Step Into the Future With 5 Advances in Orthopedic Surgery

The medical field is always growing and changing. Doctors are always trying to create the best patient experience and perfecting treatments. Today, there are procedures available for some conditions that might have been the end of someone ten years ago. Just like other areas in medicine, orthopedics has evolved over the years to become a specialty that treats numerous conditions.

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Walk Your Way to Old Age - Joint Replacement Surgeries Overseas for International Patients

Seeking medical treatment is quite popular with international patients, especially those who wish to get affordable, safe and reliable joint replacement surgery. The motivation for travel is sometimes cost and sometimes better treatment. The most popular are knee, hip and shoulder joint replacement.

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Gastroenterologists Owe Their Modern Techniques to Doctors Shinya and Wolff

One of the major tools gastroenterologists use to prevent, treat, and diagnose colorectal issues is the colonoscopy. This groundbreaking procedure was pioneered by William Wolf and Hiromi Shinya, who also created another remarkable development in the field, the polypectomy snare.

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Always Hungry? 8 Reasons You Can’t. Stop. Eating.

You probably don’t have a tapeworm. But you’re likely sleeping too little, spending too much time on Instagram, and do a bunch of other things make you so freaking hungry, all the (freaking) time.

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Tips to Selecting the Best Gym

More so, one should look for a place where the entire focus is not dedicated to physical body alone. After all, staying fit should not only be fun but it must also include the virtues of total health.

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9 Tricks to Lose Weight Over the Weekend

Saturdays and Sundays don’t have to pack on pounds. Here’s how to use your weekend to be happy with the scale Monday morning.

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How to Lose Weight: 40 Fast Easy Tips

 

1. Write down what you eat for one week and you will lose weight. Studies found that people who keep food diaries wind up eating about 15 percent less food than those who don’t. Watch out for weekends: A University of North Carolina study found people tend to consume an extra 115 calories per weekend day, primarily from alcohol and fat. Then cut out or down calories from spreads, dressings, sauces, condiments, drinks, and snacks; they could make the difference between weight gain and loss.

 

Need major weight-loss motivation? Here’s the secret weight-loss advice used by the folks on The Biggest Loser and other reality shows.

 

2. Add 10 percent to the amount of daily calories you think you’re eating. If you think you’re consuming 1,700 calories a day and don’t understand why you’re not losing weight, add another 170 calories to your guesstimate. Chances are, the new number is more accurate. Adjust your eating habits accordingly.

3. Get an online weight loss buddy to lose more weight. A University of Vermont study found that online weight-loss buddies help you keep the weight off. The researchers followed volunteers for 18 months. Those assigned to an Internet-based weight maintenance program sustained their weight loss better than those who met face-to-face in a support group.

4. Get a mantra.
You’ve heard of a self-fulfilling prophecy? If you keep focusing on things you can’t do, like resisting junk food or getting out the door for a daily walk, chances are you won’t do them. Instead (whether you believe it or not) repeat positive thoughts to yourself. “I can lose weight.” “I will get out for my walk today.” “I know I can resist the pastry cart after dinner.” Repeat these phrases and before too long, they will become true for you.

5. After breakfast, stick to water.
At breakfast, go ahead and drink orange juice. But throughout the rest of the day, focus on water instead of juice or soda. The average American consumes an extra 245 calories a day from soft drinks. That’s nearly 90,000 calories a year—or 25 pounds! And research shows that despite the calories, sugary drinks don’t trigger a sense of fullness the way that food does.

6. Eat three fewer bites of your meal,
one less treat a day, or one less glass of orange juice. Doing any of these can save you about 100 calories a day, and that alone is enough to prevent you from gaining the two pounds most people mindlessly pack on each year.

7. Watch one less hour of TV.
A study of 76 undergraduate students found the more they watched television, the more often they ate and the more they ate overall. Sacrifice one program (there’s probably one you don’t really want to watch anyway) and go for a walk instead.

