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Stacy Keibler works really hard in order to achieve her stunning figure.

The former wrestler is famed for her statuesque physique and took the opportunity to show it off on the red carpet during awards season recently.

Despite admitting to being blessed with good genes, Stacy says a balanced diet and regular exercise are vital to achieve her enviably toned curves.

You really have to work hard. I train for at least two hours a day to get my body. Im lucky that Im tall and athletic, because it hides a few extra pounds, she revealed in an interview with British magazine Closer.

I eat a strict diet, but I dont leave out carbohydrates. High-protein fad diets are the worst thing you can do because everything needs to be in balance.

The 32-year-old star has named her favourite body part. Stacy admits to taking every opportunity to highlight her best bits.

My back is my best feature because its so toned. I often wear dresses to show it off, she said.

The blonde beauty wowed alongside beau George Clooney at the 84th Academy Awards at the end of last month.

Stacys Hollywood boyfriend gave her curve-hugging metallic dress his seal of approval last week saying: By the way, shes not wearing a dress shes just been sprayed gold, he laughed.

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Ananda Marchildon was told lose weight and get her waist down to 90cm. Picture: AP Source: AP

A FORMER winner of the television show Holland's Next Top Model has won a lawsuit against Elite Model Management after she was dropped for having hips the agency considered too large.

The Amsterdam District Court ruled that Ananda Marchildon, now 25, was entitled to the main prize she won in the 2008 production of the show, a three-year contract worth 75,000 euros ($93,500).

Marchildon argued she was dismissed after only 10,000 euros worth of work because she didn't lose enough weight to please the agency.

According to the written ruling, though Marchildon had gained weight since getting the contract, she had a hip measurement of 92 centimetres when she won, and Elite could not demand that she go down to 90 centimetres. That is far smaller than the average woman's hips but not unusual in the modelling world.

"I was right, after all," she said on Wednesday in a reaction published by Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad. "I hope that makers and participants reconsider the structure of this kind of program."

Marchildon's lawyer said she would comment further after she finishes the day's shift at her new job - as a carpenter.

Marchildon was hired by underwear company Sloggi for a one-time shoot on Monday to show that she is still fit for modelling work. Picture: AP

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The fashion industry has often faced criticism for creating unrealistic expectations about women's bodies and forcing models to undergo harmful diets.

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It's National Sleep Awareness Week. Before hitting snooze on this news, consider that scheduling a good night's sleep could be one of the smartest health priorities you set. It's not just daytime drowsiness you risk when shortchanging yourself on your seven to nine hours. (More than 35 percent of adults routinely clock less than seven hours per night, according to the National Sleep Foundation.) Possible health consequences of getting too little or poor sleep can involve the cardiovascular, endocrine, immune, and nervous systems. In addition to letting life get in the way of good sleep, between 50 and 70 million Americans suffer from a chronic sleep disorder--such as insomnia or sleep apnea--that affects daily functioning and impinges on health. Here's a look at the research:

1) Less may mean more. Among people who sleep under seven hours a night, the fewer zzzz's they get, the more obese they tend to be, according to a 2006 Institute of Medicine report. This may relate to the discovery that insufficient sleep appears to tip hunger hormones out of whack. Leptin, which suppresses appetite, is lowered; ghrelin, which stimulates appetite, gets a boost.

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2) You're more apt to make bad food choices. A study published in 2008 in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that people with obstructive sleep apnea or other severely disordered breathing while asleep ate a diet higher in cholesterol, protein, total fat, and total saturated fat. Women were especially affected.

3) Diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance, its precursor, may become more likely. A 2005 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that people getting five or fewer hours of sleep each night were 2.5 times more likely to be diabetic, those getting six hours or fewer were 1.7 times more likely.

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4) The ticker is put at risk. A 2003 study found that heart attacks were 45 percent more likely in women who slept five or fewer hours per night than in those who got more. And a 2008 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that too little sleep promotes calcium buildup in the heart arteries, leading to the plaques that can cause heart attacks and strokes.

5) Blood pressure may increase. Obstructive sleep apnea, for example, has been associated with chronically elevated daytime blood pressure, and the more severe the disorder, the more significant the hypertension, suggests the 2006 IOM report. Obesity plays a role in both disorders, so losing weight can ease associated health risks.

6) Auto accidents rise. As stated in a 2007 report in the New England Journal of Medicine, nearly 20 percent of serious car crash injuries involve a sleepy driver--and that's independent of alcohol use. Sleepiness affects professional drivers, too. The National Sleep Foundation's 2012 Sleep in America poll, released Saturday, found that 20 percent of airline pilots admit they've made a serious error due to lack of sleep, compared with 18 percent of train operators and 14 percent of truck drivers.

