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The 5 most common travel-related illnesses and how to avoid them – Regina Leader-Post

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:52 pm

Staying healthy while travelling means you can spend more time enjoying yourself so take precautions.Xavier Mouton Photographie on Unsplash

With the news of the coronavirus, a flu-like illness that started in Wuhan, China, making headlines, falling ill abroad is top of mind for many. And while this and other past viruses, like SARS and swine flu, can cause serious outbreaks and cause for concern, there other more common illnesses that you can still easily catch while travelling.

Read on to discover five of the most common illnesses you can get abroad, plus some advice on how to avoid them in the first place.

Where: Anywhere, though places with poor food handling and sanitation are higher risk

Theres no mistaking that rumbling feeling that strikes your lower guts before a bout of travellers diarrhea. Its the most common sickness people face when travelling. Generally, you wind up with travellers diarrhea by eating or drinking something thats been contaminated with a variety of bacteria, including E. coli or salmonella. Symptoms include sudden diarrhea, painful stomach cramps, fever and vomiting. Usually, it will clear up on its own within two days to a week.

How to avoid it: Always choose a safe water source (avoid tap water in certain places) and ensure that the spots youre dining at are preparing food safely. Wash your hands with soap and water often to avoid the spread of gems. Opting for hot/cooked foods and skipping undercooked meats can also help.

Where: the Caribbean, Central and South America, Southeast Asia and even parts of the United States, like Hawaii

Mosquitoes arent just worth avoiding because of the relentless itching caused by their bites. Dengue fever is the number one mosquito-borne virus, despite zika getting more media play as of late. Dengue symptoms, which include headache, body pain (and specifically eye pain), nausea and vomiting come on rapidly once youve been bitten by an infected mosquito. Following infection, a rash will also present itself.

How to avoid it: Use bug spray when in mosquito-dense areas and cover up at dusk and dawn when theyre most active. In some cases, sleeping beneath a bug net can also keep the pests at bay while you rest.

Where: Parts of the Caribbean, Mexico, Southeast Asia, Central and South America, Africa and parts of the Middle East

Malaria is another sickness that you can get from mosquito bites. It causes unpleasant flu-like symptoms including chills, sweating, headache, nausea and vomiting and abdominal pain.

How to avoid it: Like dengue, malaria can be avoided by using mosquito repellent and covering your skin. Some people might choose to use prescription medication that provides protection from the disease, which can be taken orally two days before you arrive in an at-risk area and for four weeks after you get home.

Where: Worldwide

Tetanus, also known as lock-jaw syndrome, is a bacterial infection that you get from cutting yourself on a dirty metal or stepping on an old, rusty nail and puncturing your skin. It will cause severe stiffness of the jaw and neck muscles, tremors and difficulty swallowing and in many cases, death.

How to avoid it: Stay vaccinated. If youre unsure when you had your last tetanus shot, visit your medical practitioner to determine whether you need a booster or fresh round of vaccinations.

Where: Most common in South and Central America, Asia and parts of AfricaTuberculous, also known as TB, is a bacteria that can be spread by coughing, sneezing or even speaking, which makes it incredibly contagious. It causes a persistent cough that result in coughing up blood, as well as chest pain, weight loss and chills. Many people die from TB.

How to avoid it: The Bacillus CalmetteGurin (BCG) vaccine, which is most commonly administered during childhood here in Canada, is the best form of protection against TB.

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How to Biohack Your Brain and Boost Your Business – Greenwich Time

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:52 pm

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How to Biohack Your Brain and Boost Your Business

Alisa Vitti believes it's time women start using their biological rhythm to their advantage. She says, "The myth that we're hormonal, or that our hormones are a liability, is part of an old, misogynistic narrative that isn't actually based on the scientific facts."

Shesays most women are in tune with their monthly menstrual cycle, but they might not know there is asecond monthly clock called the infradian rhythm, which she explains is just as important as the daily circadian rhythm for maintaining our health. "Ignoring our infradian clock actually makes us sick, overwhelmed, and tired," she adds. "Most research in health and fitness is actually done on MEN and is not appropriate for women. For example, if you do HIIT interval training at the wrong time, you actually trigger fat storage. Most diets that work well for men dont work over the long-term for women because our metabolism changes twice per month!"

