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April 17th, 2009

Dr Phil Weight Loss Challenge

Dr Phil Amazing Weight Loss Reveals

Two teams on Dr. Phil’s Ultimate Weight Solution challenge are back to show off their remarkable progress. Twins Joe and Lauren, and college roommates Annette and Emilie have lost a combined 200 pounds in just four months! Learn The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom so you can join them in their journey.

When you use Dr. Phil’s 7 keys, you begin to: rid yourself of wrong thinking, heal yourself of emotions standing in the way of a healthy relationship with food, create a no-fail environment, shape your eating behavior into what you need for lifetime weight control, get real about nutritional choices that worked to your detriment, change your priorities to include exercise, and plug into a circle of support for encouragement and accountability. In short, you are changing how you’re living.

Key #1: Right Thinking
Lay aside self-defeating, invalid mindsets that do not work. They have the power to keep you from making different choices or developing new behaviors. Too often, we let these negative notions go unchallenged, and we act as though they were true. You must monitor what you’re thinking and challenge whether it is true. If it’s not working, replace it with thinking that works.

Key #2: Healing Feelings
Overcome emotional overeating by managing inappropriate reactions to stress; solving problems rather than dwelling on them; changing self-defeating thoughts, since more often than not, feelings follow thoughts; gaining closure on unfinished emotional business; and learning new ways to cope without resorting to food.

Key #3: A No-Fail Environment
Design your world so that you can’t help but succeed. This involves removing temptations to eat and rearranging your schedule in order to avoid or minimize triggers to overeat.

Key #4: Mastery Over Food and Impulse Eating
There’s only one reason why you haven’t changed the bad stuff in your life. You’re getting something out of it. I’m not saying that you’re getting something healthy or positive, but people do not continue in situations, attitudes or actions that do not give them a payoff. This key helps you identify those payoffs, unplug from them, and replace bad habits with healthy behavior.

Key #5: High-Response Cost, High-Yield Nutrition
To lose weight, you must choose foods that support good behavioral control over your eating, that is, high-response cost, high-yield foods, organized into a moderate, balanced, calorie-controlled plan to ensure weight loss.

Key #6: Intentional Exercise
Prioritize regular exercise into your life most days of the week — walking, jogging, aerobic dance classes, yoga, playing a sport, or lifting weights. Exercise does more than simply burn calories; it changes your self-perception so you stop labeling yourself as a couch potato.

Key #7: Your Circle of Support
Surround yourself with supportive, like-minded people who want you to lose weight and succeed at your health and fitness efforts.

Start changing your life today! Read The Ultimate Weight Solution and The Ultimate Weight Solution Food Guide and master the keys to weight loss success.

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Holiday Healthy Foods

December 4th, 2008

Celebrate the Season with this Tasty Treat, Infused with Cancer-Fighting Ingredients

‘Tis the season to be merry, but with the economic crunch and a long list of gifts needed for neighbors, friends, and teachers, consumers’ budgets are stretched. Texas Oncology has developed a free holiday recipe for Jingle Jam, an easy-to-make, Southern-style preserve that combines healthful cranberries, citrus, and jalapenos. This recipe, full of cancer-fighting ingredients, is sure to please everyone on gift lists and around holiday tables – while leaving you some change to jingle in your pockets.

“It’s no secret that recipes with fruits, veggies, and whole grains provide the foundation for a diet that is nutrient-packed and will promote health,” said Jerry Barker, Jr., M.D., a Texas Oncology radiation oncologist. “Jingle Jam brings together some of Texas’ favorite holiday staples for a tasty treat that is full of color, flavor, and nutrients.”

In Texas alone, more than 90,000 people – the fourth-highest incidence in the nation – are diagnosed each year with cancer, some of which could have been prevented with proper diet. Jingle Jam’s combination of wholesome cranberries, citrus, and jalapenos serves as a reminder of the variety of cancer-protective ingredients that can easily be incorporated into the everyday diet.

Cranberries, for example, are a powerful source of flavonoids, a family of phytonutrients with antioxidant and anti-cancer properties. Citrus fruits such as oranges, lemons, and grapefruit contain vitamin C, folate, and fiber – all essential to a cancer-protective diet. Jalapenos are loaded with vitamins A and C, and contain a phytochemical called capsaicin, which has been shown to benefit individuals with prostate cancer. Pectin is a natural product of most fruits and may block cancer growth. Pectin is used as a gelling agent and is also available commercially, but the
Jingle Jam holiday recipe utilizes the natural pectin in cranberries for a pleasing consistency.

Texans come together for the holidays to enjoy friends, family, and good food. It’s easy to make the holiday table merry and bright with Jingle Jam, while feeling good about it. Versatile and delicious, Jingle Jam – which uses less sugar than a typical jam – has a variety of tasty uses. It makes a delectable addition to the holiday bird, but also as a glaze for steamed carrots or roasted pork loin. Spread it
on whole grain toast or English muffins for breakfast, or as an appetizer dolloped atop goat cheese tartlets, or poured over cream cheese and served with crackers. Dress up a turkey sandwich, or use it as a dipping sauce for quesadillas.

To view a demonstration on how to make Jingle Jam, click here; or to download a festive, printable Jingle Jam recipe card, click here .

