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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite earlier concerns, dieters who repeatedly lose weight and then gain it back aren't at higher risk of early death than people who don't "yo-yo diet," according to a new report.

About two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, and many are trying to shed the extra pounds. Over the long term, however, most people who lose weight through dieting regain it later.

The health effects of such weight cycling, also called yo-yo dieting, are a matter of controversy.

Several studies have found that people whose weight cycles up and down tend to die earlier. But the majority of that research failed to differentiate between intentional weight loss and weight loss due to disease such as cancer, researchers write in the new report.

In the current work, nearly 56,000 men and more than 66,000 women answered questions about how often they had intentionally lost 10 or more pounds and later regained the weight. The participants were between 50 and 74 years old when the study started in 1992.

During a 16-year follow-up period that ended in 2008, roughly 15,000 men and 10,000 women died.

A total of 42 percent of men and nearly 57 percent of women in the study reported intentionally losing and then regaining at least 10 pounds one or more times in their life.

Among women whose weight yo-yoed the most -- 20 times or more -- 16 percent died over the study, compared to 15 percent of those who said their weight never cycled due to dieting.

For men, the corresponding numbers were 29 percent and 26 percent.

But as it turned out, participants whose weight cycled the most were also more likely to be heavy 10 years prior to the start of the study, which could raise their risk of death.

When the researchers accounted for that, as well as health problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure and smoking, the gaps in death rates disappeared.

"Our study shows that the act of weight cycling itself does not increase your risk of premature death," Victoria Stevens of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta told Reuters Health.

Her findings are published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Still, experts don't recommend yo-yo dieting, but rather slow-paced, sustained weight loss.

"While weight cycling may not kill you any sooner, yo-yo dieting is still not good for a whole lot of other reasons," Judy Caplan, a dietician in private practice in Virginia, told Reuters Health.

"Yo-yo dieters are great at losing weight, but not at maintaining the weight loss, which can leave a person demoralized," said Caplan, who is also a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and was not involved in the new research.

Previous research has suggested that yo-yo dieting can slow metabolism and may actually contribute to more weight gain in the long run.

But for those who find their weight yo-yoing after dieting, the new findings contain a hopeful message.

"I think the study is encouraging," said Simone French, a behavioral scientist who specializes in obesity prevention at the University of Minnesota and was not involved in the work.

"It shows that people shouldn't be afraid to keep trying to lose weight, because they think it will increase their health risks if they gain it back."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/yEhPg3 American Journal of Epidemiology, online January 27, 2012

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Phoenix, AZ (PRWEB) February 03, 2012

Phoenix Integrative Medicine, one of the premier weight loss clinics in Phoenix AZ, has been achieving weight loss success long term in 87% of patients.

Dr. Andrea O'Connor is the medical director at Phoenix Integrative Medicine. She has been assisting and monitoring patients at the weight loss Phoenix clinic for over 10 years. The most prevalent weight loss method utilized currently at Phoenix Integrative Medicine is with the HCG Diet.

The method utilized with the HCG Diet is a modified calorie plan. The conventional HCG Diet Phoenix AZ restricted patients to a paltry 500 calories per day diet. Dr. O'Connor has modified the HCG diet plan upwards to incorporate 800 to 1200 calories, allowing patients to exercise more than with the traditional diet and avoid hunger.

The traditional HCG diet prohibits patients from exercising on the diet, but not the modified plan. "We've found the modified HCG program works really well, allowing more exercise, less hunger, and by ratcheting up the dose of HCG the weight loss stays exceptional," said Dr. O'Connor.

A study out of Drexel University in 2008 showed that only 26% of patients maintained their weight loss goal weight after one year. At Phoenix Integrative Medicine, that number has been 87%.

"I've reviewed our patients, and our numbers are well above the national average for long term weight loss. What good is losing considerable weight if it comes right back. If patients stick with the program and all follow up visits, 87% stay at their goal weight," said O'Connor.

The Phoenix weight loss programs at Phoenix Integrative Medicine start at only $75 for an initial visit, and Dr. O'Connor oversees her patients intensively to prevent electrolyte imbalances. The diet can either be administered as HCG injections Phoenix or with sublingual drops.

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I tend to blow hot and cold on the subject weight-loss TV — hate NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” but will admit to having  wept through more than one episode of the Style Network’s “Too Fat for 15” — mostly because I know just how unentertaining healthy weight loss can be.

