For a lot of you, shedding the excess fat can be really hard; sometimes even a lifelong fight. This is especially true about those mystery body parts or more accurately “body locations” that have stubborn fat deposits that don’t respond to diet and exercise.

You might not know about this but several non-invasive procedures to remove fat deposits have been working their way into the dermatologist’s office.

That’s right folks liposuction may be a thing of the past in a few years. But right now dermatologists are using a thing called radiofrequency to not only remove small deposits of fat but, get this…tighten the skin at the same time.

See fat cells are a little bit different than other cells, the little bastards cannot take heat or cold. And this is where most of the new technologies are focusing. Using radiofrequency your friendly dermatologist can now target specific areas of body fat using temperature to go after the fat cells.

It works by driving controlled heat far into the fat cells destroying them. Never to be seen again. Another great thing about this type of procedure is there is no downtime, you can just go back to doing what you were doing before your office visit.

The doctors we talked to said the procedure can be used just about anywhere on the body from small areas like the face to large areas like uhh well you know.

It works especially well on people who are not obese but simply have stubborn fat pockets but, from the excitement we’ve seen about this, they’re not going to limit it to small fat pockets.

Tightens the Skin?

Another claimed benefit of radiofrequency is its ability to tighten the skin directly over the fat deposits that are targeted. It does this by manipulating the collagen in the skin with heat which tightens the area up over a period of weeks.

Well there you go, pretty soon you’ll be able to have your cake and eat it too, without feeling guilty. She

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But a new study at Ohio State University disagrees with me. The study shows the two sexes differ greatly in their weight gain after marital status changes. The head researcher on the paper Dimitry Tumin, is a doctoral student at Ohio State.

He says “divorces for men and, to some extent, marriages for women promote weight gain that may be large enough to pose a health risk.” It seems that the likelihood of gaining huge gobs of fat is highest if the status change comes when you’re over 30. Tumin says, “For someone in their mid-20s, there is not much of a difference in the probability of gaining weight between someone who just got married and someone who never married. But later in life, there is much more of a difference.” The team presented their study at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Las Vegas on August 22.

After 200 years… yes absolutely. This formula can be so inaccurate it can, classify a trained bodybuilder, with 6% body fat, as obese. The U.S. Army has used this type of standardized measurement for years and fit soldiers have actually been pushed out of the service for having too much muscle.

Obesity-related diseases account for nearly 10 percent of U.S. medical costs, which is estimated at around $150 billion per year. Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic, more than half a billion people, or one in 10 adults worldwide, are considered to be obese using standardized measurements – this is more than double the number in 1980.

A group of scientists have recently developed a brand new way to measure if a person is too fat by using measurement calculations..

The new measurement, called the Body Adiposity Index, or BAI, depends on height and hip dimensions, and is meant to present a more adaptable alternative to the body mass index, or BMI, a ratio of height and weight.

BMI has been used to measure body fat for the past 200 years, yes 200, and is seriously flawed.

While there are other, more accurate ways to calculate body fat beyond merely stepping on the scale, the BMI is broadley used by both doctors and scientists.

BMI is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared. A person who is 5 feet 5 inches tall is classified as overweight at 150 pounds (68 kg) and obese at 180 pounds (82 kg).

But this can be ridiculously inaccurate in certain circumstances.

For example, women and men with the same BMI might have very different levels of extra flab. BMI numbers cannot be generalized across different ethnic groups or used with athletes, who have extra lean body mass.

The new formula was created using data from a Mexican-American population study. They confirmed the scale’s accuracy using an advanced device called a dual-energy X-ray absorption or DEXA scanner. Tests in a study of African Americans showed similar findings, suggesting BAI can be used across different racial groups.

BAI is a complex ratio of hip circumference to height that can be calculated by doctors or nurses with a computer or calculator.

“After further validation, this measure can be proposed as a useful measure of percent fat, which is very easy to obtain. However, it remains to be seen if the BAI is a more useful predictor of health outcome, in both males and females, than other indexes of body adiposity, including the BMI itself,” the team wrote.

