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The Biggest Loser, hosted by Bob Harper, awards $100,000 to the contestant who loses the most weight. Pic credit: John Britt/USA Network

The Biggest Loser debuted in 2004, quickly attracting a growing audience with its then-unique premise of defining the winner as the person who shed the most weight.

Set to become stars in their own right, trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels urged the obese contestants to spend their days on the show dieting and exercising to take home the big prize.

However, despite high ratings, The Biggest Loser came under criticism from experts who expressed concern that the rapid weight loss made possible only by devoting days to intense exercise and rigid diets was not realistic.

The criticism grew when, during season 15, ultimate winner Rachel Frederickson began her time on the show at 260 pounds and ended at 105 pounds.

Even the trainers couldnt hide their shock at what turned into a controversy about whether The Biggest Loser had caused Rachel to develop an eating disorder, noted the Today show.

Despite all the controversy of the past, The Biggest Loser returned this year to the small screen. This time around, Bob Harper has taken on the role of host rather than a trainer.

But does the show still have the potential to endanger contestants with its message that you win by losing weight as fast as possible?

Kati Morton, a licensed therapist who is a licensed marriage and family therapist, recently authored, Are u ok?: A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health.

In an exclusive interview, Kati discussed the pros and cons of The Biggest Loser when it comes to permanent, healthy weight loss.

Reflecting on how The Biggest Loser is based on the concept that youre a winner only if you achieve the most weight loss, Morton acknowledged that there are some positives to the reality TV show.

I think the pros of this concept are that they help people better understand how to feed themselves, and how our emotional eating habits can be, said Kati, who runs a private practice in Santa Monica, California and also has a popular YouTube channel about mental health.

But Morton also sees multiple negative aspects to the premise of The Biggest Loser.

Although the show has offered more support for the emotions involved in weight loss, Kati feels that The Biggest Loser should use the term eating disorder and explore why these contestants struggle so much with overeating.

Moreover, Kati expressed concern that The Biggest Loser limits potential contestants to those who have large amounts of weight to lose.

Because of that restriction, The Biggest Loser puts the focus solely on being thin and using that as the goal, instead of supporting different shapes and sizes.

Viewers of The Biggest Loser have seen how the weight loss competition show takes contestants and puts them in an isolated environment, where they focus only on diet and exercise rather than experience the outside world challenges such as family and career.

That isolated environment results in another concern from Morton.

The [Biggest Loser] is so intensive and isolated it can be hard for people to continue on this healthier path after that get home, pointed out the licensed therapist.

Kati, who specializes in working with individuals experiencing eating disorders and self-harming behaviors as well as all other aspects of mental health, also discussed the distinction between The Biggest Loser campus and the contestants real-world lives.

Does weight loss on the show necessarily translate to continued slim-down success when the contestants return to their everyday lives?

[The show] doesnt take into consideration what our real life is like. In real life we dont have someone making all our meals, telling us what to eat and when to work out. Most of us struggle to fit everything we need to do into our days, and adding in these changes can be hard. Its like when my patients come out of a treatment facility, the slow step down in support and care is pivotal for their long term recovery.

What if you have struggled to lose weight for years, watching the scale go up and down, going on seemingly endless fad diets, and heading to the gym faithfully, but arent obese enough to qualify for the show?

Kati has some tips.

I recommend seeing an eating disorder specialist (this could be a therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist) and making time to see a dietitian, suggested Morton.

Types of therapy that have been shown to be the most successful are CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy).

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The specialists you choose depends on your issues, added Kati.

However, if we have other issues like addiction or a traumatic past you will want to seek out a specialist in those areas, explained Morton.

This will help us deal with all of the emotional problems that led to our eating issues while also helping us manage our food choices, portions, etc, with meal plans.

Ultimately, Kati feels that having a professional who specializes in emotional health as well as a specialist who focuses on nutrition can provide well-rounded support and guidance.

The Biggest Loser, which recently shifted from NBC to the USA Network, began its 2020 season with 12 individuals who had battled their weight for years.

The contestant who loses the most weight is the winner of $100,000.

In addition to host Bob Harper, trainers Erica Lugo and Steve Cook work with the contestants to push them to diet and exercise to win the prizes of the most weight loss and the money.

Watch The Biggest Loser on the USA network Tuesday at 9/8c.

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A widow whose weight doubled through comfort eating as she nursed her dying husband dipping into the fat b******* diet he followed to stay strong has lost seven stone and is ready to live again three years after losing him.

A svelte size 10 in 1996 when they first met, when nurse Bridgette Schofield, 55, started caring for David diagnosed with a rare disease called sarcoidosis, which attacked his lungs in 2010, she became an emotional eater.

Told to consume more calories to maintain his weight, as the cruel condition took hold, Bridgette, of Pontefract, West Yorkshire, indulged in full-fat treats like ice cream and cheese alongside David, who passed away on June 2, 2016, aged 51.

Devastated by his death, Bridgette, who has two children recruitment officer James, 22, and journalism student, Olivia, 19 with David, continued comfort eating until, two years after his passing, she tipped the scales at 18 stone and was wearing a size 22.

