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Can These 5 Infomercial Gadgets Help You Lose Weight? Women's Health As everyone who's ever tried to lose weight knows, slumps happen. And when you're not exactly feeling the burn, it's easy to get sucked into the super-perky world of weight-loss infomercials, all of which boast that their product is the only one you'll ...

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By Dennis Thompson

HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, March 7, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- More Americans are overweight or obese, but many have given up on trying to lose those excess pounds, a new study shows.

One in every three people in the United States is now obese, compared with one in five 20 years ago, researchers report.

But people surveyed between 2009 and 2014 were 17 percent less likely overall to say they'd tried to lose weight during the previous year than those surveyed between 1988 and 1994, the study found.

People who were overweight but not yet obese have experienced the greatest loss of interest in maintaining a healthy weight, said senior researcher Dr. Jian Zhang.

"This is not good. We are missing the opportunity to stop overweight from becoming obesity," said Zhang, who is an associate professor of epidemiology with Georgia Southern University.

Zhang and his colleagues analyzed data from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a federally funded ongoing survey that keeps track of Americans' health and diet habits.

All racial/ethnic groups across both genders reported decreased interest in weight loss, but women in particular were more likely to say they'd given up on it, the findings showed.

By 2014, black women were 31 percent less likely to have tried to lose weight compared with two decades prior, and white women were 27 percent less likely to have made the attempt, the researchers found.

People might be giving up on weight loss because it's just too difficult, Zhang said.

"It's painful," he explained. "It's hard to drop pounds. Many of us tried and failed, tried and failed, and finally failed to try anymore."

Modern medicine also has gotten better at preserving the overall health of overweight people, perhaps causing them to ask why they should bother, Zhang continued.

"There's increasing evidence that adults with overweight may live as long as and sometimes even longer than normal-weight adults, making many question whether you have to take it seriously," Zhang said. "In clinical practice, we consider treatment of overweight only when patients have two or more additional risk factors," such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

It's also possible that overweight has become the new normal. "Today, we believe that majority are right," Zhang said. "As more than half of people are overweight, we simply think we are fine, and there's no need to do anything with body weight."

Dr. Mitchell Roslin, chief of obesity surgery for Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, added that conflicting diet advice also probably dissuades many from attempting to drop some pounds.

"First they were told don't eat fat, and now we are telling patients to reduce simple carbohydrates," Roslin said. "While I believe that reducing carbohydrates is key, what the public hears is, 'I might as well eat what I like because all this advice has not worked.'"

According to Dr. Rajpal Chopra, these numbers show that doctors, public health officials and the media need to do a better job emphasizing the importance of maintaining a healthy weight. Chopra is an endocrinologist with Northwell Health's Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, in Forest Hills, N.Y.

"The path to losing weight is often riddled with lots of ups and downs, and it can be a long and frustrating process. What has to be emphasized is the far-reaching health consequences," Chopra said.

"Motivation should come from family, friends, physicians and the media in educating about the health risks of being overweight," he added.

Zhang said that future efforts to improve public health should focus on lifestyle changes that promote healthy eating and exercise for everyone, rather than an emphasis on losing weight.

"It's hard to stop a train; it's hard to drop pounds and keep it off," he said. "We have to tackle overweight and obesity head on. Let's do more to prevent it from happening rather than dropping it off. If fixing a problem is not easy, then we must prevent it from happening, simple as that."

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SOURCES: Jian Zhang, M.D., DrPH, associate professor, epidemiology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Ga.; Mitchell Roslin, M.D., chief, obesity surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York City; Rajpal Chopra, M.D., endocrinologist, Northwell Health's Long Island Jewish Forest Hills, Forest Hills, N.Y.; March 7, 2017, Journal of the American Medical Association

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Can Eating Just Half Of What's On Your Plate Really Help You Lose Weight? Women's Health No doubt you've heard this advice before: To keep your portion control in check, simply split whatever you'd usually eat in half. It makes sense in theoryyou lose weight if you eat lessbut is eating half of your usual really the right way to go ...

