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And yet another advantage of fat loss nutrition is revealed in an article on medicalnewstoday. The article talks about elderly people who have suffered from cancer and have profited from fat loss nutrition once they had survived the cancer:

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A home-based program to improve exercise and diet led to significant, clinically meaningful improvement in body weight and physical function among older long-term cancer survivors in preliminary findings from the RENEW (Reach-out to ENhancE Wellness) trial, according to Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, Ph.D., from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Department of Behavioral Science. The data are being presented at the seventh annual American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Conference.

The trial, funded by the National Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Survivorship, included 641 participants. All were 65 or older, had been diagnosed with breast, prostate or colorectal cancer at least five years prior with no evidence of recurrence, were overweight or obese, and had no medical conditions prohibiting moderate exercise.

“We know that when people are diagnosed with cancer they’re at risk for comorbid conditions and functional decline,” said Demark-Wahnefried. “For those 65 and over, data show they may become debilitated permanently, thus increasing health care costs and taking a toll on family members.”

The participant group was divided into 319 who received an intervention and 322 who were waitlisted. Those in the intervention group participated in 15 telephone counseling sessions with a personal trainer throughout the intervention year, and worked toward establishing several daily goals, including: 1) performing lower body strength exercises; 2) walking 30 minutes; 3) using portion-control plates, cups and bowls; 4) consuming fewer than 10 percent of calories from saturated fat; and 5) eating more fruits and vegetables.

At the end of the year, the group showed improvements in their diet and exercise habits and improved physical function scores. Most significant were notable strength improvements in the participants’ legs.

Individuals in the intervention group increased their physical activity to 44.9 minutes per week versus 29.7 minutes per week for the control group. Additionally, the intervention group saw a three percent drop in body weight versus a one percent drop in the control group.

“These findings are significant as the survivors who participated in the program had much better ability to stand-up, walk and function on their own, and enjoyed better quality of life,” Demark-Wahnefried said “These functions are critical in retaining independence. The next step is to follow up with the participants to see if the effect is sustained, and replicate the results in the waitlisted group.”"

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Weight loss workouts have many benefits but medicalnewstoday claims that one of its main benefits is the impressive way it helps patients with heart problems.

This is an extract from the article: “Working out on a stationary bicycle or walking on a treadmill just 25 to 30 minutes most days of the week is enough to modestly lower risk of hospitalization or death for patients with heart failure, say researchers from Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI).

The findings stem from the HF-ACTION trial (A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes Exercise TraiNing), the most comprehensive study to date examining the effects of exercise upon patients with heart failure. The study was reported as a late-breaking clinical trial at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2008 by Christopher O’Connor M.D., director of the Duke Heart Center and principal investigator of the trial, and David Whellan, M.D., of Thomas Jefferson University, co-principal investigator.

HF-ACTION enrolled 2331 patients at 82 study sites throughout the U.S., Canada and France. Patients were randomized into a group that received usual care or to a group that received usual care plus an exercise training program that began under supervision but then transitioned to home-based, self-monitored workouts.

Researchers hypothesized that participation in an exercise program would significantly lower the incidence of death and hospitalization among patients with heart failure.

But based on the protocol-specified initial analysis, exercise training produced only a modest, non-significant reduction in the primary endpoint of all-cause hospitalization or all-cause death.

A planned, secondary analysis, however, that took into account the strongest clinical factors predicting hospitalization or death, found exercise to be significantly beneficial.

Researchers hope the findings will finally put to rest long-held fears that exercise may be too risky for some patients. “The most important thing we found from this study is that exercise is safe for patients with heart failure, and when adjustments were made for specific baseline characteristics, it significantly improved clinical outcomes,” said O’Connor.

Whellan, who is also director of clinical research at the Jefferson Heart Center, says previous studies sent mixed signals, due, in part, to their small size. Some found exercise beneficial, but others did not, and there was limited safety data. “It took a study of this size and duration to determine that exercise is not only safe, but also effective in lowering risk of hospitalization or death for patients with heart failure.”"

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An article about weight loss workouts, incredibly puts text messaging amongst them. The article running on medicalnewstoday says:

“Many children love sending and receiving text messages through their cell phones - sometimes to the great annoyance of their parents.

But now a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests this technology could be used to reduce children’s chances of becoming overweight or obese later in life, by helping them monitor and modify their own behaviors now.

Recent studies show that approximately 19 percent of youths aged 6 to 11 are overweight, and that 80 percent of overweight adolescents become obese adults.

“Self-monitoring of calorie intake and expenditure and of body weight is extremely important for the long-term success of weight loss and weight control,” said Jennifer R. Shapiro, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and principal investigator of the new study, which is published in the November/December 2008 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.

“Unfortunately, both children and adults who are trying to lose weight often do not adhere to self-monitoring,” Shapiro said. “They tend to be good about self-monitoring at the start of a weight-loss effort, but then their adherence drops off over time.”

Traditionally, paper diaries are the tool most often used for self-monitoring. People trying to lose weight write down how many calories they consume, how many calories they burn in exercise and how much they weigh. While a paper diary can be very effective, Shapiro and her colleagues had a hunch that the same concept might work better in children if they could report their self-monitoring via cell phone text messaging - and receive feedback messages in return.

“Cell phone text messaging is something that’s very familiar to most children now, since they’ve grown up with it,” Shapiro said. “By using this technology, we were hoping to make self-monitoring seem more like fun to them and less like work.”

Fifty-eight children aged 5 to 13 and their parents participated in Shapiro’s study, which was conducted at UNC Hospitals, and 31 families completed the study. The families took part in three group education sessions (one session weekly for three weeks) which aimed to encourage them to increase physical activity, decrease “screen time” (time spent watching television) and reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. All of the children were given pedometers to track the number of steps they took each day, as well as goals to meet for the number of steps taken, minutes of screen time and number of sugar-sweetened beverages consumed per day.

The participating families were randomized into three groups: one that reported self-monitoring via cell phone text messaging, another group that reported self-monitoring in a paper diary, and a no-monitoring control group. The text messaging and paper diary groups answered three questions each day: (1) what was the number on your pedometer today?; (2) how many sugar-sweetened beverages did you drink today?; and (3) how many minutes of screen time did you have today?

Each family in the text messaging group was given a cell phone to be used only for study-related messages. They were instructed to send two messages per day (one from the parent and one from the child) reporting their answers to the three questions. Each time a message was sent, the sender received an immediate, automated feedback message based on what the sender reported. The researchers generated hundreds of feedback messages for the study. One example was, “Wow, you met your step and screen time goals - congratulations! What happened to beverages?”

The study results show that children in the text messaging group had a lower attrition rate from the study (28 percent) than both the paper diary (61 percent) and the control group (50 percent). They also had a significantly greater adherence to self-monitoring than the paper diary group, 43 percent versus 19 percent.”

