04.13.07
Posted in Articles at 2:42 am by Contact
Healthy eating means getting a wide variety of the right foods into your diet. A balanced diet is not rigid or miserable, and has room in it for the occasional treat.
What nutrients do you need?
To keep running smoothly, your body needs:
- Carbohydrates (sugars and starchy food), for energy
- Proteins, for building muscle etc
- Fats, for energy and making cell walls, etc
- Fibre, to keep the gut healthy
- Vitamins and minerals, for a wide range of functions
- Water, to flush out the waste products of your metabolism
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Posted in Natural at 2:25 am by Contact
The Soup Diet is based on a fat-burning soup that contains negligible calories. The more soup you eat the more weight you should lose. It allows people to eat as much Cabbage Soup as they want each day, which should sound appealing to dieters.? After all, dieters love to hear that they can eat unlimited amounts of food and still lose weight fast.
The Diet relies on eating strange and bizarre combinations of food that nearly force you to starve each day. Dieters are allowed all the water and cabbage soup they want, plus a very restricted set of other foods.?
A running myth suggests that this diet originated at any number of hospitals, but thus far, no medical facilities have claimed it as their own. Consensus is that the diet is effective for temporarily losing a few pounds. However, this is not a very nutritionally sound plan and certainly not one to live on.
The 7 Days Cabbage Soup Diet Plan
Eat as much soup as you desire for seven days and you can lose 10 to 15 pounds. The recipe varies slightly, but includes a variety of low-calorie vegetables such as cabbage, onions, and tomatoes, flavored with bouillon, onion soup mix, and tomato juice. Each day of the seven-day program has specific foods that must be eaten, including potatoes, fruit juice, many vegetables, and on one day, beef.
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02.15.07
Posted in Natural at 10:45 am by Contact
by Andrea Bauman
It is the easiest diet ever. It is the diet for the lazy and the numerically illiterate. You don???t count calories. There is no food combining. You eat whatever you want. I???ve tried to sell this diet to magazines, but no one will publish it because it is so easy, it could fit on the head of a pin.
Here it is: Eat half as much; do twice as much. If you keep healthy food choices in your peripheral vision, even better.
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Posted in Natural, Articles at 10:39 am by Contact
By Hope Tinney, WSU Today
Low carb? Low fat? No flour? No sugar? What’s a body to do?
We turned to WSU’s own informal “Food Intake and Obesity Group” in the Department of Veterinary, Comparative Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology for answers.
Well, they said, it isn’t easy. And ultimately, the best answer right now is an eight-letter word: exercise.
Okay, you didn’t need a Ph.D. to figure that out. But, you probably do need a Ph.D., and years of research, to begin to figure out why dieting to lose weight is so difficult.
From an evolutionary perspective, gaining weight during times of plenty would have been not only beneficial, but perhaps critical. While we in the 21st century have certain ideas about what is or isn’t a healthy weight, perhaps our stomach and brain are still operating according to controls that made sense for tens of thousands of years previously. Easy access to tasty food was rarely a problem; too little food of any kind was.
“There’s a lot of redundancy in the systems that maintain body weight,” said VCAPP professor Steve Simasko. Michael Wiater, a research and teaching assistant, put it another, more ominous, way: “The prospects for overriding the biological controls are not good, and it’s important to understand there will be consequences for dieters, such as chronic hunger, which can be painful.”
Simasko and Wiater, along with Sue Ritter, Gil Burns, and Bob Ritter, study various aspects of the gastrointestinal tract and enteric nervous system. At the cellular, and even molecular, level, they are trying to figure out how the gastrointestinal tract sends signals to the brain, what those signals are, and how those signals affect us when we feel hungry, what we decide to eat and when we decide to stop eating. It’s a complicated process.
Read the entire story at WSU Today.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 10:30 am by Contact
A joke for a change:
? A woman was terribly overweight, so her doctor put her on a diet.
? “I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat
? this procedure for 2 weeks.? The next time I see you, you’ll have
? lost at least 5 pounds.”
? When the woman returned, she shocked the doctor by losing nearly 20? pounds.
? “Why, that’s amazing!” the doctor said, “Did you follow my instructions?”
