Fitness and Health: A Practical Guide to Nutrition, Exercise and Avoiding Disease

Case History Sally was in her early 40s and had a variety of hormone-relat- ed symptoms, including hot flashes, insomnia and bod ...

32. The Overfat Epidemic Weight loss is a primary concern of most people. Trillions of dol- lars have been spend on it without r ...

ing habits, for example, as I just noted regarding sugar and refined carbohydrates. Second, stored body fat produces inflammator ...

aspects of fat-burning. For most people, this begins with the Two- Week Test described earlier. In that chapter I suggest weighi ...

B: Balance your fats.Don’t avoid them, unless they’re bad. Eat sufficient amounts of good fats. C: Build your aerobic system thr ...

33 Chronic Inflammation: The Other Epidemic Inflammation is typically thought of as swelling, pain or discom- fort, perhaps in y ...

inflammatory-causing stress, that the switch stays on. The outcome is chronic inflammation. Chronic Inflammation When inflammati ...

! Do you have increased body fat? ! Do you perform weekly anaerobic exercise, such as weight-lifting, hard training or competiti ...

niacin and the minerals magnesium and zinc. These are best obtained from a healthy diet. Avoid specific foods and lifestyle fac ...

Lowered immunity. Indicated by frequent infections, including colds and flu, and yeast and fungal infections such as Candida. A ...

Hair loss.Loss of hair may be associated with inflamma- tion in the scalp, specifically the hair follicles. Chronic Diseases I ...

34. The Big Picture of Heart Disease Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States, and a major problem through ...

Perhaps the greatest misconception about cholesterol is that eat- ing foods containing it significantly raises levels in the blo ...

ed fats and excess consumption of saturated fats and refined carbohy- drates lower HDL. More importantly, the recommendation tha ...

Factors that Affect Cholesterol Ratios One of the worst scenarios for your cholesterol is if the HDL is low- ered and the LDL an ...

his cholesterol tested again. This time, the total was very simi- lar, 276, but the HDL diminished too much, down to 41. That dr ...

Data from the Framingham Study, the largest ongoing medical study, revealed no relationship between choles- terol consumption a ...

disease. For those who still want more information, visit the Egg Nutrition Center’s website at http://www.incredibleegg.org. Tr ...

fication of “prehypertension” is a systolic pressure between 120–139 and diastolic between 80–89 mm Hg. To make matters worse, m ...

blood pressure may elevate. Basically, by increasing overall fitness and health, blood pressure can be normalized in the majorit ...