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Residents of Commerce have had a new place to feel the burn since Commerce Fitness opened its doors in January.

The 12,000 square foot facility is home to rows upon rows of equipment, and owners Chad and Julie Gentle are living their dream running the business.

My husband and I talked forever about opening a gym, Julie said. Its been a dream come true.

Located in Suite A at 2204 Live Oak, Commerce Fitness has had a successful run since opening on Jan. 14. Gentle said that the building seemed like the perfect location.

I was at Braums and just kind of looked out the window and noticed it, Gentle said. It seemed like it would be a great spot.

The turnaround was fast. The Gentles got the key to the building in November and opened in January. Since the opening, business has been steadily growing.

We were open for free for our entire first week, Gentle said. It got a lot of people interested and people just keep coming back.

The sleek black and grey interior and large sitting area add a very modern but friendly feel to the building, and Gentle says that they want to make a place that feels like home.

We are trying hard to make a relaxing environment, Gentle said. Its important that everyone feels welcome.

Open at all hours of the day, The gym also offers classes that are open for participation by non-members. Classes for Zumba, pilates and cardio kickboxing are currently available, with more on the way. Gentle said that there are many discounts for membership, including student, military and senior discounts. Gentle says that so far the best part about the experience of opening the gym were the stories that people had.

Hearing peoples stories has been the most rewarding part, Gentle said. It makes all of the hard work worth it.

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FREDERICK, Md. - Frederick County Public Schools (FCPS) have partnered with Player's Fitness and Performance in Frederick, Md. to continue a healthy environment outside the classroom.

Staff from the fitness center will help work with health and physical education teachers to develop a stronger curriculum and strength training. The facility will also provide an opportunity for FCPS staff to learn how fitness can help in the classroom and offer students an opportunity to learn about fitness.

"P.E. teachers and the athletic directors, they have a lot of things on their plate to worry about and if we can give our expertise in a very specific such as strength training and conditioning and youth fitness, then I think what we can bring can benefit them a lot, said owner and founder of Player's Fitness and Performance, Andrew Simpson.

The fitness center also awards scholarships to one male and one female student to allow them to train with the company's staff.

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Exercise class participants hold each other accountable at Lakeshore Fitness Center Fox17 One of the best ways to make sure you get to the gym is by having someone hold you accountable to go. At Lakeshore Fitness Center at Muskegon Community College, they have a big array of group exercise programs that are popular for the whole family!

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IF YOU are trying to lose weight, you should be eating your biggest meal at a certain time of day.

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Weight loss is never something that will happen overnight. But there are things you can do to help speed up the rate of your weight loss.

While a healthy diet and regular exercise remain the key players in weight loss, a new study has revealed the optimum time of day to eat your biggest meal to lose the most weight. And its not at dinner.

High-protein, low-carbohydrate diets are all the rage right now and for good reason. Protein is an important component of every cell in the body. Hair and nails are mostly made of protein and your body uses protein to build and repair tissues.

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While most of us have a tendency to gorge once we get home from work, a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found consuming half your daily calories at midday can help you lose a larger amount of weight.

Yep, that means your lunch needs to be half of all the calories you consume in a day.

The study also revealed participants ate 20% of their calories at dinner which helped them shed nearly a stone in 12 weeks.

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Those who had their biggest meal at dinner lost just over half a stone in the same period.

Both groups had the same amount of calories per day.

A further study from Harvard University revealed the specific time you should eat your meal each day in order to drop the most pounds.

Breakfast should be had before 9am as data from the US National Weight Control Registry showed nearly 80% of people who have successfully lost over two stone have eaten breakfast every day like clockwork.

Lunch should be before 3pm as a study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found 1,300 people who were actively tried to lose weight lost the most weight if they had an earlier lunch.

Try to have dinner before 7pm as once we get home from work we are more likely to spend our evenings being sedentary before sleeping, thus burning off less calories than we would during the day.

