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Posted: 8:00pm Monday 05 Oct, 2020

Starting in October, all cats and dogs in the Bay of Plenty are invited to participate in The Biggest Loser Healthy Weight Management Program. Photo: SunLive.

A Tauranga vet is on a mission to help owners get their overweight pets to lose weight.

Tauranga Vets, which has clinics in Tauranga, Te Puna, Katikati and Papamoa, are encouraging people to get their pets registered in the The Biggest Loser Healthy Weight Management Program.

All cats and dogs in the Bay of Plenty are invited to participate in the programme which is designed to manage healthy weight loss in a supportive and educated way over a 12 week period, all the while taking home numerous milestone prizes and having the chance to win some major grand prizes.

The program involves coming into one of Tauranga Vets four clinics for an initial weigh-in, at which before photos will be taken.

The client will also be educated on healthy weight loss for animals, nutrition and exercise options, ideal body fat and gain an understanding of the risks of obesity for our furry friends.

The initial check-in is followed by a few more weigh-ins for a period of 12 weeks.

Milestone prizes include food vouchers, free nail clips, food bowls, cat and dog toys, gift hampers and more.

One cat and one dog will be crowned The Biggest Loser and each will receive a $500 credit at Tauranga, Te Puna, Katikati and Papamoa Village Vets.

The overall grand prize winner (selected randomly) wins a holiday on us with a $500 Bachcare voucher! Bachcare have plenty of pet-friendly home available, so you can holiday with your animal too.

Lead Nurse at the Tauranga clinic Jaimee Roelofs and Veterinary Technologist Shontelle Thomas initiated and developed the programme, after noticing that most days they interact with clients who own pets that are overweight.

Often we see people that have the right ideas and intentions for their pets weight management but they tend to drop off because they have a lack of knowledge or lack the support or incentive to continue and reach their pets weight goals, says Jaimee.

We wanted to create a campaign that was open for clients that are new to the weight loss process but also for clients that have been struggling with weight management for a period of time and are still not quite able to reach their goals and need more help.

Although in its inaugural year, Jaimee and Shontelle hope it will become an in-clinic program that will be repeated again and again in years to come.

Managing Director of Tauranga Vets David McDonell agrees, saying that although this program comes with all the bells and whistles of freebies and prizes, it really comes down to the overall wellness of your pet.

Making the decision to invest your time and thought into the health of your pet should be commended, he says.

A long, healthy and happy life can be achieved in our pets when diseases associated with obesity and malnutrition are prevented or managed, so recognizing and assessing your pets changing needs is an important part of being a pet owner.

Intake into the program starts from now and participants have until October 19, 2020 to sign up. If you need any further information or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us on 0800 838 7267.

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Ana Maria Nunez lost 20 pounds in three months by changing her diet, utilizing what she learned in the Eating Smart Being Active classes offered at the Locust Valley Library. Nunez, who is originally from Mexico, has lived in Locust Valley for 23 years. She said she had never taken a class at the library before, and enrolled in that one because she really wanted to lose the weight she had gained during the coronavirus pandemic. Now she drinks water as soon as she gets up each morning, she said, eats smaller portions and eats two cups of vegetables and fruit a day.

Every class, we talked about different topics, one for meat, one for vegetables, Nunez said. My friends noticed Im losing weight and asked me how I did it. Now theyll be taking the class too, as will my sisters.

Dr. Bradley Sherman, the medical director at Glen Cove Hospital, said that patients have gained a great deal of weight during the pandemic, which he attributed to several factors, including peoples tendency to be more sedentary, especially when they were told to stay home. Ive been recommending that they exercise outside and watch their portion control, he said. Some are also suffering from depression, anxiety and social isolation, leading them not to be cautious with what they are eating.

Cindy Ergan, of Bayville, a Spanish interpreter in the Locust Valley Central School District who works part-time at the Bayville Library, met Paolo Diaz, the ESL outreach coordinator at the Locust Valley Library, at Bilingual Night, which Ergan organizes twice a year for the districts Spanish-speaking community. The purpose is to share information with parents so they can be involved in their childrens education, including managing the districts website and calendar.

Diaz met Ergan while attending one of the presentations with a group of Spanish-speaking parents from her Locust Valley neighborhood. They realized that they both knew Eugenia Cuadra, the community nutrition educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County, so Ergan asked Cuadra to speak about nutrition at Bilingual Night. The parents were fascinated about the information Cuadra shared, which prompted Ergan and Diaz to ask her if she would teach a nutrition class for Spanish-speaking people at Locust Valley Library.

Paola and I ended up becoming best friends and a great team, Ergan said. My former library director, Christine Edwins, used to call us the team behind the dream.

