Tricks to Prolonging Your Life

You can’t abandon eating healthy and exercising, but if you want to know what else you can do to possibly prolong your life then you might consider picking up these healthy habits. Here are some simple ways to help you live a longer, happier life.

Celebrities Lose Weight the Sensible Way with Portionpals

According to a recent press release, it seems that the latest celebrity trend in weight loss is a sensible plan. The company, Portionpals, is advocating for people to live a healthy lifestyle and lose weight by eating the correct portions of food.

With more Americans eating restaurant portions that are double in size what should be eaten, and obesity at all-time highs, Portionpals is emphasizing the need for people begin eating sensible amounts of food. The goal being an overall healthy lifestyle resulting in a natural loss in weight once the correct portions of food are being eaten.

The celebrity-driven television show, Extra, has been publicizing the rich and famous individuals who have been using Portionpals and finding the company’s philosophy to be successful. Portionpals has been plugged twice in the past two weeks alone on the show. With the television exposure and celebrity clients, the company has managed to move over 50,000 units since its recent debut in March.

So what is a portionpal?  Keep reading…

A Plea to Fix the Health Care System in the United States

This man brings tears to my eyes and reaffirms the need for a solid universal health care system in America. I want all American citizens to be protected.

Portion Sizes: How Much Are You Eating?

In the United States, we are always on the run. It is not uncommon for a person to eat out more often than eating in one’s own home. The portion sizes that individuals are purchasing at dine-in restaurants and fast food chains are much larger than what should be eaten. We are consuming much more food than we should be on a regular basis. This is affecting the overall state of health in America which has also sadly led to an epidemic of childhood obesity.

In our bigger-is-better and biggest-is-best society, we are inadvertently damaging our health and the health of our children. Not enough people are stopping to think about the long-term affects of overeating; rather we are often too overscheduled to examine what exactly we are stuffing into our bodies, and how much we are eating. Are you aware of how much food you are eating, and more importantly, do you know what the proper portion sizes are for adults?  Continue reading here.

Onions and Garlic Might Deter Loved Ones AND Cancer

I have to admit it. I love garlic and onions and my philosophy regarding them is generally, “the more, the better”. When either ingredient is cooking on my stove, the pungent aroma fills me with glee.

If I see either of the words “onion” or “garlic” in the title of a dish when I am dining out I know that my palate will be satisfied. My love affair with garlic and onions has only one small downside. No one wants to talk in any sort of close proximity to a garlic-aholic. Thankfully, there is an easy remedy to that problem; gum or travel toothbrushes help to alleviate onion breath quickly and discreetly.

According to recent medical research, my love affair with stinky vegetables and herbs might be beneficial to my health. Scientists are now saying that people who eat large amounts of garlic and onions (1/2 cup of chopped onions daily, and self assessed “high” levels of garlic consumption) are 10 percent to 88 percent less likely to have various types of cancer, including breast and colon, as opposed to those who ate little or none of the two foods, according to a recent study of 25,000 people. Keep reading…

Experts Tell Doctors to Be Blunt, Call Kids Obese

The government and many doctors have avoided using the term obese in regards to children in the name of tact. Instead of saying, “obese” doctors will refer to children that are fat as, “at risk for being overweight” and for those that should actually be classified as obese as “overweight”.

A committee of medical experts is now saying that doctors need to drop the fuzzy terminology. The committee recommends instead that doctors refer to the truly fat children as overweight or obese.

According to the group, which was convened by the American Medical Association and funded by federal health officials including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the utilization of light and fuzzy terminology in regards to a child’s weight problem does not adequately define the problem.  Keep reading…

Tips to Prevent Soreness When Exercising

Muscle soreness happens to all of us when exercising. Learn ways to prevent or minimize that achy feeling.

 

Active people know the feeling all too well: the stiff and achy sensation that creeps into your body 24 hours after a workout. Sports scientists refer to it as delayed onset of muscle soreness.

 

Athletes probably just call it a nuisance. Many scientists now think that the delayed pain is caused from tiny tears in the muscles that eventually produce inflammation and corresponding pain about 24-36 hours after rigorous exercise or activity.

If you are going to workout, then you are probably going to get sore. Here are some ways to reduce your achy soreness or even prevent it from happening. Read tips here.

Legislature Protects Doctors Against Prescribing Birth Control, Emergency Contraception or Performing Abortions

Even under the most normal circumstances, it can be uncomfortable for a woman to talk about sex and contraception prevention with her doctor.

Try to imagine what it must be like for a woman who has just been raped to have to drive herself to the hospital, undergo a painful pelvic exam, and then be told by the doctor that he will not prescribe the morning after pill for her even though she is requesting it. Why? The doctor says it is against his religious beliefs.

This is exactly what happened to Lori Boyer. Boyer, 35, and a man that she knew went to his home to hang out together. Instead, when they got inside the house, Boyer was assaulted by the man. He viciously threw her onto his bed and then told Boyer in a toneless manner afterward, “I’m done with you.” Boyer grabbed her clothes and ran to her car. Even after this violent attack, Boyer possessed enough clarity to drive to the nearest emergency room and ask for a rape kit and to talk to a sexual assault counselor.

Boyer grimaced though a pelvic exam as she was bruised and in pain. As Boyer watched the doctor, Martin Gish, M.D., who examined her make some notations on a chart, she thought of some advice that the rape counselor had given her earlier.

“I need the morning after pill,” Boyer told the doctor.

Dr. Gish, the trim, middle-aged man with slightly graying hair looked at Boyer in what she deems as an aloof manner and replied, “No,” very abruptly. The doctor told her that he couldn’t do that and then just went back to his writing. Continue reading here.

Dr. Oz’s Tips to Keep Your Heart Healthy

Oprah calls him “America’s favorite doctor”. Dr. Mehmet Oz has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times and due to the success of those appearances, he now shows up on the show at least once a month to answer the questions that we all have about our bodies.

Dr. Oz is perhaps the most accomplished and respected cardiothoracic surgeon in the United States. Born in Cleveland, OH to Turkish parents, he works at Columbia University New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; he also holds an MBA from Wharton School of Business at Penn. The kind and remarkable doctor operates on some 400 patients a year, is a Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University, director of Cardiovascular Institute at Columbia Presbyterian, directs the Heart Assist Device Program and is the founder of the Complimentary Medicine Program.

Heart disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the United States. Dr. Oz would much rather help you prevent heart disease than perform an operation on you. Here are 5 tips that Dr. Oz says will help you decrease your risk of having a heart attack. Read the five important tips here.