How You Can Be the Best Advocate for Your Own Health

How You Can Be the Best Advocate for Your Own Health

Advocating for your health means more than just being aware of your health status. Rather, it's about being vocal regarding issues that concern you if your diagnosis does not sit right with you. To help, the experts at Doctor’s Choice offer some tips on how you can be the best advocate for your own health.
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5 Health Trends You Should Try Out for 2023

5 Health Trends You Should Try Out for 2023

Are you looking for ways to improve your health and wellness? Try out the five must-have trends of 2023: keto diet, intermittent fasting, CBD oil, probiotics, and wearable fitness trackers. Learn more about each one to determine their effectiveness in helping with weight loss, mental clarity, anxiety relief & more! Get started on a healthier lifestyle today!

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Simple Things to Incorporate in Your Health Strategy for Maximum Results

Simple Things to Incorporate in Your Health Strategy for Maximum Results

Simple Things to Incorporate in Your Health Strategy for Maximum Results

Having a strategy for your personal health is essential. However, it can also feel overwhelming when your schedule is already filled with other responsibilities, like work or family. These pressures can override the desire for self-care.

One study found that a third of Americans feel bad for taking time for themselves. Thankfully, you can incorporate several simple things into your health strategy for maximum results without taking much time. Ready to find out more? Check out these tips.


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Everything You Need To Know About Alcohol and Weight Loss

Everything You Need To Know About Alcohol and Weight Loss

Are you trying to get to a healthier weight level? Ever wonder where drinking fits in with your fitness and health goals?

If you are like me, It took me a long time to figure out that I too, was unknowingly sabotaging my own efforts.

This article is from Vanessa Risetto MS, RD, CDN - a registered dietician, 6 months sober and looking at the research.

It's a fascinating and easy read that will help give you some wisdom surrounding alcohol and weight loss. Research is clear that heavy drinkers are likely to lose weight upon quitting, The research is not so clear on moderate drinkers.

Vanessa gives some tips for stopping or moderating Alcohol as part of your weight loss journey.
  • Alcohol Is Made Up of Selfish Calories
  • Alcohol Can Hinder Weight Loss, But Not for the Reasons You Think
  • It’s Possible to Drink Alcohol with Health Goals
  • Bottom Line: Drinking Alcohol (or Not) Can Be a Part of Your Weight Loss Journey

 Click the green READ MORE button to get a super helpful summary of the article.

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5 Creative Ways to Take More Control of Your Health and Happiness

We all want to live healthier, and we all tend to hear the same advice over and over again. You know you need to exercise and eat right, but what you may not know is that there are simpler ways to take better care of your health. From your mind down to your toes, here are five super simple wellness tips that anyone can use to look and feel their best.
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What Do We Eat?

What Do We Eat?

Diet is only one aspect of human health.  Clean water, lots of it, for drinking and bathing, is essential.  Regular activity and movement, whether exercise or work, is necessary and natural for sustaining health.  Humans are social and need interaction with people.  Getting enough sleep (and rest), enough light (but not too much), continuing to challenge the mind, overcoming problems from the past, having fun, feeling connected with Nature or God, finding meaning and purpose all contribute to the big picture of human health.

     

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Iron Deficiency - The trouble with iron

Iron Deficiency - The trouble with iron

Too Long Didn't Read - Iron is important, if you don't get enough in your diet you can become anemic.  

Iron is needed to move oxygen through the blood.


Signs and symptoms of iron deficiency anemia

Fatigue

Low tolerance to exercise

Paleness around eyes, skin, nails, and gums

Loud heartbeat may be present in the severe cases

There are usually no signs in the early stages



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Mediterranean Diet  Helps Keep People

Mediterranean Diet Helps Keep People "Genetically Young'

More and more research continues to repeatedly confirm the importance of our diet in maintaining health and vitality. "Although it's not clear exactly what makes it so good, its key components - an abundance of fresh fruit and vegetables as well as poultry and fish, rather than lots of red meat, butter and animal fats - all have well documented beneficial effects on the body. Foods rich in vitamins appear to provide a buffer against stress and damage of tissues and cells. And it appears from this latest study that a Mediterranean diet helps protect our DNA." The article is a short easy read.
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Is 'Slow and Steady' Weight Loss Really the Best Approach?

Is 'Slow and Steady' Weight Loss Really the Best Approach?

New study suggests that slow or fast weight loss has no bearing on long term success.

In fact people who lose weight faster are more likely to stick to their diets.

Weight gain after the diets is likely a return to poor food habits afterwards.
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