Before the pandemic, the Bayville and Locust Valley libraries had hosted eight weeks of classes at the Locust Valley facility, the larger of the two. They had to switch to Zoom after the pandemic hit, but that didnt discourage the Spanish-speaking community from participating. Twenty-two people completed the course two weeks ago, and enjoyed a drive-by graduation at which they received certificates, bag filled with recipes, copies of their class presentations and even measuring cups.

Cuadra, who lives in Huntington, said she shared the basics of eating properly. I love my job and love having this experience with the participants, she said. Its amazing to see the changes each week. Its different doing this on Zoom but the women still share a lot.

Dr. Dominick Gadaleta, the chief of bariatric surgery at North and South Shore University hospitals, said that when the hospitals reopened in June, weight gain led many people to avoid seeing their doctors. Most people gained from 10 to 20 pounds, but a handful of my patients were the same weight as before Covid. But no one lost weight, Gadaleta said. Fifteen to 20 percent of my patients are Spanish-speaking. Their return to medical care has been slower, I think, because their trust of medicine is less, and also they were hit really hard by Covid compared with other people.

The class at Locust Valley Library offers information on portion control, food safety and how to prepare healthy meals for children. Cuadra, who emails recipes to the women, also presents one of her healthy recipes during each class. Because the class is on Zoom, several of the participants make the recipe following her lead.

Anabel Walzer, of Port Washington, said she took the class to learn how to eat less and feel better. Married and the mother of two grown children, she said she shares what she learned with her daughters, who no longer live at home.

I learned to read labels in the supermarket, and how much meat to eat during my meal, Walzer said. Ive been trying to eat more grains and vegetables, too. This class has made me want to learn more. And I made friends there, too.

The class, which has been offered for the past two years, has drawn people of all ages, Diaz said. When the pandemic hit and the library was closed, the decision to continue teaching the class on Zoom ended up having some advantages, she said: It drew participants from Chile and Columbia.

But Zoom also created a new challenge. One elderly lady wanted to join, and knew nothing about the computer, Ergan said. I told the lady she had to learn how to do Zoom and use her computer, and helped her. I think this pandemic pushed us all to do amazing things, things we never knew how to do. So I was not only helping people with nutrition, but also technology.

Diaz credits Ergan, who is connected with Latino parents through the school district, with ensuring that the community knew about the class. The two take part in all of Cuadras classes.

Its not just another class for me, Diaz said. The connection we have with the participants is very special.

Nunez said that although the class is over, she is continuing to eat properly. I dont want to gain weight again, she said. I went to my doctor, and she told me she was so happy about my weight loss. She congratulated me. I have my certificate in my bedroom so I can always see it.

