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BAGSVRD, Denmark, March 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Novo Nordisk today announced that the New England Journal of Medicine published results of a phase 3 trial evaluating the investigational use of Saxenda (liraglutide 3.0 mg) in adolescents (aged 12<18) with obesity.1 The study was accepted for presentation at ENDO 2020, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in San Francisco, US, and will be published in a supplemental issue of the Journal of the Endocrine Society.2 Saxenda is currently indicated for chronic weight management in adults with a BMI 30 kg/m2, or 27 kg/m2with one or more weight-related comorbidities, as an adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity.3,4

The trial was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Saxenda in this population and achieved its primary endpoint demonstrating that Saxenda, compared with placebo, was superior in reducing Body Mass Index (BMI) standard deviation score (SDS) at 56 weeks with a -0.22 estimated treatment difference (ETD).1,2BMI-SDS is a measure of relative weight status adjusted for age and gender in children and adolescents.2,5The study was a post-marketing requirement of the FDA6 and the EMA in agreement with Paediatric Investigation Plan (PIP),7,8both of which aim to ensure treatments are safe and effective for children and adolescents.

Over the last 20 years, the global prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents has doubled from 1 in 10 to 1 in 5.9However, current treatment options for this population are limited, highlighting a considerable and growing need for additional strategies.10

"Most adolescents with obesity are likely to have obesity as adults and are at increased risk for developing other weight-related diseases, which is why it's so important to address weight care and support early on," said Dr Aaron Kelly, Professor of Pediatrics andCo-Director of the Center for Pediatric Obesity Medicine at the University of Minnesota. "Today, treatment options beyond behavioural counselling are limited for adolescents with obesity. Anti-obesity medications could provide a key option as part of a personalised, complete care plan to help them lose weight and keep it off."

In the trial, following 56 weeks of treatment, there was a difference in change in BMI (kg/m2) with adolescents in the Saxenda arm achieving a 4.29% reduction in BMI, compared to a 0.35% increase with placebo. In addition, 43.3% of adolescents treated with Saxenda had a 5%, or more, reduction in BMI at week 56 (compared to 18.7% on placebo) and 26.1% had a 10%, or more, reduction (compared to 8.1% with placebo).1,2

"We are encouraged by these results and the progress made to provide a treatment option for healthcare professionals caring for adolescents living with obesity," said Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, executive vice president and chief science officer of Novo Nordisk. "It's vital that families affected by obesity have the tools and resources needed to address this health issue. These data add to the extensive evidence for the clinical use and value of Saxenda and support Novo Nordisk's commitment to improving the lives of people with obesity."

There were no new safety signals identified, and no severe hypoglycaemias were reported, and adverse events were similar to those observed in adults. During the 56-week treatment period, 64.8% of adolescents on Saxenda reported gastrointestinal adverse events, compared to 36.5% of those receiving placebo. Three adolescents on Saxenda reported serious adverse events, versus five in the placebo group. A greater number of adolescents discontinued treatment due to adverse events with Saxenda (10.4%) compared to placebo (0%), primarily related to gastrointestinal side effects.1,2

About the phase 3 trial (NCT02918279)

The trial was a phase 3a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial investigating the effect of Saxenda (liraglutide) injection 3.0 mg compared to placebo for weight management in 251 adolescents living with obesity as an adjunct to lifestyle therapy, defined as counselling in healthy nutrition and physical activity for weight loss. The trial included a 12-week run-in of lifestyle therapy, a 56-week treatment period (including dose escalation of 4 to 8 weeks) on Saxenda or placebo and a 26-week follow-up period without Saxenda or placebo. All participants received lifestyle therapy beginning with the run-in period and during the 56-week treatment period and 26-week follow-up period.1,2

In the trial, the primary endpoint was change from baseline inBMI-SDS at week 56. BMI is a calculation of weight (kg) divided by the square of height in metres. BMI-SDS is a measure of relative BMI status that accounts for age and gender.2,5

About Saxenda

Saxenda (liraglutide 3.0 mg) is a once-daily glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue with 97% similarity to naturally occurring human GLP-1,4,11a hormone that is released in response to food intake.12 Like human GLP-1, Saxenda regulates appetite by increasing feelings of fullness and satiety, while lowering feelings of hunger, thereby leading to reduced food intake.4,11,13As with other GLP-1 analogues, Saxenda stimulates insulin secretion and lowers glucagon secretion in a glucose-dependent manner.4,13 Saxenda for use in adults with obesity was evaluated in the SCALE (Satiety and Clinical Adiposity Liraglutide Evidence) clinical trial programme. Since launch in 2015, more than 1.5 million patients have been treated with Saxendaglobally.6

