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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) You may have seen the ads on the internetvinegar as a super food to shed pounds quickly or turmeric to cleanse and detox your body.

The Kardashians have reportedly done it, and so has actress and healthy lifestyle guru Gwyneth Paltrow. We are talking about the apple cider vinegar diet making a splash on the internet.

Testimonials brag about following the diet, incorporating the cloudy potion and watching the pounds melt away. But are these alternative facts or the real deal?

Recent reports have shown that regular consumption of apple cider vinegar can lead to digestive health improvement, reduce bloating, increase absorption of vitamins and mineral from food, as well as more balanced PH levels within the body, said Ben Lazzarini, who is with Whole Foods Market.

We have a wide variety, ranging from 16-ounce on the go beverages to somebody who wants to incorporate into more of a daily routine, Lazzarini said.

I think that every year there is a new thing, said Leah Groppo, who is a dietician and diabetes educator at Stanford.

If you go out to eat at a restaurant, you choose a really large burrito. You pull your vinegar out of your purse and you put it on top of that burrito. Is that really going to offset the 150 grams of carbohydrates that youre eating? No, its really not. Groppo added.

Yet on the internet, countless posts cite studies about the wonders of the apple cider.

Reports suggest national shows and news networks have all agreed. Some refer to major research universities including Stanford.

Groppo says she doesnt know of any conclusive studies and adds if you are reading anything on the internet, pay attention to the fine print.

If you look at the vinegar detox diet, it is looking at 650 calories a day, Groppo said. And so on average, people are consuming upwards of 1,800, maybe to lose weight 1,500 caloriesbut 600 calories is significantly lower. Adding vinegar on top of that, if you attribute it to the vinegar, it is the calories that you are intaking.

Groppo says vinegar is not a bad thing, and putting it into your diet can have some benefits.

She says that is true of other ingredients like turmeric to help with inflammation.

Theres really not one big thing that you can add to your food thats going to be the ah-ha moment that your body is going to suddenly turn into this fat-burning, weight-loss machine before you, Groppo said.

Groppo says although it may not be what some people want to hear, managing your weight is still focusing on the basics.

And what about all of those celebrities and their claims about diets and cleanses doing the body good?

Celebrities probably have personal chefs, dieticians, people to encourage them, they have trainers. Its a different ballgame than what most people are in this world, Groppo said.

Also popular right now are cleanses, a prescription of elixirs that are supposed to detox your body and make it clean again.

Once again, when it comes to your health, there is no quick fix or special potion or fad diet that will reset your body and ultimately make you healthier.

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Editor-in-Chief, TechHive | May 10, 2017 6:00 AM PT

ShapeScale can measure your body parts within a millimeter of accuracy, showing exactly how your body responds to workouts over time.

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You may not want to buy the ShapeScale 3D body scanner unless youre comfortable in your own skin. Using infrared depth sensors and a high-res camera, ShapeScale can create an amazingly accurate 3D image of your physique, from your bulging biceps to corpulent love handles. Its now available for pre-order on the ShapeScale websitefor $499, and rest assured its been created for good, not evil.

Sure, the technology will give you an exacting view of all your fleshy flaws. It will also create a high-res 3D image of your butt. Unless youre an Australian Instagram star, you may not have a lot of experience with, well studying what's on the other side. So just know belfies are in the program.

ShapeScale recommends you do your scan either naked, in underwear, or in tight-fitting clothes.

But consider all the upsides. Because ShapeScale can measure your body parts within a millimeter of accuracy, it can show you exactly how your body responds to workouts over time. It can detail the exact girth measurements of your major muscles, obviating the need for tape measurements. It can show you a heat map that illustrates areas of muscle growth and flab reduction. And ShapeScale says the system can provide highly accurate data on body masssimilar to the accuracy ofhydrostatic weighing, and within 95 percent accuracy of a DEXA scan.

But, remember, you will need to strip down to your skivvies. Or at least some Lululemon.

ShapeScale co-founder Alex Wayenberg gave me a demo in our offices. While the hardware is still in the prototype stage (and isnt expected to ship until 2018), its still an impressive piece of kit with a flare for drama.

The 3D scanning head.

