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Weight Loss Trap - Making Excuses

I am always amazed at the ability of people to rationalize their behavior and to bargain the price. Please, forgive me, I did not mean for you to think I was talking about you.  I was really talking about the people on your left or right.
Back to the point, there is decent if not perfect [...]

1Jul2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Free Health Care IS available for Everyone

We don’t need President Obama, the government or any other organization to give us health care free. I know everyone wants more at less cost. But the debate isn’t about health care, it is about sick care.  Health care is free and is totally in your control.
What about health care is free? Well, if [...]

30Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Product Recalls - processed food is dangerous in many ways

Here is something I took right off of the FDA website. It is one reason I do not eat processed foods, (the other is my many allergies to some of the additives in these foods).
“The gap between ignorance and knowledge is much less than the gap between knowledge and action.”
-Anonymous
Nestlé USA’s Baking Division Initiates Voluntary [...]

30Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Weight Loss Trap - Diets are solutions to a problem

Let me define the term diet.  Your diet is what you eat.  Nothing more or less. Everything that goes into your mouth is your diet. Today that may be a certain amount of weight watchers points, tomorrow it may be burgers, fries and regular soda. Perhaps it is coffee and something sweet for breakfast every [...]

29Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Recommended Reading For Improved Wellness

Wellness is a subject difficult to define by most people. Most think of it as the absence of disease.  I think of it as the sum of your habits.  Changing habits is a process I have discussed many times and will continue to do so for the benefit of my readers..
To change habits you have [...]

25Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Weight Loss Trap - You have to cut calories really low

If you have ever tried to lose weight you have probably tried to reduce your calories in some way by going on a diet. The word diet here means a specialized TEMPORARY eating plan that will be abandoned when the weight goal is reached.  Many diets reduce calories far below the levels deemed starvation level [...]

16Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 2 comments | Continued
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Weight Loss Trap - I need to exercise more

When I suggest that one of my patients needs to lose weight - they almost always reply that they agree and that they need to begin to exercise again.  There is usually lots of guilt and lots of excuses!  I hear the same list of time, long work hours, family obligations, fatigue and lack of [...]

15Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Why is Extra Stored Belly Fat so Bad?

Intra-abdominal fat is stored in response to the effects of cortisol. When we eat too much we get extra high blood sugar that is made into fats and stored within fat cells. These cells are not just storage containers. They are active and produce an array of chemicals all aimed at getting us to stop [...]

12Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Totally Tranquil and the Relaxation Response

If stress causes increased belly fat among other detrimental responses, how do you prevent it?
The remedy for the stress response is the opposite called the Relaxation response. This response settles the Amygdala and stops the HPA axis from reacting to stimulation from the Amygdala.
Exercise, done regularly, is a way to keep the Amygdala from creating [...]

10Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 0 comments | Continued
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Where Does the Fat in Your Belly come from?

The short answer to the title question is stress.  The long answer if you stay with me has to do with five factors.
Those 5 factors are:

the Amygdala
the HPA axis
Blood Glucose
Cortisol
Insulin

Lets look at how these factors weave together to put fat inside you abdomen and maybe around your heart and in and around your liver.
Blood Glucose [...]

8Jun2009 | Bruce Bair | 2 comments | Continued
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