? The woman nodded.? “I’ll tell you though, I thought I was going to drop
? dead that 3rd day.”
? “From hunger, you mean?”
? “No, from skipping.”
? Don’t Try this at Home…
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02.09.07
Posted in Natural at 7:50 am by Contact
Vitamins are essential for the normal growth and development of a multicellular organism. Using the genetic blueprint inherited from its parents, a fetus begins to develop, at the moment of conception, from the nutrients it absorbs. The developing fetus requires certain vitamins and minerals to be present at certain times. These nutrients facilitate the chemical reactions that produce among other things, skin, bone, and muscle. If there is serious deficiency in one or more of these nutrients, a child may develop a deficiency disease. Even minor deficiencies have the potential to cause permanent damage.
Nutrient chart of fruits and? vegetables.
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Posted in Natural at 7:44 am by Contact
Antioxidants are chemicals that reduce the rate of oxidation reactions. Oxidation reactions are chemical reactions that involve the transfer of electrons from one substance to an oxidizing agent. Antioxidants can slow these reactions either by reacting with intermediates and halting the oxidation reaction directly, or by reacting with the oxidising agent and preventing the oxidation reaction from occurring.
Antioxidants are particularly important in organic chemistry and biology. All organisms maintain a reducing environment inside their cells and contain complex systems of antioxidants to prevent damage by oxidation. These antioxidants include glutathione and ascorbic acid and these chemicals are substrates for enzymes such as peroxidases and oxidoreductases. Low levels of antioxidants or inhibition of antioxidant enzymes causes oxidative stress and may damage or kill cells.
Antioxidants are widely used as ingredients in dietary supplements used for health purposes such as attempting to prevent cancer and heart disease. Studies have suggested antioxidant supplements has benefits for health, but several large clinical trials did not demonstrate a definite benefit for the formulations tested, and excess supplementation may even be harmful.
List of antioxidants in vitamins:
Vitamin A (Retinol), also synthesized by the body from beta-carotene, protects dark green, yellow and orange vegetables and fruits from solar radiation damage, and is thought to play a similar role in the human body. Carrots, squash, broccoli, sweet potatoes, tomatoes (which gain their color from the compound lycopene), kale, seabuckthorn, collards, cantaloupe, peaches and apricots are particularly rich sources of beta-carotene.
- Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid) is a water-soluble compound that fulfills several roles in living systems. Important sources include citrus fruits (such as oranges, sweet lime, etc.), green peppers, broccoli, green leafy vegetables, black currants, strawberries, blueberries, seabuckthorn, raw cabbage and tomatoes. Linus Pauling was a major advocate for its use.
- Vitamin E, including Tocotrienol and Tocopherol, is fat soluble and protects lipids. Sources include wheat germ, seabuckthorn, nuts, seeds, whole grains, green leafy vegetables, vegetable oil, and fish-liver oil. Recent studies showed that some tocotrienol isomers have significant anti-oxidant properties.
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02.05.07
Posted in Quiz at 8:00 am by Contact
Answer the questions to help you determine how much water you need to drink today.
Water is often over-looked as a nutrient. People who do not drink enough water feel lethargic, have headaches, muscle aches and cramps. Do you know how much water you should drink each day?
Quiz at nutrition.about.com
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Posted in Uncategorized at 7:52 am by Contact
Take This Easy Test at nutrition.about.com
This healthy diet screening quiz is designed to help you grade your diet on a daily basis, so it works best if you answer the quiz based on what you ate for one day.
If you are taking this quiz early in the day, think about what you ate yesterday. If you take this quiz late enough in the day, you can answer the questions based on what you ate today.
You can also estimate the servings of the foods you eat on a typical day, if you generally eat similar foods in similar amounts every day.
check it here…
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Posted in Natural, Delivery at 7:45 am by Contact
Imagine never having to cook again!
5 square meals a day. No more bars, powders, pills, frozen foods ??? just 5 sinfully delicious, calorie-controlled meals that are low carbohydrate and free of wheat and sugar.
From lobster to filet mignon, your favorite foods are delivered right to your front door by 6am in a soft insulated cooler, your meals are now ready to re-heat in microwave-friendly serving dishes.
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