Showing posts with label Weight-Loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weight-Loss. Show all posts

Saturday, November 17, 2012

A Weight-Loss Nutrient You'll Still Not Eating Enough Of

The Weight-Loss Nutrient You'll Still Not Eating Enough Of
Shape Magazine (blog)
But fiber's powers don't stop at weight loss. It may also reduce the risk of death from any cause, according to a recent paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Women who ate about 25 grams of fiber a day were 22 percent less likely to die during ...

Shape Magazine (blog)

Dr. Oz Discusses Sensa Weight Loss Sensation with Experts
eMaxHealth
You lose weight,” says Dr. Oz's special guest Dr. Alan Hirsch, the inventor of the SENSA® Weight-Loss Tastants that many dieters swear has worked wonders toward their weight loss—one of which on The Dr. Oz Show stated that she lost 128 pounds from ...

eMaxHealth

Good carbs for weight loss
Times of India
If you combine these good carbs with exercise, you can burn fat while building essential lean muscle. Including carbs in your diet is not a bad thing, but everything depends on the type of carbohydrates you choose. We give you a lit of good carbfoods ...

Times of India

How To Lose Weight Fast | How “Fat Loss Factor” Can Help People Lose Weight ...
Midland Daily News
He has introduced several innovative techniques to lose fat and get a dreamed and lean shape. After he released this updated version of Fat Loss Factor, it has gotten multiple questions if it can help the dieter burn weight effectively. Therefore, the ...

Dr. Oz investigates Sensa claims: Lose 30 pounds in six months
Examiner.com
However, he advises against using it for long-term weight loss and recommends making healthy food choices (cut down on junk food while increasing your intake of fruits and vegetables). In addition, Dr. Oz emphasizes the importance of exercise, such as ...

Examiner.com

CBS Atlanta News explores potential dangers of rapid weight loss programs
WGCL Atlanta
"The appeal of these low carb diets and part of the reason they're so popular is that people lose weight very rapidly. But in reality, that weight is water weight and ... These are for people who are overweight to the point where the benefit of these ...

The 50% Solution to Weight Loss After 50 (and Before the Holidays!)
AARP News (blog)
A plan to lose weight or start a fitness program can be stymied before you even start if it seems too difficult to do. Like most of us, you'll be tempted to just ... Steer clear of processed, high-caloric foods and sugary drinks, eat healthier (dark ...

AARP News (blog)

Woman sheds 35kg in six months
The Press
As discussions on obesity and weight loss open at a national conference in Christchurch, Olivia Carville talks to two women who lost a combined weight of more than 100 kilograms through drastically different means. Obesity is on the ... WeightWatchers ...

The Press

Jessica Simpson Scores 60-Pound Weight Loss After Baby
Celebrity Health & Fitness
... Post-Birth Body. By Celebrity Health & Fitness, November 16th, 2012 ... Jessica Simpson struggled at first after gaining more than 60 pounds while pregnant with daughter Maxwell, but she's finally reached her goal, which should lead to a multi ...

RANI Medical Weight Loss Clinic 68% Off Medical Weight Loss Intro Package ...
Rockford Register Star
At RANI our weight-loss programs are directed by a board-certified, medical specialist who has 20 years of experience managing weight-reduction with surgical and non-surgical techniques. We help you achieve your weight-loss goals by using FDA-approved ...

Health Care Reform: What's Next?
Huffington Post
Even as I write this, the Obama administration has turned from celebrating its victory to moving forward with the rollout of the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), which also had a good night on Tuesday. A repeal of the act had been a key ... New ...

More employers send workers to find their own health insurance
NBCNews.com (blog)
Until now, defined contribution health insurance plans have been largely limited to small businesses and retirees. But more employers are considering them as a way to control their rising health carecosts. After all, the average annual premium — or ...

Wonkbook: Building a better health-care system
Washington Post (blog)
MT @samsteinhp By rejecting the exchanges GOP govs are just inviting MORE federal govt control over health care. The deadline on health exchanges, a key component of the Affordable Care Act, however, just got pushed back one month. ... ahead of a ...

States' deadline for health insurance exchange plan notification extended
Business Insurance
States' deadline for health insurance exchange plan notification extended. November 16, 2012 - 10:09am ... Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which authorized the exchanges, states have three options. They can set up their own ...

Walker won't create health care exchange, defers to feds
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
An odd coalition of business groups, health insurers and Democrats pressed Walker, an opponent of the Affordable Care Act that is often called Obamacare, to set up state exchanges where small businesses and individuals could buy health insurance.

Butler: Taking out the waste in health care system
San Jose Mercury News
The Affordable Care Act limits insurance companies to 15 percent of premiums that they can spend on administrative and marketing costs, so we'll soon see how this provision fairs under the "rule of unintended consequences." Attempting to reduce what ...

Serious Games Seek Slice Of Health-Care Market
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Speaking at the Games for Health conference in Amsterdam last week, Dr. John Harrison, a psychologist at Imperial College, London, said that on current trends, “by 2050 the cost of direct health care in just the U.S. for Alzheimer's is going to be $1 ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

Branstad meets health insurance exchange deadline, blasts federal process
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
Terry Branstad notified federal officials Friday that Iowa policymakers intend to create a state-based health insurance exchange under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but need many questions answered before they will be in a position to ...

