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Women's health and fitness magazine Self is upping its investment in Facebook. The publication is launching a social game and diet program on the social network next week.

The "Self Workout in the Park Social Game" is an extension of the exercise-themed events Self throws in major cities every year. The "Drop 10 Diet Together" is one of many diet programs the magazine has developed in conjunction with health and fitness experts over the years.

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Facebook is where Self readers are already connecting with each other, says editor-in-chief Lucy Danziger.

"We created an app for Facebook, so you can create a micro-community where you and, let's say, five best friends who are going to be bridesmaids can drop weight," Danziger told Mashable. "By supporting each other you will lose more weight."

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The Drop 10 program will live on Facebook as an application. Customizable settings including team names, member invites and page privacy.

Individuals are encouraged to try the diet and exercise plans designed to help users drop 10 pounds in ideally five weeks. Friends and family can send out invites to anyone on Facebook to share eating plans, card calendar, exercises and logs to track calories and daily meals. The full plan of eating plans and workouts will be available on the magazine's main page.

Danziger, who has been Self's editor-in-chief for more than a decade, spoke of the importance of the web to the brand's future.

"The old way of 'create a magazine once a month, put it out there and then you move on' is no longer valid," she said. "Now you have a 24/7 relationship with your readers who give you feedback on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest."

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Washington, Mar 8 (ANI): Researchers have shed light on the effects of catch up growth (CUG) with different diets on bone status and the role of resveratrol in CUG models.

Although many current studies focused on catch up growth (CUG) have described its high susceptibility to insulin resistance-related diseases very few have focused on the effect of CUG on bone metabolism, especially in adulthood.

As diet is a controllable factor, the influence of re-feeding with different dietary patterns on bone parameters is important to study.

Resveratrol has been attributed a number of beneficial effects in mammals including osteotrophic properties. Wang and colleagues have described the first study to describe the effects of CUG, with various diets and resveratrol intervention on bone status.

CUG can lead to insulin resistance and low-grade systemic inflammation occurs in insulin resistance syndrome.

Tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-a is an important inflammatory cytokine, and Lange and Seriolo et al. indicated that anti-TNF alpha therapy may exert beneficial effects on bone metabolism, prevent structural bone damage and increase bone mineral density.

"Our results showed that food restriction induced a significant decrease in bone parameters. Eight-week CUG by normal chow demonstrated a greater degree of improvement in mineral density than a high-fat diet, and even returned to normal level," Dr. Wang said.

"In contrast, Mika C found that re-feeding for two years normalized bone formation activity in adolescent anorexia nervosa patients, but bone mineral density was still significantly lower than that of controls."

"Compared with neural anorexia, we found in this study the degree of impairment by four-week diet restriction on bone metabolism was relatively weaker, so that bone mineral density returned to normal level after re-feeding."

To better distinguish the effects of CUG by high-fat diet on bone status, these investigators set up a high-fat diet group.

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While more accustomed to designing high-end collaborations like champagne packaging for Piper-Heidsieck, Jean Paul Gaultier is going for more mass market appeal by becoming the latest designer to collaborate with Diet Coke.

The French creator has been named the beverage's European creative director and is appearing in a series of short films for the brand.

As well as signing on to design bottles and cans, Gaultier will also have input on online content and retail concepts for 2012.

Plus, he's the star of three light-hearted short films for Diet Coke's YouTube channel, portraying a therapist, a journalist and a private detective solving a puppet's wardrobe dilemmas. See the first in the series at http://youtu.be/qoTR5bqsx-w.

His first limited-edition designs will be unveiled across Europe starting next month. Bottle designing isn't completely new to the creator though, as he has teamed up with Piper-Heidsieck in the past -- last year dressing a bottle of vintage champagne in black lurex, fishnet and Swarovski crystals. For the Diet Coke collab, Gaultier has hinted at a characterful creation.

"The brand asked me to explore its fun personality and to style the bottle. I want to show people the codes and signatures I love. The bottles have the shape of a woman's body, so it was great fun to 'dress' them," the French creator explained in a release.

"The Diet Coke motif is so beautiful I had to design around this. The finishing touch was to apply my logo to the bottle, like applying a fragile stamp -- making it something special you want to touch."

Gaultier follows in the footsteps of leading designers including Karl Lagerfeld, Roberto Cavalli and Nathalie Rykiel by teaming up with the soft drinks brand, while over in the US Diane von Furstenberg last month unveiled a limited-edition collection of bottles adorned with her signature prints in red and black.

