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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:22 pm
If making healthy eating choices was easy, our fridges would be covered with gold stars. But even the best eating intentions get derailed on a daily basis. Why? According to a new poll of more than 1,000 women by ShopSmart magazine, four obstacles in particular make eating well harder than it needs to be. Lucky for you, ladies, weve rounded up the best ways to combat each diet-busting excuse:
1. Excuse: Healthy foods are too expensive. More than half of the women polled said cost was the reason they dont eat healthy foods.
Busted! Popular to contrary belief, eating fresh produce and other healthy foods actually costs less than foods high in fat, sugar, and salt, finds a new study from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Comparing the cost of foods by weight or portion size shows that grains, vegetables, fruit, and dairy foods are less expensive than junk foods. Add in the countless benefits of eating healthy foods, and youve got a price than cant be beat. Check out our advice on how to slash your grocery bill the healthy way.
2. Excuse: Lunch just isnt a healthy meal to eat. Seventy-two percent of women said lunch was their least healthy meal of the day.
Busted! Acing your lunchtime meal is all about thinking ahead; its making decisions on the flywhen youre hungry and likely stressedthat gets you into trouble. "Have your go-to thing, said Keri Glassman, author of Slim Calm Sexy Diet. For people in an office, have your three go-to restaurants, and have two meals at each place you know are healthythat way, your healthy choices are already mapped out," she said. Another smart option is bringing your lunch from home. Make it after dinner, said Glassman, so you're not hungry and it's not an impulse decision." For more ways to guarantee healthy lunch success, check out our lunchtime meal planner.
3. Excuse: My friends made me do it. Forty-seven percent of women say social temptations are a barrier to eating healthy, and 44% say theyre more likely to eat poorly when theyre with people compared to eating alone.
Busted! No question, it can be hard to stick to your healthy eating plan when your buddies are downing dinner rolls by the half-dozen. But with a little pre-dinner planning, you can save a girls night out from being a diet disaster. Start by having a snack beforehand (so you wont dive headfirst into the first appetizer you see), and check out the menu online to make your selection before peer pressure can take hold. Find more advice with this guide to dining out wisely.
4. Excuse: I cant curb my cravings. If the bakery aisle of the grocery store calls your name a little too loudly, youre in good company: 63% of women admit to having regular cravingswith the number one culprit being chocolate.
Busted! What should you do the next time a craving hits? I always tell people, don't eat around a craving," said Glassman. Instead, find a healthy way to enjoy it. For example, if chocolate is what youre jonesing for, have a green tea latte with an ounce of dark chocolate, she says. Or try a couple squares of dark chocolate in your Greek yogurt, so you're getting calcium and protein, too." Follow these six other tips for keeping cravings in check.
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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
GRAND RAPIDS, MI Just when you'd become familiar with your now-detoured drive to work around the construction on Fulton Street and U.S. 131, this happens.
Plainfield Avenue is slated to close for three months this coming Monday, June 11, between Leonard and Ann streets for $1.7 million worth of storm sewer work and resurfacing, as well as installation of a one-of-a-kind storm water filtration system. The work is expected to conclude in early September.
The project also makes Plainfield Avenue the latest major city thoroughfare to undergo a "road diet," reducing the avenue's number of drivable lanes. City leaders have argued the diets slow traffic and create safer conditions for motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists and other users.
(Other streets to be put on a diet include Division Avenue and Burton Street, the latter being a controversial choice for local businesses.)
The Plainfield diet, once finished, will create one lane in each direction between Leonard and Ann streets, with a center turn lane broken only by the seven bioretention islands.
The lengthy project will detour through traffic throughout its duration, although local access is expected to be maintained for businesses and residents.
The project's first phase will close Plainfield between Lafayette and Ann streets, with a second phase expected to close Plainfield between Leonard and Quimby. Construction will resurface Plainfield and upgrade Creston Neighborhood sanitary and storm sewer systems. Water main work also is scheduled, as is work on sidewalks.
