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LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Tired of tiptoeing around summer barbeques, holiday meals and special occasions so you don't bust your calorie budget? Don't let living life get in the way of losing weight and feeling great! Dr. Melina Jampolis, M.D. and Karen Ansel M.S., R.D. provide practical advice and dieting tips for anyone wanting to lose weight without giving up holiday celebrations, weekend getaways, and living their life to the fullest in THE CALENDAR DIET (Wagging Tail Press; March 2012; Paperback; $16.95; 188 pages with photos).

In a month-by-month guide, acclaimed weight loss specialist, internist and board certified physician nutrition specialist Dr. Melina, and her team of world-class nutrition and fitness specialists help navigate your biggest seasonal eating obstacles and lulls in motivation. THE CALENDAR DIET combines cutting edge research with real-life practical advice to navigate year-round diet challenges.

Using a three-pronged approach, THE CALENDAR DIET delivers easy-to-follow diet advice, delicious recipes based on seasonal ingredients and produce, and a season-by-season exercise plan that guarantees success all year long.

THE CALENDAR DIET includes: * A comprehensive, doctor-designed weight loss plan * 52 delicious, healthful seasonal recipes to guide you through winter, spring, summer and fall * Practical diet suggestions for every holiday and seasonal diet trap of the year * Behavioral tips, strategies and exercises to keep you on track all year long * A calorie-blasting, total body conditioning workout customizable to fit your lifestyle

THE CALENDAR DIET is available at Amazon.com for $16.95. http://www.amazon.com/Calendar-Diet-Losing-Weight-Living/dp/0615576192. For more information visit http://www.thecalendardiet.com.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: *Dr. Melina B. Jampolis, M.D. is one of only several hundred board certified physician nutrition specialists in the United States. A graduate of Tufts University and Tufts University School of medicine, she completed her internal medicine residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, a Stanford University teaching hospital. She is a member of the American Society for Nutrition and the Obesity Society. She is a frequent guest on national television programs including Live with Kelly, Dr. Oz, Fox Business Network and CNN. *Karen Ansel, M.S., R.D., C.D.N. is a nutrition consultant, journalist and author specializing in nutrition, health and wellness. She is a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a contributing editor for Woman's Day Magazine. Karen is a graduate of Duke University and she received her Masters of Science in clinical nutrition from New York University. *Ami Jampolis, M.S., CSCS is the owner of Focus Fitness and a certified personal trainer through the National Association of Sports Medicine as well as a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist. Ami holds a Bachelor's Degree in Kinesiology and a Master's Degree in Exercise Physiology from Arizona State University.

MEDIA CONTACT: Triple 7 Public Relations Julie Holland | Julie@triple7pr.com | 310.571.8217

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As a dietitian in private practice, I was hard-pressed to meet a vegan or would-be vegan 20 years ago. Thats not no longer the case. More and more, I am asked to craft plant-based vegetarian meal plans for clients.

Its hard to say how many Canadians are vegan today. As of 2003, 4 per cent of the population said they followed a vegetarian diet, although not necessarily a vegan one.

The prevalence of vegetarianism has undoubtedly increased over the past decade. And many more people are moving in this direction by cutting red meat from their diet.

A vegan diet is the strictest form of vegetarianism. While a vegetarian might pour milk on cereal or eat cookies made with eggs and butter, a vegan avoids all animal products including meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, even honey.

The motivation to adopt such a hard-core diet varies. Some do it for ethical reasons, not wanting to harm animals for human consumption.

Others like the fact a vegan diet is better for the environment than one based on meat. Large-scale meat production is thought to contribute as much as 22 per cent of greenhouse gases in the world each year.

The health benefits are a draw as well. A vegan diet has been shown to improve blood sugar in people with diabetes, lower LDL (bad) cholesterol and blood pressure, and promote weight loss. It may even help prevent colon cancer and heart disease.

Many people became interested when former U.S. president Bill Clinton drew international attention to veganism crediting his weight loss to a plant-based diet.

But perhaps more people are considering veganism because the diet is easier to follow than it used to be. Vegan soups, frozen entrees, energy bars, protein powders, even breads are available in mainstream grocery stores. And a growing number of restaurants are devoted to vegan fare.

Vegan cookbooks are proliferating too. So much so there are vegan cookbooks devoted entirely to slow-cooker meals and vegan entertaining.

