Kiwifruit for the Common Cold
Posted by Dobri Kiprov, MD | Tags: Diet , Science , Health
You know how miserable you feel when you have a cold. A remedy may be looking at you in 
your
local supermarket. Denise C. Hunter, from The New Zealand Institute for
Plant and Food Research (New Zealand), and colleagues enrolled 37 men
and women, ages 65 years and older, who ate four gold kiwifruit each day
for four weeks, then switched over to consume two bananas daily (or
vice versa), with a four week intervening washout period. During the
kiwifruit phase, self-reported cold symptoms were less (as compared to
the banana phase), with sore throat symptoms reducing from 5.4 to 2 days
and head congestion decreasing from 4.7 to 0.9 days. The severity of
head congestion during the kiwifruit phase was also reduced.
Another New Year's Resolution
Posted by Dobri Kiprov, MD | Tags: Lifestyle , Health , Exercise
Take a good look at this bike. Yes, it looks cool but what is more important is that it is so much fun that you will want to ride it all the time. And this is good for your health and the enviroment. Who knows, you may save the Earth riding in style! Do not miss ththis VIDEO. Available also in HD at VIMEO.
Hormone Produced By Exercise May Help Control Obesity, Blood Sugar Levels
Posted by Dobri Kiprov, MD | Tags: Lifestyle , Science , Health , Exercise
Irisin is a hormone which is found naturally in muscle cells...rises during exercise, converting white fat into brown fat, a substance whose primary function is to generate body heat." When irisin was injected "into obese, pre-diabetic mice, the animals lost weight and their blood sugar levels improved." Researchers suggested that this finding "may lead to treatments for obesity and diabetes, as well as other disorders where exercise may benefit patients who are too weak to engage in it."
Since making irisin pills is still only an idea, you are better off making your muscles produce more of it. Plus, a pill will not tone your muscles and you will not look good.
New Year Resolution
Posted by Dobri Kiprov, MD
Happy New Year! I hope your New Year Resolution includes taking care of your health. Your 
health is
your most important asset. Think about it. If you are sick, you cannot
have fun, you cannot have sex and overall you feel miserable. Following
the Lifestyle In Motion program is not only your great guide to healthy living but also an enjoyable experience. Think MOTION in your resolution!
I encourage you to try SUP (Stand Up Paddlesurfing) this year. It is
not as difficult as it looks and each time you step on the board, you
will be exercising every muscle in your body. Check out the video of a
lady beginner and her coach. VIDEO New scientific evidence shows that exercise helps control your appetite.
More Light on the Mediterranean Diet
Posted by Dobri Kiprov, MD | Tags: Lifestyle , Diet , Health
We have discussed the Mediterranean Diet befor but this new study is very copmelling. The LA Times articlebellow is very well written and informative. If you missed my
video on the Mediterranean Diet (where I question the notion that it is a diet), here is the link: VIDEO One of the Mediterranean diet's "champions, Dr. Dimitrios Trichopoulos of Harvard University, calls the Mediterranean way of eating 'possibly the best ever.'" One "analysis, published in 2011 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, pooled the results of 50 studies (including 35 clinical trials) with more than a half-million total participants. It found that consumers of the Mediterranean diet were less likely than others to develop high blood pressure, high insulin levels, too much fat around the waist and unhealthful cholesterol levels, or all of these clustered together (a condition known as metabolic syndrome)." A separate Los Angeles Times 
(11/22, Ravn) article also discusses the health benefits of Mediterranean-style diets.
