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Tune in!!! It will be a awesome, fun filled hour! Melissa :: +Memory :: Tell a Friend :: Reply A: Sure would be nice to blame Aunt Mabel for the shape of your thighs, but it doesn't quite work that way. For obesity and diabetes, your environment (that is, your lifestyle, your behaviors, and those Nutter Butters in your pantry) are a much more dominant trait than genetics. (For the record, we're talking type II diabetes, the one that's associated with obesity. Type II makes up 95 percent of diabetes cases in the U.S.) Here's how it works: Type II diabetes is a genetic disease. That is, if you were a twin and had an identical twin who gets type II diabetes, you have the genetics for it. And it's a tough one at that: Diabetes ages you 1 1/2 years for every year you live. For example, get it at age 30 and live to 60, you're not really 60, but you have the energy and disability risks of a 75-year-old. What type II diabetes does is make sugar build up in your bloodstream (rather than directly into your cells). That causes weakness in the junctions between cells in your arteries, causing sugar to attach to proteins and make those proteins less effective. That causes your white blood cells to not function as well—and thus not protect you from a host of health problems. For example, it increases your blood pressure, and increases your risk of heart attacks, strokes, memory loss and kidney failure. But here's the thing. You can control your genes if you want to. To keep blood sugar levels down, you should avoid foods with simple sugar and lousy aging fats (trans and saturated fats). And about 1,000 calories worth of activity—about 30 minutes of walking a day and 30 minutes of weight lifting a week—causes your muscles to be so much more sensitive to insulin, which allows sugar into your cells, rather than remain in the bloodstream. The "YOU Docs"—Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen—say we're the fattest country in the world because of unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles. It doesn't have to be that way, though. They say you can get your health back on track in a mere 90 days with their lifestyle suggestions. Yoga According to Dr. Oz, yoga helps improve strength and flexibility and can also help control blood pressure and regulate breathing and heart rate. Walk Every Day Dr. Roizen says you absolutely must walk at least 30 minutes every day. "There's a hurricane? You walk 30 minutes a day," he says. "Earthquake—30 minutes a day. Tornado—30 minutes a day. Snowstorm—30 minutes a day." Diet As Dr. Roizen says, "food is medicine." For example, a recipe for whole wheat pizza dough with tomato paste can help dramatically reduce your risk of cancer. Dr. Oz also says that salmon is rich in omega-3 fatty acids that can stabilize your heartbeat, lower blood pressure and help you to live longer. Exercise and Weight Training Stretching, weight-lifting and crunches should all be incorporated into your fitness routine. "A lot of folks think about how fast they run, but you've got to stay limber," Dr. Oz says. "You've got to do some weight training." According to Dr. Oz, the average 30-year-old woman should be able to do 45 bent-leg push-ups (and five fewer every following decade of her life), and the average 30-year-old man should be able to do 35 regular pushups (and five fewer every following decade of his life). "Those should be national benchmarks," Dr. Oz says. Learning how to read food labels is like looking at a prescription for your health and your life. Dr. Oz says to look for red-flag ingredients—if they're listed among the top five ingredients overall, steer clear! Sugar When you eat or drink sugar, Dr. Oz says the sudden energy surge your body experiences is followed by an insulin surge that rapidly drops the blood sugar level—so two hours later, you feel famished and tired. To keep an even keel, Dr. Oz says to replace simple carbohydrates with complex ones so the absorption is more controlled and you experience long-term satiety. "Sugar is supposed to be eaten, of course," says Dr. Oz, "but it should come together with fat or some element like fiber—as you would find in fruit—so you can absorb it a bit more slowly." High fructose corn syrup Although they taste sweet, Dr. Oz says food products that contain high fructose corn syrup should be avoided. Dr. Oz says the body processes the sugar in high-fructose corn syrup differently than it does old-fashioned cane or beet sugar, which in turn alters your body's natural ability to regulate appetite. "It blocks the ability of a chemical called leptin, which is the way your fat tells your brain it's there," says Dr. Oz. "It's not so much the 150 calories in the soda pop—it's the fact at that same meal you will normally consume an extra hundred calories of food than you would have." Enriched wheat flour (white flour) Contrary to what its name suggests, Dr. Oz says enriched flour is actually poor in nutrition because most of the grain's nutrients are destroyed in the refining process. "The reason they enrich it is because they already stripped out anything that was worth a darn in it, and they add a little bit back so it doesn't look so bad," says Dr. Oz. Instead, he says to look for whole grains and whole grain flours. "It has its kernels, it has its B vitamins—all the things you want to be in there," says Dr. Oz. Saturated fat Found mainly in animal products, Dr. Oz says to avoid saturated fats that are solid at room temperature, like lard. "You can actually use this kind of material for furniture polish—lots of fun things—but don't put it in you," he says. Hydrogenated oil To increase their shelf life, Dr. Oz says certain oils are hydrogenated. This process turns the oil into a solid at room temperature, but it also makes the oil unhealthy. "This stuff is great because it doesn't go bad, but it's very bad for you," says Dr. Oz. Avoid food products that contain hydrogenated oil, often labeled as "trans fats." http://www2.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/20 Six Tests to Prolong Your Life Blood Test: Blood tests are important because they measure things that are unsuspected, like cholesterol. When you get the results, you want a high level of HDL cholesterol and a low level of LDL cholesterol. Blood Pressure Test: This is the least expensive, least invasive test you can take, but it's the most important to determine the real age of your arteries. Laryngoscopic Exam: This exam helps to determine whether your vocal chords are normal or not—how they function and whether they have developed any disease. Pulmonary Function Test: Determines if you have healthy lung function. Stress Test: This takes place on a treadmill. The goal is to see not only how much you can do, but also how fast your heart and arteries recover from physical exercise. Body Fat Test: Ideally taken by submerging the body in water, this gauges the body fat related to muscle mass to help determine ideal weight loss. TRY THIS REAL AGE test! http://www.oprah.com/health/lifesta
Gilmore Girls was pretty blah, its just gonna get worse from the spoliers I saw. Its gonna be one maddening summer I have a feeling. HOUSE as usual was awesome though! Hope everyone voted at least once for Taylor..... God bless you if you did! |
