2x the Calories, 2.8x the Sodium: Trump’s Diet Under the Microscope
President Donald J. Trump's diet may not be for the faint-hearted, and definitely not for those who try to limit their calories, sodium, sugar and fat intake.
A newly released analysis from Healthnews reveals that President Donald J. Trump’s daily meal plan may substantially exceed dietary recommendations, especially for his age group.
At 78 years old, President Trump became the oldest person to be inaugurated president. The candidates' age and health were common concerns during the presidential campaign, although most of the criticism was directed at Trump’s initial opponent, former President Joe Biden.
Diet undoubtedly plays an important role in determining health, especially in aging individuals. It is recommended that older adults limit foods high in unhealthy fats and avoid empty calories.
However, the current President seems to be going in the exact opposite direction since his publicly documented food choices—including multiple Big Macs, milkshakes, and significant amounts of Diet Coke—suggest Trump’s daily caloric intake exceeds 4,600 calories, roughly 2.3 times the recommended level for men his age, considering he does not skip breakfast.
The Healthnews team analyzed the nutritional value of Donald Trump’s diet, focusing on a day when he indulges more than usual and includes breakfast, a meal he often skips.
In short, on "feast days," when he doesn't skip breakfast, his meal plan looks like this:
Breakfast: Bacon and eggs.
Lunch: A very well-done steak with ketchup.
Dinner: Two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, and a small milkshake.
Snacks: A bag of Doritos.
Drinks: 12 Diet Cokes throughout the day.
The nutritional breakdown of such a diet is the following:
Calories: 4,653 kcal
Fat: 250 g (Saturated fat: 68 g, Trans fat: 3.9 g)
Cholesterol: 830 mg
Carbohydrates: 416 g (Fiber: 15 g, Total sugars: 106 g, Added sugars: 79 g)
Protein: 184 g
Sodium: 6,419 mg
Caffeine: 552 mg
Key Micronutrients:
Vitamin D: 2.23 mcg
Calcium: 1,283 mg
Iron: 24 mg
Potassium: 3,773 mg
Sodium and calories are off the charts
The number of calories Trump consumes on a day of full eating exceeds the United States dietary guidelines recommendationsaround 2x, which estimate that men 76 years old and older need around 2,000–2,400 kcal per day, depending on their physical activity level.
An average American consumes too much sodium, and while Trump is by no means an average guy, his diet is no exception, with 6,419 mg of sodium daily. According to USDA guidelines, men 51 years old and older should consume no more than 2,300 mg of sodium per day. The current President exceeds the recommended daily sodium intake by around 2.8 times.
4 Innovative Ways to Get Fit and Get Rid of that Fat
If you’re looking for new innovative ways to get fit and get rid of your belly fat, there are plenty of things you can do to meet your health goals. Below, are the top four ways you can start working towards these goals, whether it be losing a few pounds or eating healthier. So, what are you waiting for? It’s time to meet your new fitter and healthier self!
Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent fasting is a type of diet that can help you quickly lose weight. This fasting method works by not eating for a certain amount of time, usually 12 to 20 hours. Although you’re not starving yourself, you shouldn’t or drink anything, besides occasionally tea and water. However, going without food for an amount of time forces your body to use any stored fat for energy, which helps you lose weight as a result. When done correctly, intermittent fasting can help you lose roughly two pounds a week.
Eat Low Carb Meals
No worries if you aren’t a fan of intermittent fasting, you can eat low carb meals instead to help your body lose weight. In fact, a low carb diet can still help you lose an average of two pounds per week. Eating low carb means eating less than 75 grams of carbs every day. Although you don’t have to count every carb you eat, you should generally avoid foods that are high in carbohydrates. Doing so can help you lose weight and eat much healthier.
Athletic Club
Besides eating healthier, you can also join an athletic club to help yourself lose weight. Fortunately, gym memberships aren’t too expensive. Some cost less than $20 a month. However, when you join an athletic club, you’ll have access to a variety of workout equipment that can help you reach your fitness goals.
Take an Early Morning Walk
If you can’t pay for a gym membership, that’s okay; you can simply go for early morning walks instead. Going on a morning walk every day for at least 45 minutes can help you burn calories and burns more calories over body fat, so you’ll lose more weight faster.
It’s not always easy to lose weight, especially in these brisk, cold winter months. However, with the help of our suggestions above, you should be able to find new innovative ways to get fit and get rid of your body fat. So, get out there and start losing some weight!
