Reuters - A low-carbohydrate/high-fat diet and a high-carbohydrate/low-fat diet both improve weight loss, enhance mood, and speed thinking, a study shows, but the low-carb diet may offer less benefit in terms of the rate of cognitive processing.
Last week's featured apples in a colorful beet salad, perfect for fall. For another autumnal apple dish, try this main course from the . Antioxidants, phytonutrients, flavonoids and fiber make apples a strong ally against ailments such as cancer and cardiovascular disease. It's also a golden opportunity to combine this delicious variety with your favorite white fish!
Makes 4 servings
1 cup grated, peeled golden delicious apple
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 cup grated carrot
1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
1/2 cup minced green onion
1/8 tsp. dried thyme
2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice
4 sole, cod or other white fish
1/4 tsp. ground ginger fillets (4 to 5 ounces each)
1/4 tsp. ground mustard
1/2 cup chicken broth or water
Heat oven to 400; lightly oil small roasting pan. In medium-size bowl, combine apple, carrot, green onion, lemon juice, ginger, mustard, salt, pepper and thyme; mix well. Spread apple mixture evenly over length of fillets; carefully roll up. Place stuffed fillets, seam side down, in oiled pan. Pour broth over rolled fillets; cover with aluminum foil and bake 10 to 15 minutes, or until fish is opaque and barely flakes.
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The question of which exercise is best for is answered in our latest .
In short, there’s no one exercise that does it all. We need both aerobic and strength training activities to give us the fastest, best and most lasting results. Probably not news to most readers, but worthwhile repeating to ward off any attempts at shortcuts.
Also worth repeating because it is such a temptation is the focus on weight loss for the sake of appearance alone. Those of us who have done the dieting game and lost weight many times before hopefully realize by now that weight loss at any cost is not worth the effort. Because we likely just gain it back. What we need is permanent change…and that’s only achieved by adopting healthy lifestyle changes that produce .
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That is, if we even need to lose weight in the first place. Too often, our weight loss efforts are based on distorted body images, or unrealistic ideals. And trying to achieve something that’s not in our genes (e.g., be thinner than a healthy weight for our individual bodies) often backfires and ends up truly making us fat. A true helps us understand what’s right for our bodies in terms of weight, and what’s right for our lives in terms of living fully.
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Just minutes ago, I realized it was time for a snack. Why? Because if I don’t have little snacks throughout the day I’m ravenous at mealtime and will often times into the evening. Something as a simple snack (in this case a few almonds and a couple slices of Swiss cheese), will help curb my appetite, help fill in the and dairy I may not get enough of throughout the day and leave me feeling satiated and content.
I use to feel snacking was an unnecessary, decadent indulgence. Something that added unnecessary calories to my ‘diet’. What I never really thought about was how hungry I was by dinner time and then why I couldn’t for the rest of the night. All to start the syndrome again the following day.
As a result, my waistline expands slowly but surely until I’ve reached a point of complete and total frustration. Now, I’ve learned that and necessary part of a nutritious, fulfilling and successful .
You can find all kinds of nutritious and tasty snack in the Green Mountain “Recipes For Living” cookbook. .
Reuters - Tough choices tempt kids at every turn -- whether it is soda in school, junk food ads on TV or the fast-food chain around the corner -- and school policies limiting physical activity only make matters worse, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
While any exercise is better than no exercise in managing , a new study indicates that the combination of aerobic exercise and weight training is significantly better for controlling than either alone. That's what a new study published in the Sept. 18 issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found. Time.com reported last week some of the interesting findings:
The elegantly designed study, led by researchers at the University of Calgary and the University of Ottawa, involved 251 patients aged 39 to 70, with . The patients, none of whom were regular exercisers, were randomized to one of four groups: aerobic exercise, resistance training, a combination of both, or none. For 22 weeks, the aerobic group worked out for 45 minutes three times a week on the treadmill or stationary bicycle; the resistance-training group spent an equal amount of time on weight machines.
The combination group was at the gym twice as long as the other two exercise groups, doing the full aerobic plus weight-training regimens. "We built up gradually to 45 minutes, but it's certainly vigorous," says Dr. Ronald Sigal, lead author of the study and associate professor of medicine and cardiac sciences at the University of Calgary. "It's not sprinting or maximal exercise like a marathon trainer would do, but for someone who's middle-aged and older and very overweight, it's fairly strenuous."
Overall, researchers saw improvements in control in all the patients who worked out. Compared with controls, patients in the aerobic group had a reduction of .51% in their hemoglobin A1C values — a test that measures blood-sugar control over the previous two to three months (lower is better). The weight-training group had a .38% reduction compared with controls. But the combined exercise group showed further improvements: in those patients, the A1C values went down an additional .46% over the aerobic group, and .59% over the weight-training group. Compared to controls, the combo exercisers had a nearly 1% lower A1C reading.
The benefits of a 1% reduction may seem small, but they aren't: that percentage translates into a 15-20% decrease in heart attack and stroke risk and a 25-40% decreased risk of diabetes-associated eye or kidney problems. Wow!
And there's more good news. Across all three groups, data indicated that exercise in general could improve blood pressure, triglyceride and cholesterol levels in people with . The various exercises also resulted in some and a reduction in belly fat — even though the diets patients were put on were specifically designed for maintaining weight. Furthermore, cat scans of patients' internal muscles seem to indicate an improvement in internal structure and function.
At the very least, if you need to manage your diabetes, any exercise will have a positive effect, but if you want to maximize the health benefits, an exercise program which includes both resistance training and aerobic exercise is the most effective at controlling .
by Laura Brooks