Friday, September 27, 2019
Jessica Simpson Reportedly Used the Body Reset Diet to Lose 100 Pounds—But What Is It?
When Jessica Simpson took to Instagram to announce that she lost 100 pounds in the six months after giving birth to her daughter Birdie Mae, her followers flocked to the comments section to ask exactly what she did to drop the pounds. In a recent interview, Simpson’s trainer, Harley Pasternak, gave fans the answer they were looking for.
Pasternak told People the 39-year-old former pop star made diet changes based on his book The Body Reset Diet. “It’s three meals and two snacks a day, and each meal has protein, fiber and fat, and snacks are protein and fiber or protein and fat,” he said, explaining the gist of the diet. “It’s about balancing in a way that doesn’t make it painful or too much of a departure from your life before that.”
But, when you dig a little deeper into Pasternak’s Body Reset Diet, what exactly does it entail—and can it really help you lose weight like it helped Simpson? Here’s the lowdown on how it’s structured, and what to be aware of before you give it a try.
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What is the Body Reset Diet?
The diet is broken up into three phases. The first lasts five days, and you’re directed to eat five times a day and consume only smoothies and snacks—specifically three smoothies and two snacks.
The smoothies are made from a combo of a liquid base (dairy or non-dairy milk, or water), protein (from a powder or plain non-fat Greek yogurt), healthy fat (from nuts, seeds, or avocado), and high fiber carbs (from fruit and/or veggies). There are plenty of smoothie recipes in the book.
As for snacks, there are several to pick from, like low-fat popcorn; celery sticks with almond butter, or a pear with sliced turkey. The snacks have guidelines around calorie, fiber, and protein content, which are outlined in the book. All of the snacks should be about 150 calories and contain at least 5 grams each of fiber and protein and less than 10 grams of sugar.
Phase one also involves light exercise—walking only (no boot camp classes or other hard core workouts), at a minimum of 10,000 steps daily.
During phase two, on days six through 10, you drink two smoothies, and eat one solid meal plus two snacks per day. Meals include salads, sandwiches, soups, stir fries, and other simple dishes. Meal prep is encouraged, and recipes are provided. You also add a five minute at-home, no-equipment workout three days a week, in addition to the 10,000 steps.
In phase three, days 11 through 15, smoothies are limited to one per day, plus two meals and two snacks. The workouts also ramp up a bit.
Beyond day 15, the book includes “rest of your life” advice (which sounds similar to the diet Simpson followed). In this advice, Pasternak advocates continuing to eat five times a day—specifically one smoothie, two snacks, and two solid meals—with two “free” splurge meals per week, which may include some alcohol. The 10,000 steps a day is advised seven days a week for life, along with brief resistance training sessions five days a week.
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Can the Body Reset Diet help you lose weight?
We unfortunately can't say for certain if the Body Reset Diet will help you lose weight. Pasternak doesn't have data on the results, either short term or long term, and it ultimately depends on someone's starting weight, previous diet, age, and other factors. In the long term, you’re encouraged to do many of the things you’ve probably heard about from other weight loss plans, including planning ahead, eating more slowly and mindfully, and sticking to a schedule, all of which is solid weight-loss advice.
The Body Reset Diet isn’t a drastic or fad diet. It encourages making healthy choices and developing lifestyle habits. In a nutshell, it takes many solid eating and exercise recommendations and puts them into a concrete, easy to understand structure. The book is straightforward, the strategy is easy to follow, and the advice is reasonable and actionable long term.
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What are the downsides of the Body Reset Diet?
The book was first published in 2013, and some of the recommendations seem dated compared to newer nutrition science and trends. For example, artificial sweeteners are allowed, and the plan encourages low-fat and fat-free foods, eggs without the yolk, and some more processed products, like deli turkey, crackers, and pita. Current nutrition thinking is focused on whole rather than processed foods and quality fat over total fat.
And while there are options for vegans, vegetarians, and those who follow a gluten-free or dairy-free diet, they aren’t readily tagged. You’ll have to look through the recipes, and you may need to make substitutions based on the diet you personally follow. For example, if you’re vegan you could make some of chicken broth soups with vegetable broth instead.