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Diet Doc Weight Loss announces the addition of two appetite suppressants and more to their comprehensive, personalized, doctor-supervised weight loss program.

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Many weight loss programs only offer one aspect of a program, which dilutes the overall diet into one that is either restrictive, leaves the person feeling hungry and tired. Other programs or weight loss clinics fail to recognize that not everyone is created equal, and fail to offer a personalized program for each person. It's also said that not every diet program will offer the extra help, such as prescription appetite suppressants or prescription grade B12.

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AMSTERDAM (AP) A former winner of the television show "Holland's Next Top Model" has won a lawsuit against Elite models after she was dropped for having hips the agency claimed were too large.

The Amsterdam District Court has ruled that Ananda Marchildon, now 25, was entitled to the main prize she won in the 2008 production of the show, a 3-year contract worth euro75,000 ($98,500).

Marchildon argued she was dismissed after only euro10,000 ($13,000) worth of work because she didn't lose enough weight to please the agency.

According to the ruling, though Marchildon had gained weight since getting the contract, she had a hip measurement of 92 centimeters (about 36.2 inches) when she won, and Elite could not demand that she go down to 90 centimeters about 35.4 inches. At a U.S. size 2, that is smaller than the average woman's but not unusual in the modeling world.

Elite spokeswoman Rita Camelli in Milan, Italy, said the agency was considering its options.

"Of course we are pretty disappointed" in the ruling, she said. "We felt we were in the right."

Camelli declined to discuss details of Elite's position.

The published ruling included an email exchange between the 180-centimeter-tall (5 foot, 11 inch) model and a representative of Elite in the Netherlands whose name was redacted.

"We agreed that you would come by us every two weeks for an evaluation, how it's going with your diet and exercise and losing weight. We're going to keep measuring you," the Elite representative wrote.

"Today, March 23 2010, we measured your hips at 98 centimeters. This is a reminder! The goal is that you have a hip circumference of no more than 90 centimeters at the end of June."

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Are you sick of diets that dont work? Counting calories, restricting sweets, or only eating certain food groups only to end up back at square one? Are you searching for a new diet that will finally bring you closer to the ideal weight youve been striving to reach? The fact is, diets dont work. According to the New York Daily News, 95 percent of those on diets report regaining the initial weight loss or more.

Next time you feel the urge to diet, try this before you eat.

STOP: Select a food item, Taste it, Observe the details of the food, and Pause to reflect on the experience. These are the basic steps behind Mindful Eating. Mindful Eating is the act of giving full nonjudgmental attention to the food you are eating. Most of us are used to eating mindlessly: on the go, in front of the TV or while biking to class. When we eat with these distractions we dont pay attention to what were eating, often causing us to overeat. By focusing on the details of the food you can train yourself to eat based on your bodys natural cues of hunger and fullness, kind of like we did when we were babies. Mindful eating can help you to improve your relationship with food, maintain a steady weight, and remove feelings of shame from eating. So next time you sit down to a meal or have a snack, practice STOPping to help you become a mindful eater.

The ASUCD Student Health and Wellness Committee (SHAWC) aims to promote and address important health-related issues on campus. We serve as a liaison between ASUCD and campus health organizations, clubs and resources. If you have SHAWCing suggestions, questions or tips, please e-mail us at shawcucd@gmail.com and Like us on our Facebook page!

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Sharon Stewart doesn't mind telling you she was a heavy smoker who didn't eat well or exercise before suffering a heart attack three years ago, and then months later finding out she had diabetes.She's since given up the cigarettes and slimmed down by sticking to diets recommended by the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association. Among the biggest payoffs, Stewart says, is she feels better. "It sounds funny to say, but because of all these health problems, I actually feel better today than I used to," she adds.

Stewart, who became director of U.S. Cellular's customer care center in Knoxville in 2010, wanted the center's 450 employees to feel as good as she did. That wasn't going to happen if they rushed out to grab fast food during their 30-minute lunch breaks or ate cold sandwiches and canned soup from the center's cafeteria.

"We expect our associates to give their best care to our customers, so it's important we treat our associates well so that they will feel like delivering the best care," she says.

She approached Robby Vann, the center's facilities manager, with the challenge, and he identified Knoxville restaurateur Deron Little as willing to offer better alternatives at affordable prices.

