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In a new study by Lustig RH, that looked at cutting sugar down out of one's dietary intake for the day, without changing overall calories, positive effects were seen in just 10 days. The study called: Isocaloric fructose restriction and metabolic improvement in children with obesity and metabolic syndrome published in Obesity.  in Oct 2016 underscored what why health care providers have been telling patients to simple sugars in their diet. It has been shown that even in normal weight people cutting down on sugar can reduce your chances of ever becoming diabetic. The positive health effects of reducing sugar intake can to be quite rapid in some groups of individuals. Their study of 43 Latino and African American children with metabolic syndrome, keeping total calories and calories from carbohydrate identical, a reduction from a mean of 28% of calories from added sugar to 10% significantly reduced triglycerides, LDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and fasting insulin...

By evaluating the diet drink date we point out to our patients at Women's Health Practice these symptoms and conditions that have been linked with the artificial sweetener aspartame 1. Bladder pain 2. Irritability 3. Difficulty with thinking 4. Behavior changes 5. Craving high-calorie foods 6. Type 2 diabetes It's always best to get any serious symptoms checked out, and clearly the symptoms above have many possible causes to explore before attributing them to your sweetener consumption, but yet, consider the evidence if you are consuming many diet drinks. There are several artificial sweeteners on the market and much of the study has actually been linked to the sweetener aspartame. Initial aspartame studies focused on the lack of calories in the agent, and thus it's ability to lower your daily calorie intake, more research show that there are possible health consequences. We do not think sweeteners cause cancer, that has been well researched. And the CDC has said...

Iron deficiency anemia is common and causes many unwanted health effects from sleeplessness, to weight gain, to listless hair, loss of hair, brittle nails, restless legs, fatigue, and brain cloud. Women lose iron through menstrual blood on a monthly basis, and this, combined with poor nutrition can cause iron deficiency anemia. Having your gyno help you normalize hormones and menstrual cyles may make all this advice moot if you aren’t losing much blood at all! However we all benefit from proper iron in our diet which varies according to our age, sex, and diet! Iron supplements, may be necessary, but it is also possible to boost your iron through diet. Iron supplements are so poorly tolerated it is now recommended that they be taken only every other day rather than daily so as to minimize side effects and allow for better absorption by your gut. Vegans, vegetarians, pescetarians and those with food allergies can all have nutritional solutions that will be successful.  ...

Physicians don't like to talk about sex, and they don't like to talk about diet, and few have recognized the now proven link between metabolic syndrome and sexual woes. In a study of post menopausal women, done at the University of California San Diego, there was a clear link between heart heatlth, specifically those with metabolic syndrome and sexual dysfunction. We aren't exactly sure why this would be. But circulation to get our 'juices flowing' and nerve function for o, and enough power of metabolism to get the smooth muscles contracting, are all part of proper sex. Without thees physiologic capabilities you will function poorly in bed! Metabolic syndrom e is a condition that raises the risk of multiple disease and death rates from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. You only need 3 out of the following criteria to have this syndrome.  Waist over 35 inches, or over 31 inches in an Asian Triglycerides greater than 150 Fasting Blood sugar of over 100 ...

It's tough to know how exercise is going to translate into health for all your body parts, and ultimately end up with the right amount of fitness, the ideal weight range, and your healthiest body shaping while maintaining healthy bones, joints, breasts and waist. Both shape and fitness goals are often in concert, but some fine tuning may be necessary. If you suffer injury, or are slow to recover, you need additional adjustment to fitness. Your physician's exercise goals may be quite extensive, whether you have discussed or not! Fitness program goals for you includes: to maintain enough exercise to be vigorous, have better cardiovascular health, to lessen risks of strokes and blood clots, to think better, to sleep, to have better sex, to feel better, keep your weight in the healthiest range it can be, prevent obesity, and finally perhaps to look better! While all those benefits can be obtained, for long term sustaining of those benefits you have to look at exactly...

