Here are 4 Hot Tips On How To Lose Weight And Keep It That Way!
By Viv ;=) | April 14, 2008
Let’s see if you are able to see a common theme in all the four hot tips I am going to mention below:
1. Swimming:
Do you enjoy swimming? Do you know that swimming is one of the best ways of burning body fat? If you would like to get rid of your ugly potbelly then don’t lose a minute! Slip into your two-piece and jump onto the pool! You see: swimming not only helps you burn body fat and shape up your belly, it also strengthens your body and gives you a lot of energy! But then, if you are way too fat, then you may not be able to fit into your swimsuit. Don’t lose heart; there are other options too!
2. Running:
If you are not a fast swimmer, or don’t want to swim, don’t worry, because there are many other ways to lose fat fast! One of the best ways of getting rid of belly fat is by running regularly. Running not only helps you burn the extra calories and fat, it also keeps you fresh and energetic throughout the day. For best results, you should alternate between running and jogging.
3. Brisk/Speed Walking:
If you cannot keep up with high intensity exercises, then running may not be an option for you. In that case, you should try to brisk or speed walk. Have you ever thought of leaving the elevator and using the stairs to reach your office? This is really one of the coolest ways to lose weight. Also, try to brisk walk up to your office and give your old and tired car a break!
4. Dancing:
Ok, I understand that neither brisk walking nor running appeals to you. Probably you are a great dancer! Just in case you are not aware of it, dancing too can help you lose weight. So just hit out your favorite disc and start dancing…
Even if you are not a great dancer, that should not be an excuse. Perhaps some people are afraid they will make a fool of themselves if they fail to dance properly. Infact, you don’t need to dance in any special way in order to lose fat. If you are concerned about the etiquette of shaking a leg in public, why not join a dance class to learn all the required skills?
So now you can see what’s the common theme on the above is: KEEP YOUR BODY MOVING 
You just cannot expect to lose weight if you sit or lie round all day without doing anything. Move your body and eat healthy balanced foods, and you will surely be able to lose weight and keep it that way!
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The Basic Detoxification Ingredients For Body Cleansing
By Viv ;=) | April 13, 2008
When it comes to cleansing your body on the inside there are important steps that you should take in order to successfully rid themselves of those accumulated bad toxins.
The most important thing to consider, however, when undergoing a detoxification process is whether or not you will continue the process month to month, weekend to weekend, or just how many times per year your body will undergo this terrific cleansing process.
If you are unsure about how many times you would like to complete a detoxification of the body, though, the best and perhaps most important thing that you could do is to have just the basic detoxification ingredients in the kitchen/pantry so that you are ready to carry out the process at anytime.
Here are the three basic detoxification ingredients:
- Garlic, Cayenne Pepper, Cinnamon, and Ginger
- Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
- Vegetable Broth and Soup
All these ingredients definitely need to be kept in your kitchen/pantry before, during, and after a detoxification weekend or time period, except for the fresh fruits and vegetables. These basic detox ingredients would help cleanse the body in some way or another, and they are all beneficial to forming a healthy lifestyle filled with healthy ingredients and food!
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Here’s How To Add Another 10 Years or More To Your Life Easily…
By Viv ;=) | April 12, 2008
That is if you want to…
Good Luck 
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There Goes The Tuna In My Sandwiches And Salads…
By Viv ;=) | April 11, 2008
Wonder what comes next… 
One minute the authorities say we should avoid eating tuna and next, it is alright to eat but within limits, would you???
“Mercury poisoning is the ill effects on humans nervous system and other bodily systems due to the over-exposure of mercury. Mercury is a neurotoxin, meaning it affects the nervous system. The “mad hatters” of the 19th century suffered from mercury poisoning which caused personality changes, nervousness, trembling, and even dementia. The hatters were exposed to mercury in the felting process, where mercury was rubbed onto cloth to preserve it.
Today, people are more aware of the dangers of mercury and many of its uses have been discontinued. However, mercury exposure is still an occupational hazard for people in many industries and mercury is present in the environment around us. There is also the risk of exposure due to a thermometer breaking or mercury leaking out of a thermostat or any number of mercury-containing devices. If mercury vapor is inhaled, as much as 80 percent may enter the bloodstream.”
So what is the mercury doing in the oceans and seas in the first place?
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Diet Info Care’s Eight Ways To Let Your Appetite Know Who’s The Boss!
By Viv ;=) | April 8, 2008
Do you think that you are hungry because you’re fat, or are you fat because you’re hungry?
Hmmm…. this is no chicken-and-egg question. To some degree, at least, you are hungry because you’re fat. You have more body area and that means greater surface to radiate heat and call for calories.
So, here’s how to put a rein on your appetite starting today:
1. Stop eating while you’re still a little hungry.
2. Revise your eating habits and find something to distract you from thinking about food.
3. Find foods that requires slow chewing such as raw carrots, celery, etc
4. Don’t wash food down with water because drinking water with meals may wash down masses of half-chewed food and thus unconsciously step up your food intake instead.
