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Health and Wellness - Weight loss

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Many of us have attempted to lose weight at one time or another, and the natural weight loss tendency is to look for a fast and easy way to shed that extra weight. As a result, weight loss is now a multi-billion-dollar industry, encompassing everything from diet books and slimming clubs to weight-loss programs selling specially formulated foods and medications.

Think long-term

Weight loss is difficult and there are no miracle solutions. To lose weight and keep it off takes time and commitment. Many popular programs appear to fulfill their promises in the short-term by restricting certain food groups for example. However, these rarely teach you how to establish and maintain healthy eating habits in the long-term and, once you return to your old eating habits, your lost weight quickly returns. Seeking medical advice

Before beginning any program, especially very low-calorie or quick weight-loss types, talk to your doctor, especially if you are on any medication since the dose may have to be adjusted. Your doctor will monitor your progress and help you determine how much and what type of exercise is appropriate. He or she may also advise you to take vitamin and mineral supplements while you are on the diet program.

In general, weight loss programs should not be undertaken by women who are pregnant or breast-feeding or by anyone under the age of 18. If you are in one of these categories and are concerned about your weight, seek advice from your doctor.

There are many types of diets. Some limit certain macronutrients, such as fat or carbohydrates; others limit types of food, such as starchy carbohydrates. Some promote specific foods, such as grapefruit or cabbage soup, while others attempt to regulate your intake according to a strict formula, such as 40 percent carbohydrate: 30 percent protein: 30 percent fat.

However, other diet programs are based on theories that our bodies do not tolerate certain foods and that these must be eliminated from the diet. Most diets are aimed at helping you lose weight, but others promise a disease-free life to those who follow the program. When evaluating each of these diet plans, consider what it promises.

I firmly believe that there is no single best way for everyone to lose weight; most weight-loss diets work for some people; none works for everyone. However, with a little trial and error, everyone should be able to find a diet program that is effective for them

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Health and Wellness - Weight loss

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Many women over 40 do not succeed in losing the weight they’d like to lose. Seriously, how often have you tried to lose weight without a permanent result? When working with women over 40 I observe the same risks preventing permanent, lasting weight loss over and over…

Deficit in Social Contacts, Care and Sexuality
Women often tend to make up emotional needs by eating- making it impossible to lose weight permanently:

  • Extend your circle of friends and socialize more frequently
  • Cultivate existing friendly relationships
  • Respect your personal life; Put more emphasis on your private life and take time for yourself

Not enough sun
Sunlight has many benefits for our physical and emotional well-being making it easier to lose weight permanently:

  • Go outside daily, not enough sunlight creates cravings for sweets
  • Avoid wearing sunglasses on a cloudy or dreary day
  • During winter months, go to a tanning salon from time to time or get a lamp that produces light similar to daylight

Too much alcohol
Alcohol is high in calories and stimulates hunger:

  • Avoid alcohol when you are feeling blue or are depressed.
  • Drink only on occasion and in social situations, and never drink when you are alone
  • Avoid drinks high in alcohol content

Hormones and Medicament-Induced Side Effects
For a woman over 40 the delicate hormone balance changes- permanent weight loss is harder to achieve:

  • If you go through sudden weight gain, consult a physician
  • Some drugs cause weight gain – talk to your doctor
  • Never end taking a drug without the advice of your physician

Mistakes with Nutrition
Over 40 the body stores fat much easier.
By paying close care to your nutrition, permanent weight loss is possible:

  • Eat a lot of fresh fruit, veggies and whole wheat products
  • Read labels and think of hidden fats in foods such as processed foods, cheese, sausage and pastries
  • Prepare your foods using a healthy method such as steaming, roasting or stewing, and avoid frying. Leave off breaded foods and dressings high in fat.
  • “Avoid many of the “”white”" foods that hold empty carbohydrates such as sugar, flour, bread, cake and rice
  • Control labels before purchasing a product to see how many calories it contains
  • Avoid processed foods
  • Artificial sweeteners might stimulate your appetite, so try not to use them

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Health and Wellness - Trouble Losing Weight

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

 

Many people ask why has my weight Loss Slowed? Sooner or latter in every weight loss plan this happens, usually after about 15 lb. weight loss the body just shuts down. It can happen at 5 lb. or even at 30 lbs. Here are some of the ideas to look at if this happens to you:
Don’t Let “Normal” Set Points and Weight Loss Plateaus Stop Your Plan. You have watched you diet for weeks, exercised and saw a steady weight loss. Then suddenly it all ends, no matter what you the scales will not budge. You have reached a set point, or plateau. Why is this inevitable?