The system starts with the scale itselfand, yes, you actually stand on a scale with sensors that record body weight. But what makes ShapeScale special is the extruded aluminum scanning arm thats topped off by an array of sensors and a camera. The scanning arm circles your entire body in about a minute, elevating and tilting its sensor array to capture every angle.

Watching it whiz around ShapeScales fitness model evoked something futuristic and robotic. It all made sense whenWayenberg said his company briefly considered whether the full-body scan could be executed by tiny drones. (Turns out a robotic arm made more sense.)

The depth sensors, similar to those found in the Microsoft Kinect, help produce a wifeframe model of your body. The camera, meanwhile, captures the details and textures of your face and skin.All this data in then massaged by computer-vision algorithms and synced to the cloud.

ShapeScales heat map feature will show you precisely where youve gained and lost.

The final producta photorealistic 3D avatarappears in an iOS or Android app, complete with all of the data points I mention above. Wayenberg says the app will also include a time-lapse feature that illustrates how your body is changing over time, and a difference view that uses transparent overlays to compare your most recent scan to how you looked, say, three months ago.

Is it expensive? Sure. The pre-order price is $499, and the final retail price is projected to be a dizzying $899. Still, Wayenberg says ShapeScale is vastly less expensive than commercial systems that offer similar accuracy.

You also have to stand very still when using ShapeScale. And you need to be comfortable with taking potentially embarrassing photos and uploading them to the cloud. On this point,Wayenberg emphasizes that all data is encrypted, and you can opt to remove your face from the 3D scanning.

So have confidence, fitness enthusiasts. Even if cloud security lets you down, your tighty-whitey butt selfie wont be connected to any identifiable face.

Jon is the Editor-in-Chief of PCWorld, Macworld, TechHive and Greenbot. He's been covering all manner of consumer hardware since 1995, and was a senior editor at Wired from 2011 to 2012.

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WITH ONLY eight weeks to go before the big day, Sheena Malik is shedding weight for the wedding. It's not her wedding, but that doesn't mean she's slacking off.

Malik, 29, has kept up a rigid workout schedule and strict diet before her main gal Ashley Barton's wedding on New York's Upper East Side this summer. The maid of honour's hope is to lose 7kg before the big day.

"Wedding photos are shared more now, so it's important to look good," says the physician from Southern California.

Thanks to social media, looking picture-perfect is the latest pressure on bridal parties.

Getting in shape, losing weight, attending wellness programs and having cosmetic procedures alongside brides to be are often encouraged - if not downright demanded - by the brides themselves.

"I need everyone on board," says Barton, a 30-year-old PR executive who lives in downtown Brooklyn. "I want my guests to invest in their appearances, feel pretty, go buy the dress of their dreams and feel confident in themselves. I want everyone to feel and look beautiful."

Barton has suggested that all her bridesmaids get fit, as well as use hair extensions. Even one bridesmaid who just gave birth could stand to drop a few kilos, laughs Barton, who's lost 15kg so far in her race to the altar.

Even at her hen's party, bridesmaids were forbidden to wear swimsuits with straps, lest they have unsightly tan lines for the wedding.

"It's the bride's day, and she wants not only the day to be perfect, the weather to be perfect, the dress to be perfect - she wants her bridal party to be perfect because it's a reflection of her," says Norman Rowe, a plastic surgeon in New York.

He says he's been surprised to see an increasing number of brides come in with their maids of honour, and even entire bridal parties, to get filler or Botox.

Malik and Barton have both scheduled a Botox treatment with Rowe a week before Barton's July wedding. Barton is also encouraging another bridesmaid to have her earlobe cosmetically fixed to wear the chandelier earrings she's picked out for the entire wedding party.

"I can't have her in studs," says Barton.

Bride-to-be Whitney Tingle, the 31-year-old co-founder of meal-delivery company Sakara Life, is encouraging her bridal party to lose weight before her June wedding in Tel Aviv by purchasing Sakara Life's dietetic, "clean eating" meal plans.

The company's five-day meal plan starts at $A558 - though Tingle is offering them 15-percent-off vouchers.

"They're going to be standing up there with me, so they want to look good and feel good too," says the slender, blonde entrepreneur.