Vitti has dedicated her life's work to understanding how the female body operates, educating women about their hormones anddisrupting menstrual healthcare.A pioneer of female biohacking and founder of the period-positive platform @floliving, Vitti has released her latest book,In the FLO. She says, "This book shows us how mainstream health plans, self-care routines, fitness regimens, and time management schedules, and even the power morning concept, are all founded on a system that only optimizes male biology, and leaves out the specialized and cyclical needs of women."

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Food Ethics: Treat Animals How You Wish to be Treated – Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:52 pm

By the 20th century, it kind of became assumed that humans should eat meat, and a good amount of it, to sustain a healthy, well balanced diet. Even more recently in Western food thought comes the colorful, or not so very, variety of fads and diets that dominate mainstream public discourse.

On one end of the spectrum you have the Paleo or caveman diet that consists of eating pretty much nothing other than red meat, while leaving out grains, beans and dairy or any other nasty pastoral food groups. On the opposite end of the spectrum sits the stoic and reserved vegan, who eats positively no animal products whatsoever. They even go so far as to feed their dogs and cats a strictly vegan diet, contrary to their carnivore nature. The myriad of diets between have ranged from cigarettes instead of sweets to diet pills to Atkins low carbs; even masticating and prayers were said to help you lose your love handles.

With so many options, how are we supposed to know what really works and what doesnt, or at the very least whats acceptable? For those answers we can turn to science and God. Religion has always had much to say on what people can and cannot eat, how certain foods are to be prepared and more generally the ethics surrounding all things animal.

Abrahamic scriptures have a number of conflicting ideas surrounding whether or not man is allowed to eat meat or not. For example, in Genesis, God only indicates that man is supposed to eat every green plant for food, but not the beast or the birds. Contrastly, in Leviticus 11:1-47 God speaks to Moses and Aaron and says, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat.

While Christianity still has some scripture to sort through, Judaism and Islam have much clearer and codified rules surrounding the consumption of meat and the treatment of animals. From the Jewish oral tradition of Mishna, whom Judith Prince put much into writing, came the concept of tza ar ba alei hayim or rules against cruelty to animals. These rules are drawn from scripture and have a community agreement that legitimizes them, thereby working them into peoples everyday lives. From here the Jewish community sources its rules for Kosher. The Muslim community has a very similar practice for the processing of Halal meats, the only caveat being that the word of God must be uttered while slaughtering the animal. This is their way of recognizing the animal as a creature of Gods creation.

Buddhism and Jainism have even stricter rules surrounding the treatment of all living things. These rules stem from the ancient notion of ahimsa, meaning non-hindering or non-violence towards other living creatures. Jainism has some of the most strongly codified food ethics of any religion. The standard practice is that ones diet must be fully vegetarian, except for anything that grows below the ground.

Coming back to our initial qualm, lets now confront the science and history of frequent meat consumption. Taken to the extreme, the paleo diet tells us to drop pastoral foods like grain, beans and dairy. This diets philosophy is founded on the belief that our hunter-gatherer ancestors derived over half of their caloric intake from meat. This is just simply not true, as most hunter-gatherers only get around 30 percent of their annual calories from animals. In fact, it was the women and children, the gatherers, who provided most of the calories consumed by these groups; The Hadza, modern Tanzanian hunter-gatherers, get 70% of their calories from plants.

So, how did this misconception about nutrition come to be? It came through the proliferation of the, then mistaken, Western portrayals of early hunter-gatherer societies. In 1924, Raymon Dart, the archaeologist who first discovered early human fossils in Africa, popularized their image as carnivorous savages. This failed understanding of our ancestors led us to create our flawed notion that meat needs to be the centerpiece of every meal.

