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Published: Aug. 2, 2012 at 9:41 PM

BETHESDA, Md., Aug. 2 (UPI) -- People who want to lower their blood pressure should try the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, or DASH diet, U.S. health officials say.

Dr. Lawrence Fine of the National Institutes of Health said lowering high-blood pressure levels can literally save one's life by reducing the risk of such as heart attack, stroke and kidney disease.

"The DASH diet advocates that you should eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, a lot of non-fat or low-fat dairy products, and also lean meat, chicken breast, things like that," Fine said in a statement.

The DASH eating plan is low in saturated fat, cholesterol, total fat, sweets, sugar, sugary drinks and red meat. It includes fruit, vegetables, fat-free or low-fat dairy products, whole grains, fish, poultry, beans, seeds and nuts -- and it is lower in sodium than the typical American diet.

DASH research showed an eating plan containing 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day lowered blood pressure.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 advises people in the following groups to aim for no more than 1,500 mg of sodium per day:

-- People who already have high blood pressure.

-- People who have diabetes or chronic kidney disease.

-- African-Americans.

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Once, when I was nine years old, my older sisterthen 15invited me to her room. This in itself was an honor and a privilege, but today there was something even better: Kira was about to embark on a disciplined but rewarding diet of fat-free foods, and she wanted to know if I would join her. We would be partners! We would support each other, encourage each other,lose weighttogether! There would be challenges, of course, but together, we would succeed.

The first step, Kira explained, was to eliminate existing temptations, such as the great stock of Halloween candy currently occupying a corner of my bedroom closet. It wouldnt do to try to ignore it, or to save a small selection for later, or even to enjoy one final fun-size Milky Way. The candy must go.

I complied without hesitation. I did not pause to consider the fact that this was by far the largest supply of treats I had ever amassed. I did not linger on the memory of shuffling through the streets of suburban Portland for hours, dressed as a housewife in slippers and robe, in the rain. I did not immediately recall growing steadily colder and more miserable as I followed my brother Gabe from door to door in his relentless and dogged pursuit of a full pillowcase, or the descent into hypothermia, or lying in bed later that night, shivering uncontrollably while my mother buried me under a heap of blankets.

I didnt think of any of that. I toted my stash to the garage, breathed in the sweet confusion of all its artificial scents one last time, and emptied my pillowcase into the trash.

In family lore, that day is remembered as the time Gabe got caught digging through the garbage for Emilys candy, but in my personal history, it also marked the beginning of a long and inglorious legacy of dieting. Im embarrassed enough of this history that I might actually have managed to forget it, except that much of it is written down in a diary I somehow still have.

The diary begins in seventh grade, two years after my first adventure in dieting. In one entry from that year, I make a pact with myself to lose 15 pounds in three weeks. A few days later, I confess that I need some motivation to help shed the pounds and hope that being around my best friend will help:We were carrying eachother(sic)around on our backs and she is so much lighter than me! I felt so bad and fat and slobby maybe Ill be able to stay away from everything that tastes good now.

Of course, like most people, I always reallylikedeverything that tastes good. Once, around first grade, I spent the night at my friend Kathleens house and woke to the smell of bacon. When I sat down at the kitchen table, Kathleens mom put a full plate of glistening, curling red-gold strips in front of me. Soon, Kathleens older sister came in and asked, Wheres the bacon? The mom looked from the empty plate to me to her daughter, who said, She ateallthe bacon?

I was not, in other words, a naturally talented dieter. But after a few dozen false starts in the middle school years, I discovered a trick that made it easy to stay away from everything that tastes good. All I had to do was remember four words:

Food is the Enemy.

As an adult who hopes to someday raise children of my own, the fact that I learned this trick from my momwho is an extraordinary human being and an amazing motherterrifies me. She had not intended to instill in me a fear, animosity, and distrust of food. She told me, in her characteristically open and honest way, about her own struggle with anorexiahow refusing to eat had been a prolonged act of teenage defiance and rebellion; how it had given her the feeling of agency and the illusion of control.

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Most on Gluten-Free Diets Don't Have Celiac Disease, Study Shows

By Brenda Goodman, MA WebMD Health News

Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Aug. 1, 2012 -- For a lot of people, gluten-free diets are more trend than treatment, a new study shows.

