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Fitness buffs who love their techy gadgets have a slew of slick, wearable fitness trackers to choose from, such as Fitbit and Jawbone. But now companies are starting to put sensors inside clothing to gauge workouts -- and US university students have devised their own contender, the Squid fitness shirt.

Last year, major fitness retailer Under Armour introduced the E39 compression shirt, with 2GB of storage built inside to monitor heart rate and breathing. Also, last October, AT&T announced its own plans to offer apparel to track GPS routes, heart rate, and other vital stats, according to Forbes magazine.

Now students at Northeastern University in the US may have upped the ante with Squid, which incorporates a smartphone app and exercise tracking internet portal along with a compression shirt loaded with built-in sensors.

The EMG sensors (or “tentacles”) track muscle activity, recording the number of repetitions of a resistance exercise. Squid also monitors heart rate activity so you can get a complete overview of your weight-lifting workouts. All the data syncs with the smartphone app, which also syncs with the internet site.

Details on when consumers can get their hands on the Squid are not yet available -- but in recent days, gadget and health bloggers have been abuzz about the new device.

"Unlike other tech that ends with monitoring heart rate and tracking GPS coordinates, Squid can actually gauge muscle activity and count reps so you don't have to," writes blogger Engadget.

"It does have some limitations, such as it cannot tell the difference between types of exercise you do," adds blogger Geeky Gadgets. "Nonetheless, if you’re a fitness buff who is also a tech junkie, this system seems to hit home."

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On Feb 13, Zumba fitness dancing returns to XBox Kinect with Zumba Fitness Rush, bringing with it the craze that launched classes, clothing lines and, yes, even conventions all over the world.

My wife, Amanda, recently fell in love with the trend, attending daily classes this summer and helping me with my review of 2011's Zumba title for Wii. I enlisted her again last week to give me a sense of how well Zumba Fitness Rush used the Kinect's motion-sensor cameras, especially compared to the first Zumba Kinect title, which did not fare so well with gamers. Would the new game live up to an in-studio Zumba workout?

We danced to a few songs at a first-look event, and Amanda came away absolutely loving the game. To be fair, she had been waiting for it to come out since playing the Wii version and was excited to begin with. The Wii incarnation of the game workS by strapping a Wiimote to the hip, which did little to score players correctly for things like arm movement. From what we saw, the game's transition to Kinect has done a fine job of providing motion-tracking that scores accurately based on a full body range of movement and timing.

While I found some of the moves repetitive compared to other dance games, Amanda appreciated that the game focused less on quickly throwing complicated dance steps one's way and more on moving to the rhythm of the music. Don't expect to interpret the lyrics with your body or do the robot; instead, you'll get an aerobic workout with flares of salsa and reggaeton. Because Zumba Fitness Rush's dance moves are sustained for longer than in other games, indicators for upcoming moves are not constantly in one's face. They pop up sparingly, and the game is more aesthetically pleasing for it.

The songs and moves were lifted directly out of a Zumba class and the soundtrack included all of the staples from the Wii version of the game, with plenty of additional tracks. Each song has only one level of difficulty, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. In Zumba Fitness Rush, the tempo and length of the music inform the difficulty of the workout, meaning the slower-paced "easy" songs are not shoehorned into difficult mode by adding complicated moves that don't fit the rhythm.

I was very happy to find that the game had done away with Kinect conventions like constantly taking your photo or freestyle dance segments. These annoyances plague so many other games on the system and lost their novelty very fast with me. I've never looked great in the photos that Kinect takes -- they always seem to squish my body -- and it's depressing to have a snapshot taken of you when you're playing alone. I'm just as annoyed when games force freestyle dance challenges into every song. It kills my highly choreographed groove!

Zumba Fitness Rush could be the ideal game for those looking to learn how to dance, Zumba style. There's a tutorial mode to teach the ropes with step-by-step instructions. Kinect does a far better job scoring, based on full-body movement, than Wii does, so you're more likely to pull off your moves correctly. Essentially, the game will train you into a Zumba dancing machine.

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Fitness Revolution, a fitness franchising organization, has been named a finalist for 3 Business Excellence Awards at the 2012 Business Excellence Forum.

