Archive for February, 2008
Mechanism of blood clot elasticity
Blood clots can save lives, staunching blood loss after injury, but they can plus kill. Let loose in the bloodstream, a clot can cause a heart attack, stroke or pulmonary embolism. A new study reveals in atomic detail how a blood protein that is a fundamental building block of blood clots gives them their life-enhancing, or life-endangering, properties……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Link amidst Obesity, Carbs and Esophageal Cancer
Cases of esophageal cancer (adenocarcinoma) in the U.S. have risen in recent decades from 300,000 cases in 1973 to 2.1 million in 2001 at age-adjusted rates. A new study published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology shows that these rates in the U.S. closely mirrored trends of increased carbohydrate intake and obesity from 1973-2001……..
Original post by Heather Craven
I’ve Lost 4 Pounds in 10 Days
I was so happy to see I’ve lost 4 pounds in 10 days. I’ve shown myself that when I manufacture a commitment to myself, I can achieve it. My husband and mom don’t realize I’m trying to lose weight. I’ve decided not to tell them. I think it’s kind of funny they haven’t noticed any changes in my eating.
These are the changes I’ve made in the past ten days to lose 4 pounds.
1. I’ve quit eating nutty buddy ice cream cones (270 calories each)
I had been eating two of them a day. I now eat grapes when I want a
a snack.
2. I’ve quit eating white bread. I’m now eating whole wheat bread. I’m
eating less bread considering started eating more oatmeal. Sometimes
I’ll fix a bowl of oatmeal for a snack.
3. I’ve increased my exercise. Five out of the ten days, I worked outside
more than two hours each day. I spent day hoeing in what I hope will
be flower beds that year around the house and carport. I spent hours
spreading wood chips and last year’s grass clippings in our huge garden.
I spent many hours raking and cleaning up brush in the back part of our
property. I additionally fired up my treadmill. (when I saw one of my dogs
using it as a place to sleep, I knew it was instance to put it back into
service.
4. I have plus increased my water intake dramatically. I’m drinking 8-10
glasses per day.
5. I am faithfully documenting everything I eat and drink. I plus write
the moment and why I was eating. (ex: hungry, bored, special tv show, or
happy) Doing that makes me more accountable.
All of these factors has had a positive impact on my weight loss journey the past 10 days. I plan to continue working outside….just not when my husband is burning brush and leaves. (Finally learned by lesson about poison ivy)
I haven’t been able to blog considering there was one pitfall to all that outside work. I have gotten the worst case of poison ivy I’ve ever had. My face and eyes are so red and swollen. My lips are numb and so is part of my tongue. My eyes are nearly shut and have been watering so poor the past few days it’s hard for me to see. I’ve plus got it real poor on my hands and arms. It’s hard for me to type without stopping to scratch.
I’m off to soak my hands. I try and tell myself my home remedies are doing some good. (sighs)
Original post by Chris
New Perspective on Losing Weight and Maintaining Weight Loss
January 7 2004–?The lowdown: Overall, the diet is well balanced, according to Tammy Baker, R.D., a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. ?Plus, it promotes weight loss in a fun way,? says Baker?.The bottom line: ?I?d recommend it for someone who is already exercising every day,? says Baker.?
Fitness, November 2003 issue
?Enjoyed the different approach to proper nutrition in this easy to remember format.? Cheryl McCann, www.review-books.com
The 7-Day Color Diet:
The New Way to Health & Beauty
Mindy Weisel, Carolyn Weisel Miller, M.S., R.D., and Jessica Weisel Courtney, L.E.
May 2003
ISBN 1-931868-08-5
$24.95
Dulles, VA: According to the American Dietetic Association, ?Obesity has reached epidemic proportions and health care costs associated with weight-related illnesses have escalated.? Many people site uninteresting diet plans and the inability to eat favorite foods as reasons they are unwilling to start diets or unable to maintain lower weights once the diet is complete. Most of the fad diets that are popular today focus on short term solutions, causing dieters to return to the diet regularly as they gain weight again after the initial loss. Mindy Weisel, an acclaimed artist and author of Daughters of Absence, and her daughters Carolyn, a registered dietician, and Jessica, a licensed esthetician, provide a long term lifestyle change, not a short term diet, in their 2003 book “The 7-Day Color Diet: The New Way to Health and Beauty.”
Like seven days at a lovely spa??The 7-Day Color Diet offers you a healthy color-a-day diet plan that will help you reach your weight loss goals, one color at a time. From White through Red, Green, Orange, Purple, and Yellow and into Rainbow Day, savor the rich spectrum of nature?s colors as you lose unwanted pounds and gain the healthiest of complexions. By the end of the first week, you?ll be slimmer, more energetic, and glowing with health. The 7-Day Color Diet is easy, fun, and colorful. It tastes good, looks good, and is good for you. Due to the diversity in foods allowed in the diet and the interested format, dieters are more likely to stick with the diet and continue with it as a regular way of eating. Mindy Weisel?s nutritionist daughter, Carolyn Miller, has ensured the health and weight loss benefits of this color-by-color diet.