The plan also requires calorie counting or tracking. Many of my clients find this to be cumbersome or even stressful. But because the Body Reset Diet involves eating five times a day, it would be important to monitor calories to prevent over-consuming if you decide to follow this plan. In my experience, the more meals, the higher the chances are that you may overdo it on the calories, even just a bit, which can add up to enough of a surplus to stall weight loss.
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Should you try the Body Reset Diet?
Nutrition is always evolving, which makes following a book like this from a specific date a challenge. While the structure of this plan, a balanced diet and regularly times meals, holds up, if you decide to try it, go for updated versions of foods within certain categories, like grass-fed if you eat dairy, pasture-raised whole eggs for egg eaters, no artificial sweeteners, and simple, clean ingredient packaged foods. Also, consider ditching the beef, upping seafood if you eat it, and cranking up the number of plant based meals.
Finally, it’s unclear how much weight you might lose in 15 days on this plan—or even how much weight you’ll lose in six months, like Simpson. But one thing is certain: losing weight and keeping it off does require finding a strategy you can really stick with, and one that makes you feel well both physically and emotionally. Whether that’s this exact plan, or your own modification, in the long run, healthy, sane, and sustainable always wins out over fast and furious.
Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD, is Health's contributing nutrition editor, a New York Times best-selling author, and a nutrition consultant for the New York Yankees.
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Amazon Shoppers Bought Over a Million Serums From This Anti-Aging Skincare Brand
Once we realized we could shop for high-quality, ingredient-conscious skincare products on Amazon for a fraction of the price we pay for “name brand” products elsewhere, the game was officially changed.
Naturally, over years of testing a broad spectrum of lotions and potions from Amazon’s beauty department, some under-the-radar brands have risen to cult status. Perhaps none of those has found quite as large a cult following as InstaNatural.
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InstaNatural, though sold elsewhere, is best-known as an ‘Amazon beauty brand,’ and its products command a great deal of consumer and media interest. We’ve even covered the brand previously — for its top-rated vitamin C serum and its highly anticipated Prime Day sale.
Its best-sellers are anti-aging powerhouses that include a Vitamin C Serum with Hyaluronic Acid & Vitamin E with over 1,500 perfect ratings, an Eye Gel Cream with nearly 1,400 reviews, and a Retinol Moisturizer with over 2,500 glowing customer reviews.
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Since launching in 2015, InstaNaturals has sold over a million serums. This marks a major milestone for the brand, but is no huge shock, given how loyal customers are to the brand’s life changing products.
Aside from their efficacy, what’s most attractive about Instanatural’s anti-aging serums is how affordable they are. Nearly every individual product in its lineup is under $20, a virtually unheard of price point in the anti-aging category, which regularly commands upwards of $100 per one-ounce bottle.
Customers are truly obsessed with (and extremely loyal to) this tried and true skincare brand. Shop InstaNatural on Amazon starting at just $8.
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Thursday, September 26, 2019
Stunning Photo Series Featuring Tube-Fed Babies Drives Home That Fed Is Truly Best
No matter how you feed your baby—whether by breast, bottle or, in some cases, tube—you're never immune from mom-shaming. The truth is, there's no right way to feed your baby and instead of spouting mantras like "breast is best," it's never been more important to spread the word that truly "fed is best."
That was the thinking behind a beautiful viral photo series shot by Anna Stacy Poteet, a photographer based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. "The idea was to gather moms together and show the world that no matter how your baby is fed, whether it being breastfed, formula-fed, tube-fed, you should be accepted," Poteet says.
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The mom of a nearly four-month-old says she recently became passionate about feeding, because her little one has "troubles of his own eating and gaining weight." Inspired to celebrate moms and their babies, no matter how they're fed, Poteet took to Facebook for a model call. "I actually got a bit nervous the night before and commented back to each one asking if they were going to come, thinking nobody was going to show up," she shares.
Ultimately, three moms, all of whom have children who take their meals through feeding tubes, made it to the shoot.
