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HCG EZ Drops' new synthetic HCG formula has surpassed natural HCG in quality, effectiveness, and safety.

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It was found that those specific hormones targeted stubborn fat deposits in the body, especially around the waist, hips and thighs. Since some individuals arent able to take hormones or who are worried about how the hormones may react with their individual body chemistry, we felt adding a hormone-free option was essential, says founder Dave Sherwin.

The hormone-free version of HCG EZ Drops works just as effectively as the traditional formula, but is designed for individuals who want a version without the hormones. Users can still lose weight just as fast and without the exercise or starvation that most of todays fad diets demand. Individuals who do the HCG diet will typically utilize the drops a few times per day, especially right before meals.

There is a strict diet plan that individuals are supposed to follow while taking the drops, because the drops convert the bodys fat stores into usable fuel, delivering approximately 2,000 calories per day. Men and women then take in between 500 and 800 additional calories from their diets each day.

According to research, those taking the HCG drops should experience between 1 to 2 pounds of weight loss per day, although that number may differ from one person to another. HCG Wellness, LLC provides health and wellness products specifically designed to help individuals lose weight quickly and meet their weight loss goals. Those interested in the non-hormone version of HCG diet drops should visit their website at http://hcgezdrops.com.

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Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012

Although both the ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the No. 1 opposition Liberal Democratic Party have chosen their new party leaders, the ruling and opposition forces still cannot agree on when to start an extraordinary Diet session. The primary responsibility rests on Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. He must fulfill his promise to then LDP chief Mr. Sadakazu Tanigaki to dissolve the Lower House "in the near future" by clearly showing when he will do so. If he does so, the ruling and opposition forces will easily agree on when to start the Diet session. A delay in the start of the session will have a great negative impact on the people's lives.

Two months have already passed since Mr. Noda made his promise on Aug. 8 to Mr. Tanigaki. New LDP leader Mr. Shinzo Abe pointed out that Mr. Noda's promise is one with the people. Komeito chief Mr. Natsuo Yamaguchi said that voting in the next Lower House election must come on or before Dec. 9.

If the Diet session fails to start early, the government's execution of the fiscal 2012 budget will become difficult because the last Diet session failed to enact a bill to float bonds to cover about 40 percent of the budget funds. The government has already started to cut back on budget spending. The Finance Ministry says that the budget funds will run out at the end of November. The Diet must start deliberations as soon as possible.

Because the next Lower House election must be held within a year, the Diet should immediately enact a bill to rectify the disparity in the value of a vote between depopulated rural areas and populated urban areas. If the next Lower House election is held without a rectification of the vote-value disparity, the Supreme Court may find the next election results to be unconstitutional and nullify them.

A bill submitted by the DPJ to rectify the vote-value disparity is too complicated. The ruling and opposition forces should quickly agree to pass a bill to reduce the number of single-seat constituencies by one each in five prefectures as this would be the easiest way to rectify the disparity.

For the sake of smooth Diet deliberations, the opposition, which controls the Upper House, should refrain from the practice of trying to force the ruling camp to accept its demands by refusing to deliberate on important bills, including one on social welfare reform.

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A healthy non-smoking man, consuming a normal western diet (meat, vegetables, bread and alcohol) collected five consecutive complete bowel movements. He then added an extra 150 g of fat (from butter, cheese, milk, chocolate, peanuts, bacon and eggs) to his daily diet for 2 weeks, and collected four further consecutive bowel movements in the second week. After 6 months on his normal diet, he added 30 g of wheat bran to his daily diet for 3 weeks, and collected four complete stool samples in the third week. Aqueous faecal extracts were prepared and assayed for auxotrophic growth-enhancement and bacterial mutagenicity (using fluctuation tests with Salmonella typhimurium TA100 and Escherichia coli WP2uvrApKM101). There was no significant difference in faecal wet weight between normal and high-fat collections, but addition of 30 g bran was associated with a 1.8-fold increase in stool weight, in good agreement with published data. Fluctuation tests showed that normal and high-fat samples were mutagenic to S. typhimurium TA100 and to E. coli WP2uvrApKM101. There was considerable variation in mutagenic activity between consecutive bowel movements. However, there was no significant difference in mutagenicity between normal and high-fat samples. Faecal samples collected during the course of the high-fibre diet were significantly less mutagenic to both bacterial strains. Changes in auxotrophic growth-enhancing activity could not account for these changes in mutagenicity, since the pattern of change in growth-enhancement was very different from that seen for mutagenicity.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 8, 2012) - lark (www.lark.com), creator of lark original and lark pro, the wireless sleep tracker and personal sleep coach, today unveiled larklife, a wearable diet, fitness and sleep tracking and coaching system. Designed with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and experts that includes a Stanford neuroeconomist, a pro-sports sleep coach to NBA, NFL, NHL stars, and a Harvard psychologist and sleep expert, larklife includes two tracking wristbands and a free iOS application that coaches people to feel more energized and productive every day through science-based, personalized recommendations from the experts.