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Tom Turnbull of Latrobe is thrilled to be a "big loser."

Turnbull, a sixth-grade teacher at Baggaley Elementary School in Unity, lost 53 pounds and 16.8 percent of his body weight in an eight-week weight loss challenge among 110 faculty and staff at the Greater Latrobe, Derry Area and Ligonier Valley school districts.

"This is so much fun. It is easier with the competition. It's been a battle for eight weeks," said Turnbull, who worked out twice a day for 10 days to drop pounds before the final weigh-in on Friday. He had been losing weight since the contest started in January -- timed perfectly for those who made New Year's resolutions to lose weight and eat healthier.

Although Turnbull's weight loss was impressive, he did not win the "Diet Between the Districts Weight Loss Competition." Those honors, based on the percentage of weight loss, went to Lou Keyser, a Greater Latrobe Junior High School teacher who dropped 25.1 percent of his body weight.

Celebrating at the Chick-Fil-A restaurant in Hempfield last week, the participants said the program motivated them to lose weight. Collectively, the 110 contestants lost more than 1,700 pounds, said Tim Evans, a Greater Latrobe School District health and physical education teacher who organized the competition.

"The main reason that we run the contest is due to the fact that as teachers, we need to be good role models. Our students look up to us," Evans said.

The competition provides an opportunity to open up a conversation between teachers and students about healthy eating and exercise, Evans said.

"If they see us eating healthy, exercising and maintaining a healthy body composition, then it will make them want to pick up these habits as well," said Evans, who came in second in the contest, dropping 24.9 percent of his weight. Evans, who shed 51 pounds during the challenge, said he would have won had he lost one more pound.

In order for the contestants to reach their goal, Evans, a personal fitness trainer for 11 years, promoted a dual approach of metabolic exercise and a diet that called for eating five small meals a day, no more than 300 calories a meal. Many of the contestants joined fitness clubs to get in shape.

One contestant, Kristine Lynch, a substitute personal assistant at Baggaley Elementary School, joined the competition because she wanted to loss weight "in a way to keep it off," she said.

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In a city where foie-gras burgers are de rigueur, cupcake shops are as ubiquitous as Starbucks and after-work drinks can easily turn into all-night, Champagne-swigging affairs how do Manhattan women manage to stay so damn skinny?

In her new book, The Manhattan Diet, out March 27, author Eileen Daspin sets out to uncover the tricks, rules and regimens behind some of the boroughs tiniest bodies.

Drawing on the secrets of her skinniest friends, Daspin reveals that Manhattan women dont starve themselves they eat good quality food and the occasional treat. Her 46-year-old friend Debi Wisch, who lives on Fifth Avenue and runs a jewelry business, is the perfect example. For breakfast, Wisch eats Fage yogurt with berries and fiber cereal. Lunch is a salad or a wrap. Dinner is fish and vegetables. She snacks a lot on cashews or blueberries, not junk food. If she wants something sweet, she grabs a piece of candy.

I try 90 percent of the time to be good and the other 10 percent just to enjoy, she says. (Wisch, for the record, is 5-foot-4, weighs about 110 pounds and has the arms of a 20-something.)

Manhattan women, Daspin states, are also crafty about keeping temptation out of reach. They dont keep trigger foods like peanut butter in their homes, she insists. And one of Daspins more extreme friends, who runs seven miles a day and has perfect posture and a killer bod, throws away any leftover food that entices her pouring water over it for good measure.

Sauces are kept to a minimum. When dining on Chinese, one of Daspins friends only orders string beans and rice. The oil on the string beans is enough to moisturize the rice, she tells the author. I eat with chopsticks, which helps [me] take smaller bites. Daspin, for her part, only indulges in tiny tastes of high-calorie food, even though shes married to an executive chef, Cesare Casella of Salumeria Rosi on the Upper West Side. I use a teaspoon to scoop up a few grains of risotto, Daspin writes. I taste everything but eat almost nothing.

Rather than staving off hunger with sugar-free snacks like Diet Coke and Tasti D-Lite, Manhattan dieters snack on a Tootsie Roll lollipop or 3 Twizzlers for a daily rationed cheat."

Really enjoy what you eat, but just eat less of it, says Daspin, who is a size 10.

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Posted: Tuesday, March 6, 2012 4:09 pm | Updated: 6:30 pm, Tue Mar 6, 2012.

MANSFIELD A high-fat diet that would make a fitness guru cringe is proving to be a lifesaver for a township boy who has epilepsy.

