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Mice on high-fat diet grow four times as many cells in one part of the brain Change occurs in weeks Mice with new cells put on more weight than others - even if both are on high-fat diet Growth of 'tanycyte' cells - also found in humans

By Rob Waugh

PUBLISHED: 09:52 EST, 26 March 2012 | UPDATED: 09:52 EST, 26 March 2012

Cream tea? High-fat diets pile on weight around the midriff - but in mice at least, they seem to cause 'growth' inside the brain

High-fat diets pile on weight around the midriff - but in mice at least, they also seem to cause 'growth' inside the brain.

Sadly, a diet of cheeseburgers won't make you more intelligent - the new cells trigger weight gain.

Mice with the new cells packed on weight far faster than other mice - even when both were on the same high-fat diet.

The finding could offer an insight into how the brain controls weight gain through eating and hunger.

It could even open new avenues into understanding the factors that trigger obesity.

It's not clear whether the same process is at work in humans - but if so, the finding could also offer an avenue for anti-obesity treatments.

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Eating fatty foods makes the brain GROW - but the new cells seem to tell the body to put on even more weight

(CBS News) Dara-Lynn Weiss' daughter, Bea, had become a statistic. At 4-foot, 4 inches and 93 pounds, the 7-year-old had become obese. So, the Vogue columnist did what she knew best: She put Bea on a strict diet.

"One day Bea came home from school in tears, confessing that a boy at school had called her fat. The incident crushed me, but it was a wake-up call. Being overweight is not a private struggle. Everyone can see it," Weiss wrote in the April 2012 issue of Vogue.

VIDEO: 12-year-old teaches town to lose weight Bullied boy loses 85 lbs., inspires others to lose

Weiss wrote she decided to enroll her daughter into a "Red Light, Green Light" diet program. The mother detailed her struggle to keep Bea fit and how she turned to such tactics as making her go without dinner after she celebrated French heritage day at school, banning her from participating in "pizza Fridays" and publicly admonishing her cravings in front of others. In the end Bea lost 16 pounds in one year, but it has left many wondering whether the harsh and berating treatment worth the weight loss.

While Bea's weight loss was impressive, some experts say that Weiss went about it all in the wrong way. Dr. Joanna Dolgoff, who runs the Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right program that Bea enrolled in, confirmed to HealthPop that Bea's weight made her considered obese, and said she respected and understood why Weiss was so strict because of the difficulty of the situation.

But, Dolgoff insisted that Weiss' methods were not the intention of her program. The traffic light-based diet system revolves around teaching kids healthy eating habits, so they can be in charge of their diet plans.

"We want to empower these kids," Dolgoff said. "Studies show that if you treat overweight kids in a sensitive manner, you do decrease emotional problems."

Dolgoff said that the Weiss stopped going to the counseling sessions halfway through the program and Bea and her mother didn't get the emotional support they needed. The Red Light program ultimately allows the child to make the decisions, and even if the kid slips up and eats something that is unhealthy, parents are advised to let them do it.

"Their emotional health is extremely important, and that's what we talk a lot about in the visit," Dolgoff said. "We don't want them thinking they've been bad. We explain it's hard to be healthy in our society when they put supersized everything in front of you."

Childhood obesity is a society problem in the U.S. According to the Center of Disease Control, between 1980 and 2008 the percentage of children aged 6 to 11 who were obese has risen 14 percent, and for those 12 to 19 years it has gone up 13 percent. More than one third of children and adolescents are overweight or obese.

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Chickpea crepes, coming soon to a kitchen near you. iPhone photo by Rebekah Denn

I know it's early to be making trend lists for 2012, but it seems everywhere I look lately I'm seeing socca, a French chickpea crepe.

You can find socca on the menu at Bastille, but I'm not seeing it show up at restaurants so much as in the kitchens of friends. It's popular among those who need to eat gluten-free meals, and with the increasing numbers of people I see on anti-inflammatory diets. Expat and dessert chef extraordinaire David Lebovitz might have planted the seeds a few years back with his post on making socca at home, where he sold us by saying that the street food from Nice "is meant to be in rough shards, eaten with your fingers, and is especially good after a long day on a sun-saturated beach when your skin is tingling with sand and you can lick your lips and taste the sand of the Mediterranean."

