Showing posts with label Healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Healthy. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Smart Tips - Add Healthy Foods To Your Diet by JJ Virgin

Nutrition & Fitness Expert JJ Virgin of www.JJVirgin.com shares a smart tip about improving your nutrition by adding healthy foods to your diet. "Smart Tips" is produced by Geffner Productions. To find out how to become a featured on-camera expert in your very own series of "Smart Tips" videos please visit GeffnerProductions.com. Transcript Do you feel like sometimes you're making less than optimal food choices? Well here's a smart tip to help you easily improve your eating habits. My favorite thing to have people do is add before they take away. I've found that if I just take it away, well nature hates a vacuum and you can manage to fill in with way worse things than we started with. When you start to put in good things, like non-starchy vegetables, and a rainbow of colors; bumping up your fiber with things like legumes and nuts and seeds; and also getting in breakfast each morning; and adding protein in each meal. Well when you start to eat the good, it naturally crowds out the bad. I'm JJ Virgin, Nutrition & Fitness Expert of JJVirgin.com, and thanks for listening to my smart tip!

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Friday, July 8, 2011

Doctors Explain Healthy Way for Bill Clinton's Dramatic Weight Loss

After undergoing heart surgery back in February, former President Bill Clinton has adopted a healthier lifestyle. In a recent interview with CNN Bill Clinton talked about his plant-based, vegan diet and recent weight loss. "I live of off beans, legumes, vegetables and fruits. It has completely changed my metabolism. I've lost 24 lbs and I weigh about what I did in high school," says Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton says his diet does not include any meat or dairy. Clinton drinks a glass of almond milk mixed with fruit and a protein powder supplement every morning. What made him go vegan? Clinton has read many books on the topic, including books by T. Colin Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn and Dr. Dean Ornish. /// A Short Historical Perspective on Vegetarian Diets In the past, many viewed vegetarianism as strange and faddish but appropriately planned vegetarian diets are now recognized by many, including the American Dietetic Association, as being nutritionally adequate, and providing healthful benefits in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases . Choosing a nonvegetarian lifestyle has a significant health and medical cost. The total direct medical costs in the United States attributable to meat consumption were estimated to be $60-80 billion a year, based upon the higher prevalence of hypertension, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, gallstones, obesity and food-borne illness among omnivores compared with vegetarians . A large body of scientific literature suggests that the ...

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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Nutrition, Exercise & Wellness : How to Eat Healthy With Diabetes

If a person has diabetes, it helps to eat non-starchy vegetables, fish and healthy fats. Learn how to eat better to prevent diabetes withhelp from a celebrity nutrition and fitness expert in this free video on diabetes and healthy eating. Expert: JJ Virgin Contact: www.JJVirgin.com Bio: JJ Virgin is one of the nation's foremost health & nutrition experts, a public speaker and a media personality. Filmmaker: Geffner Productions Series Description: Being fit and healthy requires a combination of healthy eating and regular exercise. Get tips on nutrition and work outs for better health and strong abdominal muscles in this free video series on wellness and fitness.

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Tips for eating well and achieving a healthy diet

www.BestSolutionYouNeed.com -- Tips for eating well and achieving a healthy diet: 1. Meals based on starchy foods are a good way of a healthy diet. 2. People should eat more starchy foods such as bread, cereals, rice, pasta and potatoes as they are a good source of energy. 3. An ideal way to maintain a healthy diet is by eating at least 5 portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables a day. 4. Try to cut down on saturated fats and sugars. Do not totally cut down on fats because your body needs it to stay healthy. 5. Eat less salt. Too much salt can raise your blood pressure. 6. Drink lots of water to keep your body well-hydrated. To learn more about for eating well and achieving a healthy diet, please visit our website: www.BestSolutionYouNeed.com

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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Is This The New Junk Food? Healthy Diet Revealed, Diet Plan Discussed, Diet Nutrition

Robert Redfern exposes starchy carbohydrartes as huge contributors to inflammation and poor health problems. If we can eat less or cut out these from our diets, and eat more raw fruit and vegetables - we will become more healthy. This diet plan and nutritional insight is a good program for dieting and eating healthily. A healthy balanced diet is key to being more healthy and disease free, this plan removes problems of inflammation and helps digestion, resulting in low toxicity and optimum organ functionality.

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Sunday, July 18, 2010

What is the Healthy Diet Plan For Diabetes?

When a person is diagnosed with diabetes, what he or she eat becomes very important. In other words, diabetics must monitor what they eat and have a healthy diet plan. Carbohydrates are the most important part of the food we eat as they directly affect our blood glucose level.

For a diabetic, the key is to balance the daily carbs intake. The question is how do you keep your carbs in balance? It is not always easy to answer this question. But fortunately there is a resource called "Diabetes Food Pyramid" by American Diabetes Association that provides guidelines on healthy diet plan for diabetes.

The Diabetes Food Pyramid provides the most comprehensive and easy to understand guidelines for healthy diabetes diets. It divides the foods into six food groups. The largest food groups are at the bottom of the pyramid and they are also the most healthy foods for diabetes. These foods are breads, grains, beans, and starchy vegetables. So, diabetics are encouraged to eat more servings of food groups at the bottom of the pyramid.

At the top of the pyramid, you will see foods like fats, sweets, and alcohol. These are the foods you should avoid if you have diabetes.

As mentioned, people with diabetes need to keep close track of their carbohydrates intake as they directly affect the blood sugar levels almost immediately after eating. Carbohydrate is made out of complex carbon and hydrogen molecules. As insulin works with the carbs and breaks them down for energy, the right amount of dose needs to be adjusted according to the amount of carbs.

Your doctor can help determine the units of insulin per grams of carbs, but it is your job to maintain the balance of your blood glucose levels by watching your daily carb intake and exercising regularly. Maintaining this balance is what carb counting is all about.

Another way to ensure that you don't consume too much carbs is to eat more servings of foods that are located at the bottom of the Diabetes Food Pyramid. By eating more servings of healthy food groups, you are in turn having less carbs intake. Make sense?

Consistency is key. Establish a healthy diet plan for your individual circumstances and stick to it, making gradual adjustments as needed. In the long term, it will help minimize any complication associated with diabetes.

Also, remember to check your blood sugar levels often, write down the numbers and amount of carbs you have eaten that day. Good record keeping will give you and your doctor an accurate picture of how effective your diet plan and medication are. That will help keep your diabetes well under controlled.

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