Weight loss news 2008-07

2008-07-11 MomLogic :: Moms Weight-Loss Miracles

As a working mom, Erin Borkowski, 32, didnt have time to focus on healthy eating and exercising. A self-described "workaholic," she spent all her downtime with her family and thought dieting was too time-consuming. But at 185 pounds, she knew she was setting a bad example for her 4-year-old daughter, so she decided to take action. Since she was always at her computer, she found low-fat recipes online to cook for her family, and read articles on nutrition and tracked her weight loss using online tools. She also began taking mother-daughter yoga classes offered by her daughters preschool, jumped on the trampoline during playtime, and put an exercise bike in front of her TV so she could cycle while being with her family. Her health habits have been infectious--her daughter now prefers carrots to cookies, and asks for fruit every day.

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2008-07-21

We do lose weight quickly on high protein diets because we lose lots of water weight first. This can translate into a 3-7 pound loss in one week depending upon our total body weight. Another reason research has shown that high protein diets result in a higher weight loss is boredom. Yes, after weeks and months of eating mostly meats and high protein foods (most of us dont realize it), we start to reduce our portions because we desire less and less of the very limited foods we are eating. This, combined with the fact that we are not eating the foods that we tend to overeat (bread) leads to an overall reduced amount of food. Reduced food, reduced portions means, you guessed it, less calories hence weight loss. But how long can we keep up any one specific diet Even a once new fast food diet outlined how to stay within 1500

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2008-07-06 Diets Dont bother - Times Online

Take a stroll into any bookshop and you won and rsquo;t suspect a thing: the shelves are heaving with summer-diet tomes, from Crash Diet - Lose 7lbs in 7 Days to Bikini Bootcamp: Two Weeks to Your Ultimate Beach Body and, perhaps most optimistic of all, The Revenge Diet: Make Him Sorry He Dumped You. Lose 15lbs in a Month. Yet, despite appearances, the diet industry is in the throes of a backlash. It started with The Diet Delusion and Rethinking Thin, both of which challenged conventional wisdom about weight loss. Now comes something even more revolutionary, the splendidly titled Dieting Makes You Fat. Its author, Geoffrey Cannon, is unequivocal in his belief that dieting causes the very condition it is meant to cure.

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Take a stroll into any bookshop and you won and rsquo;t suspect a thing: the shelves are heaving with summer-diet tomes, from Crash Diet and mdash; Lose 7lbs in 7 Days to Bikini Bootcamp: Two Weeks to Your Ultimate Beach Body and, perhaps most

2008-07-09 A big fat lie - the nutrition expert who says diets actually cause weight gain - Features, Health and Wellbeing - The Independent

The weight-loss successes trumpeted on the front of slimming magazines contradict this. They tell the stories of women (it usually is women) who have lost a lot of weight by following a diet which restricts calorie intake. As the pictures show, these women have clearly not been made fat by following such regimes. This, though, is only part of the complex dieting jigsaw, as Geoffrey Cannon explains in his book Dieting Makes You Fat. Yes, if you consume less energy than your body burns off in a day, your weight will drop. But Cannon, a public health advisor and nutrition expert, looks longer term, and says that nearly all dieters are forced to turn to drugs, surgery, further dieting or exercise to maintain that initial weight loss.

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The weight-loss industry is swelling as quickly as our waistlines at the moment, which seems something of a paradox. If body conscious consumers are so happy to buy dieting products, why are we facing an obesity crisis The truth is, no calorie-controlled diet works. If they did, dieting professionals could kiss goodbye to repeat business. Even worse: restricting what you eat will make you fat.

