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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Ab Workouts - Changing Your Body In 30 Days

By Jose Loni

Are ab workouts essential to a 30-day transformation of our abs? No, ab workouts don't play an important role in this 30-day transformation, but fat loss does and proper nutrition and exercise are the major players in removing the unwanted extra fats covering up our abdominals.

You need to modify your eating routine first. Start eating small, frequent (5-6) meals a day. The frequency helps control your intake to a lesser amount and the frequency of digestion keeps your metabolism running, contributing to more calories burned.

Proper nutrition also means smart food choices. Stay away from foods high in corn syrup, fructose, saturated fats and hydrogenated oils. Avoid white bread, white rice, and pasta because all these foods easily convert to fat, which gets stored as soon as they're converted.

Instead, pick foods high in proteins like lean meats and chicken, fish and egg whites and complex carbohydrates like whole grain breads and brown rice. Complement with high fiber vegetables and fruits and healthy canola and olive oils. These choices will enable you to burn calories efficiently and prevent a sudden drop in blood sugar levels, which is the main culprit that leads you to snack mindlessly.

Knowing which foods contribute to more fat being stored around your abdominal area and which foods actually burn up the spare fat in your body is essential in trying to attain nutritional balance. When you are not adding excess fat to your stores, whatever is left can be used up by working out.

A mixture of high intensity (sprinting, lunges, squats) and aerobic exercises (brisk walking, running, cycling) along with lifting weights work wonders at revving up your metabolism. A high metabolism is key to burning fat better. But you have to remember to change up the activities to help sustain the metabolic fat burn.

The addition of weight training builds muscles, which use up more energy resulting in a greater fat burn. Since 3 lbs of muscle burns up calories equivalent to a 1 mile jog, muscle building is a faster way to lose fat. Also, this burning occurs during the training and even while the body is stationary.

Doing ab workouts is not necessary on your 1 month route to ab glory. What you do need to do is lose the fat. And the best way to lose fat is through a combination of healthy food choices and smart training habits. Add discipline to the mixture and your six pack abs will be here to stay. - 17273

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Healthy Eating is the Key to Maximum Weight Loss

By Thong M. Dao

It's challenging to find anyone today that is not worried about their health and weight. Most of us live a way that makes it challenging to be healthy and stay thin. Here's why: our lifestyles have us eat on the go and not at home as often as we ought to.

At home, we often consume poor and sugar-filled snacks rather than healthy foods. To lose weight the natural way and become healthy, we have to break the cycle. It really is possible.

One of the primary things which we must do when attempting to lose those pounds is to stop the bad practices we are engaged in. This will most likely be particularly challenging for those who have been eating a certain way for an extended time period.

Sugar, caffeine, aspartame and bad carbohydrates are just some of the bad things that many are hooked on. As hard as it seems, you should know that the best and only way to sustain good health is to get rid of these unhealthy habits. If you're having trouble breaking free from the cycle, going cold turkey for some days can help.

When you free yourself from bad diet choices, you must next replace them with healthy ones. You can indulge in moderation and on occasion, but you need to stay with a nutritious eating program for 30 days at least.

Why is it? It usually takes that time for a new habit to become established. If you apply a diet which is both healthy and balanced for 30 days, it will be a part of your everyday life.

Make sure your diet is healthy by remaining low on the glycemic index in order to keep your blood sugar level under control.

Ensure that you are eating lots of fresh vegetables and fruits everyday. Drinking plenty of water several times a day may be the most fundamental thing of all. It does require your effort but it will pay off as you see your trim figure return. - 17273

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What To Eat Of Poultry And Dairy Products In Low Fat Diet? Healthy Living Part 6

By Haiyan Lai-Heskin

We have learnt about soup, meats and fish to eat on a low fat diet in the past a few parts of "healthy living". Today we are going to talk about how to get the best of poultry and dairy products.

Among all the poultry, chicken and turkey are excellent sources of animal proteins for low-fat, low-cholesterol content, provided lean poultry is used. But the dark meat of poultry is higher in fat content than white meat. Chicken legs are dark meat and can be much more fatty than breast portions.

