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Every year, the tech world descends on Las Vegas at the beginning of January to get a glimpse of the future. The Consumer Electronics Show, or CES, is the first chance the biggest tech and consumer goods companies in the world have to wow journalists with their biggest, boldest new gizmos in the new year. Usually, the biggest splashes at the show come from either concept products years away from release or gimmicks that will never see widespread distribution, but you can always count on some exciting, solid gear to be on display, too.

The past few years has seen health and fitness products well-represented, as exercise and tech have become more intertwinedthink streaming cardio machines like Peloton, fitness trackers, and even smart home gyms like Mirror and Tonal. Those categories were well-represented at CES in 2020, with some next-level wearables, a new smart workout platform, and some seriously high-tech gear for your shoes.

Here are 4 new gadgets we're excited about from CES 2020.

Suunto, a Finnish orienteering brand, has made some of the most solid adventure and fitness smartwatches we've tested over the last few yearsbut all of their numbered offerings (the 3 Fitness, 5, and 9) have depended on the company's own OS. The upcoming Suunto 7, which was revealed at CES, will be Suunto's first using Google's Wear OS. That platform could make the 7 the best combination of lifestyle fitness power and outdoor ruggedness yet.

The 7 promises to track over 70 activities and feature built-in GPS, barometer, and heart rate monitoring along with smart features like on-device payments and music control. The watch is available for pre-order now and hits the market at the end of January.

Most wearables live on the wrist. This new device lives in your shoes. The NURVV insoles are tricked out with 32 precision sensors to capture your performance metrics in 1,000 times a second. The system also includes a tracker, which you latch onto the side of your kicks.

The tech works with an app that measure running distance at pace at 99.9 percent accuracy, according to the company, which allows you to check out a wide range of metrics like step length and cadence. More importantly the app provides personalized coaching from your data, both during and after your runs, to fine-tune performance and avoid injury. The NURVV Run system is available now for $299.

Wearable company Huami and STUDIO teamed up to create a home workout center that aims to bring the best of high-tech fitness platforms like Peloton and gear like Mirror into one package. Pair a 43-inch smart screen with a front-facing 3D camera and a luxe treadmill for on-demand classes for categories like treadmill, sculpt, stretch, and yoga, and you get the Amazfit Home Studio.

The platform is designed to be connected, and the company touts future abilities to add smart home assistants and heart rate tracking from third-party devices. Like other home fitness platforms, you'll be on the hook for a monthly content subscription along with the hardware. Release details haven't yet been announced.

Wearables company Withings' most significant contribution to CES 2020 is a super smart hybrid smartwatch that the company claims can detect the risk of both arrythmia (AFib) and sleep apnea, projects that companies like Apple and Fitbit have both taken on to various degrees of success. The ScanWatch is the first in the world to do both, according to Withings.

The watch uses an embedded sensor to monitor your heart rate, then provides warnings after signs of irregularity through a connected app. Along with the AFib and sleep tracking, the ScanWatch also has more standard features like workout tracking, VO2 Max measurements, and more. Release details are yet to come.

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This Girl Can is back for its five-year anniversary and this year Sport England have launched their campaign with a video showing the 'real' side of female fitness.

Sport England launched the campaign in 2015 following research findings that showed women were held back from being more active by the fear of being judged.

Since then, 3.5million women have become more involved in physical activity or sport as a result.

The 2020 advert aims to combat unrealistic images portrayed on social media by showing the 'real' side of women taking part in activity.

Complete with hot water bottles, escaping tampon strings and menopausal symptoms, it shows women overcoming these challenges in a bid to show 'real' women keeping active.

Sport England's director of insight, Lisa O'Keefe said: "This Girl Can is about helping women feel confident, so they can overcome the fears about being judged.

Weve designed the new adverts to show things were still not seeing women using exercise to manage period symptoms or juggling motherhood all while celebrating women of all shapes, sizes, abilities and backgrounds.

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Air Force Materiel Command to offer mock fitness assessments that would count as the real thing if airmen pass

The Air Force Materiel Command will this month start offering no-risk mock fitness assessments to airmen to reduce the stress of testing and promote year-round fitness, it said in a statement.

The practice tests aim to both motivate Airmen to maintain a year-round exercise and fitness program while reducing the stress many face during testing, AFMC Military Personnel and Programs branch chief Lt. Col. Rachel Marazita said Friday on the commands website.

Fear of failed physical training tests and the potential of career-ending disciplinary action is a major stressor that we are looking to eliminate through a sound testing protocol coupled with an organizational culture of fitness, Marazita added.

Under the new rule, which takes effect Jan. 20, airmen who are current on their fitness assessments may attempt up to three of the mock tests, which the AFMC calls diagnostic assessments, starting as early as 45 days before their official assessment month and up to 15 days before their PT test due date, officials said.

If an airman completes and passes the practice test, they can elect to have the assessment count as their official test.

