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Oprah Winfrey is more than happy to help fans find weight loss success just like she did. The media executive has been working on her fitness for decades and had plenty of ups and downs along the way. But the whole time shes been relentlessly honest about the struggle, documenting her greatest challenges and successes. She even wrote a cookbook to help fans follow along meal by meal.

Winfrey admitted that she doesnt have all the answers for totaldiet success. But she did come up with quite a few simpletricks for healthy recipes that shes picked up along the years. She sharedthese in her book, Food, Health, and Happiness, which was published in2017.

Anyone embracing a low-carb lifestyle knows the popular trick that involves swapping cauliflower in for just about anything, especially potatoes. Long grain rice is abandoned in favor of cauliflower rice. And mashed potatoes are subbed with mashed cauliflower instead.

But as Oprah explainsin her cookbook, mashed cauliflower doesnt taste that great without thisone important addition. Everybodyalways says thatwhipped cauliflowertastes just like mashed potatoes. Well, guess what?Whipped cauliflower tastes just likewhipped cauliflower, shewrote in her book (viaDelish).

Instead of just using veggies, Oprahrecommends adding two real potatoes to the dish to make it taste creamier.You know, like real mashed potatoes.

Broccoli and cheddar soup is popular because it tastes so good on a cold day. But instead of wasting so many calories on this appetizer, Oprah recommends subbing her simple and delicious two-ingredient soup.

For this diet hack, Oprah boilsbroccoli in chicken broth instead of water and then purees it in a food processor.Her cookbook includes a version of this with a few more ingredients, but eitherway, its worth trying.

Most people cant detect a huge difference in taste between ground turkey and ground beef, especially in dishes like chili or lasagna. And turkey is leaner meat thats also cheaper.

Oprah suggests this smart swap in her cookbook and also recommends making your own ground turkey for an even better taste.

At breakfast, Oprah makes herown version of quinoa thats cooked with apples and cinnamon. As she explainedin her cookbook, Its a great source of fiber, its gluten-free, and itsa complete protein.

Oprah doesnt believe in skippingdessert instead, she lightens up her after-dinner reward by opting for sorbetinstead of ice cream, which has fewer calories and more healthy fruit in it.

Instead of store-bought options, Oprah said she makes her own at home with her beloved sorbet maker. I put it right up there with the fork and dish towel on my list of kitchen essentials, she wrote in her cookbook, speaking about the kitchen gadget.

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By Shelly Leachman for UCSB | January 12, 2020 | 3:20 p.m.

How did people interact with plants in the past? And how did they use food as an expression of their identities? Such questions are the central research focus of paleoethnobotanist Emily Johnson.

I am particularly interested in understanding the ways that this identity and the role of food production was negotiated as societies become increasingly hierarchical, and politically and economically complex, said Johnson, a doctoral student in anthropology at UC Santa Barbara.

The increased reliance on a few staple crops, such as maize, that often occur with this shift can be detrimental unless adaptations are made to the diet, she said.

Those adaptations include nixtamalization, a production process for maize known to play a significant role for thousands of years in the foodways of indigenous communities throughout North America, yet never explicitly affirmed in the archaeological record. Until now.

Johnson, based in the Integrative Subsistence Laboratory of her advisor, Professor Amber VanDerwarker, has developed the first direct method to identify nixtamalization in the past. Her research is published in the top-ranked Journal of Archaeological Science.

Prior to this paper, it was not possible to directly identify the process of nixtamalization in the archaeological record it could only be hypothesized to occur at sites with proxy evidence such as grinding stones and ceramic griddles, Johnson said.

However, these items can also be used for a variety of other processing activities distinct from nixtamalization. Now, archaeologists can better understand the inception and spread of this significant cooking practice throughout time and space, she said.

The research is significant, noted VanDerwarker, because it allows a path forward for archaeologists to identify when maize-growing groups throughout North and Central America adopted the technology of nixtamalization. We know that native groups adopted this technology before European contact, but until now it has been impossible to identify directly when this transition occurred archaeologically.

The process in which maize is cooked in an alkaline solution, VanDerwarker explained, dramatically improves the nutritional content of maize, which is deficient in various amino acids, vitamins and minerals. In so doing, it helps to prevent severe malnutrition in populations dependent on maize as a staple food source.

