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In Indian Country, a gym membership isnt a cultural norm. The incidence of heart disease and obesity are high there. So northern Idaho's Coeur DAlene tribe is incorporating culture into its fitness programs.

Its not Sweatin to the Oldies or High Intensity Interval Training. Its powwow.

The Coeur DAlene tribe is known for two things: its hospitality and its powwow. The cultural celebration is one of the largest native gatherings in the nation.

So, the tribe borrowed from that tradition and created an exercise program based on powwow dancing.

The tribe has released a workout DVD. The series includes a warm up and breaks down moves for six dances typical at Powwows, including the mens fancy dance.

The hip move involves lifting your knee up and then circling it out to the side, all while bouncing to the drum beat.

A tough workout

The tribe also hosts weekly classes at the Coeur DAlene Wellness Center.

Several times a week people gather here on the second floor to dance along to the DVD together. Tribal member Ryan Ortivez gave a lot of credit to Powwow Sweat

I lost 13 and a half pounds, he said. Im aiming to lose 40 pounds by the end of the year.

Ortivez quit smoking this year. He also gave up junk food and soft drinks.

Wellness Center Director LoVina Louie keeps everyone moving through the various dances. Sometimes, she pauses the DVD to workshop the most complicated moves.

She said its harder than it looks.

If you dont do it regularly, your calves will hurt, like youre just out of breath, because youre just constantly bouncing, Louie said. Its almost like jump roping for 25 minutes straight.

Fighting obesity on the reservation

We know for example that American Indians and Alaska Natives are 60 percent more likely to be obese than non-Hispanic whites and so they have real health challenges in their communities, said Doctor Terry OToole with the CDCs Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Division.

Since 1999, the agency has funded requests for community based health projects. OTooles office granted the Coeur DAlene tribe $2 million to develop Powwow Sweat. It also supports a community garden here, an effort to promote indigenous foods and a project that stocks the reservations gas station market with healthy food options.

Combating obesity requires more than just one initiative or one program, OToole said. It takes a variety of what we call population based strategies.

OToole said the goal is to achieve community-wide results. But, according to Louie, that goal isnt easy on a reservation, because mainstream fitness and nutrition programs dont meet the needs of tribal members.

Most programming is only physical, or its only nutrition, Louie said. Its in these compartments whereas, were more holistic.Its that combination of Native tradition and exercise that keeps Ortivez and his neighbors coming to class each week to watch the DVD and dance alongside each other.

Its a lot more attractive than doing jogging or the bicycle for me, because it also relates to my culture, Ortivez said.

In addition to losing weight and getting healthy, Ortivez wants to be in good enough shape to dance in the tribes Powwow this summer. If he does, it will be his first time.

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WANT to lose fat? You should do this one simple thing.

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Hes famous for his get ripped quick mantra, but Joe Wicks has revealed his one top tip for fat loss success.

Creator of The Body Coach, Joe has amassed an impressive 1.7 million Instagram followers including Ellie Goulding, John Terry and Joey Essex.

Since graduating with a degree in sports science, the fitness fanatic has launched a successful diet and fitness philosophy.

But what is his one top tip for fat loss? Meal preparation.

My top tip for fat loss success is prep like a boss. All that means is that youre going to sit down, plan your meals for the week, go food shopping, get all those ingredients, go home and start to prep your meals, Joe told Business Insider.

If youre really busy that might mean doing it on a Sunday for three to four hours, but you are going to set yourself up for the whole week.

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Joe added the busier you are, the more you need to prep.

If you do work silly hours and youre not coming home until really late, the best thing to do is prep as many meals in advance as you can.

That means when you walk in from the gym or youve had a long day at work, your meal is there either in the fridge or the freezer and that is going to guarantee fat loss success and set you up for success for the whole week.

Joe also champions high intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts as he believes no one has time to spend hours at the gym.

I get my clients training for less time but at higher intensity with HIIT cardio workouts, the trainer told the Daily Star Online.

HIIT is awesome for burning body fat because you not only burn calories during the session you also burn calories for hours after.

My clients aim to do four to five HIIT sessions per week lasting no longer than 25 minutes. This makes it perfect for busy people.

