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Newswise — It’s been more than one month since the new year and swimsuit season is lurking on the horizon – how are those weight-loss resolutions working out?

“Losing weight is one of the top resolutions made every year, yet only 20 percent of people achieve successful weight-loss and maintenance,” says Jessica Bartfield,MD, internal medicine who specializes in nutrition and weight management at Loyola University Health System’s Gottlieb Memorial Hospital.

Despite that fact that two-thirds of Americans say they are on a diet to improve their health, very few are actually decreasing in size. “Dieting is a skill, much like playing a musical instrument, and requires practice and good instruction, “ says Dr. Bartfield. “You’re going to hit some wrong notes and feel frustrated, but eventually you will succeed and it will get easier.”

Top Four Reasons Why Dieters Don’t Lose Weight

According to Dr. Bartfield, here are the top four reasons why many dieters fail to lose weight.

1. Underestimating Calories Consumed
“Most people (even experts!) underestimate the number of calories they eat per day. Writing down everything that you eat- including drinks and "bites" or "tastes" of food - can help increase self-awareness. Pay attention to serving sizes and use measuring cups and spoons as serving utensils to keep portions reasonable. Food eaten outside of the home tends to be much larger portion sizes and much higher in calories. Try to look up nutrition information of your favorite take-out meal or restaurant and select a healthy meal before picking up the phone or going out to eat.

2. Overstimating Activity and Calories Burned- “Typically you need to cut 500 calories per day to lose 1 lb per week. This is very difficult to achieve through exercise alone, and would require 60 minutes or more of vigorous activity every day. A more attainable goal would be to try to increase activity throughout the day and get a total of 30 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise most days of the week. Buy a pedometer and track your steps; try to increase to a goal of 10,000 steps per day. But be careful- exercise is not an excuse to eat more!”

3. Poor Timing of Meals - “You need a steady stream of glucose throughout the day to maintain optimal energy and to prevent metabolism from slowing down. Eat breakfast every day within one hour of waking up, then eat a healthy snack or meal every three to four hours. Try not to go longer than 5 hours without eating a healthy snack or meal to keep your metabolism steady.”

4. Inadequate Sleep – “Studies have shown that people who get fewer than six hours of sleep have higher levels of ghrelin, which is a hormone that stimulates appetite, particularly for high- carbohydrate /high- calorie foods. In addition, less sleep raises levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, which can lead to weight gain.”

Dr. Bartfield regularly counsels patients through the Gottlieb Medical Weight Loss Program, an interdisciplinary, non-surgical 12-week program that seeks to establish good health routines. “Just as you rely on an expert to learn a new skill or subject, in the Gottlieb program, a registered dietitian, behavioral psychologist, exercise physiologist and a physician all partner one-on-one with patients,” said Bartfield. “Good health practices are more than just learned, they become a regular habit and a way of life.”

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(CBS) Drinking soda makes you fat. That's what researchers and the health police have been hammering into our heads for years, but a new study has actually proven that ditching sugary drinks for diet versions or water will lead to weight loss.

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For the six month study, published online in the Feb. 13 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers put 318 overweight or obese people into three groups: one in which participants switched from sugary beverages to diet drinks, a group in which participants switched to water, and in the last group, folks were educated by researchers about how making healthier choices could lead to weight loss.

What did the researchers find?

All three groups experienced small reductions in their weight - about 5 pounds on average - and waistlines. But participants who switched to calorie-free drinks and water were twice as likely to lose 5 percent or more of their body weight than people who were just educated on healthier choices.

What's more, people who switched to water had lower fasting glucose levels than their counterparts. The  weight loss percentage and change in glucose levels are important, according to the researchers, because those markers are associated with obesity-related chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

"If this were done on a large scale, it could significantly reduce the increasing public health problem of obesity," study author Dr. Deborah Tate, associate professor of nutrition and health behavior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said in a university written statement.

The study was funded by Nestle Waters.

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Tate said switching to both water and diet sodas had benefits, but told Reuters, "For other health reasons, water might be better." She did say that people who really like the sweet flavor or caffeine from sodas may be more likely to stick to the change long-term by switching to diet drinks.

Other studies however have reported health risks from drinking diet soda. A study in June 2011 found drinking diet soda could actually trigger appetite and cause people to take in more calories elsewhere and gain weight, HealthPop reported.

A study last February found people who drank diet soda every day had a 60 percent higher risk of having a vascular even like a stroke or heart attack.

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Married, one dog, no kids. Vibrant, healthy and full of life. But as Teri Katzenberger explains, it wasn't always this way.

"At the age of 18 to 23, I had a severe eating disorder, I was severely bulimic and borderline anorexic," Teri Katzenberger said. 