As her wedding draws nearer, Tingle and her bridesmaids will all be dieting with Sakara - a favourite among Victoria's Secret Angels - and exercising together.

Her bridesmaids willingly signed up for the diet, she says, which they'll use in the weeks before the wedding.

Tingle is also co-ordinating group yoga sessions and organising an outdoor dance party to make the workouts fun.

"The day after the wedding we're doing a beach day and then going to the Dead Sea," says Tingle. "We're going to be in swimsuits, so they're all motivated."

Boutique gyms are catching on to the trend, with studios including Y7 Studio, Pure Barre, Physique 57, SoulCycle and others hyping private sessions for hens parties.

In addition to offering an eight-week bridal fitness plan, cardio dance studio 305 Fitness boasts bridal-shower fitness classes, and boxing gym Shadowbox offers a catered session with customised gloves and shirts.

Audrey Eisenberg threw a bridal shower for her sister Dana Duber at 305 Fitness before Duber's wedding last October.

It was just a small part of their overall fitness journey, they say. Both the bride and the maid of honour dieted, trained for a 16km run and took spin and boot camp classes together. Eisenberg says she was motivated by the impending photos.

"I had a dress that was very form-fitting and I wanted to feel my absolute best," says the 24-year-old special education teacher, who lives in the Manhattan neighbourhood of Chelsea.

Hens parties are even trading debauchery for getaways full of juice cleanses, early morning hikes, meditation and yoga.

"I've seen a big increase in workouts involving the entire bridal party," says Sue Fleming, a personal trainer who usually works with brides, but lately has taken on whole bridal parties.

On a recent Saturday in the Hamptons, she led a group of bridesmaids through two hours of exercises to help them get wedding fit.

Bridesmaid Ashley Lagas, 29, says signing up for the gruelling workout was a mutual decision between herself and bride-to-be Rachel Lenhoff - one that definitely left them feeling sore for days after.

"We based our weekend around the boot camp, but we also ended up doing yoga by the water the next day," Lagas says, adding that the hens weekend also included organic smoothies and a healthy brunch.

"We just wanted to be really active the whole weekend."

But the added burden of satisfying such high expectations can be too much for some. Maid of honour Mandy, a 28-year-old medical biller from San Antonio, Texas - who declined to give her last name to avoid family fallout - says her sister has demanded she get a spray tan before her wedding, grow her hair out, and avoid dying it anything other than blonde.

"I'm pretty sure if I weren't already attempting to get in shape, she'd probably make comments about that too," she says sarcastically.

"I guess she wants everyone to look picture-perfect, otherwise they might distract from her looking fabulous.

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When they agree to be bridesmaid for a friend or family member who's getting married, most people feel honoured to have been asked to play such an important role in one of the most momentous days of the bride's life.

So it would kind of dampen the sentiment if said bridesmaid proposal was followed up with a deal-breaking condition: you must lose weight before the wedding takes place.

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But it turns out some brides actually do ask this of their bridal party, and they don't seem to have any shame about it, either. Like Ashley, a 30-year-old PR executive living in Brooklyn, who the New York Post reports has done exactly that ahead of her wedding.

Ashley is getting married this summer in New York, and in keeping with this worrying new trend, has requested her entire bridal party shed a few pounds before the big day. Her maid of honour, 29-year-old Sheena, has been tasked with losing 15 pounds by the time the wedding arrives. No mean feat; that's more than an entire stone in weight.

But for some reason, Sheena doesn't seem to have been completely insulted by the fact her best friend has only offered her such an integral role in the wedding along with the proviso that she change her body shape dramatically.

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"Wedding photos are shared more now, so its important to look good," she told the NY Post.

And Ashley makes no bones about it; she wants dedication from her bridesmaids when it comes to the weight-losing cause. "I need everyone on board," she reportedly said - and that includes the one member of her bridal party who's recently given birth. "I want everyone to feel and look beautiful," she explained.

But then there's feeling beautiful by your own standards, and then there's looking beautiful by someone else's standards. Whose standards are we working with, here?

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Don't you invite people to your wedding because you love and care about them, and you want to share your happy day with them? If that's the case, it shouldn't make a damned bit of difference how miniscule your bridesmaids' waists look in the official photographs.

