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Dietician Indra Balaratnam says no womans mid-section instantly goes back to normal immediately after childbirth

Personal trainer Boey Kim Mei says its important to remember the term nine months up, nine months down.

FAT Aunty, Chubby Gal, Mrs Double Chin and Fatbulous are only some of the names used to describe the once "most beautiful woman in the world" -- Aishwarya Rai.

Although the mother of six months is confident enough to walk the red carpet, bulimic youngsters, middle-aged men with pot-bellies and know-it-all mothers have taken it upon themselves to decide when they should get back to their original form, based on what's displayed in magazines and "photoshopped" billboards.

But consultant dietitian and president of the Malaysian Dietitians' Association Indra Balaratnam said women should not be fooled by what they see in celebrity magazines and tabloids.

"Many stories and pictures about extreme post pregnancy weight loss are not true and not reflective of a proper timeline.

"The media likes to splash headlines like 'so-and-so celeb loses X amount of weight after delivering baby last month', but can you really vouch if it's true?

"Even celebrities complain about what's in the tabloids, so go figure. Furthermore, when some celebrities lose weight in a rush, it's because they have a contract to film a movie where they have to look like what they did before pregnancy.

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Swimming is good exercise (thats obvious). Swimming is a lifetime sport that benefits the body and the whole person! But what is it that makes swimming good, specifically? That depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Swimming is a healthy activity that can be continued for a lifetime. The health benefits swimming offers are worth the effort it takes to get to the swimming pool, get into your swimsuit, and then get into the pool and swim. If you do not know how to swim, taking swimming lessons or teaching yourself how to swim better are great ways to help you to enjoy fitness swimming. Swimming works practically all of the muscles in the body (if you do a variety of strokes). It can develop a swimmers general strength, cardiovascular fitness and endurance. It does not help with bone densityyou need to weight bearing exercise for thatbut that is about all that is missing from what swimming could do for your fitness.

Why do you swim? For the health benefits to your heart and lungs? For the chance to be with some of your friends at the pool? Because, in your case, running every day hurts? Because you like the feeling of floating and sliding through the water? Or is it something else? If you are looking for a break from the heat of the summer, then a dip in the water is exactly what you need; swimming is a way for you to cool off. It fills a wonderful recreational need for individuals and families, from beach and pool fun to water parks. Maybe you are a runner, training on a regular basis, and want to find an activity that keeps your heart rate up but takes some of the impact stress off of your body. Perhaps you have been doing some other form of land exercise, and now an injury prevents you from putting weight on a knee or ankle. Swimming can help you. Kicking workouts, water aerobics, pool running, or a regular swimming workout can all give you a great exercise session without the weight of your body pounding you with each move.

Regular swimming builds endurance, muscle strength and cardio-vascular fitness. It can serve as a cross-training element to your regular workouts. Before a dryland workout, you can use the pool for a warm-up session. Swimming with increasing effort to gradually increase your heart rate and stimulate your muscle activity is easily accomplished in the water. After a land workout, swimming a few laps can help you cool-down, move blood through your muscles to help them recover, and help you relax as you glide through the water. Spending time in a group workout, whether water aerobics or a masters swim practice, is a great social outlet. Exchanging stories, challenging each other, and sharing in the hard work make swimming with others a rewarding experience. There are other psychological benefit to swimming, if you allow it to occur. Relax and swim with a very low effort. Let your mind wander, focusing on nothing but the rhythm of your stroke. This form of meditation can help you gain a feeling of well-being, leaving your water session refreshed and ready to go on with the rest of your day.

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Everybody has a six-pack hidden under their tummy fat. Eat & exercise & the world will see it.

Photo above of abdominal muscles on outside and below on the inside of the body (Source: Wikipedia).

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21/06/2012 Dr Nantapat Supapannachart

Everyone ogles at the lovely bodies seen on TV, in movies and on billboards. Needless to say, this really puts pressure on how one thinks their body should look. A person with ripped abs is probably more satisfied with his or her body image than an individual who is stout, because of the attention one gets. The result of this is that everyone wants to have a six-pack of firm abs.

EVERYONE HAS A SIX-PACK. TRUE OR FALSE?

Most people find it difficult to believe they already have a six-pack. It is true. It's there - you just don't see it, because it's normally covered in fat. Six-packs are in the region below your chest and between your obliques. You need to be around a certain body fat percentage - approximately seven to 11% of fat - for your abdominal muscles to show properly.

ARE SIX-PACKS ONLY ABOUT SEX APPEAL OR DO THEY HAVE HEALTH BENEFITS?

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Finding your six pack: Strong, flat, firm abs

By Tamara Abraham

PUBLISHED: 10:34 EST, 20 June 2012 | UPDATED: 01:16 EST, 21 June 2012

If you thought Oprah Winfrey had been looking slimmer of late, then it seems you'd be right.

