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Dieting Demystified

2010-07-11T11:51:00.001-07:00

It seems that everyone is determined to stay in their best shape these days. You can’t even drive down the street without seeing someone running or power walking. This need to stay in shape goes beyond exercise though; it also has most people watching what they eat. And this, of course, leads to going on diets.

Diets are extremely popular these days and there seems to be some new fad diet that comes out every other month or so. But as of late, many doctors have spoken out against fad diets—particularly ones that promise to have you dropping large amounts of weight in very little time. These sorts of diets are proof that not ALL diets are healthy. In fact, if you aren’t in great health from the start, some diets can actually be very bad for you Then of course, there are diets that are centered around calories, others on carbs and other still that are more concerned with heart healthy foods.
With so many different diets floating around out there, how are you supposed to tell which one is right for you? Not only that, but once you decide on one, there is usually an entire list of foods you can’t eat. And those you CAN eat, you usually have to eat with other bland foods. By the time you have gone grocery shopping for specially selected foods that adhere to your diet and THEN purchased the diet’s instructional material, you may stop wondering why dieting so HARD…and EXPENSIVE!

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How to Get That Splendid Body You've Always Wanted in 2010

2010-04-21T09:15:00.001-07:00

Every New Year, we expect people to make numerous New Year's resolutions. This has been a tradition for a long time. In these resolutions, people vow to be better husbands, better wives, make better grades, become better employees and even manage their money better. Others vow to quit addictions such as smoking, eating and watching TV. Some people keep these resolutions while others find it a struggle to keep them. Of all the resolutions, perhaps none carries more emotion than losing weight. This is because somehow, many people's self esteem is tied to the way they look. This is understandable because we are a visual society and the way someone is perceived by others ties to the way they feel about themselves.

It is perfectly right to make a resolution to lose weight. This is because obesity affects almost half of the population of the United States. It is not a light matter because over 400,000 people die each year due to complications arising from their being overweight. Billions of lost productivity is incurred by businesses and the economy as a whole due to the fact that many people who are obese miss work or under-perform due to their medical condition.

Obesity is the term used to refer to the medical condition where the body accumulates so much fat that it becomes risky to the overall health of the person. While there are people whose genetic make-up causes their bodies to accumulate more fat than is needed the majority of people who are overweight become so due to a combination of factors such as indulging in high calorie diets and lack of exercise. Let us examine some ways people become obese.

One way is to eat diets that are high in calories. This happen when people do not watch what they eat or eating at fast food joints. In order to combat obesity, one needs to watch their diet. This means being vigilant when it comes to shopping and making sure that the calorie intake is controlled.

Another reason why people become overweight is because they lack exercise. We live in a world where people drive almost everywhere they go including short distances. Coupled with high calorie diets, obesity is the next logical step. But there are ways to ensure that you lose weight and have the splendid body that you've always wanted for 2010.

One of those ways is to educate you regarding diet and to eat smart. This means knowing what you are buying when you're shopping and reading material regarding the right diet. The Internet has great sites that show the best diet sites that are available.

The other way is to do exercise. This does not mean getting into the gym. You can start by simply jogging, walking or swimming in your own neighborhood. Simple push-ups, sit-ups and bench presses can be excellent.

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The Truth about Diet and Weight Loss

2010-04-21T07:08:00.001-07:00

Trans Fatty Acids: The poison in our food supply that most people are STILL eating every day

2010-03-14T08:23:00.001-07:00

Most people are eating a poison every day without giving it a second thought. This substance can increase belly fat and consuming even small amounts (2% of total energy intake) is consistently linked to coronary heart disease. The research also says that this stuff can increase visceral fat, contribute to insulin resistance, increase risk of type 2 diabetes, increase bad cholesterol, decrease good cholesterol, trigger systemic inflammation and adversely affect almost every cell in your body.

What substance could be so harmful that it causes all of these health problems and yet is so prevalent in our food supply that most people are eating dangerous amounts every single day? This industrially manufactured ingredient is called Trans fatty acids (TFA’s).