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The Science Femme claimed to be a female academic. She claimed to have upended efforts by her social justice-obsessed department to draft a statement condemning racism.And when Twitter users accused her of racism, she claimed to be a woman of color herselfand an immigrant to boot.But The Science Femme, who tweeted from the handle @piney_the, wasnt any of those things, digital sleuths began alleging late last month. Instead, they claimed, she was Craig Chapman, a white male assistant professor of chemistry at the University of New Hampshire. The allegations, bolstered by an internal chemistry department email, would make Chapman at least the fourth white academic revealed to have posed as a person of color in recent weeks.In three of those cases, academics are accused of shamelessly trying to further their own careers. But in Chapmans case, Twitter users who came into contact with @piney_the say the account harassed real women working in science.The University of New Hampshire said the incident was under investigation.UNH was recently made aware of allegations on social media about a member of its faculty, a spokesperson told The Daily Beast. We are deeply troubled by what weve learned so far and immediately launched an investigation. The employee at the center of allegations on social media is on leave and not in the classroom. In order to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation the university is unable to comment further.Chapman did not return repeated requests for comment for this story. Both his account and @piney_the were deleted last week.Susanna Harris, a microbiology Ph.D. holder who currently works in science communications, first noticed the @piney_the Twitter account in July.They put out this huge long thread about how they, as a woman of color in science, a professor, made a big change in their university by shutting down diversity, equity, and inclusion work, Harris, who is white, told The Daily Beast.Harris wasnt the only person to make note of the thread, in which @piney_the claimed to have been successful in killing my depts woke statement on recent social unrest. The viral thread earned write-ups in conservative publications like RedState, which lauded the efforts to derail an anti-racism statement. Some academics were suspicious of the claims, coming from an anonymous professor at an unnamed university.I did a little bit of poking around to see if there was any chance this was a real person, Harris recalled. Ive been on Twitter for a while and nothing about their account said anything to make me think this is a genuine account.Other Twitter users had raised similar concerns earlier this year. @piney_the was an especially combative Twitter personality, who frequently tangled with the left online. The account described a female opponent in explicit anatomical terms on at least one occasion, repeatedly railed against transgender people, and posted censored nude pictures of former Rep. Katie Hill. Hill, a former California politician, resigned last year after those pictures were made public in an alleged revenge-pornography campaign.When users accused the account of attacking POC [people of color], as one did in September, @piney_the frequently claimed to be one. You know Im a woman of color, right? Racist, the account responded.But some of @piney_thes tweets teased highly specific personal details, like that their brother owned a brewery. Later, the account tweeted a recommendation for a small New Jersey brewery, owned by Craig Chapmans brother, as Twitter sleuths like the account @drama_science noted. (His brother could not immediately be reached for comment.) Other similarities between @piney_the and Chapman, like fandom for Chicago sports teams, New Jersey origins, and knowledge of niche chemistry fields, abounded.Some of the similarities were more glaring than others.In April, both @piney_the and Chapman tweeted the same picture of a coffee homebrewing setup, within minutes of each other, with similar captions. The picture does not appear to have been uploaded anywhere else on the internet. And both accounts tweeted about marinating meat, with both appearing to tweet pictures of the same baking tray on the same marble countertop.Although a few Twitter users had noted their suspicions about the account for nearly a year, those whispers grew louder in late September, after @piney_the came into conflict with several female academics, Harris included. She was among those who had previously tweeted in opposition to Mike Adams, a University of North Carolina professor, who was famous for his anti-feminist stances. Adams and UNC arrived at an agreement by which he would retire in August and receive a half million-dollar settlement upon leaving. He died by suicide in July.@piney_the, which had more than 13,000 followers at the time of its deletion last week, was one of the key actors stoking what Harris said was a subsequent harassment campaign against her.They were were literally saying that I had killed [Adams], that I had blood on my hands, that I had pushed him into suicide, she said. That was when the tide changed, and when I started getting emails from anonymous people saying that they hope I die, that they will dox me.The bile renewed some of Harriss previous suspicions about @piney_thes authenticity. If she was right that this was a bogus twitter personality claiming to speak for the marginalized, it wouldnt be the first time.White academics faking their racial or ethnic identity has emerged as a troubling trope in a year of racial justice protests. In September, white George Washington University professor Jessica Krug resigned after she was revealed to have faked a series of Black and Hispanic identities in order to further her career as an Africana academic. Later that month, University of Madison-Wisconsin graduate student CV Vitolo-Haddad resigned from a teaching position after it was revealed that they had also falsely claimed to be Black.Those scandals came a month after former Vanderbilt University assistant professor BethAnn McLaughlin was revealed to have been behind a long-running Twitter account that claimed to be a Native American science professor at Arizona State University. McLaughlin had previously used the fake professors popular Twitter account to promote a petition to give McLaughlin a tenure position at Vanderbilt. The ruse was only exposed when McLaughlin claimed the non-existent professor died of COVID-19.Ironically, @piney_the made fun of race-faking when it came from liberals, sharing a meme of Sen. Elizabeth Warren with the caption growing up Chinese in South Detroit I struggled as an African American Jewish Boy. (Warren has dubiously claimed Native American ancestry, and subsequently apologized.)Harris was thinking about McLaughlins case in late September when she decided to tweet her doubts about @piney_the. She asked the anonymous account to provide evidence that they were a woman of color, and offered to delete her own account if proven wrong. Other academics soon seized on the similarities between @piney_thes account and Craig Chapmans, shortly before both accounts were deleted last week.An internal email (shared by department members and previously reported by local media) from UNH chemistry chair Glen Miller suggests those fears were well-founded.The fake twitter account was in fact set up and run by Craig, read the email, obtained by The Daily Beast. There were a large number of things written by Craig that ranged from unfortunate to hurtful to deeply offensive. These statements do not represent me, nor the collegial, collaborative, accepting department in which I have had the privilege to work for the past 25 years. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course, but when those opinions are dismissive or hurtful or harmful to others, it is not ok with me. I reject those statements and their intent, wholeheartedly. But even so, I do not reject Craig. I am not giving up on Craig.The letter went on to describe Chapman as embarrassed and overwhelmed and shell shocked. He fears that this could be the end of his academic career. I hope it is not and I told him so. Chapman would come clean and express remorse to colleagues soon, Miller wrote.Miller, who did not return requests for comment, also accused Chapmans accusers of being highly motivated to reveal Craig as the person responsible for the fake twitter account, and to inflict damage on him. He urged readers not to speak to the media about the incident.Some UNH graduate students protested what they believed to be the rogue professors Twitter activities last week, marching with signs on campus. Craig Chapman does not speak for us, one sign read.Miller said sorry, we say get out, read another.Harris argued the incidentand other recent cases of academics feigning their identitiessap resources from some of the very people Chapman posed as.Its sort of the extreme version of cultural appropriation, she said. They take the small protections or the scraps of support that women of color and other people have, and they use them as leverage against that exact population.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Are there activities you try to avoid because you dislike them? Our younger granddaughter is always happy and sharing that happiness with others. She doesnt understand when I say there are three things I hate to do.

