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'I Love SnackingWhat's The Best Way For Me To Lose Weight?' Women's Health Snacking is a national pastime, an industry unto itself, even a belief system. But is its mantra"eat small and often"a healthy move for your body? Experts are divided: Studies find that eating frequently can help balance blood sugar and stave off ...

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Mama June Shannons motivation to lose weight has been revealed.

The reality star opened up onthe premiere of her new show,Mama June: From Hot to Not,that she decided to lose weight when her ex, Sugar Bear, revealed he was getting married and that he wanted her to be there.

Junes daughters, Alana Honey Boo Boo, and Lauryn Pumpkin, encouraged her along the way. Her workouts consisted of workout tapes and sticking to the salad bar while on Tinder dates.

Despite her efforts to snag a date to Sugar Bears wedding, Junes date, Jeff, ends up walking out of the restaurant midway through dinner, despite the producers pleas to stay.

Whats the point? Jeff asks.

After succumbing to unhealthy eating habits, Junes manager, Gina, suggests weight loss surgery which takes her to Los Angeles to meet with a doctor. With her heart set on surgery, Junes real work is maintaining a healthy lifestyle but can she pull through?

After the weight loss surgery, Im going to look completely different, June toldPEOPLE in an exclusive sneak peek at the upcoming season. Im scared, too, she admits to her daughters with tears in her eyes as she lays in a hospital bed awaiting surgery.

Mama June: From Not to HotairsFridays at 10p.m. ET on WEtv and you can watch the premiere episode here.

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A full night of sleep rejuvenates you in a way that even the worlds strongest cup of coffee never could.

In a recent deep dive for TIME, we found that sleep also helps you age more slowly . Mounting evidence suggests that the benefits brought on by adequate sleepincluding eased-up levels of inflammationare impressive enough to help steel the body against the aging process.

Heres what else grabbed our attention in health this week.

Most people gain weight back after losing it. But this trick , involving phone calls and a bit of reflection, can really help.

Here are five ways Silicon Valley is trying to hack its way to a much (much, much) longer life.

The cost of a critical antidote, naloxone, is soaring . Thats partly because of drug-industry consolidation and a lengthy FDA-approval process, but those arent the only problems.

With the help of new evidence , scientists are shedding light on the mysterious mind-body connection. Physical problems seem to be closely connected to what happens in the brain.

The exercise looks deceptively easy. But Pilates is a mind and body workout with unique benefits for your abs.

Read on to learn the healthiest way to do laundry. (A warning to germaphobes: this story gets graphic.)

From eating monkey brains to drinking blood, man has tried some gnarly ways to extend life. Here are 24 cures our species has attempted through the ages.

Saturated fat is often maligned, but not all fat is created equal. This delicious type of fat actually seems to help protect against type 2 diabetes.

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HEALTHY CHOICES: Cambrooke Therapeutics co-founder Lynn Paolella with low-protein hamburger buns produced at the company's Ayer plant. See video at sentinelandenterprise.com. SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / JOHN LOVE

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AYER -- A marvelous thing happened after a jeweler, her architect husband and her businessman brother put their heads together.

"We made a difference," Lynn Paolella said. "It really started with an inspiration to feed my kids."

Lynn and her husband David have three children. The two youngest, Cameron and Brooke, were born with a rare disease, phenylketonuria, or PKU.

The only way to manage the disease that can cause intellectual disability and other health problems is a diet that minimizes exposure to phenylalanine, an amino acid in protein, yet provides enough protein for the body.

The amino acid is present in many foods, even things like potatoes. It is also a main ingredient of the sweetener Aspartame.

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Until 2009, the accepted treatment for the disease was based on synthetic protein without phenylalanine. "They protected our kids' brains," David Paolella said, but the diet was unpalatable.

Lynn set to work, developing recipes that her children would want to eat. "I love to cook and I absolutely loved the challenge of this low-protein diet," she said.

In 2000, those early attempts led to a new business, Cambrooke Therapeutics. It started out as a family business with just the Paolellas and Lynn's brother, Don Patterson. They developed the food, outsourced manufacturing and made connections all around the world.

Now, the Ayer-based medical food manufacturer is increasingly automated with clients across the globe.

