Archive for March, 2009
Is It OK to Pig Out Every Once in a While?
We all want to go a little crazy, a littly nuts, when it comes to what we eat. I mean, who doesn’t crave a double fudge hot brownie sunday once in a while, right? I know I certainly do, and believe me, I do indulge it when I have the overwhelming urge. The key point here though is that whether you ever want to hope to have a normal weight, and not be fluctuating constantly, falling off the wagon and getting back on constantly in a viscious circle, next you have to build certain that you climb right back on the wagon as soon as you get off of it instead of letting the occasional slip mount into weeks or months of bingeing.
The problem is, a lot of us, including myself, fall into the mentality and the viscious circle, of pigging out and eating whatever we want, considering it’s simply the easier thing to do and it gives us instant comfort. Why do you think they signal it “comfort food”. But the real joke of it all is that you are really not doing yourself any favors. certain, crappy food really tastes good in the short term, and many times is much more accessible and convenient than healthy food, but how enlarged does it actually produce you “feel good” for?
If you’re like me, it’s only a few minutes. I mean, the guilt kicks in nearly immediately, reducing the bliss I’ve felt from indulging anyways, which diminishes that carnal delight that I felt. Yes, I signal it carnal, considering I believe the food and sex are very close in that you can get addicted to them considering they present you with opportunities for short lived, intense gratification, but both can be poor for you whether you’re doing them the wrong way (ie, multiple partners, unsafe sex = poor for you food, too much of it).
I know it’s a weird analogy, but I often think of food like sex. It’s great in the right ways, and you can enjoy it in a healthy way, but too much, or too much of a variety of the wrong kinds can be extremely damaging to the health and the psyche in the end. One of the things I’ve learned to do is to tell myself that I need to stop treating a short term binge as a “give up and wave the flag” situation. I can’t just go ahead and go all out just considering I screwed up for lunch or breakfast, and have an all day food extravaganza. whether you can really get yourself in that mindset, you can definitely pig out and eat poor once in a while - just construct it short - you’ll enjoy it a whole lot more that way anyways!
Original post by EatingToLive
Garden pea may help fight high blood pressure
Researchers in Canada are reporting that proteins found in a common garden pea show promise as a natural food additive or new dietary supplement for fighting high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Those potentially life-threatening conditions affect millions of folks worldwide. The study, which will be presented here today at the American Chemical Society’s 237th National Meeting, is the first reporting that a natural food product can relieve symptoms of CKD, the scientists say……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Light to moderate drinking and socialization
While heavy drinking is linked to a greater risk of stroke, light-to-moderate drinking has been associated with a lesser risk of ischemic stroke and coronary heart disease. Other studies have shown that more social support is associated with less risk of mortality and cardiovascular disease. A Japanese examination of the effects of social support on the relationship amoung drinking and cardiovascular disease has observed that the health benefits of light-to-moderate drinking are more pronounced in men with greater social support……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Fiber One Oats ‘n Chocolate Bars : Review
Well, it’s always nice to have something that you can “treat” yourself to when you’re dieting that doesn’t cost you a whole lot of calories and additionally happens to have a great deal of fiber in it, which ups it’s dietary value when you’re trying to lose weight since it helps keep things moving through you and additionally helps to keep your stomach full instead of you feeling like you want to snack every hour. You do have to be careful with food items like the Fiber One Oats ‘n Chocolate bars though, considering although they are not harmful to your diet in moderation, they will add up and they’re not low in carbs whether you decide you need to pig out on them, which is easy to do since they are so tasty.
Now, let’s talk about the nutrition facts on the Fiber One Oat bars, and discuss why they aren’t going to louse up your diet royally whether you indulge in say, one a day or every other day. First, they taste delicious, and they are a real chocolate fix for me, since they are covered in chocolate and they additionally have chocolate chips all through them. I like the fact that they do not contain maltitol, which royally screws up my digestive system and gives a lot of humans wicked gas and gas pains to go along with it. However, I must warn you that due to the high fiber substance of Fiber one snack bars, you may experience some sort of discomfort (gas) after eating them, as I do.
