Can your genes help your jeans fit better?

Can your genes help your jeans fit better?

Every day you are bombarded with messages promoting “your perfect diet program,” and with 120 million overweight or obese Americans, you’ve got to wonder if those programs are working!

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently lists obesity as an epidemic, and many books and reports support that statement with some hard-hitting facts:

Startling obesity statistics:

• Adults
• 120 million Americans are overweight or obese.¹
• 1.2 billion people worldwide are overweight or obese.
• 60% of men and 50% of women are overweight or obese.²
• Average weight of Americans is growing two pounds per year.
• Estimated health-care costs of 1 million obese people between the ages of 35 and 84 = $345.9 million annually.

• Children
• 30–50% of new type 2 diabetes diagnoses are children 9–19 years old.
• American Academy of Pediatrics states that children as young as 8 years old are starting cholesterol-lowering medication.

What if dieting was easier?
What if there was a product to help you understand your specific weight-loss genetic makeup? Sound futuristic? It’s not. It’s the Inherent Health™ Weight Management Genetic Test.

It’s a scientific fact. You are more likely to lose weight with the diet matched to your genotype results. In a recent clinical study conducted by a major university, people lost over 2.5 times more weight with a diet recommended by the Weight Management Genetic Test, versus people on a genotype-inappropriate diet. People on the genotype-matched diet lost 13.2 pounds on average – and many lost much more! The best news: Other health factors may also improve with a genotype-matched diet. This innovative product and impressive clinical data was presented to the American Heart Association in March and has been featured in major national publications and on television.

Stop guessing if a diet is right for you!
It is always great to hear from someone who has actually used the product.

“Out of a million diets, a genetic test predicted which diet should work best for me! I’d had it with diets. Then a friend told me about this new genetic test – it revealed what kind of weight-loss program she needed, based on her DNA. So I got a test for myself. All it took was a simple swab of my cheek at home, then I sent it to the lab. My test report came back with a personalized diet and exercise plan to work with MY genes! No more guessing!”

Inherent Health is an Amway Global Partner Store. Visit Inherent Health to hear from others who have experienced the weight management genetic tests and to learn about other genetic tests – Heart Health, Nutritional Needs, Bone Health – that can help you live a full, active life.

Nutritional Needs Genetic Test analyzes genetic variations in your body and can help you gauge your nutrition needs of B vitamins and antioxidants/phytonutrients so you can modify your diet.

Bone Health Genetic Test will analyze your IL1 gene, and your vitamin D and estrogen receptor genes. Identifying your bone health risk will allow you to take action sooner to keep your bones strong for life.

Heart Health Genetic Test is the only test that uses IL1 gene variations to identify risk of heart attacks. By knowing your genetic risk, you can take specific steps to reduce your risk for cardiovascular disease.

¹The Optimal Health Revolution, by Duke Johnson, M.D.
²North American Association for the Study of Obesity.

Is protein the magic ingredient for weight loss?

Is protein the magic ingredient for weight loss?
By Julianne Downes, R.D.
Certified Weight Management Trainer
Learn more about Julianne Downes and all of our Nutrilite health experts.

Protein has the best reputation of all the macronutrients. So, how does protein work toward weight loss and what are appropriate sources of protein in your diet?

Protein is a macronutrient, just like carbohydrate and fat. And a healthy diet includes a balance of carbohydrates to protein to fat calories. Each macronutrient has specific functions that are necessary for good health. Protein helps to curb your appetite – which may help you lose weight – and plays a crucial role in your body functions. Proteins provide structural features of body tissue and serve as immune-system antibodies or signaling molecules; and in the form of enzymes and hormones, proteins can help to regulate sleep, digestion, and ovulation.¹

For these functions and others, your body requires complete proteins.

• Complete proteins come from animal or soy foods and contain all nine essential amino acids that must be supplied by food or dietary protein.
• Incomplete proteins include plant proteins like vegetables, nuts, and legumes. They are called incomplete because they lack one or more of the nine essential amino acids. Yet, combinations of plant proteins that complement each other such as rice and beans, peanut butter and bread, or hummus and pita can meet your body’s protein requirements without eating meat or soy.

To maintain a healthy weight, don’t overdue your protein – or any macronutrients. If you consume more protein than you need, you could gain weight. Even if you are highly active (exercise daily for an hour or more), the recommendation is still that only 30% of your total daily calories – around one gram of protein per pound of ideal body weight – should come from protein.