Her turning point came in July 2018, when she was left mortified by a photo of herself at a reunion dinner with an old pal, saying: Before I even got to the restaurant, I remember thinking, I hope someones told my old friend how fat Ive got.

Wed gone into the city for a nice meal at a fancy restaurant and I felt a world away from the glamorous woman Id been when David was well.

Then my friend asked a waiter to take a photo and when I saw it on her phone my stomach dropped I made her delete it straight away, she said.

Thats when I realised I needed to change. Suddenly I was aware of my own mortality.

Told about the Cambridge 1:1 Diet, Bridgette signed up straight away restricting her calories to just 600 a day.

It was hard at the beginning I was really hungry during that first week, she said. But I was determined to do it.

Bridgette turned to food for comfort after David, the love of her life, became poorly.

It had been love at first sight back in 1996, when she walked into the insurance brokers where he worked, looking for cover for her house.

I went to a family run business Id used in the past and when David showed up I couldnt help thinking how lovely and gorgeous he was, she recalled.

When we parted ways I became all flustered and banged my knee on the way out , calling my mum when I got home to tell her.

I remember her saying, If hes that gorgeous, why cant you insure something else?'

There was no need, as that very same week, David called, asking Bridgette out on a date.

He was probably breaking some sort of code but we werent bothered, she said.

He asked me if I wanted to go to the pub, but I told him I wasnt a pub kind of girl, so we settled on a local Italian.

Head over heels in love and seeing no need to marry, the couple quickly settled into the chaos of family life.

They only tied the knot after James, then 10, asked Bridgette why she did not wear a wedding ring.

I told him that Daddy had never got around to asking me, she laughed. His response was, Well I think Daddy should marry you.'

David said as long as I arranged it, hed turn up, so I did, she continued.

Marrying at west Londons Westminster Register Office on December 8, 2008, before enjoying a knees up at The Ritz, one of the capitals swankiest hotels, she could not have asked for a happier day.

We both loved dressing up and going the extra mile, so the wedding was a really special moment for us both, she said.

She added: We both loved the 50s and icons like Carrie Grant and Doris Day but I loved disco and he loved American rock.

But when David was admitted to The Yorkshire Clinic, a private hospital in Bradford, near Leeds in 2010, struggling to breathe after a week with a relentless cough, biopsies samples of tissue taken from his lungs and tested, resulted in a diagnosis of sarcoidosis.

The rare condition causes small patches of red and swollen tissue to develop in the bodys organs, particularly the lungs and skin.

For the past year we just believed he had asthma, so this was a total shock and, by the time he was diagnosed, doctors pretty much told us it was too late to treat, Bridgette said.

It came as such a surprise. David was very into his fitness and liked to keep in shape at the gym.

He was so proud, too, that he didnt want anyone to know he was so ill. He was very old fashioned like that and didnt want people to think he was incapable.

Told to give David 3,000 calories a day diet as opposed to the 2,500 calories recommended for men and 2,000 for women by the NHS to combat the weight loss caused by his illness, Bridgette admits she dipped into his diet, too.

We called it the fat b****** diet. We used full fat milk, cream and butter in everything, she said.

Id put double cream in his mash and add ice cream to his smoothies and I started indulging more, too.

Because we werent going out as much wed eat takeaway more that sort of thing and as I became stressed and upset, watching him struggle, I started turning to food, she said.

Davids health hit a crisis in the summer of 2015, when they arrived for a two week holiday at the Chewton Glen Tree Houses, in Hampshire, to celebrate James birthday.

David became so poorly the day we arrived he had to be rushed to Dorsets Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital, where he was put on steroids, diuretics and antibiotics, she said

Suffering with a chest infection and pneumonia, David was not discharged until three weeks later when, despite everything he had been through, concerned not to put his wife to too much trouble, he insisted on catching a train home.

I was back up in Yorkshire with the children after the holiday and somehow he managed to get a train up from Bournemouth the day he was discharged to save me the journey, she said. That was just the kind of gentlemen he was.

Unfortunately, Davids health did not improve and in March 2016 he was put on the waiting list for a lung transplant.

She said: They told us as soon as they found a tissue match that hed be on the operating table for a new set of lungs, but that day never came.

Sadly, Davids health deteriorated rapidly and, by April 2016, Bridgette was caring for her ailing husband around the clock.

He was at home attached to every type of oxygen possible, but he still couldnt breathe, she said.

Blue lighted to West Yorkshires Pinderfields Hospital, on June 2, 2016, doctors told Bridgette her husbands lung function was so poor that there was nothing they could do.

I knew he was ill and I didnt expect him to come out, but nothing could prepare me for that day, she said. He was with us one minute and gone the next.

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Comforting herself with food, as she tried to process her heartbreaking loss, Bridgette regularly ate hearty meals, with ice cream puddings seeing her body mass index (BMI) used to gauge a healthy weight soar to 41.9, compared to the 18.5 to 24.9 recommended by the NHS.

