Did you know that you can beat the flu with a body detox?
Incredible I know but many people just do not realize the power of a detoxing.
Of course no one wants to be down with the flu, it takes a lot out of you and can leave you feeling very unwell for several days.
Updated March 16, 2007
Ever heard of Miso soup? No neither had I until I was handed an article last week.
It seems that it is a delicious Japanese soup that can help you burn off excess fat.
Researchers in Japan have found that a type of brown seaweed known as Wakame, used in many Asian soups and salads and a key ingredient in Miso soup, contains a compound that appears to help shrink belly fat.
Animals who were fed the compound, called fucoxanthin, lost 5 to 10% of their body weight, mostly from around their middles. The compound also increased their metabolism and helped reduce levels of harmful cholesterol.
For some reason the scientists have gone down on record of saying, that they hope this breakthrough will lead to a natural slimming pill containing the compound! Why, Why a pill?
I think there are a few more tests to do first but I think a trip to the store for some Miso might be a good idea.
No Pills here though
Marcia.
Have you ever noticed how some people seem to cope with whatever life throws at them, while others find their lives punctuated by crisis after crisis?
If you are fortunate enough to be an optimist, able to remain positive against all the odds, you are then, one of the lucky ones.
Research as shown that not only are you more likely to have successful relationships,a satisfying career and a good life/work balance, you will probably live longer too.
These days, unhappy, negative people often end up at the medical center looking for help, whereas once they may have turned to a priest or a family member for support.
So whats the best thing to do?
According to some recent research, instead of having therapy it would be better to spend less time looking inwards and more time building relationships with friends and family.
A career that allows you to have a sense of control over your workload would also help. Try not to spend too much time working and consider finding an area of interest and start a hobby. If you are religious, spending more time at church, helping out wherever and whenever possible would also be a major benefit to your general wellbeing.
Achieving these goals will help you to feel more satisfied with what you have, in turn helping you to live a longer, healthier life.
It’s a little more crowded in the kitchen this week. Tracey our favorite cook has just arrived back from her break visiting family in France and she has invited over friends Ken & Sally. Today we are going to prepare one of Sally’s recipes. So here we go with a delicious,
Beans
healthy, low fat,filling meal:
SALLY’S ADUKI BEAN CASSEROLE (serves 4)
Ingredients: - 2 cups of Aduki Beans – 2 medium size carrots chopped – 1/2 Butternut squash chopped – 2 sticks of celery chopped – 1 medium onion chopped – 2 – 3 cloves of garlic (or to taste) chopped – Spices of your choice – vegetable stock – Splash of olive oil – Fresh coriander finely chopped – 1 cup of chopped bean sprouts
Method: - Soak Aduki Beans in water overnight. – Drain & rinse beans before covering with water and cooking until tender. – Cook carrots and butternut squash in a pan of water until tender (alternatively steam). – Lightly fry the garlic, chopped onion and celery in a splash of olive oil. – Place all ingredients together in one pan and stir in vegetable stock and spices and reheat. – Right at the end of cooking add the coriander and bean sprouts before serving. To serve: Serve with a salad or fresh wholemeal bread
Notes: - You can vary the recipe by using different vegetables of your choice. – Adjust the consistency of this dish to your liking by adjusting how much fluid you use. – Varying the cooking times of the vegetables to suit – Eg: some people prefer well cooked vegetables whilst others prefer crunchy vegetables.
Bon Appetite See you next more recipes
Information about the South Beach Diet is pretty easy to find as the The South Beach Diet is very popular with people who want to lose weight, but not have to count carbohydrates, fat grams, and every thing else!
This special diet is a great alternative to to using diet pills and other dangerous methods of losing weight.
The South Beach Diet or SBD is designed to help you to eat in a healthy way and not completely cut out all your favorite food items, which in the long run is the reason more often than not people stop carrying on a diet. What you need is a diet to stick to, which won’t leave you frustrated with your attempt to lose weight.
The South Beach Diet is effective by changing the way you think about food and eat it include more healthy recipes choices that will make you feel good and boost your energy levels leaving you feeling good and looking great. Well that’s the theory anyway.
This diet focuses on providing you with good carbohydrates and healthy fats, yes there are such things as healthy fats. This diet stops you craving all those bad carbohydrates and unhealthy fats, which work against you winning your battle to achieve your diet goals and leave you hungry all the time.
The south beach diet is divided into three phases. which is not unlike other diet plans such as the Atkins diet.
The first is designed to help you change your diet to one that is filled with eating healthy lean types of meat, such as beef, lamb, pork, veal, chicken, fish, and seafood. It has to be said there is not really such a thing as unhealthy meat just the way it is prepared and or cooked.
All meat should be broiled or baked, not fried, and should not be coated with breading or crumbs; this adds extra carbohydrates and calories that you are trying to avoid when on the South Beach Diet.
You should also eat plenty of vegetables, nuts, eggs, and low-fat or fat-free cheeses are also allowed so long as they are not coated with anything adding extra calories although pineapple and chive would be fine.