If that is the precedent, then how, with an exponentially growing population, are we going to provide for that demand? The answer: factory farms. Conveniently labeled by the industry as confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), businessmen have brought the logic of economies of scale to animal husbandry. As an example, David Kirby in his book Animal Factory models a CAFO for hogs. He says that for a 5,000 animal hog pen, sitting on an acre or two, there could be up to 650 animals per barn. The daily waste created by all these hogs would equal that of 20,000 people. In a space that small, there is no feasible way to deal with all of that waste the land cant absorb it. So, where does it all go then? Every now and then, it will get shoveled into a lagoon by a frontloader where it will sit and stink to high hell. Though these waste lagoons have capacities, they are frequently ignored because hiring trucks to haul it away would cost way too much money. This toxic waste is often times sprayed over fields as manure, but unlike normal manure, hog waste is filled with bacteria and pathogens that go airborne and can infect humans.

I feel like Im speaking for most when I say that there seems to be a massive disconnect here, between the ethics of factory farming and those supported and practiced by religious persons. For instance, producers insist that farm animals are better off confined than set loose on pastureland, where they fall prey to the elements, predators, and disease. We are lying to ourselves and consciously choosing to hurt animals and people if we believe such things. Producers at such high scales budget for mass recalls of contaminated meat and the unnatural die-off of animals. In no sane state of mind could anyone honestly claim that the animals raised as such are better off confined in these CAFOs. We are lying to ourselves for the sake of better profit margins, a notion that is propagated by the growth imperative of modern corporations in a highly capitalist and extremely unethical market.

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These pro athletes are vegan — why they switched and how you can benefit too – CNET

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:52 pm

Some elite athletes, like Venus Williams, adhere to a vegan diet.

Maybe you've seen the Netflix documentary The Game Changers, or you've heard of Scott Jurek, a man who trains for and wins 100-mile footraces without eating animal products. Even Tom Brady reportedly eats a diet that's 80% plant-based. Everywhere you turn, there seem to be more and more elite athletes going vegan, or at least vegetarian.

Common sense has long said that high-level athletes need as much protein and calories as possible -- and many people assume a vegan diet is lacking in both. But then why do we keep seeing athletes pop up like Patrik Baboumian, a world-record holding powerlifter who follows a strict vegan diet?

It turns out that a lot of popular ideas surrounding veganism, vegetarianism and plant-based diets in general may be false. Elite athletes can and commonly do excel at their sport without eating animal products -- and it may work for you too.

Patrik Baboumian is the world's strongest man, and he's vegan.

I spoke to Registered Dietician Brittany Modell to learn more. She told me that athletes have different reasons for adopting a plant-based diet, including health, environmental and ethical concerns. Although various athletes have their own motivations, many have been public about the benefits they've seen.

Andre Patton, a wide receiver who plays in the NFL, has said that he feels the difference from eating a vegan diet, and that he wakes up in the morning more energetic and ready to go.

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American tennis legend Venus Williams eats a vegan diet to reduce fatigue and joint pain associated with Sjgren's syndrome, an incurable autoimmune disease she was diagnosed with in 2011.

Patrick Baboumian -- who once carried the heaviest weight ever recorded -- has said that he has lowered his blood pressure and increased his recovery time by avoiding all animal products. Babomian also cites environmental concerns for his decision to go vegan.

A plant-based diet is more than capable of giving you the nutrients that you need.

This is just anecdotal evidence -- but there's research that seems to support the claims.

Harvard Medical School says that a vegan diet reduces heart-damaging inflammation, and a meta-analysis of various studies concluded that vegetarian diets are helpful in managing long-term inflammation. Multiple other outlets have echoed the same thing -- eating more plants and less animal products will help lower your inflammation.

Medical researchers are thinking more and more about inflammation as a root cause of a lot of our ailments. Inflammation is a necessary immune response, but sometimes it goes too far. It's been proposed to be a common factor in heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and cancer. Stress, anxiety and other mental health challenges have also been linked to inflammation.

On a day-to-day level, inflammation can cause swollen and painful joints, chronic bloating and fatigue -- three things that would make any athlete's performance suffer. Hence, it makes perfect sense why so many people say they feel better when they switch to a more plant-based diet.

Carbs are more important for athletic success than you may think.

While both personal experience and research supports a vegan diet being possible even for athletes, beliefs about animal products being necessary for performance still float around.

One common mistaken idea is that animal protein is critical to athletic performance. Muscles need protein and amino acids to repair themselves and grow, but the exact amount of protein we should be consuming has been under some debate. While some athletes try to consume as much protein as possible, Modell tells me that most Americans end up eating more than the daily recommended amount of protein, which is 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight. For someone who weighs 150 pounds or 68 kilograms, that's about 55 grams of protein per day.

