holistic natural health Healthy Eating Habits and Weight Loss

Many people use the word “metabolism” without really knowing what it means. Your metabolism is the sum total of all the chemical reactions in your body. Every day your metabolism is how your body creates new hormones, enzymes, neurotransmitters, and other cellular chemicals to help you perform daily tasks. It uses up energy and rebuilds cells that have been destroyed or damaged by the wear and tear of living each day.

Natural weight loss should be the result of lifestyle changes, not unhealthy dieting. Weight loss and healthy lifestyle changes actually go hand in hand. Once you embrace holistic health management, it will be much easier to shed the pounds without dieting at all! Weight loss is not supposed to be stressful, it should be a natural result of what Dr. S Don Kim calls a “detoxification lifestyle.” Most of us have extremely toxic lifestyles that are certainly not conducive to losing weight. By decreasing toxins in the body, we can optimize our metabolism.

The first step to detoxification is drinking water. As soon as you wake up, you need to drink a glass of water. After not drinking anything while sleeping, your body needs to hydrate! Dr. Kim says that we need to drink half of our body weight in fluid ounces over the course of the day. For example, if one weighs 150 lbs, he or she must drink 75 fluid ounces of water over the course of the day. This will not only detoxify your body, but speed up your metabolism to produce weight loss and natural healing.

Drinking water is not the only way to speed up metabolism. Healthy eating habits are also a very important part of maintaining a toxin-free lifestyle. Studies have shown that thin, healthy people eat breakfast every morning. When you wake up in the morning, your body has fasted all night and needs to replenish. In addition, eating sugar-rich breakfast foods is not conducive to a healthy lifestyle. For the best health and metabolism, a protein-rich breakfast with fruits and vegetables is optimal! Moving forward in the day, lunch should be a strong meal as well, while dinner should be the smallest meal of the day. In the evening, your body does not need as much fuel. If you eat a huge meal for dinner, the food will sit in the stomach and be turned into fat while you sleep.

One of the biggest mistakes we make is eating while stressed. This slows down your metabolism and does not promote holistic natural health. When you eat under stress, you eat too fast, don’t chew enough, and don’t breathe while eating. All of these things actually decrease nutrient absorption in the body. So make sure you eat three meals a day and slow down while you’re eating! You will enjoy the food more and will absorb more nutrients.

Board Certification for Podiatrists

When looking for a Long Beach Foot Doctor, there are many different things to consider. The skill of the doctor and the friendliness of the staff are one consideration. In addition, a doctor can be completely qualified and still not be the right match for everyone. The staff should treat patients with respect. In addition, the doctor should listen to problems and concerns and not rush the patient through the appointment. Also, the right podiatrist will not have a problem educating his or her patients about problems or treatment programs. It is important for the patient to hear his or her treatment plan discussed in detail, as well as the opportunity to discuss realistic goals and outcomes.


What are the qualifications of a podiatrist?

Podiatrists are defined as physicians by the federal government and in most states. DPMs receive medical education and training comparable to medical doctors, including four years of undergraduate education, four years of graduate education at one of eight accredited podiatric medical colleges and two or three years of hospital residency training. Within the field of podiatry, practitioners can focus on many different specialty areas, including surgery, sports medicine, biomechanics, geriatrics, pediatrics, orthopedics or primary care.

What is a podiatrist?

According to the American Podiatric Medical Association "a podiatrist is a doctor of podiatric medicine (DPM), also known as a podiatric physician or surgeon, qualified by their education and training to diagnose and treat conditions affecting the foot, ankle and related structures of the leg. Podiatrists are uniquely qualified among medical professionals to treat the foot and ankle based on their education, training and experience.” When looking for a podiatrist Orange County residents should be sure to make sure they are a member of the American Podiatric Medical Association.

Board Certification


There are two main board certifications in podiatric medicine. The first is the American Board of Podiatric Surgery. The second is the American Board of Podiatric Orthropedics and Podiatric medicine. Since Board certification is such a difficult process, the patient can be assured that he or she is in good hands.


In Los Angeles, Orange County and Long Beach Podiatrist Centers are very popular. However, few can boast of all their podiatrists being board certified. One Long Beach Foot Surgery Center, Kim Foot & Ankles Centers Inc. can boast of all its podiatrists being certified, but that is more of an exception than the norm.