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Questions about Metabolic Syndrome
It’s important to get answers to any questions you may have about metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome, or syndrome X, is a metabolic disorder that can cause a variety of serious health conditions including hypertension, insulin resistance, obesity, heart attack and stroke. It’s characterized by having excess belly fat, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, and poor cholesterol ratios. Poor cholesterol ratios usually refers to HDL that is too low and LDL that is too high. If you believe you’re at risk for this syndrome, you would be wise to have a list of questions to ask your health care professional. Here are a few questions to get you started with…
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19th Century Weight Loss Fad
19th Century Weight Loss Fad Have you ever heard of a 19th century weight loss fad? Do you accept the status quo and believe your health should deteriorate as you age, or do you demand more for yourself? Do you buck the system, that is, buck the Standard American Diet, and look for a better way to ensure your long-term health going forward? What do you want for yourself? What do you seek for yourself? What do you demand for yourself? I want to know, because I’ve been on a quest for better health through healthier eating for the past seven years. In the beginning, quite frankly, it was dumb…
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Hunger and Fullness Cues – Learn to Recognize Your Hunger
Hunger and Fullness Cues Binge/Restriction Cycle It’s tough to restrict your food intake and stay on a diet. Last week we discussed this. When you diet, you ultimately get to the point where you just can’t take it anymore and give in to the cravings for the foods you’ve been trying to eliminate. The odds are you will binge on them, get angry with yourself and just give up until the next diet comes along. It’s important to understand the concept of hunger and fullness cues. Until you understand what the nutrition is your body needs, your cravings will continue. To complicate things, most of the food we can readily…
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Your weight is not the real problem
Your weight is not the real problem With this article, I’m sending up a warning flare that some will call “a rant”. Your weight is not even really the problem with your weight. I know that sounds cryptic. Your weight is not the real problem with your health, your memory, your energy, stamina, chronic illness; it’s not about your weight. Your weight is the byproduct of your food choices. Learn to make better food choices, and your body will find its own perfect weight; no dieting required ever again. No expensive diet programs; no buying diet “food”. It’s more complicated than that and goes to leptin resistance and insulin resistance,…
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Why are We Overweight?
Why are We Overweight? Do you ever wonder why are we overweight as a nation… and so frighteningly overweight? Allow me to begin by saying, “It’s not your fault”. If you struggle with your weight, it’s not your fault. It’s not your fault you spend money on diet foods and diet programs that promise you the moon and may help you lose weight only to let you down while you watch yourself gain back what you lost. Most of the time, you gain back more weight than you lost before the diet. You eat less, you exercise more and you still gain weight. Women in their 40s and 50s think…
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Did you know 40% of Americans are Obese? Here are 5 tips to help you reverse obesity…
Did you know 40% of Americans are Obese? Here are 5 tips to help you reverse obesity… Did you know 40% of Americans are Obese? It’s true! It’s a shocking and very troubling statistic I heard on TV yesterday, and here’s the really scary part. The study was done of Americans in 2015 and 2016. It doesn’t even give us an idea of what’s happening to us now several years later! There is so much to share with you, but for starters, here are 5 tips to help you reverse obesity and get back on track with your weight which directly translates to better health. 1. Cut back on sugar.…
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Another New Fad Diet – What is the Military Diet
Another New Fad Diet – What is the Military Diet? I was reading an article about a new fad diet called “The Military Diet”. I’m not sure why it’s called that as it has nothing to do with the military or anything to do with how they encourage military members to eat. It’s probably just a name designed to catch your attention as it did mine. I was curious what a “military diet” would look like and read about it, so from a marketing perspective, it works. That’s where it stops working though as it is a very odd approach to weight loss, and from my perspective and based on…
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Safe and Natural Ways to Curb Your Appetite
Safe and Natural Ways to Curb Your Appetite It kills me when I see people spending good money trying different gimmicks to curb your appetite and lose weight…like appetite suppressants… when there are so many safe and natural ways to curb your appetite. Did you know there are natural ways you can use to curb your appetite and help yourself be less hungry starting right now? I made this video for you to help you understand the many things you have available to help you get your weight goals on track. You can do this! And I am in it for the long haul to help you!! Helping You Achieve…
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Jump-Start Your Metabolism Using These 3 Spices!
Want to Jump-Start Your Metabolism Using Spices? Speeding up your metabolism will help take weight off, and it will also help keep it off. While it’s true some people are born with a faster metabolism than others, just because you might not be one of those faster metabolism people doesn’t mean you can’t convince your metabolism to work faster by making good food choices! As a matter of fact, just adding three spices to your meals can jump-start your metabolism and can help you work toward maintaining a healthy weight. The foods you use to fuel your body are really key to making it work right, so try including these…
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Are You Addicted to Yo-Yo Dieting?
Are You Addicted to Yo-Yo Dieting? Are you addicted to yo-yo dieting? If you lose and gain, lose and gain and then lose and gain again, you may very well be. This is called yo-yo-dieting, and so many of us deal with it on a regular basis. Part of the reason for this phenomenon is the very fact that we are dieting. I counsel my coaching clients not to diet. The very word “diet” screams misery and deprivation. It also screams temporary. We’re good for a while… eat sensibly and lose weight. Then we’ve had enough, can’t take the diet anymore and go off the rails. We gain back all…
