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We are now well into 2017. Many of us started the new year with a diet, likely with the intention of losing weight, or being healthier.

There are many different products and programs on the market that promise weight loss. Some require replacing one or two meals each day with a shake or bar and eating a healthy dinner. Others offer weight-loss supplements focusing on reducing appetite to help you eat less.

Diet programs guide participants through the process, sell them their food and supplements, and offer weekly weigh-ins. These programs are based on changing lifestyle, tracking food intake by using a point system, encouraging attendance at weekly meetings and weigh-ins and regular exercise. Also, online programs help track calories and daily activity levels.

Diets including high fat, low fat, high carb, low carb, Paleo and Mediterranean are available, as well as many others.

Most diets work, if followed, but many are very different to how people normally eat. For many dieters, after reaching a weight or fitness goal, they tend to go straight back to what they were used to before.

According to 2016 figures, the weight-loss industry was worth $60 billion, from diet book sales and the many programs, clinics and products available. The industry does not want anyone to know that while on a strict diet they are undermining their metabolism. Dieting changes the rate of a metabolism, which can work against people.

A slowed metabolism can cause people to feel like they are constantly hungry, though their body needs to eat less to maintain the weight loss they just achieved. The weight-loss industry has much to lose financially and continues to create new plans and programs to keep us hooked.

We need to find a way of eating and active living that works for us. We need to learn what our body needs on an individual basis. Our ancestors ate foods they found in nature. With stores so fully stacked we need to realize that just because food is plentiful it does not mean we should eat all we can.

Looking at what is available, we should ask ourselves whether it is working to our benefit or detriment. Is it feeding the body or only filling the stomach? We should look at food as the basis of healthy living, giving it the place it had before we became too rushed to eat a wholesome breakfast before heading out the door.

We need to look at eating meals at the table more often, rather than in the car while on our way to work or when dropping off our children at school. Maybe we are eating too fast to give our bodies the chance to break down and digest the food the way nature intended.

Eating healthy and maintaining a healthy weight should not require a science degree or a list of different plans or programs that are hard to maintain.

Look at what you are doing right and find where you can make small changes. Create a plan that works for you and include whole foods: lots of vegetables, fruit, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Let your body respond the only way it can when it receives all the nutrients it needs to function, with a healthy weight, fewer health problems, more energy and optimal health.

In the end, the best diet is the one you can stick to in the long term.

Kitty Clemens is a board-certified practical holistic nutritionist and professional cancer coach.

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Newton Centre, MA, plastic surgeon Joseph Russo, MD, does all the main plastic surgery procedures, and a lot of skin-tightening and fat-melting, but when it comes to noninvasive weight-loss options, he says his favorite is the HCG Diet program.

In a nutshell, the program consists of injections of the HCG pregnancy hormone (which suppresses the appetite) and consuming only 500 calories a day. The diet got a lot of playplus a lot of backlasha few years back (currently, there are no FDA-approved HCG drug products for weight loss and the FDA has a full page devoted to questions about it), but Dr. Russo says, when done right under doctor supervision, its a solid option for losing weight.

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It is a way for a person to see both fast results and better health, and I often combine it with my liposuction and tummy tuck procedures. The program uses daily self-injections of HCG, the protein released when a woman in pregnant, in combination with clean eating and restricted caloric intake for up to 12 weeks. The body burns its abnormal fat stores for energy, and the inches melt away.

What makes Dr. Russos HCG Diet program unique, he says, is the fine-tuned-for-each-individual factor. Its customized for every patient and we offer a lot of support for long term lifestyle changes. I've never seen a diet that reshapes the body in this way or where the body maintains its healthy muscle mass. I know from personal experience!

Wendy Weiss, who is on Dr. Russos staff, tried the diet as well and she is a big believer. I wanted to lose weight in what I felt was a healthy way. I also wanted the support and education to make long-term changes in my habits.

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The most "difficult" part for Weiss wasnt the restriction or the hormonesit was the food prep. The diet consists of real food and took more work than I was accustomed to at first because processed convenience foods are not permitted. Once I got good at that, it was really easy.

Weiss also says she thinks most people would be surprised to realize the difference between what losing fat pounds versus overall pounds looks like, and its something she really noticed in terms of her bodys transformation. Fat takes up a lot of space, and losing it makes a big difference in the shape of the body. I think most people will look like they lost more weight on the diet than the scale shows because of this transformation. I lost 10 pounds of fat on the program, but went down nearly three sizes.

