Diets

[Jaded]

lol, yeah. Way too pretty!

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After a week of Las Vegas buffets, and more than my usual intake of Smirnoff, I was dreading my weigh in. Surprise Surprise. I didn't gain an ounce. In fact, I lost a pound. I think portion size helped a lot. We pretty much never stopped eating, but I was content with a few bites of everything. Sadly, the little starving children in China would have been well fed with what I sent back but the buffets aren't really set up for tiny portions. I usually went through the line twice, and sampled desserts at every meal. However, I never took more than a bite or two of the "bad stuff." I left each time feeling very satisfied. I had pastas and potatoes in every possible form, with rich sauces and gravy. I had cheesecake, cookies, danish, ice cream and bread with real butter. I had piles of veggies at every meal. Yum. I ate so much that the thought of eating made me ill, and then we went out again.

There is something to be said for variety. I can't recall when I have had such a wonderful assortment of fruits, veggies, and entrees. Now I just have to figure out how to replicate that at home

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Low Calorie Diet Helps Keep Heart Young Healthy and Elastic

January 12th 2006


Calorie Counting Best?

A low caloric diet may slow aging of your heart, according to investigators at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers studied the heart function of members of the Caloric Restriction Society.

The hearts of these people appear to be more elastic than those of age and gender matched control subjects. There hearts were able to relax between beats similar to the hearts of young people.

Luigi Fontana MD PhD said "This is the first study to demonstrate that long-term calorie restriction with optimal nutrition has cardiac-specific effects that ameliorate age-associated declines in heart function.” He is the assistant professor of medicine at Washington University and an investigator at the Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy.

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The FDA was requested by the U.S. Attorney’s Office from Pennsylvania for assistance in seizing ATF Fitness Products, Inc.’s Lipodrene inventory. The dietary supplement contains ephedrine alkaloids and is harmful to the heart.

The U.S. Marshalls were sent to the company headquarters in Oakmont, Pennsylvania to stop the distribution of the Lipodrene by seizing five boxes worth approximately $16,000.

Lipodrene Diet Pill supplements contains Ephdrine Alkaloids

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Researchers have found that controlling fatty-acid levels in the brain could be a “promising way to treat obesity.”   The hypothalamus keeps track of the body’s nutritional status by monitoring the blood levels of several hormones and nutrients. The hypothalamus regulates our energy intake and metabolism.

Dr. Luciano Rossetti, director of the Diabetes Research Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine led the study.  Rossetti’s study shows how the hypothalamus monitors and regulates glucose levels in the body.   The researchers also found that this region in the brain also monitors fatty acid levels and responds by controlling appetite.

Obesity caused by lack of Fatty Acids - triggers Overeating

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New diet: Limit flavors to lose weight

January 19, 2006

BY LINDSEY TANNER

Forget counting carbs and calories. Obesity researcher Dr. David Katz says the way to lose weight is to limit flavors.

Katz, director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center, says people stop eating when the brain's appetite center registers ''full.'' But eating lots of flavors promotes overeating because different sensors must register full for appetite to subside, Katz says.

The typical American diet ''is a mad cacophony of flavors,'' Katz said this week during a book-tour stop in Chicago.

Instead, Katz advocates flavor-themed meals -- an apple day, for example, or a sesame day, even an occasional chocolate day.

MMM, MMM GOOD?
A sample menu:

For ''tomato'' day, breakfast is a sandwich of two slices of whole-grain bread, one soft-cooked egg, two slices of tomato and 1 tablespoon of part-skim mozzarella cheese. Morning snack is 12 cherry tomatoes with two tablespoons of hummus. Lunch is tomato and black bean Mediterranean salad in half a whole-wheat pita. Afternoon snack is 12 baked corn chips and one-third cup tomato salsa. Dinner is baked tilapia with tomatoes, olives and capers, cooked bulgur wheat, sauteed cauliflower florets, tossed garden salad with chickpeas. Dessert is peach-blueberry salad.

Calories: 1,535; 24 percent from fat, 20 percent from protein, 56 percent from carbs; 53 grams fiber; 272 milligrams cholesterol; 2,186 milligrams sodium.

The idea is perhaps less boring than it sounds. For example, pineapple day features pineapple juice and cereal for breakfast; pineapple-walnut chicken salad and crackers for lunch; pineapple shrimp, bulgur, sauteed peas and tossed salad for dinner; and caramelized pineapple rings for dessert.

A varied diet

The theory and practice are detailed in Katz' new book, The Flavor Point Diet, based on a little-publicized phenomenon called sensory-specific satiety. That is the term used to describe the way food becomes less palatable when enough of it is eaten.

