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Jillian Michaels is playing matchmaker—or at least she's trying to.
In this exclusive clip from Tuesday night's all-new episode of Just Jillian, the fitness star takes a work trip to Chicago accompanied by her hairstylist Chloe, and she makes it her mission to find the single lady a hot man!
During dinner at RPM Italian, Jillian attempts to set her up with one of the handsome hosts at the restaurant, but Chloe is immediately turned off by the fact he's only 29.
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Day Software, a provider of global content management and content infrastructure software, has announced that the company is continuing to deliver standardized connectors for Vignette VCM, designed to create greater interoperability and openness for the legacy document repository vendor.
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We only got a couple of hundred made up so the only places to get one would be at the LJ Shop or if you find one of the LJ crew at SxSW this week in Austin, TX, then ask them. They're each carrying a small handful around and will happily give you one.
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Where some people see a bunch of gravel trails in the wetlands of Ponte Vedra Beach, Deb Chapin sees a link to communities, shopping centers and beaches.
The legislation, H.R. 3700, includes provisions intended to help expand housing opportunities in the marketplace, including measures that would reform current Federal Housing Administration restrictions on condominium financing.
This legislation provides significant benefits to taxpayers, homebuyers and the real estate market by:
■ Removing a burdensome and expensive FHA condo approval process.
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People traveling to St. Augustine could notice some traffic relief this July Fourth weekend.
Shuttle parking will keep hundreds of cars from the downtown core, city officials hope. The effort will be a testing ground for possible future use.
The free park-and-ride shuttle is one of multiple efforts underway in St. Augustine to help with parking and traffic while officials work on creating a citywide mobility plan.
Jacksonville attorney Fred Abbott knows all too well what can happen in a Florida lake when alligators and human beings get near each other.
The longtime attorney won a lawsuit against the city of Jacksonville in 1980 by proving that it was partly responsible for an attack in a murky park lake because it had failed to warn swimmers that alligators were in the water.
About six and a half hours after the first shots were fired at Pulse nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morning, Jamie Watts got a message that he was being summoned to assist with one of the state's most violent incidents.
Not a traditional first responder — otherwise he would have already been on the scene — Watts helped deal with the emotional devastation caused by the mass shooting.
"This is something I'll never forget," said the 37-year-old Palencia resident. "This has changed me forever."
It's not unusual to hear a cannon blast while walking in downtown St. Augustine.
At a certain time of year, it's also normal to hear people singing from trolleys that circulate the city.
City Commissioners will address noise at a workshop on Thursday, which is expected to open up discussion about the city's noise rules, and concerns about noise and possible solutions, officials said. Public safety is also part of the workshop.
The Florida Department of Health in St. Johns County is advising residents of an increase in mosquito-borne disease activity detected within one sentinel chicken population.
The population, located in Northwest St. Johns County, tested positive for eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, according to a Friday news release from the Department of Health.
It is important to note that no known human cases of EEE are confirmed at this time. However, the potential for the risk of transmission to humans has increased, the release said.
The unemployment rate in St. Johns County fell to the lowest level in nearly a decade in May and remained one of the lowest in the state.
In a report issued Friday from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, data showed the county had an unemployment rate of 3.2 percent last month — not seasonally adjusted. It's the lowest rate since May 2007 when the county reported a rate of 2.9 percent.
Overall, the state unemployment rate was a seasonally adjusted 4.7 percent, which was the same as the national rate for May.
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The St. Johns County Planning and Zoning Agency on Thursday voted 6-0 in approval of a request by developers behind the SilverLeaf Planned Unit Development to add and rezone 826 acres of land known as the "Goodman Tract" from Open Rural to PUD and, thus, spread existing development rights over the land.
SilverLeaf is a mixed-use development originally approved in 2006, although homes are yet to be built. The PUD already spans about 6,092 acres located south of County Road 210, north of County Road 16A and west of Interstate 95.
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Beer Battered Onion Rings
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Prep 1 hr 30 mins
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I made these once in college, 20 years later I found the recipe, its much better today.
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- 2-3 large sweet onions or 2-3 large red onions or 2-3 large white onions, cut crosswise into thick slices
- 453.59 g beer
- 473.18 ml all-purpose flour
- 7.39 ml baking powder
- 4.92 ml salt
- 14.79 ml ground black pepper
- 9.85 ml ground red pepper
- 4 egg whites
- 2.46 ml vanilla
- 591.47 ml plain breadcrumbs
- Combine the Flour, Baking Powder, Salt, Black Pepper, and Red Pepper in a bowl. Add the Beer and Vanilla and stir to make batter. Once mixed cover and let stand 30 to 50 minutes.
- Next separate the Egg Whites into a bowl. Using an electric mixer beat the Egg Whites until soft peaks form. Fold Egg Whites into the batter.
- Place the Bread Crumbs into a separate dish. Dip the Onion slices in the batter, then dredge through the Bread Crumbs and place in a single layer, on wax paper lined cookie sheet. Use wax paper to separate the layers. As soon as possible put the cookie sheet in the freezer. Freeze rings for at least 1 hour. After 1 hour place rings in an air tight container for longer storage time; they can be frozen for up to 3 months.
- Remove rings and fry in 375 degree soy or peanut oil for appox. 2 minutes. For more even frying flip the rings. Fry in small batches, being careful not to crowd the pan.
- *For a slightly spicy taste double the Red Pepper.
- **For spicy taste that will stand up to the Ranch or other dairy based dips, double the Red Pepper and add 1/8 cup Sriracha sauce to the batter.
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This was super delicious and quite easy to make. They are a bit of work.
This recipe rocks. It was absolutely the best homemade onion rings I ever made. They are a bit of work, but your hard work is rewarded in kind. I will say I thought the batter could have used more salt, but I may have spaced out on the salt altogether. I honestly can't remember. Top quality! If I ever opened a restaurant, this would be my onion ring recipe.
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Meet Mindy Kaling — On Tinder?
