Posts by Dr. Cheryl Winter
GET A Grip
GET a Grip on your “Body Composition.” Body Composition is simply the amount of lean body mass and body fat that makes up total body weight (weight alone is not an adequate measure of your health). The lean body mass (LBM) includes the bones, muscles, water, connective and organ tissues. Body fat includes both essential…
Read MoreParenting Meal-time Tips for Preventing Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity has become a national healthcare crisis in recent years. Children who are obese as preschoolers are at increased risk for adolescent and adult obesity, as well as an increased risk of developing many chronic diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), asthma, and sleep apnea, as well as emotional problems such as low…
Read MoreDo You Know What Your Number Is?
Before you consider beginning yet another “diet,” you might first consider learning what your “number” is. You are a very unique individual. In addition to having your own social security number, your own PIN numbers, your own phone numbers, there is yet another number that is unique to you. That number is your METABOLIC RATE,…
Read More9 Best-Kept Secrets for Getting Children to Eat Foods That are Healthy
Is mealtime often a nightmare when trying to get your child to eat healthy? Relax, it doesn’t have to be this way. Eating is the one behavior your child truly does have control over, and that’s okay, because after all we want our children to grow up to be assertive and independent, don’t we? As…
Read MoreDining with DeFronzo
Just last week on my blog, I posted “Today’s Diabetes is NOT Your Grandma’s Disease,” and briefly wrote of the pioneer research work of Dr. Ralph DeFronzo, of the University of Texas, San Antonio. Less than one week later after making this blog post, on March 1, 2013, I had the pleasure of attending the…
Read MoreToday’s Diabetes is NOT Your Grandma’s Disease
Each and everyday, we learn more and more about what causes diabetes, and thus new ways to treat it. If what you know about diabetes is from observing what your family members do or have done, you are missing the boat. When a new diabetes patient comes to my office, I try to explain to…
Read MorePumping Iron to Improve Your Diabetes Control
To maintain a healthy body and to promote good diabetes control, your body needs iron! You may remember from your high school chemistry that iron is a strong, hard, magnetic, silver-gray metal that is atomic number 26 in the chemical element list. Iron is found naturally in the foods we eat, and iron is a…
Read MoreHow Are You Bathing Your Cells? The Key to Appetite Control
I wish I had a dollar for every time a client stated, “If only I had more willpower I would not have a weight problem” or for when they asked me for a medication to decrease their appetite. First of all, realize that there is NO such thing as willpower. Willpower is nonexistent, and the…
Read MoreDark Chocolate: A Tiny Piece is All It Takes for Health & Pleasure
It’s now less than one month after Christmas, and I am posting an article about “chocolate.” Did you get your fill of chocolate over the holidays? Does anyone ever get their fill of this delectable treat? It is soon to be February, which as you know is a very popular time for chocolate. Do you…
Read MoreTo Weigh or Not to Weigh
If you are trying to lose weight like most people these days, you might find yourself becoming fairly attached to your bathroom scale. However, there is a better “weigh,” pardon the pun, to monitor your weight loss progress than to rely on this “irrelevant” and out-dated method. Is this you? When the number on the…
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