James H Holmes Jr MD, Hospital QualityDr. Holmes Jr. is on the medical staff at our top-rated hospital. Dr. Holmes Jr. specializes in Family Medicine and practices in Stockton, CA. Are you Dr. Holmes Jr.? Holmes Jr. accepts 10 insurance carriers Commercial Insurance CompanyHumanaMedicaid *Please verify this information when scheduling an appointment Check out the quality of care at the 1 hospitals where Dr. Holmes Jr. has admitting privileges. ×6 Key Survey Insights(6)(6)(5)(5)Experience with Dr. Holmes Jr.(6)(6)(6)(6)Dr. Holmes Jr.' Office & Staff(5)(5)(5)(5) Post a response Specializes in Family Medicine No board certification on record with Healthgrades Dr. Holmes Jr.' Office & Staff Ease of scheduling urgent appointments5 Office environment, cleanliness, comfort, etc.5 Staff friendliness and courteousness5 Total wait time (waiting & exam rooms)5 Experience with Dr. Holmes Jr. Level of trust in provider's decisions6 How well provider explains medical condition(s)6

How well provider listens and answers questions6 Spends appropriate amount of time with patients6Up to 68% Off contour light body sculpting at Holmes Chiropractic one 60-minute full body contour light body sculpting session three 60-minute contour light body sculpting sessions for two zones Choose Between Two Options $69 for one 60-minute full body contour light body sculpting session $169 for three 60-minute contour light body sculpting sessions for two zones About A Chat with Holmes Chiropractic What services does your business offer and what makes your business stand out from the competition?We have 26 years experience in health and wellness. Specializing in weight loss and purification for a holistic approach to wellness. Every client is monitored by the doctor for the fastest results possible. Our staff is dedicated to a friendly efficient approach. We strive for each clients success!What was the inspiration to start or run this business?

So many are struggling to find the tool or one thing that motivates them to start and continue with a weight loss program. We have helped many hundreds of patients achieve their weight loss goals. Average Cost To Relocate A BusinessThis device works so fast, is so effective and adds that youthful toned look to those stubborn areas!Wet Cat Food Without ChickenWhat do you love most about your job?Fossil CurtainsThere is nothing more rewarding than helping others! When you love what you do it isn't work it's just fun. Being the catalyst to my patients realizing a better and healthier life is what makes me love going to my office every day. What is the best reaction you've ever gotten from a customer?Patients often say how much we have changed their life.

When our patients say they love coming in and they feel like family we know we have been successful. We save lives and our patients share this with us regularly!Posted by: Dr. Tyrone A. Holmes | Losing Weight with Basal Metabolic Rate: The Mifflin-St Jeor Method Last week, I recommended determining your daily caloric needs as a means to lose weight.  I also introduced three Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) formulas you can use to do this: the Mifflin-St Jeor method, the Katch-McCardle equation and the Harris-Benedict formula.  These formulas determine the calories you burn while at rest and then apply an activity factor to account for your daily physical activity (e.g., exercise, work at a strenuous job).  This provides you with a relatively accurate estimate of your daily caloric needs. The Mifflin-St Jeor method uses the following formula to calculate BMR: In these equations, weight must be in kilograms, height in centimeters and age in years.  To determine your weight in kilograms, divide your weight in pounds by 2.2.

For example, if you weigh 175 lbs: 175 ÷ 2.2 = 79.54 kilograms.  To determine your height in centimeters, multiply your height in inches by 2.54.  For example, if you are 5 feet 2 inches tall: 60 inches + 2 inches = 62 inches tall x 2.54 = 157.48 centimeters. Once you have determined your BMR, you need to multiply it by the appropriate activity factor to determine your daily caloric needs: That’s all there is to it.  Of course, if you want to avoid all of this arithmetic, simply type ‘Daily Calorie Needs’ in any search engine and you will get numerous sites that allow you to calculate your caloric needs based on your age, gender, height, weight and daily level of physical activity. NEXT POST – January 30, 2011 Cycle Log: Intensity Phase Week 2 Posted in Diet, Dieting, Eating Habits, Health, Nutrition, Weight Loss | Tags: Diet, Dieting, Eating Habits, Health, Lose Weight, Nutrition, Weight Loss Creating an Exercise Program Is apple cider vinegar actually helpful for weight loss?