Here are a few additional quick tips to give holiday recipes and food choices a flavor-forward nutritional makeover:

* Use healthy oils, such as olive, canola, or other vegetable oils instead of butter or lard.
* Add chopped nuts, such as pecans, walnuts, or hazelnuts for added fiber, crunch, flavor, “good” fats, and a host of phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals.
* Make salads colorful, using dark, leafy greens and a variety of seasonal fruits and veggies.
* Serve whole grain bread with meals.
* Incorporate seasonal fruits into desserts.
* Choose dark chocolate with at least 60 percent cocoa, which contains antioxidant polyphenols.
* Texas Oncology is looking out for Texans’ health, providing them with the top technologies and treatment options available.

About Texas Oncology
Texas Oncology delivers high-quality cancer care with leading-edge technology and advanced treatment and therapy options available to help patients achieve “More breakthroughs. More victories.” in their fights against cancer, right in their own communities. Texas Oncology, a pioneer in community-based cancer care, is an independent oncology practice with sites of service throughout Texas and southeastern New Mexico.

Texas Oncology patients have the opportunity to take part in some of the most promising clinical trials in the nation for a broad range of cancers. In fact, Texas Oncology has played an integral role in gaining Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for 24 of the latest 30 cancer therapies.

Texas Oncology is affiliated with US Oncology, the nation’s foremost cancer treatment and research network accelerating the availability and use of evidence-based medicine and shared best practices. With more than 1,250 physicians at 480 locations in 39 states, the US Oncology network provides Texas Oncology with access to the latest advancements in therapies, clinical research, and technology, as well as best-in-class clinical and operational processes that help to advance the quality, safety, and cost effectiveness of cancer care.

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Living the Wellness Lifestyle

October 4th, 2008

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Wellness boom 

Until now, keeping check on one’s health consumed a lot of time. One never got to enjoy health. But with the advent of wellness firms, one can indulge in health, and experience fine touch of lifestyle and wellness firms..

Plump, wrinkled woman metamorphoses into svelte, charismatic lady. A scrawny man turns into well toned handsome being. A self—doubting and insecure person transforms into confident and positive personality. This is the magic, which the lifestyle and wellness firms are spreading.

Until now, keeping check on health consumed more time. One never got to enjoy health. But with the advent of wellness firms, one can indulge in health, and experience fine touch of lifestyle and wellness firms.

There is a new market category called wellness lifestyle, which consolidates a lot of sub-categories including spas, traditional medicine and alternative medicine, behavioral therapy, spirituality, fitness, nutrition and beauty.

Back in 1979, a fat, unhealthy property developer, Mel Zuckerman, and his exercise-fanatic wife, Enid, opened Canyon Ranch, ’America’s first total vacation/fitness resort’, on an old dude ranch in Tucson, Arizona. At the time, their outdoorsy, new age-ish venture seemed highly eccentric. But today, Indian markets have welcomed wellness firms and are savoring the indulgence.

There is growing evidence that focusing holistically on wellness can reduce healthcare costs by emphasizing prevention over treatment. The desire to reduce healthcare costs is one force behind the rise of the wellness industry; the other is the growing demand from consumers for things that make them feel healthier and better. Apart from regular services, these firms provide: Healthy lifestyle, coaches to work on issues like nutrition, stress management and weight loss, yoga classes, smoking cessation programs or other health-related programs.

One difficulty for wellness firms would be to acquire the expertise to operate in several different areas of the market.

Another would be to maintain credibility in (and for) an industry that combines serious science with snake oil. One problem—or is it an opportunity?—in selling wellness products to consumers is that some of the things they demand may be faddish or nonsensical. Easy fixes, such as new-age therapies, may appeal to them more than harder but proven ways to improve health. And there is much debate about the health benefits of vitamin supplements, organic food and alternative medicines, let alone different forms of spirituality.

Whatever the debate be, men and women are more then ready to pamper their body and are surely treading way to wellness. If not for health reasons, fun is definitely on their minds

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Eggs The Key to Weight loss

September 7th, 2008

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Breakfast Eggs Keep Folks on Diet

 

 Eating eggs may help overweight adults lose weight and feel more energetic, according to U.S. researchers.

Their two-month study of overweight or obese adults, ages 25 to 60, found that those who ate two eggs for breakfast as part of a calorie-reduced diet lost 65 percent more weight, had a 61 percent greater reduction in body mass index, and had higher energy levels than those who ate bagels for breakfast.

 

Blood levels of HDL (”good”) and LDL (”bad”) cholesterol, as well as triglycerides, remained the same in both groups.

“People have a hard time adhering to diets, and our research shows that choosing eggs for breakfast can dramatically improve the success of a weight loss plan. Apparently, the increased satiety and energy due to eggs helps people better comply with a reduced-calorie diet,” lead researcher Nikhil V. Dhurandhar said in an Egg Nutrition news release. Dhurandhar is an associate professor in the laboratory of infection and obesity at Pennington Biomedical

Research Center, a campus of the Louisiana State University system,

 

The study, funded by the industry-affiliated Egg Nutrition Center, was published online last week in the International Journal of Obesity.

 

 

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