Kimpton’s Hotel Palomar San Francisco Inspires Wellness on the Road with New “People In Motion” Program

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

Kimpton Hotels are rolling out a new offering as part of a brand-wide initiative to help guests maintain healthy lifestyles while traveling.

San Francisco, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) June 02, 2011

Kimpton’s Hotel Palomar, a boutique downtown San Francisco hotel, is helping guests maintain their healthy lifestyles with its “People In Motion” program, a daily and ongoing initiative that celebrates the health and wellness priorities of guests with morning guided runs and bicycles available for loan.

Available every morning at 7 am, hotel guests are invited to join a member of the hotel team on daily guided jogs throughout San Francisco. Runs are usually between two and three miles and all running levels are welcome.

In addition to the running program, guests who are seeking an active exploration for seeing the sites can also borrow one of the hotel’s 12 Dutch bicycles and enjoy a ride around the city. The bicycles are free of charge during the daylight hours, and are given out on a first-come, first-serve basis.

“We understand the difficulties of staying fit and maintaining a healthy lifestyle while traveling, but we also know how important it is to so many of our guests,” said Christopher Smith, general manager, Hotel Palomar San Francisco. “Our ‘People In Motion’ program was designed to make it easy for guests to bring their healthy habits on the road with them – to start the day off with a quick run, while also seeing the sites, or gaining a good workout while exploring the city on bike.

“We’ve heard from our guests that they enjoy the opportunity to run with other guests and swap stories of the sites they’ve seen, as well as getting the inside scoop on some of the must-see or do places along the running route.”

Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants recently fortified its “stay true to you and your lifestyle” mantra by introducing new tools to inspire healthy living on the road. The company’s Mind.Body.Spa program offers guests various resources to maintaining a healthy balance while traveling, such as healthy in-room dining options for breakfast, lunch and dinner, created in partnership with renowned health and nutrition expert Joy Bauer and complimentary on demand fitness offering like in-room Pilates, meditation and core strength programming, as well as 24-hour yoga channel and the use of props and mats that complement individual hotels fitness centers.

In 2008, Kimpton became the first and only boutique hotel company to introduce organic and paraben-free spa products to its in-room spa treatment program. Kimpton’s wellness initiatives continue to come to life in different ways with new endorphin-boosting activities available at different hotels nationwide.

Hotel Palomar is a Union Square San Francisco hotel located at 12 Fourth Street in San Francisco, California. For more information about Hotel Palomar’s programs and other services, call 415-348-1111 or visit the website at http://www.hotelpalomar-sf.com. For reservations, please call 866-373-4941.

About Hotel Palomar
Hotel Palomar is a stylish, artful retreat in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Featuring a contemporary style, this award-winning, top San Francisco hotel brings together its reputation for high-touch service and individual attention with sophisticated yet understated surroundings. Home to critically-acclaimed Fifth Floor Restaurant, Hotel Palomar San Francisco is a full-service hotel that offers a myriad of personal touches such as a pet-friendly environment, hosted evening wine hour, Frette linens and a goldfish for every guest room upon request.

About Kimpton Hotels and Restaurants
San Francisco-based Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, a collection of boutique hotels and chef-driven restaurants in the US, is an acknowledged industry pioneer and was the first to bring the boutique hotel concept to America. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2011, Bill Kimpton founded the company in 1981 and today it is well-known for making travelers feel welcomed and comfortable while away from home through intuitive and unscripted customer care, stylish ambience and a certain playfulness in its approach to programs and amenities.

Adjacent to the hotels are locally-loved, top-rated, destination Kimpton restaurants. Kimpton leads the hospitality industry in ecological practices through its innovative EarthCare program that spans all hotels and restaurants. Market Metrix, a recognized authority and leader in feedback solutions, consistently ranks Kimpton above other hotel companies in luxury and upper upscale segments for customer satisfaction. Privately held Kimpton operates 52 hotels and 53 restaurants in 23 cities. For more information visit http://www.KimptonHotels.com or call 1-800-KIMPTON.

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Miriam Gross
Hotel Palomar
(866) 373-4941
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Drink Your Meals Website Offers Free Membership for Liquid Diet G-tube Feeders

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

Free Membership and Monthly Free Giveaway of Vitamix ($450 value)

Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) June 06, 2011

The website drinkyourmeals.com is now offering free registration for all tube feeders on a blended diet. Drink Your Meals features more than 100 blended recipes utilizing fresh, unprocessed ingredients.