* Our body works hard to keep energy intake and output in balance.
* We all like weight loss but our body interprets the weight loss as starvation,
* It shuts down our metabolism.
* The more effort you make to burn more calories the more it slows down.

It takes fewer calories to maintain your weight because you simply weigh less. To lose one pound a week, you’ll need to create a deficit of approximately 500 calories per day. This plateauing effect is one of the biggest motivation killers there is. The best single word of advice is to make a change. In Part 1 of this series you will learn all of the reasons responsible for this problem.
Here are some of the causes range of the slow down include:
# Normal physiologic resistance to weight loss
# Genetic predisposition
# Unrealistic expectations
# Mistakes in food selection, portions, and preparations
# Bored or fatigued What Should You Weigh? Expectations Versus Reality:
Are expectations unrealistic? If you are comparing yourself to the bone-thin celebrity on television or what you weighed in high school, perhaps your expectations are unrealistic.

Genetic Predisposition Cause Weight Ranges for Many People:
70% of the variation in people’s weight may be accounted for by inheritance, which means that a tendency toward a certain weight is more strongly inherited than nearly any other tendency.

Weight Loss is Proportional to Starting Weight:
For an individual who weighs 200 pounds, it will be easier to lose five pounds than for the person weighing 150 pounds. This is normal and expected.

It’s Normal for Weight Loss to Slow Down
Weight loss slows over time because your metabolism slows to prevent what the body interprets as starvation. Although the possibility of starvation is not entirely relevant in the U.S. today, this bodily mechanism did help our ancestors survive during lean times.

Personal Set point:
Each person has his or her own set point, or the level at which one naturally starts to resist weight change and becomes “comfortable” with his or her new weight. There are low set points and high set points; think of them as preset weight zones. Your plateau might be your low set point. Many times the cause of this may be those genes you inherited, other times just from making a few mistakes. Set points often occur at weight points of previous diet attempts.

Depletion of Vitamins and Minerals:
Weight loss is associated not only with reductions in body fat, but also some loss of muscle mass. Invariably numerous vitamins and chemicals as vitamins and co-enzymes needed to breakdown fat are also depleted.

Once you have discovered the reasons for you weight loss slow down, the next step is to do something about it.

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Health and Wellness - Diets

Friday, May 7th, 2010

There are many fad diets on the market that should be avoided such as Low Calorie and No Carbs diet, which can unhealthy and cause side effects.

How to spot a fad diet

  • Contradicts what most trusted health professionals are saying
  • Relies on testimonials and anecdotes, rather than scientific evidence
  • Encourages eliminating whole food groups, such as carbohydrates
  • Promises rapid weight loss of more than two pounds a week
  • Suggests that particular foods have the power to burn fat
  • Includes lists of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ foods
  • Encourages strange quantities of particular foods or types of food, such as eating unlimited bowls of cabbage soup, cereal, or only consuming certain foods on certain days of the week
  • Recommends specific food combination
  • Relies on meal substitutes, such as shakes
  • Does not encourage an increase in physical activity.

So What Does Work?

Weight-loss Clinics - on or offline

Meeting with a trained dietician or nutritionist will provide a specific program, tailored to your individual needs. This is much better than a one-size-fits-all program. You will receive ongoing support and advice as necessary, which should include targeting underlying problems, associated with the initial weight gain.

Low GI Diet

The GI plan was originally created to help diabetics manage their blood sugars better, however it can also be useful for weight loss in those without diabetes. Low GI plans focus on foods that are high fibre, which help to maintain blood sugar levels, and make you feel fuller longer.

The DASH Diet

The DASH Diet is a low-salt, high-carb, high-fibre plan originally designed to help lower blood pressure, but can also be used to aid weight loss. It focuses on basic healthy eating guidelines, emphasizing regular exercise, and is therefore a well balanced approach to losing weight.

Weight Watchers

The Weight Watchers program is based on healthy eating and calorie control. The program provides support, education, advice and promotes exercise. The system uses a point system to count calories and although in the being it feels daunting, after some use, it is easily implemented into your eating habits.

Lifestyle changes are better than ‘diets.’ Learn portion control, eat a balanced diet with lots of fruits and vegetables.