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An eye on fitness, diet, nutrition and a workout routine helped along by a smartphone app can all contribute to a successful weight loss program.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Oh, we wish we could wave a wand and make losing weight and getting in shape as easy as bibbity bobbity boo for us and for you.

Regrettably, it requires a lot more patience and thought than putting on all that weight and getting out of shape did in the first place.

But today, as we launch our 10th annual News Journal-Christiana Care Healthy Living Weigh to Go Health Challenge, we can offer you 10 ways to kick start your own personal journey down the scale and up the mountain.

If you havent signed up for the challenge yet, you can do so at http://www.delawareonline.com/weightogo. Well track the weight you lost (you dont have to tell us your actually weight; just how much youd like to lose in the eight-week challenge). There are weekly prizes chosen at random among the participants that include 76ers Tickets; a Concord Pet gift card; Shop Rite gift bags; a Target gift card; a Hagley Museum & Library annual membership; and a round of golf for four at Deefield. Grand prizes, also chosen at random from those who have participated, include a YMCA membership, YMCA memberships for a family of four and a grand prize of a $1,000 VISA gift card.

Already, Mary Dickert of Newark has been told shell get tickets to Riverdance20 when it hits the boards at the Playhouse on Rodney Square just for being among the first to sign up on Feb. 2.

Registration ends Wednesday.

Here are 10 simple ways to get started on your own health journey:

1. Out of sight, out of mouth. Either purge your kitchen, or hide the goodies that cause your downfall. Sometimes, its not so easy to just toss cookies, crackers, chips and other things that sabotage our diets. Maybe you dont want to throw them into the trash after you paid for them. Maybe there are others in the house who want them. Maybe, like Girl Scout cookies, you can only get them for a brief period a year. But you can hide them. Get the chips off the counter or top of the fridge by tossing them into a cabinet you dont use much. Throw the cookies in the back of the freezer. Put healthier choices in front of the cheating choices in the fridge. Because if you dont see it, you are far less likely to think, Oh, just onnnnnnnnnneeeeeeeeee and then eat half the bag.

2. Start tracking what you put in your mouth. Do it in a little notebook or on your smartphone. Just stop a moment and write down. It makes you think about it. Youre less likely to grab candy from the office jar when you remember you had a Salted Caramel Coffee on the way to work. Keeping track will serve to slow you down a bit and make you think a bit. After youve been doing it a while, you can look back and find patterns you might want to reconsider.

3. Try to eat mostly plants. The fresher the better. That can mean salads or steamed veggies, but it can also mean tossing spinach and other plants into a smoothie. Plants include grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and beans. But do think portion control. Six handfuls of cashews at one time is NOT a healthy choice and unlikely to count as a balanced meal among most humans.

4. Join a gym or class. According to Medline, researchers from Iowa State University said those with a gym membership get deramatically more aerobic and strength-training activity than those who don't. Study author Duck-chul Lee, an assistant professor of kinesiology, said in a press release: "Gym members were 14 times more aerobically active than non-members and 10 times more likely to meet muscle-strengthening guidelines, regardless of their age and weight." U.S. health officials recommend that adults get 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity each week.

5. Read food labels. Knowing whats in your food, whether its in the meat case or on a grocery shelf enlightens you and helps you make better decisions in limiting high-fat and carbohydrate-rich foods. Not sure what all that means? Its easy to look up online, and ShopRite, Safeway and other area grocery stories offer lots of label information, as well as recipes, advice from their own dietitians and recommendations on the healthiest ways to shop the stores. Many also offer classes. Stop by and ask for help.

6. Increase your fiber intake.That not only means eating fresh fruits and veggies, or as close to fresh as possible, but also whole grain breads and oats. It will help you feel fuller and help your digestive tract work more effectively.

7. Study portion control. Americans in general expect and eat huge portions of food all day long. A bit of shorthand: Anything bigger than the palm of your hand is probably too big. That has bigger implications when its red meat or sweets.

8. Get some sleep. Studies have linked lack of rest with people being overweight and obese. But its also true that getting sleep can help your immune system operate at its best, which is useful with flu season raging around the state. Is someone telling you that you snore at night and wake yourself up, or that you stop breathing? Pay attention to that, and check it out with a doctor.

