The Mixed Type Diet

If you're a mixed type, it means you're somewhere in the middle of the other two types, which have more pronounced or clear-cut metabolic imbalances. You actually need to eat a mixture of protein type foods and carbo type foods. This will accomplish two things:

1) it will support both sides of your autonomic nervous system -- both the sympathetic branch and the parasympathetic branch

 2) it will keep your cellular oxidation rate, which is neither too fast or too slow, in balance.

 Mixed types need to consume relatively equal ratios of proteins, fats and carbohydrates. They also need to eat a mixture of high-fat, high-purine proteins and low-fat, low-purine proteins.

The same applies to all of the other foods contained on the protein type and carbo type diets -- including grains, legumes, vegetables and fruits.

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"WHAT ARE PURINES?

Purines are chemical compounds found in your body’s cells and in your food. They are important because they help to provide your energy and protein needs as well as other life benefits. When they breakdown during this process, uric acid is produced. Normally, your kidneys will process the uric acid and excrete excess as waste out of your body. Enough is retained for your body’s needs. Sometimes, though, either too much acid is being produced through the metabolization of purines, or, your kidneys can’t even cope with normal production levels. When this happens you can be left with high uric acid that can result in the formation of urate crystals in your joints that cause a gout attack."
The source of this information can be found here: http://www.ca-medicalnews.com/gout-foods-to-avoid.html

The Carbo Type Diet

Generally speaking, if you're a carbo type you need a higher percentage of carbohydrates in your diet in order to strengthen the parasympathetic branch of your nervous system, which is weaker than your sympathetic system, and thereby alkalinize your too-acid metabolism. Or you need more carbohydrates to speed up your naturally slow cellular oxidation rate, thereby bringing it into balance by acidifying your too-alkaline metabolism.

Carbo types typically do well on a low-fat, relatively low-protein diet -- one that includes liberal amounts of carbohydrates in the form of vegetables, fruits and whole grains. However, carbo types need to remember that a "low-protein" diet does not mean a "no-protein" diet. In fact, most carbo types will find that they need to include protein at most meals, but they need to focus on leaner, lighter meats, seafood and poultry than protein types. They should restrict their consumption of red meat in favor of light meat chicken and turkey and lighter seafood such as haddock, cod, perch, sole, catfish and flounder.

If you're a carbo type you should stick to low-fat dairy products, but you can eat a very wide selection of vegetables, fruits, and grains. However, many carbo types, like protein types, do best by focusing on vegetables that contain low or moderate levels of sugar and starch.

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The Protein Type Diet

In general or simplistic terms, if you are a protein type it means one of two things -- either your cells tend to burn carbohydrates too quickly (meaning you're a fast oxidizer), or the parasympathetic branch of your autonomic nervous system is stronger and more dominant than the sympathetic branch. This means you need a high-protein intake in order to strengthen your sympathetic system, and in turn acidify your too-alkaline metabolism. Or you need protein to slow down your overly rapid cellular oxidation rate, thereby alkalinizing your too-acid metabolism.

Protein types do very well on a diet that includes plenty of high-density, high-fat proteins known as "high-purine" proteins. These include foods like red meat, dark meat chicken and turkey, and various kinds of seafood such as salmon, tuna, herring, sardines, mussels, caviar and anchovies. Most protein types can also eat freely of whole fat foods in the form of cheese, eggs, cream and milk. It's especially important for protein types to include a significant amount of protein at every meal, and to moderate their intake of carbohydrates (grains, vegetables and fruits), especially the carbohydrates that are high in sugar and starch.

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LOSE WEIGHT, KNOW YOUR METABOLIC TYPE

When you identify your metabolic type and fine-tune your diet, you'll learn two primary things:

1) exactly what foods are compatible with your body chemistry

2) how to combine proteins, carbohydrates and fats in a ratio that is just right for you

With Metabolic Typing Meal plan you'll find very comprehensive lists of foods that are compatible with your metabolic type -- including specific types of meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits and nuts.

It's important that you know why specific types of foods are good for you, and the specific influences they exert on the regulatory (homeostatic) mechanisms that control your metabolism. Just as importantly, you'll learn why certain types of food are bad for you, i.e., why they cause you to feel poorly and put on weight, and exactly why they have a negative influence on your body chemistry.

The list below gives you a brief preview of the three general metabolic type categories and the diets that correspond to each category.

But please remember that these three categories are just a starting point! Within each category, there is plenty of variation.

So what you'll want to do once you identify your basic category is use the book's fine-tuning techniques to customize a diet to your own highly individualized needs.

You'll know when you've identified the diet that's just right for you because your meals will leave you feeling full and satisfied, and free of the hunger pangs and food cravings that many people experience shortly after eating.

When you eat according to your metabolic type, you'll be able to last 4 to 5 hours between meals and snacks without feeling hungry. You'll also have lots of physical energy and mental clarity, and be free of fatigue, irritability and other problems that commonly occur when you fail to eat according to your genetically-based needs.

Needless to say, you'll experience plenty of longer-term benefits as well, including the ability to lose weight and keep it off, strengthened immunity and stamina, and the ability to prevent, reverse or greatly alleviate many kinds of common health disorders.



