Stella Metsovas, a former National USA Swimmer and nutrition specialist, has over 15 years experience in both the health and fitness industries. Majoring in Food Science, Stella has extensive knowledge of the chemical properties in foods and how efficiently they’re metabolized.
Along with being voted “Best Nutritionist” by Citysearch, Stella’s also been featured in Fox News, The New York Times, Webmd, eDiets, Univision, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, AOL Celebrity Diet and Fitness, AOL Health and most recently, People Magazine’s largest selling issue of the year, “How I Lost Half My Size.”
Posts tagged "Nutrition"
Excessive Alcohol = (-) (uh, duh!)
Excessive use of alcohol has been linked to oxidative stress and inflammation, two mechanisms that accelerate telomere shortening. Telomere’s are components of your DNA that protect the chromosomes from damage (e.g., aging).
When you consume alcohol, the metabolic result is acetaldehyde which is extremely toxic—forming free radicals simultaneously.
I don’t recommend drinking alcohol on a daily or even weekly basis. If you’re engaging in binge-like drinking (2 or more drinks/glasses), you make want to consider taking a product like Life Extensions ‘Anti-Alcohol Antioxidants’
**Always consult with you licensed primary healthcare provider before taking new vitamin/mineral therapies.
When you put on weight, your fat tissue grows and begins to produce a pro-inflammatory molecules.
The increase in these inflammatory molecules leaves the fat tissue in a state of chronic inflammation. This plays an important role in the development of insulin resistance, an early stage of type 2 diabetes, where the body is unable to regulate blood sugar levels using its own insulin.
Belly fat or hip fat: It really is all in your genes, says researcher #obesity #healthy
The age-old question of why men store fat in their bellies and women store it in their hips may have finally been answered: Genetically speaking, the fat tissue is almost completely different.
Tibetans developed genes to help them adapt to life at high elevations #nutrigenomics #genes
Researchers have long wondered why the people of the Tibetan Highlands can live at elevations that cause some humans to become life-threateningly ill — and a new study answers that mystery, in part, by showing that through thousands of years of natural selection, those hardy inhabitants of south-central Asia evolved 10 unique oxygen-processing genes that help them live in higher climes.
