Abdominal obesity (otherwise known as "belly fat") increases your risk of dying from both heart disease and cancer.
But you probably knew that already.
Here is a recent study that breaks new ground and should really grab your attention.
This study showed that abdominal obesity dramatically increases your risk of developing dementia as you age (RA Whitmer et al, Neurology, 71: 1057-1064, 2008).
This study involved 6,583 members of Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, ages 40 to 45, who had their abdominal obesity measured between 1964 and 1973.
The investigators then pulled their medical records between 1994 and 2006 when they were between 73 and 87 years old and asked how many of them had dementia.
The results may shock you.
The participants were divided into five groups based on their abdominal circumference. Those with the largest abdominal circumference were nearly 3 times more likely to have developed dementia than those with the smallest abdominal circumference.
And that was after the data were adjusted for age, sex, race, education, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, stroke and heart disease - all factors that are known to affect the risk of dementia.
Interestingly enough the abdominal circumference was a better predictor of dementia risk than was BMI, the most frequently used measure of obesity.
Those subjects who had high abdominal obesity and normal BMI had a 2-fold increased risk of developing dementia, while those subjects who were obese but had normal abdominal circumference had only an 80% increased risk of developing dementia.
Of course, those people who were both obese and had a large belly were the worst off - they had almost a 4- fold increased risk of developing dementia.
Are you thinking, "If I don't like what I see when I look into the mirror, am I doomed to develop dementia when I get older?"
The answer is no. Most experts feel that the effects of abdominal obesity are reversible.
But the time to act is now!
If you wait until you get older, you might just forget that you ever read this article.
Thank you to Dr. Stephen Chaney for this valuable information.
If you are reading this, know there is a safe, tasty way to loose that belly fat. Contact Mary Beth at Mama Bear Productions to find out how much of a Cinch it really is!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Soy and Boys
You've probably seen some of those web sites talking about the dangers of soy - or read newsletters based on the information in those web sites.
If you believed those web, sites you would think that soy protein products were some sort of evil plot to undermine the health of the American public.
A topic that is not always discussed but a concern especially to moms. The effect of soy on males.
The anti-soy web sites claim that the weak estrogenic effect of soy isoflavones can cause feminization of boys and weaken men's sexual drive and reproductive ability (Evidently, someone forgot to tell the Chinese about that last one!).
That is nonsense because testosterone is structurally very similar to estrogen.
The soy isoflavones resemble natural testosterone just as much as they resemble natural estrogen - which is probably why some studies show that soy isoflavones slow the increase in PSA levels for men with prostate cancer.
The claims found in the anti-soy sites are primarily based on animal studies, but that is misleading because mice don't metabolize the soy isoflavones in the same way that humans do.
Two recently published studies have looked at the effects of isoflavones and isoflavone-containing soy protein in men. Both analyzed multiple previously published double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials (meta-analyses). This approach increases the statistical power of the conclusions by smoothing out some of the natural variation seen in individual studies.
The first study (Hamilton-Reeves et al, Fertil June 11, E-pub ahead of print, 2009) combined the results of 15 clinical trials and showed that soy isoflavones and isoflavone-containing soy protein intake had no effect on: total and free testosterone, sex hormone binding globulin (a protein that binds to, and stabilizes, testosterone in the bloodstream, and free androgen index (FAI) - an index of all of the hormones in the bloodstream that have masculinization effects (Yes, guys - it's not just testosterone that makes us who we are).
The second study (Messina, Fertil. Steril., 93:2095-2104, 2010) combined the results of 9 clinical trials and showed that soy isoflavones and isoflavone containing soy protein consumption had no effect on: total or free testosterone levels, circulating estrogen levels (Yes, guys - we do make some estrogen), sperm or semen parameters (Some guys might argue that this is the bottom line).
So the definitive results are in and, once again the Emperors (the doctors writing the ant-soy web sites) have been shown to have no clothes.
So soy and boys are a good combination. Thank you to Dr. Stephen Chaney for this excellent information.
To find out about high quality and non GMO Soy Protein products, click here. Or call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308.
If you believed those web, sites you would think that soy protein products were some sort of evil plot to undermine the health of the American public.
A topic that is not always discussed but a concern especially to moms. The effect of soy on males.