9. Add movement to your day. It doesnt have to be dramatic. Set your watch and walk a lap around the office every hour, or around the parking lot or deck at lunch. Skip the elevator and take the stairs even some stairs. Park farther away than normal. Stretch while you watch TV at night or do simple exercises that are easy to find online. Every little bit does count and will help. And if you start out small, how knows how far you can go over months to a year?

10. Cook for yourself. Lots of studies out there indicate that people who cook for themselves eat better and eat fewer calories. Thats partly because they know exactly what theyve put into it and partly because theyre getting exactly what they want.

Contact Betsy Price at (302) 324-2884 or beprice@delawareonline.com.

Whats coming in the 8 weeks of the Healthy Living Weigh to Go challenge

In the coming eight weeks of the Healthy Living Weigh to Go challenge, well be looking at the best eat less, move more advice, but also at personal and community programs tied to the health of the First State.

Beyond what each of us put in our mouths, the state, Christiana Care and other health officials are moving to increase the base health numbers of all Delaware residents.

Some of that is through programs that are general, such as providing walking and biking paths around the state, and some of it is very specific, such as programs designed to get the disabled moving, the importance of health screenings and Knowing Your Numbers, a Christiana program designed to help education people about what blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol levels and more mean to their health now and down the line.

Along the way, well look at violence prevention programs, educating teens about their bodies and health and programs designed to keep people in the healthiest of situations even in the face of money problems, recent surgeries, disabilities and age.

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FORT MYERS, Fla. Every day is hectic for Valentine Antal, who has two young children.

Meals are really difficult, she said. I struggle constantly. Anyone who wants to bring me dinner, I welcome it!

When she has time to prepare food, she tries to watch what she feeds her kids.

I try to stay as organic as possible and as fresh as possible, she said. I try to stay away from processed foods.

PROCESSED MEAT

One processed food to avoid is lunch meat.

It was back in October 2015, the World Health Organization came out with this amazing research that stated deli meats have been proven to be linked to certain types of cancer, specifically colorectal cancer, said Sarah Allaben, a registered dietitian with Lee Health. Its a class one carcinogen, in the same class as cigarettes, in terms of the risk factors for getting cancer. So thats scary.

Allaben suggests looking for different types of meats at the deli.

Look for packaging thats made from whole breast without any type of preservatives or chemicals added, she said. It will say sliced from whole turkey breast or sliced from whole chicken breast and it will say no preservatives, no chemicals and just to be a smart consumer and just to be a smart consumer flip it over and make sure theres nothing funky going on.

HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP

Avoiding high fructose corn syrup can be tricky when looking at packaging, Allaben said.

A lot of fruit-based products that are packaged, a lot of your fruit snackscertain types of fruit juices or anything like that a lot of times on the packages it could say its all natural or made with real fruit, she said. That doesnt tell us enough. We need to flip it over and see if theres any of that high fructose corn syrup they snuck in there because they could put a very small amount of the good fruit in there and put in that high fructose corn syrup to make it taste so great.

TRANS FAT

Another key word to look out for is trans fats.

The thing with trans fats, is they are a man-made fat, Allaben said. Theres nothing wholesome, theres nothing natural, and theyve been linked to a lot of cardiovascular and other issues.

An FDA regulation required companies to remove trans fats from food by 2018, said Allaben, who added that keeping them in food will require approval.

WHOLE WHEAT

If you think whole wheat is healthier, youre right, but make sure whole grain flour is the first ingredient, Allaben said.

The first ingredient might actually say white bread, or white flour enriched, so really make sure the first ingredient actually says whole grain flour, she said. Thats how youre going to know youre getting a whole grain product.

BPA

Stay away from the chemical BPA, which can leak into food, Allaben said.

