Dreaming Of Beautiful Skin

*By the way: you can get Acnevelle from Skin Renewal clinics. I go to the one in Parkhurst. It takes at least 8 weeks to see improvements though...

Can we eat to starve cancer & adipose tissue (fat)?

William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best) step: Eating cancer-fighting foods that cut off the supply lines and beat cancer at its own game

Click play & watch the video or go to the TED talk here. 

Below I've created a quick view of all the foods Dr Li's studies have found to have anti-angiogenic qualities.(Print and take to the grocery store/chinese market on your next shopping trip)!

Obesity: adipose tissue/fat is highly angiogenesis dependent and grows where blood vessels grow. So can the angiogenesis inhibitors (AI's) in these foods cut off the blood supply to fat too and therefore shrink fat? The answer is yes! In mice studies, obese mice lost weight when given AI's which regulated healthy set points.

Want flat abs? Watch what you drink!

There are many ways that alcohol can get you into trouble. It doesn't make you feel full or decrease the amount of food you consume. 

In fact, alcohol encourages your body to burn up to 36 percent less fat, makes you store more of the fat you eat and inhibits your body's production of hormones that help burn fat and build muscle. 

If you can't pass up your pinot, limit yourself to two or three alcoholic drinks a week. Water may not be as exciting as 'Weiser, but drinking about eight glasses of the clear stuff a day has a lot of benefits. 

Water helps keep you satiated (often what we interpret as hunger is ?really thirst). 

It flushes the waste products your body makes when it breaks down fat for energy or when it processes protein. And it transports nutrients to your muscles to keep your metabolism clicking. Otherwise, the best drinks you can have are low-fat milk and green tea (or, if you must, two glasses of diet soda a day).

-Woman's Health

Are public health students guilty of "fatism"?

By KATHERINE HARMON

Published 16 April 2010

Weight stigma towards obese patients is very common in the health care setting and many young health students are also guilty of "fatism," a new analysis has found—but their attitudes can be changed...

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How Much Exercise Prevents Weight Gain?

By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: March 31, 2010

In one study, Harvard researchers found that an hour of moderate physical activity a day kept women from gaining weight in midlife.



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