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New Book Reveals How to Lose Weight by Saying No to Dieting and Exercise.
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Everwood has released a provocative new weight loss book, set to turn the health and fitness world upside-down.
(PRWEB) February 14, 2012
Everwood Presents: - America remains heralded as one of the most overweight countries in the world and despite a growing awareness, it seems losing weight remains for many people as confusing and as elusive as ever. Society is bombarded constantly by a marketing onslaught of diets, fads, exercise machines, home delivered meals, supplements, pills and other weight loss schemes and services. Unfortunately, the industry is infamous for its often suspicious and questionable methods, all promising quick and easy solutions to an already despairing population. To add to the confusion, the modern era is one where information surrounding nutrition and exercise is exhaustive and often at times contradictory, so it’s no wonder that people looking to lose weight can often feel skeptical, overwhelmed and discouraged.
While health and fitness professionals will generally agree that losing weight is best achieved through dieting and exercise, an innovative new method from Australia is well on its way to revolutionize this perception. According to weight loss specialist Azrael, mainstream advice surrounding weight loss is frequently impractical, incorrect or short-sighted. “While I believe the majority of health and fitness professionals across the world do have the best of intentions, many are unfortunately providing the public and their governments with misleading or wrong information.” Azrael continues by stating that popular industry maxims such as "weight loss is all about calories in versus calories out," "dieting and exercise," "write a weight loss goal," "eat a balanced diet," and "breakfast is the most important meal of the day," are all examples of what he calls junk information.
Azrael has personally battled against obesity twice in his life. “When I first lost weight, I succeeded by following the advice of experts at the time. I was eating a very low-fat diet in combination with plenty of exercise. But years later, my priorities in life changed and before I knew it, I was more overweight than ever.” Realizing that the initial advice he had followed was ultimately unhealthy and unrealistic for the long term, Azrael lost trust with the experts and was in turn inspired to find his own solution. Azrael succeeded and developed a weight loss method without dieting or exercise, without using willpower or supplements and without undergoing hypnotherapy or surgery and has effortlessly kept the weight off now for many years. He clearly articulates that there are no secrets to losing weight and that essentially, permanent weight loss is based on common sense and living a healthy lifestyle. The difficulty he claims is that common sense and healthy lifestyle are not terms agreed to universally. “Leading a healthy lifestyle is not a new idea, however people may be surprised and shocked to learn of what actually constitutes a healthy lifestyle. Eating five to eight small meals a day for example, is not healthy living in my opinion, yet this directly opposes mainstream health and fitness advice. The public needs to remember that ‘what works’ and ‘what is healthy’ are not always one and the same.”
After first helping friends and family to lose weight, Azrael has gone on to assist countless others with his new book: Odysi Zero | Lose Weight: Say No to Dieting and Exercise. He actively warns that some people make take offence from the book’s content, yet he expresses his opinions without apology. Azrael and his supporters remain steadfast and resolute in spreading his message. “I strongly feel some things must be said and so I have said them.”
Odysi Zero | Lose Weight: Say No to Dieting and Exercise is available for $25.00 in most bookstores or online at http://www.OdysiZero.com.
Original Edition. ISBN: 9780646546872 (pbk), 100 pages, 6 x 8, eBook also available.
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Exercise a Defense Against Dementia: Study
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MONDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- Here's another reason to get into shape: Physical activity may reduce the risk of dementia-related death, according to a new study.
Researchers assessed the health of more than 45,000 men and nearly 15,000 women, ages 20 to 88 years, in the United States and grouped them into one of three fitness categories -- low, middle or high.
After an average follow-up of 17 years, about 4,050 participants died. Of those deaths, 164 were attributed to dementia (72 vascular dementia and 92 Alzheimer's disease). Of those 164 deaths, 123 of the people were in the low-fitness group, 23 were in the middle-fitness group, and 18 were in the high-fitness group.
People in the high- and medium-fitness groups had less than half the risk of dying as those in the low-fitness group, the researchers concluded.
The study appears in the February issue of the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
"These findings support physical-activity promotion campaigns by organizations such as the Alzheimer's Association and should encourage individuals to be physically active," study author Riu Liu said in a journal news release.
"Following the current physical-activity recommendations from the American College of Sports Medicine will keep most individuals out of the low-fit category and may reduce their risk of dying with dementia," Liu added.
Liu conducted the study as part of her dissertation at the University of South Carolina. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
While deaths in the United States associated with heart disease, breast cancer and stroke have declined in recent years, deaths related to dementia and Alzheimer's rose 46 percent between 2002 and 2006, according to the release.
The study doesn't prove that exercise will prevent dementia, however. Other factors may also come into play.
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Northwood Church members work at weight loss challenge
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KELLER -- On Feb. 25, Northwood Church in Keller will have a community-wide event that will feature health screenings and a presentation by Phil and Amy Parham, authors of the "90-Day Fitness Challenge."
