11 months after this, Jay is slimmer at 191 pounds. He achieved this by changing his diet, exercise and lifestyle.

“It started with a diet. My diet was horrible,” Wornick said. “I changed everything. I went to whole foods, fresh fruit and lean meats. I cut out all the fast food, cut out all the pizza and all the soda. That was what my diet mainly consisted of before.”

“Chicken, turkey, vegetables, lots of fruits,” Wornick said of the foods that helped him lose the weight. “I drink no regular sodas. Every morning I eat a big breakfast and my meals get smaller as the day goes on.”

“She came to me with the New Year’s resolution and something just clicked,” he said on “GMA.” “I said, “You know what, it’s now or never. Let’s do it. If it doesn’t work then nobody can blame me for not trying,’ but I’d never really tried.”

“I did it all on my own. No personal trainer, no nutritionist, no surgery, no pills. That stuff is unnecessary,” he said. “If you want to put in the hard work, if you want to put in the dedication, it will work for you,” Jay said

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The AmeriSciences AS10 range of vitamins and supplements, which took six years to develop, contain the most powerful combination of anti-oxidants and vitamins ever devised.

The pill works by guarding against external toxins such as everyday radiation and pollution.

The pills also make people look younger within two months by reducing age spots, sun damage, redness and wrinkles.

The pill is 100 per cent natural and made from fruit and vegetables including superfoods acai, cupuacu and acerola.

A daily dose counts as one of the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

Nasa and the Johnson Space Centre originally made the pills for astronauts on long space flights but they have been developed for general use and will hit UK shelves this week.

“AmeriSciences’ AS10 line is just another way in which AmeriSciences is pushing the technology of the industry forward for the benefit of the consumer,” the Daily Express quoted Carlos Montesinos, the range’s director of scientific and regulatory affairs as saying.

“The product line poses a significant challenge to the current supplement market.”

“Indeed, the strength of the antioxidant and multivitamin formulas have been so significant in testing that it will change the way nutritional supplementation is viewed,” Montesinos added.

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In a survey conducted, more than 80 per cent admitted that they worry about clashing with another girl, and said they would be “mortified” if they found out it did.

One in four have said that they had suffered the fate, in what has been dubbed as Same Dress Syndrome.

18 per cent confessed that they have been left so jealous at having a rival lookalike that they have done something to ruin the other woman’s outfit.

16 per cent quick-thinkers changed their look by adding extra accessories, the Daily Express reported.

Four in 10 said that they managed to smile about it, while 39 per cent went over and spoke to their rival, but only if they thought they looked better in the dress.

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“I was surprised that so many women who report being done having children are not talking to their healthcare providers about their decision,” said Dr. Linda Bradley, President of AAGL and a practicing OB/GYN. “Permanent birth control can be an ideal solution for couples who are content with their families and want to avoid future unplanned pregnancies. However, most women are unaware of permanent options that do not require surgery, revealing a huge opportunity for us, as physicians, to educate our patients.”

Patients Don’t Know About the Non-Surgical Permanent Birth Control Methods

Nearly 90 percent of women surveyed knew about vasectomy and tubal ligation, as these are typically the first options most couples consider when they are done having children. However, only 12 percent were aware of non-surgical, minimally invasive solutions such as Essure.

“Although non-surgical permanent birth control for women has been available for nearly a decade, I often find female patients are surprised to learn that they don’t have to get a tubal ligation or ask their husbands to go for a vasectomy,” said Dr. Bradley. “The Essure non-surgical permanent birth control procedure offers women the option of no incisions, no hormones, no general anesthesia and no slowing down to recover.”

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Despite spending the maximum on health care than any other country, patients in the US who have been chronically ill have also reported the maximum number of medical errors and most often complained that the medical care was not well coordinated between their doctors. Almost 42% Americans said that high costs of health care kept
them from seeing doctors, getting medications and avoiding recommended
treatments.

The researchers have suggested that all the 11 countries need to step up their
efforts to provide more organized primary care and learn lessons
from each other. The US can look up to other nations for guidance on providing more
affordable medical care. They should focus on developing medical homes. Making health care in the US more affordable and coordinated will
require implementing changes like better coordination of care and
expanding insurance coverage.