Kick-starting her day with mountains of white toast and butter, before eating a pre-packed ham and cheese baguette for lunch, Bridgette would then have creamy pasta for dinner, as well as crisps and snacks.

After he passed, I turned to food for comfort even more, gaining at least another three stone.

But, following her humiliation in the restaurant, after seeing her photo with her friend, Bridgette was determined to change.

Losing 9lb in her first week on the 1:1 diet, soon the pounds were flying off and, nine months after starting the weight loss programme, she had shed an incredible 7st and felt herself for the first time in years.

Now she has slowly built up her calories to 1,500 a day, she enjoys porridge and fruit for breakfast, followed by hummus and carrots for lunch and grilled fish and vegetables for dinner.

A trim size 12 and weighing 10st 10lb, Bridgette says she feels ready to start living again.

She said: I would look in the mirror after losing David and think, Thats not me.

After losing weight I look like me again and its had a drastic impact on my life.

For years Ive been avoiding going out and making excuses to stay in, as I felt self-conscious.

Now I go out as much as I can and people say how much younger I look, she added.

Bridgette has accepted that she may never be ready for another romance, but she is certain that David would see what she has achieved and be cheering her on.

David was always so complimentary, she said. I know hed be so proud of my weight loss and telling me to keep it up.

She added: But Im still not sure about dating. My daughter says she doesnt mind, but I love David so much and my head is still so full of him, she said.

He always joked that he wanted a cardboard cut out of him in the living room when he was gone, but we settled with his urn of ashes instead.

When someone is so full of life and they dedicate everything about themselves to your happiness and well being, its hard to imagine ever filling the void theyve left.

She concluded: But at least now, since losing all this weight, I have my confidence back and can face life again as a new me.'

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Youve probably heard of losing water weight. But can you lose weight by not drinking water?

Dry fasting is a diet fad being promoted online by lifestyle influencers.

The idea behind dry fasting is to forgo drinking any water. Instead, you get water only from food sources, such as fruits and vegetables.

But its a dieting approach that many health experts say is dangerously misguided.

Dry fasting is inspired in part by Muslim abstention from food and water during the month of Ramadan.

In a 2013 study published in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Iranian scientists concluded that Ramadan fasting led to bodyweight loss and reduced body fat the latter primarily among young and male individuals.

Proponents of dry fasting point to studies that looked at Ramadan religious fasting, which did find specific metabolic benefits to fasting and intermittent fasting in general, Robin Foroutan, MS, RDN, HHC, an integrative dietitian, nutritionist, and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, told Healthline.

However, there have never been studies that compared regular intermittent fasting with dry intermittent fasting, so theres no way to know if there are indeed additional benefits to dry fasting beyond that of regular intermittent fasting, she said.

Proponents say theres a wide range of health benefits from dry fasting.

These include weight loss, reduced body mass index (BMI), strengthened immunity, and lower levels of inflammation.

Sophie Partik, a yoga teacher and nutrition coach, says she hasnt had a drink of water in more than a year.

She says that water derived from food is superior to that consumed from the tap.

I get my living water and cell hydration from fruits, veggies, and coconuts, the purest form of H3O2, she said in a story published by Daily Mail.

Others, such as Susan Schenck, author of The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet, recommend dry fasting for limited periods of time, saying that such fasts detox the body.

In a true dry fast, nothing at all is consumed, neither fruit nor water, Schenck told Healthline. Inflammation cannot survive without water, whereas a wet environment enables bad bacteria, viruses, and worms to thrive. When dry fasting, all or many of these critters exit your body. Also, all dead or dying tissues are expelled from the body.

On the other hand, experts such as Aurielle James-Sarpong, RD, LDN, an outpatient oncology dietitian at the Cancer Institute at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, say dry fasting isnt only scientifically suspect but potentially harmful or fatal.

Our bodies are 70 to 80 percent water, James-Sarpong told Healthline. Dry fasting would make it difficult for our bodies to complete daily tasks, such as flushing out toxins or helping nutrients enter cells. Our kidneys, heart, lungs and every other bodily organ on which we rely for normal, healthy living would suffer greatly without adequate hydration.

James-Sarpong says that people need to consume at least 64 ounces of water daily even more if engaging in physical activity, if theyre sick, or if theyre being treated for diseases, such as cancer.

Dry fasting increases a persons risk for dehydration, which could lead to kidney stones, seizures, low blood volume and low blood pressure, electrolyte imbalance, and even death, she said.

Foroutan says its likely that dry fasting would lead to dehydration.

While fruits and vegetables do contain water, it would be difficult to get enough water that way to be optimally hydrated, she said.

It would be silly and dangerous to forego auxiliary fluid, Monica Auslander Moreno, MS, RD, LD/N, a nutrition consultant for RSP Nutrition, told Healthline. Thats where the bulk of our days hydration comes from, and most people already arent drinking enough water.

Lisa Richards, CNC, a nutritionist and creator of The Candida Diet, doesnt dismiss dry fasting out of hand.

However, she told Healthline, The weight loss claim likely occurs from a reduction in calories from drinks as well as loss of fluid retention.

