Category Archives: Site Spotlight

Feb 16 2012

Nutrition for a Healthy Heart

The health of your heart and body depends heavily on what you consistently eat. How much, when and what you eat matters. If you eat haphazardly, you will get haphazard results.

Leslie Clem, BS, MPH, RD and owner of Healthy Hearts Nutrition, LLC can help you stay healthy.

Leslie is a coach, motivator, educator and nutrition expert. Here is a quote from her site:

“Nutrition plays a key role in so many health conditions, including diabetes, obesity, heart disease, celiac disease, gastrointestinal diseases, food allergies and intolerances, high cholesterol and cancer. Optimal nutrition can also help athletes achieve peak athletic performance. Eating well can improve immunity, enhance appearance, and increase energy. Registered Dietitians can help you make the lifestyle changes you need to be healthy today!”

Leslie also provides medical nutrition therapy which includes a review of your eating habits, a thorough review of your medical history and a personalized nutrition treatment plan.

Here are my 7 reasons to avoid extreme weight loss diets:

1. Your body deserves better than what an extreme weight loss diet can give it. Food is meant for nourishment and enjoyment. An extreme weight loss diet will not help you develop good eating habits.

2. Severe calorie-restricted dieting will cause your body to store fat as a survival mechanism. A credible fat loss and weight loss program always allows you to eat enough food for your body to operate as it should.

3. Your metabolism will slow and become wrecked if you continue to try every new extreme weight loss diet that hits the market!

4. Your immune system will weaken and health problems await you if you become a veteran of these harmful diets! Who wants to walk around with headaches and body aches all the time?

5. Extreme weight loss diets create hormonal imbalances and aggitates your nervous system. In other words, you will be a mess!

6. These diets generate loss of muscle mass. If you lose 20 pounds in 10 days using severe calorie restriction with no exercise, just about all of that weight loss will be due to lost muscle mass and some water weight. One of the best ways to speed up your metabolism is to increase muscle mass.

Muscle is metabolically active tissue and your body has to work harder to maintain muscle. You need to build a lean body that will give you good health and one that will last through the years of your life. If you rush the fitness process, it won’t work.

7. If you don’t eat properly, you won’t have enough energy to do anything the right way and that includes no energy to exercise.

So, visit Leslie at Healthy Hearts Nutrition and she will tell you the truth about healthy nutrition and what you need to do!

Mark Dilworth, BA, PES
Her Fitness Hut

Jul 18 2011

Visit Self Growth Site for Help

You must visit SelfGrowth.com often for help with all aspects of your life. I’m privileged to be one of the fitness experts on the site, so check me out there too.

SelfGrowth.com is the internet supersite for self improvement and personal growth. It is part of a network of websites owned and operated by Self Improvement Online, Inc., a privately held New Jersey based Internet company.

The company’s mission is to provide informative, quality self improvement and natural health information to help you improve your life. They provide information ranging from goal setting and stress management to natural health and alternative medicine.

The network is composed of four websites, SelfGrowth.com, NaturalHealthWeb.com, SelfImprovementNewsletters.com and NaturalHealthNewsletters.com. The network of websites receives over 1,200,000 unique visitors a month and the e-mail newsletters or e-zines go to over 950,000 weekly subscribers.

The websites and newsletters are read in over 100 different countries, with the largest groups of readers and visitors coming from the United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, and New Zealand.

Visit SelfGrowth.com now!

May 20 2011

Strong Women Read Dr. Miriam Nelson’s Books

Read one of Dr. Miriam Nelson’s books or visit her site StrongWomen and you will come away educated and impressed! I’m always looking for women’s life resources to help you and Miriam is a gem. You will realize this fact in about 5 seconds of your visit.

I realize that life is much more than fitness, fat loss and weight loss. So these resources from other experts help you balance out your life and live more fulfilled. And, I always learn more in the process.

Dr. Miriam Nelson is Director of the Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition and Associate Professor of Nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. She is also a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, an honor reserved for those who have demonstrated superior leadership and research in the field of exercise.

For the past 15 years, Dr. Nelson has been principal investigator of studies on exercise and nutrition for older adults, work supported by grants from the government and private foundations. During this time she was named a Brookdale National Fellow, a prestigious award given annually to only five or six young scholars deemed to be future leaders in the field of aging. She was also awarded a Bunting Fellowship at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College. In 1998, Dr. Nelson received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Governor’s Committee on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Dr. Nelson is the author of the international best-sellers, “Strong Women Stay Young,” “Strong Women Stay Slim,” “Strong Women, Strong Bones,” “Strong Women Eat Well” and “Strong Women and Men Beat Arthritis.” These titles, published in 13 languages, have collectively sold more than a million copies worldwide. Strong Women, Strong Bones received the esteemed “Books for a Better Life Award” for best wellness book of 2000 from the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

In August 2001, Dr. Nelson appeared in her own PBS special entitled Strong Women Live Well, which focused on the benefits of exercise and nutrition for women’s health. She has been featured on many television and radio shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, Fresh Air, and the Discovery Channel. She is also a motivational speaker who lectures about women’s health around the world.

You have to regularly visit her great site, StrongWomen and read her books to help you live a more empowered life!

Mark Dilworth at Her Fitness Hut