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hCG Treatments / Diet Doc Announces the Addition of a New Fat Burning Supplement for Extreme Weight Loss Diet Results

Posted: August 6, 2012 at 7:17 pm

Miami, FL (PRWEB) August 06, 2012

hCG Treatments / Diet Doc Weight Loss announces another layer to their extreme weight loss arsenal with the addition of a Lipotropic, a doctor designed supplement to burn fat. Lipotropics (lipo = fat, tropic = to move) add another layer to their already successful diet plan, giving their clients another tool in their weight loss program where their client report weight loss results of up to a pound a day. A combination of powerful ingredients such as Carnitine and B12 give the bodys fat burning furnace a boost. This is great to either treat a plateau or just speed up an already successful program giving the extreme results dieters are looking for without taking extreme measures.

The Nations growing obesity problem has spawned an industry of fad diets, none of which address the very basic need of nutrition in their weight loss diet plan. These types of diets ignore the need to fuel the body in pursuit of extreme weight loss results. Diet Doc Weight Loss has added a Lipotropic to their already successful diet plan as an alternative to these often dangerous options.

Even infamous diet programs that encourage people to assign food points and stop at a given amount dont address the need to use food as fuel. Every system in the human body requires nutrition to operate. Eliminating that nutrition can lead to system failure and illnesses. Any diet that says yeah go ahead and eat that piece of pizza, but stop eating after that is not addressing the fundamentals of weight loss.

A person looking for extreme weight loss results has to be careful not to get caught up in fad diets, warns Diet Doc CEO, Julie Wright.

FamilyDoctor.org, a publication of the American Academy of Family Physicians, for example proclaims that fad diets "typically don't result in long-term weight loss and they are usually not very healthy. In fact, some of these diets can actually be dangerous to your health."

hCG Treatments / Diet Doc weight loss makes it their mission to bring amazing weight loss tools to the public. The lipotropics ar ejust the latest addition in a line of products that anyone can use to acheive the results they want.

At hCG Treatments / Diet Doc Weight Loss the medically supervised diet plan is simple. The doctors at hCG Treatments/ Diet Doc have come up with an hCG Diet plan that allows your body to convert the stored energy (fat) to fuel, and by eliminating other easy fuel sources extra carbohydrates, sugars and fats, but still providing basic nutrition so the inches literary melt away at a rate that rivals any intrusive weight loss surgery out there, without the dangers of going under the knife.

In a world flooded with Fad diets and extreme weight loss measures, medically supervised hCG Treatments / Diet Doc Weight Loss has come up with an alternative. The New Lipotropics provide safe, amazing results.

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Forget about 'magic bullet' for weight loss

Posted: August 5, 2012 at 11:11 am

Luis Rustveld can offer help but no shortcuts for losing weight.

"There is no magic bullet," he says.

But the past decade has given people on the front lines - Rustveld is a dietitian and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine - as well as those afraid to step on the bathroom scale unprecedented insight into why losing weight, and keeping it off, has become one of the country's most complicated public health problems.

This summer alone, the Food and Drug Administration has approved two new weight-loss drugs, the first in more than a dozen years. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended doctors screen all patients for obesity and refer for treatment those who qualify, an acknowledgment of the health risks carried by the additional pounds.

Scientists understand the disease is not as simple as they once believed.

"In the past, it was that simple paradigm of calories in and calories out. Now it's not," said microbiologist Cynthia Chappell, a professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. "You have to understand all of the factors that go into this epidemic of obesity."

But the additional knowledge hasn't slowed the rate at which Americans are packing on the pounds. Two-thirds of people in the United States are overweight or obese, with all of the health problems that brings: Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, sleep apnea and more.

Breaking a streak

Calories still matter, and so far no drug can change that.

But the right drugs can jump-start a weight-loss program, and the FDA's approval this summer of two weight-loss pills breaks a cautious streak brought about in the late 1990s by evidence that the wildly popular "fen-phen" combination caused heart valve damage and primary pulmonary hypertension. Fenfluramine and phentermine were pulled from the market, although phentermine is one of two drugs used to create the just-approved Qsymia.

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Many new diet books avoid food extremes

Posted: August 5, 2012 at 12:10 am

It's too late to lose that unwanted weight for summer. But if you start now and aim to shed a modest 2 pounds a week you could drop as much as 40 pounds in time to ring in 2013.

The hardest part, however, might be choosing a new diet. This season's crop of cookbooks includes a whiplash-inducing array of advice. For every book urging you on to eat: More carbs! More protein! More fat! there's another seemingly well-reasoned argument to do the opposite. As if this isn't confusing enough, there's a new bogeyman on the diet scene: gluten.

