• Healthy Looks Great on You

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Healthy Looks Great on You

De: Dr. Vickie
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  • Healthy Looks Great onYou podcast helps you find your equilibrium in health through lifestyle medicine. Your host, Dr. Vickie Petz Kasper is board-certified in ob/gyn and lifestyle medicine. She sorts through the noise in healthcare to give you information, inspiration and motivation to make changes that make a difference
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  • Belly Fat: Are you in the danger zone?

    Belly Fat: Are you in the danger zone?
    May 2 2025

    Find Out If Your Belly Fat is In the Danger Zone —and What to Do About It

    First things first:

    ❌ You don’t need a clock.

    ❌ You don’t need another app.

    ✅ You just need a tape measure.

    (And a little honesty.)

    Here’s how to check — the right way:

    How to Measure Your Belly Fat Accurately

    1. Grab a flexible tape measure (the kind used for sewing, not the metal construction one from the garage!).

    2. Stand up straight, but relax. No sucking it in like a before-and-after photo. Inhale, exhale, and let your body be.

    3. Find your measuring spot:

    ○ Place the tape measure right around your belly button, just above your hip bones.

    ○ Make sure it’s snug but not cinched tight. It should rest comfortably against your skin — not digging in.

    4. Look straight ahead and read the measurement — no tilting your head or pulling tighter.

    Honesty is power here.

    🚩 What Your Measurement Means

    ● For women: A waist circumference greater than 35 inches (89 cm) signals an unhealthy amount of visceral (belly) fat, increasing your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and other serious health issues.

    ● For men: Over 40 inches (102 cm) is considered unhealthy.

    The greater the waist measurement, the higher the health risks.

    👉 If you’re over 35 inches (ladies) or over 40 inches (gentlemen), it’s time to take action — but not with shame or crash diets — with smart, sustainable shifts that work with your body, not against it.

    🍴 Let’s work on this together!

    Eating plant-based can be a challenge, but for me the challenge is eating out. But if I back up a step, the real problem is that I didn’t plan, so we hop in the car.

    And I can promise what you eat in a restaurant, order for take-out, or pull out of a package is NOT healthy for any part of your body, including your waistline.

    What you need is not willpower. You need a plan and I’m here to help. Make sure you are on my email list. I'm sharing super-helpful tools and recipes.

    An INSTANT POT and NINJA BLENDER are great time saving tools. (*contains affiliate links)

    Subscribe HERE for all the tips and recipes

    Belly fat is a signal, not a life sentence.

    To reach any destination, you have to know where you are starting. Later, we can map out the steps to get there.

    🌟 Your Next Step

    Listen to this episode, where I invite you to join my journey to lose a few inches. I recently did this successfully, and I’d like to share more with you, including recipes, so make sure you are on my email list.

    Subscribe HERE

    Stay tuned next week. I’ll talk more about belly fat causes and cures. You've got this. And healthy looks great on you.
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    15 m
  • Don't fall for food marketing tricks