The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)

Health Insurance Exchanges Deadline Extended As More ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Governors on the fence or opposed to implementing a crucial element of President Barack Obama'shealth care reform law now have more time to make a decision following a Thursday announcement from the Department of Health and ... But Heineman ultimately came to a different conclusion: "A state exchange is nothing more than the state administering the Affordable Care Act with all of the important and critical decisions made by the federal government," he said, also citing the ...
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Health Care Hardball: Why Democrats in Washington and around ...
By RealQuiet (Diary)
Additionally, neither the Congressional Budget Office score nor the Joint Committee on Taxation technical explanation of the Affordable Care Act discusses excluding those enrolled through a Federally-facilitated Exchange.” (Though they don't cite any legal .... It increases the cost of privatehealth care and insurance, crowds out private health insurance and long-term-care insurance, and discourages enrollees from climbing the economic ladder. There is scant reliable evidence that ...



Monday, November 12, 2012

Slow and steady was key to weight-loss success

For Kathleen Pennington, slow and steady was key to weight-loss success
Columbia Daily Tribune
Kathleen Pennington works out on an elliptical trainer at Wilson's Total Fitness. She has lost more than 100 pounds through diet and exercise. Advertisement. This is not a story ... "I knew I wanted to lose the weight the right way, slowly, by changing ...

One man's route to weight loss
The Morning Sun
An education administrator at Alma College, the 33-year-old Korson had an “all-you-can-eat “ mealplan on the campus as part of his job compensation. At 6 feet, 3 inches, ... But when he was ready to fly to his vacation, it occurred to him that if he ...

Employers grapple with federal health care reform
Boston.com
... it appears the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, is here to stay. And as annual open enrollment periods get underway at many companies, both employees and employers face changes in health insurance coverage ...

Governor pressured on health-care exchange
Janesville Gazette (blog)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An array of interests, including business groups and liberal health careadvocates, is pressuring Gov. Scott Walker to create a state-run exchange under the federal health care law. Walker faces a Friday deadline to tell President ...

Unknowns in health care coverage worry those who may need it
La Crosse Tribune
They also might be helped by the law's health insurance exchanges — virtual marketplaces for people without employer coverage to buy private insurance beginning in 2014, in many cases with government subsidies. The health law, which requires most ...

Letters | Veterans Day gratitude, health care for veterans, salute to Marines
Kansas City Star
Recent articles on the “fiscal cliff” said that veterans benefits wouldn't be affected but neglected to mention federal proposals to triple veterans' health care premiums to help pay down the deficit. That proposal comes as a shock to veterans who ...

Economist's View: 'It's All About Health Care'
By Mark Thoma
The top graph is health care, including Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. The middle graph is Social Security. And then there's literally everything else: Defense, education, infrastructure, food safety, R&D, farm subsidies, the FBI ...
Economist's View



Saturday, November 3, 2012

To lose weight, wait two months and relax, says new study

To lose weight, wait two months and relax, says new study
Examiner.com
One group started a 20-week weight loss plan immediately while the other were taught how to maintain their weight for the first eight weeks. After two months, the first group learned to maintain while the second began the diet and exercise program ...

Examiner.com

Doctor shares weight loss secret: Focus on frozen foods
eMaxHealth
Jessica Bartfield, MD, an internal medicine physician who specializes in nutrition andweight management at Loyola University Health System has a weight loss secret that's also low-cost. Frozen foods that are low-calorie, nutritious and portion ...

eMaxHealth

High-protein diet may help some people shed pounds
Fox News
Thomas Wycherley from the University of South Australia in Adelaide, the lead author on the study, said in an email to Reuters Health that the extra weight loss in the high-protein group was "only modest," but that "it may still represent clinical ...

Wellness 101: lose weight the healthy way
Northern Iowan
“Lose weight and learn to keep it off.” Without even realizing it, we are ... As a result, we turn to gimmick and fad diets, extreme low calorie diets and artificial weight loss pills, none of which promote health maintenance in the least. Fad diets ...

Lose Weight by Eating Carbs the Right Way, Dr. Oz Guest Reports
eMaxHealth
Chris Powell is the trainer and transformation specialist on ABC's “Extreme Makeover:Weight Loss Edition,” and author of the New York Times bestselling book “Choose toLose.” Chris's focus is to tell people about his 7-day plan to cut your carb ...

eMaxHealth

Ask the Celebrity Trainer: Do I Have to Run to Lose Weight?
Shape Magazine
A: First and foremost, if you want to lose weight, you have to expend more calories than you take in. That means your number-one priority should be getting a handle on your diet. It should also be noted that weight loss doesn't necessarily mean that ...

Shape Magazine

Why you just can't keep the kilos off
Independent Online
“Our new animal model will be useful in pinpointing the reasons why most adults find it exceedingly difficult to maintain meaningful weight loss from dieting and exercise alone.” The researchers used a new model of obesity-programmed mice that allowed ...

Independent Online

Researchers: High-Protein Foods Aid Weight Loss - Health, fitness ...
Participants were all put on a reduced-calorie, low-fat diet designed to help them lose weight. About half were prescribed a high-protein version of that diet ...
www.newsmaxhealth.com/health_stories/.../483889.html

Weight Loss & Diet
About weight loss and diet for a better healthy life. ... weight loss guide and diet plans to loseweight effectively #weightloss #diet #dietplans. by Utah's Live-in ...
pinterest.com/bariatricsurger/weight-loss-diet/

Harvard says health care costs are growing at an 'unsupportable' rate
Boston.com
In Harvard's annual report, being released Friday, officials said that while they want to keep offering generous benefits, the school “cannot simply continue with the status quo.” It is the first time the nation's richest university has addressed ...