Little, owner of Seasons Cafe, Sequoyah Grille and a partner in Echo Bistro and Wine Bar, says he's brought the same philosophy from his restaurants to U.S. Cellular high-quality fresh food. Indeed, Little eschews calling the facility a cafeteria because it evokes images of traditional Southern fare, and instead prefers to describe it as a corporate dining facility that he plans to name the Cornerstone Bistro.

The facility is open 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Entrees and soups change daily. A salad bar is set up for lunch and dinner. He expected to make much of the food at his Farragut restaurant, but demand has been so high since the January opening that he and culinary school-trained employees are cooking on site.

The menu isn't limited to strictly healthy options a fryer is still being used and a pastry chef is at work but those options are always available. One day, for example, waffles may be the breakfast special, but oatmeal, yogurt and fruit are on hand, as well.

"When you have 450 people, you have 450 tastes," Stewart says. "But for those of us who are following heart healthy diets, there are options. And the food is good and affordable. I am eating there every day."

Stewart says that besides the availability of healthier foods, portion sizes are more reasonable than what employees might grab on the run.

She says she was impressed that Little embraced the same servant leadership style that U.S. Cellular trumpets. When she told him the company usually caters meals for employees on Thanksgiving and Christmas the center is open 24/7 year-round he immediately offered to stay open those days.

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The human body harbors at least 10 times more bacterial cells than human cells. Collectively known as the microbiome, this community may play a role in regulating one's risk of obesity, asthma and allergies. Now some researchers are wondering if the microbiome may have a part in an even more crucial process: mate selection and, ultimately, evolution.

The best evidence that the microbiome may play this critical role comes from studies of insects. A 2010 experiment led by Eugene Rosenberg of Tel Aviv University found that raising Drosophila pseudoobscura fruit flies on different diets altered their mate selection: the flies would mate only with other flies on the same diet. A dose of antibiotics abolished these preferencesthe flies went back to mating without regard to dietsuggesting that it was changes in gut microbes brought about by diet, and not diet alone, that drove the change.

To determine whether gut microbes could affect an organism's longevity and its ability to reproduce, Vanderbilt University geneticist Seth Bordenstein and his colleagues dosed the termites Zootermopsis angusticollis and Reticulitermes flavipes with the antibiotic rifampicin. The study, published in July 2011 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, found that antibiotic-treated termites showed a reduced diversity in their gut bacteria after treatment and also produced significantly fewer eggs. Bordenstein argues that the reduction of certain beneficial microbes, some of which aid in digestion and in the absorption of nutrients, left the termites malnourished and less able to produce eggs.

These studies are part of a growing consensus among evolutionary biologists that one can no longer separate an organism's genes from those of its symbiotic bacteria. They are all part of a single "hologenome."

"There's been a long history of separating microbiology from botany and zoology, but all animals and plants have millions or billions of microorganisms associated with them," Rosenberg says. "You have to look at the hologenome to understand an animal or plant." In other words, the forces of natural selection place pressure on a plant or animal and its full array of microbes. Lending support to that idea, Bordenstein showed the closer the evolutionary distance among certain species of wasps, the greater the similarities in their microflora.

Researchers believe that the microbiome is essential to human evolution as well. "Given the importance of the microbiome in human adaptations such as digestion, smell and the immune system, it would appear very likely that the human microbiome has had an effect on speciation," Bordenstein says. "Arguably, the microbiota are as important as genes."

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Beijing (China Daily/ANN) - Every time she takes a business trip to the United States or Europe, Wang Qi is given a shopping list by relatives and friends. Every time, the list is filled with names of high-end cosmetics brands and luxury items.

Recently, however, that list has grown. The 32-year-old Beijing-based executive assistant says she doesn't remember when the list started to grow but the names of nutritional supplements have been piling up. Shopping for vitamins now consumes most of her time shopping overseas.

"People around me seem to be more concerned about their health than previously," Wang said.

With improved living standards in cities and a heightened belief that vitamins contribute to better health, Chinese urbanites have been exhibiting a greater demand for nutritional supplements in recent years. The demand has attracted more nutritional-supplement manufacturers from around the world to cash in on the trend, despite the fact that most of the world's vitamins are already produced in China.

Vitamins in China, which has already cornered the vitamin A and C markets, often go hand in hand with the nation's food industry, with billions of dollars in goods exported each year. There are thousands of drug companies in China.

It is estimated that the sales of vitamins and dietary supplements as well as food and drug additives in China will reach 600 billion yuan ($95.2 billion) by 2015. Additives now take up a large portion of sales in the country.

