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By Kristie Lau

PUBLISHED: 17:39 EST, 27 March 2012 | UPDATED: 10:52 EST, 28 March 2012

Forget the acai berry. Green coffee beans could be the newest weight-loss fad as research has found that the bean extract may help people lose weight.

The bean, which is sold as a supplement in the U.S., has been deemed an effective weight-loss food by author Joe Vinson who is a chemist at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania.

He said: Taking multiple capsules of green coffee extract a day, while eating a low fat, healthful diet and exercising regularly, appears to be a safe, effective, inexpensive way to lose weight.

Keen beans: Green coffee bean extract has been found to be an effective weight-loss supplement. But it has already drew skeptics

Mr Vinsons researchers give 1,050 milligrams of green coffee bean extract to 16 obese adults in their twenties. They kept a close eye on the participant's diets, heart rates, exercise regimes, weight and blood pressure over 22 weeks.

The human guinea pigs shed an average of 17 pounds each. It worked out to be about 10.5per cent of the groups overall body weight.

Although the author admitted he is not certain as to why the particular bean works, he thinks the chlorogenic acid found in green coffee beans may play a key part.

Due to such mystery, doctors have urged people to tread carefully with the new weight-loss approach.

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Looking to lose some weight?Get off the treadmill and grab a chocolate bar.

According to a new study from scientists at UC San Diego, there is something about eating chocolate that leaves people thinner than those who don't eat it.

The researchers found that thinness was linked with frequent chocolate eating.

We know that chocolate has a lot of favorable metabolic effects, said Beatrice Golomb, a researcher at UCSD. So, I wondered if those effects also translated into laying down fewer layers of fat in chocolate eaters.

To figure this out, Golomb and her team looked at a database the university had collected earlier on diet and health. The study looked at the eating behavior and health of nearly 1,000 study participants.

One of the questions asked of the study participants was, How many times a week do you consume chocolate?The researchers found that chocolate consumption was linked to greater calorie and saturated fat intake. It also was not linked to greater physical activity.

Yet despite that, chocolate-eating frequency was linked to a lower body mass index. Those who ate chocolate five times a week had a BMI one point lower than those who didn't eat any. For someone who weighs 120 pounds and is about5 feet tall, that one point translates to about 5 pounds, Golomb said.

Golomb said she wasnt able to tease out whether it was milk chocolate or dark chocolate that the chocolate eaters were eating, but she suspects the beneficial qualities are there no matter what kind of chocolate is consumed.

Chocolate is my favorite vegetable, Golomb said. Its a plant-based food rich in phytonutrients.

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Wilson Phillips singer Carnie Wilson surprised fans last week when she announced that she underwent lap band surgery in January to help her lose weight -- again. Why were they surprised? After all, plenty of people go through gastric bypass surgery these days. Well, it was shocking because this is the second time she's gone through the drastic procedure to drop the pounds. The first time, Wilson opted to go under the knife on the web - and she subsequently lost 150 lbs.

The former talk show host steadily put more weight back on over the years by overeating and having two children, she told People. Now, she's hoping that the weight loss will stick.

"It was the right decision for me and I'm doing really well so far," the singer told People, adding that she's lost 30 lbs. since the Jan 18 surgery. "It's all about taking good care of myself."

The surgery will likely be profiled on her upcoming reality show with her Wilson Phillips bandmates. The show, "Wilson Phillips: Still Holding On" will premiere on the TV Guide Network on April 8.

While Carnie might be the first celebrity to say she's had the procedure twice, she's definitely not the first to get the surgery. Who else in Hollywood opted for medical intervention to drop the lbs.?

Randy Jackson

Longtime "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson is a shadow of his former self, thanks to the gastric bypass surgery he had in 2003. The overweight record producer told the Los Angeles Times that he went through the procedure to help his Type 2 diabetes.

"Listen, it was pretty tough," he told the Los Angeles Times, adding that "it's a pretty risky surgery still at its best."

He's steadily put on weight since the surgery - let's hope he doesn't have to get it again to keep his health in check.

Al Roker

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To lose weight, some people are still buying into HCG drops and injections, which have received criticism from the FDA because they aren't proven to help people shed pounds.

