Healthy lifestyle Journey

Article by Brandon Sharp

I?ve read many studies that show high carbohydrate diets raise cholesterol so if you are dealing with this disease you should eat a low carbohydrate diet. I have also read many studies that say vegetarians have lower cholesterol levels so it would be beneficial for people with high cholesterol or borderline high cholesterol to begin a vegetarian diet. Yet most vegetarian diets are high in carbohydrates. Interesting!

First let?s look at exactly what is a vegetarian diet. There are different kinds of vegetarian diets and what differentiates them is the amount of animal products allowed.

The Vegan eliminates ALL animal products including animal products found in processed foods.

The Lacto-ovo-vegetarian abstains from meat, fish or any animal flesh, but does enjoy eggs and other dairy products.

The Lacto-vegetarian does not eat animal flesh or eggs, but does eat dairy products.

The Ovo-vegetarian does not eat animal flesh or dairy products, but does eat eggs.

A 2007 study that included 67 vegetarians found that as a whole, vegetarians have lower total cholesterol levels than the 134 meat consuming participants; 73% of the vegetarians involved in this study consumed eggs. According to the results of this study, 79% of the vegetarians had desirable total cholesterol levels. While 71% of the meat consuming participants had borderline high risk total cholesterol levels; only 3% of the vegetarians had borderline high risk cholesterol levels. Vegans had significantly lower cholesterol levels than vegetarians who ate egg or non-meat animal products.

So studies show that for the most part, vegetarians have lower total cholesterol levels than people who consume meat products; so what are vegetarians eating? Grains, fruits, dairy substitutes, beans, vegetables and nuts are usually on the foods list for vegetarians. You can see there are plenty of carbohydrate foods included. So how do vegetarians manage to keep their cholesterol levels down and still consume a good amount of carbohydrates? It all has to do with the type of carbohydrates.

I?m not going to get into this ?good? carbs vs ?bad? carbs debate, but I am going to tell you that obviously quality counts. Fruits, vegetables and whole grains provide high quality carbohydrates, filling fiber, vitamins and phytochemicals. If you get your carbohydrate fix from white flour products like such as: donuts, cookies, white or enriched breads and crackers, potato chips, French fries then you are defeating the purpose of eating a vegetarian diet to improve health. Those types of foods are processed, fried and filled with low quality carbohydrates and in some case fat and cholesterol.

Eating a clean vegetarian diet provides endless variety and many health benefits such as:

1. Low cholesterol and low fat protein sources.2. Vitamins C and E, folate, magnesium and fiber.3. More phytochemicals due to eating more plant foods.4. Decreases risk of high cholesterol, heart disease, hypertension, some cancers and type 2 diabetes.5. Can help you lose weight.6. Improve your energy.7. Healthier skin.

And the list goes on and on!

I know going from consuming meat to a vegetarian life style can be difficult, no one is saying to make a radical change. How about having just one vegetarian day a week for starters? Then once you begin to see how easy and tasty vegetarianism really is how about adding a few more vegetarian days to the week. At the very least, you may want to try to add more clean fruits, vegetables, nuts and whole grains to you diet and decrease the amount of meat eaten at each meal.

Give it a try; you just may be surprised at how delicious a vegetarian diet can be. Don?t focus on what you can?t have, focus on all the delicious foods you can enjoy. Chances are that if you have high cholesterol, your physician may have already suggested moving to a more vegetarian eating plan.

Listen to your doctor, follow through and happy eating.

New York, NY (PRWEB) March 04, 2012

Diet Doc HCG Diet & Weight Loss announces new diet foods and weight loss shakes created by the Diet Doc Chefs as part of their medical weight loss program.

Diet Doc’s entrees were created with a goal of allowing the entire family to enjoy the diet foods served. This challenge took 18 months to perfect with the Diet Doc Chefs perfecting to meet the weight loss guidelines of the Diet Doc Weight Loss Program.

