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Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. How do you address wealth gain and/or obesity issues in your family without making everyone feel like they’re someone that needs to be fixed? As we celebrate National Pediatric Obesity Awareness Month this September, it is of much relevance that we talk about the issue of obesity, especially as the numbers rise to their highest at present. More often...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. September is National Childhood Obesity month, and a perfect time to have this week's guest, Dr. Wendy Sofer. She's a pediatrician and a certified health and wellbeing coach.  And she's the founder of Family and Focus , a program she created for parents who are worried about weight at home, their weight, and their kid's weight as w...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Do you get easily overwhelmed whenever you try to engage in a new habit? Is it hard, having a lifestyle change, because of that barrier overwhelm brings? 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 weight loss nar...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Personalized nutrition leads to better health outcomes. And true personalization requires a practitioner and a patient, total nutrition (foods, supplements, medications, etc.), lifestyle, and health assessment.  Today at Health Bite, we feature Ashley Koff , an internationally renowned, registered dietician and the brainchild behind numerous nutrition...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Even when topics of obesity, nutrition, and food always show up in the news, still, for some reason, these topics are often misrepresented. In this episode, Dr. Adrienne starts a new segment to review recent news about obesity, food, and nutrition. Here, she talks about a) the new FDA-approved medication for diabetes called tirzepatide   which also ha...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. What are the things that matter most to you in life? Are you living in alignment with the values you hold dear in your heart? Dr. Adrienne Youdim is a board-certified Internist and is the host of the podcast Healthy Bite. She specializes in medical weight loss and nutrition, and she is aiming to transform the weight loss narrative into one that is bot...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. How do we make it easy and relatable for people to get meals on the table? People have this tendency to overlook the influence we make when we are the ones providing and preparing our household’s meal plan. From buying groceries to having our plates filled, every single bit of that process contributes to the health of our loved ones. But as things get...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Have you gained weight this summer, and now you regret what you did that led to those extra pounds? More often than not, when such cases happen, we tend to enclose ourselves in a space of remorse, overseeing the fact that our summer activities have brought us joy. We were happy. It gave us a strong push to keep going. So today, I encourage you to stay...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Have you ever had a hard time eating just one slice of cake, or just a handful of chips? This week, I discussed with Dr. Vera Tarman, Addiction Medicine Specialist and the medical director of renaissance, an Addiction Treatment Center in Canada, a very large Addiction Treatment Center.  She is also the author of Food Junkies Recovering From Food Addic...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. In this episode of my Hungry for More series, I discuss the connection presence has with how we see food and eat it. As we grow into the adults that we’re becoming, we’re sometimes already eluding the importance of being present to the habits we have in relation to our food intake. That might lead to numerous diseases when left the way it is, but on t...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Welcome back, friends. We are well into the summer season.   And whether you want to lose weight or not, I bet somewhere in your mind, when you think summer, you think wait, or if you don't think about weight, you think about your body or its state of affairs. It's in our culture and it is indoctrinated. So instead of pretending it doesn&apo...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Welcome back, friends. We are well into the summer season.  And whether you want to lose weight or not, I bet somewhere in your mind, when you think summer, you think wait, or if you don't think about weight, you think about your body or its state of affairs.  It's in our culture and it is indoctrinated.  So instead of pretending it doesn&ap...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. A lot of times, people fail to notice how important it is for us to have an optimized breathing practice in order to live the life we’ve always wanted to live. We’ve had this thought for so long that breathing is something we’ve been doing so easily all these years that it already appears to be something we don’t need help with. Did you know that by a...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Dr. Nishi Bhopal is an integrative psychiatrist, sleep specialist, and founder of IntraBalance, an online educational program that focuses on sleep and mental wellness. As a resident, she experienced the importance of sleep affecting work and life performance. She is triple board-certified and has advanced training in Integrative Psychiatry and Sleep...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Usually we eat without being present or enjoying it because we are doing something else. Today’s guest, Claire Matern, will teach the importance of having a mindful experience with food. She is a leader in intuitive cooking, and her mission is to empower and encourage people to cook by sense and instinct, adding common sense to the kitchen. Growing up...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. How do we know that it’s already time for us to visit a mental health professional and get help? People have been dealing with mental health disorders even before the pandemic, but the moment we got locked inside our homes was the same moment the numbers rose. Things got worse. More people got diagnosed. This pandemic brought us lots of difficulties i...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. A sound mind in a sound body.  Same as how poor mental health causes excess weight, obesity also entails physical and mental challenges, which all take a toll on one’s mental health. ‘Perfect’ images have been planted in our heads, with all the “must have’s” portrayed by the media and our norms. Having this said, have you ever thought about how you co...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Are you a casual alcohol drinker or are you the one who excessively consumes? How and why are you drinking? How much and how often? As we go into living a life in this pandemic, studies show that alcohol consumption has become more widespread than before, especially in women, be that with casual or excessive drinking. However, physicians haven’t reall...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. All these years, weight has been a cosmetic concern for almost everybody. People associate one’s weight to how pleasing one looks like, usually disregarding the fact that it is a health concern that impacts our whole life. But how can we really gear ourselves up towards a compassionate journey of weight loss and finally maintain a healthy weight witho...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link.  Have you been suffering from depression and/or other mental health issues, but even with treatment and medication, you just cannot find your way out of the gloom? We’re already in the month of May, and May is the month of Mental Health Awareness; the perfect time to talk about keeping our mental health and well-being in good shape. Having that said,...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Have you ever tried to incorporate herbs and spices to your diet? Did you know that by the simple act of adding some spice to your meals, you open the doors for you to enjoy its long list of benefits for our mind and body? Herbs and spices have long been present in the fields of health, of nutrition, and of medicine, and it’s already proven to be of p...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. As we engage in a journey of losing weight, most of the time, we’re already sabotaging ourselves without us even knowing it. We tend to restrict ourselves of what should be and what shouldn’t. We work so hard to the point that we’re already running after perfectionism, not effectiveness. “It’s as if I’m not capable. Why can’t I lose weight?” “I cannot...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. Most people who start engaging in intermittent fasting practices either aim to lose weight or change their body composition.  However, more often than not, we are actually unaware that there’s so much more to the benefits, aside from the fact that it helps us lose fats. Fasting helps us become more aware of and in tune with what true intrinsic hunger...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. How can we balance a desire for healthy weight with body positivity and positive self acceptance? There’s no point in denying that there has always been a social stigma around people who are of excess weight. It got so bad to the point that even wanting to lose pounds becomes an embarrassing action to take. We see excess weight as something that’s so...

Leave Health Bite a Feedback. Click This Link. At some point in our life, we’ll all go through heartbreaks and breakups that will indirectly lead us to realize how bad we’re selling ourselves short all this time. There will come a time when you’ll realize, that’s enough. It’s about time to make change happen for yourself, for your own life. But let’s face it. We’re humans, and sometimes, change sc...