This proves that weight loss workouts are a wonderful way to lose weight.

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Hello, i just found an interesting article on medicalnewstoday for us chocoholics, giving us tips of how to achieve fat loss nutrition. The article reveals:

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Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that a walk of just fifteen minutes can reduce chocolate cravings. The benefits of exercise in helping people manage dependencies on nicotine and other drugs have previously been recognised. Now, for the first time, newly-published research shows that the same may be true for food cravings.

Following three days of abstinence, 25 regular chocolate eaters were asked to either complete a 15-minute brisk walk or rest, in a random order. They then engaged in tasks that would normally induce chocolate cravings, including a mental challenge and opening a chocolate bar.

After exercise participants reported lower cravings than after rest. Cravings were not only reduced during the walk, but for at least ten minutes afterwards. The exercise also limited increases in cravings in response to the two tasks.

Professor Adrian Taylor comments: “Our ongoing work consistently shows that brief bouts of physical activity reduce cigarette cravings, but this is the first study to link exercise to reduced chocolate cravings. Neuroscientists have suggested common processes in the reward centres of the brain between drug and food addictions, and it may be that exercise effects brain chemicals that help to regulate mood and cravings. This could be good news for people who struggle to manage their cravings for sugary snacks and want to lose weight.”

Previous research has suggested that 97% of women and 68% of men experience food cravings. Craved foods tend to be calorie-dense, fatty or sugary foods, with chocolate being the most commonly reported. Chocolate has a number of biologically active constituents that temporarily enhance our mood with a result that eating it can become a habit, particularly when we are under stress and when it is readily available, and perhaps when we are least active.”

Fat loss nutrition is important for all chocoholics since obesity can cause many problems.

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Hello, an article on medicalnewstoday highlights the importance of weight loss workouts. The article says:

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Why not buy that treadmill? You’ll be exercising every day, right? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research examines why our expectations of our behavior so often don’t match reality.

Authors Robin J. Tanner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Kurt A. Carlson (Duke University) uncovered a specific process that they believe contributes to unrealistic optimism. They also suggest a method to encourage consumers to think more realistically about their future actions.

“Consumers adopt the tentative hypothesis that they will behave in an ideal fashion when predicting their future behavior,” the authors explain. “Unrealistic optimism by consumers may have negative consequences for both marketers and consumers. For example, if a consumer holds unrealistically optimistic beliefs about how often they will work out in the future, then they may overpay for home exercise equipment.”

In a series of studies, the authors first had participants provide idealized estimates for particular behaviors (e.g., In an ideal world, how often would you exercise next week?) Then they asked participants to provide a second estimate (e.g. How often will you exercise next week?). They found that when people are first asked to predict what would happen in an ideal world, then asked how they actually expect to do, they are more realistic.

Interestingly, when researchers explicitly instructed participants not to be idealistic, the experiment backfired and led to even more unrealistic estimates.

Also, the authors found that more decisive people were less realistic.

“An important potential consequence of being overly optimistic about one’s future behavior is that such optimistic beliefs may contribute to overbuying of products that see little use,” the authors write.”

Weight loss workouts are essential for the highly demanding modern day lifestyle.

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An article running on yahoo news search touches upon the fat loss of a teacher and her program with which she achieved it. The article says:

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Medicalnewstoday is where i found this shocking article. It is just too painfully clear that a large waist and its risks have been under rated so far. For a longer and healthier life, fat loss nutrition is vital. The article says:

“Having a large waistline can almost double your risk of dying prematurely even if your body mass index is within the ‘normal’ range, according to a new study of over 350,000 people across Europe, published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The study provides strong evidence that storing excess fat around the waist poses a significant health risk, even in people not considered to be overweight or obese. It suggests that doctors should measure a patient’s waistline and their hips as well as their body mass index as part of standard health checks, according to the researchers, from Imperial College London, the German Institute of Human Nutrition, and other research institutions across Europe.

Comparing subjects with the same body mass index, the risk of premature death increased in a linear fashion as the waist circumference increased. The risk of premature death was around double for subjects with a larger waist (more than 120cm or 47.2in for men and more than 100cm or 39.4in for women) compared to subjects with a smaller waist (less than 80cm or 31.5in for men and less than 65cm or 25.6in for women). Body mass index is commonly used to assess if a person is of ‘normal’ weight.

Each 5cm increase in waist circumference increased the mortality risk by 17% in men and 13% in women.

The ratio of waist to hips was also revealed as an important indicator of health in the study. Lower waist-hip ratios indicate that the waist is comparatively small in relation to the hips. The ratio is calculated by dividing the waist measurement by the hip measurement.

Waist to hip ratio varied quite widely in the European populations in the study. In 98 percent of the study population, waist to hip ratio ranged between 0.78 and 1.10 in men and between 0.66 and 0.98 in women. Within these ranges, each 0.1 unit higher waist-hip-ratio was related to a 34% higher mortality risk in men and a 24% higher risk in women.

An increased risk of mortality may be particularly related to storing fat around the waistline because fatty tissue in this area secretes cytokines, hormones and metabolically active compounds that can contribute to the development of chronic diseases, particularly cardiovascular diseases and cancers, suggest the authors.

Although the main new finding of this study is that waist size increases the risk of premature death independently of body mass index (BMI), the study does support earlier findings showing that a higher body mass index is significantly related to mortality. The lowest risk of death was at a BMI of approximately 25.3 in men and 24.3 in women.

The new research forms part of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC), one of the largest long-term prospective studies in the world.

Professor Elio Riboli, the European coordinator of the EPIC study from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Imperial College London, said: “Although smaller studies have suggested a link between mortality and waist size, we were surprised to see the waist size having such a powerful effect on people’s health and premature death. Our study shows that accumulating excess fat around your middle can put your health at risk even if your weight is normal based on body mass index scores. There aren’t many simple individual characteristics that can increase a person’s risk of premature death to this extent, independently from smoking and drinking. ” ”

Fat loss nutrition is something not only done to enhance your body shape but also your health condition as proven by this article.

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Hey, i just found an interesting article on yahoo health search. The article touches on natural fat loss.

The article says:

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Even if the recession prompts some patients to delay weight-loss surgery, executives at St. Paul-based Synovis Life Technologies are bullish about the prospects for their top product — a buttress made of biomaterials that is used in the procedures.

That’s because after posting strong financial results for its fourth quarter, Synovis said Wednesday it is expanding its sales force by up to 15 people this year.

“With more feet on the street, we will be growing more,” said Richard Kramp, the company’s chief executive officer, in an interview. “So if there is some impact (from the recession), we certainly will be blunting it.”

