Ultrasound Is The Latest Body Sculpting Technique

The latest body sculpting technique employs a high-energy focused ultrasound to get rid of unwanted abdominal fat & decrease waist circumference, with no more than slight pain & side effects.

Liposuction, the most common body sculpting medical procedure, helps get rid of fairly substantial volumes of fat.

Oregon Health Science University researchers say the high-intensity ultrasound offers a non-invasive alternative to liposuction for eliminating unwanted fat in patients who are non-obese.   

In the study, the body sculpting procedure was carried out in about 50 minutes & caused only slight pain, swelling & bruising in patients.

Patients who seek treatment for tiny, localized fat deposits can now opt for the high-energy ultrasound technique instead of liposuction.

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Chewing Your Food 40 Times Is The Key To Weight Loss

Scientists say munching food for longer could help you cut flab.

Chewing each mouthful for a longer time significantly lowers the amount of calories you consume during a meal.

Chinese researchers found that volunteers who munched each mouthful forty times ate 12% less food compared to those who munched just fifteen times.

It’s believed chewing food for longer checks over-indulging as the brain gets ample to receive signals from your stomach that it’s full. 

Besides, it also apparently reduces the ghrelin levels.  Ghrelin is a hormone which stimulates the appetite by either increasing it or reducing it.

Harbin Medical University researchers believe eating slowly may be a simple & effective way of dealing with weight problems.

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Weight Loss Surgery Aids In Relieving Migraines

A new study by the Miriam Hospital has found that bariatric surgery might offer an additional benefit to extremely obese patients apart from weight loss: it could also help relieve the excruciating agony of migraine headaches.

According to researchers, overweight patients who had experienced agonizing and unbearable migraines prior to bariatric surgery spoke of improvements in headache severity, frequency & disability just 6 months after surgery. By then, most patients had shed an average of 66.4 pounds.

Migraines are reckoned to be induced by unusual brain activity, which is activated by stress, environmental factors, certain foods or other factors, even though the precise chain of events is unclear. Usually migraine pain is moderate to severe, frequently described as throbbing, pounding pain often experienced on entirely one side of the head.

Migraines can persist from 4 hours to 3 days & usually occur 1 to 4 times a month. The symptoms include vomiting, nausea and light sensitivity. No specific cure is available for migraine headaches though certain medications could help bring down the number of attacks.

Obesity is believed to contribute to aggravation of migraine, especially in extremely obese individuals. The study furnishes evidence that weight loss might play a key role in treating migraines in obese patients.

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Fake Frankfurter Diet Cons Dieters

A fake diet advising dieters to eat frankfurters for dinner has duped thousands.

The fat-fighting tactic — falsely labeled the ‘British Heart Foundation diet’ — is a 3-day low calorie diet plan that claims to help slimmers shed 10lbs by adopting tasteless meal plans. The Frankfurter diet plan involves measuring out cups of cauliflower, string beans and tuna and drinking coffee and black tea.

The ‘Official BHF diet’, circulated on a number of websites, provides recommendations for breakfast, lunch & dinner for 3 days.

It claims that it’s a proven and a 100% non-risk diet and that followers will shed pounds ‘through chemical breakdown’.

The British Heart Foundation issued a warning to dieters to keep away from the sham online diet plan after claims that it had endorsed the regimen.

The BHF called it a “faddy crash diet” that could leave people devoid of essential nutrients.

People who have tried the frankfurter diet complained of bad headaches and a feeling of wooziness.

Apart from being totally unappetizing with meal suggestions involving having 2 frankfurters with 1 cup of cabbage & ½ cup of carrots followed by vanilla ice-cream, this bogus diet plan is so restrictive with regard to the range & quantity of food that it’s deficient in a number of essential nutrients required for staying healthy.

The lack of fiber implies that followers may develop constipation and in the long term may also lead to iron & calcium deficiency, which can lead to brittle bones & teeth & feeling constantly lethargic and tired if left unchecked.

Rather than helping people help shed fat, this kind of quick-fix diet results in most people losing largely water & some muscle.

The BHF is completely clueless about who invented & circulated the frankfurter diet plan, but over the past couple of months, thousands of people are thought to have tried this crash diet.

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Have Flour, Almonds to Satiate Hunger Pangs

The trick to controlling hunger pangs lies in having almonds and wheat flour – they make you feel full, leading to less food intake & help prevent overeating.

Although hunger pains may strike folks at different times all through the day, decreasing or satiating them is a common issue for people either trying to shed pounds or maintain a particular weight.

Foods that increase satiety include:

- Whole grains like rye, oats, barley and corn. The high-volume & low-energy density plus the rather lower palatability of the whole-grains may promote a feeling of fullness.

 - Fiber like resistant starch & oligosaccharides. In healthy individuals, resistant starch isn’t digested in the smallintestine and hence presents the benefits of soluble as well as insoluble fiber.

Oligosaccharides – complex carbohydrates found in legumes and beans – help maintain normal blood sugar levels when consumed as part of a meal. Akin to resistant starch, they escape digestion in the small intestine & finish up being  metabolized & ejected from the large intestine.

- Protein plays a significant role in managing hunger and hunger satiating protein foods include soy, which triggers the release of CCK (cholecystokinin), a hormone that helps suppress appetite; whey, which stimulates numerous gastrointestinal hormones which are believed to regulate the brain’s appetite control; egg, which supplies protein in the form of easily available, vital amino acids; & potato protein extract that promises optimal satiety by facilitating CCK’s release.

- Almonds.  One ounce of almonds has 6 gms of protein & they are often recommended as snacks by weight loss programs due to their role in satiety. 

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