Manicurists are often telling us to treat our nails as jewel's not tools to keep the nails long and strong, but don't forget the dietary secrets that can help your nails be pretty. Here are some basic answers to the most common problems our nails have are due to the diet and it's only a bit more complex than adding in zinc, selenium, biotin, and performing simple loving buffing. But if you notice your nails are not what you hoped here's a quick guide to the fixes. If you are constantly wearing polish you may just be putting too many chemicals on their nails. This nail painting, combined with even minor deficiencies can cause nail problems. With most nail issues, it's the plate that is affected, and as the offending problem is corrected the new growth at the base will appear healthier. Once you correct the problem, the new nail outgrowth should be healthy, unless you have damaged your nail plate base. We also suggest taking some deep breaths and realizing a univ...

Smoothies, and very low calorie days are often healthy in the context of having a stable healthy diet. The goal is to be heart healthy. Have a reasonable body fat and a reasonable amount of muscle within your body type. Actually doing a very low calorie day for long stretches, is essentially dieting by starvation. Starvation or near starvation have been studied for over a century. The classic dietary experiments of Folin and Denis in 1915 were among the early advocates of such plans for very obese individuals. Later regimens championed by Strang-Evans had 660 calories per day and did little to significantly reduce the weight of the super obese weighing between 300 and 700 pounds. In these cases severe hormone abnormalities prohibit weight loss even with this low intake. Low calorie and very low calorie diets have been championed as a path to rapid weight loss, and for some who are merely overweight and modestly obese may benefit from such plans as a way to briefly get weight off. The...

GynoGab blogger Dr. Trupin enjoying an early morning walk at Balboa Park When you plan dinner do you think, calories, comfort, food groups, fiber, what leftovers are there in the fridge? All seem sensible, and none of which should be ignored when planning your meals. But when you planned dinner last night did you really think hard about why you should or should not eat certain vegetables. Well, this may be the newest frontier in personalized medicine. We process many medications through a complex network of enzyme pathways. Based on our genetics we either metabolize a particular medication well, poorly, or perhaps modestly poorly. However, it turns out that your diet can factor into this equation. Did you know about the gene CYP1A2? It is a factor in the metabolism of many medications as varied as naproxen, acetaminophen, and estradiol. Did you realize that some women  who normally process this enzyme reaction can switch and the function of CYP1A2 can switch and in the face of...

Longevity and living well is determined by having the healthiest tissues possible. Being leaner, even if not lean specifically is healthy. We have focused a lot on body height per weight, and as a general measure. The newest concept is to look at your fat percentage. Some experts set these percentages by age, others set it as a single number. Research shows  that greater than 42% body fat is obese for women and greater than 34% for men is obese. These numbers are not set arbitrarily, but above these ranges women begin to get hormonal disruption, dysfunctional fat, and ectopic fat. Secondarily there is loss of muscle medically which is termed scarcopenia. We see this more commonly in vegetarians, especially vegans and carb addicted individuals. The healthiest way to lose weight is to do it slowly, in a controlled way. Weight loss varies over the course of a diet, and not just due to calorie count and exercise. What happens is that as you begin on a diet, if we follow your body com...

General exercise advice is to build as much muscle as you can to make your metabolism rise, and to make you more fit. Being that the thigh muscle is one of our largest (the gluteus muscle of the buttock, and the lats are actually larger), building your thigh muscle strength will give you a lot of return for your workout!. In a recent study from Austria reported in Reuters Health) they showed that if your thigh  are weak you are more likely to develop knee osteoarthritis. so it is very important to your future mobility as well as your future ability to maneuver a soccer ball, lunge for a backhand, or push off the wall in swimming! Study author Dr. Adam Culvenor, a researcher at Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria was quoted about the publication in Arthritis Care and Research, February 8 to say "While our recent study has highlighted the important role of strong thigh muscles in reducing the risk of knee osteoarthritis development, particularly in women, it i...

1IV nutrition has the ability to rapidly give patients levels of nutrition to support their natural physiologic functions that fight diseases, toxins and infections. For some women simple dietary strategies can give them the robust longevity they seek. For other women oral supplements can provide the supporting nutrition they need to their diet. For others, it has been found that iv therepay can be of additional benefit. For those women wondering if they need iv therapy these are possible reasons to discuss this option with a physician: 1) Deficiencies of micronutients 2)Rapid fluid replacement 3)Additional support to fight off heavy toxin exposures such as those found in disposable bottles, cleaning products, or other environmental exposure such as secondary smoke 4) improve healing 5)support exercise program 6) fight off levels of inflammation as well as other functions. The science of how we identify what we are lacking, and how to track therapeutic success is evolving quickly...