Dry fasting may have some benefits, but the risks and negative side effects should be thoroughly understood, Richards said.

Dehydration is a serious risk when it comes to dry fasting. Excessive hunger, fatigue, and irritability are common side effects among those actively dry fasting. A lack of water and fluid, especially when done frequently, can lead to an increase in urinary tract infections as well as kidney stones, she said.

Moreno says that increasing water intake is actually a better dieting strategy than abstaining from drinking water.

Drinking more fluid fights bloat and is associated with better weight outcomes, so drink up, she said.

If youre preparing to do some kind of diet or eating plan that is really limiting or rigid, it really should have solid evidence backing up the benefits that you hope to gain, Foroutan added.

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My name is Victoria Nunez (@vict0riasecret). I have lived in San Diego, California, my whole life, and Im a counter manager for MAC Cosmetics. After relying on a weight-loss drug for years, I knew it wasn't a sustainable tool, so I quit it and started the keto diet instead. Now, I'm hooked!

I was never the type of person that could eat whatever I wanted and not gain weight. I was very overweight even as a kid. I tried every single diet out there to lose weight, from the cabbage soup diet to Weight Watchers. I even tried phentermine (a prescription weight-loss drug that works by making you feel less hungry) at the instruction of my doctor.

The medication would work for a while, and I would lose some weight, but it wouldn't lastand I knew being on a pill wasn't sustainable. I would eventually go back to the way I was eating before and gain all the weight back, and then some. I was 25 when I hit my heaviest weight of 284 pounds.

My turning point came after I went to my doctor to refill my prescription. I hadnt lost that much weight since the last time I had gone in, and my doctor explained to me that in order get a refill of the drug, I would have to lose a substantial amount of weight first. The doctor also explained the drug was only a short-term solution, and I wouldnt be able to be on it forever. (It's also worth noting that this drug has some pretty scary side effects, like rapid heart rate, sleep issues, nervousness, constipation, and more, according to the Mayo Clinicand it's not a good option for everyone.)

So I gave it a shot. I started my journey on June 22, 2018. And let me tell you, I was 29 years old when I realized I could still eat really delicious food *and* lose weight!

A lot of my coworkers at the time were also trying keto. It was nice that a lot of people around me were following the same diet. We would bounce ideas off each other and share recipes and snacks. Cheese is probably my all-time favorite food, and the fact that I could eat cheese *and* lose weight was a game changer for me. Keto also made me feel like I had so much energy and mental clarity that it made it easy to stick to.

I also started tracking my macros. I downloaded an app called Carb Manager that set up all my macros for me. Tracking my food was tedious, but I saw great results from doing so. And while I cut out most carbs, I still loved bread, tortillas, pasta, rice...you name it. So I still ate those things, but just the keto version of it. Thats the great thing about ketoI can still eat what I love, just modified.

I drink a ton of water. I have always been a big water drinker, but with keto it's important to drink at least a gallon of water a day. I bought a 64-ounce Hydro Flask, and I drink at least two (sometimes three) of those a day.

I try to work out at least three times a week. When I go to the gym, I normally do about 30 to 45 minutes of cardio and then I will do about 45 to 60 minutes of weights. If I dont go to the gym, I will try to walk two miles.

Although my body has changed so much, I am still working on loving myself because I am my own worst critic. I never thought that I would be able to lose this much weight through diet alone. I think it is so important that when you start your weight-loss journey that you choose something that is sustainable for your lifestyle. It has to be something that will change your eating habits forever, something that isn't just a quick fix.

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Eating oranges could be the route to losing weight, staying slim and preventing diabetes, new research has found.

This works due to a chemical found in oranges and tangerines called nobiletin.

Nobiletin may even have the ability to reverse obesity and unclog arteries.

In the experiment by the University of Western Ontario, mice were fed the substance and turned out to be leaner and healthier as a result.

The researchers are now conducting the same experiment using humans.

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Dr Murray Huff, who has been studying nobiletin's effects for over a decade, was pleased with the research.

We've shown that in mice that already have all the negative symptoms of obesity, we can use nobelitin to reverse those symptoms, and even start to regress plaque build-up in the arteries, known as atherosclerosis.

This means that nobelitin could be essential in reversing symptoms of obesity in its tracks.

How this super compound works is still shrouded in mystery, though.

The researchers originally thought the molecule was likely acting on the pathway that regulates how fat is handled in the body, called AMP Kinase.

This enzyme turns on the machinery in the body that burns fats to create energy, and it also blocks the manufacture of fats.

However, during further tests on mice without AMP Kinase, the nobiletin still had a positive affect.

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While the way nobiletin is working in the body remains a mystery, Dr Huff was pleased that it didnt work through AMP Kinase.

It shows that nobiletin won't interfere with other drugs that act on the AMP Kinase system, which currently include diabetes medicines like metformin.

The team will now move onto trialling this on human beings.

If its successful, this could provide us with a beneficial way to tackle obesity - a major burden to the healthcare system.

Obesity and its resulting metabolic syndromes are a huge burden to our health care system, and we have very few interventions that have been shown to work effectively.

