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14 Apr 2012

Natural allergy relief: how dietary changes can alleviate common food allergies

Bryan Abramowitz | San Diego Wellness MD

GI discomfort and other food allergy symptoms can often be relieved with simple dietary changes.

By Bryan Abramowitz, MD

Most of us have dealt with allergies at some point in our lives, either personally or through the experience of a friend or family member. Food allergies and dietary intolerances are especially common, and can result in uncomfortable and inconvenient symptoms. Individuals who suffer from such conditions may worry that daily medication is the only solution; but for those seeking natural allergy relief for GI complaints and food allergies, the best and safest place to begin is with a healthy diet.

As children, most of us were told “you are what you eat.” But now, as adults, how often do we adhere to this timeless and very true advice? Our bodies may react to the outside world in many ways; but we have the power to change these reactions – and sometimes reverse them completely – simply by eating the right food for our bodies.

Improper nutrition and unhealthy lifestyle habits can cause imbalance in the body’s storehouse of beneficial bacteria – and subsequently, suppresses immunity and the effective processing of allergens. Therefore, a good starting point for better overall health, regardless of what ails you, is improved digestion – aided by nutritious meals, ample chewing, and the incorporation of naturally enzyme and bacteria-rich foods to help regulate intestinal flora. Whether you have a known food allergy or simply experience recurring GI discomfort (anything from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and leaky gut syndrome to bloating, gas and constipation), live cultures can help “reset” your digestion and in some cases even eliminate symptoms. Start by adding a serving of yogurt or kefir with live active cultures to your diet every day, and see how you feel. Discovering the key to better health can be as simple as a few tweaks to your daily menu – and yield lifelong results for improved vitality and comfort.

Personalized medicine, natural solutions: our mission at San Diego Wellness MD

As an experienced physician with a passion for integrative and holistic treatment strategies, I believe strongly in the importance of dietary changes for enhanced health. From allergies and GI symptoms to improved energy, concentration and mood benefits, food can be an overwhelmingly effective medicine. The key is to tailor treatments to the individual patient, and pinpoint the foods, supplements and therapeutic modalities that will be most effective for his or her unique needs.

At San Diego Wellness MD, we base our recommendations solely on you – and work together to create a custom health plan to meet your needs and address your concerns. To learn more or schedule an appointment, contact our San Diego integrative medicine office today: www.sdwellnessmd.com.

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14 Apr 2012

Best Weight Loss Diet Programs Now Offers A Free Nutrition Guide From …

One of the best weight loss diet programs is not offering their balanced nutrition eating guide for free from nutrition and weight loss products company, True Healthy Products.

(PRWEB) April 14, 2012

Nutrition and diet products company, True Healthy Products recently released a new appetite suppressant called, the “Appetite Assistant.” The appetite suppressant tablet can be incorporated with the balanced nutrition eating plan offered by the company that will aid in weight loss and is considered one of the best weight loss diet programs available by many.

Download the free balanced nutrition eating guide visit the company’s website at http://www.appetiteassistant.com/.

The Appetite Assistant’s free diet guide is a simple categorized meal plan to achieve different results. The Appetite Assistant’s Balanced Nutrition Eating Guide can aid in losing weight as well as maintaining weight while learning a healthy eating lifestyle.

“I lost a total of 5 lbs in the 10 days and I felt great the whole time. I usually get hungry around 10:00 and 3:00 but did not get hungry at all. I did not do any exercise during the first 10 days,” says Melanie, actual appetite assistant user.

The balanced nutr

ition eating guide can be considered on of the best weight loss diet programs because it may help you:

  • Effectively achieve a balanced diet
  • Re-regulate your metabolic system
  • Maintain normal energy levels
  • Burn fat and maintain muscle

The Appetite Assistant is an appetite suppressant pill that can be taken up to three times a day to boost energy and curb hunger pangs. Although the results are more dramatic when used with the simple numbered diet guide, results can still be achieved with just the product.

For more information about the best weight loss diet programs offered by True Healthy Products, visit their website at http://www.appetiteassistant.com/.

