Ashwagandha for weight loss

Posted by iqko | February 6th, 2010 in Diet Tips and Info | No Comments »

You may be experiencing a problem with hypothyroidism (too little thyroid active). Two plants and a mineral can help you. Both plants have demonstrated the following active influence the activity of the thyroid gland in addition to other favorable actions on the health and even weight loss.

The Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) is an Indian plant used for over 2000 years in Ayurvedic medicine. It is also called Indian ginseng. This plant has an approved operation on the thyroid gland and is especially renowned for its restorative properties and cons adaptogen effects of stress. The recommended dosage, to act on the thyroid is 900 mg per day (2 doses of 450 mg). Warning: If you are treated for thyroid problems you should seek advice from your doctor or health practitioner. The plant is hypnotic in large doses. It is recommended for pregnant women.

The Guggulipid, another Indian plant used in ayurvedic medicine, best known for its action on lipid metabolism. It is used successfully to lower cholesterol. Its action on lipids, however, is produced by stimulation of the thyroid. This plant was used in India for weight control. Take 4 capsules of 500 mg per day of plant standardized to 2.5% guggulsterones E and Z. The plant is not recommended for pregnant women.

Selenium: This mineral is essential for proper thyroid function and very little presence in the daily diet. Pollution and soil depletion is largely responsible for this deficiency. The food is the richest of Brazil nuts. To restore the thyroid function, studies have used a supplement of selenium at doses ranging 300 mcg to 1000 mcg.

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Some simple and foolproof tips to lose weight easily

Posted by iqko | February 1st, 2010 in Diet and Health, Diet and Nutritions | No Comments »

The Power of Omega-3

Leptin, a hormone responsible for the sensation of fullness, is strongly stimulated by the Omega-3. These muscles also allow better use of nutrients and burn calories more efficiently.

Flax seeds are a good source of Omega-3. They also offer the advantage of being rich in fiber whose effects on controlling blood sugar is now well known. The best way to take flax seed is to grind them in a small coffee grinder. Use one to two tbsp per day. A study in the United States the best results are obtained by consuming daily 1 tbsp to table of linseed oil and 2 tbsp table to ground flaxseed.

Vitamin C, fat burner

Researchers reported weight losses of up to 8 pounds in six weeks by consuming 1,000 mg per day of vitamin C. Vitamin C 30% increase in the production of carnitine in the liver. Carnitine is an amino acid that converts fat into muscle.

Lemons, oranges and grapefruits, which are very good sources of natural vitamin C, have also proven to be effective in controlling weight when consumed regularly over meals.

Use the power of visualization

Specialists in hypnotic techniques or using relaxation have long been aware that good results can be obtained using the power of visualization in appetite control and the implantation of a self-image corresponding the desired results, namely a slimmer body. Through the power of the display image become embedded deeply in the subconscious. Recent research conducted in Cleveland, the United States, confirms that people who regularly use the power of visualization, 100% increase their chances of success of their plan of weight loss and weight control.

These techniques of visualization and autosuggestion are used in the method Miracle Diet eating.

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6 Losing kilos (14 pounds) in 10 days, with the Sonoma Diet.

Posted by iqko | January 28th, 2010 in Diet and Nutritions | No Comments »

This diet promotes weight loss but also supports the health system protects the heart and diabetes, among other benefits.

10 days of attack

It is recommended to promote the consumption of 10 foods during an initial period of 10 days.

1 grapes
2 blueberries
3 strawberries
4 Broccoli
5 Spinach
6 whole grain
7 almonds
8 peppers
9 tomato
10 Olive oil

a key plan is to consume daily a variety of these foods, supplemented by 3 servings of protein (fish, skinless poultry, lean meat, skimmed milk products) and 2 servings of fat (almonds and olive oil ). The quantity and proportions should be as follows: For breakfast we will use a 17 cm dish, using the ratio of 75% protein, 25% whole grain. For lunch we will move to a 22 cm dish and proportions of 40% protein, 60% vegetables and fruits. For dinner that will be 30% protein, 20% whole grain and 50% vegetables and fruits.

