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Job worries for parents may mean poorer nutrition for kids Job worries for parents may mean poorer nutrition for kids The more work-related stress parents experience, the more likely their children are to eat unhealthy meals, a new study shows.More >> The more work-related stress parents experience, the more likely their children are to eat unhealthy meals, a new study shows.More >> Pictures of fatty, sugary foods may spur cravings Pictures of fatty, sugary foods may spur cravings Looking at pictures of hamburgers, cupcakes and other high-calorie edibles can trigger cravings for fattening foods, especially if you're drinking something sweet at the time, according to a new study.More >> Looking at pictures of hamburgers, cupcakes and other high-calorie edibles can trigger cravings for fattening foods, especially if you're drinking something sweet at the time, according to a new study.More >> 'Dessert' with breakfast boosts weight loss 'Dessert' with breakfast boosts weight loss Starting your morning with a high-protein food and a "dessert" -- such as a doughnut or a slice of cake -- may help you lose weight and keep it off, a new study suggests.More >> Starting your morning with a high-protein food and a "dessert" -- such as a doughnut or a slice of cake -- may help you lose weight and keep it off, a new study suggests.More >> Money really can't buy happiness Money really can't buy happiness Contrary to popular belief, happiness in life has more to do with respect and influence than status or wealth, according to a new study.More >> Contrary to popular belief, happiness in life has more to do with respect and influence than status or wealth, according to a new study.More >> 10 best appetite-suppressing foods 10 best appetite-suppressing foods Forget the fad diets and diet pills, which can be harmful anyway, and try eating a diet filled with appetite-suppressing foods, like the following 10.More >> Forget the fad diets and diet pills, which can be harmful anyway, and try eating a diet filled with appetite-suppressing foods, like the following 10.More >>

(CNN) - According to research done by a group of European and American scientists and professors, long term low-carb, high protein diets could be bad for women's health.

They found that a one-tenth decrease of carbohydrate intake or an increase in the amount of protein eaten, statistically raised the frequency of cardiovascular disease.

The researchers sampled more than 43,000 Swedish women between 30 and 49 years old.

They followed up with the women for an average of about 16 years.

The goal was to study the long term consequences of low-carb diets on heart health, when there's no consideration of the protein sources.

The study says high protein diets may be okay nutritionally if the protein is plant based, like quinoa or almonds.

The study is published by the BMJ Group.

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Author Don Miguel Ruiz, in The Mastery of Love, calls it puja, the Indian word for a ritual that celebrates and worships idols. If you have not adapted a ritual yet, a puja is precisely what you want to set your sights on. Make it a celebration, an honoring, a worshipping of you. Learn to love you like never before.

Not sure where to start? Here are twenty ideas. Choose any one, two, or twenty and add renewed value to your life:

1) Fifteen minutes of Yoga Thats all it takes to stretch and support your bodys daily functions. Most asana, or poses, actually serve a physical, spiritual, emotional, and/or mental purpose.

2) Dry Skin Brushing Using a dry, long-handled, vegetable bristle brush, brush every inch of your nude skin in long strokes, toward the heart. This action helps to stimulate your lymphatic system, improves circulation, eliminates toxins, and produces sebum (a natural moisturizer).

3) Flossing Doctors, worldwide are making the connection between oral health and physical health. More and more, we are learning that gum disease is a predecessor to systemic diseases.

4) Cod Liver Oil Rich in calcium and Vitamin D, Cod Liver oil is anti-inflammatory (a predecessor to systemic diseases) and helps with joint pain.

5) Eat Your Greens Add green, leafy, vegetables to every meal for a boost to your organs and tissues. Full of iron, calcium, potassium, and Vitamin C, green leafy vegetables should become the largest portioned food item on your plate.

6) Castor Oil rubs Use it on your belly, in the direction of your intestinal tract, for relief of constipation and bloating. Use it for relief of aching joints.

7) Bitters A cocktail of alcohol and 13 bitter herbs, Swedish Bitters have been known for years to improve digestion and cure many ailments.

8) Water This miraculous beverage washes away toxins in your body, hydrates you inside and out, regulates body temperature, and prevents constipation. For best results, drink half your body weight (lbs) in ounces (160lbs = 80oz).

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If farmers are looking for information and trends on farming, UW-Extension is there.