Development of PKU treatment is covered under the Orphan Drug Act, David Paolella said. The act covers drugs and treatment for diseases affecting small numbers of people.

PKU, an inborn error of metabolism, occurs in about one in every 10,000 births in the United States. When caught at birth and managed successfully, the children can thrive. If left untreated, mental retardation results.

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The disease is easy to catch in newborns. The screening test for was developed by a Massachusetts doctor, Robert Guthrie, in the 1960s. His photo is on the wall of the ground floor conference room in Ayer.

Cambrooke is at the cutting edge of medical nutrition. In 2009, the University of Wisconsin Madison developed a way to make a protein without phenylalanine from whey, a cheese-making byproduct.

"They approached us," Lynn Paolella said.

The protein tasted better than the synthetic product. Cambrooke licensed the technology. A peer-reviewed study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, proved the safety and effectiveness of the protein.

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Along the journey, the company worked with the Small Business Development Center at Clark University in Worcester.

They moved into a former electronics plant in Ayer, drawn to the area by the other beverage and food companies. The building required a multi-million dollar makeover to become a sterile place to manufacture and package beverages.

Food is made from scratch in Brockton, Lynn Paolella said.

The liquids products are put into sterile packaging, David Paolella said. The product will not spoil at room temperature. Nutrients in the liquid will degrade over time.

Their equipment is the only setup in the county that can turn out cost-effective, sterile packages in small batches of 20 to 30 cases, he said. Most beverage manufacturers will produce the same product for days before changing.

Cambrooke makes food products for other inborn error of metabolism diseases. They also make high-fat food that can manage and sometimes even cure intractable epilepsy that is not controlled by drugs.

The products allow people who must follow strict diets in order to remain healthy the chance to live a life just like everyone else.

"In essence, we're a grocery store of products they can eat," David Paolella said. Some want flour to make cookies, others would rather have cookie dough to bake and some want packages of cookies.

When Cameron and Brooke, now 24 and 19, their older brother Bryce, 26, sit down to eat with the family, everyone might eat Cambrooke products.Or maybe not. (The PKU diet is vegetarian; mom and dad like their meat.)

Three hospitals where families are sent when after receiving a diagnoses of a disease that can be treated by diet are in Massachusetts. They go home with information about Cambrooke after their first visit.

Working with the Massachusetts Export Center and the U.S. State Department, Cambrooke established overseas markets. The incidence of PKU is higher in other countries.

They just met with a Chinese mother, who began manufacturing PKU-friendly food after her child was diagnosed. Until recently, if a child in China had PKU, there was no government help. Babies were left by the side of the road to die, Lynn Paolella said.

An export deal could be in the works. The market would be huge. The disease is more common there than it is in the U.S., she said.

The test kitchen, with two sinks, large ovens and seating for a crowd, sees everyone from groups of dieticians to families learning to deal with the restrictive diet. A playroom upstairs keeps little ones busy while older folks learn.

Enabling people and families to live with the diagnoses is another challenge Cambrooke took on.

Some of the diseases treated by diet must require lifelong management. An iPhone app helps patients keep track of their nutrition.

Cambrooke can bill insurers directly, making it easier for their clients.

Schools are required to supply special diets when needed. The school lunch program Lynn Paolella developed is used in about 400 schools, the closest one in Groton.

The meals need to be heated up and the child with a restricted diet can eat with friends.

Health-care benefits are not consistent across the country, David said. Some states do not even require newborn testing for PKU. The test might be sent out of state to be read. If the lab will includes PKU results, out-of-state health-care providers might not give them to parents.

Lynn went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for the Medical Food Equity Act, requiring insurance plans to cover formula and low-protein foods. The act died in committee.

The business remains a family business at heart. Bryce Paolella helped with developing a new product.

Lynn and David Paolella are the founders and work with the company daily.

Don Patterson is the vice president of operations.

Lynn and Don's mother gives the products her own blessing. Marilyn Patterson helps out with packaging; she plants a kiss and a prayer of goodwill in each box she prepares.

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Eating certain foods and avoiding others can calm the bodys digestive tract down paleo and Mediterranean diets are among the most popular for people with upset stomachs. As an IBS sufferer, I understand the reasons for following these diets, but I also know that getting a medical professionals advice is the first step.