We need to continue this emphasis on the discovery of new therapeutics.

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Cant seem to keep that weight off? Youre not alone, say University of Alberta health experts who suggest weight loss shouldnt be the primary motivation behind healthy lifestyle changes.

Obesity expert Arya Sharma said there is a growing body of research showing that upwards of 95 per cent of those who achieve any sort of meaningful weight loss will pack it back on, and then some, within a couple of years.

Why does maintaining weight loss have such a grim outlook? Sharma said its because you cant fight biology.

In fact, biology will fight you, and fight you very effectively.

He explained that as we gain weight, our bodys biology changes and will actually start defending that higher body weight as the new normal, regardless of how you put it on.

Sharma said the brain has a whole bag of tricks at its disposal, with the sole purpose of trying to get you to eatbeginning with increasing appetite and heightening taste and smell.

As you start eating less, your body senses there's not enough calories coming in, and you start having cravings, he said. In fact, you might even find food that you normally don't likehigh-caloric foodwill actually seem much more attractive to you.

The next strategy your body employs to combat any substantial weight loss is to reduce the amount of calories it burns.

If there's not enough calories coming in, the body turns down the thermostat, he said. Thats why people who lose weight often complain of feeling cold.

And if that werent enough, Sharma said that in the face of reduced calories, the body gets more fuel-efficient, able to cut calorie consumption during physical activity.

That's the big difference between biology and physics. If you look at your car, you can't teach your car to run on less fuel, but you can train your body to run on less fuel and you can become more fuel-efficientit's an adaptive system.

When those three things are taken togetherincreasing appetite and burning fewer calories at rest and at playalong with genetics and the fact that most of us have a finite amount of willpower, Sharma said it doesnt matter what exercise program you follow or which diet you implementyour body's going to want those calories back.

I liken it to pulling on a rubber band. You lose the weight and now you're pulling on this rubber band, and you have to keep pulling. The minute you let go, it's just going to snap back. Thats what makes long-term weight loss so difficult.

Sharma said because weight loss and weight maintenance carry on basically forever, obesity needs to be treated as a chronic disease.

When you have diabetes, and you need to follow a diet and take your insulin, you need to follow your diet and take insulin forever. Its the same thing.

He added the treatments that work best in the long term are the ones that fight this biology, such as bariatric surgery and medications that can block the adaptive responses of the body.

The body can still fight it, which is why there are some people who have bariatric surgery or who take the medication and then go off, who still end up putting the weight back on, said Sharma.

That just tells you how powerful those mechanisms can be.

According to Kim Raine, an obesity researcher in the School of Public Health, we are unwittingly helping our nature to gain weight with a seismic shift in the last 40 or so years in our environment.

We may be eating more than we used to and we may be less physically active than before, but it's not generally our choice to do thatit's that our environment has changed significantly, she said.

For instance, the ability to have food at our beck and call has increased exponentially in the last number of years. About a decade ago, Raines lab did an assessment of the relative amount of fast food and convenience stores compared with grocery stores in the city of Edmonton. They used fast food and convenience stores as a proxy for unhealthy high-calorie food, and grocery stores as a proxy for where you at least have the option of getting something healthier.

They counted 61 grocery stores and 761 fast food and convenience stores.

We've got this exposure to food like we've never had beforethat's the physical environment.

Perhaps even more invasive than the availability of food is the constant bombardment of messages promoting unhealthy food. Raine noted that marketers of unhealthy foods and beverages spend more money in three days than governments trying to promote healthy eating spend in a year.

And then we expect the nutrition education campaign that says eat your vegetables to counteract that. It doesn't make a lot of sense.

The uptick in motorized transportation means we don't walk anywhere anymore, and even well-meaning policies aimed at giving people greater access and increased choice to schools might be having a deleterious effect on physical activity.

Raine suggested open boundary policies that allow students to attend the school of their choice no matter where they live might be helping to drive the obesity epidemic too, as many kids are no longer walking to their neighbourhood school.

Because even if we work out an hour a day, it doesn't necessarily make up for what you would have walking back and forth to school or work four times, she said.

It's not a single one of those pieces that causes the problem, its when you add them all up.

While schools themselves do their best to teach kids about nutrition, Raine said students can walk out into the hallway to find a vending machine filled with high-calorie junk food.

We're fighting against an environment that is really pushing us to consume more and to be less active, she said. We need to move beyond trying to teach people to cope with the environment, and change the environment.

Raine said it can start in school. The U of A-led APPLE Schools program promotes the value of healthy eating and physical activity, but these programs need to be mandatory and need to be better funded.

Restrictions on the marketing of unhealthy food and beverages to children would also help, Raine said. Such restrictions have been in place in Quebec since 1980, and research shows those children consume significantly less fast food and have lower obesity rates.

She said subsidizing healthier foods and taxing high-sodium, high-sugar foods would also help, but added no one thing is going to solve the problem.

We can learn from successes in tobacco control. Raising taxes, restricting access to minors or eliminating advertisingeach one of those things individually did not make major changes to tobacco use, but collectively they changed the culture and denormalized tobacco use.