I get it: No one’s ever going to launch a prime-time hit with a picture of someone eating smaller portions and exercising in moderation. And you’re never going to hear one of those screaming trainers admit that throwing up on the treadmill isn’t a strategy for long-term success.

TV wants dramatic stories, and TLC has one, as tonight at 9 it launches a four-part series, “My 600-lb Life,” with Melissa, a Texas woman who weighed more than 600 pounds before undergoing gastric-bypass surgery more than seven years ago.

Unflinching in its honesty — even the not-so-squeamish will want to heed those onscreen warnings about the surgery shots, and there are multiple surgeries involved — the episode follows its remarkable subject for not seven weeks, or even seven months, but for seven years.

In seven years, you can tell a story that’s much more than a big reveal, and this one, which shows a marriage undergoing changes every bit as drastic as the changes in Melissa’s body, is probably must viewing for anyone who thinks a gastric bypass is the easy way out for the overweight.

Or, for that matter, for anyone who thinks all of life’s problems can be solved by the right diet.

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On 'My 600-lb Life,' weight-loss truth isn't always pretty

Once upon a time weight loss was simple and involved eliminating empty calories, eating slightly less calories from a healthy balanced diet and burning slightly more calories per day. This used to work and nearly all successful losers were able to maintain their weight loss as long as they continued with their healthy habits.

Fast forward to now when most of the food we eat has been found to be micronutrient deficient and 68% of U.S. adults and 33% of U.S. children and adolescents are overweight or obese. Weight loss is not only an uphill battle it's nearly impossible and it's naked calories that are to blame explain Jayson Calton and Mira Calton in their book Naked Calories. Study after study mentioned in their book uncover a global pandemic of micronutrient deficiency in both children and adults that is closely tied to the current obesity epidemic as well as many other serious diseases.

So What Are Naked Calories?
Naked Calories is an interesting term that sounds similar to empty calories but the term naked simply means food that has calories as well as macronutrients (protein, carbs, and/or fat) but is micronutrient deficient. In other words, food that is completely depleted of vitamins and minerals that our bodies need to be healthy and maintain a healthy weight. Empty calories on the other hand are calories completely devoid of nutritional value (i.e. chips, candy, soft drinks, booze, etc).

As Mira Calton explained in a recent interview "The old adage that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, might have been true for our grandparents but today's apple looks nothing like the apple our grandparents had 80 years ago. Today's apple would have nearly 50% less calcium, 100% less iron, and 83% less magnesium, and less phosphorus, less potassium, and so on. Beef has been 100% completely striped of vitamin A".

How Naked Calories Prevent Weight Loss
It doesn't take a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry to realize that your body can't metabolize fat, utilize the fuels you eat or burn calories efficiently when it's not getting all the nutrients it needs. When you feed your body food that is devoid of vitamins and minerals you are simply consuming naked calories (fake food) and your body is still starving for nutrients it needs to function at optimum.

The real issue for most people today is not just calories in vs. calories out, or eating healthy foods, or even avoiding certain foods (fat, carbs, or protein). The real problem is that most foods today have little to no nutritional value and this in turn wreaks havoc on both you metabolic system and your health making it impossible to lose weight or maintain your loss no matter how "healthy" you eat, how little you eat, how many foods you ban, how many supplements you take or inject, or how much you exercise. The modern day obesity epidemic goes beyond such basic weight loss factors and if you are desperate to lose fat you must look beyond them as well and focus on the real problem of micronutrient deficiency.

How to Beat The Naked Calorie Pandemic
The solution to this serious issue is simple and it starts with you becoming what the Caltons call a Nutrivore, an eater of food that is chock full of vitamins and minerals. So instead of focusing on banning entire foods groups, or slashing calories, or exercising yourself to death you need to focus on improving the quality of the food you eat. This is actually very easy to do with their three part approach listed below. Be sure to refer to it any time you shop for food, eat out or cook food at home.

1. Eat real food (organic, local, minimally processed, free range, grass fed)

2. Minimize Nutrient Depleters Including:
Prescription Medications
Most Diet Plans (i.e. low carb, raw, vegan, low calorie, the research on this was shocking)
Foods Containing Oxalic Acid and Phytates
Alcohol, Smoking, Caffeine
High Levels of Stress
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Microwave Cooking
More Than 6 Hours of Strenuous (really hardcore) Exercise per Week

3. Take Supplement with Anti-Competition Multi-Vitamins If Needed
Learn more about how to get healthy and start losing weight with simple strategies from Naked Calories: How Micronutrients Can Maximize Weight Loss, Prevent Disease and Enhance Your Life

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BEACHWOOD, Ohio, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- DDR Corp. (NYSE: DDR - News) announced today that it has closed $353 million of new long-term financings, comprised of a $250 million unsecured term loan ("Term Loan") and a $103 million mortgage loan ("Mortgage Loan"). These financings address the majority of the company's 2012 consolidated debt maturities and improve debt duration, which further reduces the company's risk profile.