The team says BAI still needs some fine tuning, and they still need to test it among whites and other ethnic groups, but they think it has promise as new tool, especially in remote settings with limited access to reliable scales.

Barbara Gower, PhD, a professor of nutrition sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham says that even a moderate reduction in carbs can help you get rid of this deep belly fat even with little change in actual body weight.

Results of her research will be presented at The Endocrine Society’s 93rd Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass.

Gower and her people performed the study with money from the National Institutes of Health. The guinea pigs were 69 overweight but healthy men and women. The individuals were fed for two back to back eight-week intervals: each person ate 1,000 less calories than usual each day.

They were fed either a lower-fat diet or a lower carb diet with slightly higher in fat than the standard diet. The moderately low carb diet was made up of foods that had a somewhat low glycemic value, (a gauge of the level that the food raises blood sugar levels). The lower carb diet contained 43% calories from carbohydrates, 18% from protein and a whopping 39 percent calories from fat. In our opinion, with protein at only 18%, this diet could be called the low protein diet. This would be for sedentary people.

The scientists measured the fat deep inside the abdomen and the total body fat of the subjects at the beginning and end of each study phase, using computed tomography (CT) and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans. This kind of bodyfat measurement is not available down at the local Gold’s gym.

After the first phase of the experiment the people on the carb-restricted diet had 11 percent less deep abdominal fat than the subjects on the standard diet. But when they analyzed the results by race, they found that the benefit was exclusive to the Caucasians in the study. The white people in the study apparently had more deep abdominal fat than blacks even when matched for body weight or percent body fat. This would seem to go against empirical evidence that black people suffer from Type 2 diabetes at a much greater rate than White people, so take these results with a grain of sodium.

During the second phase, the guinea pigs on both diet types lost weight. But, the carb-restricted diet caused a 4 percent greater loss of total body fat, Gower said. “For individuals willing to go on a weight-loss diet, a modest reduction in carbohydrate-containing foods may help them preferentially lose fat, rather than lean tissue,” she said. “The moderately reduced carbohydrate diet allows a variety of foods to meet personal preferences.”

As always, look at these results from your own perspective.
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The Belgian and Polish researchers that conducted the study acknowledge that every one of the experiment volunteers were young and Caucasian, and that may have slanted the results a bit. Caucasians make up the vast majority of the population of those countries, so it shouldn’t be seen as invalid by thinking people. But it would have been much better had they included, and then segmented in or out, Asians, Blacks and Hispanics. This would have given a much more complete picture.

The method analyzed sodium levels in urine of 3,681 Caucasian individuals with no prior cardiovascular disease and an average age of 41 years old. The group found that a lesser sodium excretion was linked with an greater risk of heart-related deaths and higher sodium excretion was not associated with increased risks for high blood pressure or problems with heart disease.

The research is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), May 2011 issue.

Principal author Dr. Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek says that she and her fellow researchers were surprised at the outcome, but noted they echo previous findings by U.S. researchers in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES).

The nearly 3,000 participants in the U.S. studies, however, were instructed to pass up high-salt meals for four to five days prior to sodium excretion measurements were taken. Participants in Stolarz-Skrzypek’s study were not required to eliminate salt consumption before testing.

“Our findings do not support the current recommendations of a generalized and indiscriminate reduction of salt intake at the population level,” said Stolarz-Skrzypek who is a cardiologist at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Krakow, Poland. “We believe that the consumers should be informed about risk related to low- or high-salt diet and be free to choose the consumed food. However, our findings do not negate the blood pressure-lowering effects of a dietary salt reduction in hypertensive patients.”

Across a 24-hour time period, the participants collected their own urine containers for testing. Over a mean follow-up period of around eight years, cardiovascular deaths increased among the individuals with the lowest quantities of sodium in their urine.

Among 2,096 participants followed for only 6.5 years, escalating sodium levels were not connected with high blood pressure. This finding seriously contradicts many American studies.

Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a preventive cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said she was “upset” by the research and thinks its limitations will prevent the study from being taken seriously in the United States medical communities.

“The results are just so shocking,” Steinbaum said. But, “this was a strictly European population, not our melting-pot-of-America mix. So this isn’t exactly pertaining to our population.”

Stolarz-Skrzypek agreed that the number of cardiovascular events amongst such a young  population would be lesser regardless of salt intake and that a solo 24-hour collection of urine might not be enough to distinguish a person’s persistent salt use.

“Our study included only white Europeans, and its findings therefore cannot be extrapolated to Asian or, in particular, black individuals, who might be more salt-sensitive than white people,” she said.

A January advisory issued by American Heart Association President Dr. Ralph Sacco noted that the health advantages of lower salt intake have been proven in an ever-expanding amount of research.

“A compelling and still-increasing body of evidence supports the imperative for population-wide sodium reduction as an integral component of public health efforts to prevent [cardiovascular disease], stroke and kidney disease,” Sacco said. “The potential public health benefits are enormous and extend to virtually all Americans.”

In addition, excessive salt intake is not good for the fluid balance in the body and causes bloating. If you need more taste in your food, it would be much healthier to use spices and/or herbs instead of extra salt. Prepared food in the US is already too salty. Ween yourself off of pre-packaged and processed food in favor of fresh real food such as lean meats, fruits and vegetables from the produce section of the market. Eat this food in 5 to 6 very small meals per day and you are on the right track for Summer. Remember that living well is always the best revenge.

Note: even though legumes (beans) score well on this list, we would stay away from them when in a fat loss phase of your diet. Beans will make you fat as a hog. LOL. Truth is that if you only keep track of the Glycemic Index of your food you might be wondering why your dieting efforts are failing again and again. More important than the simple Glycemic Index is the Glycemic Load of your meals. Or the total carbohydrate effect your meal will have on the body. Let’s compare the two.

Ok so you say you’ll stick to medium and low GI foods. But how much of each to stay in a low GI zone?

GLYCEMIC LOAD. A Much More Helpful Number to Use.

All right, you know that most pros in the fitness industry agree that in order to rapidly shed fat, you should stay with the Lower GI foods only. But you need to always take into account the Glycemic LOAD. What is this Glycemic Load business anyway?

Glycemic Load (GL) is the total carbohydrate effect brought on by a specific food, on your system.

Glycemic load is the most essential and least understood part of a low-glycemic diet plan. If you do not take note of the GL values, you could eat only low-glycemic foods and still fail in reducing body fat.

GL addresses portions and quantity. A low-glycemic diet plan requires eating foods that are gradually digested and absorbed into the bloodstream, this controls the release of insulin and thus supports a balance of body fat to lean ratio.

The glycemic index of a particular food is a measurement of the food’s effect on an person’s blood glucose, but it does not take into consideration portion size or multiple servings, that affect glycemic load .

With many foods, such as with raw or steamed broccoli, you could eat all you want because of the high fiber content and the very low glycemic-index value. This is the case for countless fresh fruits and vegetables.

However, caution should be exercised when eating quantities of products containing grain or non-vegetable carbohydrates. A piece of whole-grain bread may have a glycemic load of 50, which is considered low. But, four slices of whole-grain bread adds up to a Glycemic Load that can create a spike in blood glucose and a subsequent release of insulin. This will start the fat storage cycle again. Glycemic load should always be measured in planning portion sizes and number of servings in your diet plan.

Here’s the formula, it’s easy. But we will have an automatic GL calculator up very soon.

EASY GLYCEMIC LOAD FORMULA

This is because carbohydrates prevent energy from being released from fat cells.

We know that the body uses mainly fat as fuel at exercise intensities below 65% of maximum effort. In this study overweight people exercised for one half hour at moderate intensity and then consumed either a protein meal or a carbohydrate meal afterward. The protein meal actually increased fat burning while the carbohydrate meal prevented it. What is interesting is that eating a carbohydrate rich meal two hours before the exercise promoted fat burning just as well as the protein rich after-exercise meal.