My friends haven't waxed quite so eloquent, but they've been relieved to find a simple food that supports their diets, from a crackery crunch in the thinner versions to a thicker soft crepe.

I gave it a try with this tomato-onion topped version from Yotam Ottolenghi's book "Plenty," which is winning raves of its own nationwide. (With the eggs and dairy, it doesn't work with all my friends' diets, but it worked for mine.) I used garbanzo bean flour from Bob's Red Mill, which is widely available at supermarkets, and it was a piece of -- well, not cake, but at least crepe.

Socca

Serves 4

2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved 5 1/2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for drizzling 1 3/4 pounds white onions, cut into thin rings 2 tablespoons thyme leaves salt and black pepper 1/2 teaspoon white wine vinegar 1 3/4 cups chickpea flour 2 cups water 2 egg whites creme fraiche to serve

Preheat oven to 275 degrees. Spread the tomatoes cut-side up on a small baking pan and sprinkle them with some salt and pepper and a drizzle of olive oil. Roast for 25 minutes or until semi-cooked. They are not supposed to dry out completely. (Note: After 25 minutes we turned up the heat to 300, as ours didn't seem cooked enough.)

Meanwhile, heat 4 tablespoons olive oil in a large frying pan. Add the onions, thyme, and some salt and pepper, and cook on high heat, stirring for about a minute. Reduce the heat to low and continue cooking for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. You want the onions completely soft, sweet and golden brown but not very dark. At the end, stir in the vinegar, then taste and adjust the seasoning.

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Julius and Sharny Kieser with their new book Never Diet Again.

John Mccutcheon

NEVER diet again: it's a bold claim, but one that two Sunshine Coast authors say is more realistic than you think.

Energetic Tanawha couple Julius and Sharny Kieser, who own and operate Stripfit Health and Fitness Studio in Warana, have produced a book that they say can help anyone keep their health on track.

The young authors said their new book, Never Diet Again, aimed to give people the tools they needed to ditch diet shakes and give up counting calories.

The book serves as a comprehensive guide to healthy eating and helps readers plan their own step-by-step guide to achieving weight loss.

The authors describe the book as a humorous and simple guide to slimming down, but admit that writing a book was something they did not plan.

Inspired by their own attempts at various diets, the couple said their book had sprung to life after the health programs they started writing for their gym members turned into a minor phenomenon.

"We started writing programs for our clients - they absolutely loved it and got amazing results," Sharny said.

"People started asking us all the time, 'Can you please put this into a book so I can send it to a friend because they can't afford your $2500 program'," she said.

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University of Illinois research reports that swine producers can feed distiller's dried grain with solubles (DDGS) to their pigs without concern for sulfur content.

"When you buy DDGS, you don't have to be concerned about the level of sulfur it contains because there doesn't appear to be any impact on pig performance," said U of I animal sciences professor Hans Stein.

According to the researcher, DDGS, a co-product of the ethanol industry, is used as a feed ingredient in diets fed to swine.

To maintain a stable pH in fermentation vats, ethanol producers use sulfuric acid, which results in a sulfur content in the DDGS that varies according to how much sulfuric acid was used.

Until now, the effect of low levels of sulfur in the diet on growth performance in pigs fed DDGS had not been determined, he said.

"Sulfur is toxic to cattle.

"If there is 0.4 percent sulfur in the diet, cattle start getting sick," Stein said.

"Because there hasn't been any work on sulfur toxicity with swine, we wanted to determine how sulfur affects palatability and performance in pigs."

In a recent study, Stein's research team compared a low-sulfur (0.3% sulfur) DDGS diet with a high-sulfur (0.9% sulfur) DDGS diet. The same DDGS was used in both groups.

The researchers compared palatability and growth performance of the pigs fed the low-sulfur and high-sulfur diets.

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JERUSALEM - A new Israeli law is trying to fight the spread of eating disorders by banning underweight models from local advertising and requiring publications to disclose when they use altered images to make women and men appear thinner.

The law, passed late Monday, appears to be the first attempt by any government to use legislation to take on a fashion industry accused of abetting eating disorders by idealizing extreme thinness. It could become a model for other countries grappling with the spread of anorexia and bulimia, particularly among young women.

The law's supporters said they hoped it would encourage the use of healthy models in local advertising and heighten awareness of digital tricks that transform already thin women into illusory waifs.