The TV host, 58, has lost 25lbs in just six weeks, it was revealed today, shedding much of the weight she had gained over the past 18 months due to the pressures of running her OWN network.

The secret to her success, sources say, is a lean, low-calorie diet implemented by her new chef.

Slimline new look: Oprah Winfrey, pictured in April (left) and more recently on June 8 (right), has lost 25lbs in just six weeks after embracing a new diet and exercise regime, it was revealed today

The fast results were also thanks to the fact that she has resumed her regular treadmill workouts with trainer Bob Greene, they added.

'Oprah has absolutely flipped for the new chef,' a source told the National Enquirer.

'The personalized diet Oprah's been following uses a combination of fruits and vegetables, fish, chicken and lean meat.

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Incredible shrinking woman ... Anne Hathaway and fiance Adam Shulman in New York earlier this month.

Drastic diets may be a Hollywood specialty but Anne Hathaway's extreme weight loss regime for her new film Les Miserables is in a different league to the standard detox.

In order to convincingly play the musical's heroine, the sickly and impoverished French prostitute Fantine, Hathaway lost more than seven kilos from her already slender physique.

Subsisting on the 500 calorie-per-day regimen of hummus and radishes was no easy task, she told Allure magazine but the toughest bit was forgoing her favourite treat, cheese.

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As she was ... Anne Hathaway attends the White Fairy Tale Love Ball last year.

"Cheese is amazing ... [but] once you're over the cheese hump, there's nothing really left," Hathaway says.

But one would be forgiven for worrying that there may soon be nothing left of her either. Between her new ultra slimline figure and super short hair, Hathaway looks little like her old self.

The actress, who's quickly gaining a reputation for radical body re-shaping revealed the physical and psychological toll of preparing for demanding roles.

Of wearing a catsuit to play Catwoman in the upcoming film The Dark Knight Rises, Anne said: "[the catsuit was] a psychological terrorist.

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Three teams, one on each side and one in the back, maneuver an Easter Island statue replica down a road in Hawaii, hinting that prehistoric farmers who didn't have the wheel may have transported these statues in this manner. The experiment was led by archaeologists Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo and is reported in the July issue of National Geographic magazine.

By Alan Boyle

Did Easter Island's famous statues rock, or roll? After doing a little rocking out themselves, researchers say they're sure the natives raised the monumental figures upright, and then rocked them back and forth to "walk" them to their positions.

Their findings mesh with a scenario that casts the Polynesian island's natives in the roles of resourceful engineers working with the little that they had on hand, rather than the victims of a self-inflicted environmental catastrophe.

"A lot of what people think they know about the island turns out to be not true," Carl Lipo, an archaeologist at California State University at Long Beach, told me today.

Lipo and University of Hawaii anthropologist Terry Hunt lay out their case in a book titled "The Statues That Walked" as well as July's issue of National Geographic magazine. Their story serves as a counterpoint to a darker Easter Island saga, detailed in "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," abetter-known book by UCLA scientist-author Jared Diamond.

Two scenarios In Diamond's scenario, Easter Island's society is portrayed as one that chose to fail through overpopulation, conflict and deforestation. Polynesians colonized the island as far back as 1,600 years ago, and cut down forests of palm trees as part of a slash-and-burn strategy that led to intensive farming, soil degradation, conflict, cannibalism and massive depopulation. By the time the Europeans arrived in the 18th century, Easter Island's society was on the ropes.

The island's statues, known as moai, play a significant part in this scenario. Diamond relies on the findings of other researchers who say the monoliths, weighing as much as 90 tons, were dragged into place by hundreds of islanders, using downed trees as sleds, rollers and levers. Rival chieftains recruited whole tribes to erect monuments to their glory. The broken statues found along the island's path were a testament to the stone-carving society's final failure.

Recent excavations are revealing new discoveries about the towering statutes of Easter Island. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown speaks with Jo Anne Van Tilburg, archaeologist and director of the Easter Island Statue Project, about the findings from recent excavations.

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At 33st Sara Agintas, 43, was refused 14,000 NHS gastric bypass Private London surgeon offered service free of charge 'I am so lucky. It was my fault I was fat,' she admits

By Sadie Whitelocks

PUBLISHED: 08:15 EST, 19 June 2012 | UPDATED: 11:28 EST, 19 June 2012

Sara Agintas, tipped the scales at a hefty 33 stone, but now is looking forward to a brighter future

A 33st benefits claimant who said she was 'too fat to work' has now secured part-time work after undergoing complimentary weight loss surgery.

Sara Agintas, 43, from Milton Keynes, grabbed the headlines after she demanded a 14,000 gastric band op on the NHS, while refusing to diet or exercise because it was 'too hard'.

Despite her public plea health specialists refused to operate, however a private London surgeon came forward and offered to carry out the two-and-a-half hour procedure free of charge.