"The harder you train the greater the after burn so push hard in each session.

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When you need to lose weight, it can be very tempting to try an extreme, quick-fix dieteven though you know there's a good chance the results won't stick. But here is a powerful reminder that a slow, steady approach to dropping unwanted pounds (and keeping them off) remains the healthiestway to manage weight: A new study found that yo-yo dieting and other forms of back-and-forth weight fluctuations were linked to higher risk for stroke, heart attack, and early death in people with heart disease.

Previous research has found that so-called weight cycling may be harmful for other groups of people, such aspostmenopausal women. (Other researchhas suggested that losing excess weightis always good for the heart, whether it's gained back or not.) The new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the first to measure the effects of weight cyclingon people with pre-existing coronary artery disease, or hardening of the arteries.

The new study looked at data from a clinical trial that included 9,509 men and women between the ages of 35 and 75, all of whom had been diagnosed with coronary artery disease and high cholesterol. The study participants were prescribed different doses of cholesterol medication, and the original trial was sponsored by Pfizer.

The participants were tracked for about five years and had their weight assessed every six months. In that time, researchers found, repeated shifts in body weight were associated with more cardiovascular problems, although the link was only significant in people who were obese or overweight at the beginning of the study. Yo-yo weight changes were also associated with more newly diagnosed cases of diabetes.

Overall, people with the largest average weight changes (as much as 8.6 pounds between check-ins) experienced 136% more strokes, 117% more heart attacks, and 124% more deaths during the study than those with the smallest shifts (just under 2 pounds) in weight. For every 1.5- to 2-pound change in weight fluctuation, the risk of any coronary or cardiovascular event increased by 4%, and the risk of death by 9%.

These numbers were surprising, says lead author Sripal Bangalore, MD, director of the cardiovascular outcomes group at NYU Langone Medical Center. We were expecting that there would be some relationship, but werent expecting it to be that strong, he says.

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The study was not able to determine why people were gaining and losing weightwhether it was intentionally, unintentionally, or the result of an illness. And it was not able to confirm a cause-and-effect relationship between weight cycling and future heart problems.

But the findings do suggest that doctors should be concerned about weight fluctuations in people with heart diseasea group thats already at high risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other dangerous complications.

When cardiologists see obese patients with coronary artery disease, we routinely recommend that they lose weight, Dr. Bangalore says. But the irony of that is that we know patients dont just lose weightthey often gain it back quickly. We know this adds significant stress on the body, so we need to figure out how we can prevent that.

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Dr. Bangalore says the message here should apply to anyone trying to lose weight, not just people with heart disease. I often see patients trying to lose a ton of weight, and once they achieve it they try to relax and go back to their old habits, he says. Whatever you can do to reduce weight is important, but once you do all that hard work, its also important to try to keep it off.

This type of yo-yo weight cycling may not cause immediate symptoms, Dr. Bangalore adds, so patients may not realize how dangerous it is. But this study, and others, do suggest that its doing real harm, he says.

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Pattie Kappen knew there was another person inside of her.

That woman was confident and fit. She could hike all 8 1/2 miles of the Liberty Lake Loop Trail, including the ascent to the waterfall. Crossing a parking lot didnt leave her wheezing for breath. She never worried about squeezing through narrow doorways.

But for years, Kappen lived with a different reality. She was morbidly obese, carrying more than 400 pounds on a 5-foot, 6-inch frame.

This person who was inside of me, I always knew she was there. It was how to let her come out, Kappen said.

Today, the 37-year-old Spokane resident weighs 175 pounds. Shes no longer diabetic. She doesnt need high blood-pressure medication anymore. And shes become an avid hiker.

The path to losing 250 pounds included gastric bypass surgery, which Kappen qualified for through insurance offered under Washingtons Medicaid expansion.

Kappen also quit smoking, changed her lifestyle and diet, and saw a counselor to help her deal with past abuse. After being molested as a child, Kappen said, food became a coping mechanism.

People dont realize why youre fat. They judge. I hated that, she said.

Kappen was profiled in The Spokesman-Review in 2015, after she lost 38 pounds in preparation for the gastric bypass surgery.

