Month: October 2013
Jennifer Garner On Matthew Mcconaughey’s Extreme Movie Weight Loss: ‘i Hated It’
Weight Watchers better than self-help for weight loss
I hadnt felt that in my past,” he told Entertainment Weekly earlier this month. “It’s always something that’s incredibly, incredibly difficult to do,” Leto told Yahoo Movies in early September. “It was a pretty essential thing for this part.” Still, Garner insists, “I didn’t like it.” “Dallas Buyers Club” enters theaters on Novevmber 1. Watch Jennifer Garner in Garcinia Cambogia Reviews ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ Clip Just Promise Me: Follow me on Twitter ( @meriahonfiah ) Arts & Entertainment It is drawing young and old, men and women, art-movie fans, sci-fi geeks, and Christian evangelists. But Hollywood had serious doubts it would reach orbit.
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Those given access to Weight Watchers could attend weekly meetings and use the company’s interactive website and mobile app. They were encouraged to use all three tools to reach their weight loss goal. The researchers had six months of data on 257 of the study’s participants. They found people enrolled in Weight Watchers lost an average of about 5 percent of their starting body weight – around 10 pounds. That compared to an average weight loss of less than 1 percent among those in the self-help group, or just over one pound. Participants who used the Weight Watchers program tools the most ended up losing the most weight.
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Basis Fitness Watchmaker Raises $11.75m To Build A Cross-device Health Data Hub
Vital Connect fitness tracking wearable gets serious about mHealth
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Life Fitness Names World’s Top Personal Trainer
The system can also learn the wearers stress patterns, giving a percentage level that can be graphed and monitored. However, Vital Connect also fits in-between the two extremes, Heindel explained. You could wear the disposable monitor for the few days in advance of your next doctors visit, for instance, and bypass the usual time-consuming measurements at the beginning of the appointment. Overall your healthcare experience would be more efficient and your results more accurate and comprehensive. In its first generation, Vital Connect expects each of the self-adhesive monitors to come in at around $5 apiece; they run for about three days, are waterproof, and arent designed to be recharged. However, they do need to be used with a $50 reusable Bluetooth LE module, which also has some degree of onboard processing so that you dont need to be reliant entirely on the cloud to crunch through the data.
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Her training philosophy combines the mind and body to enhance clients’ physical and mental wellbeing. Ingleby’s mission is to give clients the tools to empower them to be their best, inside and out, so they become fitter, stronger and more energized. She is a certified European Register of Exercise Professionals (EREPS) personal trainer with more than 12 years of experience in personal training and sports therapy. In addition, Ingleby has won recognition in the United Kingdom (UK) for personal training and writes for various leading UK national fitness magazines. She is also passionate about fundraising, having raised thousands of dollars for charity through fitness events. Among her many outstanding achievements, Ingleby emerges triumphant not only professionally, but personally, too. She recently returned to full health after battling Weil’s disease and receiving pre-cancerous cervical cancer treatments earlier this year.
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Hair Loss – Causes Of Hair Loss In Children
trichotillomania is thought to be related to obsessive-compulsive disorder and is defined as a child or teen who compulsively pulls out her hair, feels tension before pulling or when trying to resist pulling, and feels pleasure, gratification, or relief when pulling her hair out. These children have noticeable hair loss and often need treatment from a child psychiatrist and/or child psychologist who specializes in trichotillomania. alopecia areata is thought to be an autoimmune disorder (the child’s immune’s system attacks the hair follicles) that causes complete hair loss in round or oval patches on a child’s scalp or other body part. Unlike ringworm, the scalp involved in the round patches of alopecia areata is completely smooth, without redness or scale. Treatments include steroid injections and some topical medications (such as minoxidil, anthralin cream, or high dose steroid creams). Fortunately, hair growth often eventually occurs on its own, too.
