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Reducing calories units

July 4, 2017

Reducing calories units in foods and drinks for better health

Reducing calories units in foods and drinks: How to go about it?

When planning a vacation, food, and drinks from one of the key elements for consideration. Good planning for this single element alone will be enough in reducing calories units thereby keeping a healthy weight. Doctor Dalal Akoury, MD, and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center is going to share with us some of the best considerations we should be thinking about when planning for what and how to eat during holidays. Doctor Akoury registers that even though the food is important, you should always encourage the consumption of plain, nutritious fruits and vegetables such as sweet potatoes, pumpkin, cranberries and green beans. Besides that always ensure that:

Enjoy fresh, steamed green beans rather than the traditional high-calorie green bean casserole containing mushroom soup, cheese, and butter.
If you’re not a big fan of cranberries on your turkey, eat dried cranberries for a healthy snack.
Try mixing pumpkin into some of your favorite bran muffins, soups, or even pumpkin-based pasta. Pumpkin pie is rich in fat and sugar, but if you must have it, at least skip the crust.
When using the sweet potatoes eat both outside and inside to get the fiber on the skin.

Reducing calories units in foods and drinks: Complex Carbohydrates

Choose complex carbohydrates that help you maintain a steady metabolism without the highs and lows of blood sugar swings e.g. whole grains; whole-wheat pasta; legumes; oatmeal; sweet potatoes and nut butter.

Reducing calories units in foods and drinks: Meat and beverages

Turkey is packed with protein and offers the least amount of fat of holiday meats if you remove the skin and don’t drown it in gravy and always go for white and not red meat. To help keep your holiday healthy, choose fat-free milk drinks and limit sugar-sweetened beverages and alcohol. Remember that carbonated beverages and fruit drinks are loaded with lots of calories and should be taken in moderation.

Reducing calories units in foods and drinks: Alcoholic Drinks

Alcohol consumption is never friendly even though it is advisable that if you have to drink, then you must do it in moderation. My advice is that it would be much better if you don’t drink at all. This is because besides being loaded with calories, alcohol is also addictive and any addictive substance has no respect for moderation consumption.

And if you must drink then be careful and ensure that you take ice water with a lemon slice between alcoholic drinks or as a non-alcoholic alternative. Finally, take note that these are only guidelines as far as food consumption is a concern. And like I had said before, cutting excessive calories during the holidays is not very easy. It will be very prudent that you get the experts opinion from time to time. You may want to schedule an appointment with doctor Akoury to have a one on one discussion on any pending concern you may be having.

Reducing calories units in foods and drinks: How to go about it?

Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain

June 6, 2017

Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain can end by quitting drinking

Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain: Support mechanisms

In every family setup, there are bound to be certain things that cause discomfort to the well-being of the family. Much as it is everyone’s desire to enjoy the maximum comfort, this is not always the case in the day to day life. The problem could further be complicated if one or more members of the family are abusing alcohol or drugs or both. In our series of articles about alcoholism, we want to focus on finding out why hefty alcohol drinking and drug addiction are the major causes of pain in most families. Speaking to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury (MD) who is also the founder of this facility, it is evident that alcoholism and drug addiction affects the whole family indiscriminately.

Everyone in the family whether young, teenage, or grown-up children; wives or husbands; brothers or sisters; parents or other relatives and friends all are not immune to the effects of alcohol abuse. That is to say, if one member of the family is addicted to alcohol and drugs, the whole family will suffer the consequences. According to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, an addiction is a family disease that stresses the family to the breaking point thereby impacting on the stability of the home, the family’s unity, mental health, physical health, finances, and overall family dynamics.

From that background, it is evident that without finding timely solutions to any addictive substances, the consequences of that negligence would cause a total disruption to the family life and worst still cause harmful effects that can last a lifetime. Doctor Akoury says that dealing with any kind of addiction is not very easy for various reasons including the fact that no family is born with the knowledge of how to deal effectively with addiction. Because this is not inborn practice, it is however very important those individual users and their loved ones are educated on the skill that must be practiced daily to contain and bring the scourge of addiction to manageable levels. That is why at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, we have prioritized creating awareness about all the elements through which alcoholism and drug addiction causes family pain and beyond.

Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain: Obstacles to recovery

This is often a common question more so with people taking care of victims like for instance one may ask “why do I need help? She is the problem.” Have you ever said something like that? One of the biggest challenges to family recovery is the belief that everything will be ok by just fixing their loved one who is addicted to alcohol or drugs. After all, “she’s the one who needs help, not me!” that is very easy to say but professionally doctor Akoury says that helping families understand that just as the addict is responsible for their own recovery they too are responsible for their own recovery. One fact must be put straight and that is the whole family must be in this together without excluding the children. Remember that addiction in the family strains relationships and people are likely to become anxious and tired. Because of this, you will need all the help to overcome heavy alcohol drinking by calling doctor Akoury for a one on one deliberations about all the concerns you may have.