The study estimates that 1.8 million Americans have celiac disease. Another 1.6 million are on gluten-free diets, the recommended treatment for celiac disease. Yet there's almost no overlap between the two groups.

"So here' we've got this kind of irony where those who need to be on [a gluten-free diet] aren't on it, because they don't know they have it. And those who are on it probably don't need to be on it, at least from a medical point of view," says researcher Joseph A. Murray, MD, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. "It's a little frustrating."

The study is based on data collected through the government's NHANES survey, which takes regular snapshots of the health of the U.S. population.

Celiac disease is a disorder that's triggered by eating gluten, a protein found in grains like wheat, barley, and rye.

Some people with celiac disease have no symptoms. Others experience non-specific complaints like chronic fatigue, depression, brain fog, abdominal pain, weight loss, anemia, diarrhea, and other stomach problems.

Along with using the survey data, the researchers also used blood tests to screen nearly 8,000 people, ages 6 and up, for antibodies against the gluten protein. Those who showed gluten antibodies were given another test to look for proteins that indicate the body is attacking itself. A total of 35 people were considered to have celiac disease.

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Diet plans Pippa Middleton Weight Loss 2012 Pippa Middleton - Isn't amazing how all of the celebrities you see have a celebrity diet plan for weight loss to maintain their weight. Some of them are shapely and healthy looking, and look good on camera. Others look like they haven't eaten in weeks, like they just got back from the famine in Ethiopia for a few weeks. Like they had been starving themselves to lose weight, and that is probably what they have been doing. You see it in all the tabloids, this person lost 100 pounds again, this one gained 100 pounds, and then lost 150 pounds. Some are not as dramatic; this one lost 40 pounds and is a television spokesperson, because the previous celebrity diet spokesperson gained the weight back. The fact is they may be starving themselves to lose weight, fasting like they are going through a famine.

Celebrities make dieting look so easy, don't they? One month they're on the cover of US Weekly for gaining too much weight and the next they're headlining the "sexiest beach bods" story. It is true that seriously overweight people can lose large amounts of fat in a quick amount of time, because of the large fat content in their cells. But those that are only a few pounds overweight, losing 40 pounds in a month, is not only starvation, it is malnutrition and can have serious side effects. Our body weight can fluctuate day to day and the best diets take the weight off gradually, the way it came on.

Researches indicate that individuals who indulge in a weight loss program by taking prepared meals end up losing an additional 31% weight as against those who cook their own meals. With help, losing weight is made easier and at times much faster as against doing it on your own.Diet delivery is gaining popularity in a big way as it is fairly affordable by even the common man, roughly around $20 a day with an increasing variety to choose from. A few of which include: Zone-compliant meal, low carbs plan, veggie meals, and gourmet too.

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With the rapidly increasing epidemic of obesity and increasing BMI levels, there is an array of products and diet plan to aid in combating obesity. Celebrity slim diet, the basic idea is to educate people and not to depict food as an enemy. Like a lot of famous diets in Hollywood, if your body thinks you are starving, it is going to hold on to every calorie you take in to keep you from starving to death instead of burning them for energy. When you follow a properly balanced weight loss diet, your metabolism will hardly notice the decrease in calories and continue to burn fat it doesn't need to store. This is a more long-term weight loss strategy.

Celebrities do not have secrets about dieting. They are normal people like the rest of us but, unlike most of us, they have people working for them such as diet advisors and personal trainers. Celebrity diets involve a level of commitment and dedication which we struggle with. The best celebrity diets involve eating sensibly and limiting our calorie intake. Having these factors in mind will allow you to have safe and easy weight loss that will provide you with short term and long term consistent results.

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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. said Monday it transferred marketing rights for the diet pill Belviq to its partner Eisai Co. Ltd., which will market the drug in the U.S. and apply for approval in other North and South American countries.

Arena said it transferred the FDA application for the drug to the Japanese pharmaceutical company, which plans to submit it for approval in Mexico, Brazil, Canada and other countries.

The FDA approved Belviq in late June for adults who are obese or are overweight with at least one medical complication, such as diabetes or high cholesterol. It was the first FDA approval of a new drug for long-term weight loss in 13 years.