As the economy has slowed, hospitals across the country have reported a decline in patients seeking elective procedures. In part that’s because many Americans now must pay larger deductibles for the care they receive — a cost-sharing technique in many employer-sponsored health plans.

During a conference call with investors Wednesday, Kramp acknowledged that weight-loss surgeries could be considered “somewhat elective.” And he spelled out two theories to explain why procedure volumes could be limited in coming quarters.

Recovery from weight-loss surgery can take a patient away from work for a week or two, Kramp said. But some people might not want to be away from their jobs that long at a time when many firms are looking for places to make cuts.

Health plans typically cover the cost of weight-loss surgery. But the number

of procedures — which can cost between $20,000 and $30,000 — could be reduced if more people lose health insurance because of layoffs, Kramp said.

While acknowledging the theories, Kramp said he wasn’t worried about the recession’s impact at Synovis.

“I think this will be small,” he said. “We don’t see this as a big effect.”

Synovis employs about 225 people, including about 180 in St. Paul. The added jobs in the sales force will not boost local employment, Kramp said.

For the quarter ended Oct. 31, Synovis reported sales of $12.7 million — a 24 percent increase over sales of $10.3 million during the same quarter last year. Net income came in at $1.9 million or 15 cents per share — up 23 percent from a profit of $1.6 million during the same quarter last year.

Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters were expecting earnings of 14 cents per share on revenue of $13.8 million.

Synovis shares closed Wednesday at $14.45, up $1.15, or 8.6 percent.

Christopher Snowbeck can be reached at 651-228-5479.”

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Hey, an article running on news.search.yahoo tells of a new weight loss surgery, with artificial and natural fat loss both gaining importance in today’s society, it seems a matter of time before obesity isn’t that big a threat anymore.

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Mercy Medical Center has become the first hospital on Long Island to offer a new single-incision Lap-Band(r) (laparoscopic gastric banding) procedure for weight loss surgery.

A team headed by Shawn Garber, MD, Chief of Bariatric Surgery at Mercy, with colleague Spencer Holover, MD, is among the first in the nation to utilize the innovative technique, known as Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS), for gastric banding, using just one small opening in the abdomen, through the navel, rather than the five incisions required in traditional techniques.

“SILS is an important new option that holds the potential of less pain, fewer scars and quicker recovery,” explained Dr. Garber, who heads the New York Bariatric Group. “And most patients report that they can barely notice the single incision hidden in the belly button.”

In addition to its latest application in gastric banding for weight-loss, Dr. Garber utilizes the SILS technique for gall bladder surgery.

Dr. Garber is the only bariatric surgeon included in Newsday’s listing of Top Doctors on Long Island, and Mercy Medical Center is top-ranked in weight-loss surgery. Mercy received the 2008 Bariatric Surgery Excellence Award(tm) from HealthGrades(r), the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings organization, and is a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence designated the American Society For Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

Mercy’s Bariatric Center offers both Laparoscopic Banding (Adjustable Gastric Band) and Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass (also referred to as Roux-en-Y gastric bypass) which is considered the “Gold Standard” of modern obesity surgery. Both procedures are performed using state-of-the-art laparoscopic techniques with smaller incisions, less post-surgery pain, less time in the hospital, and a faster recovery.

Mercy offers monthly education and informational presentations for individuals who are contemplating bariatric surgery. For more information contact Mercy Medical Center at: 516-62-MERCY. Or visit on line at: www.MercyMedicalCenter.info”

However, there are people who still prefer natural fat loss ways compared to surgery.

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hello, an article i just found on medicalnewstoday is a must read for all those who are looking for natural fat loss. The article says:

“In addition to its strong associations with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes, pediatric obesity may induce alterations in thyroid function and structure, according to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

Thyroid hormones drive metabolism, however demonstration of a direct or strong correlation of obesity with deficient thyroid function has been controversial, and previous studies provide conflicting conclusions. While some studies have found that thyroid disorders may lead to obesity, this recent study shows that in some cases, it is the obesity that may cause the disorder.

“Our study shows that alterations in thyroid function and structure are common in obese children and we may have uncovered the link,” said Giorgio Radetti, M.D., of the Regional Hospital of Bolzano in Italy and lead author of the study. “We found an association between body mass index and thyroid hormone levels which suggests that fat excess may have a role in thyroid tissue modification.”

This study evaluated 186 overweight and obese children over a period of nearly three years. Researchers measured subjects’ thyroid hormone levels and thyroid antibodies and also performed a thyroid ultrasound.

The presence of thyroid antibodies would suggest a diagnosis of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, an autoimmune disease of the thyroid where T-cells attack the cells of the thyroid. In this study, 73 children did not show these antibodies, yet their ultrasound pattern was still suggestive of Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

“The ultrasound findings are a bit mysterious,” said Dr. Radetti. “However, the findings do suggest the existence of a low-grade inflammation state, which has been known to characterize obesity.”

Thyroid function has been shown to return to normal after weight loss, said Dr Radetti, raising the question of the potential reversibility of thyroid abnormalities shown on an ultrasound. However, researchers still do not know whether the persistence of thyroid abnormalities in obese children may also progress into chronic thyroid disease in early adulthood. Dr. Radetti says more studies are needed to answer these questions.”

Natural fat loss is becoming more and more popular amongst the obese these days and this will give them more cause to seek it.

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An article on yahoo news claims that overweight kids tend to have arteries similar to those of older people. The article underlines the importance and need of rapid weight loss techniques. The article says:

Kids these days are 13 going on 45, at least when it comes to their arteries.

According to research presented Tuesday at the American Heart Association’s annual scientific sessions in New Orleans, obese adolescents had arteries more representative of someone three decades older.

“These data further illustrate the potential detrimental effects of obesity and its related risk factors, particularly components of the metabolic syndrome, on cardiovascular disease in children,” said Dr. Carl Lavie, medical director of cardiac rehabilitation and prevention director of the Stress Testing Laboratory at Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans.

And even beyond the results of this study, said Dr. Catherine McNeal, an associate professor of internal medicine and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and a pediatrician at Scott & White Hospital in Temple, “it is clear that obesity is a risk factor for the development of premature cardiovascular disease in youth.”

According to one scoring measure, obesity in male adolescents is a greater risk factor for cardiovascular disease than smoking, McNeal noted.

Obesity and related health problems are a pressing issue in most countries.

“Certainly, there is considerable concern that there is an obesity epidemic in the U.S., including in our children who are becoming more sedentary, watching more and more TV, playing video games and on the computer as opposed to physical activity outside,” Lavie said. “In fact, there is concern that if the current obesity epidemic continues [and it actually seems to be worsening], we will soon see an abrupt end to the steady improvement in life expectancy in the U.S.”

Rapid weight loss is becoming more and more of a necessity with every passing day.