The larklife philosophy: live smarter The team of experts that developed larklife believes that getting healthier starts with building better habits, instead of trying to achieve a single large goal -- calories burned, miles run, etc. -- which discourages people when they fail to meet it. According to a survey conducted October 2-4, 2012 online by Harris Interactive on behalf of lark among 2,516 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, nearly half (43 percent) of Americans agree that mainstream wellness programs do not meet their needs.

Almost two-thirds (64 percent) of Americans agree that they would have a better chance at getting healthy if they had a wellness program personalized to them. Based on each user's unique information captured by using the product, larklife's interdisciplinary experts are able gently coach them through a unique and completely individualized process that is proven to result in real, sustainable benefits at a manageable pace.

First, larklife tracks the user's daily fitness, diet and sleep activity via the wristbands. Second, it provides advance notice or real-time suggestions via the iOS app for small changes users should make to feel better. The individualized suggestions are a result of the user's data being analyzed on the back-end by sophisticated techniques, developed by larklife's team of experts and based on the science of circadian rhythms, or how individuals' energy levels peak and dip. Third and most importantly, it celebrates improvements in the user's diet, fitness and sleep activities to keep motivation high. Users experience this celebration through a fun light show on the wristband and reward icons in the data feed in their iOS app.

"Focusing on a single, 10,000-step goal or competing with others for the best mile time doesn't motivate most people, especially those of us who are not elite athletes. We built larklife to help make feeling great more attainable for the rest of us," said Julia Hu, CEO and founder of lark. "I know there are millions of people out there like me who just wish they still had the energy to 'do it all,' but have been discouraged by mainstream health fads that just didn't help them get there. This product is like having a fitness trainer, nutritionist, productivity, stress and sleep coach quietly working together to help you feel better gradually. Failure isn't possible."

How it works larklife ensures people will achieve better health by working on two levels; it simplifies activity tracking through intuitive technology and uses the data to provide expert coaching in a way that is psychologically proven to create real change. larklife is built to continually grow smarter for each user through automated machine learning in all three tracking categories. The more people wear it, the more the system will know about them, allowing it to better map their activities to their performances.

Intuitive fitness tracking While worn on the wrist, larklife automatically tracks steps taken, calories burned and distance traveled. Unlike competing products in the market, larklife uses patent-pending, proprietary machine-learning technology to more accurately track the user's activity levels and can distinguish between a run and a walk automatically.

One-Tap diet tracking Food journaling has been proven effective for weight loss but it also takes a lot of work, prohibiting people from sticking with it. larklife's one-tap diet tracking lets users effortlessly log a meal by simply pressing the button on their wristband. The app records the meal wirelessly and users have the option to go back and easily tap what categories of food they ate if they want to, when they have a free moment.

Sleep tracking Your mood and energy to tackle the day is most linked with a good night's sleep followed by a pleasant wake up call. larklife not only tracks and analyzes the wearer's sleep, but also wakes them gently using lark's patented, dynamic vibration technology, a key feature in the award-winning lark original.