Elizabethtown, KY (PRWEB) February 11, 2012

Fitness Revolution, a fitness franchising organization, has been named a Finalist for 3 different Business Excellence Awards. The awards were given out at the Business Excellence Forum, which took place January 13 and 14 in Memphis.

The ceremony is put on annually by Action Coach, a business coaching firm. Attending on behalf of Fitness Revolution was VP of Operations Timothy J. Ward, who remarked, “It has been an amazing first year for Fitness Revolution. It is a great honor that the business world is taking notice.”

Fitness Revolution, founded in December of 2010, began offering its first territories in January of 2011. By the end of the year, it had sold 94 different franchises and had been registered in over 40 different states, most recently Illinois.

In recognition of its outstanding first year growth, Fitness Revolution was named a Finalist for the Business Excellence Award of Best Startup. It also nabbed Finalist recognition for Fastest Growing Company (Fewer than 10 Employees) and Most Innovative Company.

Fitness Revolution has positioned itself away from the model of health clubs. Instead, it seeks to provide successful business systems to passionate fitness professionals. The goal is to create results-driven, sustainable businesses.

In its first year of operation, Fitness Revolution has provided a number of benefits to franchisees: preferred pricing from vendors, payment processing software, training equipment, SEO, and deals for nutrition and supplements.

If Fitness Revolution's first year is any indication, they are succeeding. “We knew immediately that we offered the tools to create profitable fitness franchises,” said co-founder Pat Rigsby. “But even we're a little surprised at how quickly word has gotten out about Fitness Revolution.”

Fitness Revolution's success comes as no shock to business insiders who appreciate the company's client-centered approach. In fact, the awards serve to validate the company's strategy of meeting individual needs within its successful business models.

“We had such an amazing 2011,” Rigsby continued. “But I think we have even bigger things planned for 2012.”

About Pat Rigsby: Pat Rigsby is the co-owner of Fitness Consulting Group, a leading business development consulting firm within the fitness industry. Fitness Consulting Group is the parent company to Fitness Revolution, and a number of other fitness businesses.

Fitness Revolution is a member of the Fitness Consulting Group family of companies. Fitness Revolution franchises focus on providing clients with the best fitness coaching available today, using a training staff made up of nationally certified fitness professionals.

To learn more about acquiring a Fitness Revolution franchise, visit: http://www.fitnessrevolutionfranchise.com/franchise/

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Nearly one-third of South Carolinians don’t get any regular exercise and nearly one-third of the state’s population feels stressed, but the two conditions aren’t necessarily related.

Those are among the results from health-related questions in the latest Winthrop Poll, which for the most part backed what state health officials have been saying for years. Despite some recent improvements, South Carolina has too many physically inactive people, too many who don’t eat right and too many who don’t get care when they’re sick.

For instance, 68.5 percent of the poll respondents said they had done strenuous exercise in the past month, including 29.4 percent who exercise two of fewer times a week, 25.9 percent who exercise three to five times a week and 11.6 who exercise more than five times a week. That’s all good, but 31.2 percent said they hadn’t exercised in the previous month.

“To me, the more telling part of it is the number who said no, who said that they had done no vigorous exercise in the past month,” said Russ Pate, a USC exercise science professor who has served on several national physical activity task forces. “That’s higher than you see in national surveys, and that’s alarming.”

In another survey cited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 27 percent of South Carolinians in 2007 reported they didn’t exercise routinely. The lack of exercise often is listed among the reasons for the rapid rise in the number of overweight and obese people in the state, now up to one-third of the population.

“Preaching (about the importance of exercise) is not enough to get this to change,” Pate said. “What needs to change is our communities. If people have good access to exercise options, they’re more likely to be active.”

Building more sidewalks and walking trails would help, as would employers setting up programs that encourage workers to be more active, Pate said. The national exercise guideline is 30 minutes daily, and it doesn’t have to be strenuous. Taking your dog on a long walk would fit the guidelines.