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An article on Yahoo news focusing on rapid weight loss claims that the intestinal sleeve has effects similar to those of gastric bypass. The article touches on many things including the importance of rapid weight loss. An extract from the article says:

“Lining the upper small intestine with an impermeable sleeve may be as effective as invasive gastric bypass surgery to help people lose weight and avoid diabetes, a new report says.

The procedure, tested on rats by the Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center and Gastrointestinal Unit, led to reduced appetite, weight loss and a return to a normal glucose levels.

“This is a clear proof of principle that the human version of this device may be an effective treatment for obesity and diabetes. The clinical device would be placed endoscopically, making it far less invasive than surgical therapies,” study leader Dr. Lee Kaplan, director of the MGH Weight Center, said in a hospital news release.

Researchers secured a 10-centimeter-long “endoluminal sleeve” at the outlet of the rats’ stomach so it blocked the duodenum and upper jejunum, areas of the small intestine where nutrients are sensed and absorbed. Obese and diabetic rats raised on a high-fat diet given the sleeve consumed 30 percent less of that diet and lost 20 percent more weight than their counterparts who did not receive the sleeve. After 16 weeks, the fasting blood glucose levels, insulin levels and oral glucose tolerance of all rats with the sleeve returned to normal levels.

In other tests on lean rats genetically prone to rapid weight gain, rats with and without the sleeve were given access to a high-fat diet. Both groups gained weight, but those with the endoluminal sleeve ate less and weighed 12 percent less than the control group after four weeks.

“A key finding of this study is that the device induced a decrease in food intake as part of its effect and does not act by reducing absorption of nutrients,” said Kaplan, who is also an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. “Like gastric bypass, it appears to change the way that neural and endocrine signals stimulated by nutrients act on their target organs.”

The study was published in the journal Obesity.

Kaplan said conducting large-scale controlled trials of the procedure on humans would be the next step.”

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An article about fat loss nutrition on medicalnewstoday states that proteins send signals that indicate fattening substances in the body. Here is an excerpt from the article:

“After you eat a burger and fries or other fat-filled meal, a protein produced by the liver may send a signal that fat is on the way, suggests a report in the December issue of the journal Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication.

Researchers have found in mice that the liver produces a protein called adropin, which rises in response to high-fat foods and falls after fasting. The protein seems to play a role in governing the activity of other metabolic genes, particularly those involved in the production of lipids from carbohydrates. Studies of the protein in obese animals suggest that it also plays a role in insulin response and in preventing the buildup of fat in the liver (a condition known as nonalcoholic fatty liver disease), the researchers said.

“What is remarkable is that it appears that this factor is specifically regulated by the fat content of the diet,” making it one of the first such factors ever discovered, said Andrew Butler of Pennington Biomedical Research Center, part of the Louisiana State University System. (The findings follow another report in the November 26th issue of the journal Cell of a phospholipid produced by the gut that rises after a fatty meal, signaling the brain to eat less.)

The new results suggest that treatments designed to deliver adropin or otherwise boost its levels may hold promise in the war against obesity and associated metabolic disorders, including fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes.

Indeed, Butler’s team found that animals that become obese after eating a high-fat diet for a period of 3 months or due to a genetic mutation don’t produce adropin normally. However, obese animals that are manipulated to produce excess adropin or that are given the protein show less fat in their livers and become more responsive to insulin. The mice also ultimately eat less and lose weight, but the other metabolic improvements do not depend on the animals’ shrinking waistlines, Butler said.

“The good news is that when you provide a synthetic version of the peptide, it reverses some of the consequences of obesity,” he said.

Butler noted, however, that there is still plenty left to learn. For instance, they would like to know whether mice that lack adropin become obese and show evidence of the metabolic syndrome, a cluster of diseases associated with obesity and insulin resistance. The protein is also produced in the brain, suggesting it may also affect behavior and metabolism in as-yet-undiscovered ways. The clinical promise of adropin will depend on whether the relationships between the protein, diet, and metabolism seen in mice will hold in human patients.”

This discovery may help in many ways, specially considering that fat loss nutrition ways are to be developed with its aid.

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Hey, an article running on medicalnewstoday is showing some interesting facts. The article touches briefly on diet plans and fat loss muscle techniques. The article states:

“A study of non-western and western women’s body shapes found that the “perfect” hour-glass or pear shape supposedly favoured by men where the waist to hip ratio is 0.7 or less, is rarely found among women who have to rely on their own resources, such as going out to work or to search for food, to support themselves and their families. They have more cylidrical body shapes because of androgen hormones that not only cause the waist to carry more fat, but also help them become physically stronger, more resilient against stress and more competitive|: what many might regard as a highly beneficial trade-off.

These are the findings of a study by Elizabeth Cashdan, an anthropologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, USA, whose findings are published in the December issue of Current Anthropology.

Having a body that isn’t “perfect” in the conventional sense may have substantial benefits for women, concluded Cashdan. Hormones that make women physically stronger, more competitive, better able to withstand stress, also move fat from the hips to the waist. So societies where these traits are emphasized in women may also have fewer women with the classic hourglass figure.

Evidence from medical studies suggests that the more curvy female shape with a waist to hip ratio of 0.7 or less is closely linked to higher fertility and lower rates of chronic diseases. Research also suggests that when selecting a female mate, men tend to favour the 0.7 or lower waist to hip ratio, which makes sense to those studying evolutionary biology because a healthy fertile female mate increases the chances of the man’s genes being passed onto a new generation.

But when she looked at women’s waist to hip ratios in 33 non-Western and 4 European populations, Cashdan found that the average was above 0.8. This seemed to turn the evolutionary idea about the ideal being 0.7 and lower on its head, unless there was some other explanation that favoured a female waist to hip ratio of 0.8 and higher.

Cashdan suggested the answer lies in hormones, and androgens in particular. Androgens include testosterone, which in women increases the amount of body fat around the waist as opposed to the hips. This is the apparent downside which works against the evolutionary male-preference based theory. But the upside is that it brings with it important survival traits for the woman who has to rely on her own resources to support herself and her family, traits such as increased stamina and strength, and competitiveness. Another hormone is cortisol which increases waist fat but it also increases the body’s resilience to stress.”

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The ADA’s survey results have been released in an article on medicalnewstoday. The article is a must read for all those who are wishing to attain fat loss nutrition. The article shows that:

“Increasing numbers of American adults are aware of the importance of nutrition and physical activity and are taking steps to eat a healthy diet and engage in exercise, according to the American Dietetic Association’s nationwide consumer opinion survey, Nutrition and You: Trends 2008.

