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There have been recent claims that dairy products can help people lose weight, and the dairy industry has hyped the assertion by investing millions of dollars in commercial advertising. However, a new review of the evidence published in the journal Nutrition Reviews reveals that neither dairy nor calcium intake promotes weight loss.

Amy Joy Lanou of the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Neal Barnard with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, DC, evaluated evidence from 49 clinical trials from 1966 to 2007 that assessed the effect of milk, dairy products, or calcium intake on body weight and BMI, with or without the use of dieting.

Evidence from the trials showed that neither dairy products nor calcium supplements helped people lose weight. Of the 49 clinical trials, 41 showed no effect, two demonstrated weight gain, one showed a lower rate of weight gain, and only five showed weight loss.

An association between calcium or dairy intake and weight loss seen in some observational studies may be attributable to other factors, such as exercise, decreased soda intake, lifestyle habits, or increased fiber, fruit, and vegetable intake.

“Our findings demonstrate that increasing dairy product intake does not consistently result in weight or fat loss and may actually have the opposite effect,” the authors conclude.

Study In 7,000 Men And Women Ties Obesity, Inflammatory Proteins To Heart Failure Risk

Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere report what is believed to be the first wide-scale evidence linking severe overweight to prolonged inflammation of heart tissue and the subsequent damage leading to failure of the body’s blood-pumping organ.

The latest findings from the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), to be published in the May 6 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, appear to nail down yet one more reason for the estimated 72 million obese American adults to be concerned about their health, say scientists who conducted the research.

“The biological effects of obesity on the heart are quite profound,” says senior study investigator João Lima, M.D. “Even if obese people feel otherwise healthy, there are measurable and early chemical signs of damage to their heart, beyond the well-known implications for diabetes and high blood pressure.”

He adds that there is “now even more reason for them to lose weight, increase their physical activity and improve their eating habits.”

In the latest study, researchers conducted tests and tracked the development of heart failure in an ethnically diverse group of nearly 7,000 men and women, age 45 to 84, who were enrolled in the MESA study, starting in 2000.

Of the 79 who have developed congestive heart failure so far, 35 (44 percent) were physically obese, having a body mass index, or BMI, of 30 or greater. And on average, obese participants were found to have higher blood levels of interleukin 6, C-reactive protein and fibrinogen, key immune system proteins involved in inflammation, than non-obese adults.

A near doubling of average interleukin 6 levels alone accounted for an 84 percent greater risk of developing heart failure in the study population.

The researchers from five universities across the United States also found alarming links between inflammation and the dangerous mix of heart disease risk factors known as the metabolic syndrome. Its combined risk factors for heart disease and diabetes - high blood pressure, elevated blood glucose levels, excess abdominal fat and abnormal cholesterol levels, and particularly obesity - double a person’s chances of developing heart failure.

“More practically, physicians need to monitor their obese patients for early signs of inflammation in the heart and to use this information in determining how aggressively to treat the condition,” says Lima, a doctor of radiology at the Heart Institute.

All MESA study participants, who will be followed through to 2012, had no pre-existing symptoms of heart disease. Upon enrollment, they all underwent a physical exam, including weight and body measurements, blood analysis and an MRI scan to assess heart function.

“Our results showed that when the effects of other known disease risk factors - including race, age, sex, diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, family history and blood cholesterol levels - were statistically removed from the analysis, inflammatory chemicals in the blood of obese participants stood out as key predictors of who got heart failure,” says Lima.

The chemicals are all known to be part of the body’s defensive response to disease. They are well-recognized for producing symptoms that stem from the widening of small blood vessels, including redness and fever, and the release of immune system cells that make blood vessels leak fluid into surrounding tissue, causing swelling and cell death. The inflammatory process eventually leads to cell damage and the buildup of scar tissue near the damaged areas.

In obese participants, interleukin 6, a chemical that activates white blood cells and drives inflammation, was higher than in non-obese participants.

Similarly, a near tripling of average levels of C-reactive protein in study participants increased the chance of heart failure by 36 percent.

C-reactive protein levels are widely known to rise dramatically and speed up the early stages of inflammation when cells swell up with fluid, leading to widespread arterial damage.

One-fifth higher than average blood levels of fibrinogen, best known for its role in blood clotting but also a major player in muscle scarring, bumped up the risk of heart failure by 37 percent.

When the inflammatory protein levels were included in the scientists’ statistical analysis, the heightened risk from obesity disappeared.

