Healthy B.P.M.

How hard is to be a vegetarian?

Very for some.

I’ve tried being vegetarian but I’ve failed miserably. It worked out for a couple of years when I was really into the Art of Living course and all that. But now I have an occasional chicken temptation come biting me. So I opt for Chicken Tikka and yes even crunchy KFC.

My intake of meat has really come down…I’ve quit mutton,bacon,crab…

There is an idea that being vegetarian is equal to being boring. But what drove me to being vegetarian was compassion.

Have you been a guilty vegetarian and dreamt of the occasional turkey slice? I know some vegetarians who vomit at the smell of chicken. That is social conditioning in its extreme.

The vegetarian diet is safe. Even pregnant women vouch by it. If you have prenatal vitamins, mineral supplements, plenty of fruits and vegetables, nuts, raisins and whole grain servings(up to six times a day) and plenty of water, being pregnant will be a breeze. Your doctor can help you chart a good diet if you have doubts about being vegetarian and pregnant at the same time.

There’s nothing wrong in being vegetarian considering that global warming has a lot to do with the meat industry(the burping cows cause global warming argument) today. We have the supplements and nutritional know how to stick to being sensibly veg. But if you have a craving, identify what nutritional supplement you may be lacking in. Guilt is not the answer.

If you want to go veg and have no clue read this article.

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I want to thank all those who took time to answer my question on how Healthy B.P.M should revamp.

Although personal entries are the favorite, when it comes to health blogs people are looking for:

1. A bit of research
2. To-do lists
3. Health tips
4. Do I practise what I preach?

I’ve decided to organize my entries a bit and rearrange the random way I’ve been posting.

Thanks to JM, April, Michele, Terra and Monjiraa for all your feedback:)

I’ve been thinking.

I’m a blogoholic as in I’ve started with my write Poems In My Head blog and just yesterday I thought about doing a blog called Mom the Poet on my twins.

I’ve been reading blogs one after the other and what I noticed was that I’m not too personal when I write. Do you think Healthy B.P.M should be more personal?

What are you looking for in this blog as an audience?

I’ve been writing this blog for a long time now and I’ve learnt a lot of things in the process- like how much writing means to me and what blogging really means. It’s about interaction, networking and marketing….it’s a learning process.

Tell me what you want to read here and I will revamp my approach.

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The new buzz is a tax on unhealthy foods. Although it is not about to be implemented in any country, researchers believe that with such a tax, 3,000 deaths can be averted in the UK alone.

That means all your favorite foods could be taxed. Obesity experts are thinking of different ways to stop people from purchasing danger foods. An ‘unhealthiness score’ could help. So what could happen is that healthier foods can come cheaper and the wallet decides what you should eat.

Several US states have given the twinkie-tax a go and it hasn’t really gained weight; wonder what will happen in the U.K with this debate.

fat tax, trans fat, saturated fat

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“I was not delicious. I was slightly salty. But I was my own breakfast, lunch, supper and snacks. I was eating myself, I see now, alive.” says Judith Moore in her book Fat Girl.

I like the way Judith explains why she wrote fat girl in the first place. She talks about things like what food means to a fat person. I wondered about this when I saw an interview of one celebrity who talked about his weight loss story. When he talked he made analogies to food and taste. Normally losing weight is a struggle against your love for food and Judith explores that reality- something that is usually ignored.

Check out the review here.

fat girl, Judith Moore

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Researchers believe that being able to switch on an energy-burning type of fat called brown fat may be the way out of obesity.

The gene called PRDM16 is found in brown fat- the kind of fat you see in babies.White fat is what we adults have. Scientists believe that using this gene can help turn white fat into the more harmless brown fat in humans to. They have been successful with mice.

Brown fat cells generate heat and burn calories. Check out this Science Daily story.

obesity, brown fat

I’ve read a lot about what men think of fat women…the literature on that issue is copious and filled with interesting vocabulary. But what do women think of fat men?

Many women I asked this question to smirked. Their husbands were fit and driven to the gym. A paunch is definitely undesirable. Look at all those fabulous metrosexual males out there…they are as beauty conscious as women, lean, muscular…

But Tobsha begs to differ. I was smiling when I read her article Why I love getting to grips with a fat man. Love is all cuddles and warmth when you are with your favorite rotund man.

Fat or thin, love is all about being able to give the biggest hug to your man.

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Do you want a lunch time breast job done without going in for implants? Scientists may have just stumbled on to something. The idea is to use this new technology of using stomach fat to enlarge breasts for cancer patients who have had partial mastectomies.