"This product doesn't just give people their data and expect them to know how to use it. Quite frankly, I believe similar products that don't take the next step to encourage and give attainable direction to users will fall out of favor quickly, because it's just one more to-do they're having to add to an already busy life," said Dr. Baba Shiv, larklife advisor, neuroeconomist and Stanford faculty. "At the most basic level, my research is about what motivates people to build habits and we've incorporated the finding in larklife to ensure that it will work seamlessly in the background to help people become more productive, energetic and less stressed overall."

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Adults now worry more about children not getting enough exercise than about childhood obesity.

Eleven-year-old Jacob Landis, left, and his brother Alex, 10, participate in swim practice Monday at the Athletic Club in West Manchester Township. Many local gyms are offering more physical activity for children through new classes and programs. (YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS -- JASON PLOTKIN)

Nine-year-old Holly Jacobs practices swimming Monday at the Athletic Club. (YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS -- JASON PLOTKIN)

Inactive children who don't get enough exercise rank higher than worries about childhood obesity for the first time, according to a recent national poll.

Thirty-nine percent of adults rated "not enough exercise" as their leading concern for children, according to the poll from C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health. "Childhood obesity" was a close second, with 38 percent of adults rating it as a "big problem" in 2012.

York County health and fitness experts aren't surprised. A reason they cited for the shift in concern from obesity to exercise included kids spending more time playing with smartphones and video games instead of playing outdoors. Experts say parents are turning to local gyms for classes and special training to get kids physically active.

Busy parents struggle to find time for simple activities like walking around a block in their neighborhood with their families, according to Kate Harner, YMCA of York County's director of development and communications.

"As we have a new generation of parents with kids that are school-age, many of those houses are two-income households, two parents with careers," Harner said. "There aren't as many parents who can stay home as there were in the past. Now we aren't as attentive to taking care of people as we are about taking care of things."

Rise in medical problems

Doctors and healthcare providers are changing how they talk about kids' health and parents are responding to it, Kelly Marsteller, a registered dietitian at Memorial Hospital said.

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Oct 8, 2012, 16:01 GMT

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Lawrence won't lose weight for her career.

The 'Hunger Games' actress hates the pressure in Hollywood for female stars to conform to an ideal of beauty and be a certain size and she refuses to be made to feel overweight for eating normally.

Jennifer ranted: 'Oh god, yes, I'm so tied of the lollipops. I mean, if I looked like that I wouldn't be tired of it, obviously, but it's hilarious, the way I'm supposedly the overweight one.

'Like, they (the paparazzi) got me at the movies yesterday and the caption read something like, 'Curvy star cannot wait to dig into a tub of popcorn'. I mean come on! I'm just a normal girl who likes to eat! At least they got me using me hands.'

The 22-year-old blonde beauty takes the responsibility of playing teen idol Katniss Everdeen in 'The Hunger Games' very seriously and wants to be a good role model to her fans, but admitted she has little in common with her tough on-screen alter-ego and is far from a natural leader in real life.

Jennifer told the UK edition of VOGUE magazine: 'I guess people expect that of me, and if I had to kill something for survival, maybe I would and yeah, maybe I was a tomboy when I was growing up. But I'm definitely a girl now ... Of course, there's a responsibility I'm aware of. In one sense, luckily, it comes naturally because I can't stay out beyond midnight. I don't really have an exciting life.

'But if you mean, am I natural leader? No. I just appear that way.'

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OTTAWA, Ill., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating (SSHE) is sponsoring the Seattle Sutton's 2013 Slim Down Contest to help 10 lucky Peoria Tri-County residents lose weight and improve their health. One grand prize winner who loses the most weight will be packing their bags and heading to Riviera Maya, Mexico with a guest.

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SSHE will provide 10 contestants a chance to make a lifestyle change once and for all. For 15 weeks contestants will receive SSHE meals for FREE, beginning on January 7, 2013 and concluding the week of April 22, 2103. Meals provided include 21 meals per week -- every breakfast, lunch and dinner for the contestants, a total of 315 meals in all.

Registration for the contest takes place between October 8, 2012 at 10 AM and October 22, 2012 at 10 AM at seattlesutton.com. Selected contestants will be notified by November 12, 2012. Registration is also available by mail, information provided in Peoria Journal Star ads.

To register for the contest and read the complete rules and regulations, go to seattlesutton.com.

