Wellness Minute plastic danger: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we tell you about some of the dangers of drinking out of plastic bottles. One tip is to never reuse the single serving water bottles you buy bottled water in. Also read the bottom of the bottles for the number in the triangle that tells you how to use the bottle. And don’t heat the plastic bottles in the microwave. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less.

 

 Interview with EatingWell Nicci Micco heart healthy: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On tonight’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy learn all about how to eat a heart healthier diet from our good friend Nicci Micco, Senior Editor with Eating Well magazine. After we spent a very long time discussing the Fat Guy’s increasingly high blood pressure Nicci talked about an important article in her magazine titled “10 Steps to Heart Health” She says that you can improve your heart health by Eating Well…that might have been a shameless plug for her magazine though. 

Did you know that in the United States, cardiovascular disease affects about 9 million adults, killing one every 37 seconds. More people die from heart related causes than AIDS, murder and suicide combined. But the good news—which Dr. Philip Ades, author of the new book EatingWell for a Healthy Heart has made it his mission to spread—is that heart-disease is mostly preventable. Research shows that up to 90 percent of heart disease can be prevented by changing one’s diet, exercising more, maintaining a healthy weight and not smoking.

Lower your risk for heart disease by following these 10 steps.

1- Know your numbers…blood pressure, hdl, ldl, cholesterol, etc; 2-Calculate your risk; 3-Lose some weight…hear that Fat Guy; 4-eat less saturated fats; 5-lose the junk food…remember No Junk in 2008. You’ll have to listen to get the rest or go to the Nicci’s website for more information www.eatingwell.com. You can get Dr Ades’ book there as well.

 

 Wellness Minute green kitchen: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we tell you how to make your kitchen more environmentally friendly. With all the green this, green that, we wanted to jump on the bandwagon and green up your kitchen and not just with veggies…even though one tip is to eat more vegetables. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less.

 

 Interview with gerard musante structure house: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On tonight’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy learn all about how structure can help you lose weight. We get this info right from the horse’s mouth, Dr Gerard Musante, author of The Structure House Weight Loss Plan joined us.

Dr Musante’s says that “Food can be the best medicine OR the worst poison for your body.” Remember that the next time you supersize something!

The Structure House Weigh Loss Plan focuses on changing yourself in deeper, more significant, more durable ways than what you can measure simply by standing on your bathroom scale.

For over thirty years, Dr Musante has helped overweight and obese men and women learn about change at Structure House, the residential program he founded in Durham, North Carolina. Approximately one thousand people participate in their programs there each year. It’s like a college campus. Some people are 10, 20, 30 pounds over their desired weight. Others are even heavier and would be considered obese. Still others are morbidly obese—so overweight that their health is in immediate jeopardy.

Almost all of the people who have come to Structure House understand that being overweight can lead to medical problems such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and other serious health risks. These people stay at Structure House for a weekend or even a month learn first hand about the possibilities for change and about the skills that make change possible. For more information about Dr Musante’s book (which is now available in paperback) and his amazing weight loss program please go to his website www.structurehouse.com

 

 Wellness Minute green tea coffee switch: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Wellness Minute we tell you the importance of drinking more green tea. If you want to be healthier and live longer, then we suggest you switch your morning ritual from drinking coffee to drinking more green tea. And our favorite place for tea is from Tavalon Tea in New York City. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less and are now available on iTunes right here

 

 radio show recap gerard musante, lisa young, nicci micco, evelyn tribole: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The most entertaining weight loss and fitness podcast show on radio.” Please click PLAY to listen to the latest Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy radio show podcast broadcasting live each week from Atlanta, GA, USA. To download the show on iTunes please click on this link

Tonight’s show is sponsored by The Card Mom, Celeste Katz. If you are looking for a great easy to implement system for sending out personal hand stamped greeting cards please check out Celeste’s great website www.thecardmom.com

On tonight’s show Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy learn all about how structure can help you lose weight from the author of The Structure House Weight Loss Plan, Dr Gerard Musante. One of the key takeaways from this interview was Dr Musante’s statement that “Food can be the best medicine OR the worst poison for your body.” Remember that the next time you suck down that Big Mac!