Effective body massages for weight loss
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A deep massage helps in the activation and proper functioning of the circulatory system. The gentle strokes of massage increase the blood flow that aid the body in the removal of toxic waste from the body at a quick pace. This is a great strategy for the human body to get rid of fats because it is the toxins that allow accumulation of fat in the body. Making use of therapeutic massage with regular exercise is an effective tip to get away with subcutaneous fat, more effective than exercise done alone.
Mainly there are three types of massage therapy recommended that have been actively contributing in melting the layers of fat from the body. Enlisted in this article are a few massage therapies that can help you lose weight. However, the choice is yours for which massage to opt to keep in view your body requirements:
Aromatherapy massage:
As the name indicates, this is a special type of body massage that acts on our desire to eat foods with a specific aroma. The active use of this massage therapy helps us to control our over eating habits. Special types of oils are used in this aromatherapy massage. People who have experienced the massage with specific oils that deals with obesity have witnessed proper sleep and that their muscular pain vanishes away like magic after getting the massage therapy. The good thing about this massage is that it acts as a compliment by providing loads of energy when you are on a diet plan.
Abdominal massage:
The abdominal massage is popular for its characteristics of dealing with waste and toxic products that accumulate in the body and hinder the functioning of its systems. The gentle strokes of massage on the stomach would help to increase the rate of metabolism, as well as boost the working of the digestive system. A regular abdominal massage will help you strike a balance in the gain of calories keeping in consideration the metabolic rate of the body. An in-depth abdominal massage will charge the body and increase its ability to work out. The workout with stored energy would result in the burning of calories and make you feel less fatigued.
Therapeutic Massage:
Edema is the accumulation of fluid that causes swelling in the body, making you look obese. The swelling significantly hinders the metabolic rate making it harder for you to shed those extra pounds of fats. Massage therapy improves the blood flow in the body and decreases the body fluids that cause swelling thereby helping you to tone your body.
Author Bio:
Laura Martel is a mother of two and a geek at heart. She loves reading books and spending time with her family. She regularly blogs at www.MassageTut.com
What Is The Mental Impact Of Being Fat Shamed?
New Jersey / New York Based Dr Frieda Birnbaum (http://www.doctorfrieda.com) a Research Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and Author is available for interviews in Studio, via Satellite or Skype.
Dr. Frieda Birnbaum Says:
When pointing out to someone that you perceive them as being overweight and you do it in a condescending matter, it will likely have a negative effect on that person. Subconsciously, weight gain is can be associated with shielding & protection so when a person fat shames another, they may actually provoke that person into gaining more weight.
According to The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, more than two-thirds (68.8 percent) of US adults are considered to be overweight or obese. If people want to fat shame someone, they should consider doing it to the person in the mirror before anyone else.
People react to criticism differently and a person who is fat shamed one too many times might actually decide to use that energy as a catalyst to transform their bodies. Often when a person makes the decision to reduce their weight, it's because they are no longer happy with their current body image. A person's decision to lose weight can also come from self love and wanting to attain optimal health.
If someone in your life is overweight and you wish to convey your concern for them, always do it in a positive manner with lots of love and not in a negative tone. Your love and encourgement can have a positive impact that individual's mental health in the short & long term.
About Dr. Frieda Birnbaum
NY Metropolitan Based - Dr Frieda Birnbaum is a Research Psychologist, Psychoanalyst and Author of " Life Begins at 60: A New View on Motherhood, Marriage, and Reinventing Ourselves." She's an expert on depression, women's issues, and attaining happiness.
Canada’s favourite fruit is ripe for making delicious recipes and beauty applicationsStarting 2016 off on the right fork is easy with delicious and nutritious Avocados From Mexico. A smooth and savory superfood, Avocados From Mexico make up 80 per cent of the avocados consumed in Canada, and offer a range of ways to be prepared, devoured and applied.
Often mistaken for a vegetable, avocados are in fact a fruit (they have a seed). Avocados From Mexico have all the right fats in all the right places. The good oil fats in avocados – monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat – aid the body in absorbing nutrients from other foods and help to lower cholesterol. Nicknamed "green gold", avocados contain nearly 20 vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients and are suitable for many diet restrictions and eating plans. Avocados have zero-cholesterol, and are gluten-free and vegan-friendly.
Using a specialized growing technique, with hand craft trees combined from the branches of the Patron avocado plant and the roots of the Criollo avocado plant in Mexico’s Michoacan region, Avocados From Mexico are grown year-round and are always in season.
