| Diet, exercise key to a healthy heart
She was focused on helping her husband, Ed, recover from quadruple bypass surgery. In support, she would even run on the treadmill next to him at Sutter Davis Hospital's Cardiac Rehabilitation Center. Then one day, about three years ago, a technician took her blood pressure. It was too high. She was sent across the hall to the emergency room where a doctor recommended that she see a heart specialist in Sacramento. There she was diagnosed with hypertension, or chronic high blood pressure. "I was really surprised," Chally said. "I had no idea that my blood pressure was that high. I was just kind of blown away by it. I didn't think it was a possibility. "It was probably creeping up and I wasn't aware of it," Chally said. "I was taking care of my husband." Chally underwent surgery to have a stent placed in an artery.
Health unit likes new food guide
Grey Bruce Health Unit Registered Dietitian Lynda Bumstead says there aren't too many changes to guide, often pictured as a multi-layered rainbow. Bumstead says the outer ring of the rainbow used to be comprised of breads and grains, but it has now been replaced by fruits and vegetables. Bumstead says a lot more information is provided on portion sizes, in addition to number of daily portions. She says the portion-size information is important, particularly with rising obesity rates. Bumstead the new food guide goes even further, by providing detailed information on the amounts and types of food recommended for people based on their age and gender. In addition to the food guide, Health Canada is now also recommending that Canadians over the age of 50 take a Vitamin D supplement.
Study Looks At High-Protein Diets, Heart Health
MERRIAM, Kan. -- There has been a lot of talk about low-carb, high-protein diets and their impact on heart health. Results of a new study will have meat-lovers liking the results, KMBC's Kelly Eckerman reported. Debbie Ferguson is one of many believers in a high-protein, low-carb diet. She said it is an eating style that she likes, and she said she is seeing the results. "I've set myself a goal to lose so much weight, and I've met half that in six months. So it's slow enough and easy enough to follow because of high protein," Ferguson told Eckerman. .
Eat whatever but burn every calorie
London, Jan 30: Eating less and exercising more are equally good at helping take off the pounds, US researchers said in a study that challenges many of the popular tenets of the multibillion dollar diet and fitness industry.
Tests on overweight people show that a calorie is just a calorie, whether lost by dieting or by running, they said.
They found there is no way to selectively lose belly fat, for instance, or trim thighs. And their carefully controlled study added to evidence that adding muscle mass does not somehow boost metabolism and help dieters take off even more weight.
Its all about the calories, said Dr Eric Ravussin of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, part of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. So long as the energy deficit is the same, body weight, fat weight, and abdominal fat will all decrease in the same way.
320000 spiked weight-loss tablets seized
Police seized about 320,000 weight-loss tablets containing amphetamine in a search of a biotechnology plant in northern Taoyuan County yesterday, detaining a 45-year-old woman identified as Chang Wen-hsin. Police said Chang has sold some 17 million such tablets through various department stores in Taiwan over the last five years and has earned more than NT$100 million from the sales. Chang, who sold cosmetics, is very familiar with marketing products through department stores, according to the police. The police were tipped off about the possible presence of illicit substances in the tablets by the mother of flight attendant who became addicted to the tablets and committed suicide recently. Chang told police that she found the medication in Shanghai several years ago and began using it herself.
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