Almonds and Weight Loss
May 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
Did you know that almonds and other nuts can acutally help you lose weight? Did you also know that you can eat more of some nuts than others while getting the same amount of calories?In the latest edition of “The Driving Nutritionist” video blog, I talk about a weight loss study regarding almonds and why pistachios are the ultimate weight loss food.
Anti-Aging Multivitamin
May 29, 2009 | 4 Comments
Here is the video blog from LAST friday (sorry for the delays). In the video i continue out discussion on using green tea powder to improve health and I delve into the new study that showed how taking a mulitvitamin can slow the aging process.
Please Donate $29 to Cancer
May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
LIFT STRONG is a project spearheaded by my friend Alwyn Cosgrove. It is a compilation of articles written by the world’s beat in fitness, nutrition, and training. It is over 800 pages (delivered digitally on CD-ROM). EVERY Penny of the proceeds go to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
I have personally purchased 2 copies. If you don’t have one (or two) please go to http://wwwLiftStrong.com and get one. As Alwyn says “Why this isn’t the best selling fitness product of all time on the internet remains a mystery to me…”
If you need a reason to act. Check this out…
The treatment in this case is an allogeneic stem cell transplant. It used to be called a bone marrow transplant, but the new name reflects a change in how the cells are harvested from donors. Instead of painfully extracting marrow from a thick bone, usually the hip, the process of stem cell collection now resembles a longer, more involved blood donation.
That’s the technique, but it doesn’t capture the essence of the treatment. The hope with an “allo” transplant is to wipe out the patient’s bone marrow with chemotherapy and then transplant stem cells from a genetically matched donor into his or her body, leaving the patient disease-free, with functioning blood marrow and an intact immune system.
That’s what’s supposed to happen, but the reality is messy and grim. Roughly half of patients do not survive the first year. Typically it’s not because their disease recurs; it’s due to complications resulting from the treatment. Some patients develop graft-versus-host disease, or GVHD, where the donor stem cells begin attacking specific organs — the liver, the gastrointestinal tract and skin. To control GVHD, which can sometimes be fatal, we give patients drugs to suppress the immune system, which then leaves them vulnerable to infection. And infection can kill you just as surely as cancer can.
You can read the rest of this article at the NYTimes website.
You are the one Ruining Your Diet (Video Blog)
May 27, 2009 | 1 Comment
Here’s today’s new video blog. In this video I discuss how we can be the biggest reason why we fail on diets. Specifically how we ‘talk’ to ourselves and rationalize/justify our eating and/or exercise decisions. What do you think? Are you guilty of this?
Weight Loss Accelerators, Green Tea, & AntiAging – Video Blog
May 21, 2009 | 9 Comments
Back today with a new camera angle in the car. Let me know what you think. Today I talk about some questions people had regarding yesterday’s video. I also give out one of my top Green Tea health boosting tips. Plus some info regarding multivitamins and anti-aging. check out the video, post a comment, and let me know what you think.
-Mike
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