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If you say you've never developed a hardcore crush on a sitcom character, then sorry, we have to call you out for dropping a major fib. We're not ashamed to admit tuning into network shows week after week to get a glimpse of on-screen cuties, including those on The Mindy Project. In fact, to promote its latest episodes, TMP has even created profiles for its characters on the casual dating app, Tinder. Be still our hearts.
"Tiny doctor in a big city looking for love, friendship, or a donut so good it's spiritual," reads the bio for Mindy Kaling's eponymous character on the Fox show. And, before you're tricked into meeting her with a cronut in hand, the ad ends with the line, "To see more about me, tune-in to THE MINDY PROJECT this Tuesday at 9:30/8:30c on Fox."
Apparently, the show's target audience is young singles, so what better way to draw their attention than trying to fake-date them into tuning in. Also, does this mean normal promotional commercials are so 2013? Either way, this method is totally part practical joke, part genius marketing, and we expect nothing less from Kaling and her crew. (The Cut)
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Tony Blair Denies Rumor of Affair With Rupert Murdoch's Wife Wendi Deng
Tony Blair, via a representative, slams rumor suggesting that he is involved in Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng's divorce. "If you are asking if they are having an affair, the answer is no," says the former British Prime Minister's representative to The Hollywood Reporter.
The representative explains further that there has never been an affair between Blair and Murdoch's third wife. Blair, who happens to be the godfather of the couple's children, will not make a public statement in regards to the matter.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch filed for divorce on Thursday morning, June 13, at the New York State Supreme Court, saying that his marriage with Wendi Deng had "irretrievably broken down." The couple has two daughters from 14 years of marriage, Grace and Chloe.
After the news of the split broke out, journalists began tweeting to discuss the topic. BBC economics editor Robert Peston wrote on Twitter on Thursday that he was told that "undisclosed reasons for Murdoch divorcing Deng are jaw-dropping - & hate myself for wanting to know what they are."
Author of Murdoch biography "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch", Michael Wolff, later tweeted, "Rumor about the big B is everywhere except in print." In regards to Peston's tweet, he said, "We can only speculate about what he might mean."
Murdoch met Deng for the first time at a News Corp party in Hong Kong in 1997, when she worked at Murdoch-owned Star Television. The two got married on his yacht in New York Harbor in June 1999 after his divorce from Anna Maria Tory was finalized.
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Over the past couple of months, Lorde has been super busy curating the soundtrack for 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.' She's been selecting and even lent a hand writing a couple tracks for the album. Well the big day has finally arrived when we can grab a peek at all of her hard work.
Along with curating the album, Lorde has also written and recorded two songs for the album, 'Yellow Flicker Beat' and 'Ladder Song.' Other artists who appear on the album are Charli XCX, CHVRCHES, The Chemical Brothers and Major Lazer, who's track features Ariana Grande. On the album, is also a Kanye West Rework of 'Yellow Flicker Beat' entitled 'Flicker.'
'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1' hits theaters on Nov. 21—that's just eight days away. We highly recommend pre-ordering your movie ticket if you plan on seeing on the day of its release.
In part 1, Katniss Everdeen—Jennifer Lawrence—is in District 13 which was thought to be destroyed by the Capitol during the first rebellion. While here, she becomes a figurehead for their rebellion. She soon decides that she wants to fight to save Peeta.
We're so excited, we can't wait to see how this portion of the book comes to life.
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2. CHVRCHES – Dead Air
3. Tove Love – Scream My Name
4. Charli XCX – Kingdom (feat. Simon Le Bon)
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6. Raury – Lost Souls
7. Lorde – Yellow Flicker Beat
8. Tinashe – The Leap
9. Bat for Lashes – Plan the Escape
10. Graces Jones – Original Beast
11. Lorde – Flicker (Kanye West Rework)
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Waitakere United closed in on a fifth NZ Football Premiership minor title, beating YoungHeart Manawatu 4-0 to extend their lead at the top of the table to seven points.
With chasing pair Hawke's Bay United and Auckland City playing out a 1-1 draw in Napier, defending champions Waitakere are now red hot favourites to seal top spot, a position that ensures a semi-final playoff against fourth place, a position currently held by Canterbury United after they dumped southern rivals Otago United 2-0 in Dunedin.
Waitakere - undefeated in their last 12 competitive matches stretching back to last season's playoffs - were tested by a game Manawatu side.
Manawatu created four scoring chances in the first half with Tom Mosquera hitting the post midway through the second. The visitors' good work was undone when slack marking at corners saw All Whites defender Tim Myers bag a brace.
Roy Krishna scored a quick-fire double late in the match to blow the score line out to 4-0, while Waitakere goalkeeper Danny Robinson celebrated his 100th Premiership match with a clean sheet. Robinson is the first goalkeeper to achieve the 100-game milestone.
Despite the positive performance, Manawatu now has two wins, four draws and 32 defeats from their last 38 ASB Premiership matches and sits at the bottom of the table.
Team Wellington's last gasp 1-0 win over Waikato FC means they are the only side outside the top four with a realistic chance of overhauling Canterbury and making a late dash for the playoffs. Waikato FC - hammered 9-1 by Waitakere in round nine - turned in a stirring performance yet came up short in the capital, losing 1-0 to an 89th minute diving header by Luke Rowe.
The win temporarily cut Canterbury United's lead over Wellington from six points to three but the Dragons 4-1 derby win over Otago United in Dunedin restored their advantage as they chase their fourth consecutive playoff appearance.
A double by Ken Yamamoto and goals for Andy Barton and Ashley Wellbourn - his third of the campaign - were enough to hand the Dragons their biggest derby win over Otago since the Premiership began in 2004. Otago never recovered from the loss of first half goals for Yamamoto and Wellbourn and after midfielder Scott Gannon was sent off midway through the second half, the home side crumbled. Regan Coldicott saved face for Otago snatching a consolation goal five minutes from end, his fifth of the season.
In Napier, the hotly anticipated showdown between Hawke's Bay United and Auckland City produced a feisty encounter at Bluewater Stadium. After a tense first half the visitors took the lead through former Royal Charleroi midfielder Pedro Santa Cecilia Garcia on 57 minutes before former All Whites striker Jarrod Smith levelled with a bullet header on 70 minutes.
