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POTOMAC, Md., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Healthy Directions, a leading health publisher and provider of proprietary, doctor-formulated nutritional supplements, announced today the launch of beauty and health expert Dr. Aaron Tabor's new line of synergistic skincare products and dietary supplements designed for discerning women looking for an effective way to naturally reduce the signs of aging from the inside out.

Available exclusively through HealthyDirections.com, the new collection of anti-aging skincare solutions is formulated from clinically proven ingredients that nourish, protect and repair the skin both inside and outside, from head to toe. Dr. Tabor's "Inside Out Beauty" philosophy is designed to help women take care of their skin "full force, full time" and includes a proprietary combination of scientifically proven ingredients he calls the Neurocellular Core-T Complex. Dr. Tabor's skincare formulations also follow strict European safe beauty standards and are pure and free of any known harmful ingredients.

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In addition to offering Dr. Tabor's new line of products, the Healthy Directions website will feature information on Dr. Tabor's skincare philosophy, and include tips for optimal total body beauty. One can also review nutrients known for repairing the skin, healthy food recommendations, general tips for optimal wellness and skincare regimens.

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CLONCURRY residents will have the chance in May to learn how to make positive lifestyle changes to achieve long-term weight loss and reduce their risk of chronic disease.

The Lighten Up to a Healthy Lifestyle program will be offered free to Cloncurry residents, run by Mount Isa Public Health nutritionist Lauren Jeffs and Cloncurry Blue Care Community Service Manager Helen Govan.

Cloncurry residents could turn their life around and get their health and happiness on track by setting aside just two hours a week, according to Ms Jeffs.

"The Lighten Up program is a group-based healthy lifestyle program for adults who want to improve their health.

"It provides people with information, knowledge and skills to help set and achieve goals for long-term health benefits," Ms Jeffs said.

It didn't focus on short-term results but on strategies that enabled people to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

"It helps people develop a healthy attitude to eating and physical activity."

Ms Jeffs said the program did not provide a "diet" to follow but instead helped people to:

l prepare and enjoy healthy food

l discover enjoyable ways to be physically active

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This short series was prompted by the newly-circulated research indicating that over half of us in the United States will be obese by 2030.

This is staggering when you consider how slowly change typically occurs in nature. Less than 10 percent of America was obese 30 years ago. We need to adapt or we're going to die. My last article focused on creating a plan by outlining the top 10 traits of successful dieters.

I like to define weight-loss success as reaching a goal and being able to manage and maintain it.

What? I can't eat all the ice cream I want once I lose this weight?

If you add a teensie-weensie phrase to that sentence, ice cream can stay. I can and I do eat all the ice cream I can while making sure I don't gain weight.

It's about management.

Manage your weight, your health, and your physique by thinking through behaviors regarding food. It is critical to enjoy real food while dieting, so work in those indulgences. Whether it takes less frequency or quantity, it's good practice for long-term maintenance.

I read of an author who says he writes the last line of his book first. He also writes the last line of each chapter before he writes the actual chapter. Genius.

He has a point he wants to make but he knows he can ramble off point, so if he builds a guidepost he can walk straight toward.

Imagine that you are Jimmy Stewart for a moment. Your guardian angel is flying you through your life past tense. How would you want to have lived your life? Sick, overweight, in pain, dysfunctional? NO!

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For Immediate Release Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Weight loss and increased physical fitness nearly halved the risk of losing mobility in overweight or obese adults with type 2 diabetes, according to four-year results from the Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) trial funded by the National Institutes of Health. The results are published in the March 29, 2012, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

"Being able to perform routine activities is an important contributor to quality of life," said Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., director of the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), which led the study. "These findings add support to making lifestyle changes that improve health and reduce disability in people with type 2 diabetes, changes that already have been shown to prevent the disease and provide a good return on investment."

Look AHEAD is a multi-center, randomized clinical trial designed to determine the long-term effects of intentional weight loss on the risk of developing cardiovascular disease in overweight and obese individuals with type 2 diabetes. Beginning in 2001, a total of 5,145 participants were randomly assigned to either an intensive lifestyle intervention group (ILI) or a diabetes support and education group (DSE). Participants receiving the intervention attended group and individual meetings to achieve and maintain weight loss through decreased caloric intake and increased physical activity. The DSE group attended three meetings each year that provided general education on diet, activity, and social support.