Its a chemical thats put into packaging like plastic water bottles, plastic containers, cans, things like that, she said. They put a seal in between the product and the food, but a lot of time the BPA can leach into our food, especially if we microwave certain things or put hot tea or hot coffee in plastic bottles. A lot of companies have removed BPA but it doesnt mean its been removed from every product. So just make sure if youre buying something packaged or water bottles or baby bottles especially for pediatric patients, make sure it says BPA free.

ADDED SUGARS

Added sugars were placed under carbohydrates on nutrition labels, but that can be deceiving, Allaben said.

Just because you can tell how many carbohydrates in the food, you dont know whats been added during the manufacturing process, she said. So by 2018 the plan initially was to have added sugars with how many grams of added sugars are on there so that consumers know. Unfortunately the government might be taking that away. They might not actually let that go through. We just have to wait and see what happens.

GOING OUT TO EAT

Avoid big calories when eating out with your children, said Julia Calderone with Consumer Reports.

According to the Department of Agriculture, the average kids meal with an entree, side, beverage and dessert has about 1,000 calories, she said. And thats actually close to the amount that an eight-year-old should have in an entire day.

Consumer Reports recommends sharing food from the regular menu with children. Portions are generally over-sized so you will both eat better as a result,they said

Its not enough to just make a healthy entree choice, Calderone said. The sides, drinks and desserts can actually be packed with calories, fat and sodium. Ask your server to substitute fruit for fries, or get milk instead of juice.

Consumer Reports nutritionists also warn that anything with cheese or a creamy sauce is loaded in fat.

If dining at a chain restaurant, a small apple logo next to certain items on the kids menu indicates theyre from the Kids LiveWell program. Participants offer at least one meal and one side dish that meet healthful nutritional guidelines.

Many restaurants offer kid-sized desserts that have as many calories as an entree and twice as much saturated fat. Consider ordering just one dessert for everyone to share.

Parents who want to learn more about healthy eating can visit the USDAs Choose My Plate website.

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The volume of bad answers, bad questions, noise and nonsense conspiring to hide the simple, fundamental truths about diet and health seems to swell daily.The task of generating a signal to be heard over this din grows more challenging in tandem.Among the cries populating the cacophony of misinformation is the contention that we know nothing not directly demonstrated in a randomized controlled trial.Much as I like RCTs, having run and published the results of dozens over my career, I consider this view misguided surrender to the tyranny of trial design.

Leaving aside the fact that some extremely impressive randomized controlled trials- with interventions spanning flexitarian diets, Mediterranean diets, and more - do, in fact, demonstrate the fundamental truths about diet and health, the simple fact is that we do not always need a definitive RCT to know what we know.

Suppose you wanted to know with something nearing certainty what specific dietary pattern was best for human health.How would you proceed?

Well, first, I think, you would need to define best in an operational (i.e., measurable) way.Does best mean lowers LDL in the short term, or does it mean raises HDL, or both?Does it mean it lowers inflammatory markers, or insulin, or blood glucose, or blood pressure?Does it mean it reduces body fat, or increases lean body mass?Does it mean all of these, or does it mean something else?Is the short term one month, or three, or a year?

I dont think any of these, or anything like them, really satisfies what we think we mean when we say best for health.I think the intended meaning of that is actually rather clear: the combination of longevity, and vitality.Years in life, and life in years, if you will.I think a diet is best for health and yes, I have wrestled with this very issue before- if it fuels a long, robust life free of preventable chronic diseases (e.g., heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, dementia, etc.) and obesity, and endows us with the energy both mental and physical- to do all we want and aspire to do.That, I think, is a robust definition of best for health.

We are obligated to wrestle comparably with the operational definition of a specific diet.Low fat, or low carb dont mean much.A low fat diet could be rich in beans and lentils, or made up exclusively of lollipops.A low carb diet could cut out refined starch and added sugar, or exclude all fruits and vegetables.Lets not belabor this, and simply concede that the relevant test to prove that one, specific dietary prescription (e.g., the Ornish diet, or the South Beach diet, or the DASH diet, etc.) is best is to establish optimized versions of the various contenders, from vegan to Paleo, and put them up against one another directly.

