Diet That Asks You Not to Lose Weight (at First)

A Diet That Asks You Not to Lose Weight (at First)
WebMD
The weight loss method was identical for both groups. The maintenance-first group was told not tolose weight during the first eight weeks of the study. During this time they learned a set of skills designed to optimize day-to-day satisfaction with ...

Health coach helps those struggling with weight loss, chronic conditions
Cape Gazette
The certified fitness trainer and nutritional specialist has become adept at helping her clients reconcile their emotional and rational needs so they achieve weight loss results. ... In my world, that means making substantial changes over time that ...

Moringa Extract is Not a Miracle Weight Loss Supplement
Diets In Review (blog)
There's another “miracle” weight loss supplement on the market and some are claiming it may be the new solution to our nation's obesity epidemic. It's called Moringa Extract and has been sold in other forms such as Moringa Oleifera, and it's derived ...

Know how to keep weight off before you lose it
CNN (blog)
Weight loss programs have proven effective in helping people drop pounds. But keeping them off is another story. Studies have shown that overweight participants typically give up their newly learnedhealth habits and regain 30 to 50% of the weight they ...

Hollywood's new diets are all about the science
Irish Independent
This hot new regime picks up where those plans of yesteryear left off… Anyone who's failed to lose weight on those diets is urged to check out the Rosedale diet as it offers much more satisfactory results – especially for anyone who's overweight or ...

Irish Independent

Exercise before breakfast 'leads to extra weight loss'
NHS Choices
'Exercising before breakfast lets you lose extra weight', the Daily Mail reports, perhaps prompting readers to drop their sausage sarnies and pop out for a jog. However, the Mail's sweeping headline is actually based on a very small study of just 10 ...

WEIGHT LOSS IN CHILDREN CAN BE A DANGER SIGNAL
U-T San Diego
Experts have advised us to eat more vegetables, stay away from fatty foods, cut down or eliminate sugared drinks and get at least 30 minutes of exercise every day (one hour a day for children). While this is good advice for most people, growing ...

Crash diets have long term benefits
Jagran Post
Experts at Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, say the "crash diets" - where people consume less than 800 calories-a-day - lead to significant weight loss, improve overweight people's blood pressure, increase fertility and reduce the ...

Jagran Post

Fat chance this will work - and they know it
Sydney Morning Herald
Earlier this month the diet company teamed up with the chef and co-host of My Kitchen Rules, Pete Evans, to launch what it calls a ''national movement'' to ''investigate the root causes of Australia's growing obesity problem in a bid to offer real ...

Sydney Morning Herald

Ask the Diet Doctor: Should I Add More Fermented Foods to My Diet?
Shape Magazine
... metabolism in addition to increased weight loss compared to when they consumed unfermented kimchi. It appears that either the bacteria that causes fermentation, the changes in foods as a result of fermentation, or both are required for the health ...

Shape Magazine

Bipartisanship Starts With Repealing the Health Care Law Democrats ...
Slate Magazine (blog)
Plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, quickly, have already been mapped out. That shouldn't be surprising, if you listened to anything Mitt Romney has ever said about the health care law. And: Repealing the law is a “red line” for most Democrats ...

Tennessee Health Care Quality Highlighted in National Report
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
WASHINGTON — The new State of Health Care Quality report from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) features Tennessee as a state where health quality has taken center stage. The State of Health Care Quality is NCQA's annual analysis ...

Hospitals should demand all doctors, health care workers be vaccinated against ...
Calgary Herald
OTTAWA – Doctors who refuse to get a flu shot are inadvertently increasing the risk of their patients dying of flu, argues an editorial in Canada's top medical journal that calls for mandatory flu shots forhealth care workers. “No right-thinking ...

U-M recruits Harvard health care research leader as first director of ...
Sacramento Bee
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Harvard University doctor and leader in health policy research who has devoted his career to making health care better and more fair will head a large new University of Michigan institute ...

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Top 10 Fitness Trends Picked for 2013

Top 10 Fitness Trends Picked for 2013
WebMD
5. Exercise and weight loss -- Consistently in the top 20 fitness trends, researchers say most popular diet plans incorporate exercise to encourage weight loss. 6. Fitness programs for older adults -- Fitness clubs are capitalizing on an aging baby ...

Dr. Oz: Lose three pounds in three days; triple weight loss with Garcinia pills
Examiner.com
In addition to suppressing your appetite, researchers say that the extract, called hydroxycitric acid (HCA), can double or triple your weight loss, reports Dr. Oz. By combining HCA with diet andexercise, people taking this hot new supplement lost four ...