As part of the HCG diet, people take drops or receive injections of a hormone (naturally produced by pregnant women) called human chorionic gonadotrophin. The drops and injections are combined with an extremely low-calorie diet -- in some cases, as little as 500 calories a day.

According to WebMD, proponents say that HCG is the key to suppressing hunger and "fixing" metabolism, for easy weight loss. U.S. News reported that proponents claim you can lose up to 30 pounds in a month on the diet.

While HCG is approved by the FDA for some infertility treatments, the FDA has not approved it for weight loss. In fact, it issued a warning late last year to seven companies that sell HCG in pellet, drop and spray form, the Associated Press reported.

"These products are marketed with incredible claims and people think that if they're losing weight, HCG must be working," Elizabeth Miller, of FDA's division for non-prescription drugs and health fraud, said in a statement, as reported by the Associated Press. "But the data simply does not support this any loss is from severe calorie restriction. Not from the HCG."

Outside experts agree. Dr. David Katz, a HuffPost blogger and director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, told MyHealthNewsDaily that the HCG is solely the "Dumbo feather" in the diet.

"If you told people you can lose a lot of weight by eating 500 calories a day, no one would reach for their credit card," Katz told MyHealthNewsDaily. "The hormone is the excuse -- the promise of magic."

According to Dr. Oz's website, past research has suggested that HCG doesn't do any more than just plain old salt water injections.

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By Deborah Kotz, Globe Staff

I love studies telling me that chocolate will help me live longer, improve my blood pressure, or boost my mood, and Im especially delighted to hear about a new finding published Monday, which found that frequent chocolate eaters tend to weigh less than those who dont indulge. I take all these with a grain of salt since theyre population studies that make associations but dont prove a cause and effect.

In the study which involved more than 1,000 volunteers, researchers compared chocolate consumption with body mass index -- a measure of height and weight -- and found that those who consumed chocolate the most frequently had a lower BMI on average than those who consumed it the least.

Chocolate is my favorite vegetable, and I say that only half-jokingly, said study author Dr. Beatrice Golomb, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California-San Diego. Golomb considers chocolate a plant food because, besides milk and sugar, it consists primarily of chocolate and cocoa butter made from the cocoa bean.

(The study wasnt financed by the chocolate industry, though Golomb and her two co-authors disclosed an anti-conflict via their chocolate purchasing habits.)

While cocoa butter is rich in stearic acid -- a saturated fat -- its considered to have a favorable effect on cholesterol levels, said Golomb, because it raises the good HDL component without raising the bad LDL.

But looking at the label of a candy bar, its tough to see how chocolate could actually help keep weight off: a plain 43-gram Hershey bar contains 210 calories, 13 grams of fat, and 24 grams of sugar.

Oddly, those in the study who ate chocolate several times a week had somewhat higher calorie intakes than those who never or rarely ate chocolate, according to the study, which was published online as a research letter in the Archives of Internal Medicine, The chocolate lovers also werent any more likely to exercise or eat fruits and vegetables, both of which affect body weight, compared with the non-chocolate eaters.

Golomb speculated that different foods may have different effects on the bodys metabolism and that perhaps chocolate may trigger a slight calorie-burning boost. Other research suggests that the calories in/calories out paradigm for body weight may be more complicated than once thought.

While Golomb enjoys partaking in chocolate, she declined to provide advice about how much chocolate people should eat based on her study -- which only looked at frequency of consumption, not amount.

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People Who Frequently Eat Chocolate May Weigh Less

March 26, 2012 -- People who are trying to lose weight may not need to bar chocolate from their diets.

A new government-funded study of nearly 1,000 healthy adults shows that people who frequently eat chocolate actually weigh less than those who say they eat it less frequently.

Study researchers say that people who reported eating chocolate five times a week had a body mass index (BMI) about one point less, on average, than people who said they ate chocolate less frequently. For a woman who is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 125 pounds, one BMI point equals about five pounds.

Thats despite the fact that frequent chocolate eaters also reported eating more total calories and more saturated fat than people who ate chocolate less often.

Researchers say that may mean that the calories in chocolate are being offset by other ingredients that boost metabolism.

With modest amounts of chocolate, they may have the effect of being free calories or even better than free -- at least, the associations look that way, says Beatrice A. Golomb, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego.

The study is published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Nutritionists who were not involved in the study arent convinced that chocolate reduces body weight.

