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DON’T TRUST THE EXPERTS

 With nearly 67,000 members, the American Dietetic Association (ADA) is the nation’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. Founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1917 by a group of women dedicated to helping the government conserve food and improve the public’s health and nutrition during World War I, the organization’s mission is “leading the future of dietetics.”

ADA members serve the public as “the most valued source” of good advice about food and nutrition, with a commitment “to helping people enjoy healthier lives.” Forty-six states currently have laws concerning professional regulation of dietitians and nutritionists, according to the ADA’s website. The group’s rationale for protecting these titles is simple: the public deserves to know which individuals are qualified by education, experience and examination to provide nutrition care services.

The history of these laws began in 1987, when the Ohio state legislature passed a law, creating the Ohio Board of Dietetics, which prevented anyone from giving advice on nutrition except members of the ADA. This law seems in line with public interest by restricting unqualified people from giving nutritional advice. However, the law was passed not to protect the public from poor nutrition advice, but to protect its own dietitians from competition.

The Board asserts that only dietitians have permission to use the term “nutritionist” in their job title. Other professionals with master’s degrees or Ph.D.s in nutrition, who are not members of the ADA, are not allowed to use “nutrition” in their titles in Ohio. In addition, only dietitians are able to give advice, provide education and develop policies on nutrition.

The Board put the issue into the national agenda, pushing for state-by-state legislation to exclude everyone other than certified dietitians from giving nutritional advice. During a six-year period, beginning in 1996, the board went after 795 people with lawsuits, but made a serious tactical error when it turned its guns on Dr. Pamela Popper, a well-known nutritionist with two Ph.D.s, who had designed an education program for an Ohio hospital, but was not a member of the ADA.

The Board came after Popper, threatening criminal prosecution. She not only fought the Board and the ADA, but also vigorously campaigned to expose their practices, such as putting qualified professionals out of business, using heavy-handed investigation techniques, prohibiting the public to obtain unbiased nutrition information and failure to show that anyone had been harmed by nutrition advice given by someone who was not a member of the ADA. 

Popper made people aware that dietetics is only a small part of nutrition theory, and publicized the fact that the ADA is heavily funded by the food industry, receiving millions of dollars a year from agricultural organizations and corporations that manufacture food and food additives.

The ADA’s website contains a series of fact sheets about various food and health concerns, sponsored by the same corporations that make them. Information on “Balancing Calories and Optimizing Fat” is sponsored by Hellmans  maker of the best-selling mayonnaise in the country. Wendy’s sponsors another fact sheet called “What’s a Mom to Do? Healthy Eating Tips for Families.”

“You can’t take $50,000 a year from the sugar association and say bad things about sugar,” Popper writes. “This organization controls the educational programming and registration of the thousands of dietitians in the  United States. It is my personal opinion that the influences of industry on the practice of dietitians is one of the reasons why nutrition in institutions such as hospitals, schools and nursing homes continues to be abominable.”

The story of the ADA is just part of the long history of commerce in America. Each interest group tries to destroy the opposition in order to create a monopoly for itself, thereby acquiring more power, status and profits. If we cannot trust any of these groups, including many dietitians, to give us good advice about health and nutrition, whom can we trust?

From:  Integrative Nutrition

INEXPENSIVE AND EFFECTIVE

The Fitness Ball

It is easy to use for stretching and it will support and cushion your body. It will certainly help to increase your flexibility, strength and endurance. You will tone muscles and improve your functionality. Initially it will challenge your body to improve alignment and balance via strengthening your stabilizing muscle. You may target your abdominal and lower back muscles thus stabilizing your spine.

Let’s look at some simple yet effective exercises you may do with an exercise ball.

·         Warm up

o   While sitting on top of the ball relax your arms on your thighs. Place your thighs approximately 90 degrees to you lower legs. Place your feet firmly on the floor and begin to shift your weight up and down, bouncing gently on the ball. Do this for 60 seconds or more if you are seeking an aerobic workout.

o   8-12 reps

·         Legs

o   Leg curls:

§   Lay on the floor with your legs out stretched and your feet and calves on the ball. Place your hands on the floor next to your body.

§  With your heels press down firmly into the ball. Bend your knees and roll the ball in towards your until your feet are flat on the ball.

§  8-12 reps

o   Outer Thighs:

§  Laying sideways place your body sideways on the ball. Extend your leg out to the side with your foot on the floor.

§  Balance your body with both hands on the front of the ball and your lower leg bent on the floor.

§  Lift your top leg until it is parallel to the floor. Hold and return to start

§  Do not let your hips roll and keep your lower leg bent.