She cant believe I dislike shampooing my hair. Her hair is thick, beautiful, and much longer than mine. She has no problem when she takes her daily bath and includes washing her hair. Theres no doubt Im losing hair rapidly. When its shampooed, too much hair disappears down the drain. A new dermatologist suggests using Rogaine 5% daily for men to decrease hair loss. Time will tell if her suggestion is a satisfactory solution for hair loss.

Hating to see, smell, or taste food is the second problem. Our internist made it possible for a dietitian to give instructions that would help eliminate this. Due to heart surgery, salt is extremely limited. That results in meat no longer tasting good. If I consume even a small amount, its a reminder of my childhood when Id watch my fathers cattle lick a block of salt in the pasture field. I dislike feeling as if Im cow when there is even a small amount of salt on my food.

Because I take Warfarin to prevent blood from being too thin or thick, most green vegetables and all members of the cabbage family have to be avoided. That leaves carrots and potatoes as the vegetables that are safe to consume. For several years I enjoyed Ensure, but it has too much Vitamin K. Now its no longer acceptable. Diverticulitis creates problems with most foods I like unless they can be altered easily. Removing the skin on grapes and seeds on strawberries turned out to be so time consuming that I graduated from doing that in a couple of days. Its much easier to settle for ice cream.

Pecans have always been a favorite food. I was upset when told to stop eating them. Thats when our son said to put only one half of a pecan in my mouth, chew it until it was like mush, and then swallow it. So far that is working, and its a great way to consume needed protein.

When I was younger and eating lots of food, it was almost impossible to lose weight even though the effort was being made. Now Im discovering its much more difficult to gain than to lose weight.

The third disliked activity is placing medicine in containers for three weeks at a time. At first I tried this for only one week, but those seven days passed much too rapidly. Breakfast medicine is to be consumed with the meal. Evening medicine is more critical. Part of it can be taken with the meal, and part of it is consumed at bedtime. Then there is the medicine that should be taken in the middle of the night with a glass of water and another to take 20 minutes before breakfast. Rules for taking medicine cause me to understand why elderly people may need to have someone check the medicine they consume.

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Many people struggle with putting on weight and muscle, mostly young men, who think that by only eating twice as much as they usually do will do the trick. Eating more than usual will help the process, but there are other key factors you have to take into account if you want to gain weight and muscle.

Admittedly, 'how to gain weight' is not as popular of a topic as 'how to lose belly fat', yet there are still quite a few people who struggles to increase muscle mass, regardless how much they eat. Not being able to put on weight can be just as frustrating as trying to lose weight, but following our handy weight gain tips, you can nudge your metabolism in the right direction.

The basic concept is fairly straightforward: in order to gain weight, you need to maintain a positive energy balance by supplying your body with more calories than you expend through simply existing and exercising/moving around. The actual process can be a bit more difficult than this and might involve close monitoring of food intake and tracking workouts too. This is not necessary, though.

Here, we'll share some tips that might help you get out of the weight gain rut and put you on the fast track of gaining muscle mass. Some of them will be related to nutrition of course but if you would like to gain weight the right way and also build muscle in the process, you will have to pay attention to your workout regime as well.

IMPORTANT: If you are underweight, have any underlying medical conditions or eating disorders, please consult your doctor first before you apply any changes to your diet. The below tips are more suited for people with fast metabolism who are otherwise healthy and by no means to be taken as medical advice.

The main reason why many people fail to gain weight is the lack of perseverance. Mark Twain once said: "Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times." Most people who struggle with gaining weight have started the process numerous times but never sticked with any diet and/or workout plan for long enough for it to show results.

Another reason might be not knowing just how many calories certain food items contain and not eating enough despite 'eating loads' of food. It is worth tracking your food intake, especially at the beginning, using free apps like MyFitnessPal until you learn roughly how many calories and what macronutrient are in certain food items.

Thirdly, you must keep in mind that a calorie is not always equal to a calorie. One calorie from a broccoli will fuel your body differently than one calorie from fries. Carbohydrates in general take less effort for the body to break down and even the temperature of the food you eat can determine how easily your body can digest it (cold, fibrous food takes more energy to digest).