Modell explained that athletes actually need sufficient carbohydrates to perform, especially in endurance sports. Carbs are often overlooked, especially because of the pervasive rumor that eating them makes you gain weight. But your body stores the glucose from carbohydrates as high muscle glycogen.

Glycogen is essentially the fuel your muscles use to perform, and more readily available fuel means a higher energy output. So, a higher intake of healthy carbohydrates allows athletes to perform at high intensity levels. A plant-based diet filled with whole grains, fruits and vegetables typically gives people the fuel they need when exercising.

Another common belief is that you can't get all of the essential amino acids without eating meat. While animal protein, like meat and eggs, does contain all of the amino acids your body can't produce on its own, simply combining two sources of plant protein -- like beans and rice -- will also give you all the amino acids you need.

Plant-based food is still incredibly delicious.

If you're wondering whether cutting out more animal products can work for you, the answer is almost certainly yes -- assuming you're still eating a varied diet with plenty of whole grains, fruits, vegetables and plant protein sources. While a plant-based diet won't turn you from a pickup soccer player into Cristiano Ronaldo, you may see athletic performance gains stemming from quicker recovery times. Plus, you have a good likelihood of enjoying outcomes like lowered cholesterol and a healthier heart.

You certainly don't have to go full vegan to reap the benefits of a plant-based diet. Start with just one day a week where you eat a vegetarian diet, like a "Meatless Monday," and see how your body responds. Or, just try cutting out junk food in your diet and replacing empty calories with plant-based foods like nuts, legumes or veggies.

The bottom line is that if you're interested in the benefits of a plant-based diet, you should experiment with what you're eating, try to add more plant-based whole foods and figure out what makes you feel best.

The information contained in this article is for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended as health or medical advice. Always consult a physician or other qualified health provider regarding any questions you may have about a medical condition or health objectives.

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The global convergence of food supply patterns – New Food

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:52 pm

Research carried out by the University of Kent has shown that diets are changing in complex ways across the world. Here, Lecturer Dr James Bentham explores.

The world is increasingly wealthy and globalised. This is driving substantial changes in diet, with important implications for health, trade and the environment. The proportion of people who are underweight is falling slowly at a global level, but some countries still have high levels of undernutrition, and rapidly increasing obesity levels are a concern in many countries. Meanwhile, changes in food production and trade are having important economic and environmental effects at local, national and global levels.

Our results show the value of examining changes in entire food systems, rather than just trends in the availability of single food types

The aim of our work was to quantify food supply patterns at national level, and how they have changed since the early 1960s. To do so, we used the food balance sheets published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which describe the availability of different food types for human consumption. We analysed data on the proportion of available energy provided by 18 food groups in 171 countries for the period from 1961 to 2013, the most recent year for which data were available.

We found that most of the information in the data could be summarised into four scores, each based on different food group combinations: an animal source and sugar score, a vegetable score, a starchy root and fruit score, and a seafood and oilcrops score. The animal source and sugar score is high when diets include large proportions of animal fats, eggs, meat, milk, offals, sugar, or sweeteners, while countries with a high vegetable score have an abundance of vegetables, vegetable oils, or treenuts. The remaining scores are respectively high in starchy roots such as potatoes, or fruits, and seafood including fish, or oilcrops.

It appears that western countries may be moving towards a more balanced diet, with higher levels of vegetable consumption than in the past

High animal source and sugar scores might seem to reflect a typically western diet. However, these foods are now a substantial part of diet not just in Europe, North America and Australasia, but also in Latin America, and increasingly in east Asia. A partial convergence in these scores has been driven by decreases in some western countries, most notably in high-income English-speaking countries, and large increases, particularly in China. The vegetable score is high in a band stretching from the Mediterranean to Japan, but again there has been partial convergence across the world.

The score increased in 159 countries over the 50-year period, with the largest rises taking place in South Korea and China. The starchy root and fruit scores are high only in tropical sub-Saharan Africa, while the seafood and oilcrops score is highest in South Korea and Japan. Finally, we also calculated an overall index of change in national food supply. This was particularly high in South Korea, China, Japan, and the UAE, but was also consistently moderately high in high-income English-speaking countries. Meanwhile, it was low in most of sub-Saharan Africa.

