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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?

Cocaine misuse dynamics

July 4, 2017

Cocaine misuse dynamics.The point is, it may not matter how it’s administered, the effects remain the same

Cocaine misuse dynamics: Effects of using cocaine

I believe this is not the first time you are hearing of cocaine misuse dynamics. Cocaine is very dangerous and addictive. Though illegal cocaine usage dynamics is not new to us as it is almost readily available on the streets and can easily be accessed by those who need it. And just like we have mentioned, experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the leadership of Doctor Dalal Akoury reiterates that cocaine is a powerful and addictive stimulant drug. It is normally extracted from the leaves of the coca plant native to South America. The cocaine extracts normally come in two forms e.g. powder and crack.

Cocaine misuse dynamics: Powder cocaine

This is a white powder and scientifically known as the hydrochloride salt. Because it is an illegal substance, it is mainly smuggled in the streets and the street dealers often mix it with other substances like cornstarch, talcum powder, or sugar. Besides that, for it to serve its purpose effectively, street dealers also mix cocaine with active drugs like procaine. Remember that procaine is a chemical that produces local anesthesia. Why do they need this ingredient? It is because a local anesthetic causes one not to feel pain in a specific area of the body. This is helpful to their final consumers who may suffer signs of withdrawal symptoms and this chemical will be able to address that effect. The powder cocaine can also be mixed with other stimulants like amphetamines.

When cocaine is in powder form it can only be administered into the body either through snorting or injection. For it to be injected the powder needs to be mixed with water and the solution injected using a needle.

Cocaine misuse dynamics: Crack

Crack cocaine comes after processing. It is the final product of the powder cocaine mixed with ammonia and sometimes mixed with soda and water. This mixture is then heated to produce the cocaine crystals. It is the crystals that are being smoked by users as the final product. And if you are wondering of where the name crack came from, every time crack cocaine is subjected to some heat, it normally produces some cracking sound from the burning rocks or crystals. It is from that experience that the term crack is derived.

Now that we have the final product, who is it administered into the body? Doctor Akoury says that crack cocaine is administered into the body through smoking normally using a small glass pipe. The process is simple as the crystal is heated to produce vapors that are absorbed into the blood through the lungs.

Finally, whichever method of administration used, the effects of cocaine will still be negative to the body. In most cases, users keep using more and more of the drug to keep the high experience. This can be very dangerous and corrective measures needs to be taken. If you or anyone you know is struggling with cocaine addiction, you can call doctor Akoury today and book an appointment with her for the commencement of your recovery process.

Cocaine misuse dynamics: Effects of using cocaine

Inhalation cessation program

July 4, 2017

Inhalation cessation program that will help save life

Inhalation cessation program: The road map

This is a continuation of part one where we dealt with supportive counseling and how the brain works. You can make reference to that from the previous postings but under this discussion of nicotine inhalation cessation program, we are going to be focusing on nicotine changes and how the brain works alongside rebalancing the brain and nutrition supplement. Again doctor Dalal Akoury MD, President and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center as follows:

Inhalation cessation program: Nicotine changes the way our brains work

Whenever smokers find themselves stressed and pushed to a hard place, the often seek solace in smoking. The effect of this habit is that the addictive substance called nicotine makes alterations to the brain functions. It typically interrupts the normal process of manufacturing and exchanging several different types of neurotransmitter, temporarily making users feel “normal” again. The moment nicotine is used up, brains are reverts back to its inability to produce the neurotransmitters needed to feel good and that provokes another cigarette. It, therefore, means that as you continued to smoke, your brain gets used to nicotine as a substitute for its normal production of neurotransmitters. This then causes you to rely more on the nicotine and less on your brain’s natural ability to keep you focused, alert, and happy.

Inhalation cessation program: Rebalance the brain

The real problem in trying to quit, though, is not the cigarettes themselves but the fact that some physicians may not have a good understanding of how the brains work. They’re unaware that there is a straightforward way to rebalance our brain chemistry so that we no longer need nicotine. The good news is that you don’t have to be addicted to nicotine, or take any other addictive substance, to stop smoking. What you do need to do is to take measured doses of several key nutritional supplements, which may be lacking in your body. Doing this makes key nutrients available to your brain and enables you very quickly to resume producing the neurotransmitters you need to overcome the craving for cigarettes and to begin to feel normal again without them.

Inhalation cessation program: Nutritional supplements

Finally, if you are addicted to smoking, nutrition can be your best remedy of rebuilding the production of neurotransmitters. This is very important as it is the adequacy of neurotransmitters that reduce and eventually eliminate completely your cravings for cigarette smoking. When this is done, you will be on your perfect highway of recovery from this problem. The essence of cigarette nicotine smoking cessation program is to help you walk out of cigarette addiction procedurally. You will need regular professional guidance which will always be available at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center anytime you call.

Inhalation cessation program: The road map

Brains acceptance of food addiction

July 4, 2017

Brains acceptance of food addiction. This organ needs to be protected if healthy life is to be realized

Brains acceptance of food addiction: Is food a drug from your brain’s perspective?