Emilys work has been able to demonstrate that maize starch grain morphology changes during this process, and the starches from before versus after nixtamalization are highly diagnostic, she said. Now that this new method has been established, archaeologists throughout the Americas will try and determine the timing of this transition in their respective regions; this will be a highly cited and impactful publication.

For her research, Johnson replicated the nixtamalization of maize in an effort to understand whether the damage from cooking impacted the starch granules the primary component of maize in significant and identifiable ways.

By identifying these changes, nixtamalization could then be directly identified in the archaeological record by recovering the damaged starch granules from objects such as cooking and serving vessels and ground stone used to process the maize.

While some studies have looked at how processes such as grinding, roasting and boiling have affected starch granules, no one has previously looked at how nixtamalization affects starch granules, Johnson said. Unique to this region, nixtamalization has become a way to not only boost the nutritional profile of maize, but a cultural element in its own right.

"The first step in the process of turning maize into masa for tortillas, tamales and more, it is clear that this cooking technique is still relevant to the health and cultures of people today.

The next step in continuing this line of research, Johnson said, is to identify these modified starch granules in the archaeological record. She and VanDerwarker already have identified sites in the Southern Gulf lowlands in Mexico with long occupation histories and existing evidence of maize-dominated diets that would be ideal for investigating when, where and how this process began.

Co-authored with her undergraduate advisor, John Marston of Boston University, Johnsons paper is the outcome of her senior thesis research at BU, where she won the Michael A. Sassano III and Christopher M. Sassano Award for Writing Excellence in the Social Sciences.

Shelly Leachman for UCSB.

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Somehow we all relate weight loss with fancy meals like salads and juices, but thats not always the case. It might sound boring and extreme but even eating the same food every day can also help you lose weight. Yes, you read that right. If you trying to shed those extra kilos, read this.The diet includes eating the same thing for breakfast, dinner and lunch every day and has become a trend among weight watchers.The dietAccording to experts, it might sound boring to eat the same food every day, but the trick can really do wonders for your weight loss. When you eat the same food every day, it leads to the bodys decreased response of stimulus, which can be a tool for tackling obesity.

Also, research has shown that more dietary variety is associated with fat and increased body weight. This is surely true for people who have an assortment of snacks instead of just one. Also, research shows that different tastes and textures can encourage overeating. When people are giving limited options to eat, they tend to eat less.

Also, if you eat the same meals every day, you actually dont need a lot of planning. No hauling the recipe books and no panic attack at lunch about what you will eat at dinner. All this saves your time.

When the choices are limited, its easy for you to pay attention to your body signals and know when you are full. Not understanding when you are full and overeating is one of the causes of extra weight gain.

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Can eating the same food everyday help you lose weight? - Times of India

Diet plus exercise equals the key equation to stay in a caloric deficit and, therefore, to lose weight. You can try losing weight without exercise, but working out will help preserve your muscle mass and keep your metabolism up. Likewise, if you tried to maintain your caloric deficit through workouts alone, it would be incredibly difficult, as experts have explained to us in the past.

Registered dietitian and NASM-certified personal trainer Alix Turoff, MS, knows that finding the right workout and eating plan for weight loss is easier said than done; results are different for everyone. Plus, there are other factors that come into play like genetics, as well as stress levels and sleep.

Alix, whom we've interviewed in the past, posted the Instagram seen here to indicate that oftentimes people tend to focus on everything on the left to lose weight - intermittent fasting or keto, fasted cardio, or even apple cider vinegar. While some of these can absolutely work - she pointed to intermittent fasting, as an example - it isn't sustainable for everyone and it's not actually necessary to see results.

Alix told POPSUGAR via email that the main point of that post was to indicate that the only thing required for weight loss is a caloric deficit. "For some people, intermittent fasting can help them achieve a caloric deficit more easily," she explained. "It creates rules and some people do well with that. For other people, stressing about intermittent fasting can actually make matters worse."

Keto too, Alix said, can yield results. "That said, it does require a very controlled carbohydrate intake, and for most people, that's not going to be sustainable long term," she explained, adding that keto is also much different from just a low-carb diet because you need to be strict about eating precise carbs and protein. She explained, "Protein can be converted into glucose, which could take the body out of ketosis. So to really get in to ketosis, you won't be able to have an off day or a day where you eat some extra fruit, which makes it very hard to be flexible."

