Greetings
from Dr. Christian & the Staff of Inside Outside
It's
May! Graduations, Mother's Day, Memorial Day and then Summer Vacations
start! Let's make the Most of this Summer and focus on YOU by living
"The Inside Outside Way of Life!" and take it to a
New Level!
Humans have
a complicated relationship with food. In hunter gatherer times and
throughout much of history, the main problem was availability and
food was hard to find. One of the curses of current life is the
ready availability of food and methods of processing which make
overeating more likely. In addition to easy access to food,
there is no doubt that stress, lack of sleep and psychological
factors play a major role in determining the amount and types of
food we eat. Three factors/dimensions of human eating behavior identified
are in the domains of "Uncontrolled Eating", "Emotional Eating" and
"Cognitive Restraint". The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire was
developed in 1985 to help us recognize some of the behaviors and
psychological factors which affect our food intake. Some behaviors
would lead to overeating and some to more controlled eating.
Our Zone/Paleo approach helps to manage all three of these behaviors
by controlling hunger, cravings, emotions (anxiety and depression) and teaching
healthy/satisfying options which enable Cognitive Restraint. Dr.
Sears is fond of saying "How you feel and how you think at any
moment depends more on what your last meal was like than anything
else!" So, if you are feeling good and emotionally you are not
anxious/sad/depressed, maybe Uncontrolled and Emotional Eating will
just go away.....and Cognitive Restraint will prevail!!
Several of
our newsletters last year had articles entitled
"Have you Heard? FAT is BACK IN and SUGAR is OUT"
and
"More on FAT is BACK" This year we have
new guidelines on eating from the USDA and the Dietary Guidelines
Advisory Committee which now have reversed over 30 years of advice to
limit to 300mg the amount of Cholesterol we consume in our diets. Accumulated
data does not appear to confirm an association of dietary Cholesterol
with blood levels of Cholesterol and health risks.
"There have been multiple analyses and meta-analyses now looking at
intake of dietary cholesterol and the risk of heart disease," says Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of the School of Nutrition Science and Policy
at Tufts University. "In the general population, there's really not any
strong evidence for a link."
and "From my perspective, our dietary guidelines should be
based on where we have strong evidence for good and where we have strong
evidence for harm, and everything else should be kind of left out until
we get strong evidence," says Mozaffarian. "Dietary cholesterol is not
in a place, I think, where there’s strong evidence for harm."
If you have not become a fan of this HBO series, then you
are missing critical information about some of the most pressing issues
and problems relating to the earth and the human race. In our August
2013 Newsletter we wrote about the work of Laurie Garrett, a Global
Health Expert and her series
"The Survival of Global Health"
The HBO Vice series is now in it's third season and many of the episodes
deal with overpopulation and the seemingly insurmountable problems facing the human race. The show covers a wide range
of issues. Some of the Season 3 Episodes have included "Our Rising
Oceans", "Countdown to Extinction, Overfishing", "India's Water Crisis"
(we have our own! see our
Aug 2014 Newsletter about Water Resources),
Savior Seeds, Genetically Modified GMO Crops" and the latest
"Kidneyville, Black Market in Human Organs." On April 22nd we
celebrated our 45th Earth Day. VICE is helping all of us have a better
understanding of our responsibility to care for our earth, our only
home, the Pale Blue Dot.
VirtualScopics which provides imaging solutions for Clinical
Trials has approved Inside Outside as a DXA Body Composition Scanning Center
for an upcoming trial sponsored by Biotech Company XBiotech.
XBiotech's drug, Xilonix, is a true human monoclonal antibody for patients
with metastatic colon and rectal cancer. Xilonix contains an antibody
(a protein that binds to a substance in the cancer). By binding to this
substance, Xilonix may help to inhibit tumor growth and spread of the cancer
by interrupting signals that drive formation of new blood vessels in the
cancer. In addition, Xilonix may help to correct fatigue, muscle loss and
anxiety caused from tumor related inflammation. Patients enrolled in
this study will receive a baseline DXA Body Composition Scan and one at the
end of their treatment.