“What this tells us is that both obesity and the inflammatory markers are closely tied to each other and to heart failure,” says lead researcher Hossein Bahrami, M.D., M.P.H.

Each year, nearly 300,000 Americans die from heart failure.

Bahrami says study results also point to inflammation as a possible catalyst in metabolic syndrome. Increased blood levels of albuminuria, a chemical more known for its association with impaired kidney function and metabolic syndrome boosted risk of a progressively weakening heart nearly tenfold among MESA participants.

Bahrami, a senior cardiology research fellow at Hopkins, says “the basic evidence is building the case that inflammation may be the chemical route by which obesity targets the heart, and that inflammation may play an important role in the increased risk of heart failure in obese people, especially those with the metabolic syndrome.”

He notes that previous studies, also done at Hopkins, have shown that even moderate exercise to lose abdominal fat dramatically offsets the harmful effects of metabolic syndrome on heart function.

Bahrami says the team’s next steps are to determine how, over a longer timeframe, heart function changes with levels of inflammatory markers, and to see if alterations to the immune system proteins halts or speeds up disease.

BMI is calculated from a person’s weight and height and serves as a good indicator of overall body fatness (where a person’s weight in kilograms is divided by the square of height in meters; or using weight in pounds, divided by the height in inches squared, multiplied by a metric conversion factor of 703.)
 

For starters, stop thinking about dieting. Instead, take a look at those everyday habits that could be causing weight gain. Going on a diet can create an obsession with food, heighten cravings, and lead to a “throw-in-the-towel-because-diets-don’t-work” mentality.

You might not realize just how quickly calories can add up. An extra tablespoon of salad dressing can add 75-100 calories, an extra tablespoon of butter adds 102 calories, and that 1-ounce bag of chips with your sandwich at lunch adds 162 calories. Eating while cooking, starting each day with a high-calorie coffee drink, finishing off the kids’ plates at dinner, or having one too many glasses of wine — these are just a few of the sneaky habits that sabotage weight loss efforts.

Yet as quickly as calories can add up, they can be subtracted. Becoming mindful of your diet mistakes — the subtle ways that calories sneak into your diet throughout the day – can add up to real weight loss.

Check out our list of common diet mistakes people make, and see if any sound familiar to you.

Diet Mistake No. 1: Racing to the Finish
There’s no reward for finishing your meal in record time — unless you’re a contestant in a hot dog eating contest! Our hectic schedules have led many of us to adopt the unhealthy habit of rapid eating.

“We need to adopt more of the leisurely, European-style eating so that we can savor our food, taste every bite, and get the signal of fullness before overeating,” says Tara Gidus, MS, RD, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.

Diet Mistake No. 2: Skipping Meals
Research shows that breakfast skippers weigh more than breakfast eaters. There is a misconception that skipping breakfast — or any meal — saves calories. The truth is that most people who eat fewer than three meals usually end up eating more calories during the course of the day.

Strive for three meals a day. Always start your day with a healthy breakfast, but be careful to choose wisely.

“Even a low-fat muffin can have as many as 400 calories and 5 grams fat,” says Joanne Lichten, PhD, RD, a nutrition consultant and the author of Dining Lean.

A healthy breakfast should contain both protein and fiber. An egg, a piece of whole-wheat toast, and half a grapefruit has only 250 calories and will keep you feeling full until lunch.

Diet Mistake No. 3: Too Many Liquid Calories
Liquid calories from alcohol, smoothies, coffee with cream and sugar, sweetened juices, teas, and sodas can really contribute to weight gain. One recent study found that Americans get approximately 21% of their calories from beverages. “When you drink beverages, you don’t tend to compensate by eating less because most beverages satisfy thirst and don’t impact hunger,” says Gidus.

Switch from calorie-laden beverages to water, club soda, skim milk, vegetable juices, and small portions of 100% fruit juice. If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation, and choose lighter drink options.

Here are some calorie counts for common beverages:

12-ounce light beer: 110 calories
12-ounce regular beer: 160 calories
8-ounce coffee with cream and sugar: 30 calories
5 ounces of wine: 120-130 calories
6-ounce wine spritzer: 80 calories
16-ounce sweetened tea: 160 calories
12-ounce diet soda: 0 calories
12-ounce soda: 150 calories
20-ounce smoothie: 410 calories
Diet Mistake No. 4: Oversized Portions
“We have gotten used to huge portions at restaurants so when we are at home, we serve up the same size and think it is normal,” says Lichten.