To assess mobility and disability, participants rated their ability to carry out activities with or without limitations. Included were vigorous activities such as running and lifting heavy objects and moderate ones such as pushing a vacuum cleaner or playing golf. Participants also separately rated their ability to climb a flight of stairs; bend, kneel or stoop; walk more than a mile; and walk one block. Both groups were weighed annually and completed a treadmill fitness test at baseline, after one year, and at the end of four years.

After four years of the study, participants in the ILI group experienced a 48 percent reduction in mobility-related disability compared with the DSE group. Furthermore, 20.6 percent of ILI participants reported severe disability compared to 26.2 percent of participants in the DSE group. Likewise, 38.5 percent of those in the ILI group reported good mobility, whereas the rate was 31.9 percent in the DSE group. Weight loss was a slightly stronger predictor of better mobility than improved fitness, but both contributed significantly to the observed reduction in risk.

"With nearly two-thirds of participants reporting mild, moderate, or severe restrictions in mobility when Look AHEAD began, it is critical to address this problem," said Mary Evans, Ph.D., project scientist for the study."This study of mobility highlights the value of finding ways to help adults with type 2 diabetes keep moving as they age. We know that when adults lose mobility, it becomes difficult for them to live on their own, and they are likely to develop more serious health problems, increasing their health care costs."

Overweight and obesity affects more than two-thirds of U.S. adults age 20 and older. More than one-third of adults are obese. Many factors contribute to the problem, including genetics, lifestyle habits, and the food environment. Excess weight can lead to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and certain cancers. Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes, and 7 million of them do not know it.

"The weight loss and physical activity goals promoted in the study are well within the reach of most Americans," said Jack Rejeski, Ph.D., lead author and Thurman D. Kitchin professor of health and exercise science at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. "Future research is needed to determine if this sort of intervention can be translated into public health interventions, particularly in light of possible effects on health care costs."

The research is funded under grant numbers U01DK057136, U01DK507149, U01DK056990, U01DK057177, U01DK057171, U01DK057151, U01DK057182, U01DK057131, U01DK057002, U01DK057078, U01DK057154, U01DK057178, U01DK057219, U01DK057008, U01DK057135, U01DK056992, P30DK048520, U01HL10106601, UL1RR024153, and R01AG031827A.

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Weight loss and increased fitness slow decline of mobility in adults

Newswise Weight loss and increased physical fitness nearly halved the decline in mobility in overweight or obese adults with type 2 diabetes, according to four-year results of the Look AHEAD (Action for Health in Diabetes) trial funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The results are published in the March 29, 2012, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The largest and longest-running study of its kind, this research confirms how important losing weight and increasing physical activity are in the treatment of mobility-related problems among people with type 2 diabetes as they age, said lead author Jack Rejeski, Ph.D, Thurman D. Kitchin Professor of Health and Exercise Science at Wake Forest University. The weight loss and physical activity goals promoted in the study are well within the reach of most Americans. Future research is needed to determine if this sort of intervention can be translated into public health interventions, particularly in light of possible effects on health care costs.

Look AHEAD is a multi-center, randomized clinical trial designed to determine the long-term effects of intentional weight loss on the risk of cardiovascular disease in overweight and obese individuals with type 2 diabetes. Beginning in 2001, a total of 5,145 Look AHEAD participants were randomly assigned to either an intensive lifestyle intervention (ILI) group or a usual care, or Diabetes Support and Education (DSE) group. The ILI treatment involved group and individual meetings to achieve and maintain weight loss through decreased caloric intake and increased physical activity. The DSE group attended three meetings each year that provided general education on diet, activity, and social support.

Being able to perform routine activities is an important contributor to quality of life, said Griffin P. Rodgers, M.D., director of the NIHs National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), which oversaw the study.

To assess mobility, Look AHEAD participants rated their ability to carry out activities with or without limitations. Included were vigorous activities such as running and lifting heavy objects and moderate ones such as pushing a vacuum cleaner or playing golf. Participants also separately rated their ability to climb a flight of stairs; bend, kneel or stoop; walk more than a mile; and walk one block. Both groups were weighed annually and completed a treadmill fitness test at baseline, after year one, and at the end of four years.

After four years of the study, Look AHEAD participants in the intensive lifestyle group experienced a 48 percent reduction in mobility-related disability compared with the diabetes support and education group.

This is the first long-term study to demonstrate that by participating in an intensive lifestyle intervention, overweight or obese adults with type 2 diabetes can reduce decline in mobility as they age, Rejeski said.