I recently looked to my own doctors for guidance. They ruled out celiac disease through a blood test. I then took out from my diet what I determined were offending foods and felt better, but I still had symptoms. Despite my young-ish age, my gastroenterologist recommended a colonoscopy. I didnt want to, but I listened to my own advice and took the guidance. And there she was, removing a precancerous polyp.

Feeling blessed, I will gladly comply with her next directions, and return in six months for another look.

With a doctors or dietitians guidance, you can first rule out other major reasons that you might feel symptoms it might not be just your diet calling.

Then, proceed to determine which diet will help calm your body. If you are diagnosed with an autoimmune issue through a medical test, you should absolutely look into eating along an anti-inflammatory diet such as paleo, or the more strict autoimmune protocol. The most important thing to remember if you embark on this, is that it is meant to be strict only temporarily, and should eventually be liberalized, so as to keep as many nutrients as possible in your diet.

After my recent colonoscopy, I have fresh momentum to follow the style of eating that least offends my body. My eating style is a mixture of Mediterranean (lots of vegetables, healthy fats and whole grains), paleo (lean meats and fish) and an overall clean-eating pattern (very little processed food and added sugars). Does this work for most people? It should.

But there are particulars that wont apply to everyone. I cant eat black beans or onions. Those are great foods that have tons of nutrition, but I cant tolerate them. Too much sugar gives me gastrointestinal trouble, so I have to be careful of fruits and dairy. This isnt something Id recommend for everyone either.

Bodies are different, so do what feels good to you. This means you have to pay attention, and do a little background work. Oh, and be patient. That part stinks, but it is worth it when you can put all the pieces together.

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Vitamins are big business. In 2017, the sales figure for vitamins and nutritional supplements in this country is expected to reach $36.1 billion.

With a recent Gallup Poll showing half of Americans take vitamins or other mineral supplements, chances are many of you visit the health aisle on a regular basis. After all, vitamins are big business. In 2017, the sales figure for vitamins and nutritional supplements in this country is expected to reach $36.1 billion. Thats up from $17.2 billion in 2000. But is all this spending actually improving your health?

I dont have anything against somebody taking a multivitamin, said Dr. J. Todd Kornegay, internal medicine physician with the NHRMC Physician Group at the New Hanover Medical Group Practice. But if you look at the data, theres not a lot of information that supports everyday use in everybody.

Many studies share that assertion, including one in 2013 from the Annals of Internal Medicine with an accompanying editorial titled Enough Is Enough: Stop Wasting Money on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements and the 2011 Iowa Womens Health Study.

And while multivitamins are one thing, choosing supplements a la carte is quite another, said Laura Greenhow, owner of Summerfield Custom Wellness in Wilmington and a registered dietitian and licensed dietitian/nutritionist.

The problem is that vitamins try to sell themselves by this is good for this person and this is good for this person, but I dont think its appropriate to get that advice from anyone who doesnt know your medical history, she said. Have a doctor check your levels and go from there. You shouldnt just start taking them because of something you read unless youre a health-care provider and have some science behind it.

While vitamin toxicity alone is not something most people have to worry about, boosting your intake of certain nutrients and not others could potentially be harmful, Greenhow added.

Most things in our body kind of work together and have some synergies, she said. The worst thing you can do is decide on your own that you need certain nutrients. They work together with other things, and that can throw yourself out of whack.

If youre thinking of adding vitamin supplements to your diet, chances are you are looking to change or improve some aspect of your health, Greenhow said. She encouraged people to talk to a health-care professional and explore other avenues first, including boosting water intake or adding more healthy foods to their diets.

The way we get vitamins from our food is from eating a lot of different colors, but the problem is that most of what we eat is white and brown with maybe a little bit of green, Greenhow said. A multivitamin could be a good insurance policy, but really what they would want to work on is increasing the number of colorful fruits and vegetables to get the nutrients from their diet. Its more effective to get it from foods. It just behaves differently in our bodies.

Kornegay agreed that we should first turn to food: A western diet thats high in fruits and vegetables should have everything you need in it, and you shouldnt have to supplement it with a vitamin.

