Category Archives: Healthy eating
Breastfeeding to Give Children Healthy Start
posted at 5:17 pmIt’s no surprise that childhood obesity is a major concern in our country. Experts are pushing for improvements in school cafeteria food options, increased physical activity, and limiting TV and video game time at home. Most of these efforts are aimed at reducing the level of overweight and obese school-aged children. However, a new report found that nationwide more than 20 percent of young children, ages 2 to… Continue reading
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S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting
posted at 2:24 pm
Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future and motivation to turn your vision into reality – you are in control.
A useful way of making goals more powerful is to use the SMART mnemonic (always write goals down!):
S – Specific(or Significant)
M – Measurable (or Meaningful)
A – Attainable (or… Continue reading
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Proposed New FDA Food Label Makeover
posted at 9:39 am
Read the Fine Print
Proposed FDA Food Label Makeover
In December law makers passed the school lunch health bill in an effort to healthify America, and food labels may be up next for a makeover. The FDA is currently debating whether changes to the current labeling system would help consumers make healthy choices. Among the suggested changes… Continue reading
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2011: Year of the Vegetable
posted at 2:18 pm
Healthy Eating
In 2010, 50 percent of meals were eaten outside the home. Our culture is one where more time is spent watching cooking programs on television than preparing actual meals, and our waistlines are suffering.
Many of us are intimidated by produce aisles and farmers’ markets, and this often means we… Continue reading
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How to Restart Your Workout Routine After a Break
posted at 5:37 pmRecently, nutritionist Rania Batayneh was interviewed by US News about how to overcome the difficulties in restarting your exercise program. For the full article, please visit: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/on-fitness/2011/1/6/how-to-restart-your-workout-routine-after-a-break.html
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Lose It!
posted at 9:23 amI have spent the past few weeks reviewing an iPhone app called Lose It!, by Fit Now. This app is free, and works on the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Essentially it is a sophisticated journal for tracking food, exercise and weight, with simple included weight loss programs.
I was very impressed with this app as a weight loss tool. It is very high quality and the… Continue reading
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The art and science of weight loss, part 3
posted at 10:47 amIn part one of this series I have discussed that a 500 calorie per day deficit is necessary in order to lose one pound per week. In part two I showed how recording calories consumed in food, and burned in exercise can help achieve this. In this post I will cover the importance of resting metabolic rate (also known as basal metabolic rate).
Resting metabolic… Continue reading | 3 Comments
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The art and science of weight loss, part 2
posted at 8:47 amFor the second part in this series of the science behind weight loss I will explore how to achieve a calorie deficit through decreased intake and increased physical activity.
As I discussed last week, in order to loose one pound per week, it is necessary to average a 500 calorie energy deficit per day. The easiest way do do this is by some combination of reduced calorie intake, and… Continue reading | 5 Comments
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The art and science of weight loss, part 1
posted at 12:41 pmIn this series of posts I plan to cover the fundamentals of weight loss, the effect of surgery, and the other relevant issues. Although many people know the fundamentals, they are an important background to how surgery works and how to maximise weight loss and so I will recap them first. I want to present a framework to show how the human body gains or looses weight, why we can… Continue reading | 5 Comments
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Support Groups
posted at 1:03 pmMany of people ask about what kind of support there is available after surgery, specifically for bariatric surgery patients. It is very important to have a system of support after surgery as this is a time of lots of changes and transitions. Here are the support groups that we have found not only in Portland, but also around the state of Oregon and online. Continue reading | 2 Comments
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