Bryan Madden, CEO of the YMCA of Columbia, believes 10 percent of the population wouldn’t exercise even if they lived in a YMCA building. Another 10 percent are so fanatical they would exercise if they were dropped in the middle of a desert. The key is get the other 80 percent to find some form of exercise that connects with them, Madden said. If they enjoy doing it, they’ll keep doing it.

And if they can stick to a moderate exercise program, they might even see their stress rate drop. One-third of respondents in the Winthrop Poll said they felt stressed for much of the previous day. But among those who exercised three to five times a week, the stress level dropped to 25 percent. Oddly, those who exercise only two or fewer times and those who exercise strenuously five times or more per week didn’t see a similar drop in stress.

The other function in the good-health equation is eating right, and more than half the respondents (56 percent) to the Winthrop Poll said they had eaten healthy the entire previous day. Of course, almost half of the respondents (43.3 percent) admitted not eating right, and that group is probably being more honest with themselves than the self-professed healthy eaters.

“People tend to think that their diet is better than it is,” said Brie Turner-McGrievy, an assistant professor in the USC Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior. “They don’t know they’re eating too much sodium. They don’t know they’re eating too much fat. If you analyze their diet, you see it’s not as healthy as they think.”

Educating people on healthy options is important. Considering the obesity rate in the state, “obviously we’re not doing something right,” Turner-McGrievy said.

With all health issues, the economic component can’t be ignored. The Winthrop Poll found 23.4 percent of respondents felt they couldn’t afford healthy meals. Also, 13.2 percent said they had no health insurance. The latter number, however, is an improvement. A national survey in 2009 indicated 17 percent of South Carolinians didn’t have health insurance. Some of the change can be attributed to the federal Affordable Care Act.

“Medicaid numbers have grown tremendously,” said Jeff Stensland, spokesman for the S.C. Department of Health and Human Services, which administers Medicaid in the state. “It’s up to almost 1 million patients every month. That used to be the yearly numbers, now it’s monthly numbers.”

Still, many aren’t seeing doctors when they need them, with 31 percent of respondents in households making less than $40,000 annual income saying the cost of care had kept them from seeking care in the past year.

The numbers of those who can’t afford care might go down, and the numbers on the Medicaid books are expected to go up in 2014 when new provisions of the Affordable Care Act covering childless adults kick in, Stensland said.

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American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

SAN FRANCISCO ? The benefits of exercise in minimizing pain and improving mobility for individuals living with osteoarthritis has been well documented.

In a new study presented today at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), 107 individuals with diagnosed osteoarthritis in the knee were randomized to either a DVD-based exercise group, or a control group. The "DVD" group received a DVD-based exercise program, as well as verbal and hands-on exercise instructions, for the first four to eight weeks. The individuals in both groups were evaluated at three, six and 12 months.

Participants in the exercise group reportedly exercised 5.3, 5.0 and 3.8 times per week at three, six and 12 month intervals. The improvements in pain and physical function were significantly greater in the DVD group than the control group at all intervals. However, there were no significant differences between the two groups in osteoarthritis progression.

Video-based home exercise programs can enhance adherence to a prescribed exercise program, can reduce pain, improve physical function, and improve life quality in patients living with knee osteoarthritis.

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About the AAOS

With more than 37,000 members, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, (www.aaos.org) or (www.orthoinfo.org) is the premier not-for-profit organization that provides education programs for orthopaedic surgeons and allied health professionals, champions the interests of patients and advances the highest quality of musculoskeletal health. Orthopaedic surgeons and the Academy are the authoritative sources of information for patients and the general public on musculoskeletal conditions, treatments and related issues. An advocate for improved care, the Academy is participating in the Bone and Joint Initiative (www.usbjd.org), the global initiative to raise awareness of musculoskeletal health, stimulate research and improve people's quality of life. The Academy's 2012 Annual Meeting is being held February 7 - 11, 2012 at the San Francisco Moscone Center in San Francisco (www.aaos-annualmeeting-presskit.org).

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London Fashion Week does not begin until Friday, but tempers are already beginning to fray. Sasha Volkova, the Marks & Spencer model, has suggested that her fellow mannequin Daisy Lowe, a former girlfriend of the Doctor Who star Matt Smith, is overweight.

