Recently, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Mitzi Dulan, Registered Dietician and nationally recognized nutrition and wellness expert who has inspired millions to lose weight and get fit. Mitzi is currently the team nutritionist for the Kansas City Royals Baseball Team and co-author of The All-Pro Diet: Lose Fat, Build Muscle, and Live Like a Champion with NFL future Hall-of-Famer Tony Gonzalez, helping people learn how to eat clean to get lean. (more...)
HealthSimplified: A Video Interview with Mitzi Dulan RD
Recently, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Mitzi Dulan, Registered Dietician and nationally recognized nutrition and wellness expert who has inspired millions to lose weight and get fit. Mitzi is currently the team nutritionist for the Kansas City Royals Baseball Team and co-author of The All-Pro Diet: Lose Fat, Build Muscle, and Live Like a Champion with NFL future Hall-of-Famer Tony Gonzalez, helping people learn how to eat clean to get lean. (more...)Dietary Fiber: 25 Amazing Things You Never Knew
While the word "fiber" conjures images of foggy sludge drinks and tasteless, twiggy cereal, we've come to know just how crucial getting enough fiber is to our health. Getting enough, through foods or fiber supplements holds benefits beyond simple "regularity". Read on to learn what a health champion fiber is, and why it's made a comeback in today's wellness market. (more...)
The Benefits of Fiber for Weight Loss
The worst part of beginning a diet is learning which lovely foods you'll no longer be able to eat:- No more donuts
- No more pizza
- No more ribeye soaked in butter
- No more...
Vitamin D Supplements Boost Vitamin D Levels Better Than Sunshine
As winter winds down, we chase those moments when sparse sun rays pierce through lifeless skies. But does sunshine offer more value, boosting physical health along with your mood? Of course, sunshine remains a top source of good vitamin D levels, a predictor of good health. Low vitamin D levels in kids may put them at risk for asthma and allergies, and other health problems. To boot, a review of records of Canadian infants shows that by age one, they are getting only a bit over 10 percent of the amount of vitamin D that they need through food such as oily fish, fortified dairy products and cereals. A recent study, however, shows that vitamin D supplements and vitamin D from cow's milk may steal the spotlight from sunshine, when it comes to lifting vitamin D levels. (more...)25 Superfoods To Turn Your Diet Around
With the beginning of a New Year, many people are looking to change their diet and adopt a healthier lifestyle. If you are looking to supercharge your diet, there is no better way than with superfoods!Benefits Of Adding Superfoods To Your Diet
While results from diet changes vary from person to person, there are documented, common benefits that many notice by adding superfoods into their daily eating plan.One of the biggest advantages of adding superfoods to your diet is the protection they can give you from diseases such as various forms of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and even strokes. Simply transforming your diet can have a profound impact on your health! Imagine the possibility of eliminating the need for some of your medications (subject to your physician’s approval, of course!), which merely control these diseases instead of affecting them at a cellular level! (more...)HealthSimplified: A Video Interview with Dr. David Katz
Recently, as part of the HealthSimplified Interview Series, SmartyPants Vitamins had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. David Katz, You can check out our extraordinary talk with him below.Dr. David Katz is an internationally renowned authority on weight control, nutrition, and the prevention of chronic disease. Among his many accomplishments are:
- Founding Director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center (funded by the CDC)
- Two-time diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine
- Founder and President of the non-profit Turn the Tide Foundation,
- the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Childhood Obesity
- 150+ scientific articles
- nearly 1,000 newspaper articles
- twelve books and counting
Here are some highlights from our chat
- Making Health a Priority - starting in the Family, carrying it out to the Culture
- Teaching Health to our Kids is as Important as Teaching Financial Responsibility to them
- Health is a Responsibility - it impacts your family, your community, and your culture
- How Businesses can Benefit by Moving in the Direction of Health
- Reinventing Elements in Industry so that Everyone Wins
- More Money Can be Made Cultivating Health, rather than Treating Disease
- Getting Healthy isn't just about Will Power - it's also about Skill Power
- Wanting Health is great, but you've got to have the skills on board to achieve your goals
- Dieting alone doesn't make sense - it's time to get the whole family involved
- Learning to Love Food that Loves you Back
- Making Health Easier for Everyone through the NuVal System
Tweetable Insights from Dr. Katz:
- Learn to love the food that loves you back. (Click to Tweet)
- Children and parents will get to Health together or not at all. (Click to Tweet)
- If we want Health to be the default choice, we need to make it easier. (Click to Tweet)
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Few in any field are so worthy of the term "Authority". Dr. Katz uses his considerable expertise and weight in the Health field to help everyone put more years in their lives, and life in their years. You can follow him at @DrDavidKatz.If you liked this video, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter.50 Healthy Ways to Maintain a Healthy Weight
The New Year is upon us, and with it comes fresh attempts to change old patterns. If you've already hit your target weight and are looking to keep what you've worked so hard for, here is a list of 50 healthy ways to maintain your weight. And if a happy weight has eluded you, these tips can also be applied to anyone's weight loss journey.
Note: you don't need to follow through on all of these suggestions. Adopting even some can give you the push you need to achieve your goal.
1. Assess your starting point.
Many people have unrealistic goals when it comes to ideal body weight. Assess your body weight using the body mass index (BMI). The BMI is a ratio between your height and weight. Beyond maintaining a healthy wait, a good realistic goal would be to lose enough to get into the next category (for example, from overweight to normal. Aiming for a shift from Obese to Normal would be less realistic). (more...)
The Effects Of Stress On Eating Habits
Many studies have been done throughout the years regarding the effects of stress levels on the heart, blood pressure, and depression. While it seems quite obvious that stress effects how and what you eat, it’s just within the past decade that researchers may have uncovered the secret link between stress and eating habits.When you encounter a stressful situation, two hormones are released: adrenaline and cortisol. A normal adrenaline release prepares you to deal with the stress at hand, whether an emergency or otherwise. Cortisol releases help in the same way, provided that the release of cortisol is manageable and not ongoing. (more...)Healthy Habits: 15 Strategies to Keep Them
Habits. Leaving the chaos of tinsel, tooth-aching sweets and family strain behind, you've pondered, wavered and now mustered courage. You've singled out the do-overs for 2013. Thankfully, each New Year offers us a clean slate to refine our lives to be healthier and more fulfilling. But...where do you start, and better yet--how do you keep those resolutions? We all have little trouble thinking of what we would like to change, but the question of How remains. Breaking bad habits and growing healthy ones can indeed be daunting. Research suggests that less than 75% of New Year's resolutions are upheld after the first month, and less than half remain in place after six months of making them. With such odds against you, how can you marry success here? Read on to find tips on the "how" of keeping healthy habits alive in 2013. (more...)7 Foods That Fight Disease
We always hear how eating a balanced diet is essential to leading a healthy life, but did you know that there are actually foods that help fight off disease? Many in the nutritional community refer to these as superfoods.What Is A Superfood?A superfood is a natural, unprocessed food that contains a high-concentration of complex nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients (plant-based nutrients). They’re traditionally thought of foods that don’t just provide basic nutritional needs, but a superfood goes beyond and provides superior health benefits, in some way. (more...)Latest Blog Articles
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