My energy increased during the diet, and I notice that change even now since my choices and habits are so much better than they ever were before, she says. I look at food choices differently, and my body feels younger.

While celebrity nutritionist Paula Simpson says theres no denying that you will most likely lose weight on this program, she does stress that there are some things to consider. Several studies have found that weight loss on the HCG diet is due to drastic calorie restriction and has nothing to do with the HCG hormone. One phase restricts to 500 calories per day, which can cause more water and muscle loss over fat loss, and we know this is not the healthiest approach for long-term weight management.

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Stress can either cause a person to overeat or shut down their appetite. About one-fourth of Americans rate their stress level as eight or more on a 10-point scale, according to an American Psychological Association survey.

Overeating and undereating are both reactions to stress, anxiety and pressure, Director of the Student Health and Counseling Center, Kathleen Camelo said.

Overeating is one of the stress-related behaviors. People may find themselves eating more because it makes them feel better, and they turn to food for comfort and stress relief, according to Camelo. On the other hand, she said some people are too anxious that they start to lose their appetite and starve themselves.

Both overeating or undereating can have a negative effect on a persons body, according to Camelo. Research shows that people often seek high-calorie, high-fat foods during periods of stress, and when people are stressed, their bodies store more fat than when they are relaxed. As a result, their blood pressure and sugar level might be affected Camelo said.

It can cause diabetes as well, Camelo said. You gain weight quickly, especially if you are on the verge of being overweight.

Undereating works the same way, according to her. People can lose weight quickly, and their metabolism can decrease. She said people can feel even more tired and feeble because of this.

I am definitely the self-soothe-with-more-food-than-normal type when it comes to stress, senior public relation major KahMun Lee said. Eating distracts me from the stress, and sugary treats cheers me up.

She revealed that she always feels hungry whenever she is stressed out.

I tend to snack a lot on junk food, Lee said. Sometimes, I either watch a very sad movie or a comedic movie.

When the urge to eat hits, it is all she can think about.

But you also feel guilty for overeating afterwards, Lee said. Those emotional habits can sabotage your diet.

She believes people should practice mindful eating in order to regain control over themselves.

I think overeating and undereating are not only bad for your health but they are also bad for your anxiety, Lee said. You become overweight if you eat too much, and you may not be giving your body enough nutrients if you stop eating.

Beside eating, she finds listening to music an effective way to release her stress.

Music can help me elevate the stress and negative emotions, preferably upbeat pop songs, Lee said.

She also recommended exercising would be a good way for everybody to deal with stress. When you exercise, your body releases endorphins in your brain, which act as natural painkillers.

Researchers at Stanford University show that music is an easy stress reduction tool. They also noted that listening to music seems to be able to change brain functioning to the same extent as medication.

Other than that, you should avoid caffeine, alcohol and nicotine, Lee said. Get more sleep, talk to someone, keep a stress diary and do things you love.

In contrast, freshman journalism major Jacob Elsbree often loses his appetite when it comes to stress.

Its not like self-harming, he said. Normally, I am stressed because I have too much work to do, and I feel like I should have my work done first.

However, not eating or eating too much can sometimes cause more problems, according to Elsbree. He believes the best way to deal with stress is by taking yourself out of the situation of being overwhelmed or taking a break before getting back to work.

There are many options for students to seek help on campus when it comes to stress.

You can either make an appointment with a counselor, or seek help from a nutritionist, Camelo said. Professional help is available on campus, and you dont need to go anywhere.

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Eating Disorders Awareness Week is there to do what it says on the tin. And awareness about eating disorders has grown throughout my career. Indeed eating disorders have become synonymous with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa - two devastating mental health problems that call for as much attention as they can get. But both are actually fairly rare. And while I struggle to find people who haven't heard about anorexia and bulimia, I rarely meet anyone aware of other eating disorders.

Picture a child sitting at a table, cutlery in hand and food in front of them. Yet no matter what the parent says or does, gentle bribery, cajoling, threats of 'an early bed', the child simply won't eat. Nearly all parents go through the annoying phase when their child refuses to eat. It usually starts at two. Professionals call it the 'food neophobic' stage of child development. This is normal. Nothing to worry about.