Saxenda is currently indicated for chronic weight management in adults with a BMI 30 kg/m2, or 27 kg/m2with one or more weight-related comorbidities, as an adjunct to a reduced-calorie diet and increased physical activity.3,4

About adolescent obesity

Obesity is a chronic disease that is influenced by multiple aspects, including physiological, psychological, genetic, environmental and socioeconomic factors.14 80% of adolescentswho live with obesity are likely to have obesity as an adult.15Adolescents with obesity are also more likely to develop weight-related diseases, like diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, at a younger age.16Just like other chronic diseases, obesity requires long-term management.17-20The global increase in the prevalence of obesity is a public health issue that has severe cost implications to healthcare systems.21,22Globally over 100 million children and adolescents have obesity.23

About Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease. Novo Nordisk employs about 42,700 people in 80 countries and markets its products in around 170 countries. For more information, visit novonordisk.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube.

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Prophet T.B. Joshua whose that coronavirus would end last Friday has shared a secret that he says can effectively help people to lose weight and stay healthy, saying blessing without good health is a crisis.

The Synagogue Church of All Nations Leader posted a video on his Emmanuel TV official YouTube channel saying spirituality and physical well-being are married.

Blessing without good health is a crisis because you cannot enjoy it. We are a spirit, we have a soul and we live in a body. The same body can get sick or tired and needs attention. The natural and the spiritual must function together. For the natural to function, you must take care of the body, said Prophet T.B. Joshua.

The prophet listed drinking hot water with lemon every morning as well as engaging in regular exercise such as doing press-ups as his secret to good health.

With his prophecy failing, may be the Nigerian controversial televangelist is casting his net wider by trying his luck as a nutritionist and physiotherapist.

In the morning you take a cup of hot water and two lemons. Cut the lemons into small slices and put in the cup. After 3 to 5 minutes, begin to sip it as a drink advises TB Joshua the Nutritionist.

He shared his before-and-after- images to show that how the trick works if followed. He also advised his followers who are fit enough to do press ups each morning after waking up.

The advice has come a few days after his prophecy that rains would wash away Covid-19, the novel coronavirus that has infected close to 840 thousand people and killed over 40 thousand, failed to come to pass.

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Strength and conditioning are a key component of the offseason for football and this spring it's become a big challenge for WKU.

No longer on being on campus, players are now tasked with completing their workouts from home. That sounds simple enough, but once you apply a few factors, it becomes a bit more complicated. For starters, many gyms across the county are closed and some players have limited access to workout equipment. It's also a lot harder to motivate yourself to workout and push yourself when you're not in a group setting.

"You know, there's really only so much you can do," Tyson Helton, WKU's head football coach said.

Currently, the Hilltoppers are using the Bridge Athletic Tracker app. The app allows Jason Veltkamp, the team's strength coach, to upload workouts every week. The app also features videos of each workout to use as examples. It also times how long they lift.

"Coach Veltkamp has a workout whether you can get to a gym or not," defensive back Trae Meadows said.

"It's still the same drill," offensive lineman Tyler Witt said. "We may not be in spring ball but this is the new path we have to take to take those next steps for this next season."

Veltkamp also lists alternative options for players who might not have weights at home. Meadows said one option was to use milk jugs for weights.

"You can use just household items," Meadows said. " You can still be creative to be successful."

One top of workouts, WKU is also tracking the team's nutrition. The football program is mailing nutrition shakes to the homes of the players. Coach Helton said the NCAA has given them flexibility to assist players with meals.

"The guys that need to gain weight are gaining weight and the guys that need to lose weight are losing weight," Helton said.

Finding the motivation to work out on your own is a challenge itself. Players will need to be self-motivated now more than ever under the new format for spring football.

"When we come back it's going to show who really put in the work and who didn't," Witt said. "This is our time to get that edge."

When football returns to the hill, Meadows believes the team will be more self-driven.

"Once we get back to football it's going to be kind of different," Meadows said. "Everybody's going to have a different drive about themselves."

WKU is taking the steps to adjust its strength and conditioning program to maintain social distancing. However, there are some elements to football that just can't be replicated off the field.

"You know football is a contact sport and you just can't make up for that," Tyson Helton, WKU's head football coach said. "So all the weight lifting and all that gives you a good foundation. Once we get back we've got to get back into the football part of it, football movements.

