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Sharon Horesh Bergquist, M.D.

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Holiday feasting leaves months-long setback on weight

November 13, 2016 by Sharon Horesh Bergquist Leave a Comment

Holiday meal

Holiday binges can take months to take off –Copyright: evgenyb / 123RF Stock Photo

The weight that you gain this holiday season is likely to remain until the summer months, or beyond, according to a recent letter published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Across three different countries, researchers found that while up to half of holiday weight gain is lost shortly after the holidays, half remains for months later. Continue Reading...

Filed Under: Aging well, Health, Wellness Tagged With: Avoiding holiday weight gain, Holiday meal, Holiday weight

The Health Benefits of Everything Pumpkin!

October 16, 2016 by Sharon Horesh Bergquist 2 Comments

Health benefits of pumpkin

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Fall is here. That means it’s pumpkin season! Time for pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, and pumpkin everything. This season’s most popular food also happens to be packed with nutrients. Yes, the versatile pumpkin has so many health benefits that it can be considered a superfood.

Here are 5 main health benefits of adding pumpkin to your recipes this holiday season. Continue Reading...

  1. Good for weight loss

Filed Under: Aging well, Health, Wellness Tagged With: Health benefits of pumpkin, Health benefits of pumpkin seeds, Pumpkin, Pumpkin seeds

A 3 Step Plan for Preventing Menopausal Belly Fat

November 29, 2015 by Sharon Horesh Bergquist 2 Comments

menopausal belly fat

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As a women approaching menopause, you may endure many changes in your body, such as drenching night sweats, mood irritability, and difficulty sleeping.Perhaps the most challenging, however, is the hormonally driven change in your body shape and lean body composition.

With the start of menstrual irregularity, your ovaries progressively make less estrogen and progesterone. In contrast, the amount of androgens, including testosterone, they make is less affected.

The drop in estrogen and the higher relative proportion of testosterone gradually morph your body from being curvy at the hips to being fuller at the waist—until you eventually lose your waistline. Continue Reading...

Filed Under: Aging well, Health Tagged With: belly fat, menopause

[Video] How Can Stress Make You Sick? A TED-Ed Lesson

October 25, 2015 by Sharon Horesh Bergquist Leave a Comment

Although short term stress can be advantageous, chronic stress can have the opposite effect. Our bodies are hard wired with a flight-or-flight response to give us a survival advantage. In pre-historic days, that helped us fight or escape from predators. Unlike the acute stress of facing a predator, modern stress is chronic, such as from conflicts at work or at home– and can overload our stress response. In this video, done with the amazing TED-Ed team, you can see how chronic stress can affect your heart, your waistline, and your longevity–and what you can do about it!

 

Filed Under: Aging well, Health, live better longer, Prevention Tagged With: stress and appetite, stress and belly fat, stress and health, stress and heart disease, stress and longevity

The 6 Most Common Myths About Aging–Debunked

March 25, 2015 by Sharon Horesh Bergquist Leave a Comment

By now, you have probably heard that 70 is the new 50 (or whatever decade you want to plug in)!

But what can you learn from this new breed of age-defying, physically active, mentally sharp, and emotionally fulfilled older adults?

In one word: OPTIMISM

Healthy octogenarians and even centenarians are proving that “normal” aging is different from what we once thought.

Growing older is no longer about what you lose but just as much about what you can gain. In this new view of old age, you can realistically expect enjoying life physically, emotionally, and spiritually into your 80’s, 90’s, and beyond. Continue Reading...

Filed Under: aging healthy, Aging well, live better longer, secrets of longevity Tagged With: myths about aging, normal aging

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