Shed walked into a CHAS Health clinic a year earlier, determined to kick a two-pack-a-day habit and get down to a healthy weight. Without major changes, Kappen who has a teenage son knew she was facing a shortened lifespan.

My worst fear was that I was going to die fat. Or, I could die trying to change my life, she said.

Death rates climb with obesity, said Dr. Saurabh Khandelwal, director of the bariatric surgery center at the University of Washington Medical Center, where Kappen had gastric bypass surgery in December 2015.

When peoples body mass index rises above 35 the threshold for morbid obesity the risk of dying from any cause more than doubles in men and women, Khandelwal said.

You start to see all these diseases crop up: high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea, he said.

At the time of her surgery, Kappens body mass index was in the low 60s.

In Washington, adult Medicaid patients have been eligible for bariatric surgery since 2005. To qualify, the surgery must be deemed medically necessary for the patient. Prior authorization is required, and patients go through psychological testing as part of the screening.

The surgery really is for people who cannot lose weight, Khandelwal said. If someone is able to get down to a healthy weight without surgery, that is by far the ideal situation.

But as people pack on pounds, returning to a normal weight gets harder, Khandelwal said. The body has a metabolic memory, and it fights weight loss.

After bariatric surgery, keeping the weight off requires sticking to a carefully regimented diet and exercising at least 30 minutes each day.

Its not some magical operation that works on its own, Khandelwah said. Its daily work and daily commitment.

For Kappen, being obese meant daily humiliations a seat belt didnt fit, a chair was too small, a corner was too tight.

Society is not forgiving, she said. Not when youre fat.

For years, low esteem sabotaged her efforts to change, Kappen said. She could hear the negative whispers in her mind: Pattie, youre not worth it. Youre never going to do this. Eat that cupcake.

Kappen credits CHAS Healths smoking cessation program for helping her embark on positive life changes.

Quitting smoking for me was the defining moment, she said. I knew this wasnt me anymore.

She started exercising, graduating from 15 minutes on the treadmill to walks around her South Hill neighborhood with Ross Kappen, who was her husband at the time. She also transformed her diet, focusing on lean meats, whole grains and fruits and vegetables.

After the surgery, Kappens good habits continued. Her stomach is about the size of an apple now, which requires carefully monitored food intake. Over a seven-month period, she lost more than 200 pounds.

As soon as they told me I could get up and walk, I was walking, she said. I was so motivated. It was life changing.

She celebrated the milestones, buying new pants and shirts after dropping multiple sizes, and documenting the walks, which gradually turned into hikes.

When youre fat, you think, I walked from the car into Wal-Mart, Kappen said. Even short distances feel like an accomplishment. Now, I think, I just hiked seven miles. Thats crazy.

Hiking to the Liberty Lake waterfall last summer with her son and former husband was a special occasion. Shed tried to reach the waterfall multiple times but always had to turn back.

Kappen is still about 40 pounds away from her weight goal of 135, which would put her at the median body mass index for her height. The remaining pounds will come off more slowly, but Kappen doesnt mind. She feels up to the challenge.

The months since the gastric bypass surgery have had their difficulties. A friend rushed Kappen back to Seattle last September for emergency surgery. She had developed a bleeding ulcer, which occurs in about 5 to 10 percent of patients who have the surgery.

Kappens marriage to her high school sweetheart ended. As she embarked on major changes, Kappen and her husband realized they wanted different things out of life. They split amicably and both remain involved in their sons life.

After years of being a stay-at-home mom, Kappen is pondering options for going back to school and working. But she has the confidence she lacked in the past.

Im a whole new person now, she said.

Kappen frequently talks about her experiences to people she meets. By telling her story, she hopes to encourage others who are struggling to lose weight, quit smoking or deal with past abuse.

I know your journey, baby, she often thinks. I know you can do it.

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As we all know there is no magic bullet for weight loss. It takes time, consistency and a lot of determination to make the numbers move on the scale, but it is possible and it does not have to be difficult or complicated. Below are my top seven tips for a successful weight loss journey.

Set small goals for small victories

Setting small goals will not only help you lay out a plan to lose weight, but it will also help keep you motivated along the way. When choosing your goals, go with the S.M.A.R.T. method.