Dr Musante’s book is about change. Not just change in your weight—losing the pounds you want to lose. He says weight loss is important, but it’s not really the change that is most important. Rather, The Structure House Weigh Loss Plan focuses on changing yourself in deeper, more significant, more durable ways than what you can measure simply by standing on your bathroom scale. He talks about changing how you view yourself. Changing your relationship with food. Changing your choices about how to live your life. Changing your attitude about change itself.

For over thirty years, Dr Musante has helped overweight and obese men and women learn about change at Structure House, the residential program he founded in Durham, North Carolina. Approximately one thousand people participate in their programs there each year. Some of these participants are ten, twenty, thirty pounds over their desired weight. Others have even more excess pounds and would be considered obese. Still others are morbidly obese—so overweight that their health is in immediate jeopardy.

Almost all of the people who have come to Structure House understand that being overweight can lead to medical problems such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and other serious health risks. These people stay at Structure House for a weekend, a month, and learn first hand about the possibilities for change and about the skills that make change possible. For more information about Dr Musante’s book (which is now available in paperback) and his amazing program please go to his website www.structurehouse.com

We led the show off with Dr Lisa Young, author of the Portion Teller and the Portion Teller Plan.

Dr Young is a nationally recognized nutrition consultant and faculty member at New York University. Dr. Young has been counseling adults and children for more than 15 years,. Lisa is an expert on portion control, and nutrition. Young is regularly featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Self, Fitness, and Glamour. She has also been featured on national television including the Today Show, ABC News, CBS News, and CNN, and was in the film Super Size Me.

The Portion Teller Plan will teach you how to understand portion sizes so that you can lose weight and stop dieting. Are you a mindless muncher who snacks all day, a dinner lover who enjoys one big meal a day, or maybe a volume eater who always wants to sit down with a huge plate of food at every meal? No matter what your eating habits, The Portion Teller Plan offers a personalized eating plan that is right for you.

Instead of giving up the foods you love, learn to smart-size them. Would you ever consider going to the kitchen in the morning and grabbing five slices of bread for breakfast? No? Just one bagel or perhaps a bran muffin is more like it, right? Well, think again. Your morning bagel or muffin is the same as eating five slices of bread, maybe more. That’s most of your grain servings for the day.

And, that steak you ate last night? For all the calories and protein you consumed, you might as well have eaten 18 eggs. More than double the amount of protein you need in a day.

Surprised at just how much you are eating? Dr. Lisa Young isn’t. She has been studying how Americans eat for more than a decade, and what she found is astonishing. Portion sizes have subtly and steadily increased over the past thirty years and are now two to five times larger than they were in the past. Even the average dinner plate has grown several inches to accommodate more food. The portions we’re served are getting bigger and we keep eating. The end result? That’s right. Americans are getting fatter. Not just the Fat Guy. For more information about Dr Young and her books please go to her website www.portionteller.com

Next up we had our good friend Nicci Micco, Senior Editor with Eating Well magazine. We thanked her profusely for helping Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy become Editor’s Picks in this month’s issue of the magazine.

Nicci talked about an important article in her magazine titled “10 Steps to Heart Health” She says that you can change your fate just by Eating Well.

In the United States, heart disease affects about 9 million adults, killing one every 37 seconds. But the good news—which Dr. Philip Ades, author of the new book EatingWell for a Healthy Heart has made it his mission to spread—is that heart-disease is mostly preventable. Research shows that up to 90 percent of heart disease can be prevented by changing one’s diet, exercising more, maintaining a healthy weight and not smoking.

Reduce your risk by following these 10 simple steps.

1- Know your numbers; 2-Calculate your risk; 3-Lose some weight; 4-less saturated fats; 5-lose the junk food. You’ll have to listen to get the rest or go to their website for more information www.eatingwell.com. You can get Dr Ades’ book there as well.

Next we had on Evelyn Tribole, author of the book Intuitive Eating.

Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD, is an award-winning dietitian with a counseling practice in Irvine, California, where she helps clients create a healthy relationship with food, mind and body. She was the nutrition expert for Good Morning America and qualified for the 1984 Olympic trials in the women’s marathon. Although she no longer competes, she runs for fun and fitness. Evelyn had some great tips like eat like a food critic…taste each bite and slowly enjoy it. There were lots more tips

Intuitive eating is an approach that teaches you how to create a healthy relationship with your food, mind, and body–where you ultimately become the expert of your own body. You learn how to distinguish between physical and emotional feelings, and gain a sense of body wisdom. It’s also a process of making peace with food—so that you no longer have constant “food worry” thoughts. It’s knowing that your health and your worth as a person does not change because you ate a so-called “bad” or “fattening” food.

