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Whats Good: Sugar Detox? Cutting Carbs? A Doctor Explains Why You Should Keep Fruit On The Menu

9Dec

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Whats Good: Sugar Detox? Cutting Carbs? A Doctor Explains Why You Should Keep Fruit On The Menu

One of my patients – who had been struggling with obesity, uncontrolled diabetes and the cost of her medications – agreed in June 2019 to adopt a more whole-food plant-based diet. Excited by the challenge, she did a remarkable job. She increased her fresh fruit and vegetable intake, stopped eating candy, cookies and cakes and cut down on foods from animal sources. Over six months, she lost 19 pounds and her HbA1c – a measure of her average blood sugar – dropped from 11.5% to 7.6%. She was doing so well, I expected that her HbA1c would continue to drop and she would be one of our plant-based successes who had reversed diabetes. Her three-month follow-up visit in March 2020 was canceled because of COVID-19 lockdowns. When I eventually saw her again in May 2021, she’d regained some of the ...

11Dec

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How To Give Up Soda In 3 Steps

Six states have imposed a soda tax to try to curb excess consumption, while more states are jumping on the nutritional governance bandwagon Americans love soda. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists sugar-sweetened beverages as the leading source of added sugars in Americans’ diets. Even sugar-free sodas are an unhealthy addition to diets because of artificial sweeteners like aspartame, cyclamate, saccharin, acesulfame-k or sucralose, pointed out healthline.com in May 2018. The CDC informs, “Frequently drinking sugar-sweetened beverages is associated with weight gain/obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, kidney diseases, non-alcoholic liver disease, tooth decay and cavities, and gout, a type of arthritis.” Regarding sugar-free soda, healthline.com’s report expla...

Daylight Saving Time Starts – 11 Things You Can Do To Adjust To Losing That Hour Of Sleep

12Dec

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Daylight Saving Time Starts – 11 Things You Can Do To Adjust To Losing That Hour Of Sleep

As clocks march ahead and daylight saving time begins, there can be anxiety around losing an hour of sleep and how to adjust to this change. Usually an hour seems like an insignificant amount of time, but even this minimal loss can cause problems. There can be significant health repercussions of this forcible shift in the body clock. Springing forward is usually harder that falling backward. Why? The natural internal body clock rhythm in people tends to be slightly longer than 24 hours, which means that every day we tend to delay our sleep schedules. Thus, “springing forward” goes against the body’s natural rhythm. It is similar to a mild case of jet lag caused by traveling east – in which you lose time and have trouble falling asleep at an earlier hour that night. Even though it’s tec...

12Dec

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How To Choose The Right Fitness Tracker

As more and more people are working towards leading healthier lives, the role of fitness trackers is increasing. With so many trackers available in the market today, it can be tough to know the styles that aptly suit your needs. Here, we discuss about the useful things to look for in a fitness tracker: Design and Display The smartwatches with big display provide easy navigation through various functions. A well-fit size and design helps you to focus on becoming healthier and stronger. You can easily track your fitness goals at the touch of a button. You should look for the bands that are not too clunky and are easy to use. Comfort Level As you are going to wear it for most of the time, the tracker should be comfortable to wear. The simplest devices can be worn all day without interacti...

12Dec

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Can Cannabis Help You To Lose Weight?

Obesity is a growing problem in many parts of the world. Conditions like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes are closely related to being overweight or obese. With many people trying the latest diet trend and fad available, there has been quite a buzz around the use of cannabis and its role in weight loss. When most people think of marijuana, they automatically think about the munchies. For busy working professionals or for those who are unable to leave the home due to a physical condition, obtaining your medical marijuana card online makes a lot of sense. Cannabis use is legal in Oklahoma and many other states, and you can effortlessly obtain the card to purchase merchandise at dispensaries using a home computer or mobile device. It may leave you wondering how you could possibly lose...

A Neurologist Explains – Why Daylight Saving Time Is Unhealthy

12Dec

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A Neurologist Explains – Why Daylight Saving Time Is Unhealthy

As people in the U.S. prepare to turn their clocks ahead one hour in mid-March, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions to daily routines caused by switching from standard time to daylight saving time. About a third of Americans say they don’t look forward to these twice-yearly time changes. An overwhelming 63% to 16% majority would like to eliminate them completely. But the effects go beyond simple inconvenience. Researchers are discovering that “springing ahead” each March is connected with serious negative health effects. I’m a professor of neurology and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and the director of our sleep division. In a 2020 commentary for the journal JAMA Neurology, my co-authors and I r...

Free Soul Food Recipes Breaking New Ground

9Dec

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Free Soul Food Recipes Breaking New Ground

Free soul food recipes continue to break new ground. While more health experts are complaining about the high calorie, salt and fat content in soul food, more websites are heading the call for healthier recipes. The huge (pardon the pun) problems with obesity is blamed on the high fat and calorie content in much of the food we eat. To respond to this growing demand, more soul food recipe publishers, websites and restaurants are offering healthier recipes. The response? A growing resurgence in the popularity of this southern cuisine. An added bonus is attracting the interest of new people to this southern comfort food. Examples of Healthy Changes Examples of healthier changes is replacing many of the high fat seasonings, such as fat back, ham hocks and bacon drippings. These traditional ...

Things You’ll Never Hear A Slim, Chic And Savvy Woman Say

25Feb

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Things You’ll Never Hear A Slim, Chic And Savvy Woman Say

I've spent years studying French women, as well as other naturally slim people, and there's a method to their "slimness," but it's probably not what you think. It doesn't involve dieting and deprivation. It's an attitude, personal style, a way of looking at the world, and it starts from within. While diet programs and other approaches keep you focused on your "weight problem," the French approach to living a slim lifestyle is probably counter intuitive to what you've been taught. From the countryside of Provence to the bistros of Paris, I've paid close attention to the attitudes and behaviors of slim, chic and savvy women. Their approach to food, weight and life is very different than the "no pain, no gain" mindset of the American culture. Instead, their mindset is rooted in pleasure and...

Problem With Excessive Sweating – This Will Help

12Dec

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Problem With Excessive Sweating – This Will Help

If you suffer from embarrassing underarm wetness it is quite possible that you are looking for any and every possible method to stop excessive sweating. Gone are the days when this trait was accepted as an undisputed though certainly unwelcome fact of life. In today's society you are expected not to have this particular problem. If you have it though, there have been few options open to you in the past other than trying yet another brand of deodorant and/or antiperspirant. Dealing with the Anxiety of Excessive Sweating Whether you want to call it perspiration or sweat there is nothing genteel about it in excess. In fact, you will probably invest a great deal of time and effort towards your efforts to quit or break this pattern with very few results. It is important to remember that sweat...

12Dec

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Is Chocolate The Temptation Of Sin

Temptation lives across the street in a two story contemporary building where the chocolatier resides. His passion and zest for cocoa makes his heartstrings sing. His lust for creating passion drives him each day back into the boiling cauldrons. Melting and mixing the exquisite aromas flutter into the air wafting out into the streets below. Mouths salivate as their nostrils pick up the sweet scent sliding by on the airfoils of the day. Imaginations fire up pondering the delicate treats the chocolatier has conjured up for the display. He has no menu but there are plenty of pictures hanging around taunting and teasing every patron's brain. The cocoa is mixed, pounded and patted, melted and shaped, then sprinkled, and swirled until it is molded into chocolate treats. The treats come out in ...