Learn about body mass index and a healthy lifestyle through the gateway to health

Learn about body mass index and a healthy lifestyle through the gateway to health.

What is being overweight?

Being overweight or obese are both defined by Body Mass Index or BMI (which is a ratio of weight to height). A BMI between 25 and 30 places someone in an overweight category and 30 or higher is considered obese.

Why control your weight? Being overweight and obese cause a dramatic increase in the likelihood of disease as people increase their BMI, such as:

-Coronary artery disease (CAD)
-Certain cancersHigh blood pressure
-High cholesterol and triglycerides
-Osteoarthritis
-Sleep apnea
-Stroke
-Type 2 diabetes

The cost of being overweight Two of the personal costs of being overweight are:

-Obese people are expected to live 2-4 years less than someone with a healthy weight; the extremely obese (BMI over 40) have 8-10 years taken off their life expectancy. ⁱ
-Obese people cost an average of $1,429 more in medical services per year than someone who is normal weight.

What can I do to control my weight? There is much you can do to control your weight, but there are no easy answers.

Lifestyle: Get support, exercise, track your progress, and eat a low-fat and low-calorie diet.
Boost Your Metabolism: Maintaining or increasing your lean body mass (muscles) is your best bet for keeping your metabolism going strong. There are a variety of supplements that can help with your metabolism as well.
Leucine: The amino acid leucine is great at helping maintain muscle mass, especially in people who are cutting calories and exercising.
Protein: Not only does protein help you feel full longer, it also helps you keep your lean body mass. Starting the morning with a good protein or protein shake helps you feel full longer.
Fiber: The benefits of fiber on weight loss are many. Studies have shown that fiber can help you feel full, support blood sugar, and it helps remove cholesterol from the body as part of a healthy diet

In order to have a healthy life control your weight. After all, weight is the gateway to health. You choose good or bad health by your weight.

February 18, 2013

Heart disease prevention and a healthy heart is discussed by Dallas Health Helpers.

Heart disease prevention and a healthy heart is discussed by Dallas Health Helpers.Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States. But 80% of heart disease is preventable. The power to have a healthy heart is in your hands.

Is being high a risk to heat disease? High cholesterol, high blood pressure and high weight are definitely conditions that contribute to poor heart health and a shortened lifespan. So let’s look at these unfavorable situations that can lead to an early death.

High cholesterol: leads to twice the risk of heart attack and heart disease or stroke. Cholesterol is a waxy substance in all our cells and in our blood. Hardening of the arteries occurs when plaque, made up of cholesterol, calcium and fat builds up in arteries surrounding the heart, leading to heart attack, heart failure or stroke. You are borderline high in total cholesterol if your count is above 200. you are considered high in total cholesterol if you are above 230.

Here are some statistics:

• One third of all adults have high cholesterol and half of them do nothing to control it.
•  An estimated 71 million adults have high cholesterol.
•  An estimated 935,000 heart attacks occur every year.
•  An estimated 795,000 strokes occur each year.
•  Men still outnumber women in heart attacks, but not by much. More women than man have strokes.

What can you do to lower cholesterol?

heart disease, disease of heart

There is much that you can do to help control cholesterol.

Lifestyle: Start by having your total cholesterol checked regularly. Eat a healthy diet that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables. Avoid packaged, fried, and fast food. Lose weight if you are not your ideal weight. Exercise and avoid smoking.
Sterols: Plant sterols and stanols (2,000 mg/day) have been shown in multiple studies to help lower total cholesterol levels, coupled with the lifestyle changes above. They appear to work by blocking the absorption of cholesterol in the diet.
Fiber: Multiple studies have shown the benefit of fiber on lowering cholesterol levels in high-risk subjects.
Soy: Soy supplementation has been shown to help lower cholesterol. Soy contains isoflavones, which are believed to be soy’s main cholesterol-lowering ingredients.

Contact Dallas Health Helpers at “Tim At Dallas Health Helpers dot com” for more information and support.

October 28, 2012

Shaklee Distributor in Dallas, Dallas Health Helpers, talks about Laura’s journey into weight loss.

Shaklee Distributor in Dallas, Dallas Health Helpers, talks about Laura’s journey into weight loss and how to get healthy.

Laura Evans is Senior Vice President of Sales and Field Development at Shaklee Corporation. She balances her life around everyone else in my life – children, husband, family, friends, job, staff, boss and customers. However as her career grew, so did she!! She knew that being overweight was not how she wanted to age gracefully and not what she wanted her kids to experience.

