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AURORA A new physical fitness test used to screen Aurora Police candidates is based not on the number of timed sit-ups or push-ups a person can do, but on activities more closely related to actual police work.

In April, the Aurora Police Department suspended its fitness test after the Department of Justice requested five years of fitness entrance test results to see if the test discriminated against women.

The Aurora Civil Service Commission "made a change to substitute a job-function test that attempts to more closely mirror the types of physical activity associated with police work," city attorney Charlie Richardson said.

The new test, announced last week, will be used for the first time during the November police academy.

One part will be timed. A test monitor will tell a participant sitting in a patrol car to pursue a fictitious felony suspect on the run.

Within 60 seconds, the person must get out of the car, run a total course distance of about 130 yards and negotiate an obstacle course.

This includes crawling under a standard-size office table, climbing through a window and then running to a set of stairs.

After climbing the stairs, the participant must then identify the proper suspect from four targets, each numbered and dressed differently.

The participant also must move a dummy weighing about 150 pounds from a chair across a designated line 5 feet away.

The untimed part of the test requires climbing a 6-foot chain-link fence in a "slow and deliberate" manner.

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NEW YORK, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Crunch Fitness, the world-renowned health club chain known for being on the forefront of innovation with its unique and entertaining fitness programming, will open its newest franchise location in Sarasota, FL. Set to open for workouts in October 2012, Crunch Sarasota will mark the second Crunch Franchise to touch down in the Sunshine State, with another franchise location just down the Florida coast in Naples.

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"Crunch's positive gym atmosphere and 'No Judgments' mantra has had an overwhelmingly positive response from the community, since the opening of Crunch Naples in January 2012," said Crunch franchisee, Vince Julien. "We are thrilled to be bringing a second location to southwest Florida and look forward to further spreading Crunch's fun approach to working out to the already fitness-friendly community of Sarasota."

Crunch Sarasota will join a bevy of popular businesses in its new location at 8440 Lockwood Ridge Rd, Sarasota, FL. The nearly 25,000 sq. ft. facility will feature over $600,000 in brand-new equipment, including state-of-the art cardio and weight training machines, a Kids Crunch childcare center, and a 2,600 sq. ft. group fitness studio to house classes like Zumba, BodyWeb with TRX and Fat Burning Pilates, to name a few. Expert personal trainers and an online fitness and nutrition program will also be available for members to help them reach their individual health and fitness goals.

"Crunch is what fun and fitness is all about," said Lisea Julien, who will also be spearheading the Group Fitness program at the club. "It's urban, innovative, creative, and gives Crunch a leading edge in any market they infiltrate."

Owners Vince Julien and Tony Scrimale are industry veterans with nearly three decades of experience in owning and operating fitness facilities. Together, the duo is responsible for building one of southwest Florida's most prominent brands, Southside Athletic Club.

"We are elated to re-enter the market with Crunch, one of the world's leading brands in fitness," said Scrimale. "Through superior training options, premier group fitness offerings and unbeatable price points, we want to let the community know that we are back and better than ever!"

An enrollment center is now open at 8440 Lockwood Ridge Rd and a dedicated Sarasota website, http://www.crunchsarasota.com is currently offering exclusive membership deals, including a special $0 enrollment offer for a limited time. Call (941) 355-1908 for more information. For more information about Crunch franchising opportunities go to http://www.crunchfranchise.com.

Crunch is a gym that believes in making serious exercise fun by fusing fitness and entertainment and pioneering a philosophy of No Judgments. Headquartered in New York City, and co-owned by New Evolution Ventures (NeV) and private-equity firm Angelo Gordon, Crunch serves over 150,000 members with 41 gyms worldwide, including 18 franchise locations in Orange County, CA, Sacramento, CA, San Diego, CA, Portland, OR, Norwalk, CT, Wayne, NJ and Australia, and looks to rapidly expand across the U.S. and around the globe. Go to http://www.crunchfranchise.com for more information.

About New Evolution Ventures (NeV) Based in Northern California, New Evolution Ventures (NeV) is a private equity firm focused on the acquisition, development and operations management of fitness, media and sports interests both domestically and internationally. Founded in 2008 by Mark Mastrov, Jim Rowley and Mike Feeney, and following a strategic partnership with Vision Capital in 2011, the current team of NeV professionals is shaping the world of fitness, media, and sports one brand at a time. With a foundation representing over a century of business experience, NeV currently has operations and investments in more than 20 countries worldwide representing over 800+ facilities.For more information, visit http://www.nev.com.

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Latest studies show that lesser exercise volume will lead to favorable fitness and weight control results, as opposed to over-training or spending longer workout hours.

Aside from the written facts, stories from successful weight maintainers can always attest to the short and long-term benefits of how moderate training will positively affect ones lifestyle, and how over-exercising can lead to performance, recovery and weight issues.

A recent study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology shows that long-time runners improved their running performance, health status and emotional well-being after a 50-percent reduction in their total training over the span of seven weeks.

They followed a 10-20-30 training concept, a program that can be completed in 20-30 minutes including warm-up. While the program consists of varying intensities, rest periods and shorter workout duration (20-30 minutes), individuals with different fitness levels and exercise backgrounds can perform this type of training.

The 10-20-30 concept

Start with a 1-km warm-up at low intensity.

Perform 3-4 blocks of 5 minutes running, interspersed with 2 minutes rest.

Each block consists of 5 consecutive 1-minute intervals divided into 30 seconds of low-intensity run, 20 seconds of moderate-intensity run and 10 seconds of near maximal-intensity run.

Over-exercising is counterproductive to a workout lifestyle that can be sustained long-term because your body fails to adjust and recover in response to the huge load that you give to your body. The longer and the more intense the workout, the more time the body needs to recover. This can take several days, weeks or even months, depending on the individuals response to the training load.

This is primarily the reason you cannot join all the run and/or triathlon races every week and exert a race pace effort, especially if you are not a professional athlete. The shorter recovery time you need, the more frequently you can work out, the more calories you burn, because you might just need a day or two of rest per week.

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Nicole Eggert has made no secret of her battle with her weight over the years and continues to struggle after the birth of her second daughter Keegan 11 months ago.

And although shes working hard to shed the post pregnancy pounds and is not yet back to her Baywatch body days, she is still selling her exercise DVD on her website which shows her as a fraction of her current self.

PHOTOS: Nicole Eggert Through The Years

Eggert released her 21 Day Red Hot Bikini Makeover two years ago but now looks nothing like she does on the cover.

The 40-year-old, who played Summer Quinn in the popular 90s beach series, went jogging around her Studio City neighborhood recently while pushing her tot in her stroller and even stopped in at a convenience store.

PHOTOS: Check Out Before And After Pictures Of This Season's Celebrity Fit Club Contestants

The blonde actress checked into VH1s Celebrity Fit Club in 2010 but came under fire from her trainers for drinking wine every night.

Eggert has yet to reveal the identity of her babys father. She also has 14-year-old daughter Dilyn.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

DEAR Dr. Fritz,

I am one of your avid readers. I am just concerned because I am one of those who do really eat at fast foods and yet, I wanted to lose weight. I know there are a lot of fats there. I cant help eating at these fast foods because of my work. I just dont have a lot of time to prepare my own foods. What can you suggest?

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Thanks for your help. More power! Marcia A.

Dear Marcia A.,

I know there are a lot of fats lurking in your burgers, French fries and fried foods. Theyre like a thousand calories and counting. Anyway, this doesnt mean you can no longer eat at your favorite fast foods -- if you wanted to lose weight. But, I do hope you'll follow these suggestions -- by heart!

1. Choose water

Remember that soft drinks, shakes and other flavored juices are full of calories. As a matter of fact, a large soft drink can get you 500 calories in a flash.

2. Pick Lean Meats

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A new study has found that adults who undergo a common type of bariatric surgery to lose weight appear to have a significantly higher risk of abusing alcohol two years after the procedure, according to researchers the University of Pittsburgh.

The study investigated alcohol consumption and abuse in nearly 2,000 patients across the United States. Researchers surveyed bariatric patients on their alcohol consumption 30 days before surgery, then again one and two years after surgery.

Nearly 70 percent of the participants had gastric bypass surgery which reduces the side of the stomach and shortens the intestine and were most at risk for alcohol disorders. Another 25 percent had laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery, which uses a band to make the stomach smaller, and the remaining 5 percent had other, less-common surgeries.

Of those patients who had gastric bypass, 7 percent reported symptoms of alcohol disorders before surgery. That rate increased to 10.7 percent two years after surgery a relative increase of more than 50 percent. Translated to the entire population of people who undergo gastric bypass in the U.S., this could mean an increase of 2000 people suffering from alcohol disorders per year.