§  8-12 reps

o   Inner Thigh:

§  Lay on the floor on your side, lower you arm under your head using your upper arm for stability.

§  Bend your lower leg 90 degrees and extend your upper leg with your ankle resting on the ball.

§  Begin lifting your lower leg off the floor s few inches touching the upper leg if you are able. Hold and lower to the floor.

§  Keep your hips exactly over each and do not roll forward or back.

§  8=12 reps

o   Inner Thigh 2:

§  Lay on your back on the floor grab the middle of the ball in between your  bent knees.

§  Place your feet flat on the floor with your arms extended by your side palms down.

§  Squeeze the ball between your knees.

§  8-12 reps

o   Upper Thighs:

§  Stand and press the ball between the wall and your lower back. Bring your feet out about 2 steps and place them firmly on the floor at shoulder width.

§  Bring your arms forward for balance. Bend your knees and squat allowing the ball to roll up your back. Hold when your thighs are parallel to the floor and return to start.

§  Keep your knees over your heels

§  8-12 reps

o   Calves Heel Raises:

§  Sit on top of the ball with your feet on the floor should width apart.

§  Lean you torso forward with your elbows on your knees and lift your ankles while lifting your heel as high as you can. Hold and lower.

§  Keep your weight forward and evenly spread across the balls of your feet.

§  8-12 reps

·         Buttocks

o   Pelvic Tilt:

§  Lie on the ball resting your waist and back on the ball.

§  Place your hands on your thighs keeping your feet flat on the floor at shoulder width apart.

§  Lifting your pelvis raise your hips a few inches then lower your back to the start.

§  Use your abdominal muscles to lift your hips.

§  8-12 reps

o   Leg Raises:

§  Begin with your hips waist and chest on the ball.

§  Extend your left hand and right leg at the same time

§  Repeat and alternate starting sides.

§  Do not arch your back and keep your head still.

§  8-12 reps

o   Hip Extension:

§  Lay on the floor on your back, arms by your side, with your knees bent and on top of the ball.

§  Lift your hips off the floor until your back is straight. Hold and return to the start.

§  Do not arch your back and use your arms to aid your balance.

§  8-12 reps

These are really effective exercises and they can be done at home. No packing a bag and ducking the rain if you do not want. You need very little space to these and the ball can be stored out of the way.

Sp try these let me know how they work for you. Get Up Get Moving Get Well and remember,

“CHIT CHAT WON’T BURN FAT”

SETBACKS HAPPEN TO EVERYONE

How Will You Manage Yours

I ran into a friend recently who I have not seen for some time. This friend has struggled with her weight for many years and has tried many methods to lose weight, recently going as far as having barometric surgery. While she has succeeded in losing well over a hundred pounds over the course of her many attempts to lose weight, in every instance she has gained the weight back.

My friend described her despair and embarrassment about her fluctuating weight gains especially in regards to gaining the weight back after the surgery. Her question was, “how do you deal with setbacks?” I had to give it a great deal of thought and remember my own setbacks. I have been down many times and as I indicated in an earlier blog when I returned to the gym after 7 months of not attending or working out, I was not happy with myself.

I could tell you something cliché like “setbacks are opportunities”-- and they are-- but that does not really answer the question. I am also sure I do not have the answer for everyone but I will give it my best. My setbacks usually are in the areas where I am the weakest. For me it is the cardio vascular segment of my routine. 

This most likely because it is not glamorous but it is tedious and boring. So I neglect it. In the past, I would leave the gym without even thinking about it. If I did think about it, I convinced myself I did not need to do it.

More recently I have consistently performed the cardio segment. In fact I have gone longer and harder on many occasions than the goal set before hand. The results have been great and it motivates me to continue to be consistent with this. My cardio performance and endurance are improving and this also provides additional motivation. I am able to go longer (mileage) and with greater intensity (speed and resistance). It is becoming one of my strengths and I think this may be the answer.

This is where the setbacks usually creep in quietly and interfere with our success-- not just with fitness but other aspects of our lives as well. If I experience a setback and start gaining body fat, it is most likely a lack of enthusiastic, consistent cardio performance. This results in some added girth around my middle because that is where I gain size first. Subsequently it becomes more difficult to do the cardio because I have neglected it and I am less comfortable physically.

So it seems your “setback” will start where you are the weakest. What part of your workout is the weakest? This will likely be the cause of any setback you experience. Since we usually do not like doing anything where we are not proficient, it is easy to leave the difficult portion out of the routine. Our minds are remarkable for their ability to convince us the things we wish to believe are true and that which we do not want to believe is false. As a result we do not do the things we need to do in order to be successful.