With new information coming forward each day regarding COVID-19, there is still no clear time frame for when football will be back on the hill.

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Families can prepare meals together and participate in a healthy lifestyle program at home through live video conferencing with Registered Dietitians

Industry-first partnership also highlights the benefit of a holistic approach to reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes

NEW YORK, March 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Fruit Street Health, the only diabetes prevention program (DPP) offered through live group video conferencing with Registered Dietitians (RDs), and Purple Carrot, the first 100% plant-based meal kit company, announced an exclusive partnership to provide dietitian-approved, plant-based meals to Fruit Street participants. Additionally, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and to enable more people to take advantage of this offering, Fruit Street is now allowing anyone - from low-risk individuals to people with type 2 diabetes - to sign up for its healthy lifestyle/DPP program at a reduced cost.To learn more, visit https://www.fruitstreet.com/purple-carrot/.

"With more Americans practicing social distancing and staying home with their families during the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to increase access to healthy meals and nutrition advice through our telehealth platform and partnership with Purple Carrot," said Laurence Girard, founder and CEO of Fruit Street. "We have a team of more than 1,000 Registered Dietitians ready to help people eat healthy and stay active during this unprecedented shift in our daily routines."

As part of Fruit Street's lifestyle coaching, RDs teach participants how to adopt a 'food as medicine' mindset by focusing on the macronutrients, specifically the amount of carbs and sugars their participants are consuming each day. Fruit Street's RDs reviewed and verified that the Purple Carrot meals adhere to the dietary guidelines that Fruit Street participants are encouraged to follow in order to lose weight and reduce their risk for type 2 diabetes. Participants can then use the Fruit Street app to take pictures of the Purple Carrot meals they have cooked at home and receive encouragement from their dietitian and other group members.

"So many chronic health conditions can be addressed through food, and we've seen dramatic improvement in our customers' lives who have incorporated plant-based meals into their routine," said Andy Levitt, founder and CEO of Purple Carrot. "By partnering with Fruit Street's diabetes prevention program, we can extend the impact of a plant-based diet to help people reduce their risk for type 2 diabetes."

Fruit Street will be the first digital diabetes prevention program to partner with a plant-based meal delivery service as part of its holistic approach to improving health outcomes for people with, or at risk for, prediabetes. Fruit Street's comprehensive DPP program offers participants personalized attention and unlimited messaging with Registered Dietitians (RDs), a free wireless scale and Fitbit Inspire Activity Tracker to track their progress, and now a plant-based meal delivery service to help build healthy eating habits (for an additional fee).

Fruit Street's program is now being offered for only $19.99/month to anyone who wants to follow a healthy lifestyle routine, including individuals with type 2 diabetes and those who are considered low-risk for developing type 2 diabetes. In addition, participants can also use a Healthcare Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Spending Account (FSA) to cover the cost of the program. Purple Carrot subscriptions start at $72 a week. To sign up, visit https://www.fruitstreet.com/purple-carrot/

For more information about Fruit Street Health, visit http://www.fruitstreet.com. For more information about Purple Carrot, visit http://www.purplecarrot.com.

About Fruit StreetFruit Street (www.FruitStreet.com) is a physician-funded telehealth startup that offers the only online diabetes prevention program (DPP) fully-recognized by the CDC that is delivered via HIPAA-compliant live group video chat. Fruit Street's program is proven to help people lose at least 5-7% of their body weight which can reverse the progression of disease, reduce personal health care costs and reduce the risk for type 2 diabetes and other chronic conditions. Fruit Street takes a more holistic approach to diabetes prevention, offering people a comprehensive lifestyle modification curriculum which includes personalized attention and unlimited messaging with Registered Dietitians (RDs), a plant-based meal delivery service through a partnership with Purple Carrot, and a free wireless scale and Fitbit Inspire Activity Tracker to track their progress. Founded in 2014 as a public benefit corporation, Fruit Street has raised more than $17 million in capital from hundreds of physicians who are dedicated to making a lasting social impact in healthcare.

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The coronavirus pandemic has led to unsettling times for nearly everyone. You might be feeling lost or unsure of your future as you navigate social distancing, self-isolation, and the changing public health situation.

These six well-reviewed self-help books can help you make major changes in your life, mindset, career, and relationships, even during coronavirus quarantine.

During coronavirus isolation, it can be tempting to let yourusual routines slip by and even forget what day it is. Instead, why not usethis time to reset your schedule to one that really works for you?

