Friday, March 30, 2012

Should a Child Diet for a Magazine?

Should a Child Diet for a Magazine?
WebMD (blog)
By Hansa Bhargava, MD In a recent article in Vogue magazine, a mother talks about how she put her 7-year-old daughter on a strict, no-nonsense weight lossprogram. By her own admission, her methods included depriving her daughter of dinner as well as ...

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Complicated link between diet drinks, health, study finds
Fox News
iStock Studies have hinted that diet-soda lovers could face higher risks of diabetes and heart disease, but new findings suggest that overall diet may be what matters most in the end. Several studies have found that people who regularly down diet soda ...

Realtor has changed diet, lifestyle in attempt to beat colon cancer
Vancouver Sun
He's healthier than he's ever been, 40 pounds lighter, eating a healthy diet, exercising daily and, most importantly, living well. Gramek, 58, takes more time off work to spend with his friends and his partner, Wendy, doing everything from boating and ...

Complicated link between diet drinks, health: study
Reuters
By Amy Norton | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Studies have hinted that diet-soda lovers could face higher risks of diabetes and heart disease, but new findings suggest that overall diet may be what matters most in the end. Several studies have found that ...

Health effects of zero-calorie beverages
Times of India
Researchers have shed light on the affect that diet beverages may have on health, particularly in the context of a person's overall dietary habits. A number of studies have implicated dietbeverage consumption as a cause of cardiovascular disease.

Complicated link between diet soda, health:study
Reuters
March 29 (Reuters) - Some studies have suggested that diet soda lovers could face higher risks of diabetes and heart disease, but one recent US study of several diet drink consumers found that overall eating habits may be what matters most in the end.

Diet.com to Host Spring Fitness Challenge, Prepare Dieters for Summer Months Ahead
PR Web (press release)
Diet.com announces that it will host a fitness-based Challenge this spring, providing expert-designed workouts and offering prizes to help participants get in shape for summer. Diet.com's new Fitness Challenge will use weekly guides like the one above ...

PR Web (press release)

Lifescript Launches New Diet And Fitness Section
Sacramento Bee
"For women who want to lose weight and improve their health, we have a huge amount of information," says Laurie Berger, Lifescript Editor-in-Chief. "Our Diet and Fitness section is encouraging, informative, and has several fun, interactive tools that ...

Green Coffee Beans May Aid Weight Loss
WebMD
By Kathleen Doheny March 28, 2012 -- Ground green coffee beans, taken daily, seem to spur steady weight loss, according to new research. In a small, 22-week study, researchers found that 16 overweight men and women lost an average of 17 pounds.

Online Dish: Mommy Dearest Puts 7-yr-old Daughter on Diet for Vogue
39online.com
Critics “weigh” in after a weight-obsessed mom puts her 7-year-old daughter on a strict diet and then flaunts her weight loss in Vogue. Meet a mother who has struggled with her own weight and body image issues for 3 decades, socialite Dara-Lynn Weiss.

Low-carb diet unsafe for those prone to heart disease
Zee News
Washington: Low-carbohydrate diets may help people lose weight, but they could prove deadly for those with a family history of heart disease, a new study has claimed. In experiments on mice, researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found ...
 
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Coffee Beans As Weight Loss Medicine
RedOrbit
According to new evidence, unroasted coffee beans may be able to play a big role in those who are trying to lose weight. Scientists found that unroasted, or green, coffee beans can produce a substantial decrease in body weight in a short period of time ...

RedOrbit

Rev up metabolism with these 5 tricks
msnbc.com
And for more great ways to and lose weight and stay slim for good, pick up a copy of The Men's Health Diet today! It combines the latest findings in exercise and nutrition with practical how-to advice that will transform your body into a fat-burning...

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Vogue essay about 7-year-old's diet is lambasted
Washington Post (blog)
This week, there's been an online uproar over Dara-Lynn Weiss's essay in the April issue of Vogue about the diet to which she subjected her daughter, Bea. Weiss discusses how, after her daughter's weight was becoming a health problem, she set out to ...

'Healthy Restaurant Roadtrip' Reveals Healthy-Eating Travel Adventures and Advice
MarketWatch (press release)
Pouring over the menu for a dinner dish that won't sabotage the diet? Four cities and nearly 1400 miles later, the eatbetteramerica.com “Healthy Restaurant Roadtrip” reveals that it's easier than you might think to maintain a healthy eating lifestyle ...

Diabetes and lifestyle, cosmetic regulations and Depend ads
USA TODAY
By Kim Painter, USA TODAY Diabetes and lifestyle: Overweight people with type 2 diabetes who lose weight and improve fitness can get an important payoff in improved mobility, a study of 5000 people shows. Lifestyle changes can have "a tremendous impact ...

USA TODAY

Six Foods You Should Be Eating
Fox News
Getty Lack of diversity is one of the most common pitfalls in the quest to maintain a healthy diet. However, nowadays there are many options that can satisfy almost any request, from aiding to control appetite and blood sugar swings to decrease ...