Duck and goose are always considered fatty meat, but if you are on a diet I suggest you use skinless breast fillets, because that will cut down the calorie content of this meal hugely; skinless duck and goose are actually very lean.

The fat from chicken and turkey is still best drained off and removed in the same manner as in the preparation and cooking of all meats, even though it is much less quantitatively than that in meat.

Eggs are an excellent source of protein. It is of high biological value as it contains all the essential amino acids needed by the human body. But egg yolk contains one of the most concentrated forms of fat available?namely cholesterol?and therefore should be avoided. Egg whites, which are proteins, may be eaten and used for cooking as much as desired.

Milk and dairy products are providers of?calcium, phosphorous, magnesium and protein which are all essential for healthy bone growth and development. One pint or more daily of non-fat or skim milk should be taken. Use fortified milk with added amounts of vitamin A and D, as now commonly in use. Buttermilk is also a refreshing source of milk with an exceedingly low-fat content.

Cheese is a food consisting of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. The majority of cheeses cannot be used in the low-fat diet, as they are very high in butterfat content.

Nonetheless, some cheese like cottage cheese is one of the several important exceptions. It is a soft, fresh-curd variety of cheese that has been made from dry curd and non-fat milk, specified by federal law and must contain a minimum amount of butterfat to meet legal requirements. And it has long been popular with the dieting crowd.

When you buy and use cottage cheese, one thing you should always check is whether they are creamed or not. The creamed cottage cheese of course does contain fat. The failure to notice that is the most frequent pitfalls in the use of cottage cheese.

Cheese made from milk whey and a favourite of Italian cooks, those various brands of cottage cheese such as "Slim Cheez" or Ricotta Cheese which taste like creamed cottage cheese can be used for low-fat menus. Some cheese spreads or dips which made from non-fat or cottage cheeses are also very good choices for low fat diet. - 17273

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How To Get Abs That Look Great

By Jose Loni

How to get abs faster than anyone else? That is the question that we all ask. In our society, we want quick results. There is no time to waste and achieving great abs before anyone else will give us that edge over other people. However, there are so many fad diets, exercises machines and programs that promise you quick results, but those don't work. To achieve ripped abs faster than anyone else, you need to increase your metabolism, through exercise and watching your diet.

We all see ads on TV claiming fantastic results with their diets, ab machines or ab exercises, all of which do not work. The ab machines and ab exercises directly train muscles other than the abs, while others offer a diet that will magically reduce your belly and give you ripped abs.

What we must understand is that in order to get abs that look great, we must increase our metabolism through regular exercise. Regular exercise produces lean muscle mass, which promotes increased metabolic activity of the muscles. The increased metabolic activity is able to utilize and burn the calories that we eat as well as the excess belly fat.

Sculpting our body through resistance training, will help our body increase its fat burning capacity to become more efficient at burning fat to expend during physical exercise.

Anaerobic interval training is also effective at burning fat and increasing our body's metabolic processes. The increased demands of the interval activity forces the body to require more energy, which causes the body to burn more calories and break down excess body fat to be used as fuel for the muscles. It has been shown, that the body continues to burn fat for several hours after the physical activity has ceased.

Monitoring what we eat is a way to balance our caloric intake and expenditure. By avoiding sugar, fatty fast food, processed food and carbonated beverages, we are better able to control our caloric intake. Also by increasing our intake of complex carbohydrates and lean protein, we can help our body burn the calories with grater efficiency and help our body utilize excess body fat as an energy source.

Consuming 5-6, small-portioned meals throughout the day allows our body to maintain its energy level and stabilize its blood sugar. By maintaining our energy level, we are better able to fuel our daily activities as well as get optimal results with our physical exercise activity.

