Showing posts with label diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diet. Show all posts

Friday, July 18, 2008

Diets and Carbs: where are the plants?

This recent video report about diets leaves me with the same curiosity...
"Where are the veggies and fruit?"



The value in a low-carb diet:
This type of eating limits how much refined flour and processed foods we consume. Sugar and white flour are regular staples in the American diet, so a healthy diet limits this. This is especially good for insulin levels.

Long-term, however, consuming plants (fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds) is critical for good health.
The solution?

If you choose to eat low-carb, then restrict your carbs from sugar and processed foods. Eat mostly vegetarian-style, with good-quality protein like fish and lean meats. Most importantly, get your carbs from the nutrient-rich plants like vegetables and fruit!

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Exercise, Diet, Yoga reverse Cancer in Dr. Dean Ornish study

It is no secret that regular exercise, nutritious eating, meditation and yoga are great for your health. But this study shows that they are powerful enough to reverse the course of cancer!

As Dr. Dean Ornish says, the body is more dynamic than we thought. Watch this video for more (then read on, below):



And what I find amazing about the results of the study was that the program suggested a mere 30 minutes of exercise daily! 30 minutes!

How many Americans who are facing death by cancer can't find 30 minutes for exercise every day?

Dr. Ornish describes how you can genetically alter your body to reverse cancer. He studied men with prostate cancer. He says these same tactics can be helpful in reversing other forms of cancer, too, such as breast cancer.

In the past, we have seen research studies that demonstrate how an exercising group were less likely to get cancer than non-exercising groups. And how research participants who ate healthy low-fat, vegetarian diets were less likely to get cancer than their study counterparts who ate less healthy foods.
But Dr. Dean Ornish's study is very different...
He studies men who already had been diagnosed with cancer. This study takes exercise from prevention to treatment status. This is significant, and of vital importance to anyone recently diagnosed with cancer!

This study is amazing, and it shows how, truly, Exercise is Medicine!