The fitness assessment includes pushups, situps, a body composition assessment and a 1.5-mile run.

The idea of allowing airmen to take a no-fail, trial-run fitness assessment before the real thing was first floated in August by Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Kaleth Wright. The Air Force has not yet announced changes to PT tests.

As the Air Force continues to review the overall current fitness assessment guidance for Airmen, AFMC has elected to implement diagnostic testing as a potential part of the policy change, the AFMC statement said.

There are currently no Air Force regulations governing diagnostic testing. The AFMC policy allowing practice PT tests will remain in place until a new Air Force policy is published, the statement said.

All AFMC airmen will be eligible to take the diagnostic test, regardless of where they are based, it added.

AFMC is one of the services major commands and includes 80,000 military and civilian workers, its website says. It manages and maintains the services weapons systems and its components include the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Nuclear Weapons Center, and the Installation and Mission Support Center.

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Christine Hoke uses some free weights at a Wixom Planet Fitness.(Photo: JOHN HEIDER | hometownlife.com)

As many people were making New Year's resolutions to lose weight, Christine Hoke hadalmost reached her goal.

After a lifetime struggling with her weight and periodically tipping the scales at more than 300 pounds, she has dropped 135 pounds.

I am thinner than when I got married, and even thinner than I was in high school, Hoke, a 1986 Brighton graduate, said.

The 5-foot-7 South Lyon resident was a size 12 in high school, but now she is a size 10 and down to 190 pounds and counting.

Hoke credits Weight Watchers for giving her the tools to finally get the weight under control, a program she began less than two years ago after her doctor told her she was turning diabetic and because of her excessive weight and her age, her knees were going to give out.

I thought, Holy crap, my mom is in the nursing home and my husband has health problems and Im taking care of him and Im having a hard time getting off the couch and my knees hurt. Whos going to take care of me?

Most of her family is heavyset, but she was by far the heaviest. And finally, shed just decided no one was going to take care of her but herself.

She had reached 300 pounds a few times over the years, usually in 5-year cycles, which was always her tipping point. In 2000, she lost 50 pounds and then gained it back with pregnancy. After she gave birth to her son in 2002, she thought she would lose the weight again, but it stayed. In 2008, she joined Weight Watchers,lost 88 pounds, but gained it back.

You get down so far, start living life, and think, Im happy with myself and you walk away, she said. But unfortunately, I need that support.

Christine Hoke of South Lyon as pictured on April 1, 2018, at more than 300 pounds. In less than two years, she has lost 135 pounds.(Photo: Courtesy of Christine Hoke)

In 2013, she decided to join her husband in getting gastric sleeve surgery, in which a large portion of her stomach was removed. The surgery forces patients to alter their eating habits, not only in the amount of food that can be consumed, but also in the kinds.

I thought, Well be thin together. I thought the surgery was a basic magic cure-all and end-all, that it would keep me from eating all this food, but it was not, Hoke said.

She still craved and consumed sugars and carbs, much of it in liquids, and Hoke felt ill-informed post-surgery about how to handle her cravings. The weight came back, helped from high-calorie drinks and pizza, which she called her downfall.

Food is an addiction and when you are heavy, you cant get away from the addiction, because you need food to live, she noted.

Now shes back to Weight Watchers and says shes not going back to yo-yoing weight ever again. She has a food plan for life.

In her return to Weight Watchers, she lost 11 pounds in the first week just from taking out lattes and smoothies.

Christine Hoke works out at a Planet Fitness in Wixom on Jan. 10, 2020.(Photo: JOHN HEIDER | hometownlife.com)

When she hit 85 pounds lost, she was afraid of plateauing, but she flew right past it. Andthe numbers kept droppingas sheshed125 pounds in a year.

In Weight Watchers, points are calculated for food, and devotees stick to one of three plans that keeps them within their point total. She attends support group meetings once a week at which she weighs in, and she also uses a phone app to calculate points.

An accountant, she enjoys the math, but laughs as she said her doctor told her she is the only CPA she knows who has lost weight during tax season.

While there are no forbidden foods in Weight Watchers, just ones that have to be accounted for, Hoke avoids things like pizza which she calls her red light food, something that once she starts down a path toward, she has a hard time stopping, so she just doesnt go there.

She admits liking her whiskey and indulged a bit in that and pie over the holidays, but said its all about portion control and banking points for when a special day is coming up. Its also about not beating yourself up when the occasional slip-up happens.

Weight Watchers emphasizes forgiveness for bad days, she said, as well as self-awareness of what the underlying issues are for weight gain. Hoke said instead of turning her back on stress, she communicates her feelings more now with her husband, her co-workers, her boss. When something is bothering her, she deals with it rather than reaching for food in reaction to an assumption that someone dislikes her or perceives her a certain way.

That change now is reflected not only in her appearance and physical health, but in her mentally positive attitude as well.