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Proceeds from the Term Loan will be used to retire $184 million of convertible notes maturing in March 2012, reduce the outstanding balances under the Company's revolving credit facilities, and for general corporate purposes. DDR's remaining 2012 consolidated unsecured debt maturities consist of $223 million of unsecured notes that mature in October 2012, and the company has no other unsecured maturities in the next three years. Upon funding of the recently closed transactions, DDR will have nearly full availability on its revolving credit facilities, which have a final maturity in 2016.

Pricing on the Term Loan is set at LIBOR plus a margin that is determined based upon DDR's long-term unsecured debt ratings. The Term Loan consists of a $200 million tranche that initially bears interest at an annual rate of LIBOR plus 210 basis points and matures on January 31, 2019; and a $50 million tranche that initially bears interest at an annual rate of LIBOR plus 170 basis points and matures on January 31, 2017. DDR has entered into interest rate swap contracts which will fix LIBOR on the $200 million tranche. Based on the Company's current credit rating, that will result in a total rate of 3.64% for the $200 million tranche.

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and PNC Capital Markets, LLC acted as joint lead arrangers for the Term Loan; with Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Administration Agent and PNC Bank, National Association as Syndication Agent. Capital One served as Documentation Agent. Regions Bank, RBS Citizens, First Tennessee, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup also participated in the Term Loan.

The Mortgage Loan is a $103 million seven-year loan with Principal Real Estate Investors LLC and is secured by three prime shopping centers located in Atlanta, Georgia; Princeton, New Jersey; and San Antonio, Texas. Interest is fixed for the term at 3.4% and the loan proceeds will be used to pre-fund all of the Company's consolidated 2012 mortgage maturities.

"We are pleased to announce these new long-term loans that, combined with our recent equity issuance, address most of our 2012 maturities in the first month of the year. The attractive interest rate and duration further our goals of lowering our corporate risk profile and long-term cost of capital," said David J. Oakes, chief financial officer of DDR. "We very much appreciate the support of our lender group in closing these significant transactions as we capitalize on the favorable access to capital and pricing available to us."

About DDR

DDR is an owner and manager of 538 value-oriented shopping centers representing 134 million square feet in 41 states, Puerto Rico and Brazil. The company's assets are concentrated in high barrier-to-entry markets with stable populations and high growth potential and its portfolio is actively managed to create long-term shareholder value. DDR is a self-administered and self-managed REIT operating as a fully integrated real estate company, and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol DDR. Additional information about the company is available at www.ddr.com.

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DDR considers portions of the information in this press release to be forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, both as amended, with respect to the Company's expectation for future periods. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause our results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including, among other factors, local conditions such as oversupply of space or a reduction in demand for real estate in the area; competition from other available space; dependence on rental income from real property; the loss of, significant downsizing of or bankruptcy of a major tenant; constructing properties or expansions that produce a desired yield on investment; our ability to sell assets on commercially reasonable terms; our ability to secure equity or debt financing on commercially acceptable terms or at all; our ability to enter into definitive agreements with regard to our financing and joint venture arrangements or our failure to satisfy conditions to the completion of these arrangements; our ability to continue to pay dividends on our common shares at the current or higher rates; and the finalization of the financial statements for the three-month period and year ended December 31, 2011. For additional factors that could cause the results of the Company to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, please refer to the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof.

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Nausea, dizziness, weight loss, headaches, vomiting: These
symptoms sometimes add up to POTS

It was in August 2007 that Anthony and Francine Pugliese began
taking their daughter, Nina, to an assortment of doctors for an
assortment of symptoms. Then 12, she was nauseated, vomiting,
lightheaded and extremely fatigued. Her heart rate was
increased.

As time went on and no diagnosis was forthcoming, the Jefferson
Hills girl's symptoms got worse.

"She's losing weight; she can't function in school," Mrs.
Pugliese said. "She loves basketball; she was trying to play
basketball, but she would get violently sick after a game."

