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Weight Watchers Wins With Most Pounds Lost

September 14, 2011 / Staff

Weight Watchers is more effective for weight loss than physician assisted programs.

In some ways this comes as a surprise, in other ways it seems logical that a group committed to nothing but weight loss and maintenance would be the hands down winner.

People in the Weight Watchers group were three times more likely than the other participants to lose 10% or more of their initial body weight. And nearly two-thirds of the Weight Watchers users lost 5% or more of their body weight, versus one-third in the other group.
“Those really are medically very significant numbers,” Jensen says. “For overweight or obese people, that kind of loss results in pretty substantial improvements in health and disease risk—to the point where, if you’re on medication for blood pressure or cholesterol or diabetes and you can [lose] 10% of your weight, you’ve got at least a reasonable chance of decreasing or discontinuing that medication.”

Nutrition, Research, Wellness

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Avoiding the Fat Traps of Life

September 10, 2011 / Staff

Fat traps in your life can sabotage your weight and your overall health.

Certain landmarks are a time for celebration but when a rights of passage add on the pounds it’s time to have a strategy.

It’s bad enough to deal with the holidays but being married, having a baby and menopause also add pounds.

Here are a few solutions to help you ward off life’s weight gain pitfalls and sail into middle age without a spare tire.

Nutrition, Research, Wellness

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Will Socializing Keep You Thin?

September 8, 2011 / Staff

A recent study of mice found that when they were in social groups they were able to convert energy-storing white fat, to energy-burning brown fat.

Fat can come in two types: energy-storing white fat, and energy-burning brown fat.
While we all have white fat tissue, the brown fat needed for weight loss is difficult to make. It is mostly found in babies, or in adults who have been exposed to extreme cold, where it is burned to keep them warm.
But the US team, led by Professor Matthew During, have found that relatively small changes in the physical and social living environment of mice can alter vast amounts of white fat to brown.

Research

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Coffee House Drinks Pile on the Calories

September 6, 2011 / Staff

Calories in Cafe drinks may be derailing your best efforts to lose or maintain your weight.

As innocent as that afternoon pick-me-up seems, fancy flavored lattes and baked goods are loaded with fat and calories.

Soon, calorie counts will be on display to help you make an informed decision when you order.

The hope is that seeing the fat and calorie counts will allow consumers to calculate whether or not those extra 300 or more extra calories fit into their daily intake allowance.

Nutrition, Quality Control, Wellness

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Hidden Heart Attack Risks for Healthy People

August 29, 2011 / Staff

Those at risk for heart attack might surprise you.

For people with genetic risk factors and a family history of heart disease, a “healthy” lifestyle may not be enough.

Aggressive dietary and exercise changes and early screening for signs of illness are a must.

Dr. Dean Ornish, who has researched the relationship between lifestyle and health, says even the most malignant family history can be overcome.
“I don’t think anyone is doomed to have heart disease,” said Ornish, founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute.
“You know, even if your mother and your father and your sister and your brother all die from heart disease it doesn’t mean you need ever to die from it,” he added. “It just means you need to make bigger changes in your life than someone else who doesn’t have those kinds of genes.”

Wellness

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