True Healthy Products

2460 N Courtenay Parkway, #210

Merritt Island, FL 32953

USA

888-400-2920

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14 Apr 2012

Study: Maternal obesity bad for baby's future

URBANA — Obesity isn’t just unhealthy for an expectant mother. It puts her baby at risk for future health problems, even when the mom eats a healthy diet during her pregnancy, a new University of Illinois study has found.

Women who are obese need to reduce their weight to a healthy level before they become pregnant, warns Yuan-Xiang Pan, a UI professor of molecular nutrition and the principal author of the study.

“They will have a much healthier baby,” he said.

The issue of maternal obesity has been a health concern growing along with obesity worldwide, Pan said.

One-third of all women of child-bearing age in the U.S. are considered obese, and since the mid-1990s, half of all American women in the U.S. of child-bearing age are overweight, his study said.

Pan and co-author Rita Strakovsky of the UI’s Division of Nutritional Sciences conducted their research by comparing the placentas of two groups of pregnant rats — some obese and some obesity-resistant — fed the same healthy diet.

The placenta is the critical link between mother and child, transferring nutrients and oxygen from mother to child and waste from child to mother through the blood.

While the two groups ate the same diet and obese mothers didn’t gain much weight, the environment for the baby in obese mothers was unhealthy and the transport of nutrients from mother to baby was affected, Pan said.

The obese moms had higher levels of triglycerides fatty acids (both types of fat) in their circulation, he said. They also had extra fat accumulating in their placentas that was needed by the baby to support its growth. And the nutrient supply area of the placenta was smaller.

Children of obese mothers were born up to 17 percent smaller than they should have been, and their lower birth weights leave them more vulnerable to potential health problems down the road, Pan said.

Other studies have linked low birth weight with increased occurrence of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and obesity later in life.

While the study was conducted with rats, Pan said, human and rat placentas are very similar, and it’s “highly likely” the effects would be the same in human moms.

Current recommendations for pregnant women focus on controlling weight gain during pregnancy, but increased evidence indicates the weight women gain before they become pregnant is just as important to gestational and fetal health as the weight gained during the pregnancy, the study advises.

The research was supported by the USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service and was published in the March issue of Biology of Reproduction.

Pan says he plans to follow up with more research to see if putting obese mother rats on a diet prior to pregnancy makes a difference by changing the blood chemistry and pathology of the placenta.

A separate study published online earlier this week in Pediatrics found children born to obese mothers have a higher chance of being diagnosed with autism or other developmental delays than those born to women at healthy weights.


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14 Apr 2012

Lance Armstrong Fuels Fitness With a Mostly Vegan Diet

Lance Armstrong keeps his breakfasts and lunches vegan on the Engine 2 Diet.

As one of the world’s premier athletes and a cancer survivor, Lance Armstrong knows a thing or two about staying healthy and fit.

And in a new interview with HuffPo, the IronMan and Tour de France champ reveals his newest training secret: a primarily vegan diet.

It’s well known that the vegan documentary “Forks Over Knives” has caused many celebs (Ozzy Osbourne, Russell Brand, Carrie Anna Inaba, Eliza Dushku and Kristen Bell, among others) to adopt a plant-based diet, and now Armstrong is following one of the offshoot diets from the film.

Those who’ve seen “Forks Over Knives” are familiar with Rip Esselstyn (son of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, one of the stars of the film), a firefighter and triathlete. Esselstyn is also the creator of the Engine 2 Diet, a plant-based, whole foods eating plan, which he pioneered to help his fellow Austin firefighters get healthy.

Esselstyn just happens to be Armstrong’s swim partner, so he shared his dietary recommendations with the cyclist. Although skeptical, Armstrong decided to take the plunge and try the Engine 2 plan, once he heard about it and understood some of the potential benefits.