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ScienceDaily (Mar. 20, 2012) In a surprising result, Michigan State University researchers looking at the effects of diet on bowel disease found that mice on a calorie-restricted diet were more likely to die after being infected with an inflammation-causing bacterial pathogen in the colon.

While research suggests inflammation associated with obesity may contribute to inflammatory bowel diseases such as colitis, the study results revealed a low-calorie diet may actually impair the immune system's ability to respond to infection, said Jenifer Fenton, assistant professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.

Additionally, the study found no connection that moderate obesity increased the severity of colitis in the mouse model.

"The results are similar to the research from our department that shows consuming fewer calories make it harder to fight off the flu virus," said Fenton, referring to recent work by colleague Elizabeth Gardner. "Since this is a totally different pathogen, it amplifies the need to find out why caloric intake has such an impact on the body's ability to respond to infection.

"It is possible that the same mechanism that happens with the flu is occurring with gastro-intestinal diseases; future research will ask this very question."

The research is published in the current edition of the World Journal of Gastroenterology.

Inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, is a group of conditions affecting the colon and intestines; the major types being ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. People suffering from IBD have an increased risk of developing colon cancer.

As part of their study, Fenton and colleagues evaluated the influence of obesity and calorie-restricted diets on mice with induced colitis.

Mice in the study were given one of three dietary treatments: a high-fat diet, a 30 percent caloric-restriction diet and a control group on an average-caloric diet. They then were treated with bacteria called H. hepaticus, which infects the colon and causes inflammation, eventually leading to tumor development. This process models the more aggressive lesions observed in human colon cancer cases.

Unexpectedly, study results suggest increased body fat induced by a high-fat diet did not influence the severity of colitis, despite changes in hormones that are known to increase with obesity and influence inflammation. In fact, researchers found calorie-restricted mice had a higher mortality rate in response to infection with H. hepaticus, dying before tumors even developed.

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Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka said Monday he may order the Self-Defense Forces to shoot down the North Korean rocket purportedly carrying a satellite next month if it passes over Japan.

Tanaka said this in a Diet session, referring to actions the SDF may take in the event the rocket passes through Japanese airspace.

North Korea said Friday it hopes to place a Kwangmyongsong-3 domestically manufactured Earth observation satellite into orbit in mid-April, sparking widespread criticism that the launch is merely a test of a long-range ballistic missile.

"We will take the (necessary) procedures in the event of a contingency that threatens our country's security," Tanaka said, adding that the Defense Ministry plans to deploy ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptors and Aegis-equipped destroyers carrying ballistic missile interceptors.

Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba said at the same Upper House Budget Committee session that "the possibility cannot be ruled out that (the rocket) will pass over areas in Okinawa, such as the Nansei Islands."

The North has informed the International Maritime Organization and other official entities that the first stage of the rocket will come down in waters west of South Korea while the second stage will fall east of the Philippines.

Tanaka said Japan will continue to work closely with other nations to obtain accurate information about the planned rocket launch, and that at the moment, there are no concrete activities indicating a launch is imminent.

The defense minister also said he will use as reference his ministry's order during Pyongyang's long-range ballistic missile launch in April 2009.

Yasukazu Hamada, defense minister at the time, ordered the SDF to destroy the North Korean rocket or its debris in the event it fell onto Japanese territory.

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Cutting our sugar is more beneficial than going on a diet or exercise, a new book claims. Source: Supplied

POPULAR diet plans and exercise don't make us thinner - they just make us poorer, hungrier and often fatter, a new book says.

Big Fat Lies, by Australian writer David Gillespie, offers a devastating critique of the commercial diets followed by millions of Australians, including Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig.

He also offers a successful weight loss solution that doesnt cost a cent.

After assessing decades of medical research, Gillespie concludes that many people end up putting on weight when following popular diet plans.

Or they end up losing just a couple of kilos despite years of deprivation, expense and calorie-counting, he finds.

Join us for a live chat with David Gillespie at 12pm today

Some techniques, such as shake meal replacements, do help people lose weight, but are very hard to stick to, he says.

However, Gillespie - a former lawyer turned home-grown food expert - does suggest a way forward for those who need to lose weight.

Gillespie also argues that exercise alone wont help people lose weight, as working out makes us hungrier and burns through relatively few calories

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Healthy diets and exercise could dramatically cut cancer rates by 2025, according to a new study.

A QUARTER of cancers could be prevented by 2025 through diet and exercise alone, saving hundreds of millions of dollars in the cost of treatment, the Medical Journal of Australia has found.