Hefty alcohol drinking and family pain: Support mechanisms

Alcohol addiction relationship with criminality

May 31, 2017

Alcohol addiction relationship with criminality is no doubt being evident when you see people drinking disorderly and are not able to drive safely.

Alcohol addiction relationship with criminality: The best treatment approach

Time and again lives are lost on our roads globally and people get sentenced to imprisonment because of various crimes. Studies have revealed that this could be reduced if we pay less attention to the problem of alcohol and drug abuse in our societies. Speaking to the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the leadership of Doctor Dalal Akoury about alcohol addiction relationship and association with crime, the dangers of drunk driving are shocking. Even though drunk driving has received great public attention, the relationship between alcohol and crime for both offenders and victims is yet to receive the same level of public attention yet that is where it pains the most. Ideally, the association between alcohol and crimes is significantly wide and affects all sectors of our lives including domestic violence, underage drinking, robbery and sexual assault are just but a few we are documenting for the purpose of this article.

Studies have revealed that up to 5.3 million adults representing about 36% of those under correctional supervision were actually drinking at the time of their conviction offense. Meaning that close to half of all convicts ended up in prison because of the close association with alcohol. Many alcohol users are wreaking havoc in our communities because of their crimes which are motivated with their indulgence in alcohol. Parents are living in fear because their children who are drinking disorderly and have become possible targets for radicalization into terrorism. Even though alcohol is a legally consumable substance, its effects are more dangerous than we can ever imagine. We are going to be sharing with you some figures as we progress into the discussion, but in the meantime, we must pull together so that we can defeat this scourge.

We may not know what you are going through right now, but if you are reading this article and you feel like the content is describing your situation, the time for solutions to those feelings is now and here with the professionals from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center. All you need to do is to call doctor Dalal Akoury on telephone number 843 213 1480 and schedule for an appointment with her so that a thorough and professional evaluation can be done so that you can be put in the right recovery program that will help you in regaining your life back and live it to the fullest thereafter.

Alcohol addiction relationship with criminality: Excessive drinking leads to criminal behavior

From the introduction, we mentioned the significance of alcohol in the global market but we can narrow it down to specific states you will realize that the problem is deeply rooted in our homes and villages, cities and towns, everyone is affected. Take for instance, according to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), it is estimated that a majority of criminal offenders in jail were actually under the influence of alcohol alone when they committed their crimes. Besides that, the Federal research also shows that for the 40% of convicted murderers being held in either jail or State prison, alcohol use was a factor in the homicide. What does that communicate to you? To find out, we are going consider some facts about alcohol consumption and its association with crime progressively in our subsequent posting. It is going to be informative so keep reading and be the first to know.

Alcohol addiction relationship with criminality: The best treatment approach

Cutting excessive calories in foods and drinks

July 2, 2016

Cutting excessive calories in foods and drinks can be done in several ways

Cutting excessive calories in foods and drinks: How to go about it?

When planning for a vacation, food and drinks forms one of the key elements for consideration. Good planning for this single element alone will be enough in cutting excessive calories and thereby keeping your health weight. Doctor Dalal Akoury, MD and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center is going to share with us some of the best considerations we should be thinking about when planning for what and how to eat during holidays. Doctor Akoury registers that even though food is important, you should always encourage the consumption of plain, nutritious fruits and vegetables such as sweet potatoes, pumpkin, cranberries and green beans. Besides that always ensure that:

Enjoy fresh, steamed green beans rather than the traditional high-calorie green bean casserole containing mushroom soup, cheese and butter.
If you’re not a big fan of cranberries on your turkey, eat dried cranberries for a healthy snack.
Try mixing pumpkin into some of your favorite bran muffins, soups, or even pumpkin-based pastas. Pumpkin pie is rich in fat and sugar, but if you must have it, at least skip the crust.
When using the sweet potatoes eat both outside and inside to get the fiber on the skin.

Cutting excessive calories in foods and drinks: Complex Carbohydrates

Choose complex carbohydrates that help you maintain a steady metabolism without the highs and lows of blood-sugar swings e.g. whole grains; whole-wheat pasta; legumes; oatmeal; sweet potatoes and nut butters.

Cutting excessive calories in foods and drinks: Meat and beverages

Turkey is packed with protein and offers the least amount of fat of holiday meats, if you remove the skin and don’t drown it in gravy and always go for white and not red meat. To help keep your holiday healthy, choose fat-free milk drinks and limit sugar sweetened beverages and alcohol. Remember that carbonated beverages and fruit drinks are loaded with lots of calories and should be taken in moderation.

Cutting excessive calories in foods and drinks: Alcoholic Drinks

And if you must drink then be careful and ensure that you take ice water with a lemon slice between alcoholic drinks or as a non-alcoholic alternative. Finally take note that these are only guidelines as far as food consumption is concern. And like I had said before, cutting excessive calories during the holidays is not very easy. It will be very prudent that you get the experts opinion from time to time. You may want to schedule for an appointment with doctor Akoury to have a one on one discussion on any pending concern you may be having.

Cutting excessive calories in foods and drinks: How to go about it?