"We want to break the illusion that the model we see is real," said Liad Gil-Har, assistant to law sponsor Dr. Rachel Adato, who compares the battle against eating disorders to the struggle against smoking.

In Israel, about 2 per cent of all girls between 14 and 18 have severe eating disorders, which is a statistic similar to other developed countries, said anthropologist Sigal Gooldin who studies eating disorders.

The new law requires models to produce a medical report, dating back no more than three months, at every shoot that will be used on the Israeli market, stating that they are not malnourished by World Health Organization standards.

The U.N. agency uses a standard known as the body mass index calculated by dividing weight by height to determine malnutrition. WHO says a body-mass index below 18.5 is indicative of malnutrition, said Adato, a gynecologist.

According to that standard, a woman 5 feet 8 inches (1.72 metres) tall should weigh no less than 119 pounds (54 kilograms).

Any advertisement published for the Israeli market must also have a clearly written notice disclosing if the model used in it was digitally altered to make her, or him, look thinner. The law will not apply to foreign publications sold in Israel.

The law was championed by one of Israel's top model agents, Adi Barkan, who said in 30 years of work, he saw young women become skinnier and sicker while struggling to fit the shrinking mould of what the industry considered attractive.

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New Israeli law bans underweight models in ads as government fights eating disorders

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 8:27a.m.

By Diaa Hadid and Daniella Cheslow

Told she was too fat to be a model, Danielle Segal shed a quarter of her weight and was hospitalised twice for malnutrition. Now that a new Israeli law prohibits the employment of underweight models, the 19-year-old must gain some of it back if she wants to work again.

Not that she was ever overweight. At 1.7m, she weighed 53kg to begin with. Feeling pressure to become ever thinner, she dropped another 13kg. The unnaturally skeletal girl weighed 40kg by then, or about as much as a robust pre-teen, and her health suffered.

The legislation passed this week aims to put a stop to the extremes, and by extension ease the pressure on youngsters to emulate the skin-and-bones models, often resulting in dangerous eating disorders.

The new law poses a groundbreaking challenge to a fashion industry widely castigated for promoting anorexia and bulimia. Its sponsors say it could become an example for other countries grappling with the spread of the life-threatening disorders.

It's especially important in Israel, which, like other countries, is obsessed by models, whose every utterance and dalliance is fodder for large pictures and racy stories in the nation's newspapers. Supermodel Bar Refaeli is considered a national hero by many. She is not unnaturally thin.

The new law requires models to produce a medical report no older than three months at every shoot for the Israeli market, stating that they are not malnourished by World Health Organisation standards.

The UN agency relies on the body mass index, calculated by factors of weight and height. WHO says a body mass index below 18.5 indicates malnutrition. According to that standard, a woman 1.72 metres tall (5-feet-8) should weigh no less than 119 pounds (54 kilograms).

Also, any advertisement published for the Israeli market must have a clearly written notice disclosing if its models were made to look thinner by digital manipulation. The law does not apply to foreign publications sold in Israel.

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Published: March. 21, 2012 at 7:30 PM

SAN DIEGO, March 21 (UPI) -- Southern white rhinoceros populations in zoos have been showing severely reduced reproductivity and it may be down to their diet, U.S. researchers say.

San Diego Zoo researchers say they may have determined why the rhino populations in managed-care facilities are declining: phytoestrogens in their diet might be contributing to reproductive failure in the females.

The southern white rhinoceros is on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's "near-threatened" species.

Wild populations face poaching and sport hunting, but captive populations have been declining because of reproductive issues in the females including cystic endometrial hyperplasia; cervical, ovarian, and uterine cancers; and ovarian cysts, the Zoological Society of San Diego reported.

Researchers say they believe the diets of the captive population is a concern and that phytoestrogens such as isoflavinoids found in the alfalfa and soy they eat activate their estrogen receptors more than those of the greater one-horned rhinoceros, another captive population that receives a similar diet but has better reproductive success.

"Understanding why the captive white rhinoceros population has been dwindling for decades is an important part of protecting the future of this species," Christopher Tubbs, researcher with the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, said.

The researchers compared populations that are doing well with populations whose reproductivity is placing them at risk, and said diet is a key difference between the two.

