10.31.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:00 pm by heaven
Right now, there are 90 million people in America in some stage of the healing process as they
recover from an illness or injury.
After 12 years in the field of physical recovery, Julie K. Silver, MD, made a discovery that turned the tables on everything shed learned and known about helping people recover from illness and injury. The 38-year-old mother of three was diagnosed with breast cancer, and in an instant, the doctor became the patient.
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, I realized I had to heal myself, explains Dr. Silver, winner of the American Cancer Societys most prestigious honor, the Lane Adams Quality of Life Award and author of Super Healing.
Hospitals and doctors are trained to save lives, but once that goal is accomplished, theyre not trained to take you on the long road to recovery that follows an illness like cancer. After her own battle with cancer, Dr. Silver knew she had to rethink the way patients are dealt with after cancer treatment and come up with something to help them heal.
Keys to Healing
The core components of the Super Healing process Dr. Silver developed include exercise, eating a healing diet, getting proper rest and sleep, pain alleviation, improving loving relationships and social connections and harnessing spiritual energy. The most important elements of the physical healing sleep, diet and exercise are hard to come by in the early stages of the healing process.
In the hospital, you dont get good food, rest or movement, explains Dr. Silver. So it makes a poor place for healing. After you leave the hospital, you need to fuel your body regularly, five times a day, and always eat breakfast.
Being on the other side of the clipboard, Dr. Silver realized what people were going through and how difficult recovery was if the person didnt have a plan. Having been a patient made her a better doctor. She knew she had to use the best information available to create a plan to heal faster, better, stronger.
Make a Plan
The first step to healing is to dedicate time to healing and come up with a plan. Both short term and long term goals. She suggests four-week goals in the short and six-month for the long term to track progress.
When youve been seriously ill or injured you feel powerless, recounts Dr. Silver. But a plan helps to get that feeling of control and empowerment back, so its good for your body and mind.
Making a plan and setting goals can also help minimize setbacks and recovery plateaus. Dr. Silver explains that its a long process and both physical and mental setbacks will occur, but you can overcome them. Emotional triggers can cause unnecessary angst, but reflecting back on the goals youve achieved on your road to recovery, and talking to your doctor and loved ones for encouragement and support, can help you quell those negative emotions and persevere through obstacles.
Eat, Exercise for Health
Sleep is a crucial part of the recovery process -- you have to make time to get your eight hours a night. However, your diet and exercise plan will be the other two most crucial elements in your road to recovery, so first lets focus on the fuel for recovery.
There is no single perfect diet that we know of at this time, Dr. Silver explains. No matter what you like to eat, you can use food to help you physically recover if you adhere to these eight simple rules.
1. Eat five times per day (3 meals, 2 snacks.)
2. Get plenty of lean protein and complex carbohydrates.
3. Eat five or more servings of colorful fruits and vegetables per day.
4. Talk with your doctor or a registered dietician if you need to lose weight.
5. Take a daily multivitamin.
6. Drink plenty of water.
7. Eat organic foods whenever possible.
8. Avoid nicotine completely and alcohol as much as possible.
Exercise is one of the three most important components of your Super Healing Plan, explains Dr. Silver who suggests that aerobic (cardio) and strength training exercises are the two most important types in recovery.
These two categories of exercise offer multiple benefits, including: Enhancing immune system function, building strength, lowering cholesterol levels, strengthening bones, increasing lean body mass and helping to control weight, improving metabolism, helping to control blood sugar levels, improving heart and lung function, promoting a positive outlook, reducing stress, anxiety and depression, relieving fatigue and contributing to better sleep.
She recommends making exercise part of your daily recovery routine and making a conscious effort to stay positive.
Make a commitment to healing optimally, Dr. Silver suggests. Dont accept more pain and fatigue than is necessary. Be persistent.
Now youre on your way to healing faster, better and stronger. To order a copy or for more information on Super Healing, visit Dr. Silvers Web site: superhealing.net.
Shawn McKee graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BA in Journalism and has written for The Broward and Miami New Times.
Permalink
Comments off
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:00 pm by heaven
Is laziness getting in the way of losing weight? If you don't feel like cooking and planning healthy meals, you can still succeed! Try our #1-rated DeliciouslyYours meal delivery plan. It's success, delivered to your front door! Learn more
Dear Dr. Abby,
What is your #1 diet tool? If I were to do only one thing, what should it be?
