Weight Loss, Some Of The 6 Biggest Lies Ever Told About It

By Ricardo d Argence

Many have fallen victim to marketing schemes making extravagant claims that you will rapidly shed pounds while continuing to eat everything in sight. Let's consider a number of the most well-known myths out there about this industry.

Let us look at some of the most popular myths circulating on this industry.

1. Avoid carbohydrates. This is perpetuated by the most famous high protein diets-the Atkins diet, South beach and a whole lot of other popular diets that promotes a diet rich in protein and low in carbohydrates. While such diets can produce significant weight loss in a short amount of time, the results are hardly long lasting and as soon as you start eating normally again, the weight comes plummeting back, even more than before!

2. Genetics is the most important Factor. If you have obese parents and grandparents do not think that you will be obese, genetics only play a small role in determining your metabolism. The most important factor in determining your success in any weight loss program is the number of calories you eat and the amount of physical activity you get in a single day.

Genetics also affects your metabolic rate, so if you have inherited a slow metabolism you will have to keep much more active to raise your metabolism and burn the same amount of calories that someone genetically inclined to a high metabolism would burn without any extra effort. There are ways you can rev up a slow metabolism.

3. You must avoid fat. People believe that fat intake increases your weight. But the key to effective fat control is cutting down on the dangerous fats and increasing your intake of the good fat. In order to escape from Trans fat and saturated fat, you have to eat polyunsaturated and Omeg-3 that loaded in foods like fish, olive oil, and avocados, it can increase the intake of healthy fats.

4. Missing meals. Contrary to popular belief, missing meals is not a good idea as it results in a lowered metabolic rate and a consequent difficulty in losing excess weight. It is important to eat regular meals so you can avoid the temptation to binge but be sure you eat nutrition rich foods that are low in calories like salads, fresh vegetables, fruits and whole grains - you can eat more so you stay full longer. Sticking to snacks such as a piece of juicy watermelon instead of your favorite ice cream is important.

5. No white food. Regardless of myths, there are "white" foods that are healthy, what is important are the nutrients not the color, examples are pears, avocadoes, and nuts.

6. Grapefruit Miracle. This is one myth that has no basis in reality. There is a group of individuals who are promoting grapefruit as a way to lose fat. In fact there is one small isolated research that states that there is a a magic fat-burning enzyme that can help you lose weight simply by consuming this fruit.

No one has any truth to these claims as of yet,nobody is positive as to whether or not the citrus industry assisted in paying for those studies. Great levels of lycopene are available in grapefruits, and this ingredient has been proven to strengthen cellular health, preventing cancer and heart diseases.

Now we have dealt with the six most popular dieting misapprehensions you may have heard people talk about. After busting popular myths about weight loss, you can take the first step down the path to your weight loss goal. - 17269

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The Difference Vitamin C Can Make In Your Workout

By Ricardo d Argence

When you want to live in a healthy fashion and to be physically fit, remember that you need a balanced diet and a good workout regimen. To be in good shape, you will need to have good eating habits that you practice every day.

The issue that a lot of people run into, however is that they need to deal with vitamin deficiencies. These deficiencies can lead to negative health conditions that will plague you in the years to come, but the solution really is as simple as making sure that you get the right kind of supplements!

One of the most important supplements that you can get is vitamin C, which can be bought in the form of ascorbic acid. It can help your body reduce oxidative stress and it can also be essential when you want to build muscles and improve the efficiency of your workout.

Many animals produce their own but unfortunately, primates and humans are unable to manufacture it. So, humans need their daily dose of Vitamin C from their diets, therefore, it is necessary to include food items in your diet that are rich in it.

There are plenty of benefits that you can get from consuming vitamin C. For instance, it can protect your cells and it can also facilitate the better absorption of iron in your food. You can use it to fend off the common cold and to build up your immune system and it can even help you build up more collagen, which is important when you are thinking about building up everything from muscles, to teeth, to bones to cartilage to capillaries.