And now our tribulations begin.As we noted at the start, our outcome is the combination of longevity and vitality.To get at longevity, we need a very long trial; in fact, our trial needs to last a lifetime.So, just to get started, we are toying with the notion of a randomized trial running for 80-100 years.

Dietary influences begin in utero, so we should really randomize not our study subjects, but their mothers while pregnant with them.Dietary influences are salient during breast-feeding as well, and the composition of breast milk is influenced by maternal diet, so we need the mothers we enroll to agree not only to adhere to their assigned diet throughout pregnancy, but to breast feed exclusively until weaning, and adhere then as well.Only at weaning can our actual study subjects get in the game, adopting their assigned diet as babies.For our study to work, they too must adhere to the assigned diet, whatever it is, and in their case- for a lifetime.

Since we are randomizing participants, we may expect them to be alike, on average, in all ways other than their diet assignment- the very point of a randomized, controlled trial.Since we are comparing optimal versions of diets reasonably under consideration for best diet laurels, we may anticipate that our study participants are apt to be healthier, and longer-lived in general than the population at large, consuming the lamentable typical American diet.

Thats a problem too.If our entire study sample does well, it raises the bar to show that one of our diets is truly, meaningfully better than another.Consider, for instance, that those assigned to an optimal vegan, or an optimal Mediterranean diet, just to name two, have remarkably low rates of chronic disease- and we are trying to show a difference between them in the rates of chronic disease.The smaller the difference we are seeking, the larger the sample size we need to find it, and assign statistical significance to it (lets not belabor this point either; Ive written a textbook on the topic, so trust me- its true).That now means we need not only a RCT unprecedented in length, but unprecedented in size, too.We need to randomize tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of pregnant women to study the effects of competing diets on the vitality and longevity of their offspring- at a cost that is staggering to contemplate, and would certainly run into the billions of dollars.

This study has not been done.This study will not be done.Whatever you do, dont hold your breath waiting for it.

Lets contrast our ostensible need for this RCT to how we know what we know about putting out house fires.

First, there has never been, to the best of my knowledge, a RCT to show that water is a better choice than gasoline.Do you think we need such a trial, to establish the legitimacy of the basic theme (i.e., use water) of the right approach?Would you, and your home, be willing to participate in such a trial when you call 911- knowing you might randomly be assigned to the gasoline arm of the study?

I trust we agree that observation, experience, and sense serve to establish beyond the realm of reasonable (or, even, any) doubt that water is generally good for putting out house fires, and gasolinenot so much.

But what if, as with diet, we wanted to know the specific fire fighting approach that was best.Once again, we would need to define specific approach, which here might mean water at different temperatures, pH, hardness versus softness, and pressure.We might compare hoses of different calibers, and such.And we would need to define best, which here presumably means putting out fires the fastest, with the least damage to people and property.

Consider the size, cost, and inconvenience of a randomized trial to compare water at 40F versus 41F; or a slight difference in water mineral content.We would again expect variations on the sensible theme of fire fighting such as these to produce very tiny differences in outcomes, meaning we would need an enormous sample, a lot of time, and a lot of money to append this bit of specificity to the fundamentals we already knew.

My friends- and everybody else- diet is the same.The want of a RCT addressing this kind of water versus that does not mire us in perpetual cluelessness about the basic approach to putting out fires.Sure, we could do RCTs to add to what we know- but the want of such studies does not expunge what we already know based on empirical evidence, long experience, observation, and sense.

If anything, the fundamentals of a health-promoting diet are better substantiated than those of fire fighting, since they are informed by long experience, the observation of large populations even of entire regions, and even over generations as well as by a massive aggregation of research, ranging from mechanistic study in test tubes to RCTs enrolling people.We are the furthest thing from clueless about the basic care and feeding of Homo sapiens.Here, too, RCTs can append to what we know- but they are by no means the sole basis for it.