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The NY Post adds that Ashley herself has lost 33 pounds - or two and a bit stone - in the run up to her wedding. Which is fair game; most brides want to look the best they can on their wedding day and many achieve this by adhering to a strict health and fitness plan. It just feels kind of, well, shallow to extend this to your bridal party, too.

As well as the weight loss request, Ashley is apparently enforcing a whole host of other rules to perfect her maids' appearances. Like a blanket ban on swimsuits with straps during her hen do in a bid to avoid unsightly tan lines on the big day. Jesus Christ.

And the ridiculous thing is, Ashley's not the only one. It's a trend that seems to be becoming more and more popular, and you can read about more brides who want minimal numbers on their bridesmaids' scales in the full NY Post article here.

I mean, each to their own. All I can say is I'm surprised any of these brides have got a single bridesmaid left at this rate.

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Fifteen minutes of brutal punishment or an hour of hard slog? Its the dilemma we all face when choosing how to break a sweat. For most of us, a brisk walk on the beach is preferable to a HIIT circuit and yet, we go for the latter because were told its more effective. I mean, you only have to endure hell for fifteen minutes to reap hours of fat burning rewards right?

Well, what if HIIT wasnt always the best option (cue rejoice).Jordan Ponder, founder of Transform Health and Transform Kitchen, whos trained the likes of Jessica Gomes, Nicole Trunfio and Samantha Harris, says The best workout for weight loss is not the same as the best way for you to work out to lose weight. Confused? Hear him out.

The best workouts for weight loss revolve around causing the most physiological change in the body. Progressive overloading, causing periodic stress to the body, builds lean muscle mass, which consumes more energy. Cells use energy (carbs and fat) as well as amino acids (protein) to repair themselves. The more intense the workout, the more damage done, the more energy burnt. The more energy burnt, the more fat likely to be used over a prolonged period. Simple! High intensity, interval based training is best for weight loss.

That being said, Jordan says its not that simple. The problem with this concept is that its based on the health-touting professionals who are already fit and healthy as opposed to the majority of the population who are 30% obese and 60% overweight.This group, who have weight to lose, are likely to be relatively inactive, unfit, have various muscle asymmetries and weaknesses, all of which need to be considered. HIIT will pose a number of barriers to those needing a lifestyle change and wanting to shift weight long term.

First and foremost, if you are new to HIIT, chances are you will experience sore muscles and excessive tiredness post exercise. Not only will this require prolonged recovery time, it also tends to discourage those trying to fit exercise into their busy lives.

Niggling injuries when were young are common from a lifestyle of activity. As age increases, so too does time in the chair niggling injuries grow into chronic pain, muscle weakness and asymmetry. Our ability to perform intense workouts becomes limited a change of routine specific to our needs is required for long-term health.

No one workout will help you lose weight long term, you dont put on five kilograms from one meal and you dont lose five kgs from one workout. You need consistency for results. The best workout for weightloss is a workout, not sitting on the sideline due to injury one out of every four weeks.

If you have time for recovery, are self-motivated, are able to balance your lifestyle-related stresses and know your body and what it needs, high intensity interval based workouts are best to shed a few extra kilograms. If however, your lifestyle, body and priorities present barriers to maximising output during your sessions, you need to find out what your body needs, balance these needs with social, enjoyable exercise, as well as your schedule and ensure you are being held accountable to a progressive program.

We need to be moving an hour a day to get change. 7 hours a week is only 4.1% of your time. Your perfect week of exercise shouldnt feel like 7-10 hours in a gym that will leave you craving time at the pub with mates. It should empower you through representing the person you want to become.

So, if you struggle to incorporate exercise into your daily routine or go to bed dreading your AM HIIT session, maybe its not right for you. Dont push yourself through an intense workout on a Friday when youve slept five hours the night before as itll only send you seeking food and alcohol in response. Not sure what workout works for you? Experiment. Grab a friend and try strength training, barre or give one of these at-home dance classes a go. No one doesnt like breaking it down to Beyonce.