This 30-day guide to resetting your internal clock draws from contemporary research on circadian rhythms, as well as Ayurvedic principles, to teach you how to listen to your body and reshape your relationship to time in a healthy way.

Feeling like youre stuck in a rut? There might be no better time than self-isolation to make the changes youve always been thinking about. In 8 to Great, Mary Kay Mueller takes readers through eight simple yet profound steps to better habits and a more positive outlook on life. 8 to Great is used in some high school curriculum pieces, and its no wonderits an accessible, breezy read.

If youre into The Secret or the Law of Attraction in generalor have just always been curious about itthis is a more irreverent, hands-on guide to the idea of manifesting the life you want. Whether youre skeptical about the Law of Attraction or want to get into it more deeply, Kaps straightforward, no-holds-barred style might encourage you to think a little more positively.

The coronavirus outbreak is leading many people to struggle with self-loathing, career worries, and negative, repetitive thinking. If youre one of those people, you can find a path back to greater self-confidence and joy with Rachel Hollis popular bestseller. In this inspiring, encouraging book, Hollis debunks a series of common myths that many people who struggle with self-love tend to believe.

Theres no better time to Marie Kondo your homeand your lifethan when youre stuck at home anyway (and possibly working in a home office for the first time ever) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This graphic novel tells the story of Kondos iconic philosophy on decluttering your space, mind, and heart. Whimsical illustrations from Yuko Uramoto make for an even more enjoyable and absorbing read.

These unsettling times might offer you a unique opportunity to get back into your creative flow. Penned collaboratively by three creativity and productivity experts from very different backgrounds, this text offers artists (yes, that includes you!) seven different pathways they can use to tap into their artistic juices againor even for the first time.

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Its been a tender few days. I keep coming back to noticing the simple joys I have now with my family, and in this body. I pray. I breathe. I meditate. I play an inordinate amount of games at home with my son. I cry. I hold the suffering in a glowing cave in my heart, with infinite embers. . And then today, I received this photo via email from a dear sister of soul (@lalermo) who is a healthcare worker in New York. . Here, her accompanying message: . I wanted to share with you how your book, Deep Creativity, has inspired a humble few here in Upstate New York to take action. Masks, gloves and all other personal protective equipment are dangerously low here. We figured SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING!!! So, a group of us have started making face masks with our quilting fabric. The exercise in your book titled, Awakening the Unconscious Through Colors and Seasons, struck a cord, got me thinking and started the process. I would rather wear a face mask with chickens in pants than no face mask at all. It has the added benefit of making my patients smile and protecting clinicians on the front line. I have attached a picture of the crazy fun patterns awaiting some of NYs finest hospice RN, LPNS, HHAs and Social Workers. I have called dibs on the banana fabric mask. . I was so deeply moved that anything I offered inspired something so brave in these times. These are our heroes. We. Stay. At. Home. For. Them. Please, please do your part. All. I send you a love, warm and radiating. . . . #deepcreativity #covd19 #ourheroes

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Get ready to settle down and create, because the book is anactive exploration, complete with hands-on practices, exercises, affirmations,and meditations you can adopt right now.

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The Biggest Losers season finale has arrived. Tonight at 9:00PM EST, a new Biggest Loser will be crowned, on USA!

Steve Cook, one of the competitions trainers, took some time to chat with Showbiz Cheat Sheet about this reboot season, which contestant he was most impressed with, and the situation he would revisit if he could.

Cook has been a trainer for quite some time and working with contestants who are starting at such high starting weights was a natural progression for him.

In the previous seven years of working with people, I had my fair share of people who were overweight. . . I helped my dad lose eighty pounds.

This experience was unique in that everybody was really needing this to put years back on their lives. In that regard, its been much more rewarding as a trainer.

Now that the season is drawing to a close, we were curious to know which contestants impressed the former fitness model the mostsince the start on Jan. 28.

You know, it was really at different points during the show that I think every contestant surprised me.

There was one contestant, however, who impressed Cook with her determination. Teri Aguiar broke her ankle in the sixth week of the competition during a mud challenge. She felt her ankle snap and was immediately whisked away to a hospital.

By the end of the episode, it was assumed she would go home to recuperate. Instead, Aguiar stayed, showed up at the weigh-in at the end of the episode and continued losing weight.

I think the most surprising thing for me all season long was Teri (Aguiar) with that fracture and still continuing. To me, I never would have thought that you could lose the amount of weight she would have needed to lose to stay on the show week in and week out after breaking that bone.