This Year's Most Unorthodox As Seen on TV Weight Loss Gadgets and Gizmos
Diets In Review (blog)
Enter the Travel Hoop. A collapsible hula hoop with six segments, this fitness tool promises to bring back childhood memories and deliver a challenging workout. Sensa Weight-Loss System: Also called the Sprinkle Diet, a 2-month supply will put you back ...

A Nutty Good Diet: How Nuts Can Contribute to Weight Loss
Food Processing
According to the article "Impact of peanuts and tree nuts on body weight and health weight loss in adults," published in 2008 in the Journal of Nutrition it is estimated that between 55-75 percent of the energy (calories) contributed by nuts to the ...

Gluten-free diet could make you pile on pounds
Zee News
Gluten-free diet could make you pile on pounds. Last Updated: ... The controversial wheat-free weight loss plan is designed to help celebrities slim down. Now, the latest... “People assume that by cutting out gluten they are going to lose weight. It's ...

Zee News

Women's Health Six - Special Report: How I Lost 18 lbs of Stomach ...
This report was created by Women's Health to expose the truth behind a very weird diet. Staff reporter Helen Hasman investigates a weird weight loss solution ...
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Is It A Weight-Loss Scam? - Womens Health
Looking for an answer to your sex, beauty, diet, fitness or style-related questions? Send our ...
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Health-Care Companies Along East Coast Shut Down Offices
Fox Business
Some of the world's largest health-care companies, many of them based along the East Coast or with major operations there, closed sites and asked employees to work from home Monday as they braced for the approach of Hurricane Sandy. GlaxoSmithKline ...

US employees to face health care sticker shock
Chicago Tribune
But now corporate America's adoption of high-deductible plans is accelerating, partly because of Obama's health care reform, which requires insurance plans to provide more expansive coverage such as preventive care. Several industry surveys forecast a ...

LETTER: Health care is no longer affordable
Kingston Daily Freeman
Both misunderstand the underlying condition: Health care in America, and America alone among rich nations, is no longer affordable and thus limits its accessibility and effectiveness while increasing its cost. Total health care spending in America per ...

Health insurance tips: Seven tips to save on your 2013 health insurance
WPTV
Most people who are offered employer-sponsored health insurance should take it, said Keith Mendonsa, consumer insurance specialist for eHealthInsurance.com, which provides insurance quotes online. And people with pre-existing conditions should ...

WPTV

US to offer health insurance
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
These multistate plans were included in President Obama's health care law as a substitute for a pure government-run health insurance program — the public option sought by many liberal Democrats and reviled by Republicans. Supporters of the national ...

Are Americans better off than they were 4 years ago? Yes: Health care ...
Arizona Daily Star
On the positive side, Obama's health-care reform - which Romney wants to repeal - helps tens of millions of Americans. The most important provisions do not kick in until 2014, when 30 million additional Americans will have health insurance, and people ...

Shinsei Bank Plans Japan Health-Care REIT Amid Aging Population
Businessweek
Shinsei Bank Ltd. (8303), the Japanese lender partly owned by J. Christopher Flowers, plans to set up a health-care real estate investment trust to capture growth in one of the world's fastest-aging nations. The bank seeks to start the REIT with about ...

Why Latinos support Obama's health care plan | Chicanísima: Latino ...
By Teresa Puente
There has been considerable criticism about President Obama's Affordable Care Act. But it will ensure that millions more people have access to health insurance. It also eliminates ... Health care is important to the Latino community. Here are a ...
Chicanísima: Latino politics,...

Health Care Does Not Grow On Trees — Laissez FaireLaissez Faire
By Don Watkins
Now set aside the fact that government, by driving up the cost of health care and health insurance, bears primary responsibility for the fact that so many Americans lack coverage. And set aside the fact that no one has a right to health care, ...
Laissez Faire

Hospitals should demand all doctors, health care workers be ...
By skirkey
The editorial urging flu shots for anyone working in a hospital or other health care institution comes just days after Health Canada asked vaccine supplier Novartis to suspend distribution of two of its flu vaccines, Agriflu and Fluad, because of ...
canada.com

Health care tax credit goes unused by most small businesses | credit ...
By ERIKA GONZALEZ
The tax credit is part of the Affordable Care Act, the controversial health care law that is now phasing into effect. It is meant to encourage small businesses and nonprofits with low average wages to provide health insurance to their employees.
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Health Care: Meritage Medical officially seeks ACO status – North ...
By Dan Verel, Business Journal Staff Reporter
... Medical Network, formerly known as the Marin-Sonoma IPA, has officially made known its plan to earn accountable care organization, or ACO, designation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act of 2010. ... The ACO structure “aligns the expense of an innovation inhealth care delivery with the economic incentive of better reimbursement for ACO providers who can demonstrate better care outcomes and patient satisfaction and 'bend the cost curve,'” ...
North Bay Business Journal

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Gluten-free needed by some, for others a fad

Gluten-free needed for some, a fad for others
The Australian
ONCE relegated to dusty shelves and dressed in unflattering packaging, gluten-free foods are now as common as iPhones. Thanks in part to celebrity claims that a gluten-free diet will assist with weight loss, increased energy and improved digestive ...

