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Smoking, Obesity And Lack Of Activity Named As Global Killers

Research published in leading medical journal The Lancet suggests that a lack of exercise can be as big a killer as obesity and smoking.

According to the study, approximately one third of adults do not do a healthy amount of exercise, and it is suggested that this could be causing 5.3 million deaths worldwide each year – the equivalent of one in ten deaths – from related illnesses such as breast cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Nutritionist Caron Leckie, who works for the UK’s largest provider of chef prepared meals and delivered diets, Diet Chef, comments: “In my experience the weather has a big impact on activity levels, certainly in the UK, and many people use it as an excuse to stay indoors and watch television, rather than getting out and about.

“In addition to this, thousands of our customers have jobs which see them sitting down at a desk for up to nine hours each day. It is logical that this sedentary lifestyle can be conducive to obesity.”

Ms Leckie also added that Diet Chef is “working hard to help people to lose weight with our calorie-controlled diet” and that as a company they are also “working closely with a personal trainer to offer advice and tips on how to move more, no matter what your age, weight or health status.”

It is recommended that adults should do a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate exercise each week, this equates to just over 20 minutes per day.

According to a report by the BBC, “researchers said the problem was now so bad it should be treated as a pandemic”.

Ms Leckie’s top tips for motivation to exercise include:
1. Add An Activity
2. Try Something Different
3. Find a Positive Each Week
4. Take up a Hobby

Read her full list of tips on the Diet Chef blog.

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South Beach Diet Adviser Launches Free Diet Website

A new and innovative diet website has been launched at southbeach-diet-adviser.com offering free diet advice and weight loss tips for anyone interested in the innovative diet plan. The comprehensive site is a cost free introduction to the popular South Beach Diet and includes extensive information on how the diet works as well as helpful tips, recipes and an interactive forum for dieters.

The editors of South Beach Diet Adviser explain, “We checked out a variety of diet and weight loss plans and were most impressed with the South Beach plan. It’s easy to follow and features a wide variety of foods, so almost anyone can do it. We realized that by establishing a free website, we could help millions of people lose weight and keep it off without having to pay a lot of money. Our research indicated that this plan is ideal for anyone who wants to not only lose weight, but who wants to keep it off.”

Weight Loss Without Extra Costs

The website features a variety of helpful articles, including a detailed shopping guide dieters can use to stock their pantries and refrigerators with foods that are allowed during each of the three phases of the South Beach Diet. Detailed information on the three phases of the diet make it easy to understand how the program works and what kind of results an individual can expect as they lose weight. Meal plans, recipes, and reviews of books about the program make it easy to not only stick to the diet, but choose the right tools for your own weight loss program.

Links to the official South Beach Diet website and other sites offering packaged meal supplements and snacks are also on the new website. These give dieters the option to enroll in paid programs or order prepared convenience foods, although the many free recipes and diet tips at the Adviser are more than enough to keep most dieters on track without spending a dime.

Flexibility and Success for Free

The editors at South Beach Diet Adviser note that the flexibility of the popular diet system is what makes it so successful. There are no calories to count or points to keep track of, making it the ideal diet for today’s busy dieters. Three distinct phases help dieters jump start their weight loss, continue losing pounds at a healthy rate, and maintain their weight through a lifetime of healthy choices. If you’re interested in losing weight and keeping it off for free, no obligation guidance and support is available at southbeach-diet-adviser.com.

About South Beach Diet Adviser:
The editors at  southbeach-diet-adviser.com have compiled an extensive library of information on the South Beach Diet plan, including weight loss tips, a grocery guide, and detailed plans for losing weight and keeping it off. They are proud to offer open forums, detailed information on the glycemic index, and helpful tools at no cost to users so that anyone can use the plan successfully.

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Mountainside Announces Family Treatment and Education Component

Mountainside Drug Rehab in CT has announced it has expanded its drug addiction treatment offerings to include a family program component. The Mountainside Family Wellness Program will have a focus on understanding the disease of drug and alcohol abuse and how it impacts everyone in a family, constructive problem resolution and continuing care for the whole family.

Participants of the Family Wellness Program at Mountainside will learn about various family dynamics and tools that they can use build healthy family systems with someone in recovery from substance abuse. In addition, specific information regarding the family member that has entered drug and/or alcohol rehab is incorporated to ensure a lasting recovery for the client and healthy family dynamic.

A key component of the course is to help understand what behaviors are helpful, expected and harmful to a substance abuser in recovery.

“Families are the hidden victims of drug addiction, enduring enormous levels of stress and pain. They often suffer sleepless nights, deep anxiety and physical exhaustion brought on by worry and desperation. Many times family members carry the burden of a loved ones drug addiction, and it acts as a weight that prohibits them from living healthy lives.