Experts suggest a few tricks to help you trim your portions:

Leave a few bites on your plate.
Use smaller plates and bowls.
Periodically check your portions with measuring cups.
Diet Mistake No. 5: Choosing Unhealthy Add-Ons
Not only have portions crept up in size, we also have a tendency to top off our “diet” salads and other favorite foods with high-fat toppings, like bacon, cheese, croutons, and creamy dressings.

And, at fast-food restaurants, “grilled chicken and salads are not always better than a burger,” notes Lichten. “It all depends on the size and the toppings.”

For example, the Burger King Tendergrill sandwich with honey mustard dressing has 450 calories while their Whopper Jr., with mustard instead of mayo, has only 290 calories. At McDonald’s, the Caesar salad with crispy chicken and creamy dressing totals 490 calories, while a Quarter Pounder weighs in at 410 calories.

Diet Mistake No. 6: Mindless Eating
“Eating amnesia” is the act of unknowingly putting hand to mouth, usually from a bag or box in front of the television, while reading a book. It can also happen at happy hour, or when you finish the last few bites on your child’s plate.

“Resist the temptation to clean yours or anyone else’s plate,” says Gidus. “Think about your waistline instead of the food waste.”

Consider the calories in small portions of some of our favorite snacks, and see how quickly they can add up when portions are multiplied:

1 Twinkie: 150 calories
12 peanut M&Ms: 125 calories
1 ounce of French fries: 88 calories
1.5 donut holes: 100 calories
3 Hershey kisses: 75 calories
3 Oreo cookies:160 calories
15 tortilla chips: 142 calories
20 potato chips: 162 calories
And how can you kick the mindless eating habit?

“First, try to get out of the habit of always eating something while you are sitting and relaxing,” says Gidus. “Try a cup of tea, glass of water, or chew a piece of sugarless gum. If you want a snack, portion it out of the bag or container.”

The person who on the first sight seems to be bulky is generally called an obese. However, there is a difference between an overweight and an obese. Body mass index is the scientific way to decide whether an overweight person is an obese or not. Body mass index is defined in Kg/m2 units when a person has body mass index above than 23 he is called overweight. The person having body mass index more than 27 is called an obese.

Obesity is a matter of serious concern but overweight is non less than that. Heavy load over your knees deteriorates your bone cartilage upto a large extent and it can lead to arthritis. Sticking of fat inside the valves of heart can lead to heart failure. Liver, Kidney, gall bladder and brain are those parts of the body which can be severely affected by the accumulation of fat in the body. Therefore, whenever you come to know you are suffering from obesity, it is high time to switch for proper treatment of obesity.

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However, the drug has side effects: 13.7 percent on the optimal dose reported nausea compared with 5.5 percent taking dummy pills, though researchers said it tended to be mild and short-lived. Rates of dizziness and diarrhea were almost twice as common on the drug.About 19 percent on the higher dose dropped out of the study because a problem occurred, but so did 13 percent in the placebo group. Depression was the reason for discontinuing for 2.8 percent on the higher dose of the drug and 1.6 percent in the placebo group.Dr. Julius Gaardin, a cardiologist at Wayne State University who had no ties to the study or the company, called it and similar ones on the drug “truly landmark studies in the field of obesity.”He said “the safety profile was quite good” and obesity is such a serious problem that there ought to be higher tolerability of side effects than for drugs for other conditions.Company officials say they are on track to seek Food and Drug Administration approval within a few months.

Bank holiday Monday: not a great day for news, as a look at the headlines on the news stands confirmed. One stood out by being very different, The Daily Telegraph. In that newspaper’s judgement the most important story that day, selected as its front-page lead, carried the headline “Wonder pill cuts obesity and smoking”.

The Telegraph’s medical editor, reporting from Munich where the European Society of Cardiology was meeting, told how a year-long study of the effects of the drug, called Acomplia - Rimonabant, found it would combat those enemies of the healthy heart, fatness and smoking, and could (sic,buy cheap rimonabant,new miracle pill) be available within two years. For those of a scientific inclination she explained that “the drug blocks receptors in the endocannabinoid system, working both on cells in the brain and on fat cells”. Space and ignorance prevent me putting that in layman’s terms.

The next day the Daily Mail, which has an addiction to health stories probably resistant to treatment by Acomplia - Rimonabant, gave its leader page to a follow-up feature on “Whatever happened to will power?”, suggesting that this was more appropriate than the wonder drug. However, later in the same edition it filled a page of its 10-page (get cheap generic acomplia rimonabant,yes, 10-page) weekly Good Health section with a series of questions and answers: “Everything you need to know” about the “wonder pill” (,discount acomplia,purchase new weight loss pill acomplia,the Mail using the same description as the Telegraph).

