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Wide shot of Irina Alekseyeva at her kitchen2. Mid shot Evgeny Stolyarov and Irina Alekseyeva cooking3. Close up Evgeny cutting apples4. Mid shot Evgeny pan to Irina cooking5. Close up bowl with cut...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eMoscow, Russia, February 7, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide shot of Irina Alekseyeva at her kitchen\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid shot Evgeny Stolyarov and Irina Alekseyeva cooking\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close up Evgeny cutting apples\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid shot Evgeny pan to Irina cooking\u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up bowl with cut apples\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (Russian), Irina Alekseyeva, dieter\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are doing this (being on a diet) with pleasure. With pleasure and interest. We like it. Of course there are problems, sometimes we want to eat at night, but it is not that bad, we don't suffer or anything.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMoscow, Russia, January 12, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of Origitea clinic building\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up tilt down sign of clinic\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide pan of clinic interior with clients waiting in corridor\u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid shot doctor measuring Irina's hips\u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid shot doctor\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide sideview of Evgeny weighing himself on scales\u003cbr/\u003e13. Mid shot doctor Mariyat Mukhina, head of clinic, with patient\u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up Mukhina cleaning the \"gold needle\" earring in her patient's ear\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide of Mukhina with patient\u003cbr/\u003e Moscow, Russia, January 11, 2009  \u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide shot of diplomas on the wall\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (Russian), Mariyat Mukhina, Origitea Clinic and inventor of  the \"gold needle\" method of loosing weight: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The method excludes physical training. The person just needs to observe the simple regime (of nutrition) and follow the recommendations on the nutrition. The nutrition should be balanced, it should not be some exhausting diet, it is just a simple healthy nutrition.\" \u003cbr/\u003eMoscow, Russia, March 14, 2009  \u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot of people in a Moscow street\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid shot people in a queue near McDonald's\u003cbr/\u003e20. Mid shot people with McDonald's takeaway bags walking\u003cbr/\u003e21. Wide shot obese man walking in the street\u003cbr/\u003eMoscow, Russia, February 25, 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e22. Wide pan of people exercising in a gym\u003cbr/\u003e23. Mid shot tilt up woman on running machine \u003cbr/\u003e24. Wide of people exercising with weights\u003cbr/\u003e25. Mid shot of woman lifting grips\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close up woman's face \u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide of woman having a break between exercises\u003cbr/\u003e28. SOUNDBITE: (Russian), Elena, voxpop\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think you need the full range. You should keep healthy diet and workout in a fitness club, only in this case there will be a result. If you do only one thing, without the other, it will be hard to reach some results.\" \u003cbr/\u003e29. Wide of man working in a lab at the Russian Nutrition Institute\u003cbr/\u003e30. Close up of man working with test tubes\u003cbr/\u003e31. Mid shot of dietitian talking to colleague\u003cbr/\u003e32. Close up of the sheet of paper in her hand\u003cbr/\u003e33. SOUNDBITE: (Russian), Elena Chediya, dietitian, Russian Nutrition Institute\u003cbr/\u003e\"All these methods (of losing weight) are aimed at one thing, that a person can follow the nutritional recommendations with more comfort. None of the methods would be effective without diet therapy.\" \u003cbr/\u003e Moscow, Russia, December 12, 2008 \u003cbr/\u003e34. Wide of Fitness Expo 2008 exhibition\u003cbr/\u003e35. Wide of man performing on stage\u003cbr/\u003e36. Wide of girls dancing \u003cbr/\u003e37. Close up tilt down girl dancing\u003cbr/\u003e38. Mid shot fitness instructor dancing on stage\u003cbr/\u003e39. Wide of folk group on ice skates performing on skating rink\u003cbr/\u003e40. Close up ice skates\u003cbr/\u003e41. Wide of people applauding\u003cbr/\u003e42. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Voronovich, leader of ice skating dance group\u003cbr/\u003e\"If you don't smoke, do some physical training on skates, eat modestly and drink thirty millilitres of vodka with light dinner, just thirty, no more, if you follow these four simple rules, you'll be all right. You will then live twenty years longer.\"\u003cbr/\u003e43. Wide of girls dancing pan zoom in man dancing\u003cbr/\u003eThe Russian government is using the economic crisis to get its citizens to tighten their belts.\u003cbr/\u003eThe country's Federal Consumer Protection Service has issued a list of dietary recommendations telling people how to save money and eat more healthily. \u003cbr/\u003eOver twelve per cent of Russians die each year from diseases linked to obesity.  \u003cbr/\u003eBut as losing weight becomes a national preoccupation, some unusual methods of cutting down the calories are beginning to emerge.\u003cbr/\u003eIrina Alekseyeva and her husband Evgeny have been trying to lose weight for years, with little success. \u003cbr/\u003eBut in the past six months they've both lost over thirteen kilograms, despite doing no exercise. \u003cbr/\u003eThey say the secret to their success is a small gold needle which has been inserted into their ears like an earring.\u003cbr/\u003eAccording to the Alekseyevas, this gold needle method of weight control, suppresses their appetite and overeating, for them, is a thing of the past.\u003cbr/\u003eEvery month Irina and Evgeny come to the Origitea clinic in Moscow to be weighed and to consult Dr. Mariyat Mukhina, who claims she invented the gold needle technique. \u003cbr/\u003eMukhina says that the needle, which is actually just a gold earring placed at a particular pressure point on the patient's ear, if massaged helps to reduce cravings and appetite, which in turn allows weight loss without the need for extra physical activity.\u003cbr/\u003eBut this gold earring method of apparent weight loss has not been independently tested and the Russian Nutrition Institute is warning people not to expect miracle cures.\u003cbr/\u003eAs with many other developed countries, the number of obese people in Russia is growing steadily.\u003cbr/\u003eRecent studies by the Russian Institute of Nutrition, sixty per cent of Russian women and half of men are overweight. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Institute says about a quarter of Russia's adult population suffers from various forms of obesity.\u003cbr/\u003eGyms and fitness centres have sprung up all over the capital Moscow during the past decade and many are now offering discounts to attract healthy-conscious Russians suffering from the financial crunch.\u003cbr/\u003eElena works out three times a week in her local gym and insists diet pills and magic needles are no substitute for exercise and a balanced diet.\u003cbr/\u003eRussian newspapers and the internet are full of adverts for ways to lose weight. \u003cbr/\u003ePills, hypnosis and folk medicine are just some of the methods on offer, but Elena Chadiya, a dietitian with the Russian Nutrition Institute, says that no method is effective unless people learn to eat healthily and stick to a balanced diet.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Russian authorities are beginning to take the nation's health problems seriously because more and more Russians are dying young due to poor 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