I think its kind of a stretch, says Nancy Copperman, RD, CDN, director of public health initiatives at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in Great Neck, N.Y.

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Jeff Romig kept putting it off.

He knew the doctor would give him bad news. He'd known it for years; he needed to lose weight.

But as he sat in the doctor's office a few weeks ago and listened to his numbers -- cholesterol and blood pressure, both too high -- he resolved to change. This time, he decided to do something different, something drastic.

After 10 years of talking about losing weight without much success, Romig decided to put his health and family first by leaving his high-pressure politics job.

"I knew I was doing the right thing, but I felt terrible," said Romig, 34, who lives in Georgia.

While the tactic might be unusual, Romig is hardly alone in his struggle with weight gain or his reluctance to try to lose it. More than 30% of men older than 20 are overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Men face the issue at the same rate as women, but until recently, ads for weight loss products mostly featured female faces and voices. According to ad industry watchers, the female-centric advertising had the inadvertent effect of scaring men away.

Enter a slew of new ads from the biggest names in dieting: Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem and Jenny Craig.

Weight Watchers took a direct approach, with television spots that explicitly tell men it's OK to diet. One commercial proclaims "Weight Watchers online is for men, too," and, as a nod to the brand's more feminine advertising of yore: "It's not all rainbows and lollipops."

"Women really appreciate the fact that we are recognizing it as a widespread societal problem," said David Burwick, president of Weight Watchers North America.

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WHEN most people are looking to lose weight, they go on a diet.

They pick the latest low-carb, no-carb, highprotein or low-fat fad out there, and hope to stick with it long enough to lose 10 or 20 pounds.

And, it will likely work. The problem comes after the goal weight is achieved and they go back to their pre-diet lifestyle.

A lot of people can lose weight, but not many let their new eating and exercise habits become part of their everyday life. The problem is, without making an entire lifestyle change, as soon as you halt the diet, the weight starts to pile back on. That's not to say dieting won't work. If you have a lot of weight to lose, a diet might help to kick-start weight loss and get you thinking about your health. Plus, some people need a sense of deprivation to get them to realize what they're putting into their bodies, and to feel like they're making a change. But to keep the weight off, it's important to change the way you eat in the longterm and transform it into a new, healthy lifestyle.

It takes 21 days to form a habit, or, in this case, to break the habit of unhealthy eating. The first part is the most difficult because you have to consciously think of what you are, or aren't, eating. There are many diets out there, but the truth is we all know what healthy eating looks and feels like. Concentrate on being healthy, not following a strict regimen you read in a book.

After accomplishing your initial weight loss, you need to remind yourself that achieving and maintaining your ideal and healthy bodyweight will be a lifetime commitment. Now you can change your thoughts about eating from depriving yourself to being healthy. Focus on eating three meals and two snacks daily, controlling your portions, and making sure to take in a lot of fibre, protein and foods rich in antioxidants, as well as drinking plenty of water, and green or white tea. You need to achieve an overall balance, not completely avoid carbs and fats.

Healthy eating is important in maintaining a healthy weight, but it is only half the equation. Exercise is key, especially when coming off of your diet. It's unrealistic and unhealthy to meticulously count calories, but you should still actively think about what you have to do to maintain a healthy body. Exercise a minimum of three times weekly, incorporating weights into your regimen. Keep yourself challenged by increasing your weights or repetitions every three or four weeks.

The key is to start looking at healthy living as a lifestyle change, not just a short-term solution to shed some pounds. It's not going to be easy. Keeping your body healthy and active will be hard work, but with determination and persistence, you'll continue to reap the benefits of your efforts, and will be on the road to a healthy body for life. Your body will feel better when you're eating healthy and your body composition will reflect this change.

Shaun Karp is a certified personal trainer. For further information, call his office at 604-420-7800 or visit his website, http://www.karpfitness. com.

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March 24, 2012 (CHICAGO) -- If your New Year's resolution was to lose weight, hopefully, you have seen some success by now. But now comes the tough part: keeping off the weight.

One man knows all about that. Mark Pinhasovich (link: http://www.facebook.com/BL10Mark) was The Biggest Loser's Season 10 At-Home Winner. The Biggest Loser's season 10 at-home winner, who dropped 213 pounds from being on the show. Mark came into our ABC7 studio to give us the skinny on exercise and nutrition to help you maintain your weight.

