How to Lose Holiday Weight and Make 2016 Your Healthiest Year Yet
Shelly Stinson With an abundance of homemade goodies available during the holiday season, it isn’t at all uncommon to gain a little (or a lot) of weight thanks to the extra fat and calories most of these contain. This may leave you entering the new year with the goal of creating positive habits so you […]
Can Intermittent Fasting Improve Your Health?
Dr. Marc Bubbs ND, CSCS @DrBubbs A technique to kickstart weight loss Throughout history, going long periods without eating or fasting is a therapeutic technique that has been used for millennia to promote wellness and purge the body of toxins and disease. From an evolutionary perspective, our hunter-gatherer ancestors would have been without food for […]
Recovering After Joint Replacement Surgery
Dr. Kimberly M. Sanders, ND @_drkimsanders As an autoimmune arthritis specialist, I come across patients undergoing joint replacements on a weekly basis. Naturopathic adjunct therapies can be used to reduce complications and poor outcomes after this type of surgery. Many of these same complementary approaches can be tried early in the arthritic process to attempt […]
Weighed Down? Eat and Sleep Your Way to Fat Loss
Dr. Amy Bader, ND @AmyBaderND Hello, Ladies! This month I am covering a topic many patients ask about in my practice: losing weight. Overweight… I’ve been there, done that. I’ll be honest, I like being lean better. But, I believe the goal for any woman is to feel good in her skin. After working with […]
Foundations of Fertility Part 2: Blood Sugar Stabilization
Dr. Donata Girolamo, ND @DonataGirolamo Maintaining a tightly controlled insulin and blood sugar relationship is crucial for conception. This means ensuring the pancreas does not produce too much insulin in response to your meal. You may have a problem with blood sugar balance and insulin resistance if you have trouble with weight loss, have been […]
The Dirty “D” Word
Navigating Through the Diet Dilemmas Dr. Sarah LoBisco, ND @DrLoBisco There’s so much conflicting information in every aspect of healthcare today. One of the most obvious examples is with dietary recommendations and weight loss. There are equally qualified experts on either side of the spectrums of high-fat, low-fat, high protein, vegetarian, paleo, intermittent fasting, and […]
8 Tips for a Sexier Spring You with Exercise and Weight Loss
Everyone knows that exercise is a vital piece to losing weight and maintaining weight loss. There is evidence that exercise will positively influence the drive to eat or not eat through the modulation of hunger and adjust the sense of fullness and satisfaction after eating. Exercise is vital to successful weight loss1. Many of my patients ask me these things […]
Changing Behavior Around Weight Loss and Social Support
Dr. Pamela Frank, BSc (Hons), ND Successful long term weight loss means not only changing how much you eat and exercise, but changing some pretty ingrained habits and behaviors. Certain behaviors have been more strongly linked with obesity, while certain healthier behaviors are connected to successful weight loss and lifestyle changes. Eating Behaviors In one […]
Green plant membrane supplements help with weight loss
Research has shown that consuming green plant membrane supplements once a day encourages weight loss, improves obesity-related risk factors and reduces the urge to eat. The research is published in the October, 2014 edition of the journal Appetite as “Body weight loss, reduced urge for palatable food and increased release of GLP-1 through daily supplementation […]
The Inside Scoop on Calories and Weight Loss
Dr. Pamela Frank, BSc (Hons), ND For weight loss, patients often ask how many calories they should eat and what percentage of those calories should be composed of fat, protein and carbohydrate. That depends on a number of factors: type and level of physical activity, gender, age, body composition, how much weight you want or […]