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If you want to lose weight Do NOT skip meals!  When you skip a meal your body doesn’t get the fuel it needs to function at it’s best so you will feel low energy and irritability.  Also, the weight you lose by skipping meals will be temporary. Once you lose the weight and start eating meals you skipped, you will put back on weight plus even more!  This happens because your body has been “starved” or “deprived”.   Thus when you resume your regular eating habits you are consuming more calories so your weight will go up.

“Thank you for the years of motivation to help me get back into shape after my pregnancy with Ellen and during my pregnancy with Robert.” Katrina Saunders

One way to stay motivated to lose weight is to remind yourself of how good you feel after you exercise.  Exercise produces natural highs called “endorphins” that can improve your mood.  Therefore, the more you exercise the more “addicting” it will be.  Once you get in a routine, it will feel strange NOT to exercise!

A mutation in a gene that supervises the proper formation of collagen in the cell causes a lethal form of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, when the infant inherits two faulty genes – one from each parent, according to researchers – including those from Baylor College of Medicine – in a report in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. BCM scientists, led by Dr. Brendan Lee, associate professor of molecular and human genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, first identified the novel function in the gene CRTAP (cartilage-associate protein) and mutations in humans in a report in Cell in October. When CRTAP is mutated, the change prevents or reduces chemical modification of a particular protein called CASP that helps or "chaperones" collagen as it assumes its proper structure. Mice that lack CRTAP have severe osteoporosis and low bone mass. In mice, the disease can vary from mild to lethal. In …

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