The 1-1 result is enough to ensure Hawke's Bay United stay undefeated at home this season and take one step closer to an historic first ever playoff appearance.
The match was also notable for referee John Rowbury's replacement at halftime by fourth official Gareth Sheehan following a collision with Hawke's Bay skipper Stephen Hindmarch midway through the first half.
Next Saturday's feature match sees Waitakere United take on Auckland City in the 'Super City' derby at Kiwitea Street in a match that could be definitive in the chase for the minor premiership. Three matches are scheduled for Sunday, with Otago hosting Hawke's Bay United, Canterbury at home to Waikato FC and YoungHeart Manawatu entertaining Team Wellington in Palmerston North.
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So in the last month I've let my almost 4 ur old sleep with us 4-5 times (partially bc lo was sick and has recently mastered CIO and had a bit of regression). A week ago he and hubby went to visit family and their kiddos sleep with an enormous amount of light on and have been crappy sleepers forever. Since then the older child of mine has been wanting more light in the room so I did it. Tonight I come to bed to find him in there and when I ask he says it's too dark. I get more light and 5 min later it's too bright and the shadows are scary ( like long ago which is why it was pretty dark). Ideas? I know he's had some random rough days at day care with a new teacher, a naughty new friend and soon transitioning rooms- which I thnk he's excited for. He's always been our awesome sleeper other than a few random nightmares so this is stressing me out.
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No idea if this is a great or terrible suggestion but what about one of those hand crank flashlights? That way if he gets scared he can turn it on for a minute but you aren't running through $100 worth of batteries every month.
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Arguments For Calling Obesity A Disease #4: Limited Response To Lifestyle Treatments
Continuing in my miniseries on why obesity (defined here, as excess or abnormal body fat that affects your health) should be considered a disease, is the simple observation that obesity responds less to lifestyle treatments than most people think.
Yes, the internet abounds with before and after pictures of people who have "conquered" obesity with diet, exercise, or both, but in reality, long-term success in "lifestyle" management of obesity is rare and far between.
Indeed, if the findings from the National Weight Control Registry have taught us anything, it is just how difficult and how much work it takes to lose weight and keep it off.
Even in the context of clinical trials conducted in highly motivated volunteers receiving more support than you would ever be able to reasonably provide in clinical practice, average weight loss at 12 – 24 months is often a modest 3-5%.
Thus, for the vast majority of people living with obesity, "lifestyle" treatment is simply not effective enough – at least not as a sustainable long-term strategy in real life.
While this may seem disappointing to many (especially, to those in the field, who have dedicated their lives to promoting "healthy" lifestyles as the solution to obesity), in reality, this is not very different from the real-life success of "lifestyle" interventions for other "lifestyle" diseases.
Thus, while there is no doubt that diet and exercise are important cornerstones for the management of diabetes or hypertension, most practitioners (and patients) will agree, that very few people with these conditions can be managed by lifestyle interventions alone.
Indeed, I would put to you that without medications, only a tiny proportion of people living with diabetes, hypertension, or dyslipidemia would be able to "control" these conditions simply by changing their lifestyles.
Not because diet and exercise are not effective for these conditions, but because diet and exercise are simply not enough.
The same is true for obesity. It is not that diet and exercise are useless – they absolutely remain a cornerstone of treatment. But, by themselves, they are simply not effective enough to control obesity in the vast majority of people who have it.
This is because, diet and exercise do not alter the biology that drives and sustains obesity. If anything, diet and exercise work against the body's biology, which is working hard to defend body weight at all costs.
Thus, it is time we accept this reality and recognise that without pharmacological and/or surgical treatments that interfere with this innate biology, we will not be able to control obesity in the majority of patients.
Whether we like it or not, I predict that within a decade, clinical management of obesity will look no different than current management of any other chronic disease. Most patients will require both "lifestyle" and probably a combination of anti-obesity medications to control their obesity.
This does not take away from the importance of diet and exercise – as important as they are, they are simply not enough.
Despite what "lifestyle" enthusiasts will have us believe, diet and exercise are no more important (or effective) for the treatment of obesity, than they are for the treatment of hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, depression, or any other condition that responds to "lifestyle" interventions.
In the end, most patients will require more effective treatments to manage their obesity and all of the comorbidities that come with it. The sooner we develop and make accessible such treatments, the sooner we can really help our patients.
Edmonton, AB
Arguments For Calling Obesity A Disease #2: It Is Driven By Biology
Continuing in my miniseries on reasons why obesity should be considered a disease, I turn to the idea that obesity is largely driven by biology (in which I include psychology, which is also ultimately biology).
This is something people dealing with mental illness discovered a long time ago – depression is "molecules in your brain" – well, so is obesity!
Let me explain.
Humans throughout evolutionary history, like all living creatures, were faced with a dilemma, namely to deal with wide variations in food availability over time (feast vs. famine).
Biologically, this means that they were driven in times of plenty to take up and store as many calories as they could in preparation for bad times – this is how our ancestors survived to this day.
While finding and eating food during times of plenty does not require much work or motivation, finding food during times of famine requires us to go to almost any length and risks to find food. This risk-taking behaviour is biologically ensured by tightly linking food intake to the hedonic reward system, which provides the strong intrinsic motivator to put in the work required to find foods and consume them beyond our immediate needs.
Indeed, it is this link between food and pleasure that explains why we would go to such lengths to further enhance the reward from food by converting raw ingredients into often complex dishes involving hours of toiling in the kitchen. Human culinary creativity knows no limits – all in the service of enhancing pleasure.
Thus, our bodies are perfectly geared towards these activities. When we don't eat, a complex and powerful neurohormonal response takes over (aka hunger), till the urge becomes overwhelming and forces us to still our appetites by seeking, preparing and consuming foods – the hungrier we get, the more we seek and prepare foods to deliver even greater hedonic reward (fat, sugar, salt, spices).
The tight biological link between eating and the reward system also explains why we so often eat in response to emotions – anxiety, depression, boredom, happiness, fear, loneliness, stress, can all make us eat.