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Let's say your basal metabolic rate is 1,900 calories: that's the amount of calories your body burns in order to sustain itself. If you move a single muscle a day you will burn more than this amount. Walking to work can burn plenty of calories, not to mention all the other small activities you might do throughout the day.

Let's say you need 3,000 calories a day to put on weight. sounds like a lot, right? One way to tackle this increased calorie intake is to increase food intake frequency and eat 5-6 smaller meals a day as opposed to having three 1,000-calorie meals.

If you are planning on eating five meals a day, meal prep can also come in handy. Ideally, you want to eat food that you cooked/prepared yourself but we admit that might be a bit too much effort for some. Regardless, you should still plan ahead and at least roughly assemble the food you are planning on eating throughout the day tomorrow.

In case you are concerned about putting on loads of fat in the process, a 2017 study found that " an increase in the eating frequency can also be correlated with an increased prevalence of normal BMI individuals provided adequate physical exercise", meaning that eating more frequently could help maintain a normal BMI level.

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Carbohydrates are important for muscle building but the other two macronutrients, namely protein and fat, are equally as important when it comes to gaining weight. Fatty food will make you feel sated for longer and food with higher fat content tend to taste better too.

Fatty foods you should include in your diet are oily fish, such as salmon and mackerel, nuts (e.g. Brazil nuts), avocado, butter, heavy/double cream, dark chocolate, olive oil and eggs. Most of these are also high in protein so by eating them, you will be killing two birds with one stone.

Talking about protein: protein is essential for muscle building and recovery and you will need to eat more than you'd think to aid weight gain. According to the International Society of Sports Nutrition, "for building muscle mass and for maintaining muscle mass through a positive muscle protein balance, an overall daily protein intake in the range of 1.4-2.0 g protein/kg body weight/day (g/kg/d) is sufficient for most exercising individuals".

The paper goes on saying that "higher protein intakes (2.3-3.1 g/kg/d) may be needed to maximize the retention of lean body mass in resistance-trained subjects during hypocaloric periods", meaning you will have to up your protein intake once you started increasing muscle mass.

It is advised to have at least 20-30 grams of protein with each meal if the plan is to eat five times a day. Protein should be supplied from a variety of sources including green leafy vegetables, fish, lean meat, eggs etc.

Alternatively, you can also consider supplementing protein and have the best protein powder shakes and the best protein bars / best jerky as snacks throughout the day.

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One of the main reasons why you might not be gaining weight and particularly muscle mass is the lack of resistance training. If you are after muscle growth, you need to stimulate that muscle growth by training the muscles often. How often?

A 2016 systematic review and meta-analysis concludes that "the findings indicate a graded dose-response relationship whereby increases in resistance training volume produce greater gains in muscle hypertrophy", meaning, quite simply, that the more you work out, the muscular you will get.

This might sound self-explanatory to some but also contradictory to basic bodybuilding principles, namely that resting is almost as important tas the training itself. Just to reiterate, resting is important but resting muscles doesn't necessarily mean not training at all.

Finding a balance between training as often as possible without injuring yourself is paramount. The type of resistance training is up to you but don't fall into the trap of only tracking calories. Even the best running watches and best heart rate monitors can't track muscle activation and by tracking workouts with them, you can easily end up focusing only on burning calories.

What you want to do is the complete opposite: maxing out of workouts that increase strength but don't burn calories. Sure, you should still do some cardio: it's great for heart health and to maintain/improve the cardiovascular system, but try limiting the duration of cardio and let the bulk of your workout be anaerobic movements.

Check out our how to build muscle guide to find out more.

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As well as having the occasional protein shake, if your plan is to bulk up a bit and build functional muscle mass, there are other two supplements you might want to consider taking: mass gainer and creatine.

The best mass gainers have loads of calories in them, yet they come in an easy-to-consume powder form so it's easier to stomach one or two servings a day. Better still, weight gainers are most usually low on fat and sugars, compared to the amount of calories they contain.

Creatine, on the other hand, is the bodybuilding industry's best kept secret. According to Healthline, "studies show that [creatine] can increase muscle mass, strength and exercise performance." In another 12-week study quoted by Healthline in the same article, "in weightlifters, creatine increased muscle fiber growth 23 times more than training alone. The increase in total body mass also doubled alongside one-rep max for bench press, a common strength exercise."

Creatine is also cheap and you won't need to take industrial amounts either for it to be effective. 3-5 grams creatine monohydrate a day is enough for most adults.

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Barley is rich in proteins and fibre.

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Trying to lose weight or not, it is important to feed our body with different foods to avail the optimal mix of nutrients. Other than putting in a variety of vegetables, lentils, legumes and fruits in our diet, it is a good idea to use different kinds of cereals as well. Barley, called 'jau' in Hindi, is prized for its high nutrient profile and its bounty of health-benefitting properties. The grain is rich in fibre, proteins and other nutrients, and is considered a good food for easy digestion and for managing diabetes.

