity five days a week.

Iodine is an essential nutrient used in the synthesis of thyroid hormones and through this mechanism, it can indirectly impact the metabolism in the long term. Low iodine levels can slow your metabolism and lead to weight gain by encouraging food to be stored as fat.

In Turkey, due to insufficient iodine in water, soil and hence food, hypothyroid disease is prevalent. When your thyroid gland can't produce enough of the thyroid hormone, which is responsible for running your metabolism, it can lead to hypothyroidism. Ozman says adding more iodine to your diet could help reverse these effects, and help your body make more thyroid hormones.

Make sure that the salts you buy are fortified with iodine. Store the salt in dark-colored containers and away from light to preserve the iodine," she adds.

Caffeine, which is found in foods and beverages such as tea, coffee and chocolate, has been found to cause a measurable increase in basal metabolic rate, though studies have found that this effect wanes over time and is more apparent in younger populations. In obese people, it was found to have no considerable effect.

A healthy adult can consume up to 400 mg of caffeine daily. About a glass of Turkish black tea contains 50 mg of caffeine and a cup of coffee has 100 mg. However, over-consuming caffeine can also have negative effects such as diarrhea, heart palpitations and insomnia.

There are studies showing that green tea can help you burn more fat and lose weight. Though Ozman says, it can burn only about an additional 75100 calories per day, which shouldn't be labeled as miraculous.

Green tea can create a meaningful effect when combined with other positive factors such as physical activity, adequate protein and energy intake. About one cup of green tea also contains 30-50 mg of caffeine," she said.

There are studies showing that the substance called capsaicin in red peppers can slightly speed up metabolism through diet-induced thermogenesis. The way it does this is that during consumption, it raises the heat inside of the body, causing you to burn a few more calories.

But Ozman warns against reading too much into it. Consuming yogurt with chili flakes or adding spices to meals won't significantly accelerate your metabolic rate, she warns, adding: "Consuming too much spice can have negative effects on gastrointestinal health in the long term."

Use them in moderation and benefit from their flavor, instead of considering them a fat burner or metabolism accelerator, she says.

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