Our results show the value of examining changes in entire food systems, rather than just trends in the availability of single food types. Both the animal source and sugar score and the vegetable score are associated with body-mass index, and the major changes in food supply in east Asia may be partly responsible for strong improvements in nutritional status in that region. Conversely, the small changes in food supply in sub-Saharan Africa suggest that poor diet may be contributing to the twin burden of undernutrition and overweight in those countries. In parallel, it appears that western countries may be moving towards a more balanced diet, with higher levels of vegetable consumption than in the past. We expect that our results will help other researchers to understand the economic and political determinants of these trends, as well as the effects of changes in food supply on health, the environment and future trade patterns.

James Bentham is a Lecturer in statistics at the University of Kent. He studied for a PhD at Imperial College, before moving to Kings College, where he worked on a large genetic study. Bentham then moved back to Imperial College, where he analysed non-communicable disease risk factor and food supply data.

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Dr. Mary Claire Haver Has Cracked The Menopause Weight Loss Code: 20,000 Students And It’s Just The Beginning – Yahoo Finance

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:51 pm

GALVESTON, Texas, Jan. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Dr. Mary Claire Haver, board certified OBGYN and founder of The Galveston Diet, announced today that over 20,000 students have enrolled in the online Signature Program. By offering an anti-inflammatory approach to nutrition for women in menopause, The Galveston Diet has helped women lose weight, burn fat, and feel comfortable in their skin.

Dr. Mary Claire Haver is the founder and creator of The Galveston Diet, the first and only nutrition program in the world created by a Female OBGYN, designed for women in menopause.

"When we crossed the 20,000-student mark, I was astonished," Dr. Mary Claire notes, "The Galveston Diet is more than just a diet; it is a new way of life for many women. I created the program for women who are frustrated with menopausal and mid-life weight gain because I went through it and understood from experience how difficult it is to lose the weight. Going through menopause and perimenopause brings changes that can be a real struggle to adapt to. It is exciting to hear successful testimonials from our students. They are in control of their bodies and are seeing the results."

What makes The Galveston Diet different from other anti-inflammatory diets? Dr. Mary Claire has done the research and not only explains the science behind the method but takes the time to break down the medical terminology into applicable layman's terms. She believes in the power of nutrition to combat inflammation and highly recommends the unlimited benefits of Intermittent Fasting. To learn as much as she could about food and medical nutrition, she became certified in Culinary Medicine in 2019.

Enrollment for the online Signature Program has a one-time fee of $59 and includes 24/7 access to the curriculum, all led by Dr. Mary Claire. Including informational videos, comprehensive resources, and offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. The program is self-paced and has over five weeks of meal plans, shopping guides, and includes a mindfulness component. To learn more about The Galveston Diet, visit YouTube/TheGalvestonDietIntro or http://www.galvestondiet.com.

About Dr. Mary Claire Haver is the founder and creator of The Galveston Diet, the first and only nutrition program in the world created by a Female OBGYN, designed for women in menopause. The Galveston Diet is dedicated to helping women reach their health and wellness goals through an anti-inflammatory approach to nutrition.

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SweetLeaf Partners with Jorge Cruise to Educate on Weight Loss – WholeFoods Magazine

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:51 pm

Gilbert, AZSweetLeaf Stevia Sweetener has partnered with celebrity fitness expert and nutrition author Jorge Cruise to teach consumers about weight loss, according to a press release.

The partnership will include Cruise in SweetLeaf advertisements as well as SweetLeaf endorsements on Cruises blog, streaming series Ask Jorge, and on his social media accounts.

Im an enthusiastic advocate of intermittent fasting, that is fat burning and boosting your energy, and for reducing added sugars in the diet and replacing them with healthier alternatives, said Cruise in the release. SweetLeaf products fit perfectly into my winning Cruise Control plan of including a plant-based sweetener with zero calories or carbs, no sugar, and delicious taste into your diet. I just had to reach out to the owner of SweetLeaf for a partnership. What a great match.