Taking data on projected illness, and coupling it with published findings on the association between food, nutrition and physical activity in the prevention of cancer, the journal's study found that the incidence of cancer in Australia will rise to 170,000 in the next 13 years, an increase of 60 per cent since 2007.

Intervention to improve health and environmental factors could reduce that by 43,000, or 25 per cent, it says in a report to be published today.

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Contributing factors in the nation's poor health include an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, the increasing prevalence of overweight and obese adults, climbing rates of harmful alcohol consumption, and an unbalanced diet.

Pip Youl, one of the report's authors and head of research at Cancer Council Queensland, said that less than 10 per cent of Australians ate the recommended five serves of vegetables a day and only 6 per cent ate two or more serves of fruit a day.

''Ways to encourage better eating are things like improving the number of wholegrain cereals and bread, choosing foods that are low in salt, choosing a low-fat diet, particularly diets that are low in saturated fats,'' she said. ''One of the key things is teaching children to eat healthily. So, getting them interested in cooking and eating healthy foods will give them a really good start in life and enjoying a healthy life.''

Poor health has become an economic and geographic issue, the study suggesting that ''inequities in cancer outcomes vary with remoteness or area disadvantage'' and that ''increasingly the poor are becoming obese faster than the rich''.

With the cost of healthy food higher than that of high-sugar, fat-soaked, nutritionally poor alternatives, Australians on lower incomes are less likely to make healthy food choices.

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Healthy diets and exercise could dramatically cut cancer rates by 2025, according to a new study.

A QUARTER of cancers could be prevented by 2025 through diet and exercise alone, saving hundreds of millions of dollars in the cost of treatment, the Medical Journal of Australia has found.

Taking data on projected illness, and coupling it with published findings on the association between food, nutrition and physical activity in the prevention of cancer, the journal's study found that the incidence of cancer in Australia will rise to 170,000 in the next 13 years, an increase of 60 per cent since 2007.

Intervention to improve health and environmental factors could reduce that by 43,000, or 25 per cent, it says in a report to be published today.

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Contributing factors in the nation's poor health include an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, the increasing prevalence of overweight and obese adults, climbing rates of harmful alcohol consumption, and an unbalanced diet.

Pip Youl, one of the report's authors and head of research at Cancer Council Queensland, said that less than 10 per cent of Australians ate the recommended five serves of vegetables a day and only 6 per cent ate two or more serves of fruit a day.

''Ways to encourage better eating are things like improving the number of wholegrain cereals and bread, choosing foods that are low in salt, choosing a low-fat diet, particularly diets that are low in saturated fats,'' she said. ''One of the key things is teaching children to eat healthily. So, getting them interested in cooking and eating healthy foods will give them a really good start in life and enjoying a healthy life.''

Poor health has become an economic and geographic issue, the study suggesting that ''inequities in cancer outcomes vary with remoteness or area disadvantage'' and that ''increasingly the poor are becoming obese faster than the rich''.

With the cost of healthy food higher than that of high-sugar, fat-soaked, nutritionally poor alternatives, Australians on lower incomes are less likely to make healthy food choices.

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THURSDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've discovered clues about how a fatty diet increases the risk of colon cancer.

"There have always been questions about why things like diet and obesity are independent risk factors for colon cancer. This study suggests how and why high-fat diets are linked to colon cancer," lead author Carmen Sapienza, a professor of pathology in Temple University's Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, said in a university news release.

He and his colleagues examined healthy colon tissue from colon cancer patients and found that epigenetic marks on genes involved in breaking down carbohydrates, fats and amino acids -- which are all common in a fatty Western diet -- seem to have been retrained.

Epigenetic marks are chemical modifications that act as on/off switches for many genes, according to the release.

"These foods are changing the methylation patterns on a person's insulin genes so that they express differently, pumping out more insulin than the body requires," Sapienza explained. "In people that have colon cancer, their glucose metabolic pathways and insulin-signaling pathways are running at completely different levels than people who don't have colon cancer."

Cancer cells "love" insulin and studies have shown that tumors feed off insulin, Sapienza noted.

Most cases of colon cancer occur in people 50 and older, and it is unclear when these genetic changes begin. If such changes can be detected in other healthy tissues in the body, it might be possible to use blood or saliva tests to determine a person's colon cancer risk or diagnose the disease, Sapienza suggested.

The study was published in the March issue of the journal Cancer Prevention Research.