Remember that when you are looking at vitamin C, you are looking at a substance that will help you support and maintain every aspect of your body. You will also find that it can play an important role when you are thinking about body building as it will keep your bones in good shape and your muscle strong.

We can get this Vitamin from many various fruits and vegetable, for example citrus fruits such as grapefruits and oranges. Food items like broccoli, Brussels sprouts, peppers, kiwi fruit, sweet potatoes etc. are good sources as well. It is wise to include these food items in your regular diet to ensure a proper dosage of Vitamin C everyday for a healthy body.

It can also improve your exercise routine. Proper dosage can help to strengthen your immune system and it can even help you recover faster. It is capable of suppressing a particular hormone named cortisol, which prevents muscle growth in the body while encouraging fat buildup.

To get the best result, remember that you should consume 1000 mg of vitamin C about an hour before you start working out. Not only will you recover faster, you will also find that it can help with muscle soreness.

No other vitamin has such benefits on the body. There are many different kinds of Vitamin C supplements available on the market, and all of them are efficient forms. If you have a passion for bodybuilding or if you exercise on a regular basis, Vitamin C supplements can help you in your journey towards a fitter and healthier body. - 17269

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VelaSmooth for Cellulite Reduction

By El Bilson

You might have heard of Velasmooth before, but are you aware of what it can do for your skin and body? VelaSmooth is a non-invasive device that utilizes a combination of bi-polar RF and light energy. It is the only procedure available that has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of cellulite. This makes it one of a kind!

This one of a kind device is created by Syneron Medical Limited. The devices is designed to be as comfortable as possible yet still effective in giving you smooth, toned skin.

How does VelaSmooth work? Llight and radio frequencies are used to start heating up the fatty tissues that are beneath the surface of the skin. These fatty tissues are broken apart and the body processes the resulting waste.

Currently, most women see the best results from treatment in the thigh, butt and stomach region. However you can still get good results elsewhere on your body. The new Contour Applicator can be used in combination with the original device to further enhance the effects of the cellulite reduction therapy. This special attachment is helpful for targeting the chin, knees, "love handles" and other hard-to-treat areas like the arms, neck, bra line and back of the calves.

Cellulite treatments have increased 81 percent since 2000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Due to soaring consumer demand for cellulite treatment and its commitment to continually improving product line safety and efficacy, Syneron created the Contour Applicator to further enhance patient results and treatment efficiency. This new applicator allows the patients to receive fewer treatments. It also helps reduce strain on the technicians preforming the procedure.

Worried that the infrared technique might be too harsh on your skin? This technique has been proven to be effective on all skin types, including those with sensitive skin or darker skin tones.

Initially,the treatment requires about 16 sessions over 8 weeks with each session lasting for about 45 minutes to about 1 hour. However, there is no down time and the therapy allows for the patient to return to normal activities after a session. Most patients see visible results within a few sessions of this unique treatment.

As with other cellulite reduction procedures, it is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle. A healthy lifestyle will help you maintain the results from the treatment. There are many doctors and centers around the world that currently offer this amazing procedure. Be sure to schedule and initial visit before you have the procedure. It's important to ask questions before you undergo treatment. - 17269

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Exercising Helps You Live A Healthier Life

By Austin Stern

Every year people across the world make New Year's resolutions. These resolutions range from going back to school to saving up and buying that expensive car they have been eying for the past few months. But one of the most common goals people make around that time of year is the decision to get their butts into gear, and get themselves back in shape.

If you are looking to get slimmer and to build lean muscle then working out is a great way to do it. You tear your muscles, which repair themselves and grow bigger and stronger, when you provide resistance or exert yourself. There are different ways, either with cardio or even lifting weights, that you can burn fat (and calories).