There are certain ways of doing things, the right way and the wrong way. By understanding the concepts of increasing your metabolism and monitoring what you eat, we can achieve defined abs the right way. - 17273

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The Body of Your Dreams

By Ellen Valentine

In 1988 I heard Dr. Dennis Waitley say, If you go there in the mind, youll go there in the body every time. He followed that with a story about Olympic champions that visualized themselves pole vaulting or walking the balance bar perfectly before they ever walked out on the floor to compete. Their physical response indicated that they were actually physically performing. Pulses raced, sweat beaded, respiration increased as their bodies went along with their minds. Now how can this be helpful in creating physical results for us?

How we see ourselves in our minds eye is really how we think of ourselves. Sit still and take a few deep breaths. Imagine you, how you look; how you walk; how you speak; how you perform at a task you love to do. What does it look like that first time? Are you walking or dancing fluidly? Is your skin flawless? How symmetrical do you appear? If you saw something less than feels absolutely good to you, in other words, you flinched or felt a fist in your solar plexus or hated the process; then, you want to create a visualization of what you really want to see and make it real. So, the reality is that there isn't anything wrong or bad about you but if you want to shift something you can.

Jack Canfield is a mentor and friend. in his wonderful book, The Success Principles he recommends using the time before sleep and the time before getting out of bed in the morning as prime creation times. Go over goals, recreate things from your day that could have had a better outcome, put yourself in that new car or home or job or new business. Give yourself the body you'd love to have. If you're a new mother, see all the baby weight gone and yourself in a new bikini the way you want to look. If you're a body builder, see yourself rippled and in the greatest physical shape of your life. The Success Principles is a great book, a must have for deciding upon and creating the life you want to have. http://tinyurl.com/ch9l2s

Without gratitude things will not only stay the same, they will seem to get worse. Begin now to appreciate every tiny thing you can imagine about Being You. If the list seems small, make it up until it feels so sentient rich you are actually feeling better about yourself. This entire process of re-creation depends on the recognition of the power of the unconscious mind. If you were told repeatedly that you were too skinny or fat or any other message when you were small, your subconscious mind, that rudder of your ship, just drank it in. It accepts messages as real when we are small. If you believed those messages then, you can take your power back right now and reprogram for the life and the body you desire now.

Seeing ourselves in very different ways may be difficult at first. Imagine what it would FEEL like to be different, better in some way, better to you that is. Allow the feeling of the new you to wash over you. Let go of self-doubt, blame, shame or shoulds and just receive what your mind is conceiving. Implement new and healthy habits that will make concrete your decisions in the world of form. Detach from the outcome and begin now to enjoy the new you right now.

Create the body of your dreams and make it happen. Brain Science supports your right to create on every level; and Master Teachers all over the planet are proving it is so. Ellen Valentine - 17273

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How Is Cinnamon Good For Type 2 Diabetes?

By Jake Ryan

Cinnamon has been on everyone's diet discussion lately. It has been the new wonder ingredient to add to your diet because of its healthy benefits. But the questions remains, Is cinnamon good for type 2 diabetes?

Your glucose and cholesterol levels have been reported to be effected by cinnamon if you suffer type 2 diabetes. Your glucose levels are the main factor in why you have been troubled by diabetes.

Type 2 Diabetes is caused by your body's unstable levels of blood sugar. It is not uncommon to need medicine to help manage this, but most of it can be handled by a healthy diet. Most would like to handle their diabetes without medicine and would prefer to handle it through their diet. Is cinnamon something that can help maintain their health?

There has been a lot of research to see how a diabetic's diet is effected by the addition of cinnamon in the diet. A lot of the studies have shown an decrease in glucose levels with the addition of cinnamon in their diets. However, even with the research that has been completed the information is still inconclusive and will need more tests.

There have been reports that cinnamon has the same effects that insulin has. What cinnamon really does is help your body process glucose more efficiently. This is the main concern for maintaining a healthy body with diabetes.