According to the National Institute of Health, people who do not maintain a healthy body mass index (BMI) are at risk of diabetes 2, heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, triglycerides, reduced mental function and morbidity.

Diet Doc HCG Diet & Weight Loss is the only medically, supervised weight loss program providing care to people nationwide. Diet Doc personalizes a weight loss program for each person based on their health history, gender, age and lifestyle preferences. When this approach is employed, people will realize their maximum daily weight loss report Julie Wright, president of Diet Doc.

Diet Doc utilizes a few prescription medications in their diet program along with an easy diet menu allowing people to consume many delicious foods. Basically, when sugar and carbohydrates are removed, along with removing everything artificial, including artificial sweeteners, the body can burn fat and rapid weight loss is realized reports Wright.

Many people with today’s busy lifestyle need help with food preparation, this is where the new diet foods come in handy. The diet foods include: Chicken Gumbo, Thai Chicken, Hot & Sour, Chili and much more. The diet foods average 30 calories per serving and are all natural, but most important, are super delicious and satisfying claims Wright.

Diet Doc also offers a weight loss oil used to make salad dressing and/or for cooking. The Diet Doc weight loss oil is clinically proven to help burn fat within 30 minutes of consuming. The oil is flavorless and used in lieu of olive oil or cooking oil. No other weight loss program offers this type of cooking oil reports Wright.

Weight loss shakes are also offered and contain more active ingredients than any other weight loss shake on the market reports Wright. People often use as a weight loss program by itself claims Wright.

The diet meals can be prepared and offered to the entire family reports Wright. No other weight loss program offers diet meals plans as Diet Doc created on how to lose weight reports Wright.

The diet foods come with a diet menu and diet food cookbook with hundreds of recipes. The diet foods can be eaten by those on any weight loss program requiring people to watch their caloric intake, or those on a ketogenic diet, such as Atkins, Weight Watchers and more.

Diet Doc offers the only modern-day version of a 50 year old HCG diet and developed 4 other diet programs rolled into one that then personalizes the diet for every person to achieve an average of 1 pound of weight loss per day. Unsure which diet works best, with various fad diets, such as the raspberry ketone diet, Adele weight loss, Digest diet and Snooki weight loss. The list goes on and on. None of these types of diets are doctor supervised and none listed have medical research to support their weight loss claims.

(PRWEB) March 05, 2012

Many people begin gluten-free diets only when diagnosed with the gluten intolerance Celiac disease, but there are many advantages in adding more gluten-free foods to any diet.

Sunwarrior produces some of the finest plant-based supplements on the planet. All Sunwarrior products, with the exception of Activated Barley, are completely Gluten-Free!

Until recently, Celiac was the only type of intolerance accepted medically, but Alessio Fasano M.D., director of the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research released a publication that transforms the rigid previous view of gluten intolerance into a spectrum of gluten sensitivities.

With gluten sensitivity, were standing at the same crossroads that we encountered with celiac disease almost 20 years ago, says Fasano. Were just beginning to understand how it affects certain individuals and are now in the early stages of discovering its molecular mechanisms. We do know that its a different condition from celiac disease, which is what patients have been telling us for some time now.

Fasano estimates that at least 6% of the general population suffers from this sensitivity to gluten. These undiagnosed individuals may feel lethargic and unmotivated. Other symptoms include acne, bloating, diarrhea, cramping, constipation, and rashes.

The solution is simple; remove sources of gluten from the diet.

A gluten-free diet requires some nutritional awareness. Information is key. Gluten is a protein found in grains such as wheat, barley, or rye. Foods like pastas, cereals, and breads are significant sources of gluten, but gluten can also be found as a filler or preservative in other foods.

Fortunately, many healthy and delicious foods are naturally gluten-free. Beans, seeds, nuts, fruits, vegetables, and also many grains and starches like Corn, Flax, Millet, Quinoa, and Rice dont contain gluten. Sunwarrior products are specially designed to be gluten-free and hypoallergenic. The ingredients in Sunwarrior products are safe, natural, and suitable for any lifestyle or diet.