In each ADA survey since 1991, ADA has used respondents’ answers to a number of different questions to segment consumers into three groups representing people’s overall attitudes toward maintaining a healthy diet and getting regular exercise:

• I’m Already Doing It: Consumers who feel that maintaining a healthy diet and regular exercise are very important; are concerned about diet, nutrition and overall fitness; and feel they are doing all they can to eat a healthy diet.
• I Know I Should: Consumers who feel that maintaining a healthy diet and regular exercise are very important, but may not have taken significant actions to do all they can to eat a healthy diet.
• Don’t Bother Me: People who do not feel diet and exercise are very important to them and are the least concerned with their overall nutrition and fitness.

Results of ADA’s 2008 survey show the percentage of people in the Don’t Bother Me category has dropped substantially, especially from 2002 (32%) to 2008 (19%). “This is the first year the Don’t Bother Me group has represented less than one-third of the population,” said registered dietitian and American Dietetic Association spokesperson Jeannie Gazzaniga-Moloo. She noted that the segment had been as large as 40 percent in the mid-1990s.

“The steady increases we are seeing among the I’m Already Doing It segment appear to represent movement away from Don’t Bother Me, while the I Know I Shoulds remain relatively constant - 38% in 2008, and 30% in 2002.

“These trends tell us people are paying more attention to their nutritional and physical activity needs and are increasingly doing what they need to do to eat right and be healthy,” Gazzaniga-Moloo said.

“The findings indicate there will likely always be a core group of consumers who remain in the Don’t Bother Me segment, so our challenge as registered dietitians is to move as many people as possible, through healthful eating messages and nutrition-related health-care services, from I Know I Should - the people who ‘get it’ - into I’m Already Doing It,” Gazzaniga-Moloo said.

According to ADA’s 2008 survey, two-thirds of consumers said diet and nutrition are “very important” to them personally (67%), and three in five said physical activity is very important (61%). This continues an upward trend that has been occurring since ADA’s first survey in 1991.

“It’s great to see these trends continue to head upward, but there is definitely still room for improvement in Americans’ eating and physical activity habits,” Gazzaniga-Moloo said.

Women were more likely than men to say diet and physical activity both are very important, while younger adults were much less likely than older people to consider diet and nutrition very important. Meanwhile, physical activity is seen as very important by all age groups, representing slight but consistent increases in recent years.

And people with a college education and beyond were more likely to say diet and nutrition are very important than people with a high school degree or less.”

This shows clearly that more and more people are looking towards fat loss nutrition every day

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Hello, i just read an article on medicalnewstoday and it is bad news for all those suffering with obesity, they therefore must seek fat loss nutrition techniques, for they have become nothing less than a necessity. The shocking revelations in the article can be seen in this excerpt:

“With Thanksgiving and end-of-the-year holidays coming soon, many Americans will eat, drink and get heavier. It is a challenging season for those working to control and reverse our nation’s obesity epidemic.

Luckily this is an opportune time to remind everyone of the problem and discuss ideas and projects to combat obesity, especially in children, according to organizers of the annual 15-state Southern Obesity Summit.

The 2008 gathering will be held Nov. 9-11 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex. Researchers and educators at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), a summit host, will welcome healthcare professionals and academic, government and scientific leaders to develop and share strategies for fighting obesity.

Summit attendees will come from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Many are part of obesity “state teams” scheduled to report on programs, legislation, research and other initiatives designed to fight the epidemic. State teams are composed of government officials, public health professionals, healthcare providers, community organizers and individuals concerned with the growing epidemic.

“Obesity is a major cause of death in the United States. Aside from mortality rates, however, obesity substantially increases sickness, disability and impaired quality of life,” said David Allison, Ph.D., director of UAB’s Clinical Nutrition Research Center and a summit organizer. “So much anti-obesity work has been done, but even more is needed, especially in the parts of the nation struggling with the epidemic like the South.”

Speakers and panelists will include UAB researchers and Kenneth Cooper, M.D., a Texas-based health author and entrepreneur widely regarded as the “father of aerobics” for his 1986 fitness book Aerobics.

Other participants will include Donna Richardson Joyner, Buns of Steel fitness guru and appointee to the President’s Council for Physical Fitness and Sports appointee; and Adewale Troutman, M.D., an associate professor at the University of Louisville and director of the Louisville Metro Public Health and Wellness department. A complete schedule is online at www.southernobesitysummit.org.

Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta show nearly two-thirds of all Americans are either overweight or obese. Nine of the 10 fattest states are in the South. The summit will highlight community-led health initiatives, school-based efforts, personal-responsibility messages and other tactics.”

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Hello, there is more bad news for those suffering with obesity and a dire need for natural weight loss to be sought out by such people. An article running on medicalnewstoday confirms this bad news.

According to the article: “Researchers at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Toronto, Canada, have discovered that adiponectin, a protein secreted from adipocytes, is a metabolic link that can explain, in part, the known positive relationship between obesity and both bone mineral density and reduced susceptibility to fractures. This study appears in the December issue of Experimental Biology and Medicine. Circulating adiponectin levels are significantly lower in obese humans and rodent models than in lean controls. It is known that excess body weight and elevated body mass index are strongly correlated with high bone mineral density, and that weight loss is associated with loss of bone mineral density and increased risk of fractures. However, the mechanism for this relationship is unclear.

The research team, Dr. Michael C. Archer, Earle W. McHenry Professor and Chair, Dr. Wendy E. Ward, Associate Professor, Dr. Kafi Ealey, Postdoctoral Fellow and predoctoral student Jovana Kaludjerovic, in the Department of Nutritional Sciences, investigated whether adiponectin modulates bone development using transgenic mice that overexpress this protein. These mice were initially developed by Dr. P. Scherer’s research group at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, N.Y. Bone mineral density and biomechanical strength properties, surrogate measures of fracture risk at multiple skeletal sites, were the outcomes used to assess bone development. Female mice overexpressing adiponectin had weaker vertebra at 8 weeks of age than control mice and this delay in bone development persisted through to the end of the study period, representing early adulthood. The weaker vertebra model compression fractures of the lumbar spine in humans, among the most common type of fragility fracture associated with low bone mass and osteoporosis. The strength of the femur neck, representing the hip, was also weaker in both females and males overexpressing adiponectin. Serum adiponectin levels were inversely correlated with femur bone mineral content, further emphasizing that a high level of adiponectin impedes bone development at not only the lumbar spine but also the hip. Whether or not the delay in bone development resolves in later life or is sustained and leads to an increased risk of fragility fracture, particularly during aging when bone loss rapidly occurs due to declining levels of sex steroids, requires further investigation.”

Thus it is clear that natural weight loss techniques need to be improved.

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Hey, i just saw this article on medicalnewstoday which claims that bariatric surgery can potentially be a cure for a certain liver disease. This is may not be a natural weight loss technique however, no side-effects and the fact that its a quick way of achieving fat loss nutrition makes it very popular these days. The article states:

“Obesity is a growing epidemic in the U.S. with a significant increase in prevalence from 15 percent to 32.9 percent from 1980 to 2004. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an emerging problem related to the obesity epidemic, becoming one of the most common causes of liver disease in the nation.

