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How Sugar Affects Your Teeth
You always hear it from your dentist and read it from almost every tooth care article you can find, avoiding sugar is one of the best way to keep your teeth strong and healthy. But what is it with sugar that makes it so bad for our teeth? Sugar has always been an essential part of the American diet. From the bread and cereal that we eat to our favorite carbonated beverages, almost everything that we consume, sweet or not, contains sugar. But the thing about it that makes sugar a tooth's worst nightmare is that bacteria present in the mouth (Streptococcus mutans) consumes sugar to get energy, and as an end result, produces acid which harms the teeth causing cavities.
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Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
Did you know that changing your diet can extend your life and make you feel and look younger than your physical age? Find out what an anti-aging diet is and how it can help you defeat the aging process.
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Is there any drink more fun and refreshing than an ice cold milkshake? I don't think so. Milkshakes are a part of American food culture and have spread all over the world. Here's my list of the best milkshake recipe you can find anywhere.
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Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
Did you know that changing your diet can extend your life and make you feel and look younger than your physical age? Find out what an anti-aging diet is and how it can help you defeat the aging process.
Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
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Best Wine Selection For Heart Health
Questions about wine selection for heart health arise because of research relating moderate consumption to a reduced risk of coronary artery disease. When it comes to heart health, wine may be a good choice, but excess consumption can lead to multiple health problems. For this reason, scientists have attempted to identify what you might call "the effective ingredient" in red wine. Is there a way to get the health benefits associated with wine, without the health risks? The answer is "yes".
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Can Lung Cancer Be Prevented?
Lung cancer is the most fatal form of cancer in the US, and other developed countries, today. And the fact is, that most of the cancer treatments that work well on other forms of cancer often don't work well on lung cancer. Add to that the fact that lung cancer is often not diagnosed until it is far advanced, and it's easy to understand why this disease is so often fatal.
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Can Lung Cancer Be Prevented?
Lung cancer is the most fatal form of cancer in the US, and other developed countries, today. And the fact is, that most of the cancer treatments that work well on other forms of cancer often don't work well on lung cancer. Add to that the fact that lung cancer is often not diagnosed until it is far advanced, and it's easy to understand why this disease is so often fatal.
Can Lung Cancer Be Prevented?
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How Sugar Affects Your Teeth
You always hear it from your dentist and read it from almost every tooth care article you can find, avoiding sugar is one of the best way to keep your teeth strong and healthy. But what is it with sugar that makes it so bad for our teeth? Sugar has always been an essential part of the American diet. From the bread and cereal that we eat to our favorite carbonated beverages, almost everything that we consume, sweet or not, contains sugar. But the thing about it that makes sugar a tooth's worst nightmare is that bacteria present in the mouth (Streptococcus mutans) consumes sugar to get energy, and as an end result, produces acid which harms the teeth causing cavities.
How Sugar Affects Your Teeth
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The Dangers In Chocolate
Let's face it, many of us are chocoholics. If we weren't, we wouldn't be constantly bombarded with ads for Ring Dings, Devil Dogs and what have you. If you counted the number of ads in newspapers, magazines and on TV for some kind of chocolate product and tied them end to end, you could probably go to the moon and back a hundred times. Well, as good as chocolate might taste, especially that absolutely incredible German chocolate, it is probably one of the worst things you can put in your body. In this article, we'll cover just a few of the dangers of chocolate and chocolate based products. You may not ever eat another Ring Ding for the rest of your life.
The Dangers In Chocolate
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Type 2 Diabetes - Will Yogurt Spike Your Blood Sugar Level?
Yogurt is a world-renowned healthy food but you have to know what to look for to get the best yogurt for a diabetic diet. That's because some producers add so much fat and sugar their yogurt is really not healthy at all. As you may already know, yogurt is an excellent protein source and it has many nutrients which are especially needed by diabetics.
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A cup of yogurt can often be a healthy substitute for dessert, replacing foods like ice cream which has a higher fat and sugar content. Diabetics in particular need to get low-fat forms of yogurt. If you don't want to increase your carbohydrates too much, you can get yogurt sweetened with sugar substitutes. This can lower the calories often to a total of 70 to 100.
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Type 2 Diabetes - Will Yogurt Spike Your Blood Sugar Level?
Yogurt has lactobacteria, which although it might not sound like it, is actually good for you. The most well-known is acidophilis, which not only cleans out your colon, but stops the creation of bile acids which cause cancer. The live cultures in yogurt also boost the immune system.
The calcium content of yogurt is high and it contains other vitamins and minerals needed by diabetics... vitamins B-6, B-12, and manganese. If you are lactose intolerant, you don't have to worry about the sugars in yogurt because they are usually digestible. Some yogurts have just the right enzymes to help with digestion.
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Yogurt packs a lot of protein in a small container. In fact, it has twenty-percent more protein than a normal milk serving. The protein is also more digestible. Because of this yogurt is one of the foods that is on the American Diabetic Association's heart healthy list. If you have high cholesterol, eating yogurt may even lower it. That is exactly what it did in a number research studies. This is good news for people with type 2 diabetes, because they are so much more at risk for heart disease.