To add insult to injury, Volkova, who comes from humble origins in the Ukraine, adds that if Lowe was not the daughter of a well-known couple, she would be asked to go on a diet.

“If Daisy Lowe’s parents weren’t famous, if she had gone to a model agency, they would have told her to go and lose some weight,” Volkova tells Mandrake at Mark Fast’s “creative talent” dinner at the Corinthia hotel. “That might not be right, but other girls get treated like that.”

Daisy, 23, is the daughter of Pearl Lowe, the pop singer turned fashion designer, and Gavin Rossdale, the rock singer.

Volkova, 26, was engaged to Dan Macmillan, the great-grandson of the former prime minister Harold Macmillan and heir to the Earl of Stockton. “I don’t know what is it with London,” she adds, “but the fashion world here is always in love with famous offspring, aren’t they?”

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February 13, 2012 (Portland, Ore.) -- Teenage girls gained less weight, improved their body image, ate less fast food, and had more family meals after participating in a 6- month program that involved weekly peer meetings, consultations with primary care providers and separate meetings for parents. Those results from a study published online today in the journal Pediatrics.

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the study is the first to report long-term results from a weight management program designed specifically for teenage girls. Most other programs have included younger children and interventions focused on the entire family. This program included separate meetings for parents with the rationale that teens are motivated more by peer acceptance than parental influence. Unlike previous programs, this one was conducted in a primary-care setting, rather than an academic or specialty-care environment.

"Nearly one-third of teenage girls are overweight or obese, and many of them are likely to become obese adults," said Lynn DeBar, PhD, MPH, lead author and senior investigator with the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research. "Our study shows that intervention programs can help these girls achieve long-term success managing their weight and also learning new habits that will hopefully carry over into their adult life."

"Many teenage girls are still growing taller, so for them, maintaining weight or slowing weight gain is an acceptable goal," said Phil Wu, MD, a pediatrician who leads Kaiser Permanente's effort to prevent and treat childhood obesity and is also a co-author of the study. "Girls in the program gained less weight than those who weren't in the program, and they reduced their overall body mass index, improved their self-image and developed healthy lifestyle habits, so all of these are successes."

The study included 208 girls, ages 12-17, in Oregon and Washington during 2005-2009. All of the girls were classified as overweight or obese, according to standards set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention standards. Half of the girls were assigned to the intervention group and half to usual care.

Girls in the intervention group met weekly with their peers and a behavioral counselor during the first three months, and then every other week during months four and six. The girls were weighed and asked to keep a food and activity diary, which they discussed during each meeting. The program focused on decreasing portion size, limiting consumption of energy-rich foods, establishing regular meal patterns, substituting water for sugar-sweetened beverages, reducing fast food, increasing fruit and vegetable consumption, and having more family meals.

The girls were encouraged to exercise at least 5 days a week for 30-60 minutes, and to limit screen time to 2 hours a day. They also received yoga instruction, and a physical-activity video game to use at home. Discussion topics included ways to avoid disordered eating, coping with family and peer teasing and developing strategies to combat negative self-talk.

Parents attended separate weekly meetings to learn how to support their daughters. The girls' health care providers received summaries of the girls' current health habits, including meal and physical activity patterns. After receiving training in motivational techniques, the providers met with the girls at the beginning of the study to help them choose one or two behaviors to work on. The providers had a second visit with the girls at the end of the six-month intervention to check their progress.

Girls assigned to the usual-care group received a packet of materials that included a list of online reading about lifestyle changes. They also met with their primary care provider at the beginning of the study, but the providers were not given health habit summaries for these girls.

Both groups had health assessments and lab tests at the beginning of the study, at six months, and then again at 12 months. The girls started out with an average weight in the 190 lb. range, and an average body mass index in the 97th percentile, which by CDC standards is considered to be obese. At the end of the study, girls who participated in the program were in the 95th percentile, while girls in the usual-care group were in the 96th percentile.

Authors say the weight changes were statistically significant but modest compared to some other weight loss interventions. They point out that the girls were severely obese to begin with and possibly treatment-resistant due to previous involvement in other weight loss programs. The program purposely de-emphasized calorie counting, focusing instead on lifestyle changes, and the authors acknowledge that this approach may have produced more modest weight changes than they had expected.

