Tony

Everyone who knows The Life Wellness Approach knows I never advocate much other than water and a couple of dairy alternatives like rice milk and almond milk unsweetened.  Here is a great report I feel you can benefit from that relates to healthy options and sugar-loaded drinks, even if they are named “Vitamin Water”.

Beverage Consumption a Bigger Factor in Weight

When it comes to weight loss, what you drink may be more important than what you eat, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers examined the relationship between beverage consumption among adults and weight change and found that weight loss was positively associated with a reduction in liquid calorie consumption and liquid calorie intake had a stronger impact on weight than solid calorie intake. The results are published in the April 1, 2009, issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

“Both liquid and solid calories were associated with weight change, however, only a reduction in liquid calorie intake was shown to significantly affect weight loss during the 6-month follow up,” said Benjamin CaballeroMD, PhD, senior author of the study and a professor with the Bloomberg School’s Department of International Health.  “A reduction in liquid calorie intake was associated with a weight loss of 0.25 kg at 6 months and 0.24 kg at 18 months. Among sugar-sweetened beverages, a reduction of 1 serving was associated with a weight loss of 0.5 kg at 6 months and 0.7 kg at 18 months.  Of the seven types of beverages examined, sugar-sweetened beverages were the only beverages significantly associated with weight change.”

Researchers conducted a prospective study of 810 adults aged 25-79 years old participating in the PREMIER trial, an 18-month randomized, controlled, behavioral intervention. Caballero along with colleagues from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood institute; Duke University; the Pennington Biomedical Research Center; the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research; the University of Alabama; and Pennsylvania State University measured participant’s weight and height using a calibrated scale and a wall-mounted stadiometer at both 6 and 18 months. Dietary intake was measured by conducting unannounced 24-hour dietary recall interviews by telephone. Researchers divided beverages into several categories based on calorie content and nutritional composition: sugar-sweetened beverages (regular soft drinks, fruit drinks, fruit punch, or high-calorie beverages sweetened with sugar), diet drinks (diet soda and other “diet” drinks sweetened with artificial sweeteners), milk (whole milk, 2 percent reduced-fat milk, 1 percent low-fat milk, and skim milk), 100 percent juice (100 percent fruit and vegetable juice), coffee and tea with sugar, coffee and tea without sugar and alcoholic beverages. They found that at 37 percent sugar-sweetened beverages were the leading source of liquid calories.

Consumption of liquid calories from beverages has increased in parallel with the obesity epidemic. Earlier studies by Bloomberg School researchers project that 75 percent of U.S. adults could be overweight or obese by 2015 and have linked the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages to the obesity epidemic, which affects two-thirds of adults and increases the risk for adverse health conditions such as type 2 diabetes. Researchers recommend limited liquid calorie intake among adults and to reduce sugar-sweetened beverage consumption as a means to accomplish weight loss or avoid excess weight gain.

“Among beverages, sugar-sweetened beverages was the only beverage type significantly associated with weight change at both the 6- and 18-month follow up periods,” said Liwei Chen, MD, PhD, MHS, lead author of the study and a Bloomberg School graduate. “Changes in the consumption of diet drinks and alcoholic beverages were inversely associated with weight loss, but were not statistically significant. Our study supports policy recommendations and public health efforts to reduce intakes of liquid calories, particularly from sugar-sweetened beverages, in the general population.”

“Reduction in Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages is Associated with Weight Loss: The PREMIER Trial” was written by Liwei Chen, Lawrence J. Appel, Catherine Loria, Pao-Hwa Lin, Catherine M. Champagne, Patricia J. Elmer, Jamy D. Ard, Diane Mitchell, Bryan C. Batch, Laura P. Svetkey and Benjamin Caballero.

The research was supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; National Institutes of Health; the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Human Nutrition; and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Media contact for Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Natalie Wood-Wright at 410-614-6029 or nwoodwri@jhsph.edu.

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Tony
The Life Wellness Coach

1. Salmon

2. Spinach and Kale

3. Eggs (whole)

4. EFA’s like flaxseed oil

5. Cinnamon and other spices like Curcumin

Do this and watch how much better you can feel in 30 days.

Tony D.
http://tonydassisi.com

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This is a question I receive quite often and one that is very difficult to answer if you “count calories”….

Click below to listen to a quick explanation:

Health and Fitness Answers 

Happy Healthy Eating!

Tony D.
http://tonydassisi.com

To really succeed in the healthy and fit categories of your life wellness journey you must plan for success. I always plan for three or four days out and actually make a concerted effort to mathematically tally up what we will be needing. This way two things are accomplished:

1. You never waste food and have to throw out rotting vegetables or produce and

2. You always succeed in buying the heathiest choices because you actually have a plan laid out

Do this for one month which would translate into 8 trips to the supermarket for our family. At this point see how different you and your family feel with that many weeks of heatlhy food choices and great breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks. Some would consider this a lot of time but the time I spend doing this is well worth it if I don’t want to be scrounging at the last minute ever and opting out of healthy meal or snack choices just because I am confronted with low blood sugar and the only thing my brain is telling me is to raise that blood sugar level now, no matter how you do it just do it quick!

In these low blood sugar situations I am never reaching for the local coffee establishment or fast-food joint, simply because I have planned ahead and actually have the healthiest snack choices and I always pack them in a cooler bag for my time away from home.

Plan ahead and write out your most important “to do list” and that is the “What to buy for this week grocery list!”

Healthy eating and successful lifewellness journey to all!

Tony D.

http://tonydassisi.com

1. First, which is better cod liver or fish oil?

2. What can I do about constipation, even though I am eating more fruits and veggies?  And that stomach ponche, constipation etc.

Reminders:
1. http://www.ascentahealth.com/news/ascenta-launches-omega-3-vitamin-d-–-health-a-teaspoon
2. Magnesium Glycinate

Click the video below where I give an explanation in under nine (9) minutes: Ask The Health  

Tony D.
The Health & Fitness Discipline Coach
http://tonydassisi.com

But first here is the question I wish to answer for tonight:

“Hey Tony thanks for all the great articles we have learned much. We would like to know which vitamin brand you suggest taking (as an everyday multivitamin).  Also, we give the kids “progressive” vitamin brand as we were told that is one of the best to give from health food store clerk.  Is that true?  We tried to give the kids fish oil and fish oil vitamins(no luck). Can you suggest something?  we even tried placing drops of fish oil in orange juice.  The response was “this juice tastes yucky!”"

Which Supplements To Buy? 

P.S. Definition for Orthomolecular: medicine which focuses on what it sees as the right nutritional molecules in the right amounts for the individual.

Tony D.
http://tonydassisi.com