How to stay healthy - Doctor's advice

Dr. Mehmet Oz , a heart surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York City, offers guidance on how patients can stay healthy and interact with doctors when they do need them.Watch the below video to benefit from his advice given on how to stay healthy!

How To Avoid Sugar (Some Helpful Tips)

Though Sugar is very addictive and can contribute to all types of health problems. Even when you think that you are eating healthy, there could be sugar involved. Unless you understand the types of sugar names on food labels, you probably have no clue that you are eating it.

How to Avoid Sugar All Together
Living a clean eating lifestyle can help you to avoid sugar for good. The reason being, that eating clean involves eating whole, natural foods. This means that you are not eating processed foods which can contain sugar. A good way to know if what you are about to eat is natural, just ask yourself, "Is this man-made?" If it comes in a box, jar, or other type of packaging, then think twice.
Even if you think a "health food" is sugar free, you may want to check out the label. Sugar has many names:
Types of Sugar by Name
What About Eating Fruit?
Fruit is a natural food and the sugar in fruit (fructose) is handled well by the body as far as digestion goes. It also doesn't fluctuate blood sugar levels the way refined sugar does. However, the sugar contained in fruit can still cause problems for some people.
Fructose is processed in the liver and when too much fructose is consumed, the liver cannot process is fast enough and begins to make fat from the fructose which is then sent into the bloodstream.
Drinking Sugar
Keeping this in mind, it's a good idea to monitor your beverages as well. This includes fruit juices without added sugar and even skim milk:

...juice — 100 percent juice, no sugar added — contains about the same amount of sugar (or even more — 50 percent more for grape juice) as the same volume of Coke. [Source: HookedOnJuice.com]

Pasteurized skim milk isn’t a great choice either. Because the fat is removed and much of the nutrition is destroyed during pasteurization, there’s not much left except for milk sugar. [Source: NaturalBias.com]

Sugar is everywhere which is why eating clean is an ideal way to keep it out of your diet. Are you trying to tackle your sugar cravings? What do you substitute instead?

Glutes and Hamstring Workout

Now that bikini season is over, don't let your tush go to mush. Keep up the strength in your legs so you'll be ready to hop on your skis or snowboard. And even if you're not a snow bunny, you'll still want a toned lower body so you can run and bike faster when working out, not to mention, look great in your skinny jeans. Keep your backside in tip-top shape with FitSugar's Glutes and Hamstrings workout. We even made a convenient printable version of the nine-exercise workout.

Download and print this PDF — it looks best printed in color. Tape it to your fridge. Take it to the gym. Just remember to work your booty.

Diet or Exercise?

The math may be simple — to lose weight, just make sure your calories in are fewer than your calories out — but it gets complicated once you actually start trying to incorporate this principle into your life. If you want to maintain or lose weight, finding the right balance between what you eat and how much you work out is key.

Some people may follow a strict exercise regimen so that they can eat what they want, while others follow a healthy lifestyle all the time. What about you? Which is your focus: eating healthy, exercising regularly, or both?
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Mini Snack Pizzas

Ingredients:

• 1 (8 ounce) can pillsbury refrigerated dinner rolls
• 1 (8 ounce) jar pizza sauce
• 4 slices mozzarella cheese
• 16 pepperoni or 8 pieces Canadian bacon

Directions:

1. 1
   Preheat oven to 375.
2. 2
   Place rolls on ungreased baking sheet try to flatten rolls so they resemble flat circles.
3. 3
   Take a spoonful of sauce and spread ontop of each rolls.
4. 4
   Then cut up cheese into small bits and garnish.
5. 5
   Add meat ontop of cheese and then place remaining cheese ontop of meat.
6. 6
   Cook for about 15 min of until rolls are golden.

 

 

Healthy Eating Tip

Snacks are an important part of a healthy diet. If you only eat three meals a day, you'll be starving by mealtimes, which most likely will result in overeating. Plus living with hunger pangs is a surefire way to become tired and moody, and you may not end up making it to your next meal before devouring the first unhealthy snack you set your eyes on. So while snacking is healthy, mindlessly snacking all day long isn't good either, since you'll end up consuming tons of extra calories and we all know what that means.
The best way to handle snacking is to set up a snack time (yes, just like when you were in preschool). Plan a morning snack for around 10:30 and an afternoon pick-me-up around 3:00. This way you will eat a little something in between meals without ruining your appetite. You also need to plan what you're going to eat during your snack time. Choose something that contains fiber and protein to fill you up and give you energy.
Don't know what to snack on? Here are some suggestions for the next time you have a Snack Attack.

A Quick Daily Snacks

Ingredients:

• 1 cup soybeans
• 1 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup unsalted sunflower seeds
• 10 apples
• 1300 g plain fat-free yogurt

Directions:

1. 1
   Mix first 3 ingredients together.
2. 2
   Place in small tupperware or snack-size baggies in 1/4 cup servings.
3. 3
   Each day, bring one serving of nut/raisin mix, one apple and one container of yogurt.
4. 4
   Usually have yogurt and/or nuts in the morning, and apple and/or nuts (if I didn't have them in the morning), in the afternoon.
5. 5
   Nut mix can also make a great topping on a salad, or if you put it in a cute bag with a ribbon, a nice healthy gift?