Are you one of the many Americans who’ve tried diet after diet, just to end up putting the weight you’ve lost back on? Dr. Ian K. Smith, known for “The Fat Smash Diet” book and for being the diet expert on VH1’s “Celebrity Fit Club,” has designed the “Four Day Diet,” a new weight-loss plan that he says helps you overcome the mental obstacles to weight loss by switching the foods you eat every four days.
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Could an unhealthy diet increase the risk of developing dementia later in life?
That is the question that led neurodegeneration researcher Jeffery Keller from the Sanders-Brown Institute on Aging in Lexington, Ky., to the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in July to study dementia.
“We saw our work in dementia moving toward understanding how nutrition, obesity and diabetes are emerging as risk factors in dementia and the elderly,” Read the rest of this entry »

How many times have you heard of the benefits of the Mediterranean diet? Been
told that if you eat like the Italians you will live forever, be healthy and
– more importantly – fit into that size 10 dress that’s been in your
wardrobe for the past 20 years?
When I moved to Tuscany I hoped to be let in on the secret, but if I’m honest
I just expected to be continuously in competition with the thin and
beautiful Italian women, envying Read the rest of this entry »

DURHAM, N.C.
Celebrity dieters have long flocked to Durham, nicknamed the “Diet Capital of the World.” But while other diet programs have gotten national publicity, Structure House has been operating quietly for over 30 years. Until now.
In January, Structure House and its weight loss plan were named the nation’s healthiest diet by Health magazine. Despite the honor, founder Dr. Gerard Musante resists using the dreaded four-letter word.
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What do a tall mocha Frappuccino, a packet of pancake syrup, an 8-ounce tub of fruited yogurt, or a half cup of chocolate fudge brownie ice cream have in common? They all meet or exceed your daily added sugar quota for the entire day. You may be consuming much more sugar than you realize.
Elizabeth Somer, registered dietitian and author of “Food and Mood” offers the scoop on how much sugar sneaks into our diets every day:
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2009)
— Americans who use illegal diet pills from South America may be taking amphetamines without knowing it and seriously risking both their health and their jobs. Physicians need to be made aware of the range of serious side effects of these drugs to allow them to identify and treat those patients presenting with unexplained symptoms.
These findings, by Dr Pieter Cohen from the Department of Internal Medicine at Read the rest of this entry »

The Rapides Foundation is looking for community partners interested in working on its Diet and Physical Activity Initiative.
The public is invited to learn more about the initiative at a forum on set for 10 a.m. to noon March 5, from 10 a.m. in Classroom C, on the second floor, of The Rapides Foundation Building, 1101 Fourth St. in downtown Alexandria.
The initiative, part of Get Healthy Cenla, is designed to promote healthy behaviors in Central Read the rest of this entry »

has long been dismissed. But now scientists are taking another look.
In recent years, studies have shown that what matters may not be sugar itself but a food’s glycemic index, or the speed and extent to which it raises blood glucose levels. Foods that have a high glycemic index — and as a result raise glucose levels rapidly — cause the body to release a flood of insulin and other hormones, which some scientists suspect can stimulate Read the rest of this entry »

A Nashville judge has ruled the state was wrong to refuse to pay for special foods for two young TennCare patients with a rare genetic disorder.
State officials fought the decision, fearing it could lead to a flood of requests from people who want TennCare to cover food for medical diets.
Chancellor Carol McCoy ruled Wednesday in favor of two Coffee County children.
The children have phenylketonuria, an incurable disease that can cause permanent Read the rest of this entry »

Eating a diet rich in fish and vegetables, while low in meat and dairy, lowers an older person’s risk of developing mild mental impairment and Alzheimer’s disease, a study showed.
Those who adhered most closely to the Mediterranean diet had a 28 percent lower risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, which is a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease in many people, than those who didn’t, research in the February issue of Archives of Neurology found.
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