But eating is also engrained into our social behaviour (again largely driven by biology) – as we bond to our mothers through food, we bond to others through eating. Thus, eating has been part of virtually every celebration and social gathering for as long as anyone can remember. Food is celebration, bonding, culture, and identity – all features, the capacity for which, is deeply engrained into our biology.
In fact, our own biology perfectly explains why we have gone to such lengths to create the very environment that we currently live in. Our biology (paired with our species' limitless creativity and ingenuity) has driven us to conquer famine (at least in most parts of the world) by creating an environment awash in highly palatable foods, nutrient content (and health) be damned!
Thus, even without delving any deeper into the complex genetics, epigenetics, or neuroendocrine biology of eating behaviours, it is not hard to understand why much of today's obesity epidemic is simply the result of our natural behaviours (biology) acting in an unnatural environment.
So if most of obesity is the result of "normal" biology, how does obesity become a disease?
Because, even "normal" biology becomes a disease, when it affects health.
There are many instances of this.
For example, in the same manner that the biological system responsible for our eating behaviour and energy balance responds to an "abnormal" food environment by promoting excessive weight gain to the point that it can negatively affect our health, other biological systems respond to abnormal environmental cues to affect their respective organ systems to produce illnesses.
Our immune systems designed to differentiate between "good" and "bad", when underexposed to "good" at critical times in our development (thanks to our modern environments), treat it as "bad", thereby creating debilitating and even fatal allergic responses to otherwise "harmless" substances like peanuts or strawberries.
Our "normal" glucose homeostasis system, when faced with insulin resistance (resulting from increasingly sedentary life circumstances), provoke hyperinsulinemia with ultimate failure of the beta-cell, resulting in diabetes.
Similarly, our "normal" biological responses to lack of sleep or constant stress, result in a wide range of mental and physical illnesses.
Our "normal" biological responses to drugs and alcohol can result in chronic drug and alcohol addiction.
Our "normal" biological response to cancerogenous substances (including sunlight) can result in cancers.
The list goes on.
Obviously, not everyone responds to the same environment in the same manner – thanks to biological variability (another important reason why our ancestors have made it through the ages).
But, you may argue, if obesity is largely the result of "normal" biology responding to an "abnormal" environment, then isn't it really the environment that is causing the disease?
That may well be the case, but it doesn't matter for the definition of disease. Many diseases are the result for the environment interacting with biology and yes, changing the environment could indeed be the best treatment (or even cure) for that disease.
Thus, even if pollution causes asthma and the ultimate "cure" for asthma is to rid the air of pollutants, asthma, while it exists, is still a disease for the person who has it.
All that counts is whether or not the biological condition at hand is affecting your health or not.
The only reason I bring up biology at all, is to counter the argument that obesity is simply stupid people making poor "choices" – one you consider the biology, nothing about obesity is "simple".
Edmonton, AB
Arguments Against Obesity As A Disease #4: Distracts From Obesity Prevention
Continuing in my mini series on the pros and cons of considering obesity a chronic disease, I would like to now discuss the perhaps most illogical argument against recognising obesity as a disease that I often hear, "Calling obesity a disease will reduce our efforts at prevention".
This argument makes virtually no sense at all, as I cannot think of a single "preventable" disease, where calling it a "disease" would have reduced or thwarted prevention efforts.
Whether the aim is to prevent heart disease (dietary recommendations, fitness, smoking cessation), cancers (physical activity, healthy diets, smoking cessation, sunlight exposure), infectious diseases (vaccinations, food safety, hand washing, condom use), road accidents (helmets, seat belts, speed limits), in no instance has calling something a "disease" ever stopped us from doing the utmost for prevention (although more can always be done).
Rather, if you truly embrace the concept that obesity, once established, becomes a life-long problem for which we have no cure (the very definition of "chronic disease"), we should be doubling or even quadrupling our efforts at prevention.
After all, who would want to be stuck with a chronic disease, if it can indeed be prevented?
Governments, NGOs and individuals should be even more enthusiastic about preventing a "real" disease than simply modifying a "risk factor" (which sounds a lot less threatening).
Indeed, if I was working in population health, I'd be all for emphasizing just how terrible and devastating the disease of obesity actually is – all the more reason to double down on efforts to do what it takes to prevent it.
In fact, considering obesity a "real disease" would put all the folks working hard to prevent obesity right up there on par with those working to prevent "real" diseases like cancer, HIV/AIDS, or Alzheimer's disease.
Thus, the argument that calling obesity a "disease" would somehow distract from efforts to prevent it makes absolutely no sense at all.
New Orleans, LA
Arguments Against Obesity As A Disease #2: Inconsistent Relationship Between Body Fat And Health
Yesterday, in my brief series on the pros and cons of calling obesity a chronic disease, I addressed the issue of BMI as a poor definition of obesity (understood here as "abnormal or excess body fat that affects health").
Another common argument I hear from those who do not support the notion of obesity as a chronic disease, is that there is an inconsistent relationship between body fat and health.
This is no doubt the case.
Indeed, whether or not your body fat affects your health depends on a range of factors – from your genetic predisposition to certain "complications" to the "nature" of your body fat, factors that cannot be captured or assessed by simply stepping on a scale.
Often, this variability in the relationship between excess body fat and its impact on health, is used to argue against a "causal relationship" between the two. This argument is often presented along the lines of, "If obesity is a disease, how come I don't have diabetes?".
Where the direct impact of excess body fat on health should be evident, is when the amount of excess fat poses a direct "mechanical" problem that impedes physical functioning. This impact, however, is likely to vary from one person to the next.
A good example of this, is obstructive sleep apnea, where an increase in pharyngeal fat deposition is directly and causally related to the airway obstruction. The causal relationship of pharyngeal fat and the symptoms is directly evident by improvement in symptoms following surgical removal of the excess fat (an operation that is seldom undertaken due to possible complications and redeposition of fat). There is also substantial evidence that significant weight loss (such as induced by bariatric surgery) results in a dramatic improvement in apnea/hypopnea index and sometimes even in complete resolution of the problem.