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5 Things Women Should Know About Menopause and Hair Loss
The other common mistake women (and men, for that matter) make when trying to treat their hair loss is not giving enough time for therapy to work and not tracking their results properly. Just like hair loss, initial changes in hair regrowth take time and can be subtle before they are noticeable to the naked eye. Hair Loss Is a Treatable Condition — Hair restoration physicians may recommend both pharmaceutical and lifestyle changes to women experiencing menopause-related hair-loss problems. Medical treatments that will help mitigate hair loss include a specially compounded prescription minoxidil solution, platelet-rich plasma injections (PRP, also called the “vampire hair growth treatment”), prostaglandin analogs, low-level laser therapy, off-label finasteride (for post-menopausal women only) and nutritional supplements. The best strategy is to use a multi-therapy approach and routine follow ups for tracking purposes to see what’s working. Hair Loss Can Have Psychological Effects — While hair loss is often falsely thought of as merely a cosmetic problem, studies have proven that hair loss can have wide-ranging psychological effects on women, including loss of confidence and self-esteem and in some cases, depression, anxiety, social withdrawal and more.
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California high school’s pool causes polo team to suffer hair loss and skin irritation
California high school’s pool causes polo team to suffer hair loss and skin irritation The culprit was Berkeley High School’s swimming pool, which had a faulty carbon dioxide tank and a low chlorine level, both of which teamed up to irritate students’ eyes and skin, and change the color of their hair. The school has ordered a new carbon dioxide tank and has upped the number of pH balance checks to ensure the problem doesn’t continue. By Lee Moran / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, October 2, 2013, 12:45 PM
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Anne Hart – National Children’s Nutrition Examiner – Nutrition
How children interested in nutrition can promote awareness about honeybees? (Video) September 22, 2013 What can children interested in nutrition do to promote awareness about honeybees? Is your child also interested in honey bee hive nutrition? Honeybees should be on everyone’s worry list, and not because of the risk of a nasty… Kids can make vegan beet balls using fresh herbs and many types of leafy greens September 21, 2013 One of the best vegan recipes this family has tried today centered on preparing a popular beetroot dish called Fkhali (Georgian: ), pronounced “Fuh-KHAH-lee.” It’s a vegan popular dish in Georgia and in… Food waste: What those expiration dates mean (Video) September 19, 2013 Americans toss into the garbage can 40 percent of the food they buy, usually due to expiration dates that are used to take inventory by the company that packages the food.
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Ontario adds $3 million to student nutrition programs
The Nutrition Guide is also printed on the back of all tray liners. In 2007, Tim Hortons launched an innovative online Nutrition Calculator, with which guests can easily put together favourite meal and drink combinations in different sizes and custom options to get precise and detailed nutritional values such as calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium, dietary fibre, sugar, protein and vitamin content. “Not every guest focuses on calorie counts alone. Everyone has different dietary needs and concerns and Informed Dining provides a more wholesome approach to nutrition disclosure,” added Bonikowsky. “We are excited to be part of this initiative which we believe can be adopted across Canada and we look forward to the program’s national implementation.” Tim Hortons commitment to nutrition extends beyond information disclosure. The company significantly reduced trans fats in menu offerings and was in compliance with the voluntary guidelines suggested by the Canadian Trans Fat Task Force three years in advance of the June 2009 deadline. Tim Hortons Sodium Reduction Initiative in 2010 resulted in a 31 per cent sodium decrease in soups, 49 per cent in deli meats, 22 per cent in muffins and 15 per cent in hot beverages. Tim Hortons has been introducing healthier menu options for many years, such as yogurt and berries, a selection of sandwiches with eight grams of fat or less, whole wheat wraps, homestyle oatmeal, low fat muffins, egg white breakfast sandwiches, smaller portion Wrap Snackers, whole grain English muffins and real fruit smoothies. Most recently, the company launched their first certified gluten-free product – a coconut macaroon.
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Tim Hortons launches voluntary nutrition information program in Manitoba
Among the panels several dozen recommendations was a call to establish a universal school nutrition program for all public elementary and secondary schools in Ontario and for all schools in First Nations communities. Fields staff work with education and health partners to help organize Torontos 700 school nutrition programs that reach 144,000 kids a day. We hope it is the first step in a universal student nutrition program, as the strategy recommended, said Field, a key advocate for universal student nutrition programs national-wide. The announcement comes on the heels of a Toronto board of health recommendation Monday to increase the citys 2014 contribution to $7.2 million, up from $5.3 million this year. If approved by city council, it would boost Torontos contribution to student nutrition programs to 14 per cent from 11.5 per cent this year. The boards goal is for the citys contribution to rise to 20 per cent by 2017.
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