She realized she was not at a healthy weight, according to the medical data after taking look at the Body Mass Index chart. Deciding that she needed to make a change, she chose Shaklee 180 from Shaklee. She was tired of “yo-yo dieting;” she has lost and gained hundreds of pounds many times over. The preliminary clinical study with real people conducted with Shaklee 180 resulted primarily in fat loss and muscle retention. Muscle helps metabolism. The goal includes how to get healthy.

She set her goal to mirror what the clinical study participants had achieved: lose 15 lbs in 90 days. To her surprise, she lost weight AND her body shape changed from a “mom look” to athletic. She had never been in her life! Cinch changed her life for the better, for good! See Laura’s story here.

In a preliminary study of the Cinch Inch Loss Plan, participants on average lost 15.4 pounds in 12 weeks.

You, too, can change your life for the better. Shaklee Corporation produces a weight management system that works to build excellent health while losing weight. Click here to learn about The Shaklee 180 Inch Loss Plan and Click here to watch a video. Shaklee also offers a money back guarantee. Try it here.

Dallas Health Helpers, Shaklee Distributor in Dallas is about being healthy without drugs or synthetics. Call 214.252.9596 or email us to learn more about vitality and health.

October 22, 2012

Shaklee Distributor in Dallas, Dallas Health Helpers, talks about immune system health and weight loss.

Shaklee Distributor in Dallas, Dallas Health Helpers, talks about immune system health and weight loss.

Last week I mentioned the immune system and things that can be changed in our life styles that can help it to work better. Those are the following:

Stress

Fatigue

Nutrition levels

Healthy activity levels

I failed to mention a healthy weight. It seems that a healthy weight helps people to sleep better. This is a two step process so bear with me. Often we hear of overweight or obese individuals having trouble sleeping. Sleep apnea can wreak havoc on a good night of deep sleep. The immune system does some important work during the sleep state know as REM (Rapid Eye Movement). Besides benefiting the stress and fatigue mentioned above, a good night’s sleep gives the body time to recover. The immune system is included in this recovery and rebuilding process. There are certain hormones that kick into action during this state of deep sleep.

Without this function that is performed in the wee hours of the morning, your ability to defeat germs, bacteria, fungus and viruses is weakened and they may be able to take a foot hold and illness results.

So get your “40 winks”. When you find yourself not getting adequate rest and being sick often, your weight may be a factor.

Shaklee Corporation produces a weight management system that works to build excellent health while losing weight, thus building your immune system to a higher functioning level. Click here to learn about The Cinch Inch Loss Plan and Click here to watch a video. Shaklee also offers a money back guarantee. Try it here.

Dallas Health Helpers, Shaklee Distributor in Dallas is about being healthy without drugs or synthetics. Call 214.252.9596 or email us to learn more about vitality and health.

October 14, 2012

Shaklee Distributor in Dallas, Dallas Health Helpers, talks about immune system health.

Shaklee Distributor in Dallas, Dallas Health Helpers, talks about immune system health.

When the immune system is mentioned, often peoples’ minds go to extremes, thinking of AIDS or some other devastating condition. Many immune system disorders are life-changing or life-threatening. But everyone should be concerned about maintaining a healthy, strong system of defense against invaders to the body.

Your immune system is at work 24/7 to guard against foreign intruders to your body so that you don’t get sick. This activity can help keep you from getting the sniffles, a cold or a more debilitating condition such as the flu or even hepatitis.

With the immune system up and running strong, these invaders are stopped before they can get a foothold on your cells and begin to destroy them and make you sick. There are cells that run reconnaissance missions looking for the intruders. There are immune system cells that take the information from the others and create antibodies to kill them off. There are immune system cells that simply “eat” the invaders on site, in a search and destroy mission. These are only a few of the activities that the immune system does.

We also have to be aware of some things that can impact the system’s ability to do its job.

Age

Stress

Fatigue

Nutrition levels

Healthy activity levels

Obviously, we cannot do anything about our age, but the others are lifestyle related and we can take actions in those areas that will help to build up our immune systems and fight off illness more effectively. De-stressing your life and getting plenty of sleep are very important. Taking time for an effective amount of exercise without going to the extremes is key to keeping your defense mechanisms mobile. Getting enough of the right nutrition is a challenge, but can be done with supplementation when eating right is not happening. The good news is that all these changes or adaptations to our lifestyles have many side benefits. Targeting your immune system will help you to enjoy better health in other areas of your life. Just pay attention to your body and notice the improvements.

Shaklee Corporation produces a couple of products that work directly with your immune system. Click here to learn about Nutriferon and Defend & Resist. Shaklee also offers a money back guarantee. Try it here.

Dallas Health Helpers, Shaklee Distributor in Dallas is about being healthy without drugs or synthetics. Call 214.252.9596 or email us to learn more about vitality and health.