One of the biggest problems for dieters is how to maintain weight after the initial weight loss is completed. The American Dietetic Association says, ?Clearly, preventing regain of fat losses is the major challenge of weight maintenance. Among the limited numbers of programs that do long-term follow-up, many find that losses are completely regained within 3-5 years.? With its more than 100 recipes, the 7-Day Color Diet continually adds foods and dishes as it progresses, emphasizing long lists of permitted foods and stimulating even the most novice of chefs. Carolyn and Mindy also provide a maintenance place to help dieters continue their success long after the initial weight goal is reached.
Besides teaching you to get slim and stay that way, Mindy?s esthetician daughter, Jessica Courtney, offers you a 7-day color-by-color skin care and beauty treatment plan. ?Color is an inspiring way to organize a week devoted to health and beauty,? she says. Just as the diet adds new foods, color-by-color, so the skin care program adds a beneficial skin treatment to go along with the color theme of the day, including recommended products and their application.
Mindy Weisel?s art hangs in museums and institutions around the world, including the Smithsonian, Hirshhorn Museum, National Museum of American Art, Israel Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, and the U.S. Capitol. Her work has been reviewed by the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, Art News, and more. She is the author of Daughters of Absence and Touching Quiet. She lives in Washington, D.C. Carolyn Weisel Miller, M.S., R.D., is one of New York?s hot, young, clinical nutritionists, working with Midtown Nutrition Care. She has been featured in articles in the New York Post and Glamour, and will appearing in Newsweek, Fitness, and Cosmopolitan. She graduated at the top of her class from New York University?s School of Nutrition, and at 3l is a bright new voice on the latest in science and nutrition. Jessica Weisel Courtney, a licensed esthetician, is the founder of Hydra Skincare Studio in Miami, Florida.
Atherosclerosis solution is likely many years away
It’s the leading cause of heart disease and stroke: atherosclerosis–a disease characterized by the thickening of arterial walls, restricting blood flow like a narrow pipe. Preventing and reversing that disease is still largely a puzzle to researchers working to put all the right pieces into place and profile a complete picture of health for millions of patients who suffer its devastating effects worldwide……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Escaping a Toxic Environment
By definition, a toxin is a poisonous substance that kills, injures, or impairs an organism. A toxin can also inhibit the activity of another substance. Applying this definition
to your day-to-day living, it may surprise you to realize how many things (and people) in your life are creating a toxic environment.
What are potential toxins in your daily living? Toxins can be people that make you feel bad, things that are holding you back from your goals, or situations that make you
physically ill. A toxin can be a behavior, a person, or an object. But anything that “impairs” you or “inhibits activity” is toxic.
Let?s look at an example. Suppose you wanted to get a better job. The current job you have doesn’t pay enough, is very stressful, and is not a good fit for your personality. The career you would like to pursue requires a degree (which you don’t have) and relies heavily on networking to secure a position. In this example there are several toxins at play. Two obvious ones are your current job environment (the stress is injuring you) and your lack of a degree (this is inhibiting your activity). Other
toxins could be your current spending habits (maybe the problem isn’t how much your job pays, but the fact that you are not living within your means), your relationships (are you getting the support from your family and friends to make this transition), and your own attitude.
So how do you eliminate toxins from your life?
1. Identify them. It is hard to fight an opponent that you can’t see. Think of the areas in your life where things aren’t quite how you would like for them to be. What is holding you back? These things are potential toxins.
2. Identify the impact the toxins are having on your life. For example, poor spending habits have far reaching impacts, what lessons are you teaching your kids, are you creating any strains on your friendships by borrowing money, is your health being impacted by the worry and stress of making ends meet.
3. For each toxin list 3-5 ways to eliminate it. Be practical, be outrageous, be creative; list any and everything that comes to mind.
4. Implement the easiest ideas first. No need to be overwhelmed or further stressed by overextending yourself. Set up quick hits. The momentum you create from the easy victories can carry you on to more difficult tasks.
5. Evaluate your progress often. Ships don’t set their course once and then hope they make it to their destination. Instead they constantly check their location and make corrections as necessary. You can do the same.
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Food Combining Diets
An interesting method of dieting and keeping slim, trim, healthy and keeping your digestive system harmonious and plugging away is the method of food combining that is sort of catching on, in a cultish kind of way I guess. that theory has been around a while. I remember one of the first diet books I ever read called Fit for Life was based on the principle that combining foods properly was key to keeping the digestive system health and clean.
Not only did it advocate proper food combining but it plus advocated steering clear of meat, particularly red meat, and eating lots and lots of veggies. The food combining principle seems complicated at first, but the basic principles are that you may only combine meats and dairies and starches with vegetables, never with eachother. So a well combined meal would be say a piece of chicken, spinach, and green beans, but you should not combine it with any starch like potatoes, pasta or bread, and there should not be any fruits in their either.
Fruits were only supposed to be eaten by themselves, and preferably in the before anything else entered the stomach, so they would just be eaten up by the system very quickly, usually 45 minutes or so. When I followed that diet regimen after reading it when I was young, I must say I felt great and had minimal digestive issues. Now, I believe that there have been several more books written on the subject, and they may additionally have some better and newer knowledge on food combining. It’s a great concept.
Original post by EatingToLive
