Wellternatives Finds Healthy Alternatives At Restaurants Via Cell Phone Or The Web
WellSphere has launched Wellternatives, which recommends healthy alternatives to your favorite foods at numerous chain restaurants from any cell phone or by using the web.
From WellSphere:
We just launched Wellternatives – our new free healthy eating service that recommends healthy alternatives for your favorite dishes at hundreds of thousands of chain restaurants. We designed it so that anyone can use their cell phone to receive suggested ‘Wellternatives’ along with calorie and nutrition information for free. It’s quick, fun and easy to use, and works from any cell phone!
Give Wellternatives a try by sending a text to 878787 with the word ‘diet’ followed by the name of the chain restaurant and menu item, or visiting www.wellsphere.com/wellternatives.s.
I haven’t tried it from my cell phone yet, but the web version works really well. I was able to find a healthy alternative at all of the restaurants that I tried. I even found a few surprises. Try it out. It’s really cool.
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Frequent Weight Gain And Loss May Weaken Men’s Bones
A study by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo examined 4,601 men between the ages of 25 and 50 for 28 years. The researchers found that the more often these men lost and regained weight, the more likely they were to suffer a fractured forearm after the age of 50.
The researchers believe that weight cycling causes an increase in skeletal fragility by causing microscopic damage to bone structure. They also think this may occur due to an increased risk of falling due to weakening muscles.
The researchers also found that those who lost weight more frequently, and lost more weight each time, were more likely to develop metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
Of those who reported no weight loss cycles before age 50, about 17 to 18 percent had forearm fractures. The rate was 35 to 43 percent among men who lost weight at least four times. Those who lost weight at least four times before the age of 50 had nearly triple the risk of forearm fracture after 50.
Dr. Anne Johanne Sogaard of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health suggest to keep bones strong when they lose weight, people should make sure to exercise during the weight loss. Sogaard says, “we know that weight-bearing activities, weight-training and exercise with varied loadings (e.g. squash, badminton, tennis) are favorable for muscles and balance, as well as bones.”
I think this mostly has to do with the microscopic damage to bone, as the article states. This makes sense since weight loss is catabolic to the whole body. By being in a catabolic state over and over, it would seem likely that people would suffer fragile bones later in life.
Reference: MedLine Plus
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Weekly Nutrition Tip #14
Tip #14
Protein for Fat Burning
by Dr. John Berardi
Protein is by far the most thermogenic of the macronutrients (protein, carbohydrate, and fat). Due to the high metabolic costs of processing it, protein provides fewer storable kcal. The thermic effect of a mixed meal is about 10% of intake, while the thermic effect of protein per se is more like 25-30%. That could mean reving up your metabolism by 200 kcal just from your 200-gram (800 kcal) protein intake.
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Why Alcohol Makes You Fat
I recently purchased the TNT Diet
The authors state that the liver breaking down the alcohol creates acetate and acetaldehyde as waste products, both of which tell your body to stop burning fat. Furthermore, the liver generates another waste product, acetyl CoA, which causes the body to generate fat.
Alcoholic drinks with carbohydrates are a double edged sword, because they cause a rise in insulin levels, which prompts your body to store fat.
If you are serious about losing fat, alcohol should not be a part of your diet. So far this looks like a great book, and I plan to write a review once I finish reading it.
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