“I started swimming again, and I swim with a guy who started basically a food program called the Engine 2 Diet, which is a plant-based, 100% natural, organic diet. His dad was a famous cardiologist who did Forks Over Knives, and was President Clinton’s doctor. Clinton has gone to a completely vegan diet and he’s essentially erased his heart disease. It’s basically whole grains, different types of beans, kale salad with creative alternatives for dressing. They’ll bring out something that looks like a brownie, but it’s not a brownie…though it tastes a bit like a brownie. So I did it for one day, then two days. Then I branched out and started doing it at breakfast and lunch. I still insist that I get to do whatever I want for dinner. But it’s made a significant difference in just in a month,” he tells HuffPo.

To his surprise, not only did he experience benefits very quickly, but some of the positive changes from the diet were very powerful, including its impact on his energy levels.

He says, “Even when you’re training really hard, it’s normal that you would have certain things for lunch or certain things for breakfast, and then have this dip, or almost like a food coma…I don’t experience that anymore. My energy level has never been this consistent, and not just consistent, but high. I’m a big napper — I couldn’t even take a nap these days if I wanted to. The other thing — I expected to get rid of that dip, but I didn’t expect the mental side of it, and the sharpness and the focus that I’ve noticed. And I was the biggest non-believer, I was like ‘whatever man’, and I’m in. I’m not doing dinners yet, but breakfast and lunch, I’m in.”

Armstrong also says that the diet is very sustainable, especially while at home. Although traveling can be tricky, he says that all it takes is a little preparation.

“You can even travel with stuff. Breakfast is not hard, you bring your cereal and then you go to the store and buy almond milk, you buy bananas to put on top of it. If you plan, then it’s possible,” he says.

If a world-caliber athlete is touting the advantages of a plant-based diet, just imagine how beneficial it can be to the average Joe. Here’s hoping  Armstrong will soon add vegan dinners to the mix — and that his experiences will lead others to give veganism a shot!

For more from Armstrong, including his new line of fitness equipment, his thoughts on childhood obesity and his political aspirations, click on over to HuffPo.

Photo Credit: Karin Hildebrand Lau / Shutterstock.com

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  • It is one thing to sing the praises of a certain diet at the outset; but an entirley differnt story after being true to it for a few years. There are always consequences to a diet, and this is why diet fads come and go. However, I am quite perplexed to hear Lance going on about a new diet after 2 decades of heavy competition, I would think he’d have all that figured out by now.

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14 Apr 2012

Best Weight Loss Diet Programs Now Offers A Free Nutrition Guide From …

Appetite Assistant

One of the best weight loss diet programs is not offering their balanced nutrition eating guide for free from nutrition and weight loss products company, True Healthy Products.

(PRWEB) April 14, 2012

Nutrition and diet products company, True Healthy Products recently released a new appetite suppressant called, the “Appetite Assistant.” The appetite suppressant tablet can be incorporated with the balanced nutrition eating plan offered by the company that will aid in weight loss and is considered one of the best weight loss diet programs available by many.

Download the free balanced nutrition eating guide visit the company’s website at http://www.appetiteassistant.com/.

The Appetite Assistant’s free diet guide is a simple categorized meal plan to achieve different results. The Appetite Assistant’s Balanced Nutrition Eating Guide can aid in losing weight as well as maintaining weight while learning a healthy eating lifestyle.

“I lost a total of 5 lbs in the 10 days and I felt great the whole time. I usually get hungry around 10:00 and 3:00 but did not get hungry at all. I did not do any exercise during the first 10 days,” says Melanie, actual appetite assistant user.

The balanced nutr

ition eating guide can be considered on of the best weight loss diet programs because it may help you:

  • Effectively achieve a balanced diet
  • Re-regulate your metabolic system
  • Maintain normal energy levels
  • Burn fat and maintain muscle

The Appetite Assistant is an appetite suppressant pill that can be taken up to three times a day to boost energy and curb hunger pangs. Although the results are more dramatic when used with the simple numbered diet guide, results can still be achieved with just the product.

For more information about the best weight loss diet programs offered by True Healthy Products, visit their website at http://www.appetiteassistant.com/.