Jorge Cruise knows the importance of managing dietary sugars, added Carol May, CEO of Wisdom Natural Brands, maker of SweetLeaf Stevia Sweetener. Were happy to partner with Jorge to give Americans the knowledge they need to make wiser food and beverage choices, which will lead to a healthier, longer lifestyle.

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Woman credits 151-pound weight loss to simple tactic: ‘It was an extremely hard cycle to break’ – AOL

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:51 pm

A woman who was able to lose a jaw-dropping 151 pounds says she owes her transformation to low-carbmeal prepping and CrossFit, which helped her break her "vicious" emotional eating cycle.

Frances Carpenter, a 30-year-oldexecutive assistant living in Riverside, Calif., explained in an articlefor Women's Health that her "dysfunctional" childhood led her to constantly stress eat, which caused herto pack on pounds throughout her adolescence, landing her at a weight of 200 pounds by the time she finished high school.

The problem persisted forCarpenter, even after she moved away from the town where she grew up.Over the next seven years, she continued gaining weight and, in 2016, she eventually reached her peak of 331 poundsat the age of 16.

"I had limited physical ability when I was at my heaviest and I was very sad and depressed, so I continued to eat to soothe myself with food. It was an extremely hard cycle to break," Carpenter wrote.

"I couldn't walk for long periods of time, and I couldn't comfortably fit in restaurant booths or movie theater seats. I was in a horrible place physically, but it was also hurting my mental state," she added."I knew I wasn't living my life to its full potential, and there were so many things I wanted to experience without my weight being the first thing I always had to consider."

Desperate to make a change,Carpenter turned to preparing low-carb and nutritious meals for herself each week, which helped kick her weight loss into full gear. Within 10 months, she was able to lose 100 pounds.

Carpenter also developed a regular exercise schedule along the way to further propel her fitness journey.

"I currently work out five days a week, alternating between different body parts," she said."Three days a week I do 60 minutes of cardio, and the other two I do 30 minutes of cardio, which is usually the StairMaster. I also spent about three years doing CrossFit, which helped me build a workout routine and get stronger as well."

Since reaching her peak weight of 331 in January 2016,Carpenter says she has lost 151 pounds in total. Her goal for 2020 is to reach 170 pounds in total weight loss and also to maintain the work she has already put in.

Although Carpenter said the journey was necessary for her, she warns that it was also a surprisingly emotional struggle and encouragesthose seeking to lose weight to try to involve their friends and family for support, if possible.

"My weight loss has changed me in ways that I did not know were possible. It has of course made me more confident in the looks department, but I have gained a new level of self-love,"she wrote. "I choose myself now, and have made it my priority to never go back to my old ways. I have a new outlook on life and enjoy the little things that I so desperately wanted before."

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Women’s Excellence Offers Comprehensive Wellness and Weight Management Programs to Help Women Achieve Their New Year’s Resolutions – Yahoo Finance

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:51 pm

Women's Excellence helps women achieve weight loss goals with comprehensive wellness programs.

DETROIT, Jan. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Women's Excellence is pleased to offer a comprehensive approach to weight management and wellness to help women achieve their overall health goals this year.

These programs at Women's Excellence focus on a variety of factors that can contribute to weight gain and other health issues like poor sleep habits, acne, mood changes, fatigue, and even stress. At your first visit, your provider will assess your lifestyle, food intake, mood, and your overall goals to cater a plan that fits your needs. Your tailored program may include:

"Accountability is crucial is maintaining your weight and overall wellness." said Dr. Jonathan Zaidan, MD, FACOG, President of Women's Excellence. "Our team is here to help you achieve your goals, give you the tools necessary to enhance your lifestyle, and support and encourage you through your wellness journey."

For more information on services available at Women's Excellence, listen to the Healthy Woman Show podcast. Women's Excellence is a proud partner of Detroit's WJR 760AM radio Dr. Jonathan Zaidan of Women's Excellence each month. The podcast is located at https://www.womensexcellence.com/about/podcast/. New podcast episodes are available the 4th week of each month.

