Author Archive for Carl Lowe
Carl Lowe has written about health, fitness and nutrition for a wide range of publications including Prevention Magazine, Self Magazine and Time-Life Books. The author of more than a dozen books, he has been gluten-free since 2007.
14 Days To A Stronger Heart And A Quicker Mind
Simple changes in your exercise habits and diet can boost the health of both your heart and mind. The best part about these improvements: You don’t have to wait long to experience their benefits. Research shows that within 14 days of merely taking a daily walk and altering your diet your brain becomes more efficient. And losing just a few pounds produces fairly rapid payback in a stronger heart.
Turn Down The Volume To Lift Your Health
Medical research has uncovered a danger to your health that can increase blood pressure, boost the chance of a heart attack or stroke, cause tumors, result in insomnia, impair work performance, raise your stress level and lead to hearing loss. The menace: The volume control on your iPod or MP3 player as well as the traffic outside your window. Our noisy world is threatening our well-being in frightening ways.
Celebrity Chef Designs Recipes To Die For
It’s no surprise that Paula Deen, a celebrity chef who specializes in deep-fried fattening foods, has type 2 diabetes. But instead of promoting a healthier lifestyle and healthier meals to fight her illness, she’s now marketing a diabetes drug. Her much-publicized approach to coping with diabetes reflects the kind of wrongheaded approach that has made diabetes into an epidemic that kills thousands of people every year.
Losing Weight By Going Gluten-Free
Nutrition experts continue to debate the effects of gluten on weight. Some argue that giving up gluten-containing foods made from wheat, barley and rye can help you shed pounds. Others maintain that if you don’t have celiac and aren’t gluten sensitive, forgoing gluten is senseless. But I know that when I gave up gluten I lost five pounds in three days effortlessly. And the weight has stayed off.
Stand Up To Stress
Modern society seems to specialize in creating stress for its inhabitants. Last month we coped with holiday stress. There’s no question that stress can wreck your health and make you prone to debilitating disease. And medical research shows that stress wreaks its havoc at the cellular level. Luckily, the tools you need to de-stress are absolutely free for the taking.
Scientists Discover The Fountain of Youth
Nobody lives forever, but if you want to maximize your health and longevity, scientists have discovered an accessible Fountain of Youth: exercise. Every time you lift a weight or walk around the block, you move closer to rejuvenation. And those healthy benefits happen so profoundly on a cellular level that researchers have been taken aback by the power of the workout.
To Save Your Health Say So Long To Soft Drinks
If you chug a quick soft drink during the day as a pick-me-up, the sugar and caffeine lurking among the bubbles may give you a temporary lift, but the long-term effects of these sweet treats threaten a big health letdown. Researchers are finding that these sugar-sweetened concoctions can affect your brain and fat tissue and make you more liable to gaining unwanted pounds, succumbing to heart disease, falling victim to cancer and developing diabetes.
The Two-Day Diet That Works
If you’ve been struggling to lose pounds, wondering how you’ll get through week after week of dieting, there’s good news on the weight loss front: Dieting for just two days a week and eating normally for the rest of the week may actually help you lose more weight than trying to diet every day. It may also cut your risk of cancer.
Exercise Can Grow Your Brain
Time to put away the old stereotype of the muscle-bound brute who exercises incessantly and can barely remember his own name. Turns out that strenuous exercise not only grows bigger, stronger muscles, it probably grows a bigger, stronger brain, too. Plus, research shows, physical activity may keep your brain from suffering some of the slings and arrows of outrageous aging.
Protect Your Heart
One simple change in your diet can make a remarkable change in your heart health: Eat more fiber. If you do nothing else to save your heart, by eating more fruits and vegetables high in fiber you can make a huge difference in reducing your risk of heart disease. It could save your life.
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