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It is often said that the secret to losing weight is as simple as burning off more energy than youre putting into your body. And by that logic, you should be able to shift some pounds by hitting the gym -provided you're not eating lots more than you were before.

But there may also be some truth in the saying that you cant outrun a bad diet, as many people whove been pounding the treadmills for months without seeing any results will be able to attest.

As everyone (well, perhaps everyone except Donald Trump) knows, regular exercise does wonders for your mental health and general wellbeing, and its also been linked to longer life expectancy and reduced risk of heart attacks, diabetes and dementia.

However, increasingly research is showing that exercising wont help you lose weight nearly as much as most people think.

People expect exercise to be a great way to help them lose weight, but the effects on weight are only small, says Dick Thijssen, a professor in cardiovascular physiology and exercise at Liverpool John Moores University.

Some studies have shown that working out raises your base metabolic rate which means you burn more calories over the course of the day, but according to Professor Thijssen, if you exercised for three or four months without changing your diet, youd only lose about 1kg.

According to the Mayo Clinic, a not-for-profit medical research establishment in the US, in general, studies have demonstrated no or modest weight loss with exercise alone and that an exercise regimen is unlikely to result in short-term weight loss beyond what is achieved with dietary change.

In 2012, a study by US researchers provided a breakthrough on the subject. They studied the Hadza tribe in northern Tanzania and as hunter-gatherers, the Hadzas spend their days being much more active than the typical Westerner.

The researchers expected the Hadzas to be able to eat a lot more as a result, but they found that the hunter-gatherers consumed around the same numbers of calories as those who live a Western lifestyle and had a similar energy expenditure too.

It strongly suggested that exercising without eating less would not help you lose weight.

A further US study conducted last year by the City University of New York found that those who exercise moderately burn about 200 calories more every day than those who dont at all, but exercising more than that didnt mean your energy expenditurebecame even higher.

Energy expenditure through exercise seemed to plateau at around 2,600 calories a day, the Mail Online reports.

Individuals tend to adapt metabolically to increased physical activity, muting the expected increase in daily energy [expenditure], the researchers explained.

The study suggests that exercising moderately willmean you burn more calories, but its not a case of the more you workout, the more you burn. Energy expenditure may have a limit.

Its unclear as to why this may be the case though - some experts suggest it could be because after youve exercised, you move less for the rest of the day because your body is tired - perhaps you take the lift instead of the stairs or fidget less.

Whats more, many people overestimate how many calories theyve burned off in the gym and so overcompensate by eating too much.

Professor Thijssen believes the key to weightloss is simply consuming less and cutting your calories.

Its worth noting, however, that other studies have reached different conclusions and found that there ismore of a linear relationship between exercise and energy expenditure.

Getting moving is undoubtedly good for the body - youll build muscle, tone your body and get fitter by working out. Whats more, exercising also reduces internal fat around your organs.

And many studies have shown that exercise reduces the risk of chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes, reduces blood pressure and improves brain and heart health

So dont hang up your trainers just yet, but if youre trying to lose weight, it could be worth skipping pudding once in a while.

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After breaking her ankle in 2013, Heather Crockett Oram was mostly immobile for three months. During that time and the months following, she gained about 80 pounds.

It was sheer boredom. I was on crutches, I couldnt even walk, Crockett Oram, 33, told TODAY. I got into a lazy mood and I would think, Whats the point? I will eat better tomorrow and tomorrow never came.

Growing up, Crockett Oram was always overweight. She didnt understand nutrition and exercise so she simply gained weight. When her mom became addicted to pain pills, Crockett Oram relied on food to make herself feel better.

It was emotional eating and trying to cope, she said.

In January 2015, she was in grad school and working full time when her mother passed away from her drug addiction. After her death, Crockett Oram tried to gain custody of her 11-year-old brother. That same month, a friend asked Crockett Oram if she wanted to try a meal plan designed to help with weight loss. She felt stunned.

I was offended when they approached me, she said. The last thing on my mind was to lose weight.