8. Wash something thoroughly once a week.
Whether that’s a floor, a couple of windows, the shower stall, bathroom tile, or your car, a 150-pound person will burn about four calories for every minute spent cleaning. Scrub for 30 minutes and you could work off approximately 120 calories, the same number in a half-cup of vanilla frozen yogurt.

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9. Wait until your stomach rumbles before you reach for food.
It’s stunning how often we eat out of boredom, nervousness, habit, or frustration—so often, in fact, that many of us have actually forgotten what physical hunger feels like. If you’re hankering for a specific food, it’s probably a craving, not hunger. If you’d eat anything you could get your hands on, chances are you’re truly hungry. Find ways other than eating to express love, tame stress, and relieve boredom. 

10. Sniff a banana, an apple, or a peppermint when you feel hungry.
You might feel silly, but it works. When Alan R. Hirsch, M.D., neurological director of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, tried this with 3,000 volunteers, he found that the more frequently people sniffed, the less hungry they were and the more weight they lost—an average of 30 pounds each. One theory is that sniffing the food tricks the brain into thinking you’re actually eating it.

11. Stare at the color blue.
There’s a good reason you won’t see many fast-food restaurants decorated in blue: it functions as an appetite suppressant. So serve up dinner on blue plates, dress in blue while you eat, and cover your table with a blue tablecloth. Conversely, avoid red, yellow, and orange in your dining areas. Studies find they encourage eating.

12. Eat in front of mirrors and you’ll lose weight.
One study found that eating in front of mirrors slashed the amount people ate by nearly one-third. Having to look yourself in the eye reflects back some of your own inner standards and goals, and reminds you of why you’re trying to lose weight in the first place.

13. Spend 10 minutes a day walking up and down stairs.
The Centers for Disease Control says that’s all it takes to help you shed as much as 10 pounds a year (assuming you don’t start eating more).

14. Walk five minutes for at least every two hours.
Stuck at a desk all day? A brisk five-minute walk every two hours will parlay into an extra 20-minute walk by the end of the day. And getting a break will make you less likely to reach for snacks out of antsiness.

 

15. You’ll lose weight and fat if you walk 45 minutes a day, not 30.
The reason we’re suggesting 45 minutes instead of the typical 30 is that a Duke University study found that while 30 minutes of daily walking is enough to prevent weight gain in most relatively sedentary people, exercise beyond 30 minutes results in weight and fat loss. Burning an additional 300 calories a day with three miles of brisk walking (45 minutes should do it) could help you lose 30 pounds in a year without even changing how much you’re eating.

16. Don’t buy any prepared food
that lists sugar, fructose, or corn syrup among the first four ingredients on the label. You should be able to find a lower-sugar version of the same type of food. If you can’t, grab a piece of fruit instead! Look for sugar-free varieties of foods such as ketchup, mayonnaise, and salad dressing. Also, avoid partially hydrogenated foods, and look for more than two grams of fiber per 100 calories in all grain products. Finally, a short ingredient list means fewer flavor enhancers and empty calories.

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17. Put your fork or spoon down between every bite.
At the table, sip water frequently. Intersperse your eating with stories for your dining partner of the amusing things that happened during your day. Your brain lags your stomach by about 20 minutes when it comes to satiety (fullness) signals. If you eat slowly enough, your brain will catch up to tell you that you are no longer in need of food.

18. Throw out your “fat” clothes for good.
Once you’ve started losing weight, throw out or give away every piece of clothing that doesn’t fit. The idea of having to buy a whole new wardrobe if you gain the weight back will serve as a strong incentive to stay fit.

19. Close the kitchen for 12 hours.
After dinner, wash all the dishes, wipe down the counters, turn out the light, and, if necessary, tape closed the cabinets and refrigerator. Late-evening eating significantly increases the overall number of calories you eat, a University of Texas study found. Stopping late-night snacking can save 300 or more calories a day, or 31 pounds a year.

20. Walk before dinner and you’ll cut calories AND your appetite.
In a study of 10 obese women conducted at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, 20 minutes of walking reduced appetite and increased sensations of fullness as effectively as a light meal.