While Alix has recommended the keto diet for people with uncontrolled blood sugars, she typically doesn't advocate for cutting out specific foods to lose weight, but rather limiting them. Plus, while intermittent fasting, for instance, does work for some people, other things on the left side of the graphic she shared, such as supplements or adaptogens, "really have no research to support their use in weight loss," she noted. And, Alix wrote in her Instagram caption that oftentimes people don't even have the fat-loss basics down before they try those left-side strategies.

Alix told POPSUGAR that these fat-loss basics begin with understanding calories and macronutrients. If you skip that part, you won't learn how to balance your food, she said. Here's how to calculate how many calories you should be eating in a day for a healthy caloric deficit. And, here's one way to calculate macros for weight loss. She said you should also look at your exercise routine, too - here's a four-week workout plan for weight loss - but try to pick workouts you enjoy since that's what you are more likely to stick with. And, you should be focused on your sleep, mood, and relationships, Alix said. "If you're on a diet and you're losing weight, but your sleep is terrible or you're in a bad mood all the time, it doesn't matter how much weight you're losing because you're prioritizing weight loss over general health," she stated.

Alix concluded in her post that you should focus on the big picture, and get the basics down first. Then, you can experiment and see how you feel. As the graphic she made states, she wants people to find a way to eat in a caloric deficit while still choosing nutrient-dense foods that don't sacrifice what these people actually want to eat. Diets may work, but relying on something that isn't sustainable in the long run isn't sufficient for long-term weight loss.

Alix told POPSUGAR that working with a registered dietitian, if possible, can help you make sound decisions about what lifestyle changes are right for you. It's important, too, even without a dietitian, to be honest with yourself. "If you find yourself starting and stopping or getting on and off track, it's time to look at why that's happening," Alix said. "Does the diet cut out foods that you love? Is it too restrictive? Are you trying to be so 'perfect,' and then having it backfire?"

Alix continued on to say that slow and steady wins the race when it comes to weight loss. That's why it's important to be realistic with your expectations. "Healthy weight loss might be anywhere from half a pound to two pounds per week, depending no how much weight you have to lose," she said. So, if a diet promises you'll lose weight faster than that, it's a red flag.

An effective weight-loss regimen that's safe won't jeopardize your mental health, Alix noted in the graphic and further told POPSUGAR. Here's how to tell if a diet is affecting your mental health, according to Alix:

Lastly, Alix wants you to unfollow anyone who promotes unhealthy ways to lose weight. "Remember that anyone can call themselves a nutritionist," she said. "Sure, there are some non-RDs that are great sources of information, but I would be very careful about who you follow." She continued on to say that you should look into their education and credentials, and you should question everything. (Here's a good place to start for creditable sources.)

"Understand that there are NO QUICK FIXES," Alix wrote to POPSUGAR via email (we're a big fan of the all caps she used here). "If there were, I'd be doing it. There's no one diet that works for everyone, so if someone is claiming that they have the answer for everyone, run the other way!" Remember all of this, and for more on strategies to lose weight, here's our expert-approved guide.

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An RD Says Diets Like Keto and IF Aren't Necessary to Healthily Lose Weight - Here's Why - Yahoo Lifestyle

We all make em and break em 92% of all new years resolutions fail.

Actually expect massive dissolution of resolutions this coming week the second Friday of January is Quitters Day. Motivation is already fading fast. Promises of moving more, eating less or beefing up our bank accounts are fizzling.

Every new year people make resolutions that are highly restrictive, unrealistic and unsustainable, setting themselves up for failure before they even start, says registered dietitian Jillian Kubala, of jilliankubalanutrition.com.

Head off that fateful day and be part of the 8% that make their resolution a dream come true. Keep it simple and realistic, says Kubala. Pledging to lose mega pounds with a super-restrictive 1,000 calorie per day diet or committing to a 5 a.m. spin class daily may have you resolving to an epic fail from day one.