Avoidant/Restrictive food intake disorder or ARFID is actually more common than anorexia and bulimia. It typically starts before the age of five and lasts until adulthood. You've probably at least heard about both children and adults with ARFID, but perhaps known it by another name. The 'picky eater'. But it's a misleading term. What most people call a picky eater is actually a bunch of three separate problems. Two of these are normal. One is a psychological disorder. The term 'picky eater' trivialises the everyday struggle faced by people with ARFID and those around them.

ARFID generally starts between two and five, the same age children hit the food neophobic stage. The difference is the child with ARFID does not 'grow out of it'. Children at this stage generally refuse new foods in favour of things they're familiar with. Although frustrating, the child eats and doesn't lose weight. But children with ARFID tend to avoid and restrict their food, leading to weight loss or nutrient deficiency. They restrict their diet to sometimes only two or three foods that they deem to be safe. Most often these are foods high in fat, sugar and/or salt. And it damages their health.

A child with ARFID often just looks like they are being naughty at mealtimes. They may refuse to follow the adults' requests, run away from the kitchen or dining room and fidget around the table. Again, nothing unusual.. But children with ARFID do this nearly, every time food is put on the table and generally lasts for years. This is when well-meaning people dish out advice. The 'been there, done that' mantra is meant as support. As an eating behaviourist professional and a parent, I can safely say ARFID children are different.

The things that get most children through the food neophobic stage, simply don't work, or more accurately will not work in the same time frame, for children with ARFID. Parents of children with ARFID are desperate to stop the behaviour, desperate to get their child to eat and desperate to have a 'normal' food neophobic child. If anything, they can offer other parents advice. They've almost certainly tried everything. Worst of all, parents of children with ARFID are often publically blamed and sometimes shamed for their child's apparent willfulness.

In more than 10 ten years working with children with ARFID, it is very rare that anything the parents did or do caused the problem. They are not at fault. ARFID is an eating disorder. The child is anxious about food, may have experienced a traumatic event with food or find different tastes, smells or textures of food offensive. The behaviour stems from their interaction with food and has little to do with what the parents have or have not done. ARFID stays with the child. It does not get better with time and harms children's health.

Next time you see that child across the table playing up and refusing to eat, 99 times out of 100 it is just a phase. But alarm bells start to sound if their behaviour does not improve by 6 years of age and especially if the child starts to lose weight. It might be that 1 in 100 case of ARFID. This is when it's crucial to get professional advice to improve the child's diet. When you see that child with ARFID, understand that it is not the parents' fault and your advice has likely been tried, tested and failed. For parents of children with ARFID, that frustrating phase all parents went through is a daily reality, with no signs of improvement.

The road to recovery from ARFID is possible, but is likely to need specialist support. Several specialist centres across the world are available and can help. And I hope this spurs your interest just enough to find out more about other eating disorders beyond those you think you already know about. ARFID is just one. There are others. Disorders like pica and rumination also appear to have lower public awareness than anorexia and bulimia. Maybe it's time to find out more.

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It doesn't mean that breast cancer is a woman's fault, but it does show that what you eat early in life could have repercussions decades later, said Dr. Karin Michels of the University of California Los Angeles, who helped lead the study.

"It is actually quite serious," Michels, who did the work while at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, told NBC News.

"We should advise our girls and teenagers to eat healthy because breast cancer does seem to have a much earlier origin than we have appreciated in the past. Cancer in general takes years, potentially even decades, to develop."

Breast cancer is the No. 2 cancer killer of U.S. women, after lung cancer. Every year, it's diagnosed in 200,000 women and a few men, and kills around 40,000.

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For the report, Michels and colleagues turned to the Nurses Health Study, a giant, ongoing look at the health of tens of thousands of women working in medicine.

"In 1997, participants were asked if they would be willing to complete a supplemental food frequency questionnaire about diet during high school." That's one weakness of the study - it required women to remember what they ate decades before.

The researchers threw out results from anyone whose memories seemed especially bad and were left with 45,000. Of them, 1,477 developed breast cancer over the next 22 years including 870 who developed premenopausal breast cancer.

They divided the women into quintiles - five groups based on how many "inflammatory" foods they ate and how often. These include sugar-sweetened and diet soft drinks, refined grains, red and processed meat, margarine, corn, other vegetables, and fish.

The opposite of an inflammatory diet includes green leafy vegetables, cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage and broccoli, and coffee.

"Among all women there was no significant association between a higher inflammatory dietary pattern score in adolescence and overall breast cancer incidence," they wrote in the journal Cancer Research.