 

21. Make one social outing this week an active one.
Pass on the movies and screen the views of a local park instead. Not only will you sit less, but you’ll be saving calories because you won’t chow down on that bucket of popcorn. Other active ideas: a tennis match, a guided nature or city walk (check your local listings), a bike ride, or bowling.

22. Buy a pedometer, clip it to your belt, and aim for an extra 1,000 steps a day.
On average, sedentary people take only 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. Adding 2,000 steps will help you maintain your current weight and stop gaining weight; adding more than that will help you lose weight.

23. Put less food out and you’ll take less in.
Conversely, the more food in front of you, the more you’ll eat—regardless of how hungry you are. So instead of using regular dinner plates that range these days from 10 to 14 inches (making them look empty if they’re not heaped with food), serve your main course on salad plates (about 7 to 9 inches wide). Instead of 16-ounce glasses and oversized coffee mugs, return to the old days of 8-ounce glasses and 6-ounce coffee cups.

24. Eat 90 percent of your meals at home.
You’re more likely to eat more—and eat more high-fat, high-calorie foods—when you eat out than when you eat at home. Restaurants today serve such large portions that many have switched to larger plates and tables to accommodate them.

 

25. Serve food on your plate instead of on platters.
If you eat your dinner restaurant style on your plate rather than family style, helping yourself from bowls and platters on the table, you’ll lose weight. Most of us tend to eat an average of 150 percent more calories in the evening than in the morning. You’ll avoid that now because when your plate is empty, you’re finished; there’s no reaching for seconds.

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26. Don’t eat with a large group.
A study published in the Journal of Physiological Behavior found that we tend to eat more when we eat with other people, most likely because we spend more time at the table. But eating with your significant other or your family, and using table time for talking in between chewing, can help cut down on calories.

27. Order the smallest portion of everything.
If you’re out and ordering a sub, get the 6-inch sandwich. Buy a small popcorn, a small salad, a small hamburger. Again, studies find we tend to eat what’s in front of us, even though we’d feel just as full on less.

28. Eat water-rich foods and you’ll eat fewer calories overall.
A body of research out of Pennsylvania State University finds that eating water-rich foods such as zucchini, tomatoes, and cucumbers during meals reduces your overall calorie consumption. Other water-rich foods include soups and salads. You won’t get the same benefits by just drinking your water, though. Because the body processes hunger and thirst through different mechanisms, it simply doesn’t register a sense of fullness with water (or soda, tea, coffee, or juice).

29. Bulk up your meals with veggies.
You can eat twice as much pasta salad loaded with veggies like broccoli, carrots, and tomatoes for the same calories as a pasta salad sporting just mayonnaise. Same goes for stir-fries, omelets, and other veggie-friendly dishes. If you eat a 1:1 ratio of grains to veggies, the high-fiber veggies will help satisfy your hunger before you overeat the grains. Bonus: Fiber is highly beneficial for preventing constipation, which can make you look bloated.

30. Avoid white foods. There is some scientific legitimacy to today’s lower-carb diets: Large amounts of simple carbohydrates from white flour and added sugar can wreak havoc on your blood sugar and lead to weight gain. While avoiding sugar, white rice, and white flour, however, you should eat plenty of whole-grain breads and brown rice. One Harvard study of 74,000 women found that those who ate more than two daily servings of whole grains were 49 percent less likely to be overweight than those who ate the white stuff.

31. Switch to ordinary coffee.
Fancy coffee drinks from trendy coffee joints often pack several hundred calories, thanks to whole milk, whipped cream, sugar, and sugary syrups. A cup of regular coffee with skim milk has just a small fraction of those calories. And when brewed with good beans, it tastes just as great. You can also try nonfat powdered milk in coffee. You’ll get the nutritional benefits of skim milk, which is high in calcium and low in calories. And, because the water has been removed, powdered milk doesn’t dilute the coffee the way skim milk does.

