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How is your doctor?

On average, a physician will interrupt a patient describing her symptoms within eighteen seconds. In that short time, many doctors decide on the likely diagnosis and best treatment. Often, decisions made this way are correct, but at crucial moments they can also be wrong – with catastrophic consequences...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 05-22-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living
Mood Foods

Recent research shows many of us knew all along: Our moods dictate what we eat. Researchers studied the diets of people to show how personality and foods collide – how our moods may steer us to certain foods, on the basis of their physical characteristics. The study theorized that many moods send...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 05-03-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living
Benefits of Exercise

Physical activity is vital to inflate our health and deflate our waist size. Building muscle is one components, but cardiovascular training and increasing our flexibility are also part of our waist management plan. Together, the three components of exercise will have numerous effects on our body: Exercise...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 05-03-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living
Where are all the fats in your body?

Ever wondered where are all the fats stored in your body? We all have three kinds of fat: fat in our bloodstream – Triglycerides (Reported in your blood test) Subcutaneous fat – which lies just underneath the skin’s surface Omentum fat – a fatty layer of tissue located inside...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 05-01-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living
Glycemic Index 101

The Glycemic index is a measure of how high your blood sugar rises after eating a fixed amount of carbohydrate. It is expressed in the form of number that gives an estimate of how quickly that food is converted to sugar in our bodies. Glucose is the most common standard at 100. The higher the number...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 04-01-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living
Not All Carbohydrates Are Created Equal

What are carbohydrates? They are a bunch of sugar molecules daisy-chained together. For our bodies to use these carbohydrate string as energy, we need to break them down into their component simple sugars. The speed at which this breakdown takes place determines how much sugar enters our bloodstream...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 03-30-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living
Fiber explained

Fiber is an indigestible carbohydrate. Human lack the enzymes needed to convert fiber to sugar(although other organisms do this quite well, such as some bacteria.) Even though we can’t use fiber as a source of energy, fiber is an important nutrient, because it has a significant impact on the absorption...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 03-29-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living
Answer to Quiz 4

a. Going to a spa is a great way to jump-start your overall health program. But a spa week along won’t solve your problem. b. Sounds right, it’s not. Walking is relatively good for you, but unless you walk up hills very briskly, the number of calories burned isn’t very high c. Strength...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 03-28-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living
The Modern Myths Quiz 4

You have always struggle with your weight. No matter how virtuous you seem to be, diet wise you’re never able to maintain any long-term weight loss. Your weight just keeps creeping up, may be three to five pounds per year. The most helpful exercise regime to reach your goal would be: a. Go to a...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 03-28-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living
Live long and healthy, die without ill

Heterophiles, the father of anatomy (and physician to Alexander the Great), wrote in 300 B.C. : “ When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself; art cannot become manifest; strength cannot be exerted; wealth is useless; and reason is powerless; Jack Coca doesn’t taste like J&C.”...

Posted to Ying Li at myITforum.com (Weblog) by yli628 on 03-24-2007
Filed under: Healthy Living

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