Victoria Piekut, 15, of North Huntingdon, started struggling
with severe body pain, nausea, lightheadedness, body tremors
and severe headaches she described as migraines back in the
sixth grade, said her mother, Chris. Victoria couldn't stand
for more than a short period. Her symptoms worsened over the
next couple of years as her parents sought medical answers.

Between her junior and senior years at Penn Hills High School,
Julee Catania, now 19 and a sophomore at Washington &
Jefferson College, walked onto a softball field for a game and
started having double vision. "I got dizzy and real nauseous,"
she said.

The symptoms continued, and Julee also went to numerous doctors
and made several trips to emergency rooms without learning why
she was ill.

When he was in fifth grade, now 18-year-old Micah Mason of
Harrison began having headaches and dizziness; throwing up was
a regular part of his morning routine. A search for a diagnosis
was unsuccessful. He began to consider his symptoms a regular
part of his life.

During the 2010-11 basketball season, the Highlands High School
shooting star started losing weight. By Feb. 28, when he went
to the emergency room with an eye infection that left him
temporarily blind in that eye, he was down about 30 pounds. In
early May, he began having hard, erratic heartbeats, and his
legs felt as if he were running through cement.

Then, on May 15, he had his scariest episode while driving with
his mother, Karen, to a tournament.

"He couldn't breathe. He was holding onto me, holding his
chest," Mrs. Mason recalled.

They arrived at the school and went in. "He was white-faced,
his eyes sunken. He went to the bathroom, came out and said,
'Let's go. I need to go to a hospital.' "

Two days later, he finally got a diagnosis at Children's
Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC -- the same one the other three
teens eventually got.

They all had POTS, or postural orthostatic tachycardia
syndrome. It also is called orthostatic tachycardia, postural
tachycardia, postural tachycardia syndrome, orthostatic
intolerance and mitral valve prolapse syndrome. Orthostatis
simply means standing upright; tachycardia is an abnormally
rapid heart rate.

It is a disorder of the autonomic nervous system, which
controls involuntary organ functions, and it could affect as
few as 200,000 Americans or more than a million, experts say.
Those numbers vary, in part, because those experts argue about
the causes.

Satish Raj, a cardiac electrophysiologist and preeminent POTS
expert who does clinical research at the Autonomic Dysfunction
Center at Vanderbilt University, offers the following
definition of POTS:

"It is a chronic disorder where patients feel unwell more
acutely when upright and feel somewhat better when they're
lying down and where the problem is not primarily a drop in
their blood pressure when they're upright, but rather an
excessive increase in their heart rate."

According to POTS experts, a patient's heart rate increases by
at least 30 beats a minute when he or she stands.

When Micah Mason had his episode May 15, his pulse rate went
from about 40 -- an excellent rate for a well-conditioned
athlete -- to more than 120 in just a few seconds.

Besides the nausea and dizziness, patients complain of what
they call "brain fog," something Dr. Raj said may have more to
do with concentration or attention than memory; changes in
their vision; increased sweating when standing and exercise
intolerance.

What causes those symptoms?

"In some patients, it may be due to not getting enough blood
flow to the brain while you're standing. You may be OK when
you're lying down," said David Robertson, a neurologist and
clinical pharmacologist who founded and directs the Autonomic
Research Consortium at Vanderbilt.

Why that is the case is not that simple. Dr. Robertson cautions
that "what physicians label as POTS is probably dozens of
diseases. Each disease may have its own characteristics and its
own cause."

In Dallas, Benjamin D. Levine of the Institute for Exercise and
Environmental Medicine, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital,
believes that deconditioning is frequently the cause of POTS --
stay in bed ill a few days or more and your heart rate will
increase when you finally get up. He is a huge proponent of an
exercise conditioning program as treatment.

Victoria Piekut tried the program last year and felt
symptom-free for the first couple of weeks. Then, her mother
said, she began to dehydrate despite a normal amount of fluids.
Eventually she ended up in a hospital on pain medications and
intravenous fluids.

"That amount of exercise [an hour a day, five days a week] was
too much for her," Mrs. Piekut said. "She couldn't take in
enough fluids. That's kind of the problem with POTS: Everybody
reacts differently."

Dr. Raj said there are many POTS patients in whom low blood
volume, or the amount of blood in their bodies, may be the
underlying trigger for the disorder. The reason for that low
volume is unclear, he said, and he is doing federally funded
research on the question.

And, he said, "there are other patients that we say have
neuropathic POTS." That means there is damage to the peripheral
sympathetic nerves, which normally would stimulate the blood
vessels to tighten and support blood pressure and return blood
back to the central vasculature (blood vessels) and the heart.