Arena's studies showed that patients taking Belviq, known generically as lorcaserin, had modest weight loss. On average patients lost 3 to 3.7 percent of their starting body weight over a year. About 47 percent of patients without diabetes lost at least 5 percent of their weight or more, which was enough to meet FDA standards for effectiveness.

Shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals fell 8 cents to $9.34 in morning trading.

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GALVESTON, Texas, July 29 (UPI) -- The offspring of mothers on a low-protein diet are more likely to develop hypertension as adults, U.S. researchers say.

Drs. Haijun Gao, Uma Yallampalli and Chandra Yallampalli of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston said in rats, the high maternal testosterone levels associated with a low-protein diet are caused by reduced activity of an enzyme that inactivates testosterone.

This increased testosterone reaches the fetus and increases the offspring's susceptibility to adulthood hypertension.

The researchers hypothesized the increased testosterone levels were caused either by increased activity of an enzyme that produces testosterone or by decreased activity of an enzyme that reduces testosterone, specifically Hsd17b2, which converts testosterone to a less potent androgen, androstenedione.

The team found that Hsd17b2 expression in rats was affected by protein restriction in two parts of the placenta.

The researchers propose the reduction in Hsd17b2 expression might allow more testosterone to reach the fetus and play a role in fetal programming of hypertension.

The findings are scheduled to be presented at the Society for the Study of Reproduction's annual meeting at State College, Pa.

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Your Diet Affects Your Grandchildren's DNA, Scientists Say

By: Christopher Wanjek, LiveScience Bad Medicine Columnist

Published: 07/27/2012 10:00 AM EDT on LiveScience

You are what you eat, the saying goes. And, according to two new genetic studies, you are what your mother, father, grandparents and great-grandparents ate, too.

Diet, be it poor or healthy, can so alter the nature of one's DNA that those changes can be passed on to the progeny. While this much has been speculated for years, researchers in two independent studies have found ways in which this likely is happening.

The findings, which involve epigenetics, may help explain the increased genetic risk that children face compared to their parents for diseases such as obesity and diabetes.

The punch line is that your poor dietary habits may be dooming your progeny, despite how healthy they will try to eat. [10 Worst Hereditary Conditions]

Epigenetics

Epigenetics refers to changes in gene expression from outside forces. Different from a mutation, epigenetic changes lie not in the DNA itself but rather in its surroundings -- the enzymes and other chemicals that orchestrate how a DNA molecule unwinds its various sections to make proteins or even new cells.

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hCGTreatments / Diet Doc now offers weight loss pills that complement their natural weight management programs. With weight gain and obesity on the rise, most people are taking various precautions to stay healthy while others are taking drastic measures to fix the problem. Bariatric surgery is one of the drastic measures that is on the rise. Invasive surgery should be the absolute last resort for overweight or obese patients, due to its traumatic effects on the body, after exhausting all other methods of weight loss but most are starting to look to these invasive procedures are their only option.

hCGTreatments / Diet Docs weight management programs is a natural alternative to invasive surgery and offer the same drastic results. Their programs use hCG treatments, a natural hormone that works to balance the hormones, combined with a low-glycemic diet that is found to be suitable for people with any health condition. A diet plan is created for each patient by a nutritionist after a thorough health evaluation from a doctor and is guided by a weight loss coach throughout the program. Diet Docs patients are advised to supplement their diet plan with essential vitamins and minerals that are suited to their body type to optimize their bodies through the program.

Diet Docs newest addition the their line of weight loss products, however, are designed to make the diet easier by suppressing the appetite and burning belly fat. Abdominal, or visceral fat, actually plays a role in various types of diseases according to recent studies. In fact, a group of specialists that study the link between abdominal fat and disease called the International Chair on Cardio metabolic Risk held their third International Congress on Abdominal Obesity which present new research on topics relating to intra-abdominal, belly fat. Their researchers stated that it is critical to measure the waist circumference in patients with Type 2 diabetes because the greater waistline, the higher the risk will be of developing cardio-metabolic complications. Their studies also find the role between belly fat and inflammation, which is also a major factor for disease.

hCGTreatments / Diet Docs weight management programs aim to find the root of the problem and work to change it. Programs that promise fast weight loss solutions only provide a temporary fix to the problem. The hCG diet has been around for over 50 years and Diet Doc has worked to modernize the program to make it safer and more effective. Many of their patients claim to lose 14 pounds in two weeks, matching their results with those of the invasive procedures like the lap band or bariatric surgery. Diet Doc CEO, Julie Wright, states our weight management programs are safe and effective and work to change eating habits and body structure. These results are life-long and cannot be achieved through any surgery.