Moderate Drinking and the consequences attached

July 22, 2014

Moderate Drinking and the consequences attached: Drug Addiction

Moderate drinking is key to controlling addiction and a voiding life-threatening diseases resulting from alcohol addiction.

Drinking alcohol is one major cause of addiction and one which is proving difficult to quit despite knowledge of the consequences associated with it. In our desire to get rid of addiction from our societies we will be discussing moderate drinking as a step in the right direction toward achieving our objective. There is a very thin line between moderate drinking and how much should be taken within a given period of time. People who have been drinking for some time whether addicts or not will attest to the fact that they have had or witnessed some embarrassing situations in their lives while under the influence of alcohol instances like having humiliated themselves at their work stations or in a party somewhere, having hangover that ruined their plans, being met on the wrong side of the law while driving when they shouldn’t have and many other circumstances. When reality down on them the next day when the effect of their intoxication is settling they are always full of regrets and wishing to cut down on their drinking.

These are real life situations we are often faced with on a daily basis and while we are appreciating that not everyone is keen to cutting alcohol out of their lives, nor do they need to categorized alcohol users with some history of addiction or mental illness like various diseases of the liver or pancreas, or who are pregnant or taking certain medications shouldn’t drink at all, however as for others, there is an elusive middle ground called moderation which brings us to the big question what is “moderate drinking” and how can it be accomplished? As big as the question is so is the boldness in certain decisions you may consider taking to get your drinking under control as illustrated here in.

Moderate Drinking and the consequences attached: Avoid the Pre-Party

Various studies has established that “pre-drinking” before a party or social event, is normally characterized with cheap alcohol which is taken hurriedly and in large quantities, almost doubles total alcohol consumption as well as negative outcomes such as hangovers, blackouts and unprotected sex. This practice is particularly common among adolescents and young adults who not legally allowed taking alcohol let alone buying alcohol drinks or being in such places where alcoholic beverages are sold. Nonetheless most alcohol consumers are known not to be stationery in one given join. This habit of changing drinking locations during the night out is a powerful ingredient of increased quantity of alcohol consumption and it works well in defeating the intentions of moderate drinking.

Moderate Drinking – Record keeping

The human brain and especially that of an alcohol consumer is likely to forget almost everything while drinking bringing in the need of taking notes and keeping records. This is a practice which has worked in other areas like in weight lose journal which is very helpful to people concern in sticking to their diet. Research has established that a drinking diary can help people get honest about their alcohol intake and identify problem areas. Counting drinks is very key irrespective of how you do it, whether on paper, a smartphone or with the help of a sober friend, this will help you remember the nasty truths of your drinking which you’d prefer addressing and hopefully avoid in the future.

With the records you will be able to identify your patterns and make a decision on an ideal number of drinks per day and per week and test your ability to stay within those limits. According to Dietary Guidelines for Americans they describes moderate drinking as up to one drink each day for women and two drinks each day for men and a standard drink is 12 ounces of beer, five ounces of wine or 1.5 ounces of hard liquor.

Always Have a Drink in Hand – as Long as it’s Non-Alcoholic

A number of challenging scenarios may arise when you’re socializing at a party, club or other event. Swapping alcoholic drinks for a non-alcoholic variety has two major benefits: If you’re drinking water, juice or soda, you’re likely not drinking as much booze. Also, with some type of beverage in hand, your choice to drink less (or not at all) will likely go unnoticed by friends who want a drinking companion.

Moderate Drinking – Slow Down

When out drinking whether alone or in company of friends it is worth noting that drinking too much too fast will defeat any efforts to moderate your drinking. It’s advisable to take time and only pace yourself by sipping rather than guzzling also do not participate in drinking games and purpose to be taking one drink per hour and if possible take even less than a drink in an hour and in between drinks take food and non-alcoholic drinks doing this helps you commit to moderate drinking.

Moderate Drinking and the consequences attached: Mind Your Drinking Cues.

If you track your drinking patterns long enough, you may discover certain trends. Maybe you always overdo it when a particular friend or family member is around or at a specific time of day such as when you get home from work. Or perhaps the nostalgia of a certain bar or club makes you vulnerable to bingeing, or you turn to alcohol every time you feel sad or angry. These patterns will clearly show you your triggers and with this information you may choose which people, places and things to avoid and find other activities to replace them.

Finally drinking in moderation has both risks and benefits, but drinking too much poses a clear threat to your health and well-being. Heavy drinking can cause:

Stroke
High blood pressure
Accidental injuries
Cirrhosis of the liver
Certain cancers among other problems

If you find yourself routinely drinking more than you planned, unable to quit or uninterested in anything but drinking, your problem may go beyond occasional overindulgence and cross into alcohol abuse or addiction. In this case, attempts at moderation will perpetuate a frustrating cycle until you seek appropriate treatment and support usually from addiction professionals like doctor Dalal Akoury who founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center an institution where care is given professionally to all addicts in the most natural way while focusing on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE

Moderate Drinking and the consequences attached: Drug Addiction

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