Overweight and obesity affects more than two-thirds of U.S. adults age 20 and older. More than one-third of adults are obese. Many factors contribute to the problem, including genetics and lifestyle habits. Excess weight can lead to type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and certain cancers. Nearly 26 million Americans have diabetes, and more than 7 million of them do not know it.

With nearly two-thirds of participants reporting mild, moderate, or severe restrictions in mobility when Look AHEAD began, it is critical to address to this problem, said Mary Evans, Ph.D., project scientist for Look AHEAD. This study of mobility highlights the value of finding ways to help adults with type 2 diabetes keep moving as they age. We know that when adults lose mobility, it becomes difficult for them to live on their own, and they are likely to develop more serious health problems, increasing their health care costs.

Co-authors of the study are Edward Ip, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; Alain Bertoni, Wake Forest University School of Medicine; George Bray, Pennington Biomedical Research Center of the Louisiana State University System; Gina Evans, Baylor College of Medicine; Edward Gregg, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Qiang Zhang, Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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Date: Tuesday Mar. 27, 2012 6:10 AM ET

CHICAGO New research gives clear proof that weight-loss surgery can reverse and possibly cure diabetes, and doctors say the operation should be offered sooner to more people with the disease -- not just as a last resort.

The two studies, released on Monday, are the first to compare stomach-reducing operations to medicines alone for "diabesity" -- Type 2 diabetes brought on by obesity. Millions of Americans have this and can't make enough insulin or use what they do make to process sugar from food.

Both studies found that surgery helped far more patients achieve normal blood-sugar levels than medicines alone did.

The results were dramatic: Some people were able to stop taking insulin as soon as three days after their operations. Cholesterol and other heart risk factors also greatly improved.

Doctors don't like to say "cure" because they can't promise a disease will never come back. But in one study, most surgery patients were able to stop all diabetes drugs and have their disease stay in remission for at least two years. None of those treated with medicines alone could do that.

"It is a major advance," said Dr. John Buse of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading diabetes expert who had no role in the studies. Buse said he often recommends surgery to patients who are obese and can't control their blood-sugar through medications, but many are leery of it. "This evidence will help convince them that this really is an important therapy to at least consider," he said.

There were signs that the surgery itself -- not just weight loss -- helps reverse diabetes. Food makes the gut produce hormones to spur insulin, so trimming away part of it surgically may affect those hormones, doctors believe.

Weight-loss surgery "has proven to be a very appropriate and excellent treatment for diabetes," said one study co-leader, Dr. Francesco Rubino, chief of diabetes surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. "The most proper name for the surgery would be diabetes surgery."

The studies were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine, and the larger one was presented Monday at an American College of Cardiology conference in Chicago.

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CHICAGO (AP) -- New research gives clear proof that weight-loss surgery can reverse and possibly cure diabetes, and doctors say the operation should be offered sooner to more people with the disease -- not just as a last resort.

The two studies, released on Monday, are the first to compare stomach-reducing operations to medicines alone for "diabesity" -- Type 2 diabetes brought on by obesity. Millions of Americans have this and can't make enough insulin or use what they do make to process sugar from food.

Both studies found that surgery helped far more patients achieve normal blood-sugar levels than medicines alone did.

The results were dramatic: Some people were able to stop taking insulin as soon as three days after their operations. Cholesterol and other heart risk factors also greatly improved.

Doctors don't like to say "cure" because they can't promise a disease will never come back. But in one study, most surgery patients were able to stop all diabetes drugs and have their disease stay in remission for at least two years. None of those treated with medicines alone could do that.

"It is a major advance," said Dr. John Buse of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading diabetes expert who had no role in the studies. Buse said he often recommends surgery to patients who are obese and can't control their blood-sugar through medications, but many are leery of it. "This evidence will help convince them that this really is an important

There were signs that the surgery itself -- not just weight loss -- helps reverse diabetes. Food makes the gut produce hormones to spur insulin, so trimming away part of it surgically may affect those hormones, doctors believe.

Weight-loss surgery "has proven to be a very appropriate and excellent treatment for diabetes," said one study co-leader, Dr. Francesco Rubino, chief of diabetes surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. "The most proper name for the surgery would be diabetes surgery."

The studies were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine, and the larger one was presented Monday at an American College of Cardiology conference in Chicago.