The Family Wellness Program at Mountainside Drug Rehab is designed to help the family recover from these symptoms and become part of the solution. Having a family member in drug rehab or a treatment center for alcohol addiction can be difficult for all that are involved and can often cloud our ability to make the right decision when it comes to helping that family member in to treatment or even more importantly when they get out of treatment. When education is given, with the proper tools and follow up – successful outcomes are more likely to follow.

The goals of this program are: 

• To educate families about addiction as a disease 
• Encourage participants to examine their roles in the family system 
• To provide strategies for identifying and addressing addictive behavior 
• Understanding the disease of addiction involving drug and alcohol abuse
• Constructive problem resolution
• Continuing care for the whole family

 

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Drug Rehab And Alcohol Treatment Center Mountainside Has Expanded Its Drug Addiction Treatment Services To Include An Aftercare Coordinator

Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Center Mountainside has expanded its drug addiction treatment services to include an Aftercare Coordinator. This addiction professional will collaboratively work with each client and their counselor and construct the most appropriate aftercare plan to ensure a lasting recovery. In addition, the Aftercare Coordinator will work with the national network of aftercare providers that Mountainside Drug Rehab regularly works with, to ensure that each client has a custom tailored aftercare plan in place to achieve a seamless continuum of care.

Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Center Mountainside has expanded its drug addiction treatment services to include an Aftercare Coordinator. This addiction professional will collaboratively work with each client and their counselor and construct the most appropriate aftercare plan to ensure a lasting recovery. In addition, the Aftercare Coordinator will work with the national network of aftercare providers that Mountainside Drug Rehab regularly works with, to ensure that each client has a custom tailored aftercare plan in place to achieve a seamless continuum of care.

Mountainside Drug Rehab and Alcoholism Treatment Center will be “Staying connected” to all of its discharged clients from the moment that they are discharged forward. As part of its broad and encompassing approach to drug addiction and alcoholism treatment, Mountainside is constantly improving and adding to its list of services in its quest to provide the best treatment for its clients. “This is a great and natural opportunity for us to offer our clients a full continuum of care”’ said Mountainside Drug Rehab’s executive director.

For many years providers of inpatient substance abuse treatment have advocated the benefits of longer lengths of stays for those undergoing treatment, citing that recovery rates are better for those who spend more time in treatment compared to those who stay briefly. Mountainside is hopeful that through its new treatment component it will achieve the effect of longer lengths of stays through succinct aftercare treatment planning and follow up communications. Many times people can benefit from longer treatment, however are not afforded the appropriate time away to receive the necessary treatment – it is the mission of the Aftercare Coordinator to bridge that gap and construct find a solution.

Founded in 1998, Mountainside Drug Rehab has pioneered many changes in the treatment community as part of its mission to ensure the highest quality and most effective care for its clients. To learn more about the Aftercare component at Mountainside Drug Rehab or the many other services of their Drug Rehab Program, please visit them at www.mountainside.org/drug-rehab

Or Call our admissions professionals with any questions you may have. 800-762-5433

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In Response To The Stressors That The Current Economic Crisis Has Borne On The US, Many People In Early Recovery From Drug Addiction And Alcoholism Have Exhibited A Need For More Therapeutic Support

In response to the stressors that the current economic crisis has borne on the US, many people in early recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism have exhibited a need for more therapeutic support. Mountainside Drug Rehab in Northwest Connecticut has expanded its inpatient drug relapse prevention program to include non-former clients. The scope and mission of this inpatient program adjunct is to prevent drug and alcohol relapse and to implement the missing parts required for a successful recovery from drug abuse and alcoholism.

The economic crisis that started to unwind in 2008 has resulted in many job losses, foreclosures and other financial stressors which have impacted millions of people. One subset of this population is people who are in the process of recovering from substance abusive disorders. In response to the abnormal stress levels and the acute need of varying support services for people in early recovery, Mountainside Drug and Alcohol Rehab in CT has expanded its Drug Relapse Prevention Program to include the large number of people throughout the country in desperate need of support.

The target population that has already filled up this program are people who are in recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism for periods greater than 90 days. Many recovering addicts and alcoholics need an additional layer of support and / or need some professional guidance and counsel to help build the missing pieces of a beginning recovery, and this is where the Drug Relapse Prevention Program is a great fit. Since its launch two weeks ago, there have been program participants with 90 days to more than five years of sobriety.

Founded in 1998, Mountainside Drug Rehab has been finding new and innovative ways to help the people that pass through the facility get and stay clean and sober with better than average results. The following guide is a useful framework for individuals to learn and recognize the dangers and signals of a drug and/or alcohol relapse.

When Do Relapses Occur?

Consider the following information: 

• Approximately 2/3 of all relapses for any addiction (alcohol, drugs, gambling, smoking, diets) occur within the first 90 days. 
• The reasons for relapse are the same whether the addiction is to alcohol, other drugs or gambling. 
• During the first 90 days after withdrawing from alcohol, drugs or gambling people may experience some periods of poor memory or concentration, or they may overreact to stress. This may lead to relapse. 
• The longer a person is abstinent, the better these things will get, but handling stress as it comes up is an important way to prevent relapse. Not coping with stress is a major reason for relapse.

