Keeping Fit And Healthy

Weight Reduction

Losing weight long term requires a lot of motivation and a commitment to permanent lifestyle change. Crash diets are often quite successful at losing weight but are impossible to sustain and when the diet is over people usually return to their old eating and exercise habits. Long term lifestyle change includes:

• -Changing the foods you buy each week
• -Not having biscuits/crisps etc in the house except on special occasions
• -Eating slightly smaller portions
• -Greater proportion of vegetables on the plate, less fatty food
• -Exercising regularly (most days, 30-60 minutes walking is fine)
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Tips

• -Learn a few new recipes - people tend to keep cooking the (high calorie) ones they know
• -Drink water/herbal teas rather than soft drinks/cappuccinos
• -Don't shop for food when hungry
• -Don't eat watching TV or on the move-you will tend to eat more/faster

Drugs/Surgery

Some drug treatments can give a small boost to weight loss, but they are only mildly effective.  Surgery (gastric-banding and gastric-bypass) is sometimes offered to the very obese and is effective, but carries risks. If you would like to discuss these treatments please arrange an appointment with your doctor.

Exercise

Exercise is beneficial to almost all individuals. It reduces heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, bowel cancer, type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, osteoporosis, and obesity. In addition it reduces anxiety and is comparable to antidepressants in treating depression.

Most people with illnesses of the heart, lungs and joints do better if they exercise than if they 'rest up'.

Ideally, you should do at least 30 minutes of moderate aerobic physical activity, at least five days per week. Brisk walking is fine.

Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a fatty substance essential for normal bodily function. Some of it we eat in foodstuffs, but most of the cholesterol in our bodies is manufactured by our own livers. Unfortunately, too much cholesterol is associated with blockages in arteries supplying the heart and  brain, leading to heart attacks and strokes.

A typical western diet, high in animal fat, stimulates the liver to produce too much cholesterol. Not all cholesterol causes problems. Having a high LDL cholesterol (low density lipoprotein) seems to be the problem, whereas a high HDL cholesterol (high density lipoprotein) seems to be protective. Your doctor will assess you cholesterol based on the ratio of HDL to LDL. Some people are born with a gene variation that leads to a particularly high cholesterol which can lead to a heart attack at a young age. If you have a close relative who had a heart attack at a young age contact your GP for a test.

Fortunately there are effective drugs now available for lowering cholesterol that have been shown to lower the risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

It is important to remember that having a raised cholesterol is not a disease, but a risk factor among others including:

• Age
• Smoking
• Blood pressure
• Male sex
• Diabetes
• Lack of exercise
• Obesity
• Family History
• Race (people with Indian/Pakistani ancestry at higher risk)
• Early Menopause

 So only having a raised cholesterol does not mean you are definitely at high risk of heart attacks. Similarly, if you have many other risk factors your doctor may suggest cholesterol lowering even if your cholesterol is average to lower your overall risk of cardiac disease/stroke.

Source:- http://www.rosemarymedicalcentre.co.uk/index.php/medical-advice/keeping-fit-and-healthy

Eat To Live

About Eat To Live



When Mehmet Oz or any of New York's leading doctors has a patient whose life depends on losing weight, they call on Joel Fuhrman, M.D. In Eat to Live: The Amazing Nutrient-Rich Program, Dr. Fuhrman offers his healthy, effective and scientifically proven plan for shedding radical amounts of weight quickly and keeping it off. Losing weight under Dr. Fuhrman's plan is not about willpower: it is about knowledge.The key to this revolutionary diet is the idea of nutrient density, as expressed by the simple formula:

Health = Nutrients/Calories

When the ratio of nutrients to calories is high, fat melts away, and health is restored. Losing 20 pounds in two to three weeks is just the beginning.

The more nutrient-dense food you consume, the more you will be satisfied with fewer calories, and the less you will crave fat and high-calorie foods. If you are an adult diabetic, you will likely be insulin-free in no time. If you are on heart medication, your doctor may stop your prescription. If you are planning a June wedding, you will have the dress size you dream of. Dr. Fuhrman's meal plan offers recipes for power foods and delicious meals that deliver the biggest bang for the caloric buck. He promises that you can lose at least thirty pounds in three months without ever going hungry. Moreover, after you try his Six-Week Plan, you will lose your appetite for unhealthy, overprocessed foods that account for Americans having the second-highest incidence of cancer and heart disease in the world.