Choosing the Best Yogurt For You:
There are so many choices for yogurt in the dairy aisle that you could literally stand there for half a day reading labels. The things to be most cautious about are carbohydrate and fat content. The absolute healthiest yogurt to eat is plain yogurt which you can take home and top with fresh fruit. Honestly, you have to be pretty hard core to eat plain yogurt.
The next best choice in yogurt is non-fat and then low-fat. Sometimes it is hard to find a non-fat, artificially sweetened yogurt at some stores. Most large supermarkets have it but not so much at the smaller stores. Low-fat is more available and comes with sugar or sugar substitutes.
Try to avoid yogurts with whole milk as they have more saturated fat. However, like any food, you get away with eating it one once in a while as a creamy treat.
Yogurts with sprinkles, nuts, little pieces of chocolate and the like are not good to add to your diabetic diet, even though you might like to think so. These, just like candy, are sure to send up an immediate spike in your blood sugar. Yogurt with fruit is usually the best choice... and not chocolate or caramel yogurt. By just using common sense, sticking to what you really know about which foods help to raise your blood sugar level, means you should have no trouble adding yogurt and frozen yogurt to your diabetic diet.
Type 2 Diabetes - Will Yogurt Spike Your Blood Sugar Level?
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The cocoa bean, of which chocolate is partially made, is loaded with caffeine. This is a good part of the reason why kids who eat a lot of chocolate are so hyper. The caffeine in some chocolate products is actually greater than the caffeine in a cup of coffee or even a can of cola. Chocolate in children is like putting them on speed. One of the biggest causes of ADHD in children is because of chocolate and chocolate based products.
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The Dangers In Chocolate
But caffeine is only part of the problem and really just the tip of the iceberg. If you ever tasted chocolate in its pure form, you probably noticed that it was actually a little on the bitter side. It certainly isn't sweet like the chocolate products that you are used to eating. The reason these products are so sweet is because they are loaded with sugar. It is almost impossible to find a chocolate based product that isn't loaded with sugar, outside of dietetic products, simply because they quite honestly don't taste very good and there wouldn't be as big a market. As a result, the sugar contained in these chocolate products causes a number of problems including diabetes, high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, and way too many illnesses to list here. As a matter of fact, sugar is one of the leading caused of health problems in the United States.
The Dangers In Chocolate
To further add insult to injury, most commercially available chocolate products are loaded with chemicals to keep them fresh. Did you ever look at the expiration date on a package of Ring Dings? Nothing should last that long and still be edible.
So, as much as we all love chocolate (I am an ex addict), it is something that we can all do without. I personally have been chocolate free for 6 years and don't miss it one bit.
Try eliminating it from your diet before it begins to eliminate you.
To YOUR Health,
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Cutting back on the extra sugar decreases your teeth's rate of deterioration. But in times when you can not resist the temptation of eating that bar of chocolate or drink that bottle of soft drink, it is important that you should brush your teeth afterwards as soon as possible as the process of tooth decay starts instantaneously as sugar comes into contact with your teeth. Leaving your teeth soaked with sticky sugar for a long time gives the bacteria more time to produce cavity-causing acid thus more damage to your teeth.
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How Sugar Affects Your Teeth
You should take note however, that not all sugars are the same, each of which have their own respective effects on health upon consumption. There are good sugars such as those that come naturally in foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables. These are contain essential nutrients that is needed by the body. What you should avoid are those coming from carbonated drinks, candies, and other processed products.
How Sugar Affects Your Teeth
Sugar itself is not bad for you. Sugar poses its own benefits for the human body. For instance, Saccharides found in sugar plays a major role in fighting certain diseases. Health risks come when too much of it is being consumed. According to The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, added sugar consumption should not exceed more than 8 teaspoons or about 32 grams per day on a 2000 calories per day diet, a limit which you can easily surpass by drinking a bottle of your favorite soda (See sugar content in soda).
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So, preventing lung cancer is even more important than preventing many other types of cancer simply because the prognosis is often so poor. And, for most victims of this disease, it is entirely preventable - simply by not smoking. Eight out of ten people diagnosed with lung cancer each year are smokers.
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Can Lung Cancer Be Prevented?
Six out of ten people who are diagnosed with lung cancer will die within one year. Between seven and eight will die within two years. Treatments are improving, and today there are some long term lung cancer survivors. But, as we focus on better treatments, we cannot lose focus on prevention.
Can Lung Cancer Be Prevented?
Of course the simplest way to prevent lung cancer is not to smoke. But, there are some other things you can do to help reduce your risk of lung cancer, whether or not you smoke.
The first is to eat a healthy diet, rich in fruits and vegetables. Some studies have shown that people who eat a diet lacking in fruits and vegetables have a higher risk of lung cancer than those whose diet offers a wide variety of such foods.
In addition to not smoking, it's important to stay away from others who smoke. Secondhand smoke is just as dangerous as smoking yourself. The American Cancer Society reports that non-smoking spouses of smokers are 30% more likely to get lung cancer than spouses of non-smokers. In addition, exposure to asbestos, arsenic and radon increase your risk of lung cancer.
Add Green Tea to Your Diet
Another little known trick for helping protect your body from many types of disease, including many forms of cancer, is drinking green tea. Green tea has been shown in many studies to be effective at protecting health and preventing disease. This is because green tea is filled with anti-oxidants - some of the most powerful available.