The key to managing your Type 2 Diabetes is to maintain a healthy diet and exercise routine. This centers around your diet being balanced and full of the nutrients that you need. That means that you need to have a diet that is high in low fat proteins, nutrient rich fruits and vegetables, and complex carbohydrates. Typically, carbohydrates are the most difficult aspect of this diet revamping to manage. That is because there are two different types of carbohydrates, and it is easy to get them confused. Simple carbs are processed white flours and sugars. Whereas complex carbohydrates are more whole grains that are harder for your bodies systems to process. This ensures that your body is having to work harder to digest these while also providing yourself with a more long lasting energy source.

It is tough to answer the question, Is cinnamon good for type 2 diabetes. It has been shown to help in a type 2 diabetes diet. However, the results are inconclusive but they have not been harmful. With all the positive benefits it has shown from research it would be something to ask your doctor and test for yourself. - 17273

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Toned Abs In 8 Weeks

By Dan Solaris

Individuals with nicely toned abs are attractive not only because of being physically fit. It also says a lot about their character because being able to keep one's body fat index low enough to maintain a shredded six pack takes a lot of focus, self-discipline and relentless exercise. Being able to attain one's goal is an instant confidence booster and self-confidence is always attractive.

A combination of several things makes it difficult for a lot of people to maintain a regular exercise regimen and healthy eating habits. Modern culture's love affair with fast food and the internet have contributed to the excess weight that a majority of the populations in Western countries have.

Though people are snapping-up diet schemes, fad workout programs and abdominal exercise machines, 66% of Americans have still become overweight. Evidently, most of these usually overhyped products are ineffective in helping people control their weight and get nicely toned abs.

A great number of those that take-up aerobics and weights classes give-up after a few months because of slow gains from their efforts. Most of the time, it's because they're not maximizing their workouts for rapid calorie-burn.

Plenty of people make the mistake of relying on sit-ups and crunches to tone their abs and get a six pack. Focusing too much on one muscle group without strengthening to opposing muscles (in this case, the lower back) will throw-off the body's balance and result in strain and injury. Approaching fat-loss with the proper calorie-burning exercise and lifestyle habits that keep metabolism high can actually get you a six-pack in 60 days!

It would come as a surprise to a lot of dieters that fat-loss and toned abs can still result from intense exercise alone- without cutting back on calories. The process would take longer however, so it would be wiser to refrain from going through the candy and cookie aisle at the grocery. Making it a point to eat more fruit and vegetables that are rich in fiber and nutrients can also hasten body fat burn.

Having a tight schedule doesn't have to be a hindrance to getting a toned physique. Slightly modifying conventional cardio and muscle-building workouts can increase the amount of calories spent and shorten your workout sessions. Involving all of the core muscles instead of just the rectus abdominus will require more energy and a more efficient workout.

Doing total body resistance exercises with little rest in between can let you reap the benefits of calorie-busting cardio exercise while promoting muscle growth which raises our metabolic rate. Metabolism dictates how much calories our bodies burn throughout the day, so keeping this up with intense exercises and proper rest in between workouts will result in a tight and toned abdomen in 2 months or even less! - 17273

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Toned Abs - Females With Six-Pack Abs

By Jose Loni

Toned abs are a thing of beauty and we all want more beauty and less belly. There are 3 things we need to do to get toned abs: First, burn the fat. Second, make our body a more effective fat burner. Third, and most important of all, program our mindset. Follow these tips and we'll be on our way to more beauty and less belly.

Subcutaneous fat is where most of our body fat is located. That's why doing isolated exercises like sit-ups will not burn fat although it will strengthen the abs.

As we get older, fat distribution changes. There is now more fat in our stomach, and especially for women, in the hips and thighs area. Add a slowdown in metabolism and the recipe is complete for a less than stellar-looking abs.

One of the most effective ways to whittle that waistline is to engage in activities like biking, swimming, walking, hiking, aerobics and very active sports like basketball, tennis and other racquet sports. The key is to keep our heart rate up and in its training zone for a minimum of 20 minutes to train the heart muscle and effectively burn fat.

When we start losing subcutaneous fat, our skin becomes taut. We start looking firmer and more toned when we lose the fat in the muscles. And doing the above activities five times or more a week guarantees toned abs faster.

