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Health Tip: Don’t Turn to Fad Diets to Drop Pounds

By ariannawmd on January 1, 2015

Fad diets may promise to help you drop pounds quickly, but they generally don’t help you lose weight safely and keep it off.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics warns against diets that claim:

To help you lose a lot of weight quickly.
That you can eat huge amounts of certain foods, such as cabbage soup or grapefruit.
That you should follow restrictive, rigid meal plans that don’t allow for flexibility or variety.
That you don’t need to exercise to lose weight.

Source: HealthDay

Are You Living with Psoriasis?

A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.

Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.

“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.

There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.

Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.

Health Tip: Don’t Turn to Fad Diets to Drop Pounds

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