People say Im a different person, there is a light about me, I am radiant and that is because I dealt with my issues instead of eating them, Hoke said. You can talk to people and dont have to go home and eat that bowl of ice cream.

Instead, she goes home and has salmon or sushi or a nice, leaf lettuce salad without a serving of guilt and she takes a walk on the trails in South Lyon.

She is hoping to lose 10 more pounds and get down to her ultimate goal weight of 180 for a lifetime.

Her advice to others wanting to lose weight is to find that one thing your reason why and write it down. Hers is to be healthy. And now she is, both physically and mentally.

All her vital signs are good, and she is taking care of herself instead of wondering who will.

I just feel so much better, Hoke said. I feel lighter in mind as well as in body. I feel younger, and I am definitely happier."

Contact reporter Susan Bromley at sbromley@hometownlife.com or 517-281-2412. Follow her on Twitter @SusanBromley10.

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Is it time to eat yet?

By now you've probably heard of intermittent fasting, arguably the hottest health trend of the last couple years. It's been heralded as not only a foolproof weight-loss method, but also a potential cure for things like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, poor sleep, insulin resistance, even cancer and Alzheimer's disease. A new study in The New England Journal of Medicine links fasting to "increased stress resistance, increased longevity and a decreased incidence of diseases, including cancer and obesity."

Want to learn more? And maybe try it yourself? Here's everything you need to know about intermittent fasting (which I'll also refer to as "IF"), including some of my own experiences with it.

Editors' note: You should always consult with a doctor before making changes to your diet or eating behaviors.

Most of us eat throughout the day, starting with breakfast when we wake up and perhaps ending with a dessert or snack after dinner. If you have breakfast at 7 a.m. and a final snack at 8 p.m., you're consuming food for 13 hours; that's your current "eating window." The idea behind IF is simply to shorten that window -- not necessarily to eat less (though of course that's part of it), but to eat less often.

For example, most experts agree that you can start to experience IF benefits with an 8-hour eating window, meaning a 16-hour fast. So you could have lunch at noon and still have your 8 p.m. snack (well, ideally 7:45 p.m, so you're actually done at 8). That's it. If you can stick to that, it may be enough to produce results.

But, wait: Isn't that just skipping breakfast? And haven't we heard for years that skipping breakfast actually leads to weight gain? Yes and yes. However, IF requires a "clean" fast to be effective (more on that below), and once you get accustomed to it, your appetite should correct so that you no longer overeat once your window opens.

Here's what I love about this: It costs nothing. It requires nothing: You don't have to buy books or gear or supplements or meals. You just adapt yourself to a slightly different way of eating (or "WOE") and that's it. The simplicity -- and affordability -- of IF is what drew me to it.

No food is "off limits" with IF, you can eat whatever you want during your window.

Gin Stephens is the author of Delay, Don't Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle. Those first three words are the key to what makes this WOE worthwhile: You're not denying yourself anything, you're merely delaying it. You don't have to give up, say, pizza because of the carbs or ice cream because of the sugar. You just have to wait until your window opens; then you can eat what you want to eat. No, not the entire pizza or a whole pint of ice cream; you still have to be reasonable. But there are no exclusions. And that's incredibly liberating.

Think about nearly every other diet in history: Atkins, South Beach, paleo, keto, etc. They all require you to either cut out certain things entirely (fat, carbs, sugar, etc.) or eat an excess of something else (protein, cabbage soup, etc.). The reason these diets typically fail is they're not sustainable.

Stephens is fond of this saying: "'Diets are easy in contemplation and hard in execution. Fasting is hard in contemplation but easy in execution.' I absolutely love that quote, because it's so true," she says. "We've all started a new diet and we're all in. Then, as the days go by, the diet gets harder and harder to stick to. Intermittent fasting is the exact opposite. Instead of getting harder and harder, it gets easier and easier."

Lost amid the talk of IF's various health benefits is a very real secondary perk: Saving money. When you cut your diet down to one or two meals per day, your food costs drop accordingly. It's impossible to say exactly how much you stand to save, because it depends on how often you dine out, what you buy at the grocery store and so on.

But even if your total food expenses drop by just 25%, that's ahugedifference. Suppose you typically spend, say, $100 per week on food. If you subtract the cost of seven meals per week, that might realistically lower your expense to $70. Over the course of one month, you'd save $120. Over one year, $1,440.

That's a vacation. A down payment on a new car. And there's a bigger-picture benefit as well: You're lowering your impact on the planet. Imagine if entire populations switched to two meals a day from three. We could get by on fewer crops and animals, which in turn would reduce overall water consumption. Maybe that's a bit of pie-in-the-sky thinking, but there's truth to it.

I mention all this because after I started IF, I noticed I was spending less on food. And then I started thinking about the external benefits of less food consumption, and that made me feel even better about it. Eat less, help the planet. Win-win!

You might have to give up late-night snacking with IF.