Assessing the Impact of Health Care Reform on New Businesses In Massachusetts
New York Times (blog)
A couple of weeks ago, when The Agenda discussed Jon Stewart's musings on creating a safety net for entrepreneurial risk-taking, we touched briefly on how health insurance reform might spur people to go out on a limb and open a new business.

Health care plans worry of proposed monthly costs for patients with serious ...
The Republic
MIAMI — State health officials are moving tens of thousands of Medicaid patients with serious medical conditions into managed care plans, but health care plans are worried the patients won't be able to afford the proposed monthly premiums. The state ...

Alabama voters take on Affordable Care Act
San Francisco Chronicle
Passage came before the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of the law in June, including the requirement that virtually all Americans have health insurance or pay a penalty. The court said the penalty is essentially a tax, and that's why the government has ...
Forbes Earnings Preview: Health Care REIT
Forbes
Wall Street is expecting higher profit for Health Care REIT (HCN) when the company reports its third quarter results on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The consensus estimate is calling for profit of 90 cents a share, a rise from 79 cents per share a year ago.

Attention, Shoppers: Health Care Prices Go Online In Colorado
Minnesota Public Radio
If you need an MRI of your knee in Colorado, the price varies — a lot. You can pay anywhere from $350 to $2,336. It's a huge range, but the truly remarkable thing about the prices is that we know them at all. Prices for health care aren't public in ...

Medicare's home health care rules to focus more on prevention
Tampabay.com
In the home health care arena, Medicare has focused mainly on short-term rehabilitation, sending in skilled professionals after accidents, acute illness or other serious flareups. Break a hip or suffer a stroke? A therapist will work to get you walking...

Tampabay.com

Darrell Issa Keeps Health Care Law in His Sights : Roll Call News
By alanota@cqrollcall.com (Alan K. Ota)
Issa and other critics argue the health care law does not explicitly provide authority for the IRS to enforce the law's tax provisions. Under an IRS rule finalized in May, subsidies for helping eligible individuals buy health insurance would be ...
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Peter J. Pronovost: Re-Engineering Health Care to Keep Patients Safe
By Peter J. Pronovost
Can you imagine that most doctors learn little about the third leading cause of death in medical school? Most medical students receive little or no formal training on how to prevent medical errors and reduce preventable complications, which ...
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed

Quality Health Care at 3% of the Cost - Vijay Govindarajan and ...
By Vijay Govindarajan and Anant Sundaram
Add to that a lack of social safety nets or health insurance. Such severe economic constraints can, counter-intuitively, be an advantage in the innovation game. Why? Health care providers in countries like India are forced to push the ...
HBR.org

Our New $237/month Health Insurance Plan | Mr. Money Mustache
By Mr. Money Mustache
Starting in 2014, the Affordable Care Act begins to shift the balance towards fuller coverage for all. Plans like mine with very high deductibles will phase out (although existing plans .... I think there are some good points to the health care reform and I doubt at this point the law can be repealled, but there needs to be some changes because it will have some serious impact on our economy in the future. My advice is to stay as healthy as you can. That's probably the best real health plan ...
Mr. Money Mustache

Democrats vs Republicans on Health Insurance - Blogcritics Politics
By Winston Apple
How to limit the rising cost of health care (or more accurately, health insurance) is one issue where there is a lot at stake and a clear difference between Democratic and Republican parties. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka ...
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Treating the whole person includes mental health care - amednews ...
Health care reform is about making sure that everyone who needs it has access to ... TheAffordable Care Act includes a provision that brings coverage for ...
www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2012/10/29/edca1029.htm



Saturday, October 27, 2012

Double Standard: Women Must Typically Work Harder to Lose Weight

Double Standard: Women Must Typically Work Harder to Lose Weight
Food Consumer
In a Time article, fitness trainer Bob Harper, who appears on the weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser, explains that 60% of the winners on the show – those who were able to lose the most amount of weight in a defined period of time – were men ...

Weight Loss News: The Surprising Thing That May Lead to Belly Fat
Glamour (blog)
Diet soda? You may love it, but many experts say it could be adding a little extra insulation to your belly. NBC recently took a look at the surprising health problems with diet soda (even just one can a day), including how this fizzy favorite messes ...

Glamour (blog)

Cleveland Clinic Confirms Heart-Health Benefits of Weight Loss Procedures
Sacramento Bee
The board certified bariatric surgeon notes the life-changing, health-improving benefits in everyweight loss procedure, no matter vertical sleeve gastrectomy or lap band. "I've found my patients tend to not only lose weight, they notice an improvement ...

Do online weight loss programs really work?
VOXXI
It seems that with each additional million obese adults, we see another diet craze appear—from gadgets that promise effortless weight loss, to diet books, and weight loss supplements. We obviously have a penchant for easy solutions. But as the growing ...

Woman Spends $7800 Trying to Lose the Baby Weight Like a Celebrity
ABC News (blog)
... in the weight-loss spotlight. Simpson, 32, signed an endorsement deal to become the celebrity face of Weight Watchers, and since giving birth to daughter Maxwell Drew in May, she's had her every appearance and photo scrutinized by tabloids ...