The recipes at Drink Your Meals are Zone balanced, meaning each recipe provides 40 percent of its calories from carbs, 30 percent from protein and 30 percent from fat. Following a Zone balanced diet helps to balance hormones and insulin levels, and aids in hunger control.

The Drink Your Meals website also features a recipe builder, allowing you to create your own blended recipes. In addition, the recipe builder provides calories, protein, carbohydrate and fat information for your recipe.

Drink Your Meals will also be giving away one free Vitamix a month to a lucky subscriber. All participants can send their information and why they need a Vitamix to info(at)drinkyourmeals(dot)com.

For additional information go to http://www.drinkyourmeals.com.

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Jesse Jones
Drink Your Meals LLC
(702) 666-8542
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Health Blog WellWise.org Unveils Tips to Improve the Omega 3 and Omega 6 Balance in Americans' Diets

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

Boulder, CO (PRWEB) May 12, 2011

The typical American diet contains a dangerous imbalance of omega 3s and 6s. Wellwise.org has joined the campaign of Dr. Bill Lands, the worlds foremost authority on essential fatty acids, to give Americans healthier lifestyle choices by providing access to Dr. Lands extensive research on the omega 3 and omega 6 content in foods.

WellWise.org wants Americans to know that by getting under control the balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in their diet, they vastly improve their chances of enjoying good health. Having too many omega 6s in one’s diet dramatically increases the risk of contracting asthma, coronary heart disease, many forms of cancer, autoimmunity or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alheimer’s, and increases the likelihood of becoming obese, depressed, hyperactive or worse.

Dr. Bill Lands is the former Senior Scientific Advisor to the Director of the National Institutes of Health, has authored more than 250 papers on fatty acids, and was one of the worlds 1,000 most-cited scientists in 1965-1978.

He spent many years of his long career preaching to the wrong choir, as he puts it insurance companies, government agencies, healthcare organizations. But he found that these profit-making industries had little interest in spreading information about preventing the health complications inherent in the typical American diet.

Now retired, Dr. Lands is on what he calls his final mission, to convince Americans to Nix the 6s and Eat the 3s.

Omega-3 (such as EPA and DHA) and omega-6 fatty acids (such as linoleic acid) are essential for good health as long as they are in balance. But the typical American diet is overloaded with omega-6s from commercial oils (such as safflower and corn oils), processed foods and animal feeds, causing this dangerous imbalance. The consequences: inflammation, the process that most researchers believe to be the basis of all disease.

Dr. Lands has created a comprehensive healthy eating guide by tapping the U. S. Department of Agriculture Nutrient Database, which quantifies the nutrients in thousands of foods. He has devised a simple plus-or-minus rating system for the omega 3 – omega 6 balance in cereals, breads and grains; vegetables; fruit; dairy and eggs; meats, fish and legumes; oils and sweets; and prepared foods.

Now these rankings allow anyone to understand what foods to emphasize to correct an omega 3 / omega-6 imbalance by simply checking the foods on a proposed grocery list against Dr. Lands’ healthy eating guide, and adding up the numbers. The higher the total, the better in balance the diet will be.

The public can access Dr. Lands lists at the health blog website WellWise.org.

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Identifying the Most Healthy Food for Dogs

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

Many factors can impact the health of your pet and taking advantage of unique opportunities will allow you to improve their health and extend their lifespan. Two of the most important factors you can look into, when trying to improve the health of your pet, is found with regular exercise as well as healthy food for dogs. By taking advantage of the benefits created through exercise, you will be able to regularly energize your pet, while also creating unique bonding experiences that both pet and owner will benefit from.

When you look into the opportunities that exist with utilizing healthy food for dogs, the topic is often far more complex than most individuals realize. The fault most pet owners create is found with having the misperception that all dog food is equal. While many individuals recognize that there are certain brands that prove to be much more beneficial to their animal, they believe that conventional brands or discount resources will provide their pets with the same vitamins and nutrients. The truth is, most dog foods often fail in providing animals with the most essential vitamins and nutrients, which can be harmful to your pet’s health.

When looking into dog food secrets, one of the most significant points to identify is found with the ingredients used within different kinds of pet foods. If you purchase foods based on price, you are often supplying your pet with the very low quality of food that is sold to pique the interest of individuals looking to save money, rather than for individuals looking to provide their pets with the highest quality food. Rather than selecting a dog food based solely on price, look into factors such as ingredients, in order to determine specifically whether this is the best option to feed your pet or whether you should pursue another alternative.