There are two schools of thought with regard to how to structure your fasts. The first is fairly different from what's described above; it's commonly known as 5:2, meaning you eat normally for five days of the week and fast for two. That may work for some, but two days of virtual starvation doesn't sound very appealing.

I prefer the daily method: Fast for at least 16 hours per day. The aforementioned New England Journal of Medicine study was based on an 18:6 structure: 18-hour fast, six-hour window.

"16:8 is a great place to start," Stephens says, "but it may not be a weight-loss window for many people. That's because fat-burning ramps up between hours 18 and 24 of the fast. 19:5 was a great weight-loss sweet spot for me, and I lost at about a pound per week when doing it. With 19:5, you fast for 19 hours a day and have an eating window of five hours. Your sweet spot may be different from mine, of course. Maybe it will be 18:6 or 20:4." Experimentation is key, she adds.

If your eating window doesn't include breakfast, you can still drink coffee as long as it's black and unsweetened.

The most important part of the equation, however, is not the length of the window; it's the fast itself, which much be entirely "clean," according to Stephens. That means water, coffee and tea only, with absolutely no added fat, artificial sweeteners or the like. No bone broth, no water with lemon, no flavored teas. No gum, no mints, nothing with calories, period. The goal is to deprive your body of anything that triggers insulin production, because an insulin-deprived body turns to fat stores for energy.

One of the toughest hurdles for many people is giving up cream and/or sugar in their coffee. I was always a sugar man; when I made the switch to black coffee, it sucked for maybe a week or so. Now I'm a convert; I actually like it better. My advice to you: Suck it up and get used to drinking it black.

Stephens can't stress enough the importance of following the clean-fast rule. "For anyone who has ever tried IF in the past but was not fasting clean, now you know why it was so hard for you. The clean fast is so much easier, I promise."

Stephens has a new book -- Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny Intermittent Fasting -- coming this June, with "a deeper dive into the science" than her first book. In the meantime, she recommends two other titles: The Obesity Code, by Dr. Jason Fung, and AC: The Power of Appetite Correction, by Dr. Bert Herring.

There's also a Facebook group -- Delay, Don't Deny: Intermittent Fasting Support -- that's an offshoot of Stephens' first book. It boasts a whopping 178,000 members who ask and answer questions and share stories and encouragement. You'll also find a lot of before-and-after photos that illustrate exactly how effective IF has been for some.

But not for all. You'll also see posts along these lines: "I fasted clean for two months, ate one meal a day, and didn't lose a single pound." Others will note that it took them six months before the scale started to budge. "It takes time," Stephens says. "We didn't become overweight and unhealthy overnight, and it takes time to reverse these health conditions. Once your body has begun healing, fat loss is more likely." How long that actually takes depends on a variety of factors, including age, sex, starting weight and so on.

IF can help you lose weight, but don't expect it to come off quickly.

I started IF in August 2018. At the time I weighed around 181, which is acceptable for a 6-foot male. But I'd been 175 for years, and suddenly it seemed I couldn't control my eating. I didn't like where my belly was headed.

After about two months, during which my fasting windows varied (but averaged around 17:7), I'd lost 10 pounds. Needless to say, I was pleased with that result and became pretty evangelical about IF. My excitement stemmed from not only the weight loss, but also the total lack of hardship. This didn't feel like a diet; it felt like a smart way to live.

In fact, I discovered that I really liked having a window. When I was feeling a little hungry in the late morning? Just wait a bit longer, I told myself, your window opens soon. Then I'd busy myself with something and forget about it. And if I wanted a snack after 7 p.m.? Too bad, window's closed for the day -- but you can have it tomorrow.

I stuck with it for about 10 months, though I'll admit I got frustrated at times. For one thing, I'd been hoping to lose another 5-10 pounds, and assuming they'd come off as easily as the first 10, but the scale held firm at 171.

Meanwhile, there were times when it was much harder to manage my window, like during family vacations, when we'd all eat later than usual and breakfast was a part of the experience. Then came the holidays and various parties and family gatherings, which also presented window-related challenges. With a little planning it's possible to adjust to these things, but ultimately I just got lazy about it -- probably because I'd lost the weight I'd initially wanted to lose.

Over the summer I decided to pump the brakes. But six months later, the scale is once again showing 180. So hello again, my IF friend! I'm actually excited to get back to it, because I've missed the simple discipline. Now that the holidays are in the rear-view, I'm good to go.

Whether you're fed up with diets or just want to improve your overall health, intermittent fasting is absolutely worth a try. It costs nothing to do and can actually save you money. Maybe even help the planet.

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The paleo diet is one of the big 'buzz' diets of the last few years although it's arguably now been surpassed by the Keto diet, Have you ever wondered what it would be like to eat like a caveman? Perhaps not, but as well as helping you lose weight, paelo will also help you find that out as well.