If you get too fat, losing weight permanently may become impossible, says study
Examiner.com
It would explain why many people who diet and lose weight, recover their lost weight within a short period of time after they cease dieting and eventually lose heart and stop making an effort to eat a healthy diet and get regular exercise. ... The ...

Matthew Fox on 'Alex Cross' weight loss: "I f**king hated it"
Digital Spy
Fox told Men's Health about the intense diet and training regime he undertook for the part, including a strict diet of chicken breasts, steamed broccoli and protein shakes. In describing the physical effect he was hoping to achieve, the 46-year-old ...

Diet soda consumption on the rise, most people unaware of health risks
VOXXI
About 20 percent of United States residents over the age of two drink diet beverages on a daily basis, states research from Tala H.I. Fakhouri, Dr. Brian K. Kit and Cynthia L. Ogden of the National Center for Health Statistics. Among that 20 percent ...

I don't belieeeeeve it!
Saga Health News
Avoid the expensive added-value junk such as biscuits, pastries, puddings and confectionery. Weight loss and cash savings will happen. In just the same way, I wonder at the brains of people who go to an expensive health spa to starve, or go on pricey ...

Saga Health News

Jessica Simpson Weight Loss: Dropped 60 Pounds In Five Months, Shares ...
Enstarz
(Photo : USmagazine.com) Jessica Simpson. After famously being slammed by the media for gaining 70 pounds during her pregnancy, Simpson has shed an astounding 60 pounds in five months thanks to Weight Watchers. Simpson fronts the cover of the latest Us ...

Enstarz

Weight-Loss 101 - To Your Health
No matter which diet or combination of programs you choose to help you lose weight, there are a few common threads linking all effective diets and weight-loss ...
www.toyourhealth.com/tyh/20121023/3.php

Health care fraud costs taxpayers $60 billion a year
NBCNews.com
Federal agents are accusing six people in Queens, N.Y. of health care fraud, alleging they have ripped off nearly $12 million in taxpayer money, but these suspects are not alone. Federal agents arrest health care fraudster nearly every day, charging ...

NBCNews.com

7 Things That Drive Up Your Health Care Costs – AARP
By Kaiser Health News
By Julie Appleby, Staff Writer, Kaiser Health News This story was produced in collaboration with PBS NewsHour There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2. ... We get tax breaks on buying health insurance — and the cost to patients of seeking care is often low. The majority of people with insurance get it through their jobs. The amount employers pay toward ...
AARP

Obama hits Supreme Court -- on health care
USA TODAY
Chief Justice John Roberts, you'll recall, broke with fellow court conservatives to uphold the health care law -- but under Congress' power to tax, not under the Obama administration's claim that the law was justified by the Commerce Clause power to ...

Health Care Concerns Play Big Among Swing State Voters
Kaiser Health News
It's hard to find an issue on which President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney disagree more than health care. The 2010 Affordable Care Act is considered President Obama's signature legislative achievement, as well as something Romney has ...

The price of the Supreme Court health care decision: $53.3 billion
Washington Post (blog)
Those who would have had their bills paid by the federal government (under Medicaid) could now have the costs covered by local governments and hospitals, which tend to foot the bill for many of the health care services that go unpaid. The Congressional ...

Health Care Reform impact: Fewer ER trips, more home hospitals
Lincoln City News Guard
LINCOLN CITY - As the move to reform health care in Lincoln County and across the nation quickens with the establishment of coordinated care organizations, the face of the medical industry is changing. “We are going to be moving from a health care ...

Health care reform, job growth topics in 2nd District Congressional Race
StandardNet
The race for an open seat in the 2nd Congressional District is not your classic Republican vs. Democrat showdown. Call it more of a contest between a moderate and a conservative. Author Chris Stewart, a Republican from Farmington, faces former state...

StandardNet

Army expands telebehavioral health care in Afghanistan - Nextgov ...
By Bob Brewin
The Army has developed and deployed technology to deal with the two signature wounds of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars -- post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho told ...
Nextgov - All Content

Lower Health Care Claims Send Aetna Earnings Higher « CBS ...
By WTIC News
Aetna Inc.'s third-quarter earnings rose 2 percent as lower-than-expected health care use and revenue gains helped the insurer trump Wall Street expectations.
CBS Connecticut

Health Care in Rural Namibia (Video) | UN Dispatch
By Mark Leon Goldberg
One of the greatest global health challenges is providing adequate health care to hard to reach rural communities in poor countries around the world. Cities and towns may have decent hospitals, but when you go out to villages only the most ...
UN Dispatch

EWU | Health Care in Spokane
"Health Care in Spokane: the good news" Free Public Forum - Tuesday, Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. - Spokane Convention Center. Spokane, Wash.-Noted journalist and author T.R. Reid returns to Spokane to lead a panel of local, regional and ...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Southeast Asian Shrimp Salad


Southeast Asian Shrimp Salad
Mark Bittman adds grapefruit to a shrimp salad with fish sauce, sugar, mint and cilantro.

Sensible steps to get you slim
Independent Online
Eat about 1500-2 000 calories a day: Most men and women can lose 500g to 1kg a week without feeling hungry if they eat 1500-2 000 calories a day by choosing mainly weight-loss foods. If you cannot exercise, eat 1200 to 1500 calories a day, and if ...

