Chia Seeds: What's All the Rage?
If you grew up in the 1980’s, you may remember the popular “chia pet” terracotta figurine that would sprout chia. The rage was to watch the “chia pet” sprout and grow a coat of fur or hair in just a couple of weeks. At that time, the chia seeds health food benefits were not popularized…
Read MoreGET Diet Therapy
If you are a health care provider, you will find this book to be the holy grail on diet therapy to improve your patients outcomes. Remember: FOOD IS MEDICINE PURCHASE HERE: DIET THERAPY IN ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING: Nutrition Prescriptions for Improved Patient Outcomes by Katie Ferraro, MS, RD & Cheryl Winter, MS RD, MS APRN, FNP-BC
Read MoreGET Your Number & Personalized Meal Plan
VITAL Health Solutions has YOUR number–your number to better control of your weight and your health. YOUR number is unique and obtained with the state-of-the-art, MedGem® Metabolic Analysis device. You may have even seen this device used on the TV show, “Biggest Loser.” Getting Your Number & A Personalized Meal Plan (and measuring your body…
Read MoreA Stress-Busting Eating Plan for Combating Sleep Deprivation & Weight Gain
Are you someone who values sleep or do you choose to burn the candle at both ends? Do you think that sleep is a waste of time and sleeping 8 hours a night is a sign of laziness? In today’s fast-paced, over-worked and over-stressed society, more and more of us are choosing to sacrifice our…
Read MoreHome Blood Pressure Monitoring: Is This Really Necessary and Are the Results Reliable?
Hypertension (high blood pressure) is a serious disease, which usually has no symptoms (much like diabetes). Also like diabetes, if left untreated over time, hypertension can have serious heath consequences. The damage to arteries, the heart and other organs caused by hypertension can result in a heart attack, heart failure, vision problems, stroke, kidney disease,…
Read MoreGET A Grip
GET a Grip on your “Body Composition.” Body Composition is simply the amount of lean body mass and body fat that makes up total body weight (weight alone is not an adequate measure of your health). The lean body mass (LBM) includes the bones, muscles, water, connective and organ tissues. Body fat includes both essential…
Read MoreParenting Meal-time Tips for Preventing Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity has become a national healthcare crisis in recent years. Children who are obese as preschoolers are at increased risk for adolescent and adult obesity, as well as an increased risk of developing many chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), asthma, and sleep apnea, as well as emotional problems such as low…
Read MoreDo You Know What Your Number Is?
Before you consider beginning yet another “diet,” you might first consider learning what your “number” is. You are a very unique individual. In addition to having your own social security number, your own PIN numbers, your own phone numbers, there is yet another number that is unique to you. That number is your METABOLIC RATE,…
Read More9 Best-Kept Secrets for Getting Children to Eat Foods That are Healthy
Is mealtime often a nightmare when trying to get your child to eat healthy? Relax, it doesn’t have to be this way. Eating is the one behavior your child truly does have control over, and that’s okay, because after all we want our children to grow up to be assertive and independent, don’t we? As…
Read MoreDining with DeFronzo
Just last week on my blog, I posted “Today’s Diabetes is NOT Your Grandma’s Disease,” and briefly wrote of the pioneer research work of Dr. Ralph DeFronzo, of the University of Texas, San Antonio. Less than one week later after making this blog post, on March 1, 2013, I had the pleasure of attending the…
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