Keep It Simple S#*&%@ Dear Kiss,
Thanks for the challenge! As I run through my recipe for success, I am struck by one tool that could rescue you in all circumstances. It is the one strategy that is portable, easy, useful and should become your best friend.
Listening to bodily signals of hunger and satiation is my #1 tool for success. Eating when hungry -- and stopping when youve had enough -- is the ticket for finding an ideal body weight. This nifty concept can help when you smell fresh baked brownies, and are offered some unexpectedly. The delightful aroma, chocolaty appearance, and irresistible desire can easily entice one into diving into a pile of calories that were not accounted for.
Enter the #1 tool... If you havent eaten in while, eat enough to satisfy, enjoy and move on. If your next planned meal was soon afterwards, skip it and consider those brownies to be your meal. If you have just eaten, take a few nibbles and slowly savor the flavor. You will naturally eat much less than in the previous example, by listening to bodily cues. But what if you want it anyway? Ask to take it home, and eat it the next time you are hungry.
Imagine eating anything and everything you want, but keeping the #1 rule in sight. How do you know when youve had enough? Well, my cousin says hes had enough when hes about to puke! Id say stop a bit short of that, and you should be fine. Zero into this primal instinct and fine-tune it. Now you are on your way to finding your ideal weight.
eDiets has a whole team of nutritionists and fitness experts ready to help you lose all the weight you hate. With 24 diets to choose from, you're sure to find your perfect match! Click here for a FREE diet profile.
Dr. Abby Aronowitz, Ph.D., psychologist, is the author of Your Final Diet. Be sure to check out DearDrAbby.com for further info.
Permalink
Comments off
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:00 pm by heaven
They say you are what you eat... So if you want to look delicious, you should eat delicious food! Introducing eDiets DeliciouslyYours meal delivery plan -- voted #1 by epicurious.com! -- now available in a convenient 5-day "Weekends Off" plan! Check it out today!
Remember how good it felt the first time you fell head over heels in love with your partner? I bet you havent forgotten the excitement and the overall adrenaline rush. Even if you and your partner have been together for 2, 5, 10 or 50 years, you can reignite that feeling again.
Yes, the time or situation has to be right. And, of course, you have to want it to happen again. But after that, follow The Love Doctors five simple steps to falling in love with your partner, again!
1. Do Little Things. Sometimes two partners can get so busy with work, family and other responsibilities, that they cant quite remember why they are together. It is important that you slow down and find different ways to tell your partner, I love you. Do little things that your partner would value and appreciate! Fill up her car with gas, email or phone him at work, put notes all over the house where he can discover them in the morning, or just take a walk together at night around the block. These are all ways to show your partner that you care about them.
2. Mystery Date. Novelty fuels passion and romance. When we first fell in love, everything was new and exciting. So plan something new and exciting for you and your partner to do together. Many couples tell me that they pick a new restaurant, one that they have never been to, or plan a mystery date for their partner. Unique, unexpected activities you share together will spice up your love life and add a romantic flavor to your relationship!
3. Laugh. Dont forget to do things that make your partner fun to be around. Be sure to laugh and have fun together. Remember, your relationship has to be about fun and personal growth as much as it involves caring for children, earning a living or achieving security. Laugh together. It also feels physically good.
4. Hold Hands. Be sure to hold hands or touch each other to keep romance alive. This is necessary for couples to feel physically bonded, which is important to passionate love. Studies show that people feel better and more connected to their partners when they hold hands, hug, cuddle and kiss.
5. Arousal-Producing Activities. Do activities together where arousal can get transferred to your private, intimate relationship. Go on a roller coaster ride, see a scary movie or exercise together. Studies show these arousal-producing activities increase passionate love, as long as you do them with your partner. The arousal that is produced will get transferred to your relationship and partner!
Want a steamier love life? A healthy diet may be just the thing you need to sizzle. Click here for a FREE diet profile!
Dr. Terri Orbuch, The Love Doctor, is a psychologist, Oakland University professor, and research professor at The University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research. Dr. Orbuchs Love Doctor Relationship Segments are aired weekly on Fox TV-Detroit and radio stations across the U.S. and Canada. You can find out more about The Love Doctor® at:www.drterrithelovedoctor.com.