The things we avoid doing because they are the hardest for us are probably the things we need to do if we are going to fully become who we want and need to be. As we get older our willingness to experiment with new things or situations that make us uncomfortable seems to diminish. Remember when you wanted to try everything that was new and interesting? Now think about when was the last time you were willing to risk looking silly or clumsy trying something that was unfamiliar and uncomfortable.

It is no different at the gym, home or other areas of your life. Try to do something a little outside of your comfort zone everyday in life and at the gym. Your will to challenge yourself and grow will eventually conquer any “setbacks” you are struggling with and in fact propel you forward at an even more rapid pace. Do not let your fear of discomfort become a barrier to your success. You are the one giving it power.

You are also the one who can choose not to give it power. Face your fear, accept it and own it then go do it anyway. As I consciously examine the setbacks in my life, this is how I continue to overcome them. Remember, a setback is closely associated with some kind of resistance of our minds and will. 

If we can change the way we view our setbacks and look at them as opportunities for growth rather than blockages, we are more likely to succeed and obtain our desired results—and have a positive outlook while doing it. So if you have a setback, examine what part of your routine, including, eating well and resting, that is being neglected. It is here where you will find the answer as to why.

Once you have the answer, Get Up, Get Moving and remember, “CHIT CHAT WON’T BURN FAT.”

Jay

TODAY'S HEALTHY RECIPE

CHIT CHAT WON'T BURN FAT









Lima Bean Soup

Items Required:

Lima Beans 1 lb

2 lbs. Smoked Turkey (wings or necks)

Brown rice

scallions

Minced garlic

Pepper
fresh basil

2 Large pots

1.       Soak the lima beans in warm water for several hours until they absorb the water and swell.

2.       Boil the smoked meat until the meat easily comes off the bone.

3.       Cook the brown rice.

4.       Chop one small onion into very small bits

5.       Once the meat is cooked let it cool and remove the meat from the pot safely.

a.       Keep the broth from the smoked meat.

6.        Now take all of the meat off of the bones and discard the bones.

a.       Cut meat into small bite size chunks

7.       Take the swollen beans and pour into pot with broth from smoked meat.

8.       Mix in the chopped onions.

9.       Mix in one tablespoon of the minced garlic.
          Mix in the fresh chopped basil

10.   Mix in the cut meat

11.   Place on the stove and bring to a boil and cover. Leave a little room for steam to escape

12.   Adjust the heat to keep pot a medium boil.

13.   As the water boils off replace to keep the beans covered.

14.   Cook until beans become soft but are not falling apart.

15.   Once beans are done serve with the rice in a bowl.

This recipe is almost completely Fat Free and provides protein via the lima beans and the smoked meat. Lima beans are a legume and contain a substantial amount of vegetable protein and fiber. Good luck, go try it and let me know how you like it. 

You  may add cream of mushroom soup. It adds flavor but also know it is high in calories and milk products cause inflammation throughout the body

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IS IT SAFE

To Be Sick

After reading the article below, ask yourself do really want to wait until you have to go to the hospital to develop a wellness plan? As I do more research I am beginning to realize the situation with this trusted institution is far worse than I initially thought. 

Although I appreciate our President’s effort and the fallout he is still experiencing, I hope that I do not have to use Obama Care too often. Infections, bad surgery, misdiagnosis and eventually death seem to be a primary byproduct of an industry with the oath, “Do No Harm.”

The cost of health care and the outcomes seem to be incongruous with our expectations. I know when I am paying someone I expect them to be respectful, courteous and competent. Seems neither of these characteristics is consistent with what many experience. The stories are horrifying and often change lives forever. 

How do you give someone back their life when your avoidable errors have altered it beyond recognition? How do repeat these errors and/or become complicit with the act when you keep the knowledge of the act to yourself?

We speak of corruption usually when it is explicit. Yet we rarely recognize it when it is implicit.  This information is readily available in the age of technology but why is it rarely discussed in the media, politics or community forums? Difficult to say who exactly is complicit in the ongoing lie of do no harm but clearly the medical profession is one of the most powerful special interest groups in this country. And they have friends in the drug industry, universities, and food industry. 

Don’t tell on me and I won’t tell on you is the tacit agreement. The silence, which is the main tenet of corruption, is deafening and the lack of action, the second tenet for corruption to occur, is appalling. We need to speak up not only do we have the right to health care; we also have the right to competent health care.