Research shows time and again that restrictive diets dont work and that most people who drop pounds using restrictive dieting methods regain up to 95% of the weight lost within five years. Additionally, studies have shown that at least one third of dieters end up regaining more weight than they originally lost, says Kubala, who uses the Instagram handle @jillian_kubala_rd to share wellness tips.

Theres still time to tweak that resolution into something realistic and sustainable. Were a mere five days into 2020, lots of time to fine-tune and re-aim your resolve so you get where you want to go.

Kubala offers up these resolutions that you can actually keep:

Eat less added sugar. Foods and beverages high in added sugar include soda, candy, sugary cereals, sweetened yogurts, energy drinks, sweetened coffee drinks, and baked goods.

Eat more vegetables. If you currently only eat veggies once or twice a week, make a resolution to eat one serving every day with dinner, then work up from there.

Cut out or reduce highly processed foods. For optimal health, whole, nutrient-dense foods should be making up the majority of your diet. Cut back on fast food and highly processed packaged foods. Start with focusing on one meal, then work up from there.

Move more in any way that works for you. Your new activity routine needs to fit in with your schedule to increase the chances of success such as walking for 30 minutes three days a week before work or on weekends. Enlist a friend or coworker to to hold you more accountable. Expending more energy in general is the most important thing, no matter the intensity.

Less screen time. Most people spend way too much time on their phones or staring at TV or computer screens, which can increase chances ofweight gain and depressive symptoms. Try uninstalling social media from your phone and trying out a new hobby.

Stop the dieting cycle. Cyclical or yo-yo dieting has been linked with a host of negative health outcomes. Choose to create a nourishing eating pattern that makes you feel good about yourself and doesnt involve unnecessary restrictions. A registered dietitian can help you start and/or maintain a healthy eating plan.

Sleep on it!

You feel your willpower waning? Then sleep on it, says Dr. Michael Breus, a New York sleep specialist and clinical psychologist. Bad ZZZZs will keep you from reaching simple goals, let alone a year-long resolution. The sleep deprived will simply continue to not achieve their true potential, or even get close to it.

All new years resolutions are affected by sleep resolutions are actually rest-o-lutions! says Breus.

We are sleep deprived big-time. Its epidemic proportions. Over 50% of women appear to complain about their sleep not getting good sleep more than three nights per week, says Breus. We now have both an overweight and an obese society, and with it comes sleep apnea, which effects about 20% of the total population but more like 80% of the overweight/obese population.

Thats not all: Bad sleep hygiene includes excessive screen time for both adults and kids, and copious amounts of caffeine. Its literally everywhere, or hidden in energy drinks. Not only does this prevent many people from going to sleep, but for those that can still fall asleep, the quality of that sleep is terrible, says Breus.

Not too late to make sleep your rest-o-lution:

Pick bedtime and wake-up time and stick to it.

Stop caffeine early. Caffeine has a half life of six to eight hours, so stopping at 2 p.m. means at least half is out of your system before bedtime, which will help you fall asleep easier and maintain sleep quality.

Stop alcohol three hours before lights out. It takes the average human one hour to digest one adult beverage.

Get a good exercise session in during the day.

Have a peaceful ritual every night like reading a book, walking your pet, or having a nice shower or bath.

The dirt on gyms

Youre hitting the gym to lose weight and get healthy?

Beware the germs, viruses, and fungus! The gym is one dirty place, according to Bryan Combs, a nurse practitioner at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Get a grip and keep your immune system healthy. Handlebars on ellipticals, treadmills, stationary bicycles and weight machines are covered in bacteria. Clean them yourself with wipes or a disinfectant spray before and after each use, recommends Combs.

Dont assume the gym towels are clean. A lot of gyms use the same container to carry dirty towels to the washing area and then use the same one to bring clean towels back, so they can become contaminated again, says Combs.

Reusable water bottles and gym bags are germ carriers. Wash your bottle after every use and use a disinfectant spray regularly on your gym bag.

Head off fungal infections like athletes foot by always wearing shoes in all areas of the gym, but especially in change rooms and in the shower. If you sit down, make sure a clean towel is placed on top of the bench or seat.