To schedule an appointment, visit http://www.WomensExcellence.com. Online Patient Support Specialists are available Monday through Friday from 8am-5pm to assist new, current, and prospective patients. The chat is located at the bottom right corner of your computer or mobile device screen at http://www.WomensExcellence.com. During offline hours, all chats sent will be messaged directly to a Women's Excellence team member. Offline messages will receive a response within 24 hours. Messages received during the weekend will be answered the next business week. Appointments can also be made at (248) 693-0543.

Women's Excellence is the most comprehensive obstetric and gynecologic office in Michigan. Additionally, they specialize in menopause, weight control, bladder control, endometriosis, robotic surgery, oncology, and midwifery services. Women's Excellence is committed to staying at the forefront of innovation with cutting edge technologies utilizing robotic surgery and minimally invasive surgical options when possible. The knowledgeable, compassionate physicians and healthcare providers of Women's Excellence focus on patient-centered processes to deliver the highest quality of care. They are affiliated with most insurances. They offer seamless medical record access via a state-of-the-art patient portal and use the latest technology for record keeping and sharing, making the patient experience easier and more efficient. Women's Excellence is taking new patients and is conveniently located throughout southeastern Michigan in Clarkston, Lake Orion, Lapeer, Rochester, Royal Oak, and West Bloomfield. For more information, visit http://www.WomensExcellence.com.

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Ethan Suplee’s Workout To Stay Fit and Maintain Healthy Habits – menshealth.com

Posted: January 30, 2020 at 3:51 pm

You probably wouldn't recognize actor Ethan Suplee if you saw him out in public these days, even though he's been onscreen, both in TV and movies, for the better part of the quarter century (he's been in everything from Boy Meets World as a kid to Mallrats, American History X, Remember the Titans, My Name Is Earl, Wolf of Wall Street, and most recently Motherless Brooklyn). Suplee has pulled off one of the most dramatic and impressive transformations we've seen from someone living under the public eye, but his workouts weren't to pack on the muscle needed to play a superhero. Suplee was more focused on transforming his relationship with food and fitness. Then the pounds dropped, and muscle followed.

The 43-year-old actor recently documented his progress, sharing that he had shed over 200 pounds and started packing on muscle with a consistent weightlifting routine. Suplee is all-in on this newfound health kick, to the point that he's started his own podcast, American Glutton, that focuses investigates obesity, diet culture, and the ways that he has engaged with his own health over the last 20-plus years.

But this isn't the first time Suplee, who has weighed over 500 pounds before, has slimmed down. So far, though, it feels like it's the first time that all of his hard work will help him to actually maintain a healthy lifestyle. He opened up about his journey in a phone interview with Men's Health, along with sharing his go-to chest push day workout on video.

Suplee says that he was always a "heavy kid," and that's when his relationship to his weight and food developed. His grandparents put him on a diet, so he began sneaking food and preferring to eat alone, a cycle that would become hard to break as an adult. Food became just like every other drug, and I didnt understand how my body used it, he says. But there was still a long road ahead, and many of Suplee's earliest roles showcased his size as much as they did his talents.

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By 2002, Suplee knew he had to change. "I had this girlfriend at the time, and I just realized at some point that in order to have a lasting relationship with her and be able to lead the life I wanted to lead, I would have to do something about my health." He opened up to her about his goals, and they set out to live a healthier life. Suplee started by putting himself on a liquid diet and estimates that he lost 80 pounds in two months, an extreme drop and lifestyle change that he would never advocate now. He shifted to a diet that only allowed him small portions of lean meat and vegetables, got down to around 400 pounds, then the weight loss slowed down. That wasn't good enough for Suplee.

"You have this immediate massive drop in weight, and you go okay, I want to keep riding that roller coaster to the finish line," he says. "But there's no thought to the long term practicality of weight loss."

Once 2005 rolled around, his wife was pregnant with their first child and Suplee was an exercise fiend, practicing Muay Thai and jiu jitsu. But his weight loss had plateaued, and he was thrown off his routine when he started filming My Name Is Earl. "I wasn't factoring in how I was going to maintain my weight at work when I was working like, 14 hours a day, five days a week," he admits. "Over the course of five years, I gained 100 pounds."