Permalink
Comments off
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:00 pm by heaven
Is it an old wives tale, or is breakfast the most important meal of the day? OK, your mom always made you eat hot lumpy cereal in the morning, so as soon as you escaped her clutches, you developed the coffee and cigarette habit in college. And ever since then, breakfast was a bagel... at lunch.
Want to lose weight, but dont have time to cook? Let our chefs do the work for you! Introducing eDiets DeliciouslyYours, the freshest way to weight loss (now available in a 5-day "Weekends Off" plan!). You choose your meals, we prepare them from scratch and deliver everything right to your door! Click here to get started today.
You've realized your adolescence ended (about 10 years ago!) and now it's time for a change. You've stopped that smoking thing... It was smelly and made your teeth yellow anyway. But your pants are too tight, you can't climb a set of stairs without huffing and puffing and you feel much older than your years.
Breakfast can make or break a diet, because breakfast helps set the tone for the rest of the day. If youre one of those people who thinks skipping breakfast is a good way to lose weight, think again. Here are the top reasons why you should definitely eat breakfast every day:
1. Break the fast. Ever think of what breakfast means? Your body responds to not eating for hours and hours by slowing down; diminishing its metabolic rate and burning fewer calories to conserve energy. By eating breakfast, you wake up your metabolism and get your engine humming, burning those calories you need to burn to lose weight.
2. Eat more, weigh less. Researchers have repeatedly shown that people who eat breakfast have a better chance of losing weight, and keeping it off. When you skip meals, youre so hungry by lunchtime you eat the entire cow! The National Weight Control Registry shows that among those whove lost 30 or more pounds and have kept it off more than a year, 90 percent report eating breakfast most days of the week.
3. Are you interested in doing better at work and school? Dont be a bed head. Breakfast helps wake you up. Studies show that people who eat breakfast are more alert and do better on tests than people who skip breakfast. The USDAs Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion Symposium titled Breakfast and Learning in Children, April 1999, cites myriad studies that show eating breakfast helps improve memory and positively affects the tasks that require the retention of new information. Conversely, a hungry child can be apathetic, disinterested, and irritable when confronted with difficult tasks. Breakfast is the key. No doubt adults need breakfast as much as kids do.
4. Breakfast is your chance to eat the foods you may not eat the rest of the day. You cant go wrong with a whole-grain cereal and berries with nonfat milk -- here is your fiber, folic acid and calcium in one easy-to-grab bowl.
5. Skipping breakfast makes you grouchy. Studies show that people who eat breakfast tend to be in better moods (when Im hungry -- watch out). Breakfast gets you started on the right track for the day. If you start out with a healthy breakfast, then you set the mood for lunch. Youre more likely to choose something reasonable for lunch if youve paid some attention to your breakfast choices.
6. Cancel the danish or sugared doughnut first thing in the morning; they cause a blood sugar dip a couple of hours later. Youll be desperate for something to perk you up, and will be more likely to grab another high-sugar refined carb for a quick sugar rush.
7. Breakfast makes your machine run better. Get yourself on a schedule with a healthy breakfast, and youre ready to take on the world.
8. If youre a parent, set a good example. By skipping breakfast, your kids will think its not important. Breakfast doesnt have to be a big affair, but dont wimp out. Make it a habit, and your kids will be way ahead of the game, too.
9. Dont eat dessert for breakfast. If you think a glazed doughnut or a breakfast bar with 30 grams of sugar are breakfast items, then think again. Doughnuts are fried lumps of sugared dough, and many breakfast bars should be labeled candy bars instead.
10. One more word about labels. If it says "nutritious," it doesn't necessarily mean it's healthy. Cereal manufacturers are experts in marketing, using words that send a message of health. Unless you read the labels, you eat at your own risk. Kids' cereals can have more sugar than candy. Protect your kids from getting hooked on these cereals; they'll get used to all the sugar, and will want only pre-sweetened cereals.
Buy cereals that have minimal sugar such as regular Cheerios, not honey nut or other sweetened versions; corn flakes, not frosted flakes; shredded wheat minis, not frosted and sugared; and look into some of the newer, healthier cereals like Kashi (the unsweetened kind). Then let your taste buds rule. Add your own sugar. I guarantee what you or your kids add will be a fraction of what the cereal guys add -- sometimes up to eight or nine equivalent teaspoons per one-cup serving.
Do You Know?
The Federal Trade Commission has a Red Flag education campaign to help the media screen weight-loss product advertising containing claims that are "too good to be true."
