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Dr Hoffman’s hCG Weight Loss in Santa Rosa Everyone deserves to be healthy and happy. Being overweight is a major health problem that goes way beyond just wanting to look good. The HCG Diet has become a leader in the weight loss industry and has helped millions of people achieve their weight loss and health goals. The HCG diet was pioneered in the1950′s and has gained steady momentum ever since. Since the year 2000, the HCG Diet has skyrocketed in popularity. HCG weight loss has been publicized on hundreds of TV shows including Dr. Oz, Fox News, NBC, Oprah and on CBS. It is alsoRead More →

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Liquid Diets and Juice Fasting One of the most poorly understood diets is the liquid diet.  Most commonly, when people refer to a “liquid diet”, they are talking about juice fasting.  Many dieters are told that if they “juice fast” for a period of time they will lose weight.  Whether juicing involves fruits or vegetables, drinking only juice for a period of days at a time can be difficult, hard on the body and can actually have a negative impact your health.  Juice fasting puts stress on the gastrointestinal system, specifically the Pancreas.  As the Pancreas reacts to the rapid and ongoing influx of glucoseRead More →

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Healthy Vegetables for Weight Loss Remember when your parents used to load your plate up with veggies and not let you have any dessert until you finished every last bit? They just might have been onto something with all those dark green vegetables. Take a look at Popeye and his spinach. He would down a can and practically lift a car. Impressive wasn’t it? Maybe the general idea isn’t so far fetched. Five of the healthiest dark green vegetables include: broccoli kale spinach romaine lettuce Swiss chard. These vegetables, identified by their dark green color, are rich in antioxidants and usually have large amounts ofRead More →

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Lipotropic Injections lipotropic injections are also referred to as “fat burning injections”.  They are deserving of the name because they help your body burn fat! The nutrients that are found in the lipotropic injections are compounds that support liver function and the processing of fat, both to the liver and from the liver. They can be thought of as a liver “decongestant”, due to their effect on the liver. Lipotropic injections promote improved liver function and fat metabolism.  Formulas containing lipotropic factors are routinely used by cutting edge integrative physicians that are trained in functional medicine, to help with weight management. Dr. Hoffman’s lipotropic injections,Read More →

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Weight Loss and Cholesterol Tips: 1.  Reduce the amount of saturated fat, cholesterol and total fat in your diet. Your diet should contain no more than 30% of the total calories from fat.  The easiest to achieve this goal is to eat fewer animal products and eat more plant foods. 2. Don’t eat margarine or foods containing trans-fatty acids and partially hydrogenated oils. Hydrogenation of oils changes the structure of the natural fatty acid.  This new structure interferes with the body’s ability to utilize essential fatty acids.  The following foods typically contain hydrogenated oils and trans-fatty acids:  virtually all refined and processed foods, fried foods,Read More →

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Carbohydrates: There are two basic types of carbohydrates, complex and simple. Complex carbohydrates are unrefined, unprocessed, and as close to their whole natural state as possible.  They should comprise 70% of your calorie intake.  Examples are whole oats, wheat, rye, millet, Bulgar, rice, barley, fresh fruit, all fresh vegetables, whole white potatoes and yams. Simple carbohydrates are refined, processed and sweetened foods which do not resemble their whole original state.  Some examples are cereals made with sugar or white flour, doughnuts, pastries, cookies, white flour, and white rice.  These foods are devoid of the bran and the germ from the whole grain, which contains theRead More →

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Fats: The average American gets 43% of their calories from fats.  There are two basic types of fats in the diet, saturated and unsaturated. Saturated fats are those which tend to clog our arteries by raising cholesterol and fat in the blood.  They also worsen diabetes, inflammatory states such as bursitis and arthritis, and aggravate allergies, asthma and blood pressure.  The two main sources of saturated fats are dairy products and red meat.  Certain processed foods also contain high amounts of saturated fats.  Saturated fats should only account for 5% of you daily calories. Unsaturated fats contain essential fatty acids, fats that are important forRead More →

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Weight Loss and Hypoglycemia Do you feel tired run down or depressed for no apparent reason? In many cases, problems regulating the supply of sugar to your brain and body cells may be the cause.  All cells in the body burn the sugar glucose for energy, similar to the way engines burn gasoline.  Reducing the supply of glucose to your brain cells can cause poor alertness, tiredness, difficulty concentrating, and even confusion, loss of memory and emotional depression. Blood sugar levels can drop for various reasons, producing a variety of symptoms. One of the most common causes is the frequent use of sugar rich foodsRead More →

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Weight Loss Challenges and Sugar – The demise of Health Sugar is undoubtedly one of  the worst modern, nutritionally driven causes of ill health in the US.  Sugar is ubiquitous and deadly.  Where is it hidden?  How can you avoid it?  How does sugar wreak havoc on our bodies? Most people think: Protein becomes protein in the body Fat becomes fat in the body Sugar becomes sugar in the body However this is not always true.  For example, cows don’t eat meat and they have protein on them.  Fed grass as a healthy diet, they are able to bulk up their muscle mass with incredibleRead More →

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Natural Weight Loss and Calcium Calcium is one of the most important minerals in the body.  The functions of calcium are many, and not having enough calcium in your diet can result in a wide variety of preventable health problems.  Dietary calcium intake has also been associated with weight loss.  Specifically, it has been shown to facilitate fat loss, improved removal of dietary fat and the reversal of gradual weight gain.  Calcium has also been shown to: Prevent fat storage Increase metabolism Raise good cholesterol (HDL) Reduce kidney stones Prevent and improve PMS symptoms In addition to all of the positive effects of Calcium already Read More →