Smoothy Slim
Smoothy Slim
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There are massive health benefits from cutting back on your sugar intake, one of which is losing stubborn belly fat, says Brenda Rea, MD, DrPH, PT, RD, a family and preventive medicine physician at Loma Linda University Health.
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Learn More »Belly fat can be tough to lose, but doctors say cutting out sugar may be one giant step in the right direction. There are massive health benefits from cutting back on your sugar intake, one of which is losing stubborn belly fat, says Brenda Rea, MD, DrPH, PT, RD, a family and preventive medicine physician at Loma Linda University Health. Rea says sugar can create an inflammatory response in the body, putting the body in a stressed-out state. “When the body experiences inflammation and stress, the preferred storage site for fat is in and around the belly,” she says. Not only does sugar promote this fat storage, but sugar and refined carbs spike insulin levels in the body, which signals the body to store fat. When we eat refined carbohydrates, they are absorbed quickly into the bloodstream, Rea says. When a lot of sugar is added into the bloodstream at one time instead of a slow, steady release that happens when one eats unprocessed plant foods, the pancreas senses the spike in sugar and produces a lot of insulin to manage the sugar spike. “The job of insulin is to move the sugar out of the bloodstream into cells so it doesn’t damage the blood vessels and organs,” Rea says. Rea says it’s essential to be aware of the hidden sugars in foods. It’s hard enough to avoid the sugars we know about, but some go by names that people may not always understand. One of the most overlooked, problematic sugars is high fructose corn syrup, Rea says. Others include cane sugar, cane juice, molasses, raw sugar, turbinado sugar, molasses, malt syrup and date sugar. “Foods like granola bars, ketchup, yogurt or breakfast cereals may also have hidden sugars,” she says. “If you’re not sure if something has sugar, read the labels and look for those lesser-known names of sugar.” When it comes to belly fat, Rea says the goal shouldn’t just be to look good but to live healthier and longer. “Enjoying a healthy lifestyle should be the motivation,” she says. “The best part about a healthy lifestyle is that the benefits will last a lifetime.” Consider a lifestyle visit consultation with one of our Lifestyle Medicine physicians at the Center for Health Promotion. They will work closely with your primary care physician to improve your overall health and wellbeing. Please call the Center for Health Promotion at 909-558-4594 to make your Lifestyle Consultation visit today.
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There are techniques available to measure all DNA sequences, so researchers can compare those of individuals that look younger than their age with those of others. An extensive study published in 2016 in Current Biology and conducted since the early 1990s in the region of Rotterdam, Netherlands, for measuring how diseases develop with age helped set up a significant database of facial photographs. The analysis of over eight million SNPs (the ‘single nucleotide polymorphisms’ that correspond to minor genome variations within a population) of 2,693 adults provided evidence of a strong association between perceived age and the genetic associations marked by multiple SNPs in the MCR1 gene. ‘All our chromosomes go in pairs, which means they comprise two alleles,’ explained David Gunn. ‘Within the European population, one common form and several rare forms were identified, so everyone can be a carrier of the MCR1 gene with two alleles of common forms, or of MCR1 with one common allele and one rare allele, or of MCR1 with two rare alleles.’ The study showed that the individuals that carried the MCR1 gene with two common alleles looked younger than the others, on average, those that carried MCR1 with one common allele and one rare allele looked exactly their actual age, and those that carried MCR1 with two rare alleles looked about two years older than their actual age…
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