WEIGHT LOSS
Weight Loss can help you Cure many Diseases and Conditions
Excessive weight is a house of diseases. Research shows that regular physical activity helps with weight loss and can therefore reduce your risk for several diseases and conditions and improve your overall quality of life. Regular physical activity can help protect you from the following health problems.
Heart Disease and Stroke: Daily physical activity can help [...]
Carbohydrates: Why Size Matters
If I collected a dime for each time I’ve seen or heard the word “carbohydrate” – or picked up a book on the subject, for that matter – I’d be a wealthy woman. And of course we’ve all heard the buzzwords: simple carb; complex carb; high carb; low carb; no carb. But do we really [...]
Wellness Tips: Health Products for Cholesterol, Weight Loss and Anti-Aging
If you are concerned for your health and do not want to rely on prescription or over-the-counter drugs, there are other ways to encourage better health. Changing your diet and taking nutritional supplements can help you avoid serious health problems and help you feel better as you age.
Lowering cholesterol has become a major concern for [...]
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Most people have known friends or family members who have tried using diet pills and have seen tremendous improvement. This is obviously a [...]
Reflections on Gaining it Back
Over two years have passed since I lost 85 pounds and then went off low-carb. Regardless of diet, I did pretty good at first in keeping the pounds off. This was mostly due to excessive walking during the six months last year that I spent working in Paris, France. But after returning home to a [...]
Carbohydrate Cravings and the Atkins diet
Carbohydrate cravings are difficult to deal with, especially when you are trying to maintain a low carbohydrate way of life. However, carbohydrate cravings are not just a matter of will power. As Dr. Atkins points out in his book, carbohydrates produce a flood of insulin and a rise in blood sugar. There is indeed a [...]
The Swedes Are Eating More Butter!
The graph above shows tons of butter (ton/år) sold per year in Sweden. From April 2007 to April 2008, sales of butter in Sweden went up by 13%. Therein lies a tale.
Doctor Annika Dahlqvist was a family practitioner at the Njurunda clinic in Sweden when her daughter, a physician in training, took part in a [...]
What Happens to the Fat We Eat?
For the low-carber, fat is an important macronutrient. What happens when we eat fat?
One of the important aspects of fat is that it is not water-soluble. In order to begin the digestion process, the liver makes bile, which in collected in the gallbladder and is secreted into the small intestine. The bile acts as a [...]
Be Encouraged!
As most of my readers know, low-carbing is a lifestyle, not a quick weight-loss diet. Early in the process of low-carbing, weight is often lost rapidly, and some of the health improvements come right away. But as weeks move into months move into years, changes come more slowly and more gradually. Reading a diary or [...]
Early Insulin Resistance Predicts Subsequent Risk of Metabolic Syndrome
Insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome are most often thought of in connection with middle age. However, an article in the March 2009 issue of the journal Metabolism shows that these conditions get their start early in life.
A biracial group of 475 girls was studied first at ages 9-10 years and then at ages 18-19 years. [...]