But those who still insist vitamins might be for them should be sure they consult with someone they trust before getting started on a regimen, he said.

I would suggest that they talk to their physician about it, as long as their physician doesnt sell vitamins in their office, Kornegay added. A pharmacist, dietitian or nutritionist would be a good resource, too.

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Competitors in the sixth annual Biggest Winner contest have crossed the finish line and are seeing positive results from their hard work. So whats next for the six-member Observer-Reporter team?

Its one thing to lose weight but another to keep it off. After working out with a certified personal trainer four mornings a week for the past seven weeks, how will the contestants maintain their results and new healthy lifestyle? (Results of the contest were still being tallied and will be shared with readers next Sunday.)

Kendra Boni, fitness manager at the Washington Health System Wilfred R. Cameron Wellness Center, said the answer depends on whether the participants want to lose more weight. If so, they can continue working out as they have been for the duration of the contest.

Working out four days per week at a moderate intensity along with an additional day of lower-intensity training is what we consider to be the best and most achievable plan that weight-loss clients can follow, she said. During the program, participants have been learning how to manage everyday stresses and foods to include and exclude from their diets as well as how to create an exercise plan that will never get boring. We are confident that at the conclusion of the Biggest Winner program, participants will have the skills necessary to continue to progress on their own.

Once the contestants or anyone, for that matter achieve weight-loss and fitness goals, the hard work does not end.

So how does a person transition from weight loss to maintenance?

Boni said one key is to not fall into a rut with your workout routine. You may walk or take an exercise class several times a week, but she advises changing up routines now and then.

Especially when people are working out on their own, most people will hit a plateau where they arent noticing strength and flexibility gains at the pace they were initially, as well as a decrease in weight loss or sometimes an altogether halt in weight loss, Boni said. It is important to continue to change up your exercise routine every six to eight weeks to ensure that your body is always forced to adapt to new stressors.

That could mean adding intensity to cardio sessions or adding duration to cardio or strength-training sessions. Increase the weight used in exercises youre already doing or add something altogether different, such as a Zumba or spinning class. In addition to changing exercise routines regularly, Boni recommends meeting with a dietitian to evaluate your bodys demands for nutrients and daily calories.

Throughout the contest, the staff of the wellness center has coached the Biggest Winner contestants in the four pillars: exercise, nutrition, mindset and recovery. Boni stressed that its important to remember all of these even after you lose the weight. Recovery is a component that is the most commonly dismissed in a persons workout routine, she said. Adding a yoga class each week, foam rolling at the end of exercise sessions and regular meditation are all examples of recovery techniques that should be in everyones routine.

Keeping on the right track with nutrition and exercise require the proper mindset when entering the maintenance phase. Low- calorie diets combined with high-intensity workout sessions may help people lose weight in the short term, but its not a pace that most can maintain long-term.

Losing a pound per week means that youre working really hard, and a week such as that should be the pace you keep for as long as necessary to reach your goal, Boni said. Making short-term goals and celebrating those successes are how people can truly change their habits for long-term success. Also knowing how to avoid situations that lead to poor decisions and gaining the support needed from friends and family are the most valuable components to long-term weight-loss success.

Boni offered three tips to ensure success.

Continue to evaluate goals. Short-term goals and long-term goals are set at the beginning of any program, but re-evaluation along the way is a vital component to continuing progress. If you notice that you havent been making it to the gym as often as you were or that you are consistently eating more calories than you know you should, that would be a good time to check back in with a fitness or nutrition professional to gain the accountability that you may need, Boni said.

Dont get discouraged if you have a bad day. Many people tend to get discouraged if they miss a workout or eat something that they shouldnt. They think the whole day is ruined and continue to make bad choices. Boni said, It is so important to realize that life happens, and we all give into temptation sometimes.

Find new motivation. Boni said if youre having trouble finding motivation, try buying yourself a new piece of workout clothing or shoes or try a new type of exercise. Something as simple as that can get you excited to get back to the gym.

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Dana Goossens, 29, lives in Illinois and participated in a recent clinical trial for a weight loss device called the Obalon Balloon System. Here's her story:

Like many Americans, Ive tried all sorts of ways to lose weight . Thats been disheartening, especially since Ive always been an active person. I tried everything from diet pills to eating only 500 calories a day and getting hormone injections to Weight Watchersbut I was never successful at keeping off the weight over the long term. I was tired of yo-yo diets and medications that made me feel bad.