Diet may not help cut risk of heart attack in diabetics
Zee News
Wellington: A rigorous exercise and diet regime made no difference to the risk of a person with type 2 diabetes developing heart disease, a new study has found. AUT University nutrition ... “Although the study found weight loss had many positive health...

Zee News

Health insurance industry dislikes 'Obamacare,' but finds the prospect of its ...
Washington Post
Although the industry hates parts of President Barack Obama's health care law, major outfits such as UnitedHealth Group and BlueCross Blue Shield also stand to rake in billions of dollars from new customers who'll get health insurance under the law ...

Our View: A tale of two health care plans, and why this election is so important
Peoria Journal Star
The future of health care under a re-elected President Obama is somewhat clear, as embodied in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If you are currently uninsured, you will have new coverage options: access to Medicaid or subsidized commercial insurance ...

US Set to Sponsor Health Insurance
New York Times
Under the Affordable Care Act, at least one of the nationwide plans must be offered by a nonprofit entity. Insurance experts see an obvious candidate for that role: the Government Employees Health Association, a nonprofit group that covers more than ...

Oregon's health care workforce still is growing
Statesman Journal
The health care industry remained a stalwart bastion of employment growth, even through the rough patch called the Great Recession. Demographic trends underlie the industry's recession-resistant nature: The population is growing and aging, which means ...

Book tells history of health care reform through cartoons
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Health care reform has become a highly contentious issue this election year, but it is a debate that University of Rochester history professor Theodore Brown says dates back a century and has been fueled more by inflammatory rhetoric than reason. Brown ...

Iowa misses key federal health care deadline
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
According to the guidelines set out by the Patient Protective and Affordable Care Act — also called ObamaCare — states had until Sept. 30 to choose the “essential health benefits,” or minimums, that would be covered under ... “The state of Iowa will ...

Health care tops lobbyists' efforts
Kansas.com
... those issues to have an appropriate impact.” Like agriculture, banking and dozens of other industries and interests, the health care industry has a long history of lobbying in Topeka. But special attention has been focused on health care this year ...

Health care reform is inevitable, so is uncertainty
The News Journal
Regardless of who is president in January and how much of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) survives,health care reform will continue. Health care cost increases are unsustainable and our industry has advocated and designed delivery and payment reforms.

Health Insurance Companies Are Worried About A Romney Victory ...
By AP
Although the industry hates parts of President Barack Obama's health care law, major outfits such as UnitedHealth Group and BlueCross Blue Shield also stand to rake in billions of dollars from new customers who'll get health insurance under the law. ... Things could get grim for the industry if Republicans succeed in repealing the Affordable Care Act's subsidies and mandates, but leave standing its requirement that insurers cover people with health problems. If that's the outcome, the ...
Business Insider

'A One-Termer Who Gambled and Lost on Universal Health Care ...
By Jeffrey H. Anderson
Read conservative news, blogs and opinion about 2012 Elections, Health Care and Obamacare from The Weekly Standard, the must read magazine available in online edition. ... He explains, “The most important fact of the 2012 election is that the Affordable Care Act [Obamacare] was passed in 2010; it just hasn't been fully implemented yet. If President ... If he's reelected, he will go down in history as the president who finally provided almost every American with health insurance.
The Weekly Standard Blog

How big data is transforming health care and predictive analytics ...
Jon Parks of Grapevine Technologies explains the impact that big data is having in health care ...
www.zdnet.com/how-big-data-is-transforming-health-care-and...

Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs - Kaiser Health ...
There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. ... We get tax breaks on buyinghealth insurance -- and the cost to patients of seeking care is ...
www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2012/.../health-care-costs.as...

Why It's Hard to Control Health Care Costs - The Daily Beast
On the other hand, they just settled a lawsuit by easing the restrictions on home health careprovision. You can argue that this is going to be good policy. But it's ...
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Double Standard: Women Must Typically Work Harder to Lose Weight

Double Standard: Women Must Typically Work Harder to Lose Weight
Food Consumer
In a Time article, fitness trainer Bob Harper, who appears on the weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser, explains that 60% of the winners on the show – those who were able to lose the most amount of weight in a defined period of time – were men ...

