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By Tamara Abraham

PUBLISHED: 14:08 EST, 6 June 2012 | UPDATED: 10:03 EST, 7 June 2012

As the star of 2009 TLC show The 650lb Virgin, David Smith's transformation to handsome personal trainer - with a doting girlfriend - made headlines.

But in a sad turn of events, the 35-year-old, from Phoenix, Arizona revealed today that he is once again morbidly obese, having re-gained over 250 of the 400lbs he lost.

In an interview this morning, he admitted that by putting on weight at this rate, his life was at risk.

He told the Today show: 'I've gained more than 250lbs in two years, and with all that extra weight so quickly added to my body, I don't know how I'm still living right now... The way I'm going, I'm not going to live for too much longer.'

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Unrecognisable: David Smith was slim and healthy after dropping 400lbs three years ago (left), but today (right) he is heavily overweight once more, having regained over 250lbs in two years

Morbidly obese: David now looks almost as he did in 2003 (pictured), before his weight-loss journey was filmed for a TLC documentary titled The 650lb Virgin

He added that he could already feel his health deteriorating.

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TORONTO, June 6, 2012 /CNW/ -

FEATURES

Town Hall Pressroom nostalgia and the decline of print As printed newspapers continue their well-documented decline, the effect this has on the pressrooms that churn out their pages is not often discussed.Steve Ladurantaye, a third-generation newspaper man, laments the death of the pressroom and describes how the newspaper industry has gone from molten lead to centralized production centres in a mere 40 years. Link to article

The Future of News Q&A with Postmedia staff on journalism in their communities In J-Source's first-ever live chat,Belinda Alznerput questions to the minds behind two projects in Postmedia newsrooms: the National Post Labs and the Edmonton Experiment.Though they have a similar mandate to explore journalism in their communities, each project is taking a different approache to achieving it. Link to article

People Joanne Kates' lifelong love affair Like all iconic love affairs, Joanne Kates' relationship with food began many years ago. Angelina Irinici explains how the long-time restaurant critic for The Globe and Mail came to love food and why she's not quite ready to hang up the pseudonyms just yet. Link to article

Students' Lounge Algorithm reporting: Is it a matter of 'if' or 'when?' Instead of reporters, computers are now writing news stories on local sports, finance and crime in the United States.Angelina Irinicisays that while algorithm reporting isn't nearly as popular in Canadian publications yet, she still wonders: Will she lose out to a robot when it comes to getting her first real journalism job? Link to article

THE BIG ISSUE

Media coverage and the right to a fair trial

The Eaton Centre shooting and the Luka Magnotta case have received a lot of media attention but will this coverage have an effect on the accused's right to a fair trial? Luka Magnotta's case caught the media's attention quickly when two body parts were mailed to two Canadian political parties. He is also alleged to have posted a video of the murder and acts of cannibalism online. Because new events continue to unfold, the case is still prominent in the media. Some experts say it may have an effect on Magnotta's trial because it is difficult for the public to be objective after everything it has heard. The same may be true for the trial of Christopher Husbands, who allegedly killed one man and injured several others in last weekend's Eaton Centre shooting. The story of the shootings spread quickly via social media (a professional athlete actually broke the story) and has affected a large number of people and their perceived sense of safety and outlook on Toronto. After almost every major Toronto media outlet had identified the victims of the shooting, a publication ban was placed on their names. That said, these are not the first Canadian incidents where the right to a fair trial may be compromised by media coverage.

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Three years ago America celebrated with David Smith as he showed off his new buff body on TODAY. After losing more than 400 pounds, hed become the poster boy for extreme weight loss after his battle with the buldge was spotlighted in a TLCdocumentary titled "The 650-pound Virgin."

But the makeover didnt last. Over the past two years, Smith regained more than 250 pounds and he now stands as the cautionary tale for those who seek to lose vast amounts of weight without first dealing with the underlying problems that led to their obesity.

I looked really good on the outside, but inside I was a terrible mess, Smith told TODAYs Janet Shamlian in a report that aired Wednesday.

Though Smith had, in his words, gone from dud to stud, he was jarred by that metamorphosis each time he looked in the mirror.

I saw somebody that didnt know who they were, he told Shamlian. All my life I was a monster in my head. And all of a sudden to be, you know, this good-looking guy it blew my mind away. I didnt know how to deal with it.

Smith seemed to be on the right path the first year after his dramatic weight loss. His life had turned around. He got a job as a personal trainer at a gym. He met his first and current girlfriend, Megan Povar.

But in the mirror Smith didnt see the same person that Povar, and the rest of the world, did. His body never looked right to him.