"However, a significant association was observed between a higher adolescent inflammatory dietary pattern score and incidence of premenopausal breast cancer."

Women who remembered having eaten a very highly inflammatory diet as teens were 35 percent more likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women who ate the least inflammatory diet, they found.

And the more inflammatory foods a woman ate, the higher her risk, Michels said.

They did not break down the diet by individual foods, Michels said, so they cannot tell women that, say, dropping red meat will help even if they continue to drink soda.

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"Every step helps. It is just like with physical activity," Michaels said. "People ask, 'do I have to go to the gym three hours a day' and the answer is any activity is better than none."

It's the same with food, she said.

"Personally, I am a vegetarian, so I think giving up red meat is a good first step," she said. "Others may find it easier to give up refined carbohydrates."

Going healthy later in life does not seem to help as much as starting out eating well, Michels said. And women whose diet worsened as they entered middle age did not seem to raise their riskof later breast cancer.

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"A healthy lifestyle early on is much, much more important than we appreciated," Michels said.

"Now we have to communicate to girls."

Many studies have linked diet to the risk of various cancers, and another study published Wednesday found obesity raises the risk of 11 cancers, including breast cancer.

This study can not definitively show eating poorly as a teen causes breast cancer. To show that, researchers would have to randomly assign large numbers of teenagers to eat different diets and then watch what happened for 20 years -- something that's clearly unworkable.

And it's possible that teens who ate better had other lifelong healthy habits. Either way, there are many benefits to eating less refined flour, sugar and red meat and more vegetables and the srtudy shows that doing so early in life can only help.

Separately, a team at the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center found that obesity itself changes the genes in a way that raises the risk of breast cancer. They looked at fat tissue from women undergoing breast reduction surgery.

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If you think WWE superstar Bill Goldberg can roll out of bed and look the way he looks, think again.

Just like everyone else, he has to put in the work to maintain his body. Given that he has been a wrestler (among other professions, like football player and actor) for much of the last two decades, he has to stay in shape.

In an interesting feature with GQ's Mick Rouse, the 50-year-old Goldberg details his daily regime that involves a strict diet. As with every meal plan, he has come up with some basic guidelines:

Those are tips that anyone looking for a healthy lifestyle can follow. Nothing dramaticjust sound advice.

Of course, there's more to a diet than general guidelines. There are the actual meals that are consumed throughout the day. Like any athlete, Goldberg has to put down quite a bit of food in order to stay in wrestling shape:

The amount of food I have to take inI had to take in a huge amount of food back in the day, but the amount that I have to take in now just to seemingly gain a couple of pounds is unfathomable. I am like a machineeven more so than I was beforejust trying to attain, physically, something that is passable, let alone Goldberg-esque.

Although he doesn't give an exact calorie count, the 6'4", 285-pound Goldberg dished on the details of his meal plan:

"Well, the first breakfast I had today, I had six servings of oatmeal, 20 blueberries, and a couple tablespoons of honey on it. Then I trained. Afterwards, I had twelve eggs with two yolks, six pieces of bacon, four pieces of gluten-free toast with avocado. Then a shake. After that I had two gluten-free pizzas with loads and loads of hamburger meat for protein on top of it. Then another shake. My son and I are about to go to Muay Thai, but on the way we're going to have some pho. Some soup and noodles, some shrimp. Then I'll do some training at Muay Thai and on the way home we'll get some pho again for dinner, because the wife hasn't eaten it yet today. Then I'll do the family thing, and then I'll eat again. I don't know what I'll have this evening."

It's a good thing he loves to cook.

Goldberg admitted he has a soft spot for popcorn, but overall he does his best to eat right. If you ever wondered what it takes to be a professional wrestler, one of the best just gave an inside look at the day-to-day life.

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More than 8 million individuals in the United States have gout, a disease that can cause intense recurrent episodes of debilitating pain, inflammation, and fever. The cause of gout is the accumulation of urate crystals in joints, which continuously reactivate the immune system, leading to activation of the most common type of immune cell in the blood, neutrophils. These periods of immune reactivation are known as flares, and are driven by a protein complex called the NLRP3 inflammasome.