Living with gluten intolerance or sensitivity requires diligence in scouring labels and adjusting habits and taste. Let Sunwarrior help.

Sunwarrior is a leading company in the plant-based market. Sunwarrior sells plant-based, gluten-free, dairy free, soy free, and cholesterol free protein powders and supplements.

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Yoga is the best medicine for our physical Body and mentally discipline that improves flexibility and balance, increases strength, as well as calming and focusing the mind. Yoga has been booming in popularity for years now. If you are new to the world of yoga it can get baffling. There are so many different types of yoga available today. it can current a major difficulty for beginners. It is of best suggestion to choose a form of yoga that is proper for each individual’s level of strength, physical and spiritual goals and health condition.

There are so many types yoga available in market like Power Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Basic Yoga, Bikram Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga also yoga available by category like Baby Yoga, Kids Yoga, Adult Yoga, Pregnancy Yoga, Yoga for Beginners, Prenatal yoga etc.

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How to start Yoga?

First you need to get at least a couple yoga outfits; for doing yoga without worry about adjusting your clothes. There are so many outfits available in market like shorts, tops, pants, and even capris that are formed for yoga. Giving you a wide range of outfits to choose from. The one key to select the perfect yoga outfit is by keeping the weather in mind. Probability is, if it is snowing outside you don’t want to be fixed wearing shorts.

The second stapes is selecting best experience Yoga trainer who guide you step by step. Yoga is a perfect combination of movements; it’s not like doing practice in Jim to take heavy dumbbells and move up-down. One of the major players in yoga is living with the world. Who gives you more motives to go green.

Which Yoga is best for practice?

Power Yoga is a basic and very strength full yoga because it is focused on a powerful flowing movement. Movements include pushups and lunges, which deals with strength and stamina. Who want to
add more balance and concentration to their routines power Yoga is best for them.

Bikram yoga also known as “Hot Yoga”. Hot Yoga increases your body’s ability to burn fat and builds muscle; in adding, this form of Yoga helps to oxygenate blood, tissues, glands and organs. Increased clamminess helps to detoxify your body and make your immune system.

There are so many types available which help you to start yoga essential to advance.

Pennsylvania on Monday became the latest state to consider a bill to shield itself from a key portion of the new federal health care law that will require most Americans to buy health insurance or face potential fines starting in 2014.

The Republican-sponsored bill passed the House Health Committee on a party line vote, 14-9.

Democrats criticized the bill as a violation of the U.S. Constitution that will do nothing to help more people afford health insurance, but committee Chairman Matt Baker, R-Tioga, said the bill, if it becomes law, will give Pennsylvania more legal avenues to challenge the federal law in court.

“It gets singularly to the mandate issue of forcing people to buy insurance that they may not want, they may not need and they don’t even have a choice,” Baker told reporters after the vote.

The legal impact of any state measure is questionable, since courts generally have held that federal laws trump those in states. And while Baker said the state arguably could enforce such a law, he also acknowledged that the matter is likely to be settled by the U.S. Supreme Court before the insurance requirement in the federal law takes effect in three years.

The federal law was passed by a Democratic-controlled Congress and was signed by President Barack Obama last March. Spokesmen for Republican majority leaders in the state House and Senate said Monday they could not predict whether or when the bill will reach a floor vote, although Baker said House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, had encouraged him to move it out of his committee. A separate bill in the Senate also would seek to block the requirement through a constitutional amendment, although it remains in committee.

Pennsylvania already is party to a states’ lawsuit that challenges the federal insurance requirement.

The law’s core requirement is that Americans carry health insurance except in cases of financial hardship. Starting in 2014, those who cannot show they are covered by an employer, government program or their own policy would face fines by the Internal Revenue Service.

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Defenders of the law say a system of health insurance doesn’t work if people are allowed to avoid paying for it until they need medical attention because premiums collected from the healthy pay the cost of care for the sick.

