Oprah - Live Your Best Life

Oprah is have this week (Jan. 5-9, 2009) a few serious about to Live Your Best Life. - Topics of Falling off the wagon, Dr. Oz, Spiritual, Money and Sex 101. Check it out for yourself - Click Here. I got to watch Dr. Oz on Tuesday and I was a lot of information on feel health again beside of loosing weight. On the website, Oprah and Dr. Oz will be having a live chat online on January 13 to answer question that you might have about health and loosing weight. Register and ask a question. Also, get Dr. Oz workout check list in getting health and loosing weight.

Here is Dr. Oz check list:

1. Find a doctor and schedule a check up. During you first visit at the doctors look around and see if the staff get along from one another, are they board certified and so on. When I see my doctor I always have a list of questions on a piece of paper so I don't forget to him/her. Tell the doctor everything even its sore tooth.

2. Know the five ingredients to avoid. High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sugar, Enriched, Trans Fat and Saturated Fats.

3. the healthy foods to add to your diet. Antioxidants (tomatoes, broccoli, kidney beans, blueberries, artichokes and prunes), Omega-3 Fats (Increase your intake of omega-3 fats to 3 grams a day - ground flaxseeds, walnuts, salmon, scallops, soybeans and squash), Fiber (Oatmeal, 100 percent whole grain bread, lentils, pine nuts, peas and raspberries), Olive Oil (about a tablespoon every day).

4. Take a multivitamin every single day. premenopausal woman (multivitamin that contains iron) and postmenopausal woman or a man (multivitamin without iron and no more than 2,500 units of vitamin A).

5. Know your numbers. Waist Size (about 40 inches for men, 37 inches for women), Cholesterol (LDL, or lousy cholesterol, to be less than 100 and HDL, or healthy cholesterol, to be greater than 40), Resting Heart Rate (close to 60), Blood Surgar, Vitamin D (bones), C-Reactive Protein (This is a way to tell if your body is full of inflammation and irritation), Thyroid Stimulating Hormone TSH (Oprah learned the hard way confession - a simple blood test).

6. Find a health advocate. When you are under stress from doctors' diagnoses or are too sick to speak up for yourself, it's crucial to have someone helping you. Get someone who you trust and make them your partner in this process.

7. Organize your medical records. Get an updated copy of your medical file before you leave the doctor's office, just in case you need to see another physician.

8. Get the medical tests you need. Human Papilloma Virus, Oral exam, Cervical, Weight Waist Height BMI, Tetanus, Whooping cough, Physical Exam, Blood pressure, Influenza, Sking cancer, Eye exam, Thyroid, Prostate, Cholesterol, Pneumovax, Breast, Colon, Shingles, Echocardiagram and Stress test, Bone Mineral Density and Hearing exam.

9. Start exercising. Start Walking 10,000 steps a day, Get your heart rate up, Flexibility (Dr. Oz Yoga Lesson) and Strength Training (Dr. Oz Workout).

10. Get seven to eight hours of sleep a night.