Barley is commonly used to make beer and bread and is often used as a healthy rice alternative. Some people use barley to make stews and salads too. Barley water forms an important part of the everyday morning ritual of barley fans. Here we are providing you with some great ideas to include barley in your breakfast diet with some easy and familiar recipes.

Use broken barley or roasted barley flour instead of sooji to make upma. Flavour it the usual way by adding veggies and spices of your choice. Barley upma will taste just as good as your regular South Indian-special sooji upma.

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Barley can be used to make interesting breakfast recipes

Just like you cook oats, boil barley in water and add to a bowl of milk, honey, cinnamon, fruits, nuts and seeds. Boiled barley is mushy enough to be made into sweet and soothing oatmeal.

This savoury porridge is made with soaked and crushed barley mixed with boiled chickpeas, onions, garlic and some common spices. Remember to soak barley a night before. Click here for the full recipe.

Turn your favourite breakfast pancakes healthier by replacing all-purpose flour with barley and make the pancake batter as usual with milk, eggs, honey, baking powder and a pinch of salt. A topping of fruits or maple syrup will make it taste even better.

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Barley flour can be used to make healthier pancakes.

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Make this powerful morning drink by blending barley grass powder with milk/curd, water, honey and nuts. This protein-rich smoothie is perfect to kick-start the day.

These barley recipes are ideas for healthy morning meals rife with energy-giving and digestion-friendly nutrients. If you have more barley recipe ideas for breakfast, please share with us in the comments section below.

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A woman trying to be healthy by eating a salad was fined after feeding the chunks of potato from it to pigeons in Piccadilly Gardens.

Ruth Bradshaw, a litter picker in Gatley, said the birds polished off every last morsel of the carb-rich root vegetable.

She has been left angered by the fine, saying all birds 'have a right to live on this planet.'

The 61-year-old had just been for a haircut on Lever Street and had wandered over to Piccadilly Gardens to eat the salad from Nibbles cafe.

The incident happened in August - the first time the career coach had ventured into town from her Stockport home for months.

"Being aware of keeping my distance from others, I found a spot with space around it and sat down on a wall to eat my salad", she recalled.

"As I had put on weight during lockdown, I have been trying hard to lose some weight and so did not want to eat the potatoes in my salad.

"As a lover of wildlife and a member of the Green Party, I decided to give the small amount of potato to the pigeons, which were numerous in the gardens, some looking much healthier than others.

"I gave them tiny pieces which they hungrily devoured", she said.

But to her shock, two enforcement officers approached her and 'reeled off a speech'.

Ruth was so startled that she only heard the word 'litter'.

She claimed: "Their manner was aggressive and unpleasant. I could not really believe what was happening.

"Neither could the people who were sitting on the same ledge as me. They aggressively demanded all my personal details and made gestures towards signs about not feeding the pigeons.

"Rather stupidly, I told the truth and gave them my details.

"I think they also said that if I re-offended, I could have a criminal record.

"They then produced a ticket which said I committed an offence: Litter-food waste.

"The charge on the ticket was 150", she said.

Ruth said she found the encounter shocking, particularly as she is so passionate about the environment and would never drop rubbish.

She is part of a local litter picking group, has her own litter picker, and even has signs printed at her own expense warning people to not litter in Gatley.

"I have looked up the definition of littering. What I did did not constitute littering.

"I always feed the pigeons. Birds of all variety have a right to live on this planet."

Ruth, who has not paid the fine, said she feels angry and upset.

She has written to both Andy Burnham and Sir Richard Leese about the incident as she feels so strongly about the issue.

It's the third time in a handful of months that the Manchester Evening News has written about pigeon feeding fines being handed out in Piccadilly Gardens.

Leonie Ormsby told the Manchester Evening News how she was fined after a pigeon gobbled up her tuna baguette end in 'one peck' at the same location.

Meanwhile Kerris Fenn, 22, was slapped with a hefty bill after feeding part of her vegan sausage roll to the birds.

Executive Member for Neighbourhoods at Manchester City Council, Coun Rabnawaz Akbar, said: "Throwing food on the floor is littering and as residents and visitors want to see a clean, hygienic city centre which is free of waste, we will not turn a blind eye to these offences.

"Pigeon droppings can behazardous to people and can spread potentially fatal diseases, as well as being unsightly and corrosive to buildings and monuments. Not all of the food offered to pigeonswill be eaten and any surplus which is left on the ground could attract other creatures to the area, such as rats.