True Healthy Products

2460 N Courtenay Parkway, #210

Merritt Island, FL 32953

USA

888-400-2920


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14 Apr 2012

Best Weight Loss Diet Programs Now Offers A Free Nutrition Guide From Supplement Company

One of the best weight loss diet programs is not offering their balanced nutrition eating guide for free from nutrition and weight loss products company, True Healthy Products.

(PRWEB) April 14, 2012

Nutrition and diet products company, True Healthy Products recently released a new appetite suppressant called, the “Appetite Assistant.” The appetite suppressant tablet can be incorporated with the balanced nutrition eating plan offered by the company that will aid in weight loss and is considered one of the best weight loss diet programs available by many.

Download the free balanced nutrition eating guide visit the company’s website at http://www.appetiteassistant.com/.

The Appetite Assistant’s free diet guide is a simple categorized meal plan to achieve different results. The Appetite Assistant’s Balanced Nutrition Eating Guide can aid in losing weight as well as maintaining weight while learning a healthy eating lifestyle.

“I lost a total of 5 lbs in the 10 days and I felt great the whole time. I usually get hungry around 10:00 and 3:00 but did not get hungry at all. I did not do any exercise during the first 10 days,” says Melanie, actual appetite assistant user.

The balanced nutr

ition eating guide can be considered on of the best weight loss diet programs because it may help you:

  • Effectively achieve a balanced diet

  • Re-regulate your metabolic system
  • Maintain normal energy levels
  • Burn fat and maintain muscle

The Appetite Assistant is an appetite suppressant pill that can be taken up to three times a day to boost energy and curb hunger pangs. Although the results are more dramatic when used with the simple numbered diet guide, results can still be achieved with just the product.

For more information about the best weight loss diet programs offered by True Healthy Products, visit their website at http://www.appetiteassistant.com/.

True Healthy Products

2460 N Courtenay Parkway, #210

Merritt Island, FL 32953

USA

888-400-2920

Jan Hrkach
True Healthy Products
321-327-4386
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14 Apr 2012

Research Roundup: Medicare Vs. Private Plans

Every week, KHN reporter Shefali S. Kulkarni compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs.

Archives Of Internal Medicine: Obesity Treatment For Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Patients In Primary Care Practice – Low-income patients are underrepresented in clinical trials and are disproportionately prone to obesity and the related problems of high blood pressure and heart disease. Researchers conducted a 24-month trial of more than 300 low-income, obese patients from various Boston community health centers, randomizing participants “to usual care or a behavioral intervention that promoted weight loss and hypertension self-management using eHealth components. The intervention included tailored behavior change goals, self-monitoring, and skills training, available via a website or interactive voice response.” The intervention resulted in “modest weight losses, improved blood pressure control and slowed systolic blood pressure” (Bennett et al., 4/9).

Kaiser Family Foundation: How Does The Benefit Value Of Medicare Compare To The Benefit Of Typical Large Employer Plans? A 2012 Update — This study, updated from 2008, found that “Medicare remains less generous on average than typical large employer health plans, even after recent improvements in the program’s drug coverage. Overall, Medicare would cover $11,930 on average of the $14,890 in estimated annual spending for an individual age 65 and older, less than would be covered under either the federal employee plan ($12,260) or the typical PPO comparison plan ($12,800) for an individual age 65 and older. The gap was narrower in 2011 than it was in 2007, largely due to provisions in the Affordable Care Act that provide discounts on brand-name drugs purchased in the Medicare drug benefit’s coverage gap, or “doughnut hole” (McArdle, Levinson, Stark and Neuman, 4/4).

The Heritage Foundation: Saving The American Dream: Comparing Medicare Reform Plans – The Heritage Foundation has proposed a premium support plan for Medicare as part of a comprehensive defict reduction package. This backgrounder looks at that proposal and five other plans that offer such supports. In a plan with a premium support, sometimes called a voucher, the government makes a fixed payment to Medicare beneficiaries, who then can shop for appropriate health insurance.  The author writes that, while details vary, each requires “traditional Medicare to compete with private plans, using competitive bidding to determine market-based payments to health plans, requiring upper-income retirees to pay more for their benefits, providing extra assistance to lower-income enrollees, and adding a risk-adjustment mechanism to guarantee market stability and security for older and sicker retirees. The breadth of the consensus on key policy components could be the basis for a strong bipartisan agreement” (Moffit, 4/4).