I wasnt happy with the way I looked, he said. No matter what I did, I thought I could never achieve the perfect body.

Frustrated and depressed, Smith first turned to alcohol and drugs for solace. Then he went back to his familiar friend food.

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Elaine Stevenson holds a portrait of her daughter Alyssa, with a rosary draped across it. (COLE BREILAND/WINNIPEG FREE PRESS)

It's been 10 years since Elaine Stevenson lost her 24-year-old daughter, Alyssa, to anorexia. The River Heights mother and advocate wants to make sure other families don't go through the pain and heartache hers did.

So over the past few weeks, Stevenson has been trying to get the word out about Setting the Table for Recovery -- the first ever eating-disorders conference hosted by the Canadian Mental Health Association, Manitoba division, taking place Friday at the Viscount Gort.

Her goal? To uncover a set of illnesses shrouded in darkness. She wants health-care providers, teachers, families and patients to attend so they can know how to recognize and deal with an eating disorder.

"What's sort of sad about this illness is that it's cloaked in shame and secrecy and embarrassment," says Stevenson, who helped organize the conference.

Tracey Gold, an actress from the popular 1980s sitcom Growing Pains, will talk about her own struggles with anorexia in her Friday morning keynote address. She'll also be on hand for a social evening the night before, where she will mingle with guests and answer their questions.

Doctors, therapists and dentists will also present practical information about how to prevent eating disorders and cope with them.

"Oral health care is extremely important for people suffering from eating disorders. Unfortunately, our daughter ended up losing all her teeth. The acid of someone who is purging (engaging in self-induced vomiting) can really, really destroy the teeth and do it quickly," says Stevenson, who speaks matter-of-factly about the ins and outs of living with eating disorders.

There will also be a panel to talk about body-image issues among boys and young men, as well as the types of therapies available, including art therapy.

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By Victoria Wellman

PUBLISHED: 13:12 EST, 4 June 2012 | UPDATED: 14:27 EST, 4 June 2012

The personal trainer who gained 72lbs, in a bid to empathise with his clients, has revealed how he and his wife were stunned by the emotional toll it took on their marriage.

Drew Manning, 30, from Eagle Mountain, Utah, went from rippling muscles and a 34in waist to an obese 263lbs six moths ago, to better understand how it would feel to lose it.

In an interview today with Good Morning America to show how quickly he had returned to his former glory, wife Lynn described how radically her husband's personality had changed with his body.

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Still together: Drew Manning's wife told ABC how hard it was to watch her the personal trainer pile on 72lbs in six months and how he became a different person because of the weight gain

Though the experiment was inspired by physical appearance, Mrs Manning admitted that her husband, a usually hands-on father, became lazy.

'I was shocked because I really thought this was only going to be a physical transformation, that Drew was going to pack on the weight and lose it because it was "on purpose",' the mother-of-two said.

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Maybe it's just we who are feeling older, but has anyone else noticed how suddenly peach-faced the media industry looks? No accident, that. With most every advertiser and brand marketer clamoring for their nanosecond of fame in the new media universe, it's pretty clear that agencies have turned to the next generation to help unlock that elusive door to digital stardom. Enter the digital nativists -- youngsters who grew up with a mouse instead of a rattle. Would you be surprised to know that this is the youngest class of Media All-Star winners that AdweekMedia has ever honored? You shouldn't be.

Consider that two of this year's honorees aren't out of their 20s. Beth Doyle, our Rising Star at 28, spearheads VivaKi's The Pool project, charged with creating the next generation of ad plays on emerging media. Starcom's Karen Umeki (one year her junior) is working with magazines like Rolling Stone on experimental ad placements that offer more cut-through value than static pages.

Other All Stars are creaking along in their early and (gasp) even mid-30s. Razorfish's Paul Gelb, 30, was actually nominated as a Rising Star, but his creative drive in creating a mobile practice for his agency demonstrated a wisdom beyond his years (especially because mobile, rumored to be on the verge of exploding for years now, finally seems to be doing just that). As one colleague put it, Gelb "was doing mobile before mobile was cool." Even Mindshare's Phil Cowdell, our exec of the year who's snared $2 billion in new client business, is only 46.

But the central fact here is actually not the youth of the winners, but the youth of digital itself, which, as everyone knows, is fast rewriting the media-buying rule book. Keeping atop the changes doesn't require a fresh face so much as a fresh approach -- and the talent to generate innovation, recast agency culture and create breakout work. That's what Targetcast tcm co-founders Steve Farella and Audrey Siegel have done by placing the digital team at the center of the company's new offices. It's why MagnaGlobal president Elizabeth Herbst-Brady has tapped new research and analysis methodologies. And it's why Hill Holliday veteran Karen Agresti has expanded her view on local broadcast to include multiple new platforms.