Yet, not everyone with excess weight develops obstructive sleep apnea. One of the factors that explains this variation, is the anatomical dimension of the pharyngeal space, which varies significantly from one person to the next. So, just how much excess fat in the neck region results in symptoms (if any) will necessarily be highly variable. This is not an argument against the relationship between excess body fat and obstructive sleep apnea, it is just the expected variation between individuals that is evident in many diseases.
Likewise, when the amount of excess fat impairs the body's capacity to perform essential functions (from mobility to performing simple tasks of personal hygiene), it is not a matter of "opinion" whether obesity is the cause of the problem. There is however variation in how people perceive these "limitations" as limitations, which explains why there may well be considerable variation and inconsistncy in the objective vs. subjective impact of excess body fat on physical functioning.
The relationship between excess or abnormal body fat and metabolic problems is perhaps less easy to understand but biologically as evident. Thus, there is an almost linear relationship between the presence of visceral fat and the risk for diabetes. This risk is greatly amplified in individuals with a family history of diabetes. Thus, the amount of visceral fat necessary to impair glucose homeostasis varies from one person to the next and depends on other factors including beta-cell capacity to produce insulin.
Note that I said "visceral" fat rather than body fat. This is because subcutaneous fat appears to have little (if any) effect on diabetes risk and may even be protective. Thus, it is not the total amount of body fat but rather its location and biological function that determines its effect on metabolic disease. Therefor, it is easy to see why there would be an inconsistent relationship between body fat (or even cruder measures such as BMI) and risk for diabetes.
There is also considerable evidence that the metabolic effects of excess body fat can be substantially modified by cardiorespiratory fitness ("fat but fit" vs. "lean but unfit"). This is in part because although exercise does not necessarily reduce overall body fat, it appears to have a very specific effect on visceral fat. Moreover, increased muscle mass appears to neutralise some of the metabolic consequences of excess body fat. While all of this is true, it does not negate the fact that visceral fat remains one of the key drivers of metabolic risk, even if there remains substantial variations in how much this risk translates into severe health problems for a given individual.
Even more difficult to understand is the relationship between excess body fat and its impact on mental health. This is particularly difficult because the emotional impact of excess weight also very much depends on the social context. Clearly, the impact of body shape and size on health and well-being will be different across societies that are more or less accepting of larger bodies.
Nevertheless, social context does not obviate the fact that excess body fat can significantly affect mental health in a given individual living in a given societal context. Indeed, there are numerous instances where the "environment" defines or amplifies the effect of biological variations on health. The most extreme example I can think of would be a peanut allergy. While this may have no impact whatsoever on the health of someone living in a nut-free environment, it can be fatal to someone living in a society where peanuts are found in almost every dish (e.g. Thailand).
Thus, despite variation in the relationship between body fat% or BMI and health, including the fact that this relationship may vary depending on societal or environmental context, is not really an argument against obesity as a disease.
All that matters for the definition of obesity as a chronic disease is whether or not a person's physical, emotional or functional health is affected by excess or abnormal body fat – that this varies between individuals is only to be expected.
Indeed, the impact of many diseases on health can be substantially modified by environmental factors or social context (e.g. diabetes, heart disease, depression) – this does not prevent us from calling them diseases.
Similarly, the actual impact of many disease on an individual's health can vary widely between individuals – this does not make them more or less of a disease.
In fact, I would claim that there is an "inconsistent" relationship between virtually every disease and morbidity and mortality at the level of the individual – from depression to cancer, from pneumonia to Alzheimer's.
Thus, inconsistencies in the relationship between body fat and its impact on health across a population, does not speak against the notion that when excess or abnormal body fat negatively affects a given individual's health, it should be considered a chronic disease.
Berlin, Germany
Stretching The Rubber Band
I remember as a kid having a pair of pyjamas that were held up by an elastic rubber band.
It must have been a pretty cheap rubber band, because every few months it would wear out and lose its stretch, so it had to be replaced it with a new band.
Unfortunately, this is not what can be said about the rubber band that I used in my recent TEDx talk to demonstrate what happens when you try to lose weight.
Unlike the cheap band in my pyjamas, the rubber band I used to represent our physiology trying to gain the weight back, never seems to lose its stretch.
No matter how hard or how long we pull, the rubber band keeps wanting to bring our weight back to where we started.
Yes, perhaps for some people, eventually the rubber band may relax (these would certainly be the exceptions) or may be the "muscles" that we use to pull on the band just grow stronger, which makes it seem easier to keep up the pull – but for all we know, in most people, this "rubber band" is of pretty good quality and seems to last forever.
So, how do we take the tension out of the rubber band ?
Well, we do know that people who have bariatric surgery have a much better chance of keeping the weight off in the long-term and we now understand that this has little to do with the "restriction" or the "malabsorbtion" resulting from these procedures but rather from the profound effect that this surgery has on the physiology of weight regain.
Thus, we know that many of the hormonal and neurological changes that happen with bariatric surgery, seem to inhibit the body's ability to defend its weight and perhaps even appears to trick the body into thinking that its weight is higher than it actually is.
In other words, bariatric surgery helps maintain long-term weight loss by reducing the tension in the rubber band, thus making it far easier for patients to maintain the "pull".
And that is exactly how we think some of the anti-obesity medications may be working.
For example, daily injections of liraglutide, a GLP-1 analogue approved for obesity treatment, appears to decrease the body's ability to counteract weight loss by reducing hunger and increasing satiety, thus taking some of the tension out of that band.
Think of it as sprinkling "magic dust" on that rubber band to reduce the tension, which makes it easier for patients to maintain that pull thereby helping them keep the weight off.
Of course, both surgery and liraglutide only reduce the tension as long as you continue using them.
Undo the surgery or come off your anti-obesity meds and the tension in that band comes back as strong as ever.
For readers, who have no idea what I'm talking about, hopefully things will become clearer after you watch my talk by clicking here.
Edmonton, AB


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Understanding Africa
BUSINESS| Oct. 22, 2012, 12:09 p.m.