Does it have other health benefits? Reader Question • 71 votes Vinegar in various forms — including cider, wine, rice, white distilled and others — has been put to use for medicinal purposes for centuries, with Hippocrates recommending it for treating sores. And some people today apply it to soothe jellyfish stings, said Carol S. Johnston, associate director of the nutrition program at Arizona State University. But despite its newfound Internet fame as a diet aid and appetite suppressant, she said, taking vinegar will help you lose weight only “if you’re a very, very patient person.” The weight loss claims hinge mostly on a 2009 clinical trial of obese Japanese adults that found those who consumed a beverage containing one or two tablespoons of vinegar every day lost two to four pounds after 12 weeks, while a comparison group given a plain beverage did not lose weight. (The researchers in this study used apple cider vinegar, considered to be a relatively palatable form of the liquid.)

Several studies have shown that consuming small amounts of vinegar before a meal containing starches may blunt a rise in blood sugar afterward, reducing the glycemic response by 20 to 40 percent, Dr. Johnston said, by partially inhibiting the digestion of starch. “The vinegar is taking the starch and making a portion of it fiberlike, so some of the starch will escape digestion,” she explained, adding that test tube studies have shown that the acetic acid in vinegar inhibits enzymes that help in the digestion of starch. Dr. Johnston’s own studies have found lower fasting blood glucose concentrations in people who ingested a tablespoon of vinegar. Swedish researchers also reported higher feelings of satiety in those drinking vinegar, though other researchers have attributed this effect to feelings of nausea from drinking the liquid. Slowing the rise in blood sugar after a meal could aid weight loss, said Dr. David S. Ludwig, author of the book "Always Hungry?" and a professor of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

“The main problem with the modern diet is that the processed carbohydrates we eat are digested and absorbed too quickly, which leads to a surge in blood sugar and insulin and then a crash a few hours later” that triggers another bout of hunger, Dr. Ludwig said. He advocates eating carbohydrates that are digested more slowly, like beans, fruits, vegetables and whole grains. But he cautioned that vinegar should be used in “doses that have been consumed by humans for centuries, not pharmacological doses,” and called for more studies. Straight vinegar can be hard to swallow and may cause you to gasp and aspirate vinegar into the lung, which could potentially lead to pneumonia. Published case reports have linked vinegar consumption to vocal cord spasms, fainting and injury to the esophagus. And Dutch physicians reported on a case of a 15-year-old whose teeth eroded because she had been drinking a glass of apple cider vinegar every day for weight loss. When people tell Dr. Johnston they want to try using vinegar to aid weight loss, “I always tell them to dilute it in water, one tablespoon to eight ounces of water, and ingest it with the first bites of the meal.

You want the acid to beat the starch into the intestines.” Any kind of vinegar will do, as long as it contains at least 5 percent acetic acid, though she noted that some fancy vinegars contain added sugar, which can increase calorie counts. Several dietitians who work with people with diabetes urged caution, however. Consuming vinegar is not part of any of the American Diabetes Association’s nutritional recommendations, said Dr. Margaret Powers, a registered dietitian and diabetes educator and president of health care and education at the association. She said that vinegar should not be considered “a magic bullet” for weight loss or diabetes management. Katherine Zeratsky, a registered dietitian and nutritionist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., agreed. “There’s nothing in and of itself wrong with vinegar,” she said. “But if someone who has diabetes thinks, ‘Gosh, if I don’t want to take medicine, I could treat myself with vinegar,’ the recommendation would be: no.”