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You can lose weight? 3 symptoms, 3 solutions

Posted by iqko | January 26th, 2010 in Diet Menu, Diet and Health | No Comments »

You follow many diets and diets to lose weight, but the results do not go, or simply, they are discouraging. Perhaps the problem for you than the simple factor of diet and even exercise.

We have found 3 health problems that could affect you and prevent weight loss. These factors are:
- liver congested and overloaded
- deficiency of the essential fatty acid
- a glandular problem

3 Problems, 3 Solutions:

We offer 3 to search for clues that might indicate that you have one or more of these problems. If you are assigned one of these indices is sufficient for this problem is to control your weight. We offer each of them an easy to apply.

Symptom 1:
You notice the presence of tiny yellow spots in the white of the eye (or is this an outright trend towards yellow).

Tip:
Your liver is congested and you should take a little cure “Detox” as described in our review of Spring Detox: to get in shape this summer!

You can also add a lawyer and a cup of cruciferous vegetables include: kale, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts or raw sauerkraut. Research has shown that these foods regularly consumed significantly increase liver function in just 3 weeks. They reduce the absorption of calories and increase fat metabolism.

Symptom 2:
Your skin is dry, reddish.

Tip:
Your body may be deficient in essential fatty acids omega-3. These fatty acids help to burn fat cells by stimulating the metabolism of at least 10%.

Eat foods rich in Omega-3 (salmon, mackerel, sardines, walnuts, almonds, flax seeds). Capsules of fish oil (2 to 3 capsules of 1000 mg per day).

Symptom 3:
You lose your hair, you are chilly and often tired or depressed, easily irritated (you can submit one or more of these symptoms).

Tip:
You may be experiencing a problem with hypothyroidism (too little thyroid active). Two plants and a mineral can help you. Both plants have demonstrated the following active influence the activity of the thyroid gland in addition to other favorable actions on the health and even weight loss.

The Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) is an Indian plant used for over 2000 years in Ayurvedic medicine. It is also called Indian ginseng. This plant has an approved operation on the thyroid gland and is especially renowned for its restorative properties and cons adaptogen effects of stress. The recommended dosage, to act on the thyroid is 900 mg per day (2 doses of 450 mg). Warning: If you are treated for thyroid problems you should seek advice from your doctor or health practitioner. The plant is hypnotic in large doses. It is recommended for pregnant women.

The Guggulipid, another Indian plant used in ayurvedic medicine, best known for its action on lipid metabolism. It is used successfully to lower cholesterol. Its action on lipids, however, is produced by stimulation of the thyroid. This plant was used in India for weight control. Take 4 capsules of 500 mg per day of plant standardized to 2.5% guggulsterones E and Z. The plant is not recommended for pregnant women.

Selenium: This mineral is essential for proper thyroid function and very little presence in the daily diet. Pollution and soil depletion is largely responsible for this deficiency. The food is the richest of Brazil nuts. To restore the thyroid function, studies have used a supplement of selenium at doses ranging 300 mcg to 1000 mcg.

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The myth of calories to lose weight

Posted by iqko | January 25th, 2010 in Diet Menu, Diet and Health, Diet and Nutritions | No Comments »

Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight because it will advise to eat less and exercise more.
The logic behind these measures is to create a calorie deficit in order to force your body to burn excess stored fat. The reality is that for many people follow a reduced calorie diet ends in failure, especially in the long term. A diet should not become an accounting exercise and it is also important to understand that this is not the number of calories to start, but the number of calories on arrival in the blood, which should be considered in such a scheme. A diet rich in fiber significantly reduces the absorption of fats and carbohydrates, nutrients, potentially high in calories.

In this approach there is also a psychological factor for those trying to lose weight by cutting calories, food suddenly becomes an enemy instead of a nutrient needed to operate and maintain health.

The biological signal of hunger is transformed into a sign of success rather than being seen as a signal sent by the agency to show that he is hungry and lack of vital nutrients to function normally.