Which is good news for everyone with a 4 or a 5 in front of his age. Media execs may be looking a lot younger, but adaptation and creativity are still -- and always will be -- what you need to succeed.

MEDIA ALL STARS 2010: EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR: Phil Cowdell, Mindshare

Lauren Barbara, Chrysalis

David Campanelli, Horizon Media

Karen Umeki, Starcom USA

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When a celebrity gives birth the first question asked is: when will the media get a picture of the infant? The second is: how quickly will the new mom lose the baby weight?

After the release of her daughters first pictures to People magazine, Jessica Simpson only has the latter question to answer. She may not be able to give an exact time frame for her weight loss, but she is able to reveal how she will go about dropping the pregnancy pounds.

Simpson, who welcomed daughter Maxwell Drew Johnson four weeks ago, took to Twitter to confirm the news that she will be teaming up with Weight Watchers to get back her pre-baby body.

This is the first confirmation of the news since it was reported in November 2011 that Simpson was negotiating a $4 million deal with the company.

Us Weekly reports that the Fashion Star mentor is currently recovering from a C-section but once she begins her new diet and exercise regimen, she hopes to lose the weight within the year.

As soon as Jessica heals from the C-section, she is extremely determined to get back in the gym and work out, a source told Us. She wants to show the world and is excited to do it.

With a wedding in her future and other celeb moms to look to, it shouldnt be a struggle for the five-foot-three star to stay motivated. In fact, she previously tweeted how inspiring her good friend Jessica Albas body after baby was, after seeing pictures of Alba, 31, sporting a bikini just four months after delivering daughter Haven.

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Smartphone app can help you lose weight

By Tim Johnson

May 28th, 2012 @ 8:22pm

SALT LAKE CITY Being in the graphics business, the subject of weight loss was an easy one for me. Who needs gastric bypass when you've got Photoshop? It worked like a charm for the Christmas cards, but it was a little less impressive in person.

I used to be big. A lot bigger. At the pool, diving boards would scream for mercy. At Sea World, I was often mistaken for Shamu's brother. So how did I lose 40 pounds? I used my phone.

A calorie counting app on my smart phone has a database of around 30,000 foods, so you can find just about anything in there. There are hundreds of apps to choose from. (In this case, I used an app called "Lose It.") Many of them can help you record not only calorie intake, but also exercise and more.

I started exercising and keeping track of what I was eating. Whatever I ate, I recorded. Whatever I did to exercise, I recorded it. It was kind of a pain at first, but you are able to quickly learn why and where the calories are adding up, and what it takes to work it all off. You simply set up a daily "quota" for calories.

Whatever you eat/drink takes away from the total. When you exercise, you add back to that total. A hot dog would set me back 450 calories, but I could "re-deposit" those same 450 calories into my quota by getting in four miles on the treadmill. It's a math game.

Sometimes it takes a little creativity. Instead of using a two-for-one coupon for the big double jumbo burger - 1400 calories - I did a little research and found out that you can get a 12-inch sub sandwich, minus the mayo and cheese, for about 620 calories.

You don't have to necessarily give up all the foods you love, you can just replace them where you can with stuff that tastes just as good. Many times you can discover great-tasting food that you'd never considered before. Before long, your tastes change and you can see the change in the mirror.

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On Saturday, May 26, Junior Dos Santos beat Frank Mir via technical knockout in the second round to retain his UFC heavyweight title. Dos Santos's victory capped of an exciting main card in which none of the fights went to a decision.

Here are five thoughts on UFC 146:

Stefan Struve armbars Lavar Johnson

I had a feeling that this match would finish with a submission victory for Stefan Struve. I knew that Struve wanted to get this fight to the ground so that he could avoid a striking battle with Lavar Johnson. I also knew that if Struve took Johnson down, it would be over quickly. That's exactly what happened when Struve pulled guard and cinched in an armbar to force Johnson to give up. It happened so fast that Johnson didn't have enough time to react to the submission attempt. Struve deserves credit for using his physical gifts to beat a very dangerous fighter, and I can't wait to see who the UFC matches him up with next.

Stipe Miocic finds Shane Del Rosario's weakness

Stipe Miocic didn't look like he had much of a chance early in his fight against Shane Del Rosario. In fact, there were a couple points in the first round where I thought it was only a matter of time before Del Rosario knocked out him out.