Recent work from the laboratory of Vishwa Deep Dixit, Professor of Comparative Medicine and Immunobiology, has shown that the ketone body -hydroxybutyrate can specifically inhibit the NLRP3 inflammasome. Ketones are byproducts of fat break down in the liver that can serve as alternative metabolic fuels for the brain and heart during periods of low carbohydrate intake, such as fasting, or ketogenic diet. To test if elevating ketones protected against inflammation during gout, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dixit's lab, Emily Goldberg, and Associate Research Scientist and Clinical Veterinarian in Comparative Medicine, Jennifer Asher, and their colleagues collaborated to develop a novel model of gout flares in rats.

They found that feeding rats a high-fat, low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet increased -hydroxybutyrate levels and protected rats from joint swelling, tissue damage, and systemic inflammation normally seen during gout.

"In isolated neutrophils, -hydroxybutyrate completely blocked NLRP3 inflammasome activation, even when provided at low concentrations that are physiologically achievable through dietary modification," said Goldberg. She speculated that specifically targeting the NLRP3 inflammasome to reduce inflammation during a flare could improve gout patients' outcomes, but more studies need to be performed to test this possibility.

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Planet Fitness (PLNT), Shake Shack (SHAK), Glaukos (GKOS), Broadcom (AVGO) andBox (BOX) reportedquarterly earnings after the close Wednesday.

Broadcom and Glaukos reported strong results, but Shake Shack had weak same-store sales while Planet Fitness and Box gave mixed-to-weak guidance. Here are the details and the stock reaction.

Estimates:EPS to increase 12% to 19 cents as revenue grows 9% to $115.51 million.

Results: EPS climbed 18% to 20 cents. Revenue rose 10% to $116.4 million. Same-gym sales climbed 10.6%.

Outlook:Full-year EPS of 72-75 cents vs. consensus for 75 cents. Full-year revenue of $405 million to $415 million vs. analyst targets for $411.2 million. Systemwide comps of 6%-8%.

Stock: Planet Fitness fell 8.4% in after-hours trading. Shares closed up 1.6% to 21.85 on the stock market today as they form a flat base with 22.17 entry point.

Estimates: Q4 profit to grow 12.5% to 9 cents a share on 38% revenue growth to $70.7 million.

Results:EPS matched views for 9 cents, while revenue climbed 43.5% to $73.3 million. Same-store sales rose just 1.6%, below some estimates.

Outlook: Shake Shack raised its full-year revenue target to $349 million to $353 million from$348 million to $352 million. That's above the consensus. Sees full-year same-store growth 2%-3%.

Stock: Shake Shack fell nearly 6% in after-hours action. Shares closed up 0.75% to 36.12. The stock has largely been trading below its 50-day and 200-day averages this calendar year, although it is working on a cup-with-handle base with 39.80 entry point.

Estimates: Break-even EPS vs. the prior year's 7-cent per-share loss. Revenue seen rising 47% to $29.8 million.

Results: Q4 was break-even, revenue climbed 64% to $33.2 million.

Outlook: Full-year sales of $160 million to $165 million vs. views for $147.5 million.

Stock: Shares rose 9.2% to 50 in after-hours trading. Glaukos closed 0.6% higher at 45.79.The stock is tracking higher, now extended well past buy range after clearing a 36.10 entry point on Jan. 6.

Estimates:EPS to jump 44% to $3.48 with revenue up 129% to $4.08 billion, up 129%, thanks to its merger with Avago. If the forecasts hold, the numbers would represent the fourth straight quarter of accelerating sales and earnings growth.

Results: Adjusted EPS of $3.63, revenue was $4.15 billion.

Outlook:Fiscal Q2 revenue of about $4.1 billion vs. estimates for $3.9 billion.

Stock: Shares rose 4% in after-hours trading. The stock finished up 2% at 215.14, rallying steadily since mid-January.

Estimates: A 14-cent per-share loss (vs. the prior-year quarter's 26-cent per-share loss) and 28% revenue gains to $108.9 million.

Results: The adjusted loss was 10 cents per share. Revenue climbed 29% $109.9 million.

Outlook: Box sees Q1 revenue of $114 million to $115 million vs. the consensus for $115.1 million. Box expects full-year revenue of $500 million to $504 million vs. analyst views for $500.6 million. Box sees Q1 adjusted per-share loss of 14-15 cents vs. views for a 12-cent loss. It expects a full-year per-share loss of 45-49 cents vs. the consensus for a loss of 60 cents.

Stock: Box fell 2.5% in after-hours trading. Shares closed up 3.6% to 18.26.

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