Starvation diet

Set a calorie standard applies to the whole world is a utopia. Several factors can affect the number of calories that a person, such as genetics, lifestyle, exercise habits, etc.. It is interesting to note that the World Health said that hunger is beginning to occur under the 2100 calories a day, a number far higher than most plans based on the concept of reducing caloric.

Schemes based on 1200 or even 800 calories per day are not uncommon (900 calories, incidentally, was the typical diet fed to prisoners in concentration camps during the Second World War). These diets very low in calories still exist today. So many people are forced to follow a dietary model of 1,600 calories per day without realizing that they follow a hypocaloric diet. When you eat less than your body needs to function normally, your body perceives this as a signal of hunger and restrictions and it will automatically mode “economic” to preserve its operation. It is a simple biological fact. The metabolism slows and you’ve lost weight initially, this weight loss suddenly stops and you can no longer lose an ounce!

There are hundreds and hundreds of operations performed at each moment in your body, so it needs fuel to perform these many tasks. If your body does not receive the materials and energy needed in your diet, it has no choice but to buy them from another source, that is to say in his own body. It is generally assumed that the body will only use its stored fat to fill the deficiency of nutrients, but it is not so simple. Your body will also tap into the bone, muscle and organ tissue. Yes, the person following this diet will lose some fat, but it will also be at the sacrifice of vital tissues.

Most people following a low calorie diet to feel one or more of these symptoms: fatigue, depression, loss of hair, dry skin, poor memory, difficulty concentrating, mood swings, irregular menstrual cycles and even lose interest in sex.

Eventually the symptoms worsen and the body weakens until eventually some health problems do appear. Disease and allergies are becoming frequent and possibly degenerative diseases are likely to occur. This deterioration may be fast or slow, depending on whether your diet is more or less deficient in nutrients.

The absurdity of the schemes based on calories

According to Dr. George Guierre on the absurdity of the schemes based on the number of calories:
“The theory of food calories equates to a kind of coal, and to neglect certain basic qualities as the vitalization; calories to equal the toxicity varies with the food … you can live very well with a number of calories below average, if foods are healthy and alive, and be patient, absorbing the normal figure, but fat, starches and meats. In other words, the food must be in affinity with our cells and our digestive tract. .

Calculate calories, makes a diet more difficult to manage and makes it potentially more dangerous risk of malnutrition of vital nutrients to the body. A diet based on monitoring of calories required to divest itself of many foods, especially to resign in controlled quantities. There deprivation and frustration. That is why this kind of diet leads to failure in the longer term. It is not possible or healthy to follow such a diet over the long term, since it is not a normal power mode, which provide the body less nutrients than what it needs to operate to meet its needs.

This does not risk the contrary, a person with a diet high in calories, but comprised mainly of foods devoid of nutrients, will be found literally in a state of undernutrition biological.

The new discoveries in nutrition, particularly regarding the influence of glycemic index of foods on blood sugar levels of the organization, we show that to lose weight it is better to eat his fill, which means maintaining its rate glycemic stability. It is therefore necessary to eat smarter. Smarter does not mean eating less or restrictive. To lose weight it is important to know the glycemic load, it can predict the impact of decreasing the consumption of certain foods on blood sugar in a food and how it should be consumed.

To lose weight healthily, you must eat healthily …!

The secret to losing weight is simple: eat healthily and your hunger! There are also other factors that diet or exercise to lose weight. Exercise is an undeniable factor of health, but overweight people often experience difficulties in practicing physical exertion before they lost weight and he is certainly not easy to produce a physical effort while reducing their energy intake !

It is therefore necessary to go through an intermediate step and gradual. It is important to know that all fats and all carbohydrates are not enemies of our health, but many elements needed to be fit and healthy.

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Salt diet: the substitutes

Posted by iqko | January 20th, 2010 in Diet and Health, Diet and Nutritions | No Comments »

If salt diet, several alternatives exist salt. It is possible to replace this component of salt substitutes that contain, in theory, not sodium.

But be careful because some of them contain all the same sometimes. Under a discrete form, as sodium iodide, for example. So check their composition in detail!

