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Dear Friend,
This week's newsletter is filled with fitness, health, and training tips that matter to you.
Please let us know if you have questions or comments.
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| The labels will fool you! | | | Trainer's Tip
Someone the other day told me they use fat-free cooking spray from canola oil. I told them there was no such thing. Except for medium-chain triglycerides (MCT's), all forms of fat are 9 calories per gram.
This person swore that the label said fat-free, so I decided to journey over to the grocery store and have a look. Sure enough, one major brand stated "fat-free" while another stated "calorie-free".
As I turned the cans around to look at the labels (we all look at the labels, right?), it stated the serving size was .25 seconds! I don't know about you, but I sure wouldn't be able to get any oil out of the can onto my pan in 1/4 second. There were 557 servings in a single can. Yeah right!
The labels on these particular cans fool millions of people every day into spraying what they think is "calorie-free" onto their pans.
By the way, did you know that a fat-free fig cookie contains 20 more calories than the full-fat regular version? Just another "fooling" label example.
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| Hyperthyroidism | | | Doc Talk
In the March 26 issue of Doc Talk, we discussed Hypothyroidism (Click Here to read about it). In this issue we'll discuss Hyperthyroidism.
Hyperthyroidism refers to an overactive thyroid, which produces or releases too much thyroid hormone. Symptoms may include palpitations (fast or irregular heart beats), excessive sweating, heat intolerance, nervousness or tremors. The most common form of hyperthyroidism is caused by Grave's disease (former president Bush had this). In this disease, autoantibodies stimulate the thyroid to make too much hormone. The disease can also cause visibly evident changes to the body such as bulging eyes (remember the old actor Marty Feldman from Young Frankenstein?), and goiter. Of interest to health-conscious readers, excessive thyroid hormone may lead to heart arrhythmias and premature osteoporosis.
The diagnosis is made by finding a suppressed (very low) TSH level, and usually an elevated thyroid uptake scan.
The two main treatments for hyperthyroidism are thyroid blocking drugs and radioactive thyroid ablation. Surgical thyroidectomy is performed rarely. In the case of radioactive ablation, the patient is given radioactive iodine, which is collected into the thyroid gland and destroys the overactive thyroid tissue. In most cases, the patient has to take replacement thyroid hormone after the procedure.
EXTRA!!
There has been recent publicity concerning the use of the synthetic thyroid hormone, Synthroid. I feel there is no concern over the use of Synthroid, and the recent FDA changes are regulatory, not medical.
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| Did You Know? | | | Smoking
- After lung cancer surgery, nearly half of smokers return to their habit.
- Among smokers who suffer a heart attack, more than a third resume smoking before they leave the hospital.
- Two of five smokers who have had their larynx removed try smoking again.
Pets
-Older pet owners were more active and less likely to be depressed than peers without animal companions.
- Pet owners with AIDS also were more likely not to be as depressed than AIDS patients without pets.
-Stockbrokers with high blood pressure who had pets were better able to control their condition than those without pets.
Diabetes
- Eating excessive amounts of sugar does not cause diabetes, but it may bring out the disease to the extent that it makes you fat. Eating too much protein or fat will do the same thing.
- Too much stress isn't a major factor that causes diabetes.
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| About | | | MrTrainer newsletter is a weekly publication and is dedicated to the memory of Max Beeners.
"Trainers Tip" is written by Matthew Beeners, ACE Certified personal trainer, B.S Exercise & Sport Sciences.
"Doc Talk" is written by William L. Harrison, M.D.
THIS COLUMN IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY—IT IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE THE ADVICE OF YOUR PERSONAL PHYSICIAN.
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