Lowering your Carbohydrates to less than 100 grams a day can vastly improve the performance of your Autonomic System and help you lose weight and feel healthier.
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common hormone disorder among women of reproductive age. PCOS affects approximately 5-14% of women (depending on the definition used). here is no significant difference between white and black women with regard to incidence of PCOS when controlling for BMI and age. PCOS is often associated …
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Introduction I see many men and women who complain of recurrent urinary tract infections. They may also complain of frequent urination in the daytime or at night, have sudden urges to urinate or may even leak a little urine when they sneeze or cough (stress incontinence). Many have report they have had normal bladder evaluations …
Introduction Many people are familiar with the occasionally sensation of feeling light-headed when getting up out of bed or after bending over to pick up an item or tie their shoes. This lightheadedness can sometimes be accompanied by visual changes such as seeing black spots, burred vision or transient vertigo. On occasion, the lightheadedness can …
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Introduction Many patients commonly experience symptoms of urinary frequency, urgency or incontinence. They may wake 2-4 times at night to urinate, have a sensation of needing to urinate but produce only a small amount of urine, have frequent or even the surprisingly urgent need to urinate during the daytime. Does this sound familiar? Many of …
The first word that comes to mind when the word protein is mentioned is ‘meat’. Meat can include beef, pork, fish, poultry, and eggs. All animal meats are excellent sources of protein, some even have other sources of added nutrients such as iron. However, a commonly forgotten protein source is plant protein. Plants can also …
How Many Carbohydrates are Too Much? So what should we reduce our carbohydrate intake to? The average American diet consists of 50-60% of calories from carbohydrates, and many highly processed carbohydrates at that. Scientific studies suggest that most individuals can become extremely healthy if they reduce their carbohydrate intake to approximately 25% of their total …
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Good Carbs and Bad Carbs It is important to understand there are some very healthy forms of carbohydrates that you can eat without excessively stimulating your hunger (in future posts look at the lists of low carbohydrate fruits in vegetables that can be incorporated as part of your diet). A mistake that patients of mine …
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The Basic Science of Carbohydrates What are carbohydrates, and how do they increase our hunger and cause us to become overweight? Carbohydrate is the term for a wide range of molecules that are often categorized as starch, sugar or fiber. They are usually derived from plant leaves, roots, seeds or fruit. A few exceptions …
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A low carbohydrate program is not entirely removing carbohydrates from the diet, simply reducing the amount. Breads are a high source of carbohydrates, and given that their main ingredient is wheat, (which is considered by the public to be a healthy grain) why should bread be considered unhealthy? Sadly, bread today is not the same …
The approach taken on this blog is not the Adkin’s diet. Completely eliminating carbohydrates is not the intention, but more a reduction. Reducing the amount of carbohydrates eaten in a day and increasing protein in the diet is one of the best steps toward weight loss. Besides the benefits of weight reduction, reducing carbohydrates in …
Fast food restaurants are usually the quickest option for a meal, but unfortunately one of the more unhealthy options as well. With the average fast food meal ranging upwards of 1,000 calories or more it is no surprise that the ‘convenient’ meal choice hasn’t been too convenient on American’s waistlines. What would be a better …
I recently had the pleasure to travel to the beautiful city of Chicago to visit friends, dine at a few nice restaurants and escape the generally maddening pace of running my medical practice. During our visit we decided to go to Gino’s East to enjoy some of their famous deep dish pizza. Now, many of …
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