A number of states are taking up challenges. The one advanced by Baker is based on a model version written by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group that promotes limited government.

Six states _ Virginia, Idaho, Arizona, Georgia, Missouri and Louisiana _ already have enacted laws similar to the one Baker advocates, according to the council’s tally, while Oklahoma and Arizona each have enacted constitutional amendments.

The Health Committee did not hold a hearing on the bill, which Baker entitled the “Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act,” and Republicans rejected a Democratic effort to table the bill in favor of holding hearings on it.

Democrats attacked Republicans for not using the first Health Committee meeting of 2011 to look for ways to extend adultBasic, the state’s low-cost health insurance for working adults, which is running out of money for its 42,000 enrollees at the end of February.

“Could you please tell me how you explain to your constituents that, right out of the box, the first thing that we push is House Bill 42 and not worry about insuring those Pennsylvanians who will be losing their health care as of March 1?” Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, D-Philadelphia, asked Baker during the hearing.

Baker said he was sympathetic to Brown’s concerns.

“However, this is about a mandate, it’s not about the debate concerning adultBasic or any other venue of health insurance,” Baker responded.

Before being elected Pennsylvania governor in November, then-Attorney Tom Corbett, a Republican, hauled the state into the fray against the federal insurance requirement by joining a states’ lawsuit in a Florida federal court. The judge last week agreed with the challenge, and the U.S. Department of Justice said it would appeal.

Kensington, MD (PRWEB) March 02, 2012

Best-selling author and thyroid patient advocate Mary Shomon will be leading an interactive workshop for thyroid patients at New York City’s Open Center on Sunday March 11, 2012.

Shomon, who is the author of ten books on thyroid disease and hormonal health, including the bestsellers, “The Thyroid Diet Revolution” and “Living Well With Hypothyroidism,” has been on the faculty at the Open Center, New York’s leading center of holistic learning, since 2006.

Shomon’s special guest presenter at the workshop will be thyroid and hormone expert David Borenstein, MD, a popular integrative physician in private practice in Manhattan, who will be sharing information on the latest thinking about how to achieve optimum thyroid health, and conducting a Q&A session with participants.

The all-day, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. interactive “Living with Thyroid Disease: Creating Your Wellness Plan” workshop focuses on developing hands-on, practical tools and approaches to help thyroid patients feel and live well, despite an underactive or nonfunctional thyroid. By the end of the workshop, participants have mapped out a personalized plan for optimal wellness.

Most people with thyroid disease (whether it’s Hashimoto’s, nodules, Graves’/hyperthyroidism, or thyroid cancer) end up with an underactive, radioactively ablatled, or surgically removed thyroid. The resulting condition — hypothyroidism — can be complicated to treat, and many patients end up continuing to experience fatigue, depression, weight gain, hormonal problems, hair loss, and many other symptoms, despite treatment.

The “Living with Thyroid Disease” workshop will help participants identify the key things they can do to feel and live better with thyroid disease. The areas covered in the workshop will include:

optimizing thyroid treatment
understanding thyroid medications and hormone treatments, including the controversies about T3 and natural thyroid treatment
finding the right doctor for thyroid and hormone issues
the latest breakthroughs in weight loss, diet and nutrition for thyroid patients
managing thyroid-related fatigue and boosting energy
helpful supplements, herbs and nutrition
lifestyle changes and stress management
optimal exercise approaches
hair loss solutions
yoga breathing for metabolism and stress reduction
navigating hormonal issues — infertility, pregnancy, breastfeeding, perimenopause, and menopause — that result from or complicate thyroid disease

To make the experience even more effective, and help participants put together their personalized wellness action plan, workshop attendees are encouraged to bring copies of their recent blood test results for discussion, and a list of all the medications and supplements (with all the ingredients) they’re taking.

