Eating more dietary pulses can increase fullness, may help manage weight

Eating about one serving a day of beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils can increase fullness, which may lead to better weight management and weight loss, a new study has found.
A systematic review and meta-analysis of all available clinical trials found that people felt 31 per cent fuller after eating on average 160 grams of dietary pulses compared with a control diet, according to senior author Dr. John Sievenpiper of St. Michael's Hospital's Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre.
His group's findings were published in the August issue of the journal Obesity

Options for weight loss your primary care doctor might not know about

Despite US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations for screening and treating obesity, there are many barriers, several of which may be ameliorated through technological approaches according to a new study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center published online August 21, 2014 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM).

Losing weight lowers health care costs for adults with type 2 diabetes

Overweight individuals with diabetes who lose weight by dieting and increasing their physical activity can reduce their health care costs by an average of more than $500 per year, according to a new study.
"Lifestyle interventions promoting weight loss and physical activity are recommended for overweight and obese people with Type 2 diabetes to improve their health," said Mark A.

These 7 Healthy Habits Helped This Man Lose 170 Pounds In One Year

Lifestyle Medicine: Have Hammer, See Nails, Seeking Spoon

Lifestyle is the best medicine. The perennial challenge is figuring out what makes the best spoon.
I suppose I might be prone to bias on this topic. Famously, when you have a hammer, you tend to see nails everywhere you look. As president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, then, perhaps it's no surprise that I see opportunity to apply this remedy everywhere I look. Lifestyle medicine is my hammer.

Don't Be Fooled by the Diet Industry

The diet industry's before and after pictures are a sales technique, not reality, and often an individual's weight loss is not always about aesthetics, it's about health.

The Ultimate Guide To Building A New Habit

According to researchers at Duke University, habits account for about 40 percent of our behaviors on any given day. [1]
Understanding how to build new habits (and how your current ones work) is essential for making progress in your health, your happiness, and your life in general.

Sometimes We Can Look to the Smallest Revelations as Proof That We Haven Given Up All Hope

Growing up heavy (okay, fat), I quickly learned the best way to pose for pictures. After all, I knew I was very large, but on some weird level, I must have thought I could hide it (or at the very least minimize it) by positioning myself behind people, furniture or walls whenever a camera was aimed at me.

Is Your Weight Coming Back?

The diet industry's before and after pictures are a sales technique, not reality, and often an individual's weight loss is not about aesthetics, it's about health.

Honey: Healthier Sweetener or Just Another Form of Sugar?

Honey goes way, way back. Researchers found bees made this staple sugar in the country Georgia some 5,500 years ago, about 2,000 years earlier than explorers originally thought with Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb.
Humans are genetically hardwired to want food that's sweet, and from an evolutionary perspective valuing honey makes sense. Our Paleolithic ancestors gorged on ripe summer fruit and very rarely honey to "winter up" for the cold months ahead.

3 Key Practices To Break Free From Emotional Eating

Hannah, 24, says she has been overweight for as long as she can remember. Emotional eating is her crutch: the memories from things like her parent's divorce and her childhood bullies cause her to turn to food. Hannah says she feels like she's finally prepared to address her excess weight, but something is holding her back.

9 Great Foods For Weight Loss

SPECIAL FROM Grandparents.com

Forget counting calories or fat grams, or filling your pantry with “diet” foods or drinks. If you want to control your weight, try eating these.

Cody Burgess Lost 177 Pounds And Was Finally Able To Ride A Roller Coaster Again

Name: Cody Burgess
Age: 29
Height: 6'1"
Before Weight: 412 pounds
How I Gained It: My whole life I have been overweight. My earliest memory of looking at a scale was when I tried out for wrestling at age 13 and saw 260 pounds. I was so heavy that they wouldn't let me wrestle, so I quit.

How A Breakup Led To A 136-Pound Weight Loss For Lisa Jarrett

Name: Lisa Jarrett
Age: 31
Height: 5'8"
Before Weight: 336 pounds
How I Gained It: I grew up in a single-income, blue collar family outside of Chicago. My parents, while at normal weights in their youth, were both obese, and I picked up on many of their bad behaviors. Growing up, dinners consisted of lots of greasy meat, canned vegetables and boxed potatoes.

How Leggings and a Justin Timberlake Concert Changed My Life

I never thought I'd be writing this post. What I actually mean is I never thought I'd be writing this post describing my success at training for and completing my first triathlon. Sure, a post to the tune of "How Failing to Complete a Triathlon Made Me a Better Person" seemed like a plausible, if not likely, post -- not one describing what it feels like to actually achieve such a feat.

7 Strategies For Lasting Fat Loss

You have that one friend, and I do too. She enjoys delicious food but stays lean and healthy. She ages gracefully, with glowing skin and a vibrant smile. She radiates confidence and turn heads in her little black dress, yet she could do the same thing in a simple cami and pair of skinny jeans.

Healthier Sweetener or Another Pretty Name for Sugar?

"It's the new it sweetener," my friend said somewhat facetiously, pulling out a small bag of organic raw coconut sugar during a recent catch-up over green tea at our favorite coffee place. "Besides, you love coconut."
True: I love unsweetened coconut milk in my protein shakes, and coconut oil remains a staple in stir-frys and other high-heat cooking.

7 Ways To Avoid Stress-Related Weight Gain

SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue

By Linda Melone
Stressful home situations or working at a job that makes you crazy can lead to weight gain over time, according to a new study from Ohio State University.
The study involved 58 women, average age 53, who were questioned about their prior day’s stressful events before being given a high-fat meal of 930 calories and 60 grams of fat (equivalent to a quarter pounder with cheese and bacon plus fries). Afterward, researchers measured the women’s metabolic rates (the time it took for them to burn calories and fat). Blood sugar, insulin and the stress hormone cortisol were among the parameters measured.