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Health and Wellness - Obesity

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

Obesity is the chronic disease that needs life long treatment. Someone weighing 100 pounds requires profession treatment. Because of the serious health problems such as stroke, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some of deficiency diseases related to severe obesity, drastic measures may be necessary. Such treatments are highly recommends only when traditional diet fails. Drastic weight-loss procedures are not without side affects, both physical and psychological, making careful physician monitoring a necessity. A dieter can try no devise a plan of action by seeking advice from a registered dietician or other health professional, or by consulting current books.

If more traditional diet changes have failed, treating severe obesity with a very-low-calorie diet. It is quite possible, especially if the person has obesity-related diseases that are not well controlled. This diet helps to restrict the calorie intakes. It also helps to reduce the risk of contagious and deficiency diseases. Sometimes, these are all lead in to severe death. The proper diet can help to decrease hunger and close to the goal of weight loss. Men can easily lose weight when compare to women. A treatment requires long-term lifestyle changes, rather than simply taking medicine and follows the diet book. The weight should not be regained at any situation. Then it will be total waste of time, energy and expenses. One should conscious about weight loss along with long term achievements.

In adulthood, weight gain is common especially in those aged 25 to 44 years. Attention to be taken to these stages. The importance of preventing obesity is to escape with the contagious diseases. Weight should be lost mostly from muscle and other lean tissues. One should burn the fat but feed the muscle. It is not easy to stick with the proper diet. One should give up their favorite foods in order to reduce the weight. The main key to attain this stage is to cut down the calories and fat.

Weight loss supplements industries are seeking their products and nothing. People who consumes sometimes they are about to stick with side effects and further complications. They are mere fragile on earth. Even it becomes bigger than the current weight. It is best to lose the weight with the care of physician and family support. It helps the person to reach the goal very soon. But the weight should not be regained at any stage. Sometimes diet can be failed. But regular physical activity always welcomes the people to lose weight and being healthy.

Obesity is the risk factor. But if it is severs, the case is to be treated essentially. There are several approaches to promote weight but one should lose weight in a healthy way. Skipping the meals and breakfast won’t help any way to drop weight. Reducing the food and increasing of physical activity is the successful way and allows leading a right quality of life.

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Health and Wellness - Exercise

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

Many people complain of gaining weight despite daily exercise. How does this occur? There may be various reasons of gaining weight even when doing exercises in daily routine.

The most common reason for weight gain is simply more calories consumption than calories being burned. Exercise will not help you lose weight if you do not change you eating habits. You assume that just because you are exercising you will automatically lose weight. But even if you do several hours of vigorous exercise everyday, and eat more than you burn, you will still gain weight.

You believe that whatever excess calories you eat today you will be able to burn tomorrow by doing more exercise than normal. You cheat yourselves by not giving your all when you exercise. You spend a lot of time in a gym but most of the minutes are spent socializing. Many times you work out at very low intensities when you are capable of burning more calories. So the frequency and duration of your workouts is appropriate but the intensity is sorely lacking. Many time you think you are exercising regularly when in reality your workout attendance is few and far in between.

It is possible to become smaller in measurements but gain weight on the scale because you are losing fat and gaining muscle. This happens especially when you do weight training. But some people are so weight conscious that even if they lose inches, they are not happy because they weigh a few pounds more than others. You need an attitude adjustment: otherwise, you may quit exercising, thinking it is not worth it when you are really on the right track.

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Health and Wellness - Obesity

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Obesity is the chronic disease that needs life long treatment. One who is weighing 100 pounds requires profession treatment. Because of the serious health problems such as stroke, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some of deficiency diseases related to severe obesity, drastic measures may be necessary. Such treatments are highly recommends only when traditional diet fails. Drastic weight-loss procedures are not without side affects, both physical and psychological, making careful physician monitoring a necessity. A dieter can try no devise a plan of action by seeking advice from a registered dietician or other health professional, or by consulting current books.

If more traditional diet changes have failed, treating severe obesity with a very-low-calorie diet. It is quite possible, especially if the person has obesity-related diseases that are not well controlled. This diet helps to restrict the calorie intakes. It also helps to reduce the risk of contagious and deficiency diseases. Sometimes, these are all lead in to severe death. The proper diet can help to decrease hunger and close to the goal of weight loss. Men can easily lose weight when compare to women. A treatment requires long-term lifestyle changes, rather than simply taking medicine and follows the diet book. The weight should not be regained at any situation. Then it will be total waste of time, energy and expenses. One should conscious about weight loss along with long term achievements.