The anti-soy web sites claim that the weak estrogenic effect of soy isoflavones can cause feminization of boys and weaken men's sexual drive and reproductive ability (Evidently, someone forgot to tell the Chinese about that last one!).
That is nonsense because testosterone is structurally very similar to estrogen.
The soy isoflavones resemble natural testosterone just as much as they resemble natural estrogen - which is probably why some studies show that soy isoflavones slow the increase in PSA levels for men with prostate cancer.
The claims found in the anti-soy sites are primarily based on animal studies, but that is misleading because mice don't metabolize the soy isoflavones in the same way that humans do.
Two recently published studies have looked at the effects of isoflavones and isoflavone-containing soy protein in men. Both analyzed multiple previously published double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials (meta-analyses). This approach increases the statistical power of the conclusions by smoothing out some of the natural variation seen in individual studies.
The first study (Hamilton-Reeves et al, Fertil June 11, E-pub ahead of print, 2009) combined the results of 15 clinical trials and showed that soy isoflavones and isoflavone-containing soy protein intake had no effect on: total and free testosterone, sex hormone binding globulin (a protein that binds to, and stabilizes, testosterone in the bloodstream, and free androgen index (FAI) - an index of all of the hormones in the bloodstream that have masculinization effects (Yes, guys - it's not just testosterone that makes us who we are).
The second study (Messina, Fertil. Steril., 93:2095-2104, 2010) combined the results of 9 clinical trials and showed that soy isoflavones and isoflavone containing soy protein consumption had no effect on: total or free testosterone levels, circulating estrogen levels (Yes, guys - we do make some estrogen), sperm or semen parameters (Some guys might argue that this is the bottom line).
So the definitive results are in and, once again the Emperors (the doctors writing the ant-soy web sites) have been shown to have no clothes.
So soy and boys are a good combination. Thank you to Dr. Stephen Chaney for this excellent information.
To find out about high quality and non GMO Soy Protein products, click here. Or call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308.
Friday, July 9, 2010
Belly Fat -- Will it make you dumb
This week is great information from Dr. Chaney. My hope is that this recent study that breaks new ground will really grab your attention.
This study showed that abdominal obesity dramatically increases your risk of developing dementia as you age (RA Whitmer et al, Neurology, 71: 1057-1064, 2008).
This study involved 6,583 members of Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, ages 40 to 45, who had their abdominal obesity measured between 1964 and 1973.
The investigators then pulled their medical records between 1994 and 2006 when they were between 73 and 87 years old and asked how many of them had dementia.
The results may shock you.
The participants were divided into five groups based on their abdominal circumference. Those with the largest abdominal circumference were nearly 3 times more likely to have developed dementia than those with the smallest abdominal circumference.
And that was after the data were adjusted for age, sex, race, education, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, stroke and heart disease - all factors that are known to affect the risk of dementia.
Interestingly enough the abdominal circumference was a better predictor of dementia risk than was BMI, the most frequently used measure of obesity.
Those subjects who had high abdominal obesity and normal BMI had a 2-fold increased risk of developing dementia, while those subjects who were obese but had normal abdominal circumference had only an 80% increased risk of developing dementia.
Of course, those people who were both obese and had a large belly were the worst off - they had almost a 4- fold increased risk of developing dementia.
Now let's get to the question that I'm sure that many of you are dying to ask: "If I don't like what I see when I look into the mirror, am I doomed to develop dementia when I get older?" The answer is no. Most experts feel that the effects of abdominal obesity are reversible.
But the time to act is now!
If you wait until you get older, you might just forget that you ever read this article.
It is a Cinch to reduce the Belly Fat. Click here.
Of course you can call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308 for your Personal Confidential Nutrition Consultation.
My passion is to help people.
This study showed that abdominal obesity dramatically increases your risk of developing dementia as you age (RA Whitmer et al, Neurology, 71: 1057-1064, 2008).
This study involved 6,583 members of Kaiser Permanente of Northern California, ages 40 to 45, who had their abdominal obesity measured between 1964 and 1973.
The investigators then pulled their medical records between 1994 and 2006 when they were between 73 and 87 years old and asked how many of them had dementia.
The results may shock you.
The participants were divided into five groups based on their abdominal circumference. Those with the largest abdominal circumference were nearly 3 times more likely to have developed dementia than those with the smallest abdominal circumference.
