Lose hip fat with 5 quick and easy exercises

New Delhi: One of the hardest places to lose fat from is the hips. There are some exercises that are fast and easy that will help you shed those unwanted kilos from your hips. It is, however important to remember that a healthy diet is essential to get a perfect butt.

In addition to a healthy diet, some minor changes in your everyday life can also help. For example, take the stairs instead of the elevator and park a little further away from the door.

1. One of the easiest exercises to lose hip fat is by simply jumping on a trampoline. Begin by jumping for a two minute period.

2. By adding a short walk to your day, you will exercise the hip area and begin to attack the deposited fat cells.

3. Toning the abdominal muscles will also help lose hip fat. This can be done by performing a variety of ab exercises such as twists or crunches. Do not over do it with these. Abdominal exercises are most effective when done three times a week.

4. Squats are a great way to reduce unwanted fat on the hips. This is a simple exercise. You begin in an upright position and bend your knees, lowering your body. Then come back up. Not only will this exercise help with hip fat, but it will also tone leg muscles.

5. Cardio exercises are the best way to lose fat from the body. A complete cardio workout will speed the metabolism and burn calories. These exercises do not build muscle but they strengthen the heart and help burn calories.

Wild almond tree oil `may help combat obesity and diabetes`

Washington: Researchers, including one of Indian origin, have found that a future weapon in the battle against obesity and diabetes could come in the form of an oil derived from the seeds of wild almond trees.

According to researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology, the key to the oil’s potential lies in its ability to affect certain microorganisms living in our bellies.

In the study, the researchers reported that adding sterculic oil to the diets of obese laboratory mice increased their sensitivity to insulin. This was due to the oil’s effect on three types of microorganisms that live in the guts of the mice.

As a result, the researchers saw a “statistically significant improvement in glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity in the obese mice,” Shreya Ghosh, a Ph.D. student in environmental engineering at Missouri S and T, said.

The sterculic oil had no adverse affects on lean mice fed the same diet.

Sterculic oil is extracted from the seeds of the wild almond tree known as Sterculia foetida.The research by Ghosh and her advisor, Dr. Daniel Oerther, builds upon previous studies conducted at the University of Missouri-Columbia. In those studies, sterculic oil was found to suppress the bodily 

SCD1 is associated with insulin resistance, a condition that can lead to diabetes and obesity.

Other studies have shown that obese mice deficient in the hormone leptin have a different composition of “gut microbiota” than do lean mice.

Leptin helps regulate metabolism, and a deficiency of the hormone can contribute to obesity, says Oerther, the John and Susan Mathes Chair of Environmental Engineering at Missouri S and T.

In the Missouri S and T study, a diet supplemented by sterculic oil also correlated with lower levels of three types of gut microbiota – Actinobacteria, Bacilli and Erysipelotrichia – in the obese mice.

It isn’t clear, however, whether the lower levels of those microbiota led to the improvement of glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity among the obese mice, Oerther says.

To perform her experiments, Ghosh studied 28 male mice – 14 of them obese and 14 normal, and each of them five weeks old at the beginning of the study.

She separated the mice into four groups and for nine weeks, fed a standard diet to one group of obese mice and one group of non-obese mice.

Over the same period, she fed the same diet, supplemented with 0.5 percent of sterculic oil, to one group of obese mice and one group of non-obese mice. Ghosh recorded the weights, food consumption and glucose levels of the mice during the nine-week period.

After the nine weeks, researchers conducted a DNA analysis of the gut microbiota at King Abdullah Institute of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.

The results confirmed correlations between the diet, improved glucose tolerance and groups of microbes. Even though the mice fed a diet with sterculic oil did not experience weight loss, both Ghosh and Oerther believe their findings could lead to new insights into controlling diabetes and weight gain.

The study was presented at the American Society for Microbiology’s general meeting in San Francisco. ANI

Knee joint technique helpful in shoulder joint treatment too

Pune: The latest method of regenerating natural cartilage for a severely affected knee joint, called ACI, can also be successfully used to permanently repair a shoulder joint, a city surgeon has claimed.

Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI), a procedure extensively performed for knee joint, was undertaken for shoulder joint for the first time in India to treat a 20-year- old badminton player here who had met with an accident.

Kunal, the patient who went in for a routine shoulder implant, developed more complications as his right shoulder cartilage further deteriorated resulting in pain and stiffness. He approached Ashish Babhulkar, a shoulder specialist who recommended that he immediately remove the implant and instead undergo ACI to save the joint.

"Kunal had a defect size of 6.6 mm on his right shoulder. We undertook a biopsy, a small piece of healthy cartilage tissue was harvested and sent to a cell processing centre for chondrocyte culture for four weeks.

"These cultured cells were implanted back into the defect site. The implantation has been successful and in six to eight weeks of post operative rehabilitation, the patient will regain his full range of motion and function," Babhulkar, who performed the surgery, said at a media presentation.

Elaborating on the method, he said ACI, a two-step minimally invasive procedure, ensures the natural and permanent repair forming new "hyaline like" cartilage.

"This treatment has been extensively performed for knee joint, but was never undertaken ever for shoulder joint in India," claimed Babhulkar, a member of Indian Arthroscopy Society and Asian Federation of Sports Medicine.

"The advent of ACI as treatment for cartilage and joint defects can be attributed mainly to increased awareness among both doctors and patients and also to the reduced cost of due to the availability of cell culturing in India itself."

Describing ACI as the "optimal treatment" for cartilage defects, he said it was ideally suited for young adults as it addressed the root cause of the problem. 

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