Independent Online

NIH study shows weight loss does not reduce heart disease risk in type 2 diabetics
pharmabiz.com
According to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has showed that an intensive diet and exercise programme resulting in weight loss does not reduce cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke in people with ...

Valerie Bertinelli: 'Quitting cocaine was easier than kicking food addiction'
Examiner.com
Actress Valerie Bertinelli has successfully maintained her stunning 40-pound weight loss for over three years, thanks to a healthy diet, an active lifestyle, and a sensible approach to eating. While Bertinelli, 52, makes weight-loss maintenance look ...

Examiner.com

Tech gadgets help with fitness goals
Detroit Free Press
Diet and exercise are the most important parts of losing weight or staying in shape. Technology helped me keep tabs on what I was eating and how many calories I was burning. I used MyFitnessPal, a free service that lets you maintain a digital diary of ...

Monday's medical myth: detox diets cleanse your body
The Conversation
With amazing claims of rapid and easy weight loss and improved health, together with a heavy dose of Hollywood celebrity endorsement, it is no wonder these diets are in the public spotlight. Toxin build up from our environment and poor diet and ...

Shane Diet & Fitness Resorts Receives Prestigious "Best For Weight Loss” Award
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
Shane Diet & Fitness Resorts weight loss program has received the coveted 2012 SpaFinder® Wellness Readers' Choice Category Award as among the "Best for Weight Loss. ... training fitness center while enjoying nutrition counseling and cooking classes ...

Orexigen says FDA may allow faster resubmission for diet pill
Chicago Tribune
(Reuters) - Orexigen Inc said the U.S. health regulator indicated it would be willing to discuss a faster resubmission of the company's application to market its weight loss pill Contrave. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January 2011 decided ...

Why your diet programme won't work
Times of India
You have been working out at the gym, following a proper diet that is recommended by a recognized dietitian in your city and yet your ambitious weight-loss programme is not helping you shed those kilos. One of the biggest pointers in finding out why ...

Elizabeth Warren: 'Survival of health care reforms at issue' on Nov. 6
Berkshire Eagle
Pointing out that the Affordable Care Act, often referred to as "Obamacare," builds on the Massachusetts' health care reform law by offering many additional benefits that already have kicked in, Warren told Eagle reporters and editors during a one-hour ...

Friday, October 12, 2012

Why I Didn't Say "No" to Cupcakes

Why I Didn't Say "No" to Cupcakes
Shape Magazine (blog)
One minor infraction won't derail my weight-loss goals. It's the cumulative effect of bad eating and unhealthy habits that ultimately cost you. And after all, sometimes a girl just needs a cupcake! Our 2012 Weight Loss Diary writer, Yasmin, is a 33 ...

Shape Magazine (blog)

Can Exercise Sabotage Your Diet?
MyHealthNewsDaily
Can exercise actually sabotage your diet? As the theory goes, we eat more food after exercising in order to replace the calories we burned. Not only does the old adage bring up a list of doubts about exercising as a means for weight loss, but it also ...

Slimmer Sarah Palin pens fitness book featuring comfort foods like chili moose
Examiner.com
Her announcement of this healthy lifestyle book follows her daughter Bristol's weight loss, which results from what the "Dancing with the Stars" diva calls her "cut the crapdiet." Describing her body now in comparison to her first appearance on ...

Examiner.com

Law Librarian Claims She Lost Nearly 80 Pounds On The 'Starbucks Diet'
Above the Law
Last week, in the wake of the Jennifer Livingston fat-shaming drama, my email inbox was inundated with diet tips and tricks from readers who were interested in helping me reach my weight loss goals. Much to my surprise, no one recommended that I ...

Above the Law

Study Says Weight Watchers Is Best Weight Loss Program
Daily Gossip
Journal Obesity published this Tuesday a study evaluation the best weight lossprogram. A research on 141 overweight and obese people, concluded that the WeightWatchers diet is the best. The research shows that people can lose weight more affordably, ...

Daily Gossip

Kelly Osbourne's Weight Loss Strategy: Don't Eat Food That's The Same Color ...
BlissTree
Eating off of different colored plates is obviously psychological, but combined with eating healthyfoods and exercising, it sounds like it's another strategy that might help someone wanting to lose weight. This method has actually been corroborated by ...

The Vinegar Diet: The Oldest Weight Loss Home Remedy?
Diet Blog (blog)
The vinegar diet started in the 1800s and involved drinking shots of apple cider vinegar before every meal to aid in weight loss. Even before that, people had been drinking vinegar medicinally due to its strong antibacterial properties. Hey, I even ...

Diet Blog (blog)

Fast Weight Loss With Green Coffee Bean Extract
Muncie Free Press
NEW YORK, NY - If you ask anyone who has tried to lose weight quickly by burning fat fast, you will probably hear something about Green Coffee Bean Extract. Dr. Oz has mentioned this great way to get help losing ... Where Can You Buy Green Coffee Bean ...

Kevin James Weight Loss: How MMA Helped Him Shed The Pounds For His ...
iScienceTimes.com
But it wasn't just exercise -- Kevin James attributed his weight loss to a change indiet as well, drinking greens and vegetables daily. However, though his weight losswas dramatic, he said he's still not in perfect shape. "I threw my back out ...

iScienceTimes.com

LA Choose Less, Weigh Less Campaign: Portion Control for Weight ...
By Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD
Portion control is the key to weight loss, but LA's Choose Less, Weigh Less campaign isn't the best way to education about serving sizes. Cynthia Sass explains how to keep portions in check so youlose weight. ... Second, I would show a) how much exercise you'd have to do to burn that same number of calories and b) how much weight you'd gain if you didn't prevent those surplus calories from getting socked away in your fat cells. For example, the pancake meal comparison slashes ...
Shape Magazine - Diet, Fitness,...