Anti-oxidants are very effective at combating free radicals that are created in our bodies as we process food. The free radicals produced by our bodies damage our cells and our DNA, and eventually lead to disease if we don't combat them. Anti-oxidants, however, combat these free radicals before they can cause damage. If we're getting our fair share of anti-oxidants each day, we're keeping these free radicals under control.
Above I mentioned that scientists believe that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables helps prevent lung cancer. This is also likely due to the fact that fresh fruits and vegetables are good anti-oxidant sources. Some vegetables and fruits are better than others, so for optimum benefit, be sure to include some of the most powerful in your diet on a regular basis.
The best food sources of anti-oxidants include:
o Artichokes
o Asparagus
o Red Beans
o Blueberries
o Pomegranates
o Dark Chocolate
o Tomatoes
And, green tea. One of the most important anti-oxidants is EGCG, which is found in abundance in the Camilla sinensis (tea tree) plant. Green tea is the best form of this anti-oxidant because it's not fermented during processing. Black tea is fermented, which changes some of its anti-oxidant compounds. Black tea is still healthy, but your best anti-oxidant source is green tea.
One study recently reported by the UK Tea Council shines light on green tea's ability to prevent lung cancer. In particular, this study showed that green tea appears to have two major functions that prevent cancer.
Green tea appears to cause apoptosis of abnormal cells. Apoptosis is the orderly process of cell death. Cell death due to apoptosis is good, because it is a process of killing off damaged or unneeded cells. Green tea seems to help the body rid itself of potentially harmful cells by inducing the process of apoptosis.
Green tea also seems to help prevent lung cancer by inhibiting the growth of the abnormal lung cells. So, green tea keeps the cells from growing and spreading until the apoptosis can kills the cells off. These two powers help to rid the body of abnormal cells before they can replicate and cause a problem.
Of course, more research is needed to pinpoint exactly how green tea works, and how we can use it best to prevent lung cancer and many other diseases. However, in the mean time, there's no reason not to make green tea part of your daily life.
Green tea is an absolutely safe beverage to consume. It has no side effects, and even those who are caffeine sensitive can usually tolerate green tea quite well, because its caffeine content is very low compared to coffee and sodas. So, do something good for yourself - drink some green tea!
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So, preventing lung cancer is even more important than preventing many other types of cancer simply because the prognosis is often so poor. And, for most victims of this disease, it is entirely preventable - simply by not smoking. Eight out of ten people diagnosed with lung cancer each year are smokers.
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Can Lung Cancer Be Prevented?
Six out of ten people who are diagnosed with lung cancer will die within one year. Between seven and eight will die within two years. Treatments are improving, and today there are some long term lung cancer survivors. But, as we focus on better treatments, we cannot lose focus on prevention.
Can Lung Cancer Be Prevented?
Of course the simplest way to prevent lung cancer is not to smoke. But, there are some other things you can do to help reduce your risk of lung cancer, whether or not you smoke.
The first is to eat a healthy diet, rich in fruits and vegetables. Some studies have shown that people who eat a diet lacking in fruits and vegetables have a higher risk of lung cancer than those whose diet offers a wide variety of such foods.
In addition to not smoking, it's important to stay away from others who smoke. Secondhand smoke is just as dangerous as smoking yourself. The American Cancer Society reports that non-smoking spouses of smokers are 30% more likely to get lung cancer than spouses of non-smokers. In addition, exposure to asbestos, arsenic and radon increase your risk of lung cancer.
Add Green Tea to Your Diet
Another little known trick for helping protect your body from many types of disease, including many forms of cancer, is drinking green tea. Green tea has been shown in many studies to be effective at protecting health and preventing disease. This is because green tea is filled with anti-oxidants - some of the most powerful available.
Anti-oxidants are very effective at combating free radicals that are created in our bodies as we process food. The free radicals produced by our bodies damage our cells and our DNA, and eventually lead to disease if we don't combat them. Anti-oxidants, however, combat these free radicals before they can cause damage. If we're getting our fair share of anti-oxidants each day, we're keeping these free radicals under control.
Above I mentioned that scientists believe that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables helps prevent lung cancer. This is also likely due to the fact that fresh fruits and vegetables are good anti-oxidant sources. Some vegetables and fruits are better than others, so for optimum benefit, be sure to include some of the most powerful in your diet on a regular basis.
The best food sources of anti-oxidants include:
o Artichokes
o Asparagus
o Red Beans
o Blueberries
o Pomegranates
o Dark Chocolate
o Tomatoes
And, green tea. One of the most important anti-oxidants is EGCG, which is found in abundance in the Camilla sinensis (tea tree) plant. Green tea is the best form of this anti-oxidant because it's not fermented during processing. Black tea is fermented, which changes some of its anti-oxidant compounds. Black tea is still healthy, but your best anti-oxidant source is green tea.
One study recently reported by the UK Tea Council shines light on green tea's ability to prevent lung cancer. In particular, this study showed that green tea appears to have two major functions that prevent cancer.