Crockett Oram, who weighed 260 pounds and is 5 feet 9 inches tall, begrudgingly started the meal plan in the beginning of February 2015. After three months, she had lost some weight and started going to the gym. Shed ride a stationary bike and play games on her phone.

Most of her life, Crockett Oram (far right) has been overweight and tried loads of fad diets. In 2015, she changed her eating habits, started exercising and lost 82 pounds.

As she dropped more weight, she added lifting to her routine and also started HIIT (high-intensity interval) training. In a year, she lost 82 pounds.

I lost the weight and I still am continuing every day working at it, she said.

When a friend asked her if she wanted to try a weight-loss meal plan, Heather Crockett Oram felt shocked. She didn't think of herself as obese. But that started her weight-loss journey.

Even when stressful situations occur, Crockett Oram, who lives outside Salt Lake City, Utah, has not returned to emotional eating. Last June, her 26-year-old sister died from sepsis, a complication from a heroin addiction, and still Crockett Oram did not turn to food. Through this process, shes learned that she's stronger than she realized.

I can do hard things and I dont have to rely on eating my emotions, she said.

Crockett Oram poses in one of her old dresses after losing over 80 pounds.

Theres joy in her life, too, and she shares her successes on Instagram. Shes starting a four-month body building class to continue to add muscle to her body and she and her husband, Jason Oram, are hoping to adopt a baby. She shared this advice to those hoping to lose weight:

Maybe you had some late-night ice cream or you skipped the gym. Thats OK. Just keep working at it.

If you make mistakes a few days in a row that doesnt mean you are a failure. You need to crush it the next day, she said.

Thinking of losing a lot of weight at once seems daunting.

If you look at the big picture you are going to be overwhelmed You will set yourself up for failure. You go weekly, she said. First week, cut out soda. Eat how you normally do, then you cut out soda. When you reach your goal by Sunday, add on another goal: sugar, plus no soda.

For three months, Crockett Oram did not lose any weight. So she changed her exercise routines and stopped weighing herself. At the end of three months, she shed 16 pounds.

I think when you hit the plateau, you have to re-analyze. Not everything is going to work all the time, she said.

Crockett Oram on her wedding day.

Losing weight means dedicating yourself to it.

You consciously make that decision every day: I am going to eat better today. I am going to drink that water today. I am not going to eat that donut. It comes down to consistency, she said.

When Crockett Oram considered using food to cope with the hardships in her life, she remembered the shame and guilt she felt when she used food to cope.

There definitely (was) always that mentality in the back of your mind of going back to emotional eating and filling that void with the fleeting euphoria of bingeing and overeating. However, it is always fleeting, she said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ShapeScale 3D body scanner hands-on (5:56)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 3D scanning head.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sonia Azad, WFAA 8:37 AM. CDT May 09, 2017

Most of us at some point in our lives have tried something to lose weight. So we can relate to Monica Fair.

Ive always had this 12 to 15 pounds that I couldn't get rid of," said Fair, 47, who has experimented with trendy exercise programs and fad diets to no avail.

I never could lose the weight, said Fair. As a matter of fact, I would gain muscle which would push the fat out and make me look bigger."

It turns out the answer may be on the inside.

DNA testing

"We're looking at genes that are responsible for your body composition, said Kurt Johnsen, co-founder of a Dallas-based company called Simplified Genetics.

Hes a Kung Fu master, founder of American Power Yoga, and overall a pretty fit guy with a passion for helping others get healthy, too.

I'm not a doctor, I'm not a scientist, said Johnsen, who sat down with WFAA at Plum Yoga, along Dallas popular stretch of Lower Greenville.I want to make sure what we do makes a difference."

Since 2012, Johnsen says his company has tested the DNA of 11,000 people, analyzing genes to match you with the best type of workout, diet, and vitamins for your body.

This is the most revolutionary thing I have seen in over 35 years," said Leisa Hart, the blonde bombshell behindBuns of Steel. Now shes 49, a mom, and still a beautiful fitness trainer.

This is my job! I'm in good shape, said Hart, admitting that there is a side of her that the public didn't see.

Working out that often and that intensely -- my face would be red, my head pounding. I would have to take a nap many times throughout the week, she recalled. That was my body screaming at me saying -- please just slow down! You're not supposed to work out that hard that often."

