In an article entitled, The Social Side of Obesity: You Are Who You Eat With, children who eat with and hang out with overweight children will likely follow in their peers’ foot-steps. Click on the link to read this article
It’s been a well-known fact that without social support, individuals have a hard time losing weight and keeping it off. This is definitely information to consider when trying to lose weight and/or diet. The best way I have found to break this cycle is to teach people how to fit healthy eating and healthy lifestyle habits into our busy schedules. Most of us know that we need to eat better….. too many of us think that this means eating tasteless, expensive and ime consuming meals.
In addition to the nutritional programs and counseling in my Portland, Oregon chiropractic, nutrition, functional medicine and hypnosis clinic, Optimum Function, I often recommend books like Gourmet Nutrition Vol. 2 (Click for link); an excellent recipe book that will sow you how to cook nutritious and delicious meals that will help you lose weight and be healthy.
To most of my patients at my chiropractic, nutrition and functional medicine clinic in Portland, Oregon, this is not a new concept….. at least I hope not!
Eating whole foods in a way that balances good complex carbohydrates, lean and clean proteins and healthy fats can help ease the pain of arthritis as well as improve your overall health.
Do you need help with your nutrition? Do you want to live pain-free and change your lifestyle to feel great, look great and prevent disease? Comment on this blog entry or go to my website by clicking on this link: Optimum Function: Portland, Oregon chiropractic, nutrition, functional medicine and hypnotherapy. Trust me, you owe it to yourself to be as healthy as you can be without giving-up a rich and fulfilling lifestyle.
I just finished an article I have been working-on about stress and what it can do to your health. As many of you know, excess stress or stress that isn’t adapted to very well can have many deleterious affects on your body and health. Click on the following link for more info.
Well, it’s summer time and many of you are trying to improve your body composition; whether you are trying to improve your body fat or lean muscle mass or both, it’s better to test them and really get a baseline. Getting a baseline is important to see if your efforts are healthy and beneficial. All too often, I see people dieting, trying to lose weight and body fat, or trying to gain lean muscle mass in my Portland, Oregon clinic, Optimum Function; only to have them look and feel unhealthy……
What’s going on here?
Well, after testing them with my BioImpedance machine for body fat, lean muscle mass, body cell mass, water inside your cells and outside your cells and more. We find out that their body cell mass is dropping (this is bad), their extracellular water weight is increasing and other markers of healthy body composition look bad.
What does this mean?
It means that the efforts these patients are making to lose weight, lose fat and/or gain lean muscle mass are not improving their health!
Are you worried that your weight loss efforts, body composition improvement methods and/or muscle building methods are unhealthy for you? If so, you should come in for a body composition test. For $35 and a little bit of your time, you can get an accurate reading and pringt-out of exactly what’s going on.
Apparently, the scientific community needs to do research on something everyone should know. Increasing the intake of fruits and vegetables decreases the risk of becoming obese and gaining weight. The study, in a recent issue of the journal Obesity, took 206 adult participants and studied followed-up with them after 10 years. The results suggest that a higher intake of fruits and vegetables led to less obesity and healthier weights in adults.
Here’s my opinion: We’ve forgotten how and what to eat. In the past, this sort of information was passed-down by mom, grandma, dad, community leaders etc….
Today, it’s hard to weed through all the “corporate interest nutrition” and trust the messages about food that we are bombarded with every day. Your favorite athlete or food network star may be telling you to eat incredibly unhealthy, processed foods because they are getting paid for their endorsement. I know this may sound a little like a “conspiracy theory” but, as a nutritionist in Portland, Oregon, I can tell you that most of the patients I treat have received these mixed messages and really just need to learn how and what to eat to optimize their health and wellness.
Most of us intuitively know how to do this but we’ve lost the habitual practice to make healthy eating a part of our busy lives. In addition, there is an erroneous idea that eating healthy leads to bland, tasteless foods. This is just plain FALSE!
At the very least, you should check out Gourmet Nutrition, Vol. 2; it’s a great cookbook that will help you add time-efficient skills and recipes that are appealing to your eyes and palate. (Click on the link for more detail).
Yours in Health,Tim Irving DC, MS, LMT, CKTP, GSTM cert, Nutritionist, HypnotherapistOptimum Function: 819 SE Morrison St. ste. 215, Portland, OR, 97215Optimum Function = Optimum Health
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