| Losing weight doesn’t always equal to gaining health
Health foods come first for me. I eat a good breakfast, skip lunch, munch on fruit and nuts all day, and work out like a maniac. If I dont work out, I try skipping both lunch and dinner. I dont eat anything fried or from outside, confesses Sheikh. On college trips I take along a lot of soya munchies to snack on and avoid the junk. According to Neha Gehi, whos studying diet ethics, the concept of a diet is a myth in itself. Nutritionists often provide weight-loss diets, but they still recommend healthy eating. However, the popular Atkins diet, a high-protein, high-fat diet, is blindly followed here, says Gehi. I think a hearty breakfast and organic food is the best diet for teens. Junk food and starving shouldnt be on the list of to-do things. I also recommend minusing processed foods.
Weight-loss tribulations with a dog
The following was compiled from recently highlights of Mark Robison's pet blog at RGJ.com/blogs/mostlydogs. Five months after knee surgery, our dog Bodie was still walking funny so we had him checked out at our new vet. X-rays revealed that his TPLO surgery has healed perfectly, but that his opposite hip has severe arthritis. That's why he's reluctant to walk. Also, he's overweight. The vet said losing 20 pounds would help the bad hip, perhaps keep his other knee from blowing out and give him more energy. No free-feeding We free-feed our dogs, meaning we have food out all the time and they can eat whenever they want. She said there's no need to get diet dog food, we just need to stop free-feeding them. She said we should feed the dogs twice a day, and when they're done, we need to pick up their bowls off the floor.
Olive Oil lowers blood pressure, prevents ulcer
OLIVE oil, the centerpiece of the Mediterranean diet, a regime long associated with healthy heart and improved blood flow, may prevent getting infected with the Helicobacter pylori bacteria, the cause of millions of gastric and peptic ulcer cases worldwide. Researchers from the Spanish Institute de la Grasa and the University Hospital of Valme, confirmed this when they simulated in laboratory conditions polyphenol-rich extra virgin olive oil antibacterial effects against eight strains of H. Pylori, three of which are even resistant to antibiotic. Lead author, Concepcion Romero in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry said, "the results open the possibility of considering extra virgin olive oil as a compound to use to protect oneself from peptic or gastric cancer", adding that its effectiveness, however, would need to be confirmed in animal studies in the future.
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