The naturally occurring protein found in wheat, barley and some other grains is being blamed for a variety of health woes, including gut unrest, inflammation and those love handles. (People who suffer from a gluten intolerance such as celiac disease must shun it for far less glamorous reasons.)

Among the highest-profile proponents of a gluten-free diet? Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus. Kardashian set the Internet on fire earlier this year when she tweeted a sexy photo of her famous curves, crediting a gluten-free approach. The newly engaged Cyrus has slimmed down so much in recent months that some tabloids have begun whispering about an eating disorder. Cyrus, however, says she's healthier than ever after adopting a new diet and a Pilates-inspired exercise regimen to get her ready for the altar.

Of course, it's not exactly surprising that people lose weight on a gluten-free diet. Eating gluten-free often means slashing plenty of high-calorie breads, cakes and cookies.

There is one consensus among the most popular new diet books on the market: They are largely free of food extremes. All emphasize the need to scrutinize food labels and ditch chemical-laden products in favor of fresh fruits and vegetables, lean proteins and healthy fats. Dig in:

"Eat to Live": If you need to be scared straight about your health, this book is for you. Dr. Joel Fuhrman makes a powerful case that Americans are courting cancer and disease by the forkful. He urges ditching low-calorie diets and piling the dinner plate high with nutrient-dense fruits and raw veggies. You certainly won't be hungry. Sample dinner: Fish fillets with mango salsa, kale with cashew cream sauce, rice and chocolate cherry "ice cream" made from almond milk.

"It Starts With Food": Need some tough love cleaning up a lousy diet? This is your drill sergeant. Dallas and Melissa Hartwig ask that you enlist in their 30-day boot camp dump the processed junk and embrace whole foods and you'll emerge a brand-new person. It would be hard to be hungry on this diet: You're encouraged to eat plenty. Recipes such as Asian stir fries, frittatas and soups are ultra simple and encourage creative substitutions based on what you and your family enjoy.

"The Manhattan Diet": Dieting has never been so fabulous. Eileen Daspin adopts an everything-in-moderation approach as she name-drops her way through living, dining and dieting on the world's chicest island. Ditch the unfulfilling junk, she says, in favor of celeb-chef recipes such as a Mario Batali fennel-and-arugula salad and Eric Ripert's grilled salmon with a ponzu vinaigrette. Plus: You have to love a diet book with a whole chapter dedicated to cheating.

"Paleoista": The paleo diet meets fashionista, courtesy of Los Angeles' Nell Stephenson. Ditch flours, sugar, grains and dairy. What's left, you say? Steak and eggs for breakfast. Seared sea bass with a coconut curry sauce or sun-dried tomato-and-basil stuffed tenderloin for dinner.

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Healthy Minute: Can diet soda cause weight gain?

Posted: August 3, 2012 at 6:15 pm

Diet soda sounds like an easy way to cut calories, but new research shows it may not be good for weight loss, according to everydayhealth.com. Studies show that diet soda may not be any better for you than regular soda. In fact, it may even be worse.

Recent literature suggests that those who drink diet soda weigh more than those who dont. That shouldnt surprise anyone. Does diet soda cause weight gain? I think that is the wrong question. I dont think people should drink diet soda, whether they have weight problems or not, says Darwin Deen, MD, senior attending physician at Montefiore Medical Centers Department of Family and Social Medicine in the Bronx, New York.

Of top concern, drinking diet soda has been linked to developing metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a group of conditions that include expanding waist size, increased blood pressure, elevated triglycerides, lower levels of good cholesterol, and high fasting blood sugar levels. Having three or more of these findings increases your risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Here are some other research findings you should know about diet soda:

According to the San Antonio Heart Study, the more diet sodas you drink, the greater the chance that you will be overweight or obese. For each diet soda you drink there is a 65 percent increase in your risk of becoming overweight.

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My lifelong diet

Posted: August 3, 2012 at 7:11 am

Once, when I was nine years old, my older sisterthen 15invited me to her room. This in itself was an honor and a privilege, but today there was something even better: Kira was about to embark on a disciplined but rewarding diet of fat-free foods, and she wanted to know if I would join her. We would be partners! We would support each other, encourage each other,lose weighttogether! There would be challenges, of course, but together, we would succeed.

The first step, Kira explained, was to eliminate existing temptations, such as the great stock of Halloween candy currently occupying a corner of my bedroom closet. It wouldnt do to try to ignore it, or to save a small selection for later, or even to enjoy one final fun-size Milky Way. The candy must go.