Depending on which workout method you choose, you will exercise different muscles which will vary by activity. Whichever method you choose though, you will be burning calories if you are exerting yourself. We want to get rid of calories, and so if you are being careful not to take in as many calories through eating a you burn through working out, you'll be in good shape (literally)!

Cardio exercises stress the amount of oxygen the body can hold during strenuous activity, forcing the heart to pump faster and in turn forces the body to burn more calories. Some examples of cardio exercises are walking, running, swimming, and bicycling, just to name a few.Cardiovascular activity also boosts an individuals oxygen capacity, which allows them to run, swim, or overall be active longer with less stress on the lungs and heart as time moves forward.

Strength training exercises, better known as weight lifting, is the practice of lifting a weighted object against the force of gravity, often to tear muscle to them later have it grow as it heals. Strength training is quite popular across the world because it is easy to get started. Many people use it to tone their bodies (or to make themselves more attractive), its also a great way to burn those troublesome calories.

A very cheap (in fact, free) form of strength training is resistance training. instead of using free weights, you use your body's weight and gravity to provide the resistance. Sit-ups are a really good example of body resistance training as are push ups.

You can really burn fat quickly with strength training. Although you've probably heard that muscle can weight more than fat, it does, but do not worry. When you engage in strength training, you are building muscle which adds pounds (good pounds) but it also burns away fat quickly, causing you to lose very unhealthy weight.

Whether its the middle of the year, or New Years, its never a bad time to start working towards your weight loss goals. Not only will you slim down, but over time youll discover your level of strength raise and your energy increase as well. As the old catch phrase and t-shirts said, no pain no gain. - 17269

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Lower Back Pain: Definitions & Options

By Dr. Stefan Tarlow

There are 5 vertebrae in the lower back. These are the 5 lumbar bones. They are cushioned by spinal discs that are covered with cartilage and made of a gel-like substance.

The spinal cord and the nerves that branch off from it are contained in the spinal canal, which extends through the entire spinal column. The lower back is very prone to pain because it has the job of supporting most of the body's weight. The spine, nerves and muscles are under a lot of stress and can experience quite a bit of pain.

Actually, after the flu, low back pain is the most common complaint doctors are presented with. There are a number of causes for back pain. Often, one patient's problems are caused by multiple reasons. However, the most common reasons are injury and trauma. Here is a list of the types of low back pain and their causes:

A muscle injury is a strain.

Sprain: Injury to a ligament.

A pinched nerve is called sciatica.

Sacroiliitis is caused by inflammation of the hip joint.

Disc degeneration caused by disease.

A herniated disc is caused by pressure.

There are a number of reasons why sprains and strains happen. They could be the result of multiple events. For example, improper lifting, obesity, and poor posture each cause cumulative damage to the lower back as well as other body structures.

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After a strain or sprain, it is important to slowly and carefully resume normal activities after a couple of days. Heat and/or cold packs should be applied to the injury. Physical maneuvering of the bones - known as tractions and reduction - may be helpful. Other treatments include electrical stimulation, massage therapy, and ultrasound. Additionally, injections of corticosteroids or local anesthetics may provide temporary relief of pain.

One can avoid and treat back pain with strengthening and conditioning of the muscles of the lower back. General aerobic conditioning and specific strengthening exercises will help with this.

Spinal fusion is a back surgery that is used when all non-surgical options have been tried without success. Spinal fusion limits movement in the most painful area of the back.

Back surgery is deemed successful if the pain is reduced. However, it may take over a year to find this out, as recovery can be slow. Complete relief of pain is quite unusual. It is important to discuss all of the alternatives for treatment with your doctor. It may be that surgery is not the right choice for you.

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Real Smoothies - Keep it Healthy

By Nick Jaggs

Do you know what is going into that smoothie you are drinking? Such drinks have become big business today, and words like "healthy" and "natural" have been used in order to describe them. Yet the smoothies you purchase in your local supermarket may not be all that they seem. These products often have labels either depicting a blender full of fruit or a sunny outdoor scene to convey the image that they contain vital living ingredients. But in many cases these smoothies have been prepared on a very large scale using large industrial machines as well as vats of fruit purees that to help extend their life have been pasteurized.