I dont know, frankly, whether an optimal vegan diet, or an optimal Mediterranean diet, or an optimal Asian diet, or even an optimal Paleo diet is the best for human health.I do know, because we all know, that a diet comprised principally of minimally processed vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, lentils and pulses, nuts, seeds, with plain water preferentially for thirst is the best theme for human and planetary health alike, and runs commonly through all the legitimate, specific contestants- just as water is the best theme when aiming a fire hose.

To conclude otherwise is to misconstrue the utility of randomized trials, succumb to their tyranny, and lose our way in a bog of tribulations.To conclude otherwise is to fiddle around while the house of public health burns down to the ground.

Senior Medical Advisor, Verywell.com

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What causes aging? Scientists have been thinking about this question for centuries, says Harvard professor of medicine Vadim Gladyshev. It sounds almost simple, but in fact its thorny and complicated, and although several theories have emergedthat organisms are programmed by nature to die, or that aging is the result of hyperfunction of biological activities, or that its controlled by geneticsthere are as yet no settled answers. But a study published today in Science Advances, coauthored by Gladyshev, offers evidence bolstering one long-held theory: that aging is caused, at least in part, by molecular damage accumulating in the cells. This damage is generated by nearly every cellular process, he saysby the work of enzymes and proteins and the life-sustaining metabolic processes that occur at every level of complexity, from simple molecules and cell components to whole cells and entire organs. So over time we have many, many damage forms, millions or billionsunavoidable byproducts of enzyme function, for example, or of protein-to-protein interactions, errors in DNA transcription or translation. And as a function of age, they accumulate. Eventually, its more than the body can cope with.

In a series of experiments, Gladyshev and his collaborators found that feeding a diet of old organisms to yeast, fruit flies, and mice shortened their lifespans by roughly 10 percent. Heres how it worked: for yeast, the researchers formulated one cell-culture medium composed of extracts from young yeast cells and another of extracts from old ones. They then grew new yeast cells on each medium and watched to see which set would live longer. As Gladyshev explained: Our hypothesis was that as yeast ages, it accumulates certain damage forms, and we wanted to test that specific damage and find out if it is deleterious for yeast.

The team replicated the same basic procedure in fruit flies and mice: they collected 5,000 freshly dead flies that had lived an average of 45 days, and sacrificed 5,000 others that were three to five days old. Then they prepared two homogenized diets, one composed of young flies and the other using the old ones. They fed these diets to young female fruit flies (not males, though: the experiment was limited by the number of old flies the researchers were able to collect; to do the experiment, they had to vastly expand their colony and then wait for thousands of flies to dieIt is easy to get flies, Gladyshev quips, but not easy to get a lot of freshly dead flies). The mice were fed diets of skeletal musclemeat, basically, Gladyshev saysfrom young and old farmed red deer (three years old versus 25) that replaced the animal-product components (insects, carrion, worms, etc.) of a normal mouse diet. Using mouse tissue was not feasible, he explains, because of the large quantities needed for the experiment; deer meat was a suitably close match.

The experiments raise new questionsin a field thats full of themand some of the results were a little unexpected. In the mouse study, the old diet shortened the animals lifespans, but only in females. In male mice, the shortening of lifespan was not statistically significant. Gladyshev attributes that to the limitations of the experiment itself. Because they had limited deer meat, the researchers tested only 60 mice, rather than two or three times that many. Also, he says, we began feeding the mice not from when they were first weaned but when they were 12 months old. So for the first year, they lived on a regular diet. Its possible there wasnt enough time for the diet to have a full effect.

Mostly, though, Gladyshev had expected to see larger differences in the test organisms relative lifespans. The effect of consuming an old versus a young diet, he says, was statistically significant, but it wasnt huge. Honestly, I thought it would have a much larger effect on lifespan, but it was on the order of about 10 percent. The effect was consistent, however, across all three species. That shows us that these age-related changes that accumulate are truly deleterious, he argues. And that provides a fundamental insight into the aging process. In the study, the authors interpret the minor-but-consistent effect to mean that damage accumulation may be only one contributing factor in aging, and also that damage caused by internal molecular changes may have a stronger effect than damage introduced through the diet.