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Chrissy Metz is the first to admit she's an emotional eater.

"I eat my feelingswhen I'm happy, when I'm sad," the actress tells MarieClaire.com. "When you do put the food down and those feelings come up, you're not being numbed anymore. You're like, 'I got to deal with this.' That is hard." For example, "If I'm upset or I have to confront somebody, I'm like, 'This feels really icky. Let me have a burrito.'" But Metz hopes to break that cycle. "I believe that if we haven't learned our lessons, they will continue to come and circle back around," the 36-year-old This Is Us star says. "Obviously I haven't figured it out with food."

Many viewers identify with her character Kate Pearson's struggle to get healthierMetz included. "I do want to lose weight," she says. "But not because anyone is telling me to do it."

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"I don't worry about numbers," she adds. "It just messes with my mind."

Contrary to misconstrued quotes from prior interviews, losing weight isn't a job requirement as This Is Us grows in popularity. "Nothing is mandated. It's not like, 'If you sign this contract you have to do this,'" Metz says. "We haven't even talked about an actual number with Kate. Ever."

Instead, Metz's goal is simply "to be proportioned. I carry a lot of my weight in my stomach. I just want to have...not even a number, but to have my body in a different shape."

Metz, who first tried Weight Watchers at age 11, simply doesn't know how. "I can't tell you how many times I've tried..." she says. After past diet and exercise attempts failed, she's willing to do whatever it takes: "I would love to go on The Biggest Loser, where it's a concentrated thing."

On the flip side, Metz is grateful to represent women who aren't a sample size. "Size doesn't equate to beauty. I don't understand why that's a thing. Well, I do, because the media has told us thin is beautiful. But is it? Because I think people are miserable not eating and smoking cigarettes," she says. "I've had roommates who were thin girls and constantly working out and trying to stay under a certain size. Even the average girl looks 10 pounds heavier on the screen."

Hollywood still has a long way to go regarding body diversityparticularly when it comes to fashion. Thankfully, Metz's stylist has relationship with multiple plus-size brands. "Society Plus, Torrid, Eloquii want to design stuff for me. I'm so grateful for the designers who are excitedI remember growing up and having no options at allbut other designers haven't really reached out. I don't know why they think that their clothes lose integrity by being cut bigger. But it's their art," she tells the website. "It would be nice if Valentino was like, 'Hey girl, want a dress?'"

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Why starving yourself won't help you lose weight Men's Fitness We all know the most basic principle of weight loss: You need to burn more calories than you consume. And you have a long road of weight loss ahead of you, it can easily seem like the best way to fast-track this journey is to simply consume a whole lot ...

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New Texas Longhorns head coach Tom Herman isnt exactly earning sensitivity points around Austin.

Herman spoke with the media ahead of the start of spring practice beginning Tuesday for the Longhorns. According to the Austin American-Statesmans Brian Davis, one of Hermans goals is to get his fat guys on the defensive line to lose weight.

The effort as a group has not been to our requirements here in this program, Tom Herman said Monday. I think wed know a lot more if some of these really fat guys lost some weight.

Ouch.

Even though the words appear harsh, this really is a matter of transition for Texas.

Previous head coach Charlie Strong wanted big guys on the defensive line to clog the middle. Thats why Texas has five defensive linemen listed at over 300 pounds. Herman says some of the players are up to 350 and 360 pounds.

Herman has a different defensive philosophy and doesnt want the players to be that heavy, so he wants them to lose weight. They have several months before the start of the season to get players to optimal playing weights.