Getting our body to maximize fat burning capacity is the next thing to do. And we achieve this by developing muscles. Training the large muscle groups first, followed by the small muscle groups helps burn fat more continuously.

Last, but not the least, mental programming is the most important factor to success. The key here is inch loss. This isn't a numbers game on a weighing scale. So getting into a piece of clothing now that was impossible to before means SUCCESS. And this confidence starts showing in just a few short weeks.

Remember, females with six-pack abs are not that rare. In fact, more and more females have well-toned abs. When you put together these 3 factors of burning fat, burning fat efficiently and proper mental conditioning, toned, six-pack abs are just a few weeks away. - 17273

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Quick Weight Loss Dieting

By Aaron Roberts

The rise in saturated fats we eat, use of refined sugars in many foods and not eating as many foods with fiber have all contributed to the rise in the amount of obese people in society.

A lot of other factors cause this to happen such as genetics, overeating and as people age; the metabolism slows down making it harder than before to burn the food that was just consumed. The rate that a person loses weight is commensurate to how it is gained. Rapid weight is not good advisable since it leaves the person with lose skin and the only way to get rid of that would require surgery.

Losing weight for each person will depend on a number of things. Your daily routine, stress, lifestyle, gender, age, caloric intake, health and starting weight are all things that need to be factored in. Besides that, although being overweight is not totally desirable, it isn't always a complete indicator of a person's health. Some studies even show that these slightly overweight people might live a bit longer than people of a more normal weight.

There of course is not magic pill for weight loss. Certain supplements can help, but with proper exercise and a good diet program and person should be able to lose weight and get down to a desirable one. Slightly lowering your calories and exercising is the best way to do this.

First you will need to get the diet plan that is right for you. There are many out there, but no two are alike. A diet plan will usually have two things: an eating plan and an exercise plan for you to work out to. Often there is also a dietary supplement of some kind for you to take as well. The diet plan should probably have cardio work and weight training so that you will not only burn calories, but increase your muscle mass as well. This will lead to a faster metabolism and weight loss.

The plan you choose to follow should have the right foods for you. The right amount of carbs, protein and fat, as well as all the vitamins and other basic nutrients that a person needs. Don't forget to eat plenty of vegetable and fruits, as they have good fiber, among other things.

Coming back to fat, there are two kinds: mono and poly. There are also animal fats as well. There are more than double the calories in each gram of fat as there is an a carb or gram of protein, so take it easy here.

All diet plans are made with the idea of taking in a smaller amount of calories every day. You don't need to always eat less to accomplish this. You will need to eat smarter and pick those foods that are better for you. You can actually lose weight without eating much less than you already do.

During your diet regimen, make sure you are watching you body closely for signs or any problems. Check your progress. You will eventually need to change things up as you hit plateaus. Try different things out until you find what works. - 17273

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Get Flat Abs In Less Than 2 Months

By Jose Loni

You can get flat abs in 1 month. All you have to do is train with weights on a regular schedule of exercise to increase your body's metabolism and combine that with a healthy eating diet. Get great abs and fast results!

In less than 2 months, you can have flat abs by making a plan. Your weekly exercise session needs to be more often - at least 4 times a week. Modify your exercise session to include resistance training that will force you to work harder. When the body works harder, more calories are burned during exercise.

Resistance training that incorporates greater number of body parts and muscles use more energy. Increasing the exercise intensity, keeping the repetitions low and minimal rest between sets are key factors to boosting the body's metabolism.

More calories are burned from increased exertion using the energy source from food intake as well as from excess body fat. When the body is finished exercising, the body will increase its delivery of oxygen and nutrients to the muscles to replenish and repair damage caused by the exercise session. As a result, the muscles burn more calories, increasing the body's overall metabolism.

The cumulative effect of exercise sessions throughout the week will force the body to increase its calorie consumption and end up burning excess fat. As a result, the body will be burning fat for most of the day and night, as it works hard fixing and healing the muscles.