32. If you’re going to indulge, choose fat-releasing foods
They should help keep you from feeling deprived and bingeing on higher-calorie foods. For instance: honey has just 64 fat releasing calories in one tablespoon. Eggs have just 70 calories in one hard-boiled egg, loaded with fat releasing protein. Part-skim ricotta cheese has just 39 calories in one ounce, packed with fat releasing calcium. Dark chocolate has about 168 calories in a one-ounce square, but it’s packed with fat releasers. And a University of Tennessee study found that people who cut 500 calories a day and ate yogurt three times a day for 12 weeks lost more weight and body fat than a group that only cut the calories. The researchers concluded that the calcium in low-fat dairy foods triggers a hormonal response that inhibits the body’s production of fat cells and boosts the breakdown of fat.

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33. Enjoy high-calorie treats as the accent, not the centerpiece
Make a spoonful of ice cream the jewel and a bowl of fruit the crown. Cut down on the chips by pairing each bite with lots of chunky, filling fresh salsa, suggests Jeff Novick, director of nutrition at the Pritikin Longevity Center & Spa in Florida. Balance a little cheese with a lot of fruit or salad.

 

34. Eat cereal for breakfast five days a week.
Studies find that people who eat cereal for breakfast every day are significantly less likely to be obese and have diabetes than those who don’t. They also consume more fiber and calcium—and less fat—than those who eat other breakfast foods. Make oatmeal, or pour out a high-fiber, low-sugar cereal like Total or Grape Nuts.

 

35. Try hot sauce, salsa, and Cajun seasonings
They provide lots of flavor with no fat and few calories, plus they turn up your digestive fires, causing your body to temporarily burn more calories. Choose them over butter and creamy or sugary sauces.

 

36. Eat fruit instead of drinking fruit juice.
For the calories in one kid-size box of apple juice, you can enjoy an apple, orange, and a slice of watermelon. These whole foods will keep you satisfied much longer than that box of apple juice, so you’ll eat less overall.

 

37. Drop your milk type and you cut calories by about 20 percent.
If you drink regular, go to 2%. If you already drink 2%, go down another notch to 1% or skim milk. Each step downward cuts the calories by about 20 percent. Once you train your taste buds to enjoy skim milk, you’ll have cut the calories in the whole milk by about half and trimmed the fat by more than 95 percent.

 

38. Snack on a small handful of nuts.
Studies have found that overweight people who ate a moderate-fat diet containing almonds lost more weight than a control group that didn’t eat nuts. Snacking once or twice a day helps stave off hunger and keeps your metabolism stoked. You can also pack up baby carrots or your own trail mix with nuts, raisins, seeds, and dried fruit.

39. Get most of your calories before noon.
Studies find that the more you eat in the morning, the less you’ll eat in the evening. And you have more opportunities to burn off those early-day calories than you do to burn off dinner calories.

40. Brush your teeth after every meal, especially dinner.
That clean, minty freshness will serve as a cue to your body and brain that mealtime is over.

 

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Classic Diet Advice You Can Safely Ignore

It's time to reconsider everything you once held true about dieting. Health experts debunk the most commonly believed weight loss myths.

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18 Weight Loss Secrets From Around the World That Are Totally Worth Stealing

Just about every culture has some habit that can keep people slim. Get ready to send your belly packing!

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Are Curved Stairlifts Really Worth the Investment?

Despite the fact that stairlifts allow individuals to fully enjoy their properties, even if they are suffering from reduced mobility due to illness, injury or disability, one of the main reasons that people are put off investing in curved stairlifts is that they are generally considered one of the most expensive options on the market. To give a little bit of context, there are two main types of stairlift - curved ones and straight ones - each one designed to fit a particular type of staircase. Most staircases are either straight up and down, or alternatively curved,...

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7 Clear Signs Youre Not Eating Enough Healthy Fats

Science says: You need fat in your diet. You just have to make sure you’re consuming the right kind of good fats, and the right amount.

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10 Bad Foods You Can Stop Demonizing

You eliminated these foods from your diet (or still eat them, with guilt). Here’s why you can stop all that.