As for what we can do, health law and policy researcher Timothy Caulfield recommends steering clear of fad diets.

These diets gain traction because people do lose weight. But theyre losing weight because they pay attention to what they're eating for a little while, he said.

One thing I often say to people is, Can you name a single diet that worked long-term? If that existed, we would know.

He said what frustrates him most is that almost all of the marketing and pop-culture references to diet and exercise are tied to weight loss and aesthetics.

The best diet is the diet that works for you, is sustainable, is healthy and is enjoyable. If it's not enjoyable, it's not going to be sustainable.

U of A nutrition expert Sabina Valentine said one of the problems with fad diets is they often target foods we need, like protein, fat and carbohydrates.

I don't want people going out and eating loads and loads of fat, which happens in the keto diet. In moderate amountsperhaps 30 per cent of your dietfat contributes to a healthy diet.

Same with carbohydrates, which Valentine said have got a bad rap in the last decade, largely because of sugar.

Here are all these people avoiding carbohydrates, but they contain fibre, which plays an important role not only for decreasing health riskslike cancer and heart diseasebut also for making you feel full.

Rather than restrictive fad diets, Valentine said healthy eating should focus on making common-sense decisions and not being too hard on yourself after enjoying dessert at a party, for instance.

Learning how to include some of those yummy things in your diet kind of gives you that stick-to-itiveness, she said.

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While those purple lines are medically no cause for worry, they can be effectively reduced with extra care.

Stretch marks are common among pregnant women, adolescents during a growth spurt and among those who quickly put on or lose weight.

These long purple stripes or lines on the skin occur on areas such as breasts, buttocks, hips, stomach, thighs and upper arms when the middle layer of the skin becomes overstretched to the point of tearing.

If you wish to prevent or reduce their appearance, here are some body oils and butters to your rescue.

While these wont completely rid you of the stretch marks, they will make a marked difference as far as preventing or reducing them to an extent is concerned.

This belly toning oil from Prakrta is made of natural ingredients like cold-pressed virgin coconut, rosehip, tamanu, and hempseed oil with coffee extracts, keeping in mind the safety of expecting moms and new moms.

We spoke to Anupam Singh, co-founder of Prakrta, as to why its an excellent buy:

An important consideration for us when we were developing an oil for stretch marks was that it had to be safe during pregnancy and nursing. Therefore we chose to avoid all essential oils and used only cold-pressed oils and extracts (most of these ingredients are edible grade). The virgin coconut oil nourishes and improves collagen production in skin, hempseed works as a powerful antioxidant and soothes itchy skin, tamanu oil has been used in Asian and African cultures over centuries now for its skin regenerative properties, rosehip oil decreases the appearance of scars and marks, Vitamin E is again a powerful antioxidant and helps heal the stretched skin whereas the coffee extract has astringent properties that help tone up the skin.

This oil from RAW Home Essentials works to lighten old and new stretch marks caused by pregnancy and weight changes. Made of helichrysum oil, sage oil, rosehip oil, neroli oil, cypress oil, grapefruit oil, patchouli oil and myrrh oil, it also prevents new stretch marks from forming by hydrating and nourishing the skin thereby improving elasticity.

This body butter is suitable for all skin types, including sensitive skin. While hemp oil helps to nourish dry, tired and dehydrated skin, natural aloe vera helps with sunburns, reduce stretch marks and tan marks. It is free from any harmful chemicals and is 100 per cent natural.

As the candle melts, its wax doubles up as a warm and moisturising massage butter, giving off an enchanting aroma. It is deeply moisturising and is therefore recommended for dehydrated skin. The body butter helps remove scars, cellulite and considerably reduce stretch marks.

This handmade cold-pressed argan oil is enriched with antioxidants, strengthening proteins and shine-boosting Vitamins A & E. Non-greasy and light-weight, it helps restore skin elasticity and leaves it feeling plumper and softer. It works wonders in removing post-pregnancy stretch marks.

Also Read: 5 All-Natural Skincare Products to Keep You Free From Acne, Pimple & Blemishes

(Edited by Gayatri Mishra)

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LOOKING at a photo of her 20 stone figure, Yvonne Tompkin knew she desperately needed to lose weight.

The former aerobics instructor, 54, had ballooned to a dress size 22 after giving up exercise and developing an unhealthy addiction to snacking.

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And it was seeing the image of herself at her heaviest that drove Yvonne, from Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts, to lose half her body weight.

Yvonne, who lives with commodities trader husband Dominic, 45, and children Azaria, 13, Elyas, 12, and ten-year-old Querida, signed up to Slimming World and has since shed nearly 11 stone.

Yvonne now feels happier and more confident than ever in her trim size ten, 9st 11lb figure.

She said: "I've never looked back and now I'm 10st lighter and a whole new woman - with a new job, new figure and new confidence as a wife and a mum."

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Before putting on weight, Yvonne had been a trim size ten when she got married.But after having her first child she quickly developed unhealthy habits and stopped being active.

She said: "I married my husband when I was 38 and super-fit. I was a qualified aerobics instructor, always running about, and a size 10.