This procedure called Celution may also be used in the near future by women for purely cosmetic purposes. The fat is first liposucted and then the stem cells are separated. These stem cells which are injected into the breasts then promote new fat growth.The breasts will enlarge over a period of six months.More on the science behind that here.

breast implants, boob job

I’ve heard of face reading but a diet based on the tone, texture and shape of the face?

Well celebrity nutritionist Elizabeth Gibaud seems to know about that. Her book The Facial Analysis Diet explain diet plans that cater to your face type. Your face could reveal a lot of things about your eating habits. If you have open pores it means you have too much acidic intake. Lines on your forehead reveal that you are having too much rich food. What Gibaud prescribes is a limited spartan diet that substitutes the wrong food for the right kind.

You can also check out th Chinese method of how face reading can determine disease. What kind of face do you have:is it earth, fire or metal? Find out reading this web site.

facial analysis diet, Elizabeth Gibaud

A family friend suffered a stroke a few weeks ago. He’s okay now but what worried the doctor was his age. He’s just 37. More and more young people are suffering from strokes today and the reasons are the same: sedentary lifestyle, smoking, unhealthy diet and stress.

A stroke happens when a blood vessel carrying oxygen and nutrients to the brain is blocked by a clot or bursts. Nerve cells in the brain die when deprived of oxygen which is why getting a stroke can debilitate.

The most important thing in treating a stroke has to do with timing, Getting to the hospital at the right moment is essential. Being aware of stroke symptoms is also a must.

Also read How To Prevent, Recognize And Find Hospitals To Treat Strokes

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I’m seriously considering to put my babies in play school for a brief hour so that I can start on yoga.

Writing this blog has made me more health conscious and I’ve been dying to learn yoga for years. I do the odd meditation but I want to be flexible like my kids.

Research shows that children prove to be obstacles to your physical fitness. While running around your kids can make you tired, it is not necessarily as good as working out. So if you were a good athlete once upon a time, you may find a lot of things stop you from going to the gym when your children are growing up. You could be guilty of spending time on yourself.You will suffer as a result.

I feel it right now. Something called age come nagging at me as the kids climb the chairs and the tables and the sofa. I don’t usual get all personal in my blog. But I’m dead beat right now. Pooped. Wiped out.

So I want to do something about it! Change my life. Learn something new.And share it with you on my blog. Hope it works out.Wish me luck!

yoga, parenting

Many Type 1 diabetic women suffer from Diabulimia…that’s a condition when you skip your insulin injections just to keep off the weight.

This dangerous trend is becoming a huge problem and just goes to show how much losing weight has become embedded in the psyche. Diabetics who do this risk a chance of coma and even an early death from diabetes-related complications.

Type 1 diabetes happens when your body’s immune system destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas . Without insulin your body will not receive the glucose it needs to survive and your cells literally starve.

If a diabetic forgoes shots, he/she will lose weight and have high blood sugar. That could damage the kidneys and have other implications that could make life so difficult. Before diabetic teens skip insulin to lose weight, they have got to understand that they could be losing more than just weight.

diabetes, diabulimia, anorexia

Dogs seem to be able to sniff out cancer. I read somewhere about how a pet dog kept hovering around a mole his owner had developed. The mole turned out to be cancerous.

Dogs seem to have been trained to recognize and flag bladder cancer. With a 41% success rate, dogs can recognize a cancerous urine sample by just smelling it. This is great news as a lot of times, cancer is not detected until it’s far too late.

It’s believed that even diabetes can give itself away in the breath as does cancer. So the next time your dog is sniffing you could be having one of those medical check ups. And maybe your pet can save your life!

Read how researchers are training dogs to detect disease.

cancer, dogs sniffing cancer

Turns out that stress can make you fat.

Studies show that repeated stress+a high-fat, high-sugar diet stimulates the release of neuropeptide Y,a hormone that causes fat to build up in the abdomen.The study could lead to effective replacements of chemicals like LipoDissolve to beat the bulge.

So if research reveals how to tackle this hormone, you could be saying goodbye to obesity.

Abdominal fat is undesirable and could result in metabolic syndrome, a condition that usually could result in heart disease, diabetes and stroke. While experiments in rats are now using blockers to prevent the formation of this hormone and thus prevent fat formation, humans haven’t been tested with these drugs. But it looks like obesity could be a thing of the past thanks to science and research.

Read this.

fat, Lipodissolve, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, research