Katz, 42, the medical contributor to ABC News and a nutrition columnist for Oprah Winfrey's magazine, tested the diet on 20 people for 12 weeks and said they lost an average of more than 16 pounds.

Jonathan Link, 34, of New Milford, Conn., was one of them. Link -- who was 5 feet 9 inches and 183 pounds, with high cholesterol -- was skeptical at first.

But Link said the diet was surprisingly varied. He lost about 20 pounds early last year and has kept it off by permanently changing his eating habits.

Healthy eating



Katz recommends 30 minutes of moderate exercise most days. His flavor theme builds on the diets many nutritionists advocate -- lots of fruits and vegetables, whole grains and nuts; fish and poultry for protein; limited fat; and healthy snacks.

Brown University researcher Hollie Raynor, who has studied sensory-specific satiety, said whether Katz' diet works because it limits flavors, or because it promotes healthy eating and exercise, is unclear.

''If you're eating healthy and exercising, you're going to lose weight,'' she said.

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Yaking immediately after a large meal works for me.

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A study first published in the BMJ online edition showed that wine drinkers had healthier diets than beer drinkers.

The researchers studied data from 3.5 million sales transactions from 98 retail supermarket chains in Denmark over a time period from September 2002 through February 2003.

They organized the data in groups of wine only, beer only, mixed, or non-alcohol consumers. They also kept track of what items they bought and the total amount of each transaction spent on a shopping trip.

Wine drinkers eat healthier than Beer drinkers

[Crispy]

You can post all the weight loss supplements you want but I think I've finally found the easiest way to lose weight...

2 jobs and a nasty ulcer brought on by a divorce from a cheating, lieing pig!!

Yeah, I'm feeling today but seriously, it works!!

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A New Study Says a Virus Can Cause Obesity – Adenovirus Ad-37 May Make People Fat
January 30th 2006



Adenovirus
A Virus may be responsible for obesity in some people.  Researchers have found that adenovirus AD-37 causes obesity in chickens.  This finding builds on studies that two related viruses,Ad-36 and Ad-5, cause obesity in animals.  Lead researcher Leah D. Whigham said "Adipogenic potential of multiple human adenoviruses in vivo and in vitro in animals," in the January issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology published by the American Physiological Society.

There seems to be an “accumulating evidence” that viruses may cause obesity, in effect making obesity contagious, according Leah.  The researchers now say “Eat right, exercise, and wash your hands”. 
These three viruses, Ad-37, Ad-36 and Ad-5 are part of a family of approximately 50 viruses know as human adenoviruses.  Adenoviruses were first discovered in 1953 by investigators trying to establish cell-lines from adenoidal tissue of children removed during tonsillectomy. 

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Pritikin Diet and Exercise Program helped treat Type II Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome in Obese and Overweight Patients

A recent study published in the online edition of the Journal of Applied Physiology, showed a 50 percent reversal in people with metabolic syndrome, Type 2 diabetes by following the Pritikin diet and exercise program over a 3 week period of time.

The lead researcher, Christian Roberts, from the University of California, Los Angeles said, "The study shows, contrary to common belief, that Type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome can be reversed solely through lifestyle changes."

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Postmenopausal women need to do more than just cut fat from their diet to stay healthy, according to a new study. Researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and colleagues with the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Trial conducted a very large scale study.

They followed 48,835 women for eight years and found that “a diet low in fat, but high in fruit, vegetables and grains, does not significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.” They examined the effect of a low-fat diet with the incidence of breast cancer. It was thought that a low fat diet would reduce breast cancer risk.

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[DesertNomad]

having multiple girfriends does wonders for ones weight!

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Does a Low Fat Diet Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer? - Stroke? Heart Disease?

February 12th 2006



Fruit and Vegetable Diet

The new study by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and colleagues with the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Trial that claims a low fat diet was no healthier than normal fat diet did more than raise eyebrows. It has experts debating back and forth whether the study was legitimate.

Was it a flawed study? The data was extrapolated from a huge number of participants; nearly 50,000 postmenopausal women. Of those, 40% were asked to make dietary modifications including “consumption of a reduced amount of fat (20 percent of energy) and of an increased amount of vegetables and fruits (5 or more servings a day) and grains (6 or more servings a day).” The other 60% made no dietary modifications.

The study found little difference in breast cancer rates, cardiovascular disease or stroke. The rate of breast cancer for the women that modified their diet was 3.35% while the rate for women that did not modify their diet was 3.66%. The difference was considered slight.

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