Mahatma Gandhi Style of losing weight | Diet Talks
The first thing in losing weight is changing all the habits that'll make you lose those fats. Never wondered that he could help me lose weight.
diet.health-talks.com/.../mahatma-gandhi-style-of-losing-weig...

Paul Ryan and the moral argument for rationing health care
Washington Post (blog)
Interestingly, though they opposed the recent health care reform bill on the basis of it paying for procedures which aimed at the death of prenatal children, the Conference of Bishops did not oppose it on the basis of rationing or “death panels ...

With Interest In Health Care High, Presidential Candidates Represent Stark ...
Kaiser Health News
6, the president's signature health care law — including the contentious requirement that most Americans obtain health insurance or pay a tax penalty — will almost certainly come into full force, becoming the largest expansion of the safety net since ...

Romney shifts to more moderate stances on taxes, immigration, health care ...
Washington Post
The final weeks of the presidential campaign are bringing Mitt Romney full circle, back to a question that has tugged at him for nearly two decades: What does he really believe? Although he declared himself “severely conservative” during the Republican ...

Gov. Romney Solves Candidate Romney's Health Care Dilemma
ThinkProgress
... of the Columbus Dispatch, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney attempted to sketch out the contours of his health care plan and the policies he would enact to help the millions of Americans who cannot obtain health insurance due to a pre ...

ThinkProgress

Kodak to End Health-Care, Survivor-Benefits Program
Wall Street Journal
Eastman Kodak Co. said it would terminate its health-care and survivor-benefits program, resolving a $1.2 billion retiree-benefits liability. The company will provide retirees with a $7.5 million cash payment to support initial administration and ...

More on health care, construction, and Alabama's economy
al.com (blog)
One possible explanation for this is that the jobs that were lost in the recession did not pay high wages. This theory appears to be supported by the fact that employment in construction shrank by more than 34 percent between the start of 2008 and 2012 ...

Southern California health care administrator selected to head Santa Clara ...
San Jose Mercury News
"Paul's leadership experience in the public hospital arena will be an asset to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, especially as we prepare for health care reform and its impact on the way we provide health care services," stated Deputy County Executive ...

Missouri could lose 10000 health care jobs to Medicare cuts
Bizjournals.com (blog)
These cuts are an attempt to reduce the federal deficit but could mean significant job loss within the U.S. health care industry, according to a report by consulting firm Tripp Umbach, commissioned by the American Hospital Association, American Medical ...

Beaverton-area health-care providers brainstorm plans for $1.6 ...
By Dominique Fong, The Oregonian
The Beaverton project will help prepare health-care providers when many of the changes in the national Affordable Care Act roll out 2014, Wyden said. “The focus is doing a better a job of integrating and coordinating services,” Wyden said.
Washington County News

Analysis finds likely voters rank health care second most important ...
By News
Likely voters who said "health care and Medicare" will be the most important issue in deciding their presidential vote were much more supportive of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) than the public in general is. Despite two and a half ... The analysis also looked at the issue of changing Medicare in the future to a system in which the government provides seniors with a fixed sum of money they could use to purchase either private health insurance or Medicare coverage. An average of ...
Science Codex - Culture

Longer Looks: Mitt Romney's Health Care Legacy; Young Doctors ...
Romney's solution was to require that all individuals obtain health insurance, a concept known as the "individual mandate," based on a sliding scale of affordability. Over the long term, he calculated, the plan would help reduce costs. His first ...
Kaiser Health News - Daily Health...

Saturday, October 6, 2012

More evidence commercial weight loss plans can work

More evidence commercial weight loss plans can work
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who take part in a commercial weight-loss program may indeed shed some pounds - especially if they substantially cut calories, a new study from Sweden finds. Worldwide, around 1.5 billion adults are overweight and ...

Kim Kardashian taking weight loss pills
Hindustan Times
Kim Kardashian has revealed that she has taken to diet pills and a strict exercise regime in a bid to lose 20 pounds for boyfriend Kanye West. The reality TV star is apparently desperate to shed the extra weight she has gained since coupling up with...

Hindustan Times

Diet Mistakes To Avoid
BoldSky
Crash Diet- This is one of the first diets that people opt for an easy weight loss. If you cut your food intake all of sudden in order to lose weight then there can be nothing more unhealthy than it. Your body is used to a certain amount of calories ...

BoldSky

Hudson feels Jessica's weight loss total mess
Times of India
Jen said that Jessica still looks fat despite an enormous $4 million incentive to lose weight,"showbizspy.com quoted a source as saying. "Jennifer has reportedly been a great support system for Jessica, calling her multiple times a day and FedEx-ing ...

Avoid Holiday Weight Gain with Expert Tips
HealthNewsDigest.com
Below, Manhattan Medical Weight Loss Physician Dr. Sue DeCotiis provides general weight losstips and Co-Founder of BeyondDiet.com, nutritionist Isabel De Los Rios offers healthy alternatives to ensure that you look your best through the New Year. Know ...