South African-based ST Group, in partnership with Market Decisions and Map IT, has launched a set of spatial data tools that allow public and private sector to visualise and plan around the demographics, business environment and geographical environment across Africa.
ST Group launched its Africa Profiler location intelligent software in Johannesburg, South Africa, today.
The tools incorporate reliable and up to date layered data sets from a range of sources, with vector data from Map IT, to allow business and public sector planners to determine market needs and realities in countries, provinces and cities across the continent.
Profiler covers 58 countries and is designed to deliver insightful information that enables business decisions about expansion into Africa, says the group.
Sheny Medani of Market Decisions notes that the rush for Africa is on, with foreign investors keen to enter markets across Africa. Africa's economic growth is set to outstrip that of many major growth markets such as China and Brazil over the next 20 years, she says, and foreign investors are looking to enter Africa.
However, securing usable and relevant data has been complicated to date. ST Group has – over the past 12 months, verified and integrated relevant data for the continent, says Medani.
ST Group's Mark Kindler, elaborating on the the relevance of the solution, said: "Profiler is for making market decisions."
It looks at where markets are, their demographics, migration, transport infrastructures and existing points of interest.
The data also allows enterprises to examine issues such as the ease of doing business in a country or region, GDP growth and other economic data.
Based on this information, would-be investors can plan their roll-outs in countries, provinces, cities and even suburbs.
ST Group's Jeff Connacher also highlighted the SiteMarker analytics tool, which can integrate data from an enterprise's own historical data with Profiler data and MapIT vectors to deliver a strategic forecasting tool allowing businesses to plan sites for malls or stores, or authorities to plan community facilities, based on demographics, competitors, other available facilities and travelling time and infrastructure in the area.
The tool can be used to plan the best possible sites for advertising campaigns, stores, health clinics or malls.
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"The first rule of coloring books is..."
Two women playing loud music on a speaker led to a mid-air flight onboard a Spirit Airlines plane
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For the 15th anniversary, let's revisit the actors you forgot were in the movie.
If you haven't seen David Fincher's movie Fight Club, there will be spoilers below. Also, go see it. Right now. We mean it. Now that that's out of the way, here's a treat for movie fans: a video/VFX guy called Richard Trammell has digitally removed T...


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Dana Specht and Sarah Gregory; Momma and Babygirl. These two have what is called a "scene relationship" as mother/daughter. Also, in real life, Dana has described Sarah as "the daughter she has always wanted." Dana loves Sarah as she would love a daughter which means she also loves her enough to discipline her when needed. They also have fun making fantasy videos with different role play scenes that sometimes involve guest models as well. On this website you can watch videos that include real punishments as well as fun mommy/daughter role plays. Updated 3 times a week with videos and/or photo galleries. New addition to the site are other mommy/daughter themed videos with Sarah playing "mommy" along with other scene celebs playing her mom.
Sore Sister
|Sarah is in charge as mom is away and her younger sister, Aysel, has gone out and gotten drunk and missed curfew. Sarah, who cares for her sister, is very disappointed in Aysel. Sarah decides to take things into her own hands with regards to the discipline. She spanks young Aysel for her immature and reckless behavior until her bottom is very red and very sore. JOIN FOR MORE
Little Kajira's Spanking
|In this classic age play film, Kajira has been a very naughty little girl. Mommy specifically forbid her to go to the big yard sale down the street and she did anyway. She had a neighbor kid take her and she got a big rocking horse. Mommy was disgusted as this was filthy and was brought into their home. Kajira lies to mommy about where she got it and puts up a fight when it was taken away. Mommy is very upset and takes her daughter over the knee to be spanked on her cute drop seat pajamas and then on the bare bottom. This little naughty girl also earns herself mommy's wooden hairbrush across her already sore spanked bottom. By the end of her punishment, Kajira is promising to be a good girl and listen to mommy and never lie again. JOIN FOR MORE
Cure for a Hangover
|Momma is very annoyed to come back from Church to find her daughter still passed out on the couch and Amelia, Sarah's friend from England, sitting next to her. Amelia tries to explain why the two ladies weren't at church and her lies just keep getting her deeper and deeper in trouble. First, the story is shell fish, next it's that Sarah has rabies, well Momma Dana knows these are all lies. She knows her daughter went out the night before with Amelia and got drunk. The best cure for a hangover is a trip over mom's knee for some good old fashioned discipline. After a long scolding, Sarah is spanked while her friend, Amelia, looks on in disbelief. Then Amelia is spanked for allowing Sarah to get this out of control and then lying about it. Momma switches them back and forth spanking one, while the other watches, etc. At the end of their spankings, they are very sorry and contrite little girls. JOIN FOR MORE
Sisterly Love
|Adriana is Ten's older sister and is very worried about her behavior. Ten is being reckless, staying out all night, hanging out with the wrong people, and just not being responsible. Since their parents are not around is it Adriana who looks out for Ten. And looking out also means punishing her as she sees fit. She love her sister and doesn't want to see her continue down an unsafe path. Adriana spanks her to not only teach her a lesson, but also to show her how much she cares and want's Ten to be a more responsible young lady. JOIN FOR MORE
Mommy Spanks Bianca
|This is a short scene from a long play 1950s discipline film to be released late in the summer on Sarah Gregory Spanking. This is a very hot mommy daughter scene and I was so excited to give everyone a sneak peak into the huge project I am working on. Bianca plays Jennifer and Tasha plays her strict mother. Jennifer has been breaking many rules at school and now mommy must deal with her naughty behavior. Jennifer was made to change into a "punishment" outfit and go over mommy's knee for some hard spanking. She kicked and cried out in pain until her bottom was sore, hot, and red. JOIN FOR MORE
Ally's Diaper Discipline
|Ally had an accident at school and mommy was called by the teacher. Mommy is very disappointed in her little girl and as soon as Ally gets home from school she is in for some serious scolding and punishment from Mommy. She was supposed to be wearing her pull-ups but she hasn't been. For this mommy must give her daughter an over the knee spanking with her hand, hairbrush, and slipper before diapering her. She is told she must wear a diaper now everyday to school since she has been having these accidents. Mommy then diapers her daughter after the spanking and Ally is humiliated, but accepts her punishment in shame. JOIN FOR MORE