Also although many juice and smoothie bars have opened not everyone offers customers natural products. Some will use frozen fruit purees that have high levels of sugar in them and which are supplied by the companies who supply their smoothie making and juicing equipment. Because these types of blenders are expensive to buy, juice bars will tend to purchase a company's frozen fruit portions to make their drinks because they get the equipment for free.

However, there are now a few juice bars where to simplify their operations and save money actually make their own frozen fruit products. Again some will produce good drinks, but a few others load theirs with sugar. Don't think that for one minute the company that create these are trying to prevent us from getting natural ingredients, they just use this as a way to help streamline their business to ensure that they make a profit. Although there may be times when we as the consumer lose out because of this.

The original idea of a smoothie was very simple. It was a way of blending a healthy drink. Made most popular in the USA still there is no definitive term to describe this type of drink. Most of us simply recognize as this drink being a fruit based one made from frozen or fresh fruit and ice. Many of the independent juice bars tend to focus on the health side and so create high quality products that are freshly prepared when ordered, plus to further enhance the smoothies for some health enthusiasts they add super foods or boosters to them.

If you are lucky enough to have such a great juice bar close to you then you should really be using it. However, if your only real contact with smoothies is the bottled variety, you are missing out on some great flavours and goodness from the freshly prepared kind.

The best way for you to try a smoothie is actually make it yourself at home. But first let us clear up the confusion caused by some blender manufacturers. When we talk about smoothie makers we are actually talking about blenders. For years the kitchen appliance we know as a blender was always called this until someone somewhere in a marketing department decided to call them smoothie markets so that the company producing them could target those people wanting to make their own smoothies. Whilst a lot of companies have profited from the demand in people wanting to make their own smoothies it is this reason which has resulted in us thinking that these are two different machines, when in fact they aren't.

To make a smoothie is very simple you just put the ingredients into the blender jug and then press the button. It only takes a few seconds to turn the whole fruit into pulp and juice and cost per smoothie you make at home is much less than those you buy on the high street. Homemade smoothies not only taste great by contain lots of essential nutrients that your body needs. You can either make smoothies using frozen fruit or fresh fruit mixed with ice. Plus to further enhance the flavour and make the smoothie creamier you can add some yoghurt. Plus experimenting with other ingredients you could further enhance the health benefits of the smoothies you make.

First off you need a blender or smoothie maker! If you are looking for one that will do the work effectively and is able to cope with frozen ingredients then avoid the cheaper models you find in the bigger electrical outlets. Mixing ice can be very demanding on a blender so by the best you can. One type that is worth considering as it can also mill dry ingredients is the "Mill Blender" from American Health Brand L'Equip. Using this machine you can mill up some flax to provide you with essential fatty acids and then add this to your healthy smoothie.

A lot of health enthusiasts will place great demands on their kitchen equipment and spend hundreds of pounds on buying commercial grade blenders such as the Blendtec Total Blender. However, although these models will provide years of good service you won't need to break the bank to create your own smoothies at home. However, if you intend to blend ice in yours then avoid those that cost below 60. There are many online retailers who specialise in smoothie makers like www.ukjuicers.com who can provide you with what you need. - 17269

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Hypnosis And Weight Loss - How A Simple Technique Makes Losing Weight Effortless And Easy.

By Cynthia A Williams

Self Hypnosis for weight loss is very easy to do because we all go in and out of trance states on a daily basis. Examples of when you experience trances include being really absorbed when reading a good book, watching an interesting movie or even finding your way home without really remembering any part of the journey.

The experience of hypnosis is very similar to these trance states that we already experience on a daily basis but the difference is that we now use it in a conscious way to achieve our dream weight.