We have the right and partial responsibility to be well. We need the help of the health care industry not their disdain or incompetence. Beyond the do no harm we want them to do some good. Pay it forward and partner with patients to keep us well. Change their focus from treatment to wellness and not just use it as a slogan. Change begins with you becoming vocal and active about what you want.

How many of you have actually safely come off of your meds? If you have been able to safely eliminate the need for your meds share with me what and how you did it. I fortunately no longer need to take blood pressure medication. The side effects were not pleasant and my blood pressure remained elevated. It is now in the normal range. I increased my cardiovascular routine.

Please know I am not encouraging any one to stop taking meds they now require without supervision and testing to be sure it is safe. Your body may be dependent on some meds and stopping suddenly is not safe. Get well then get off.

So what happens, we go in expecting to get better. Maybe even expecting to get well and we get worse. Over and over this happens and yet we go back to the same people who were not able to provide the required support we needed to get well.

Taking prescriptions to mask symptoms is not getting well unless there is an end to needing to take the prescription. So ask yourself are you well and if not I encourage to take one step today towards your wellness. Just one and it will be easier to take a second tomorrow.

So why are waiting? Don’t ask, “what can me doctor do for me?” Instead ask yourself, “what can I do for me.” 

The answer is Get Up Get Moving and remember,

“CHIT CHAT WON’T BURN FAT”

Thousands of people die every year from infections they get at a hospital. With prodding from the federal government, the health care industry is taking steps to address the problem.

By Maggie Fox

Updated: January 26, 2012 | 10:25 a.m.
January 19, 2012 | 3:00 p.m.

Jennifer Manganello had beaten a staph infection. She won out over a nasty bug called Klebsiella, too, as she lay in the intensive-care unit, suffering from complications of a seven-year-old spine procedure and was breathing with a ventilator.

But the 22-year-old, who had been partly paralyzed since the spine operation when she was 15, was attacked by two more infections as the weeks passed at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. She finally died, one of the 99,000 Americans killed by a hospital-acquired infection in 2005.

Jennifer’s mother, Susan Manganello, was horrified by the toll that hospital care took on her daughter’s body. “Whatever antibiotic they gave her burned the entire side of her arm. It was like a huge, huge burn,” Manganello, a former transplant nurse, said in a telephone interview. “They kept it wrapped. When they took it down in front of me one day, I actually gagged. And I am a nurse. It was very deep and very nasty. She died with that. It never got healed.”

Doctors used to shrug off cases like Jennifer’s. Infections, they argued, are an unfortunate but inevitable side effect of long-term hospital stays. Germs are everywhere, they are invisible, and they can cause infections in so many ways when patients have multiple tubes inserted in veins, arteries, and other parts of their bodies. People carrying all sorts of microbes go in and out of hospitals all the time, and nurses are busy. It’s impossible to control all the exposures.

Public-health groups disagree, and they have become increasingly vocal about hospital-acquired infections. The influential Institute of Medicine made headlines when it issued a report in 1999 estimating that as many as 98,000 Americans die annually from preventable medical errors, mostly infections, at a cost of up to $29 billion a year.

 But the report changed little. “Hospital stays for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection have more than tripled since 2000 and have increased nearly tenfold since 1995,” the Health and Human Services Department reported in 2009. “One decade later, we can’t say whether we are any better off today than when the IOM first sounded the alarm about medical errors in 1999,” Arthur Levin, director of the Center for Medical Consumers and a member of the IOM’s Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, said at the time. Health and Human Services estimated that 1.7 million people acquired infections in the hospital, and that 99,000 of them died, in 2002.

RECIPES TO

Improve Your Health


Kale Salad with Oranges, Almonds and Avocado

 

kale salad with walnuts and feta

ultimate spinach salad

makes one giant salad (with leftover dressing)

Print this recipe!

Ingredients:

1 bunch lacinato kale (“dinosaur” kale”), washed and roughly chopped

2 juicy oranges

3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1/2 avocado, diced

2 tbsp sliced toasted almonds

pinch of sea salt

pinch of black pepper

Directions

First, make the dressing. Combine the juice of one orange with the olive oil, pinch of sea salt and pepper. Shake or stir until very well combined. Set aside.

To assemble the salad, peel the other orange and separate the sections (peeling off the white pith as best you can). Chop orange sections roughly and place in a bowl with the kale, chopped avocado and almonds.

Drizzle about half the dressing over salad and toss well to coat. Enjoy now or stick in the fridge and eat later (this salad will stay good for a couple days in a covered container in the fridge). Dressing will stay good in a sealed jar for a about a week.