When it first happened, I thought, Such terrible luck. Shell have to go home now. But its a real testament to her mental toughness that she was able to not only stick around that week but even after.

In considering our question as to whether he would have done anything differently, Cook discussed Week Ones eliminated contestant, Robert Richardson, who was considered a favorite to make it all the way through the competition and even to win the whole thing.

[L]osing Rob that first week . . . he lost thirteen pounds. He lost the most weight on our team but ratio-wise, because he also weighed the most, he ended up going home and I really would have liked Rob to have stuck around.

I think hes an extremely hard worker with a great mindset. I felt like if there was anyone that I really wish I could go back and have another week with, it would be Rob.

Cook has revealed in the past his own body image struggles. Its to his credit that he is willing to share his own challenges and setbacks. For him, sharing these struggles with contestants allowed them to know they were free to do the same.

For me, I just really wanted to get right off the bat any guilt, self-doubt [out of the way]. I just wanted to let them know that everyone has that. Its normal to second-guess yourself. Were all our own toughest critics.

And all of a sudden talking about those. . . it became a very safe space for people to really open up and in doing so, start to heal.

Its been an exciting run this season. Regardless of who takes home the title, these are twelve lives that have been changed positively and permanently, thanks to The Biggest Loser.

Catch The Biggest Loser Season Finale tonight at 9:00PM EST on USA

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Mitchelton-Scott head sports director Matt White says he believes if racing restarts in mid-June that the majority of riders will have had enough training on the road to create a level playing field.

In an interview released by Mitchelton-Scott, White revealed that "85-90 per cent" of the team's riders are currently under complete lockdown, in which they can't leave their homes except to access essential services, and he addressed concerns that riders who are able to train outside will have an advantage when racing resumes later this summer.

"We hope that towards the middle to end of April everyone can be back on the road to some degree," White said. "So when you look at our starting point, which in the best-case scenario is June, I think everyone will have a month to six weeks on the road before we start competing. I think by the time we start back into competition it'll be a pretty level playing field."

Nonetheless, White admitted that, at the moment, riders who can currently train on the road are getting more fitness than riders who are stuck on home trainers.

"The guys who can get out on the road now can get out and do four-five-hour rides, which is the norm," he said. "Whereas the guys at home are on the home trainer for an hour to 90 minutes at the most. They are probably going at a bit of a higher intensity, but they're just not able to do the volume of training they would normally."

White said the Mitchelton-Scott riders are doing a variety of workouts at home, depending on their goals and current level of fitness.

"Obviously, the Classics guys were just approaching a peak period for their part of the season," he said. "Some of these guys have kept up training to replicate the periodisation of when their Classics season was going to finish in 10 days' to two weeks' time. Some of them kept up with a bit of intensity and structured training, and then they will have their 'rest' after Paris-Roubaix [original April 12 date], as they would have normally.

"Other guys, for example guys who were preparing for the Giro d'Italia, have had their goals shifted," White said. "So at the moment they are doing a bit of light stuff, mainly to keep fresh mentally. They aren't used to doing nothing, so a lot of guys are just ticking along with training, staying mentally active, jumping on some 'BikeExchange Where the World Rides Series' sessions on Zwift with the team and socialising with their teammates online."

Nutritional requirements for the riders have also changed.

"Guys have to be very stringent on what they are consuming at the moment because they are just not putting out the same amount of energy expenditure as they normally would," he said. "We've got some guys who don't really struggle with weight at all, and those guys might put on a little bit of weight, and we're talking a couple of hundred grams, but then other guys have to be really careful.

"The last thing you'd want is to have a month at home and come back 3kg heavier," he said. "Then you're behind the eight-ball because not only do you have to increase training load, but you also have to lose weight. That's sometimes something riders deal with in the off-season, but not in the middle of the season, and that's where we are at the moment."

White also addressed the current status of the 2020 Tour de France, whose fate race organisers ASO said they would reveal in April. White said he believes the worst of the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic will have passed by July, but he wondered if conditions would be such that a race would be safe.

"I am pretty sure that, by the month of July, things might have calmed down a considerable amount, but will they have calmed down enough to safely support a couple of thousand people, coming together from different parts of Europe and the world, for the Tour de France?" he said.

"We're not talking about four or five venues; we are a travelling circus. We're talking about 2,000 people teams, media, logistics and movement between 20 hotels over 25 days. Safety has to remain the priority."

White said if ASO wants to keep the current Tour dates (June 27-July 19), riders need to be back on the road training by May.