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The Advantages & Disadvantages of Low Carb Nutrition

 Written by Charles Poliquin
"There are some many advantages to low carb nutrition, that is why I tend to use it in about 75% of my clients. But it is not for everybody, some genotypes do very poorly on it, and the extent of how badly they do on it is a function of the time they are on it. Before you look at the advantages and disadvantages, as Jonny Bowden would say” You need to approach your fat loss system like you should approach relationships:  Daily attention. Nurturing, support, crisis management, intervention, focus, attention, consciousness and mindfulness. It requires good negotiation skills. All the things we don't tend to have when it comes to food.”

Advantages

It promotes muscle gains while reducing fat stores
I am not a believer in the bulk-up/get lean approach in hypertrophy training. For 75% of the population, I strongly believe that if you want to gain lean body mass while losing fat, the low carb approach will do it better  than anything, especially if you are takings supplements than enhance insulin sensitivity. Because insulin sensitivity tends to improve on low carb diets, fat loss is more sustained with this approach.

It is a very valuable in treating dyslipidemia
Low carb diets are particularly effective at reducing triglycerides and VLDL. It has a significant effect also on reducing LDL. Its effects on raising the good forms of cholesterol is not as drastic. But overall, it improves the HDL:LDL ratio in a manner that significantly reduces cardiovascular risk.

It reduces inflammation

Many patients will report reduced joint pain while following a low carb diet. High insulin levels are correlated with inflammation markers. Since the insulin output is lower with low carb diets. Another cardiovascular risk marker, Hs-CRP goes down faster than a cheerleader’s panties at the high school prom night, when a low carb diet is followed.

Improved glycemia and insulin levels

Blood sugar management is probably on the biggest benefits of low carb diets. 68% of American are pre-diabetic. Insulin is the hormone of ageing and inflammation. Managing insulin is one of the best ways to promote healthy long living. An added benefit of improving glycemia is reduce mood swings and lowered likelihood of engaging in food binges.


Lowered blood pressure
Because low carb diets reduce inflammation, improved blood pressure is a direct benefit of low carb dieting.

Greater energy
Before all the armchair experts lash out and rush out to burn Canadian embassies, hear me out. Greater energy is indeed a very common report of low carb dieters. Psychometric tests always report greater well being of the patient after this dietary approach. It probably has more to do with the better management of one’s glycemia. As Robert Crayhon says, you want more energy, take care of your mitochondrias. Lower insulin levels help with mitochondrias energy producing capacities.

Disadvantages

The low carb nutrition  tends to be bland

However, there are plenty of resources such as books like Living the Low Carb Life by Jonny Bowden that provide you with a wealth of cooking tips (http://www.jonnybowden.com/)

Food prep time is greater Since the meat content is greater, more time is needed to prepare the food. As simple as cooking a steak takes more time than making a sandwich. But again, there are solutions. If you use salad instead of the pita, you can do low carb wraps in a flash.

Constipation is often an issue

That can be off-set by taking in a mixture of ground flax seed hulls and ground fenugreek seeds first thing in the morning, besides providing the body with many forms of fibers, it detoxifies xeno-estrogens and improves insulin sensitivity.

Possible nutrients deficiencies

Because one abstains from certain foods, I recommend to all my patients to take a quality broad nutrient multi-vitamin supplements. This goes along with a varied plan of anti-oxidants that changes every 8 days. I basically change the nature of multi-anti-oxidant products. To make it simple, I change the color of the anti-oxidants. For example, the first product may have 5-6 flavonoids like limonene (so the base color is yellow), the next 8 days, we switch to purple so we use a formula that have grape seed extract, bilberry etc.

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What are the Habits of Healthy People?

The Nine Habits of Highly Healthy People

by Jonny Bowden

For years, business and motivational gurus have known that there are basic habits that seem to predict professional success and excellence. Books like
“The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”, by motivational speaker and business guru Stephen Covey, PhD has sold over 15 million copies alone, to people hungry for the secrets of success.

We don’t yet have the perfect formula for long life, happiness and physical health, but a little careful distillation of the massive amount of research on health and longevity reveals that cultivating nine basic habits will significantly increase the odds of your living long, well and happily, in a robust, healthy, weight-appropriate body.

1. Eat your vegetables. No kidding. And I’m talking at least 9 servings a day.. Unless you’re following the most stringent first stage of the Atkins Diet, you should be able to consume 60-120 grams of carbs a day (depending on your weight and exercise level), and you’d have to eat a stockyard full of spinach to get to that amount. Every major study of long-lived, healthy people shows that they eat a ton of plant foods. Nothing delivers antioxidants, fiber, flavonoids, indoles, and the entire pharmacopia of disease fighting phytochemicals like stuff that grows.
    
2. Eat fish and/or take fish oil. The Omega-3’s found in cold-water fish like salmon deserve the title of “wellness molecule of the century”. They lower the risk of heart disease, they lower blood pressure, they improve mood and they’re good for the brain. And if you’re pregnant, they may make your kid smarter!
    