I complied without hesitation. I did not pause to consider the fact that this was by far the largest supply of treats I had ever amassed. I did not linger on the memory of shuffling through the streets of suburban Portland for hours, dressed as a housewife in slippers and robe, in the rain. I did not immediately recall growing steadily colder and more miserable as I followed my brother Gabe from door to door in his relentless and dogged pursuit of a full pillowcase, or the descent into hypothermia, or lying in bed later that night, shivering uncontrollably while my mother buried me under a heap of blankets.

I didnt think of any of that. I toted my stash to the garage, breathed in the sweet confusion of all its artificial scents one last time, and emptied my pillowcase into the trash.

In family lore, that day is remembered as the time Gabe got caught digging through the garbage for Emilys candy, but in my personal history, it also marked the beginning of a long and inglorious legacy of dieting. Im embarrassed enough of this history that I might actually have managed to forget it, except that much of it is written down in a diary I somehow still have.

The diary begins in seventh grade, two years after my first adventure in dieting. In one entry from that year, I make a pact with myself to lose 15 pounds in three weeks. A few days later, I confess that I need some motivation to help shed the pounds and hope that being around my best friend will help:We were carrying eachother(sic)around on our backs and she is so much lighter than me! I felt so bad and fat and slobby maybe Ill be able to stay away from everything that tastes good now.

Of course, like most people, I always reallylikedeverything that tastes good. Once, around first grade, I spent the night at my friend Kathleens house and woke to the smell of bacon. When I sat down at the kitchen table, Kathleens mom put a full plate of glistening, curling red-gold strips in front of me. Soon, Kathleens older sister came in and asked, Wheres the bacon? The mom looked from the empty plate to me to her daughter, who said, She ateallthe bacon?

I was not, in other words, a naturally talented dieter. But after a few dozen false starts in the middle school years, I discovered a trick that made it easy to stay away from everything that tastes good. All I had to do was remember four words:

Food is the Enemy.

As an adult who hopes to someday raise children of my own, the fact that I learned this trick from my momwho is an extraordinary human being and an amazing motherterrifies me. She had not intended to instill in me a fear, animosity, and distrust of food. She told me, in her characteristically open and honest way, about her own struggle with anorexiahow refusing to eat had been a prolonged act of teenage defiance and rebellion; how it had given her the feeling of agency and the illusion of control.

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Most on Gluten-Free Diet Don't Have Celiac Disease

Posted: August 3, 2012 at 7:11 am

Most on Gluten-Free Diets Don't Have Celiac Disease, Study Shows

By Brenda Goodman, MA WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Aug. 1, 2012 -- For a lot of people, gluten-free diets are more trend than treatment, a new study shows.

The study estimates that 1.8 million Americans have celiac disease. Another 1.6 million are on gluten-free diets, the recommended treatment for celiac disease. Yet there's almost no overlap between the two groups.

"So here' we've got this kind of irony where those who need to be on [a gluten-free diet] aren't on it, because they don't know they have it. And those who are on it probably don't need to be on it, at least from a medical point of view," says researcher Joseph A. Murray, MD, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "It's a little frustrating."

The study is based on data collected through the government's NHANES survey, which takes regular snapshots of the health of the U.S. population.

Celiac disease is a disorder that's triggered by eating gluten, a protein found in grains like wheat, barley, and rye.

Some people with celiac disease have no symptoms. Others experience non-specific complaints like chronic fatigue, depression, brain fog, abdominal pain, weight loss, anemia, diarrhea, and other stomach problems.

Along with using the survey data, the researchers also used blood tests to screen nearly 8,000 people, ages 6 and up, for antibodies against the gluten protein. Those who showed gluten antibodies were given another test to look for proteins that indicate the body is attacking itself. A total of 35 people were considered to have celiac disease.

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Modest weight loss can have lasting health benefits, research shows

Posted: August 3, 2012 at 7:10 am

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Contact: Audrey Hamilton ahamilton@apa.org 407-685-5400 American Psychological Association

ORLANDO, Fla. Overweight and obese individuals can achieve a decade's worth of important health benefits by losing just 20 pounds, even if they regain the weight later that decade, according to research presented at the American Psychological Association's 120th Annual Convention. With a focus on psychology's role in overcoming the national obesity epidemic, the session also examined research that indicates foods high in sugar and fat could have addictive properties.