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Karan Khanna, an artist by profession feels that staying fit amidst the growing challenges of urban life seems like a daunting task. But of late the invention of app-based fitness guides have literally changed the fitness game and has made it very-interesting to lose weight without spending a bomb. Much like Karan, Sonali a Corporate Professional finds it too convenient to keep a track of the calories consumed throughout the day. "Keeping a track of the food we eat is one of the most difficult parts of losing weight and my favourite fitness app helps me in keeping a track of what I eat and how much I should eat to maintain my ideal weight."Millennials have their own interesting ways of managing things and when it comes to losing weight, they do it with utmost smartness and perfection, and fitness-apps are a perfect example to cite! Of late, fitness apps have changed the entire weight-loss game by making it super simple and convenient to keep a track about their desired fitness goals and how to manage calorie intake based on the guidelines suggested, it might sound strange but these fitness apps have made it very simple to manage weight in a healthy way.

Good or bad ?Staying in shape is a universal desire, but theres another fact that can not be ruled out while chalking out a diet plan is that what works for one, might not work for the other person. However, most apps claim to analyse the BMI and eating patterns based on the information provided, but its accuracy might be a concern. In fact, it isnt a great idea to totally bank on the app rather keep a track on your health patterns and eating habits personally is something that will keep you fit for ages.. In fact, these days the technology driven fitness apps literally match up to the level of personalized dietitian suggested diet plans, which are chalked out by analysing height, weight, ailments and complete health profile. So, the decision of good or bad entirely depends on the results based on individual preference.

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Are you hooked to app-based diets? How far are these sustainable - Times of India

America is in the midst of a keto craze. The trendy diet -- which bans carbs to make your body burn fat for fuel -- has kicked Weight Watchers' derrire on the stock market, captured the endorsement of celebrities such as Kourtney Kardashian and Halle Berry, and deluged the internet with recipes and copious social media chatter about pounds lost.

Now the popular diet even has a day named after it. The Vitamin Shoppe, which wants to sell you a ton of keto-based products, has named the first Sunday of this new decade "National Keto Day."

"What on Earth justifies granting a day to memorialize a fad diet?" said Dr. David Katz, founding director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center. "The grapefruit diet surely warrants its own day too!"

Katz is no fan of keto, or any other diet that restricts entire food groups, calling them unhealthy and unsustainable.

"Losing weight fast by using a severely restricted, silly, unbalanced diet inevitably leads to even faster weight regain," said Katz, who is the president of the True Health Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to health promotion and disease prevention.

"Absent ketosis, keto is just a false label for some kind of diet that presumably restricts added sugar and refined carbohydrate -- which, frankly, any good diet does," Katz said.

Katz's low opinion of keto is echoed by many nutritional specialists across the country. Katz joined 24 other top names in the field to rank 35 popular weight loss programs for 2020 recently put out by U.S. News and World Report.

The popular keto diet flunked, coming in next to last -- which it has done for several years now. Only the highly restrictive protein-only Dukan Diet ranks lower.

"Most health professionals are concerned that the degree of carb restriction requires someone to cut out many of the foods that have been consistently recommended as being healthy: fruits, beans/legumes and whole intact grains," said Stanford professor Christoper Gardner, who conducts research on low-carb diets at Stanford Prevention Research Center. Gardner was also a judge on the U.S. News panel of 2020 diets.

With such negative reviews, just how did keto capture such a faithful following? Experts say it's because its legions of fans are focusing on the short-term benefits of fast weight loss, without factoring in possible long-term risks.

Keto is short for ketosis, a metabolic state that occurs when your liver begins to use stored fat to produce ketones for energy. The liver is programmed to do that when your body loses access to its preferred fuel -- carbohydrates -- and thinks it's starving.

The diet has actually been around since the 1920s, when a doctor stumbled on it as a way of controlling seizures in children with epilepsy who didn't respond to other treatment methods.

"It was recognized long ago that denying the brain access to glucose, and converting to ketone-based metabolism, dampens brain electrical activity," Katz said. "But why on Earth would you want to dampen brain electrical activity unless you had refractory (unmanageable) epilepsy?"

Creating ketosis is not as simple as it seems. Your liver is only forced into producing ketones when carb intake is drastically slashed. In the keto diet, you limit your intake of carbs to only 20 to 50 a day, the lower the better. To put that into perspective, a medium banana or apple is around 27 carbs, the full day's allowance.

