You’ve certainly heard the expression many times, “You are what you eat.” Have you ever really thought about what it means? And do you think about it when you’re making food choices?

In some ways, we do become what we eat, literally. Have you ever seen an example of your blood plasma after eating a fast food hamburger? What was previously a clear liquid becomes cloudy with the fat and cholesterol that’s absorbed from eating a high-fat hamburger. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Atkins diet principles lay the foundation for a healthy, more balanced way of eating than the standard American diet. Its emphasis is on using good carbohydrates in balance with adequate protein. This is in stark contrast to what most Americans eat on a daily basis. The average American eats lots of processed foods that have hidden sugars and highly processed carbohydrates. This has put most Americans on the road to diabetes and pre-diabetic conditions. What is sad is that diabetes has a predictable set of stages and that they can be easily recognized. Read the rest of this entry »

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My mother told me a little story the other night. When she first started working in sales, she said, her goal was to ‘write a string of pearls’ - in her parlance, five weeks in a row of 100 sales or more. Her first two weeks would be great - but that third week was always a killer. Four times in a row she got those two weeks, only to fail on the third week. Every morning she woke up and told herself, “I can write a hundred sales this week.” And in the back of her mind, she’d add, “I can never get that third week.”

On Thursday of that third week, she was struggling and determined, even though she’d only made 22 sales so far that week. She woke up and told herself, “I can write a hundred this week” - and for the first time, she actually heard what she was saying to herself in the back of her mind. “But I Can Never Get That Third Week”. Realizing how she’d been undermining her own attempts at positive mental attitude, she resolved to overcome it. She went out that day and made over 50 sales - and the rest of the week fell into place. Not only that, she went on to write a string of pearls that set a record in her company that has yet to be broken.
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If you’re pregnant, you’re very likely concerned about the amount of weight you’re gaining, the effect it has on your body, even how difficult it will be to take off after your pregnancy. Your OB/GYN or midwife is your best source of advice about healthy weight gain during pregnancy, but there are general guidelines.

Depending on your weight at the start of your pregnancy, your doctor may tell you that a healthy weight gain for you is anywhere between 15 and 40 pounds. If you’re underweight to start (a BMI of less than 18.5), 25 to 40 pounds is a reasonable weight gain during pregnancy. If you’re overweight, he or she may suggest you stick closer to 15 to 25 pounds. Of that weight, 6 to 8 pounds of it is the baby.
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Want to lose 35 pounds a year without changing a thing about your diet? All it takes is 10,000 steps. No, that’s not a typo. Just 10,000 steps a day can burn enough calories to take off 35 pounds in a year.

I first heard about the 10,000 steps when I took a vacation with my mother last summer. As we left the house that morning for a day of sight-seeing with my two boys, she clipped a pedometer to her belt. Periodically throughout the day, she checked it, and as I settled to relax on a park bench toward the end of the day she remarked, “I’m just going to walk around the park twice. I only have 500 more steps to go.” Read the rest of this entry »

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If these five basic elements are maintained in proper proportion in the body, a proper metabolism is ensured and the body remains healthy.  However due to heredity, eating and living habits more often than not, we disturb one or two of these elements and thus upset the metabolism and there is a predominance of three different types of combinations.  Such combination of these elements decide our types-prakrutis. Aurveda, the Indian medical therapy, has divided people into three types:

1) Combination through excess of Earth +Water
2) Combination through excess of Fire + Air, and
3) Excess of Air element
This therapy advocates that while treating the patients, one must keep in mind their respective types.  For those people having kapha prakruthi, milk will only create problems.  Read the rest of this entry »

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If you believe the old stories about much weight people put on during the holidays, you’re right—partially.  In a recent study conducted by The National Institute of Health, the researchers discovered that, in reality, most people tend to only put on just slightly under one pound.  But a person who is already overweight will average a whopping five pounds extra after the last horns have been blown.

But it’s not all good news for even those who put on the minimum because the study also shows that we all tend to keep the pounds put on.  In other words, over ten years, those not-so-much pounds, could lead someone to being overweight. Read the rest of this entry »

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Want to lose 35 pounds a year without changing a thing about your diet? All it takes is 10,000 steps. No, that’s not a typo. Just 10,000 steps a day can burn enough calories to take off 35 pounds in a year.

I first heard about the 10,000 steps when I took a vacation with my mother last summer. As we left the house that morning for a day of sight-seeing with my two boys, she clipped a pedometer to her belt. Periodically throughout the day, she checked it, and as I settled to relax on a park bench toward the end of the day she remarked, “I’m just going to walk around the park twice. I only have 500 more steps to go.” Read the rest of this entry »

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If these five basic elements are maintained in proper proportion in the body, a proper metabolism is ensured and the body remains healthy.  However due to heredity, eating and living habits more often than not, we disturb one or two of these elements and thus upset the metabolism and there is a predominance of three different types of combinations.  Such combination of these elements decide our types-prakrutis. Aurveda, the Indian medical therapy, has divided people into three types: Read the rest of this entry »

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One of the dangers of dieting is the ‘diet mentality’. The constant need to weigh, measure, count and account for food that most dieters feel can become an obsession with food that comes close to that experienced by someone with an eating disorder. Is it possible to lose weight without becoming obsessed with food?
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