Rena Wing, PhD, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University's Alpert Medical School and director of the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, R.I., presented the latest in behavioral treatments for obesity in an address. Kelly Brownell, PhD, director of Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, cited some of the latest findings about food addiction in his talk. Brownell and Wing were keynote speakers for the convention's opening session.

"Obesity is the No. 1 health challenge facing our country today," APA President Suzanne Bennett Johnson said in introducing Wing and Brownell. "These psychologists have each contributed greatly in combating the obesity epidemic in different ways, one on the individual patient level and the other on the public policy level."

Johnson presented APA Awards for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology to Wing and Brownell for their pioneering work in obesity research.

Wing referred to her work from the Diabetes Prevention Program, a national study of 3,000 overweight people with impaired glucose tolerance who were shown how to change their behavior rather than given drugs. It showed that even modest weight loss, an average of 14 pounds, reduced people's risk of developing Type 2 diabetes by 58 percent, she said. What's more, the health benefits of this weight loss lasted up to 10 years, even if people gained the weight back over this time, she said. Participants in the program practiced basic behavioral strategies to help them lose weight, including tracking everything they ate and reducing the amount of unhealthy foods they kept in their home, she said. They also met with coaches frequently and increased their physical activity over the course of the study.

"Helping people find ways to change their eating and activity behaviors and developing interventions other than medication to reinforce a healthy lifestyle have made a huge difference in preventing one of the major health problems in this country," Wing said in an interview. "Weight losses of just 10 percent of a person's body weight (or about 20 pounds in those who weigh 200 pounds) have also been shown to have a long-term impact on sleep apnea, hypertension and quality of life, and to slow the decline in mobility that occurs as people age."

Wing is leading a 13-year trial of 5,000 people with Type 2 diabetes. This study is testing whether an intensive behavioral intervention can decrease the risk of heart disease and heart attacks. "We are trying to show that behavior changes not only make people healthier in terms of reducing heart disease risk factors but actually can make them live longer," she said.

Changing food policy is another prevention approach where behavioral science is addressing the U.S. obesity epidemic, according to Brownell. "We need to be courageous in establishing policies that address obesity and we need to use science to better inform public policy," he said in an interview.

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Diet plans Pippa Middleton Weight Loss 2012 Pippa Middleton

Posted: August 3, 2012 at 7:10 am

Diet plans Pippa Middleton Weight Loss 2012 Pippa Middleton - Isn't amazing how all of the celebrities you see have a celebrity diet plan for weight loss to maintain their weight. Some of them are shapely and healthy looking, and look good on camera. Others look like they haven't eaten in weeks, like they just got back from the famine in Ethiopia for a few weeks. Like they had been starving themselves to lose weight, and that is probably what they have been doing. You see it in all the tabloids, this person lost 100 pounds again, this one gained 100 pounds, and then lost 150 pounds. Some are not as dramatic; this one lost 40 pounds and is a television spokesperson, because the previous celebrity diet spokesperson gained the weight back. The fact is they may be starving themselves to lose weight, fasting like they are going through a famine.

Celebrities make dieting look so easy, don't they? One month they're on the cover of US Weekly for gaining too much weight and the next they're headlining the "sexiest beach bods" story. It is true that seriously overweight people can lose large amounts of fat in a quick amount of time, because of the large fat content in their cells. But those that are only a few pounds overweight, losing 40 pounds in a month, is not only starvation, it is malnutrition and can have serious side effects. Our body weight can fluctuate day to day and the best diets take the weight off gradually, the way it came on.

Researches indicate that individuals who indulge in a weight loss program by taking prepared meals end up losing an additional 31% weight as against those who cook their own meals. With help, losing weight is made easier and at times much faster as against doing it on your own.Diet delivery is gaining popularity in a big way as it is fairly affordable by even the common man, roughly around $20 a day with an increasing variety to choose from. A few of which include: Zone-compliant meal, low carbs plan, veggie meals, and gourmet too.

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With the rapidly increasing epidemic of obesity and increasing BMI levels, there is an array of products and diet plan to aid in combating obesity. Celebrity slim diet, the basic idea is to educate people and not to depict food as an enemy. Like a lot of famous diets in Hollywood, if your body thinks you are starving, it is going to hold on to every calorie you take in to keep you from starving to death instead of burning them for energy. When you follow a properly balanced weight loss diet, your metabolism will hardly notice the decrease in calories and continue to burn fat it doesn't need to store. This is a more long-term weight loss strategy.

