If you’ve ever tried to make a diet or lifestyle change you know it’s not an easy process. You need a compelling reason to keep moving forward.
What is your compelling reason?
There are two different types of motivators – intrinsic and extrinsic.
Continue readingGluten intolerance is a digestive condition triggered when you eat a food containing gluten. The gluten initiates an immune reaction within the small intestine leading to damage to the villi on the surface of the small intestine. This results in a decreased ability to absorb nutrients from foods.
What are signs of gluten intolerance?
Physical activity, especially aerobic exercise, is beneficial for your cardiovascular system.
Here are 3 reasons to add physical activity to your daily routine starting today:
1. Lowers LDL cholesterol
The type of heart failure you have may determine the effectiveness of a statin medication.
Types of Heart Failure
Systolic heart failure is when the heart does not contract forcefully enough to pump blood out of the aorta and into circulation.
Diastolic heart failure is when the heart does not relax properly to allow an adequate volume of blood to fill the left ventricle.
Statin Drug Treatment and Potential Complications
An individual recently submitted the following question at the Vital Health Zone:
I am 47 years old, I weigh 75 kg. I take Breakfast-oatmeal Lunch- 3 chappathis, Dinner-2 chappathi or cornflakes. Small meal 1 apple, 1 piece papaya, and some biscuits. I go for 1 hr morning brisk walk, and do half an hour exercises. But i have not reduced. For my age and ht I should be 55kg. What should I do?
Here’s the answer I provided:
I’ve been asked this question several times and want to take a moment to explain how the cholesterol found in foods relates to your blood cholesterol levels.
Dietary Cholesterol
Cholesterol is found in animal products, such as cheese, steak, and eggs. You will not find cholesterol from plant sources. The cholesterol in foods is simply “dietary cholesterol”. It is neither “good” nor “bad”. When you consume a food containing cholesterol the different components of the food are processed by the body. The liver packages the dietary cholesterol into low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. This is where the labels “good” and “bad” come into play. (FYI – There are other packages, such as very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) cholesterol, but for simplicity we’ll stick with LDL and HDL.)