It can take several days to weeks before your body fully transitions into burning fat. In the meantime, it will scream for carbs, and (speaking from personal experience) will punish you by sending a zombie to suck out your brains, a vampire to drain your blood and a giant troll to jump up and down on your body.

The feeling of fatigue and malaise is so bad that keto-lovers have christened the experience "keto-flu."

You'll also have "keto-breath," a wonderfully metallic smell similar to nail polish remover emanating from your mouth. Other than urination, that's the only way ketones can escape your body.

Drinking water might help with dragon-breath. You'll also need to drink a lot of water to try to counter constipation and other gastric-grumblings due to the lack of fiber from fruits and starchy veggies.

Once all that passes, keto-lovers maintain, you'll have more energy, a more focused brain, and best of all, very little hunger.

But those effects only last if you stay in ketosis. Cheat a bit, and your body scrambles to go back to what nature intended.

Therefore low-carb diets like keto rely heavily on fats to fill you up. At least 70% of the keto diet will be made up of fat -- some say it's more like 90%. Of course you can get all that fat from healthy unsaturated fats such as avocados, tofu, almonds, walnuts, seeds and olive oil.

But just in case you can't eat that many avocados, the diet also allows those not-so-good-for-your-arteries saturated fats like lard, butter, palm and coconut oils as well as whole-fat milk, cheese and mayonnaise.

And here's a twist: You can't rely too much on lean protein to accomplish ketosis. Eat more protein than an average 20% of your daily calories and your body will use that, and not fat, for fuel. Bye bye, ketosis.

Therefore protein sources for ketosis reply on "skin-on poultry, fattier parts like chicken thighs, rib-eye steaks, grass-fed ground beef, fattier fish like salmon, beef brisket or pork shoulder," according to U.S. News, as well as -- get ready America -- bacon!

Yessss. That's why this is a popular diet right? Like the dog in the 1980s commercial, we as a nation collectively jump up and down for bacon.

Of course the lure of all-the-bacon-or-fat-you-can-eat was arguably behind the initial success of the Atkins diet that exploded into popularity in the '90s. It was followed by more low-carb options such as South Beach, Paelo, Whole30 and Zone, among others.

Yet critics say those initially popular plans have struggled to keep the public's interest as dieters have succeeded in losing some weight, only to fail to keep it off over the long term.

Atkins has rebranded, offering different levels of carb restriction they call "Atkins 20" and "Atkins 40." Colette Heimowitz, Atkins vice president for Nutrition Communication & Education, told CNN the company's approach allows for more flexibility than keto "as we encourage people to incorporate foods back into their meals and find their carb tolerance level."

Keto appears to be undergoing the same process, with some promoting "clean" keto, which focuses on using all those avocados, nuts and seeds for fat sources, instead of "dirty" keto, in which folks take the buns off their fast food burger and chow down.

Clean keto advocates admit that it takes a good deal of effort to research food items and plan and prep meals, so "unsurprisingly, many a keto eater takes the easy way out, eating a diet centered around foods like bacon, cheese, butter, and packaged foods," according to an article on the Vitamin Shoppe's Keto HQ.

And that's the crux of the problem for nutritionists.

"Most people who claim to eat 'Paleo' use that banner to justify eating any kind of meat they like, notably, bacon, burgers and pepperoni," Katz said. "There was no paleolithic pepperoni!

"No doubt, the same is going on with keto -- people invoke the label to eat the foods they want to eat, notably processed meat," he said. "I suspect a very tiny minority of those attempting to eat keto are either eating clean or are in ketosis."

Then there's the issue of varying health claims for keto and other low carb diets.

"The ketogenic diet is designed to be a short-term diet, and there are a number of studies and trials demonstrating its effectiveness," said chiropractor Josh Axe, a spokesperson for the Vitamin Shoppe, in statement.

"When done correctly, it can be a great tool used to treat and prevent several chronic conditions while also supporting overall health," said Axe, who is the author of "The Keto Diet: Your 30-day Plan to Lose Weight, Balance Hormones and Reverse Disease."

An Atkins spokesperson pointed to a two-year study by a health group selling ketosis diet interventions and told CNN in a statement that "today's science" shows "people can improve health markers pertaining to weight loss, cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome" when they control carbs.