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With only eight weeks to go before the big day, Sheena Malik is shedding for the wedding. Its not her wedding, but that doesnt mean shes slacking off.

Malik, 29, has kept up a rigid workout schedule and strict diet before her main gal Ashley Bartons wedding on the Upper East Side this summer. The maid of honors hope is to lose 15 pounds before the big day.

Wedding photos are shared more now, so its important to look good, says the physician from Southern California.

Thanks to social media, looking picture-perfect is the latest pressure on bridal parties. Getting in shape, losing weight, attending wellness programs and having cosmetic procedures alongside brides to be are often encouraged if not downright demanded by the brides themselves.

I need everyone on board, says Barton, a 30-year-old p.r. executive who lives in downtown Brooklyn. I want my guests to invest in their appearances, feel pretty, go buy the dress of their dreams and feel confident in themselves. I want everyone to feel and look beautiful.

Barton has suggested that all her bridesmaids get fit, as well as use hair extensions. Even one bridesmaid who just gave birth could stand to drop a few pounds, laughs Barton, whos lost 33 pounds so far in her race to the altar. Even at her bachelorette party, bridesmaids were forbidden to wear swimsuits with straps, lest they have unsightly tan lines for the wedding.

Its the brides day, and she wants not only the day to be perfect, the weather to be perfect, the dress to be perfect she wants her bridal party to be perfect because its a reflection of her, says Norman Rowe, a plastic surgeon on the Upper East Side. He says hes been surprised to see an increasing number of brides come in with their maids of honor, and even entire bridal parties, to get filler or Botox.

Malik and Barton have both scheduled a Botox treatment with Rowe a week before Bartons July wedding. Barton is also encouraging another bridesmaid to have her ear lobe cosmetically fixed to wear the chandelier earrings shes picked out for the entire wedding party.

I cant have her in studs, says Barton.

Bride-to-be Whitney Tingle, the 31-year-old co-founder of meal-delivery company Sakara Life, is encouraging her bridal party to lose weight before her June wedding in Tel Aviv, Israel, by purchasing Sakara Lifes dietetic, clean eating meal plans. The companys five-day meal plan starts at $410 though Tingle is offering them 15-percent-off coupons.

Theyre going to be standing up there with me, so they want to look good and feel good too, says the slender, blond entrepreneur.

I cant have her in studs.

As her wedding draws nearer, Tingle and her bridesmaids will all be dieting with Sakara a favorite among Victorias Secret Angels and exercising together. Her bridesmaids willingly signed up for the diet, she says, which theyll use in the weeks before the wedding. Tingle is also coordinating group yoga sessions and organizing an outdoor dance party to make the workouts fun.

The day after the wedding were doing a beach day and then going to the Dead Sea, says Tingle. Were going to be in swimsuits, so theyre all motivated.

Boutique gyms are catching on to the trend, with studios including Y7 Studio, Pure Barre, Physique 57, SoulCycle and others hyping private sessions for bachelorette parties. In addition to offering an eight-week bridal fitness plan, cardio dance studio 305 Fitness boasts bridal-shower fitness classes, and boxing gym Shadowbox offers a catered session with customized gloves and shirts.

Audrey Eisenberg threw a bridal shower for her sister Dana Duber at 305 Fitness before Dubers wedding last October. It was just a small part of their overall fitness journey, they say. Both the bride and the maid of honor dieted, trained for a 10-mile run and took spin and boot camp classes together. Eisenberg says she was motivated by the impending photos.

I had a dress that was very form-fitting and I wanted to feel my absolute best, says the 24-year-old special education teacher, who lives in Chelsea.

Bachelorette parties are even trading debauchery for getaways full of juice cleanses, early morning hikes, meditation and yoga.

Mandy says her sister has demanded she get a spray tan before her wedding, grow her hair out, and avoid dying it anything other than blond.

Ive seen a big increase in workouts involving the entire bridal party, says Sue Fleming, a personal trainer who usually works with brides, but lately has taken on whole bridal parties. On a recent Saturday in the Hamptons, she led a group of bridesmaids through two hours of exercises to help them get wedding fit.

Bridesmaid Ashley Lagas, 29, says signing up for the grueling workout was a mutual decision between herself and bride-to-be Rachel Lenhoff one that definitely left them feeling sore for days after.

