Weight Loss Medications: The Benefits, The Risks, and The Reality
The Benefits The data from clinical trails such as SUSTAIN and STEP, show a reduction of overall body weight on average of 10–15% and improvement in cardiovascular and metabolic health markers such as blood pressure, inflammation, liver fat, and improving heart and kidney outcomes. Unfortunately, what these trials fail to assess is what was actually lost—body fat or muscle mass. When you look deeper into the…
Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
Do you enjoy consuming chocolate, mint, or caffeine? Who doesn’t! While they may be tasty, they might be causing you heartburn, regurgitation and indigestion if regularly overindulged. If you have experienced one or more of these symptoms then you could be diagnosed with GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease), or the malfunction of your sphincter. When this…
Can You Change Your Eating Behavior ?
Why we choose the foods we choose? The answer is quite complex, our food choices are associated with cultural, ethnic and family roots. Why Do We Eat ? One of the most obvious reasons why we eat is to provide the necessary nutrients and energy to our bodies to survive. However, we eat for a…
Ten steps to prevent cancer
Are you trying to lose weight, have you tried a number of diets with little to no sustained results? Most fad diets are restrictive and yield only short term results leading to weight regain and frustration.
Benefits of Fasting
Humans are only meant to eat in a short window of time? When we consider our ancestors and the time in which they lived, it can help us have a better understanding of why this is.
How to Treat Constipation with Diet
Do you have irregular or infrequent bowl movements, less than one bowl movement (BM) per day? Should you worry? Your doctor may say that as long as you have one BM every 3 days you are fine. But are you? The longer the food waste lingers in your colon the larger amounts of toxins are…