That day’s Mail provided two pages on lowering blood pressure, a page on beating prostate problems, a page on a nasal spray to beat memory loss and acupuncture to beat hay fever, a page on “me and my haemorrhoid operation”, two pages on the story of a midwife sacked for allowing a woman to have her baby at home, a page on a new diet, “better than Atkins - and safer”, and a page on schizophrenia treatment. All these pages carry virtually no advertising, so the justification for providing almost as much health coverage as sport or news can only be that readers lap it up. The Mail tends to be good at such judgements, but it paints a gloomy picture of its audience, thousands of readers needing treatment for hypochondria and desperate for miracle cures for diseases most of them won’t have.

The Mail is an extreme case, but it is not alone. Health journalism is booming as never before, easily eclipsing the environment on the news agenda. Health journalism is related to, but not the same as, medical journalism. Health, presented on dedicated pages of newspapers such as the Mail, is essentially “lifestyle” journalism, features based on individual experiences, prevention of disease by both conventional and alternative means, new diets, new remedies, new forms of behaviour aimed at reducing the likelihood of illnesses.

Medical journalism is a branch of news journalism, living in the world of government policy and advice, of health care and treatment, of research and development. It is here that two cultures collide. Research into new drugs and forms of treatment is a slow and on- going process of hypothesis, experiment, testing and, sometimes, breakthroughs. It is incremental. Journalism is about events, outcomes, results, news. How often do we see the words “miracle cure” in popular newspapers, or “breakthroughs”, or “new hope for”? How often do we read about any number of “dangers” in food and drink, the air we breathe, the activities we undertake? Is it surprising that the reaction of the non-experts (most of us,rimonabant miracle pill) ranges from advanced hypochondria to a weary ignoring of all advice on the basis that everything is risky?

Many doctors and medical researchers despair of misrepresentation in the media. It extends into the coverage of science in general, with some researchers reluctant to communicate at all for fear of the reporter getting it wrong. Yet there can be few areas where there is more public interest than in health and medicine. We want to know. We have a right to know. And journalism is the bridge between the experts and the rest of us. In the main, medical journalists are not doctors. Their expertise is in finding out and explaining to a general audience.

Often the basis of their stories will be the specialist journals, such as The Lancet and the British Medical Journal, where research is published. Kamran Abbasi, acting editor of the BMJ, is a doctor, but is sympathetic to the mainstream journalists who report medical research. He says there can be faults on both sides: a lack of understanding on the part of journalists that the process of peer group review of research articles does not ensure that a finding will be true; the reasons for the research being carried out in the first place; the claims made for the quality of the research by some of those who undertake it; the judgement of the journal on the prominence to be given to the reporting of specific research.(buy rimonabant)

Abbasi also understands that there is not always trust in medical research. There have been issues such as BSE where public, and journalistic, scepticism of medical research has justifiably developed. And that has led to the MMR and now five-in-one vaccine controversies, compounded by distrust in the politicians as well as the medical researchers. There are some good medical correspondents around, who understand that medical research never produces final answers but bricks in the wall, steps on the way. That is difficult for journalists to put across; news editors dislike caveats. But medical reporting requires journalistic basics like other forms of reporting. That means evaluating the information, relying on proven informed sources to help with that evaluation, and not making exaggerated claims for a new discovery or a new drug. The latter, of course, applies to the researchers and the drugs manufacturers as much as to the journalists. In the real world there are no miracle cures.

The extraordinary revelations about Conrad Black’s spending of corporate money maintaining his and his wife’s ludicrous lifestyle brought back memories of my own time dealing with Barbara Amiel, later Lady Black. I was editing her column for The Sunday Times and it was not easy. She would combine simpering charm with audacious name-dropping, portraying herself as both vulnerable and a member of a social elite to which most of the rest of us could never aspire. I simply wanted her to deliver a good column. She had other priorities. She delighted in attending those mutually self-supporting international conferences of the world’s leading intellectuals, such as the annual think-in in Davos. She would phone me on a Friday night, when I was anxiously awaiting her words, to provide that week’s excuse as to why the column would be very late. My favourite was when she rang to say that she had had a call from “Henry” who had insisted he met her for a drink at the Savoy. I was meant to deduce for myself that it was Henry Kissinger to whom she was referring. Of course it was.

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“We come up with new drugs on the drawing board all the time, but rarely do they work the way we think they will. This one did. I think the drug has incredible potential.”
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