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14 Things Nutritionists Always Do At the Grocery Store (That You Might Not)

Looking to revamp your grocery store game plan? Take these tips for a healthy food list from registered dietitians on your next shopping trip.

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Healthy Living - 4 Ways To Boost Your Longevity

If there's one thing you can be certain of, it's we all have a fixed time on this planet. Far too many people take their day-to-day living for granted. They're either dwelling on the past, stressing about the future, or not maximizing their health so they can make the most of each day. Before they know it years have passed, and they wonder where the time went. Striving to boost your longevity so you can get as much as possible out of this life while also feeling your best is a must.

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The Benefits Of Protein

Proteins are long chains of amino acids that can be found in a wide range of foods. They are stored within our body by a multitude of peptide bonds. If you don't have enough protein in your diet, you will have to deal with a deficiency of various amino acids. The results are unfortunately very bad, because you will face a low concentration, memory loss, mood swings, a low energy level, a low muscle mass, an unstable blood sugar level and at the same time it will be hard for you to lose weight as well.

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12 Things You Do That Secretly Slow Your Metabolism

The last thing you want to do is stand in the way of your body burning calories. So the first thing you should do is not make these metabolism-slowing mistakes again.

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8 Steps To Healthy Living

Take these eight steps to heart and live longer, enjoy life more, and feel good in your body and mind all of the time. Have routine screening, watch your weight, be active, have a healthy diet, rid of stress in your life, guard your relationships, get plenty of sleep and rest, challenge your mind.

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When a Person Should Consider Hip Replacement Surgery

If a person experiences less mobility due to hip joint pain, they should consider hip replacement surgery. People should discuss with their doctors if they should also consider nonsurgical treatments first.

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Most Common Orthopedic Surgeries

Orthopedic surgeries are those that deal with the muscles and skeleton in the human body. This kind of surgery corrects problems that arise in the skeleton, attachments, ligaments and tendons. Some other common problems arise from injury to the spine or damage due to aging.

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10 Tricks to Lose Weight Just Sitting at Your Desk

Being stuck at a desk all day doesn’t mean work has to be bad for your weight.

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Eating Late at Night: The New Science of Why It’s Making You Fat

Jackie Rodriguez gained 70 pounds after her first child was born. “I was very unhappy, but I stayed like that for two years,” she says. Then, when her daughter was two, she dropped all the weight with practically no effort. “I wasn’t using any diet pills, fat burners, or shakes … nothing,” she recalls.

The transformation had nothing to do with what Rodriguez ate. Rather, it began when she started a new job that shook up her daily routine. Working in the office of a DJ company near her apartment in the Bronx in New York City, she started her shift at 5:30 p.m. Instead of sharing dinner with her husband at nine, when he got home from his job as a superintendent, she ate alone at five, before she dropped her child with a sitter and went to work.

Within nine months, she’d slimmed from a size 16 to a size 2. She felt like a movie star who seems to lose baby weight effortlessly. “You don’t think that could happen to you,” she says.

Night work often leads to weight gain, so Rodriguez’s story might seem to be a quirk of her particular physique. But unlike many such workers, who labor in the wee hours or work rotating shifts, Rodriguez clocked out by 11 p.m. and got a regular night’s sleep. Perhaps even more important, she didn’t eat at work or when she got home—just showered and went to bed.

Her main adjustment was moving dinnertime almost four hours earlier. That single, simple change seems to have triggered Rodriguez’s dramatic weight loss—and emerging scientific evidence may explain why.

 

New Danger of Night Eating
In labs around the world, researchers are developing a completely new understanding of how metabolism works. It seems that our bodies are primed to process food most efficiently when it’s eaten during daylight hours. “We now recognize that our biology responds differently to calories consumed at different times of day,” says Harvard neuroscientist Frank Scheer, PhD. That means a habit as innocuous as eating at night, compared with eating calorically equivalent meals during the day, may cause people to gain weight. “That late-night bowl of ice cream may all go toward your waistline,” says UCLA neuroscientist Christopher Colwell, PhD, author of Circadian Medicine.

