Look down at your gut. Or ladies, look at your man’s gut. How did it happen? Poor eating habits? Lack of exercise? Too much beer? Get off the couch and jumpstart your weight loss with Dr. Oz’s gut-busting plan!

It’s time to ditch the extra pounds and increase your overall health (and sex drive!) Don’t worry guys – you can even keep the beer.

This plan teaches you easy-to-implement changes in your diet and physical activity that promise to trim the waistline.

First things first…it’s all about Portion Control!

1. Beer: You don’t have to totally give up your draft of choice. Instead, switch to light beer! Initially you can even drink the same volume of beer.
2. Meals: With some simple substitutions and changes to your favorite meals, you won’t feel like you’re giving up the foods and tastes you love!

Action Plan
Portion Control: The Basics

Keep portions the same and reduce calories with your food choices Lower meals by 100 calories while keeping the tastes you love! Use reduced-fat cheese, whole grains and cut back on sugars. You’ll be surprised how easy this is!

#1 Breakfast

Eat breakfast! It helps to speed up your metabolism. Try peanut butter on toast to get a dose of healthy oils on a piece of bread. It’s heart-healthy and can even lower cholesterol.

#2 Lunch

Try adding lettuce and tomato to your sandwich. It adds bulk and nutrients. Add salad to your menu for vitamin C, E, and folic acid.

# 3 Dinner

If you’re eating pizza: go for thinner crust! It cuts calories and carbs. Plus, tomato sauce adds cancer fighting lycopene – not to mention, it tastes good!

# 4 Dessert

Here’s the only place Dr. Oz is asking you to make a real sacrifice. Lose the sundaes! It’s metabolic suicide. The calories go straight to your gut with a whopping 1000+ calories!

# 5 Exercise – 3 Point Plan

Stationary bike or elliptical 2-3 times a week Weight training or core exercises once a week that include crunches and twists to strengthen your stomach muscles!

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Women, want to enjoy good health in your golden years?

Lose weight. Now.

A study published online last night in the British Medical Journal shows that women who are overweight in midlife are at increased risk of various health problems, from chronic diseases to cognitive impairment, once they pass age 70.

Conversely, the study found, women who were lean at midlife were most likely to be healthy after 70.

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (both in Boston) analyzed data for more than 17,000 women collected through the ongoing Nurses’ Health Study, which started in 1976. Just under 10 percent of the women in the study who had lived to age 70 or beyond (their mean age was 50 when the Nurses’ Health Study began) reported being free of the 11 major chronic diseases the researchers tracked, maintaining good mental health and cognitive and physical function.

The likelihood of making it into that elite group decreased as BMI (body mass index) increased. Obese women were nearly 80 percent less likely to be healthy after age 70 than lean women. The least likely of all to remain healthy in later years were women who were overweight at age 18 and who gained more than 22 pounds by the time they turned 50. And whether they were lean, overweight or obese at age 18, women who gained weight by midlife had less chance of being healthy over 70 than those whose weight remained steady.

The study controlled for socioeconomic status and for smoking, diet and other lifestyle behaviors that could affect physical and mental health. One caveat: Most of the women studied were white, so researchers aren’t sure their findings extend broadly across the general population.

Still, the study adds new fodder to the often-heated debate about how closely body weight correlates to health. While the common wisdom is that being overweight puts people at increased risk of life-shortening diseases such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, others say no such cause-and-effect relationship has been scientifically established and that people can be very healthy even if they’re overweight or even obese. The new research is the first, according to its authors, to examine the role of overweight and obesity in overall health among women who survive to older ages.

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