Its also likely that the damage arises from many processes. And they all work together in a deleterious way, Gladyshev says. So the question is, how do we slow down this process? How do we restructure cellular metabolism so that this damage accumulates at a slower rate? He doesnt yet have an answer, although he believes the approach will have to be holisticcells accumulate so much damage, from so many metabolic processes, that intervening in one or another type of damage would have little effect on the whole. Even if we remove some damaged forms, others will still be generatedBut if we alter the state of the cell itselfgenetically, perhaps, or with dietso that many cellular systems are affected, then they would generate somewhat different damage forms and generate them at a different rate.

These questions lead into wooly thickets that confound biologys usual, reductionist methods for teasing out and analyzing components one by one. In research on aging, Gladyshev explains, it is difficult even to design experiments that test causal relationships. But finding a way through the forest is essential. He directs redox medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospitalan experimental therapy that aims to treat disease by varying pro-oxidant and antioxidant factors in cellsand says that, from his perspective, Aging is the most important biological question. It is at the root of so many diseases. Even if we eliminate cancer, for example, the effect would be minor, because of all the other diseases of aging: diabetes, Alzheimers, sarcopenia, cardiovascular disease, and so on and so on. All of those maladies will still add up. But if we can learn how to slow down the aging process, we can deal with all of those diseases at once. We delay their appearance. Thats why its important to study these fundamental questions, to ask: what is aging?

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Confession: Two years ago, I worked out six days a week and weighed 15 pounds less than I do now. What happened to me? I changed jobs, turned 50, fell in love and got a little too comfy wearing yoga pants. So when I read that about 71 percent of participants in a study who had weekly pictures taken (along with measurements and other data) lost weight, I was intrigued. It made sense to me to see visual progress in pictures instead of just relying on the scale. I decided to try it myself.

The difference with my experiment is the study participants had the research staff take photos, measurements, and weight. I wasnt about to let anyone take a picture of me, so I decided I would take full length selfie of myself every Monday for a month. I figured it would be a good way to stay motivated and get my mind in the right place.

The first picture was downright depressing. I knew I had gained some weight butyikes!I had gotten soft, too. The pride and joy of my body was my abs and now they resembled Poohs belly, and not in a cute way.

By week two, chaos broke out. We bought a house and the closing process went so quickly we were able to move in right away! Simultaneously, our holiday guests were still in the old house and contractors were coming and going, fixing things at the new house. I spent a lot of time between two houses instead of walking in the mornings like I had been the first week. Although I wasnt getting a traditional workout, I thought all the constant moving would help melt off the pounds. (Literally. I was moving boxes up and down three flights of stairs.) However, week twosselfie produced no visible results. Quite honestly, I didnt expect too much until the third week, but this was a buzz kill. Time to get serious.

I decided to amp up my weight loss/fitness regime. By trade, Im a writer, so naturally Im on my butt most of the day. I set my kitchen timer to go off every hour during my writing hours and got up to do about 10 minutes of exercise. I rode my stationary bike or hopped on my elliptical. Sometimes I hit the mat and cranked out some push ups and crunches. I started drinking more green tea during the day and less wine and beer during the night. I set up my gym in the basement of the new house and started exercising in the morning.

Week four came and I put the same clothes on I had been wearing each Monday. Still, no change. Im not as disappointed as I thought. I felt like I gave myself the fresh start I needed to get back in shape.

The study lasted 16 weeks and my little experiment was only four weeks and the first half of virtually no focus on diet or fitness. Although I havent lost a single lousy pound or even half a inch, the good thing is my resolve hasnt wavered. I know that the number on the scale may not budge right away but my psyche is moving in the right direction: To get back on track to eat healthier and be more active again. Im going to keep up with the selfies because like the study concluded, seeing is believing.

While the selfie trick didnt work, these easy weight-loss tips will!

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I Took a Selfie Every Week for a Month to Lose Weight. Here's What Happened. - Reader's Digest

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