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Eat Natural Foods

Grilled BBQ Veggies

Dieting to lose weight should not mean depriving yourself of foods that taste good. In fact, eating healthier means you get to eat a lot of richer, better-tasting foods that just so happen to fight fat.

These are just some of those foods that can help you maintain your figure:

Almonds Why they’re good for you: They contain a high amount of alpha-linolenic acid, which speeds up metabolism, and can cut down BMI and weight by as much as 18 percent. Berries Why they're good for you: Fresh or frozen, these Vitamin C-packed fruits can improve the quality of your workouts and help you burn up to 30 percent more fat. Cinnamon Why it’s good for you: Just a 1/4 teaspoon of it on your breakfast can keep you from experiencing an insulin spike, which causes your body to store fat. Mustard Why it’s good for you: The turmeric in mustard slows the growth of fat tissues. Oranges Why they’re good for you: Citrus fruit contains flavones that fight fat. Soybeans Why they’re good for you: They are rich in choline, which stops fat absorption and breaks down fat deposits. (Those with breast cancer in their family history should check with their doctor first.) Sweet potatoes Why they’re good for you: They're high in fiber and keep the insulin in check. Swiss cheese Why it’s good for you: It has more calcium than most other cheeses, reduces fat-producing enzymes and increases further fat breakdown. Of course, the lower-fat version is healthier, too.

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Cite Yahoo Health

Labels: appetite, cravings, diabetes, hunger, self-control, weight loss

Central Quirk

That extra caffeine perk to get you through the day may also get you a few extra pounds on the scale, says a new study.

The findings are based on 3,000 purchases made at 115 restaurant chains in New York City, and include:

• Brewed coffee and tea contain an average of 63 calories, including when the drink may come with sugar and milk.
• Blended beverages contain about 239 calories, which is 89 more calories than a can of soda.A large ice-blended coffee drink can contain a whopping 750 calories or more.

You don’t have to give up your favorite caffeine craving, but moderation always helps, and so does going for low-fat or skim milk instead of whole and using little to no sugar.

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Cite: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene news release

Manage Your Weight

Obesity Health Risk

Public Health

Childhood obesity is not only on the rise — it has tripled over the past 25 years.

According to a report in Academic Pediatrics by an obesity expert at Brenner Children’s Hospital, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, children are not just becoming overweight and obese. Many more are becoming severely obese, which can greatly impact their health. Severe childhood obesity is classified as a child with a body mass index (BMI) that is at least or greater than the 99th percentile for age and gender.

Researchers found the following facts in the study:

• Severe obesity among children jumped from 0.8 percent in 1976-80 compared to 3.8 percent in 1999-2004. There are now more than 2.7 million severely obese children in the U.S.
• The highest increases in severe childhood obesity occurred among blacks and Mexican-Americans and those who live below the poverty level. Severe obesity rates for Mexican-American children went from 0.9 percent in 1976-80 to 5.2 percent in 1999-2004.
• A third of the children considered severely obese were classified as having metabolic syndrome, which is a group of risk factors such as higher-than normal blood pressure, cholesterol and insulin levels that make them more susceptible to experiencing heart attack, stroke and diabetes.

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Dr Aron is a bariatric physician — specialist in treatment of overweight and obese persons. Her medical weight loss clinic focuses on the factors contributing to and resulting from excessive weight gain. Her programs are designed to help people lose weight fast, under medical supervision.

Cite ScienceDaily

Labels: childhood obesity, cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, obesity

Vitamin D-ficient?

Vitamin D has always been an important part of our daily diet, and now it’s been linked to successful weight loss.

Vitamin D deficiency has commonly been associated with obesity, but the question remains whether it causes obesity, or if obesity causes the deficiency.

In a study presented at The Endocrine Society 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., researchers shared their findings based on an 11-week study that measured circulating blood levels of vitamin D in 38 overweight men and women before and after they followed a diet plan of 750 calories a day fewer than their estimated total needs. The goal was to find out whether baseline vitamin D levels before going on a calorie-restricted diet would affect weight loss.

The findings included the following:

• Subjects had insufficient vitamin D levels on average.
• Higher baseline vitamin D levels predicted greater loss of abdominal fat.

[B]aseline, or pre-diet, vitamin D levels predicted weight loss in a linear relationship. For every increase of 1 ng/mL in level of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol — the precursor form of vitamin D and a commonly used indicator of vitamin D status — subjects ended up losing almost a half pound (0.196 kg) more on their calorie-restricted diet. For each 1-ng/mL increase in the active or hormonal form of vitamin D (1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol), subjects lost nearly one-quarter pound (0.107 kg) more.

Although further research on active role of Vitamin D in weight loss is needed, it is still recommended as a necessary part of a healthy diet.

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Dr. Aron can advise you on any potential nutritional deficiencies as part of your comprehensive weight loss program.

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Spinning Your Social Circle

There is strength in numbers when it comes to getting the support you need from those closest to you, like family and friends, and it’s especially important to your diet and overall health.

We previously blogged about how children are more likely to eat more when dining with friends who consume more calories, based on a study of teens and tweens published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In the same vein, there is further research that shows obesity can be contagious.

In a 2007 study spanning 32 years of a social network of 12,000 adults conducted by Harvard researcher Nicholas Christakis and fellow colleagues, it was found that a person is 37 percent more likely to be obese if a spouse is, 40 percent more likely if a sibling is and 57 percent more likely if a friend is.

The reasoning behind these facts is that adults eat more in the presence of family and friends than with strangers, and that socializing with overweight individuals can affect their perceptions of what the norm is regarding eating habits.

Finally, there's the idea that we just like to hang with people that are like ourselves. Cornell food sociologist Jeffrey Sobal explains that “especially among two overweight people, there’s a sort of permission-giving going on. We’re encouraging each other to eat more.”

Wanting to be proactive about losing weight doesn’t mean dropping overweight friends because making the decision to eat healthier can just as easily influence those around you to do the same.

Dr Aron can help

Dr Aron works with each patient individually to diagnose and address underlying factors that pertain to weight gain and associated symptoms of health risks that also need to be managed.

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Labels: obesity, overweight, peer pressure, self-control

Fuggeddaboutit

Moms around the world warn their kids that too much sugar, fructose, will rot their teeth, but did they ever think it could also affect their memory?

Researchers at Georgia State Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology found that after feeding a group of Sprague-Dawley rats a diet that was 60 percent fructose, the rats memories were impaired. Fructose is a type of sugar found in processed foods and sodas.

Marise Parent, associate professor at Georgia State, said:

Fructose, unlike another sugar, glucose, is processed almost solely by the liver, and produces an excessive amount of triglycerides — fat which get into the bloodstream. Triglycerides can interfere with insulin signaling in the brain, which plays a major role in brain cell survival and plasticity, or the ability for the brain to change based on new experiences.

Results were similar in adolescent rats, but it is unclear whether the effects of high fructose consumption are permanent, she said.

Human diets typically do not consist of the same high amount of fructose as the rats in the study, however, foods containing fructose and high fructose corn syrup are being consumed at increasing rates. Diets high in fructose can potentially cause such health issues as insulin insensitivity, type 2 diabetes, obesity and cariovascular disease. Many foods now contain fructose, but keeping your diet checked and eating foods with fructose in moderation can make a difference.

Glycemic Response

Proper nutrition is essential for all facets of life, even more so when health is impacted. Consider working with Dr. Aron to help you gain perspective and structure to achieve your weight loss goals.

Cite ScienceDaily

Labels: calories, cravings, self-control