Though a prior problem with drinking was one of the best predictors of having a disorder later, more than half of the participants who developed disorders two years after surgery did not have a prior history of alcohol abuse, according to the researchers.

There have been several studies showing if you give gastric bypass patients a standard amount of alcohol, they reach a higher peak alcohol level, they reach the level more quickly, and they take longer to return to a sober state theyre experiencing alcohol differently after surgery, study researcher Mary King, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, told FoxNews.com. So we werent entirely surprised to find a significant increase. It could be a combination of the change in alcohol sensitivities coupled with higher levels of drinking.

In contrast, among patients who had lap band surgery, about 5 percent suffered from alcohol use disorders two years after surgery, which was similar to pre-surgery rates. According to King, while there have been no formal studies done, it is unlikely lap band surgeries affect patients sensitivities to alcohol like gastric bypass procedures do.

The survey the researchers used, known as the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification (AUDIT) test, was developed by the World Health Organization to identify symptoms of alcohol use disorders, which include alcohol abuse and dependence, or alcoholism.

The participants were categorized as having an alcohol-related disorder if they had at least one symptom of dependence. Symptoms of dependence included not being able to stop drinking after having started or not being able to remember what happened after a night of drinking.

The patients most at risk of developing an alcohol-related disorder were those with little social support, those who had engaged in recreational drug or alcohol abuse in the past, those who suffered from depressive symptoms, men, and young adults. King said that while addiction shifting such as a switch from binge eating disorder to alcoholism is a topic of focus in the media, the researchers did not find any evidence that a prior history of binge eating symptoms increased a patients risk of developing an alcohol use disorder.

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In a last ditch effort to lose weight, roughly 113,000 people subject themselves to bariatric surgeries such as stomach banding and gastric bypass every year in the United States. But some of those patients may be trading pounds for an alcohol problem, according to a new study presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in San Diego, and published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Hints that bariatric operations could lead to subsequent alcohol abuse have been collecting over the past few years, as case reports and doctor anecdotes have filtered into discussions and scientific publications. But the new study, headed by Wendy C. King, assistant professor of epidemiology at University of Pittsburghs graduate school of public health, is the first to follow many patients treated at a number of institutions from pre-op through two years post-surgery.

In all, 1,945 adults were assessed from 2006 to 2011. Alcohol use disorder (AUD), meaning abuse and dependence, significantly increased in the second post-operative year compared with the year prior to surgery or the first post-operative year, the study says.

The percentage seems small: At pre-operative assessment, 7.6 percent of study participants showed AUD. Two years after the operations, 9.6 percent did. Symptoms (without AUD) of alcohol dependence rose from 2.8 percent to 5.5 percent.

But that translates into about 2,000 more people with an alcohol use disorder, as King pointed out in the study, and in an interview. And even if a patient does not have AUD, she said, one in eight patients in the second post-operative year reported typically drinking at least three drinks when they drank. That level can have implications for their weight loss, liver function, vitamin and mineral status so that is concerning.We dont know the safe amount of booze after a [gastric] bypass.

Almost the entire increase in AUD among bariatric surgery patients occurred in those receiving a type called Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. The biological mechanism at work has not yet been firmly established, but it likely rests in the differences between surgeries. In the Roux-en-Y procedure, doctors create a stomach pouch out of a small portion of the stomach and attach it directly to the small intestine.

Banding surgeries are restrictive -- they shrink the available space in the stomach so a person feels full after a small amount of food. Gastric bypass surgeries are both restrictive and malabsorptive, meaningthey shrink space for food and change how itsnutrients are absorbed in the small intestine.

As a result, gastric bypass patients feel alcohols effects faster, and for longer.

So the studys findings, while important, arent surprising, explained Leslie Heinberg, the director of behavioral services for the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute of the Cleveland Clinic.Previous research has shown that male brains receive a more powerful reward from alcohol and among the study participants, the greatest risk for post-op alcohol abusewas in men.

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Men striving to lose weight tend to drop more pounds when there are no women around, says research from Leeds Metropolitan University in the U.K. Researchers monitored 62 overweight men as they attended weekly Weight Watchers meetings without any women.

And at the end of the 12 weeks, the guys who were in the all-male environment lost roughly 14 pounds on average, while the guys who were in co-ed meetings only lost about seven.

So what gives? It all boils down to confidence and being comfortable with your surroundings, the researchers hypothesize.