TFA’s are not found in nature, with the exception of some ruminant-derived TFA’s in certain dairy products (usually contributing less than 0.5% of total caloric intake). TFA’s come mostly from the industrial hydrogenation of vegetable oils, which alters the natural cis configuration of the oils to the trans configuration. If you see “partially hydrogenated” oil in the ingredients list of any food product, then it contains TFA’s.

TFA’s have been studied for decades, but were largely ignored until the past several years. Research papers linking trans fats to heart disease date back to the 1970’s. In 1994, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to put trans fats on food labels (didn’t happen until 2006). Since 2006, TFA’s have thankfully received a decent amount of publicity when they were in the news regarding new food labeling laws and the banning of their use in restaurants in some states.

New studies have been published in the past year confirming the dangers of TFA’s. Four recent studies indicated 24, 20, 27 and 32% higher risk of myocardial infarction (MI) or CHD death for every 2% energy of TFA consumption isocalorically replacing carbohydrate, SFA, cis monounsaturated fatty acids and cis polyunsaturated fatty acids, respectively.

TFA intake in the United States still averages 2-3% of total energy intake, 4% in some developing countries where fast food is being introduced and as high as 8-10% in certain subgroups (who eat large amounts of baked goods, fried foods, pastries, doughnuts, etc). The government recommended maximum is 1% of total energy intake (2 grams!). Some experts say there is NO safe level of TFA intake.

Legislation has been enacted in some states banning the use of TFAs in restaurants. It was big news New York. As of 2008, 11 cities and counties have adopted regulations to restrict TFA use in restaurants. However, industrial TFA use is still widespread and lots of people are still scarfing them down every day.

If Trans fats are so dangerous, why is their use so widespread? Dietary fat expert Udo Erasmus put it this way: “TFA’s are a food manufacturer’s dream: an unspoilable substance that lasts forever.” TFA’s are cheap and for countless food products, they can prolong shelf life, allow easy transport, provide solidity at room temperature (to make spreads), and increase suitability for commercial frying.

Although most people have heard of TFA’s, the bad news is that this increased awareness has not been enough to translate into behavior change.

A study recently published in the Journal of The American Dietetic Association (ADA) found that in 2007, 73% of Americans knew that TFA’s increased risk of heart disease, compared to 63% in 2006. However, the bad news is that 79% of Americans could not name 3 foods that contain trans fats. 46% of Americans could not name any sources of trans fats on their own.

“Knowledge about food sources of fats remains low” says Robert Eckel, professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado.

Public health messages have been raising awareness, but they haven’t been enough. “TFA’s are bad for you.” Ok, so now what? What you really need are some simple behavior guidelines and a list of foods to eat very infrequently if you eat them at all.

Here are some good places for you to start.

4 Ways to Avoid Trans Fatty Acids

1. Eat mostly foods that do not have a label. At the risk of stating the obvious, if you don’t eat anything that comes in a box or package with a label, then you won’t ever consume manmade TFA’s. If your diet consists primarily of fruits, fibrous vegetables, root vegetables, beans, legumes, brown rice, unprocessed whole grains, nuts, seeds, eggs, fish and lean meats, you’re home free.

2. Watch for label loopholes. WARNING: Food companies are lying to you on their product labels to make you think their foods are TFA-free. The front of their package may say “ZERO grams of trans fats,” and yet there is hydrogenated oil listed in the ingredients. How could that be? There is a label loophole where the government allows companies to claim zero trans fats if there is less than a half a gram per serving. So the food companies sneakily manipulate their serving sizes until the servings are so small that the TFA content falls below the per serving limit.

3. Read ingredients lists. The primary source of TFA’s is partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. In particular, soybean, sunflower, cottonseed and palm oils are frequently hydrogenated. Your first step then, is to read food labels on any packaged products and look at the ingredients list. If it contains partially hydrogenated oils, it contains TFA’s.