Our biology responds differently to calories consumed at different times of day.

Just look at Satchidananda Panda’s mice. A molecular biologist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, Panda is a leading expert on how the timing of food intake affects health. His team has found that mice that eat only during their active hours (the equivalent of daytime for humans) are drastically healthier and thinner than mice that eat the same amount of food scattered over 24 hours.

Encouragingly, when unhealthy, snack-around-the-clock mice are put on a strict schedule that allows them to eat only during their daytime, their diabetes and fatty liver disease improve and their cholesterol levels and inflammation markers diminish. “It’s likely we can reduce the severity [of disease] just by changing when people eat,” Panda says.

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The Food-Driven Clock
To understand the connection between meal timing and health, you have to go way, way back in history. The dramatic daily shifts between light and darkness on our planet because of sunrise and sunset have been incorporated into the biology of nearly every living thing. Our internal organs function differently during the day from how they do at night, in patterns known as circadian rhythms.

Over the past few years, researchers have discovered that unnatural light exposure—such as staying up late amid the glare of a digital screen—disrupts these rhythms in ways that over time can lead to a host of illnesses.

But now experts have begun to suspect a second circadian clock in the body—organized around food, not light. Scientists still have much to learn about this food-based body clock, but evidence suggests that round-the-clock snacking may pose as much of a danger to our health as artificial light at night. Night eating has been implicated as a factor in diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and learning and memory problems.

Throughout evolution, daytime has been for nourishment and nighttime for fasting, and our organs have evolved accordingly. Digestive enzymes and hormones ebb and flow in a predictable pattern over the course of 24 hours, enabling the liver, intestines, and other digestive organs to function together as one well-oiled machine. Our modern world of late-night takeout and snack-filled pantries threatens to upend this calibrating role of food.

“When you eat all the time, your insulin and glucose levels are elevated all the time,” says Ruth Patterson, PhD, a nutrition expert and epidemiologist at the University of California, San Diego.

Night eating has been implicated as a factor in diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and learning and memory problems.

Insulin promotes growth—its constant presence in the bloodstream may give precancerous cells a deadly boost. In new research on breast cancer survivors, Patterson and her colleagues found that breast cancer recurrences were less likely when women abstained from food for at least 13 hours at night.

 

Gut Rest: How It Works
Compared with other kinds of diets, night fasting is simple. In a small pilot study, Patterson’s team told women to eat dinner as early as 6 p.m. and definitely by 8 p.m. and not to eat again until eight in the morning, for at least 12 hours of “gut rest.”

“[Fasting] they instantly understood,” Patterson says. “They didn’t have to change what they ate or how they cooked. They would say, ‘If I give my husband a salad for dinner, that doesn’t always fly.’ But when they just said, ‘I don’t ever eat after eight o’clock,’ the men were like, ‘Whoa, tough girl!’ They got respect.”

The new research suggests that breakfast really is the most important meal of the day—but we need to embrace its original meaning: breaking a fast. The first meal of the day is most beneficial only if it comes after 12 to 14 hours of not eating or drinking, says Panda.

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In addition to fasting at night, it’s beneficial to eat your main meal earlier in the day. In a 2013 study, Harvard’s Frank Scheer and Marta Garaulet of the University of Murcia in Spain analyzed 420 dieters at weight-loss clinics. Participants ate the same number of calories and were equally active, but those who had their main meal before 3 p.m. lost significantly more weight than those who ate later. “To find such big differences in weight loss with just a slight difference in meal timing is quite remarkable,” says Scheer.

To many, the science of meal timing is nothing but common sense. Craig Weingard, a compliance manager at a financial firm, is an acolyte of a bodybuilding expert who for years has included nightly fasts among his recommendations. For the longest time, Weingard resisted. It seemed too painful to go to bed hungry. Finally, he tried it. “In a flash, my whole body changed. I literally can see it the next day when I look at my stomach if I didn’t eat after six,” he says. “Anything you eat after 6:15 p.m. becomes part of you.”

 

Tricks to Use the Food Clock to Lose Weight

1. Fast for at least half of each day. Try not to eat for at least a 12-hour span daily. Ideally your fast would begin after the evening meal (from 6 to 8 p.m.) and extend until breakfast (8 a.m.).

2. Eat breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper. A 2013 Israeli study put overweight and obese women into two groups. Both had the same number of calories, but one ate a large breakfast, a medium lunch, and a small dinner; the other had a small breakfast, a medium lunch, and a large dinner. The large-breakfast group lost more weight and showed a stronger improvement in metabolic health metrics.

3. Forgo late-night noshing. A 2015 study found that an evening meal raises people’s blood sugar levels 17 percent more than does an identical meal eaten in the morning. Related research found that the number of calories people burn digesting food in the first two hours after a meal drops by half if they eat the meal in the evening versus the morning

4. Consume only water during your fast. Anything else will start your body clock. Put off that morning coffee until after your 12-hour window.

5. Adjust to your natural rhythms. Early birds might want to eat supper at 6 p.m. and fast until 6 a.m. or later. For night owls, it might be easier to have dinner at 9 p.m. and fast until at least 9 a.m.

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How to Find a Clinical Trial to Participate In

Many people with both minor and major illnesses are keen to participate in clinical trials, and this is often for the very good reason that they can often bring a great deal of advantages to the patient in question. Although not all clinical research will successfully treatment an illness, in many cases the chances are that improvements can be made, health-wise.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Clinical Research

Clinical trials present an opportunity for many people to seek alternative treatment options for a range of illnesses and diseases, and are also often undertaken by those who have an interest in contributing to science and medicine by giving their time to clinical research. There are indeed many benefits to clinical research, including the often improved outcomes of certain people with serious and non-serious medical conditions and a higher standard of care.

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Tackle the Termite of Monotony That Is Hollowing Our Strength

Monotony rules where there is lack of variety and interest. It not only snatches away the flavor of life but devoid us from relishing the sweet giggly moments as well. A tedious routine or any repetitive activity leaves behind nothing but a passive mind and a fettered soul. Being mechanical, we become oblivion to the beauties of nature, and all bestowed blessings.

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9 Tricks to Jump-Start Weight Loss (Before You Even Start a Diet)

Lay the proper groundwork before you begin a new diet to ensure weight-loss success.

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Tips to Keep Cool This Summer

Summer is a great season to get a good tan, go to the beach and have your fill of activities. However, it can get really hot sometimes, especially when you're in places like Qatar and the Middle East. Unfortunately, you can't just stay in your air-conditioned room all day like a hermit, right? So don't let the heat put you down. You can still have fun, get fit and keep the summer heat away by using some clever tricks. Check out these tips to keep you cool this summer.

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Eight Symptoms Of Hormonal Imbalance

Hormonal imbalance is a problem for many people across the country. The following are some symptoms to look out for if a problem is suspected.

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9 Things Your Sweat Says About Your Health

Sweat can tell you more about your fitness and happiness levels than you might think.

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35 Health Secrets Your Body Is Trying to Tell You

What it really needs for better health, nutrition, sleep, pain relief, and more.

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9 Clear Signs You’re Eating Too Much Sugar

You know you’re supposed to limit added sugar in your diet, but even if you steer clear of Ben and Jerry’s, chances are you’re eating more sugar than you think. Here’s how your body might be telling you to limit your sugar intake.

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5 Reasons You Might Be Fat, According to a ‘Biggest Loser’ Producer

Reality-TV producer J.D. Roth has seen firsthand why some people can lose magical amounts of weight (and keep it off), and others can't. The difference has to do with how they overcome mental roadblocks.

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The Walk-In Clinic: Changing the Face of Medicine

More and more people are having their health care needs met at a local walk-in clinic. The cost and convenience are altering the medical landscape.

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Joint Replacement: A Brief Medical History

Joint replacement is one of the most common surgical procedures in developed countries. The prevalence of mobility-preserving medicine would not be possible without the pioneers of the last two centuries.

