Dieting Preparation — The Impact of Sleep & Stress
Dieting PreparationThe Impact of Sleep and StressWhen you have started a diet in the past, how much sincere and attentive focus did you give to preparing for your diet? Isn’t it true that usually you are getting the food together a particular diet requires,… (more…)

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Black Cohosh Supplements Don’t Always Live Up to Label Claims (Healthday)
Women taking black cohosh supplements to ease the hot flashes of menopause may not always be getting what they pay for, a new study reveals. (more…)

Blueberries Are The Perfect Low-Carb Fruit
Do you love blueberries? If not, then you really should! This amazing naturally-sweet low-carb fruit is loaded with healthy nutrition that gives your body so many benefits while you enjoy eating them straight up as a snack or in… (more…)

Overweight? Have You Given Away Your Power?
Are you unhappily overweight? Do you despair of getting to the right size and shape for you? Is it because you?ve given away your power? Do you let others decide on your portion size? When you eat in a restaurant, buy a ready meal, buy chocolate or an ice cream, do you let the producer decide what is the amount you should eat by finishing whatever the portion size happens to be? Next time you?re in a restaurant take back your power and decide for yourself when you?ve had enough. Do you let inanimate objects decide whether or not you?re a good person that day? Do you weigh yourself, and feel bad if you haven?t lost weight, letting the scales determine how you feel about yourself? You know your weight will fluctuate from day to day anyway. What?s important is the overall trend. What?s even more important is what type of person you are, not how much you weigh. Do you let others decide what your weight should be? Do you look in the magazines and on the TV, and accept what the media say is an ideal weight? Think about the cost of being that slim. Remember that many of the pictures are digitally enhanced and that the photos are taken by experts who know how to flatter. Do you let your parents decide what you are now? Did your parents show you love through food? Were you made to eat up all the food on your plate? Do you still behave in the same way around food, even though you?re a grown up and allowed so many other things to change? Think of all the things that have changed in your life since you were a child, and decide to write your own programme around food. Do you let your age determine what you weigh? Do you believe that ?all women? put weight on when they have babies, or when they reach the menopause? Do you believe that ?all men? get fatter as they get older? Weight gain as you get older is often because you do less. Get more exercise, take up a new sport ? there?s lots of other benefits than simply weight-management. Do you let science decide why you?re overweight? Do you believe that it?s ?genetic? and that there?s nothing you can do about it? If you believe that, then that is what will happen: you?ll come to look like the rest of your family. Remember that genes only set the framework of what you are ? the rest is up to you. Take back your power, and the control over what you weigh. Jane Thurnell-Read is a well respected writer on health and well-being. Visit her web site for more practical ideas on how you can <a href="http://healthandgoodness.com/weightshape/index.htm"> gain control over your weight and shape.</a> (more…)

Low-carbohydrate diet in type 2 diabetes. Stable improvement of bodyweight and glycemic control during 22 months follow-up
Background:
Low-carbohydrate diets in the management of obese patients with type 2 diabetes seem intuitively attractive due to their potent antihyperglycemic effect.
We previously reported that a 20 % carbohydrate diet was significantly superior to a 55-60 % carbohydrate diet with regard to bodyweight and glycemic control in 2 non-randomised groups of obese diabetes patients observed closely over 6 months. The effect beyond 6 months of reduced carbohydrate has not been previously reported. The objective of the present study, therefore, was to determine to what degree the changes among the 16 patients in the low-carbohydrate diet group at 6-months were preserved or changed 22 months after start, even without close follow-up. In addition, we report that, after the 6 month observation period, two thirds of the patients in the high-carbohydrate changed their diet. This group also showed improvement in bodyweight and glycemic control.MethodRetrospective follow-up of previously studied subjects on a low carbohydrate diet.
Results:
The mean bodyweight at the start of the initial study was 100.6+/-14.7 kg. At six months it was 89.2+/- 14.3 kg. From 6 to 22 months, mean bodyweight had increased by 2.7+/- 4.2 kg to an average of 92.0 +/- 14.0 kg. Seven of the 16 patients (44%) retained the same bodyweight from 6 to 22 months or reduced it further; all but one had lower weight at 22 months than at the beginning. Initial mean HbA1c was 8.0 +/- 1.5 %. After 6 and 12 months it was 6.6 +/-1.0 % and 7.0 +/-1.3 %, respectively. At 22 months, it was still 6.9 +/- 1.1 % .
Conclusion:
Advice on a 20 % carbohydrate diet with some caloric restriction to obese patients with type 2 diabetes has lasting effect on bodyweight and glycemic control. (more…)

Diet Basics’ Spotlights
The Diet Basics’SpotlightTo help get the word out on important weight loss issues, we developed the Diet Basics’ Spotlight. It brings to “light” issues, products, and concepts that we feel could impact your weight loss efforts. Never again should you worry… (more…)