It's My Party
|Mommy is very upset with her daughter when she catches her eating all the cookies and cakes for the birthday party the next day. Mommy has asked Alice to get ready for dinner, but instead Alice has decided to sit on the counter and eat her birthday treats. What a bad girl! Now Mommy is going to cancel her naughty little girl's birthday party and give her a spanking she won't forget. Mommy takes Alice over her knee for a hard hand spanking followed by the hairbrush. Alice is one sorry little girl by the time mommy is finished with her. JOIN FOR MORE
Not Home Alone
|Sarah has lied and Mommy is angry. Momma Dana goes away for the weekend and tells Sarah she is NOT to have company. So, what does Sarah do? She has her boyfriend over for the weekend, only she is really bad about hiding it and mom knows right away when she returns home. Sarah tries to lie about it, which only makes things worse for her poor bottom. Momma knows! And Momma is very disappointed in her little girl for disobeying her and lying about it. After a proper scolding, Sarah is taken right over the knee for a hard hand spanking over her tight leggings, over her panties, and then on the bare bottom. Sarah wiggles in pain as Momma's strong hand comes down on her bare flesh. Her bottom turns bright pink, but that is not good enough. A properly spanked bottom is red, so poor and now contrite Sarah is told to fetch the dreaded wooden hairbrush. Oh no! She begs not to be spanked with mommy's hairbrush as it hurts to much, but it falls on deaf ears. Once Momma has made up her mind to spank her naughty girl with a hairbrush there is no going back. Sarah is taken back over the knee for a very hard hairbrush spanking on her already very sore bottom. Sarah cries very real tears of remorse until Momma finally forgives her very sorry and sad little girl. JOIN FOR MORE
Sister Trouble
|Alex and her sister Adriana are non-stop arguing and fighting and mommy has had just about enough of their behavior. Mommy takes each of her naughty daughters over the knee for bare bottom spankings. This elicits real tears from Alex as she apologizes and cries. Adriana continues to sass mom and earns herself another trip over mom's lap for the hairbrush. Alex makes snarky remarks from the corner and also earns the hairbrush on her already sore spanked bottom. These are two very sorry sisters. JOIN FOR MORE
A Spanking from Daddy means a Spanking from Mommy
|Mommy is very disappointed to get a call from daddy that Harley had to be spanked for being rude to her step-mom. When Harley gets home from the week with her dad, Mommy has her sit on the bed to scold her before taking her over the knee for a spanking and hairbrushing on her bare bottom. Harley knows that a spanking from daddy also means a spanking from mommy. JOIN FOR MORE
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Posts by: Hamish Johnston
Killer asteroid bust-up, exposing academic plagiarism, #IAmAPhysicist and more
By Hamish Johnston
First-up in this week's Red Folder is a tale of killer asteroids, hubris and peer review from the Washington Post. The science writer Rachel Feltman has written a nice article about a claim by physicist-turned-entrepreneur Nathan Myhrvold that NASA's research on asteroids that could potentially collide with Earth is deeply flawed. On Monday, Myhrvold posted a 111-page preprint on arXiv that argues that asteroid radii measured by NASA's NEOWISE project are far less accurate than stated by NASA scientists. What's more, Myhrvold seems to suggest that NEOWISE scientists have "copied" some results from previous asteroid studies.
Myhrvold began his career as a theoretical physicist and, after a stint as Microsoft's chief technology officer, founded an intellectual-property firm. He has never worked in the field of asteroids, yet he has taken great exception to some of the physics and statistical analysis underlying the NEOWISE results. His paper has been submitted to the journal Icarus, but has not yet passed peer review – unlike the NEOWISE results. In her article, Feltman ponders why Myhrvold is actively promoting his controversial work – he was featured in a New York Times article on Monday – before it has passed peer review. She also speaks to several NEOWISE scientists, who are not amused.
Skateboard videos reveal the physics of doing an 'ollie'
By Hamish Johnston
Here's a problem for keen students of classical mechanics: how can a skateboarder cause their board to leap into the air by pressing down on it with their feet?
What I've described is a trick called the "ollie", which first emerged on the skateboarding scene in the late 1970s and is now an essential part of the skating repertoire. There's a fascinating paper in the journal Physics Education, which shows how digital videos of people doing an ollie can be analysed to get to grips with the physics underlying the trick.
The above image shows six video frames of someone executing an ollie – with time moving from right to left over a period of about 2 s. If you delve into the paper, you will find out how its authors – Marco Adriano Dias, Paulo Simeão Carvalho and Deise Miranda Vianna – used video images to track the motion of the tail of the board as well as its front and back wheels. This was then compared to a free-body diagram analysis of the forces of the board.
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Mercury's transit across the Sun has begun, check out our guide on how to view it safely
By Hamish Johnston
The transit of Mercury across the face of the Sun has begun. Alas here in Bristol the skies are grey and I have been watching a live feed of the transit from the Royal Observatory in Greenwich – which has been blessed with clear skies. That's a real shame, because I had brought a small telescope into work and I was looking forward to projecting a magnified image of the Sun onto a screen to see the transit for myself.
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IBM wants you to use its quantum computer
By Hamish Johnston
Starting today, members of the public will be able to run programs on IBM's quantum processor. Users can access the device – which comprises five superconducting quantum bits (qubits) – via the US-based company's "IBM Quantum Experience" website.
Described as a "cloud-enabled quantum computing platform", IBM says that users will be able to run algorithms and experiments on IBM's quantum processor, manipulate individual qubits, as well as access quantum-computing tutorials and simulations.
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The most expensive object on Earth, publish or perish, and a physics Magna Carta
By Hamish Johnston
What will soon be the most expensive object on Earth? The answer, according to Greenpeace, is the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station that is slated for construction in south-west England. According to the BBC, the environmental group reckons the station will cost £24bn ($35bn) whereas EDF – the company that will build it – puts the construction cost at £18bn. In contrast, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN cost a mere £4bn. While the price tag on Hinkley Point C – which should produce 3.2 GW of electricity by 2024 – is eye watering, building a reactor on the cheap is not really an option.