Consuming more calories than you need in a day, even if they are protein calories, will cause your body to store the extra calories as fat. In 2009, a top medical journal concluded that reduced-calorie diets result in clinically meaningful weight loss regardless of which macronutrients they emphasize.² So, the moral of the weight-loss story, keep calories down and keep those all important macronutrients balanced.

Protein is essential for good health and for healthy weight loss. Focus on sources of lean meat and plant proteins. Remember to not eat more of one food item at the expense of others. Leaving out vegetables, grains, and other healthy foods, can deprive your body of essential nutrients – especially phytonutrients – that are essential to living a full, active lifestyle.

NUTRILITE^® Protein Powder provides 8 g of soy protein, 2 g of whey protein, nine essential amino acids, and 12.5 mg of isoflavones in each scoop.

AddingNutrilite Protein Bars to your diet can help you reach your healthy weight goals. Unlike other weight management protein bars, only the NUTRILITE Protein Bar offers 20 grams of high-quality, satisfying, and easy-to-digest protein. Sweetened with all-natural sweeteners, the bar is not only good for you, but delicious too.

¹SportFuel, Inc.: The Truth about protein and weight loss.
²New England Journal of Medicine: Volume 360:859-873.

今期的選擇月刊“瘦面霜瘦身膏理據不足”

減肥產品真是層出不窮，今期的選擇月刊報導了“瘦面霜瘦身膏理據不足”，對“聲稱的有效成份”逐一解說及各方引證，結論“由於用以支持這類產品可瘦身或針對改善橙皮紋／橙皮脂肪的研究普遍屬實驗室的數據，所得的結果未必能適用於人體或準確反映實際應用的情況；至於臨床研究，部分是由產品製造商進行，加上屬觀察者檢視後得出的結果，不排除含主觀判斷因素，確實成效成疑。此外，產品所列舉的植物成分效用未有十分確切、有系統及科學化的研究數據、理論或醫學文獻支持，是否可信仍有待研究。”

健康視窗：多步行減心臟病風險

【本報綜合報道】多步行有助保持健康。一項美國研究發現，每天步行愈多，膽固醇水平愈健康，腰圍更愈是纖瘦。該項有一千四百人參與研究的調查，要求參與者佩戴步行計算器，量度每日的步行步數，發現步行愈多的參加者，出現代謝綜合症的危機因素便愈少，心臟病的風險亦愈少。

專家指出，膽固醇水平及腰圍是兩個評估心臟病風險的重要因素，膽固醇愈高及腰圍愈粗，心臟病風險便愈高。過去多項研究證實，每日步行一萬步，即相等於五英里的路程，有助保持身體健康。

本文連結 : http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/news/20100516/00176_063.html

長期體重適中較長壽 蘋果日報 12-5-2010

不少女士為體重大上大落極感煩惱，澳洲一項研究發現若體重經常飄忽不定，或會令壽命縮短。研究分析了近 200名百歲人瑞的養生之道，發現他們一個重要的共通點──能保持體重長期穩定、不曾過胖或過瘦；不做「孤獨老人」也是長壽的要訣。
遺傳影響輕微
新南威爾士大學一項研究訪問了 188名百歲人瑞，結果發現可長期維持正常體重是一項重要指標，不足 5%受訪者曾過重或太瘦，少吸煙與酗酒並且定期做運動，是保持體重常用方法，反而他們對食物並不揀擇。另一項長壽秘訣是與親友保持良好關係， 88%受訪者表示至少一至兩周與家人接觸一次，當中更有 26%每日都與家人接觸；雖然年事已高，但 76%人瑞仍定期參加社區活動。負責研究專家認為遺傳對長壽的影響輕微，個人生活習慣佔的比重更重要。

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升糖指數是什麼？對體重有什麼關鍵作用？

升糖指數是用來量度進食食物後的兩小時內，血糖水平上升幅度與參考食物，如 麪包或葡萄糖比較的一個指標，指數為 55或以下屬於低水平， 70或以上則是高水平。


低升糖指數食物令血糖水平上升得較少較慢，不會刺激過量胰島素分泌，減低肝臟將血糖轉化為脂肪而形成脂肪肝，人體在消化低升糖食物時，會消耗較多能量，加促身體轉化脂肪。(即消脂)

高低升糖指數食物

低升糖指數食物：五穀包、燕麥包、糙米、紅米、麥皮、薯仔、番薯、芋頭、健怡汽水、無糖綠茶、無糖豆漿

高升糖指數食物：白 麪包、白饅頭、豬仔包、白米、糯米、薯蓉、芋蓉、果汁、罐頭水果、汽水、紙包飲品、運動飲品、甜豆漿

資料來源：香港中文大學營養研究中心