"If athletes aren't on the road by May, there's no way you can run a competition in June," he said. "We have to have some competition before the Tour de France. You can't have the Tour de France as the first race. That doesn't work for the riders simple as that.

"In the next four-to-five weeks, it's crucial that the virus infections come down to a very low level in Europe," he said. "At the moment we're not seeing that, and I would think that as it stands at the moment, it would be pretty hard to run the Tour de France at the current dates, starting at the end of June."

White suggested that with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics having been postponed until 2021, the ASO has an opportunity to move the race further back in July or possibly even to August.

"Maybe that's the most viable option to run the Tour de France in full, and I'm sure that's what the ASO wants to do they want to run a three-week Tour de France," he said, adding that a Tour de France without crowds would be "weird" but viable, as long as it is safe to do so.

And, he said, if the race does go ahead, it could be one of the best fields ever.

"The Giro has never not been on before the Tour de France, and because we've been starved of a couple of months of racing in spring, people aren't going to be 'sitting out' to wait for the Vuelta a Espaa," he reasoned. "In a normal season that happens because they've already ridden the Giro, or a young rider can wait for the Vuelta because they've had a lot of racing in spring.

"I think in the best-case scenario, there will be a lot of guys hitting the Tour de France with 20 race days under their belt, some will have even less, and that's if the Tour de Suisse and the Critrium du Dauphin run beforehand," he said.

"It's going to be strange, but it would be a very competitive race."

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Have you ever considered yoga as an activity that can help you lose weight? No? Well, it might surprise you, but this wonderful traditional Indian discipline is perfect for this. Lets look at some ways of using yoga for weight loss.

There isnt a person on Earth who didnt hear at least one thing about yoga. It originated in India several thousand years ago but began to spread all over the world as quickly as people realized how beneficial it is. Nowadays, folks of all ages practice these exercises in every part of the world.

It is a known fact that doing yoga has a lot of benefits for both physical and mental health. Nevertheless, we generally see it as a slow activity, so it is not simple to imagine that it can be in any way effective in terms of weight loss.

What many of us dont know is that there are specially designed yoga weight loss exercises, and they are giving surprisingly good results.

Considering the current situation with rampaging pandemic of coronavirus, we all need to stay at home for some time. This is a situation that creates and elevates a lot of emotions, and so many of us are experiencing depression and anxiety for various reasons. However, because self-isolation and social distancing measures are now implemented in most countries, it is not possible to attend sports classes. Thats why in todays post, we are talking about yoga weight loss exercises at home. You can practice yoga at home for weight loss by yourself if you are already experienced or watch online videos to get instructions on what to do. Remember, too, that no exercise is effective unless you are eating correctly. So ensure during this time you are following a relevant healthy eating plan. Avoid junk food, sugary food and the stuff that is going to work against any good yoga you do. If you want to see the result faster, you need to combine the exercise routine and your healthy diet plan to boost your immune system with the best MCT oil.

If you consistently practice yoga you will lose weight. Here are three poses that will help enable the process:

If you are wondering is yoga good for weight loss and toning, then you should try this exercise. With this Asana, you will work the abs and thighs, but also the shoulders. This Asana reduces stress on the back, improves digestion, blood pressure, and so on.

1. Lie on your back with your knees bent, feet flat, hip-width apart, heels directly below your knees. Leave your upper arms on the floor and bend your elbows alongside your ribs, pointing your forearms and fingers toward the ceiling. Turn your palms to face one another.

2. Press your elbows and shoulder heads down into the floor, lift your chest, and bring your shoulder blades onto your upper back, wrapping your outer arms toward the floor. Keep your gaze straight up.

3. Press into your feet and slowly send your knees forward, wrapping your outer hips toward the ceiling; then lift your buttocks away from the floor. Lengthen your tail bone toward the backs of your knees.

4. Straighten your elbows and interlace your fingers underneath you, drawing your shoulder blades deeper into your upper back, keeping the tops of your shoulders in line with the base of your neck.

5. Gently press the center of the back of your head to the floor. Broaden your collarbones and lift your chest, bringing your sternum toward your chin. Lightly reach your chin away from your chest, keeping space between the back of your neck and the floor. Simultaneously extend out through your knees as you lift your sternum. Take a few rounds of breath here.

6. To release, unlace your fingers and slowly lower your torso back to the floor.

This pose focuses on strengthening the thighs and core muscles. It also works with muscles of the buttocks, and through this, it helps you to target belly fat. It is a good exercise to include in the yoga weight loss plan as it stretches the back, strengthens the lower back, etc.