Anorexia fueled by pride about weight loss, study suggests

Positive emotions -- even those viewed through a distorted lens -- may play an exacerbating role in fueling eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, which has a death rate 12 times higher for females between the ages of 15 and 24 than all other causes of death combined, according to a Rutgers study.
In research published in Clinical Psychological Science, Edward Selby, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, School of Arts and Sciences, measured over a two week period the emotional states of 118 women between the ages of 18-58 being treated for anorexia nervosa. Selby found that those in the study not only suffered from negative emotions but also felt emotionally positive, having a sense of pride over being able to maintain and exceed their weight-loss goals.

Your Weight Loss Frenemies and 5 Strategies to Stop Them

Crowdsourcing may help dieters lose weight

Crowdsourcing may help dieters stick to healthy foods and lose weight, as participants are as good as trained experts at correctly rating the healthiness of foods and giving feedback on them, indicates research published online in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Being able to track energy intake and getting personalized feedback on diet have been linked to greater weight loss, but can be hard to sustain over time, say the researchers.

Financial weight makes it trickier to lose pounds where it counts

Weight-loss advertising tends to target people ready, willing and able to pay for diet programs, special meals or gym memberships. But it's those who live below the poverty line who are more likely to be overweight or obese.
When it comes to weight-loss for the poor, it turns out that it's more than just cash-flow that stands in the way. A new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine
by researchers from Concordia University shows that those who struggle the most financially also are less likely to constructively battle the bulge through exercise, drinking water, or reducing fat or sweets compared to those in the highest income bracket.

Take the Perspective of Your Clothes: Part One in a Series to Bring About Lasting Change

I was a rather large boy when I was young. Not large in the height sense of the word, but more so in the girth sense. In fact, my mother used to buy me "husky" pants from JC Penney. Perhaps we can address in another blog what that does to a person's self-esteem when he has to wear huskies to school. But suffice it to say, this was the beginning of a poor relationship with clothing.

Losing weight won't necessarily make you happy, researchers say

In a study of 1,979 overweight and obese adults in the UK, people who lost 5% or more of their initial body weight over four years showed significant changes in markers of physical health, but were more likely to report depressed mood than those who stayed within 5% of their original weight.

How to Kill the Backlog -- Forever!

Stacks of unopened mail, a bedroom chair covered with discarded clothes, piles to file, an endless to-do list, a maxed out credit card and that five pounds you've been trying to lose forever -- life's backlogs are a major cause of stress, eating away at our sense of well-being, hampering our productivity and casting a shadow over our free time so that it never really feels "free." Some weekend soon, we tell ourselves, we will finally catch up and be able to live in the present moment. One day, someday, we will get it together, vanquish our backlogs and live fit, neat and organized.

The Weight of Valuing Myself

If you would have asked me what was wrong in my life, during the first 29 years of my life, I would have said, "I am fat, and I need to lose weight."
I would not have mentioned that my mother had a nervous breakdown when I was a child, ripped up my favorite Raggedy Anne doll, and that my father punched holes through the wall and covered up the eyesore with a "Home Sweet Home" sign after coming home drunk.

After Giving Birth To Twins, Carra Hughes Greer Lost 81 Pounds

Name: Carra Hughes Greer
Age: 31
Height: 5'6"
Before Weight: 265 pounds
How I Gained It: I carried and gave birth to four kids in under four years, each time stacking on the pounds. I gained significant weight with my last two kids because they were twins.

Well: Birth Weight and Diabetes

View the original article here

I Wore a Bikini And The World Didn't Crumble

Remember the show on MTV, Made? It took ordinary young adults with big dreams, usually dreams that were the total opposite of their current life, and helped them achieve it. Like the drama girl who dreamed of making cheer squad. The shy boy who wanted to build up courage to ask his long-time crush to the prom. Or the girly-girly who thought it would be awesome to learn how to snowboard.

4 Ways to Stay on Your Diet Without Giving Up Your Social Life

Dinner parties, dances, and date nights can add up to disaster if you're not ultra savvy. One of the most infamous gripes I hear is feeling like you have to choose between sticking to your diet and causing a scene at parties.

You've worked hard to get yourself in shape! Don't assume amnesty to the oldest of influences -- peer pressure -- just because you're out of high school. The desire to remain inconspicuous in a group is one of the most common reasons people break their diet. If you're often social and want to keep your Vogue (or GQ) physique, you'll need to know the tricks. Here are four real world tips.....

David Katz, M.D.: Diet Research, Stuck in the Stone Age

You cannot get a good answer to a lousy question.
The current diet study making headlines purportedly asked, and answered this question: Which is better for weight loss and improving cardiac risk, a low-fat or a low-carb diet? For starters, that is a truly lousy question, resurrected from something like the Stone Age. I doubt even the Paleo clan find the question attractive, since they like prehistoric food, not prehistoric research questions about food.

Sarah Maizes: Goodbye, Skinny Genes

I have skinny jeans and I'm not happy about it.
I've never had skinny jeans before. Of course I've put on weight since my college days -- probably around 20 pounds (I was 5'8" and 125 when I graduated. Hate me? That's OK. I hate me too now). But I never noticed a dramatic change. It just sort of snuck up on me -- this morning.

The Best Water Workouts For Labor Day Weekend

Nora Tobin
Fitness Contributing Editor for Shape Magazine, Corporate Wellness Director and Fitness Nutrition Specialist