Its centerpiece, though, will be construction of seven bioretention islands, a unique storm water filtration system that will be the first of its kind in Grand Rapids. The islands vary in size and will be situated down the middle of Plainfield Avenue once complete.
The islands will contain special flora, trees and soil designed to filter out pollutants from storm water before it hits the Grand River.
They largely are being paid for by $152,000 in donations drummed up by Creston Neighborhood residents and local community foundations.
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More traffic: Plainfield Avenue closes next week to go on 'diet,' get unique green technology under $1.7 million project
Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
7 June 2012 Last updated at 12:18
A team of Japanese scientists have come up with a new invention that could be the answer to our greedy appetites.
If you put on a pair of their 'diet goggles', your food looks a lot bigger than it actually is in real life.
The goggles trick the person wearing them into thinking they can't manage to eat food that's so massive!
During experiments, the scientists found that when the goggles made the biscuit look twice as big, the users ate a tenth less.
They also tried it the other way, making food look about a third smaller with the goggles - and people ate more!
The scientists at the University of Toyko say the idea does seem to work.
It's early days for the research and the goggles won't be going on sale just yet.
But Professor Michitaka Hirose, whose team invented the goggles, says he hopes people wanting to lose weight could use them in the future.
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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
Tokyo University professor Michitaka Hirose and his team developed goggles that make cookies appear bigger to help users' diet. (Yoshikazu Tsuno / AFP/GettyImages / June 6, 2012)
June 7, 2012, 7:40 a.m.
You've tried Atkins. You've tried South Beach. Now try the goggle diet.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have invented a pair of goggles that may help people lose weight by making it look like what they are eating is bigger than it is.
Put on the goggles and suddenly a normal-size Oreo looks like it's the size of a doughnut, and a doughnut looks the size of a personal pizza.
"There is this idea that depending on whether the size or portions are big and small, the amount of food people consume changes," said Michitaka Hirose in a YouTube video. "So we thought it would be interesting to try out the concept using computers."
The computerized goggles use an algorithm that lets them magnify the size of the food while keeping the hand holding it the actual size. That's what makes the food appear to be so much bigger. And the wearer of the goggles only sees the altered image.
The goggles look pretty clunky, but apparently they work. In experiments at Hirose's lab, volunteers ate nearly 10% fewer cookies when the cookies appeared to be 50% bigger, according to a report by AFP.
The goggles can also work for those who need to put on a few pounds. When the size of the cookies appeared to be two-thirds of their real size, volunteers ate 15% more.
Hirose has no plans to start selling his diet glasses, and they do seem a bit cumbersome and impractical for real-life use. However, we're wondering if down the road a similar product might be available for Google Glasses, and whether there might be other uses for this size-altering technology.
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Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
Where other shows feature teams of experts, here the focus is just two people. The trainer, Chris Powell, and his client. Chris Powell vaulted to fame when he helped out David Smith, who at the time was 630 pounds. He lost 401 pounds over 26 months to end up at 229 pounds. After the rounds of media, Chris was soon offered his own TV show to do the same with other morbidly obese people.
As a sad side note, David Smith has since gained 300 of those pounds back. So it was not a permanent weight loss.
So, on to his current projects. In each case Chris sets out a year goal, helps the person get started, and then stays in contact with them while they do the rest on their own.
The episode we watched featured Tony Mims, a 49 year old man who weighed 398 pounds. He was planning to get married and wanted to start his new life with a healthier body.
Tony certainly had a lot to shoulder. He had left his two alcoholic parents at age 14. One of his children has cerebral palsy and passed away during the year of effort. He broke up with his girlfriend, too, which left him homeless. He was unemployed.
I watched this with my boyfriend. We've both seen Biggest Loser for many years as well as numerous other documentaries on weight loss. So we are quite familiar with the style of show.