The moral of the story is that you can help your fat burning efforts by eating carbohydrate meals two hours before exercise, or protein meals after exercise.

Just try to remember that eating is for fuel. If you see eating as an event, or pleasure,
you are going to have a harder time shedding the fat.

Hormone and Metabolic Research
1-21-2010

A low carb diet plan greatly restricts the amount of carbohydrates you consume, as compared with a traditional North American diet, or even compared with a low fat diet. While our bodies would usually burn stored carbohydrates for energy, low carb eating forces the body to burn more stored fat instead. When this happens, your body produces chemicals called “ketones”. Ketones result when your kidneys convert fat to soluble waste. Getting your body to reach this point, called ketosis is one of the goals of a serious low carbohydrate diet.

There is interesting scientific research behind the development of this diet. Dr. Robert Atkins first introduced the concept of eating a low carbohydrate diet to the general public in the 1970s. He noticed that primitive people consumed a diet of mostly meat, vegetables and some fruit.

Because this diet was in existence for thousands of years before the development of agriculture, Atkins concluded that the reason most people had difficulty losing weight and keeping it off is that we are eating contrary to the way our digestive system is set up. In other words, our bodies do not support eating wheat, barley and other grains and sugars.

In the 1990s the diet was rediscovered with a new book from Atkins titled The Atkins New Diet Revolution. Since the reemergence of the Atkins diet, other low carb diets have been developed that are variations of it. The Zone Diet, the Stillman Diet, the Hollywood Diet, the Ketogenic Diet and the South Beach Diet are all based on the idea of eating fewer carbohydrates. They all advise eating more protein and limited carbs and inducing the body to burn its own fat.

Low carb diet plans differ somewhat in the amount of carbohydrates they allow, but all advise cutting out all white or starchy foods. The most strict is the 20 gram per day carb limit of the initial stage of Atkins, plus some of the other diet plans. The 20 grams is generally derived from salads and non-starchy vegetables, plus the trace amounts of carbs in sauces, dressings and cheeses.

In the first stages of a low carbohydrate diet, dieters are not allowed to have any milk, fruits, grains, cereals, pasta, breads or “high glycemic index” vegetables such as potatoes, peas, corn and carrots. The missing carbs are replaced with ample amounts of protein.

This is a very low amount of carbohydrate when compared with the large amounts of pasta and grains advised by traditional low fat diet recommendations, so this diet has become quite controversial. Butter is also included, which is another reason for the controversy over low carbohydrate eating plans. The butter is recommended because fat slows down the absorption of carbohydrates into the body and helps to maintain an even blood sugar level.

The whole idea behind Dr. Atkins original principal is that it we gain weight in our Western world because our blood sugar levels are allowed to go too high by eating too much high starch food. Control the carbohydrate levels and you control weight much more easily. Much research has shown this to be true. Of course opposing research has been done too, so the controversy continues to some extent, although it is generally acknowledged by all now that the high carb recommendations of the past were incorrect.

The great difficulty of any severely restricted diet is that most people can end up regaining much of their lost weight because of difficulty adhering to the restrictions over the long-term. This can ultimately result in rebound weight gain and is the reason that the modified versions of Atkins diet have evolved.

The Atkins diet itself though, does gradually re-introduce modest amounts of carbohydrates into your diet as you complete your weight loss, to avoid the extremes of losing and then regaining weight. Is it right for you? Only you can determine this by trying it for a week. Carb cravings will subside within 3-5 days after starting the diet.

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Normally I would say the whole thing sounds too good to be true, but this system has been around for close to 60 years, and today it’s more popular then ever!

It’s even being used by Hollywood stars who have to look good all the time because the cameras always on them. The last thing they want is an unflattering photo of them looking sickly and out of shape on the front page of the tabloids.

Using the Master Cleanse system keeps them looking great, and it can do the same for you.

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