4. Avoid foods that contain TFA’s most of the time. TFA’s are commonly found in baked goods (bakery), fried foods and packaged convenience foods, especially:

cookies*
crackers*
biscuits*
pastries*
pies*
doughnuts*
packaged frozen foods (breaded chicken, breaded fish, etc)
corn chips
potato chips
packaged popcorn
some breads
frostings
french fries (fried potatoes)
taco shells
margarines and spreads
shortening
some salad dressings
some candies
some artificial cheeses

* major food sources for American adults

In 2002 when I published the first edition of my ebook, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle, I warned my readers of the dangers of trans fatty acids. I was not the only one either. Years ahead of the 2006 law requiring trans fats to be listed on food labels and the 2007-2008 restaurant TFA bans, numerous health professionals were already warning people to stay away from TFA’s.

Not enough people heeded the warnings, while meanwhile, politics and commercial interests delayed legislation. No doubt, skyrocketing rates of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease can be largely linked to the continued use of these artificial fake food additives. In the US alone, 1,700,000 new cases of diabetes, 233,600 diabetes-related deaths, 600,000 myocardial infarctions and 451,300 coronary heart disease-related deaths are reported every year.

A campaign for better education and lifestyle change is worth supporting. As researchers from Harvard said, “A comprehensive strategy to eliminate the use of industrial TFA in both developed and developing countries, including education, food labeling, and policy and legislative initiatives, would likely prevent tens of thousands of CHD events worldwide each year.”

For a healthy and balanced lifestyle, and for better long-term compliance, I’m rarely in favor of tagging any foods as totally “forbidden” or to use words as strong as “poison” in describing foods. But if there are any exceptions, trans fats are one of them.

If you are unable or unwilling to eliminate TFA’s from your diet completely, then you would be wise for the sake of your health and your family’s health, to keep foods containing TFA’s to a bare minimum and avoid eating any TFA-laden foods on a daily basis.

Last, but not least, be on guard, because history tells us that when one harmful food additive is banned, it is often replaced with another, which is sometimes even worse. That’s why item #1 on my list of four ways to avoid trans fatty acids is the best way to avoid anything that is harmful to your health.

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Easy and Cheap Beauty Tips

2010-03-08T14:11:00.000-08:00

Have The Body You've Always Wanted

2010-01-10T04:12:00.000-08:00

Everywhere you look, on the internet, in magazines, on TV and newspapers - you'll run into wild theories and techniques on how to lose belly fat or attain over-all fat reduction. All the same only a few of these may aid you as a majority of these are usually exceedingly slow in bringing on beneficial outcomes while some would certainly result in fat loss that could possibly linger for such a short period of time that you simply end up right where you started.

But hey, cheer up! All is not lost. I have a little happy news for you too. Here are four tips on how to lose belly fat revealed primarily for you.

Utilize these tips and your fat loss goals would be realized in as little time as 14 days:

1. Watch Out For Unsafe Weight Loss Diets

Monitoring one's food regimen along with amending it to include health boosting alternate options will be the most important step that you can take towards losing weight. Most belly flab is the result of an pile-up of undigested waste in the body. Now if your food consumption is controlled in the first place, waste accumulation and also accompanying weight gain would not occur at all. So, consume wholesome meals and snacks and avoid belly fat by boosting your fat loss.

Include lots of fresh fruits, whole grains along with greens in your diet. Also, boost the number of meals each day while cutting down on the portion sizes. That would facilitate accelerating your metabolism plus restrict fat accumulation. As a restorative measure, you could add some natural health foods like acai berry in your diet too ( but be sure to choose only the natural ones ).

2. How to Lose Belly Fat By Fixing Colonic Wellness

While you could get a considerable assortment of tips on how to lose belly fat,it's not every single day that you just run into truthful strategies that will benefit you.

Colon cleansing is one such suggestion that not many would steer you towards ( as not many are actually aware of its exceptional potential ) but is nonetheless one of the best ways to lose the fat accumulated within the mid-section almost instantly. The best part about this therapy is that it presents perceptible outcomes as you can literally see the pounds of tar-like waste that's removed from your system.

3. How to Lose Belly Fat By Drinking Cold Water

Studies have shown that drinking cold water can help in burning fat twice as fast as drinking water that is at room temperature. Keeping yourself hydrated by drinking plenty of water will assist your metabolism plus flush out poisons and wastes from your system with greater ease producing quicker results.