You want goals that are:

Specific: State exactly what your goal is.

Measurable: Choose a way to measure your progress.

Achievable: Make a realistic goal that can be achieved through hard work.

Realistic and relevant: Be a realist about your goals and determine the relevance to what you want to achieve.

Time-bound and trackable: Set short- and long-term deadlines and track everything. You can determine what you did right or where it all went wrong by tracking it all!

For example, about one to two pounds per week is a typical healthy and achievable goal. In fact, more people keep off the weight when it is gradual and steady!

Break time is over

If you are hitting the gym regularly, but you arent seeing results, it might be time to take a look at how you spend your time working out. In other words, do you spend more time talking to other people or playing on your phone than actually working out?

Aim for 30 to 60 seconds between sets to keep your heart rate up and burn more calories.

Crank up the intensity

Whether you are strength training or doing cardio, it is no secret that increased intensity will burn more calories and help you lose weight. So, if you are medically cleared to exercise without limitations, aim for a higher-intensity workout that will push you out of your comfort zone.

Try this interval training workout next time you hit the gym.

Pump up the volume

If you are not tired after your workouts, check yourself and see if you can crank up the amount of exercise you are doing a notch. For example, if three sets of eight reps is not cutting it, try increasing the reps or sets. Four sets of eight to ten reps could be a good starting point if your workouts have become a bit too easy.

Mix it up

You do not have to switch up your entire workout to mix things up, but if you are doing mostly strength training, add in two to five minutes of higher intensity cardio between exercises. If you are doing lots of cardio, take a break every 10 minutes and do three to four sets of strength training, which can be bodyweight or free weights.

Create a sustainable program

Just as one to two pounds a week will yield great long-term results, your physical activity should reflect that same mindset. At least 150 minutes of physical activity per week is recommended at a minimum, or 30 minutes a day, five times per week.

If one hour of exercise is too much, it is more beneficial to exercise 30 to 45 minutes five to seven times a week, than one hour twice a week.

Fuel and re-fuel with real food

Do your best to consume real food to fuel your workouts. There are lots of pills, powders and patches out there that claim to do amazing things, and while some might boost your results temporarily, you will need to continue consuming those supplements forever if you want those results forever.

You can save money on supplements by finding the whole food replacement. For instance, black coffee before workouts instead of pre-workout powders.

Overall, it is about making lifestyle changes that you can stick with. Good luck on your weight loss journey and check back in for more wellness tips and some of my favorite workouts.

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Have you ever dipped a Chips Ahoy cookie into a family-size jar of crunchy peanut butter? If not, I highly recommend it.

I discovered the wonder of this very refined culinary pairing recently while approximately 10 months pregnantyou know, the stage at which you havent seen your own bikini line in ages. After a healthy second pregnancy in which Id SoulCycled and strength-trained throughout, even doing pull-ups into my third trimester, in those final weeks I was uncomfortable, cranky, and forgoing my go-to Sweetgreen salads for a diet that could best be described as laissez faire .

Lets just say should we get dessert? had become a rhetorical question. But even though I gave birth to my son, a sweet, simple little man with a striking resemblance to Wallace Shawn, five weeks ago, the truth is Im still treating my three-year-old daughters Chips Ahoy like Dunkaroos for our collective family peanut butter (Note to them: Sorry, guys.) and regularly dining on gnocchi, tortellini, and goat cheese ravioli.

And Im not beating myself up or making any apologies for any of it. This time aroundafter my second and what I now believe will be my lastpregnancy, I am instituting a hard-line personal policy of NOPE to the psychotic post-baby body industrial complex . Or, to put it simply, Im not killing myself to "lose the baby weight" at the pace of a pre-fashion show Victorias Secret Angel.

In part, its my Hillary Clinton showing up at her first big post-election speech with no makeup because eff the patriarchy moment. As a card-carrying nasty woman, Im tired of holding myself to wild beauty and body standards. We might be inundated with celebs on the cover of Us Weekly boasting of their perfect bikini bodies, like, five minutes after baby and Instagram fitspo queens in-the-mirror selfies of their eight-packs one week post-birth. But as a normal civilian woman, and a full-time working mother of now two, I have bigger things to worry aboutlike, when will I sleep again, and President Trump convening a board room of 30 men to ruminate on maternity leave . I literally dont have the time or brain space to obsess over losing the 30 or so pounds Ive gained in a hurry, especially not because thats just what Im supposed to do to make myself more palatable and presentable.