Teri was convinced she had things under control but quickly realized she was wrong.  

"I lived on diet coke, cigarettes, coffee, yogurt, frozen yogurt, peanut butter and M&M's. I have family and friends that would vouch for that, it was horrible," Teri said. 

As time passed, she became chronically ill and found herself weighing only 110 pounds at age 26. It wasn't until 1991 that reality checked in.  

"Had a boss that introduced me to vitamins, minerals, herbs and it was from then I just dived into it and started self-educating," she said.  

Teri realized she was hurting her body, not helping it. But medical experts say more and more people are turning to things like deep cleansing diets. 

These are home liquid remedies, over the counter pills or store-bought systems that help you lose weight and rid your body of 'unwanted' digestive toxins. For up to weeks at a time, it's a strict diet allotting only a fraction of the nutrition we really need each day.

Being inexpensive and quick, though, many Americans will jump on any kind without informing themselves first.

We sat down with Avera Gastroenterologist Dr. Steven Condron.

"If you go onto a fast for a prolonged period of time, some are a few days to weeks, the body is somehow fooled into losing weight by cleansing toxins," Dr. Condron said.

He says that's something you want to avoid. Cleansing diets may only work for a short period of time because you're not eating substantially for several days. Dr. Condron says these diets deplete your body of sugar, sugar stores water so what you're losing is water weight.

 "The minute you eat a pancake, you've probably put a pound or two back on. Most important part is the body, during those days, has been shocked into the concept that it's in starvation mode," Dr. Condron said. 

He admits he sees that all too often.

"It's frequent in our practice, we see patients tell us I've been dieting for years and I seem to be gaining weight. I lose some, gain some, but if you trend my weight, I keep gaining. It's the body is not being activated in the right way," Condron said. 

Teri knows first-hand because she used to deep cleanse and sometimes didn't even read the directions.

"I would buy stuff off the shelf, not know how to do it. So I would end up with stomach cramps, diarrhea," Teri said.  

And that's just the tip of the ice burg. Dr. Condron says losing weight and being healthy takes work and dedication. He recommends the colorful foods - fresh fruits and veggies - all natural or organic.

It took years for Teri to realize eating this way is the way to go.

" choose to do that or else I skip breakfast, or may not have lunch. I can't live that way. I have to be healthy and well, skin, hair..." Teri said. 

Instead of resorting to deep body cleanses for a short period of time, Teri chooses to eat well all of the time. Now she has a system: she makes nutritious meals for the entire week, she takes multivitamins and she makes smoothies with protein powder. She's even educating others along the way.

"I resolve to be healthy and well all the days. I don't want to be ill. I don't want to be sluggish, have headaches. I don't want to feel that," Teri said.  

"if you want to eliminate toxins in your diet, your best bet is to eat healthy and that's why we talk about fruits and vegetables, staying away from pesticides, eat organically. That's where your focus should be," Condron said. 

Twenty years later and Teri is feeling her best.

As mentioned, Dr. Condron says in order to lose weight, the most healthy and efficient way is to eat right and exercise. Always consult your doctor or nutritionist before beginning and program or diet.

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It turns out that the humble penny is a pricey coin. Specifically, each new penny coined by the government costs 2.4 cents.

My point here is not to remind you that pennies are anachronisms that ought to be dispensed with entirely—though that is true. This is actually a story about the federal budget, and why it’s so tough to manage.

Yesterday, President Obama unveiled his budget for 2013—a plan for everything that the government will spend money on and where it intends to get that money. I won’t bore you with the details, since this document won’t survive first contact with Congress and doesn’t offer a final picture of what government activity will look like next year, although it does reveal a lot about what the president thinks is important.

One good idea in the budget is to change the way we make those expensive pennies and nickels (which cost 11.2 cents each), using cheaper metals to do the job. Pennies are now made mostly of zinc, and nickels have more copper than nickel. If we switch up the raw materials—perhaps to an aluminum alloy, like other advanced economies, or else industrial porcelain—the Treasury Department estimates we could save about $100 million a year.

Of course, $100 million a year sounds awesome, but in budget terms it’s a tiny amount of money—less than one-100th of 1 percent of the entire $3.7 trillion the president proposes spending next year.  But like everything that matters, budgeting is a game of inches, so lopping off small stuff—especially no-brainer waste like this—is a good way to find breathing room as you work your way up to the big stuff

Did I say no-brainer waste? This is where it gets interesting. Even though this idea seems like pragmatic good government, there are plenty of people who think it’s a bad idea. The Wall Street Journal wrote about many of these naysayers in 2010, the first time the president proposed the idea:

Zinc miners. Believe it or not, the people who sell zinc the government uses to make pennies aren’t eager for them to change their ways. Big Zinc spends a lot of time lobbying to keep pennies the way they are—even funding an organization called Americans for Common Cents to lobby Congress to keep the penny around.

