The Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital conducted a study that identified factors that support weight gain prevention. They are: food choices, sleep, watching less TV, and exercise. Today I want to shed some light on how sleep impacts weight gain. Many of my patients are surprised to learn that sleep
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While inflammation is a normal part of the healing process in the body, consistent or chronic inflammation is not. Chronic inflammation actually causes long-term damage to the body over a long period of time. It has been found to be part of the underlying cause of heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure and high
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Sugar Busters is a diet plan that promises weight loss, as a result of removing refined sugar from the dietary plan. I had never heard of this diet before so I was intrigued to understand more about the theory behind it. The Sugar Busters diet has been created by three doctors from New Orleans, Morrison
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Continuing the series on comparing the most popular diets today I’m looking at the South Beach diet. Dr. Arthur Agatston, author of the South Beach diet is a Miami cardiologist, who created a plan for his heart and diabetes patients who needed to improve their lab tests. The South Beach diet became popularized because a
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Weight loss is a billion dollar industry because many people find that their weight has gone up over the last 15 to 20 years; by the time they return to their 20th high school reunion they have, without realizing it, gradually gained 20 pounds or more. Most people scratch their heads wondering what happened to
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The Atkins diet plan has been well-researched yet it still is controversial among medical professionals as to its safety in the long term. There is research that has reported that Dr. Atkins’ plan was successful in helping patients lose weight and it has even been more successful than other weight loss plans. The Atkins plan
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As I continue to look at widely-publicized dietary plans in preparation for the many questions that people ask starting in January, I turn to the Atkins plan for weight loss. This plan was created in 1963 by Dr. Atkins to find a way to help his overweight and obese patients find a way to lose
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When I talk to groups about healthy eating and creating a healthy diet plan, the concept of food combining for healthy eating is asked. After getting the food-combining questions several times in the last eight years I decided to actually research this type of diet plan to see what type of medical research made this
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In the last several months there has been much buzz about this “new” diet, called the caveman diet or the Paleolithic diet. I’m not sure how “new” it really is, given that it refers to the timeframe during the Paleolithic period from about 2 million year ago up to about 10,000 years ago. Read the
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In the last 9 years in practice most of my patients have listed weight loss as one of the reasons they have come to work with me. They want to know which diet is the key to weight loss. It is a popular belief that there is one best diet that will create success for
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