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If you've ever been a Yo-Yo dieter, here's some good news. Apparently there's little scientific evidence - just a lot of rumors - that Yo-Yo dieting is dangerous to your health.
Bottom line: Yo-Yo dieting is better than No dieting at all. Read more below.
Yo-Yo Dieting
June 14, 2004
BALTIMORE - More than 65 percent of the population is overweight. Many have tried a laundry list of diets to get the weight off. Even when they work, the results are often short-lived and the weight comes back with a vengeance.
But yo-yo dieting may not be all bad. "It's better to be down half the time than not to be down at all, because for at least for that period of time, your health risks are reduced," Dr. Cheskin says.
Several studies confirm weight cycling is not harmful. But keeping the weight off is the goal. One way to keep off the weight is to simply cut calories. One pound of fat equals 3,500 calories. If you cut 500 calories a day in one week, you'd cut out the necessary 3,500 calories to lose one pound of fat.
To keep weight off, first find your triggers. If you're a stress eater, try yoga instead of food. If you're a social eater, keep a diet drink in your hand at get-togethers and keep your distance from the food tables.
Coming soon to a drugstore near you - the closest thing to Viagra for women that we will have available. (In the mean time, there's always DHEA.)
Read here about some new products for sexual dysfunction in women.
P&G Female Sexual Desire Patch Effective in Trial
Wed Jun 16, By Bill Berkrot
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co. on Wednesday moved a step closer to becoming the first company with a drug on the market to treat sexual dysfunction in women. The testosterone skin patch, to be called Intrinsa, significantly improved sexual desire and satisfaction in women whose ovaries had previously been removed. Although the company declined to discuss when it would file its new drug application with the Food and Drug Administration, P&G spokeswoman Mary Johnson said if approved they hope to have Intrinsa available by prescription sometime next year. The drug would be prescribed to increase sexual desire in menopausal women who have experienced loss of desire and are distressed by that loss.
"This is huge," said Sheryl Kingsberg, an associate professor of reproductive biology at Case Western Reserve University and one of the lead investigators of the trial. "It's important to get it out there because we don't have any approved medical treatment on the market for female sexual dysfunction that clinicians can look at as safe and effective," Kingsberg said.
The search for a so-called female Viagra has so far proved elusive. Even Viagra-maker Pfizer Inc. abandoned their program of testing the drug for women, whose sexual dysfunctions are more varied and complicated than men.
Another company, Vivus Inc., is developing a drug to treat the arousal component of female sexual disorder that it hopes to submit to the FDA in 2006. It also has acquired rights to a female sexual desire treatment that may compete with Intrinsa.
And last, if you ever find yourself talking to dogs, no need to be embarrassed . . . you just might be a little ahead of your time. And your pet may just understand you. Read about some cutting-edge research below.
Collie's vocabulary rivals young child's, study says
Friday, June 11, 2004
Rico, a 9-year-old Border collie from Germany, understands 200 human words, according to a new study.
Rico, a border collie with what appears to be an uncanny talent for human language, may be the Albert Einstein of dogs or just your average pooch. Either way, scientists are wondering if man's best friend is smarter than they thought.
Rico, a border collie with what appears to be an uncanny talent for human language, may be the Albert Einstein of dogs or just your average pooch. Either way, scientists are wondering if man's best friend is smarter than they thought.
A series of carefully designed studies concluded that the German dog has a stunningly large vocabulary and apparently can do something scientists thought only humans could do: Figure out, by the process of elimination, that a sound he has never heard must be the name of a toy he has never seen.
That feat, described in today's issue of the journal Science, suggests that dog owners who claim their pets understand what they're saying and are trying to respond may have been right. Some scientists are going so far as to speculate that dogs might even have the capacity to speak - like Mister Ed, the talking horse in the 1960s television show - if only they had the necessary anatomy. Patti Strand, an American Kennel Club board member, called the report "good news for those of us who talk to our dogs."
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