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Intermittent Fasting May Be Easier Than Counting Calories For Weight Loss
People who repeatedly lose weight only to regain it may find intermittent fasting easier to maintain than traditional calorie counting, according to new research from the University of Adelaide (Australia). The study examined not only how much weight people lost, but also how different dieting approaches affected eating habits, mood, sleep and overall quality of ...
Treating Metabolic Syndrome With Botanicals in Your Practice
One of the biggest challenges that many patients face is metabolic syndrome. This clustering of disease factors, including high blood pressure, imbalanced cholesterol levels, elevated triglycerides, high blood sugar, and unhealthy weight is one of the major health issues of our time. Fortunately, while recommendations for lifestyle and dietary changes may be necessary for some ...
PCOS Officially Renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome
Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) is the new name for the condition previously known as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), which impacts one in eight, or more than 170 million women worldwide. More than 50 patient and professional organizations took part in the process to develop the new name. PMOS is characterized by fluctuations in hormones, ...
Weight a Minute!
It’s that time of year—weight is atop most minds. Here’s how to help your clients gain wellness and esteem while losing fat pounds. It is almost always the top resolution each year—“I will lose some weight and get into better shape.” But typically, resolutions are abandoned before Feb. 1, with holdouts quitting before March. People ...
Cluster of Slightly Unhealthy Traits Linked With Earlier Heart Attack and Stroke
Middle-aged adults with three or more unhealthy traits including slightly high waist circumference, blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose have heart attacks and strokes two years earlier than their peers, according to research presented at European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2023. “Many people in their 40s and 50s have a bit of fat around the ...
Why Can’t I Lose Weight (or keep it off)? A Naturopathic/Vitalistic Guide
Weight, and efforts to lose weight, have become an epidemic over the past many decades, as the once simple advice of “diet and exercise” or “try this diet or cleanse for a few weeks” have failed to wholly stop this trend. Even if their routine now seems more than adequate, weight and, commonly together, its ...
Do You Know What Else Your Body Is Saying Beyond Weight Concerns?
Losing weight is one of the most frustrating, talked about, marketed, confidence-boosting (when it does happen) concerns, and can bring up an even wider range of emotions both about ourselves and about others. It can affect our relationship with our body, with others, and what we feel like we can achieve in the world, especially ...
Postmenopausal Women Can Dance Their Way to Better Health
Women often struggle with managing their weight and other health risk factors, such as high cholesterol, once they transition through menopause. A new study suggests that dancing may effectively lower cholesterol levels, improve fitness and body composition and in the process, improve self-esteem. Study results are published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American ...
New Study Debunks Notion That Salt Consumption Contributes to Weight Loss
A new study led by Stephen Juraschek, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), sheds new light on these conflicting findings. The researchers found that reducing sodium intake in adults with elevated blood pressure or hypertension decreased thirst, urine volume (a marker of fluid intake), and blood pressure, but ...
Decrease Stress By Aligning Your Life So You Don’t Have to Think as Much
My dad always told me if you love what you do, you’ll never have to work a day in your life. Expand this concept to the people you’re with, hobbies and overall health routines, and we realize we’re only as strong as our weakest link. We only have a finite amount of physical energy throughout ...
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