Since Weight Watchers is often thought of as a womens weight loss program, the guys in the all-male environment felt less embarrassed and more competitive without the female influence.

Need more convincing that Weight Watchers is manly enough for you to try? Then listen to basketball legendand current Weight Watchers spokesmanCharles Barkley, who has dropped over 42 big ones since joining the program. (Weight Watchers CEO David Kirchhoff isnt just an employee, hes a client too. Discover the secrets behind the worlds most popular weight loss program by reading Weight Loss Boss.)

1. Moderation Is Key Dont feel guilty if you have that occasional beer or steak while watching the game. Restrictive diets dont work, said Barkley. Honestly, you cant give a fat person small meals and think theyre not going to cheat. Its all about moderation and learning how to eat, he explains. Plus, if you eliminate every guilty pleasure from your routine, itll just lead to a destructive binge later down the road.

2. Call Up Your Bros Men dont talk to each other about dieting and losing weight, but they should, said Barkley. Losing weight is better if youve got people around you who can keep you motivated. But your buddies can do more than motivate. In fact, losing weight is more effective when youre around other people who have the same goals and positive outlook, according to a recent study in Obesity. Plus, theres nothing wrong with a little competition, said Barkley. (Read about Barkleys own competition with a fellow ex-baller and learn How Shaq Got His Groove Back.)

3. Dont Slack on Your Routine I didnt realize how much my weight was affecting me until I started losing it, sais Barkley. I was always active when I was in the game, but after I retired, I slowed down and let myself go. Your move: Find a way to be active every day. Make the deal with yourself and stick to it. It doesnt matter if its hitting the gym or playing 18 holes, you just need to make it a priority, said Barkley.

4. Mix Things Up Avoid eating the same foods day after day. You might lose weight eating a salad for every meal, but thats just going to make you crazy, said Barkley. His suggestion: Keep a large variety of healthy foods on hand. I have fruit every afternoon because it keeps me full and I like it, he explains. People dont get fat eating fruits and vegetables. (Need new meals to enhance your diet? Discover `15 Fired-Up Foods That Burn Away Fat.')

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Adults who had a common bariatric surgery to lose weight had a significantly higher risk of alcohol use disorders (AUD) two years after surgery, according to a study by a National Institutes of Health research consortium.

Researchers investigated alcohol consumption and alcohol use disorders symptoms in 1,945 participants from the NIH-funded Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS), a prospective study of patients undergoing weight-loss surgery at one of 10 hospitals across the United States. Within 30 days before surgery, and again one and two years after surgery, study participants completed the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification (AUDIT) test. The test, developed by the World Health Organization, identifies symptoms of alcohol use disorders, a condition that includes alcohol abuse and dependence, commonly known as alcoholism.

Study participants were categorized as having AUD if they had at least one symptom of alcohol dependence, which included not being able to stop drinking once started, or alcohol-related harm, which included not being able to remember, or if their total AUDIT score was at least 8 (out of 40).

About 70 percent of the study participants had Roux-en-Y (RYGB) gastric bypass surgery, which reduces the size of the stomach and shortens the intestine, limiting food intake and the body's ability to absorb calories. Another 25 percent had laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding surgery, which makes the stomach smaller with an adjustable band. About 5 percent of the patients had other, less common weight-loss surgeries.

Among participants who had the RYGB procedure, 7 percent reported symptoms of alcohol use disorders prior to surgery. There was no significant increase in AUD one year after surgery. However, by the second year after surgery, 10.7 percent of patients reported symptoms of AUD, a relative increase of more than 50 percent compared to pre-surgical rates.

One in 8 LABS study participants reported having at least three drinks on a typical drinking day the second year after surgery. "This is concerning, given the negative impact heavy drinking may have on vitamin and mineral status, liver function and weight loss," said Dr. Wendy King, the study's lead author and an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.

Although AUD prior to surgery was one of the strongest predictors of AUD after surgery, more than half of study participants with AUD after surgery did not report having the condition during the year before surgery.

Regular alcohol use before surgery at least two drinks per weekwas also independently related to a higher risk of postoperative AUD. In addition to prior AUD and drinking frequency, patients with less social support or who reported preoperative recreational drug use or smoking before surgery were more likely to report symptoms of AUD after surgery. Men and younger adults were also more likely to develop AUD. Depressive symptoms, mental health treatment, and binge eating prior to surgery were not independently related to an increased likelihood of AUD after surgery.

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