While most individuals will pursue the resources of healthy food for dogs through pre-prepared options, more individuals are beginning to take advantage of unique alternatives. Rather than relying on companies to generate food for your pet, pet owners are beginning to look towards the opportunities of creating their own pet food, in order to develop the most healthy food alternative for their pet friend. By taking advantage of unique recipes that are available with generating your own pet food, an individual will be able to create a variety of dietary options for their pet, providing the greatest source of nutrition when it comes to improving overall health.

When looking to take advantage of the unique opportunities created with dog food secrets, an individual often has to go no further than pursuing the possibilities that we found in the online environment.

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4 Baby Stepping Skills That Teach People How to Master Their Food Choices and Take Control of Their Eating Habits. Registered Nurse Pens Reader Friendly Informative Book.

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

(PRWEB) June 04, 2011

New book offers different ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle by teaching people how to master their food choices. It also teaches grocery shopping skills, baby stepping skills, and tips on preparing healthy foods.
The reader may also find answers to questions they probably had never thought about.

Many prepared foods and fast foods are frequently loaded with saturated fat, sugar and salt, that are all very destructive to our bodies. In her new book, Sensible Eating: Why You Need to Master Your Food Choices and Take Control, C. Patricia Leacock-Ballish, RN, not only offers strong medical motivation on how to avoid unhealthy foods, but she also suggests simple ways to make positive diet changes.

With this reader friendly book of 108 pages, Sensible Eating addresses food choices psychologically and practically, and then discusses the many dangers of conditions such as obesity and diabetes, and how these two conditions, which are often caused and or worsened by poor food choices, could seriously impact a person’s life and that of their family. This book also discusses types of vitamins and minerals and why it is important to include them in our daily diet.

Leacock-Ballish stresses the importance of not looking for a quick fix, but learning how to make a personal commitment in order to make the change, and by taking baby steps through the process rather than making drastic changes and failing at another diet. She believes that once a person becomes accustomed to these healthy habits, their bodies and minds will then bond together.

It is true that every day people are confronted with many food choices and temptations in different circumstances within their lives, but what Sensible Eating does, is that it offers tips and it motivates people to make smart decisions no matter where they are, or no matter the circumstances.

Leacock-Ballish also gives us ten examples of tasty, low fat, low sodium, low calorie recipes that can easily be prepared at home. These recipes also give the reader ideas on how to make their own favorite recipes that will be healthier, yet still delicious.

Sensible Eating is a unique book that motivates the reader, it is easy to read, yet loaded with valuable information that can be used as a great resource for many people who are looking for different ways to lose weight and keep it off. This is a small, compact book with lots of useful information, yet it has down-to-earth informative strategies that are easy to follow.

http://www.masteryourfoodchoices.com for information on how to purchase your copy.
Contact: Patricia Ballish (301) 580-0258 patlcl(at)comcast(dot)net

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Fish Diet

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

A fish diet is the ideal way to lose weight, combined with better health.

Fish – one of the few universal products that contain optimal set of vitamins and trace elements that enhance the immune system, heart. Fish – an excellent source of high quality protein, containing a large amount of essential amino acids that are perfectly assimilated at any age.

Fish diet lasts seven days, which would be to throw off 5.7 kilograms overweight. Throughout the seven days you will have to follow the same diet.

According to recent studies of independent groups of scientists from the U.S., Israel and England, the intensive consumption of products containing polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids have a positive impact on the mental state of man. Helps fight depression and normalize the activity of the human brain. A large number of such acids found in fish. This explains the fact that people who eat fish every day, the least prone to sudden mood swings and depression.

From the dietary point of view of meat, much inferior to fish. In fish and meat contains approximately the same amount of protein. Here is just a fish protein, in contrast to the protein of meat, almost entirely absorbed by the body. This means that in the body after consumption of fish does not begin to accumulate toxins that poison the entire organism. In addition, fish contains much more vitamins, amino acids and other nutrients than any meat.

Breakfast

One boiled egg, apple, green tea.

Second breakfast

200 grams of cooked lean fish, cucumber, a glass of carbonated mineral water.

Dinner

200 grams of cooked lean fish, lettuce, 150 grams of fat-free cottage cheese, green tea.