Lucky for me, my livelihood does not depend on having buns of steel. But the truth is that not even Chrissy Teigen or Alessandra Ambrosio should feel bullied to get their flat abs back on somebody elses timetable; no mom should have to feel bad about, um, actually eating after 40 weeks of pregnancy and the feat of giving birth. Thats just cruel and unusual punishment. When youre at the beck and call of a squealing newborn and, if youre breastfeeding, can barely drink without pumping and dumping, the least you should be able to do for yourself is eat a little gnocchi.

Its occurred to me lately that theres a certain irony to the pressure put on postpartum moms: Eating well and often, and gaining weight, is the goal for my son. Double chins and fat rolls are cause for celebration in babiestheyre a sign hes a healthy growing (mini) human. But, for me as his mother, the premium is on shedding weight, returning to my smaller selfand, oh yeah, and make it snappy. Where is my grace period, in which, like my baby, being well-fed (and, okay, a little squishy) is a sign of my wellbeing?

It helps, of course, that this isnt my first rodeo. During my first pregnancy three years ago, I was laser-focused on getting back to my pre-baby weight. I had an exciting and pretty fabulous job as a magazine editor to return to; my standard-issue leather leggings awaited. I wanted to show up on my first day back, after three months maternity leave, looking as svelte as my old self. I wanted to prove to myself, and to others, that I could be one of the good, Kate-Middleton-kind-of-people who can achieve this big, overhyped goal of losing the baby weight super quickly. The clock was ticking.

And so, in the weeks after having my daughter, I became a walking Cathy comic, trying on my old skinny jeans at intervals, lamenting when they wouldnt button, or even zipper. I hated hated that handful of flesh hanging out around my belly button. I hated pumping breast milk, too (the only way I could make breastfeeding work due to latching issues with my daughter) but at least part of the reason I kept it up for three months was that I knew it was a great calorie-burner. I even tried out one of those alleged waist-shrinking corsets Jessica Alba has said she used to get her abs back after having kids. (PSA: Don't do this; it didn't even fasten. Also, they don't work .) As soon as my doctor signed off, at exactly six weeks after giving birth, I dedicated myself to Tracy Andersons post-baby workout DVD (I think giving birth was less painful), clipped back in at SoulCycle, and started to forego the delicious lasagna and pie friends had generously brought over so I wouldnt have to cook. It worked: I actually wore a shiny new pair of leather leggings on my first day back at work.

Looking back, Im not sorry I lost the weight, but I am sorry I gave myself a pressing deadline by which to do it, and put so much pressure on myself to meet it. As my awesome labor and delivery nurse very kindly reminded me during my recent hospital discharge debrief, it takes time to put baby weight on and it takes time to take it off. I know now that added anxiety and stress in the weeks after having a baby is the last thing I, or any woman needs. Sue me, Im a survivalist.

This time, Im not rushing my post-baby fitness regimen, nor am I holding myself to the standard of fitting back into the very same articles of clothing as before, and stat. Having lost the baby weight once, Im confident I can and will do it again, as hard as it may be with two kids in the mix. (Mercifully, the baby and everything else that comes out with it, plus breastfeeding, have already taken care of a good 15 or 20 pounds of it.) I intend to get back to pull-ups, and my favorite hyper-political SoulCycle class, as soon as I am cleared to exercise (in part to escape my family, but thats another storystay tuned). But when I do, I may or may not return to my exact pre-baby weight and size. Maybe its my bigger boobs and more voluptuous self talking, but when I look at some of my old Instagrams (as one does), I think I looked a little scrawny back then... like I could have used a few Chips Ahoy.