Not exactly accurate, according to Gardner and Katz.

"There's very little research, and to the best of my knowledge, all of it is linked to a company marketing the keto diet," Katz said.

"The bottom line is that despite its current popularity, we have very few studies that can support or refute its impact on health," Gardner said.

The National Lipid Association Nutrition and Lifestyle Task Force reviewed all the available evidence in 2019 and found low and very-low carb diets "are not superior to other dietary approaches for weight loss," and in some cases even raised cholesterol levels.

In addition, they found "three separate observational studies, including a large prospective cohort study with long-term follow-up," showed an association between very low-carb diets and "all-cause mortality."

So far, at least, it appears science has found the benefits of low-carb diets are fleeting.

"What the early studies have shown is that there are early benefits in terms of weight loss and glucose control," Garner said. "But in the few studies that have gone on for 12 months, the benefit in comparison to other diet approaches diminishes and is no longer statistically significant."

Which is why nutritionists fail to see the benefit of subjecting your body to the stresses of a low-carb diet just to lose a bit of weight, gain it back, and then start all over again.

"To achieve and maintain a healthy body weight, or optimize diabetes or heart disease risk factors, we should not be focusing on a 'diet', " said Alice Lichtenstein, director and senior scientist at Tuft's University's Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory.

"We should be focusing on dietary patterns, making changes in current practices that can be sustained lifelong."

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Weight-loss tricks come in many shapes and sizes: cleanses, intermittent fasting, outrageous diets.

But when it comes to keeping your weight in check, theres just no getting around the surefire formula of regular exercise and a nutritious, whole-food diet. No shortcuts have ever been proven to work better.

In fact, since the 1990s, its been widely published and accepted that the ideal way to lose weight is a perfect brew of diet and exercise. And while there are plenty of gym hacks and exercise strategies to make your fitness regime tougher and more effective, what weight-loss tricks can you get through dieting? What easy, comprehensive eating methods can help you shed pounds quicker?

There are countless hacks, tricks, and tips that can speed up weight loss by helping you eat less, make better food choices, and get started down a healthier path. Adjust what you stock in your pantry, alter your meal scheduling, and manipulate your serving sizes to lose that holiday weight as fast as possible. Click through the slide show above for 20 ways to lose weight without the gym thatll help kickstart your fat-loss journey.

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New research suggests that President Donald Trumps affinity for fast food can influence the publics dietary intentions, and potentially contribute to a greater disease burden on society.

The new study, published in the journal Appetite, builds upon research that has shown a link between media coverage of a public figures health and changes in public behavior.

I noticed there was a decent amount of news coverage and general media commentary about President Trumps love of fast food, and it was in stark contrast to most of the food-related media coverage of the Obama presidency, which focused more on Michelle Obamas garden and the pressure she put on President Obama to eat healthy, explained Jessica Gall Myrick (@jessmyrick), the author of the study and an associate professor of media studies at the Pennsylvania State University.

That observation sparked my curiosity about the possibility that the media coverage of Trumps fast-food-heavy diet could be related to the publics view of how acceptable it is to eat fast food as well as how likely they are to actually eat it themselves. And, because obesity is such a serious health problem in the United States and fast food consumption is associated with higher rates of obesity, it seemed like an important topic to investigate.

For her study, Myrick had 1,050 American adults complete an online survey in February of 2018, which assessed how much attention they paid to media coverage of President Trumps eating habits among several other things.

This was a nationally representative survey where the sample demographics reflected percentages from the U.S. Census for gender, age, education, race, household income, and geographic region, Myrick said.

The survey revealed that exposure to Trumps dietary preferences was associated with the intention to eat fast food.

In other words, the more people paid attention to Trumps eating habits, the more likely they were to agree with statements such as Given my lifestyle and/or taste preferences, it is likely that I will eat fast food regularly over the next four weeks and I am likely to eat fast food regularly over the next month.

This was true even after Myrick controlled for the effects of education, race, political party, income, gender, age, and perceived weight status.

In addition, the survey found that people who indicated they paid more attention to general media about President Trump were more likely to say those close to them regularly dined on fast food.