I use hypnosis on a daily basis to achieve my goals, see things in a more positive light, and relate better with people. The good thing about hypnosis is that you can use it for just about any aspect of your life that you would like to improve upon.

Self-hypnosis for weight loss has numerous benefits. Firstly it makes losing weight easy and effortless. The reason is because it goes right to the root of the issue, your subconscious mind. It changes the negative programming that has held you back into a more positive one where losing weight becomes easy and enjoyable.

It also helps you develop good long term eating and exercise habits, and let go of all bad habits and false beliefs. So apart from helping you lose weight you will begin to establish new beliefs and habits that will stand you in the stead of time and never to back to the days of yo-yo dieting.

Also using self hypnosis will help you develop a new self-image. One with improved self-esteem and self-confidence. In my experience, I have to say the greatest benefit that I have received from using hypnosis is the feeling of being in control. In control of my life, my weight and my eating habits.

I also find that I look forward to my listening sessions because it helps me relax. With just one session I become more relaxed and therefore get a better night's sleep. But I also get positive mental programming at the same time. Nothing could be easier.

So far we have looked at how self-hypnosis for weight loss is very easy and the benefits that we receive from using it consistently are huge. There are so many hypnosis experts out there, but how do you tell whi is real or not? - 17269

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Type 2 Diabetes - How to Stabilize Your Blood Sugar Levels!

By Brian V Shortt

Sufferers of type 2 diabetes at times walk a fine line between hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia simply because their bodies cannot process blood sugars as effectively and efficiently as non-diabetics. However, don't despair regarding this because balanced blood sugar levels can be achieved although, it must be emphasized, it will still be relatively elevated when compared with non-diabetic levels.

Hence, you must consult with your health care provider to determine the target blood glucose range appropriate for you.

Three of the most basic steps to help you include:

1: With the aid of your individual glucose meter, regular blood sugar level testing at times agreed with your health care provider, will help you determine the pattern with which your levels rise and fall. Of course your activities, foods consumed and time of day will make a difference. Don't forget issues like stress, depression, pain, poor mobility and illness come into play as well.

Once you have determined your personal pattern your diabetes management plans will be easier to tailor to your needs. In other words, you can then make the crucial changes to your lifestyle to stabilize your blood sugars.

2: Various conditions, like type 2 diabetes, send you warning signals when something is not quite right. You must learn to listen to your "body talk" ... Your body will constantly show you but you must be aware of the symptoms of high or low blood sugars. For examples an unquenchable thirst, frequent urination and extreme tiredness are all signs your levels are high. If you are taking insulin and maybe missed a meal, you would suffer signs of a "hypo" and they could include pale sweaty skin, palpitations, confusion, slurred speech or maybe a headache.

After you know your signs and symptoms take immediate action, i.E. Monitor your blood sugar levels, inject insulin, take glucose tablets, and/or eat food. Don't wait for your symptoms to go away as your capacity to remedy the situation may fade quickly.

3: Even once you give your type 2 diabetes your complete attention, blood sugar levels can be unpredictable. So it is really vital for you to know the level you should be aiming for. Most people who have diabetes should aim for:

* an HbA1c of less than 7 per cent * a pre-meal blood glucose level of 4 to 6mmol/l (72 to 108 mg/dl) or 3.5 to 6mmol/l (63 to 108 mg/dl) if you are not taking insulin or diabetic medications * a level of 4 to 8 mmol/l (72 to 144 mg/dl) measured two hours following your meal.

Don't overlook to share with your relatives and friends the steps you would like them to take if you are unable to help yourself. Put up your health care provider's telephone number in conspicuous places so they can contact him when emergency situations occur.

By keeping your blood sugar levels in a healthy range you can slash your risk of developing complications and live a long and healthy life even with type 2 diabetes.

Running consistently high blood sugar levels when you have type 2 diabetes increases your risk of developing complications such as heart problems, stroke, macular degeneration and other circulatory conditions, besides recurrent infections. - 17269

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