Healthy eating is another key factor in controlling how much fat is stored. Choosing a proper diet that excludes sodas, sugary snacks and fast foods will enable you to control your calories and allow your body to burn calories and excess body fat more efficiently.

Eating small meals throughout the day will help keep the body's blood sugar stable and allow the body to consume the calories that you eat, while at the same time keeping excess body fat from being stored.

Getting abs in 1 month is possible, all you have to do is push your body to work hard and burn more calories during the exercise sessions and begin to eat more healthily. Two things that will get you on your way to flat abs! - 17273

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These 5 Little Reminders will Take Control of Your Diet Easily

By Thong M. Dao

If you're trying to be healthy, the easiest way that you can manage this is through a proper diet. Although nearly all of us tend to cheat from time to time because of our demanding life-style, it is best if you're able to stick with some particular routines daily.

These 5 little changes can help ensure your body does not get outside of the balance, even if you cheat and stray from the 'perfect' diet.

1. Organic fruit. It is recommended you should eat at least two portions of fruit daily. Blending fruit into a smoothy and separating into two servings is an easy alternative to raw fruit. It not only tastes great, it helps you stay on course for your daily recommended ration.

2. We need veggies everyday, organic is best. They give us fiber to help in other areas and they also help maintain our health.

If you don't enjoy consuming veggies, try incorporating rich, leafy veggies into your smoothie every day. It would come as a nice surprise to you that this is exceedingly delicious.

3. Sprouting is really easier than most people think. Drain the water off, and they are ready.

Water enough to wet the soil thoroughly two times everyday and they will quickly germinate. Nibble on these whenever you are hungry for their fantastic health benefits.

4. Meat and fish are a good source of omega-3, but the best is flaxseed oil. Incorporate this into your regime and you'll be startled as to the drastic changes it will have on your general health.

5. Though it's not solid food, water consumption is a crucial part of an individual's diet and health. It is suggested that you should consume 50% of your body weight in ounces daily and add a pinch of ocean salt per 16 ounces.

If you try it I guarantee you will not have anticipated the change this can make of your health and well-being. See the difference it makes for you after you take it for a week. - 17273

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Ending the Cycle of Chronic Pain

By Virginia Pipolini

In our modern world many people are plagued with chronic pain. For some it is a mere annoyance, that aching feeling. Many tune it out, only to realize when they release the pain of how much pain they had hidden away.

When we turn to the cause of our subtle or chronic aches and pains, we find many directions. Is it dietary, or chemical exposure? Is it overuse of the body through hard work? Is it abuse caused by substance addition, like drugs, alcohol or even sugar? There is no single answer, and no solitary solution.

One direction the subtle pain relief researchers have suggested is the connection between nutrition and chronic subtle pain. Often the holistic based recommendations for treating subtle, chronic pain combines many therapies, including acupuncture, yoga, detoxification, and nutrition.

One study conducted at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto Canada compared two treatment programs for chronic low back pain. The intent of the study was to show the affectiveness of naturopathic treatment such as dietary supplements including magnesium, breathing exercises, and acupuncture.(1)

In the study traditional physiotherapy was used for half the test group, and the naturopathic treatment program was prescribed for the other half. The results showed that there was a greater decrease of chronic back pain in those who were treated by the naturopathic methods.

When we look in the direction of providing our body with the tools it needs to heal itself, we must look at nutrition. Magnesium, for example, has been identified as a deficiency in half our population. What are the signs of a magnesium deficiency? There are many signs, such as muscle cramping, asthma, and fatigue.(2)

There is no measure of how long it takes to create a condition such as chronic pain, and likewise there is no magic bullet that will lift us from its clutches. Perhaps if we focus on some of the more basic elements, such as diet and nutrition, we might see progress in our plea for pain release. Magnesium, for example, is easy to introduce into the body through pleasant applications such as magnesium oil or a warm, nutritional magnesium bath.

Referenced: (1)Naturopathic Care for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Trial. PLoS ONE. 2007; 2(9): e919. (2) ScienceDaily (Dec. 27, 2004) - 17273

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