Weight Loss News: The Surprising Thing That May Lead to Belly Fat
Glamour (blog)
Diet soda? You may love it, but many experts say it could be adding a little extra insulation to your belly. NBC recently took a look at the surprising health problems with diet soda (even just one can a day), including how this fizzy favorite messes ...

Glamour (blog)

Cleveland Clinic Confirms Heart-Health Benefits of Weight Loss Procedures
Sacramento Bee
The board certified bariatric surgeon notes the life-changing, health-improving benefits in everyweight loss procedure, no matter vertical sleeve gastrectomy or lap band. "I've found my patients tend to not only lose weight, they notice an improvement ...

Do online weight loss programs really work?
VOXXI
It seems that with each additional million obese adults, we see another diet craze appear—from gadgets that promise effortless weight loss, to diet books, and weight loss supplements. We obviously have a penchant for easy solutions. But as the growing ...

Woman Spends $7800 Trying to Lose the Baby Weight Like a Celebrity
ABC News (blog)
... in the weight-loss spotlight. Simpson, 32, signed an endorsement deal to become the celebrity face of Weight Watchers, and since giving birth to daughter Maxwell Drew in May, she's had her every appearance and photo scrutinized by tabloids ...

If you get too fat, losing weight permanently may become impossible, says study
Examiner.com
It would explain why many people who diet and lose weight, recover their lost weight within a short period of time after they cease dieting and eventually lose heart and stop making an effort to eat a healthy diet and get regular exercise. ... The ...

Matthew Fox on 'Alex Cross' weight loss: "I f**king hated it"
Digital Spy
Fox told Men's Health about the intense diet and training regime he undertook for the part, including a strict diet of chicken breasts, steamed broccoli and protein shakes. In describing the physical effect he was hoping to achieve, the 46-year-old ...

Diet soda consumption on the rise, most people unaware of health risks
VOXXI
About 20 percent of United States residents over the age of two drink diet beverages on a daily basis, states research from Tala H.I. Fakhouri, Dr. Brian K. Kit and Cynthia L. Ogden of the National Center for Health Statistics. Among that 20 percent ...

I don't belieeeeeve it!
Saga Health News
Avoid the expensive added-value junk such as biscuits, pastries, puddings and confectionery. Weight loss and cash savings will happen. In just the same way, I wonder at the brains of people who go to an expensive health spa to starve, or go on pricey ...

Saga Health News

Jessica Simpson Weight Loss: Dropped 60 Pounds In Five Months, Shares ...
Enstarz
(Photo : USmagazine.com) Jessica Simpson. After famously being slammed by the media for gaining 70 pounds during her pregnancy, Simpson has shed an astounding 60 pounds in five months thanks to Weight Watchers. Simpson fronts the cover of the latest Us ...

Enstarz

Weight-Loss 101 - To Your Health
No matter which diet or combination of programs you choose to help you lose weight, there are a few common threads linking all effective diets and weight-loss ...
www.toyourhealth.com/tyh/20121023/3.php

Health care fraud costs taxpayers $60 billion a year
NBCNews.com
Federal agents are accusing six people in Queens, N.Y. of health care fraud, alleging they have ripped off nearly $12 million in taxpayer money, but these suspects are not alone. Federal agents arrest health care fraudster nearly every day, charging ...

NBCNews.com

7 Things That Drive Up Your Health Care Costs – AARP
By Kaiser Health News
By Julie Appleby, Staff Writer, Kaiser Health News This story was produced in collaboration with PBS NewsHour There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2. ... We get tax breaks on buying health insurance — and the cost to patients of seeking care is often low. The majority of people with insurance get it through their jobs. The amount employers pay toward ...
AARP

Obama hits Supreme Court -- on health care
USA TODAY
Chief Justice John Roberts, you'll recall, broke with fellow court conservatives to uphold the health care law -- but under Congress' power to tax, not under the Obama administration's claim that the law was justified by the Commerce Clause power to ...

Health Care Concerns Play Big Among Swing State Voters
Kaiser Health News
It's hard to find an issue on which President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney disagree more than health care. The 2010 Affordable Care Act is considered President Obama's signature legislative achievement, as well as something Romney has ...

The price of the Supreme Court health care decision: $53.3 billion
Washington Post (blog)
Those who would have had their bills paid by the federal government (under Medicaid) could now have the costs covered by local governments and hospitals, which tend to foot the bill for many of the health care services that go unpaid. The Congressional ...