People who conflate coins' value with the metal in them. Plenty of people think that coins are valuable because they have valuable metal in them, but that’s not how it works: Our money is valuable because we agree to use it as a medium of exchange. Supply and demand determines the rest; U.S. money hasn’t depended on the price of any metal since 1971. People who believe that there’s a scenario that involves selling their pennies to the local zinc smelter would probably be better off hoarding bullets instead. There are also a lot of people who just plain like pennies and think new ones won't be as nice. 

Businesses that rely on coin-operated vending machines. Folks worry that vending machines, laundromats, coin-counting machines, and parking meters will need to be adjusted en masse if coins' weight or conductivity (two common ways machines identify change) shifts. This is a pretty reasonable concern, but when was the last time you used a penny or a nickel at a vending machine?

When all is said and done, these reasons probably aren’t worth the extra $100 million it costs us not to change the composition of the coins. But these people think about pennies a lot, and they spend money to let the government know what they think. When was the last time you thought about the penny, much less mentioned it to an elected representative?

Now imagine how this dynamic plays out when it comes time to cut outlays on more complex, more expensive issues like health care and national security, which affect nearly everyone and touch businesses across many sectors. The same thing happens with other deficit-drivers, like the Bush administration’s tax cuts or the raft of tax breaks we give out to individuals and corporations.

The penny paradox is a dilemma at the heart of democratic government—a engaged, concentrated group of people who benefit from spending can keep it going, even if it’s not in the broad public interest. Conservatives and other folks with an anti-government bias see this dynamic as one more reason to keep the government out of the spending business. Meanwhile, those of us who think the government can do more harm than good see this as a problem to be solved through better institutional design, a more engaged citizenry, and better politicians—if we can find them.

So if you’re ever wondering why Washington’s fights over the budget seem wildly out of proportion or overly gridlocked, remember that cutting waste and focusing on top priorities is harder than it looks. And the next time you hear someone complaining about our sky-high deficits, ask them how much it costs to make a penny.

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Sarah Melone has not been to the gym in 10 years. Not coincidentally, 10 years ago she had the first of her three children. But Melone finds a way to stay fit, while being realistic.

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Sarah Melone does a BOSU ball workout from her Tenafly home through a streaming online exercise class from EMG, at left.

"I don't have the [money] to invest in a gym knowing I can't keep up with that schedule, because I have child-care issues and all those other things that get in your way," says Melone, who lives in Tenafly.

Instead, Melone logs on to emglivefitness.com to access live streaming of a fitness class or choose a recorded class on demand. She pays $5 per class, selecting from a wide variety of choices. And she does it on her schedule.

Streaming fitness classes is a growing trend — and business — that seems to benefit everyone involved. It could change how (and when and where) people work out.

"This is a no-fail routine," says Melone. "You can't lose money. You pay as you go. Because it's always there and available, I feel like it gives me more of that opportunity toward fitness."

On most sites, like yogisanonymous. com, users pay a time-based subscription fee.

"The response has been absolutely amazing," says Yogis Anonymous co-owner Dorian Cheah, who started streaming classes from their California studio last March and has daily, weekly and monthly subscriptions. "It's been growing very quickly and consistently."

Joyce Wells, who started EMG, saw the possibilities of streaming fitness classes. She had years of business and technological experience from careers at Citibank and Microsoft. And she is a self-described fitness nut who loved going to classes when she lived in Manhattan. No longer in the city, she misses that level of fitness class.

"Not that I'm criticizing anything here, but the classes were nothing like the ones I took in New York," says Wells, who lives at Crystal Springs in Hamburg. "When they did get up here, they were, I'm going to say, 5 degrees different than what they [were] in New York or Chicago or L.A."

So as she pondered what to do with the rest of her life after leaving Microsoft, she realized she could combine her love of fitness and her business experience. How could she bring high-quality fitness classes to others like her, who didn't have it immediately available or were traveling and missing their favorite instructors and classes?

Wells called her former Pilates instructor, Liz Clingham, with the idea of streaming classes online. Clingham, who lives in Tenafly and teaches in the area, including at The Spa at Glenpointe, was immediately on board. She helped Wells test the site and they launched in May 2011.

Better than DVDs

Now Clingham's kickboxing, step, BOSU ball and spin class are available on the site. She says the people in the studio do not get short-changed and the people at home feel like they are in the class. She knows who is on live and talks directly to them at times. Melone says it is a much better experience than the tiresome, slickly produced DVDs.