On the surface this may sound simple, but it’s tricky. For example one of the basic principles of Intuitive Eating is the ability to respond to inner body cues, “Eat when you’re hungry and stop when you’re full”, which may sound like a no-brainer. But when you have history of chronic dieting or rigid “healthy” rules about eating it’s quite difficult because a number of things need to be in place, including the ability to trust yourself! For more information and to get her book please go to her website www.intuitiveeating.com

 

 Wellness Minute sandwich calorie savers: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In today’s Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Wellness Minute we tell you the do’s and don’ts about making a healthier sandwich. Sandwiches can be great meals but you have to watch out for certain ingredients that can make their calorie count soar.

 

 Wellness Minute lyme disease: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Radio show is your source for what’s true and what’s too good to be true in health and wellness. In today’s Wellness Minute we tell you how to protect yourself from Lyme disease. this does not effect the Fat Guy because he rarely goes outside, but when you are enjoying the outdoors beware of ticks. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

Please check out our Doctor Fitness and the Fat Guy Blog for inspiration, education, motivation and more tips about losing weight and getting in shape. Also check out our brand new redesigned website to subscribe to our FREE weekly healthy living newsletter and enjoy all the benefits of our online diet and weight loss plan community. You can also email Dr. Adam Shafran there with your specific health, fitness, weight loss, wellness questions and he will personally answer each one. Promise!!

Don’t forget to look us up on all your favorite Social Networking sites like: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Self Growth, Imeem, Squidoo, Xanga and more. Please don’t keep us a secret, if you enjoy Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy please forward this on to a friend and put links to our website and show on blogs and message boards you enjoy. Thanks!

 

 Interview with tiffany davis daily candy exercise gear: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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We learn how all about the hottest exercise gear options for us from one of our good friends Tiffany Davis, Atlanta Editor of the Daily Candy. Tiffany shared with our listeners some of the coolest exercise gear choices out there. First she lead off with www.foodtee.com imagine closthes with pictures of food and clever remarks. Then she got into www.converse.com and their hip new designs by some guy with a foreign sounding name. And then she closed with www.exofficio.com. Check them all out yourself and be sure to sign up for the Daily Candy for all the latest and greatest news in fashion and fun www.dailycandy.com

For more Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy check out our new Wellness Minutes blog where we give you in depth information on health, fitness and weight loss topics in 3 minutes or less every single day. Now available on iTunes right here

Please be our friends! Look us up on all your favorite Social Networking sites like: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Self Growth, Imeem, Squidoo, Xanga and more. And please don’t keep us a secret, if you enjoy Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy please forward this on to a friend and put links to our website and show on blogs and message boards you enjoy. Thanks!

The Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Radio show is your source for what’s true and what’s too good to be true in health and wellness. In today’s Wellness Minute we tell you how to get a great exercise workout with out spending a lot of money. These are our recession workouts for every budget. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

Please check out our Doctor Fitness and the Fat Guy Blog for inspiration, education, motivation and more tips about losing weight and getting in shape. Also check out our brand new redesigned website to subscribe to our FREE weekly healthy living newsletter and enjoy all the benefits of our online diet and weight loss plan community. You can also email Dr. Adam Shafran there with your specific health, fitness, weight loss, wellness questions and he will personally answer each one. Promise!!

Don’t forget to look us up on all your favorite Social Networking sites like: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Self Growth, Imeem, Squidoo, Xanga and more. Please don’t keep us a secret, if you enjoy Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy please forward this on to a friend and put links to our website and show on blogs and message boards you enjoy. Thanks!

 

 Wellness Minute low cost exercise work outs: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Wellness Minute how to use gym weights: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Radio show is your source for what’s true and what’s too good to be true in health and wellness. In today’s Wellness Minute we tell you how to use the strength training exercise machines and free weights at the gym. Don’t be like the Fat Guy, clanging the weights and sitting on the machines backwards when you work out. Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

Please check out our Doctor Fitness and the Fat Guy Blog for inspiration, education, motivation and more tips about losing weight and getting in shape. Also check out our brand new redesigned website to subscribe to our FREE weekly healthy living newsletter and enjoy all the benefits of our online diet and weight loss plan community. You can also email Dr. Adam Shafran there with your specific health, fitness, weight loss, wellness questions and he will personally answer each one. Promise!!