An average meal for Korey Walton is a dollop of scrambled eggs, a strip of bacon, and two nickel-size slivers of a banana. Another typical meal is pork roll and cheese with no bun and four tiny Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers. A snack is a slab of butter with some peanut butter on the side.

Each meal must be washed down with 60 grams of heavy 6 percent cream, specially ordered from Wawa.

Since Korey, 8, began a ketogenic diet in January, his seizures have stopped and he's slowly becoming more energetic and engaged, his caretakers say.

"You see his personality coming out. He's talking, he's laughing and he's able to focus," said Lynn Schaefer, the nurse at Mansfield Township Elementary School.

Korey's mother, Dawn, said her son had tried numerous medicines to control his seizures since being diagnosed at age 4. The problem is that they stop working after about three months, she said. Korey seized from five to 50 times a day, the episodes lasting anywhere from 15 seconds to two minutes.

The family hit another roadblock in September, when Korey went to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for an operation to remove a part of his brain that causes the seizures. Doctors discovered more trouble spots and ruled out the surgery, Walton said.

Finally, Korey went back to CHOP in January for a week to try out the ketogenic diet, a plan comprised of 90 percent fat, 7 percent protein and 3 percent carbohydrates. The diet forces the body to burn fat rather than glucose, a state known as ketosis, and mimics what the body does when deprived of food. The diet's use by epileptic patients is rooted in the 80-year-old discovery that seizures could be prevented by fasting, according to the Epilepsy Foundation of Landover, Md.

About 21 percent of patients remained seizure-free on a ketogenic diet, while about 62 percent of patients had the number of seizures reduced by half, according to CHOP studies. The hospital treats about 6,000 epilepsy patients each year, according to a CHOP representative.

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The feeding and exercise habits of New York women are an artful weave of the best diet practices on the planet, Daspin writes. Heres the speed version of her philosophy: Eat well, but not too much. Walk like a maniac. Cook at home. Leave a little something on the plate. Indulge your sweet tooth. Dont go hungry. Dont deprive yourself. Eat whole foods; dump anything with diet in the name. Water is good. A glass of wine is fine, too. Here are some more tips:

Eat what your body craves. Just because its 8 a.m. doesnt mean you have to have eggs, fruit, oatmeal or Pop Tarts. At midnight, how about a bowl of granola (actress Christine Baranskis default snack)?

Have fun. If you pick an exercise you like, it will seem less like work.

Olive oil is good for you this is crucial. Lots of people have written about the trap of low-fat diets. Low fat makes you fat.

Always leave a little left over. It can even be small, a crumb; just be aware youre doing it and watch it go into the garbage.

Savor every bite and take time for it. Never eat while in motion not walking or in a car.

Dont always have a salad at lunchtime its not always satisfying. Instead, choose a sandwich, a controlled way to have your carbohydrates, and you can pack in extra nutrients by using spinach instead of lettuce, as well as extra tomatoes.

Skinny Manhattan women dont patronize fast-food joints. Their idea of fast food is a Starbucks cappuccino. Frozen meals from Amys or a couple Boca Burgers are as close to processed food as thin Gotham gals get.

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7fb576/future_diet_trends) has announced the addition of the "Future Diet Trends and Opportunities" report to their offering.

In 2008, the World Health Organization estimated that there were approximately one billion adults globally who are overweight, and a further 475 million who are obese. This report offers a breakdown of the diet industry and explores the individual components which determine whether a diet plan is successful. The content places particular emphasis on the future of dieting.

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Changes in the global food system and more sedentary lifestyles have combined to create a global obesity crisis. Children around the world are getting fatter younger - a ticking time bomb in terms of poor health and rocketing medical costs. Dieting has to be part of the solution, with strong growth in this market almost assured.

Certain demographic groups are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic. Particular ethnic groups, and those on lower incomes, for example, are more likely to be overweight. Today's diet options remain 'one size fits all', but careful targeting and propositions designed to meet different dieters' needs represents a key opportunity.

With the launch of digital platforms, diet programs can now offer 24-hour support tools and engage dieters in more appealing and interactive ways. New diet programs have the opportunity to make quick inroads in the market while established brands need to take advantage of these new tools in order to maintain their market position.

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A dreamy diet pill that someday allows people to eat as much as they want without gaining weight seems possible, based on new research into certain brain chemicals that influence how quickly we burn fat.

Scientists used lab mice to turn down brain levels of endocannabinoids, chemicals produced by our bodies that are similar in molecular structure to the active ingredients in marijuana.

