Posts for Weight loss
Glucose, Fructose and Sucrose: What’s the Difference Between These Sugars
Posted by: | CommentsThe sugar in your soda and other favorite sugary treats may all go down sweetly, but a groundbreaking new study found they act very differently once in your body.
The three main types of sugar in question are:
- Glucose: made when your body breaks down starches
- Fructose: the sugar found naturally in fruits and widely used in the form of high-fructose corn syrup
- Sucrose: table sugar
Researchers from the University of California, Davis compared glucose and fructose consumption among 32 overweight or obese people and found they resulted in very different health changes.
Fish oils decrease muscle loss in breast cancer patients
Posted by: | CommentsLoss of muscle mass is a common side effect for those women who undergo treatment for breast cancer. Consuming
fish oils appear to help decrease muscle loss in this population.
Loss of lean muscle mass could lead to increased risk of developing issues of excess weight and obesity. This subsequently sets the stage for obesity-related conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Exercise is, of course, the best way to maintain muscle mass, but as fatigue is always a possible side effect of traditional cancer therapies, consuming fish oils may be part of a muscle building routine.
Melatonin and Weight Loss
Posted by: | CommentsIn rat models of diabetes, animals are genetically engineered to display metabolic symptoms of the disease such as high cholesterol and triglycerides, obesity, and insulin resistance, for example. When these animals were supplemented with the hormone melatonin, they experienced reductions in weight and LDL cholesterol and an increase in HDL cholesterol.
Low-fat or non-fat foods may not help you lose weight
Posted by: | CommentsClever advertising and a lack of nutritional knowledge has lead the public to believe that by taking the fat out of a 
product it will be healthier for you. Low-fat are certainly not harmful when you eat them in moderation, but many people think that they can eat an unlimited amount of low-fat, low-sugared products, such as cookies, pastries and yogurts and ice creams.
Why Do Yoga?
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Why do yoga?
The short answer is that yoga makes you feel better. Practicing the postures, breathing exercises and meditation makes you healthier in body, mind and spirit. Yoga lets you tune in, chill out, shape up — all at the same time.
For many people, that’s enough of an answer. But there’s more if you’re interested.
For starters, yoga is good for what ails you. Specifically, research shows that yoga helps manage or control anxiety, arthritis, asthma, back pain, blood pressure, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, headaches, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, stress and other conditions and diseases. What’s more, yoga:
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Improves muscle tone, flexibility, strength and stamina
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Reduces stress and tension
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Boosts self esteem
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Improves concentration and creativity
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Lowers fat
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Improves circulation
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Stimulates the immune system
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Creates sense of well being and calm.
Yoga gives us control of ourselves. It helps cut through the layers of mis-identities that arise in response to our actions, experiences and feelings. It calms the frenzy, clears the clutter and allows us to get back in touch with ourselves.
Whether you pursue yoga as a spiritual path or for its psycho-physiological benefits, yoga is a methodology for developing a deeper experience of your self and the world.And it makes you feel really good.