The paleo diet, or Paleolithic diet to give it its full title, is a diet designed to mimic that of people who lived in the Paleolithic era of history. Clever, right? The Paleolithic period began around 3.3 million years ago, but whats important in the context of the paleo diet is that it was a time when food was sourced by hunter-gatherers, rather than by going to Tesco.

We dont know exactly what our prehistoric ancestors ate, but researchers believe they ate whole foods, which means food that is unrefined, with no additives. Thats a pretty sensible guess given they didnt exactly have the technology for much food-processing.

The concept of the paleo diet is that because Paleolithic people didn't have ways of processing and adding to food like we do today, they avoided many of the health problems we face in the 21st century. Today, scientists and nutritionists associate multiple diseases, diabetes, heart disease and obesity to name a few, with poor diet.

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Because we dont know exactly what our ancestors ate, and because what they ate would depend greatly on what was readily available to them based on location and season, the overarching concept that 21st century paleo dieters should stick to is to only eat whole foods and avoid processed foods.

There is no calorie counting. Instead the Paleo diet removes food groups typically high in calories, such as carbohydrates.

Although there is no calorie counting, as with any method of weight loss the Paleo diet seeks to reduce calorie intake. This is because weight loss ultimately boils down to consuming fewer calories than you burn also known as a calorie deficit.

On the Paleo diet calories are reduced by avoiding sugary and high fat foods. Instead Paleo diet foods are low in fat and high in protein (on average you should look for 25 - 30% of your calories to come from protein if following the Paleo diet), which helps you burn fat and build lean muscle mass.

Studies have shown links between overeating processed foods that are high in things like salt and trans fats contribute to diseases like diabetes and heart disease, as well as weight gain. In theory, by only eating naturally-occurring, whole foods, our prehistoric ancestors were less likely to develop these conditions, and more likely to have have low BMIs (although they wouldnt have called it that, of course).

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Paleo diet foods are foods that were available to our prehistoric ancestors and so should be naturally occurring and unprocessed. Meat and fish, fruit and vegetables, potatoes, nuts, seeds and eggs are all allowed, as well as herbs and spices and oils to help flavour your food.

Its recommended that you opt for grass-fed animals and organic produce where you can, but it depends on how strict youre being (and the price tag).

If youre not being too strict and know that you'll cave if you can't occasionally indulge in a treat, the recommended treat options are red wine and dark chocolate.

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The main food groups to avoid when following the paleo diet are grains, most dairy (anything that needs to be pasteurised or processed is not a paleo food), non-naturally occurring sugars and vegetable oils. In reality this does equate to a LOT of food, as many packets, jars and tins that youll pick up off a shelf in the supermarket will contain sugar or salt additives at least.

It will be considerably easier to follow the paleo diet if you start shopping in smaller shops like butchers and greengrocers, and avoid anything that comes in a packet, particularly if theres an ingredient you cant pronounce.You might be a little surprised to learn this includes dried beans, pulses, lentils and other seemingly very healthy things. But if a food wasn't available to Captain Caveman, it's not available to you in this diet.

The paleo diet is not specifically designed to be low-carb, but naturally given these restrictions you will find yourself consuming far fewer complex carbs.

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A significant difference between paleo and other diets is the absence of calorie counting. This means that there is no restriction on how much you eat, but instead a focus on what you eat. As a result, users describe the paleo diet as filling, without issues with hunger associated with other diets, such as the military diet or intermittent fasting.

One user, Sharon, told us that following paleo has given her loads of energy, and that she feels "no hunger or cravings as [the] food is lovely." She also experienced gradual weight loss.

The concept of the paleo diet is relatively new, but studies have been conducted to see how effective it is for weight loss.

One study found that a group following the paleo diet lost an average of 2.3 kgs and 1.5cm from their weight circumference after three weeks. Its important to note that the sample size was only 14 people.

Another study, which looked at 70 woman over a period of two years found that the half who followed the paleo diet lost twice as much weight within 12 months as the half following a low-fat, high-fibre diet. Whats especially interesting is that the women were assessed again after a second year and while both groups had put some weight back on, the paleo dieters lost 1.6 times more weight overall. It should be noted that this study was specifically on middle-aged women deemed to be 'obese'.

Paleo is not by any means an easy diet to switch to. While staying away from 'processed foods' sounds like a great idea, in this context it includes milk, flour, lentils and plenty of other staples of the western diet.

The paleo diet can be difficult to stick to due to the lack of fibre and higher prices of some of its staple ingredients. There have also been no large-scale, long-term studies that demonstrate its effectiveness or which have looked into potentially negative effects of the paelo diet. However, there is plenty of anecdotal evidence from people who have stuck to the diet that it can help with weight loss.

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U.S. News & World Reporthas ranked a program created byHealth Management Resources(HMR) and offered by HSHS St. Anthonys Memorial Hospital as the No.1Best Fast Weight-Loss Dietfor 2020. This marks the fifth consecutive year that HMRs diet and lifestyle-change program has held the first-place position.