And that was after the data were adjusted for age, sex, race, education, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, stroke and heart disease - all factors that are known to affect the risk of dementia.
Interestingly enough the abdominal circumference was a better predictor of dementia risk than was BMI, the most frequently used measure of obesity.
Those subjects who had high abdominal obesity and normal BMI had a 2-fold increased risk of developing dementia, while those subjects who were obese but had normal abdominal circumference had only an 80% increased risk of developing dementia.
Of course, those people who were both obese and had a large belly were the worst off - they had almost a 4- fold increased risk of developing dementia.
Now let's get to the question that I'm sure that many of you are dying to ask: "If I don't like what I see when I look into the mirror, am I doomed to develop dementia when I get older?" The answer is no. Most experts feel that the effects of abdominal obesity are reversible.
But the time to act is now!
If you wait until you get older, you might just forget that you ever read this article.
It is a Cinch to reduce the Belly Fat. Click here.
Of course you can call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308 for your Personal Confidential Nutrition Consultation.
My passion is to help people.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
That's the Fat Jack
We don't like to discuss it, but that doesn't make it go away. What? BELLY FAT! Have you heard about the dangers of abdominal obesity?
Belly fat increases the risk of:
diabetes
heart disease
cancer
Did you know that it could literally be killing you, even if you are at an ideal body weight?
A group of scientists at the National Institutes of Health recently analyzed data collected from 44,000 women in the Nurses' Health Study over a 16-year period and asked if abdominal obesity affected their death rates from heart disease and cancer (Zhang et al, Circulation, 117: 1658-1667, 2008).
The answer was yes!
You ask "How can they be at ideal body weight and still have abdominal obesity?"Of course, the women who were both overweight and had abdominal obesity were even more likely to die from heart disease or cancer.
There is a natural tendency to lose muscle mass as we age. When we add in the inactivity associated with the American lifestyle that loss of muscle mass is accelerated and the muscle is replaced with fat.
Thus, it is actually possible in today's world to have both normal weight and abdominal obesity - and that is not a good thing!
So it is not just about not looking good in your bathing suit - abdominal obesity is a killer!
The good news is that you can do something about abdominal obesity. A combination of exercise, a healthy diet and the "Cinch Inch Loss Plan" is a proven way of getting rid of that unsightly belly fat forever!
Thank you to Dr. Stephen Chaney for this information.
If you want a credible person to speak with who will help you get rid of abdominal obesity (belly fat) and want confidentiality, call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308.
Belly fat increases the risk of:
Did you know that it could literally be killing you, even if you are at an ideal body weight?
A group of scientists at the National Institutes of Health recently analyzed data collected from 44,000 women in the Nurses' Health Study over a 16-year period and asked if abdominal obesity affected their death rates from heart disease and cancer (Zhang et al, Circulation, 117: 1658-1667, 2008).
The answer was yes!
You ask "How can they be at ideal body weight and still have abdominal obesity?"Of course, the women who were both overweight and had abdominal obesity were even more likely to die from heart disease or cancer.
There is a natural tendency to lose muscle mass as we age. When we add in the inactivity associated with the American lifestyle that loss of muscle mass is accelerated and the muscle is replaced with fat.
Thus, it is actually possible in today's world to have both normal weight and abdominal obesity - and that is not a good thing!
So it is not just about not looking good in your bathing suit - abdominal obesity is a killer!
The good news is that you can do something about abdominal obesity. A combination of exercise, a healthy diet and the "Cinch Inch Loss Plan" is a proven way of getting rid of that unsightly belly fat forever!
Thank you to Dr. Stephen Chaney for this information.
If you want a credible person to speak with who will help you get rid of abdominal obesity (belly fat) and want confidentiality, call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
What is Resveratrol and what good can it do?
It has been awhile since I've posted any information in my blog. Life has a way of throwing curve balls, right? Anyway in getting back on track, I wondered what would be good information to provide. Many testimonies and emails told me to write about resveratrol.
What is resveratrol? According to MD Cancer Center, A substance found in the skins of grapes and in certain other plants, fruits and seeds. It is made by various plants to help defend against invading fungi, stress, injury, infection and too much sunlight. It is being studied in the prevention of cancer and heart disease. ...