More than a third of American adults are obese, and more than 8 percent have diabetes, a major cause of heart disease, strokes and kidney failure. Between 5 million and 10 million are like the people in these studies, with both problems.

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Studies: Weight-loss surgery can put diabetes into remission

CHICAGO -- New research gives clear proof that weight-loss surgery can reverse and possibly cure diabetes, and doctors say the operation should be offered sooner to more people with the disease -- not just as a last resort.

The two studies, released on Monday, are the first to compare stomach-reducing operations to medicines alone for "diabesity" -- Type 2 diabetes brought on by obesity. Millions of Americans have this and can't make enough insulin or use what they do make to process sugar from food.

Both studies found that surgery helped far more patients achieve normal blood-sugar levels than medicines alone did.

The results were dramatic: Some people were able to stop taking insulin as soon as three days after their

In this March 23, 2012 photo, Tamikka McCray, 39, holds photos showing her before a weigh-loss surgery, during an interview at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. McCray no longer needed to take diabetes medication and insulin after her weigh-loss surgery. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Doctors don't like to say "cure" because they can't promise a disease will never come back. But in one study, most surgery patients were able to stop all diabetes drugs and have their disease stay in remission for at least two years. None of those treated with medicines alone could do that.

"It is a major advance," said Dr. John Buse of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading diabetes expert who had no role in the studies. Buse said he often recommends surgery to patients who are obese and can't control their blood-sugar through medications, but many are leery of it. "This evidence will help convince them that this really is an important therapy to at least consider," he said.

There were signs that the surgery itself -- not just weight loss -- helps reverse diabetes. Food makes the gut produce hormones to spur insulin, so trimming away part of it surgically may affect those hormones, doctors believe.

Weight-loss surgery "has proven to be a very appropriate and excellent treatment for diabetes," said one study co-leader, Dr. Francesco Rubino, chief of diabetes surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. "The most proper name for the surgery would be diabetes surgery."

The studies were published online by the New England Journal of Medicine, and the larger one was presented Monday at an American College of Cardiology conference in Chicago.

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Weight-loss surgery can reverse diabetes and may cure it, study finds

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CHICAGO New research gives clear proof that weight-loss surgery can reverse and possibly cure diabetes, and doctors say the operation should be offered sooner to more people with the disease not just as a last resort.

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ITamikka McCray, 39, holds photos showing her before weigh-loss surgery, during an interview at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York recently.

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The two studies, released on Monday, are the first to compare stomach-reducing operations to medicines alone for "diabesity" Type 2 diabetes brought on by obesity. Millions of Americans have this and can't make enough insulin or use what they do make to process sugar from food.

Both studies found that surgery helped far more patients achieve normal blood-sugar levels than medicines alone did.

The results were dramatic: Some people were able to stop taking insulin as soon as three days after their operations. Cholesterol and other heart risk factors also greatly improved.

Doctors don't like to say "cure" because they can't promise a disease will never come back. But in one study, most surgery patients were able to stop all diabetes drugs and have their disease stay in remission for at least two years. None of those treated with medicines alone could do that.

"It is a major advance," said Dr. John Buse of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading diabetes expert who had no role in the studies. Buse said he often recommends surgery to patients who are obese and can't control their blood-sugar through medications, but many are leery of it. "This evidence will help convince them that this really is an important therapy to at least consider," he said.

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DENVER, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP) today released a set of weight-loss tips that are effective for improving and reversing type 2 diabetes.

Tips for Sustainable Weight Loss When Suffering from Type 2 Diabetes

"The key in sustaining weight loss is to identify the right solution for each patient," said Ed J. Hendricks, M.D., of The Center for Weight Management in Roseville, Calif., an obesity medicine specialist with a large obesity treatment practice that includes many overweight diabetics. "There is a large spectrum of choices, from self-help programs to medical therapy to surgery. However, the obesity medicine physician is a patient's best resource in mapping out an effective, comprehensive plan for the individual."

The preceding tips were taken from the ASBP Overweight and Obesity Evaluation Management Guidelines. Obesity is a lifelong problem, and there are several tools for weight loss. Patients are encouraged to partner with physicians who have the expertise to guide them through what treatment plans will be most effective given their individual medical histories and conditions.

Founded in 1950, ASBP (www.asbp.org) is the oldest medical association dedicated to the non-surgical treatment of obesity and associated diseases. ASBP is a collaborative organization that provides its members practical information and business tools to implement a successful medical bariatric practice.

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