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Katarzyna M. Ostrzenska, M.D.Bay Medical Center

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What’s on your mind? Ask Dr. Kasia

What’s on your mind? Ask Dr. Kasia Hello. I am Dr. Kasia. I am a Board Certified Internist practicing in Saint Petersburg Florida for the past 10 years. I specialize in preventative and anti-aging medicine, as well as weight loss and fitness. Every month I will be highlighting a few of the readers’ questions regarding general health and wellness. Here are this Month’s questions: What is the number one factor in weight loss success? Weight loss is quite complicated. ALL diets are designed to work only WHILE you are on them. Once you stop your “diet”, you es-sentially stop your weight loss. So, we diet, we lose weight, we pat ourselves on the back, and we gain it all back… and maybe a little extra. The only way to permanently lose weight is to: First, understand what foods make us gain weight, and more importantly, which foods prevent us from losing weight. Secondly, develop a good working knowledge of the way our body uses fuel to sustain it-self. Finally, change our eating habits to force our body to burn the fat and at the same time build muscle.Unfortunately this is not an easy task. To accomplish this we need to take in at least ½ of your lean body weight in grams of protein and dramatically decrease our carbohydrate intake. Our modern day, processed food, diet does very little to help us. The

foods we eat and “love” are loaded with carbohydrates and fats, and contain very little quality proteins. So you must find a good protein source. Limit your meats and increase your plant based protein intake. At the same time, decrease your carbohydrate in-take to minimal and do not start exercising until you are ½ way through your weight loss program (I thought you would like that). For more detailed information Bay Medical Center offers free seminars to the public every month! What is cosmetic Gynecology? This new and innovative cosmetic service is growing in populari-ty. The many different procedures are designed to address a num-ber of different problems faced by Women who have given birth, are going through hormonal changes or just dislike the way they look “down there”. Some of the procedures available include: Vaginal tightening, G-spot amplification, and labioplasty which reduces the size of genital lips. There are many Gynecologists offering these procedures, and they are not covered by insurance. These procedures can be tricky and it is vital to choose an experi-enced Gynecologist to attain the desired effects and to minimize complications. You can contact me directly if you need help choosing someone in this area. For next month’s questions please e-mail me directly at [email protected]

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How To Improve Your Balance in Five Minutes

As a medical exercise specialist; I work with a lot of people who come to me with injuries. Broken bones, twisted or sprained ankles, disloca-tions, broken noses, injured elbows and knees, hurt backs, and hip prob-lems. Often these injuries are due to a fall because of poor balance. The amazing thing is most people believe they have good balance. In fact, they haven’t, and with a few quick assessments we can prove it.

Poor balance is common in people who do not engage in regular physi-cal activity. Surprisingly, I also see poor balance in avid runners, strength trainers, marshal artists, hikers, cyclists... just about everyone I assess.

As well as reduc-ing the risk of in-jury, good balance strengthens and sta-bilizes joints, and creates more effi-cient body move-ment. This allows for smoother overall daily functioning, and enhanced sports performance.

Assessing Your Bal-ance in 3 Easy Steps(Stand beside a wall when doing these assessments in case you need something stable to lean on)

1. Lift one legHow long can you remain balanced, without putting your foot down, or hold-ing onto the wall for support? Did your ankle wobble around a lot? Did it feel un-

stable?

2. Balance on the other legHow was that? Many people find that they can balance better on one leg than the other.

3. Balance on one leg with your eyes closedHow did that work for you? A little hard-er I’ll bet.If you were able to balance for thirty seconds without fal-tering, then you are doing pretty well. If not, you’ve got some work to do.

Did closing your eyes make it more difficult to stay bal-anced? I bet it did. Why? Because most people mistakenly

use their eyes to maintain their bal-ance. As soon as the eyes are taken out of the equation, we of-ten lose our balance, and this is when ac-cidents happen. Let’s face it, when you are walking to your house carrying bags of groceries, and you trip on something in the driveway, you don’t have time to focus your eyes on the horizon to regain your balance. Nope, it’s over, and you’re flat on your face.

How to Improve Your BalanceI train people to hone their internal bal-ance autopilot, so when the body feels the slightest sense of instability, it can

automatically right itself. This is safer, more functional, and highly efficient.

Stage 1Practice balance by simply standing on one leg for as long as you can. While balancing, move your head from side to side, and up and down. Never allow your eyes to focus on a particular spot for more than one sec-ond. This will force you to balance with your body, rather than your eyes. Your goal is to be able to remain stable for one minute.

