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4B Daily News – Tuesday, October 8, 2013 FEATURES Lose abdominal fat Daughter turning family against parents These family members cure. I maintain my regimen of Dear When our with good food daughter Annie: issues and now have a special, almost daily injections, but most of the was a child, she frenzied new importance to time I cannot control its rampage. had emotional even before your DEAR DOCmeal is brought TOR K: You've to the table, or written that split one entree abdominal fat is with someone. particularly bad That's what my for your health. wife and I do What are the best almost always ways to get rid of (but not on speit? Dr. K cial occasions, DEAR READand especially ER: When it by Anthony L. comes to body Komaroff, M.D. not at Thanksgiving!). fat, location — Retool your diet. counts. Visceral (abdominal) fat accumulates Emphasize fruits, vegdeep inside the etables, whole grains abdomen. It pads the and lean protein. These spaces between our foods not only are generabdominal organs. Com- ally good for your pared to the fat just health, they are also less beneath the skin — the likely to build up viscerkind we can grab with al fat than "bad carbs" our hands, called subcu- (refined carbohydrates) taneous fat — visceral and "bad fats." — Avoid "bad fats." fat appears to be more Switching to healthier harmful to health. The more visceral fat fats won't help you lose you have, the greater weight, but it will help your risk of developing lower your heart disease insulin resistance. This risk. Avoid saturated fats condition can lead to (found in meats and butType 2 diabetes and to ter) and trans fats (found an increased risk for car- in fried foods and baked diovascular disease. In goods). Choose monounwomen, it is also associ- saturated and polyunsatated with a higher risk of urated fats found in fish, breast cancer. (I've put nuts and certain oils on my website, AskDoc- (olive, canola, flaxseed). — Stay active. ComtorK.com, an illustration showing where in the mit to 30 minutes of modbody visceral and subcu- erate-intensity aerobic taneous fat are located.) exercise on most days, It requires expensive plus resistance exercise a imaging techniques to few days a week. (Sit-ups measure the amount of tighten abdominal musvisceral fat you have. cles, but they won't But you can estimate decrease visceral fat.) In addition to the disyour visceral fat by measuring your waist cir- tinction between visceral cumference. Ideally, fat and subcutaneous fat, waist circumference another distinction has potentially should be less than 35 become inches for women and important: the difference less than 40 inches for between white fat and brown fat. Some of you men. Fortunately, visceral have asked about it, and fat is likely to shrink I'm going to devote a when you lose weight. column to it soon. White stores calories, Here are a few tips for fat banishing this unhealthy whereas brown fat burns calories. Many research type of fat: — Limit candy, cook- teams are working on ies and white bread. ways to give us more Sugar and refined carbo- brown fat, to help us hydrates create a spike keep a healthy weight. in blood sugar, which is Dr. Komaroff is a answered with a burst of the hormone insulin. physician and professor Harvard Medical This stimulates the pro- at School. To send duction of visceral fat. go to — Trim portion sizes. questions, or Serve dinner on a salad AskDoctorK.com, plate. At a restaurant, write: Ask Doctor K, 10 ask for half of your Shattuck St., Second entree in a "to go" bag Floor, Boston, MA 02115. Maybe this letter will bring awareness to people not to judge on outward appearances. — Suffering in Michigan Dear Suffering: We hope so, but unless you are willing to tell these impatient people what the problem is, they will continue to behave rudely toward you. Please, folks, the people around you may be coping with terrible difficulties that are not visible. Be kind. Dear Annie: I loved the letter from the ''Lady Doctor,'' who was so thrilled with her MD degree that she wanted everyone to address her mail to ''Dr. Jane Doe and Mr. John Doe.'' My wife and I met in grad school. She went on to get a Ph.D. Her mother is so proud that she addresses all of my wife's letters to Dr. Jane Doe. However, she is also a traditionalist, so when she writes to both of us, she addresses her letters to Mr. and Mrs. John Doe. My wife will quickly tell anyone who asks that she is at least as proud of her Mrs. degree as she is of her Ph.D. — Mr. John Doe our daughter. They judge us extensive anger manageconstantly. To be accused of ment problems. With such mistreatment is insulttremendous concern and ing and painful. Please print love, we got her professionthis so these family memal support and therapy, and bers will stop jumping to ultimately, our daughter learned the skills to control Annie's conclusions. — Reading This Can Help herself. What we did not do Dear Reading: Most was tell extended family members of these private by Kathy Mitchell likely, the only thing that problems. We had seen and Marcy Sugar will change their perspective is to be on