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The Most Overlooked Solution for Weight Loss

Steven Park — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:12:12 +0000

Discover the REAL reasons why most weight loss plans fail…

Dr. Park interviews Ms. Tara Marie Segundo who shares The Most Overlooked Solutions for Weight Loss.

Tara is an award winning Pro Natural Figure Competitor and a credentialed fitness authority who is a frequent contributor in several top health and fitness magazines, and is also the host of her own radio program, The Time Is Now on Hotradio125.com.

During this 2 part interview, Tara reveals:

The #1 reason why most people can’t lose weight
Her proprietary 5 Key Success Principles for losing weight and keeping it off
How to strategically achieve your weight loss goals like the Pros do
How to lose weight without counting calories and depriving yourself

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Beat the Sugar Habit (Before It Beats You)

Steven Park — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:29:49 +0000

Expert Interview with Peter Lappin

Dr. Park Interviews an immensely knowledgeable health counselor and top-notch nutrition expert, Mr. Peter Lappin on how to beat the sugar addiction. During this 57 minute call, Peter shares his eye-opening insights on how pervasive sugar has become in all our foods and how to avoid it without depriving yourself.

Learn how to:

Gain control over your sugar cravings
Conquer the sugar blues that leave you feeling listless
Satisfy your sweet tooth with natural, wholesome foods without feeling deprived
How to avoid the hidden sugar in so many supermarket foods
Improve your own and your family’s health by cutting some sugar out of your diets

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Answers to Your Top 10 Fitness Questions

Steven Park — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:51:25 +0000

Proven Methods For Getting Fit and Staying That Way…

In this Expert Interview Series, expert personal trainer and fitness consultant, Tara Marie Segundo, discusses her proven and effective methods for getting and staying in shape.

A highly sought-after physical trainer and top-notch fitness expert, Ms. Segundo’s insights on health and fitness are eye-opening and enlightening.During this 48 minute call, Tara answers your burning questions on fitness and health.

Learn:

What #1 mistake prevents people from sticking with their exercise regiment and what you can do to avoid this.
How you can get fit in just 10 minutes a day
Tips on overcoming the diet “blahs”

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10 Tips For Healthy Holiday Eating

Steven Park — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:39:38 +0000

Many patients find that the holidays are often incompatible with their diet and exercise regiments. But before you sabotage in two short weeks what you’ve worked so hard to maintain the previous 11 months, take heed of the following advice from expert holistic nutritional counselor, Peter Lappin. These tips not only can help you avoid your penchant for overindulging this season (and regretting it later), they’ll help you enjoy many more holidays to come in the future.

1. Don’t go to a holiday meal starving. A lot of people under-eat in anticipation of a big meal, and then fill up on fat-laden crackers, cheese, nuts, and dip before the turkey gets carved. Eat sensibly and don’t skip meals on feast day.

2. If you’re going elsewhere to eat, resist the invitation to take home leftovers. It isn’t just the sweets that are a potential problem, it’s anything associated with holiday eating — turkey, side dishes, etc. — that are not part of your regular diet. Politely decline the offer and you won’t have the food around to tempt you.

3. Exercise the day of the event, the day after the event, and ideally, the day after that (and so on). Among the benefits of exercise: It calms us. It increases our metabolism. It helps us digest our food. It raises our energy and improves our mood. It provides a sense of accomplishment. It gets our blood pumping. It gives us "alone" time to be with our thoughts. It burns calories. It gets us in touch with our bodies and minds.

4. Before you start, anticipate what’s likely to come. Do you want to go to the event at all? What do the holidays mean to you? Are they happy occasions? Do you feel criticized by the people you’ll be with? Do you feel like you come up short, or that you’ll be judged by others?

(You don’t have to share these feelings with others, but it’s important to be honest with yourself. You don’t have to love the holidays. The clearer you are about how you feel, the less likely you’ll be to use food to calm your emotional upset.)

5. If you’re bringing food, make it a light, healthful dish you can enjoy. By setting an example, you show others that holiday meals needn’t be limited to foods laden with butter, brown sugar, etc. Bring sautéed greens (like kale or collards), or a mix of roasted root vegetables (beets, carrots, parsnips, turnips and rutabaga). They’ll be the hit of the evening — and they’re naturally sweet!

6. Sample every dish and dessert you’d like, but take just enough to fill your plate ONCE. This is not the all-you-can-eat buffet at Shoney’s. This also relates to #1: DON’T go to a holiday dinner starving.

7. During the meal, check in with yourself. Are you really still hungry? Are you tasting your food? Are you putting food in your mouth before you’ve swallowed what’s already there? (I’m guilty of this all the time.) Think how GOOD it’s going to feel returning home not feeling like a beached whale!

8. If you do overeat, FORGIVE YOURSELF. It’s hard enough when we don’t meet our own expectations; it feels even worse when we beat ourselves up for it. In the end, we’re human. I read recently, "Perfectionism is a form of oppression." Can you relate to that?

9. When the meal is over, brush your teeth. This is a great way to mark the end of a meal. You are done eating.

10. Walk home. If you can’t walk all the way, walk part of the way home, or take a walk once you get there. This will clear your head, calm you, and ease your digestion. We were not meant to gorge ourselves and then flop down in front of a television set or immediately go to bed.

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These tips are reprinted with permission from Peter Lappin. Peter is a holistic health counselor and owner/operator of Vibrant Living NYC. His mission is “to help successful professionals in demanding careers bring more balance to their lives.” Vibrant Living NYC’s holistic approach encompasses healthy diet, stress management, loving relationships, positive self-image, purposeful work, and joyful physical activity.

No Magic Bullets

Steven Park — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:07:29 +0000

I’ve stated before that the vast majority of conditions that patients come to see me for (over 90%) are directly a result of the person’s diet, lifestyle, and stress factors. A broken nose, a foreign body or an abscess are acute conditions that can be treated quickly, but many symptoms that I see such as nasal congestion, chronic sinus complaints, ear fullness, chronic fatigue, throat pain and hoarseness, are all conditions that are aggravated by, if not caused by the person’s lifestyle choices. For most people, when I point this out, are grateful that they don’t have to use a medication, and are willing to make the changes so they can start to feel better. Many of these patients do improve.

But there is a small minority that are adamant that there must be pill they can take to get rid of their throat pain or cough or sinus pressure. They are typically younger, and refuse to give up their social lives, and continue to stay up late, eating and drinking, especially on the weekends. If this were you, you may argue: others seem to get by just fine—why am I the only one with this problem?

My answer is that your anatomy is different. They are perfectly happy sleeping on their backs, and are able to breathe properly, even during deep sleep, when their throat muscles relax. In your case, because of smaller jaw anatomy, your tongue falls back easier when on your back, and whenever you go into deep sleep, your tongue relaxes during deep sleep, which causes obstruction and a vacuum effect is created, sucking up stomach juices into your throat, This causes more throat inflammation and swelling, aggravating this vicious cycle.

This is why it’s important that if you’re susceptible to this condition, you shouldn’t eat late or drink alcohol close to bedtime. This is one mechanism that explains why you can gain weight if you eat late. Inefficient sleep promotes weight gain. In addition, alcohol relaxes your muscles and only aggravates this problem.

How many of you are willing to make the necessary sacrifices to improve your health?