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Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Growing up, what kind of family or society did you have? Did you feel safe and heard there? Were you able to express your heart in a healthy and non-toxic manner? Or maybe, it was a place of trauma and stress? So for today’s podcast, I invited a good friend of mine to help us navigate through the science of trauma and hopefully find our way toward the...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Do you feel like you can’t change your life for the better if you’re going to do it alone?  Do you feel like you don’t have within you all that’s needed for you to live a life that’s healthier, and happier? On last week’s podcast, we talked about the determinants of emotional and mental wellbeing, including something called environmental mastery, wher...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. This week, in honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday, the conversation started with a tribute to Dr. Seuss. The topic then shifted to the universal psychological needs of agency, autonomy and mastery, which are related to our relationship with food and our bodies.  The conversation then referenced Dr. Seuss's book, Oh, The Places You'll Go and t...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Do you find yourself an easy target for excess weight gain even when you’re already trying your very best to lose and stay away from those pounds? Do you wonder why some people tend to gain weight more easily than others even when they’re keeping their activities under strict check while others do not? As cases of obesity become more and more prevalen...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Do you find yourself constantly craving instant gratification? Like finishing an entire Netflix series in one night, or feeling the satisfaction of clicking “Buy Now” at an online shop? We all experience these moments of instant gratification and it can provide a great sense of accomplishment. However, if we don't take steps to manage our desire...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. I'm going to share a personal anecdote with you this week and still weave in some of the science and arguments to help convince you to incorporate the things that will help you live well. Tune in as I share the story behind my family’s recent draining traumatic experience and relate that to the healing power nature has on us, humans. What you wil...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Are you planning to go on a “healthy diet” but are somehow unsure of what exact diet pattern to take? Do you somehow feel stuck between different and often confusing popular diet plans? Here in Health Bite, we always reiterate how misleading and mostly ineffective the popular diet culture is. Eating is a basic human survival instinct. Eating healthy f...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Heart disease affects countless women across the globe and is often misunderstood and under-recognized. In honor of the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women campaign , which is later this week, I am so excited to bring to you this interview  Dr. Odayme Quesada. As the director of the Women's Heart Center at Christ Hospital in Cincin...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Do you ever feel like you are trapped in an endless cycle of using mechanisms to cope from certain things that are also caused by other coping mechanisms? Have you ever found yourself on the way out of it, only to be enticed to come back to your old ways? Being sober from escape mechanisms is one thing that many of us surely look forward to this year....

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Are you that kind of person who loves to have a sip of that wine during or after finishing a stressful task? Or are you a beer person who treats himself with an ice-cold bottle of draft beer after a long day’s work? We all have heard about the benefits of alcohol on our body. The antioxidants that it contains, its relaxing effects, and simply the over...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Have you ever had the phrase "to lose weight" in your list of new year's resolutions? What happened? Were you able to do it, or did you – for some reasons – terribly fail?  Losing weight is still one of the most popular new year’s resolutions up to this date. Many people tend to do it by means of “diet”, though that culture is now slowl...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Just like that, the past year is over and we are now in 2023. I am sure many of you already have your new year’s resolutions set, be it going regularly in the gym this year, having more control of your diet, and many other typical goals for your physical and mental well-being. But spoiler alert: many of such goals fail early into the year. That is bec...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Do you find yourself constantly craving for food this holiday season? Does the sight and smell of those hot chocolate chip cookies and cute little bite-sized chocolates make you feel hungry, even if you know you’re not? The holiday season is when food pollution is literally everywhere. And it is not uncommon for you to crave for those deliciously look...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Do you see self-care as rewarding yourself with that good draft beer to relax after a long week’s work? Does it mean eating your favorite comfort food because it makes you feel good, or more importantly, “going easy” on yourself in the things that you do? In this episode, Dr. Adrienne enlightens us on how our wrong interpretation of self-care leads to...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Do you want to change your lifestyle for the better by means of exercising and eating a nutritious diet, but somehow feel like you’d be punishing yourself in trying to do so? It has become so common for us to associate the terms “exercise” and “wholesome, nutritious food” with negative connotations that without us knowing, we've already started t...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Obesity is an ever-growing problem among us because of our general preference for low-protein, processed foods. Again, as we have always talked about in this podcast, diet is a major factor in obesity.  But then, a lot of things that we talk about when it comes to diet and obesity are things that we actually already know. That’s why in this episode, w...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. It's Thanksgiving day again, and it's that time when most of us indulge in food and alcohol. It's that day when our Thanksgiving table seems to have an endless supply of food and beverages. Also, a time when overeating and weight issues arise. This space is sometimes hard to navigate for someone conscious and watching over food and weig...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Have you done something recently that you really wish you hadn't done? Did you get upset and hard on yourself over the thought that you could’ve done things differently?  As humans, we are imperfect by nature. We are bound to make mistakes again and again. Setbacks are inevitable; insecurities are always around. But really, that doesn’t mean that...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Anne Kennard, DO, is a Board Certified OBGYN, Fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine, an herbalist, and a registered yoga instructor.   She completed a 2-year fellowship in integrative medicine through the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and has additional training in contemplative medicine, herbal medicine, and Ayurveda.  She is passi...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Why let ourselves get fooled by all the sensationalism out there when it comes to health and wellness when we can take simple steps towards our well-being’s betterment? There’s been a lot of bias when it comes to obesity and obesity management, so much that it has already pushed people to shame themselves. Patients come in every now and then, saying t...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Have you been struggling to remain healthy while maintaining a good, well-balanced diet? Have you ever felt that no matter how you restrict yourself to only eating ‘healthy foods’, you still end up feeling tired, anxious, or even depressed? Dr. Adrienne Youdim is a board-certified Internist and is the host of the podcast Health Bite. She specializes i...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Why soothe your hunger with highly palatable foods that harm your mind and your body when you can turn that hunger into an opportunity to address your unmet needs? Dr. Adrienne Youdim is a board-certified Internist and is the host of the podcast Health Bite. She specializes in medical weight loss and nutrition, and she is aiming to transform the weigh...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. We all have a food story of our own. Be that something our parents have dawned on us or something we have created for ourselves, our food story plays a huge role in how we see ourselves, especially in relation to weight.  But how do we write the best possible story that can be written if we still see weight loss as taboo? How do we go after our goals...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. How can we stop acting in a way that is oppressive to ourselves, and finally live the best life we’ve always dreamt to live? There are studies that have shown that this kind of internalization of negative stigma and bias not only affects our emotional and mental health, for they also carry physical health consequences. What’s worse is we can even pass...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. How can we make ourselves lean even more towards prevention, and not always on the treatment we need to get back to living in good health? So many of our drugs nowadays that are geared toward diabetes are all about treatment and almost nothing on prevention. But as the saying goes, prevention is always better than cure. So as promised, Dr. Adrienne’s...