Michelle Ruiz is a freelance writer and contributing editor at Vogue.com whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan and Time.com . She's a big fan of gnocchi. Twitter: @michelleruiz

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PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwired - April 07, 2017) - According to their website, there are 14 Bulletproof Diet principles to follow for weight loss and overall improvement of health. What's interesting is that the author wants to avoid 'information overload' for dieters who struggle to adhere perfectly to dietary guidelines and yet, the Bulletproof Diet lays out 14 very stringent steps to remember. To be fair, it does state that adherence to all principles isn't necessary but 'the more you do, the better it works.' Some of the steps are obvious, such as 'Eliminate sugar', 'Eliminate all synthetic additives, colorings and flavorings' and 'Switch to organic fruits and vegetables.' However, a few of the guidelines seem to have no relevance to weight loss, "Eliminate legumes, 'Cook your food gently' and 'Eliminate gluten in any shape or form' are examples of this.

Legumes, which include beans and nuts are valuable protein sources for the body. In addition to providing protein, they also tend to be dense in much-needed fiber, potassium and magnesium. Legumes provide the necessary building blocks for muscle preservation. Muscle mass is key for optimal fat-burning and metabolic function. The elimination of all gluten is also a sticking point. Not all individuals suffer from gluten intolerance and its removal from the diet may have a minimal impact on those who tolerate gluten just fine. Furthermore, its sudden elimination can result in nutritional deficiencies in necessary minerals and vitamins. Lastly, cooking one's food gently offers a negligible health benefit and doesn't really contribute to weight loss. Preserving certain raw food enzymes is only recommended for those who know how to prepare such foods properly. Otherwise, improper cooking methods can result in hazardous health consequences. Though the diet's provision on, 'Don't use a microwave or fry," does have some merit.

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Repeatedly gaining and losing weight may be linked to increased risk of heart attack, stroke and earlier death in people with pre-existing coronary artery disease, according to a study published Wednesday.

Research from NYU's Langone Medical Center found that people with high weight fluctuations were 136 percent more likely to experience strokes, 117 percent more likely to suffer from heart attacks and 124 percent more likely to die from health complications than those with smaller weight changes.

"Our findings suggest that we need to be concerned about weight fluctuation in this group that is already at high risk due to coronary disease," said lead study author Sripal Bangalore, MD, director of the cardiovascular outcomes group in the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center.

Subjects in the high fluctuation group experienced weight changes around 8.6 pounds, and those in the low fluctuation group reported weight changes around two pounds.

Health experts reviewed the data of 9,509 men and women between the ages of 35 and 75 with pre-existing coronary artery disease. The subjects also reported high cholesterol levels, and half were treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs in high doses. They were studied for 4.7 years.

Weight changes were linked to significantly different outcomes in subjects who were overweight or obese at the study's beginning, but not in subjects with normal weights. Participants who showed higher weight fluctuations showed higher cases of newly-diagnosed diabetes, though scientists warned that the result only showed an "association" between weight cycling and "poor outcomes."

Further study is needed.

A 2009 study showed that yo-yo dieting could also lead to an increase of inflammation and the body's storage of adipose tissue. Fifty-five percent of overweight or obese women who lost 10 percent of their overall body weight regained it within four years, while 93 percent of men and 95 percent of women were unable to maintain weight loss, showing that long-term maintenance is often more difficult than the initial weight loss.

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Yo-yo dieting -- quickly losing weight only to promptly regain it -- may raise the risk of heart problems, a new study suggests.

People who experience regular weight fluctuations of 8 to 10 pounds are much more likely to suffer from heart disease, heart attack, stroke and other heart-related maladies than people who only experienced shifts of 2 pounds or less, said lead researcher Dr. Sripal Bangalore. He is an interventional cardiologist with NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.

In particular, yo-yo dieters had more than twice the risk of death, heart attack or stroke compared with people who maintained a relatively stable body weight, Bangalore said.

"For every 1.5- to 2-pound change in weight fluctuation, the risk of any coronary or cardiovascular event was increased by 4 percent, and the risk of death by 9 percent," Bangalore said.

Patients with heart disease are encouraged to drop some pounds if they are overweight or obese, but it is very hard to maintain weight loss, Bangalore said. Weight gain frequently follows weight loss, falling into a rhythmic pattern doctors call "weight cycling."

