Archive for October, 2007

Blood Sugar Levels Affected by Activity

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
How foods affect blood-sugar levels varies from person to person and from one time to another in a single individual. For example, if you eat a jelly donut in the evening, your blood sugar may rise well over 200 (it should never be higher than 160). If [...]

Longer Lower Legs Benefit Runners and Walkers

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
People who have longer lower leg lengths (the distance from knee to ankle) will usually have greater endurance during running or walking than those with shorter lower leg lengths. In a study reported in the Journal of Human Evolution, researchers at the University of Wisconsin showed that [...]

Protein: How Much Do You Need?

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
The Recommended Allowance for protein for most people is about 70 grams per day. Many types of foods contain protein, and it is easy to meet your protein requirements with a typical varied diet. For example, you would meet your daily requirement for protein if you ate [...]

Restaurant Meals Can Be Healthful

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Everyone can enjoy an occasional meal in a restaurant without worrying about the consequences. But if you have to eat in restaurants several times a week, you need to devise ways to make healthful choices and avoid the temptation to over-eat. If you are trying to control [...]

Walking to Lose Weight: Miles Less Important than Intensity

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
For exercise to help you control weight, you must exercise fairly intensely or else you need to exercise for many hours, and most people do not have the time to exercise for three or four hours or more every day. A study from the University of Massachusetts [...]

Sugar Helps You Exercise Longer

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Bicycle racers in long events such as the Tour de France take sugar supplements while they ride to increase their endurance. If you plan to exercise for more than two hours, you can help yourself last longer by taking a source of sugar after 30 minutes and [...]

Build Aerobic Capacity by Strengthening Leg Muscles

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
Aerobic capacity is a measure of your ability to use oxygen to do work. If your body can process more oxygen than that of another person, usually you will be able to run faster, walk or work longer, and have more energy than that person.
The loss of [...]

How Vitamin D Helps to Prevent Cancer

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin>
Many recent reports show that vitamin D is far more than just a hormone that strengthens bones. It is necessary for maintaining a healthy immune system. Every day, your body produces millions of cancer cells, and your immunity is supposed to search out and destroy these cells. [...]

High Resting Heart Rate: Common Causes

Submitted by Fitness & Health with Dr. Gabe Mirkin
If your resting heart rate is greater than 70, check with your doctor to see if your thyroid is overactive, you are anemic, or you have an infection, hidden tumor, a weak heart or other cause of a rapid heart rate. Having a resting heart rate greater [...]

A New Diet is Working Wonders in Some Autism Patients

I was recently watching the Larry King Show and I was particularly intrigued by listening to Jenny McCarthy speaking about Autism. According to the Autism Speaks Website:
1 in 150 individuals is diagnosed with autism, making it more common than pediatric cancer, diabetes, and AIDS combined. Autism impairs a person’s ability to communicate and relate to [...]

Starch Versus Vegetables In a Plant-Based Diet

This is one of the more informative discussions that I have even seen regarding the issue of starch versus veggies in a plant-based diet.
The experts on the panel are Dr. McDougall and Dr. Fuhrman.

Rating 3.00 out of 5

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Some Dairy Products and Meat are Good for Land Conservation

And self preservation, That’s right, self preservation.
If everyone in New York State followed a low fat vegetarian diet, then New York State could directly support about 32% of its population.
Today’s high-fat diets coupled with meat and dairy allow the state to support only about 22% of its population. A diet with a lot of meat needs [...]

Isn’t Dieting Common Sense?

All the things that you can read about health and diet all tell me one thing, dieting is much about common sense. You would have to search long and hard to find a dietician that would not tell you that you should eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. An apple a day to keep [...]

Last Place for the Atkins Diet

New findings that have been published in the October Issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association have placed the Atkins Diet in dead last. The findings were used to measure dietary components as related to the risk of heart disease. The Ornish diet plan placed first out of eight leading weight loss plans [...]

Is Weight Loss Good for You

A good question makes you think. Do diets that cause you to lose weight actually make you healthier? Many leading dieticians are saying no. In fact, most leading dieticians would promote a balanced diet that is plentiful in fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products and lean meat over the diets such as Atkins [...]