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Patented MedWell123.com Healthy Comfort Foods Fight Obesity, Says Dr. Barry Sears

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

New York, NY (PRWEB) March 17, 2008

Healthy comfort foods that enable consistent weight loss and normalization of blood sugar levels are finally available due to an innovative breakthrough food technology developed under the leadership of Dr. Barry Sears, chairman of MedWell Foods, Inc. and noted author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, 'The Zone'.

MedWell Foods has launched the first line of patented healthy comfort foods that Dr. Sears said, Now brings hope and realistic dietary solutions to people fighting obesity or just wanting to lose weight, as well as those who are trying to manage type 2 diabetes.

While I have continually written on the potential of our diet to change the expression of our genes, these new MedWell123.com food products finally makes my dietary advice to help people lead healthier lives a complete reality, Dr. Sears continued.

It is probably easier to get people to change their religion than their diet. So we focused on changing the nutritional composition of foods people like to eat in order to suppress their hunger for up to six hours, said the famed author.

He added, At MedWell123.com we know that if you aren't hungry, it becomes relatively easy to cut back on calories. Using MedWell's new patented technology, it is finally possible to develop unique healthy comfort foods like bagels, rolls, bread and pasta to make weight loss incredibly easy since the MedWell customers essentially are not changing their diets.

Dr. Sears said, MedWell pasta, bagels and all food products we products, are prepared with one gram of fat for every two grams of protein and three grams of carbohydrates, or 1-2-3, which is why we describe them as MedWell 1-2-3 products.

Discussing MedWell123.com, he explained, Losing weight and mangaging type 2 diabetes can be difficult, which is why MedWell123.com created new healthy comfort foods to make that process simple.

He added, The key to the success of MedWell 1-2-3 foods is they suppress appetite for up to six hours by changing hormonal responses induced by the food we eat. If you aren't hungry, then cutting back on calories is easy, especially when you are eating foods you love to eat.

Although the science behind the products is exceptionally complex, the taste of MedWell123.com healthy comfort foods, which lead to weight loss, is virtually indistinguishable from those typical comfort food products that cause weight gain.

The MedWell 1-2-3 products give people trying to lose weight or manage type 2 diabetes the dietary tools they need in their life-long struggle. Many people have genetic susceptibility to the adverse hormonal consequences of the typical American diet, and MedWell 123 offers them a solution.

MedWell 1-2-3 healthy comfort foods can be found online at http://www.medwell123.com, or by calling toll-free to 866-633-7898, for more information.

The MedWell 123 system is easy as 1-2-3. People on the MedWell1-2-3.com program each week receive freshly-baked food MedWell123.com products, consisting of three meals and snacks for each day of the week. The delicious MedWell 1-2-3 healthy comfort foods provide the foundation upon which a wide variety of recipes can be used to personalize meals.

The cost of MedWell 1-2-3 meals and snacks is only $70 a week, or $10 a day, for breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks that http://www.medwell123.com ships by UPS, so foods arrive fresh and ready to eat.

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Nuphedrine Diet Pill Review

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

Nuphedrine is the only diet pill in the market today that contains a genuine South African Hoodia (cactus plant) along with the patented Advantra-Z. The plant Hodia has been established to be a potent and effective appetite suppressant. The manufacturer of Nuphedrine as well claims that other diet pills in the market today contain the fake Hoodia plant. Not like Nuphedrine wherein the company can show a certificate proving the authenticity of the product’s ingredient. In using the product, you must take three pills per day. The first two pills should be taken in the morning with an empty stomach while the third pill should be taken during the middle of the day.

Nuphedrine clearly contains the South African Hoodia that contains the P57 Hoodia. Only an authentic Hoodia plant is believe to produce the appetite suppressant effect that’s why the manufacturer of Nuphedrine is very proud of the authenticity of their Hoodia plant. Unfortunately, the said ingredient has never been established to actually suppress the appetite. Furthermore, the said plant is considered endangered specie thus should be used in any product.

Another added ingredient of Nuphedrine is Advantra-Z, a patented form of synephrine or citrus aurantium. This ingrediend works through burning the fats of the person without causing any side effects like jitters, sleeplessness, high blood pressure, and elevated cardiac rate. The third ingredient is called the Slimaluma which is extracted from Caralluma Fimbriata, an Indian plant which as well works through informing your brain that the person is already full.

The advantage of using Nuphedrine is that the product contains no caffeine. Furthermore, if you visit their official website, the consumer is offered money back guarantee. The consumer as well is given a free magazine subscription after purchasing their product.