Here is a selection of news coverage of other recent research:

KQED’s State of Health blog: Who Will Care for the Caregivers?
Some people who care for vulnerable older adults are in dire economic straits, according to a new study from the UCLA Center of Health Policy Research. Hundreds of thousands of people provide care – from cooking and cleaning to bathing and dressing – for adults with disabilities or long-term illnesses who receive benefits from Medi-Cal. … At issue is the amount that Medi-Cal is paying these caregivers. Even if you add income from other jobs, they earn a little over $11 per hour on average (Menghrajani, 4/12). 

MedPageToday: Insurers Dodged Billions In Rebate Payments
If the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurers spend at least 80% on patient care had come into effect a year early, policyholders would have received about $2 billion in rebates from insurance companies, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. … If that MLR provision had been in effect in 2010, 5.3 million people insured through the individual market — or about half of everyone with individual coverage — would have split $1 billion in rebates. Another $1 billion would have gone to about 10 million people with small- and large-group policies (Walker, 4/9).

Medscape: Should Statins Be Used in Primary Prevention? JAMA Gets in on the Debate
For Drs Rita Redberg and William Katz (University of San Francisco, California), who argue that healthy men should not take statins, there are other effective means to reduce cardiovascular risk, including dietary changes, weight loss, and increased exercise.  … In their counterpoint, Drs Michael Blaha, Khurram Nasir, and Roger Blumenthal (Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease, Baltimore, MD) agree that the cornerstone of treatment for patients with elevated cholesterol levels will always be diet and exercise but that statins can be a “critical adjunct for those identified to be at increased coronary heart disease risk” (O’Riordan, 4/10).


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14 Apr 2012

DoctorsHealthPress.com Supports Study Linking a Healthy Diet to Reversing a …

The Doctors Health Press, a publisher of various natural health newsletters, books and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is lending its support to a new health study showing that a healthy diet can be a key factor in reversing the symptoms of metabolic syndrome.

Boston, MA (PRWEB) April 12, 2012

The Doctors Health Press, a publisher of various natural health newsletters, books and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is lending its support to a new health study showing that a healthy diet can be a key factor in reversing the symptoms of metabolic syndrome.

As reported in Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin on Monday, April 9, 2012 (http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/food-and-nutrition-articles/how-to-fight-metabolic-syndrome-and-win), Mexican researchers have found that a healthy diet could reverse the symptoms of metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a worldwide health problem affecting millions. The condition can lead to serious health problems like heart disease and diabetes.

The Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin article reports that in this latest study, researchers evaluated the effects of a dietary pattern on glucose intolerance and other measures related to metabolic syndrome, such as serum triglycerides. In this randomized trial, the participants ate their habitual diet, but had it reduced by 500 kilocalories for two weeks. They were then assigned to either a placebo group or a diet plan group. The diet plan added four specific foods to the participants’ diet: soy protein; nopal; chia seed; and oat.

The Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin article reports that the research team found that all participants had decreases in body weight, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference during the two-month treatment. However, only the diet plan group showed decreases in serum triglycerides, C-reactive protein (CRP), and glucose intolerance. The research team concluded that the results from their study show that lifestyle interventions involving a specific diet plan for the treatment of metabolic syndrome could be effective. They also suggest that effectiveness could be even greater if local foods are used as part of the diet plan.

One of the foods used in this trial was nopal. Nopal is a vegetable commonly eaten in Mexico. These vegetables, also known as prickly pears, are an excellent source of insoluble and soluble fiber. They are also high in vitamin A, vitamin C, and vitamin K. Nopales have one special ability that could be of benefit to many in North America: the addition of these vegetables to a meal apparently reduces the glycemic effect of the foods eaten.

