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Your Extra Weight Is Not As Bad For You As Your Doctor Wants You To Think

Female Health, Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I am always reading the medical literature looking for positive messages to share with you. And during the holiday season… when most of us have naturally gained a little weight… this is the perfect time to share today’s uplifting medical study with you. This latest study didn’t receive much attention (the negative scary reports always seem to be the ones your doctors want to share with you!) but I think it should have. Researchers looked at two very large databases, examining body mass (Body Mass Index — BMI) and metastatic renal (kidney) cancer survival rates. They found that obesity …

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Dec 26 2016

Poor Sleep Equals Weight Gain, Even For Children

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports, Positive Parenting / By Laura Koniver, MD

Continuing my focus of supporting the health of our children during this back-to-schoool month… …today’s article is a reminder about just how crucial it is for children to get good sleep. Just published in The Journal Of Pediatrics, a new study finds that an earlier bedtime for young children reduces their risk of obesity as a teenager. As we’ve already touched on, sleep helps with focus and concentration in children, as evidenced by this study on the relationship between ADHD and sleep. And we also know that sleep is absolutely required for the long term function of our brain, …

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Aug 22 2016

Vit D To Boost Your Weight Loss Benefits

Grounding, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Vitamin D boosts the health benefits of weight loss! By simply adding Vitamin D supplementation to your weight loss plan, you reduce your whole-body inflammation, a new study suggests (published April 23, 2015 in Cancer Prevention Research.) High levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine Interleukin (IL)-6 have been linked to increased risk of developing devastating illness including cancer… as chronic inflammation is thought to be a pro-tumor state for the body. By reducing systemic inflammation, you reduce your chances of cancer and other chronic diseases. This is one of the reasons I find grounding the body (touching …

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Aug 10 2015

Restorative Sleep… 6 Important Techinques To Get Rid Of Your Sleep Deficit For Good (video)

Health Videos, Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

You absolutely, 100% ***NEED*** deep, restorative sleep! It’s non-negotiable… poor sleep causes: memory impairment shorter life span: decrease response time + decreased motor skills = increased risk of accidents weight gain anxiety and other debilitating mood disturbances dementia and an increased incidence of Alzheimers widespread brain atrophy and much much more!!! For example, a recent study (published in Neurology on Sept 3, 2104) found a widespread change in brain volume with poor sleep over time. Researchers looked at 147 people and followed them (using MRI imaging) to look at the effects of poor sleep on the brain. …

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Jan 26 2015

A Few Extra Pounds Helps You Survive Infections

Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Ebola has been front page news all summer, so you would think this recent medical study would be as well… …but instead, this study on surviving overwhelming infection remains largely hidden. Of course, anything that shows there is a WIDE diversity to “healthy weight” — that there is a reality so much wider than the current definitions of under weight, “normal” weight, over weight, mild and severe obesity — is hidden by the media. That makes sense, as the weight loss industry is a 20 BILLION dollar industry IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE!!! So, of course …

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Sep 2 2014

Sleep Dramatically Impacts Your Weight

Healthy Weight, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’m re-posting this important medical study I blogged about last year, because it came up during an interview that I just gave on BlogTalkRadio two weeks ago… …and I realized that so many folks still don’t know how dramatically lack of sleep can affect weight! A study published in SLEEP last July found that folks gained a significant amount of weight after only 5 days of poor sleep. Previous studies have shown a link between poor sleep and weight gain, but this is the first study where participants slept in-house in a sleep facility and the …

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Aug 25 2014

Plan To Get Your Body Moving In 2014?

Female Health, Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

If you follow my blog, you already know I am a huge fan of walking to reduce your risk of diabetes as well as for cancer recovery. Moving my body more is certainly an ongoing goal for me in my own life… something I really want to do but never seem to find the time to prioritize. I don’t have the time (or desire) to fit in trips to the gym and I’ve never found an exercise DVD that I’ve felt like doing more than once. Enter… The Inspire Workouts. This is an innovative program that combines positive …

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Dec 30 2013

Your Extra Weight Is Not As Bad For You As Your Doctor Wants You To Think

Poor Sleep Equals Weight Gain, Even For Children

Vit D To Boost Your Weight Loss Benefits

Restorative Sleep… 6 Important Techinques To Get Rid Of Your Sleep Deficit For Good (video)

A Few Extra Pounds Helps You Survive Infections

Sleep Dramatically Impacts Your Weight

Plan To Get Your Body Moving In 2014?

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