My mother, who is a registered nurse, would remind me not to be vain, but she knew how much my weight was bringing me down. She forwarded me an article about a new device called the Obalon Balloon System , which consists of inflatable balloons that expand in your stomach to help you lose weight. It sounded strange, but I was curious.

I sent emails to the doctors involved in the clinical trial and I was able to secure one of the last spots. I was nervous about explaining my decision to my friends and family. My boyfriend told me if it would make me happy to give it a try, then I should do it.

The procedure was surprisingly simple. During the first session, I swallowed a small capsule that was tied to a tiny micro-catheter. The doctor then inflated the balloon once it was in my stomachit gets to be about the size of an orangeand removed the catheter. The whole process took about 10 minutes. In the beginning, I could tell there was an object inside of me. At night it was a bit more uncomfortable as I could feel the balloon move a bit and squeak, but nothing I couldnt handle. Eventually, my body got used to the feeling and I didnt think about it during the day.

After one month, I went back to the doctor and swallowed the second balloon capsule, and two months after that, I swallowed the third and final balloon. Pretty soon after swallowing the second balloon, I started noticing the real weight loss. I was also seeing a nutritionist regularly, and I started doing cardio fitness about four times a week for 45 minutes. I learned how to listen to my body and understand when I'm hungry or full.

By the end of the six months, I lost close to 40 pounds and weighed 138 pounds. My friends and family were really impressed. What I liked about the balloon procedure was that I didnt have to undergo surgery, and I could keep the procedure discreet.

I also developed lifestyle changes that helped me lose the weight at a steady pace, and I am hopeful this weight loss is more sustainable. By the time the trial ended, I felt confident I could maintain my healthy lifestyle even after getting the balloons removed. And I've even lost more weight since then.

The balloons have now been approved by the FDA, costs $6,000 to $9,000, and isn't covered by insurance.

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I was glad to see Valter Longos Fasting-Mimicking diet in the news again this week. I have been enthusiastic about Longos work ever since he documented altruistic suicide of yeast cells for his PhD thesis in the 1990s. Programmed death in one-celled protists was considered an affront to evolutionary theory at the time, and he had a devil of a time getting his findingsinto print.

Longo discovered in 2002-2005 that fasting had a powerful benefit for cancer patients, and that in conjunction with either radiation or chemo, it greatly magnified the benefits while mitigating the side effects. Intermittent fasting had benefits, too, for the general population, independent of cancer. It seems to be a way to get the health benefits of caloric restriction and it is easier to stick to for many people than a consistently low calorie diet.

But Longo couldnt get either doctors or patients interested in the fasting program. Part of the problem was the toxic mix of capitalism with medicine: the US relies on testing and promotion by profit-making companies to push medical technology forward, and fasting isnt a product that anyone can make money on. There was also an emotional truth: cancer patients feel scared, beleaguered, emotionally drained. So much is dragging them way outside their comfort zone that it takes extraordinary strength not to fall back on food as one of lifes most reliable comforts.

So many medical researchers see their job as finding treatments, and leave the problem of adoption and compliance to someone else. But Longo set himself single-mindedly to the task of bringing the benefits of fasting to a wider swath of the population. The question that led to the Fasting-Mimicking Diet (FMD): What dietary regimen can provide the greater part of the benefits of a water fast while inducing less hunger and minimal disruption to concentration, vitality and the pace of life?

I have done about 9 cycles of the FMD over the past 1 years, including this week. In my personal experience, 5 days of the FMD is eminently tolerable once I begin, though I still face resistance when I think in advance about disrupting my comforting food routines. (Yoga, swimming and meditation have the same barriers for medifficult in the anticipation, enjoyable once I begin.) For me, FMD is not a weight loss program. I gain back all the weight Ive lost within a week after the 5-day program is finished. Others may have different experiences. People have used the 3-meal version of FMD (3 meals at 360 calories) as a medium-term weight-loss program, but the protein content is probably too low for those concerned about maintaining lean mass long term.

