Dr. Oz. Plaque in Your Teeth & Heart

Check Out Dr Oz as he talks about the Impact and relationship between the plaque on your teeth and the plaque in your heart. If you click on the picture it will take you to the video. =)

Is your Chicken just Chicken???

Typically when we go and purchase chicken we do not think to look at the ingredients.  It is supposed to be just that chicken.  However, industry common practice is to plump the chicken.  What this ends up being is chicken injected with either salt water, chicken stalk, seaweed extract or a combination.   What this equates to is to a higher sodium content.  Chicken should have about 75 mg sodium per 4-ounce serving while a plumped chicken may list up to 440 mg sodium for the same serving size.  So next time you buy chicken I would encourage you to read the ingredients.  High sodium intake increases your risk for: heart disease, hemorrhagic stroke, kidney disease, osteoporosis, and stomach cancer.  Oh and one last thing, just because the package says "Organic" or "100 % Natural" does not mean that plumping is not involved.  photo credit: law_keven

Dr Oz Helps a Man Change His Lifestyle and Save His Life

Amazing changes can be made when lifestyle changes are made.  Rocco a meat loving cowboy makes drastic changes for drastic results!

High Blood pressure

High Blood pressure also known as hypertension has been dubed the silent killer because it can go uncontrolled with no outward symptoms.  Hypertension increases your risk for serious health problems including heart attack, and stroke.  Fortunately getting a blood pressure taken is easy and accessable(most pharmacies in grocery stores even have a testing device available).  And more importantly there are steps you can take to prevent this silent killer from raging its wrath upon you!

1.) Get to and/or maintain a health weight

2.) Get physically active 5days w/30+minutes is a good goal to set

3.) If you smoke, stop there are lots of programs out there and the more times you try the more likely statisticly you are to be successful!

4.) Keep salt/sodium intake to a minimum; just stopping to add salt very possibly wont be enough, processed foods and restaurants especially fast food restaurants are very high in sodium cutting down on them can make a huge impact on intake. 5.) Make sure you are getting enough potassium rich foods: bananas, Cantaloupe, tomatoes, and spinich just to name a few.

6.) Maintain healthy level of vitamin D

7.) Keep alcohol consumption minimal

8.) Get stress level under control (the exercise should help with this)

For more in depth explanation Mayoclinic.com lays it out very well.

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