"The way [EMG's] taping it, from the angle, you're right behind the instructor as you would be in class, as opposed to trying to mirror them like you do with a DVD," says Melone, who used to do the classes while looking at her laptop screen but now connects her iPad to the TV. "You see real people in the class, moving the way you are instead of perfect models. That part makes you feel better as you're trying to keep up."

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Fitness Marketing Blog Super-Trainer.Com Is The Product of Fitness Marketing Entrepreneur Dr. Sam Bakhtiar

Chino Hills, CA (PRWEB) February 14, 2012

Chino Hills based fitness marketing whiz and owner of several boot camps and fitness centers, Saman Bakhtiar, is now providing a free blueprint which guarantees a sure shot six figure income to all budding fitness marketing entrepreneurs.

Sam, who is better known as 7 Figure Sam due to his whooping 7 figure annual returns of almost $2.5 million a year, has launched his Six-Figures in 67 Days Blueprint for all personal trainers who wish to see their annual returns skyrocket without compromising on their personal life and getting bogged down due to a hectic work schedule.

Six-Figures in 67 Days Blueprint is a concise, but highly practical and easy to implement manual that guarantees at least a 25% rise in income at the very outset, and a doubling or even tripling inflow of returns over the span of a few months. The manual, also popularly known as The Six-Figure Trainer Program, is apt for trainers who want to start their own fitness chains or studios, get certified, win over multitudes of clients, and last but not least, get started on the road to significant wealth by attaining financial freedom.

Six-Figures in 67 Days Blueprint offers comprehensive tips, techniques, tools, and business systems to help fitness marketing hopefuls enjoy the profits they otherwise wouldn’t have earned in the fitness arena. What’s even better is that Sam is offering his blueprint, which is $97 in value, as both a readable and audio file in the form of a free download on his blog Super-Trainer.

Six-Figures in 67 Days Blueprint covers numerous plans of action and a highly detailed ‘tactics list’ after encouraging trainers to conduct a ‘get-started assessment’ prior to implementing the ideas in the manual. Though the program includes tried and tested methods of surpassing the competition in the fitness marketing arena, 7 Figure Sam has taken it upon himself to invite feedback and additional ideas and strategies from those who have successfully used the manual to their advantage.

Personal trainers can also make the most of his Mastermind coaching program and his fitness mobile marketing service Contact Formula to reap rich rewards in their professional lives and receive ongoing support from Sam in their endeavors to achieve the 6-figure mark within a year.

About 7 Figure Sam:

Saman Bakhtiar is an avid fitness blogger, trainer, and entrepreneur who has helped thousands achieve financial independence through his Super-Trainer blog and a myriad other coaching and guidance programs. By drawing upon his own success after several years of experimenting with what works and what doesn’t, Sam has ensured that his business systems are foolproof and effective enough to prevent other trainers from making costly mistakes that can hamper their goal-oriented actions.

To know more about Sam and his programs, visit http://super-trainer.com/.

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Everwood has released a provocative new weight loss book, set to turn the health and fitness world upside-down.

(PRWEB) February 14, 2012

Everwood Presents: - America remains heralded as one of the most overweight countries in the world and despite a growing awareness, it seems losing weight remains for many people as confusing and as elusive as ever. Society is bombarded constantly by a marketing onslaught of diets, fads, exercise machines, home delivered meals, supplements, pills and other weight loss schemes and services. Unfortunately, the industry is infamous for its often suspicious and questionable methods, all promising quick and easy solutions to an already despairing population. To add to the confusion, the modern era is one where information surrounding nutrition and exercise is exhaustive and often at times contradictory, so it’s no wonder that people looking to lose weight can often feel skeptical, overwhelmed and discouraged.

While health and fitness professionals will generally agree that losing weight is best achieved through dieting and exercise, an innovative new method from Australia is well on its way to revolutionize this perception. According to weight loss specialist Azrael, mainstream advice surrounding weight loss is frequently impractical, incorrect or short-sighted. “While I believe the majority of health and fitness professionals across the world do have the best of intentions, many are unfortunately providing the public and their governments with misleading or wrong information.” Azrael continues by stating that popular industry maxims such as "weight loss is all about calories in versus calories out," "dieting and exercise," "write a weight loss goal," "eat a balanced diet," and "breakfast is the most important meal of the day," are all examples of what he calls junk information.

