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Posts by David N. Bailey, DC, MPH
The Macro-Nutrients: Sources of Energy Your body uses proteins, fats, and carbohydrates as fuel to keep you alive and kicking. Since fat has twice the energy content of carbs or proteins, fat is the main energy storage nutrient. Hormones Your body uses signaling compounds, called hormones, to control your hunger, appetite, and sense of fullness after meals. These hormones control the amount of energy...
2/14/2010 1:04:45 PM
Inflammation Inflammation is the key bad boy when it comes to your health. Inflammation promotes heart disease, cognitive decline, diabetes, obesity, and even some cancers. The trick is that inflammation is also a key element of your body's defense system. So, excessive inflammation is the real culprit. Food can cause inflammation The two most inflammatory foods are sugar (in all its forms) and polyunsaturated...
2/10/2010 8:14:58 AM
Herniated or slipped discs in the neck or back can be extremely painful. Spine pain and pain and/or numbness down the arm or leg can be caused by a pinched nerve from a bad disc. Common treatments are chiropractic adjustments, physical therapy, medications, injections, and even (in rare instances) surgery. In most cases, you get some relief from these, but the pain can come back. The real key is to...
2/6/2010 8:14:33 AM
Only 20% of Americans consumes enough fiber, and our low fiber standard American diet may be killing us. Colon and other cancers, diabetes, insulin resistance, obesity, heart and other cardiovascular diseases may be linked to low fiber intake. US Dietary Guidelines recommend between 25 and 35 grams of fiber per day, but we are eating about half that amount. To give you an idea of how much 25 to 35...
2/2/2010 10:07:58 AM
What secrets? It is obvious! Just eat less and exercise more and you will lose weight. Almost everybody from the CDC on down believes this balance beam theory. The problem is this: there is abundant scientific evidence that fifty years of weight loss interventions based on this theory have been remarkably ineffective. Low calorie diets and exercise programs can get you rapid weight loss. But your success...
1/29/2010 12:03:41 PM
Estrogen is a hormone that helps regulate the body in many ways. While thought of as a female hormone, men normally have estrogen also, just in much smaller quantities. Both men and women of any age can have estrogen related health problems. Many of these estrogen related problems can disguise themselves as other problems seemingly unrelated to estrogen. Estrogen Facts * Estrogen is a steroid hormone...
1/29/2010 7:39:06 AM
Toxic Fat Syndrome Blocks Weight Loss You fail to lose weight because every time you've tried, as soon as you lose a few fat pounds, you begin to feel worse. You get headaches, body aches, insomnia, mental fog, short-tempered, and increased fatigue. You have severe food cravings, and you become unable to control your appetite. You suffer through all this only to find that the fat pounds stop coming...
1/14/2010 3:09:10 PM
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