Health Care Reform impact: Fewer ER trips, more home hospitals
Lincoln City News Guard
LINCOLN CITY - As the move to reform health care in Lincoln County and across the nation quickens with the establishment of coordinated care organizations, the face of the medical industry is changing. “We are going to be moving from a health care ...

Health care reform, job growth topics in 2nd District Congressional Race
StandardNet
The race for an open seat in the 2nd Congressional District is not your classic Republican vs. Democrat showdown. Call it more of a contest between a moderate and a conservative. Author Chris Stewart, a Republican from Farmington, faces former state...

StandardNet

Army expands telebehavioral health care in Afghanistan - Nextgov ...
By Bob Brewin
The Army has developed and deployed technology to deal with the two signature wounds of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars -- post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho told ...
Nextgov - All Content

Lower Health Care Claims Send Aetna Earnings Higher « CBS ...
By WTIC News
Aetna Inc.'s third-quarter earnings rose 2 percent as lower-than-expected health care use and revenue gains helped the insurer trump Wall Street expectations.
CBS Connecticut

Health Care in Rural Namibia (Video) | UN Dispatch
By Mark Leon Goldberg
One of the greatest global health challenges is providing adequate health care to hard to reach rural communities in poor countries around the world. Cities and towns may have decent hospitals, but when you go out to villages only the most ...
UN Dispatch

EWU | Health Care in Spokane
"Health Care in Spokane: the good news" Free Public Forum - Tuesday, Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m. - Spokane Convention Center. Spokane, Wash.-Noted journalist and author T.R. Reid returns to Spokane to lead a panel of local, regional and ...
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Health Care Plans of the Candidates

Partisanship Guides Americans' Attitudes on Health-Care Reform Law: Poll
U.S. News & World Report
THURSDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Two years after it was signed into law, Americans' views on the Affordable Care Act continue to track along party lines, even among those who say they've personally been affected by the controversial health-reform ...

The Health Care Plans of the Candidates
New York Times
"Mitt Romney's health care plan offers 15 guiding principles, but appropriately leaves to Congress the resolution of most details. Obamacare's 2,400 pages were never understood even before passage, push all risk to taxpayers and promise economic disaster. . . ."

Obama vows to protect women's health care rights, subtle reference to Mourdock ...
Washington Post
TAMPA, Fla. — President Barack Obama says voters saw again this week why male politicians shouldn't be making health care decisions for women. Obama's comments were a reference to remarks by Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock.

Preventive mental health care for children falls through the cracks
Boston.com
The current issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry has an excellent article, Integrating Mental Health Care Into Pediatric Primary Care Settings, identifying the causes of this problem. Pediatric training ...

Government's real health-care intrusion
Lebanon Daily News
Opponents of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare often complain that it represents a big government takeover of health care, though when pressed to explain how they come up short. For a real and truly frightening example of big government intrusion on ...

Insurer Aetna's 3rd-quarter profit rises 2 percent as health care use trend ...
The Republic
Aetna Inc.'s third-quarter earnings rose 2 percent as lower-than-expected health careuse and revenue gains helped the insurer trump Wall Street expectations. The Hartford, Conn., company recorded a $96 million pretax benefit in the third quarter ...

The Republic

Thompson would bring free market health care solutions to Washington
Human Events
Thompson said he has seen Democrats address the question of how to improve the delivery of health care from the days of President Lyndon B. Johnson with Medicare and Medicaid through the president's 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, ...

Human Events

Health Care For All, Except Restaurant Workers?
WBUR
As the only business owner from Massachusetts, where a health care law that closely resembles the president's Affordable Care Act has been in place for the last five years, I shared my experience (and tried to hide my shock). No, we did not reduce ...

US government urges federal judge to deny Hobby Lobby's health care law ...
Washington Post
OKLAHOMA CITY — The federal government is urging a federal judge to deny a Hobby Lobby Stores request to block enforcement of a new health care law that requires employers to cover insurance costs for morning-after pill and the week-after pill. The ...

Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs - Kaiser Health ...
By Julie Appleby
There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2.6 trillion, or about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Most years ...
All Kaiser Health News

Propaganda on the Rise on the Health Care Policy Front « naked ...
By Yves Smith
“Established in 1967, LDI is one of the country's largest health services research centers with more than 200 Senior Fellows studying the organization, delivery, management and financing of health care.” They have their own “Journal of Health Economics”. They recently hired an Ad ... Seeing these groups team up with health insurance companies, which are granted “non-profit” and anti-trust exemptions…Where are all those “non-profits” supposed to go? They can only pay the CEO a ...
naked capitalism

Health Care Reform Brings Major Medicare Changes | North ...
By Rose Hoban
While most of the attention on health care reform has focused on expansion of coverage to the uninsured, tremendous change in the way health care is delivered and paid for is playing out on the Medicare stage. By Gina Upchurch, Executive Director of Durham's Senior PharmAssist. While many provisions of the Affordable Care Act don't go into effect until 2014, many of the Medicare payment and delivery reforms began last year and this month. Gina Upchurch. The political rhetoric...
North Carolina Health News

Religious Employers Strive to Scuttle Health Care Law's ...
By jleaming@acslaw.org
Despite loud grumblings and a raft of lawsuits over the Affordable Care Act's requirement that employers – save for houses of worship and religious orders – must provide free contraceptives in their health care plans for workers, a new poll ...
ACS Blog

The Affordable Care Act's Rulemaking Process
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) seeks to reform the nation's entire health care system through new rules and regulations, some of which have yet to be implemented. According to a series of research papers by Jerry Ellig of the Mercatus Center ...
Daily Policy Digest

Creating Outcome-Driven Health Care Markets – Health Affairs Blog
America's health care market does not work well. It is inefficient, asymmetric, and in most cases not particularly competitive. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...
healthaffairs.org/.../creating-outcome-driven-health-care-mark...

'The Biggest Loser' contestants contributed to research on weight loss
Bend Bulletin
Researchers analyzed data from 11 participants from the reality show, which follows obese people isolated on a ranch where they begin losing large amounts of weight through exercise and diet. The study, by ... “By including the show's contestants as ...

Study Finds It Is More Difficult To Lose Weight Over Time
RedOrbit
The researchers believe that, over time, the animals' obese state led to a resetting of the “normal” body weight and that point eventually became permanently higher than normal, even if the mice were consistently working to lose weight via diet changes.

How they did it • 'Together' defines their weight loss story
STLtoday.com
Dennis and Debra's story about weight loss is more of a love story than a health story. They say the same ... They knew they needed to lose weight, but the urgency had increased. Somewhere ...He joined her, although he didn't have the problems she had ...

Fad diets: The good, bad and ugly
UNLV The Rebel Yell
Plus, working with a health professional guides participants to lose weight more healthfully and consistently, while having a support group of like-minded individuals to provide long-term motivational support. The Bad Low-Carb, High-Protein Diets work ...

After losing 69 pounds, Kelly Osbourne launches UK TV weight loss competition
Examiner.com
Kelly says she used a combination of sensible diet and intense fitness. She believes so strongly in the benefits of combining working out with dieting that she will take the three winners of her British TV weight loss competition to Hollywood, where ...

Examiner.com

Weight loss: 'Once over 90 kgs, I now weight less than 80'
Rediff
I used to be a fitness freak in my school days -- I had an athletic figure, I ran 100/200 metre races, did weight training in Class Eight...Always ... As a result, I lost myhealth -- I was suffering from high BP, blood sugar and cholesterol. My doctor ...

Rediff

Partial sleep deprivation may trigger obesity
Zee News
Washington: While weight-loss strategies incorporate lifestyle changes focusing ondiet and exercise, a new research has suggested that modifications in an individual's daily routine, including sleep behaviours, can help manage weight. The study found ...

Zee News

Miracle Weight-Loss Product 'Zero Noodles' Put To The Test
Zim Diaspora
Containing just 10 calories, zero sugar and zero fat, the noodles are pitched as a viable alternative to pasta that can greatly help weight loss. Laura Lamont of Glow Nutrition, makers of the revolutionarydiet food, explains: “Replace your usual carbs ...

NIH Study of Intensive Diet, Exercise in Diabetes Stopped Early ...
... while improving weight loss, did not lower risk for cardiovascular events, ... to an intensive dietand exercise regimen or to general diabetes education.
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Diet/Exercise Combo Best, 'Biggest Loser' Study Says - Weight Loss
A community mental health center serving Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer and Trimble counties in Kentucky.
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Chicken Thighs With Delicata Squash video

For a special autumnal dish, try making roasted chicken thighs with lemon and maple-glazed delicata squash. Melissa Clark shows how.

Don't rush weight-loss efforts
Tampabay.com
The immediate problem with that is this: What happens after you go off the diet? Theweight tends to return, and quick weight-loss suggestions are most likely not helping you to lose much fat but rather to lose water weight or lean muscle tissue, the ...

