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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Healthy Diets, Your Best Choice to Lose Weight

By Ricardo d Argence

It is essential that you understand the basics of nutrition to be able to eat a healthy diet. You'll hear a lot of talk about carbs, proteins, and fats, but what does it all mean? To start with, the kind of carbohydrates are two in number. "Simple carbohydrates" is just another term for sugars. Starches that store glucose are complex carbohydrates. Your digestive system breaks the starch down and releases the glucose into the bloodstream. Carbs give your body energy, so don't cut them all out.

Proteins are essential to any diet because they provide cells with what they need to grow and maintain their structure. Proteins can be found in both animal and vegetable foods. Animal sources of proteins, such as eggs, milk, and meat, contain all the essential amino acids.

Believe it or not, but fats are also important to your diet. Your body burns fat as fuel, providing you with energy. The only way to get certain essential fat-soluble vitamins is through food. Your body has no way of producing these on its own. There are two kinds of fats, saturated and unsaturated. High fatty foods like dairy products (butter, cream), mayonnaise, and oils should be limited.

Obesity can be prevented by maintaining a healthy diet. Most of us know the risks associated with being overweight are diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, sleep apnea, gout, gall bladder disease, and osteoarthritis. It can greatly reduce the life span of people and enhance their disability of functioning normally.

Of course it's your goal to maintain a healthy weight, but you need to realize that it's not going to change your physique immediately. If you're trying to lose weight because you think you'll look like a supermodel, better think again, that's definitely the wrong reason. The goal is to get yourself healthy and fit, and this will take time.

Don't rely on quick fixes like diet pills or starvation diet fads. These results are never permanent and can actually do more damage than good. It's not just about dieting, it's about making life changes that will improve your overall health.

Exercise is also necessary for achieving this goal. This is especially vital for great heart health. It's true that muscle weighs more than fat, but it is better to be muscular and weigh more than flabby and weigh less.

When you have the necessary information, it's time to get started. Your first step is to decide on what your goal weight-loss is. You need to have a plan for how you are going to get your goal. Give yourself a reasonable timeframe. Sit down and figure out exactly how many calories you should be taking in daily, and how much exercise you'll need to stay in shape.

Be ready to experience a few highs and lows in your mood, yet don't be dissuaded simply due to gradual and not instant weight loss results. Stick to your plan, no matter what. After reaching your goal, do not return to your old ways. Keep in mind this is a change in how you live to keep you healthy, not only a diet. - 17269

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