If families are in search of resources to bolster their relationships, UW-Extension is there.

If residents are in need of resources for nutritious diets, UW-Extension is there.

And if parents are looking for positive activities for their children 4-H, after-school or otherwise UW-Extension is there.

Wisconsin Cooperative Extension is celebrating its centennial anniversary this year a milestone that marks 100 years of providing university-based resources to all Wisconsin residents regardless of educational achievement.

In Jackson County, UW-Extension is marking 78 years as a county-wide resource that started in 1934 with one agent and has evolved into an operation with four agents and countless programs.

(Extensions) goal is to bring the research and resources of the university out to every county in the state, said Jackson County family living agent Luane Meyer, whos worked at the local office since 1990. What we want to do ... is to bring the tools and the information to individuals and families so that they have those tools to make decisions.

Wisconsin Cooperative Extension began in 1912 with the hire of its first county agent E.L. Luther in Oneida County. Two years later, U.S. Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, which created Cooperative Extension Services and provided federal funds for extension activities in states.

The states 4-H program was established the same year, and Jackson Countys UW-Extension office began its work in 1934 with the hiring of M.R. Schuler as its first agriculture agent. Walter Bean began as a joint agriculture and 4-H agent two years later, home economist Lucille Herbert Hendrickson was hired 10 years later and additional staff and programs have been added in the following years.

Jackson Countys office now has Meyer, agriculture agent Trisha Wagner, 4-H youth development agent Monica Lobenstein, state nutrition educator Denise Lahodik, staff from federal volunteer programs and other support staff. It is funded in part through federal, state and county dollars, with the county providing office space and support staff.

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(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY It's big news and it's all over the internet: A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that a diet based on healthy carbohydrates -- similar to a Mediterranean diet of fish, vegetables, fruit, nuts, beans, whole grains and healthy fats like olive oil -- is better for you than a low-fat or low-carb diet.

And this is news? We've known this for decades. It's how I've eaten for as far back as I can remember. It's how nearly all the healthy people I know eat.

Yes, I know, I'm forgetting about the Atkins Diet, South Beach Diet, Low-Fat Diet, Low-Carb Diet, Beverly Hills Diet, Hollywood Diet, Acai Berry Diet, and all those other diet fads that come and go because everyone wants a quick fix these days.

The only problem is quick fixes and fad diets don't work. Common sense works. It's the same thing with leadership, management, your career. It's exactly the same. The way to achieve a lasting competitive advantage, a high-performance organization, a successful business, or a fulfilling career, is through common sense and hard work - not fads and silver bullets.

Meanwhile, we're bombarded with book after book, blog after blog, website after website, and article after article about the one, seven or 10 things that will magically change your career or your company, make all the bad stuff go away and make everything wonderful.

Doesn't that sound remarkably like diets that promise to make your pounds just effortlessly melt away and leave you looking like someone from People magazine's Most Beautiful list?

7 things great employees do You won't achieve the American Dream by dreaming Trendy fads won't help your career

Here's an idea: Instead of the latest management fad; instead of all the Utopian platitudes and parables about leadership; instead of the endless obsessing over productivity, time management, employee engagement, emotional intelligence, other people's habits, personal branding, positive thinking, burnout, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z or how to be like Steve Jobs; why not try a little common sense for a change.

Here's the leadership, management and career equivalent of that old Mediterranean diet we've all known about forever. Let's just call it the Fad-Free Management Diet: 10 ingredients to business health and career success. Best of all, it's fad-free.

- Make smart decisions based on real-world experience, logical reasoning and solid ideas that pass the laugh test.

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Retirees are a wealthy lot indeed.

According to the Employee Benefit Research Institute, those 65 and older have amassed some $8.6 trillion in their retirement accounts alone, not including pension plans or personal savings - a point not lost on the con artists of the world.

Retirees also have more spare time to consider proposals that come their way.

Scams that target older Americans are almost too numerous to name.

Some play the emotional card, knowing grandparents would do most anything to help a grandchild in need.

Some claim to cure illnesses that conventional medicine can't fix.

Still others exploit retirees who undersaved for their nest egg, or, well, tempt the taste for a quick buck in all of us.

Here are six major con categories. If you encounter any of them run away.

Investment Scams

Investment scams are among the most costly to seniors.

