Author: Sharon

Jeff Novick’s 10-Point Checklist for Maximum Weight Loss:

Jeff Novick’s 10-Point Checklist for Maximum Weight Loss:

  1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit.
  2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert.
  3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them.
  4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood).
  5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy).
  6. Eliminate any added oil.
  7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e. bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit.
  8. Don’t drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages).
  9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don’t starve yourself and don’t stuff yourself.
  10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking).

MAXIMUM WEIGHTLOSS RECIPES

Day 174 of Year 6 Low-SOS Vegan Plan (DAY 194 COVID-19 LOCKDOWN)

[Calif on four-tier, color-coded covid system]

EXERCISE:
* Day 29 of 30 Day STATIC CORE CHALLENGE
* Coconut oil facial

WATER:
(3) × (25) = 75 oz

EATS:
* watermelon
* sauteed potato, green/red sweet peppers, onion, tomato w/ tiny slices of plain sourdough toast
* fresh pomegranate seeds
* leftover gorilla salad w/ white beans, few potato XL-chips sprinkled on top & vegan ranch dressing
* lowfat popcorn & few jr mints
* very veggie sandwhich w/ XL-chips
* plain sparkling water w/ shot of soft XL-drink

… SUN HAS SET …

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 173 of Year 6 Low-SOS Vegan Plan (DAY 193 COVID-19 LOCKDOWN)

[Calif on four-tier, color-coded covid system]

EXERCISE:
* Day 28 of 30 Day STATIC CORE CHALLENGE
* Mini-trampoline workout
* Lift shoulders & upper back

WATER:
(3) × (25) = 75 oz

EATS:
* XL-chocolate covered mangos
* watermelon
* gorilla salad w/ vegan ranch dressing & leftover veggie spiral pasta
* (baked) energy bites

… SUN HAS SET …

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

Day 172 of Year 6 Low-SOS Vegan Plan (DAY 192 COVID-19 LOCKDOWN)

[Calif on four-tier, color-coded covid system]

EXERCISE:
* Jog outdoors 5k w/ face exercises
* Day 27 of 30 Day STATIC CORE CHALLENGE
* Lift lower body

WATER:
(3) × (25) = 75 oz

EATS:
* shredded wheat w/ bran, grapenuts, strawberries, peach, pecans, almond milk
* banana & few almonds
* leftover veggie spiral pasta
* steamed broccoli & carrots, sourdough w/ avocado
* plain sparkling water w/ shot of soft XL-drink
* unsweetened applesauce
* few pretzels w/ XL-sweet peanutbutter

… SUN HAS SET …

Cmmt: XL indicates uncommon extravagantly luscious food

WHY OBESITY WORSENS COVID-19

Science

Sept 11, 2000

by Meredith Wadman

Since the pandemic began, dozens of studies have reported that many of the sickest COVID-19 patients have been people with obesity. In recent weeks, that link has come into sharper focus as large new population studies have cemented the association and demonstrated that even people who are merely overweight are at higher risk. For example, in the first metaanalysis of its kind, published on 26 August in Obesity Reviews, an international team of researchers pooled data from scores of peer-reviewed papers capturing 399,000 patients. They found that people with obesity who contracted SARS-CoV-2 were 113% more likely than people of healthy weight to land in the hospital, 74% more likely to be admitted to an ICU, and 48% more likely to die.
[…]

People with obesity should take extra care to avoid getting sick, Messaoudi says. “If you are a person with obesity, be extra, extra cautious,” she says. “Wear your mask. Wash your hands. Avoid large gatherings.”

In addition, exercising and, separately, losing even a little weight can improve the metabolic health of a person with obesity, and, in doing so, reduce their chances of developing severe COVID-19 if they become infected, says Stephen O’Rahilly, a physician-scientist who directs the MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit at the University of Cambridge. “If you’re 300 pounds, even losing a modest amount is likely to have a disproportionate benefit on how well you do with coronavirus infection. You don’t have to become a slim Jim to benefit.”

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/369/6509/1280.full

US Covid Pre-Conditions

‘We’re getting fat, and we’re getting sicker’: Whole Foods CEO says COVID deaths are higher in the US because Americans are piling on the pounds

  • Whole Foods founder John Mackey said Americans have been hit hardest by the pandemic because they are getting fatter and sicker
  • The ‘comorbidities like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, they’re just higher in the US,’ Mackey told the New York Times
  • The 67-year-old said he believes the issue is not due to the lack of access or affordability to healthy food, but the lack of education

How to Build Collagen With Plants by Theresa Houghton

How Can I Increase Collagen Production Naturally?

Eating foods containing the amino acids and nutrients from which collagen is formed provides your body with the raw materials for making more collagen without supplements. All the components of collagen can be found in whole plant foods: beans and legumes, nuts and seeds, fruits and vegetables, and whole grains.

To get the full range of nutrients that support collagen production:

  • Consume enough protein for your activity level
  • Eat more leafy greens to increase copper intake[7]
  • Consume a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables to increase your intake of vitamin C and other antioxidants
  • Add hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds, cashews, and other high-zinc nuts and seeds to meals[8]
  • Include beans, root vegetables, and whole soy products in your diet to increase your intake of hyaluronic acid, a component of the collagen in skin[9]

Additionally, you can preserve the collagen you already have by avoiding foods and lifestyle habits that increase free radical production or inflammation. To prevent damage:

  • Remove added sugars from your diet
  • Limit direct UV exposure
  • Don’t smoke, and stay away from secondhand smoke

Following healthy diet and lifestyle patterns, including consuming a variety of whole plant foods, supports your body’s innate collagen production. In the majority of cases, this should be enough to see the same benefits ascribed to collagen supplements. If not, talk with a knowledgeable physician to determine if you have an underlying condition that affects collagen production so that you can address and correct the root cause.