The contestant who loses the most weight based on percentage of body weight will be heading to Riviera Maya, Mexico with a guest. Second place prize will win $1,000 cash from Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating. Third place prize will win a year membership to Landmark Racquet and Health Club.

The contest is sponsored by Seattle Sutton's Healthy Eating in cooperation with Apple Vacations and Riu Palace Riviera Maya and Landmark Racquet and Health Club.

To be considered for this contest, you must:

Ready to Lose Weight?

Fill out an online registration form at seattlesutton.com and submit your story with a current full-length photo. You may also opt to upload a recent video of yourself telling your story about why you should be chosen.

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A major source of toxic mercury exposure, fish consumption appears somewhat protective against a widespread neurologic disorder in children

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For pregnant women, diets rich in fish can offer their babies protection against developing behaviors associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, a new study finds. Yet for most Americans, fish consumption is the leading source of exposure to mercury a potent neurotoxic pollutant that has been linked to a host of health problems, including delays in neural development.

Data from the new study, published online October 8 in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, demonstrate that low-mercury diets and regular fish consumption are not mutually exclusive, says epidemiologist and study leader Susan Korrick of Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston. It really depends on the type of fish that youre eating, she says. In fact, some study participants had been eating more than two servings of fish weekly yet accumulated relatively little mercury.

As part of a long-running study of children born during the 1990s in New Bedford, Mass., 515 women who had just given birth completed a dietary survey. About 420 also provided samples of their hair for mercury testing. About eight years later, Korricks team administered a battery of IQ and other tests to assess behaviors associated with ADHD in the children.

The children spanned a continuum running from almost no ADHD-related behaviors to those with outright clinical disease. A moms hair-mercury level tended to be associated with where her child fell along this spectrum.

Although this study did not collect data on the species of fish eaten, Korrick points to work by others showing that tuna, swordfish and shark can be quite high in mercury, while salmon and cod tend to pick up relatively little of the toxic metal from their environment.

Among women with less than 1 microgram of mercury per gram of hair, fish consumption was associated with a lower risk of ADHD-type behaviors in their children. Over that threshold, increasing mercury levels were associated with an increased risk of ADHD-type behaviors in the kids, regardless of how much fish their moms ate.

Children of women with hair mercury levels in the top 20 percent of the study population showed a 50 to 60 percent increased risk of ADHD-related behaviors, Korrick says which is not trivial. However, she adds, most children showing ADHD-related traits were still considered to be within the normal range and not maladaptive.

On some tests, boys showed a greater sensitivity to mercury than girls. These tests included components of the IQ assessment related to attention and one computer test of attentiveness (where children had to press a button as quickly as they could when they saw the silhouette of a cat but not other animals).

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Whats the hardest part of her body to work?

Her brain.

Bodybuilder Diana Dumas said overcoming exhaustion and tired limbs takes will power some just dont have.

Diets, weights, and motivation become a part of everyday life, Dumas said.

Not everyone can do bodybuilding. Its a lot of work, she said Saturday at the 2012 FouadAbiadOpen a Windsor competition that judges bodybuilding, muscularity, body condition, stage presence and personality.

The 45-year-old Dumas hasnt competed in a competition since 1998 but said this year she felt like the contest was calling her.

For almost two months prior to the contest Dumas cut dairy, salt and sugar from her diet. She trains two hours a day, lifting weights for one and doing cardio for the other.

She eats half a cup of oatmeal in the morning, six ounces of chicken, half a cup of white rice, half a cup of broccoli, two protein shakes throughout the day and a tablespoon of peanut butter at night.

Dumas said the hardest part of her diet is eating flavourless food. To cope, she adds mustard. A lot of it.

I dont know how many jars of mustard I bought. Every time I went to the store people would stare at me carrying all this mustard.

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Late last year, while on a tour of CaliforniasAo Neuvo State Park, I saw a shark attack victim lying on the beach. She was a Northern elephant seal, and looked quite placid despite the gaping, crescent-shaped hole in her neck. She bore the traumatic hallmark of the great white shark.