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The Harvard lab of Bauer Fellow Peter Turnbaugh (above) is working to identify the mysterious microbes living in our intestines, and to better understand how the bacteria that live within us affect the drugs we take and the exotic foods we eat, collectively called xenobiotics. There are very few examples where we know the link between gut microbes and xenobiotics thats one thing Id like to change, Turnbaugh said. Credit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer

Without the bacteria that live in our intestines, a drug used against rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease wouldnt work.

The microbes produce an enzyme that cleaves and activates a key molecule in the drug. Scientists know the microbes responsible are there and that this activity is important, but they dont know which microbes are responsible, or even how many kinds provide this service.

Another type of intestinal bacteria can keep drugs from reaching target tissue, altering a Parkinsons disease treatment in the same way the brain would, preventing absorption. Researchers believe that differences in patients microbial communities could account for the drugs variable effectiveness. The culprit microbe, again, is unknown.

The Harvard lab of Bauer Fellow Peter Turnbaugh is working to identify these mysterious microbes, and to better understand how the bacteria that live within us affect the drugs we take and the exotic foods we eat, collectively called xenobiotics.

There are very few examples where we know the link between gut microbes and xenobiotics thats one thing Id like to change, Turnbaugh said. I think were really at the very beginning.

This month, some 200 scientists from 80 institutions, including Harvard and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, filled in some of the blanks. They announced results from the massive Human Microbiome Project, a government-funded effort to uncover the scale and diversity of the microbes we carry and to analyze their genomes to provide tools for future researchers.

The scientists found that we carry some 100 trillion bacteria from some 1,000 different strains, many of which are new to science and some of which, though known to cause disease, were found living peaceably among 250 healthy volunteers.

Though there was understanding in the past that the microbes we carry affect our health, the advanced tools of genomics have fostered recent progress, Turnbaugh said. In a recent article in the journal Science, Turnbaugh and postdoctoral fellow Henry Haiser argued that a better understanding of our microbes metabolic activity and how they interact with our bodies in ways that both promote health and cause illness could revolutionize how we understand and treat disease.

Postdoctoral fellows, interns, and other researchers in Turnbaughs lab, which is not part of the Human Microbiome Project, are at work on 10 to 15 projects. Though the human body has microbes in many places including the mouth, intestines, and skin Turnbaugh has been focusing on those in the intestines. He collects samples from the feces of volunteers and from gnotobiotic laboratory mice, born and maintained in a microbe-free environment before they are colonized experimentally. Using an oxygen-free incubation chamber to grow microbe colonies that favor the anaerobic intestinal conditions, as well as cell-sorters and gear that aids advanced genomic analysis, researchers are investigating a variety of questions.

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Millions have been converted to the approach, which work because protein keeps hunger at bay for longer.

But lead author Professor Pagona Lagiou, from University of Athens Medical School, yesterday (Tuesday) warned against sticking to such diets long-term.

She said: We found that the lower the intake of carbohydrates and the higher the intake of protein, the greater the risk of cardiovascular disease.

That applies to small differences as well, if they are habitual.

If my long-term diet changes by having one fewer bread rolls a day and one more egg, I will be at a five per cent increased risk of cardiovascular disease or death.

She went on: This study is bad news for people who follow these types of diet for long periods of time. They should be very careful about dietary regimes, the long term safety of which have not been studied adequately.

However, Prof Lagiou said she did not want to be prescriptive about eggs.

I would just say, avoid going to extremes.

She explained it was not the protein per se that was the worry, but the fact that high-protein foods tended to come from animal products high in saturated fat.

A medium-sized egg (boiled or poached) contains 78 calories, 6.5g of protein, a trace of carbohydrate and 5.8g of fat, of which 1.7g is saturated. These are not high amounts of fat but they are relatively high proportions. The yolk is much higher in fat and cholesterol than the white.

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LOS ANGELES A calorie is a calorie is a calorie or is it?

Maybe not, a small study has found. Once the pounds are shed, the proportions of carbohydrates, proteins and fats you chow down on may determine whether you keep the weight off or slowly but surely pack on pounds again.

In an intensive, seven-month experiment during which 21 overweight men and women had their diets strictly controlled down to each last morsel, researchers showed that a traditional low-fat diet seemed to make the metabolism more sluggish than a high-protein one during the most difficult part of weight loss: keeping fat off once its shed.

