Todd Elliott is a local Winter Park personal trainer and retired professional natural bodybuilder and owner of Bod By Todd. He has recently launched a corporate wellness program, complete with an integrated exercise and nutrition system that guarantees to help improve your bottom line. Todd has taken his twenty years of experience as a fitness professional and created a nutrition based wellness program called Resolution Rescue. Todd claims, I know that without proper nutrition and regular exercise, the body breaks down into a state of disease. The chronic illness that develops from lack of movement and poor dietary habits accounts for over 70% of the deaths in America and four out of every five US dollars spent on health care. Read more…
Dear Dr. Donohue: I have a friend whose glucose tests taken in the morning range from 140 (7.8) to 200 (11) and are never in the normal range. He is constantly thirsty and has other diabetes symptoms. His doctor ordered a hemoglobin A1C test, which came back as 5.2. The doctor told him that they no longer do the fasting blood sugar test, only the HbA1C, and that he is not diabetic, since his test is normal. Should my friend consult another doctor?
Dear L.P.: Up until 2010, doctors diagnosed diabetes on the basis of blood sugar. A relatively new test, hemoglobin A1C, HbA1C or just A1C, has been added to the criteria for both diagnosing diabetes and monitoring diabetes control in the past three or four months.
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No matter if it is for your child’s Little League team or to update a name or number on your favorite hockey jersey, there are times when you may need to remove numbers that have been heat pressed onto sports jerseys. This task is simple if you have Stahl’s Letter Remover Solvent, although some older numbers may still take several applications to completely remove.
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Researchers from the Technical University of Lisbon and Bangor University enrolled overweight and obese women on a year-long weight loss program. Half the women were given general health information about good nutrition, stress management, and the importance of looking after yourself. The other half attended 30 weekly group sessions (the intervention plan) where issues such as exercise, emotional eating, improving body image and the recognition of, and how to overcome, personal barriers to weight loss and lapses from the diet were discussed.
On the behavioral intervention plan women found that the way they thought about their body improved and that concerns about body shape and size were reduced.
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