the receiving end their extreme intolerance for any kind of mental health issues of your daughter's erratic behavior. and did not want our daughter to Despite all the therapy she had suffer prejudice from her own fami- when younger, her problems haven't disappeared. She has simply ly. In college, the troubling inci- chosen to deal with them in her own dents started again. Because of our way, which currently precludes a daughter's refusal to let us have loving relationship with you. We access to her medical information, hope that will change. While you we had no real idea of what was cannot control what the relatives happening. The next few years think, please take comfort in knowincluded troubling breakups with ing you handled your daughter's both friends and boyfriends, issues in a way that protected and extreme weight loss and talk of sui- helped her. That is what good parents do. cide. Dear Annie: Like many people, Our daughter is now 32 and recently married. She suddenly and I suffer from the effects of multiple inexplicably has cut us off. When sclerosis. To look at us, you wouldwe try to communicate with her, she n't know anything is wrong. But the becomes hysterical with rage. We pain I suffer from daily is somehave learned she has been saying times unbearable. How should I horrible things about us to the same reply to inconsiderate people who extended family members we tried make comments like, ''Come on, to protect her from in childhood. We hurry up'' or ''What is wrong with are devastated. One relative actually you?'' I wish people would think told my husband that we must have before they open their mouths. They done something terrible to our do not know the struggles I face. There is treatment for MS, but no daughter for her to treat us this way. Mailbox Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. The best thing I ever bought Dear Readers: Of all the columns I've written, the one on the care and cleaning of the carpet in my home has generated by far the most interest and, shall I say, creative feedback! It's also had the most requests to reprint. Since you asked, here it is again. Enjoy! I have a love/hate relationship with carpet. I love how it looks, but I hate dirty carpet. The thought of what lurks between those fibers gives me the heebie-jeebies. When it comes to keeping carpet clean and pristine, its two enemies are: 1) soap and 2) water. And guess what carpet cleaners use to clean carpet? Soap and water. The problem with the soap is that there is always a residue that remains. Most cleaners use way too much to start with, leaving no way to retrieve every last bit. Any soap left in the carpet becomes a sticky dirt magnet, which is a huge problem. The problem with the water is that it is not extracted fully, which leaves the carpet wet for too long, causing it to mold and mildew. That sets you up for an icky mess. But, I am so proud to say, I've licked the problem. After more than 8 canister with hot water. I go one step years, my carpet is still lovely. further. I boil the water and pour it in Pristine. Stain free. No paths, there carefully, boiling hot. Do not marks or problems. I owe it all worry. This is OK! After all, what do you think steam is? It's very, very, very to my Hoover SteamVac. hot water! Most home cleanThis home ers do not use the power of steam-cleaning boiling water, but I do. machine (cheaper Now here's the bonus: than one visit from a carBecause the water is so hot pet-cleaning company) is and it gets sucked back up so truly an amazing machine, quickly, the carpet dries in no but only because I have time. I know, you are suspimade a few adjustments to cious about this. But it is so the way I use it. Let's just true. Hoover has such a powsay I have slightly rewriterful extractor, I think I get up ten the owner's manual. almost all of the water I lay Yes, I am a brave woman. Mary down. First, I do not use any And the best part? No soap or cleaning liquid in sticky residue -- just the feel, the machine. None. Nada. look and smell of beautifully I'm no fool. I know that I clean carpet. Yes, my Hoover will never be able to get SteamVac is the best thing I that soap out, no matter ever bought. how hard I rinse. Instead, I NOTE: I do not suggest use a good liquid spot remover to take care of spots as quick- trying this on all steam cleaners. I ly as I can, when they happen. That is have only done this with my Hoover so important. I vacuum often, which is SteamVac, which has tanks, not also important. Then every few weeks bladders. If your steam cleaner does or months, I pull out my buddy, not have a very sturdy tank, it's not wise to pour boiling water into it, is Hoover. The instructions say to fill the top it? Hunt Everyday Cheapskate Utility to offer targeted rate reductions to businesses SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas and Electric Company will soon begin offering a competitive new electric rate aimed at promoting economic development by making it possible for eligible employers to keep, expand or launch new operations in California rather than leave the state. 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