We based our weekend around the boot camp, but we also ended up doing yoga by the water the next day, Lagas says, adding that the bachelorette weekend also included organic smoothies and a healthy brunch. We just wanted to be really active the whole weekend.

But the added burden of satisfying such high expectations can be too much for some. Maid of honor Mandy, a 28-year-old medical biller from San Antonio, Texas who declined to give her last name to avoid family fallout says her sister has demanded she get a spray tan before her wedding, grow her hair out, and avoid dying it anything other than blond.

Im pretty sure if I werent already attempting to get in shape, shed probably make comments about that too, she says sarcastically. I guess she wants everyone to look picture-perfect, otherwise they might distract from her looking fabulous.

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Lena Dunham has received a lot of flack for daring to lose weight while being preaching body acceptance and positivity. And while shes said several times that her weight loss was largely health relatedthough even if it werent, it shouldnt mattershes still defending herself. And that means not being seen as any kind of expert in weight loss.

So when Us Weekly put her on the cover of its May 3 issue next to the headline 20 Slimdown Diet Tips Stars Are Using, it did not go over well with Dunham. On Saturday, she fired back on Instagram.

I have no tips. I give no tips. I dont want to be on this cover cuz its diametrically opposed to everything Ive fought my whole career for, and its not a compliment to me because its not an achievement, thanx.

This was her final tip in a list of 20 she provided in what can only be described as the most Lena Dunham list ever created. See it in full below.

1. anxiety disorder * 2. resultant constant nausea 3. an election that reveals the true depths of American misogyny 4. constant sweaty dreams of dystopian future 5. abdominal adhesions pinning ovary below uterus * 6. baseless but still harrowing threats to physical safety online and through snail mail 7. watching institutions you love from Planned Parenthood to PBS be threatened by cartoon mustache-twirling villains 8. finally realizing superheroes arent real (specifically the X-Factor, really thought theyd handle this) 9. marching your ass off 10. a quiet rage that replaces need for food with need for revenge 11. sleeping 19 hours a day 12. realizing that even the liberal media wants dem clicks no matter whut 13. worrying ceaselessly about the health and safety of women you know and women you dont 14. realizing who ya real friends are 15. having to switch from Uber to Lyft (lots of calories burned trying to understand a new app, then even more trying to understand if the conflict was resolved) 16. bladder spasms, urinary frequency and urgency * 17. having your phone number leaked and violent images texted to your phone by randos under names like VERYFATCHUCKYBOY@creepz.com 18. keeping your back arched against the wind 19. um, who the fuck cares? 20. I have no tips I give no tips I dont want to be on this cover cuz its diametrically opposed to everything Ive fought my whole career for, and its not a compliment to me because its not an achievement thanx * Star indicates a pre-existing condition.

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Illinois ( Illinois News Connection) - More than one in three adults in the U.S. are considered to be obese, anda new studysuggests those who are struggling to lose weight might benefit if their doctors stayed in touch with them about the importance of eating a healthy diet.

In the study, one group of patients was given instructions on a healthy diet at the time of their doctor's visit. A second group got the same advice - but also received three text messages a week for 22 weeks, and after six months, they lost an average of 11.2 pounds, while the first group only dropped about two pounds.

Dr. Ashwani Singal, associate director of Hepatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says for overweight people, shedding weight can be a matter of life or death.

"We know from experience that it can be relatively easy to lose weight at first but we want to know whether text messaging can help people over the long haul," he says.

Singal says obesity can lead to avariety of fatal illnessesincluding diabetes, heart disease and non-alcoholic liver disease, which can turn into cirrhosis or cancer.

The study is being discussed at theDigestive Disease Week conferencein Chicago, which wraps up Tuesday.

The National Institutes of Health says obesity is associated with other chronic gastrointestinal illnesses and Singal says this study indeed indicates doctors may be able to help their patients by simply texting them.

"Based on the success in this study, we will be conducting additional larger studies over a longer period to examine the impact of this strategy on more long-term challenges," he adds.

People with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher are considered obese. Nearly 70 percent of American adults are either overweight or obese.