In adulthood, weight gain is common especially in those aged 25 to 44 years. Attention to be taken to these stages. The importance of preventing obesity is to escape with the contagious diseases. Weight should be lost mostly from muscle and other lean tissues. One should burn the fat but feed the muscle. It is not easy to stick with the proper diet. One should give up their favorite foods in order to reduce the weight. The main key to attain this stage is to cut down the calories and fat.

Weight loss supplements industries are seeking their products and nothing. People who consumes sometimes they are about to stick with side effects and further complications. They are mere fragile on earth. Even it becomes bigger than the current weight. It is best to lose the weight with the care of physician and family support. It helps the person to reach the goal very soon. But the weight should not be regained at any stage. Sometimes diet can be failed. But regular physical activity always welcomes the people to lose weight and being healthy.

Obesity is the risk factor. But if it is severs, the case is to be treated essentially. There are several approaches to promote weight but one should lose weight in a healthy way. Skipping the meals and breakfast won’t help any way to drop weight. Reducing the food and increasing of physical activity is the successful way and allows leading a right quality of life

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Health and Wellness - Fat Loss

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Health concerns area subject that grabs attention these days and most people start out by looking at the mirror and check out if they are indeed physically fit. Some would consider certain flab or beer bellies as a sign of turn-offs and unhealthy signs. It is indeed something normal today, but people who want to good weight loss results should be more than determined to stick to it rather than doing it for a limited time only. It need to be a lifestyle change.

There are various ways for people want to reduce their weight. Some even resort to asking weight specialists for proper doctor certified weight loss assistance at times. A determined person who is inclined to lose weight and reach the ideal figure for various purposes will indeed require more than pure physical exercise and dieting. There is simply more towards weight loss programs than sweating it out.

While it is okay to resort to various strenuous weight loss programs, it would be wise to turn towards safe weight loss means above anything else. Losing that extra pound but at the same time risking your health totally negates the entire purpose for doing so. There are means to lose those excess calories but for people who may find it difficult to achieve, it would be best to seek the advice from physicians so that they may be able to provide proper assisted weight loss programs.

Relying on physician assisted weight loss programs may not entirely sit well with most people but it is the safest way to satisfy both weight loss proceedings without sacrificing the health. There are indeed a lot of people who have been conscious with their bodily figure, but an ideal figure would mean nothing if the overall health of an individual is sacrificed for the sake of showing off the envious figure and shape that most people clearly want to have.

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Health and Wellness - Fat Loss

Friday, April 30th, 2010

A growing number of people wonder about how long they should work out and at what intensity level for the best fat loss results, because they wish to maximize their efforts..

For the past decade, dieters and fitness enthusiasts have been mislead into thinking that lower intensity exercise is the best way to burn fat. This is likely because exercise at lower intensities primarily uses fat as the "fuel" source … and higher intensity exercise uses carbohydrates as fuel.

However, the most important factor in losing fat with exercise is the TOTAL number of calories burned, NOT whether the calories burned are from fat or carbs.

Many people refuse to work hard because they are afraid it would take them out of their "fat burning zone." these people can be seen steady cycling on a machine sometimes even reading a paper!

Research has proven, time and time again, that exercising at a low intensity to stay in the "fat burning zone" is incorrect. At lower intensities, you burn more calories from fat … BUT you burn fewer TOTAL calories.

Remember, "Fat Loss Key #1" in our DVD is in order to lose fat, you must create a caloric deficit. That is, you need to expend ("burn") more calories than you consume. Period. There are no exceptions to this rule.

So, whether your cardio sessions are 12, 20, 30, or 45 minutes long, the higher the intensity, the more TOTAL calories you will burn. And the more TOTAL calories you burn, the more fat you burn. In addition, higher intensity exercise not only burns more calories, it also elevates your metabolism more (and longer) after the workout is over.

That’s right, with higher intensity exercise, you can actually condition your metabolism to work more efficiently throughout the day! (be sure to exercise at safe range for your fitness level)

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Health and Wellness - Weigh Loss

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

If you are struggling with weight lose ,there is nothing like a little healthy competition to help you get the edge in weight loss. You need to find someone to compete against while you are losing weight. This will give you the little extra push you might need to reach your weight loss goals. You will also have to report your progress or lack of progress to someone else. You can really motivated with friendly competition. When you don’t feel like doing anything to reach your goal think about what you friend might be doing to to beat you.

Remember to get feedback from your partner. Call each other up and report your progress to each other, but at the same time congratulated him or her if they have done something positive to reach their goal. You are not tearing each other down you are building each other up.

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