Don’t forget to look us up on all your favorite Social Networking sites like: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Self Growth, Imeem, Squidoo, Xanga and more. Please don’t keep us a secret, if you enjoy Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy please forward this on to a friend and put links to our website and show on blogs and message boards you enjoy. Thanks!

 

 Interview with sue fleming buff brides: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Tonight we learn all about the how to get in shape for your wedding from celebrity fitness trainer Sue Fleming, the creator and star of the popular TV show Buff Brides.

Fitness expert Sue Fleming is the creator of the Buff Fitness® workout regimen. The program’s popularity led to a critically acclaimed reality TV series – Buff Brides – on Discovery Health Channel, still in reruns on Fit TV. Sue’s new Buff line of workout DVDs are based on her book series, which includes Buff Brides, Buff Moms, Buff Moms-to-Be and Fashionably Buff.

Sue is also on the team of ExerciseTV, a new television network dedicated to fitness, motivation and sports training. Segments from each of Sue’s Buff workout DVDs can be viewed free on-demand by all Comcast, Time Warner and Cox digital cable customers.

Sue, a naturally competitive athlete, instinctively knew the better the bride looked and felt out of her clothes, the more magical she would look (and feel!) while donning the breath-taking couture creation of her fantasy wedding. And so was born the Buff Fitness regimen. Far more than another cleverly packaged brand, Fleming has brought a sense of steadfast teamwork to a results oriented regimen that has grown into a global health and fitness empire.

A native of New York’s Long Island, Fleming found her calling early on as she yearned for the camaraderie of team sports first at Riverhead High School and later while attending Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, where she earned her Masters. This proved to be particularly challenging in an era when women in sports were still a relative rarity. “I was so grateful for women like Chris Evert and Billie Jean King, as they proved that women could be strong and athletic…and win!” recalls Fleming.

Sue says that whether you have six days or six months you can make a huge difference in the way you look and feel. The real challenge however is to maintain it for 60 years. That’s where Sue takes over. Dedicated to working with clients to overcome their fears of fitness and body image, Sue develops the most important muscle of all…self-esteem.

Rather than resting on her well-toned laurels, Sue sees endless possibilities in bringing her message of fitness to the world. That’s why Sue wants women to understand that a fitness regimen is not a quick fix, but a long-term way of life.

Sue gave us some of her best tips so our listeners could become buff brides or even buff grooms. She said you have to give yourself at least 3 months to get yourself in shape preferably 6 months or more. And please set a realistic goal. If you gained 30 pounds over 10 years you are not going to lose them in 30 days. Sue said her record weight loss for a client was taking her from about 220 pounds down to 145.

A popular fixture in the media… USA Today, Cosmopolitan and InStyle Weddings not to mention a sought after guest on ABC TV’s Good Morning America learn more about Sue on her website www.buff-fitness.com

For more Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy check out our new Wellness Minutes blog where we give you in depth information on health, fitness and weight loss topics in 3 minutes or less every single day. Now available on iTunes right here
Please be our friends! Look us up on all your favorite Social Networking sites like: Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Self Growth, Imeem, Squidoo, Xanga and more. And please don’t keep us a secret, if you enjoy Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy please forward this on to a friend and put links to our website and show on blogs and message boards you enjoy. Thanks!

 

 Wellness Minute how much cardio: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy Radio show is your source for what’s true and what’s too good to be true in health and wellness. In today’s Wellness Minute we tell you how much cardio you should be doing each day if you want to lose weight. And also how much cardio you need to be doing if you want to live a healthy active life. . Take a listen right now to hear Dr Fitness’ tips. Dr Fitness and the Fat Guy’s Wellness Minutes improve your health in 3 minutes a day or less. Now available on iTunes right here

Please check out our Doctor Fitness and the Fat Guy Blog for inspiration, education, motivation and more tips about losing weight and getting in shape. Also check out our brand new redesigned website to subscribe to our FREE weekly healthy living newsletter and enjoy all the benefits of our online diet and weight loss plan community. You can also email Dr. Adam Shafran there with your specific health, fitness, weight loss, wellness qu