Quick tips: 7 principles of good health from weight-loss expert

Dr. Joey Shulman, a nutritionist and weight-loss expert with four clinics in the Toronto area, has identified seven principles of health. They are:

1. Your body has a voice — pay attention.

2. Your body thrives on routine.

3. Your body responds to nutrient-dense foods in a very quick manner.

4. One of your body's key systems is the digestive system.

5. Your body always prefers an alkaline environment over an acidic one.

6. You must move.

7. Eat until your are sufficiently sufficed, not stuffed.

6 Tips for Finding a Weight-Loss Program

If your health care provider has advised you to lose weight, research your options before settling on a weight-loss program. Good ones should encourage healthy behaviors and should include:

    Healthy eating plans that reduce calories but do not forbid specific foods or food groups.
    Tips to increase moderate-intensity physical activity.
    Tips on healthy behavior changes that keep your cultural needs in mind.
    Slow and steady weight loss. Depending on your starting weight, experts recommend losing weight at a rate of half a pound to two pounds per week. (Weight loss may be faster at the start of a program.)
    Medical care, if you are planning to lose weight by following a special diet, such as a very-low-calorie diet.
    A plan to keep the weight off after you have lost it.

Basic Health Tips Can Keep Out Trouble In School

Hand washing is the basic step towards maintaining a healthy body. The teachers should teach the students the importance of the hand wash.

According to a study, it has been found that lack of hand washing and improper food can cause gastrointestinal trouble. In a confined classroom, area where the students study the virus of gastrointestinal sickness can spread very quickly. This study was published in 2010 issue of the Journal of School Health, which dealt with the food processing in various schools and universities.

A gastrointestinal illness is short-lived. The symptoms are cramps, fever, diarrhoea and vomiting. It does not need medical treatment. However, the victim should be provided with water because sometimes dehydration takes place. The victim should have adequate fluid intake. In some cases, the children are admitted in hospitals for the speedy recovery. In case of E. Coli contamination, the victim can die of food poisoning.

The co-author narrates that there has been 121 outbreaks of gastrointestinal sickness. Around 51 percent of these involved bacterial infections and mostly the viruses were being transmitted by the food. Around 12 percent of these were transferred by drinking unsafe water.

Food-borne illnesses are “grossly underreported” to public health authorities, said Lee.

The author says that hand washing before having meal is the best solution to prevent the viruses from the entering the body.