    Don't fall for food marketing tricks
    Apr 25 2025
     You want to eat healthy and you're doing your best. But the grocery store, it can feel like a minefield of marketing buzzwords, multi-grain, all natural, lightly sweetened or made with real fruit. They all sound healthy, right? But are they? We are going to look at the sneaky and misleading world of food marketing under a magnifying glass today so that you know how to shop smart at the grocery store.  I'm Dr.Vickie Petz Kasper. I practiced obstetrics and gynecology for 20 years until I landed on the other side of the sheets as a very sick patient. When my own body betrayed me, I took a handful of pills to manage my disease and another handful to counteract the side effects. My health was out of control. Through surgery, medications, and lots of prayers, I  regained my strength only to face another  diagnosis. My doctor challenged me to make radical changes through lifestyle medicine. Now I feel great and I want to help you make changes that make a difference. Healthy Looks Great On You podcast takes you to mini medical school so you can learn the power of lifestyle medicine. If you're ready to take control of your health, you're in the right  place. Whether you're focused on prevention or you're trying to manage a condition. I'll give you practical steps to start your own journey toward better health because healthy looks great on you.  Being healthy isn't just about willpower. It's about knowledge. And once you learn how to spot these tricks, you'll shop smarter, eat better, and feel more in control. This is episode 1 69. Don't fall for marketing tricks in the grocery store. You really do want to eat healthy and you check the labels and try to make good choices, but let's be honest, grocery shopping can feel like walking through a maze of healthy sounding words that don't always mean what you think. There are eight common phrases that show up everywhere on cereals, yogurts, granola bars, juices, and they sound wholesome and smart and safe. But behind the scenes, they are misleading at best and downright deceptive at worst. By the end of this episode though, you are going to be a label reading pro. You'll learn how food companies use marketing tricks to make junk food sound healthy, and how you can spot the truth with a quick glance at the label because who's got time to stand in the grocery store aisle and read all the labels? I will say that if you missed my episode on reading a nutritional label, then you should go back and listen to that and I'll put a link in the show notes, but it's episode number 115, or you can go to my website, healthy Looks Great on you.com, and just type label in the search bar and it will come up. But if you're ready to decode the deception, let's get started. We're going to go to mini medical school, and today our class is psychology. Psychology is an important part of overall health, and marketers know it. That's why they spend millions and millions of dollars on food packaging, they're counting on you to be pulled in by the front of the package. And the last thing they want you to do is turn it over and read the nutrition label because that's where the facts are listed. That's why I wanted you to go back and listen to episode 115. But today you're going to learn that the front of the package is just bait and there's always a hook. Here's what I'm talking about. Calming earth tones so that it looks natural, farm scenery so that it feels wholesome. And there are some buzzwords that sound really good, but they're not. And we call all of that a health halo. And what they're trying to do is give you the impression that unhealthy food is good for you. Today, we're going to look at eight common terms that are used on the front of the package labeling, and then I'm going to give you one. Just one piece of advice that is going to change the way you do your grocery shopping, so stay tuned. Let's start with those eight labels. The first one, and you will see this everywhere, is multi grain, and that sounds so healthy because fiber is so important in our diet to have a healthy gut. And so we want to have grains in our diet, but multi-grain, no, that's not what we need. It's whole grains that we need. and you see what happens. They can use the word multi-grain when they just mean processed grains, but more than one of them. So they could have one or two or even 10 grains that have been entirely stripped of their nutrients, and they can still call it multi-grain. And that sounds like a healthy mix of grains, but it's not. even if the flour is wheat flour and it's enriched. And refined, then it's just an unhealthy grain in disguise, and what you really need is whole grains that still have the brand and the germ, because that's where the fiber is, that's where the B vitamins are antioxidants. All of that is found in whole grain. So what you really should look for is 100% whole grain. Otherwise, multi-grain is usually a trick. And a little twist on that is...
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    13 m
  • Stop Those Spinning Thoughts with Carol Feil

    Stop Those Spinning Thoughts with Carol Feil
    Apr 18 2025

    You’re lying in bed. Your body is exhausted, but your mind is replaying things you wish you’d said in a conversation earlier that day, rehearsing conversations that haven’t even happened, or mentally writing tomorrow’s to-do list.

    Sound familiar?

    You’re not broken. You’re not alone. And you’re not powerless.

    In this week’s episode of the Healthy Looks Great on You podcast, I’m joined by my friend Carol Feil to talk about something so many of us struggle with:

    Episode 168: How to Stop Spinning Thoughts So You Can Sleep

    Inside, we unpack: Why your thoughts spin out of control, especially at night. How people-pleasing, perfectionism, and fear fuel mental loops What it means to recognize a thought… and replace it The power of scripture, stillness, and reframing Why controlling your thoughts during the day is the key to sleeping at night

    Mental overload affects more than sleep.It also affects relationships, health, and sense of peace.

    If you’ve ever felt hijacked by your own mind, this episode is for you.

    Listen now to Episode 168:

    You can change the soundtrack in your mind for restful sleep.

    ~Dr. Vickie

    Visit www.CarolFeil.com to learn more about being seen, known and loved.
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    26 m
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