Everyone
is aware that Businesses & Organizations use Web Analytic Tracking Services
to monitor their web site traffic for marketing purposes. Inside
Outside uses Google Analytics, Clicky and recently started using Revolver
Maps for tracking services. The Top Ten
Countries are United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India,
Germany,
Mexico, Philippines, Italy & Brazil! We recently added #131 the country of
Zambia in Africa! The map shows
hits over the past 35 months, monitored by Revolver Maps, 131 Countries & over
33,116 Visits. Popular pages for international visitors are the DXA Body Composition, DXA
Bone Density & our Dark Side
of the Sun page.
Dr. Des Fernandez spoke at a seminar sponsored by
Environ, a company which Dr. Fernandez founded and makes a premium line
of skin care products. Dr. Fernandez is from Cape Town, South
Africa and trained initially as a Cardiac Surgeon, but then retrained as
a Plastic Surgeon. He was one of the early pioneers in the use of
skin needling and Dermarollers and his seminal thinking has
revolutionized the use of needling along with skin care products for
skin rejuvenation. Michelle Austin is our local Environ Sales Rep
and the event was held at the Elevated Silo. Dr. Christian
attended with Billain Roldan, Inside Outside's Aesthetician.
Needling and Dermarolling has been getting a lot of good press lately in
the media. If you are not using the Home Dermaroller on a weekly
basis, you are missing out on a very valuable tool.
Inside Outside welcomes Kayla Hunt
and Anissa Munso as our UTSA
Interns for Summer 2015. Kayla and Annisa are both Kinesiology Majors with
Specialization in Exercise Science and will Graduate in August 2015. In
addition, they are both scholar athletes! Anissa is on the UTSA
Soccer Team and Kayla on the Track Team! We are excited to have
Kayla and Anissa with us for the Summer and to
share with them "The Inside Outside Way of Life!"
"The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of
strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of
comrades who died in defense of their country during the
late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every
city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this
observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and
comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services
and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit."
Read Pvt. Treptow's Pledge and check out the complete text
of the original order issued in 1868 at
Member Spotlight: Matt Shover,
Rackspace Project Engineer and Avid Endurance Athlete!
We salute
Matt Shover in our Member Spotlight this Month! Matt, in his 8th
year at Rackspace leads a project engineering team. He graduated
from California State University with a MBA in 2005. He came for a
DXA Body Scan in Jan 2014 and we discussed how Hi-Lo Strength training
might help him in his endurance sports. Matt runs and cycles
frequently and completed a Half Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii.
Earlier this year, he finished a Ragnar Relay where he and 11 friends
ran 200 miles from Miami to the Florida Keys. Matt loves the high
intensity of the Hi-Lo workouts and always trains to failure
using perfect form. He eats a Paleo diet and it helped him lose 30lbs in
preparation for his Ironman event. His workout has become a weekly
routine as well as for his Dad, who comes for a workout when he visits
from Phoenix. He credits Hi-Lo for increasing his muscularity and
giving him a competitive edge for his endurance challenges. We
are proud to have Matt as a member of the Inside Outside Family.
Since it's inception, an important mission at Inside
Outside has been to make
a difference in our community. The best way we
have found to do this is to
make contributions to Non-Profit organizations
through silent auctions at their
annual fund raising events, seminars, health fairs or direct
donations. We would
consider it
an honor for any request for items to be donated or
for Dr. Christian to speak to
Non-Profit and other organizations/businesses
in San Antonio and surrounding cities. Check out our
Community Service Page chronicling Inside
Outside's Community Service efforts since 2004!
It's
May! Graduations, Mother's Day, Memorial Day and then Summer Vacations
start! Let's make the Most of this Summer and focus on YOU by living
Summer 2015 Kinesiology Interns, Kayla Hunt & Anissa Munson!