"Providing food forpigeonsin areas like Piccadilly Gardens causes them to congregate in unnatural numbers, which can cause avian diseases to spread rapidly among the flock, as individual birds compete for the food on offer.

"Dropping your leftovers is bad for the local environment, can be bad for the birds and could also be bad for your wallet, if youre caught in the act of littering.Its great that many people enjoy being close to thepigeonswhen they visit the city centre - but please, dont feed them."

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I didnt step into the gym at all during my weight loss journey. I did all my work out within the comfort of my hostel room. Each of my workout session burned 800 kcal roughly. I did two 15-minute sessions of jumping ropes regularly. I also included strength training and a little bit of weight training in my workout regime.

Fitness secrets I unveiled: Weight loss is simple mathematics. Calculate your BMR and adjust your calorie intake and workout sessions accordingly.

How do I stay motivated? I always make it a point to click pictures every time I reach a milestone. My phone wallpaper is of the time when I used to weigh 90 kilos. Seeing how far I have come definitely keeps me motivated.

How do you ensure you dont lose focus? Knowing that I should treat myself with love and respect doesnt allow me to let my body, mind and soul go through any sort of stress--be it unhealthy food or unwanted worries.

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Jessica Simpson embarked on a mind and body transformation ahead of her 40th birthday this past July and she certainly kicked all her goals.

The singer and mum-of-three had spent the past decade caring for her family and felt it was time she invested a little time in herself. The results? Well, they speak for themselves

In the last decade, Simpson has dedicated her life, mind and body to her family. She and husband Eric Johnson welcomed their daughter Maxwell in 2012 and son Ace followed in 2013. Then in March 2019, they became a family of five after the arrival of their youngest daughter Birdie in March 2019.

So Simpson was more than ready to reclaim her body for herself.

"She was so motivated and positive," her personal trainer Harley Pasternak told People magazine last year. "She was saying that her body has not belonged to her for the past decade. Not in a bad way, in a positive way her body has been designated to create life and now it's hers again and she's going to make it fantastic in a really enjoyable way."

Just days after giving birth to Birdie, Pasternak said he received a call from Simpson.

But rather than jump straight into the gym, he wanted to focus on a more holistic approach. He instructed the star to focus on eating healthy, getting sleep (at least seven hours a night) and hitting her steps target for the day.

Initially, he had Simpson aim for 6000 steps a day, before increasing it to her usual 12,000 steps. Now she aims for 14,000 steps in a 24-hour period. Not a hard task, given she likes to take strolls with her family.

"Some days she was doing up to 14,000 steps a day," Pasternak told E! News last year. "It might sound like a lot but she's not sweating, she's not huffing and puffing, she didn't have to put on performance clothes to do this. She is going for a walk with her family."

In an August interview with Hollywood Life, Simpson said that she likes to include her husband and kids in her workouts.

"We have a big family so we're always on the go, go, go even if it's just in the house, the yard or the neighbourhood. We go on family walks, we visit the pigs in the neighbourhood, we visit the horses," she said.

"We're constantly active and if our kids are going stir crazy, we all go jump on the trampoline. Just get it out, get the energy out."

In terms of her diet, Pasternak said that Simpson has three meals a day and two snacks each meal is packed with protein, fibre and healthy fats. It's about making healthy choices, not denying yourself of certain food.

"She'll have foods that are very favourable that are healthier versions of things like a tortilla soup or Tex-Mex," Pasternak told People. "And if she has a birthday party one night and a date night another night, she's going to indulge both of those nights, but that's it. It's about balancing in a way that doesn't make it painful or too much of a departure from your life before that."

But everything in moderation, right? Pasternak said that Simpson is still allowed a few cheat meals a week.

"It's been a lot of hard work," Simpson admitted in September 2019 while promoting her new Jessica Simpson lifestyle range on US Home Shopping Network. "I have to say that I have worked very hard. Everything that I've been eating is mostly made with cauliflower. [But] I just ate a bag of Cheetos in the back."

Throw in her 45 minutes of circuit training three days a week and no wonder Simpson is hitting her fitness goals. Pasternak explained that by hitting the gym every other day, Simpson could get lean and streamline her muscles.

Simpson first showed off the results of her hard work in September 2019, when she shared a workout selfie on Instagram.

"Woke up before all 3 kiddos to get my steps in and spend time with me, myself, and I. Move move move for your own mental health," she captioned the pic.

Recently, it appears Simpson is switching up her workouts. The star posted a photo of herself mid-yoga session to Instagram earlier this week.

"Starting the week with a warrior mindset aligned with the beauty of the sunset," she captioned the pic.

Simpson said that she's never hard on herself when it comes to her exercise. If she doesn't hit her fitness goals for the day, she'll just try harder the next day.