Celebrities do not have secrets about dieting. They are normal people like the rest of us but, unlike most of us, they have people working for them such as diet advisors and personal trainers. Celebrity diets involve a level of commitment and dedication which we struggle with. The best celebrity diets involve eating sensibly and limiting our calorie intake. Having these factors in mind will allow you to have safe and easy weight loss that will provide you with short term and long term consistent results.

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Weight And See: Many Americans Have Trouble Gauging Their Weight

Posted: August 3, 2012 at 7:10 am

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These are many factors that can affect weight gain or weight loss and the fluctuation of weight can be difficult to track. Researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics (IHME) at the University of Washington recently discovered that a large percentage of people in the U.S. arent aware if they are gaining or losing weight.

According to the IHME, obesity has increased between 2008 and 2009 in the U.S. However, in a public health survey conducted on weight changes from year-to-year, people stated that they had lost weight. The researchers determined that men werent as accurate in estimating weight changes as women, and older adults werent as perceptive as younger people. The results of the study are featured in an article in the August edition of Preventive Medicine.

If people arent in touch with their weight and changes in their weight over time, they might not be motivated to lose weight, explained Dr. Catherine Wetmore, the lead author on the paper, in a prepared statement. Misreporting of weight gains and losses also has policy implications. If we had relied on the reported data about weight change between 2008 and 2009, we would have undercounted approximately 4.4 million obese adults in the US.

Due to the rise in obesity, there have been a few public health campaigns that have encouraged people to lose weight and decrease risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, or other chronic disorders. Researchers wanted to better understand if patients were taking action. As such, they produced a project that would look at self-reported changes in body weight from 2008 to 2009.

Wetmore, a former Post-Graduate fellow at IHME and currently a biostatician at Childrens National Medical Center, teamed up with IMHE Professor Dr. Ali Mokdad in the study. They included data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), which analyzes risk factors for morbidity and mortality nationwide by surveying adults in the U.S. Over 775,000 participants took the survey and answered questions regarding their weight, such as their weight the day of the interview and their weight a year before the interview.

Based on the findings, the investigators discovered that adults in the U.S. gained weight over the study period. However, the 2009 study participants reported that they had lost weight the year before. Going off of the self-reported weights, obesity should have decreased between 2008 and 2009. The opposite occurred, with obesity increasing from 26 percent to 26.5 percent. The average weight also increased one pound per person during the study period.

We all know on some level that people can be dishonest about their weight, noted Mokdad in the statement. But now we know that they can be misreporting annual changes in their weight, to the extent of more than two pounds per year among adults over the age of 50, or more than four pounds per year among those with diabetes. On average, American adults were off by about a pound, which, over time, can really add up and have a significant health impact.

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Heart campaigns a 'waste of money'

Posted: August 2, 2012 at 4:10 am

DIET and exercise campaigns are so ineffective at preventing heart disease that they should be abandoned and replaced with strict regulation of salt levels in food combined with wider medication use, a study has found.

Pushing the public to change risky diet and exercise habits was a waste of money that had a ''trivial'' effect on improving population health, according to Linda Cobiac, a research fellow with the University of Queensland's school of public health who led a joint-university study into the effectiveness of cardiovascular disease prevention methods.

Heavy-handed food industry regulation by the government combined with more aggressive prescribing of heart drugs would be cheaper and save more lives than lifestyle counselling, she said, because most people found it hard to sustain exercise and diet programs long term.

''Instead, addressing high levels of salt hidden in processed foods is a very good way to subtly lower blood pressure across the whole population,'' Dr Cobiac said. ''It leads to sustained improvements in people's health and to very large reductions in the costs of treating cardiovascular disease down the track.''

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The research published online by the Public Library of Science also included Deakin University in Melbourne and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in the US. It found $4.2 billion could be saved in healthcare expenditure annually if salt limits were imposed on foods, cholesterol-lowering drugs were made more affordable and preventive drugs were given to those with a 5 per cent or higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease within five years.

Current Australian guidelines recommend drugs as a first-line approach only for those with a 15 per cent or higher risk of developing the disease.

The senior director of the George Institute for Global Health, Bruce Neal, said he agreed with the findings but added the government had a ''hands-off'' approach to food industry regulation.

''The last thing the government wants is a battle with another industry group, but if there is any industry it should be having a battle with at the moment it is the food industry,'' Professor Neal said. ''The primary cause of bad health in Australia is the food industry and unless the government takes a firm hand and puts in regulation of salt in food, nothing is going to change.''

Although many people tried to adopt public health messages such as ''eat less salt'', they were doomed to failure because it was impossible to easily tell which foods were high in salt, he said.

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