Then Hart got genetic testing, which is really just a simple cheek swab. The swab is sent to a lab in Louisiana where your DNA is extracted and prepared for analysis. Results are put through algorithms that generate specific recommendations for you.

I found out that when I was working out intensely, I was working out at much too high of a heart rate and I was working out for too long of a duration, said Hart.

Based on her results, she actually needed to do less.

To the eye, 53-year-old Rosanne Lewis is similar to Hart. But her genetic makeup is completely different.

I stopped eating all this bread because I thought it wasn't very good for me. I started having nuts instead or I would eat cheese -- things I thought were healthier-- and I gained four pounds."

Lewis results showed she can get away with mostly low intensity exercise. But this type of DNA analysis goes deeper: identifying your idea diet. The bread-lover, Lewis, is more sensitive to fats than carbohydrates, meaning she can eat her bread and do yoga in peace.

I know now for the rest of my life what I'm supposed to do, said Lewis.

With people putting a lot of stock -- and money -- into these tests, we wanted to get a doctors take on them.

This is the start, at the very least, of something very interesting, said Dr. Leslie Cler, chief medical officer of Methodist Dallas Medical Center.

Dr. Cler told WFAA that this type of genetics testing has been on the market -- offered directly to consumers -- for a decade, but still is in its infancy.

Further, according to Cler, while different companies may get you the same results, their recommendations are open to interpretation.

I don't think these tests are recommending anything dangerous to the patients -- not at all, said Cler. But as a doctor, if you came to see me and you said, I heard about this test, if I get it do you think that I'd be likely to lose weight? The answer is -- I don't know."

Fair enough. But losing weight isn't always the goal. Remember Hart -- who scaled back on her workouts since getting her results?

I feel so much better, said Hart. I feel like I could actually do more but I don't have to.

Then theres Fair, who went from a size 10 to a size 6 after putting her results to use. She added fish to her vegetarian diet, and now incorporates a blend of low-and-high intensity workouts.

It was life-changing to be able to actually get to my goal," Fair said.

But what works for Fair wont work for everyone. Makes perfect sense if it boils down to DNA.

On Tuesday morning Sonia Azad, Ron Corning, and Alexa Conomos got their tests back -- see their results below!

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May 8, 2017 by Clare Collins, The Conversation There are many types of fasting diets. But are they any better than restricting your energy intake the old fashioned way? Credit: http://www.shutterstock.com

Trying to lose weight is hard work. You need to plan meals and snacks, and make a big effort to avoid situations that trigger more eating and drinking than you'd planned. Dieting can also be very antisocial. But what if you could speed up weight loss, spend less time "dieting", with the "promise" of better results? This is where "fasting" diets come in.

What is a 'fasting' diet?

Intermittent fasting is the broad name for diets when you fast to some degree on some, but not all, days of the week; you eat normally on the other days.

On "fast" days, the kilojoule (energy) restriction is severe, at about 25% of what you would normally eat. This is only 2,000 to 3,000 kilojoules a day. An average person needs around 8,700 kilojoules a day (depending on body size and activity level) to maintain their current body weight.

To lose between one quarter and half a kilogram a week you would need to reduce your energy intake by 2,000 kilojoules a day. Over a whole week, this is equivalent to cutting back total energy intake by 14,000 kilojoules. Fasting diets compress this 14,000 kilojoule reduction into fewer days of dieting. In practical terms, this means that you reduce your intake by so much on a couple of days, you do not to be so strict on the other days.

Depending on the type of "fasting" diet, you focus all your weight loss efforts into sticking to the severe restriction for either two days a week (as in the 5:2 diet) or every second day (for three to four days days a week), as in alternate-day fasting. Another variation is the 16-hour overnight fast where eating is restricted every day to an eight-hour window, such as 11am to 7pm. Across all types of intermittent energy restrictions diets, we don't know the longer-term benefits or harms.