So what good is it? Why should we take resveratrol? Are all resveratrol supplements the same?
Resveratrol, when combined with elderberry extract, pomegranate juice, elderberry juice powder and pomegranate extract is a concentrated supplement that actually gets to the DNA level in our bodies.
Why should we take it? If you want to slow down the aging process, have more energy, address health issues, wanting to prevent a health issue that is hereditary, etc. then you would want to take this specific formula.
Like a multi-vitamin there are many products out there that claim to be natural, the best, the cheapest, etc. So if you're like me, you want a company that puts science and research first. A company that doesn't make something because it is the fad. A reputable company that has it's consumers' best interest at heart.
If' you're like me, you want to live a long HEALTHY life and not be a victim to prescription drugs. You only want side benefits!
Click here to see what I'm talking about. Call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308 if you want vitality and increase your energy level.
Many blessings,
Mary Beth
What is resveratrol? According to MD Cancer Center, A substance found in the skins of grapes and in certain other plants, fruits and seeds. It is made by various plants to help defend against invading fungi, stress, injury, infection and too much sunlight. It is being studied in the prevention of cancer and heart disease. ...
So what good is it? Why should we take resveratrol? Are all resveratrol supplements the same?
Resveratrol, when combined with elderberry extract, pomegranate juice, elderberry juice powder and pomegranate extract is a concentrated supplement that actually gets to the DNA level in our bodies.
Why should we take it? If you want to slow down the aging process, have more energy, address health issues, wanting to prevent a health issue that is hereditary, etc. then you would want to take this specific formula.
Like a multi-vitamin there are many products out there that claim to be natural, the best, the cheapest, etc. So if you're like me, you want a company that puts science and research first. A company that doesn't make something because it is the fad. A reputable company that has it's consumers' best interest at heart.
If' you're like me, you want to live a long HEALTHY life and not be a victim to prescription drugs. You only want side benefits!
Click here to see what I'm talking about. Call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308 if you want vitality and increase your energy level.
Many blessings,
Mary Beth
Monday, April 19, 2010
What's that smell?
Do you walk down the isle that has detergents, cleaning products, fabric softeners and the like? If I must go down that isle for something other than those products, I run. The smells are so strong and too fragrant for me. Some people like those smells. They think clean smells just like that. But did you know clean really doesn't have a fragrance?
But did you realize that many of the cleaners that you buy in the supermarket - and some of the biodegradable cleaners that you buy in the health food store - release toxic fumes in your home that can adversely affect the health of you and your children? Want to know if the products you use are dangerous to your family's health and to your health? See the list.
Dr. Stephen Chaney relayed the following: The prevalence of childhood asthma increased 74% between 1980 and 1994 and has continued to increase in the years since. The causes of this rapid increase in asthma prevalence are likely to be complex, but evidence has accumulated in recent years that some of the increase may be caused by early exposure to toxic chemical fumes in the home.
And to get the smell out of the home, well no one opens their windows any more. That would be wasting energy and contributing to global warming.
The other thing is that we live in a fast paced world. No news to you, right? So we want something that will clean without a lot of effort. Here's what I know, my family doesn't get headaches when they are cleaning (yes my son 15 and daughter 12 help clean the house), I don't have to worry about pets getting sick or something fatal because they licked the floor, and if I don't want to use gloves when I'm cleaning my hands don't feel like they've been in the desert for 40 days. Why? Click here to find out what I use.
If you want to do everything you can to prevent illness, have clean air in your home, save money, and reduce landfills, call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308.
But did you realize that many of the cleaners that you buy in the supermarket - and some of the biodegradable cleaners that you buy in the health food store - release toxic fumes in your home that can adversely affect the health of you and your children? Want to know if the products you use are dangerous to your family's health and to your health? See the list.
Dr. Stephen Chaney relayed the following: The prevalence of childhood asthma increased 74% between 1980 and 1994 and has continued to increase in the years since. The causes of this rapid increase in asthma prevalence are likely to be complex, but evidence has accumulated in recent years that some of the increase may be caused by early exposure to toxic chemical fumes in the home.
And to get the smell out of the home, well no one opens their windows any more. That would be wasting energy and contributing to global warming.
