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Exercise
Proper daily Exercise can help keep your Autonomic Nervous System running smoothly and optimize your health while reducing the chances of injury.
Reverse Osteoporosis with Fish Oil and Exercise
A recent study demonstrated that fish oil supplementation (equal to about 3,000 mg twice daily of a standard fish oil capsule) combined with jogging or brisk walking (30 minutes 3-4 times per week) help to improve bone calcium density and strength better than either alone. The underlying mechanism involved here is reversal of inflammation which
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More Confusion: Is Red Meat Really That Bad?
Too Much Advice I was asked recently about the repeated news from Harvard’s Public Health Department that eating red meat, especially processed red meat (i.e., sausages and salami) is bad for one’s health. The constant stream of conflicting headlines is causing confusion of the general public. First you have to understand the source. The Harvard
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Carbs, Sport Drinks and Exercise
Many people drink sports drinks before or after exercising. These often contain a lot of carbohydrates (Gatorade = 30 grams, Powerade = 25 grams) which are being shown is scientific studies to work against your exercise efforts. Here is an interesting paper that reviews the benefits of ketogenic diet. Its an interesting read with some great historical perspective. Here is the low down.
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No Health Benefits From Eating 5 Times A Day
The Myth Almost everyday a patient tells me they believe eating 5 times a day is important. They remember hearing that eating multiple times a day helps keep their blood sugar up. To make matters worse, patients believe they are suppose to specifically eat carbohydrates throughout the day. I understand why they believe this. I hear and
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Decreased Weight = Decreased Insurance Costs
Weight loss can significantly decrease your chances of developing diabetes, and also significantly decrease your health insurance premiums. One of the largest health insurers in the nation, UnitedHealth Group, has developed an approach to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and to increase the health of the American public. This program is predicted to
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I'm Healthy, Why Should I Lose the Weight?
This argument is brought up more often than people realize. If you feel you are at a healthy point in your life then weight loss is not the direction you should be headed. But how can you get healthier? How else can you prolong your life? To what degree can you be healthy and live
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How To Prevent Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Attacks and Strokes
In a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers identified 4 factors tied to reduced disease risk: never smoking, having a body mass index (BMI) lower than 30, performing at least 3.5 hours per week of physical activity, and following a healthy diet. Participants with all 4 factors had a 78% lower
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Lifestyle May Be a Reason to Being Overweight
While obesity has become a prevalent issue in America, the many Americans that are obese may not realize how they have become the weight they are today. Energy balance has been demonstrated repeatedly by many different organizations as a way to maintain or lose weight. This energy balance is demonstrated by examining the amount of
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Jumping on the Exercise Bandwagon
The jump to starting exercise may be easier than most think, but usually the hardest part is jumping off the couch potato train. Most individuals don’t even think of themselves as couch potatoes, as they are busy with a pressing schedule of a building a career, raising a family, and having an active social life. Getting started
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Do You Think 'The Biggest Loser' Is Exploitative?
I do! I’ve watched the show the ‘The Biggest Loser’ a few times and come away each time with the same thought, “This is the most dangerous, manipulative show I’ve ever seen on television.” Medically speaking, to encourage individuals to lose weight at these tremendous rates is very unhealthy and extremely dangerous. Weight loss experts
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What is a 'Good' Protein Bar?
Protein bars are an excellent way to supplement a meal and they are great for post-workout energy and to restore glycogen stores in your muscles. Due to confusing marketing and advertising, some bars appear ‘healthier’ when really they are horrible. Ideally I recommend a bar that is high in protein, low in carbohydrates and sugars,
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Start Your Exercise Today!
Patients begin a weight loss program with us and want to ramp up the exercise immediately. Although I think it great that a person is wanting to get fit, a sudden increase in exercise can actually have negative effects. It may stimulate a person’s appetite, they may injure themselves or exhaust themselves. Depending on your
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How Stress Affects The Body
A 2004 study that followed mothers of chronically ill children showed that the stress of caregiving actually caused these women to age faster on a cellular level than did the mothers of healthy children who constituted the control group. When cells divide, the protective caps on the ends of the chromosomes, called telomeres, shorten slightly
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True or False? Exercise Turns Fat Into Muscle.
False. Fat and muscles are both composed of different types of cells in our bodies. Exercise drives muscle cells to grow larger. The energy used during exercise will make the fat cells shrink. And substantially increasing the size of your muscle cells helps to increase the amount of energy your muscle will burn off throughout
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10 Tips To Staying Active During The Work Week
These may seem silly, but the point is that sweating it out at the gym isn’t the only way to improve your health. Pit yourself against colleagues and have stair races. Invite a colleague to join you for a walk after lunch Install a new printer further away from your workspace. Instead of emailing or
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Is Obesity a Genetic or a Behavioral Disorder?
Clearly there are strong genetic influences on body fatness. But what’s really inherited is the rank order of body fatness compared to the the people who have a lifestyle that’s similar to yours. If both your parents were 200 pounds, that does not mean that you are destined to be 200 pounds. But if both
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