Reputation of Rapid Weight Loss

Fast weight loss is often linked to gimmicks, crash diets, and other drastic approaches that are unsustainable and potentially unhealthy. In contrast, HMR achieves fast weight loss through a clinically proven plan that has been available in hospitals since 1983.

According to Brooke Welcher-Miner, registered dietitian and HMR program coordinator for HSHS St. Anthonys, HMRssimple plansare nutritionally complete, calorie-controlled, and designed to help people lose a lot of weight quickly without feeling hungry. She explains, Simplicity is key. We have people focus on just a few key variables that will have the biggest impact on weight and health. Because its so easy to follow, people can stick to the diet longer, which can lead to more weight loss in a short amount of time.

Weight Loss without Lifestyle Change is Temporary

Theres no payoff to losing weight quickly only to have it come back again, says Welcher-Miner. Thats why lifestyle-change education is at the core of all HMR diet plans. HMR uses the science of behavior change to help people create new habits around healthier eating and increasing daily physical activity in ways that fit into their daily lives over the long term.

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About HSHS St. Anthonys HMR Weight Management Program

To learn more about the HMR weight management program and the plan options, the public is invited to attend a free, no-obligation information session, which is held weekly by appointment at the HSHS St. Anthonys Health Center, 900 West Temple Avenue, Building B. There is no charge to attend, but please call 217-540-2336 to reserve your spot. You can also emailSAE-HMR-Program@hshs.orgor call 217-540-2336 for more information. To learn more about the program, visitwww.stanthonyshospital.org/wm.

HSHS St. Anthony's Weight Management, an HMR Program is a licensee of the HMR Program, a non-surgical, clinic-based diet named a "Best Diet for Fast Weight Loss". U.S. News Best Diets panel of nutrition experts ranked the HMR Program but did not evaluate any products or services of HSHS St. Anthony's Weight Management itself.

HSHS St. Anthonys Memorial Hospital is part of the Southern Illinois Division of Hospital Sisters Health System, which also includes HSHS St. Elizabeths Hospital in OFallon, HSHS St. Josephs Hospital in Breese, HSHS Holy Family Hospital in Greenville, and HSHS St. Josephs Hospital in Highland.

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IF you need inspiration for your 2020 health kick, look no further than Adele.

The Someone Like You singer looked seriously svelte while on a break in the Caribbean and reportedly told fans she has lost an incredible 7st.

Adele had a fuller figure in 2013Her staggering transformation was helped by Brazilian Pilates trainer Camila Goodis, 36, who trained Adele, 31, alongside Robbie Williams wife Ayda Field at their Los Angeles home.

Despite revealing that Adele hated exercise, Camila says the training helped to kickstart her lifestyle overhaul.

She says: One day, I was at their house in Los Angeles when Ayda asked me if I would train one of her best friends who was visiting.

Adele had just had her baby, so the exercise had to be very gentle. Pilates was perfect for her. She said shed done Pilates before, in London, and she was very appreciative.

The funny thing was, I hadnt caught her name and I didnt recognise her at the time.

She wasnt wearing make-up or her eyelashes and was wearing sweatpants and a loose top.

"After she left, I mentioned to Ayda that she looked a little bit like Adele. Ayda gave me this look and thought it was hilarious.

Months later, with Adele back in LA, Camila did more sessions with the star.

Camila says: I dont think she is a huge fan of exercise like Robbie and Ayda, who exercise five or six days a week. But whatever she is doing now, she looks amazing.

Camila believes Adeles weight loss is due mostly to a change in her diet.

She has probably cut out processed foods and is eating soy and other plant-based foods, Camila reckons.

Shes found a diet that works for her. She looks younger and, more importantly, she looks happy.

Pilates focuses on flexibility, strength and stamina, with exercises that lengthen and stretch major muscle groups.

Health benefits include improved flexibility, posture, co-ordination and muscle strength.

It is reported to have helped the Duchess of Cambridge and celebrity fans include Margot Robbie and David Beckham.

Try Camilas ten-minute starting guide, shown here. Breathing is vital for each exercise to help relax muscles.

Lie down with legs bent, inhale through the nose and feel ribs expand.

Exhale through the mouth, closing the rib cage down and in. Repeat five times.

LIE with knees bent and feet flat on the floor, hip distance apart.

Tighten your abdominal and buttock muscles.

Raise your hips to create a straight line from your knees to your shoulders.

Squeeze your core and pull your belly button back towards your spine.

Hold for 20 to 30 seconds and return to your starting position.

Do ten reps slow then 15 reps at a faster pace.

LIE down and lift your upper body off the floor.

Have one leg extended just above the floor and the other extended towards the ceiling, held by your hand.

As you exhale, draw your belly into your spine and pulse your leg twice into the body.

Inhale to switch legs and repeat.