Mark is part-owner of the new gym called AMPD FitCamp (link: http://www.ampdfitcamp.com).

1. Customized Trail Mix - Don't buy pre-made trail mix. - Measure your ingredients. - Mark's favorites are almonds, dried cranberries, freeze dried bananas (so they are not covered in oil - and a great way to save calories), and dried mango. - Measure your ingredients so that you only have 200 calories per baggie.

2. "Oreo" Cookie Protein Bars - Mark is a protein bar fanatic and also struggles with a sweet tooth. - One of his favorite bars is called Ultimate Flurry bars because they have flavors that taste like candy and cookies but they aren't chalky like a typical protein bar. - He uses these as snacks when he travels or when can't be somewhere to prepare his own food.

3. No Rocks Smoothie - Start by using Greek yogurt - it is double the protein of regular yogurt because of they way they strain it. - Mark takes 6 ounces of Greek yogurt (100 calories) and a little capful of vanilla, couple shakes of cinnamon and some Stevia (one packet), and fresh cut barriers (Mark likes to use strawberries). - Mix it up and you have a healthy smoothie without the mess of a blender.

Mark's Weight Loss: Starting Weight: 421 lbs. (Sept. 21, 2010) Week 1: 380 lbs. Week 2: 369 lbs. Week 3: 361 lbs. Week 4: 352 lbs. Week 5: 336 lbs. Week 6: 329 lbs. Week 7: 317 lbs. Week 8: 309 lbs. Week 9: 299 lbs. Week 10: 292 lbs. Finale Weight: 208 lbs (Dec. 14, 2010) Today's Weight: 245 lbs. (Current - 2012)

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There is a natural parallel between losing weight and saving money.

For the past several months, CB has been on a weight loss journey. In the middle of January, I joined him. True, we want to look good for the wedding (because there's nothing like having your appearance captured by pictures that will last forever to give you a kick in the pants), but more importantly we want to establish good eating habits and exercise habits to carry us far beyond the Big Day. CB lost 50 pounds in eight months, going from a 38-inch waist to a 32-inch waist. I had a modest-sounding-but-still-signficant-to-me 6-pound weight loss, trimming an inch around my waist.

Watching CB lose weight and then working at it myself, I realized that there are so many lessons that losing weight have taught me about saving money.

1. It's about understanding the numbers AND taking action.

Losing weight and saving money are math problems. To lose weight, you need to create a calorie deficit -- eat fewer calories than what your body needs to maintain its current weight. To save money, you need to spend fewer dollars than you earn. Both cases can be boiled down to a case of simple arithmatic: dollars in vs. dollars out, calories in vs. calories out.

But THEN you throw in human behavior, and it just all goes out the window! Plenty of people understand that eating unhealthily and sitting all day will encourage weight gain, just as plenty of people understand that if you spend more than you make, you will run into debt. But as anyone as ever tried to lose weight or save money (*raises hand*) would tell you, it's one thing to know the math. It's another thing to make the not-so-fun decisions (choosing an apple over a chocolate muffin, trading a loft apartment for room in someone else's house) that will allow you to achieve the desired results.

2. You can't out-train a bad diet, and you can't out-earn bad spending.

Watch this video on why you CANNOT out-train a bad diet <--- one guy runs at a pace of 11 miles per hour and burns 40 calories in a few minutes. In the same amount of time, his buddy consumes almost 1,000 calories in pizza and soda. In the same way, I'd say that you can't out-earn bad spending. Of course, if you are rich like Bill Gates is, it is quite difficult to imagine how you can ever spend all that money if you just kept a portion of your wealth in income-producing investments. On the other hand, we've all heard stories of some very wealthy people -- professional athletes, Hollywood stars, famous photographers, etc. -- who have to live in reduced circumstances because they spent beyond their means.

Making a high income is important, it's one side of the equation. But it'd be pretty darn difficult to earn enough money to support a life of indiscriminate spending. Focusing on earning without examining your expenses is akin to trying to lose weight while filling your diet with sugary drinks and fried foods. When I saw that video, I felt a lightbulb switch on... which brings me to the third lesson I've learned.

3. You can't manage what you don't measure.

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Well Heeled: What Losing Weight Taught Me About Saving Money

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