The other thing is that we live in a fast paced world. No news to you, right? So we want something that will clean without a lot of effort. Here's what I know, my family doesn't get headaches when they are cleaning (yes my son 15 and daughter 12 help clean the house), I don't have to worry about pets getting sick or something fatal because they licked the floor, and if I don't want to use gloves when I'm cleaning my hands don't feel like they've been in the desert for 40 days. Why? Click here to find out what I use.
If you want to do everything you can to prevent illness, have clean air in your home, save money, and reduce landfills, call Mary Beth at 810-813-3308.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Who is testing your supplements?
Thank you to Dr. Stephen Chaney for providing this information. This is the rest of the story from March 10.
The FDA did not initiate the law suits and force the manufacturers to take their contaminated products off the shelves.
Instead an environmental consumers group had to sue them for not including PCBs on the label! They sued them under California proposition 65 which requires a warning label whenever a product contains toxic ingredients.
The defendants in this lawsuit were Omega Protein, a Houston-based company that is the world's largest producer of omega-3 fish oil, and the many companies that they produced fish oil for - companies like Rite Aid, CVS, GNC, Now Health Group, Pharmavite, Solgar and Twinlab.
And those aren't the only ones. The Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation only tested 10 omega-3 supplements manufactured by Omega Protein to date and have found PCBs in all of them. They plan to continue testing and to add other companies to the lawsuit if their products are also contaminated.
Even scarier is that many of labels on these products said that the omega-3 supplement was treated to reduce or remove PCBs. As a consumer you were lead to believe that they were safe! The bottom line is that the manufacturer probably didn't test for PCBs and neither did the companies selling their omega-3 supplements to the consumer.
The alternative - that they tested the products, knew that they were contaminated with PCBs and sold them to the public anyway - is even worse. As if that weren't scary enough the FDA announced a massive recall of products containing textured vegetable protein manufactured by a company called Basic Food Flavors because of salmonella contamination.
The problem is that there are at least 56 different kinds of consumer products containing this company's textured vegetable protein - including salad dressings, dips, packaged snacks, potato chips and soup mixes (Who knew that salad dressings contained textured vegetable protein?).
That means that this recall will be huge. It will affect many foods that most people buy and use every day.
What can you do as a consumer to protect yourself?
The FDA did not initiate the law suits and force the manufacturers to take their contaminated products off the shelves.
Instead an environmental consumers group had to sue them for not including PCBs on the label! They sued them under California proposition 65 which requires a warning label whenever a product contains toxic ingredients.
The defendants in this lawsuit were Omega Protein, a Houston-based company that is the world's largest producer of omega-3 fish oil, and the many companies that they produced fish oil for - companies like Rite Aid, CVS, GNC, Now Health Group, Pharmavite, Solgar and Twinlab.
And those aren't the only ones. The Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation only tested 10 omega-3 supplements manufactured by Omega Protein to date and have found PCBs in all of them. They plan to continue testing and to add other companies to the lawsuit if their products are also contaminated.
Even scarier is that many of labels on these products said that the omega-3 supplement was treated to reduce or remove PCBs. As a consumer you were lead to believe that they were safe! The bottom line is that the manufacturer probably didn't test for PCBs and neither did the companies selling their omega-3 supplements to the consumer.
The alternative - that they tested the products, knew that they were contaminated with PCBs and sold them to the public anyway - is even worse. As if that weren't scary enough the FDA announced a massive recall of products containing textured vegetable protein manufactured by a company called Basic Food Flavors because of salmonella contamination.
The problem is that there are at least 56 different kinds of consumer products containing this company's textured vegetable protein - including salad dressings, dips, packaged snacks, potato chips and soup mixes (Who knew that salad dressings contained textured vegetable protein?).
That means that this recall will be huge. It will affect many foods that most people buy and use every day.
What can you do as a consumer to protect yourself?
- Get your supplements from an established company with a reputation for quality and integrity. I would recommend choosing a company that has been around for a number of years so that you know that their reputation is based on their track record over the years rather than just on hype.
- Make sure that they run rigorous quality controls on their products. I would choose a company that requires pharmaceutical grade quality controls on their products.
- Make sure that they have published clinical studies on their products that prove both safety and effectiveness. Again I would recommend choosing a company that has many published clinical studies on their products rather than just one or two.
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