Stage 2When you have reached the Stage 1 goal, you can prog-ress to this next

stage. Hold a ball in your hands, and balance on one leg. While balancing, toss the ball against the wall, and catch it. Playing catch with yourself forces your mind to concentrate on catching the ball, leaving your body to focus on balance. This really hones your balance auto-pilot. It’s even more fun to play catch with a friend who is also balancing.

Stage 3Once you have reached the stage 2 goal, you can ad-vance to this next stage. Begin by bal-ancing on one leg. Hop into the air, and land on the opposite leg. Once you are stable, hop into the

air again, and land on the other leg. Your goal is to be able to hop from one leg to the other for three to five minutes without faltering. Mastered this? Then find a friend, and play catch with each other while hopping about the room. Be prepared to laugh, a lot!

You’ll be amazed how much your bal-ance improves by practicing just five minutes each day. Have fun with this, and notice how quickly you see im-provements.

Astrid Whiting, au-thor, columnist, Med-ical Exercise Special-ist, CPT.

The Truth Aout Fitness MythsBy: Kathy A. Johnson You’ve heard crunches are the cure-all for the lower belly pooch. You’ve seen fellow joggers lugging dumbbells on their treks. You’ve even tried working out hard every day to get fit be-cause your friends tell you more is better. But, do these widely spread fitness myths really get the fitness job done? The truth is that fitness myths actually can keep you from exercising effec-tively, may put you at risk for injury, and even discourage you from working out at all because they set you up to have unre-alistic expectations. Here we bust 10 fitness myths that may be keeping you from reaching your fitness goals.

Fitness myth #1:Crunches will give you a flat belly.Sorry: You can’t choose where you lose fat. Abdominal workouts strengthen your muscles but won’t melt away the fat that lies over them. Burn belly fat the same way you burn all excess fat: by do-ing cardiovascular exercise and strength training. Fitness myth #2:Weight machines are better than free weights.“Not necessarily,” says Paul Killian, a strength and conditioning specialist certified by the National Strength and Conditioning As-sociation (NSCA). “If you’re doing a routine that is appropriate for you, then using free weights is just as safe. Don’t limit your-self to machines.” Machines must be adjusted correctly for your height and weight to be safe, also. Without a professional to help with the right settings, you put yourself at risk for injury.

Fitness myth #3:Holding weights while doing cardio burns more calories.You’ve seen them -- those power walkers swinging dumbbells while racking up the miles. While you do burn slightly more calo-ries this way, you also increase your risk of injury, especially to your elbows or shoulders. A safer way to pump up your calorie burn is to increase your workout intensity (for example, jog in-stead of walk) or add interval training to your cardio workouts.Fitness myth #4:Yoga and stretching will make your muscles long and lean.Yoga and stretching both benefit your body, but they can’t perma-nently lengthen your muscles. The only way to look leaner is to lose body fat through diet and exercise.Fitness myth #5:Being skinny is the same as being fit.True fitness is more than a number on the scale or a jeans size. You can be quite slender but still fail to have a healthy cardiovas-cular system and strong and flexible muscles.Fitness myth #6:No pain, no gain.Killian notes, “Pain is an indication that you’re overtraining or that you’re simply doing the exercise wrong. Repeated bouts of painful exercise can lead to injury and permanent damage. Only go to the point of mild discomfort.” If you want to make sure you’re working hard enough, Killian recommends using “per-ceived exertion,” or how hard you feel your body is working based on physical sensations such as increased heart rate, respi-ration and muscle fatigue. (See the CDC’s Perceived Exertion Scale for more information.)Fitness myth #7:

Lifting weights give women bulky muscles.To build big, bodybuilder-style muscles, you need plenty of tes-tosterone. The average woman simply doesn’t produce enough. What weight lifting will do is build strong muscles, and help you lose weight faster by increasing your metabolism. Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue.Fitness myth #8:If you can’t work out enough to lose weight, don’t bother.Many studies have demonstrated that physical activity improves health and quality of life. “Every system of the body benefits from exercise,” says Killian. “It improves your mental attitude and also helps ward off heart disease, which is the number-one killer of women.”Fitness myth #9:You can’t work out too much.Overtraining puts you at risk for injury and burnout. Some ex-perts say that, in general, an hour a day is enough. Also, allow a day of rest between strength training sessions to give your mus-cles a chance to recover.Fitness myth #10:If you stop working out, your muscles will turn to fat.It’s physically impossible for muscle to turn to fat because they are two different types of tissues. You can lose muscle mass if you stop working out, and the result may be weight (fat) gain, particu-larly if you continue to eat as much as you did while you were working out and burning more calories.Don’t let fitness myths keep you from feeling and looking your best. Consult with a fitness professional if you have questions about an activity’s safety.

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