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Brianna Lorenzo is a mom to 2-year-old son Bellamy, who "is about the size of the average 1-year-old and is considered failure to thrive, due to being an overly picky eater," Lorenzo explains. "He also has allergies and acid reflux, which make his tummy hurt after eating. After trying food therapy, calorie drinks, and many other methods for many months, he ended up needing a G-tube. In just three weeks, he has already gained three pounds. He is now thriving instead of surviving."
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Samantha Parsons brought her five-month-old Hailey aka "Bug." "She was born full-term, but from the get-go had issues with nursing and even taking a bottle," Parsons shares. "When weeks led into months of her not eating right— due to improper swallow, and dairy, soy and coconut allergies, and reflux—failing a swallow study, then a severe case of oral thrush and ultimately failing to thrive, she had a nasal tube inserted. She gets fed by pump continuously into her intestine rather than stomach, because she has a history of aspirating."
Parsons explains that her L.O. has failed a second swallow study, so they're working with Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville to do more testing "to find out the cause of her swallow problems." They're also "working with feeding therapy to encourage her to learn how to eat and drink eventually and will be adding physical therapy to the list, too."
"Our journey is just beginning and we have a long way to go, but she's a fighter," Parsons says.
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Lizz Hendrickson and her six-month-old daughter Katherine, who is grinning from ear to ear, also participated in the shoot. "Since birth she has had difficulties with swallowing and severe reflux," Hendrickson explains. "She struggled with constant vomiting, leading to poor weight gain. When she was three months old, the doctors placed a feeding tube through her nose, down into her small intestine. At this point, Katherine was taking no food by mouth. For the next two months, she was fed at a slow rate over 20 hours a day." Thankfully, the L.O. began to gain weight, and soon, her care team's focus shifted to managing her reflux and improve her swallowing abilities. She's now being treated at Vanderbilt, as well.
"With an amazing medical team, we have made huge strides in her health," Hendrickson says. "Thanks to a surgery called a Nissen fundoplication, her reflux is now managed and she is off all medications. This was a very intense surgery with lifelong side effects: some of which being the inability to vomit or burp. She is now thriving with her G-tube and is going to be mobile before we know it! Her swallow reflux is improving and she is loving being able to eat baby food! She is definitely the happiest baby I know."
Poteet is endlessly grateful to these inspiring tube-feeding mamas. She notes, "My heart goes out to these parents who deal with this lifestyle daily, and I am so thankful to be able to bring some awareness to this." So far, her post featuring the images has been shared over 7.7K times.
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Kourtney Kardashian Underwent Platelet-Rich Plasma Treatment to Fix a Bald Spot—but What Does That Mean?
If you watched Sunday's season 17 premiere of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, you witnessed the dramatic moment when Kim discovered a bald spot on Kourtney's head. And you also saw that Kourtney didn't waste time doing something about it. Her treatment of choice: platelet-rich plasma therapy.
Fans first heard about Kourtney’s hair troubles in a trailer for the season that came out a few days before the episode aired. "Kourtney, you have a really big spot on the top of your head," Kim said in the clip. "Oh my God, I’m afraid for your life. Have you seen that?"
"No, but I feel it. It’s a hole in my head," Kourtney replied, explaining that she thought the hair loss might have been the result of an extremely tight, high ponytail she wore at a February gala. "I swear it’s from my ponytail, it was so tight that I had a bump on my head."
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Kim wanted her sister to get help ASAP. "You have to go to the hospital right now."
But Kourtney didn't think it was an emergency. "I’m not going to the hospital," she said.
Later in the episode, fans saw Kourtney undergo a treatment called platelet-rich plasma therapy (PRP). "Today I’m getting PRP, which is where they take your blood and spin it and they use your plasma and they inject it in my head for my hair to grow back," she said.
So what is PRP, anyway? Here's what you need to know.
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What is platelet-rich plasma therapy?
Debra Jaliman, MD, a New York City–based dermatologist, tells Health that PRP is a three-step treatment in which a patient’s blood is drawn, processed, and then injected into the scalp.
First, a small amount of blood is taken from the patient's body, typically the arm. Then the blood is put in a machine that separates it into fluids of different densities. The red blood cells are discarded, and the remaining blood consists of plasma, which contains growth factors—hormones or other natural chemicals that stimulate cell development. These growth factors are injected into certain areas of the scalp to prompt hair growth.