Since undergoing the op at the Bupa Cromwell Hospital in London on May 24, during which 85 per cent of her stomach was removed, Mrs Agintas has lost 11bs and gone from a size 38 to a 32.

And now with a newfound sense of confidence she has also got a job as a part-time Avon representative.

While she's happy working for the cosmetics brand, the mother-of-six said she would eventually like a permanent role at Tesco as she moves towards her target weight of 15st.

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David Cameron outlines five key threats to the global economy, including the "muddle-headed" thinking that over-indebted countries can spend their way out of trouble.

Cameron: Greek government delay could be dangerous Samaras wants to renegotiate bailout agreement Greek contraction accelerating, says Fitch Global (Chicago Options: ^RJSGTRUSD - news) markets falter, Spanish yields pass 7.2pc Eurozone came very close to meltdown, says ECB's Nowotny World leaders head to Mexico as G20 Summit gets under way Spanish banks need 150bn, according to reports

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22.30 Right, that's the end of our marathon coverage of the Greek elections and G20 summit tonight. We'll be back tomorrow for day two of G20 in Mexico. Visit our G20 summit and financial crisis pages for more.

Goodnight.

22.77 Reforms to foster growth, such as changes to the labour market are "urgently" needed in order to put the eurozone back on a sustainable path, the IMF (Berlin: MXG1.BE - news) has said. In a report titled Fostering Growth in Europe Now , it said:

Fostering growth is always important; in the euro area it has become urgent.

If implemented correctly, reforms can boost growth by up to 4.5pc, the IMF added:

There is substantial empirical evidence that structural reforms can lift growth markedly in the medium to long term. Staff simulations show that large-scale labor, product market, and pension reforms, which cut the distance of euro area countries to growth-maximizing benchmarks in half, could boost output by 4 percent over the next five years. A pan-European approach is important: a quarter of this additional growth is expected to derive from positive cross-country and cross-reform spillovers. But one must be realistic that the near-term impact on growth, as opposed to the effect on overall confidence, will likely be modest.

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PACQUIAO WATCH: Time is ticking (Last of three parts) By Edwin G. Espejo | Tuesday| June 19, 2012 | Filed under: Mindaviews

Robbed or rigged: Take your pick

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/18 June) So when Manny Pacquiao almost inexplicably lost to Timothy Bradley, an early 1-7 long shot, reactions swung from one extreme of the pendulum to the other.

When the decision was announced, every living room in the Philippines tuned in to the fight collapsed into deafening silence. The shock however quickly turned into defiant howls. Then the outrage turned into bemusement and disbelief. Did they not just watch another boxing match?

From all conceivable angles and perspectives, Pacquiao looked like he was in total control of the fight. Indeed, from the statistical point of view, Pacquiao was the more effective, accurate and the bigger puncher. Oh, he landed more than Bradley by disparity ratio of close to 2 is to 1, too.

So why did Pacquiao lose?

Was he a victim of a bum, if not deliberate, decision? Was the fight an unforgivable fix? Or has Manny simply lost a step and is now ripe for the picking?

When looking at the Bradley bout, Pacquiaos 60th professional fight, it is best to range it against Mannys body of work as a prized knockout artist.

Mannys boxing career is best defined in three chapters.

The first is when Manny was virtually a non-entity in international boxing. Second is when he started to make a name for himself and finally, the third, when he hit pay dirt. You can argue that a fourth is now dawning on him. But it is not easy to exaggerate his untimely demise from the sports. Manny will tell you that straight in your face with a wide grin.

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Video: Rob Ford weekly weigh-in

Mayor Rob Ford and Councillor Doug Ford at their final weigh-in of the Cut the Waist Challenge. Mayor Ford averted disaster when he lost his balance as he stepped down from the scale.

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Mayor Rob Fords weight-loss challenge, launched with fanfare and smiles Jan. 17, ended Monday with a grim-faced mayor missing his goal by 33 pounds and then falling off the scale.

Fords ankle appeared to buckle as he stepped down after weighing in at 313 pounds. He yelled Ow! and fell heavily on his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, in front of TV cameras outside his city hall office.

It hurts really bad, the mayor later told reporters before limping back into his office. I dont know what happened but I twisted it pretty good.

Doug Ford dreamed up Cut the Waist, a 50-pounds-in-five-months challenge, and convinced his 330-pound little brother to participate. There is a website urging others to lose weight and pledge money for charity, an official logo and an oversized scale from their label company.

Enoughs enough, the mayor said in January. Its the heaviest Ive ever been . . . Ive got young children, and this is not healthy.

He enjoyed quick success, eating like a rabbit and avoiding ice cream. He was photographed running lonely laps on a high school track.

Pounds also vanished from Doug Fords 275-pound frame, thanks to daily exercise and diet changes that curbed a serious chocolate milk habit.

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