Green tea appears to cause apoptosis of abnormal cells. Apoptosis is the orderly process of cell death. Cell death due to apoptosis is good, because it is a process of killing off damaged or unneeded cells. Green tea seems to help the body rid itself of potentially harmful cells by inducing the process of apoptosis.
Green tea also seems to help prevent lung cancer by inhibiting the growth of the abnormal lung cells. So, green tea keeps the cells from growing and spreading until the apoptosis can kills the cells off. These two powers help to rid the body of abnormal cells before they can replicate and cause a problem.
Of course, more research is needed to pinpoint exactly how green tea works, and how we can use it best to prevent lung cancer and many other diseases. However, in the mean time, there's no reason not to make green tea part of your daily life.
Green tea is an absolutely safe beverage to consume. It has no side effects, and even those who are caffeine sensitive can usually tolerate green tea quite well, because its caffeine content is very low compared to coffee and sodas. So, do something good for yourself - drink some green tea!
Can Lung Cancer Be Prevented?
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Scientists believe that the health benefits of wine are related to a substance called "resveratrol". Over the past five years, resveratrol has been the subject of thousands of laboratory studies. It is found in grapes, mulberries, peanuts and other plants.
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Best Wine Selection For Heart Health
First identified in 1963 by scientists evaluating the effectiveness of an Asian Folk medicine called ko-jo-kon, resveratrol was later found in grapevines and finally, in 1992, in red wine. Suggestions for the best wine selection for heart health are determined by the known resveratrol content. Reds contain more than whites. In terms of heart health, wine made from Pinot Noir grapes are believed to be the very best, because they have the highest content of resveratrol.
Best Wine Selection For Heart Health
It is interesting to note that grape juice does not contain resveratrol. Researchers are unable to fully explain this, since it is found in fresh grapes. It could have something to do with the fermentation process or the types or parts of the grapes used. The bottom line is that for heart health, wine is more beneficial than grape juice.
The benefit of resveratrol to the plant is known. It acts like an antibiotic, protecting the plant from disease, fungal and viral infections. The benefits to humans are still being studied. There have been positive reports in the Oxford Journal of Medicine and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. These reports indicate that there may be many benefits.
The main reason that a red wine selection for hearth health is recommended may be due to the anti-inflammatory effects of resveratrol. Researchers have linked chronic inflammation to both heart disease and cancer.
Resveratrol is also an antioxidant, which helps the body remove free radicals and other disease causing products from the blood stream. In laboratory studies, it has been shown to actually prevent cells from mutating into pre-cancerous forms. So, it's not just for heart health, wine consumed in moderation may prevent some forms of cancer.
Multiple studies have linked resveratrol to a reduced risk of coronary artery disease, cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis. When physicians recommend moderate consumption for heart health, wine selection for heart health or resveratrol supplements, they recommend a four ounce glass of wine per day or a supplement that contains an equal amount of resveratrol.
In most red wines each ounce contains about 160mcg per ounce. While no upper limit for resveratrol consumption has been established, 640mcg is acceptable for daily human consumption. This is the amount found in 4 ounces of red wine.
If you are concerned about wine selection for heart health, there are some good health supplements on the market, which contain resveratrol and other vitamins, herbs and minerals that promote heart health. Wine consumption is only one way to get resveratrol. It is also present in relatively large amounts in peanuts, but it is important to watch your total dietary intake of fat and peanuts are very high in fat. To learn more about how to protect yourself from heart disease, please visit Heart Health Diet Tips.com.
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What happens to your body as you age?
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Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
Our body consists of millions of sells, as the sells are dying they are being replaced with new ones. The quality of new sells is directly linked to your diet, because to be regenerated properly sells need good nutrition. As we grow older, the process of sell regeneration doesn't as smoothly as before, it is called sell degeneration. When the replacement sells are weaker than original sells. By eating certain anti-aging foods we can help the new sells to be strong and healthy.
Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
Foods to avoid in anti-aging diet
First, you should decrease the intake of saturated fats. American Heart Association recommends that fat should not to exceed 30 percent of your total energy. For a real anti-aging nutrition the number is about 10 percent. That means that for protein it is better to consume lean fish rather than meat.
Some anti-aging doctors suggest a completely vegetarian diet. However, it has not been scientifically proved that avoiding meat all together leads to longer and healthier life. However, when you eat meat, go for lean varieties.
And do I even have to mention avoiding junk food? Everybody knows that it is bad for you, but most people keep eating it anyway. If you seriously want to keep nutritious diet, you should restrict yourself from chips and other "empty-calories" stuff.
Saturated fats are not the only thing to avoid. Some studies have shown that foods high in carbohydrates also lead to sell degeneration. These include sugar, chocolate, chips, and pasta and soy products. High concentration of heavy metals in your food also leads to premature aging.
Anti-aging food - what is it?
There are several foods that help with sell regeneration. These are products high in antioxidants and omega 3 fatty acids. These are elements known as antioxidants Vitamin A, Vitamin B-6, Vitamin B-12, Beta carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium and Folic acid.
Here is a list of foods important for anti-aging nutrition:
raw nuts and seeds
green leafy vegetables
seaweed
barley greens
olive oil
berries
Recently there has been a lot of talk about anti-aging Goji berries and Goji berries juice. These berries grow in Himalaya, and studies have shown that people who live there and consume the berries on regular basis live long and healthy lives. Goji berries and their juice are very high in antioxidants.