Bariatric surgery has become a popular and effective method for rapid and permanent significant weight loss in morbidly obese individuals. A recent study reports bariatric surgery results in improvement of histopathological features of NAFLD. Complications of NAFLD, including steatosis, steatohepatitis and fibrosis appeared to improve or completely resolve in a majority of patients after bariatric surgery-induced weight loss, according to results of a study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, an official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute.

“Even today, the effect of weight loss after bariatric surgery on the liver, particularly NAFLD, remains unclear. There is a lack of well-defined trials exploring this relationship,” said Gagan K. Sood, MD, of the University of Texas Medical Branch and lead author of the study. “Our team assessed and quantified this effect and found encouraging news: a majority of patients experience complete resolution of NAFLD after bariatric surgery, and the risk of progression of inflammatory changes and fibrosis seems to be minimal.”

For this meta-analysis, 15 studies were selected for final data extraction. The mean age of the participants at the time of weight loss surgery ranged from 35.6 to 49 years. Mean BMI at the time of weight loss surgery ranged from 43.9 to 56 kg/m2 and the mean BMI at follow-up liver biopsies ranged from 28.6 to 39kg/m2. Percentage reduction in mean BMI values ranged from 19.11 to 41.76.

The pooled proportion of patients with improvement or resolution in steatosis was 91.6 percent, steatohepatitis was 81.3 percent, fibrosis was 65.5 percent and complete resolution of NASH was 69.5 percent.

Generalizability of these results may require confirmation from multi-center, large scale, well designed trials. Future studies need to be done using uniform histopathological criteria for liver biopsy specimens.”

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Hello, there is this article i am going through at www.healthfetch.org which claims that the passage way to obesity is through your tongue as an obese person’s tongue is less sensitive to sweet taste. This research carried out in attempt for people to achieve fat loss nutritoin has come up with some interesting results.

The article claims “According to neuroscientists, obesity gradually numbs the taste sensation of rats to sweet foods, and drives them to consume larger and sweeter meals. There is apparently a critical link between taste and body weight.

Previous studies have suggested that obese persons are less sensitive to sweet taste, but little is known about the specific differences in sense of taste between obese and lean individuals. Researchers investigated these differences by studying the taste responses of two strains of rats.

Compared to the lean and healthy LETO rats, the taste responses in OLETF rats mirror those in obese humans. These rats tend to chronically overeat due to a missing satiety signal, and they become obese and develop diabetes. The obese rats also show an increased preference for sweet foods.

The researchers implanted electrodes in the rodents’ brains to record the firing of nerve cells when the rats’ tongues were exposed to various tastes. The OLETF rats had about 50 percent fewer neurons firing when their tongues were exposed to sucrose, suggesting that obese rats are overall less sensitive to sucrose.”

This may lead to ways of rapid weight loss being developed in the near future, a mouth watering aspect for those suffering with obesity.

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I just read an article on medicalnewstoday that states that the condition of the neck arteries of an obese kid is similar to that of a middle aged adult of around 45. This is a clear indicator that parents of obese children need to look towards rapid fat loss ways in order to help their kids lead a healthy life.

The articles says “The neck arteries of obese children and teens look more like those of 45-year-olds, according to research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2008.

“There’s a saying that ‘you’re as old as your arteries,’ meaning that the state of your arteries is more important than your actual age in the evolution of heart disease and stroke,” said Geetha Raghuveer, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine and cardiologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital. “We found that the state of the arteries in these children is more typical of a 45-year-old than of someone their own age.”

Researchers used ultrasound to measure the thickness of the inner walls of the neck (carotid) arteries that supply blood to the brain. Increasing carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) indicates the fatty buildup of plaque within arteries feeding the heart muscle and the brain, which can lead to heart attack or stroke.”

The above article points towards the obvious need of developing new ways of rapid weight loss.

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Hello, I came across an article on medicalnewstoday that claims that weight loss surgery, also known as bariatric surgery, has helped obese women who are expecting. Weight loss surgery is fast becoming a popular rapid weight loss technique.

The article read: “Women who become pregnant after undergoing bariatric surgery have less complicated pregnancies and healthier infants than obese women who become pregnant, according to a new study, the New York Times reports. The new research — which reviewed 75 earlier studies — found that pregnant women who have lost weight after bariatric surgery may have lower rates of pregnancy complications such as gestational diabetes and pre-eclampsia and do almost as well as women who are not obese, the Times reports. In addition, their infants are healthier and may be less likely to be born too small or prematurely. According to the authors, fertility seemed to improve after surgery as hormone levels and menstrual cycles returned to normal. The Times reports that about one-third of U.S. women are obese, and they usually are advised to lose weight before becoming pregnant because they have a high risk for developing pregnancy-related health problems. For example, their infants are more likely to be born prematurely or stillborn, to be very large, or to have a neural tube defect.”

Such rapid weight loss techniques are becoming more and more vital everyday as the war on obesity continues.

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Hello everyone, I was just surfing through the internet when I came across an article that claims that obesity leads to the worsening of asthma, which in turn leads to decreased exercise capability thus in turn increasing obesity. It is clear that fat loss needs to be a top priority if people are to prevent themselves from getting caught in this dangerous cycle.

An extract from the Yahoo! news article read “Study findings suggest less than one quarter of asthmatic adults meet national exercise guidelines and, among this group, obesity may be a greater exercise deterrent actual asthma symptoms. People with asthma may get caught in a vicious cycle, note Dr. Carol A. Mancuso and colleagues from Weill Cornell Medical College and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.

After factoring for age, gender, education, and asthma status, Mancuso’s group found obesity most consistently and strongly associated with exercise habits. They report no association between short-term control or long-term severity of asthma symptoms and the exercise habits of the study participants.

Partaking in short bouts of different types of exercise may help people with asthma reach current exercise guidelines, the investigators suggest.”

The article clearly indicates that asthma is prevalent in people with weight problems.

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Yale researchers have been trying to find new ways of fat loss and have at last come up with something.  An article running on medicalnewstoday states: “In the battle against obesity, Yale University researchers may have discovered a new weapon - a naturally occurring molecule secreted by the gut that makes rats and mice less hungry after fatty meals. The findings are published in the Nov. 26 issue of the journal Cell.

The report suggests the molecule may help regulate how much animals and people eat”

It will be interesting to see how this helps fight obesity and whether it is as effective as diet programs and exercise.

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Hey, just read on Yahoo! news an article that there will be a fast rise in diabetes if obesity isn’t control. It is pretty clear that fat loss has to be taken seriously throughout the world if we are to fight something as serious as diabetes. The article says: “The prevalence of diabetes worldwide will far outstrip even the sharp increase currently projected unless rising trends of obesity are controlled, health experts said on Saturday.