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Julianne Hough Is Not About Losing Weight for Her Wedding: 'I Don't Want to Look Different' PEOPLE.com While many brides-to-be get consumed by the idea of shedding for the wedding, Julianne Hough who got engaged to hockey player fianc Brooks Laich in August 2015 is happy just the way she is (as she should be!). If I get super hot for my ... Why Julianne Hough Is Refusing to Lose Weight for Her WeddingBrides.com Julianne Hough Refuses to Lose Weight for Her Wedding: 'I Don't Want to Look Different'Just Jared Fitbit's Thinnest Tracker Will Now Track Your Heart Rate, TooBuzzFeed News Fitbit -Fitbit, Inc. -Fitbit -YouTube all 79 news articles »

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3 Weight-Loss Success Stories That Prove the Scale Is Bogus POPSUGAR Even if your goal is weight loss, the numbers aren't giving you all the information you need, and if you're someone who is traumatized by or sensitive to what those numbers and decimals read, it's time to ditch it. You can and will still lose weight ...

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Then strength training muscled its way into the spotlight as the must-do move for revving your metabolism and losing weight in your sleep, prompting many exercise enthusiasts to join #TeamNoCardio.

So a few years ago, Duke University researchers took to the lab and conducted the largest study of its kind to compare the two and get an answer once and for all.

The cardio group lost about 4 pounds while their resistance training peers gained two. Yes, the weight gain was attributed to added lean mass.

However, that muscle mass didn't lead to any meaningful fat loss over the course of the study. In fact, the aerobics only group shed more than 3 pounds of fat while the lifters didn't lose a single pound despite the fact that they actually exercised 47 more minutes each week than the cardio group.

Not surprisingly, the cardio-plus-resistance group improved their body composition best -- losing the most fat while adding some lean mass. But they also spent twice as much time in the gym.

It's simple math, says study co-author Cris Slentz, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Duke University. "Minute per minute, cardio burns more calories, so it works best for reducing fat mass and body mass."

That's not to say that you shouldn't lift weights, especially as you get older and start losing muscle mass, he notes. "Resistance training is important for maintaining lean body mass, strength and function, and being functionally fit is important for daily living no matter what your size."

That means more calories burned.

It's also important to remember one essential fact about exercise and weight loss, says Slentz. "Exercise by itself will not lead to big weight loss. What and how much you eat has a far greater impact on how much weight you lose," he says.

That's because it's far easier to take in less energy (calories) than it is to burn significant amounts and it's very easy to cancel out the few hundred calories you've burned working out with just one snack.

Where exercise appears to matter most is for preventing weight gain, or for keeping off pounds once you've lost weight, says Slentz. "Exercise seems to work best for body weight control," he says.

The National Weight Control Registry, which since 1994 has tracked more than 10,000 people who shed an average of 66 pounds and kept it off for at least five years, would agree.

Ninety percent of successful weight loss maintainers exercise for about an hour a day and their activity of choice is cardio, simply walking.

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ANIMonday 6th March, 2017

It's long been suspected that stress can lead to weight gain, but a new study - the first of its kind - now suggests that long term stress can lead to gaining weight over time.

Researchers from University College London (UCL) conducted the study on 2,527 men and women over the age of 50.

They measured the level of cortisol, the stress hormone, in two centimetre clippings of hair (about two months' growth).

After taking into account variations in age and sex as well as other factors like whether someone smokes or has diabetes, the researchers found that the higher the level of cortisol (ie. the more stressed someone was), the bigger the body weight, BMI and waist circumference of the person.

What's more, having a higher level of cortisol was also linked to persistent obesity over time.

Previous studies that have looked into the connection between stress and weight-gain have always studied cortisol levels in the blood, urine or saliva, which vary throughout the day and are affected by temporary factors.

This research is the first that's ever found a way to measure stress levels over the course of two months.

However it's not actually clear whether stress causes obesity - being overweight could also be a source of stress for some people.

Lead study author Sarah E. Jackson, an epidemiologist at UCL, said that while we probably can't eliminate all stress from our lives, we might be able to find ways to control it: "Even just being aware that stress might make you eat more may help."

So if you want to lose weight, perhaps it's time to stop counting calories and simply relax. (ANI)

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