Tasty in much more than guacamole, and suitable for enjoying during breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack-time (making it the most versatile food yet), avocados can be used in hundreds of recipes including Mac n’ Cheese avocado nuggets, avocado berry smoothies, ceviche stuffed avocados, Mexican avocado rainbow towers, avocado, kale and quinoa salad and avocado cheesecake, to name a few.
From L to R: Mexican avocado rainbow towers, avocado berry smoothie and ceviche stuffed avocado
Avocados are also a cost-effective staple for DIY beauty treatments. As an all-natural moisturizer that can rejuvenate and soften skin and hair, avocados contain four per cent of the daily value of vitamin E (an antioxidant that protects body tissue from damage caused by free radicals which are believed to play a role in aging). Avocados can be used to make hydratingface masks, remedies for frizzy hair, dark circle and puffy eye correctors and are a natural salve for dry hands!
Treatment using avocado for dry hands Canadians love Avocados From Mexico
80 per cent of avocados imported to Canada are from Mexico
55,000 tons of avocados were shipped from Mexico to Canada in 2014 and 2015
There has been a 27 per cent increase in Avocados From Mexico imports to Canada in the last two years
250 million avocados are consumed by Canadians each year
Canada is the second biggest importer of Mexican avocados
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A growing body of evidence suggests that two natural compounds, vitamin D and xanthohumol, have the ability to address imbalances in gut microbiota that may set the stage for obesity and metabolic syndrome - problems that affect about one out of every three adults in the United States.
To explore and identify the specific mechanisms by which these compounds have beneficial effects, researchers in the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University have received a new five-year, $2.64 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
The possible payoff of this research, they say, may be an entirely new way to reduce or prevent some of the major diseases that are killing millions of people every year, such as heart disease and type-2 diabetes.
The new approach would attempt, using high dose supplementation, to prevent disease from developing, instead of treating it after the fact.
“The benefits of xanthohumol and vitamin D have been clearly shown in laboratory studies to reduce weight gain and improve gut barrier defenses,” said Adrian Gombart, an associate professor of biochemistry and biophysics in the OSU College of Science, and a principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute. “These compounds appear to activate nuclear receptors and pathways that may affect microbe composition, and in the process reduce the damage from metabolic syndrome.”
One study published by OSU researchers two years ago in the Journal of Biological Chemistry found that rats given xanthohumol supplements, which are made from hops, had a 14 percent reduction in weight gain, a 25 percent reduction in plasma fasting glucose, and improved lipid metabolism, compared to a control group of rats that ate the same amount of food. They had a higher rate of fatty acid oxidation and energy metabolism. In simple terms, they burned more fat.
In other studies, higher levels of vitamin D status in humans have been associated with reduced risk of obesity, m
etabolic syndrome, cancer, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, and other health problems.
Other lead investigators on this research include Claudia Maier, an OSU professor of chemistry; Fred Stevens, a professor in the OSU College of Pharmacy and also a principal investigator with the Linus Pauling Institute; and Balz Frei, a distinguished professor of biochemistry and biophysics, and director of the Linus Pauling Institute.
The OSU researchers believe some of the benefits of vitamin D and/or xanthohumol may be a strong increase in the expression of the cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide, or CAMP gene. The hypothesis to be tested in this research, using animal models, is that higher CAMP levels improve gut epithelial barrier function, reduce inflammation, modify gut microbiota and in the process reduce problems with obesity and metabolic syndrome.
“Some of the benefits we’re seeing are fairly clear and dramatic, and we need to better understand the mechanisms that cause them,” Stevens said.
The compounds may also affect liver function, shutting down metabolic pathways that produce fat and glucose, he said.
Vitamin D can be obtained through either the diet or produced by the skin, with adequate exposure to sunshine. Millions of people who live in temperate zones around the world, however, have been found to have inadequate levels of this vitamin, but this can be corrected by taking a supplement.
Xanthohumol, a flavonoid, is also a natural compound and is found in the hops used to make beer. Researchers point out, however, that the levels of xanthohumol being used in this research greatly exceed any amount that could be obtained by drinking beer.
Direct health care costs arising from obesity and related disorders accounts for almost 10 percent of U.S. health care expenditures each year, the researchers said. The health care costs of diabetes alone were estimated in the U.S. at $176 billion in 2012, and it’s one of the leading causes of death in the nation.