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In a finding that strengthens the link between environmental pollutants and rising rates of breast cancer, new research finds that women whose diets contain higher levels of cadmium are at greater risk of developing breast cancer than those who ingest less of the industrial chemical in their food.

Cadmium, a heavy metal long identified as a carcinogen, leaches into crops from fertilizers and when rainfall or sewage sludge deposit it onto farmland. Whole grains, potatoes, other vegetables and shellfish are key dietary sources of cadmium, which also becomes airborne as a pollutant when fossil fuels are burned, and is likely inhaled as well as ingested.

The new study, published by the American Assn. for Cancer Research and released Thursday, found that among 55,987 post-menopausal women, the one-third with the highest cadmium intakes were 21% more likely to develop breast cancer than the one-third with the lowest intakes.

Among obese women, the study found no increase in breast cancer rates with higher cadmium exposures.

The study offers new evidence in a large human population that environmental chemicals that mimic the effects of the female hormone estrogen may contribute to women's risk of certain cancers, including endometrial and breast cancers.

The finding comes just three months after the Institute of Medicine, a prestigious body of independent biomedical researchers, concluded that a host of other factors most within a woman's power to control, such as obesity and hormone-replacement medication were the most important sources of breast cancer risk.

The panel of experts had called it "biologically plausible" that estrogen-like pollutants promote breast cancers, but noted that evidence that they contribute significantly was inconclusive. By contrast, studies in human populations strongly point to fattening foods, hormone-replacement drugs, alcohol and cigarettes as having roles in boosting a woman's breast cancer risk.

Even this study, while showing a correlation, did not prove cause and effect, experts noted.

UC Davis epidemiologist Irva Hertz-Picciotto, chairwoman of the Institute of Medicine panel that issued its findings in December, said the study "does not move us beyond" the panel's overall conclusions.

"At this point, we have not identified the major drivers of the increase in breast cancer," Hertz-Picciotto said. If cadmium pollution truly turns out to be a cause, she added, "it's probably a small part" of a very large picture.

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THURSDAY, March 15 (HealthDay News) -- Consuming the toxic metal cadmium in the foods you eat may raise your risk for breast cancer, a new Swedish study suggests.

Cadmium, which is found in many farm fertilizers, can make its way into soil and water, the researchers explained. Some of the main sources of cadmium in the diet are bread and other cereals, potatoes, root crops and vegetables. Once it enters the body, cadmium may mimic the effects of the female hormone estrogen, which can fuel the growth of certain breast cancers.

"Modern life has become increasingly dangerous for our breast health," said Dr. Marisa Weiss, director of breast radiation oncology and breast health outreach at Lankenau Medical Center in Wynnewood, Pa. "Now, there's cadmium hanging onto our carrots and whole grains, the very vegetables that are supposed to be good for us," she noted.

"To help our patients reduce their exposure to environmental chemicals (like cadmium), which might increase their risk for breast cancer, we have to partner with our farmers to make sure our foods are grown in healthy soil without chemically loaded fertilizers," said Weiss, who is also president and founder of Breastcancer.org. "Sticking to real, whole (unprocessed) foods remains a healthy strategy until we can be more sure of what's inside the package."

In the Swedish study, the researchers followed close to 56,000 women for more than 12 years. Women filled out food frequency questionnaires, which the researchers used to estimate how much cadmium they consumed in their diets. There were 2,112 breast cancer diagnoses during the follow-up period, including 1,626 estrogen receptor-positive and 290 estrogen receptor-negative cancers.

Women who had the highest amount of cadmium in their diets were 21 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than women who had the least amount of cadmium in their diets. This risk increased to 27 percent among women who were lean or normal-weight, the study showed. The risk was similar, 23 percent, for both estrogen receptor-positive and -negative tumors.

Those women who consumed higher amounts of whole grain and vegetables had a lower risk of breast cancer compared to women exposed to dietary cadmium through other foods.

"It's possible that this healthy diet to some extent can counteract the negative effect of cadmium, but our findings need to be confirmed with further studies," study author Agneta Akesson, an associate professor at Karolinska Institute in Sweden, said in a news release from the American Association for Cancer Research. "It is, however, important that the exposure to cadmium from all food is low."

The findings are published in the March 15 issue of Cancer Research.

Johanna Lampe, a member of the public health sciences division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, said the new study adds to a growing body of research linking cadmium exposure to breast cancer risk. "It adds another grain of sand to the pile," she said. "We would benefit from more research in this area to understand these risks better."

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