Officials removed DMX, or Earl Simmons, from Tent City Jail in Phoenix on Sunday for allegedly threatening officers.
lockdown status for threatening to assault Sheriff’s Detention Officers.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio ordered that Simmons be placed on a special diet that is a form of bread and water, according to authorities.
Simmons allegedly refused to report for work when called upon by detention officers and became verbally abusive stating, “I already have a job and don’t need this (expletive).”
Later on Sunday, Simmons reportedly failed to report for his medication and then told detention officers that he might assault somebody to get some respect.
Officials said the when a detention officer supervisor spoke to Simmons, he continued to use vulgar language and stated that the officers should expect to be spoken to in that manner.
“DMX will be treated like any other prisoner in my jail and I will not tolerate him threatening my staff,” says Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

By Larry Marsh, Kansas City Star Midwest Voices columnist 2009
Don’t try this without your doctor’s approval, but this might be “just what the doctor ordered.”
The objective of the No-Eat-Day-Diet is to never have a no-eat day.
Here’s how it works. You set a maximum weight you don’t want to exceed. You then weigh yourself every morning. If your weight exceeds your maximum, then it’s a no-eat day.
On a no-eat day, you eat nothing except a big glass of water at each meal and usually your normal medications, if any. Check with your doctor.
The diet is primarily for weight maintenance but could be used to nudge down your weight over time.
If you get hungry just take a walk, take a nap, work out at the gym or do whatever works as a distraction.
No-eat days are tough. You don’t want to ever have to go through one. But that’s the point. If you are careful, you never will.
Had a big lunch, skip dinner. Planning a big dinner, skip lunch.
Do whatever it takes, but know that the numbers don’t lie. You will be facing the scale in the morning.

CHICAGO, Jan 22 (Reuters) – Users of Alli, the first
weight-loss drug approved for sale over-the-counter in the
United States, are finding what they likely suspected all
along: pills are no magic substitute for diet and exercise.
Yet as Americans engage in the New Year’s tradition of
resolving to shed pounds, the market for diet aids is expected
to remain firm, even as the economy is mired in recession.
Americans spend $30 billion a year on weight-loss products
and services, and two-thirds of the population is overweight or
obese.
GSK.L
), a lower-strength version of
Roche’s (
ROG.VX
) prescription-only Xenical, created’ a stir
when it was approved 18 months ago.
Since then, it has become known for its unpleasant side
effects, including incontinence, diarrhea and flatulence with
“oily spotting.”
“It works to inhibit absorption of fat from our diet.
Therefore the fat comes out in the stool, causing diarrhea,
which patients don’t like much,” said Shirley TerMolen, a
Chicago internist.
Because the side effects result from eating too much fat,
TerMolen noted that some of her colleagues use the drug to help
patients modify their behavior.
TerMolen said she has prescribed the drug but has not seen
a lot of success. “For most people, they’re just looking for a
shortcut instead of just eating better and exercising,” she
said. 

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Cutting calories could do more than just slim down your waistline.
Researchers from the University of Munster in Germany found reducing what you eat by a third may improve memory, the BBC reported Tuesday.
They analyzed three groups of volunteers on different diets, who had an average age of 60.
Three months later, they were given memory tests.
The first group ate a balanced diet containing the normal number of calories, while the second group consumed a similar diet, but with a higher proportion of unsaturated fatty acids.
The final group was put on a calorie restricted diet.
After the three months, there was no difference in memory scores in the first two groups, but the 50 volunteers in the third group performed better.
The third group also had decreased levels of insulin and fewer signs of inflammation, according to the report.
The researchers said that these changes could explain the better memory scores, by keeping brain cells in better health.
journal.

Washington (IANS): Offsprings of both lean and obese primate mothers being fed a high-fat diet showed an increased risk of developing non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
If such monkeys were reverted to a low-fat diet during a subsequent pregnancy, this second offspring exhibited fewer signs of NAFLD.
This finding contradicts the thinking that a mother’s obesity during pregnancy is contributing to the rising incidence of obese children in the US, who are being diagnosed with type-2 diabetes and NAFLD.
However, a team at Oregon Health and Science University, Beaverton and University of Colorado Aurora, led by Kevin Grove and Jacob Friedman, suspect that a developing foetus is highly susceptible to maternal consumption of excess fat, whether or not the mother is obese, according to an Oregon release.