They have a whopping count of 9 grams of dietary fiber in them for one bar, and that is quite a lot. I’m not precisely certain how they cram all that fiber into these tasty little things, but it does seem like any date you eat anything with a lot of fiber, particularly something that is specially manufactured to have a lot of fiber in it like the Fiber one bars, you do get a little or a lot of discomfort. You may not get any, but I’m really sensitive to that type of food, and I do know a few others who have said the same thing about these bars as well.
They have only 140 calories, so you are not by doing it on the calorie count whether you have them, and they fit nicely into your diet regimen whether you’re going for not intaking a lot of calories in a day, but like I said, stick to one. They’re so tasty that I often feel like I’m jonesing for another one right afterwards, but I know that whether I just wait for that good ol’ fiber to expand in my stomach, I’ll be full and wont’ want another one. It usually takes about twenty to thirty minutes for the fiber to expand, just so you know, so don’t go back to the pantry to get yourself another one until you’ve exercised patience. Besides, two may really give you poor gas!
Original post by EatingToLive
HPV-vaccine may prevent preterm births
Chronic human papilloma virus (HPV)-infections can lead to cellular changes in the cervix that can be a pre-stage to cervical cancer. Surgical therapy of these pre-stages gives an increased risk of preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies. As the HPV-vaccine can prevent pre-stages of cervical cancer, it may therefore reduce the number of preterm births. A new Norwegian study has calculated the benefits of HPV-vaccination……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Seizure depression link
A newly released study published in Epilepsia finds that the prevalence of depression is nearly twice as high in citizens with epilepsy in comparison to the general population. Among those with epilepsy, racial minorities have seven times the odds of depression compared to the majority Caucasian population. The findings additionally show that 40 percent of depressed respondents with epilepsy were not accessing mental healthcare services……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Another Reason to Avoid Fast Food?
Well, it appears there is yet another reason, in a longer laundry list that seems to grow every year, to avoid fast food. The consumption of fast food has plus now been linked to a substantial increase in stroke risk. that comes as no surprise, since fast foods, which commonly include things like cheeseburgers, highly fattening sides like french fries, onion rings, fried mushrooms and other high fat and high sodium (albeit good tasting!) tidbits, are nearly always a higher fat, higher sodium, higher calorie option when compared to more healthful options that you can form on your own at home.
The specific study that seems to implicate fast food in higher stroke risk is one which studied neighborhoods that happened to have a lot of fast food restaurants in them. They found that when compared to other neighborhoods where the fast food joints were not as plentiful, stroke risk plus happened to be statistically lower. Again, that is no surprise since fast food contributes significantly to obesity, high blood pressure, and an out of whack metabolism, and only those that avoid fast food all together, as enlarged as they eat healthy at home, will enjoy better health, a lower weight, better heart health, and of course better circulatory health and circulation, both of which contribute to fending off stroke risk.
The link isn’t totally clear though, considering it’s not clear whether the cart comes before the horse or vice versa. What I mean is that it’s not clear whether there are more fast food restaurants in these areas considering they have populations which are demographically targeted considering they have worse eating habits, or whether it’s the other way around, and the fact that there is an abundance of fast food restaurants in the neighborhood is actually the reason that public eat more unhealthy. Remember that story a while back where some cities are trying to limit the number of fast food joints that are allowed?
Similiarly, fast food consumption, and we’re not talking the heart healthy types of fast food like say, a healthy low fat Subway sub or a nice big salad, but the typical stuff we correlate with fast food like burgers and fries and things like that, were additionally correlated with heart disease and obesity which is plus not surprising. I’d like to see the number of healthy fast food places increase, not just fast food places like McDonald’s offering healthier options, considering they still offer that tempting poor stuff too and it’s hard for public to smell that and next order a salad or fruit and yogurt parfait. That’s just my preference though, considering I know how I am!
Original post by EatingToLive
