Free software model Explains Limitations/Pitfalls
of Energy Balance Equation

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The software --- intended for the lay public, and to educate school children --- clarifies widely held misperceptions about the energy balance...

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Tips for Maintaining Your Exercise Routine
Through the Holidays

post from Vital to Health and Wellness Blog on 02 December 2011 02:22:54 PM. © Vital to Health and Wellness Blog

Shopping, cooking, parties – all can get in the way or be used as excuses not to exercise this season. However, there are plenty of ways to keep up your exercise routine this time of year with non-exercise options!

What is non-exercise?
It is activity that counts by helping you burn calories, but isn’t true exercise. For instance, raking your yard, cleaning your house (work fast!) and mall walking are all good activities that will help you burn calories while also helping you knock-out necessary holiday tasks.

If you really want to measure your “extra” physical activity this winter, strap on a pedometer. A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined 26 studies that evaluated pedometer use and various physical activity and health outcomes. They found that simply using a pedometer was associated with significant increases in physical activity (26.9% over baseline values) and that pedometer users significantly decreased their BMI. In addition, having a specific goal, say 10,000 steps per day, was an important predictor of increased physical activity. So buy a pedometer, set a goal and get moving. That way, even if you don’t make it to the gym, you will at least feel good about having moved your body throughout the day!

Non-exercise Options:

Park as far as you can when shopping
Take the stairs instead of elevators
Walk an extra loop around the mall before you start shopping
Take a walk at lunch while at work
Do a "speed" clean while doing housework to get heart rate up
Go skiing, snowshoeing or other winter activity - it's fun at the same time!
Walk to your neighbor's holiday party instead of driving
Have fun with the family - play ping pong or a quick game of PIG

If you are worried about your weight this holiday season but can’t seem to find time to fit everything in, try adding activity wherever you can. The extra steps will add up, keep your energy levels high and help you maintain your weight!

Need a little boost of energy? Try taking a liquid B Complex supplement to help with energy metabolism and reduce the effects of stress too.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

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Starlit Summer

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Hi all! I'm new to the site and am hoping to chat with people who are having or have had weight loss surgery. Mine will be RNY Dec...

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Risk factors for CCSVI found to be similar to
those for developing MS

post from ** Stu's Views & M.S. News ** on 02 December 2011 08:06:07 AM. © ** Stu's Views & M.S. News **

By ELLEN GOLDBAUM: Published: December 1, 2011

The first study to investigate risk factors for the vascular condition called CCSVI (chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency) in volunteers without neurological disease has identified what the researchers call a remarkable similarity between this condition and possible or confirmed risk factors for multiple sclerosis (MS).The UB study investigated associations between CCSVI and demographic, clinical and environmental risk factors in a large control group of volunteers who did not have known central nervous system disease.?Our results suggest that risk factors for CCSVI in this group of volunteers are remarkably similar to those of possible or confirmed importance to MS, but we do not yet understand the whole story,? says Robert Zivadinov, professor of neurology in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and senior author on the study.Published on Nov. 30 in PLoS One, the current study of 252 volunteers ?was designed to help provide scientists and the MS patient community with new information that, combined with the results of studies that are still ongoing at UB, will ultimately help explain CCSVI and its relationship to MS,? according to Kresimir Dolic, lead author on the study. Dolic, a radiologist from the Department of Radiology, University Hospital, Split, Croatia, was a visiting fellow at the Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center, part of UB?s Department of Neurology, where the study was conducted.CCSVI refers to impaired blood flow from the central nervous system to the periphery. It has been hypothesized that this narrowing of veins restricts blood flow from the brain, altering brain drainage, and may contribute to brain tissue injury that is associated with MS.
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Low Carb Protein Brownies

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Lab Notes: Researchers Reverse Earliest Sign of
AD; Eating Fish May Reduce Alzheimers Risk

post from CalorieLab - Health News & Information Blog on 02 December 2011 06:05:26 AM. © CalorieLab - Health News & Information Blog

On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of yesterday’s (December 1, 2011) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.

1. Researchers Reverse Earliest Sign of AD

By removing amyloid beta from the brains of mouse models of Alzheimer?s, researchers were able to restore their sense of smell and have determined that assessing changes sense of smell can be used to determine risk and start treating people very early.

2. Eating Fish May Reduce Alzheimer?s Risk

Eating baked or broiled fish may reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer?s disease.

3. Magazine Names Worst Cities for Heart Disease

Prevention magazine placed Detroit, Michigan on top of their list of the cities with the highest rates of obesity and heart disease in the U.S.

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Novartis MS Pill Gilenya Rejected by U.K.
Health-Cost Agency * RIDICULOUS*

By Makiko KitamuraDec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Novartis AG?s multiple sclerosis pill Gilenya failed for a second time to gain the backing of the U.K.?s health-cost agency, denting the company?s ambitions to turn the drug into a multibillion-dollar-a-year blockbuster.Novartis failed to show that Gilenya would be cost effective compared with existing options available even after the drugmaker proposed a discount, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence said in a statement today. NICE said in August the annual cost for the medicine, also known as fingolimod, was about 19,196 pounds ($30,134).Gilenya, approved in Europe in March as the first oral treatment for MS, is among the products that Basel, Switzerland- based Novartis is counting on to fuel sales growth as patents start to expire on the company?s best-selling treatments, including the hypertension pill Diovan.?While Novartis submitted evidence that shows fingolimod can reduce relapses, our independent committee has not been convinced that it is a cost effective treatment option,? Andrew Dillon, chief executive of NICE, said in the statement.NICE advises the state-run National Health Service on which medicines represent value for money as the U.K. government works to save as much as 20 billion pounds a year on medical expenses.
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Caffeine, Headaches and Multiple Sclerosis

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By Julie Stachowiak, Ph.D., About.com Guide November 30, 2011

About a week and a half ago, I eliminated caffeine from my world. That's right, I stopped drinking my beloved coffee.

I took such a drastic step because I have been getting migraine headaches - sometimes full-blown, grit-your-teeth-in-pain ones, and other times, just really uncomfortable ones. All of these headaches were combined with nausea and many of them also came with sensitivity to light. People with multiple sclerosis are much more prone to migraines and headaches in general, than the rest of the population, but they are usually treated the same way. I have tried migraine meds before. While they did work, they knocked me out or made me feel "off."

I also knew that these headaches were directly related to something I was eating or drinking. I would be fine until I ate something or drank anything besides water. About 75% of the time, as soon as I consumed something, I would have a major headache. I made an appointment with an allergist, who told me that my symptoms were not those of an allergy and that he couldn't help me (besides telling me not to eat things that seemed to bother me).

One night, I decided to do a little digging around and found the book by David Buchholz, Heal Your Headache: The 1-2-3 Program for Taking Charge of Your Pain. Sure enough, Dr. Buchholz, a Johns Hopkins physician, says that many migraines are caused by food triggers. He presents a diet plan to follow that eliminates all triggers for 4 months (then you can add them back in if they don't bother you). Caffeine is number one on his list of triggers and he does say that people with migraines should NEVER add caffeine back to their diet.

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