Most of us aren’t born with poor metabolic health. Over time, we pick up bad habits, advice, and behaviors that impact our ability to stay healthy.People who fight to stay metabolically healthy know how to go against mainstream myths and bad online trends.Here’s what they do to maintain their health, including what you can do to emulate it.
Dr. Phil Ovadia, a noted cardiothoracic surgeon, was recently featured in a news segment that was aired on both Fox News and ABC News in Illinois as part of the National Heart Health Month awareness campaign. The segment called attention to the fact that heart disease is the number one cause of death in Americans. Dr. Ovadia told journalist Marlena Lang that the primary driver of heart disease is the diet many of us have.
Restoring metabolic health is a journey, not a destination. To get there, you need to take one step at a time.
If you want to make a difference in your health by December 2024, I recommend committing to at least one (and ideally all) of these five resolutions.
Quitting sugar looks different for all of us. However, maintaining our metabolic health stays the same no matter how you look at it. So as you wade through misleading packages and confusing marketing claims, you have to ask: is this sweetener bad for me? Or can it help maintain my metabolic health? It usually depends on how much you use, how pure it is, and how often you’re using each one.
Can you imagine a life where every celebration, every comfort, and every meal is dominated by a substance that’s silently damaging your health? That’s how Florence Christophers put it as she shared her personal story of sugar addiction, from her first realization of the harmful impact sugar was having on her health, to her discovery of the Sugar Blues book, and finally, her road to overcoming her addiction.
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