The “Living with Thyroid Disease: Creating Your Wellness Plan” workshop is $ 120 for Open Center members, and $ 130 for nonmembers. In addition, the day of the workshop, participants will need to pay an additional $ 10 materials fee directly to Mary Shomon to cover the cost of the comprehensive workshop information materials package. Registration with the Open Center is by telephone at 212.219.2527 or online at http://www.opencenter.org/living-with-thyroid-disease-a-wellness-plan/ .

Thyroid Workshop Information and Registration

The workshop is being held at :

The New York Open Center

22 E. 30th Street (between Madison Avenue and 5th Avenue)

New York, NY 10016

Web: http://www.opencenter.org

Telephone Registriation: 212.219.2527 or online at

Online Registration: http://www.opencenter.org/living-with-thyroid-disease-a-wellness-plan/ .

About Mary Shomon

Mary Shomon is a thyroid patient advocate and author who, after her own diagnosis with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in 1995, has transformed her journey with thyroid disease into an advocacy, empowerment and informational campaign on behalf of patients with chronic diseases such as thyroid disease, autoimmune conditions, hormonal imbalances and metabolic challenges. Since early 1997, Shomon has served as Guide for the About.com Thyroid website at http://thyroid.about.com — part of the New York Times Co. — and as founder/editor of the popular patient thyroid newsletter, “Sticking Out Our Necks” and Thyroid-Info website at http://www.thyroid-info.com online. Shomon is also the co-founder of the Coalition for Better Thyroid Care, an international thyroid patient advocacy organization, located on the web at http://www.betterthyroidcare.org.

Shomon’s desire to cut through medical jargon and deliver information to her fellow patients in a form they can understand resulted in her first health-related book, the best-selling “Living Well With Hypothyroidism: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You…That You Need to Know,” which was first published in 2000 by HarperCollins, and went to more than 25 printings before a revised Second Edition of the popular book was published in 2005. “Living Well With Hypothyroidism” was a Prevention Book Club Selection, and Amazon.com top-selling health book, and its popularity launched a new series of consumer health books for publisher HarperCollins.

Shomon is also author of “The Thyroid Diet” and its 2012 updated/expanded edition, “The Thyroid Diet Revolution.” “Thyroid Diet” was on the New York Times Bestseller list, was an Amazon.com Top 10 Health Books of the Year listing, and a semifinalist for the prestigious Quills Awards.

Shomon is also author of a number of other popular thyroid-related books, including “The Menopause Thyroid Solution,” “The Thyroid Hormone Breakthrough,” “Living Well With Graves’ Disease and Hyperthyroidism,” “Living Well With Autoimmune Disease” and “The Thyroid Guide to Hair Loss.” Her books have been published in German, French, and UK editions, and an upcoming Spanish-language book on thyroid disease will be released in late 2012.

Shomon is on the faculty of the New York Open Center, and is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists, and the National Writer’s Union. Shomon is also one of the first patient members of the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare, a professional society dedicated to research and education in patient-doctor communications.

Since 1997, in her role as a thyroid patient advocate, Shomon has been featured in hundreds of television, radio, newspaper, magazine and web interviews worldwide, including appearances on ABC World News Tonight and CBS Radio Networks, WOR radio, and interviews in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, First for Women, Ladies Home Journal, Health, Cooking Light, Elle Magazine, Woman’s World, and the Los Angeles Times, among others.

In addition to her advocacy and writing, Shomon is also a thyroid patient coach. Her information is available online at http://www.thyroidcoaching.com.

Shomon is also a social media leader in the thyroid world, with more than 14,000 members of her Thyroid Support community at Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/thyroidsupport and almost 6,000 followers on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thyroidmary / @thyroidmary on Twitter.

About David Borenstein, MD

David Borenstein, MD is an integrative physician, with specialization in physical medicine and rehabilitation, certified in Medical Acupuncture, and expertise in thyroid and hormone balance, and holistic and complementary medicine. He has memberships in numerous professional societies and is affiliated with Lutheran Medical Center. Dr. Borenstein is an Adjunct Professor at the SUNY Health Science Center at Stony Brook. His website is http://www.davidborensteinmd.com/index.php

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