But one of the main reasons that the door is open for international vitamin makers is that most of the vitamins produced in China are shipped overseas and sold under foreign brands, according to Zhang Yongjian, an expert with the China Health Care Association, affiliated with the Chinese government.

Zhang said other reasons for increased demand include "growing disposable incomes and improved health awareness, together with worsening health problems and an aging population".

According to the latest report by the association, the average spend on healthcare products by Chinese consumers in 2011 accounted for 0.1 percent of their total expenditure. In developed economies, people spent just 0.03 percent on nutritional supplements.

But Zhang, the main author of the report, said that although China's nutritional-supplement industry is far smaller than in developed countries, the business is growing.

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AURORA, Ohio, March 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Does evidence based research support complementary and alternative medicine? Are there randomized clinical trials that demonstrate the efficacy and safety of various non-allopathic methods of treating a variety of disorders? Do acupuncture, Chiropractic care, various diets, and the use of supplements; as well as, aroma therapy really work? The latest issue of Optometry & Vision Development (Vol 43 #1), the official publication of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development, can help you answer these questions. In his article, Dr. Dominick Maino, the editor of Optometry & Vision Development, uses the latest scientific evidence and the Cochrane Reviews to determine which of these CAM treatments can be used with confidence. Dr. Maino also notes that " ... there are no randomized, placebo controlled clinical trials trial that support the belief that evidence-based research is beneficial ... and that these research studies often have severe limitations ... " He also states "real patients bring with them a great deal of heterogeneity." Since medicine has been known to selectively support evidence based research when it fits their belief systems and to discount the research when it does not, we must always take into account the authors', editors', and even the readers' possible biases. Finally, he says that the traditional approach to health care frequently uses interventions that do not have clear, unambiguous evidence based support. We need not only the science of health care but also the art to provide the best approach possible when treating our patients.

Using a case report to illustrate the possibility of reducing or eliminating farsightedness while treating amblyopia (lazy eye), Drs. Dan and Len Press show how to take a different approach to refractive amblyopia. They note that, "Traditionally the goal of treatment has not included the pursuit of reducing or eliminating the lens prescription, but to optimize function through the original prescription. However, we know that despite this disclaimer, parents tend to judge success in part by the need for the child to be dependent upon wearing the glasses." They go on to state, "For some time now we have taken the approach of being conservative about the initial plus lens power given and have worked towards reducing lens power as vision function improves through active optometric vision therapy." Can you really reduce the power needed in a child's glasses to the point where they do not need to wear them? They refer to this process as reverse-engineering of hyperopic anisometropic refractive amblyopia and they do this by using the findings from the visual evoked potential as an objective tool to assist them in determining how much and when to decrease the lens power. This novel approach could be used to decrease your patients' reliance on glasses and still provide the best vision function. At the same time, you would be making parents very happy because the end result would be that their child would not have to wear glasses.

Dr. Sidney Groffman, the editor emeritus of OVD, writes in his editorial, Lost in Space, about a young, brilliant writer, who was literally "lost in space" because of her learning disability. She was diagnosed with a severe temporal-spatial deficit that made her feel like a genius trapped forever in an idiot's body. He goes on to state that, "On reading Ms Crosley's tale of spatial and directionality woes, I, like most developmental optometrists would have thought, 'Oh, if she was only my patient when she was a child, she would not have been "lost in space."' I wonder, though, how many of the 5-7% of the population who suffer from visuospatial deficits and its symptoms are ever seen and treated by developmental optometrists." Read this article. Check to see if you too are lost in space. If so, go to the College of Optometrists in Vision Development website to find a doctor who can help.

This issue of OVD also has information on the anatomy and physiology of learning disabilities, current literature review, practice management computer tips, book review, NewsMakers, and more. Read it online or wait for the hard copy. But read it!

About Optometry & Vision Development

Optometry & Vision Development (OVD) is a peer-reviewed open access journal indexed in the online Directory of Open Access Journals. The full text of these articles is available free from http://www.covd.org. OVD is an official publication of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. Any questions may be addressed to the editor, Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO, FCOVD-A at dmaino@ico.edu or 312-949-7282.

About COVD

The College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) is an international, non-profit optometric membership organization that provides education, evaluation, and board certification programs in behavioral and developmental vision care, optometric vision therapy, and visual rehabilitation. The organization is comprised of doctors of optometry, vision therapists, and other vision specialists. For more information on learning-related vision problems, optometric vision therapy, and COVD please visit http://www.covd.org or call 888.268.3770.

CONTACT: Pamela R. Happ, CAE COVD Executive Director Phone: 888.268.3770 Email: phapp@covd.org Website: http://www.covd.org

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