The survey has been published in this week’s issue of ‘Health Affairs’.

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A 32-stone man, Brandon Mower has lost almost half his weight after being ashamed of getting stuck in a train seat for 15-minutes and having begged the conductor for help. Brandon had to continue his train journey till the train reached its final destination. To add to the insult, the conductor charged him the full price of his extended journey because he had delayed the next service.

He was so ashamed of the train incident that he joined his local WeightWatchers slimming group and lost 16-stone within 5years. To attain his goal Brandon followed a strict diet and exercise regime.

Previously his diet was very unhealthy. His diet now comprises of cooked breakfast of eggs, bacon, mushrooms, tomato and a few slices of toast. Couscous salad, a packet of Skips and a low-fat chocolate bar for lunch; and pork lasagne for dinner.

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Rather than monitor the brain, the new app, known as BrainyApp, will help people make the correct lifestyle choices that will help reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s.

The app will allow the users to enter details about their diet, lifestyle and exercise patterns and will come up with suggestions on how to improve their lifestyle.

Apart from the lifestyle suggestions, the app also has a set of “brain games” that will stimulate the brain. “That’s really trying to address the idea of mental stimulation and learning new things, and also checking off whether you’re doing enough physical exercise and whether you’ve gone and checked your blood pressure and cholesterol and things like that”, University of New South Wales’ Dr Michael Valenzuela said.

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The technique could be developed as a portable, cheaper way of helping doctors make more accurate diagnoses and establish contact with patients who are immobile but aware, its authors say.

A persistent or permanent vegetative state is defined as “wakefulness without conscious awareness of self and environment.” During a coma, by contrast, a patient lacks both awareness and wakefulness.

Researchers led by Adrian Owen and Damian Cruse at the Centre for Brain and Mind at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, carried out a test involving 16 brain-damaged patients in the vegetative state and 12 healthy controls.

EEG entails placing sensors on the scalp to record electrical signals that result from activity by brain cells.

Three of the 16 patients accurately and persistently showed a clear EEG response when they were asked to imagine movements of their right hand and toes, according to the paper.

Electrical signals on the top of their scalp matched those of the controls when the patients were asked to carry out this motor movement, even though their bodies did not make any motion.

The authors say they do not presume to draw conclusions about the “inner worlds” of the three patients on the basis of this experiment.

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“Atherosclerotic internal carotid artery occlusion (AICAO) causes approximately 10 percent of transient ischemic attacks [TIAs; temporary cessation or reduction of blood supply to part of the brain, resulting in brief neurologic dysfunction that usually persists for less than 24 hours; often referred to as 'mini-stroke'] and 15 percent to 25 percent of ischemic strokes in the carotid territory. The 2-year risk of subsequent ipsilateral [on the same side of the previous stroke] ischemic stroke while a patient receives medical therapy is 10 percent to 15 percent,” according to background information in the article. Extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC; outside, within the skull) arterial bypass surgery was developed to prevent subsequent stroke by improving blood flow to the blocked artery with revascularization. A previous trial regarding use of this surgery failed to demonstrate benefit, though “this trial was criticized for failing to identify the subgroup of patients with hemodynamic cerebral ischemia due to poor collateral circulation for whom surgical revascularization might be of greatest benefit.”

William J. Powers, M.D., of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, and colleagues conducted the Carotid Occlusion Surgery Study (COSS) to determine whether EC-IC bypass surgery, added to best medical therapy, reduces subsequent ipsilateral ischemic stroke at 2 years in patients with recently symptomatic AICAO and hemodynamic cerebral ischemia identified by positron emission tomography (PET). Of 195 patients who were randomized, 97 were randomized to receive surgery and 98 to no surgery. Antithrombotic therapy and risk factor intervention were recommended for all participants. The randomized trial was conducted from 2002 to 2010 at 49 clinical centers and 18 PET centers in the United States and Canada.

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Parents in Cambridge also follow suit gifting their children about £5 per tooth.

Parents in Cambridge also followed suit gifting their children about £5 per tooth.

The amount gifted by parents when children lose their tooth each time varies between cities- in some cities children were spoilt with generous amounts, while in some others children received nothing. Four out of 10 children received nothing from their parents when they lost their tooth.

Some parents paid as less as five pence per tooth.

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