"Again, it's not fully clear how that relates to the
tachycardia," Dr. Raj said, "but the thought is that perhaps
the blood vessels in the lower extremities in these patients
don't tighten or constrict as well because of the neuropathy."
Poor blood flow then results in more blood pooling in the legs
and less blood returning to the heart.

The treatments are as varied as the potential causes.

"One of the common strategies is to try to increase blood
volume," said pediatric cardiologist Julian Stewart of the New
York Medical College, the foremost researcher into the
mechanisms of orthostatic intolerance in the young. That's done
with fluids and salt or medication, but, he said, "it can be
difficult to salt-load because it takes a lot of salt, which
can be unpalatable. If you took a patient with POTS and infused
saline, they could do pretty much anything temporarily, but it
does not fix the problem.

"There are medications to make vessels contract. There are
medications that can work on heart rate. Sometimes -- this is
very important -- there are medications that work on aspects of
the nervous system directly," he said. "Steady progress is
being made on the underlying mechanisms of disease."

But Dr. Stewart and the other doctors agreed that exercise has
to be included in any treatment strategy.

At the Mayo Clinic Neurological Center in Rochester, Minn.,
Phillip Low, a professor of neurology, said that in the long
term, exercise is more important than medications in treating
Mayo's POTS patients, some of whom "will tell you it's
important to stay fit because if you lose your level of
fitness, you may have more symptoms. Medications have some
value for the control of symptoms for a period of time.

"We sometimes use medications, but it's mainly exercise and
fluids," he added. "Sometimes we'll give them a beta blocker to
slow the heart down a little bit. That's for the short term,
but we don't rely on it in the long term."

At Vanderbilt, which only sees adult patients, Dr. Raj said,
"we talk to everyone about the importance of exercise based on
the [Qi] Fu and [Benjamin D.] Levine data. Everyone pretty much
gets advised to increase their blood volume by diet, and that
means increasing their salt intake and increasing their fluid
volume." He also uses medications, particularly for low blood
volume.

Julee Catania and Nina Pugliese, who were diagnosed and are
being treated by Hasan Abdallah of the Children's Heart
Institute in Reston, Va., take multiple medications. Julee, who
has started playing softball again, walks and tries to live in
a stress-free environment. Nina is home-schooled and does
cardiac training two or three times a week. When she feels well
enough, she plays basketball on an AAU team.

Neither is back to where she was pre-POTS.

Victoria Piekut, who was diagnosed about two years ago by a
POTS cardiologist in Toledo, Ohio, can't take typical POTS
medications, Mrs. Piekut said. "She has, like, allergic
reactions to almost everything they try." She takes vitamins,
goes to a chiropractor and massage therapist, and takes a
weekly dance class and gym class. Getting up is difficult
because of nausea, so she usually misses her first couple of
morning classes.

"It's still a struggle. She's in the ER or MedExpress every
four weeks for IV fluids," her mother said. "She pumps herself
full of Gatorade; it's not enough. If she were sedentary, it
might be enough."

Micah Mason also had trouble with medical solutions to his
POTS. He couldn't take beta blockers -- they would lower his
already low pulse too much. Mrs. Mason was advised not to
permit him to take medication to raise his blood pressure. He
just got sicker when he tried to increase his salt and Gatorade
intake.

Then his mother heard about a chiropractor who was doing
something called neurologic relief technique, which she
described as the chiropractor applying pressure at the base of
the skull behind the ears with half-pound dumbbells or his
fingers. Robert Corcetti of Monroeville examined Micah and
diagnosed meningeal compression of the spine, a trauma-related
condition which he believes caused his patient's POTS symptoms.

Micah began going for treatments four days a week. Meanwhile,
Mr. Corcetti prescribed natural supplements and two liquid and
one regular meal a day; Micah was pretty much restricted to bed
rest.

Now the treatments are once every week and a half, and Micah is
back playing basketball.

"He doesn't come out of the game," Mrs. Mason said recently.
"He scored 49 points Saturday night. It's a miracle. It's an
absolute miracle. Am I certain he's healed? Nope."

That's probably wise, because a POTS recovery takes a long
time, and patients may never be 100 percent healthy again.

"They get better and better ... not as rapidly as they would
like," said Dr. Robertson. "I would say that half the patients
need no medications five years after they present. [The other
half] may need some."

Pohla Smith: psmith@post-gazette.com or
412-263-1228.

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