Azrael has personally battled against obesity twice in his life. “When I first lost weight, I succeeded by following the advice of experts at the time. I was eating a very low-fat diet in combination with plenty of exercise. But years later, my priorities in life changed and before I knew it, I was more overweight than ever.” Realizing that the initial advice he had followed was ultimately unhealthy and unrealistic for the long term, Azrael lost trust with the experts and was in turn inspired to find his own solution. Azrael succeeded and developed a weight loss method without dieting or exercise, without using willpower or supplements and without undergoing hypnotherapy or surgery and has effortlessly kept the weight off now for many years. He clearly articulates that there are no secrets to losing weight and that essentially, permanent weight loss is based on common sense and living a healthy lifestyle. The difficulty he claims is that common sense and healthy lifestyle are not terms agreed to universally. “Leading a healthy lifestyle is not a new idea, however people may be surprised and shocked to learn of what actually constitutes a healthy lifestyle. Eating five to eight small meals a day for example, is not healthy living in my opinion, yet this directly opposes mainstream health and fitness advice. The public needs to remember that ‘what works’ and ‘what is healthy’ are not always one and the same.”

After first helping friends and family to lose weight, Azrael has gone on to assist countless others with his new book: Odysi Zero | Lose Weight: Say No to Dieting and Exercise. He actively warns that some people make take offence from the book’s content, yet he expresses his opinions without apology. Azrael and his supporters remain steadfast and resolute in spreading his message. “I strongly feel some things must be said and so I have said them.”

Odysi Zero | Lose Weight: Say No to Dieting and Exercise is available for $25.00 in most bookstores or online at http://www.OdysiZero.com.

Original Edition. ISBN: 9780646546872 (pbk), 100 pages, 6 x 8, eBook also available.

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CREATED Feb. 9, 2012

PALM DESERT - What do some of Hollywood's leading ladies, fashion experts and the NFL's leading players all have in common? Their diet plan. It's called the Alkaline Diet.

The diet is based on the philosophy that feeling out of balance isn't just a mind game. It's rooted in your body chemistry.

For years, a mysterious illness was sidelining Jan Brehm, an Alkaline Dieter. "I have been in the emergency rooms three times thinking I had a heart attack, and it was acid," Brehm claims. Jan thought her eating habits could be the culprit, so she decided to try the alkaline diet.

Registered dietician Erin Palinski says it's based on the philosophy that what we eat and drink affects our body chemistry, or p-h level, which is naturally "alkaline" at 7.4.  The goal is to keep that level in check.

"The people that promote the alkaline diet state that by being able to increase your intake of alkaline forming foods, and decrease your intake of acidic foods, you can actually alter the chemistry in your body," says Palinski.

Promoting things like weight loss, improved immunity, and even disease prevention, celebrity nutritionist Dr. Lindsey Duncan is a proponent of the alkaline diet. He says our meals are increasingly acidic, and our bodies are paying the price.

"Cardiovascular disease, depression, forgetfulness, poor mood, mind, memory," all things affected by diet says Duncan.

To reverse this, Dr. Duncan recommends avoiding meals packed with acidic foods like wheat, dairy, meat, fish, sugar, and caffeine. Instead, he says, load your plate with p-h balancers.

"Anything that's dark, leafy, and green. The general rule of thumb is the more bitter your foods, the more alkaline," says Duncan 

Other examples include watermelon, almonds, oranges and apples. Jan says she felt a difference within days of making the switch.

"Not only does the fatigue lift, but the mood shift, energy," Brehm claims.

Palinski says that while the alkaline diet dishes up healthy foods with actual science behind them, when it comes to p-h level. there have been no human medical research studies that prove any of the claims of the alkaline diet.

 "Our body really naturally, unless we have some kind of health problem, is going to keep our pH within the optimal level," Palinski says. She says the diet can also be restrictive, and some take it to the extreme, consuming supplements that promise to boost your ph, or even ingesting baking soda.

"This can make the body too alkaline and bring it outside of the optimal range, and that can actually have potentially deadly side effects," warns Palinski

But Dr. Duncan says there are plenty of studies that show the health benefits of alkaline foods, and that balance is the key.

"The proper ratio of food is 70-75% alkaline and 25-30% acid," says Duncan.

While experts continue to debate the food and p-h level connection, Jan says she is a believer.

"All I have is what I've experienced, and the difference that I feel is night and day," says Brehm.

Some alkaline dieters test their p-h daily with strips, which are available at the drugstore. 

 Dr. Dan Cosgrove who practices internal and preventatvie medicine at Wellmax in La Quinta says his take on the diet is that it is healthy. He says eating alkaline foods - like leafy greens - are always better for you than eating acidic foods like meat and processed foods. He says our bodies mantain blood p-h very tightly at about 7-point-4 and ph doesn't actually change that much at all with diet.

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