(SOURCE: Tovar, A.R., et al., “A dietary pattern including nopal, chia seed, soy protein, and oat reduces serum triglycerides and glucose intolerance in patients with metabolic syndrome,” J. Nutr., Jan. 2012; 142(1): 64-9.)

Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin is a daily e-letter providing natural health news with a focus on natural healing through foods, herbs and other breakthrough health alternative treatments. For more information on Doctors Health Press, visit http://www.doctorshealthpress.com.

Victor Marchione, MD is the Chairman of the Doctors Health Press Editorial Board. He is also the editor of The Food Doctor and has released a new video revealing 12 fighting foods to help virtually all of your current health problems. To see the video, visit http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/12-fighting-foods.

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14 Apr 2012

Shape It Up: Food friends and foes: the calories that really count

Dietary supplements, juice fasts, cabbage soup diets – people do crazy things to lose weight. Some work, some don’t. I’ve always had an intense interest in learning how to be healthy, so I’ve spoken to nutritionists, personal trainers and other healthcare professionals. Throughout the quarter, I plan to dedicate a couple of columns to share what I have learned to help you separate the truths and myths.

Personally, I have found counting calories to be unproductive. It is a system I tried for a long time before I eventually realized counting calories wasn’t helping me get into shape. I have learned that the types of calories I consume seem to be more important than the number of calories. In other words: quality over quantity.

Let’s compare two meals. You can either go to Bruin Café for breakfast and get coffee with a butter croissant, or you can have a full meal at Covel. There, you can get a plate of scrambled eggs and whole grain toast with peanut butter. You can also take out a banana to snack on later.

The breakfast at Covel contains significantly more calories, fat and carbohydrates. But it’s the smarter choice. Based on a 2,000 calorie diet, the croissant provided around 15 percent of your daily value of protein and around 4 percent of your daily value in calcium. In contrast, the meal at Covel provided about 40 percent of your daily value in protein and about 5 percent of your daily value in calcium. It also provides you brown carbs, which contain vitamins, minerals and fiber. The croissant gives you white carbs, which are essentially refined sugars. These percentages are hard to ignore.

The Covel meal is also more likely to keep you full and less likely to eat junk food later. Plus, it includes a snack to have between classes. I know how important swipes are around here, so this is a way to get your full use out of them.

Learning the ins and outs between calories that provide beneficial nutrients and calories that do not was only half the battle for me. After that I had to learn portion control. Even good calories can lead to weight gain if you have too many of them.

Portion control has potential to be a struggle at UCLA. After all, the food tastes great and just one swipe can get a student unlimited food in a dining hall. Even the residential restaurants give a substantial amount of food per swipe.

It’s awesome that UCLA gives students their money’s worth on meal plans, but that is not reason to over-indulge.

Luckily, it can be avoided. The easiest – and often most ignored – way to avoid over-eating is sharing a meal. When I started eating at Rendezvous, I would eat almost an entire combo meal single-handedly. One day, I split a meal with a friend and realized that even eating half of the amount I usually did was enough food.

It gets more complicated in a dining hall. Not only is there no realistic way to share with someone, but there is an unlimited amount of food and desserts.

The best way I found to handle this is to know what I am going to eat ahead of time. In my own experience, I have had more success controlling portions when I enter a dining hall with a meal in mind because then I am less tempted to take samples from every kitchen.

To plan a dining hall meal, I recommend taking advantage of the nutritional facts on the housing website and using it to find a meal that suits your own dietary needs. For example, because I’m a vegetarian, I try to pick a dining hall where I can find a meal that is high in iron, while an athlete might look for a meal that is high in protein.

As for the delicious desserts, I usually try to walk by without looking at them. A bowl of a nutritious cereal is always a good option when a meal doesn’t fill you up. But that doesn’t mean you can’t treat yourself every once in awhile.

While finding a diet that works for you matters, it is most important to use the diet to make yourself healthy.