Previous research has found that endocannabinoids play an important role in regulating energy metabolism. In the new study, blocking the activity of endocannabinoids in the brain enabled mice to stay skinny without exercise or dieting. The researchers explained that the mice were in a "hypermetabolic state," in which their bodies were using up energy (that is, calories) at a much higher rate than normal.

"We discovered that these mice were resistant to obesity because they burned fat calories much more efficiently than normal mice do," study researcher Daniele Piomelli, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, said in a statement. "We had known that endocannabinoids play a critical role in cell energy regulation, but this is the first time we found a target where this occurs."

This target is a compound called 2-AG, found in high levels in mammalian brains, and researchers think it plays a role in the brain circuits controlling how the body uses energy, which we get from food.

A previous study by Piomelli found these compounds make us crave fat. To see if lowering the levels of these compounds had the opposite effect, Piomelli engineered the brain cells of mice to express only low levels of this compound, then compared the animals' behavior and health with that of normal mice.

The modified mice ate more and moved less than their normal counterparts, but stayed skinny even on a high-fat diet. Not only did they look healthy, they had normal blood pressure, and no increased risk of heart disease and diabetes that usually come with a high-fat diet.

The researchers determined that the modified mice's brown fat was overactive it was being turned into heat much quicker than in the normal mice. Brown fat is a type of fat that keeps mammals warm, and this heat creation burns off excess energy.

Jumping from lab studies in mice to actual health benefits for humans is still a ways away, though, since it is difficult to make a drug that acts only in one brain area.

"To produce the desired effects, we would need to create a drug that blocks 2-AG production in the brain, something we're not yet able to do," Piomelli said. "So don't cancel that gym membership just yet."

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Redefine Good Carbs & Bad Carbs - If you've spent any amount of time low carb dieting or tried various low carb diets that didn't work for you then it's very likely that you have been brain washed into thinking healthy carbs such as bananas, carrots, whole grains, potatoes, corn, etc. are bad and that eating those foods means you're bad too. This couldn't be further from the truth but in order to get over these weight loss cliches, you will need to reframe "bad carbs" into good carbs by learning more about them.

When you spend time learning more about what real healthy foods like fruits, veggies, and whole grains can do for your body you will find that introducing them back into your diet in moderation is easy and very enjoyable. My own personal experience: I used to think bananas and oranges were evil but then I found out that they're excellent for weight loss because they hydrate your body so I started adding 1/3 of a banana or 1/2 an orange to my protein shakes.

Balance Healthy Carbs with Proteins & Fat - If you're aiming for a moderate carb intake for weight loss be sure to balance your protein and fat intake as well. This is especially important for dieters who have been on higher protein and/or higher fat plans. Remember that you can't add more healthy carbs back into your diet without reducing protein and fat intake otherwise you're just adding more calories to your diet which results in weight gain not weight loss. Be sure to use a macronutrient ratio calculator to find your ideal balance of carbs, protein and fat then spend a week portioning out your foods to make sure you're getting the right balance at every meal.

Getting this right will make the difference between slow or no weight loss and faster permanent weight loss. My own personal experience: My diet back when I was low carb was 25/40/35 (carbs/protein/fat) which means I was taking in about 120g of protein a day. Now that I'm eating a more moderate carb diet 50/25/25 my protein intake has decreased to about 75g per day and some days it's lower which allows me a bit more healthy fat (i.e. avocados, nuts, coconut oil, etc.). Freedieting.com has a great macronutrient calculator that can help you find the right balance (don't be afraid to experiment with this).

Earn & Burn Those Decadent Carbs - One of the best things about being on a moderate carb diet like carb lovers is that you are allowed to eat more decadent carbs like tortilla chips, cookies, chocolate, etc. This is what weight loss and fitness experts often refer to as the 80/20 clean eating principle which means you eat the cleanest healthiest foods 80% of the time and this allows you to eat more decadent foods 20% of the time. Not only is this more realistic for weight loss but it teaches you a more balanced approach to weight maintenance and forces you to earn AND burn all your calories.

In other words are you active enough all day to deserve that treat and do you generally stay active enough to be able to eat decadent carbs? If the answer to those two questions is no then you shouldn't be having decadent carbs or foods of any kind. My own personal experience: I NEVER used to touch desserts even though I've always been super active but now I enjoy chocolate or other desserts every couple of days and I don't feel guilty about it anymore. It's just part of my weight maintenance diet BUT I have to earn it by staying active and exercising like I mean it. Visit the forums to check out my carb lovers journal if you want to check out some examples of how I do this.

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