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THIS is the super simple reason why youre not losing weight.

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When you decide you want to lose weight, often the first thing you will do is restrict your calories.

This is the worst thing you can do.

Lisa Young, a nutritionist and adjunct professor of nutrition at New York University told Womens Health that cutting too many calories can actually stall weight loss.

"Restricting calories too much almost always backfires," Lisa explained.

Restricting calories too much almost always backfires.

She added that this is because the body needs calories in order to burn calories. Lisa likened it to when you want to light a fire you need to throw kindling on the fireplace to ignite it.

The nutritionist continued the fire analogy by encouraging you to think of food as your bodys kindling.

When you are eating enough food, the body uses this food for fuel and then turns the fat it has stored into energy.

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However, Lisa said when you restrict calories, your body goes into starvation mode and will begin to break down lean muscle tissue in oder to reserve its energy stores.

This can slow down the metabolism which can not only make you feel sluggish, but make it harder for you to lose weight.

This ties into previous studies that have shown people who skip breakfast are more likely to put on weight than people who dont.

Studies have also found eating healthy food regularly helps keep you full and is one of the best ways to lose weight.

If you are actively trying to lose weight, the National Institutes of Health said women should eat 1,200 to 1,500 calories per day and men should eat around 1,900 calories.

If you are eating less calories than this per day, it becomes tough for the body to perform basic functions that keep us healthy.

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Want to lose weight without having to cut back your meals?

It turns out you can trick your body into feeling full for longer simply by using a square shaped bowl, experts suggest.

So will standing up while eating rather than sitting down.

But the good news ends there for coffee lovers, as research from Oxford University suggests you shouldnt drink your morning caffeine hit with your cereal.

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Jennifer Newton, a neuroscientist from the university, said eating cereal from a square bowl increases the brainsperception of nutritionand leaves it feeling more nourished as a result.

Commissioned by cereal brand Special K, she carried out a two-day experiment following the eating patterns of 78 women.

All participants were given 30 grams of cereal, 125 milliliters of cold semi-skimmed milk and a stainless steel spoon.

Some were then given round bowls to eat their breakfast and others were given square ones.

Some were also asked to eat standing up, some sitting down, some with coffee and some without.

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The experiment controlled where they ate their breakfast, with some women eating in a noisy area and others eating in a calm atmosphere.

When theyd finished, they were asked to fill out questionnaires about how nourished they felt, how the cereal tasted and how it had affected their mood.

Participants who consumed cereal from a round shaped bowl found it less nutritious than those eating from a square shaped bowl," Newson said. The interviews conducted with the women who took part in the experiment suggest many of us eat with our eyes, because the cereal looked more appetising in a square shaped bowl the women found it more nutritious.

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More than ever, people areeating on the go, and we found that eating standing up actually increased how wholesome people thought the cereal was.

Based on new evidence it could be argued that when were not sitting down at a breakfast table, our brains perception of nutrition is higher.

The research also concluded that the more nutritious a person thinks his or her cereal is, the tastier they find it.

Those who found theircereal nutritious and tastyreported feeling happier and more energized after breakfast.

And drinking coffee can actually make you think your breakfast is less tasty.

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Newson said: This could be due to multisensory interactions between the different olfactory and taste sensations affecting the nutritional perception, or more indirectly through learned associations that we have attached to drinks like coffee.

The experiment highlights how the perception of nutrition, like many other aspects of human perception, is a flexible concept at the level of the brain.

A judgement that is not just based on the cereal itself, but also according to whats going on in your surroundings, your internal state of mind, and what else you are doing.

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TV personality Katie Piper was one of the women who took part in the experiment.

She said: Whilst I think a lot about what Im eating for breakfast, I dont really think about how I eat it.

Taking part in this experiment made me realize I should take more time to mindfully eat my morning bowl of cereal, so my brain realizes Ive had a nutritious breakfast and Im ready to tackle the day ahead.

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Special K nutritionist Alexa Hoyland said: Women are more conscious of nutrition than ever before, but not enough women are thinking about how they eat may affect how they feel about their food.

Its interesting that during this experiment women ate the same nutritious cereal but their perception of this changes depending on the circumstances in which they were eating it.

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