Exercise protects against more than just weight gain
The Northwest Florida Daily News
While the debate on whether or not losing and maintaining weight loss is about increased willpower continues, researchers have discovered a way to boost self-control. A study reported in the Journal of Consumer Research has found that “consumers who ...

Fat Loss Factor Review Commends Dr. Charles Livingston
Midland Daily News
Website's Fat Loss Factor review commending Dr. Charles Livingston on his breakthrough weight loss and cleansing program draws public attention to a much-needed fitness solution. Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) October 04, 2012. "Our Fat Loss Factor review, has ...

Lose two stone in ten weeks with System 10
Mayo Advertiser
System 10 is a step by step individualised plan of normal food, precise exercise, and nutrition designed to give you a great metabolism and your best weight loss and body shape ever. It was created by dietician, fitness trainer, and lecturer David ...

Is the Mediterranean Diet Good for Weight Loss? |
The Mediterranean is a much-preferred travel destination, blessed with fields full of sunflowers, long coastlines and stunning scenery. But scientists are now ...
www.ways2weightloss.com/mediterranean-diet-can-it-work-to...

Planning for Retirement? Don't Forget Health Care Costs
New York Times
Consider this example from an annual report from Fidelity Investments: For a 65-year-old couple retiring this year, the cost of health care in retirement will be $240,000, 6 percent more than that same couple retiring in 2011 would pay. The report ...

New York Times

Obama Not Candid On Taxes, Health Care
Wheeling News Register
According to fact checkers at The Associated Press, health insurance premiums are growing at a rapid rate. Last year, they increased by 9 percent - far from the slow growth claimed by the president. In fact, Obama's mismanagement of health care is ...

Eighth Circuit affirms dismissal of health care law challenge - Jurist
By Brandon Gatto
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit [official website] on Thursday upheld the dismissal [opinion, PDF] of a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text; JURIST backgrounder] due to the ... ruling that declared the PPACA constitutional centered on the "individual mandate" provision [text] of the act, which requires every person, with some exceptions for religious and other reasons, to purchase some form of health insurance by January 1,...
Paper Chase

Health Care, Energy Rally on Romney Remarks - CNBC
Both energy and health care are higher after Romney's comments last night in the debate. Ana Gupte, Bernstein analyst, and Kevin Book, Clearview Energy Partners, offer strategies to playing these sectors.
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Mitt Romney Pre-Existing Conditions Health Care Plan Doesn't ...
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Romney doesn't want to forbid health insurance companies from rejecting people with pre-existing conditions or charging them more than healthy individuals, as does the national health care reformlaw, as well as Romney's own 2006 Massachusetts law health care ... Obama's health care law, theAffordable Care Act, prohibits health insurance companies from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing medical conditions or charging them higher rates, as they can do today.
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Last Night's Debate on Health Care, David Henderson | EconLog ...
By David Henderson
I'm so glad that I don't need to use quotation marks around the word "debate" in the title above. For the days leading up to it, every time I've mentioned it, I've used quotation marks because the typical format is Q&A where, if the candidates are ...
EconLog: Library of Economics...

Debate Coverage, Cont.: Questions Emerge About Health Care Facts
In doing so, Mr. Romney used striking new language to describe his policy proposals on taxes, education and health care in ways that may assuage independent voters — but which may be sowing confusion about how Mr. Romney would ... Mitt Romney's Medicare plan won't try to control costs by limiting the payments that future retirees would use to buy private health insurance, aides say, adding detail to a proposal from the GOP presidential nominee that has both intrigued and ...
Kaiser Health News Daily Health...

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Some supplements for weight loss make illegal health claims

Inspector general: Some supplements for weight loss, immune system make illegal health claims
Greenfield Daily Reporter
This undated photo released by the Office of Inspector General of Department of Health and Human Services shows a label from a dietary supplement. Federal watchdogs say many dietary supplements marketed to help consumers lose weight or boost their ...

Benefits of exercise for children don't replace healthy diet
VOXXI
Children who are in formal routines may also miss out on play exercise, and parents who feel their children are in fitness programs may allow extra snacks or decide not to participate in an outdoor activity because their child has already worked out ...

Improve Your Digestion To Lose Weight
Care2.com
Our foods should agree with each other, rather than be in conflict. You may find food combining very helpful for your health and weight management. It was for me. Food combining, along with Acid/Alkaline balance, saved my life when my health was on a...

Care2.com

5 Ways to Start Losing Weight Tomorrow
Huffington Post
When I say five ways to lose weight tomorrow, I am not talking about gimmicky water weight, or performing some radical feat of unsustainable extremism with diet and exercise. The five suggestions that I am giving will not only have you losing weight ...

Camas, Washougal mayors halfway to better health
The Columbian
Six months into the yearlong Camas and Washougal on a Diet weight-loss campaign, both mayors have lost more than 8 percent of their body weight. Six months into a yearlong weight-loss challenge and Mayors Sean Guard and Scott ... weight-loss blitzes ...

Coles is competing with Woolworths in a new market war over weight loss products
NEWS.com.au
... are muscling in on the growing weight loss market. Coles is releasing a Simply Less "health conscious'' food label - ranging from diet shakes to chocolate - as it tries to win over shoppers trimming waistlines and budgets and expands its private ...

Comedian Lisa Lampanelli dishes on 80-pound weight loss: I was addicted to food
Examiner.com
"I got sick of trying everything," Lampanelli says on the "Dr. Oz Show" set to air Oct. 3. "I tried every single thing imaginable – diet, exercise. I even bought a house on the health spa property and I still gained weight." The former "Celebrity ...

