How I Got Fit
I've never been on a diet. Okay, maybe I tried the Scarsdale diet when I was 14. I have no idea why. Probably because one of my older sisters left the book lying around and I wanted to be just like her, older and "cool." Glad that phase is over with! But I'm almost 50 years old now and in the best shape of my life. I attribute this to my limited income, two children, excessive stress, and a recent divorce. Lifestyle choices, as it were. While my income has gradually decreased over the years, I've had to shop smarter. I used to buy only filet mignon, fresh salmon, and packages of chicken breast without regard to it being o...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The 18 fat-burning foods that will help you lose weight
From avocados and tomatoes to grapefruit, lentils, and green tea, Frida Harju, in-house nutritionist at the health app Lifesum reveals the 18 foods you should eat to lose weight and why. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Best Protein You Can Eat, According To Nutritionists
Protein is the key to keeping cravings at bay, building lean muscle and dropping those last few pounds. But according to a new review published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, it’s not just how much protein you eat that’s important: It's where you get your protein that also matters.
The reason is threefold. First of all, every source of protein -- from chicken to peanuts -- contains a different array of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Of the 20 various amino acids, nine are “essential,” meaning you can only get them from food. So it’s especiall...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Best Protein You Can Eat, According To Nutritionists
Protein is the key to keeping cravings at bay, building lean muscle and dropping those last few pounds. But according to a new review published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, it’s not just how much protein you eat that’s important: It's where you get your protein that also matters. The reason is threefold. First of all, every source of protein -- from chicken to peanuts -- contains a different array of amino acids, the building blocks of protein. Of the 20 various amino acids, nine are “essential,” meaning you can only get them from food. So it’s especiall...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
If Sugar Is In Everything, What Am I Supposed To Eat?
Sugar: it's in everything we eat, we love it, and it's absolutely killing us. Deaths from type 2 diabetes, obesity, and heart disease have all been linked to sugar intake, and yet our national consumption has never been higher. Thank goodness we had nutrition expert and bestselling author Cynthia Sass on the show to help navigate us through this sugar nightmare. The more I learn about sugar, the fewer things I know that are actually safe to eat! Thankfully, Cynthia gave us a short guide to some of the whole fresh foods that are certified healthy and safe from sugar. Vegetables Most vegetables contain less sugar than...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New brain diet 'slows mental decline'
ConclusionThis observational study aimed to investigate the relationship between the MIND diet and its protective properties for mental decline in an older population. The study has several strengths, including the large sample size, long observational period of up to nine years, regular annual assessment of cognitive functions, and comprehensive assessment of diet. However, one of the main limitations is that this type of study cannot show cause and effect – it can only show an association between the diet and slower mental decline. There may be other unmeasured factors that account for the results, such as genetics, ...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Neurology Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Lentils: Health Benefits and Nutritional Information
Find out about the possible health benefits of lentils including supporting heart health, preventing birth defects, improving immune response to infection and fighting fatigue. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - August 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nutrition / Diet Source Type: news
How to Get Passionate About the F-Word
There are few things in this world that can make you feel as sexy and fit as the F-word. Of course, I'm speaking about that big thing you can really sink your teeth into... FIBER. When talking about the indigestible portion of food from plants, I get excited -- that is excited about losing weight. Over the last couple of years, fiber has grown in popularity for good reason -- nutritionally speaking, it's a powerhouse. You can't seem to flip through a magazine without fiber making an appearance, plastered on the front of a new product, but all that fame may have you a bit confused about what fiber is, where it comes from,...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ending the Big, Fat Debate
Achieving a clear understanding of the health effects of dietary fats requires a challenging slog through a thick tangle of opinions. These days, it's rare to get through any given news cycle without contentions about dietary fat, expert and otherwise, coming at us from every quarter. The preoccupation, especially intense now, has a rather long lineage. Call to Action: Let's End the Big Fat Debate It is time to end the big, fat debate- by focusing less on nutrients, and more on foods. Some of the most nutritious foods are extremely low in fat (e.g., broccoli, spinach, blueberries) and some, high (e.g., walnuts, almonds...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How I Lost 50 Pounds in 3 Months While Meditating in Sahaj Marg
Conclusion After losing 50 pounds, I haven't felt better in a long time. I love how I look, and more importantly, how I feel. I'm happy to say that after my 50-pound weight loss, I am in a normal cholesterol range, out of risk of diabetes, in a healthy weight range, along with being on no medication! What are your opinions or struggles you have had with weight loss? Share on your comments below. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health Lunacy and Rocket Science
The failure to use what we have known for more than two decades to prevent up to 80 percent of all major chronic disease -- heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, dementia -- is costing virtually every one of us years lost from lives we love, and life lost from years. Since this is all entirely fixable with knowledge long at our disposal, the calamity of it all is, in a word, lunacy.
Of course, in the vernacular, that just means crazy. But the origins of the word point to the moon. And reflections on the moon, as it turns out, could prove... illuminating.
There are footprints on the moon for three basic reasons. First,...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
12 Crazy Amazing Facts About The Clitoris
I recently checked out an amazing art exhibition all about the clitoris, called "CLITERACY." Now, the clitoris doesn't usually get a lot of press. It's usually upstaged by the vagina, which is usually left in the dust by the attention that the penis gets. So, to walk into an art exhibit all about the clitoris was pretty amazing even for a sex educator! The artist, Sophia Wallace, in her ongoing mixed media project, aims to: [expose] the irony of society's obsession with and ignorance of female sexuality. CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws (2012) includes a monumental wall of texts which challenge phallocentric biases in science...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 27, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What People Who Live to 100 Eat Every Day
We'll have what they're having.
By Sarah-Jane Bedwell, SELF
(Photo: Courtesy Blue Zones)
There's one pretty mind-blowing characteristic about the people who live in these five communities throughout the world: Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia, Italy; the Greek island of Ikaria, the Nicoya peninsula of Costa Rica, and Loma Linda, Calif. On average, they live to the ripe age of 100 years old at rates 10 times higher than the average American. Mic. Drop.
Over a decade ago, writer Dan Buettner teamed up with National Geographic and a team of scientists to explore these areas, now called the "Blue Zones." His latest book, The Blue...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Palatetraining: Parents Aim to Buy the Best Food but Need to Make the Best Food
(Counterclockwise from top right to bottom right: My palette of fresh organic homemade tricolor carrots, sweet potato, butternut squash, Fuji applesauce, sweet peas, green beans and banana purees.)
The other day a new parent told me, "I don't make my own baby food, but I only buy organic." She was confident and assured that her baby was getting "fresh organic fruits, vegetables, and whole grains" because of the "organic," "100 percent natural," made with "pure vegetables and fruits," "no artificial flavors," labels on the jar or squeeze pouch. She had no idea that she had begun her baby's relationship with a food imposter...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
15 Eating Habits That Make You Live Longer
By Dan Buettner
For more than a decade, I've been working with a team of experts to study hot spots of longevity -- regions we call Blue Zones, where many people live to 100 and beyond. They are the Greek island of Ikaria; the highlands of Sardinia; the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica; Okinawa, Japan; and Loma Linda, Calif., home of the highest concentration of Seventh-day Adventists in the U.S. Remarkably, we've learned that folks in all these places share similar rituals and practices surrounding food. (Hint: They don't count calories, take vitamins or weigh protein grams!) After analyzing more than 150 dietary studies c...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 24, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
