Emotional Eating and How to Stop ItDo you eat to feel better or relieve stress? These tips can help you stop emotional eating, fight cravings, identify your triggers, and find more satisfying ways to feed your feelings. Young woman illuminated by open refrigerator in front of her, platter of donut-shop pastries in hand, gorging What is emotional eating?We don’t always eat just to satisfy physical hunger. Many of us also turn to food for comfort, stress relief, or to reward ourselves. And when we do, we tend to reach for junk food, sweets, and other comforting but unhealthy foods. You might reach for a pint of ice cream when you’re feeling down, order a pizza if you’re bored or lonely,...
BMI: Obesity-Detecting Bullet or Bunk? The Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a crude measure of fatness in individuals. Calculated by dividing one’s weight in kilograms by the square of one’s height in meters, it has been the standard determination of fatness and fitness in doctor’s offices, insurance companies and for governmental statisticians since the 1970s. It has been touted as a measure not just of one’s fatness, but also their health. But is this really true? BMI: Never meant for individuals The BMI was created in the 19th century by a Belgian statistician who was trying to assess the collective weight of a population. It was never created for, nor intended to be used, on individuals. However, the ease...
Caution: This could change your life by Heather Grigoratos I have tried every diet on the market that you could think of. (More than 10 of them!) I was proud of the fact that I didn't eat big meals, that I was a grazer eating 5-6 small meals a day. I was just sick & tired of yoyo dieting watching my weight come down & being totally elated & happy with myself, only to watch it climb again after I had finally reached my goal weight! I was tired of feeling tired and lethargic, I was tired of hobbling out of bed because my joints ached in the morning. I didn't realise how sick I really was, my cholesterol was...
Balance digestive flora The main benefit of probiotics is in keeping the population of good bacterias in balance so that the bad bacterias and yeasts don’t take over. Your levels of good flora can be decreased because of antibiotics, stress, antibacterial soaps or hand washes, chlorinated drinking water, foods treated with pesticides and herbicides, colonoscopies or colonics (colon hydrotherapy), or having surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Those are times when it’s important to take a probiotic supplement to repopulate your digestive tract with the good bacteria that keep you healthy. Help relieve infectious diarrhea If you find yourself with a sudden onset of diarrhea (any time it’s brought on by a virus, bacteria or parasite), get...
Most people who convert to low carb experience fantastic health and weight correction. There are however those that find weight correction difficult even when approaching low carb correctly. Then there are people who do all that and still cannot lose weight. This is when it’s time to give serious consideration to thyroid dysfunction. By “thyroid dysfunction” I am referring to various degrees of hypothyroidism, i.e., low thyroid hormone levels. (I’m going to ignore hyperthyroidism, since this is much less common and does not impose any limitation on weight loss.) This is a big issue, so I’m going to cover it as a check list, a series of bullet points that you can run down to cover as much territory as...