Our first impression was that Chris was not as comfortable as other hosts with the supportive language. There were several times that we cringed at the way he phrased something. He would say "don't listen to your body" which goes against much of what we believe in. We would say you should always listen to your body - and then objectively evaluate its message.
Also, I was not enthusiastic about the idea that Chris would pummel him for 90 days then abandon him. Chris didn't even know where the guy was half the time. Tony absolutely gets a lot of credit for plowing through the project on his own - but I'm not comfortable with that idea. I think ongoing support is important.
It also felt that the show turned into a soap opera, not about the weight loss, but about traumas and troubles. We got barely a minute about how to eat healthy foods which mostly seemed a promotion for the resort center. There was a glimpse of Chris telling Tony to run on the treadmill. But really that was it.
As an example, Tony's fiance clearly had some weight issues of her own. And Chris knew it was important to include her - but he never did. Instead, she ended up feeling alienated. It wasn't fair to expect Tony to know how to include her - he was in serious trouble himself. He was just keeping his own head out of the water. So Tony's fiance was imperfect of her handling of the stress, certainly - but the end result is that Tony left her and promptly started seeing someone else. Judging by comments at the funeral there wasn't much time between the two. If I was the fiance I'd be pretty disappointed watching this episode, how they are fairly snarky about her and she has no way to respond or present her side.
Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
Waist Size Signals Increased Risk of Diabetes
Measuring your waist circumference could help gauge your risk for developing type 2 diabetes. Doctors have long used body mass index, a measurement of body fat based on height and weight, to determine patients' diabetes risk, but adding waist circumference makes those predictions more accurate, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal PLoS Medicine. While BMI doesn't make any distinction between different kinds of fat, waist circumference identifies visceral fat in the abdomen, which has the strongest link to diabetes. It's not affected by fat in the arms, thighs, or any other part of the body. The study authors found that, among women, diabetes risk was more closely associated with waist size than with BMI, HealthDay reports. The findings suggest that, if doctors paid more attention to waist size, they could refer high-risk patients to weight-loss and diabetes-prevention programs.
Safe Weight-Loss Tips for Wedding Season
Over the years, brides-to-be have taken drastic measures to lose weight ahead of the Big Day: drinking a concoction of lemon juice, water, syrup, and cayenne pepper, wiring their mouths shut, and taking a pregnancy hormone while following the 500-calorie hCG diet.
But a feeding tube?
Yes, indeed. News media were abuzz recently with stories of brides resorting to the K-E Diet, in which a feeding tube funnels a slow drip of 800 calories of protein, water, and fatno carbs from the nose, down the esophagus, and into a person's stomach each day for 10 days. The draw: Patients can lose up to 20 pounds, says Oliver Di Pietro, a Florida-based internal medicine physician who charges $1,500 for the plan. One bride, his patient, reportedly had the tube removed after eight days because she had already lost the weight she wanted.
Medical and nutrition professionals immediately responded. "Rapid weight loss increases the risk of heart arrhythmias, dehydration, and electrolyte disturbances," says Ethan Lazarus, a family doctor in Denver who specializes in obesity medicine. Shedding pounds this quickly, he says, makes it likely that you will lose more lean body mass and water than fat. This can slow metabolism and result in an instant regain of weight once you go off the diet. "You may gain more than you lost," says Lazarus. Other effects include shrunken fingers and feet and a drooping facewhich can result in a loose wedding ring, flopping shoes, and a blushing bride with a dull expression, he says. And while the risk of inserting a feeding tube is small, Lazarus notes the possibility of lacerations in the sinuses (the tube goes down through the nose) and the esophagus, and some brides may experience vomiting and nausea. [Read more: Safe Weight-Loss Tips for Wedding Season]
Trouble Trying to Conceive? This May Be Why
Girl meets boy. Girl marries boy. Girl and boy have a baby. For many folks, this is how they envision their life will beor at least some sort of semblance of these milestone eventsbut for a large number of people, this has become an unattainable reality. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 7.3 million women between the ages of 15 and 44 suffer from infertility, which is defined as the inability to get pregnant after six to 12 months of trying. And while a woman's increasing age is the most familiar reason for this conditionmore and more women are waiting to have childrenresearchers are discovering that there are new and once-unconsidered factors at play. And men are not exempt from this pregnancy problem, as one-third of infertility issues stem from the male partner. Here are some of the latest findings and what doctors say you can do in response to them.