The event is a culmination in the church's "Losing It" series. For the month of February, Northwood's Sunday services have featured contestants from "The Biggest Loser" talking about the connection between physical and spiritual health. But perhaps of most interest to the congregation will be the results of a four-week weight loss challenge between two teams of its members, including the senior pastor Bob Roberts.The genesis of the event was a Bible study-fitness class at the church taught by personal trainer Laurie Graves, a Northwood member.Roberts said he wanted to spread the message to the community, many of whom also are battling weight issues."It's not just a matter of being overweight," he said. "It's what it does to self image, your health. And it translates to other things, even to a skinny person. What do you have in your life that's creating defeat?"Graves said the pastor took the program up another notch when he offered to weigh himself during worship services.Graves and Josh Fender, another personal trainer, formed two teams of church members to compete for the biggest percentage weight loss for the team as a whole. Each Sunday during the competition, team members are weighing in. Fender is training four men, including the pastor. Graves is training two couples.Graves has spent much of her life in fitness and weight loss after overcoming her own weight issues.In her teens, Graves said she battled anorexia and bulimia before heading in the opposite direction and putting on pounds.By the time her second child was born eight years ago, Graves was 90 pounds overweight and feared that she'd pass the family's predisposition to her 7-year-old and newborn daughters.With the help of two personal trainers, she lost the weight. Three years ago, Graves' became a nationally certified personal trainer and began helping others develop healthier lives. .Two of her clients ended up competing in the "The Biggest Loser" television reality show.Graves incorporated a spiritual element into her programs, teaching a two-hour class at Northwood Church that included both Bible study and fitness.Last week, Graves took Jodi and Kurt Pafford and Dawn and Brad Zieger through a one-hour workout using a stretch strap, boxing gloves, 20-pound rope swings and small weights to tone muscles in every imaginable part of their bodies.Even working out in Graves' open garage, the couples were sweating through their black workout pants and T-shirts emblazoned "Team Graves-- Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself-- Hebrews 12:1."But it was only their second workout night and both couples, in their 30s with 5-year-old children, were excited about the chance to lose the weight they hadn't managed to do on their own.Kurt Pafford, said that, at 5-feet-8 inches tall, he has battled to control his weight most of his life. He said he is now 90 pounds overweight and would like to put a dent on that before he accompanies his church on a mission trip to Vietnam next month.His wife, Jodi, has even farther to go. At 316 pounds she said she never shared her weight with anyone, until she stepped on the scale in church Feb 5 Feand posted it on her blog, jodisjourneytoobedience.blogspot.com, where she is sharing her experience with a much larger audience."It's freeing not to be held down by trying to hide a number," she said. "I want people to have the freedom I have. It's held me down so long."Brad and Dawn Zieger said they knew they needed to get in shape but couldn't manage to do it while they were going to college and working full time while raising their son. When they graduated from University of Texas at Arlington in December, they decided the time was right.The church challenge also has been good for their relationship, they said."It's joined us in a common mission," Brad said.Staff writer Sandra Engelland contributed to this report.Martha Deller, 817-431-2231
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New study casts doubt on lung cancer treatment
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A controversial radiation treatment for patients who've had lung cancer surgery may not help elderly people live longer, U.S. researchers have found.
Postoperative radiotherapy, or PORT, is thought to cut the chances that a tumor will return. But it can damage the heart and lungs, which might cancel out any potential benefits -- particularly in seniors.
"Thus, these patients may be exposed to the side effects and complications of PORT without a clear benefit," lead researcher Dr. Juan Wisnivesky, of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, told Reuters Health by email.
The findings fuel an ongoing debate over how much treatment older cancer patients should get. Often those treatments have been tested in younger people and it's unclear whether other age groups will reap the same benefits.
Side effects may take a higher toll on older people's health, for instance, and they may not live long enough to see the positive effects of their therapy.
"The marginal benefit of the additional treatment gets smaller and smaller as patients get older," said Dr. David J. Sher, a radiation expert at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, who was not involved in the new work.
"Their overall fitness generally doesn't warrant postoperative radiotherapy," he told Reuters Health. "It's a fine balance."
The new study, published in the journal Cancer, analyzed data on more than 1,300 Medicare patients who'd had surgery for early-stage lung cancer.
Such patients usually don't get radiation therapy, but in this group the cancer had spread to lymph nodes in the chest. There is no agreement on what to do in that case, and earlier studies have come to mixed conclusions.
It turned out that about half of the patients, most of whom were over 70, had been treated with radiation.
It's hard to compare those who got radiation and those who didn't directly, because different factors may have influenced the individual decisions to treat or not. But in their study, Wisnivesky and his colleagues did their best to account for patient characteristics, tumor size, type of surgery, complications and other possible differences.
No matter how they analyzed the data, however, they were unable to find a survival benefit linked to radiation treatment after surgery.
According to Sher, the therapy typically costs between $10,000 and $15,000.
"That being said," he added, "if it prevents the recurrence it also saves a lot of money later."
Dr. Benjamin Smith, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, said the kind of patients in the new study have a grim prognosis, with at most 20 to 30 percent surviving more than five years.
"Some physicians want to try to do everything they can to get a benefit," said Smith, who wasn't involved in the research. "This data, however, makes me reconsider whether or not there truly is a benefit with respect to patient survival, which at the end of the day is the most important outcome."
He said immediate side effects of radiation include fatigue, skin reactions and pain when swallowing. Down the road, it may also weaken the heart and the lungs.
"I don't think that radiation is likely to cause life-threatening side effects, but it is certainly inconvenient and can impair a patient's quality of life," Smith told Reuters Health.
There is currently a rigorous clinical trial under way that may shed more light on whether postoperative radiation is a good idea for lung cancer that turns out to have invaded the lymph nodes in the chest -- a relatively uncommon scenario.
Meanwhile, patients and doctors should weigh the pros and cons together, said Smith.
"It's worth patients having a discussion with their surgeon and radiation oncologist about whether or not to do radiation after surgery," he said.
SOURCES: http://bit.ly/h73jcS Cancer, online February 13, 2012.
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