“As American women age many begin a war with their weight. A new study shows for normal weight middle aged women and older who eat a regular diet, 60 minutes of daily exercise is recommended just to maintain and not gain weight as they age. For overweight or obese women exercising 60 minutes wasnt enough to maintain and not gain weight over time.”
Posts Tagged ‘Weight loss’
JAMA: Exercise recommendations in middle-aged women
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010Eat veggies to lower your blood pressure
Monday, July 20th, 2009I am a vegetarian.
Often people are surprised and they ask me – “How do you get your proteins (i.e. without eating meat)?”
My answer – “Vegetables also contain proteins.”
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Now a new study published in Circulation compared the blood pressure between individuals who ate vegetable protein (specifically glutamic acid along with 4 other amino acids which are relatively higher in vegetable than animal protein) with people who ate non-vegetable protein (read animal meat).
They found a difference of about -2.7/-2.0 mm Hg in blood pressure in people eating more vegetables. Although that may sound small, individual results may be different (and maybe higher for you).
Reference: Glutamic Acid, the Main Dietary Amino Acid, and Blood Pressure (The INTERMAP Study)
Cholesterol education videos
Saturday, November 15th, 2008Cholesterol is a normal constituent of the human body. However excess cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia or sometimes called dyslipidemia) is one of the most important risk factors for developing heart attack and stroke.
Here are a couple of videos on cholesterol explaining why is cholesterol important to the body, how it causes disease and what lifestyle changes are required to decrease excess cholesterol.
What does high cholesterol do? (Time 4:11 min)
Lifestyle changes for high cholesterol (Time 7:40 min)
Statins for Kids
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008Promote junk food, raise cholesterol levels and then prescribe cholesterol lowering drugs.
This is capitalism at its best. Can we fight it?
So if everybody hates the idea of giving statins to kids…..why don’t we restrict marketing junk food to children, improve the quality of nutrition at school, promote physical activity at school and increase funding for obesity prevention and treatment?
Your Child’s Lunch Box
What’s next?
Hamburger with a topping of statins!
Cheese fortified with statins!
Statin Water!…………..
Video: Reinventing the school lunch
Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, “renegade lunch lady” Ann Cooper talks about the coming revolution in the way kids eat at school — local, sustainable, seasonal and even educational food.
Reference: WSJ Health Blog, NEJM, Pediatrics Journal
Weight loss drug for heart disease
Friday, April 4th, 2008A video from JAMA featuring Steve Nissen, one of the authors of the STRADIVARIUS trial.
This trial was designed to show that Rimonabant ( a drug used for weight loss in several countries but not US) could reduce plaque build up in the arteries which is a surrogate risk marker for developing heart attack and stroke.
This study used two methods to measure the amount of plaque in the arteries. The main method (called percent atheroma volume) to measure plaque thickness did not show any benefit. However, the second method (called normalized total atheroma volume) did show some benefit. The clinical benefit of this medication therefore will need to determined by additional studies before it gets FDA approval.
Reference: JAMA