Time:

5 minutes

By Alison Lewis

1. Kale is low in calorie, high in fiber and has zero fat. One cup of kale has only 36 calories, 5 grams of fiber and 0 grams of fat. It is great for aiding in digestion and elimination with its great fiber content. It’s also filled with so many nutrients, vitamins, folate and magnesium as well as those listed below.

2. Kale is high in iron. Per calorie, kale has more iron than beef. Iron is essential for good health, such as the formation of hemoglobin and enzymes, transporting oxygen to various parts of the body, cell growth, proper liver function and more.

3. Kale is high in Vitamin K. Eating a diet high in Vitamin K can help protect against various cancers. It is also necessary for a wide variety of bodily functions including normal bone health and the prevention of blood clotting. Also increased levels of vitamin K can help people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

4. Kale is filled with powerful antioxidants. Antioxidants, such as carotenoids and flavonoids help protect against various cancers.

5. Kale is a great anti-inflammatory food. One cup of kale is filled with 10% of the RDA of omega-3 fatty acids, which help, fight against arthritis, asthma and autoimmune disorders.

6. Kale is great for cardiovascular support. Eating more kale can help lower cholesterol levels.

7. Kale is high in Vitamin A.Vitamin A is great for your vision, your skin as well as helping to prevent lung and oral cavity cancers.

8. Kale is high in Vitamin C. This is very helpful for your immune system, your metabolism and your hydration.

9. Kale is high in calcium. Per calorie, kale has more calcium than milk, which aids in preventing bone loss, preventing osteoporosis and maintaining a healthy metabolism. Vitamin C is also helpful to maintain cartilage and joint flexibility

10. Kale is a great detox food. Kale is filled with fiber and sulfur, both great for detoxifying your body and keeping your liver healthy.

Published April 2, 2012 at 11:30 AM

About Alison Lewis

Alison Lewis is a nationally known Cookbook Author, Magazine and Internet Food, Travel and Health Journalist, Speaker, Travel and Food Photographer and Owner of Ingredients, Inc., a Media Consulting company in Birmingham, Alabama.

This is not my recipe but I have tried it and it is very good. I never ate kale in a salad prior to this but this was nice. Try it out and let me know how you like or do not like and share some fat reducing recipes with your fellow blog readers.

COME ON MAN

For Real!!!!!

Good Evening Readers,

My experience at the gym this morning inspired today’s blog. I had a great workout today, however, I saw several behaviors that were questionable as far as gym etiquette is concerned. But without knowledge, how do we know what is acceptable and what is not?

I want to make certain this is not a lecture or criticism of anyone. So I am going to leave the editorial out and provide you a bulleted list of some do’s and don’ts when working out at the gym:

·         Try not to stare.

o   If you want to watch a particular technique let the person performing it know why you are watching.

·         Please do not sit on the machine and text or phone someone and expect others to wait.

o   If you are doing this and are approached please step off of the machine and finish your text or phone call to the side.

·         Give the proper amount of space for safety.

o   Pay attention to what is happening around you.

o   Working out with weights is inherently dangerous if you are not attentive.

·         Avoid dropping the weights to the floor.

o   They may bounce several feet away towards another member. It is always best to put the weights down with control.

o   Again a safety issue that, if not followed, may lead to severe injury.

·         If there is a towel or other item on a bench check to see if someone is using it.

o   This reduces conflict in a place where there is the potential of serious injury.

·         Do not leave items on an apparatus if you are not using it.

o   The majority of people will hesitate to move it and you will either delay or diminish their workout and outcomes. Be Considerate!

·         Like professional tennis, stop the grunting and hollering. Build it and they will come.

o   You do not impress anyone since we all know, “Big Dogs Don’t Bark.” Success is based on performance not noise.

·         Working out in the mirror and blocking access to the dumb bells or other weights is not cool.

o   Move back or to the side but make sure there is space around you to access weights or an apparatus.

·         Put the weights back where they belong on the racks.

o   None of us wants to spend extra time looking for or removing weights from an apparatus.  We are a community working together.

·         Gentlemen (and ladies) mind your language and tone.

o   It is unnecessary and not impressive.

o   Profanity is a tool of the incompetent.


Adopt these behaviors and Improve your experience in the GYM. Do what you want at home but stay safe.

I know I’ve probably missed a few. Help me out and tell me what raises your eyebrows while working at the gym. Is it those offering fattening foods; slowing you down with Chit Chat; what makes you just go arghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get up Get Moving and Remember,

“CHIT CHAT WON’T BURN FAT”