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 Map out a healthy-food plan before leaving on vacation. Don't let the road to a summer vacation put you on a crash course with an unhealthy, fast-food diet. It's possible to eat healthy no matter where you are.
- Take healthy snacks with you.
- Stock a cooler with cheese, pre-cut vegetables, yogurt and other good foods to munch on while in transit.
- Pack a bag with individual portions of low-fat popcorn, trail mix, energy bars, nuts or dried fruit.
- Drink more water. Avoid the sugar of soda and other soft drinks that add empty calories.
- Pick healthy menu items. Opt for lighter fare like salads, grilled sandwiches and wraps when possible, an option easier to do now that many restaurants either post or can provide their food's nutritional information. If you must indulge, choose small portions or share larger ones to help limit intake.
- Eat a good breakfast. Always start a travel day with a healthy meal to help balance out what may come later. If your overnight hotel room has a refrigerator, load it the night before with cereal, low-fat milk, yogurt and fruit so you can start the day right.
Check out the book Healthy Highways: The Traveler's Guide to Healthy Eating by Nikki Goldbeck and David Goldbeck. It offers healthy places to dine virtually anywhere. Or, for national restaurants, look at Eat This, Not That that offers options at many chain restaurants. And, Fitness for Travelers by Susanne Schlossberg offers a great deal of information about staying healthy on the road.
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 Detox- that’s the buzzword for the century. Many of us have done a detox, many of us want to detox, and many of did something that we thought was a detox but it was a far cry from a detox. Because there is so much controversy as to the benefits of a detox and what constitutes a detox, I thought I would shed some light on the subject.
What is a Detox?
A detox is a process where natural remedies are used to cleanse the system to improve health, diminish chronic disease, promote vitality, and encourage weight loss. Since many people neglect their health, a detox provides to a dedicated period of time to reflect and engage in healthy behaviors and eat healthy foods that will repair them. It’s a much needed time out.
Why Should We Care About Toxins?
Toxin overload cause chronic illness, that’s a well known fact, but most people do not know that it also causes weight gain. Toxins are stored in fat cells and as we acquire more and more toxins, one theory says our body creates more fat cells to protect us from the toxins. This theory also asserts that as we lose weight our body rebels against weight loss since the toxins that are stored in fat, get more and more concentrated in fewer and fewer fat cells as the weight drops off and the body will slow down the weight loss process and will actually create more fat cells to reduce the toxic load. WHAT?!?! If you think about it, it makes sense. It makes sense especially to people like me who can gain weight just by looking at food. Bad things happen to good people for no good reason.
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Book Review: The Fiber 35 Diet |
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 The Fiber 35 Diet written by Brenda Watson, C.N.C touts fiber as a weight loss miracle and guess what, it really is.
Fiber which has been clinically shown to lower cholesterol levels and reduce your risk of colon cancer can actually help you slim down. Because it creates bulk, it keeps you full. In fact, the stretch on your colon causes a hormone called CCK to be released and that is a anti-hunger hormone. But, did you know this: Fiber can lower your caloric intake by 10%. That means if you are allowed to eat a 2000 calorie diet to maintain weight, 10% of those calories (200) will not be absorbed! |
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 If your bills and the recession didn’t already give you enough heartburn, here is some information that is sure to give you agida (the Italian word for heartburn!).
A recent study found that certain anti-acid medications such as Nexium, Protonix, Prilosec, and Prevacid can have adverse outcomes for people who have also been prescribed Plavix for heart disease. If anyone you know takes these medications read on. Plavix is prescribed to many people who have had strokes, heart attacks, or cardiac stents. Prevacid (and other proton pump inhibitors such as those listed above) is prescribed to people with gastritis and reflux, and also to people on so called blood thinners to help prevent gastrointestinal bleeding.
The Clopidogrel Medco Outcomes Study study followed more than ten thousand people who were prescribed Plavix and found that those who also took proton pump inhibitors listed above had a 70 % increase in the risk of heart attack and a 48% increase in risk of stroke. The theory is that the anti-acid drugs cause a drug interaction which prevents Plavix's ability to prevent platelets from binding together and subsequently the formation of clogged arteries. There are other anti-acid medications that can be prescribed so if anyone you know is taking the above mentioned medications call your doctor to go over your medication list (your doctor may prescribe Zantac or Tagamet which work by another mechanism)
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 The University of Miami conducted a study on children aged 3 to 6 years old and discovered that some of them already exhibit signs of heart disease. Overweight children even as young as 3 years old had elevated levels of C reactive protein which is an inflammatory market linked to blocked heart arteries. The children even had low levels of good cholesterol.
My Observations:
- Children are not eating enough fish (despite the mercury level it is safe to have fish twice a week)
- They are not consuming nuts for snacks.
- They are also highly sedentary and not getting enough sleep (i.e. 10 hours)
Tip: - Take a good look at your child - yes, with the blinders off.
- Is there a belly pooch? If you think its just baby fat - get ready for a rude awakening: Children aged four and up should not have baby fat ,and if they do be very very afraid because times are different than when we grew up. There is a high likelihood that they will not grow out of it if they continue to live in this country. And there are not many places that you can move to in order to get away from the American lifestyle.
- Make your child's health your number one priority - over sports, academics etc.
- Aim for more fruits and vegetables, but if your child has a weight issue limit the juice and fruit to once a day and add more vegetables to the diet.
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