You may also need, because pollution in the cities and stress of everyday working life speed up the aging process, so you may need additional nutrients and vitamins to combat it. You can look online for anti-aging supplements to add to your diet. These are vitamin and mineral complexes with high percentage of antioxidants. Alternatively, take a good brand name multivitamin every day.
The most important about anti-aging diet is that you have to be persistent and consume healthy foods every day. Eating nutritious food for several days and then returning to usual fast food lifestyle wouldn't work. And, of course you will have to do some exercise to help your body feel young.
Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
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1. Eat 4 smaller meals a day
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This spreads your calorie intake over more time and makes it manageable for your body. The 4 meals should add up to your usual amount of calories (for the diet you are on). Remember, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It kick starts your metabolism - try fibre loaded breakfasts to keep yourself full or eat a couple of pieces of fruit as a healthy alternative.
10 Rules to Follow When Trying to Lose Weight and 10 Important Things Not to Do (Pitfalls)
2. Drink water or eat fruit when you are feeling hungry
Swap all your sweets and chocolate for fruit, or even nuts (a good source of fibre - but don't buy salted!). If you are still hungry down a half glass of water, or just half a glass. This will suppress your appetite till your next meal. And that brings us nicely onto..
3. Drink 8 glasses of water a day
Not only will this suppress your hunger but water helps rinse out your body of all the bad stuff, such as toxins that plague it. 8 glasses is recommended, but really it depends on your build.
4. Add a little exercise to your day
I'm not talking about going for massive runs or taking up American football. What I mean is park a bit further away from work, get off the bus a step early, don't take the lift or escalators, walk around the room on your break. Anything you can, it will all make a huge difference even though it might not seem like it at the time - and once you get used to these things they will become second nature!
5. Eat your meals slowly
It is important to eat slowly for a good reason. It takes about 5 - 10 minutes for your stomach to tell your brain that it is full. That means you could be shovelling food down for that period of time even though your full, you just don't know it yet. So eat slowly! It will also help with your digestion if you chew your food well.
6. Cook your own meals
Supermarket microwave meals or oven box meals are out. You must buy your own food and cook it from scratch. So much rubbish goes into most of those quick meals and you have no control over it. At least when you buy and cook it all you know what's in it! That's good news for your health. Avoid too much salt, its bad for your blood pressure amongst other things. In fact look for a salt alternative - there are some good ones about. Whole grain foods are in, as are fresh meat, herbs spices, fish, and of course fruit and veg.
7. Eat your last meal of the day at least 3 hours before you go to bed.
You burn off calories buy moving, thinking, watching and using, but not by sleeping. Eat a big meal then go to sleep and you are just asking for weight to pile on.
8. Weigh yourself everyday.
This is not to see a pound fly off every day (as that wont happen), it is for motivation. See what you weigh and then think of what you want to weigh and want to look like. Invest in digital scales if you like, then you can see just the slightest change. If you did put on weight analyse what you did wrong (if anything) and adjust your diet so this doesn't happen again in the future.
9. Keep a journal of your food eaten and exercise taken
There are some great free food journals on-line, such as fitday, where you will put down everything you have eaten, drunk and all the exercise you have done during a day. Then it will work out the calories you have eaten and the calories you have burned and generate stats and graphs for you to gaze at. Again, adjust if you see something not going according to plan. It is easy to find and eliminate what you are doing wrong this way.
10. Stick with your diet
This is the most important thing to do. A diet is a lifestyle change. You are not trying to look good or be healthy for the next 10 months. You are trying to change how you live life, you are trying to look good for ever, to live for longer. Stick with it. It will work.
10 Things Not To Do
1. Don't put off starting your diet for another day.
We all love to make excuses. This time its your health we are concerned with. Forget tonight's gorge, tonight ice cream or chocolate. Start right now! Go on!
2. Don't think binge eating just this once is OK, and that you will never do it again.
I've been there, I've eaten a lot and said I will make up for it the next day. But seriously, you cant make up for it in one day. It will probably take a whole week of increased exercise or dieting to make up for a huge pizza or Chinese takeaway, and it really is not worth it. If you have to, really limit your self, or better yet, cook it yourself from fresh.
3.Don't give in to peer pressure
It doesn't matter how old you are, when you are with friends its hard to resist acting like everyone else. When going out for a meal it probably means having a big main course instead of a light dish or salad. Don't listen to your friends, do what you think is right.
4. Don't go on yo-yo diets
On and off diets are awful for your body. The more times you do this, the less effective diets become as your body gets used to them and will eventually just shrug them off. Remember, a diet is a life style change, not 90 days on 90 days off.
5. Don't believe the fad diet hype
Fad diets don't tend to work in the long term, even if they make you drop 12 pounds in a week. Which they wont. They are impossible to keep up because invariably they mean ridiculous eating habits such as cabbage soup only.
6. Don't Drink too much alcohol
All alcohol is calorie laden, even spirits that look like water (vodka). On top of that, our bodies treat alcohol as poison and need food, make you crave food, to get rid of it or help absorb it (well it doesn't literally absorb it but it has the same effect).