3. Connect. And I’m not talking about the internet. In virtually every study of people who are healthy and happy into their 9th and 10th decade, social connections are one of the “prime movers” in their life. Whether church, family, volunteer work or community, finding something you care about that’s bigger than you that you can connect with and that involves other people (or animals) will extend your life, increase your energy, and make you happier. Only always.
    
4. Get some sun. At least 10-15 minutes three times a week. Interestingly, a recent study of four places in the globe where people lived the longest and were the healthiest noted that all four places were in sunny climates. Sun improves your mood and boosts levels of cancer-fighting, performance-enhancing, bone-strengthening vitamin D, a vitamin most people don’t get nearly enough of.
    
5. Sleep Well. If you’re low in energy, gaining weight, grumpy and looking haggard, guess what?- chances are you’re not sleeping nearly long enough nor well enough. By sleeping “well”, I mean uninterrupted sleep, in the dark, without the television on, in a relaxing environment. Nothing nourishes, replenishes and restarts the system like 7-9 hours sleep. Hint: start by going to bed an hour early. And if you’ve got a computer in the bedroom, banish it.
    
6. Exercise every day. Forget this 20 minutes three times a week stuff. Long lived people are doing things like farm chores at 4:30 in the morning! Our Paleolithic ancestors traveled an average of 20 miles per day. Our bodies were designed to move on a regular basis. New studies show that merely 30 minutes a day of walking not only reduces the risk of most serious diseases, but can even grow new brain cells!
    
7. Practice Gratitude. By making a list of things you’re grateful for, you focus the brain on positive energy. Gratitude is incompatable with anger and stress. Practice using your under-utilized “right brain” and spread some love. Focusing on what you’re grateful for- even for five minutes a day- has the added benefit of being one of the best stress-reduction techniques on the planet.
    
8. Drink red wine or eat grapes. The resveratrol in dark grapes is being studied for its effect on extending life, which it seems to do for almost every species studied. (So does eating about 1/3 less food, by the way.) If you’ve got a problem with alcohol, you can get resveratrol from grapes, peanuts or supplements. (And if you’re a woman, and you choose the alcohol option, make sure you’re getting folic acid every day.)
    
9. Get the sugar out. The number one enemy of vitality, health and longevity is not fat, it’s sugar. Sugar’s effect on hormones, moods, immunity, weight and possibly even cancer cells is enormous, and it’s all negative. To the extent that you can remove it from your diet, you will be adding years to your life and life to your years.

This list may not be perfect and it may not be complete, but it’s a start. As my dear grandmother used to say, “Couldn’t hurt”. Not one of these “habits” will hurt you, all will benefit you, and some may make the difference between life and death.

And it’s never too late to start cultivating them.

Enjoy the journey!
 

Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS is the author of the Poliquin Manual for Nutrition. He's a board certified nutritionist, a nationally known expert on weight loss, health and nutrition, and the best-selling author of 8 books including “The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth”. Visit him at www.jonnybowden.com

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Overweight and Obese Make Up Majority in Ontario, Study Finds

 

ScienceDaily (Sep. 9, 2010) — New analysis of a landmark health survey by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) shows that 70% of Ontario adults are either overweight or obese, and have a strong prevalence of high blood pressure that could lead to heart attack or stroke.

"Being obese is followed by several serious heath problems. If we reduce weight, then we can help reduce high blood pressure -- these facts are becoming more apparent as a way to live healthier," says Dr. George Fodor, head of UOHI Prevention and Rehabilitation Research, and an investigator who helped lead the research.

The research, led by Dr. Frans Leenen of the Heart Institute's Hypertension Unit, adds new information to a limited amount of Canadian data on obesity and high blood pressure. The analysis further strengthens the link between high blood pressure and above normal Body Mass Index (BMI), a formula for body composition calculated by height and weight.

The latest analysis shows that 48% of adults were overweight (with a BMI of 25 to 29.9) and 22% were obese (with a BMI of 30 and over). Normal BMI falls between 18.5 and 24.9. Obesity levels tended to increase with age from 10% in younger people to 33% in older subjects. High blood pressure was twice as common among obese people. Diabetes and high cholesterol was three fold higher.

"Obesity is rapidly increasing in Canada because we are eating far more than our bodies require.  

We know better than ever that even being overweight creates other problems such as diabetes and high cholesterol levels and thereby endangers cardiovascular health," said Dr. Leenen.

"Public health strategies to reduce the growing epidemic of obesity would also reduce the burden of high blood pressure and other negative effects leading to heart disease."

Study results were published in the American Journal of Hypertension. They represent the latest analysis from the Ontario Survey on the Prevalence and Control of Hypertension, the first comprehensive assessment of high blood pressure in Canada since 1992.

The survey, conducted by the Heart Institute with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, examined 2,552 Ontarians aged 20 to 79 years old in 16 communities from Sudbury to Windsor.

Results showed 52% of people aged 60 and over had high blood pressure but that the majority was receiving treatment. As well, high blood pressure was more common among people from ethnic groups such as South Asians and Blacks.

Editor's Note: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

To read original article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100909114115.htm