I originally published this entry last year as a way to help folks keep their Super Bowl Sunday from turning into a calorie blow-out (and we 49er fans may need to have our collective guards up against emotional eating to soothe our disappointment …). Enjoy!
Any idea how far you’d need to walk to work off one, measly M&M (and we’re talking plain here, not the peanut, pretzel, double-stuffed/whatever variety)? Believe it or not, you’d have to walk the entire length of a football field for something that’s not even a full bite of food!
Doctors Amy Lin, Sandra Wong, Vivian Tsai (l to r)
As with many holiday celebrations, it may be tempting to overeat during Chinese New Year. However, there are ways to eat healthier and still feel satisfied. Even small, simple changes can lead to a healthier you.
Did you know that 12 percent of patients who call the Palo Alto Medical Foundation their medical home are of Chinese descent? In honor of them and the Chinese New Year, PAMF would like to share some nutritional information to help you make good dietary choices. Start the Year of the Dragon off right by eating healthy and paving the way to a long life by improving your diet. Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a measure of weight proportionate to height, is a standard used around the world to figure out when someone is overweight or obese. BMI is an estimate of body fat and a good gauge of your risk for diseases that are more likely to develop with excessive amounts body fat.
We’ve all experienced this: your fingers scrape the bottom of the bag of chips/cookies/pick-your-poison and you suddenly realize that you may have reached into the bag for handful-after-handful and yet you haven’t really “registered” or gotten satisfaction from many of the bites. Maybe you’re watching TV, on the computer, driving in the car, or lost in your own thoughts and/or feelings. Maybe what drove you to snack in the first place was not actual physical hunger, but stress, anger or boredom. Unfortunately, when we’re not “mindful” of the bites we are eating, either because we are not paying attention or because we’re eating for “head hunger,” not for a physical need, extra bites become extra calories, become extra pounds.
PAMF's Nancy Hidaka and Community Services Agency volunteer
Thanks to the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s Second Annual Summer Food Drive, several local families won’t go hungry this summer. This year’s food drive ran from June 1 to 30, and employees, doctors and patients contributed a total of 1,530 pounds of food (worth almost $2,300) to help feed local low-income kids and their families.
Fat free doesn’t mean “calorie free”. In this new video as seen on Sutter Health’s MyLifeStages television, PAMF Registered Dietitian Tracey Slezak offers healthy eating tips and demonstrates how to make better, healthier food choices when you’re trying to lose weight.
In general, vegetarian diets can be healthful for children as long as there are alternative foods to meet their nutritional needs. However, the question becomes more complicated when one considers a vegan diet for a young child or infant.
We have all heard the saying “you are what you eat.” But did you know that the Palo Alto Medical Foundation has created a free community film series that aims to help you understand what you are eating? This thought provoking series of films and engaging discussions are led in-person by PAMF family medicine physician and former film critic Dr. Ed Yu in Mountain View, and a group of PAMF doctors in Santa Cruz. The movies are shown monthly at the PAMF Mountain View Center and PAMF Santa Cruz hosts a monthly series (at the Louden Nelson Community Center in Santa Cruz). We would love to have you join us at one of our upcoming movie nights!
Get me up on my weight management soap box and you’ll hear me forcefully proclaim that successful weight management has very little do with willpower, it’s actually much more about something we call skillpower: having enough strategies, tips and strategic planning to develop new skills to support ongoing lifestyle change.
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Body Mass Index (BMI), which is a measure of weight proportionate to height, is a standard used around the world to figure out when someone is overweight or obese. BMI is an estimate of body fat and a good gauge of your risk for diseases that are more likely to develop with excessive amounts body fat.
In general, vegetarian diets can be healthful for children as long as there are alternative foods to meet their nutritional needs. However, the question becomes more complicated when one considers a vegan diet for a young child or infant.