Include the frog pose in your 30-day Yoga Challenge weight loss, and we guarantee you will see the results quickly. It stretches the abdomen and chest and stimulates organs in the abdomen.

As you can see, there are good yoga weight loss exercises that you can do at home. Hopefully, this health care crisis wont last too long, and you will be able to continue with yoga classes soon. In the meantime, stay healthy, take care, and practice yoga it will surely help.

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Adam Reeveis a nutritionist and fitness instructor from Chicago. He discovered yoga almost 10 years ago after a major crisis, and it changed his life. Since then, he is learning, and sharing information with other people. Adam became a licensed instructor 4 years ago and for the past 2.5, he is writing about health and wellness.

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I confess: I have a sugar problem. I love to addspoonfuls of sugar in my green tea, which when I need a little break or quick jolt of energy while working from home.I know this is bad, but everybody has their thing.

So I called MichelePromaulayko, who wrote the book on how to quit sugar, to get her help in ditchingmy bad habittoset myself on apath toward being fitter by the time this whole working from home thing is over (hopefully soon). She wrote Sugar Free 3, a plan thatguides the readerto be sugar-free in three weeks. The full title of the book is

Q: How Can I resist heading to the cabinet for a sugar fix at 4 p.m. every day?

A: You have to know where it's coming from. For most people, one of the reasonsthey crave sugar is that they are on the dependency cycle. They are eating more than they realize.You have these really intense cravings because you are on the cycle of dependence because you're eating it in hidden resources, like savory sources -- bread and tomato sauce or granola, Think what you had for breakfast. Was it toast? Cereal? Chances are you got on the cycle then.

Eating breakfast with hidden sugar starts the day with a surge of quick energy and then it dips again, about an hour and a half later. So that keeps you on the highs and lows. The more sugar you have, the more you want.

Q: Got it. True. Toast this morning was the culprit. Let's diagnose the problem of why we crave sugar, and then give people (okay me) five tips on how to solve it.

A: You need the awareness piece. So the first piece is the ingredient education. You have to have the awareness piece.

Most of it is from a hidden source. There are 60 or 70 places where sugar is in your food and youprobably don'tknow it. Sugar, the simple kind (not fruit or whole grains) exists as table sugar but also in agave or honey or food additives. It's in oat milk, and of course dairy milk. Anything with an "-ose" at the end of the word. Lactose is sugar. There is naturally occurring sugar in things like milk or in fruit (whole fruit).

Finding the hidden sources by knowing how to read the labels is the key to getting off sugar. You can't get off it if you don't know where it's coming from!

You have to understand that packaged foods generally include added sugars, so you need to learn how to look ata label and see the added sugars. It's added to make the food more palatable and addictive, but don't fall prey to that. You just don't want hidden sugar in your tomato sauce or your crackers.

So instead of cereal or toast, start the day with whole foods -- even if it's fruit, you can have that because of the fiber, which will keep your blood sugar steady. The point is to avoid the spikes because it sends you on a sugar roller coaster, and for every spike, you experience a dip. That dip is when you feel low energy and reach for more. Instead, curb your consumption from the first thing during the morning and eat more vegetables and protein, and no added sugareven from hidden sources and when you do that you will crave it less.

A side note about plant-based products and sugar. Beware of the health halos, so just because something says organic or enriched or natural or gluten-free does not mean it doesn't contain added sugar. Basically whole foods are the ones to eat, not processed.

This is controversial since fruit has a lot of naturally occurring sugar. But here is the difference: It also contains fiber, and that means that your body breaks it down slowly, and the steady form of energy is going to keep you going, but not make you fat. It's hard to eat enough whole foods of any type to gain weight.

We are not a nation that is grappling with obesity or being overweight because we are hooked on whole fruit. I have never heard of someone being overweight or obese by eating too much fruit. If the sugar is naturally occurring in whole food, such as an apple or an orange, you should have it, because it comes with vitamins, nutrients, antioxidants and is packaged with fiber,which keeps fruticose from entering your bloodstream all at once, so it gives you a steadier form of energy and your blood sugar stays steady.

On the Sugar-Free 3 plan, you are allowed to eat whole foods because you are eating naturally occurring sugar. It comeswith healthy fiber and nutrients that allow this natural energy to enter your bloodstream slower and keep your energy going, like a natural time-release capsule.

