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Archive for January, 2010

Ever heard of excellent weight loss foods? Probably not, because most diet plans don’t show you how to make use of foods to lose fat fast. They only have you count up calories, carbs or fat grams. Some foods in fact cause your body to burn fat and calories. Allow me advise you how eating certain foods can cause fat loss.

Foods like apples, which have pectin, are really effective at raising your metabolism, which in turn burns calories. Further foods like nuts, avocados, whole grains and dairy foods also burn fat. Read the rest of this entry »

Most of us know the many benefits of including oranges in our diets. Oranges are loaded with Vitamin C, which is an important treatment for cancers and is required for many important bodily functions. Oranges provide fiber and are helpful in controlling blood sugar and insulin. Oranges should be included as a part of every diet. But, did you know that the orange peel that most of us toss in the trash also contains health benefits.

Orange peel, or more specifically, orange zest (the shavings of the orange portion of the peel), contain a unique flavonoid called hesperidin. Hesperidin helps to lower LDL cholesterol (the bad stuff), lower triglycerides (fats found in the blood) and reduces the risk of Read the rest of this entry »

Many people have heard of the paleo diet without really knowing what it is. Also called the paleolithic, caveman or Stone Age diet, it is, as the names suggest, a way of eating based on the lifestyle of our long-ago ancestors. More specifically, the paleo diet seeks to recreate the eating habits of before the Agricultural Revolution, which was roughly 10,000 years ago.

Of course, such a diet is inevitably doing to be inexact. If you think about it, you may wonder if even the smartest scientists actually know with certainty what people ate that long ago. There is some evidence, but also much speculation. For example, we know that humans were mainly hunter-gatherers, but we don’t always know precisely what they hunted and gathered. Another problem is that humans have evolved in different ways depending on their native climates and other factors. Paleolithic humans living near the Arctic Circle would have eaten very different kinds of foods than those living in Hawaii.

Despite these Read the rest of this entry »

Many people suffer with problems due to flat feet but the sad thing is that they don’t realize that in most cases the reason behind the difficulty can be easily corrected with a good arch support. As a family doctor I spend a lot of time treating patients with protracted conditions they are going to have for the rest of their lives ( high blood pressure, diabetes, etc ). Therefore I love it when patients come in with problems associated with flat-feet. This is one of the few problems I can actually fix and best of all it does not Read the rest of this entry »

About 20 million Americans suffer from depression and anxiety and that is much more, per capita, than the people in Asia, China and Taiwan. Nobody knows the real reason for this but it could be connected with lifestyle and expectations. In any case more and more people are looking at alternative treatments for anxiety and I want to consider, what I believe, are the top three in this article.

Bach floral remedies for anxiety

Dr. Edward Bach, the British founder of Bach floral remedies was convinced that true healing could only come about through a “change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness”. He was not the first to take Read the rest of this entry »