Canyon Ranch Health Resort
If you’re looking for tips to help lose weight, prevent heart disease and cancer, ease digestive problems and improve overall health, you could compile a long and daunting list. Better to simplify. Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires Health Resort Medical Directors, Mark Hyman, M.D., and Mark Liponis, M.D., have narrowed it down to 10 health tips that just about anyone can live with.
- DO take extra folic acid daily.
- DO add extra fiber to your diet – ground flaxseeds and/or psyllium seeds are good choices.
- DO include strength training two or three times weekly.
- DO reduce inflammation through diet, herbs and medications.
- DO get regular preventative dental and periodontal care and maintenance.
- DO reduce the amount of sugar and refined carbohydrates in your diet.
- DON’T eat an excess of mercury-contaminated fish.
- DON’T overeat late at night.
- DON’T eat too quickly – chewing is the phase of digestion most often neglected.
- DON’T overuse antacids.