It is finally being said that “Healthy doesn’t mean skinny”; and people should remember to make “healthy” their diet goal.

What motivates you to get fit? Email Davis at mdavis2@media.ucla.edu.


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14 Apr 2012

Weight loss after pregnancy: Tips to lose the baby fat

Silver Spring, Md, April 12, 2012 – Ask any mother and she will almost invariably tell you that having a baby was one of the best things she’s ever done.  However, with that bundle of joy also comes a bundle of extra weight.

 

Breastfeed

If you are breastfeeding and are trying to figure out when to wean, consider this: your body burns 20 calories per ounce of breast milk you produce. That adds up! How many calories you burn a day breastfeeding depends on how much milk your little one is taking, but the range is usually somewhere between 200-600 calories a day, or 10-30 ounces of breast milk.

Since dieting is not advised for breastfeeding mothers, think about all those calories in terms of a work out. An hour of aerobics burns 250-400 calories depending on intensity,  and walking for an hour burns about 180  calories for a 120lb person at a 3 mph pace (your body weight x .53 = calories burned walking per mile). 

 

Carry your baby

Carrying you baby rather than plopping her down in an exercise gym or playpen is not only is good for your baby developmentally as she learns from watching you doing new things, but it also helps you burn off those baby pounds.  Think of the extra weight of your baby as replacing those dumbbells. Increasing the amount of weight you are moving around, increases your calories burned.  Carrying an infant burns upwards of 200 calories an hour.

Carrying baby in your arms is best for calorie burn because it builds muscle in your arms as well.  But let’s be honest, it’s hard enough getting the chores done with a baby around, it’s near about impossible to do them with a baby in your arms.  Use a baby sling or other baby carrier to get a similar benefit but be hands free. Just remember that tasks that require a lot of bending over, like cleaning the bath tub, are best left to when baby is napping.

 

Mother-baby exercise classes

Mom-baby classes, like baby yoga, are fun ways to get in shape while spending time with your little one. Photo by By Yihungkuo via Wikimedia. Click to enlarge.

 

Gyms have gotten smart. They realized that there was a large market they were missing that are just dying to lose weight, the new mothers. To that end, if you search around you are bound to find classes geared towards mother and baby. Sometimes these are yoga classes that use the baby in the different poses at your local yoga studio; sometimes you might find what you’re looking for in one of the classes offered by chains like Baby Boot Camp.  Either way classes that include the baby as part of mom’s work-out routine are good for stay-at-home moms who don’t have other childcare options, or for the new mom who does work, but wants to spend as much time as possible with her baby.

 

Find a walking group

There are all sorts of support groups for new mothers, and a stroller walking group is a common one out there combines the camaraderie of getting together with other new mothers with exercise.  Look for groups in your area. Frequently, such groups meet at shopping malls before the stores open and walk laps while pushing strollers and chatting. There are many benefits with this type of group: you get to meet other new mothers and children the same age as your baby, walking done inside doesn’t get rained out, and having a group expect you adds an element of peer pressure that can make the difference between you getting out of the house to exercise versus making excuses and staying at home.

 

Walking groups give you exercise, camaraderie and reason to keep going. Photo by Serge Melki. Click to enlarge.

 

Join a gym

This is something that is familiar to many people already, but once you have a baby it can be a challenge to get to the gym and onto that elliptical. That is, of course, unless your gym has child care. Not all gyms do, so shop around.  The YMCA is a good option as well. They have individual or family memberships, and aside from having exercise equipment, many of their locations have drop-in child care services, called Child Watch, so that parents can use the facilities. 

One of the downsides with a traditional gym is that the same rules apply to weight loss as they did before you had a baby – you have to get there and you have to use the equipment, and there’s no one to hold you accountable or miss you if you don’t show up.  

 

Remember exercise alone won’t take off the weight, healthy eating habits also need to be part of your plan. But, if you set realistic goals for yourself and you make the effort, you can shed those baby pounds and be back into your favorite pair of skinny jeans before your baby is walking.

 

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