7. Don't hide the fact that you are on a diet
This is very important. Tell everyone you know you are on a diet. They will almost all be supportive. You cannot hide the fact that you are on a diet or your diet will be a failure from the get go. It is not something to be embarrassed about. Losing weight and getting healthy is something to be seriously proud about.
8. Don't set your targets too high
Short term targets that is. Do not tell your self you are going to lose 3-4 pounds a week because you wont do that each week. You may at the start, depending on your weight and water retention, but you wont all the time. And once you don't hit that target you might feel like giving up. Set a realistic goal, a small goal. 1 - 2 pounds a week should be your usual aim, and if you don't hit it, that's OK - figure out where you went wrong and get back on the bike.
9. Don't give up!
You will lose the weight as long as you stick with it. Things will go wrong, you will break some of these rules, you will snack and gorge and feel bad. But don't give up, get back on track, analyse your mistakes, become stronger. You will get there if you keep going. Its not easy.
10. Don't give up!
There are two good reasons I have repeated this step. One - it is the most important rule. Two - I ran out of rules. OK, there was one good reason. But seriously don't give up and you will get there!
When feeling down look for inspirational stories on the net, or before and after pictures. Talk to friends and family. Leave comments on my blog. If you want to take up exercise find a sport you enjoy, it is the only way you will stick with it. It doesn't have to be the best fat burning activity, just something you take pleasure from.
OK that's it. Good luck everyone!
10 Rules to Follow When Trying to Lose Weight and 10 Important Things Not to Do (Pitfalls)
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What happens to your body as you age?
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Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
Our body consists of millions of sells, as the sells are dying they are being replaced with new ones. The quality of new sells is directly linked to your diet, because to be regenerated properly sells need good nutrition. As we grow older, the process of sell regeneration doesn't as smoothly as before, it is called sell degeneration. When the replacement sells are weaker than original sells. By eating certain anti-aging foods we can help the new sells to be strong and healthy.
Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
Foods to avoid in anti-aging diet
First, you should decrease the intake of saturated fats. American Heart Association recommends that fat should not to exceed 30 percent of your total energy. For a real anti-aging nutrition the number is about 10 percent. That means that for protein it is better to consume lean fish rather than meat.
Some anti-aging doctors suggest a completely vegetarian diet. However, it has not been scientifically proved that avoiding meat all together leads to longer and healthier life. However, when you eat meat, go for lean varieties.
And do I even have to mention avoiding junk food? Everybody knows that it is bad for you, but most people keep eating it anyway. If you seriously want to keep nutritious diet, you should restrict yourself from chips and other "empty-calories" stuff.
Saturated fats are not the only thing to avoid. Some studies have shown that foods high in carbohydrates also lead to sell degeneration. These include sugar, chocolate, chips, and pasta and soy products. High concentration of heavy metals in your food also leads to premature aging.
Anti-aging food - what is it?
There are several foods that help with sell regeneration. These are products high in antioxidants and omega 3 fatty acids. These are elements known as antioxidants Vitamin A, Vitamin B-6, Vitamin B-12, Beta carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium and Folic acid.
Here is a list of foods important for anti-aging nutrition:
raw nuts and seeds
green leafy vegetables
seaweed
barley greens
olive oil
berries
Recently there has been a lot of talk about anti-aging Goji berries and Goji berries juice. These berries grow in Himalaya, and studies have shown that people who live there and consume the berries on regular basis live long and healthy lives. Goji berries and their juice are very high in antioxidants.
You may also need, because pollution in the cities and stress of everyday working life speed up the aging process, so you may need additional nutrients and vitamins to combat it. You can look online for anti-aging supplements to add to your diet. These are vitamin and mineral complexes with high percentage of antioxidants. Alternatively, take a good brand name multivitamin every day.
The most important about anti-aging diet is that you have to be persistent and consume healthy foods every day. Eating nutritious food for several days and then returning to usual fast food lifestyle wouldn't work. And, of course you will have to do some exercise to help your body feel young.
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Classic Vanilla Milkshake - Made with vanilla ice cream and vanilla extract. The original "plain" milkshake is still a crowd pleasing favorite. Adding a maraschino cherry on top makes it a little more special.
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Top 10 Best Milkshake Recipes
Old Fashioned Chocolate Milkshake - Made with chocolate or vanilla ice cream (depends on how intense you want the chocolate flavor), milk and chocolate syrup. This is always the second most favorite milkshake flavor. It's so easy to make and delicious to drink!
Top 10 Best Milkshake Recipes
I Love Strawberries Milkshake - Made with strawberry ice cream, milk, fresh strawberries and whipped cream. Yum! Makes me ravenous for one just thinking about it.
Purple Cow Milkshake - Made with grape juice, banana and milk. Purple cows are cool (and very rare). This milkshake is a real treat for kids and kids at heart.
Chunky Monkey Milkshake - Made with vanilla ice cream, chocolate chips, banana and instant coffee. This milkshake may cause you to spontaneously get up and do the chunky monkey dance.
Cherry Vanilla Milkshake - Made with vanilla ice cream, maraschino cherries, milk and chocolate syrup. A chocolate covered cherry in your glass.