This study is part of ongoing Kaiser Permanente research into weight loss. Previous studies include:

A Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research study published in the International Journal of Obesity last year found that people trying to lose at least 10 pounds were more likely to reach that goal if they had lower stress levels and slept more than six hours, but not more than eight hours, a night. Another Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research study published in 2010 found that the more people logged on to an interactive weight management website, the more weight they kept off. Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research also reported in a 2008 study that keeping a food diary can double a person's weight loss and that both personal contact and Web-based support can help with long-term weight management.

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Authors include Lynn L. DeBar, PhD, MPH; Victor J. Stevens, PhD; Nancy Perrin, PhD; John Pearson, MD; Bobbi Jo Yarborough, PsyD; John Dickerson, MS; and Frances Lynch, PhD, from the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore.,; and Philip Wu, MD, from Northwest Permanente in Portland, Ore.

About the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research (http://www.kpchr.org)

Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research, founded in 1964, is a nonprofit research institution dedicated to advancing knowledge to improve health. It has research sites in Portland, Ore., Honolulu, and Atlanta.

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Kaiser Permanente is committed to helping shape the future of health care. We are recognized as one of America's leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans. Founded in 1945, our mission is to provide high-quality, affordable health care services and to improve the health of our members and the communities we serve. We currently serve 8.9 million members in nine states and the District of Columbia. Care for members and patients is focused on their total health and guided by their personal physicians, specialists and team of caregivers. Our expert and caring medical teams are empowered and supported by industry-leading technology advances and tools for health promotion, disease prevention, state-of-the art care delivery and world-class chronic disease management. Kaiser Permanente is dedicated to care innovations, clinical research, health education and the support of community health. For more information, go to: http://www.kp.org/newscenter.

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A calorie is a calorie, and cutting them is the best way to lose weight, right? Not so fast. New research shows that eating certain types of foods can rev your metabolism, curb your appetite, and help you lose more weight than others. The Active Calorie Diet, an eating plan based on this research, explains how some foods take more work to eat so you burn more calories during digestion. In fact, just the act of chewing foods like fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean cuts of meat can increase your calorie burn by up to 30 percent.

In this diet plan, foods are broken down into four types of "active calories"--chewy foods, hearty foods, energizing foods, and warming foods. Here’s how each one encourages your body to burn more calories.

8 Things You Didn’t Know About Calories

Chewy Foods
(lean meats, nuts, whole fruits and vegetables)

These calories make your body work right off the fork. To maximize the chew factor, choose food in its most "whole" state—apples instead of applesauce, for instance. High-protein foods really are your best ally in the Active Calorie Diet because they take more work to chew and longer to leave your stomach so you take more time eating—and have more time to register that you’re full.

Hearty Foods
(fruits, vegetables, brown rice, whole grains and cereals)

In addition to being chewy, these Active Calories are packed with fiber, so they take up more room in your belly (compared to other foods with the same number of calories), and leave less room for second helpings. Foods that take more work to chew literally make your mouth work harder (ramping calorie burn by 10 percent) and increase the thermic effect of food, the calorie-burn bump we get from eating and digesting any given type of food.

Energizing Foods
(coffee, black and green tea, dark chocolate)

You can get metabolism-boosting caffeine in coffee and black tea; just be careful not to load them up with milk, cream, or sugar. Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant, so your daily java or black tea can boost your metabolism by 5 to 8 percent ---about 80 to 128 calories a day. Green tea doesn’t have much caffeine but it does contain catechins, an antioxidant that raises resting metabolism by 4% (about 80 calories a day). Dark chocolate contains both catechins and caffeine, but stick to 1 ounce per day to limit fat and calories.

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Warming Foods
(peppers, cinnamon, ginger, garlic, cloves, mustard, vinegar)

To fully activate the calories from every meal, add some heat. Dieters taking capsaicin, the chemical that gives peppers their burn, doubled their energy expenditure for several hours after eating, according to a new study from UCLA. Even mild peppers contain compounds that help erase up to 100 calories a day by binding to nerve receptors and sending fat-burning signals to your brain. Cinnamon, cloves, bay leaves, and garlic help, too.