2008-07-18 Low-carb and Mediterranean-style diets took off more pounds than a low-fat diet

Favorable results on low-carb dieting. Weight loss, blood serum cholesterol, blood sugar level, blood pressure - all these measures improve on low-carb. Its been shown over and over. Ive been doing low-carb off and on since before the big diet craze, and I always feel better and lose weight when Im on it. My doctors happy with it too. The only real problem with it is getting enough variety so that you want to stick with it - you need to learn new recipes and be willing to experiment. Those who only eat burgers and omelets of course get bored and lose interest. And no, the proteins and fats dont need to be exclusively from non-animal sources, though variety is good. Steak, burger, eggs, cheese, butter, all fine. Nuts are great. The obesity epidemic in America is due simply to consumption of lots of sugar, white flour,

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2008-07-30 The Myth of Moderation - TIME

Still, the underlying question remains: are diet and exercise a reliable cure for obesity Modern-day obesity researchers are skeptical the key to thinness, they say, is not simply a matter of willpower. Research suggests that weight may largely be regulated by biology, which helps determine the bodys "set point," a weight range of about 10 lbs. to 20 lbs. that the body tries hard to defend. The farther you push you weight beyond your set point 1 either up or down the scale 1 some researchers say, the more your body struggles to return to it. That might help to explain why, none of the women in Jakicics study managed to lose much more than 10 pct. of their body weight. After two years on a calorie-restricted diet, keeping up more than an hour of physical activity, on average, five days a week, most were still

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Thirty minutes of moderate activity a day wont cut it if youre trying to lose weight, a new study says. Budget at least an hour, most days of the week

2008-07-29 MinnPost - Midriff to midriff: Is the low-fat diet going belly up

In terms of weight loss, the Atkins diet came in first, with a mean weight loss of 10. 4 pounds; followed by the Mediterranean diet at 9. 7 pounds, and the low-fat diet at 6. 4 pounds. Interestingly, adherence rates for the individual diets - who could actually stick with the plan - ran in the opposite order: 90 percent stuck with the low-fat diet, 85 percent with the Mediterranean, 78 percent with Atkins. Thats in spite of the fact that the Atkins diet has no calorie restrictions, and, at least in theory, the lowest hunger pangs. When the body has no carbohydrate to burn, it shifts its metabolism and generates a substance called ketones, a proven appetite suppressant.

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2008-07-12 The Liberty Vindicator

In contrast, weight management programs generally report a benefit when including low-calorie sweeteners to improve weight loss outcomes. Research in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition examined the effects of the addition of the low-calorie sweetener aspartame in the diet of 168 obese women aged 20 to 60. Women in the group that included aspartame had better results than those without, even after a two-year period. The authors suggested that incorporating aspartame-sweetened foods and beverages within a well-rounded program may help in weight management over the long term. A 2006 Nutrition Bulletin review of relevant studies concluded that "using foods and drinks sweetened with aspartame instead of those sweetened with sucrose is an effective way to maintain and lose weight without reducing the palatability of the diet. "

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2008-07-31 Study: Exercising 275 Minutes a Week Can Help Women Lose Weight TopNews US Edition

According to a recent study, overweight women who wanted to lose weight needed to exercise for an hour a day, five days a week. The study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, was headed by John M. Jakicic, Ph. D. , professor and chair of the Department of Health and Physical Activity at the University of Pittsburgh. The researchers found that women who exercised for an hour a day, five days a week along with their diets managed a 10 pct. weight loss over a two year span as compared with others who managed only 5 pct.

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2008-07-25 TrimWater Announces Online Talent Search - MarketWatch

Lifestyle Beverages is about great tasting, high quality beverages - with a twist. The twist is that we believe you can have a great tasting drink that wont "mysteriously" add weight and inches to your body. Lifestyle Beverages wants to give you the ability to drink truly healthier, without giving up the flavor you enjoy. The benefits of drinking water are well known and documented. Were about allowing you to reap those benefits, and making it taste great while doing it. Were not only about losing weight. Were about providing you with healthful alternatives to maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle. Weight loss without a healthy lifestyle for weight maintenance is not effective in the long term, and will not lead to you achieving your ultimate goals. Were here to help bring out the best in you. (

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