Shamrock Milkshake - Made with vanilla ice cream, low fat milk, mint extract and green food coloring. Pretty simple milkshake that you can enjoy at home, even though a certain well-known burger place doesn't make them any more.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Milkshake - Made with creamy peanut butter, milk and chocolate syrup. A nice alternative to a peanut butter sandwich.
Caramel Latte Milkshake - Made with coffee ice cream, milk and caramel syrup. Just as good or better than any drink at your local coffee or donut shop, plus, you can make this at home anytime you're in the mood to treat yourself with something extra special.
Whoppers Malt Milkshake - Made with vanilla ice cream, chocolate malt syrup and whipped topping. This is the easiest way to make a milkshake that has that old fashioned malt taste.
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What happens to your body as you age?
Chocolate Diet American
Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
Our body consists of millions of sells, as the sells are dying they are being replaced with new ones. The quality of new sells is directly linked to your diet, because to be regenerated properly sells need good nutrition. As we grow older, the process of sell regeneration doesn't as smoothly as before, it is called sell degeneration. When the replacement sells are weaker than original sells. By eating certain anti-aging foods we can help the new sells to be strong and healthy.
Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
Foods to avoid in anti-aging diet
First, you should decrease the intake of saturated fats. American Heart Association recommends that fat should not to exceed 30 percent of your total energy. For a real anti-aging nutrition the number is about 10 percent. That means that for protein it is better to consume lean fish rather than meat.
Some anti-aging doctors suggest a completely vegetarian diet. However, it has not been scientifically proved that avoiding meat all together leads to longer and healthier life. However, when you eat meat, go for lean varieties.
And do I even have to mention avoiding junk food? Everybody knows that it is bad for you, but most people keep eating it anyway. If you seriously want to keep nutritious diet, you should restrict yourself from chips and other "empty-calories" stuff.
Saturated fats are not the only thing to avoid. Some studies have shown that foods high in carbohydrates also lead to sell degeneration. These include sugar, chocolate, chips, and pasta and soy products. High concentration of heavy metals in your food also leads to premature aging.
Anti-aging food - what is it?
There are several foods that help with sell regeneration. These are products high in antioxidants and omega 3 fatty acids. These are elements known as antioxidants Vitamin A, Vitamin B-6, Vitamin B-12, Beta carotene, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Selenium and Folic acid.
Here is a list of foods important for anti-aging nutrition:
raw nuts and seeds
green leafy vegetables
seaweed
barley greens
olive oil
berries
Recently there has been a lot of talk about anti-aging Goji berries and Goji berries juice. These berries grow in Himalaya, and studies have shown that people who live there and consume the berries on regular basis live long and healthy lives. Goji berries and their juice are very high in antioxidants.
You may also need, because pollution in the cities and stress of everyday working life speed up the aging process, so you may need additional nutrients and vitamins to combat it. You can look online for anti-aging supplements to add to your diet. These are vitamin and mineral complexes with high percentage of antioxidants. Alternatively, take a good brand name multivitamin every day.
The most important about anti-aging diet is that you have to be persistent and consume healthy foods every day. Eating nutritious food for several days and then returning to usual fast food lifestyle wouldn't work. And, of course you will have to do some exercise to help your body feel young.
Anti-Aging Diet - How Food Can Keep You Young
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Cutting back on the extra sugar decreases your teeth's rate of deterioration. But in times when you can not resist the temptation of eating that bar of chocolate or drink that bottle of soft drink, it is important that you should brush your teeth afterwards as soon as possible as the process of tooth decay starts instantaneously as sugar comes into contact with your teeth. Leaving your teeth soaked with sticky sugar for a long time gives the bacteria more time to produce cavity-causing acid thus more damage to your teeth.
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You should take note however, that not all sugars are the same, each of which have their own respective effects on health upon consumption. There are good sugars such as those that come naturally in foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables. These are contain essential nutrients that is needed by the body. What you should avoid are those coming from carbonated drinks, candies, and other processed products.
How Sugar Affects Your Teeth
Sugar itself is not bad for you. Sugar poses its own benefits for the human body. For instance, Saccharides found in sugar plays a major role in fighting certain diseases. Health risks come when too much of it is being consumed. According to The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, added sugar consumption should not exceed more than 8 teaspoons or about 32 grams per day on a 2000 calories per day diet, a limit which you can easily surpass by drinking a bottle of your favorite soda (See sugar content in soda).
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1. Eat 4 smaller meals a day
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This spreads your calorie intake over more time and makes it manageable for your body. The 4 meals should add up to your usual amount of calories (for the diet you are on). Remember, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It kick starts your metabolism - try fibre loaded breakfasts to keep yourself full or eat a couple of pieces of fruit as a healthy alternative.
10 Rules to Follow When Trying to Lose Weight and 10 Important Things Not to Do (Pitfalls)
2. Drink water or eat fruit when you are feeling hungry
Swap all your sweets and chocolate for fruit, or even nuts (a good source of fibre - but don't buy salted!). If you are still hungry down a half glass of water, or just half a glass. This will suppress your appetite till your next meal. And that brings us nicely onto..
3. Drink 8 glasses of water a day
Not only will this suppress your hunger but water helps rinse out your body of all the bad stuff, such as toxins that plague it. 8 glasses is recommended, but really it depends on your build.