Fat-Burning Meal Ideas

Following The Active Calorie Diet is easy and doable because you’re probably eating many of the foods on a daily basis already.

Your meals will consist of mostly chewy and hearty foods, plus at least one energizing or warming food. You can have a daily snack that contains at least one type of Active Calorie food. Keep your calories to around 1,500 a day and you could lose up to 14 pounds and 4 inches in just 4 weeks. 

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‘Right food at the right time is an effective medicine'

Starvation should not be adopted as a means to tackle obesity. A lot of lifestyle factors, including proper diet, exercise and good sleep are very important in the management of obesity as ‘vaata', ‘pitha' and ‘kapha' considered to be the basic elements in one's constitution in Ayurveda, should be in perfect balance, said C.R. Agnives, Ayurveda researcher and winner of Dhanwantari Award instituted by the Kerala government.

He was delivering a lecture on the Ayurvedic perspective on obesity at the Global Ayurveda Fest here on Saturday

The former Director of Ayurveda Medical Education M.R. Vasudevan Nampoothiri, who spoke on the relevance of Ayurveda dietetics in the management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), pointed out that the ancient scriptures of Bhavaprakasha and Charaka Samhitha, cited improper diet as the main cause of NCDs.

“Eating undesirable food, having a meal within three hours of the previous one, and eating untimely food can all harm one's health. Food should be eaten slow so that digestion takes place fast and no food should be consumed so that one feels full,” he said quoting scriptures.

In short, right food at the right time is an effective medicine for good health, Dr. Namboothiri said.

Renowned teacher-clinician of Ayurveda from Tamil Nadu L. Mahadevan, spoke in detail about the basic concepts of ‘dhatu' (tissue systems), ‘dosha' (vatha, pitha and kapha' ) and ‘ritu' in Ayurveda and how these influence one's health, with special reference to hepato biliary diseases.

Director of Manipal Life Sciences Centre who spoke on ‘NCDs — genomics and prakrithi,' elaborated on how the body's DNA-repairing capacity diminished with age and how ‘rasayanas' could help in DNA repair and maintaining the original functioning of the cells.

Mark Rosenberg, Chief Executive Officer, European Academy of Ayurveda from Germany, said that Ayurveda as complementary medicine was gaining popularity in Germany. He spoke about how people were more bothered about holistic health, and how in Germany, Ayurveda was helping modern medicine heal body and mind.

Holistic cure

An Ayurveda practitioner in Europe for the past 15 years, E.P. Jeevan, pointed out that depression, psychosomatic disorders, rheumatic ailments and metabolic disorders were very common in Europe and that more and more people were thinking about good health beyond simple cure. Ayurveda was gaining popularity because of its holistic nature of treating the mind, body and spirit to gain good health, Dr. Jeevan said.

Parallel sessions dealing with degenerative diseases, liver disorders and NCDs with a special focus on diseases affecting women were also held.

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Are you looking for a lifestyle makeover, and have some weight to lose?

The producers of "The Biggest Loser" and "Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition" have created a new daytime talk show, "The Revolution." The ABC show features inspirational stories of people who have made drastic changes to their lives.

Do you have 50-100 pounds to lose? You could be the next Hero on "The Revolution."

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On Saturday, Feb. 11, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. there will be an open casting call for women who are ready to lose 50-100 pounds. If you're inspirational or have overcome challenging circumstances that might have caused you to gain the weight, you could land a part on the show. They are specifically looking for women who may have a career or family situation that has taken over, but who are now ready to regain control.

If chosen, "The Revolution" will provide you with a trainer and nutrition plan to help you lose weight in your own environment.

Bring a non-returnable photo of yourself to the Long Beach Town Center at 7575 Carson Blvd. (near Edwards Stadium on the Promenade stage). You must be 18 or older to apply; for more information on eligibility, go to thereveolutioncasting.com.

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O.C. woman gets a life makeover on "The Revolution": Read about local mom Jennifer Cahalan, who was recently on the show

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