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Choosing the right diet for you
It's easy to lose weight if you know how to do it. Diet and exercise, right? Exercise is easy to understand but how do you diet? What is the right diet for you?
There is Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, the Atkins diet, Volumetrics, and the list goes on and on.
With all of the options out there you almost need to go on a information diet in order to digest all of the plans and programs out there. But today on American Morning Keri Glassman helps us break it all down listing the best diets and which one is right for you.
Unnecessary heart implants?
(CNN) - More than 20 % of patients who received an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator - a high-tech device that produces electrical impulses to regulate heartbeats and prevent life-threatening arrhythmias - in recent years were not good candidates to receive the device, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Duke University looked at more than 111,000 patients who received ICD implants between 2006 and 2009. More than 25,000 of those patients did not meet evidence-based criteria for receiving the device, according to the study.
The risk of dying in the hospital was significantly higher for patients who received the ICD but did not meet the criteria, and 1 out of 121 patients in this category experienced complications following the implant, the study found.
The study also states that as many as one out of five of these surgeries should have never happened. So why did they?
Today on American Morning, Dr. Robert Michler, director of the Montefiore-Einstein Heart Center in New York explains.
Celebrity rehab visits bring light to everyday addiction struggles
Lindsay Lohan is on her way out of rehab and David Arquette is on his way in for alcohol abuse and depression. Although the headlines focus on Hollywood, these celebrities are fighting what millions of Americans face on a daily basis, addiction.
This morning on American Morning, clinical psychologist Dr. Jeff Gardere explains to AM's Kiran Chetry and Jim Acosta what lessons everyday people can take from the Hollywood's struggle with addiction. He describes how addiction happens, and how you or a friend or family member can get to rehab, beat addiction and restart life with a new outlook.
How has addiction affected you and your family?
Simple blood test could revolutionize cancer treatment
Promising cancer news this morning. Research and development will take five to 10 years, but doctors say this newly developed blood test could detect a single cancer cell, and revolutionize how they detect and treat the deadly disease.
Monday, Johnson and Johnson announced that it will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital to develop and market the blood test. Researchers hope the test will be used by oncologists as a diagnostic tool aimed at discovering cancer that has spread and by researchers in developing new drug therapies.
Today on American Morning, Kiran Chetry talks to Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer, American Cancer Society, about how major the breakthrough is, and who the test could help.
Want to feel happy in 2011? Follow these three rules, Dr. Cloud says
New year, new start, right?
Hoping to find happiness in 2011? If happiness is what you're after, you have to do more than hope. According to Dr. Henry Cloud, author, The Law of Happiness, there is actually a recipe you can follow.
This morning on American Morning, Dr. Cloud shares his step-by-step guide to happiness. He shares with Kiran Chetry and Jim Acosta why your mindset, not your job, relationship or how much money you have, matters.
Do you agree?
Bored with your bland diet? Kick off 2011 with this gourmet cleanse
Want to start the new year off right? We've got healthy, filling and delicious dishes in the AM studio this morning that could help you lose weight in 2011.
This Monday, Bon Appetit kicks off a two week Food Lover's Cleanse, just in time for all the indulging we did over the holidays. But if you're thinking juices, calorie counting or deprivation, think again. This is a foodie's cleanse. The point of the cleanse is to introduce people to a fresh, healthful approach to cooking that can also help your body.
Today on American Morning, nutritionist Marissa Lippert serves up a day's worth of dishes with Bon Appetit. Eating healthy is not about deprivation, she tells AM's Kiran Chetry and Jim Acosta.
For the full plan, head here: http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/food-lovers-cleanse
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