"I fell pregnant at 39 and naturally, towards the end, I wasn't able to be as active.

I started eating whole packets of chocolate biscuits

"When Azaria was born in 2006, I was about a stone heavier.

"Being a first-time-mum was hard work and I was often really tired, and this is when my bad snacking habits started.

"I started eating whole packets of chocolate biscuits, convincing myself I needed the energy.

"My meals were the same as before, but because I wasn't doing my usual exercise classes, I wasn't burning off the calories like I used to.

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"My bad habits continued after Elyas and Querida were born and, with each pregnancy, the weight piled on.

"I often moaned to my husband about my insecurities but I'd lie about the amount of junk I was eating when he wasn't around.

"I hid the sweet and biscuit wrappers before he got home, ashamed of how many I'd eaten."

Yvonne went from 12st and a dress size ten before her first child, to 17st and a size 22 at age 50.

However, Yvonne's wake-up call came when she started applying for new jobs in 2017 - and she lost all confidence.

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"Querida was starting at school and I felt ready to go back to work so I started to apply for jobs," she said.

"I went for interview after interview and kept not getting the job, and my self-esteem plummeted.

"I hated the way I looked and it got so bad I barely left the house.

"If I did, I'd watch Dominic play with the kids in the park or in the local pool, as I was too shy to get involved with them."

I hated the way I looked and it got so bad I barely left the house

At the end of that year, Yvonne was out for coffee with friends when they started chatting about Slimming World - which spurred her into joining the group.

"They'd each lost weight on the plan and something just told me I had to try this to be happy again," Yvonne said.

"I asked if they could pick me up on their way to Slimming World the following week and, although I was terrified, I knew that if I'd told them I was going, I couldn't pull out."

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Despite her initial fears, Yvonne says she found her first session "amazing".

And she decided to keep motivated by taking a photo of herself at her heaviest as a reminder to keep going.

"When I got home I asked my daughters to take a photo of me because I knew I'd never be that weight again," Yvonne said.

"I printed the photo and stuck it in the front of my Slimming World book as a reminder to keep going.

"And I did. I cooked healthy dinners every night from scratch, stating with Cajun chicken and wedges.

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Yvonne's diet before and after

BEFORE (20st)

Breakfast: Four slices of toast with butter and marmalade

Lunch: Ham sandwich with white bread, crisps and chocolate bar

Dinner: Curry with ready-made sauce, rice, naan bread, bhajis and chips

Snacks: Packet of chocolate biscuits, coffee with two sugars

AFTER (9st 11lb)

Breakfast: Fruit with quinoa and Quark yoghurt

Lunch: Jacket potato with low-fat natural cottage cheese, ham and salad

Dinner: Chicken tagliatelle

Snacks: Fresh fruit and fat-free natural yoghurt

"We ate together as a family and I made sure there were lots of leftovers I could enjoy the next day if I got a craving to reach for biscuits.

"I also snacked on fresh fruit and fat-free natural yoghurt."

Within six months, Yvonne had lost four stone and finally had some confidence back.

Yvonne then began working for a friend three afternoons a week and the weight continued to drop off.

She has since lost over ten stone and is now helping other women to follow in her footsteps.

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"After I'd lost 5st, I knew I wanted to help others the way I'd been helped, and in May 2018 I became a Slimming World Consultant," Yvonne said.

And Yvonne realised just how far she'd come when,17 years after her wedding day, she could again fit into her white size 10 gown.

She said: "Last year I dug out my wedding dress and when I fastened the zip to the top, I cried with happiness to be back to the woman I was all those years ago."

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Since time immemorial, human beings have been practising water therapy to lose weight. Water makes up about three-quarters of the bodys composition and plays a pivotal role in many bodily functions. Drinking lots of water not only aids to hydrate the body but also shed unwanted fat. That happens because water is the solvent that helps to bolster metabolism and absorption of minerals and vitamins. So, what is water therapy? Does it aid in weight loss?

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Water also aids to flush out toxins that collect in the blood. That is crucial because it can help to ward off diseases among other benefits. But what is water therapy? How does it work? Can it help people lose weight? Here are the answers.

Water therapy involves drinking at least one litre of water every morning you wake up. That means consuming the liquid prior to brushing teeth and taking breakfast. It also includes drinking water two hours after eating a meal. By practising Japanese water therapy, it can help to promote weight loss by cleansing the digestive system and helping in treating other health problems.

Water therapy can assist you in your bid to lose weight because of the following reasons.

Drinking cold water in the morning helps the body to burn more calories throughout the day. You are likely to burn up to seven calories per glass of water you drink in the morning. That is because cold water stimulates a small thermogenic response. In other words, your body will work harder to try and warm back to its original state prior to drinking the cold water.

Thus, the body will need more energy to regain its normal temperature. In that process, it will burn some calories, hence making you lose weight. Although seven calories are not significant, it can add up over a prolonged period.

So, how much weight can you lose by drinking water for 3 days? You will not lose much weight in three days by drinking water alone. It will depend on how many glasses you consume throughout that period.