Eating more fruits and vegetables, cutting down on calories and carbohydrates and increasing exercise are all-important parts of any healthy diet. But according to new research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, a low-carbohydrate diet burns more excess liver fat than a low-calorie diet.
Researchers in the small clinical study found that people on low-carbohydrate diets are more dependent on the oxidation of fat in the liver for energy than those on a low-calorie diet.
These findings could have implications for treating obesity and other related diseases like diabetes, insulin resistance and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, says Dr. Jeffrey Browning assistant professor in the UT Southwestern Advanced Imaging Research Center and of internal medicine at the medical center and the study’s lead author.
“Instead of looking at drugs to combat obesity and the diseases that stem from it, maybe optimizing diet cannot only manage and treat these diseases, but also prevent them,” Dr. Browning says.
Glucose, a form of sugar, and fat are both sources of energy that are metabolized in the liver and used as energy in the body. For participants on the low-calorie diet, they received 40 percent of their glucose from glycogen, which comes from ingested carbohydrates and is stored in the liver until the body needs it. However, the low-carbohydrate dieters only received 20 percent of their glucose from glycogen. Instead of using their glycogen reserve, the subjects burned excess liver fat for energy.
“Energy production is expensive for the liver,” Dr. Browning says. “It appears that for the people on a low-carbohydrate diet, in order to meet that expense, their livers have to burn excess fat. Understanding how the liver makes glucose under different dietary conditions may help us better regulate metabolic disorders with diet.”
Although the original study was not designed to determine the effectiveness of one diet over the other, the average weight loss for low-calorie eaters was about five pounds, compared to nine and a half pounds for low-carbohydrate dieters. Results indicated that participants on the low-carbohydrate diet increased fat burning throughout the entire body.

January 12, 2009 08:59 am
Who says eating corndogs three meals a day isn’t “nutritionally adequate?” You got your two food groups — bread and meat — right there on a handy stick. Slap a little ketchup on it, and you’ve got your veggie serving for the day.
Y’all, I could have saved all that money I just spent on NutriSystem — it would have been much cheaper to go on the Morgan County Jail Weight Loss Plan.
In fact, I think the governor should name Sheriff Greg Bartlett to head Scale Back Alabama, the statewide initiative designed to rid us Southerners of our fried-chicken-fattened hindends.
The only roadblock is that Bartlett was jailed for contempt Wednesday, accused of starving his prisoners for profit. Before you go all Hollywood-human-rights indignant, keep in mind what Bartlett’s doing is legal — at least here in Alabama, where a prisoner is still a prisoner, unless he’s a politician.
Under a Depression-era law, Alabama sheriffs get to keep any surplus of the $1.75 per inmate per day allocated for meals by the state. And Bartlett did — to the tune of some $600,000 over six years.
But a judge ruled that Bartlett violated a 2001 court order to provide “nutritionally adequate” meals after prisoners testified they were eating sandwiches with peanut butter spread so thin it looked “sprayed on” and that corndogs purchased in 18-wheeler bulk became a mealtime staple for weeks.
Who says eating corndogs three meals a day isn’t “nutritionally adequate?” You got your two food groups — bread and meat — right there on a handy stick. Slap a little ketchup on it, and you’ve got your veggie serving for the day.
Prisoners who testified at Bartlett’s hearing were described as “skinny,” one of my very favorite adjectives.
One inmate quoted by the Associated Press said in testimony that he lost 35 pounds in the five months he’s been incarcerated.
The best part of the Morgan County Jail diet is being locked away from the fridge and office snack machine. Sounds better than having your jaw wired shut.
Oh, what I wouldn’t give to be in one of those prison jumpsuits, but they need to make the stripes vertical. Everyone knows horizontal stripes add 10 pounds. They might also add a colorful belt, maybe studded with a few rhinestones.
While we could let this be another one of those stories that makes us embarrassed to be from Alabama, I choose to think of the positives: We can forget all those workouts and counting calories. Now all we have to do to reach our ideal weight is get arrested in Morgan County. I wouldn’t want to go all “Weeds” and sell drugs from my kitchen but I’m sure I could think of something illegal to do. Isn’t driving barefoot still against the law here?
Shoot. I could be in a bikini by summer.
In Morgan County Jail, the only thing getting fatter is Bartlett’s wallet.
Here in Limestone County, Sheriff Mike Blakely appears to be keeping prisoners well-fed, although there was that incident last week when an inmate bit off the tip of a fellow prisoner’s ear.
Hmmm.

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Maddona embarks on a new retox diet.
In 2009, instead of detoxing, pop star Madonna has decided to retox, reports Mirror.co.uk. The 50-year-old singer has decided to counteract the aging process by introducing more salmon into her diet.
“The new ‘retox’ means she has got a more cardio-intensive gym regime and a diet overhaul. She will also be eating a lot more salmon as it’s got age-defying properties,” a source told the website. “Her aim is to knock 12 years off her appearance.”
Madonna is known for the extensive measures she takes to stay young. She is rumored to work out 4 hours a day and spend $120,000 a year on blessed Kabbalah water, which supposedly keep the drinker young.
Liam Gallagher, singer for the British band Oasis, also eats salmon to stay in shape and vouches for Madonna’s new retox. “I’m always banging away at the fish man. My top three fish are salmon at number one, sea bass at two and sardines are third. My number one dish is f***ing salmon and stir-fry.”