Coming out of the show, Suplee picked up a new hobby, cyclingbut the way he went about it wasn't healthy. He restricted how much he was eating, doing "all kinds of really crazy stupid diets"he once only allowed himself to eat while he was actually on the biketo go along with a grueling cycling regimen, and dropped all the way down to 220 pounds. This was the least weight he'd ever carried, but that in itself was not satisfying. "I was really, really unhappy with how I looked, and I didn't feel comfortable in my skin," he says. "I felt like a light breeze would knock me over. I don't know if I'm just big boned or a big dude, but 220 felt really, really small."

After all the hard work, Suplee was still unhappy with his body. He also had loose skin from all his weight loss, something that negative media outlets used to shame him for his progress. "TMZ stopped me and was like hey, you look great, what're you doing? And I said I ride bikes," Suplee recalls. "Then they had people talk about it and someone said 'well, he's still a fat guy." Suplee had 14 percent body fat at the time. Worse, Suplee says that paparazzi began to take photos of his loose skin for stories about the downside of weight loss, turning his hard-earned progress into a source of shame. "For the news to be kind of negative, I was like, fuck you guys," he says.

Worse still, he crashed his bike, badly. He dropped cycling, then picked up CrossFit, but busted his knee and gained "easy" 150 pounds. He was back to square one.

Then, Suplee was cast in a new show, Hulu's Chance. He began lifting weights for the role of D, a big, tough guyand something clicked. "I found that I really enjoyed lifting weights and I could get my workout in an hour, and so that wasn't like a huge part of my day," he says. "Even if I had a really long work day, I could go before or go after."

More importantly, Suplee decided to dig into the most difficult part of the equation, his nutrition. He started with keto, but everything finally clicked when he came across a TED Talk by Dr. Mike Isratel, "The Scientific Landscape of Healthy Eating". "I probably watched it four times in a row," Suplee says. "I was just like, this is not what I was being told." Suplee had bought into the theory that all carbohydrates are bad in any form, so being told that the macronutrient is actually a necessary source of fuel was eye-opening.

He switched to a low fat diet, gained 8 pounds in three days, but stayed the course after doubling down on the science and checking his lean body fat percentage using a DEXA scan.

Now, Suplee is about 260 pounds, and feels much healthier. He uses progressive overload principles very slightly over a four-week periods, then comes back a little heavier and repeats the process. He's mostly focused on hypertrophy, not lifting a house full of weights. "I don't give a crap about how many plates I have on there, that's irrelevant," he says. "The only thing I'm trying to do at this point is lose fat and hold onto the muscle." Suplee's biggest goal is to get to 10 percent body fat, then see how much muscle he can pack onto his frame. He calls it a "crazy, kind of science-y fun project I'm looking forward to."

The public reception to his recent weight loss is much more positive as well, with no TMZ hit pieces or shame paparazzi photos. Suplee credits that shift in part to being totally in control of the narrative, through his posts on Instagram and his openness on his podcast about his journey.

"The more I feel that I understand, scientifically, the more power I have over it."

No matter what anyone thinks, Suplee is training hard now, and he plans to continue that going forward. That also applies to his acting career. "I made my career as the fat guy," he says. "I dont want to be fat anymore. If the podcast is what I have to do make a career, thats fine."

All of the effort has been worth it to Suplee for the knowledge he's gained. That's what he hopes everyone who marvels at his before and after photos can learn.

"The most important thing I would want anyone to take away is that for me, the biggest change was understanding how food works," he says. "And the more I feel that I understand, scientifically, the more power I have over it."

Suplee is hard at work at achieving his goals, so the Men's Health team met up with him at Grant Roberts' Granite Gym in Beverly Hills, where the man himself, strength coach Grant Roberts, helped to walk us through his chest push day workout split.

Power Plate Pushup

1A. Dumbbell Incline Fly - 3 sets of 10 reps

1B. Dumbbell Incline Press - 3 sets of 8 reps

2. Low Bench Press (Machine Press) - 3 sets of 10 reps

3. Cable Scoop - 3 sets of 10 reps

4A. Dumbbell Pullover - 3 sets of 10 reps

4B. Dumbbell French Press - 3 sets of 8 to 10 reps

5. Double Skullcrusher with Hold - 8 reps, 5 reps, 3 reps, 1 rep

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