The preliminary work, which was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, provides support for a growing group of scientists who argue that what people eat may be just as key as how much they eat.

In a nutshell, from a metabolic perspective, all calories are not alike, said study senior author Dr. David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Childrens Hospital Boston. The quality of the calories going in affects the quantity of the calories going out.

Maintaining weight loss is a challenge that stymies the vast majority of dieters. Only 1 in 6 overweight and obese adults say they have ever held onto a loss of 10 percent body weight or greater for even a year, the team noted in its report.

Scientists knew that weight loss was accompanied by a slowdown in the bodys metabolism. To test whether different foods might influence that, Ludwig and his colleagues recruited overweight and obese adults ages 18 to 40. From 2006 to 2010, they marched the volunteers through several controlled feeding studies.

The 13 men and eight women followed a 12-week weight-loss regimen that helped them shed 10 percent to 15 percent of their body weight followed by a four-week weight-stabilization phase.

After that, each subject was fed three different diets for four weeks at a time: a traditional low-fat diet (60 percent carbohydrates, 20 percent fat and 20 percent protein), a low glycemic index diet (with 40 percent carbs, 40 percent fat and 20 percent protein) and a very low-carbohydrate diet a la Atkins (with 10 percent carbohydrates, 60 percent fat and 30 percent protein).

At the beginning of the study and at the end of each four-week stint, the subjects were hospitalized for three days to undergo a battery of tests. Scientists measured their resting energy expenditure using indirect calorimetry, which assesses gases in the breath to calculate calories burned.

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It's not just how many calories, but what kind, study finds

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According to the June issue of Cell Metabolism, high doses of the niacin-related vitamin precursor nicotinamide riboside (NR) prevent obesity in mice that have been fed a fatty diet. Furthermore, it increases muscle performance and energy expenditure, whilst preventing the development of diabetes development without any side effects.

The mouse experiment was designed by research leader Dr. Johan Auwerx and his Swiss team, whilst the team from Weill Cornell Medical College, who played leading role in uncovering the biological story of NR, found a method to administer sufficient doses of NR to the animals.

Dr. Anthony Sauve, a pharmacologist and organic chemist and associate professor of Pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medical College, remarked: "This study is very important. It shows that in animals, the use of NR offers the health benefits of a low-calorie diet and exercise - without doing either one."

Dr. Sauve, a pioneer and leader in investigating how NAD can signal adaptation in cells and in physiology, invented a simple method to efficiently synthesize NR on a large scale, was the first scientist to demonstrate that NR elevates nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) levels in mammalian cells. NAD plays a key role in energy metabolism.

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According to the Swiss team, NR is a "hidden vitamin", which is thought to occur in low levels in numerous foods, even though it is difficult to measure these levels. Overall, the researchers call the metabolic effects of NR "nothing short of astonishing."

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It can happen to the best of us: You decide you want to lose weight and you successfully drop some pounds. But you go back to your old eating habits or gorge on the foods that youve been craving for whatever reason, and suddenly the scales telling you youve gained everything back, maybe even more. Eventually, you start trying to lose the weight again

Yo-yo dieting is the everyday term for when people lose weight and gain it back, sometimes again and again over many years.

Its a very common pattern, said Christine Tenekjian, a registered dietitian at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center in Durham. Sometimes its just 20 pounds at a time and they might regain 25, but sometimes its 50 or 100 pounds, then regaining more than that.

Nationally, research has shown many people who lose weight manage to keep it off initially. But findings show that over several years, they often gain weight back.

Susan Pflug, 65, of Charlotte, has been trying to lose weight and then keep the pounds off for more than 20 years.

Part of it had to do with appearance, but mostly she wants to maintain her health. Around the time her father died, her outlook shifted. She says she became more aware of mortality and time passing.

Pflug, a retired librarian, has had no weight-related health issues so far, but she knows theres no guarantee her health will last forever.

She also wants to dance with her husband without her feet hurting, and to have more energy to keep up with her grandchildren.

I am absolutely worn out at the end of visits, she said, laughing. I would like that to change.

Over the years, Pflug has tried Weight Watchers, the Atkins Diet and giving up fat, among other things. She says some diets work well for losing weight, if you can stick to them.

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