Adult-onset diabetes has been linked to risk factors like aging, an inactive lifestyle, unhealthy diets, smoking, alcohol and obesity. The silent, chronic disease damages the heart, blood vessels, eyes, kidneys and nerves and was responsible for 3.8 million deaths worldwide in 2007.

1 clear way of fighting this problem is with popular fat loss exercises.

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Hey take a look at this, according to healthfetch.org if we just did a little fat loss muscle building and weight reduction it might have benefits other then the most obvious ones as well. “According to neuroscientists, obesity gradually numbs the taste sensation of rats to sweet foods, and drives them to consume larger and sweeter meals. There is apparently a critical link between taste and body weight.

Previous studies have suggested that obese persons are less sensitive to sweet taste, but little is known about the specific differences in sense of taste between obese and lean individuals. Researchers investigated these differences by studying the taste responses of two strains of rats.

Compared to the lean and healthy LETO rats, the taste responses in OLETF rats mirror those in obese humans. These rats tend to chronically overeat due to a missing satiety signal, and they become obese and develop diabetes. The obese rats also show an increased preference for sweet foods.

The researchers implanted electrodes in the rodents’ brains to record the firing of nerve cells when the rats’ tongues were exposed to various tastes. The OLETF rats had about 50 percent fewer neurons firing when their tongues were exposed to sucrose, suggesting that obese rats are overall less sensitive to sucrose.”

I hope that you fat loss muscle and weight loss because it is more then the matter of your waistline now.

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Hey guys, check out what i came across in medicalnewstoday.com. People have the right idea, they are telling children about fat loss muscle building.

“The National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH), a nonprofit organization of employer-based health coalitions, has honored Kaiser Permanente’s Kids in Dynamic Shape (KP KIDS) health plan with the 2008 eValue8 Health Plan Innovation Awards at its annual conference held in Washington, D.C.

“Plans selected for these awards have demonstrated strategies to address some of the most difficult issues facing health systems and purchasers including chronic disease management, obesity, provider performance measurement, transparency and rewards,” said Dennis White, senior vice president of Value-Based Purchasing for NBCH.

“Kaiser Permanente KP KIDS program is an in-depth assessment process designed for the special needs and challenges of children with weight problems,” said Joel D. Hyatt, MD, assistant medical director, Southern California Permanente Medical Group. “The program targets overweight children 5-12 years of age with a BMI at or above the 85th percentile with the goal of not only educating overweight children and their families in healthy lifestyle behaviors but also providing tools in preventing pediatric obesity.”

In 2004, statistics from the California Center for Public Health Advocacy indicated that the prevalence of overweight and unfit children in Panorama City was 35.6 percent and 51.3 percent, respectively. This alarming data motivated a multidisciplinary team at Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center to develop a comprehensive, family-based lifestyle improvement program, KP KIDS, to address the obesity problem faced by the community.”

I think that this is a very positive step encouraging fat loss muscle awareness from a young age.

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Hmm look at this it seems when you feel full it’s actaully a drug that tells you to stop eating. Useful for making fat loss if used properly dont you think? From health.yahoo.com

“Scientists have identified a fatty substance made in the gut that signals the brain when it’s time to stop eating — a discovery that could inspire new approaches to fighting obesity.

Writing in the journal Cell on Wednesday, U.S. researchers said experiments with mice and rats showed that a naturally occurring fat-derived chemical messenger called NAPE regulated how much the animals ate. It is present in people and may do the same thing, they said.

Gerald Shulman of Yale University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and colleagues said that when the rodents were fed a fatty meal, their small intestine made a lot of NAPE and put it into the bloodstream. It then traveled to the brain and shut down hunger signals, they said.

NAPE levels shot up after the rodents ate a fatty meal, but not when they ate only protein or carbohydrates, they said.

The researchers then synthesized NAPE and injected it into the abdomen of the animals, whose appetites diminished greatly. When NAPE was delivered in much smaller amounts directly to the brain, it had the same effect on appetite as a larger dose injected into the bloodstream.”

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Hey check out this new little thingy they found in our bodies for fat loss. From health.yahoo.com

“Levels of NAPEs increased consistently in rats and mice that had just eaten a fatty meal. And when synthesized and re-injected into the lab rodents, NAPEs shut down the rodent’s food intake, with one dose lasting 12 hours or longer. NAPEs also entered the brain, appearing to concentrate in the hypothalamus, an area with a high concentration of neurons involved in the regulation of food intake, the researchers said.

Rats receiving NAPEs chronically (through a catheter in the jugular) ate less and lost weight.

“That’s what we have, a gut-derived fat that works centrally to inhibit food intake,” Shulman said.

Shulman and his colleagues believe that aberrations in how NAPEs are secreted in people who eat lots of high-fat foods may contribute to obesity. “Some of our animal data suggests that NAPE secretion is dysregulated in our animal models of diet-induced obesity,” Shulman said.

“We’re moving up the species ladder to see if chronic NAPEs reduces food intake and is well-tolerated in non-human primates,” Shulman said. “If everything there looks good, that would give us a lot of motivation to actually do trials in humans.”

David Earnest, professor of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, said, “The NAPEs work to suppress appetite or decrease food intake, [but] feeding is a complex behavior. There are a lot of factors that figure into eating disorders. The findings are very interesting and exciting, basically because we have identified these NAPEs which are synthesized by the gut and presumably can be used in supplementary fashion to treat obesity in humans.”

“Unfortunately, things don’t always work out according to plan,” he added. “Not to say that NAPEs don’t offer hope. These are some encouraging observations.”

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Hey guys, I know came across this article when i was looking for fat loss foods. From healthfetch.org

“Europe became a better place for less-than-picture-perfect fruits and vegetables this month as the European Union scrapped rules banning oddly shaped produce from supermarket shelves. “This marks the new dawn for the curvy cucumber and the knobby carrot,” said E.U. Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel.

For the past 20 years, strict E.U. regulations, spelled out over some 100 pages, had dictated the shape, size and appearance of 36 fruits and vegetables sold in supermarkets, with strangely precise bans on such items as:

• Green asparagus that is not green for 80% or more of its length

• Cucumbers that bend by a curve of more than 10 mm per 10 cm

• Cauliflower less than 11 cm in diameter

• Forked carrots

The regulations have long caused outrage among foodies, farmers, retailers and eco-minded eaters who bemoaned how wasteful it was to throw out up to 20% of perfectly tasty produce simply because it wasn’t up to snuff visually. (See 9 kid foods to avoid.)

