Category: Obesity
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Fiber for Weight Control
Fiber might just be the key to healthy weight management – and nature packages the carbs in perfectly balanced ratios when you eat them as whole foods. Think unprocessed fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds. Research suggests that carbohydrates are meant to come packaged in nature-balanced ratios of total carbohydrates to fiber. Find…
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Six Tips for Losing Weight Without Fad Diets
Monday – start diet. Tuesday – break diet! Wednesday – plan to start again next Monday. If this is you, it’s probably time to get off the diet roller coaster and make some bigger changes to the way you eat, drink and think about food. This article gives you six tips to help you get…
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Autophagy – A Key to Better Health
It is happening in every cell of our body, but hardly anyone knows about autophagy. It is an important process to maintain cellular health, to recycle dead cell components and to strengthen the immune system. Find out in this article what you can do to get the maximum benefits of autophagy.
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Why Some People Overeat When They’re Upset
The idea of eating a tub of ice cream to cope with being upset has become a bit cliche. Though some might not need a tub of chocolate swirl to help perk themselves up again, there do seem to be systematic differences in the way that people cope with upsetting events, with some more likely…
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Raw Food – How Much Should it Be?
In summer, the farmers’ markets are a real feast for the eyes, a treasure trove of fresh fruit and vegetables. A large part of the population associates good health with raw fruit and vegetables. In practice, however, things look rather bleak. Most eat far too little raw fruit and vegetables. On the other hand, there…
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Don´t Carry the Christmas Dinner Into the New Year
The holiday season is eagerly awaited, meeting up with people you love, catching up and sharing a meal together. Is there anything better? But for this day to be memorable it is important to get the menu right, exaggerations can compromise the enjoyment of those festivities. It’s common to see plentiful tables and a lot…
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The Metabolic Syndrome
Obesity, high blood pressure, elevated blood sugar and increased triglycerides with simultaneously decreased HDL are the precursors of a heart attack. In the US, one third of the adult population suffer from metabolic syndrome, and in women at the age of 70 and over, the prevalence rises to about 60%((J.S.Moore et. al. Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence…
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The Pleasure Trap
I know it’s not healthy, but… Have you ever enjoyed an extra cheese pizza, an iced soft drink, or some temptation in the form of a dessert, like a chocolate cream cake, with filling, icing and chocolate chips everywhere, even though you know they are not healthy? Of course, yes! I think all of us.…
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Sleep Deficiencies and Obesity
Few people would argue with the idea that sleep is good for us, but not many of us know that a lack of sleep can cause weight gain. The health benefits of sleep are extremely well-documented((Phyllis C. Zee, MD, PhD; Fred W. Turek, PhD. Sleep and Health. Everywhere and in Both Directions. Arch Intern Med.…