However, the entire fight turned when Miocic scored a takedown on Del Rosario late in the first round. Though he let Del Rosario get up, Miocic appeared to figure out what he needed to do to win the fight. Early in the second round, he took Del Rosario down again and finished the fight with some vicious ground and pound.

Miocic's performance is a shining example of what MMA is. It's not just a fight. Miocic had to figure out how to beat Del Rosario while defending himself against some powerful leg kicks. Fans literally watched Miocic solve a puzzle in the octagon on Saturday night. I love it when I see fights like that because it really brings out what's special about this sport.

Roy Nelson stuck in the middle

This is another matchup that I thought would end early, but I wasn't expecting Roy Nelson to land his overhand right within the first minute of fight. Nelson's quick knockout victory moves him back up the heavyweight ladder, which is bittersweet for me because I'd rather see him lose some weight and drop down to the light heavyweight division. Don't get me wrong, Nelson can hold his own with the big boys of the UFC, but I don't want him to become a gatekeeper. He's too entertaining for that.

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Reviewed by Rosemary Counter From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published Monday, May. 28, 2012 5:00PM EDT

By his own admission, Augusten Burroughs is not a self-help writer. In fact, the memoirist best known for his account of ultimate familial dysfunction in Running with Scissors doesnt even like self-help. When a well-meaning stranger in an elevator suggests he might smile, or as he sees it, sprinkle baby powder on top of a turd, Burroughs declares affirmations of positivity as bogus, side-of-the-cereal-box psychology. Unlike his book, I assume.

This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More for the Young and Old Alike (did you get all that?) is equal parts self-help and anti-self-help, with a dash of memoir. Though pegged as humour, and Burroughs can nail a zinger like no one else, 28 how-to chapters quickly move from the flippant How to Ride an Elevator (see above) to a biting How to be a Good Mental Patient to a heartbreaking How to Let a Child Die.

Each chapter, despite massive topical and tonal discrepancies, spits out so-called common sense in reality, most are vague to the point of frustration for the depressed (If you hate life, you havent seen enough of it), the confused (Its hard to find what you dont know youre searching for), the unemployed (When you try to do or be something, you cant do it or be it), the shameful (Shame is a barnacle you have to find, then scrape away).

More tangible advice teeters between snark and sap. To alcoholics: To stop drinking, you stop drinking. To those feeling sorry for themselves, buck up: Even if you are a victim, you must never be a victim. If youre overweight, its all mental: If you find you require willpower, you arent ready to lose weight.

And, in the chapter immediately following that, How to be Thin, Burroughs braves anorexia. I dont think the media images matter at all, to anybody, he writes, casually citing one anorexic teenager he spoke to. (Burroughs relies not on research, but on anecdotes his one fat friend, a guy he used to date, etc.) Then, he says what were all thinking: If I were an anorexic girl I would feel so fat and depressed that I would immediately want to diet.

This is the problem: Burroughs is not an anorexic girl. Perhaps its unfair to expect him a fortysomething non-anorexic male with no discernible training or expertise in the field to offer helpful insight. And then a bigger problem: Uh, who is This Is How for? Not self-help junkies (myself included) seeking the comfy self-assurance we know and love; not anorexics or alcoholics or anyone with a legitimate problem to be fixed; and not the anti-self-helpers either, as Burroughs promptly falls prey to the very same formula. And so here, he flounders.

Where Burroughs thrives, however, is when he turns back to memoir writing. How to Finish your Drink, about Burroughss 1995 stint in AA, and How to Hold on to Your Dream or Maybe Not, on Burroughs's wannabe-actor days, both work like hilarious charms. A videotape of himself performing a play written not by a writer but by a happy person who was given a typewriter for Christmas leads Burroughs to rethink his life plans: Except for the nervous twitch of my left eyelid, the motionless figure on the screen appeared to be a JC Penney mannequin, he writes.

Its this first-hand black humour Burroughss bread and butter that makes How to End Your Life, quite ironically, the life of This Is How. Theres always suicide, he casually begins, describing the goals of his 14-year-old suicidal self. Punishment of all those who made me miserable; The infliction of lifelong guilt and remorse in everyone who had ever met me; Idolization by other suicidal teenagers.

Even in this, surely one of his darkest moments, Burroughs finds the same improbable positivity that he claims to abhor. If you believe suicide will bring you peace you are displaying self-caring behaviour. That strikes me as optimistic. For someone who loathes self-help, Burroughs found it in the most obvious of places: himself. Now if only he might stick to what he knows.

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