In his new study, 100 participants were randomized into two groups. The first group did three rounds of 5 days on FMD over three months. The second group did nothing special for three months, but were given an opportunity to try the same three rounds during the following three months. The average weight loss was 6 pounds for those who completed all three cycles; lean body mass was lost, in the same proportion as fat. Blood pressure, blood sugar, triglycerides all improved on average, and C-reactive protein (an inflammatory marker) went down as well.

The study included a range of healthy people as well as people who carried more weight and had higher risk factors. It was those with the higher inflammation and blood sugar who realized big benefits from the program, and the already-healthy were averaged in. There is a lot of evidence to indicate that intermittent fasting works, and that the FMD delivers similar benefits. But if youre already lean and healthy with low blood sugar, then its less clear whether there are substantial additional benefits from intermittent fasting.

Notable was a reduction in the hormone IGF-1, which I dont necessarily regard as a good thing. On the one hand, lower IGF-1 is characteristic of all caloric restriction models, in animals and humans, in which life span is increased. So it is an indication that the FMD was effective. But low IGF-1 has consistently been found to increase risk for all-cause mortality, and heart disease in particular [ref, ref, ref]. Benefits of higher IGF-1 include maintenance of muscle mass and growth of nerves that diminishes with age.

An additional benefit documented in the past is areset of the immune system. The white cell population is pruned during fasting, and the most-needed naive T-cells regrow after eating resumes.

Antidote to Obesity

Its the (large and increasing) population of unhealthy people that Longo is targeting. There is every reason to expect substantial benefits, but the big issue remainss: how many people can be motivated to take up the practice and stick to it? The question was touched on only peripherally in the current study, without discussion; of 48 subjects selected for the first round, 39 stuck it out for three FMD cycles over three months (81% compliance). Thats encouraging, but what we really want to know is: how many people will actually modify their eating rhythms for years at a time? Will they feel the benefits and will that motivate them to stick with it month after month, five days each month?

And will this translate into long-term weight loss? Sustaining weight loss is notoriously difficult for about 95% of the population. People can stick to a diet for a time, but the Siren song of food is with us everywhere, and sooner or later we succumb. Fortunately, theres good reason to hope that the FMD discipline offers benefits even if weight loss is not sustained.

How to do it

Longos own company, L-Nutra offers a packaged diet, called ProLon, availble through health care professionals. Its pricey and may be covered by insurance. LifeBox offers a non-prescription alternative that is not as much cheaper as it might be. For my own experimentation, I have preferred to use fresh, whole foods approximating the same macronutrient proportions as the ProLon package. It requires some time and attention in food prep, but it costs less than youre currently spending on the same meals, and you can fill yourself with satisfying portions of fresh vegetables for the same 360 calories. Here is my page of instructions and advice, with recipes designed by Enid Kassner.

For many of us, our relationship to food is central to our psychology. Shaking up food habits disrupts everything else as well. Its the main reason that food habits are so hard to change, but for me, its also a good thing. I enjoy the challenge and the self-awareness that come from a new frame of reference;fasting changes my perspective, my emotional baseline, and my mental state. For me, the first day is unfocused, low energy, but often a time of creative new ideas; the second day is distracted, obsessive, sometimes headache-y or otherwise uncomfortable, and beginning with the third day there is returning energy, along with a freedom that I didnt know I missed.

Why is life expectancy in America lagging?

Part of the answer is certainly cultural. Advertising, parties, lunch and dinner meetings often reinforce consumption of food that is designed to beaddictivefor the sake of corporate profits. In America, we are surrounded by overweight people, but France and Italy have much lower obesity rates, and you can walk all day around the cities of Japan or China without encountering anyone who is seriously overweight. Even in America, the problem has grown way out of proportion only in the last 40 years. This and income disparity are the main reasons that life expectancy in America is at the bottom of the developed world. Our unaffordable, dysfunctional healthcare system provides many additional reasons. Meanwhile, life expectancy in Asia is climbing at an exemplary pace.

Longos FMD is designed to address thismostaccessible factor in the diseases of late life for a large swath of people who find they cannot lose weight. His research is based not just on effectiveness but equally important on tolerability. How many people will adopt it and reap the benefits? This will be an important question for public health going forward. But you are a unique individual, not astatistical median. I encourage you to experiment with FMD, seewhat you learn about yourself, and decide if it can be a valuable part of your health program in the long term.