COLUMBIA, Mo. — More than one-third of children in the United States ages 6 to 19 years old are overweight or obese. Over the past 30 years, the number of obese adolescents has more than quadrupled, which also has led to an increase in children diagnosed with diabetes. To combat this trend, Aneesh Tosh, M.D., adolescent medicine physician at University of Missouri Health Care and associate professor of clinical child health at the MU School of Medicine, recommends that sugary drinks be removed from adolescents’ diets.
“The sharp rise in childhood and adolescent obesity is alarming,” Tosh said. “Being overweight is the biggest risk factor for Type 2 diabetes. We want to prevent diabetes in adolescents to avoid the serious medical problems associated with the disease. One very important step to preventing these complications is to stop drinking sugary drinks.”
Through clinical experience and research, Tosh has found that eliminating sugar-sweetened beverages is the most significant lifestyle change that children and adolescents can make to lose weight and improve health. Sugary beverages can add up to 200 empty calories per serving to an adolescent’s diet that provide no nutritional benefits. Sugary beverages include juice, soda, sweet tea, sports drinks, energy drinks and coffee drinks, all of which can be high in calories.
“It is very important that a developing body gets plenty of water and milk,” Tosh said. “We realize those can get boring for some of our patients, so adding zero- or low-calorie flavorings to water is fine every once in a while.”
As adolescents progress toward adulthood, they become increasingly responsible for their own beverage choices. Many of the beverages adolescents have available at school, home and social gatherings contain significant amounts of sugar.
Sports drinks have become the drink of choice for many teenagers because they incorrectly assume the drinks are healthier than soda. Tosh said most children and adolescents, even when involved in athletics, do not actually need the electrolytes in sports drinks, and some of these sports drinks have more calories than regular soda. Energy drinks, which also are rising in popularity, not only contain sugar but also caffeine. Energy drinks can lead to other health problems, such as poor sleep, headaches and heart irregularities.
“It really is about education, because many parents and young patients just don’t realize how many calories there are in sugary drinks,” Tosh said. “My patients who cut sugary beverages are the ones losing weight. Conversely, I’ve found that patients who struggle to switch to water and milk are the ones who have not been successful in losing weight.”
One successful patient is Andrew Roberts. At age 13, Roberts weighed 307 pounds and was in and out of the hospital because of obesity-related health complications.
“It was not uncommon for me to drink 2 liters of soda a day,” said Roberts, who is now a 23-year-old personal trainer. “I lost 115 pounds in about a year and a half by cutting out sugary drinks, junk foods and sweets, and getting exercise.”
Roberts said it was easy to see where excess calories were coming from once Tosh had him keep a food log that included drinks.
“Limiting consumption of sugary drinks to once a week for special events rather than daily is a significant step toward healthy weight loss for many children and teens,” Tosh said. “When children and teens spend time hanging out with their friends — not just when they’re at school — it’s important that sugary drinks aren’t their go-to beverage.”
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About the MU School of Medicine
The MU School of Medicine has improved health, education and research in Missouri and beyond for more than 165 years. MU physicians treat patients from every county in the state, and more Missouri physicians received their medical degrees from MU than from any other university. For more information, visit http://medicine.missouri.edu/.
5 Tips To Help You Lose Weight
Here are 5 tips to help you lose weight and it’s easier than you think.
1. Don’t be afraid to lift weights. Total body strength training is one of the best ways to get improve your metabolism. Lean muscle burns more calories than fat. Try strength train between 2-3 times a week and it will help you tone up and lose weight faster.
2. Do cardio. If you’re doing cardio make sure you are doing intervals on any of the machines between 15-30 seconds long are the best. Try going at a good pace for 15-30s then increasing the resistance and intensity for 15-30 seconds. Do tis for 40-60 minutes.
3. Get into a proper sleeping pattern. Get to bed at the same time most evenings. The best sleep you can give your body to recover is between 10 to 12pm. So try and time your sleep between those hours. The ideal amount of sleep is between 5 hours to 8 hours.
4. Eat 3 to 5 times a day with healthy snacks in between! Make sure to have a protein and a dark green with every meal. If this snack is a shake, be sure to add more than just water to your protein, and try to make a delicious smoothy with your favourite fruit.
5. Identify the mental and emotional stressors in your life. Try to write out everything in your life that is a stressor and decide to a) get rid of it, b) change the stressor or the situation or c) accept the stress and move on. Stress also causes your brain to release cortisol (a hormone that causes fat storage).
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A growing body of evidence suggests that two natural compounds, vitamin D and xanthohumol, have the ability to address imbalances in gut microbiota that may set the stage for obesity and metabolic syndrome - problems that affect about one out of every three adults in the United States.