4. Add a little exercise to your day
I'm not talking about going for massive runs or taking up American football. What I mean is park a bit further away from work, get off the bus a step early, don't take the lift or escalators, walk around the room on your break. Anything you can, it will all make a huge difference even though it might not seem like it at the time - and once you get used to these things they will become second nature!
5. Eat your meals slowly
It is important to eat slowly for a good reason. It takes about 5 - 10 minutes for your stomach to tell your brain that it is full. That means you could be shovelling food down for that period of time even though your full, you just don't know it yet. So eat slowly! It will also help with your digestion if you chew your food well.
6. Cook your own meals
Supermarket microwave meals or oven box meals are out. You must buy your own food and cook it from scratch. So much rubbish goes into most of those quick meals and you have no control over it. At least when you buy and cook it all you know what's in it! That's good news for your health. Avoid too much salt, its bad for your blood pressure amongst other things. In fact look for a salt alternative - there are some good ones about. Whole grain foods are in, as are fresh meat, herbs spices, fish, and of course fruit and veg.
7. Eat your last meal of the day at least 3 hours before you go to bed.
You burn off calories buy moving, thinking, watching and using, but not by sleeping. Eat a big meal then go to sleep and you are just asking for weight to pile on.
8. Weigh yourself everyday.
This is not to see a pound fly off every day (as that wont happen), it is for motivation. See what you weigh and then think of what you want to weigh and want to look like. Invest in digital scales if you like, then you can see just the slightest change. If you did put on weight analyse what you did wrong (if anything) and adjust your diet so this doesn't happen again in the future.
9. Keep a journal of your food eaten and exercise taken
There are some great free food journals on-line, such as fitday, where you will put down everything you have eaten, drunk and all the exercise you have done during a day. Then it will work out the calories you have eaten and the calories you have burned and generate stats and graphs for you to gaze at. Again, adjust if you see something not going according to plan. It is easy to find and eliminate what you are doing wrong this way.
10. Stick with your diet
This is the most important thing to do. A diet is a lifestyle change. You are not trying to look good or be healthy for the next 10 months. You are trying to change how you live life, you are trying to look good for ever, to live for longer. Stick with it. It will work.
10 Things Not To Do
1. Don't put off starting your diet for another day.
We all love to make excuses. This time its your health we are concerned with. Forget tonight's gorge, tonight ice cream or chocolate. Start right now! Go on!
2. Don't think binge eating just this once is OK, and that you will never do it again.
I've been there, I've eaten a lot and said I will make up for it the next day. But seriously, you cant make up for it in one day. It will probably take a whole week of increased exercise or dieting to make up for a huge pizza or Chinese takeaway, and it really is not worth it. If you have to, really limit your self, or better yet, cook it yourself from fresh.
3.Don't give in to peer pressure
It doesn't matter how old you are, when you are with friends its hard to resist acting like everyone else. When going out for a meal it probably means having a big main course instead of a light dish or salad. Don't listen to your friends, do what you think is right.
4. Don't go on yo-yo diets
On and off diets are awful for your body. The more times you do this, the less effective diets become as your body gets used to them and will eventually just shrug them off. Remember, a diet is a life style change, not 90 days on 90 days off.
5. Don't believe the fad diet hype
Fad diets don't tend to work in the long term, even if they make you drop 12 pounds in a week. Which they wont. They are impossible to keep up because invariably they mean ridiculous eating habits such as cabbage soup only.
6. Don't Drink too much alcohol
All alcohol is calorie laden, even spirits that look like water (vodka). On top of that, our bodies treat alcohol as poison and need food, make you crave food, to get rid of it or help absorb it (well it doesn't literally absorb it but it has the same effect).
7. Don't hide the fact that you are on a diet
This is very important. Tell everyone you know you are on a diet. They will almost all be supportive. You cannot hide the fact that you are on a diet or your diet will be a failure from the get go. It is not something to be embarrassed about. Losing weight and getting healthy is something to be seriously proud about.
8. Don't set your targets too high
Short term targets that is. Do not tell your self you are going to lose 3-4 pounds a week because you wont do that each week. You may at the start, depending on your weight and water retention, but you wont all the time. And once you don't hit that target you might feel like giving up. Set a realistic goal, a small goal. 1 - 2 pounds a week should be your usual aim, and if you don't hit it, that's OK - figure out where you went wrong and get back on the bike.
9. Don't give up!
You will lose the weight as long as you stick with it. Things will go wrong, you will break some of these rules, you will snack and gorge and feel bad. But don't give up, get back on track, analyse your mistakes, become stronger. You will get there if you keep going. Its not easy.
10. Don't give up!
There are two good reasons I have repeated this step. One - it is the most important rule. Two - I ran out of rules. OK, there was one good reason. But seriously don't give up and you will get there!
When feeling down look for inspirational stories on the net, or before and after pictures. Talk to friends and family. Leave comments on my blog. If you want to take up exercise find a sport you enjoy, it is the only way you will stick with it. It doesn't have to be the best fat burning activity, just something you take pleasure from.
OK that's it. Good luck everyone!
10 Rules to Follow When Trying to Lose Weight and 10 Important Things Not to Do (Pitfalls)