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What to Know About Getting a Colonoscopy

For those who need a colonoscopy, there can be some concerns about the procedure. The following are some things that can be expected.

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7 Signs You Might Not Be Eating Enough Protein

Your body has ways of telling you that you’re not eating enough eggs, lean meat, fish, nuts, dairy, and protein-rich vegetables to fuel your muscles and overall health.

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Sports Medicine Tips: When To Use Hot And Cold Therapy

When orthopedic injuries occur, it is important to know when it is appropriate to apply hot or cold therapy. Sports medicine professionals can provide patients with the proper times to use each of these therapies.

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9 Normal Reasons Your Belly Is Bloated (and 3 Times to Worry)

 

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How to Organize Your Kitchen So You Eat Healthier

Eat less without even noticing ... just by changing your kitchen setup.

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Why And Where Is Oxygen Therapy Used?

The oxygen therapy is used for managing several acute and chronic health conditions. This therapy is generally used in pre-hospital settings, such as in an ambulance or a hospital setting for managing emergency situations. It is also used at homes of patients with long term health conditions.

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5 Side Effects of Body Contouring You Need To Know

Body contouring is often resorted to by people who have achieved extreme weight loss or who want to lose excess weight permanently. The surgical procedure is used by doctors to remove excess fat from the abdomen, hips and thigh region. The procedure can also help to sculpt the body so that people are able to improve their figure and regain health and confidence.

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7 Things Skinny People Do After Work (Besides Exercise)

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What An Effective Couples Counsellor Will Do

When it comes to couples counselling, you may find yourself being referred to one therapist that you stick with, or you may find yourself trying a number of therapists until you find that one person that both of you feel comfortable with and can help you work through your problems and achieve long term results. The first thing you will find when it comes to effective couples counselling is a view on relationships and how they can change.

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How to Get the Most of Your Relationship Therapy Experience

Going to relationship therapy when you feel your relationship is splitting at the seams is more common than in previous years. Couples are taking relevant steps to save their relationships rather than simply walking away, but it needs commitment and it needs you both to want to make your relationship work.

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What Do You Need to Know About Spinal Decompression Therapy?

Spinal decompression therapy is the most popular non invasive and non surgical treatment process used to treat chronic back pain. You may be surprised to know that medications and surgery are often not successful in treating chronic back pain and many people tend to suffer in silence.

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Is Chiropractor Treatment Safe?

Chiropractor treatment is becoming a popular choice to treat patients who experience pain due to accidents and injuries. Accidents cannot be prevented and most people tend to get injured while performing daily activities or playing sports or any other physical activity. Although conventional medical treatment helps provide relief, there are many who continue to endure the pain as the root cause of the problem is left unattended.

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Different Methods of Chiropractor Treatment

People who seek chiropractor treatment do so to help relieve neck, back and joint pain in any part of the body. This treatment method is used to treat stiffness and soreness of the muscles too. The discomfort or pain is usually caused due to an injury and accident. In some cases the pain is so intense that people are unable to get up and move around and are confined to the bed.

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What Do You Need to Know About Spinal Decompression Therapy

Spinal decompression therapy can be used to treat various types of painful conditions that are associated with degenerative discs, disc herniation and posterior facet syndromes. The computerized traction device helps relieve the chronic pain by targeting the problem areas of the spine in a precise manner.

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Robotic-Assisted Surgery for Orthopedics

MAKOplasty is a robotic-assisted surgical procedure that doctors recommend to patients with knee and hip pain. The procedure is mostly used to treat knee osteoarthritis. MAKOplasty is a partial knee resurfacing procedure that gives orthopedics an alternative to the conventional total knee replacement

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30 Proven Weight Loss Tips Inspired by the ‘The Biggest Loser’

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Overview of the Endoscopy Procedure

Patients who will be undergoing an endoscopy should familiarize themselves with the procedure in order to prepare themselves. Knowing common symptoms, prep, and recovery will help patients feel more at ease with the procedure.

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