This is a book that will let you live longer, reduce your need for medications, and improve your health dramatically. It is a book that will change the way you want to eat, but most important of all, if you follow the Eat to Live diet, you will lose weight faster than you ever thought possible.

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Dr. Fuhrman's Eat To Live diet-style is simply the healthiest way to eat, and as a result, it is also the most effective way to normalize your weight. No other diet can radically drop your cholesterol as proven in medical studies. No other diet can effectively drop your triglycerides, can get rid of your diabetes and can normalize your blood pressure.

Eat To Live allows you to say no to heart attacks: they simply do not have to occur. When you eat this healthfully, you can expect your indigestion, reflux, allergies, asthma, arthritis and many other chronic problems to be resolved. Your food addictions disappear, and you actually develop a stronger ability to taste the natural flavors in simple foods.

Eat To Live is not merely a weight loss book. This book is also targeted at those desiring to effectively prevent or reverse other chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, joint problems and high blood pressure. Also, this book is for those who just want to be in great health, maintain their youthful vigor, and physical and mental abilities into their later years. It is the realanti-aging way of eating.

Eat To Live is a must read for every health conscious person in America. It will open your eyes to a totally new way of thinking about food that is sensible, simple and scientifically sound. You will never again be confused about what constitutes good nutrition, and if you are overweight, you will be thinner than you ever thought possible. There are other good diets out there, and there are many dangerous diet plans too. Some are more dangerous than others. If you are considering a risky method to lose weight, such as a meat-based diet, so that you can continue your love affair with saturated-fat-rich foods, Eat To Live may not be the diet for you. Eat To Live is a vegetable-based diet. You don't eat only vegetables, but you learn that eating a lot of high nutrient foods is the key to controlling your food cravings and your weight. If you insist that, no matter what, you cannot eat vegetables, this is not the diet for you.

Eat To Live is for those who want to regain their ideal weight in the healthiest manner possible. It was not written to be the best selling book in the country. To do that, it would have to be filled with myths and fraudulent information to make it palatable to the masses. Dr. Fuhrman wrote it for every individual who wants optimal advice on losing weight most effectively, reversing their medical conditions and precluding the possibility of having a heart attack.
It is designed to work for those who had trouble losing weight with other plans.
It is designed for those who need to lose a lot of weight and who want to lose a significant amount of pounds each month in a very safe manner.
It is designed to protect the health of those with serious illnesses.
It is designed to save lives.Not everyone is willing to eat a diet this healthy, but Eat to Live is not just for those with steely determination and super human powers of self-denial. It is for people who enjoy eating a lot of great tasting food that just happens to be very healthy.

We can make the healthiest foods on the planet taste great. As Dr. Fuhrman says, "I am not on a diet; this just happens to be the way I like to eat because I enjoy it and want to enjoy great health, too." The majority of individuals who give Eat to Live a try for a few months say they enjoy eating this way more than their prior eating style. A truly healthful diet can be great tasting too. Taste and health are not mutually exclusive. We encourage you to learn more ... only then can you know if this is right for you.

Source:- https://www.drfuhrman.com/weightloss/about.aspx

Six Best Foods You’re Not Eating

From watermelon to red cabbage, find out why these foods should be part of a healthy diet.

Some foods are so healthy they star on every nutrition expert’s “super food” list. However, often missing on those lists are some nutritional gems or underrated foods that don’t get the attention they deserve.

Sorting out the best foods to eat is not always easy because the choices can be daunting. Adding to the confusion are overrated foods such as salads that are perceived to be good for you but can be health horrors.

Here are six foods not typically thought of as nutritional powerhouses that can definitely improve your diet. Learning about them - and understanding more about the nutritional goodness of foods in general - will help you to make more informed choices that can impact your health, weight and wallet.

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Criteria for the best foods

In order to make our best list, foods had to be whole foods that are familiar, widely available, affordable, nutrient-rich - and most importantly, taste great. After all, what good is a super food if it isn’t a culinary delight?

Beyond the obvious “health halo” super foods such as blueberries, nuts and salmon, we asked nutrition experts for their opinion of the best underrated foods that belong on your menus. Here are their top six picks: