Heres' the amount of sugar I consumed in the past six months. These are five pound bags. I tried to assess everything. Ketchup, soda, burgers, pizza, ice cream.
Body by sugar. Hence the gut. No rocket science to rectify.
Just doing it. Or not doing it in this case.
Oh carrot when raw you're a tasty treat
In the form of a cake you're hard to beat
At the end of a stick you're such a tease
Grated in salad you're so quick to please
And as a juice you're pretty drink-able
Smothered in butter you're equally sink-able
But as a hair colour you're pretty unthinkable
Because no-one wants to be ginger.
I am going to eat fruits more from now. I woke up at 6:20am today without alarm. As soon as I woke up, I got online and writing this. This is what I am going to do this three days weekend. First, I am going to eat healthy and get well since I haven't feeling well after I throw up on Tuesday. For breakfast, I ate two kinds of yogurt, Fruits with Jello, and Tea. For lunch, I ate which Japanese usually eat when you get sick.
今日は６時２０分に、目覚まし時計も無しで起床。早速、パソコンに向っています。さて、今週末は、まずは美味しい物を食べてからダイエット開始です。フルーツ、野菜？を中心に頑張ります。とにかくエクセサイズしないといけません。
Weight management interests most of us, even the currently slender. Even they will discover that as people age it is "normal" to tend to gain weight. A pound a year is the current norm, or ten pounds per decade. If you weighed 160 pounds at age 21, expect to weigh 190 by the time you are 51. If you were 115 when you were married, you will probably move up to 151 or more -- unless you do something about it. The skinny teen all too quickly becomes normally overweight. It doesn't take long. Plus, drugs such as steroids, some antidepressants and environmental toxins all can contribute to weight gain beyond the healthy norm.
TIP #1: Give your mind a strong inner picture. With your eyes closed, visualize yourself at your ideal weight and spend several minutes stepping into the picture and wearing that body for awhile until you are not only comfortable, but ecstatic.
MORE IS BETTER?
Most of us have been conditioned to consume more. Through advertising and our culture, our eating habits have spawned a growth industry with food as its full focus and fixation. Our food habits are recorded, examined and analyzed so that we can be sold and made to eat more. Then we are sold a lifetime supply of remedies to "cure" the ailments caused by overeating. Most often, these remedies fail us.
TIP #2: Eat only small portions. And eat smaller portion throughout the day.
RICHES OF INFORMATION
Equally impressive in its sheer volume is a wealth of information about what you should eat along with how, where, what time and in what order. Some of this advice may be sound, but the problem is that recommendations are often made to a general audience without any regard to individual differences. At times, "expert opinions" are either conflicting or confusing. Worst of all, some of the information we receive is simply inaccurate, outdated and ignorant.
Tip #3: Eat intuitively. Ask you body what it wants, then honor that and eat it, in smaller portions.
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Dr. Tom Goode is the co-founder of the International Breath Institute, which was created in 1991 to teach people how to enhance their health and prevent premature aging. He is also an inspirational speaker, workshop facilitator, and author of five books, the latest of which is The Holistic Guide to Weight Loss, Anti-Aging and Fat Prevention. To contact Dr. Goode or for more information on Full Wave Breathing, visit .
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Boosting insulin with vitamins C and E may improve the drug's effectiveness for treating diabetes.
A UC Irvine College of Medicine study has found that the popular antioxidant supplements not only enhance insulin's ability to reduce blood sugar, but also lower the risks of organ damage that can occur despite insulin treatments. The study appears in the January issue of Kidney International.
Dr. Nick Vaziri, professor of medicine, and his team found that untreated diabetes raised blood pressure and increased the production of damaging oxidizing agents called free radicals. The free radicals converted sugars and proteins into harmful chemicals, increasing the risks of tissue damage often seen in untreated diabetes.
Treating the rats with insulin alone improved high blood pressure somewhat and partially spared the sugars and proteins from the free radicals' assault. But it also added a new problem, as the free radicals turned their attack on nitric oxide, a ubiquitous molecule that usually protects the body from free radicals. This new attack results in yet more toxic chemicals, with the potential to inflict damage to tissues.
Adding vitamins C and E to insulin, however, spared the sugars, proteins and nitric oxide from attack.
"Blood pressure was lowered to normal, and free radicals were not in sufficient numbers to degrade the sugars, proteins and nitric oxide," Vaziri said. "We think this shows that a diet rich in antioxidants may help diabetics prevent the devastating cardiovascular, kidney, neurological and other damage that are common complications of diabetes."
Diabetes affects nearly 17 million Americans. Insulin is the predominant treatment, but patients eventually develop complications, like various forms of heart disease and nerve, liver and kidney damage. Studies would still have to be tested in humans, but Vaziri believes that adding vitamins C and E to an insulin-dependent diabetic's diet should help treat the disease and perhaps prevent future organ damage.
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by Andrea Lam
When I was in middle school, my teachers would sometimes have us vote--by a show of hands--on what we thought was the answer to a problem. At times we'd vote with our heads up and our eyes open, and at other times we'd vote with our heads down on our desks and our eyes closed. When we voted with our eyes closed, I personally always felt a little silly, sitting at my desk with my books in front of me, my eyes squinched shut and my hand in the air, but I never felt any pressure to pick an answer besides the one upon which I had decided. This method of voting was anonymous--or at least as anonymous as it got in sixth grade. But it was an entirely different story when we voted with our eyes open. Then we could see each other, and thus see who picked what answer. Often a just a few hands would go up at first, then a few more, and after a furtive look or two, even more. I remember on more than one occasion looking around the room and, after seeing many of my fellow classmates raising their hands with apparent confidence in the truth of their decision, changing my mind and raising my hand as well. I didn't want to get labeled as the kid who voted the wrong way, because everyone else must have been right--right?
A recent article in The New York Times deals with this issue of peer- (or authority-) pressure-induced decision-making. Titled , it deals with the idea of "informational cascades" and how they affect even the most intelligent groups of people. An informational cascade is basically what happens when one or two people publically guess one way and everyone else follows, each one "[assuming] that the rest can't all be wrong." Because of this tendency, many people who originally believed the "other" way will generally change their minds, even if the group's final "decision" ends up being incorrect.
Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto have found that taking American ginseng before a meal reduces blood sugar in people both with and without diabetes. The study appears in the April 9 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, a publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Dr. Vladimir Vuksan, lead investigator for the study, says that these findings may have important implications for the treatment and prevention of diabetes, a disease affecting approximately eight per cent of North American adults and continually rising. "Although preliminary, these findings are encouraging and indicate that American ginseng's potential role in diabetes should be taken seriously and investigated further. Controlling after-meal blood sugar levels is recognized as a very important strategy in managing diabetes. It may also be important in the prevention of diabetes in those who have not yet developed the disease."
Study participants, both diabetic (Type 2) and non-diabetic, consumed capsules containing three grams of ground Ontario-grown American ginseng either 40 minutes before or during a glucose test meal. Among participants with Type 2 diabetes, those who took the ginseng capsules experienced a 20 per cent reduction in blood sugar levels compared to when they took placebo capsules. Among non-diabetic participants, similar reductions were only seen when the ginseng capsules were taken before, not together, with the test meal, suggesting that the timing of administration may be important. (The trial was an acute clinical study and did not compare the diabetic participants to the non-diabetic participants.)
Although the results are encouraging, Vuksan, who associate director of the Risk Factor Modification Centre at St. Michael's Hospital and assistant professor in the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto, cautions that people should not use these findings as justification to start taking ginseng.
"This is an initial, short-term study that only indicates a need for more research. We don't know what the effects of long-term consumption of ginseng will be. Because of poor standardization in the herbal industry, we also don't know if these findings will hold true for all American ginseng products. Nor do we know whether taking different speciesof ginseng such as Chinese or Japanese will have the same outcome."
In addition to implications for diabetes management, this study has considerable significance for broader research on herbals as potential medical treatments, an area that has generated a great deal of public controversy in recent years. "This study represents an important step in the evaluation of herbals," says Vuksan. "A major criticism of the herbal field and past ginseng research has been the lack of scientific, placebo-controlled trials in humans. Our study applied traditional clinical trial standards to research on an alternative medical product."
The use of herbals in North America has increased dramatically over the last decade and ginseng is one of the most widely-used herbs worldwide. There are several types, including American, Chinese, Japanese and Siberian. For the last 2000 years of Chinese traditional medicine, ginseng has been used as a tonic with supposed curative, restorative and aphrodisiac properties. Most of these claims have been based on anecdotal and other non-scientific observations. It is only recently that tests of ginseng have begun in humans, using rigorous scientific techniques.
Chai-Na-Ta, Langlay B.C., the world's largest supplier of American ginseng, provided ginseng samples and, together with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, the funding for this study.
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