Any intermittent fasting approach will work if you can tolerate the hunger pains and stick to it. Sounds easy, but it is a very hard thing to do and for many it is not realistic. When you are fasting, your body thinks there is a famine and will try to get you to eat. The idea is that by including non-fasting periods, when you eat what you want, you may feel less like you are on a "diet", and that makes it easier to stick to.

Even though "fasting" dieters are told to eat what they feel like on non-fast days, most do not get a compensatory increase in appetite. In other words, they do not over-eat, but just eat normally on non-fast days. So they reduce their total kilojoule intake over the whole week.

How about very low energy diets?

A specific type of continuous (every day) fasting diet is called a protein sparing modified fast or a very low energy diet. These limit you to 1,800 to 2,500 kilojoules a day, every day. They use products called formulated meal replacements, in the form of milkshakes or snack bars to replace most meals and snacks. These are supplemented with vitamins and minerals to meet the body's nutrient needs.

Such very low energy programs usually include one small meal that contains a couple of cups of vegetables (to boost fibre and nutrient intakes), a small amount of oil (to keep the gall bladder working) and sometimes a fibre supplement (to manage constipation). These are reserved for when you need to lose weight urgently for health reasons or ahead of surgery.

Continuous fasting using these very low energy diets is associated with a reduction in hunger. This is thought to be due to the production of molecules called ketones that cross the blood-brain barrier (from the brain's bloodstream into its tissues) and reduce appetite.

Do 'fasting' diets work?

Intermittent fasting diets that last for at least six months help people lose weight. However, they are no more effective than other dietary approaches that restrict your kilojoule intake every day, but not so severely as a "fast".

Consistent with this result, a study published last week randomised 100 adults to either alternate-day fasting, a continuous energy restriction diet, or to no intervention, for six months. They were followed for another six months after that. There was no difference in weight loss between the diet groups after a year.

And a review that compared behavioural interventions for weight management to those that also included very low energy diets found very low energy approaches achieved slightly greater weight loss for up to two years.

Who should not try a fasting diet?

Fasting diets are not for everyone. People with major medical problems, or taking a range of medications including insulin, should not go on them, unless under medical supervision; they are not suitable for children, in pregnancy or for people with eating disorders; and they may exacerbate some mental health conditions.

Fasting diets can also have side-effects. The more days you spend "fasting", the more likely you are to have them. Side-effects can include constipation, headaches, bad breath, gall bladder disease, gout and liver inflammation.

So, before starting a weight loss diet, see your doctor for a check-up. When you need more support to improve your eating habits, or the diet you were following stops working, you need to try another approach. That is a good time to also get advice from an Accredited Practising Dietitian.

What is the best diet for weight loss?

The best diet to help you achieve a healthy weight is one you can stick with. It should also help you feel better and be healthier.

By making improvements to your usual eating habits, that you can live with permanently, you will drop some weight. It might not be your dream weight, but it is likely to be realistic. It might not sound sexy, but it's true.

Explore further: Is alternate-day fasting more effective for weight loss?

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This is nonsense. Just cover your armpits completely with petroleum jelly. Occluding the pheromone producing glands under your arms where the angst pheromone is emitted will allow calorie reduction as well as un-distort self perception and food perception. Then with a smaller body, go run and jump and frolic.

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Journal photo by Tim Cook Dr. Mark Cucuzella has organized this Saturdays Harpers Ferry Half Marathon, a family-friendly spring foot race that includes a shorter 5K race and walk, as well as a kids fun run event.

CHARLES TOWN Its a national junk-food health crisis, a genuine medical emergency, according to Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, a Jefferson County family physician.

We must act now. We cant wait, he warned, voicing an urgency of someone daily witnessing and actively working to end the problem and promote healthier diets.

This medical crisis over junk food involves, of course, too much sugar far too much of it loaded every day into Americans meals of factory food and beverages, said Cucuzzella, a nationally recognized expert on unhealthy living and dietary habits. More than any other medical problem, he said, this daily overdose of sugar which the doctor calls a toxin is steadily sickening and killing far too many Americans, including disproportionately far too many West Virginians.

Sugary diets including those laden with simple and complex carbohydrates not fatty foods such as meats, eggs and butter, as federal health officials have long maintained are propelling an astronomical spike in acute obesity, Cucuzzella said. And that obesity is, in turn, causing a tidal wave of debilitating heart disease and diabetes and many related complications.

Most of the public health issues relate to nutrition, he added. In a hospital, 80 percent (of patients) have diabetes, heart disease or complications that is driven by their lifestyle. Occasionally, youll have a trauma a motor vehicle trauma but almost everything else we see is something that is directly attributed to their lifestyle.

The American Heart Association reports that the average person can safely consume about nine teaspoons of added sugar a day, but that the average American consumes more than double that amount. Cucuzzella said that the AHAs gauge of the sugar intake by typical Americans overlooks additional sugar people also absorb from eating carbohydrate-rich foods such as breads and pasta. And people with any degree of insulin resistance from too much sugar would need to consume even less sugar than the daily allowance the AHA recommends, he said.

Cucuzzella said this silent but plainly evident in the expanding waistlines of children and adults dietary disaster over ingesting excessive sugar has been unfolding in West Virginia and across the country for about 40 years. Now, in an astonishing new development, diseases involving metabolic malfunctions from sugar-laced diets are being passed directly down to children born from family habits and the unborn from the bloodstreams of mothers.

A child born of a diabetic mother, he pointed out, has a six times odds of having diabetes over the course of their lifetime.

For years, Cucuzzella has been leading local and national educational efforts to promote better nutrition through homemade meals with known, natural ingredients. Soda and boxed meals made for long shelf lives should be avoided or shunned altogether, he said. Dishes made from scratch with fresh and balanced ingredients, like those your grandmother made every day, should become part of regular nourishing routines again.

Practicing at the Jefferson Medical Center in Ranson, he devotes hundreds of personal volunteer hours educating his patients along with youth, everyday citizens and families, government officials and policymakers, and even other doctors about rampant medical problems for people consuming excessive amounts of sugar.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the upcoming generation of typically overweight Americans becoming the first generation to have shorter life spans than their parents, Cucuzzella said. And theyre also living sicker than their parents.

Right now the U.S. has one of the shortest health spans on the planet, he said. We might spend 80 years living, but were spending how many of those years as sick medical patients.

RACING FOR THE CURE

At national and international conferences, Cucuzzella highlights research showing how high-sugar diets are the primary cause of our nations recent spike in heart disease and diabetes and their many dangerous medical complications. In addition to giving local community talks, he lectures around the country as well as the Eastern Panhandle about the dangers of consuming too much sugar, something thats easy to do through the overwhelming abundance of highly processed foods and drinks widely stocked at fast-food restaurants, convenience stores and even many standard groceries.

Pretty much there is almost nothing you can get at a fast-food restaurant that I would recommend people put in their body, he said.

In Jefferson County, Cucuzzellas nonstop advocacy for healthier nutrition includes his volunteer work as the race director and driving force behind this Saturdays Harpers Ferry Half Marathon, a ninth-annual family-friendly spring footrace that includes a shorter 5K race and walk, as well as a kids fun run event. Attracting about 800 to 1,000 participants from 25 states every year, the day event, open to people of all fitness levels and athletic abilities, is a major fundraiser for the year-round health and educational programs in the Eastern Panhandle and throughout West Virginia.

Similarly in the fall, a bookend event to Saturdays spring footrace is the bigger Freedoms Run, which Cucuzzella also organizes under the same nonprofit mission to promote healthier, better-fed human beings. That September race features a full marathon as top billing, a race that takes runners through both the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and the Antietam National Battlefield before ending in Shepherdstown. The event, which also includes a half marathon, a 5K race and kids fun run, brings 2,500 people from 40 states to Jefferson County.

During the past nine years, both footraces have raised more than $400,000 that financially support classroom nutrition education, recreation programs, fitness trails and healthy food farmers markets.

Instead of selling cookies to people to raise money, which makes people sicker, Cucuzzella said of the two annual races, were actually providing opportunities for people to move and set goals and get themselves more physically healthy and, in the end, raise money to spread it wider.

MAKING LIFESTYLE CHANGES

Cucuzzella said a lack of exercise isnt the primary factor of todays obesity epidemic. Yes, people should exercise more, he acknowledged, but he doesnt blame overweight people for their condition. Instead, he recognizes the overall everyday living environment where high-sugar foods are hard for Americans to avoid. Even most hospital cafeterias have soda machines and snack machines.

Were trying to first address it with education, but education can only go so far, he said. If you have a toxin in the environment like sugar and sugar-sweetened beverages and Gatorade and sweet drinks and its the most accessible, affordable and acceptable thing to be using, you cant win.

The economically powerful food industry for years has tried rather successfully to place the blame of obesity and diabetes on a lack of physical activity, away from the products they sell, Cucuzzella said. Another factor is that the medical community hasnt communicated a consistent message well about the dangers of excessive sugar, he said. Doctors, nurses, dietitians and pharmacists all have to understand the dietary problem to guide patients successfully.

For this reason, Cucuzzella, who opened a specialized athletic footwear and healthier living store in Ranson called Two Rivers Treads that offers free advice and encouragement to those who want to get moving more, leads an innovative program that teaches young medical interns how to help patients with better nutrition. Along the way he also pioneered a hands-on program conducted in a kitchen setting that helps doctors better educate their patients about practical healthy eating and cooking.

If a family doesnt know how to cook, how are they ever going to learn how to eat well? he said.

Cucuzzella pinpointed the start of the crisis at 1980, when the federal government first published dietary guidelines for Americans, guidelines that essentially declared war on fat, telling people to significantly reduce oils and fats in their diets. And Americans listened, in droves. They quickly traded traditional meals of meat, eggs, dairy and vegetables for low-fat foods such as white bread, frozen yogurt, cereal and Pop Tarts that wear down human metabolisms.

If you look at the obesity graphs, thats where it started and the diabetes ultimately travels behind that, he said.

Cucuzzella likens the unquestioned everyday acceptance of todays destructive sugary diets to the dynamics of widespread acceptance of hazardous smoking and tobacco products years ago.

If you go back to my parents generation, you could smoke in doctors offices. It was acceptable everywhere, it was cheap and it was acceptable. Everyone smoked, he said. Now thats not the case. You practically have to go into a closet to smoke, and it costs eight bucks a pack, and theyre behind the counter and kids cant get them.

Today, refined sugar is viewed the same benign way as tobacco was a few generations ago, Cucuzzella said. However, our nations high-tech, high-cost and highly invasive medical system shares a portion of blame for the dietary obesity crisis to answer for as well, he said.

Were doing everything wrong, he said. Were arguing now in Washington over how to (medically) insure people, not how to keep them healthy and get them healthy. We spend more than twice as much as any industrial country on health care with the worst outcomes.

Cucuzzella said he has dozens of patients who, empowered with nutritional knowledge and support, have broken their dietary sugar habits for healthier lives. He also pointed to Frank Buckles, the local legend and last surviving American World War I veteran from the Charles Town area who lived for 110 years, as someone who adopted a healthy lifestyle that led to a long lifespan.

Once asked the secret of living long life, Buckles said family genes, regular exercise and a healthy diet are important. He also added that a hopeful attitude and taking life at a slower pace helps, too.

He didnt do anything fancy, he said, adding that Buckles avoided chronic, debilitating illnesses even in the later stages of his life. He was a farmer. He ate off his land. He got out and moved his body every day. He didnt have toxic stress. He tended to throw away every medicine his doctors gave him, and the rest is history.

For Cucuzzella, changing West Virginians ingrained dietary habits will mainly happen at the grassroots. Thats where individual consumers and families as well as their doctors support one another in common resistance to the dietary status quo. Thats also a significant part of what Saturdays footraces races in Harpers Ferry are all about, he said.

Certainly come for the exercise, fresh air and scenery. But also come to take part in the collective stand in sneakers and sweat suits to support a new and different path of resistance for your own better health and life and for the similar different path of new like-minded friends and comrades.

I encourage people to come out and run, Cucuzzella said. At the end of the day, we want people to go into that charity site and see what were doing. If people really see that this is a grassroots community effort to restore the health of West Virginians, thats what its all about.

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