In general, the results of this survey show that people who pay more attention to media coverage of President Trumps diet are more likely to view fast food as a socially acceptable meal option and are more likely to intend to eat fast food in the near future, Myrick explained.

For both Republicans and Democrats, greater attention to media coverage of Trumps diet was related to more positive attitudes toward fast food. However, for Republicans, this relationship was nearly twice as strong, meaning that as attention to media coverage of Trumps diet increases, Republicans are quicker to report positive attitudes toward fast food than are Democrats.

But, for people who did not identify as either Republicans or Democrats (that is, people who identify as Independent or who identify with smaller parties), there was not a relationship between attention to media about Trumps diet and attitudes toward fast food, Myrick told PsyPost.

Even if the effects of media coverage of Trumps love of fast food are small at the individual level, when you aggregate those effects across the entire U.S. population, these data suggest there could be harm caused to public health by encouraging many Americans to eat fast food more so than they would if the president was not so positive about this unhealthy type of food, Myrick added.

However, the study does not provide definite information about cause-and-effect relationships between Trumps diet and Americans intentions to eat fast food.

This was a cross-sectional survey, or single snapshot of the interrelationships between attention to media coverage about Trumps diet and fast food-related attitudes and behavioral intentions. So, it only gives us a good idea of that one point in time, Myrick said.

Future work could follow people over time to see how, as their attention to different types of media accumulates and shifts, their dietary choices might likewise shift.

The study was titled: Connections between viewing media about President Trumps dietary habits and fast food consumption intentions: Political differences and implications for public health.

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Exposure to Trump's diet linked to intentions to eat fast food regularly - PsyPost

4 January 2020, 19:00 | Updated: 4 January 2020, 19:01

The Masked Singer UK star Davina has transformed her body through clean eating and exercise - here's everything you need to know about her fitness and workouts.

Davina McCall has become a fitness icon in recent years thanks to her washboard abs, sugar-free cookbooks and impressive physical challenges.

Not only has the mother-of-three completely transformed her physique by exercising hard and an eating clean diet, but she often inspires her 1.1 million Instagram followers by tackling tough races from ultra triathlons to marathons.

So how often does the former Big Brother host workout, and what do her meals consist of?

Here, we take a look at Davina's super-healthy regime and weight loss:

Davina is in the shape of her life.

The 52-year-old credits her six-pack to working out six times a week, for around an hour at a time.

According to an interview in Women's Health, Davina has three non-negotiables when it comes to getting sweaty in the gym "dancing, pelvic thrusts and enjoyment".

In late 2019, her personal trainer Sarah Grant revealed the energetic mother-of-three has a great attitude towards exercise and wants to "have fun" at all costs.

The fitness pro also dished the dirt on the type of exercise Davina loves pushing herself with.

When it comes to cardio, the telly favourite likes running, boxing, HIIT (high-intensity interval training) and spinning, regularly clocking up 60-minute sessions on the bike.

As for sculpting and toning, the ultra-triathlete books into barre and yoga classes for a refreshing stretch.

Her former trainer Greg Whyte also revealed she blitzes calories by deep-water running jogging with a buoyancy belt on in water that's too deep to stand up in.

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The former model, who recently hit back at body shamers that criticised her bikini snap on social media, also enjoys a serious physical challenge.

She has previously trained for a 500-mile triathlon, running marathons at weekends and going for 6-hour bike rides in preparation, and also famously tackled a "hairy" 1.5 mile (2.4km) swim in freezing cold Lake Windermere as part of a Sport Relief challenge.

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The fitness enthusiast, who has sold over half a million sugar-free books, documented her healthy eating habits in a string of delicious recipes.

She explained her weight dropped off when she ditched sugar and alcohol for wholegrain foods and water, and made sure to meal prep as often as possible.

Davina told The Sun: "When I'm working, training or running a busy home, I like to stay healthy and to know I'm feeding myself and everyone else just the right amount of what we all need."

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The workout warrior also previously advised fans on some easy food swaps to stay on track.

"I swapped white bread and pasta for wholegrain versions after learning how high-GI foods affect your energy, she told Women's Health.

She also said that "the less processed the food, the better", and that "planning and ordering all the food for the week is a must.

"I then write the meals for the week on a big chalkboard in our kitchen and cook everything from fresh."

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