The guide is to help the media screen out scientifically impossible weight-loss products, and to help them refuse to run ads making bogus claims. According to the report, the following seven common weight-loss claims made for over-the-counter products are a no-no:
- Causes weight loss of 2 pounds or more a week for a month or more, without dieting or exercise.
- Causes substantial weight loss, no matter what or how much the consumer eats.
- Causes permanent weight loss (even when the consumer stops using the product).
- Blocks the absorption of fat or calories to enable consumers to lose substantial weight.
- Safely enables consumers to lose more than 3 pounds per week for more than four weeks.
- Causes substantial weight loss for all users.
- Causes substantial weight loss by wearing it on the body or rubbing it into the ski.
Run, don't walk, away from any products making these bogus claims.
SPECIAL OFFER! Our #1-rated DeliciouslyYours meal delivery program is now available in a cheaper, 5-day "Weekends Off" plan! Plus, get a FREE eDiets membership! Click to learn more.
Susan L. Burke is a registered and licensed dietitian and a certified diabetes educator who specializes in both general and diabetes-related weight management.
Permalink
Comments off
10.30.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:00 pm by heaven
Ever since my mother described Brussels sprouts as "good and good for you," I've been a skeptic when it comes to health- and diet-food claims. And I still hate Brussels sprouts.
However, in the role of intrepid food journalist, I bravely ventured up and down the health- and diet-food aisles of grocery stores to find products that lived up to such claims as "low in calories and carbs but big in rich, creamy taste."
Wouldn't dieting be easier if you actually liked the food you were eating? You may want to sit down for this one... We have 24 plans to choose from, so you KNOW you'll find one you love! Click here for a FREE diet profile!
The bad news: There are a lot of foods that resemble sawdust in flavor and texture. The good news: There are some that taste so blissful you'll keep checking the nutrition label to make sure they're really low in calories and carbs! And now (drum-roll please) Joanne's Tasteful Taste Buds Trophy goes to:
Jello-O Sugar-Free, Reduced-Calorie Pudding Snacks. I just happened to notice these in the grocery store next to the temptingly fattening containers of full-fat, sugary puddings. Since they contain no sugar, with just 60 calories per cup of swirled chocolate and vanilla pudding, this snack sounded as if it would taste sort of, well, gluey. My prediction was wrong! They're creamy, rich, amazingly satisfying and good enough for me to volunteer to be the next Jello-O spokeswoman (as long as I get free pudding with my paycheck)!No Pudge Fudge Bars. The name says it all. Too cutesy for you? Try a taste and you'll succumb to the flavor. These enormous, chocolatey ice-cream bars contain only 60 calories and give you 6 grams of fiber, 5 grams of protein and zero grams of fat and sugar! I have only one complaint: My local store keeps running out of them. Walden Farms Calorie-Free Chocolate Dip and Marshmallow Dip. Sugar-free, carb-free, calorie-free, but definitely not free of good taste. Try dunking some fresh fruit into one of the dips (two tablespoons equals one serving, so you may want to measure out a serving. Remember, FDA guidelines say if a product contains fewer than 5 calories per serving, it can be labeled as "calorie-free"). Available at health-food stores and online in various low-carb shops.GG Bran Crispbread. Big in fiber and taste, low in calories and carbs. These crunchy, munchy, just-sweet-enough crackers are the perfect answer to those cravings for croutons on your salad or saltines with your soup -- and about a million times healthier! I also like them dunked in Walden Farms chocolate dip and frozen. They taste like chocolate-covered graham crackers, but they're guilt-free. One thick slice of Crispbread contains just 16 calories, but it gives you 3 grams of fiber. For details on where to buy, go to www.brancrispbread.com.Want to lose weight, but dont have time to cook? Let our chefs do the work for you! Introducing eDiets DeliciouslyYours, the freshest way to weight loss (now available in a 5-day "Weekends Off" plan!). You choose your meals, we prepare them from scratch and deliver everything right to your door! Click here to get started today.
Joanne Eglash has worked as a journalist for more than 15 years, specializing in health, fitness, diet/nutrition, lifestyles, careers and relationships. She is the author of How to Write A .com Business Plan: The Internet Entrepreneur's Guide to Everything You Need to Know About Business Plans and Financing Options (McGraw-Hill).
Permalink
Comments off
« Previous entries ·