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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

Holiday Eating Without Guilt: Your Top 4 Go-To Party Foods

Chakra Health, Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight / By Laura Koniver, MD

Holiday stress isn’t all just about juggling the social commitments, traveling or picking out just the right gift. Most people report that being surrounded by rich holiday foods, temptation everywhere, impulse eating, and weight gain during the holiday season adds a significant amount of stress as well. If there was ever a time that people worry about their weight, it’s during the holidays. How to navigate this tricky but wonderful time of comfort food, decadent desserts and candies? Here are some of my very favorite holiday party foods that I never ever restrict: 1) Chocolate! Shown to support heart …

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Dec 7 2015

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

Are Your Shoes Causing More Harm Than Good?

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

So… I’m not particularly into shoes. Seeing the beautiful results of Earthing on my patients (and in my own life) has me opting for going barefoot whenever possible, and sleeping grounded at night too. So I found it very interesting when the latest medical reports showed that the new trend towards maximalist shoes (thick soles, thick padded heels) completely failed to cushion the foot on impact and in fact increases the risk for injury…. the exact opposite of manufacturers’ claims. Turns out, cushioning does more harm than good for the dynamics of your foot, luring you into …

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Jul 13 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

Feel Centered And Powerful With This One Sentence (video)

Chakra Health, Health Videos / By Laura Koniver, MD

To find your own center, no matter what is going on with the world around you, is priceless. This is the power of your solar plexus… …to feel at peace with your own personal power so that you no longer have to struggle with the power struggles that dominate the world around you. If there is any issues in your solar plexus you might feel: anxious overlooked worried emotional tense powerless And you might have: a knot in your stomach an ulcer irritable bowel chronic constipation weight issues gall disease liver problems addictions eating …

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Nov 24 2014

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

Poor Sleep Equals Weight Gain, Even For Children

Holiday Eating Without Guilt: Your Top 4 Go-To Party Foods

Vit D To Boost Your Weight Loss Benefits

Are Your Shoes Causing More Harm Than Good?

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

Feel Centered And Powerful With This One Sentence (video)

A Few Extra Pounds Helps You Survive Infections

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