"I like to like track my steps, keep myself accountable, and to just know my movement throughout the day," she told Hollywood Life. "If I haven't moved enough, I'll make sure and get in extra steps the next day. For me, it's moderation I don't put too much pressure on myself."

Before starting her transformation in March 2019, Simpson weighed 108kg. Keep in mind, she had just delivered daughter Birdie.

By September 2019, Simpson lost a hard-fought 45kg, but Pasternak revealed they did not set out to reach a goal weight Simpson's goal fro the start was to lead a cleaner, healthier lifestyle.

"I never work with scales," Pasternak said. "My work with her is more about the habits she's created and kept up. Every night before she goes to bed she sends an email showing that she hit all five tasks, so she'll go to bed feeling successful. She's hit her step goal, she's eaten well, she's balanced her responsibilities so she can go to bed with a sense of fulfilment, and that's everything. And as a byproduct of doing these habits, she lost 100 lbs [ 45kg]."

In her Hollywood Life interview, Simpson said she had become uncomfortable with her weight and needed to do something about it.

"My weight was in the high two hundreds [pounds] that's a lot of weight and I was just uncomfortable, but I worked hard and I am a determined person, so if I set my mind to it, I do it. I couldn't handle being so big and my ankles were swollen," she said. "So I'm just happy to feel comfortable again. I was literally uncomfortable for so long that now it's just nice to relax."

What Simpson found exciting about her recent transformation is the fact she could fit into jeans she bought 14 years ago not to mention the 'Daisy Dukes' shorts she rocked in The Dukes of Hazzard reboot in 2005.

"I have kept these throwback True Religion jeans in my closet for 14 yrs (I'm not exaggerating!)," she shared on Instagram in July. "I figured that since I'm in the final hours of my 30's I'd give them another try, and hello 40, so nice to meet you."

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Being overweight is linked to an increased risk for premature death, but which part of the body carries the added fat could make a big difference. Extra weight in some places may actually lower the risk.

Researchers, writing in BMJ, reviewed 72 prospective studies that included more than two and a half million participants with data on body fat and mortality. They found that central adiposity a large waist was consistently associated with a higher risk of all-cause mortality. In pooled data from 50 studies, each four-inch increase in waist size was associated with an 11 percent increased relative risk for premature death. The association was significant after adjusting for smoking, physical activity and alcohol consumption.

Waist size is an indicator of the amount of visceral fat, or fat stored in the abdomen around the internal organs. This kind of fat is associated with an increased risk for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, cancer and Alzheimers disease.

But increased fat in two places appears to be associated with a lower risk of death. Three studies showed that each two-inch increase in thigh circumference was associated with an 18 percent lower risk of all-cause mortality. In nine studies involving almost 300,000 participants, a four-inch increase in a womans hip circumference was associated with a 10 percent lower risk of death.

Thigh size is an indicator of the amount of muscle, which is protective, said a co-author of the review, Tauseef Ahmad Khan, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. And hip fat is not visceral fat, but subcutaneous fat, which is considered beneficial.

Comparing waist size with other bodily measurements reveals still more information about the risk for premature death. Given two people with the same hip size, the person with the larger waist is at higher risk for premature mortality.

For example, consider one man with a 34-inch waist and 37-inch hips, and another with the same hip size but a 41-inch waist. The latters relative risk of death, the researchers found, was almost 50 percent higher. Small changes in this waist-to-hip ratio make a big difference: In 31 studies that reported the ratio, each 0.1 unit increase in waist-to-hip ratio was associated with a 20 percent higher relative risk of death, with a stronger association in women than in men.

It is unclear if there is a risk in having too small a waist. There is a range in these measures, Dr. Khan said, a range in which these numbers are beneficial. Above that range, there is higher risk, but more research has to be done about lower ranges.

Losing excess weight is of course desirable, but there is probably no way to redistribute weight, or lose weight in the waist alone. It doesnt work that way, said Dr. Khan. You have to reduce overall weight, and that also reduces central fatness.

There is a way to put many of these various factors together in a single measurement, using a formula called A.B.S.I., or a body shape index. This calculation includes not only weight and height, like B.M.I., or body mass index, but also age, sex and waist circumference. It may produce a more accurate estimate of risk, the authors say.

A.B.S.I. is used mostly as a research tool, but anyone can calculate it here: https://www.fatcalc.com/absi. Each 0.005 unit increase in A.B.S.I. was associated with a 15 percent higher risk of all-cause mortality.

The takeaway message is watch your waist size, Dr. Khan said. Its more important than a simple measure of weight. You can have a normal weight and B.M.I., but if your waist is large, that puts you at high risk.

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