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Young people aged 11-14 can eat a healthy Mediterranean diet and get all the zinc they need to help them grow, according to researchers.

The Mediterranean diet is high in vegetables, fruit and olive oil and low in meat

The research by Marta Mesias et al. published in the Public Health Nutrition Journal found that a diet high in cereals, legumes and veg and low in meat could provide adequate zinc amounts even though these foods have typically been thought to reduce the bioavailability of minerals.

Med diet meets needs

The Mediterranean diet has been proposed as one of the healthiest dietary models available, said the study.

Although a diet based on Mediterranean patterns is associated with factors which can affect Zn [zinc] absorption, such as high consumption of phytate, its consumption in adequate amounts allows Zn status to be maintained during adolescence.

The study found that a med diet could account for 76% of the Spanish recommended daily intake of zinc.

Although, the diet did not meet 100% of Spanish zinc standards, the researchers called Spains recommendations unnecessarily high.

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The ancient Native Americans of the desert Southwest subsisted on a fiber-filled diet of prickly pear, yucca and flour ground from plant seeds, finds a new analysis of fossilized feces that may explain why modern Native Americans are so susceptible to Type II diabetes.

Thousands of years of incredibly fibrous foods, 20 to 30 times more fibrous than today's typical diet, with low impact on the blood sugar likely left this group vulnerable to the illness when richer Anglo foods made their way to North America, said study researcher Karl Reinhard, a professor of forensic sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

"When we look at Native American dietary change within the 20th century, the more ancient traditions disappeared." Reinhard told LiveScience. "They were introduced to a whole new spectrum of foods like fry-bread, which has got a super-high glycemic index."

The glycemic index of a food is a measure of how fast its energy is absorbed into the bloodstream. It's measured on a scale of 1 to 100, with 1 being the slowest absorbing with the least effect on blood sugar. The native people who lived in the deserts of Arizona would have likely eaten traditional stews with glycemic indexes around 23, Reinhard found. Foods scoring lower than 55 are considered "low-GI" foods. [ 7 Perfect Survival Foods ]

Modern food and modern disease Members of Southwest Native American tribes are more susceptible than Caucasians to Type II diabetes, which happens when the body either doesn't produce enough insulin to break down sugar from food, or when the body's cells fail to recognize the insulin it does produce.

Researchers have long hypothesized that a "thrifty gene" (or, more likely, genes) acquired through feast and famine makes Native American populations more prone to this chronic disease. The idea is that people who were able to rapidly adapt to both lean times and times of plenty would have done better in ancient times. Today, the modern diet has rendered famine rare in the developed world, but the body continues to respond to times of plenty as if starvation is around the corner. Diabetes and obesity can result.

Reinhard and his colleagues now suggest that feast and famine may not be necessary for the "thrifty gene" hypothesis to make sense. Basically, Reinhard said, an extremely low-calorie, high-fiber diet made the ancient Native American gut a paragon of efficiency. With the arrival of whites, the diet changed faster than physiology could keep up with it. In other words, the digestive system didn't evolve for abundant, high-GI foods.

High-fiber diet To find solid evidence of what ancient Southwestern tribes actually ate, Reinhard turned to what he called "the most intimate residues from archaeological sites" fossilized poop. Known as coprolites, these fossils contain a record of their creator's most recent meals.

The researchers analyzed 25 coprolites from Antelope Cave in northwestern Arizona, a dwelling that was seasonally occupied for thousands of years. These particular coprolites (20 of which turned out to be human) date back to at least A.D. 1150 and earlier. The dates make the cave a perfect time to look at the transition from a total hunter-gatherer lifestyle to one supplemented by some agriculture, Reinhard said.

"It bridges two different dietary traditions, one which has been around for several thousands of years with one that was relatively newly introduced at the time the cave was occupied," he said.

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