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Creator of FatBoyFitMan.com shares secret to losing 110 pounds
By his late 30s, Eli Sapharti weighed almost 300 pounds. Every day, he smoked two packs of cigarettes, drank two liters of soda and "ate like crap." He always resolved to get fit, joining gyms and working out a few times. But then he'd quit because...
Tags: Diabetes, Herbal Supplements, Fatty Acids, People (magazine), Dietary Supplements
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Cleansing can be good if not too extreme
Does eliminating specific foods from the diet, such as sugar or wheat, provide health benefits? Such cleansing has become a popular way for people to lose weight, boost energy and eat more healthfully. Liz Lipski, academic director for the Master of...
Tags: Migraine, Celiac Disease, Dining and Drinking, Arthritis, Prescription Drugs
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Bacteria may provide some of gastric bypass surgery's boost
In the latest of a slew of studies examining the role of the so-called microbiome -- the mix of microscopic critters that colonize our bodies and our environment -- in human health, Harvard researchers said Wednesday that part of the reason that Roux-en-Y...
Tags: Overweight, Obesity, Massachusetts General Hospital, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Science and Technology
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Letters to the Editor - April 3
Pay attention to your food To the editor: Food is a small word, but is has big meanings. It can be our friend or our enemy. It is colorful. It can be a fruit or a vegetable, dairy, fish, meat or nuts. It can be canned, boxed, frozen, fresh packed,...Tags: Allergies, Food Industry, Politics, Head Start, Healthy Diet
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Cash for pounds makes cents in greenback diet
What's a pound of flesh worth? Dieters at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota apparently think it's worth at least five bucks. A yearlong study of incentives in dieting found that the majority of 100 obese participants met a goal of losing four pounds per...Tags: Internists, Internal Medicine, American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic, Medical Research
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He started at 600 pounds, but Dan Hawthorne is now 300 pounds lighter
marieg@herald-mail.comOn an April morning in 2011, Dan Hawthorne walked into the Fitness Center at Hagerstown Community College and began a transformation that would leave no aspect of his life unchanged. Although he had been overweight for most of his life, he found...Tags: Radio, Entertainment, Literature, Elvis Presley, Arts and Culture
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Workplaces can be good weight-loss sites, researchers say
Weight-loss programs at work can help people shave pounds and keep them off, researchers said in a new report. Among the people who signed up for a six-month program at two Boston-area workplaces, the average weight loss was more than 17 pounds; among...
Tags: High Blood Pressure, Overweight, Obesity, Medical Research, Massachusetts General Hospital
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At Orlando lab, researchers look for secrets to boosting metabolism
The unassuming chamber looks like a budget motel room with a treadmill. Yet behind the ho-hum interior lies a sophisticated system that can precisely measure — minute-by-minute — how many calories the subject inside is burning. It also can...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Physiology, Overweight, Diabetes, Chemical Industry
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Exercise: Choose your own potential
Long ago I had one of those "choose-your-own adventure" books based on a James Bond movie, and I made bad choices; the poor British spy kept getting consumed in a vat of molten lava, impaled on a bunch of spiky things or became an appetizer for...
Tags: Education, Overweight, California Polytechnic State University, University of Florida, Trips and Vacations
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Diet myth-busters: Experts burst some bubbles about losing weight
Attention dieters: Many of the “facts” you think you know about obesity and weight loss are wrong. So says a report published in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. An international team of dietitians, doctors...
Tags: Body Mass Index, Health Organizations, Arts and Culture, Obesity, Folklore and Mythology
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Shedding the pounds: W.Va. woman tells how she lost the weight
Raychel.harvey-jones@herald-mail.comBoxed food and canned goods used to be a way for life for Shannon Martin of Martinsburg, W.Va. That's hard to believe when you see her teach a body pump class that would challenge the fittest of military men. "I weighed 205 pounds and at 5 (foot) 5...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Overweight, Diabetes, Plantar Fasciitis, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Peninsula employers invest in wellness
It's mid-afternoon on a bleak, wintry Friday, and Jon Galgan, project manager at W.M. Jordan construction company in Newport News is pounding the heavy ropes in the company's newly opened wellness center. He has hit the gym during work hours for five days...
Tags: Body Mass Index, Internists, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Manufacturing and Engineering
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