Why Calories Count: Do Some Diets Work Better Than Others?
The Atlantic
At the extremes of weight-loss diets, the Atkins and South Beach diets are low carbohydrate but high fat, while the Ornish diet is low fat, high carbohydrate [1]. To compare the effects of such diets outside metabolic wards, researchers must deal with ...

Fitness: Good news for chocolate (milk) lovers
Montreal Gazette
And they did it under normal pre-season training conditions while the athletes were following their regular diet. Each athlete had either low-fat chocolate milk or Gatorade immediately after morning practice and again two hours later.

Weight loss, exercise improve mobility in diabetes
Reuters
By Gene Emery | NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Losing weight and improving fitness may ward off some of the mobility problems that older overweight people with type 2 diabetes often face, according to a new study. The lifestyle changes helped mobile ...

Girl, 19, risks health by eating nothing but Margherita pizza for EIGHT YEARS
Daily Mail
Very occasionally she will try some pasta and chips or a packet of cheese and onion crisps, but she is now so used to her junk food diet that even this slight variation in her diet makes her feel sick. She said: 'The thought of trying other foods makes ...

Daily Mail

Examining how diet soft drinks impact your health
Scope (blog)
But findings have also shown that switching to diet drinks can promote weight loss. To better understand the health impact and interplay of diet soft drinks and overall diet, researchers at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill examined not ...

Scope (blog)

Apptitude: Help for getting fit and trim
Philadelphia Inquirer
With the Fooducate app, you can read the bar codes to keep your diet healthy. Instead of sitting around texting and playing games on your phone, why not use it to help you get fit this spring? There are loads of apps for that, and here are a few to ...

Is celebrity Dukan diet off the menu like so many before?
Daily News & Analysis
The Dukan was voted the worst diet of 2011 by the British Dietetic Association. Like his many predecessors who have offered a magic route to weight loss, Dukan has made a fortune. His book The Dukan Diet has worldwide sales of eight million.

Affordable Health Care Suggestions from Health Advocate Sharon Kleyne - the ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
"When health symptoms arise," Mrs. Kleyne explains, "before running to the medicine cabinet, try to learn everything you can about the symptoms. Often, they can be treated through diet and lifestyle changes. If you do go to the doctor, ...

Are Diet Pills Safe?
Greatist
by Kristine Lockwood · Wednesday, March 28th, 2012 04:38 pm GMT -4 · Health At 3 am, infomercials claiming weight loss by pill-popping with testimonials from beautiful, model-like “real people” can be incredibly persuasive. Diet pills may be ...

Coffee Beans Help with Weight Loss
Ivanhoe
By Demetria Hobbs, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Looking to lose weight? Try green coffee beans! Scientists have reported striking new evidence that green, or unroasted, coffee beans can produce a substantial decrease in body weight ...

Diet, exercise key to avoiding diseases
Sky News Australia
Diet, exercise key to avoiding diseases Updated: 05:14, Thursday March 29, 2012 Almost every Australian has at least one preventable risk factor that makes it more likely they'll develop a chronic disease during their lifetime, while more than half the ...

William Anderson weight loss: How I went from the fattest kid in class to ...
Daily Mail
By Victoria Wellman William Anderson grew up as the fattest child in the class and as young as seven had already been put on his first diet. Now he's a trim, successful psychotherapist who has not only developed his own weight-lossmethod but believes ...

Daily Mail

Margarita madness: Food phobia teen risks health by eating nothing but cheese ...
Mirror.co.uk
Since then, Sophie has lived on a diet of pizza, sometimes eating the stuff for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The performing arts student said: "I love pizza, each brand offers a new flavour, but it's all the same food so I don't have to try new foods.

Toward a Lower-Cesium Diet
Wall Street Journal (blog)
After that, health authorities decide how much radioactive exposure their populations will tolerate annually from food, and how much exposure they'll likely get from other sources. The acceptable level assesses the anticipated physical impact of ...

Should overweight kids be put on a diet? No, says Children's Hospital Boston's ...
Boston.com
When New York City writer Dara-Lynn Weiss found the obesity label stuck on her 7-year-old, she immediately took action, putting her daughter on a strict diet for the past year -- a painful experience that she recounted in the April issue of Vogue ...

Wellness programs can put state health plan costs on a diet
MedCity News
Wellness programs that encourage workers to stop smoking or lose weight are showing up in more health insurance plans, state health plans included. But North Carolina's State HealthPlan took a different course this year. A comprehensive wellness plan ...

Diet Detective Interview with Consumer Reports' Food Watchdog
WBAY
Diet Detective: Can you explain the concept of sustainable food production practices? Urvashi Rangan: It's a holistic approach to producing food that considers the health and welfare of the environment, the workers and the animals in a way that ...

Surge in prediabetes underscores importance of diet and healthy ...
By Beat diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is dangerous, irreversible and challenging to manage. Prediabetes is serious as well; however it can be controlled much more easily and even reversed through basic dietand lifestyle changes. According to the US Department of Health and …
Beat Diabetes

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