Still, Hinkley Point C will not be the most expensive object ever built by humans. That honour goes to the International Space Station, which the BBC says cost nearly £78bn. There's something comforting in knowing that the single highest expenditure ever has been on science – maybe civilization isn't doomed after all.
Putting a bouncy castle in space and other extraterrestrial adventures
By Hamish Johnston
It's never been a better time to be a space enthusiast, as more and more countries are unveiling space programmes and it seems like a new mission is launched or announced just about every week.
But if you are like me and find the constellation of mission names – the various acronyms, mythical beasts and dead scientists – overwhelming, then the space physicist Chris Arridge has put together "Five human spaceflight missions to look forward to in the next decade" for The Conversation.
Physics saves humanity, the large rainfall collider and other environmental highlights on Earth Day
By James Dacey and Hamish Johnston
Today is Earth Day, so let's temporarily rename this regular Red Folder column as the Green Folder. Either way, today we're going to focus on the Earth and environmental issues. The official website of Earth Day – an initiative now in its 46th year – has details about the various initiatives and events taking place around the world today.
First, let's pay tribute to a physicist whose work had a profound influence on the climate and energy debate in the UK and beyond. Sir David Mackay died on 14 April aged 48 following a battle with cancer. Mackay is remembered among other things for his pragmatic approach to energy and his 2008 book Sustainable Energy: Without the Hot Air (free access) was hailed for its rigour and refreshing absence of rhetoric. Mackay's writings attracted the interest of the British government who appointed him as chief scientific adviser to the Department of Energy and Climate Change in 2009, a post he held for five years. Ever prolific, Mackay was blogging about his experiences right up until two days before his death.
Cosmic rays, diamond anvils and spintronics in Utah
By Hamish Johnston in Salt Lake City
Yesterday afternoon I hopped on a tram bound for the University of Utah. As you can see in the above photo, spring has sprung in Salt Lake City and the campus was resplendent in blossoms with views over snow-capped mountains.
I was at the university to film several 100 Second Science videos with Utah physicists including Shanti Deemyad, who studies the properties of matter under extremely high pressures. She is particularly interested in understanding the quantum properties of solids at temperatures near absolute zero – properties that can be enhanced when materials such as lithium are squeezed at pressures that are more than 10 million times greater than Earth's atmosphere. This is done using a diamond anvil and Deemyad's lab has 20 or so of them.
LIGO could soon detect one gravitational wave per week
By Hamish Johnston at the APS April Meeting in Salt Lake City
I came to Salt Lake City hoping to glean a few golden nuggets of information about what future gravitational-wave detections we can expect from LIGO. What I found is that the collaboration is as tight-lipped as ever about discussing potential results. That's fair enough and I understand the caution. However, I was hoping that the researchers would have loosened up a bit after their February announcement of the first gravitational-wave detection and share a little more with the general public.
So, what have I learned?
HAWC spots TeV gamma ray flare
By Hamish Johnston at the APS April Meeting in Salt Lake City
Talk about luck. Just 10 days before the April Meeting the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory lit up with the detection of a galaxy that produced large numbers of teraelectronvolt (TeV) gamma rays for just one day (see image).
Dubbed Markarian 501, HAWC astrophysicists believe that the flare could be driven by a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy. However, they admit that they don't really understand how such flares occur.
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Hundreds of thousands of dementia patients could be helped by drug breakthrough
Hundreds of thousands more dementia patients could be helped by two drugs that temporarily halt its symptoms, according to researchers.
In a trial, the treatments, which cost as little as 50p a day, gave sufferers in the later stages of the disease precious extra months to live independently and hold coherent conversations.
At present the two drugs – donepezil, more commonly known as Aricept, and memantine, or Ebixa – are given to only about 50,000 patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's.
Donepezil, more commonly known as Aricept, is only given to around 50,000 patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's and stopped once the illness has progressed beyond a certain point
Once the illness has progressed beyond a certain point, prescriptions are usually stopped because the drugs are not thought to have any further benefit.
But based on the findings of a ground-breaking study carried out at King's College London, experts believe they could help 450,000 advanced sufferers in the UK.
They also say the drugs could replace harmful anti-psychotic medication routinely used to sedate patients, which worsen symptoms and heighten the risk of strokes and death.
Researchers divided 295 patients with advanced Alzheimer's disease into four groups. One group was given donepezil, the second memantine, the third took both drugs while the fourth was given placebos.
After a year, patients were assessed on their mental state and their ability to do daily tasks. Those on either of the two drugs got much higher scores than the other patients, and researchers estimated that the drugs had delayed symptoms by three or four months.
An elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer's disease in a residential home specialising in the care of people with dementia
Patients taking both drugs together did not benefit more than those taking only one.
Professor Robert Howard, lead author of the study, which is published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, said: 'For the first time we have robust and compelling evidence that treatment with these drugs can continue to help patients at the later, more severe stages of the disease.'
The ground-breaking study was carried out at King's College in London
He said that some patients who continued taking donepezil were able to function better for a year longer than those who stopped taking the drugs.
Professor Clive Ballard, of the Alzheimer's Society, which co-funded the study, said: 'This research, if acted upon, has the potential to change the lives of up to 450,000 more people today and many more in the future.
'Sadly, what we do see is that when you stop these treatments, behavioural symptoms get worse.
what often happens is that other sedative drugs get prescribed to
manage the behavioural symptoms rather than the anti-dementia drugs
which may prevent or delay those symptoms from commencing.'
500,000 people in the UK are estimated to have Alzheimer's, but 60 per
cent have not been properly diagnosed and are therefore not being given
vital drugs and care.
The researchers hope their findings will prompt the NHS watchdog NICE to draw up new guidelines telling doctors to give them to patients in the later stages of Alzheimer's.
It currently costs about 50p a day to treat a patient with donepezil. Memantine costs £2.80 a day but the price is expected to drop by at least half over the next few months.
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