Making the reference from the holy book, God created all things that in his wisdom would make humanity comfortable before even thinking of creating man. Among the things created to keep man comfortable is food. From creation, man has made a lot of modification on what they feed on making me believe that it was God’s will that we feed on the freshness of his freely provided food be it food from vegetation or animals. What we call improvement is in my view the problem why today we can imagine food as being addictive hence our discussion of brains acceptance of food addiction. Therefore, to start you on the foods we feed on affects how our neurons behave and subsequently how we think and feel. From this description in the brains understanding, food is a drug. We are going to be speaking to the experts from the AWAREmed health and wellness resource center under the leadership of Doctor Dalal Akoury MD, for a better understanding of these hard facts about the brain and food.

Brains acceptance of food addiction: Carbon-bound consumers

One constant fact about our daily feeding is that most of our meals consist of carbon which gets into our system through our feeding tubes in the form of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins, we then break those chemical bonds to extract energy, and excrete the residue as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and various solid waste. Nonetheless, sometimes some of these chemicals can make their way from our digestive system and into the brain leading to severe consequences. And according to doctor Akoury, ascertaining the distinction between what is considered a food (needs) or a drug (wants) is becoming difficult to define. The routine use of some substances, like stimulants and depressants, is so universal that most of us do not even consider them to be drugs, rather, actual food. Like, for instance, is coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol, cocoa, or marijuana a nutrient or a drug?

The truth is, anything you take into your body should be considered a drug, whether it’s obviously nutritious or not (of cause we are now talking about the improvement we have done on what God had intended for our consumption before we introduced the technology on food). As you will see, even molecules that are clearly nutritious like essential amino acids including lysine and tryptophan available in bulk at your nearest grocery store, exhibit properties that many would attribute to drugs further explaining why we all need to seek for expert’s opinion from time to time and doctor Akoury being a veteran addiction expert, will be of great help to you if only you can schedule an appointment with her today.

Finally, the foods we eat, and most popular psychoactive drugs, come from plants or animals. Their ingredients are similar to the neurotransmitters our brains and bodies use to function normally explaining why the contents of our diets can interact with our neurons to influence brain function, and it highlights a very important principle that chemicals in the food will only act on your brain if there is some resemblance of the actual neurotransmitter or otherwise interact with a biochemical process in your brain that influences the production, release, or inactivation of a neurotransmitter. These active ingredients should be closely scrutinized for assurance of good health.

Brains acceptance of food addiction: Is food a drug from your brain’s perspective?

Using amino acids in healing addicted brain

July 4, 2017

Using amino acids in healing addicted brain can help

Using amino acids in healing addicted brain: Treatment possibilities

Addiction is a serious health risk, a condition with several treatment possibilities including using amino acids. Addiction can affect directly or indirectly and despite its grave effects we are yet to appreciate that its physical disorders originate from the brain. According to the experts from the AWAREmed health and wellness resource center under the leadership of Doctor Dalal Akoury MD, addiction has some painful symptoms which occur during abstinence and interferes with the ability to stay sober. Some of these symptoms include; craving, obsession, compulsion, stress sensitivity, anxiety, depression, mental confusion, and hypersensitivity to the environment. It is also important to note that the pain of staying sober can be so severe that it may interfere with the ability to function normally even when the desire for and commitment is strong.

Using amino acids in healing addicted brain: Neurotransmitters and addiction

Everyone needs comfort both physical and emotional, for this to effectively take place, neurotransmitters will play a very significant role in feelings of pleasure and well-being. The brain will in the event of deficiency or excess of the neurotransmitters give rise to uncomfortable feelings. Many at times the decisions and actions we take are chosen to produce a good feeling or relieve bad feelings. For example:

We eat because it produces a reward of good feelings.
We eat certain foods because they produce a better reward than others (chocolate produces more reward for most people than parsley).
We have sex because it produces a powerful release of pleasurable chemicals.
We work because the work itself is rewarding for us or because the end result produces a reward.
We refrain from certain actions because they do not produce the feeling of reward we are seeking.
We all differ in what gives us satisfaction and in the depth of satisfaction we experience, but we are all motivated by chemical actions in the brain that nature uses to keep us alive, motivated, functioning, and reproducing.

An imbalance in the interaction of neurotransmitters can result in a reward deficiency that can manifest as restlessness, anxiety, emptiness, lack of satisfaction, and vague or specific cravings. When this takes place the brain is simply communicating to us to take action to make right the imbalance. There are substances and activities that change our biochemistry so much that we want to do them over and over. And if the person has a reward deficit that predisposes to addiction, the activity that works will be repeated as often as necessary to get the desired reward. For the person predisposed to addiction, the chosen activity will rapidly go from self-medication to addiction.

While research has opened doors to new understandings of the nature of addiction and its effect on the brain, little of this information has been applied to actually helping people get well from this devastating disease. There are scientifically based strategies that change the brain chemistry of the addicted person, removing the discomfort of withdrawal, eliminating cravings, and relieving the abstinence-based symptoms of addiction. These include nutritional therapy, acupuncture, auricular therapy, and brain wave biofeedback. The most important is the nutritional approach, especially with the use of amino acids, which is the focus of this discussion. We will continue this discussion in our subsequent postings but in the meantime, you and I need to pool together in keep the activities of our brains healthy. And therefore for any concern about this deadly condition, you can always schedule an appointment with doctor Akoury for a one on one professional input.

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