Sorry, I just heard about this video. Dr Oz has great healthy tips for men and women.
Video: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=6819054
Believe me, this video is worth sitting through the 10-second commercial that it starts off with. (Sorry I don’t know how to embed a video from the ABC news site)
If you don’t have the time to watch the whole video, here are some highlights:
Tip 1: Ease Up on the Stress to Control Eating
“When you have stress, you’ll eat more and things you wouldn’t normally eat,” Oz said. “That’s because we are hard-wired to equate stress to famine.”
Tip 2: Don’t Just Count Calories, Count Exercise
Dr Oz says, “If you don’t have muscle mass you can’t churn through calories. Remember, muscle, when it’s being used, will burn 50 times more calories than fat will. So if you don’t have muscle mass, you’re never going to be able to keep the weight off, especially as you go through menopause.”
Tip 3: Sleep Is the Key to Building Muscle
Along with sleep, Oz said most women have problems building muscle mass because they “don’t work at it.”
“I’m not talking about being a big muscle-bound weightlifter. I’m talking about developing programs that allow you to build that lean muscle, that churns through the calories and gives you a look that you want to have,” he said.
Women should “rev your engines” often, too.
“The body is designed to, to be sped up a little bit. What I’m talking about, literally, is you have to at some point every week run as fast as you can run, jump as high as you can jump,” Oz explained. “You have to push the system and to get your heart rate up, to push the muscle mass, to stretch your limbs out. Do the things you did as a child, and continue to do them into the adulthood and you’ll keep the hormones where they need to be.”
Tip 4: Forgive Yourself for Mistakes and Learn to Feel Better
Tip 5: Make Long-Term Changes You Can Sustain
“None of this is a wind sprint,” Oz said. Dr Oz says there’s no real benefit for people to eat what they hate to eat for the short term.
“Don’t deprive yourself. And you will automatically go back to your playing weight,” he said. “You will only stay there if you build the muscle mass, but at least it’s a head start.”
HT: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/Story?id=6818395&page=1