4. How to Lose Belly Fat By Working Out

The lack of of physical activity in one's day-today life may be a major reason for fat accumulation within and since the abdomen region is the most predisposed to it, you would be wise to start an exercise program to burn that fat. Exercising does not necessarily have to be limited to dull gym workouts. You can burn belly fat in any form of physical activity that interests you but make it a daily practice to make the most of your fat loss goals.

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Loose Weight Without Dieting

2009-12-30T06:56:00.000-08:00

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2009-11-30T05:34:00.000-08:00

A new breakthrough secret is all you now need in order to forever shed countless pounds, stay healthy, and add many years to your life!
A lady doctor from Arizona has blown the lid off the best-kept secret in weight loss ever discovered -- and this has the whole diet food and drug industries turned upside down and in nothing less than a torrential uproar.
Her name is Dr Suzanne Gudakunst, and she's marching to the beat of a different drum.
And no, nothing about her "secret" is difficult -- nor does it require that you do something completely out of the ordinary or anything unnatural.
Instead, the Arizonian boasts proudly "...this is something that I caught onto just before 2002 when there was so much research and exploration going around concerning the human colon and digestive system working in harmony with nutritional absorption, and I started doing independent studies just to test things at first ... but which I later expanded on after seeing some fantastic results."
This same woman medical practitioner went on to accurately determine a definitive correlation between harmful plague and parasitic infestations of the human bowel tract, and people suffering chronic obesity -- and who despite intense diet and exercise appeared to be unable to lose any weight whatsoever.
Over the course of six years the Arizona doctor developed a number of natural treatments for the removal of these same harmful, even life-threatening plaques and rapidly reproducing digestive parasites -- and when applied to even worse-case patients suffering extreme obesity (98% of which were in immediate danger of dying) she saw a 100% effectiveness and success rate.
She then borrowed from her research on the severely obese, and applied the same strategies on milder cases of overweight persons -- only to find the same effectiveness and quality results as described above (although the individual weight loss per subject wasn't nearly as much as those obese patients 100 lbs to 200 lbs or more overweight).
So powerful is her secret that she's able to reverse diabetes, rid illness altogether in people suffering from cancer (linked directly to poor diet and overweight factors), as well as an elimination of an entire spectrum of serious and otherwise life-threatening diseases.
Nearly 100% of all her case subjects were told in the alternative by "conventional doctors" that they either had just months or years to live, or they would never live a life anything resembling remotely a "normal" existence -- yet after applying Dr Suzanne's treatments saw a complete contradiction to others doctors' prognoses.
Again, nothing about her secret is unnatural or requires someone to do any major action or modification in their lives.
In fact, her entire treatment is based completely on built-into-nature 'protection agents' scattered throughout the world in the form of select herbs, extracts, and organic constituents, and which can be found in a variety of plants -- but when combined in specific combinations and carefully chosen amounts make for a solution to what is perhaps the world's worst ever plague: OBESITY (and the illnesses and diseases resulting from it -- or at least severely aggravated or exacerbated by it).
Now to everyone else's great gain, whether suffering from just a few extra pounds and inches, to those extremely fat and overweight, this brave, bold lady doctor is releasing to the general public her secret for forever destroying the tight unrelenting closed-fist of obesity's stronghold over the now more than 40% of Americans labeled obese, and others worldwide.
But she's not promising any of us for how long.
Some experts and sociologists suggest that in the bigger scheme of things, the world will never tolerate a discovery of such magnitude, any more than it would be realistic to expect a car that runs on water (even if very real) to ever become commercially available to the general public for day-to-day use.
One well-respected and famous diet & wellness author wrote years ago that if anyone ever "truly unlocked the keys to permanent fat loss, they may actually suffer the same fate as JFK."
It is currently available at:
=> http:// haladi62.AllInOneHealth.com
...so you may want to head on over there now and get it and before someone or "something" gets it forever yanked out of ever getting in YOUR hand at least.
It's in a very easily readable format and is quickly and readily understood and mastered by anyone with even a 4th grade reading level.
While you're there, why not scroll down and review for yourself the huge successes others are now having with this incredible breakthrough in rapid, massive weight loss and extremely improved and enhanced health, now made freely available to the rest of us?
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