Years of watching Discoverys Shark Week taught me that seals and sea lions are the preferred prey of Carcharodon carcharias. Nothing like blubber to fuel the body of a constantly-swimming predator with a physiology that runs hotter than that of the average shark. I remember one researcher likened baby elephant seals, in particular, to hot dogs the bread of the snack corresponds to the fat content of the young pinnipeds, making the weener seals easy-to-catch and energy-rich mouthfuls for the sharks.

When the sensational documentaries werent showing awful re-enactments of great white shark attacks on humans, they brought their cameras in close to seal kills. The programs took a philosophy similar to the fictional marine biologist Matt Hooper in JAWS all great white sharks do is swim and eat. (Yes, yes, and make little baby sharks, but I have yet to see that on basic cable.) If they arent chomping people, then they strip the fat from seals. We think of them in the typological way that we approach many species. Great white sharks eat seals and sea lions. Thats all that there is to it.

But great white sharks dont live on a strict diet of marine mammals. Study sites situated near pinniped colonies, as well as nature films, have restricted our view of what great white sharks feed on. In actuality, great white sharks consume different prey based upon age, size, and location. When they are just pups, for example, the leviathans-to-be seek out a wide variety of smaller fare before graduating to more difficult menu options. And, as a new paper indicates, many sharks retain their cosmopolitan tastes as they age.

In a PLoS One study published this week, University of Wyoming researcher Sora Kim and colleagues used chemical clues in great white shark vertebrae to track feeding preferences among fifteen individuals collected between 1957 and 2000. The logic behind their technique is simple, and has been used on a variety of other creatures living and extinct to outline diet. As an animal feeds, chemical tracers in the form of carbon and nitrogen isotopes become incorporated into their teeth and bones. There is a correspondence between certain carbon isotope ratios and particular food sources. Match the chemical signature in the consumer in with the isotopic profile of whats being consumed, and you can reconstruct an animals diet.

Even better, shark vertebrae contain long-running records of these isotopes. As great white sharks grow, their vertebrae accrete new rings on a yearly schedule. Each ring, therefore, holds a chemical snapshot from a year in the sharks life. By comparing the isotope ratios in different vertebral bands, Kim and collaborators were able to follow how the diets of individual sharks shifted during their lives.

Contrary to assertions that pinnipeds are a great white shark staple, the fish sampled in the study were highly variable. Both age and individual variation were at play in their diets. For example, five sharks in the sample showed the expected shift from a diet of fish and small prey to marine mammals and other more substantial fare at about age four. But this wasnt true of all sharks. Five other sharks in the same sample showed no difference between juvenile and adult diet. These sharks may have scavenged pinniped carcasses or fed on large squid while young, giving them an adult feeding profile at a young age. There are some possible confounding factors with this hypothesis such as young sharks inheriting an adult isotope signal from their mothers but the researchers appear to favor the idea that some sharks were more precocious in their prey choices than others of their kind. Not all great white sharks follow the same life history.

While Kim and colleagues point out that some sharks followed the expected dietary switch, the change was not the dominant signal in their results. Many of the Pacific great white sharks they sampled were generalists who took different prey in varying locations. Some sharks were nearshore marine mammal specialists, but others had more flexible foraging approaches. And even though the isotopic data are not refined enough to tell us exactly what species the sharks were eating, the cataloged chemical traces are enough to detect distinct dietary patterns.

The study raises new questions about great white shark biology. For one thing, why did the sharks have such individualistic diets? Competition may be the key, Kim and co-authors hypothesize. Imagine if all adult great white sharks were seal specialists who congregated at the same beaches. There may not be enough food for all, and swimming in the same waters as bigger, more experienced sharks would be risky for smaller novices who could wind up as meals themselves. By being flexible able to tackle elephant seals as well as squid, tuna, and other food sources great white sharks may lessen competition with their own kind.

As the researchers behind the new study state, further isotopic studies and satellite tracking programs may help marine biologists better understand the ecology of their prodigious fish. For now, though, one thing is clear. The sharks werent all cruising near shore, looking up for seal silhouettes. Great white sharks have much more varied tastes than blood-spattered basic cable shows would have you believe.

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