1. Move in moderation and watch your weight. We all know that movement does the body good, but recent research suggests that too much of a good thing can be a hindrance. A study published in March in Fertility and Sterility revealed that normal-weight womanthose with a body mass index (BMI) under 25who engaged in vigorous exercise like running, swimming, and aerobics for five or more hours a week were 42 percent less likely to get pregnant than women who did not exercise at all. "Very vigorous exercise can affect ovulation, and thereby disrupt menstrual cycles," says Jessica Scotchie, a reproductive endocrinologist practicing in Chattanooga, Tenn. "The pituitary gland interprets the strenuous exercise as meaning that this is not an optimal time to further stress the body with reproduction, and thus shuts down the signaling to the ovary to promote ovulation." Researchers also add that extreme exercise could affect implantation, a fertilized egg's ability to attach to the inside of the uterus. [Read more: Trouble Trying to Conceive? This May Be Why]
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Health Buzz: Waist Size Predicts Diabetes Risk
Posted: June 8, 2012 at 4:10 am
Jeff Levinson, 23, was in Florida celebrating his graduation from Mizzou last year when, "I felt this discomfort in my chest. It wasn't chest pains, but it made me think, I want to live longer than this."
Levinson stood 6 feet and weighed 350 pounds. He returned from his trip and his mom told him about a weight loss coach she'd heard about from a friend.
The coach, Charles D'Angelo, specializes in fast but healthful weight loss. He recently published a book: "Think and Grow Thin."
D'Angelo said Levinson was attracted to his program "because I started at 360 pounds."
There was some empathy there, Levinson agreed.
"I started gaining at 14 years old," Levinson said. "My parents were going through a divorce, and I took it hard."
He started stress eating, mostly junk food, for eight years pizza, fried foods, chicken fingers, toasted ravioli, fries, onion rings.
"I didn't eat vegetables or fruit," he said. "I couldn't walk up stairs without getting winded." He was 300 pounds when he graduated from high school.
Levinson jumped on the rigid eating plan in August of last year, and the pounds dropped quickly. The plan also included exercise up to an hour a day, he said.
"Now I eat vegetables with every meal," he said. "I love eating that stuff. I'm still getting used to fruit."
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Jun 7, 2012 8:09am
Tony Mims always smiled, but hed had a tough life. The son of alcoholic parents, he left home when he was 14 and worked in the fast-food industry.
Over time, Mims weight ballooned.
Im tired of having limitations of what I have to do, he said. And I sweat like crazy. Id give one of my kidneys to have a smaller body.
Mims was tasting wedding cakes with his fiance when Chris Powell, the trainer on Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition, showed up and pledged to help him change his body and his life.
At the weigh-in, Mims, then 49 years old, got harsh news. After years and years of overeating, he weighed 398 pounds. He had to be weighed on a truck scale.
As part of Mims weight-loss program, he would learn how to cook healthy meals. Powell got him exercising.
It wasnt easy. Added to the pressure, Mims son, Marcus, fell ill. His son suffered from cerebral palsy, and the hospitalization helped put things into perspective for Mims.
Im here fighting for my life and hes in the hospital fighting for his , Mims said tearfully.
Powell moved in with Mims and his fiance, and helped them remake their home. For a while, things went well, at 90 days into his program, Mims weighed 294 pounds.
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Tony Mims Loses 198 Pounds on 'Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition'