And more good news: You can eat whole grains, such as wild or brown rice or quinoa becausea whole grain has all of the nutrients. But not processed or white rice, since the minute you process the rice, you strip away all the fiber and it becomes empty calories.

Let's purge from your mind thatsugar is a quick source of energy. since the opposite is true. In adults -- and in kids --sugar becomes energy-draining becauseitactually makes you more tired. Your body needs some sugarto function but you are already getting it from natural sources, so don't add more, since the spike of quick sugar then mobilizes insulin, which tells the body to store the extra as fat, and then you have no energy at all since it's tucked away into fat storage. So you end up feeling drained and gaining weighta bad combination.

Stress eating? We all do that. One of the things I really truly believe is that there is such an ingrained thought process in our brains, that habitually we have been socialized to think sugar is harmless and celebratory and it's our friend, so when we are stressed we reach for this "harmless" reward. Its' also really too easily accessible and you can pop it in your mouth when stressed. It might even be crackers or chips, something you don't think of as sweet, but it has simple carbs that act like sugar when it hits your system. So next time when you think let me just throw it in the pie hole, stop yourself and do something else. Breathe, walk, call a friend, drink a glass of water. Just don't mindlessness eat a source of sugar.

Q: How about alcohol or wine? Are those allowed? Please?

A: We drilled down on this one. During the three weeks, I askyouto give up alcohol. The reason is that alcohol is a sugar. And it is a disinhibitor.What that means is that when you drink, you eat, and when you eat while drinking, you throw caution to the wind. It's true that you can get the drunk munchies, but you can also just eat more than you intend to, including bread and simple carbs. The one exception is that red wine does not actually have a lot of sugar. Almost all of it is gone in through the fermentation process. But basically you have to think of all alcohol as a sugar and a toxin. So why challenge your body more with this adjustment.It's hard enough to break bad habits so for three weeks try to limit your alcohol intake. Now, of course, there is an exception. Read on.

Once a week during this three-week period you can have a mindful indulgencereally goodpizza or something you miss. But think about what that is. There might be a certain cookie or treat. You have to let yourself have it if it means that much to you. It's okay in life to indulge mindfully once in a while. It's unrealistic to say "I am never going to have birthday cake again" or if you are in a special place, like when I was in Italy last summer, I let myself have gelato and you can tell yourself "I am going to mindfully enjoy it."

We know that these are the exceptions and if you feel too guilty about it, the stress of guilt can change the way the body takes calories and holds onto them. The feelings you attach to a thought -- the cortisol created by that stress can actually cause your body to maintain the calories as body fat. Healthy, naturally slender people indulge from time to time and don't sweat it. They enjoy it.

For my birthday last week, I enjoyed myself. I was with a friend and she has a pizza oven. So we made homemade pizza and a dessert pizza. The whole thing was full of refined carbs. It was not a Sugar-Free 3 approved meal, but it all worked because a lot of other ingredients were healthy like I added broccoli to the pizza, but more importantly, I was withmy friend in a joyous moment and we had dessert pizza and toasted with wine. And the next day I was back on track. That's how to stay healthy, and sugar-free, now.

To watch the videoand learn more about how to kick off your three-week Sugar-Free 3 plan, click here.To try The Beet's Clean Eating Plan, sign up here.

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Losing weight is a tough journey for all of us. We spend so much time fixing our workout routines and planning out diets but this these habits are also the easiest to give up. Many give in to their cravings and many dont wish to continue when they dont see the desired results fast. However, we forget the benefits we reap by even losing those few extra pounds. Losing 5% of your body weight can have drastic effects on your body.The most obvious and visible benefit is slimming and overall fitness. However, the effects of weight loss go much beyond what appears from the outside. Here is a list of those hidden ways in which you have helped your body by losing those extra kilos.No more heartburnThe extra pounds put pressure on the stomach which leads to acid reflux and heartburn, a fiery sensation in the chest. Losing weight would help you relieve this pressure and cure you of the recurring feeling of heartburnsNo more knee painYou relieve a ton of pressure off your knees and legs when you lose those extra pounds. Each extra pound tends to put four times the worth of pressure on the knees. The moment you relieve the extra pressure off the knees, they are able to handle the weight of the body and ache less. This is an important benefit of weight loss and prevents complex joint problems later in life.

Reduced blood pressureThe risk of developing high blood pressure is more in adults who weigh a little extra. Each kilo shed can help in reducing the systolic and diastolic pressure by one point. Therefore, weight loss has a huge role to play in controlling high blood pressure.Reduces risk of diabetes

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