5. Don’t be tricked by fancy foods such as an ice cream sundae topped off with nuts and whipped cream.
6. Learn to keep a count on calories and read the labels.
7. Place a variety of fruits in a fruit bowl on the coffee table instead of a box of chocolates, candies and pastries.
8. Don’t go without breakfast because that is not a smart move, you will put on weight instead!
With these eight ways you can now learn to take control of your health STARTING NOW…
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Diet Info On 8 Glasses of Water A Day Myth Got Debunked!
By Viv ;=) | April 7, 2008
After last month’s news on polluted drinking water, most probably they meant don’t drink 8 glasses of tap water with all the pharmaceutical drugs and what not found in drinking water???
Here’s the video about the new research :
Sometime ago, I read a book titled Your Body’s Many Cries for Water: You Are Not Sick, You Are Thirsty by an ex- political prisoner Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, a renowned researcher who spent more than 20 years of research on dehydration, painful diseases and how water can cure our body pains after he discovered the healing powers of water while in prison.
This is what he has found out during his research:
- Without water, Nothing lives
- Water is an important source of energy
- Water is the bonding adhesive for cell structures
- Water increases the rate of absorption of all substances in food
- Water is responsible for the transport of all substances in the body
- Water generates electrical and magnetic energy in every cell in the body
- Water increases the efficiency of the red blood cells in collecting oxygen in the lungs
- Water increases the efficiency of the immune system including fighting against cancers
I personally believe each person is different and though water drinking is essential to health, each person has different needs. From my experience, drinking warm water and a brisk walk has helped me to solve those irritating headaches and my occasional joint pains ….so for me its bye bye painkillers! What about you…?
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Drug Cocktail From Your Water Tap May Harm Your Health
By Viv ;=) | April 6, 2008
What about bottled water? A lot of brands start at the water tap too …
Besides being told upteem times about toxins gathering around the environment, recently we are being informed that pharmaceutical drugs have been found polluting our drinking water too.
Apparently they get deposited into our drinking water in two ways:
excretion- drugs that you take, or drugs given to livestock, some of the active components that are not absorbed in the body are deposited into sewage treatment centers. Drug-ridden waste from livestock also ends up polluting water in the soil, rivers, streams and lastly drinking water.- disposal - unused or outdated medications being flushed down the toilets or disposed as trash by people, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals which ultimately ends in the environment.
Incase, you have missed this breaking news about drinking water being polluted by the Associated Press investigations, just click on the arrow now to play the video…
I must say, nothing surprises me these days as I believe this is an age old issue, otherwise why are these water filtering devices and systems have been in business for so long?
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Aerobic Or Anaerobic Exercise For Optimal Weight & Good Health
By Viv ;=) | April 1, 2008
Exercise is one of two main components and principles for reducing weight and for good health. Some might say exercise is the key to weight loss and some say a good diet is the key. There is one thing for sure though that if you combine the two together they react to form an unbeatable team in the fight to reduce weight and maintain it!
So what is the difference between Aerobic Exercise and Anaerobic Exercise?
Aerobic Exercise
Firstly Aerobic Exercise is basically exercise that is carried out at a moderate intensity and for a longer period of time. Most types of exercise are actually aerobic including jogging , cycling, walking etc.
Aerobic exercise is carried out at any intensity from 60-80% of your maximum heart rate and at an intensity you can carry on for a longer period of time. When exercising,
for example jogging, your body uses the energy stored from food which is turned into glycogen to push you along. There is only a certain amount of glycogen in your body and as you use up your stored energy during exercise, you will feel your body tiring and aching. This is basically your body running out of glycogen. The fact is that when your body has used up its energy stores and to keep going it has to find a new fuel source and thus fat comes into the picture.
Fat lies in reserve for energy source and exercising for a longer period of time will then be burned up by the stored fat. From aerobic exercise you will most certainly witness an increase in your overall longer lasting fitness meaning overtime you can exercise for longer and longer meaning you maximise fat burning.
Anaerobic Exercise
Anaerobic exercise is the opposite of aerobic exercise. Anaerobic exercise is performed at a much higher intensity between 80-100% max heart rate. This obviously means it isn’t long lasting. It is used by athletes to help build power, strength and speed into there bodies as exercises under an anaerobic intensity are examples like sprinting and weight lifting.
Anaerobic defines exercise carried out without the use of oxygen. As your muscles don’t have sufficient oxygen they then have to utilize another source within your body known as creatine phosphate.
The uses of these energy sources quickly burn up over a period and the use of fat as energy does come into play sometimes a lot quicker than if doing aerobic exercise. This is all done in a matter of seconds as the creatine phosphate generates what we call ATP that produces muscle contraction and after further seconds other sources are made available to ATP which includes glycogen, then lastly fat.
Muscles trained under anaerobic exercises obviously give different results than that of aerobic exercise and lead to greater performance in shorter duration activities and sports.