"Our work is the first step toward determining if phytoestrogens are involved in this phenomenon and whether we need to re-evaluate captive white rhino diets."

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AUSTIN, Texas, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Women over 40 can lose weight and feel great if they follow three principles of leading a holistic lifestyle plan custom-made for them by Austin Wellness Coach Justine SanFilippo.

"I practice a holistic approach to health and wellness, which means that I look at how all areas of your life are connected. Does stress at your job or in your relationship cause you to overeat? Does lack of sleep or low energy prevent you from exercising? As we work together, we will look at how all parts of your life affect your health as a whole," said SanFilippo, who received her training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the largest nutrition school in the world which counts Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Mark Hyman as faculty members.

"People ask me 'How do I lose weight?' My approach is not to dwell on what is good or bad about a person's diet. Instead, I work with my clients to create a happy, healthy life and slowly change their diet in a way that is sustainable and rewarding," said SanFilippo, a nutrition coach who works primarily with women over 40 in the greater Austin metropolitan area. "I want women to never, ever have to go on a diet again. We will work together to create a lifestyle change that is easy for them to keep."

"Together we'll work to reach your health goals in areas such as losing weight, reducing food cravings, increasing sleep, and maximizing energy. As we work together, you'll develop a deeper understanding of the food and lifestyle choices that work best for you and implement lasting changes that will improve your energy, balance and health," said SanFilippo, who speaks about health and nutrition to corporate wellness groups.

Here are some concepts that weight loss coach SanFilippo explores woman over 40 years of age who want to lose inches and wonder why they can't find time to exercise.

Bio-individuality: The concept of bio-individuality is that each person has unique food and lifestyle needs. One person's food is another person's poison, and that's why fad diets tend to fail in the long run.

"Working on the principle of bio-individuality, I'll support you to make positive changes that are based on your unique needs, lifestyle, preferences, and ancestral background. I use a personalized, holistic approach to ensure that you will have great success," she said.

Primary Food: It's easy to overlook all of the things that contribute to our sense of nourishment and fulfillment. It's not just the food we eat, but all of the other factors present in our daily lives. Healthy relationships, a fulfilling career, regular physical activity and a spiritual awareness are essential forms of nourishment.

"When these 'primary foods' are balanced, what you eat becomes secondary. I will support you in achieving all of your goals, from eating the right foods for your body to living an inspired, fulfilling life," she said.

"I'll introduce you to some of the healthiest foods on the planet and teach you how to find what's healthiest for your unique body!" she said.

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"When you buy DDGS, you don't have to be concerned about the level of sulfur it contains because there doesn't appear to be any impact on pig performance," said U of I animal sciences professor Hans Stein.

According to the researcher, DDGS, a co-product of the ethanol industry, is used as a feed ingredient in diets fed to swine.

To maintain a stable pH in fermentation vats, ethanol producers use sulfuric acid, which results in a sulfur content in the DDGS that varies according to how much sulfuric acid was used. Until now, the effect of low levels of sulfur in the diet on growth performance in pigs fed DDGS had not been determined, he said.

"Sulfur is toxic to cattle. If there is 0.4 percent sulfur in the diet, cattle start getting sick," Stein said. "Because there hasn't been any work on sulfur toxicity with swine, we wanted to determine how sulfur affects palatability and performance in pigs."

In a recent study, Stein's research team compared a low-sulfur (0.3% sulfur) DDGS diet with a high-sulfur (0.9% sulfur) DDGS diet. The same DDGS was used in both groups. The researchers compared palatability and growth performance of the pigs fed the low-sulfur and high-sulfur diets.

"We conducted four experiments: two with weanling pigs and two with growing-finishing pigs," said Stein. "In both weanling pigs and growing-finishing pigs, there was absolutely no difference between the two. The levels of sulfur we used in our experiments had no impact on palatability or pig growth performance."

Stein said that the results of this research would be useful to producers interested in incorporating DDGS into swine diets, but further research is needed to determine whether excess sulfur from a high-sulfur DDGS diet is deposited into swine tissues.

This research was published in the Journal of Animal Science. Researchers included Hans Stein of the U of I, Beob Kim of Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea, and Yan Zhang of the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center in Edwardsville, Ill. Funding was provided by the National Pork Board, Des Moines, Iowa.

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