To see whether weight cycling had any effect on heart health, Bangalore and his colleagues analyzed medical data from 10,000 patients with hardening of the arteries in a clinical trial to test the effect of statin medications.

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The patients were tracked over four years, with doctors regularly taking measure of their health and their body weight.

Researchers found that people whose weight cycled dramatically were more likely to experience heart disease, heart attack, cardiac arrest, blocked arteries, angina, stroke or heart failure.

Their risk of death was 124 percent higher, heart attack 117 percent higher, and stroke 136 percent higher, after accounting for other factors, the study said.

Bangalore thinks dramatic changes in weight likely place a lot of stress on the body, and also causes hormonal changes that affect the heart.

But yo-yo dieting might only be an indication of deeper medical problems affecting a person, said Linda Van Horn, a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Yo-yo dieters in the study were more likely to be heavier, smoke and have high blood pressure and diabetes, said Van Horn, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association. Twice as many yo-yo dieters actually developed diabetes during the study.

"When you go down that list, some huge issues jump right out at you," Van Horn said. "Across all of the likely candidates for what contributed to illness or death, the yo-yo dieting in and of itself was not the culprit. Those who were yo-yo dieters, as much as they tried to lose weight to lower their risk factors, still succumbed to the very risk factors we know all too well."

Overweight or obese people should still try to lose weight, since dropping any excess pounds will improve their health, Bangalore and Van Horn said.

The key is to undertake weight loss as a long-term effort involving diet, exercise and other lifestyle changes you can maintain over the long haul, they said.

"This shouldn't deter anyone from losing weight, but this is all the more reason to say that once you've done the hard work of losing weight, it's really important to keep the pounds off for a long period of time," Bangalore said.

People can do that by avoiding fad diets, and instead focusing on healthy eating and regular exercise, Van Horn said. They also should give themselves a break if their efforts don't immediately pay off with dramatic weight loss.

"Maybe you don't lose quite as much as you could if you starve yourself, but the real trick is keeping it off over the course of your life," she said. "The only way that really is successful is adopting a lifestyle that includes the very things we all know that contribute to healthy weight."

The study was published April 5 in theNew England Journal of Medicine.

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Everyone is looking for a good way to lose weight quickly. Regardless whether you have ten pounds or one hundred pounds to lose, could the low carb lifestyle work for you?

It is exactly what it sounds like. Your #diet consists of limiting your carbohydrate intake in order to have your body burn fat versus carbohydrates. The amount of carbohydrates allowed in your diet daily depends on many variables. If you weigh more you generally limit your intake significantly at first. Depending on the diet this could be done by cutting carbohydrates down to twenty or less per day.

In the beginning phases of the low carb lifestyle, you will be eating meat and green veggies mostly. The meats cannot have breading or spices that include sugar on it. If it does, this will include some hidden carbohydrates. You are also only allowed to drink water and unsweetened teas. You may have some diet soda in moderation, but some diets do not allow for certain sugar substitutes. For example, on the first phase of the #Atkins diet, many sites say you cannot have aspartame but are only allowed Splenda or Stevia.

There are many different websites that will help you to choose the diet that is correct for you. Some of the diets even offer applications to download to your phone or tablet that makes for easy access to keep track of your intake for the day.

Atkins offers an application for your phone that allows you to track your weight and your diet. It also allows you to sync a fitness tracker and keep track of your steps all in the same location. Another cool feature on the Atkins app is that you can search Atkins friendly recipes. You can search by the phase of the program that you are in or by ingredient.

The keto diet is very similar to Atkins. You have to limit your carbohydrate intake strictly. The idea of limiting your carbs is to send your body into ketosis and burn fat. The limitations on this diet are much more strict than Atkins.

I personally have been eating low carb for the past two weeks. I have lost twelve pounds just by changing my diet. I have done nothing else in the form of exercise. I go about my life as normal and limit my carb intake to under twenty-five per day. Online you can also join in groups and see other people who have lost weight as well.

Regardless of your opinion on the low carb lifestyle, it does actually work to #Lose Weight. Many people who have lost weight on the diet claim to gain it back just as fast. This diet is not a quick fix. It is a lifestyle change that you must maintain for the rest of your life.

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