So Which Type Of Exercise Is The Better To Reduce Weight & Maintain It?
The fact is both will burn fat within your body for extensive research does suggest that combining the two can be hugely beneficial as your body is made to train under different intensities meaning it isn’t able to adapt to one or the other which does maximise fat burn as the human body is always looking to adapt to what you do to it.
Depending on your goals and what sort of fitness you are looking at would depend on the type of exercise you undertake but for fat burning and weight loss a combination of the two would be most beneficial within your plan.
Before you start any of the above exercise, keep in mind to see your physician first for an evaluation
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Edema or Water Retention Relief In Your Body
By Viv ;=) | March 31, 2008
Water is more necessary than food; from one point of view it is food. Water is the great temperature regulator, the basic fluid medium for all the body’s processes, and the supply is guarded zealously. The brain contains water in practically the same proportion as milk. You need to have water to think, to move, to exist - Water is Life!
But there can be too much of a good thing. Waterlogged tissues may not be fat tissues, but that’s the way they strike the public eye. You cannot control your water content by exercise or intake, to any satisfactory extent. Unless there is sufficient moisture in the tissues you can’t break down and burn up fat. There is no valid health rule that can set down your water needs arbitrarily at six or eight or ten glasses a day. A great deal depends on what you eat, too. The safest rule is to drink enough water so that the color of the urine is a light straw yellow.
So in what ways can you do to try and prevent edema or water retention in your body?
One way to prevent water retention is to be sure that you get enough protein in your diet. When protein is severely restricted, water tends to accumulate in the tissues and make them puffy.
The second way to control water retention is by restricting the use of common salt in your foods. Salt has a natural affinity for water; look at the
Salt holds about seventy times its weight of water in the tissues. If you get a mental picture of one surplus teaspoonful of salt holding seventy teaspoons of water in captivity in your person, you may be encouraged to reduce your salinity. Unless there is water retention, however, or some heart or kidney condition, it is not necessary to restrict salt too severely in the diet.
Instead of salt, which is sodium chloride, you can substitute potassium chloride as an alternative. As the salt surplus dwindles, excess water that it has held in subjection gradually disappears.
An increase in potassium discourages water retention too. Vegetables are, in general, rich in potassium and low in calories. With liberal use of vegetables of low calorie value, and there is an added virtue in the tendency of their potassium to drive out surplus water. Of course if you yield to the natural urge to sprinkle vegetables with common salt, this benefit will be foregone.
In a desire to be fair, water keeps your weight down as well as up. One-fourth of the calories you consumed in yesterday’s meals have already escaped from your person in the form of water vapor—as insensible or invisible perspiration, and in the moist air exhaled from your lungs.
If you don’t believe it, breathe a few calories onto a mirror
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Diet Info Care On Whey Proteins
By Viv ;=) | March 18, 2008
Originally, whey was used as an animal feed and later research was conducted into he benefits of whey when Veterinarians noticed that the animals became healthier after being fed with whey.
What is Whey?
Whey contains many similar ingredients in mother’s milk and they are very high in quality proteins. So of all the proteins, whey is no doubt the best! Whey proteins supply the body with many essential amino acids and is a precusor to building muscles, enhances endurance and reduces muscle deterioration.
Where does whey come from?
As we know that there are 2 main proteins in milk:casein and whey, so whey comes from the process where milk is turned into cheese and when liquid is separated from the casein protein, that liquid is whey.
The 2 ways of obtaining whey:
The fastest way to obtain whey is from the top of the yogurt. Yes, the little liquid that forms on top of the yogurt with the extra nutrients. I don’t recall seeing whey in those processed and flavored yogurt that are sold in the supermarkets though. I make my yogurt at home, so must check out the shops’ chillers one of these days!
Making your own whey is quite simple but it needs time so I haven’t done it for a long while.
The only ingredient you need is plain yogurt which is mostly available in the local supermarket. Place a strainer sitting on a high pot or pitcher and line the strainer with 2 layers of cheese/muslin cloth. Next, pour in the yogurt and leave to drip until it slows down, then take the four ends of the cloth and tie them tightly to a long wooden chopsticks or spoon. Put the utensil across the container’s opening and with the yogurt now suspended in the container, leave it to hang until the drips stopped completely. Now, what you have collected in the pot is the whey.
What are some of the benefits of whey proteins?
- Enhances your immune system and fights infections by raising the body levels of glutathione, a powerful anti-oxidant that produces by the body to protect cells and neutralise toxins.
- Promotes fat loss by enhancing the release of glucagons that builds muscles and burns fats and inhibiting the release of insulin.
- Assists in building muscles by stimulating protein synthesis.
- Encourages bone growth thus helping to prevent or slow down osteoprosis.
- Reduces stress and alleviates depression by slowing the production of cortisol, a stressful hormone and promote the release of serotonin which is a calming neurotransmitter.
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