Dr. Jaliman explains that people usually need three to four treatments (though some need more), and that each treatment should be roughly a month apart. After that, the patient may need one PRP treatment every six months for maintenance. The good news is, treatments only take about 10 minutes, and there's no downtime.
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Kourtney met with Jason Diamond, MD, who told her that it could "take a long time" before her hair returns to normal. "I think you probably need two or three series, maybe once a month for the next three months, and I think you’ll be fine," Dr. Diamond said.
So does PRP really work to get rid of bald spots and regrow hair? According to Dr. Jaliman: "It is safe and very effective. I recommend it and do it on many of my patients. The PRP is sourced from the patient’s body, which eliminates the risk of an allergic reaction."
A March 2019 press release from the American Academy of Dermatology also made the case for PRP's effectiveness. Jeffrey Rapaport, MD, FAAD, a dermatologist in private practice in New Jersey, had this to say: “A general body of evidence has recently emerged demonstrating a positive response from PRP treatments. With consensus forming around treatment protocols, studies are indicating that PRP is a safe, effective hair loss treatment that has the potential to greatly improve the quality of life of millions of people.”
But beware, Kourtney, no medical procedure is totally risk-free. "With any procedure such as this where there are injections involved, there's always a risk of infection or injury to blood vessels, but I have not seen this at my practice," Dr. Jaliman adds.
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Jessica Simpson Says She's Flattered by Internet Troll Who Accused Her of Having a 'Nip Slip'
Jessica Simpson has no problem telling it like it is.
On Tuesday, the singer and actress, 39, shared a sweet photo on Instagram with her daughter Birdie Mae. As Simpson sat on a bed, she held up her 6-month-old daughter against her chest and flashed a smile for the camera.
“My little labor of love this year #BIRDIEMAE” she captioned the image.
One follower, however, assumed her smile wasn’t the only thing that Simpson was flashing in the shot and accused the star of exposing her nipple in the comments section.
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“#nipslip,” wrote the user.
Simpson responded with the ultimate comeback, proving she has both class and humor.
“I think it’s flattering that you think my nipple is that high up,” she quipped.
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Aside from the “nip slip” comment, there were plenty of other users who complimented the star for her appearance in the photo, especially after welcoming Birdie in March.
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“Please, tell me how you lost your weight. You look AMAZING!” wrote one user.
“Jessica lost all that weight and looks great 
” pointed out someone else.
“You look great mama!! ❤️❤️” added another person.
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To achieve those impressive results, Simpson recently revealed to PEOPLE that she’s been focused on getting back in shape following her tough pregnancy with Birdie, which included some seriously swollen ankles.
“I am working really hard right now,” she said in July. “It’s not easy at all, but I am determined to feel good. I have been doing a lot of walking — getting my steps in not only burns calories but it also helps me clear my head and get focused.”
Along with her daily steps — Simpson shared that she tries to walk three miles a day with her husband, Eric Johnson, and kids, daughter Maxwell “Maxi” Drew, 7, and son Ace Knute, 6 — she’s also making improvements to her diet.
“I am eating healthy too — I discovered I really like cauliflower. Who knew it could be a substitute for almost anything?!” she noted.
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Simpson first started posting about her postpartum recovery shortly after giving birth to Birdie. In May, seven weeks after the baby was born, Simpson shared a photo that showed her struggling to touch her toes.
“Just stretching it out in my rubber corset,” she jokingly captioned the shot. “The joy of postpartum 
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She continued documenting her progress in August when she shared a snap after exercising alongside her daughter and husband. “Post workout snuggles 
#BIRDIEMAE” she wrote.
Beyond getting fit, Simpson is having a monumental year. Along with Birdie’s arrival, she announced in July that she’s writing a memoir — and the exciting news came as the star rang in her 39th birthday on July 10.
“I feel pretty good about 39!” she told PEOPLE. “It is definitely one of those numbers that makes you think about age — last year of the 30’s and all — but on most days I feel like I have earned it.”
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