For salad dressings and vegetables, think of all the spices and condiments, making sure to choose the mustard and pickles without salt. Garlic and parsley can enliven your meals and perfume, as part of a low salt diet.
Similarly, most bakers are preparing today, often on commission, bread without salt. If this was not the case near you, buy salt-free crackers.

In the strictest regimes must replace regular milk with milk Pennac without salt.
You can buy some canned food diet, but by checking the composition on the label: they must not contain sodium chloride, or another form of sodium.

More and more brands offering salt substitutes containing natural products.

In all cases, prefer to cook it yourself your dishes. The vast majority of dishes are salty. For example, and against all odds, sodas and cakes sold commercially contain doses of salt sometimes high.
Here is the list of natural foods to replace the salt:

- Plan condiments: mustard and pickles Bornibus captiva, mustard nature without salt (less than 1% salt), mustard and pickles Sanceldiet or tanks;

- Spices, herbs and seasonings: garlic, basil, cinnamon, chervil, chives, lemon, cloves, cucumbers regime, cumin, curry, shallot, tarragon, ginger, laurel, mint, mustard system, nutmeg, onion , parsley, oregano, paprika, chilli, pepper, rosemary, saffron, salt diet, thyme, vanilla, vinegar.

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More saturated fat to lose weight?

Posted by iqko | January 18th, 2010 in Diet and Health, Diet and Nutritions | No Comments »

Over the past forty years, health experts have advocated the need to reduce if not eliminate, fat, especially saturated fats.

For many years fat was bad press, and it is only recently that we began to better distinguish different types of fat and the public begins to understand that there are “good fats”, and “bad fats”.

We are all aware about that polyunsaturated fats, monounsaturated and Omega-3, to simplify the most, are most beneficial to health and that the trans fatty and saturated fats are the most dangerous, to avoid absolutely .

According to Dr. Michael Aziz, MD, and several of his colleagues, the science has determined to recommend a low fat intake, particularly saturated, was not able to distinguish differences in the characteristics of saturated fats. We simplified things by giving recommendation to avoid all types of fat. This was not without consequences for health in general and particularly for weight control.

Moreover, the industry replaced saturated fats with trans fatty and refined oils which have proved more dangerous to health than the saturated fats they replaced, promoting cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and probably some cancers.

Recommendations to reduce the fat has also resulted in the emergence of diet or habits promoting carbohydrates or ultimately, a diet high in sugars. In fact, these carbohydrates are usually refined, they imply a peak of insulin and result of silent inflammation and increased blood sugar which will be converted into fat that is stored in the body.

Some saturated fat can lose weight and are conducive to health

Today scientists realize that saturated fats may promote weight loss! A study by the University of Connecticut showed that women who include saturated fats in their diet, lose 33% more weight than other study participants who followed a traditional diet.

Saturated fatty acids are materials necessary to manufacture many hormones that play an important role in metabolism, including “burn” fat.

In these hormones are included estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, adrenaline, and DHEA.

The saturated fat in a meal prevent “fast sugars” to enter the body and be responsible for a spike in insulin, which results cause cravings and send the signal the liver to convert sugars in abdominal fat.

The lack of saturated fat in a meal also causes more easily physical and mental fatigue.

A diet containing saturated fat gives a better feeling of satiety, energy metabolism and helps burn immediately that these fats to provide energy.

Saturated fats are they unhealthy?

Saturated fats have however been identified as being harmful to health and particularly to the cardiovascular system. Saturated fats are known to raise levels of bad cholesterol (HDL) compared to good cholesterol (LDL).

Recent studies on saturated fats, showed that all saturated fats are not alike and that there are different types of bad cholesterol (LDL). According to Dr. Azziz, most doctors are still not aware of this distinction.

We now distinguish two types of LDL. One of these types of LDL is too large to pass under the arterial walls and form a clot. The second type is called sLDL (s for small or small), it is dense and small, and it would be him guilty of atheromas which clog the long arteries.