Do three reps of ten.

This exercise works the abdominals and shoulders, helping with hip flexibility.

REMAIN lying on your back and extend your legs towards the ceiling.

Rotate the legs out slightly, keeping the heels together. Point your toes. Inhale.

On the exhale, pull abdominals down to the floor as you curl upper body off the floor.

Begin to lower your legs slowly, a third of the way and pause.

Lower another third of the way, pause again.

Go only as low as you can without arching your back.

If you cant do this without arching your back, try putting your hands behind your head, elbows out, as you do it. Repeat six to eight times.

This works your upper and lower abdominal muscles and your hip flexors.

START with your knees in towards your chest and stretch your arms up to the ceiling.

Extend your legs out to 45 degrees.

At the same time, lift your head, neck, shoulders and upper back while engaging your abdominals.

Your arms should be extended at your sides with the palms facing upward.

Raise your legs and torso further so youre sitting in an upright V position.

Keep your arms parallel to the floor and hold your shoulders down.

Exhale to roll down, keeping the legs together. Repeat three times.

This exercise helps balance, flexibility and spinal mobility.

BEGIN on your hands and knees with knee under hips and hands under shoulders.

Lift up your middle.

Hold for ten seconds.

Release. Repeat twice more.

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TIME to rest, relax and elongate your spine.

Kneel with toes together and knees hip-width apart.

Rest palms on top of your thighs. On an exhale, lower your torso between knees.

Extend arms forwards with the palms facing down.

Relax your shoulders and rest for as long as you need.

Alternatively, you can stretch your arms backwards.

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A new study helps illuminate how weight loss can contribute to the remission of type 2 diabetes and how putting pounds back on can cause the disease to return.

The findings, published in December 2019 in Cell Metabolism, suggest that individuals with type 2 diabetes who achieve remission after weight loss may relapse if they regain weight in part because this leads to an accumulation of fat in the liver.

Researchers examined data on 57 overweight and obese people with type 2 diabetes who participated in a prior study, which was published in March 2019 inThe Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. Those study authors goal was to see if following a low-calorie diet for three to six months would help participants lose at least 15 kilograms (about 33 pounds) and lower their blood sugar levels enough to achieve remission of diabetes. Researchers checked participants weight, blood sugar, and fat levels in the liver and pancreas after 5, 12, and 24 months.

After five months, 28 people achieved the targeted weight loss and diabetes remission. By the end of two years, however, 13 of them had relapsed. People who achieved lasting remission lost more weight initially, kept more weight off than those who relapsed, and had less fat in the liver and pancreas by the end of the study.

Excess calorie intake over many years will initiate vicious cycles of fat accumulation within both the liver and the pancreas that eventually causes diabetes, says lead study author Ahmad Al-Mrabeh, PhD, of Newcastle University in the England.

Decreasing liver fat can lead to remission of diabetes, Dr. Al-Mrabeh says. When you do, he adds, the liver stops sending out excess fat to the rest of the body, and therefore pancreas fat levels decrease.

RELATED: Study Suggests How Much Weight Loss Is Needed to Put Diabetes in Remission

Type 2 diabetes is a multifactorial disease, with genetics and lifestyle both contributing to risk. The disease is also associated with obesity and inactivity, and develops when the body cant effectively use the hormone insulin to regulate blood sugar, according to the World Health Organization. The pancreas produces insulin, and must increase production when the body doesnt use this hormone efficiently. Yet theres a limit to how much insulin the pancreas can make, and diabetes results when the pancreas can no longer keep up with the bodys insulin demands to keep blood sugar levels in check.

Left untreated, type 2 diabetes can increase the risk of kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes, blindness, lower limb amputations, and other potentially life-threatening complications.

Regular exercise, eating well, and maintaining a healthy weight can help prevent type 2 diabetes. These lifestyle habits can also help lower blood sugar and minimize complications when people do develop diabetes, according to the World Health Organization.

While weight loss has long been linked to diabetes remission, the current study offers fresh insight into how the two are related, says senior study author Roy Taylor, MD, also of Newcastle University.

When people cut calories, the body will get the energy it needs by burning up fat thats stored under the skin, Dr. Taylor says. By contrast, when people consume too much food, these fat stores fill up and then excess fat starts accumulating in the liver.

Excess liver fat will lead to higher supply of fat to all tissues, including the pancreas, Taylor says.

When fat builds up in the pancreas, this interferes with insulin production, making it harder for the body to regulate blood sugar and contributing to diabetes. When people achieve diabetes remission through weight loss, regaining weight can restart the process of fat accumulation in the liver, and then the pancreas, and lead to relapse, according to the study.

RELATED: Which Types of Diabetes Can Be Put in Remission?

At the start of the study, all of the participants tended to have higher A1Cs. A1C is a blood test used to diagnose diabetes and determine how well blood sugar is being controlled. It shows the percentage of hemoglobin (a molecule on red blood cells) that is coated with sugar, and reflects average blood sugar levels over two to three months. Readings above 6.5 signal diabetes, according to the Mayo Clinic.