Recognize the Danger Signals
A return to alcohol, drug use or gambling does not just happen. There is a process leading to the return. When you begin to backslide or “slip,” you go through changes that could lead to a possible relapse. Some of the danger signals might be:

• You begin to isolate yourself from others and feel bored and lonely much of the time. 
• You find yourself easily irritated and relationships become strained. 
• You doubt your ability to stay abstinent. 
• You act impulsively under stress, which causes even more stress. 
• You think you will never use alcohol, drugs or gambling again, so you don’t need a recovery program – you don’t attend support groups or counseling, and you reject offers of help. 
• You try to impose abstinence on others. 
• Your eating and sleeping patterns are disturbed and you cannot get things done. 
• You cover up your feelings of unhappiness and helplessness. 
• You frequently feel sorry for yourself. 
• You begin to think that you can handle alcohol, drugs or gambling again and it will help you feel more at ease.

There are also other danger signals. What are yours?

If you feel any of these signals or danger signs Call Mountainside Drug rehab and Alcoholism Treatment Center at 800-762-5433 Or visit its Addiction Treatment Center Website at Drug Rehab Center (www.mountainside.org/drug-rehab)

Intervention and 24 Hour Assistance Available
Contact our Admissions Department at 800-762-5433

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LighterLife, the weight loss and weight management programme, has introduced a brand new forum to its website called ‘Talking LighterLife’, to encourage clients to share and discuss their experiences of the LighterLife programme

Talking LighterLife will offer LighterLife clients a facility to express their views and talk about their LighterLife experiences and talk to others about how LighterLife has changed their lives. LighterLife clients will have the opportunity to post comments and gain extra support from others on the programme between their weekly group meetings.

The LighterLife forum allows clients the opportunity to speak to others on the programme and indentify with them and share similar experiences, whether they are commenting on celebs in the news, new diet products or how they have got on at their weekly group meeting. For some clients it provides an instant response or support when they are having a weak moment and for others, it is useful for updating and monitoring their progress on a daily or weekly basis as they progress through the weight loss programme. Many people on diets find it especially useful to talk with others and this is the opportunity for which Talking LighterLife is designed.

As well as allowing clients to talk about LighterLife, the weight loss forum will also offer potential clients the chance to learn more about the programme from people who have actually succeeded on it. Visitors will be able to see real questions posted by, and answered by, LighterLife clients. By offering this service, visitors will be able to read honest unbiased information to give them the tools to decide whether they are ready to join the programme. Users can also find a Counsellor, sign up and start the LighterLife journey themselves. There is also an opportunity for existing or potential clients to askLighterLife a question directly if they don’t want to post their question publicly.

Sara Jamison, the Sales and Marketing Director at LighterLife, commented: “The introduction of Talking LighterLife is a fantastic addition to the LighterLife website. There are a number of LighterLife blogs online and we thought that the new forum would be the perfect place for both clients and potential clients to log on and either talk about their experiences or find out more about the programme in one central place.”

About LighterLife:
LighterLife is a
weight loss and weight-management programme for people who are one stone or more overweight and with a BMI (body mass index) of 25 or above. LighterLife has helped over 100,000 people lose weight fast since 1996.

The unique LighterLife approach offers programmes specific to the obese and the overweight in the form of nutritionally complete soups, shakes and bars combined with specialised counselling using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and transactional analysis (TA) techniques. Clients benefit not only from safe, fast weight loss but they also learn the behavioural changes needed to sustain it.

Founded in 1996, the LighterLife Programme was developed by three of its directors – Jackie Cox, Bar Hewlett and Rebecca Hunter.

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Weight loss specialist and controversial author slams the diet industry for creating an “addiction” to buy into their products

The author of Rebel Diet, the controversial diet book which was recently released has today said that the diet industry must be capped in some way.

Emma James said “there is so much hype and mystery created by the diet industry in order to keep people buying into their products. Even Paul McKenna has jumped on the band wagon with no idea about diet and weight management. There must be some kind of regulation put on misleading and marketing pitches to hook people into the diet vortex”.

Speak out about the situation she also stated that entire ploy was to ensure people never got all the information to allow them to learn what works for their own body and therefore free themselves from the dependence on diet meals and systems. She said “even people with comfort eating problems and real disorders are getting dragged into this “creating a need” philosophy of selling instead of outlining how to solve the problems themselves”.

The author flies to Las Vegas next week to speak at the Building Bridges seminar on the 8th February at the Tuscany Suites Conference Centre and to speak out about the role of the therapist in the diet industry and about her book which claims to give “missing link” to the reader and free themselves from the Diet Hell.

She also plans to launch webinars for people wishing to opt out of the diet chains later in the year and provide practical information for the user to take over their own weight management and address eating related problems.

 

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