Saturated fat would promote only elevated LDL too large to do damage and would have virtually no impact on small LDL that are responsible for the deterioration of the arteries and cardiovascular problems. Carbohydrates, especially when they are refined, and all “fast sugars” sLDL favor and are therefore more dangerous to your health and weight.

Dr. Azziz recommends particularly saturated fat from the coconut oil, butter, palm oil and chocolate.

It also recommends the use of other types of fat, monounsaturated fats such as olive oil extra virgin, first cold pressed, almonds, almond butter, and fatty fish like salmon, tuna and sardines.

Of course he recommends unlimited consumption of vegetables and fruits, with emphasis on green leafy vegetables, cruciferous, and later fruit small berries and citrus.

Finally, Dr. Azziz recommends consuming a minimum of protein (white meat, eggs, seafood and fish) and if the carbohydrates are allowed, they must be unrefined, high fiber.

He also recommends using a profusion of herbs. To sweeten it proposes to replace the sugar with agave syrup or stevia.

Drink plenty of water, natural lemonade, tea.

Make three main meals and two snacks on the day.

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Natural Medicine: veganism

Posted by iqko | January 12th, 2010 in Diet Menu, Diet Tips and Info, Diet and Health, Diet and Nutritions | No Comments »

Even stricter than vegetarians, this plan also prohibits the by-products of animal origin. Thus the milk, eggs, butter do not appear in a vegan meal, either in its preparation.

Other principles of vegetarianism are maintained, including the arrangement of meals, which also begins with a plate of raw vegetables. Cooked vegetables will be steamed or stewed, to allow optimal preservation of vitamins, minerals and trace elements.

Be careful to always involve grain legumes or pulses and vary the menu as much as possible. Some of the advice, but merely on short-term. It is then, somehow, a real “detox”, if we consider that animal products provide a lot of waste, difficult to eliminate by the body.

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Dietetics: Dietetics and Nutrition, dietary advice for a balanced diet

Posted by iqko | January 11th, 2010 in Diet and Nutritions | No Comments »

Healthy DietThe diet, a balanced diet

From Latin diaetetica, “all rules for a balanced diet. The diet is similar to a way to act on his health and form through food.

There is today two movements as opposite as complementary: first, an abundance of food, especially fat and sugar in all possible outlets and unimaginable: bookstores, bakeries, tobacco stores, but restaurants Quick, shops, supermarkets. On the other hand, there is a real awareness of the absurdity of our diet too rich, hence the interest of many repented for junk food diet.

Note that even in countries with poor nutrition pose significant problems with deficiencies in certain nutrients for many people … but also an excessive increase in weight. Indeed, the “epidemic” of obesity on the same people in the developing world! This requires, also, to review their diet.

For the diet based primarily on a good balanced diet. If before, they spoke of “good percentage” of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates, today’s speech experts was simplified. In France, we can say that the diet, the “good rules” food is “dictated” by the National Health Nutrition (PNNS) which recommends eating:
- 5 fruits and vegetables per day
- 3 dairy products per day
- Fish twice a week
- Not too fat, or sugar,
- Not too much salt.

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10 principles for sports nutrition

Posted by Ann Brown | January 8th, 2010 in Diet and Nutritions, Sport and Exercises | No Comments »

sports nutritionsThe subject physically active should be aware that their caloric and nutrition is very important to maintain the desired performance and meet targets. The following are some of the most important rules to keep in mind when practicing physical exercise:

1. Most of the energy needed during your training is provided by carbohydrates. Cereals, fruits, rice and pasta are important dietary sources for the athlete.

2. Conduct five daily servings of moderate caloric intake, it’s much better to make three large intakes. Thus, your carbohydrate stores failed to exhaust and caloric expenditure derived from the digestive process is much greater.

3. If you perform resistance exercise, such as weights or toning classes, or high impact exercise as continuous run joint or team sports, it is important to have an adequate protein intake. The meat, eggs and milk are some of the most important sources of protein.

4. If your goal is weight loss you have to consider that the combination of diet and exercise is best to accomplish your goal. Different studies show that diet or exercise separately reduces the chances of success in weight loss is concerned.

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