People who never achieved remission in the study started out with more severe diabetes, with average A1C readings of 7.9, compared with average A1C readings of 7.4 among people who did experience remission.

Weight loss initially brought about similar reductions in the percentage of fat in the liver and pancreas for people who achieved diabetes remission, as well as for those who didnt.

After five months, people in remission had 3.4 percent liver fat compared with 2.6 percent in people who didnt achieve remission but this difference wasnt statistically meaningful.

Participants also experienced similar decreases in fat levels in the pancreas after five months: a decline of 0.91 percentage points among people who went into remission and 0.17 points for those who didnt. This difference also wasnt statistically meaningful.

By the end of the two-year follow up period, though, pancreatic fat levels had dropped by 1.65 percentage points among people with sustained remission and only 0.51 percentage points among those who didnt.

One limitation of the study is that it was small, and researchers based their two-year analysis on only 20 people who sustained remission and 13 people who relapsed.

Its also not clear from the study whether people took medication for diabetes, what they ate, or how much they exercised factors that can influence whether people achieve remission.

It would have been helpful if the study included more information about how weight loss was accomplished, says Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, professor emerita of exercise science at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

RELATED: 6 Great Exercises for People With Diabetes

The most important message is that people have to do whatever they can with their lifestyle to improve their insulin sensitivity, says Dr. Colberg, who wasnt involved in the study. Insulin sensitivity refers to how efficiently the body can use the hormone to convert sugars into energy.

Dietary restriction can help with this and insulin resistance decreases even before significant weight loss but weight regain is very common, Colberg adds. Both a low-carb diet and consistent workouts can help people with diabetes lose weight and lower blood sugar, she says.

But many people who rely on diet alone to maintain weight loss regain many of the pounds they lose, Colberg says. Exercisers, on the other hand, can keep weight off when they continue to be active.

Physical activity is likely the most important way to keep muscles insulin sensitive and to avoid excess carbs being converted into fat and stored in the liver and pancreas, Colberg says.

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YOUR morning coffee not only has the power to get you out of bed in the morning - it could also help you to lose weight.

In fact, drinking up to four cups of the piping-hot drink a day can actually help you shed body fat, scientists have found.

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It comes following a 24-week investigation that examined the impact coffee had on 126 overweight men and women in Singapore.

Scientists asked half the participants, who were all Chinese, Malay or Asian-Indian, to drink four cups of caffeinated coffee on a daily basis.

The other half drank a beverage that mimicked coffee's taste but was neither coffee nor caffeinated.

In particular, experts found at the end of the study that those who had four cups of caffeinated coffee per day over six months had dropped nearly 4 per cent of their body fat in comparison to those that hadn't.

Study author Dr Derrick Johnston Alperet, from the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said: "We were indeed surprised by the observed weight loss that was specifically due to fat mass loss among coffee drinkers."

And Dr Alperet suggested that coffee-fuelled fat loss may be the result of a "metabolic reaction" - rather than changes in lifestyle "namely diet and physical activity".

He claimed thatcaffeine causes the drinker's metabolic process to ramp up - which results in the burning of more calories and a notable drop in body fat.

Dr Alperet also emphasised that while some people may think that having four cups of coffee a day may pose a long-term health risk, that this level of consumption was well within the current norms.

He also noted that on average Europeans can drink up to seven cups of coffee daily, while Americans will have four.

Despite this, Connie Diekman, a food and nutrition consultant and former president of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, is not so sure.

She cautioned: "The four cups allocated in this study appear to be on the high side of intake, so not what I would recommend.

"The higher caffeine content might have helped suppress appetite."

NHS tips for weight loss success

The NHS has shared their three key tips for weight loss success:

Lots of useat and drink more than we realise and do little physical activity. The result is often weight gain.

To lose weight, we need to change our current habits. Thismeans eating less even when eating ahealthy, balanced diet and getting more active.

Fad dietsand exercise regimes that result in rapid weight loss are unlikely to work for long, because these kinds of lifestyle changes can't be maintained.

Once you stop the regime, you're likely to return to old habits and regain weight.

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She added that too much caffeine "can impact the body overall, causing headaches, jitters, rapid heartbeat and stomach distress."

And Dr Alperet agreed that "any decision for a non-coffee drinker to include four cups of coffee per day to his/her diet needs to be carefully calibrated with other caffeine-containing foods, beverages and medication currently consumed."

In the meantime, "we believe more research is needed here," Dr Alperet said.

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"Additional trials with more comprehensive assessments of body composition are needed to confirm our findings."

It comes following another study that foundcoffee can stimulate "brown fat", which burns calories to generate body heat.

Experts from the University of Nottingham said the breakthrough could help tackle the obesity crisis.

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