Talking to Kids About Dieting

by | Jul 4, 2014 | Diet | 0 comments

School Lunch At some point, many tweens or teens talk about wanting to go on a diet. Maybe they don’t like the way they look in their clothes, or they’re influenced by friends or the ultra-thin models they see in magazines. If your child brings up dieting, it’s a great chance to talk about healthy habits and see how your family can make healthy food and exercise choices together.

Whether your child’s weight is healthy or unhealthy, it’s important to explain why “dieting” isn’t a good idea. Part of the issue with dieting is that it’s something people view as a quick fix. People often cut the portions they eat to very small, unhealthy amounts, or they ban certain foods. When kids show an interest in being healthier, it’s important to steer the conversation away from dieting to adopting healthy habits they can keep up.

“You need to say it’s not healthy to go on drastic diets,” says Marlene Schwartz, PhD, deputy director of the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. “It’s always a bad idea to do something extreme — to dramatically cut your calories or completely take out carbohydrates or fat. The fact that anything is extreme is always a bad idea. That just leads you down a bad road.” Continue reading

How diet soda can sabotage your diet

by | Jul 3, 2014 | Nutrition, Sugars | 0 comments

Soda Researchers are divided over whether diet soda helps people lose weight. Swapping sugary drinks for diet drinks may condition the body to expect calories, which makes people feel hungrier. “Normally, things that taste sweet are followed by sugar and calories,” Susan Swithers, a professor of psychological sciences and a behavioral neuroscientist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. who has reviewed studies on diet soda . “But the body produces physiological responses — increasing metabolism and releasing hormones — to anticipate the arrival of sugar and calories,” she says.

That, Swithers says, can become a problem for diet soda fanatics. Diet drinks interfere with this “predictable relationship,” meaning the body can’t predict the calorie intake when real sugars are consumed. “Physiological responses become blunted,” she says, and that may lead to a host of other problems too. “The loss of these responses could contribute to excess food intake, weight gain, high blood pressure and over time outcomes like diabetes and cardiovascular disease,” Swithers says. In fact, she says Bloomberg’s soda ban should have been extended to artificially sweetened drinks too.

In one study, individuals who consumed more than three artificially sweetened drinks a day experienced a doubling of their incidence of overweight/obesity over the next 7 to 8 years, compared with those who had consumed none, according to a study published in the August 2008 edition of “ Obesity .” “The more they drank them, the more their waist circumference increased,” says Sharon Fowler, the primary author of the study and specialist in the department of medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

While these results show an association or correlation rather than causation, Fowler says there may be physiological and psychological issues at play. One theory: Drinking artificial sweeteners may cause the body to store more calories in fat cells and also induce hunger, she says. “Studies have shown if animals are fed artificial sweeteners they gain more weight and have more disruption than metabolic imbalance,” she says. “No calories and no consequences is very naive. Diet soda consumption in the U.S. is a major uncontrolled experiment.” She says Bloomberg naively targeted only sugary drinks. Continue reading

Ketogenic Diet Cures Cancer

by | Jul 2, 2014 | High Fat Diet, Low carb diet | 0 comments

Thomas SeyfriedLast week, renowned cancer scientist Dr. Thomas Seyfried told examiner.com the ketogenic diet can replace chemotherapy for almost all cancers.

Dr. Seyfried’s bold, in-your-face statements have ignited a firestorm of controversy in the blogosphere. Seyfried did not say the ketogenic diet cures cancer, but effectively manages it in a non-toxic, less expensive manner than the current standard of care.

Like Seyfried, Prof. Noakes believes it’s time for the medical community to investigate metabolic therapy as an alternative to toxic chemotherapy and radiation.

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Ketogenic Diet Beats Chemo For Almost All Cancers

by | Jun 30, 2014 | Low carb diet | 0 comments

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAThe low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet can replace chemotherapy and radiation for even the deadliest of cancers, said Dr. Thomas Seyfried, a leading cancer researcher and professor at Boston College.

In an exclusive interview, Dr. Seyfried discussed why the ketogenic diet has not been embraced by the medical community to treat cancer despite its proven track record both clinically and anecdotally.

“The reason why the ketogenic diet is not being prescribed to treat cancer is purely economical,” said Dr. Seyfried, author of Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. “Cancer is big business. There are more people making a living off cancer than there are dying of it.”

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Low Carb Avocado Series 7

by | Jun 27, 2014 | Low carb diet | 0 comments

Avocados, which are actually classified as a fruit, are rich in monounsaturated fat that is easily burned for energy. Personally, I eat a whole avocado virtually every day, which I usually put in my salad. This increases my healthy fat and calorie intake without seriously increasing my protein or carbohydrate intake. (See Nutrition Facts Panel below.) It is also very high in potassium and will help balance your vitally important potassium to sodium ratio.

As I’ve mentioned before, eliminating grain carbs is one of the best ways to support your health and maintain your weight, but when you cut down on carbs, you need to increase your intake of healthy fats. Avocados are an excellent source, along with organic raw butter, coconut oil, and organic pastured eggs, just to name a few.

There’s also evidence suggesting that limiting your intake of protein can be helpful for long-term good health and the prevention of cancer. At the very least, most people are consuming far too much poor-quality protein, such as beef and animal products from livestock raised in confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). Here again, if you cut down on protein, you need to replace lost calories with healthy fats such as avocados, coconut oil, olives, olive oil, butter and nuts.

Overall, most people would do well to get upwards of 50-70 percent fat in their diet (along with high amounts of vegetable carbs, moderate-to-low amounts of high-quality protein, and very little, if any, carbs). According to the California Avocado Commission, a medium Hass avocado contains about 22.5 grams of fat, two-thirds of which is monounsaturated. They’re also very low in fructose, which is yet another boon, and provide close to 20 essential health-boosting nutrients, including:

  • Fiber
  • Potassium (more than twice the amount found in a banana)
  • Vitamin E
  • B-vitamins
  • Folic acid

Avocados are one of the safest fruits you can buy conventionally-grown,and most experts do not believe you need to purchase organic ones. Their thick skin protects the inner fruit from pesticides. Additionally, it has been rated as one of the safest commercial crops in terms of pesticide exposure,3 so there’s no real need to spend extra money on organic avocados, unless you can afford it.

Low Carb Avocado is a multiseries step by step pictured guide on how to create wonderful low carb dishes using avocado.

Here is the seventh series of compilation that will give your low carb diet more delicious and easy options to choose from.