Examiner.com

Julia Kozerski Documents 160-Pound Weight Loss With Her iPhone
Diets In Review (blog)
Over the course of a year, not longer after her wedding in 2009, Julia embarked on an incredible weight loss journey that left her half her size. In the process of losing nearly 160 ... To slim down, Julia says she stopped eating junk food and cleaned ...

Obese Brain May Block Ability to Lose Weight
Medical Daily
And, while it is possible for obese and overweight people to win the battle of the bulge (as evidenced by NBC's weight-loss program "The Biggest Loser" and countless celebrities' gastric bypass surgery), successful weight loss tends to occur with ...

Medical Daily

Diet & Fitness: Nutrition, exercise, weight loss, tips, advice - WMBB ...
WMBB News 13 - The Panhandle's News Leader Diet & Fitness. Home. Vote 2012 ... 4 eating habits may help older women maintain weight loss · 4 eating habits ...
www.wmbb.com/category/40255/Diet-Fitness

Tonight's Debate: 10 Health Care Questions For Obama And Romney
Forbes
Governor Romney, it has been widely reported that the Affordable Care Act signed into law by President Obama is much like the health care coverage you signed into law when you were the Governor of Massachusetts. ... Given large subsidies hospitals ...

Kenya: Doctors strike over poor health care
The Seattle Times
Kenya: Doctors strike over poor health care. Doctors in Kenya's public hospitals on Wednesday spent their 17th day on strike to protest the dilapidated state of public health care. Emergency rooms in some of Kenya's public hospitals frequently don't ...

Why Health Care Will Just Keep Getting More Expensive
Forbes
Health care has got more expensive, is getting more expensive and will continue to do so far off into the future. No, it doesn't particularly matter what system is used to deliver either the health careitself or the financing method for it. Direct ...

Affordable Care Act is important election issue
Seacoastonline.com
The Seacoast Sunday medical section featured interviews with officials from Portsmouth Regional Hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital and the N.H. Hospital Association regarding the impacts of changes in the health care system under the Affordable Care ...

Medicaid Health Care Denied To Millions Of America's Poorest
Huffington Post
Without health insurance, those bills went unpaid and Scop remains exposed to health care costs if she gets sick again. As a Floridian, Scop could be left out even if Obama wins reelection and hishealth care reform law fully goes into effect in 2014 ...

Aging population a boon for health care workers
USA TODAY
2012 - As Baby Boomers age into retirement by the millions each year, their growing health careneeds require more people to administer that care. That makes fields such as nursing one of the fastest-growing occupations, and hospitals are hiring now to ...

FAQ: Health Insurance Needs for Transgender Americans
Center For American Progress
Health care, particularly health insurance coverage, is another area where transgender people routinely experience serious and potentially life-threatening discrimination on the basis of gender identity. Transgender people are more likely to be without ...

Center For American Progress

Doctors Speak Out on Health Care Waste in US
U.S. News & World Report
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 3 (HealthDay News) -- The basic assumption in U.S. health care that more is better is being challenged by a group of doctors who put the cost of unnecessary care at as much as $800 billion a year, according to a new report. The report ...

New Health Care Law Hits Hospitals
WSIL TV
Under a requirement of President Obama's health care reform law that took effect Monday, hospitals now face hefty fines if they readmit too many Medicare patients. The new rules are designed to improve quality of care and save taxpayers money, but ...

Debate Over Medicare, Health Care Reform
Forbes
10/03/2012 @ 8:01AM |113 views. Debate Over Medicare, Health Care Reform ... For workers with employer-based health coverage, that sum would be on top of the $15,745 that workers must pay for family health insurance coverage (or $5,615 for single ...

Health Care Startup Finds Success Despite Public Sector Obstacles
By The Huffington Post News Editors
In an industry where roughly half of $2.8 trillion total spending comes from the U.S. government, Joanne Rohde had trouble attracting government interest for her new small business, Axial Exchange.
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed

Ryan Ad: 'Force Health Care Providers To Compete For Our - Livewire
By Eric Kleefeld
Paul Ryan took on health care reform Tuesday, in an ad he launched for his House seat in Wisconsin. As with his previous ads, Ryan does not specifically say which office he is running for, with him actually running simultaneously for his ...
TPM LiveWire

Obama vs. Romney: Who has the advantage when debating health ...
"I don't know how Mitt Romney criticizes the president's health care bill and isn't forced into trying to criticize the specifics of it, which are very popular.” — Dave Sirota.
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Connecting the Health Care Dots at PokitDok - semanticweb.com
By Angela Guess
Elise Craig of Xconomy recently shared how PokitDok, helmed by CEO Lisa Maki, is helping patients connect the dots of a fragmented health care system.
semanticweb.com

Left In Alabama:: A Surprise Move on Alabama's Health Insurance ...
By DrAbston
A Surprise Move on Alabama's Health Insurance Exchange. by: DrAbston. Tue Oct 02, 2012 at 11:41:30 AM CDT. I learned yesterday that Governor Bentley has decided to throw the job of choosing an Essential Health Benefits package back ...
Left In Alabama - Front Page

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All RMHP Individual Health Insurance Plans offer comprehensive benefits. For more information onhealth insurance in Colorado, visit www.RMHP.org.
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