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By Dottie Drake, RN, CPFT, Owner of Miracles Fitness

Every action you take in life requires energy, just like your car needs good fuel. But instead of pulling into a gas station, you pull up to the table and eat your fuel. You cant just throw a pizza or a banana directly into your engine. The carbs, proteins and fats need to be broken down or metabolized in order to be used by the body.

Under most conditions, the bodys primary source of energy is carbohydrates. However, in an emergency situation, it can use proteins and fats. This energy is measured in calories. The rate at which food is burned is Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). Your calorie requirement and BMR increase in times of activity, stress, fear and sickness, and decrease when you diet. When the metabolism is working well, there is a balance between what goes in and what burns up, and weight stays pretty consistent. Your energy needs will increase or decrease based on activity.

When food is plentiful and available, your body will store fuel for times of lack. It stores approximately 1% as carbohydrates in blood, muscles and liver, about 15% as proteins, mostly in muscles, and 84% as fat.

When you drastically decrease your fuel intake, the brain tells the thyroid to slow down (starvation mode) and reduce the amount of calories needed for fuel. Your body will then burn protein, resulting in muscle loss. This is the problem for people who have been on multiple diets.

When you diet, you lose protein (muscle) first and burn fat last. This muscle loss decreases your metabolism so that each and every time you diet, you lose more and more muscle and gain more fat. Once you go off the diet, you gain weight back quickly, mostly in the form of fat. Each time you try to diet in the future, it is harder and harder to lose weight due to the muscle loss and fat accumulation. The more fat you have in proportion to muscle, the fewer calories you burn and the easier it is to gain weight. Your metabolism and the chemicals needed to support it are severely reduced or even depleted. Once this happens, you cant lose weight even following a strict diet, or you lose so little weight that you get frustrated, give up and regain.

Causes of muscle loss include crash dieting, lack of exercise, chronic stress, toxins, gender and genes. But there is a solution to the problem: burn fat and build muscle.

How do you burn fat? Eat healthy foods, exercise properly, and build muscle with weight lifting. Stop dieting and give your body the necessary fuel it needs to get healthy. Eat only clean, unprocessed foods like meats, seafood, poultry, fruits, vegetables, dairy, whole grains and nuts, and stay away from packaged foods, frozen meals, hydrogenated oils and high fructose corn syrup.

Insulin is the bodys store-fat hormone and glucagon is the bodys burn-fat hormone. When the insulin-glucagon balance is ideal, your body will build muscle while burning fat. Many dieters have lost the ability to know when they are hungry or full. People who struggle with weight often eat when stressed, bored or pressured socially. Eating refined carbs (white bread, flour, sugar and most processed snack foods) causes the pancreas to release too much insulin, which will store food as fat. Instead, resort to protein.

You should also avoid processed sugar, which is in cakes, doughnuts, breads and processed cereals. Processed sugar is considered poison as it causes harm to cells and leads to diabetes. Every time you eat sugar, your blood sugar is elevated and insulin is released to lower the sugar level. Remember, insulin is a fat-storing hormone! Read the labels. Any word ending in ose as an ingredient is a sugar. Avoid juices made from concentrate, artificial sweeteners and fat free foods loaded with sugar (fat does not make you fat, sugar does!), as these cause your insulin to spike. Instead, get natural sugars from fruit. The only safe sweetener is a little bit of organic sugar or stevia.

Metabolism cant happen without the liver. The liver supports the digestive system, controls blood sugar and regulates fat storage, breaking down everything that enters your body. Your livers job is to distinguish between healthy nutrients that need to be absorbed by the body and dangerous substances that poison the body. When the liver gets clogged with toxins like artificial sweeteners, it loses the function to get rid of those dangerous substances, therefore it stores fat and you gain weight.

You can turn your unhealthy lifestyle around today. Stop putting poison in your body and start exercising, and your body will respond. Healthy foods, anything made by God, are your best medicine.

Stop by Miracles Fitness and let us help you be healthy again. For more information, call (609) 886-7070 or visit http://www.miraclesfitness.com.

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