However, the product also has its drawbacks. The main disadvantage of Nuphedrine is that it cost about $75 for a month’s supply which is actually very expensive compared with other diet pills. The manufacturer as well does not offer any free trial and the list of the ingredient is incomplete. There are as well testimonies that ingredients of Nuphedrine can certain side effects. Lastly, there is lack of clinical test and evidence that proves the product’s efficiency.

This product may seem amazing because of an ingredient it has but the cost and the possible risk it has will not be worth it. There are better diet pills supplements in the market today that are safer and more economical that Nuphedrine.

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'17 Day Diet' Races Up Bestseller Lists

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

The 17 Day Diet is now a bestselling book as well. Dr. Michael Moreno, who launched the diet late last year, now joins the authors of the South Beach Diet, the 5 Day Miracle Diet, and the Atkins Diet, among countless others, at the top of USA Today's list of advice books. Like most other diet plans, the 17-Day Diet revolves around a specific meal plan and exercise regime, designed to allow you to lose the maximum amount of weight in the shortest amount of time.

The 17 Day Diet involves four food cycles that add up to, not surprisingly, 17 days of precise eating methods. These are meant to confuse the body into speeding up its metabolism, while at the same time not allowing it to get comfortable enough to stop dropping weight. In addition to the food plan, the diet also requires strict adherence to a daily 17-minute exercise regime.

The diet reportedly can allow you to lose as much as 10 to 15 pounds per day, beginning with its focus on water weight reduction. Moreno has taken his diet plan to Good Morning America, and Dr. Phil, among others, the latter of whom challenged his viewers to do the diet with him.

Like the Atkins Diet, the 17 Day Diet is broken into four phases. In the 17 Day Diet, these are the four A's-Accelerate, Activate, Achieve, and Arrive. The Arrive portion of the program is designed for weight maintenance after you have achieved your 17 Day goals.

The 17 Day Diet is an offshoot in many ways of the movement towards clean eating. Whereas the Atkins Diet was also broken into four parts-Induction, Ongoing Weight Loss, Pre-Maintenance, and Lifetime Maintenance, that allowed for a gradual re-introduction of carbs, the 17 Day Diet allows for them but maintains strict rules for the consumption of fruit and carbs both.

Like the Atkins Diet at its peak of popularity, the 17 Day Diet is not without critics. Several dietitians and nutritionists, including American Dietetic Association spokeswoman Keri Gans, have cautioned against believing all that the 17 Day Diet promises. Gans has cried foul on Dr. Moreno's concept of metabolic confusion, and maintains that there is in actual fact no such thing. Furthermore, nutritionists have blasted Moreno's near-exclusion of dairy and fruit, as most view them as being part of an overall healthy eating plan.

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Fitness And Nutrition For Health

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Lose 10 Pounds

In the age which we live there is an unprecedented focus on getting and staying healthy. As more and more research points to the effect of fitness and nutrition on our overall health, the findings become more difficult to ignore. There is no doubt that the food that we eat and the physical activity that we perform significantly impact our weight and our body’s overall health and longevity.

When you look at fitness and nutrition and the consequences of ignoring their importance, it is not difficult to see how large a role they play in our health. First and foremost, it is important to understand how powerfully diet can affect us. Natural, whole foods – such as fresh vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and lean proteins – give our bodies the vitamins that it needs to function effectively. We have energy when we eat right. And when we have energy we burn fat. Eating properly allows us to maintain a healthy weight and keep undue stress off of our hearts; it also allows us to keep our blood pressure and cholesterol levels in the healthy range. Most importantly, good nutrition keeps our bodies stocked with antioxidants that fight off a range of illnesses including cancer.

But nutrition does go it alone; fitness and nutrition go hand in hand for achieving good health. When we keep our bodies active through a consistent exercise program, we are adding to our body’s ability to metabolize food and keep weight down. Further, good fitness means strong and limber muscles and a strong cardiovascular system. Exercise also lowers blood pressure and reduces stress levels.

Learning how to pair fitness and nutrition for optimum health means a commitment to a particular lifestyle. It is essential that you revamp your diet to eliminate fatty, high-sodium, and processed food and replace it with fresh, natural – and even organic – choices. But remember, fitness and nutrition work best as a team. Implement a consistent regime of physical activity into your daily schedule including cardiovascular work, stretching, weight training, and even yoga or Pilates.

When you truly understand the importance of fitness and nutrition in your life, you will understand how crucial these lifestyle changes are in order to live a long and healthy life.

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