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Assuming you are drinking ten glasses of water every day for three days, that equates to about 210 calories burned. If you do that in a year, you will lose about three kilograms or seven pounds of weight from drinking cold water in the morning daily.

It is the food you eat that contributes to weight gain. The more food you eat, the more calories you add and the more weight you gain. Drinking water in the morning prior to having a meal aids to reduce your appetite for food. When the belly is full, it will send a signal to the brain that you do not need to eat more. The water preload will increase fullness and satisfaction and decrease hunger.

A study by Loughborough University points out that a person that drinks at least two glasses of water before a meal consumes 22% less food than a person who does not drink any water. If you eat three meals a day, you should drink six glasses of water. The advantage is that the six glasses fall within the universal recommendations of water intake in healthy individuals per day.

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Since people are different, your needs will vary depending on your diet plan, activities, medication use, and general health. Also, water can empty your stomach quickly. So, for this to work, studies recommend that you drink water in the morning at least ten minutes before ingesting a meal.

Food is not the only thing that will make you add weight. You can gain weight by accumulating liquid calories. That includes drinking sweetened tea or coffee, soda, and juice. Sports drinks and alcoholic beverages also have lots of calories that contribute to adding weight.

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One of the many water therapy benefits is that it aids you to replace high-calorie drinks every day. Rather than drinking juices and soda, you will consume more water and lose weight in the process.

A previous study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that the replacement of caloric beverages, such as sodas and juices, with non-alcoholic beverages, such as water, may offer a simple strategy of promoting modest weight reduction.

The body needs enough water to metabolise stored carbohydrates or fat properly. It does that through a process called lipolysis. Lipolysis is the breakdown of lipids and fats through hydrolysis to release fatty acids. Hydrolysis occurs when the bodys water molecules interact with fats (triglycerides) to form fatty acids and glycerol.

Technically, the idea of drinking water to lose weight fast is possible because the body needs water to burn off fat from foods and drinks, including stored fat. By increasing your water intake and staying hydrated, it will lead to increased lipolysis. Fat loss can occur as a result.

While drinking water alone can help you to lose weight, the number of pounds you are likely to shed may not be much in the short term. If you are thinking of drinking water to lose weight in a week, you should also consider working out. Many weight loss plans also include exercises. But how does water therapy help?

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Water aids the connective tissues, joints, and muscles to move well throughout a workout. It also aids the heart, lungs, and other body organs to function more effectively as they increase the level or amount of activity during a workout.

By staying hydrated, you will reduce the risks of obstacles that can get in the way of a proper exercise. These may include things like fatigue and muscle cramps. Drink plenty of water before, during, and after a workout to prevent dehydration.

The following steps will show you how to do water therapy for weight loss.

Understand that cold water therapy for weight loss may not be for everybody. That is because the body responds differently to specific changes. If you are an aged person seeking to shed off some pounds, do not drink one litre of water every morning. Instead, start with one to two glasses of water daily and increase the number gradually. The same case applies to those suffering from medical conditions.

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Also, if you cannot drink one litre of water at a go, give yourself time between each glass. To get the best results, you should practice the Chinese water diet daily or incorporate it into your day-to-day routine. Otherwise, the question of how much water to drink to lose weight in 3 days will not apply to you.

As pointed out above, several studies suggest that drinking water early in the morning before taking breakfast can help you lose weight. But there is also a chance that over-consuming water can lead to specific problems. Here are some of the drinking water therapy disadvantages.

Over-consumption of water can lead to low sodium count in the body. It will overwhelm the ability of the kidneys to excrete water. Since humans lose sodium by sweating, excessive intake of water during an exercise can dilute the concentration of sodium content in the blood.

A headache can be a sign of either dehydration or over-hydration. Too much intake of water reduces the salt consumption in the blood. That can result in cells in body organs beginning to swell.

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When you are practising hot water weight loss therapy, but you drink too much, electrolyte levels in your body drop. It will also compromise their balance. Low electrolyte levels may cause symptoms like muscle cramping and spasms.

Too much water in the body can bring about tiredness and fatigue. The work of the kidneys is to filter the water it receives and ensure the proper balancing of fluid levels in the bloodstream. But when you drink too much, the kidneys work harder. That creates a stressful reaction from the hormones, thus leaving the body and yourself tired and stressed.

The rule of thumb when practising water therapy is to drink in moderation. Do not drink more than one litre at a go. If you are an aged person or ailing from a medical condition, limit your intake to only one glass each morning and increase the number gradually.

Water therapy involves drinking 4-5 glasses of water each morning the moment you rise up. By doing so, it can help to promote weight loss because the water will suppress appetite and burn calories. By exercising water therapy daily, you can lose up to seven calories per glass you drink. Although the quota is small, it can add up in the long term and result in significant weight loss.

READ ALSO: Does apple cider vinegar really aid you to lose weight?

DISCLAIMER: This article is intended for general informational purposes only and does not address individual circumstances. It is not a substitute for professional advice or help and should not be relied on to make decisions of any kind. Any action you take upon the information presented in this article is strictly at your own risk and responsibility!

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