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Bariatric surgery helps with weight loss but it's a godsend for diabetics
Tampabay.com
In comparison, people involved in weight-loss programs that emphasize diet and exercise lost only 5 to 9 percent of their body weight after one year, and after four years reported weights only 2 to 6 percent less than when they started. Another article ...

Is the Caveman Diet for you?
Stuttgart Daily Leader
The quick weight loss they promise appeal to our need for things to happen quickly—so we can get back to our old ways. Email; Share; Print. By Janice Norris/ Health is Wealth ... Lately, there seems to be approaching more sensible approaches to weight ...

Supplements minimally beneficial for losing weight
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
No matter what supplement you take, you need to limit your calories and increase exercise. For the few pills that have a small benefit, you must ask yourself, is the cost of purchasing the weight-loss supplement worth such a minimal benefit? To lose ...

FitGirl: Carbs Are Now OK For Dieting
Neon Tommy
Dr. David Ludwig of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital published a 4-week study examining weight loss results between low-fat, low-carbohydrate and low-glycemic diets in obese adults ages 18-35 ...

Cheating on that diet? A behavior change is needed
Sioux City Journal
Here are a few key stumbling blocks you should understand and watch out for when changing any behavior, including the way you eat and exercise, along with the tools that will help you prevent or overcome them. Triggers. Problem: These ... For example ...

Low-carb diets win for burning more fat and reducing dementia risk, say studies
Examiner.com
More evidence mounts in favor of turning to low-carb diets for weight loss and for protection against dementia, according to several new studies. ... Adding to the evidence favoring low-carb diets: National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers ...

Examiner.com

The Paleo Diet: Eating like a caveman for optimum health
nwitimes.com
According to the Paleo (or Paleolithic) Diet, modern humans are not fully adapted to the nutrition andlifestyle changes that occurred after the Neolithic Revolution about 12,000 years ago. Agricultural advances ... A team of nutrition and fitness ...

Want to Lose Weight? Get a Good Night's Sleep
Medical Daily
... flat belly: Cut down a bit of your belly every day by using this 1 weird old tip. Researchers say that lifestyle changes like healthy eating and exercise can help people lose weight, but maintaining good sleep habits can get people manage their ...

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DietPoint has the largest mobile weight-loss community and is the best motivator for everybody who wants to lose weight The DietPoint mobile application has ...
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The 'Health Care Fiscal Cliff' Could Take The Economy Down
Forbes
Besides the looming “fiscal cliff” at the end of the year—when the Bush tax cuts expire, the “sequestration” cuts (part of the 2011 budget agreement) will begin, and the federal debt will hit the ceiling again—we also face a “health care fiscal cliff ...

Sherman Health Systems selects Advocate Health Care as partner
Chicago Tribune
The deal, expected to close in 2013, follows a massive consolidation in the hospital industry, as providers seek to broaden their reach, dilute costs and integrate technology and other systems ahead of implementation of the 2010 health care overhaul ...

States rein in health insurance expenses
USA TODAY
2012 - Financially strapped state and local governments are saving billions of dollars on health insurance by cutting back on free coverage for employees and raising worker contributions, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Government workers still enjoy more ...

Health care costs concern business owners
DesMoinesRegister.com
President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as “Obamacare,” in 2010 in a bid to reduce the number of uninsured Americans and to limit costs. Republican challenger Mitt Romney has vowed to repeal the ...

Four health care providers band together
Springfield News-Leader
But this agreement establishes a company that brings together four health care systems with $6.5 billion each year in net revenue. Hospital officials hope it will give them more clout and ease their transition into the new rules of health care reform ...

Seven Factors Driving Up Your Health Care Costs
PBS
There is no one villain in the battle against rising health care costs. Currently, the United States spends more on health care services than any other country, exceeding $2.6 trillion, or about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Most years, medical ...

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Mental Health Insurance Parity vs Insurance Industry: Who's Winning?
PsychCentral.com (blog)
I want to believe that they understand the connection between mental and physical health and thathealth care costs would drop if we treated both equally and fairly. I want to believe that insurance companies put people before profits and that they ...

Community health care workers: Important bridge to quality medical care
VOXXI
Community health care workers (CHWs) are a vital part of the nation's functioning health caresystem, though many people do not know what a community health care worker does or how they benefit underserved communities. ... For Latinos and other groups ...