In the U.S., the farm-to-table and local-food movements have encouraged consumers to embrace irregularly shaped produce. Last year they helped convince the Federal Trade Commission to ease restrictions on the sale of a coveted hybrid heirloom tomato called the UglyRipe. “Fruits and vegetables can be ugly on the outside but still taste fine on the inside, where it counts,” says chef Amanda Cohen, whose newly opened restaurant in New York City is called Dirt Candy, in reference to the origin of its vegetarian treats. “Heirloom tomatoes may look like Frankenstein, but they often taste better than the perfectly round, slightly plasticized tomatoes you sometimes see in supermarkets. An irregular shape usually has nothing to do with taste.”

I hope this teaches us that weird veggies are’nt anything wrong and you can use them in your fat loss diets too.

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Wow look at this weight sensor indicator for fat loss in your body. In health.yahoo.com

“As you push your chair back from the Thanksgiving table this year, a molecule produced in the small intestine will be swarming through your bloodstream, ready to register on your brain the impact of the fat you’ve just consumed.

For now, the signal might keep you feeling full for a while. But, researchers are hoping that one day variations of this family of hormones — known as N-acylphosphatidylethanolamines, or NAPEs — can be used to control appetite and therefore obesity.

“We’re excited but we have to be cautious,” said Dr. Gerald Shulman, senior author of a study in rats that’s published in the Nov. 26 issue of the journal Cell. “We would love to be able to take this to man tomorrow because we need effective ways to treat obesity and, right now, we have very few agents that work effectively. But we have much work to do.”

Shulman is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor of internal medicine and of cellular and molecular physiology”

Wow that so awesome, imagine a little fat loss dectector built in the bodies. XD

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Well hello there, look here is what people say may help with their fat loss. From health.yahoo.com

“A little less “I’m Lovin’ It” could put a significant dent in the problem of childhood obesity, suggests a new study that attempts to measure the effect of TV fast-food ads.

A ban on such commercials would reduce the number of obese young children by 18 percent, and the number of obese older kids by 14 percent, researchers found.

They also suggested that ending an advertising expense tax deduction for fast-food restaurants could mean a slight reduction in childhood obesity.

Some experts say it’s the first national study to show fast-food TV commercials have such a large effect on childhood obesity. A 2006 Institute of Medicine report suggested a link, but concluded proof was lacking.

“Our study provides evidence of that link,” said study co-author Michael Grossman, an economics professor at City University of New York.

The study has important implications for the effectiveness of regulating TV advertising, said Lisa Powell, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Institute for Health Research and Policy. She was not involved in the research but was familiar with it.

The percentage of U.S. children who are overweight or obese rose steadily from the 1980s until recently, when it leveled off. About a third of American kids are overweight or obese, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.”

 I wonder if that acutally helps in fat loss or the people are just looking for a scape goat.

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The research about how advertising can dent fat loss continues. Here is something on it from health.yahoo.com

“The causes of childhood obesity are complicated, but for years researchers have been pondering the effects of TV advertising. Powell, for example, found fast-food commercials account for as much as 23 percent of the food-related ads kids see on TV. Others have estimated children see fast-food commercials tens of thousands of times a year.

The new study is based in part on several years of government survey data from the late 1990s that involved in-person interviews with thousands of U.S. families. The researchers also looked at information about local stations in the 75 largest TV markets, including locally seen fast-food commercials and the size of viewing audiences.

The researchers used a statistical test that presumes TV ads lead to obesity but made calculations to address other influences such as income and the number of nearby fast-food restaurants. They also took steps to account for the possibility that some children may already have been overweight and inactive regardless of their TV-watching habits.

The study is being published this month in the Journal of Law & Economics. The authors, funded by a federal grant, included Grossman and researchers from Lehigh University and Georgia State University.

The authors stopped short of advocating an advertising ban or eliminating the advertising tax deduction.

Grossman said it’s possible that some families benefit from advertising by finding out what restaurants are nearby and what they’re serving. “A lot of people consume fast food in moderate amounts and it doesn’t harm their health,” he said.”

Its a new war their waging against fat loss, but it just seems weird because of it’s newness i suppose =S.

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The most common way without changing the diets plans of children and yet maintaining their weights is this. From medicalnewstoday.com

“Between the ages of six months and six years old, close to 90 percent of children have at least one sleep-related problem. Among the most common issues are night terrors, teeth-grinding and bed-wetting.

For the majority, it’s simply a stage that passes. But at least 30 percent of children in this age group have difficulties sleeping six consecutive hours - either because they can’t fall into slumber or they can’t stay asleep. While the effects of lack of sleep on learning are well documented, researchers at the Université de Montréal have found sleepless children can become overweight and hyperactive.

Jacques Montplaisir, a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and director of Sleep Disorders Center at Sacré-Coeur Hospital said that 26 percent of children that sleep fewer than 10 hours a night between two and half years and six years are overweight. The figure drops to 15 percent of those that sleep 10 hours and falls to 10 percent among those that sleep 11 hours.

The research team analyzed a sample of 1,138 children and found: 26 percent of kids who didn’t sleep enough were overweight, 18.5 percent carried extra weight, while 7.4 percent were obese.”

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Hey guys, I was poking around on the net for natural fat loss, and cases where people had successfully lost weight when I came up on this article. Here is a bit from it. From healthfetch.org

“Two years ago, Karen Daniel was wider around than she was tall.

“It’s a lot harder to be fat than it is to work so hard at being fit,” says Karen Daniel who has lost 175 pounds.

Weighing 375 pounds, the 45-year-old wife and mother had high blood pressure; her knees hurt and she was always hot. She felt fatigued and could barely breathe at the slightest exertion. Even the simplest things became a chore — tying her shoes, crossing her legs, getting in and out of the car or trying to fit into a chair with arms.”

Then she gradually decided to do something about it.

“In addition to the one-on-one training sessions, Daniel modified her diet, eating more proteins and complex carbohydrates. She also eliminated bread and pasta and reduced her intake of sugar, salt and processed foods. If she craved something sweet, she ate a piece of fruit. She cooked with olive oil instead of butter.

“It was extremely hard, I’m not gonna lie,” said Daniel. “I couldn’t count down the minutes fast enough. It was something I did not enjoy — I was so out of breath. I was sweaty, hot.”

Just short of her one-year anniversary, she had lost 102 pounds. On her one-year anniversary, Daniel had lost 114 pounds. By her two-year anniversary on September 15, 2008, she had lost 170 pounds. Now weighing around 200 pounds, she has gone from wearing a women’s size 30 dress to a size 14 and she’s gone from wearing a double-wide shoe to a medium width.”

Bravo Karen! We’re all so very proud of you =). She lost weight with hard work and patience. With natural fat loss it’s exceptionally difficult but I bet she is super proud of that fact itself, that she lost her weight through focus and determination and not some cheap drug or medication. Again well done Karen.

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