A Take On Health Care Reform | Bankrate.com
"Health care reform is among the most significant -- and controversial -- pieces of federal legislation in the last several decades. People continue to debate whether reform will cure much of what ails the American health insurance system or ...
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America's Debt Problem Is a Health Care Financing Problem - Hit ...
By Peter Suderman
If not for health care, the federal government would have virtually no debt. Over at ... As a thought experiment, let's suppose that medical expenditures had been self-financed since the inception of government health care in the 1960s.
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Obama: Health care law isn't a 'scary monster'
The Hill (blog)
"Our health care system is one-sixth of our economy. And if we have a situation where spending onhealth care at every level is going up at 6, 7, 10 percent a year, and we've got millions of people without coverage or inadequate coverage, the ...

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Get up, Get out, Don't Sit

Get Up. Get Out. Don't Sit. - NYTimes.com: "Just as we were all settling in front of the television to watch the baseball playoffs, two new studies about the perils of sitting have spoiled our viewing pleasure. The research, published in separate medical journals this month, adds to a growing scientific consensus that the more time someone spends sitting, especially in front of the television, the shorter and less robust his or her life may be."

Eliminating four white foods may make it easier to eat less, lose weight
Chicago Tribune
Although avoiding white bread, pasta, rice and potatoes can be a useful step toward weight loss, it should be done as part of a healthy program that includes a balanced diet, along with exercise. For guidance on weight loss plans that may be right for ...

Overweight pets: More to Love?
Lancaster Newspapers
She suggests developing a weight-loss plan with your veterinarian, although "some veterinarians are hesitant to bring up the subject, especially if the owner is somewhat overweight. ... This trend largely results from high-fat diets and limited ...

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'Today' show touts 'Turbocharged' weight loss plan with man who shed 150 ...
Examiner.com
A man who went from 415 pounds to 265 pounds in a year revealed how he used theweight loss plan described in "TurboCharged: Accelerate Your Fat Burning Metabolism, Get Lean Fast and Leave Diet and Exercise Rules in the Dust" on the "Today" show ...
 
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John Thompson's 202 Pound Weight Loss Started with Brown Rice and Ended ...
Diets In Review (blog)
His entire 202 pound weight loss journey began with a grain of rice when he made the decision to start preparing or ordering brown rice as opposed to French fries or other nutritionally void foods. That one-thing-at-a-time mentality carries John ...

Dieting dos and don'ts
Vail Daily News
Losing weight is hard. If it wasn't, everyone would be as trim as a twig, and French people wouldn't be the only ones with the market cornered on how to never get fat. Anyone who's ever tried a dietknows the best intentions don't always lead to the ...

Two days at NuYu Total Health Retreat = ten life lessons
Herald Sun
NuYu aims to overhaul weight, food and lifestyle habits; Set within the grounds of Mantra Salt Beach resort; I spent two days working out. ... When I was filling out the registration form, I ticked the box where it said I complete 20 minutes of ...

Diet Doc: Reality Check – Denial isn't an Option
Evansville Courier & Press
Researchers from the University of Washington found that American adults share a skewed sense of reality about their weight. When asked at annual physicals, most ... Body mass indexes should never be adjusted upward to suit the path of our culture ...

Naomie Harris Skyfall
Lakeshore Advance
Naomie Harris Skyfall Naomie Harris Diet Programs:Isn't amazing how all of the celebrities you see have a celebrity diet plan for weight loss to maintain their weight. Some of them are ... It is true that seriously overweight people can lose large ...

Lea Michele concocts new definition of celebrity success: Pregnancy rumors
Examiner.com
Lea, in fact, is diligent about her vegan diet and fitness plan. A typical morning in Lea's life begins with a strenuous hike and workout with a personal trainer, followed by a vegan breakfast such as a tofu scramble and orange juice, reported Women's ...
 
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Stark Health Care Spending Differences Between U.S., Other ...
A new report says the U.S. spends more than $8200 per person per year on health care, more than 2 1/2 times most developed nations. In the meantime, a survey finds corporate executives are generally more worried about health care costs ...
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Health care REITs pressured on Medicare cost issue
Businessweek
BOSTON (AP) — Shares of companies that own Medicare-supported health care facilities fell on Tuesday after an analyst reduced ratings on two of the stocks, citing the potential for cuts to the federal health program. Jefferies & Co. analyst Omotayo ...

Health care tech savvy and sexy? Fast Company suggests as much
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
The November issue of the business magazine Fast Company has a couple of interesting stories and items about new approaches to health care, especially where technology meets medicine. The link to the main page for that issue is here. The encouraging ...

Growth in Health Care Spending Will Force America to Become a Second-Rate ...
Forbes
But there's one I want to highlight: how our government's determination to increase its spending onhealth care will necessarily require draconian cuts to our defense budget. Whether you think that military spending is a good or a bad thing, you should ...

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