Vegetables should be steamed and plain, no sauces or butter at this stage of the diet. phase one of the South Beach Diet is the most restrictive, and does not permit you to have breads or baked goods of any kind, rice, pastas, potatoes, fruit, candy, ice cream, sugar, or alcohol. It would not be much of a diet if it did really would it ?
You can have sugar-free treats, but they should be limited to seventy-five calories per day which if you wondering is not very much. I know exactly what you’re thinking, don’t get disheartened and quit at this stage.
You will be pleased to know that this part of the diet only lasts the first two weeks, and is designed to get your body used to only having good carbohydrates to jump start your weight loss and eradicate your cravings.
Some people say it works well while others find it very restrictive and could be hard if you are on a tight budget as better cuts of meat for example can be rather more expensive.
In phase two, you will slowly add back in sweet potatoes (which are not really that bad anyway), wild or brown rice, whole grain breads and cereals, fresh fruits, and red or white wines. Don’t forget that not of this is compulsory and just suggested additions.
You should avoid such vegetables as carrots, beets, white potatoes, and corn because of their high sugar content, and also fruits like bananas, pineapples, raisins, and watermelon. These seems to contradict the eat fruit as part of the diet and you may find hard to understand the distinction between fruits you can have and those to avoid.For simplicity think if it is citrus it’s OK so that’s lemons, limes and oranges also apples , pears it seems OK also berries such as raspberries and blueberries .
Some other more obvious foods that will slow down your weight loss efforts include cookies, cakes, sweet rolls, and ice cream.
These should be kept to a bare minimum if you have them at all but try to avoid them if at all possible.
You need to stick to phase two until you reach your goal weight this could be a long while if you have put on a lot of weight and have an ambitious target sticking at this could be difficult but if you persevere you will eventually get to
Phase three or the maintenance phase this is something that people find difficult and is why so many people put weight lost back on again especially if initial weight loss has been to dramatic but has only been achieved with a very restrictive regimen.
All you need do for this phase is continue to practice the good eating habits you have learned and maintain your weight. The South Beach Diet is heart healthy and is designed to teach dieters how to lose weight effectively and keep it off for their lifetime. No more yo-yo dieting or that’s the theory anyway.
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A British pharmaceuticals company is planning to start trials on humans for a treatment for obesity using marijuana.
They hasten to add that at this stage it is purely experimental.
Of course marijuana has long been known to be a stimulus for hunger.
I read an article yesterday that was answering a question of why do people get cramps when on Vegetable diets.
All the article could suggest was that the most likely reason was that people that suffered with this was that their previous diet that was low in fiber and the sudden increase in fiber from the vegetables was causing the cramps.
Yeah, this may be true but was the article missing a very important point?!
First of all, you can forget the chips, cookies, chocolate etc. Way to high in calories & way too high in sugar & fat. Once in a while, they’re ok, but daily, they’re a real killer to your weight loss program
If you are trying to lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks or 5lbs in a week forget any of the traditionally forbidden foods.
But even when your are on such a diet you need snacks which keep the munchies at bay so why not try these low-calorie, healthy, tasty snacks instead:
- Fruit, (Fresh fruit is the best pretty much any in season) but also stewed fruit or canned fruit without syrup.
- Fat-free, low-salt pretzels. (rub off some of the salt, and they’re even better, but don’t eat an entire bag)
- Air-popped popcorn. Instead of butter, add black pepper, or oregano, or a little sprinkle of grated parmesan cheese. But stay clear of anything BUT air-popped. This means make it fresh and if it mentions the words toffee, treacle, syrup, give it a wide berth.
- Frozen bananas. Peel them, insert popsicle sticks and freeze. You’ll absolutely LOVE them. Great on in hot summer or even a warm spring But I guess if you are just going ice fishing maybe not ideal for winter snacking.
- Bagels, bread, nonfat crackers, (use these in moderation, too much carbohydrates equals too much sugar for your body)
- Nonfat cottage cheese. Good for you a good source of protein also. Tastes yummy as well.
- Chilled vegetable salad. Steam vegetables,add soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, orange juice or some other low-fat marinade and refrigerate.
- Nonfat frozen yogurt. (Much better than ice-cream)
- Nonfat yogurt. Add fresh fruit, or for crunch, try Grape Nuts cereal which is fat free.
- Fat-free tortilla chips with salsa. (Again, use in moderation as they can pile on the carbs)
Hope you found something you liked on that list for your snacks I will be bringing you more great snacking ideas
very soon.
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When we end up heavier than we want to be, we have a natural inclination to eat less food assuming this will effectively help us lose weight when dieting.
After all it’s what everyone is telling us to do isn’t it ?
We might skip lunch or eat only a tiny amount of our dinner in the hope that if we eat less our body will burn off some of its fat. But that is not true and extremely detrimental to our bodies and our long term weight loss goals. Eating less food actually makes it more difficult to lose weight
I know it sounds crazy but if you haven’t already read my article called Are your fat burning genes waiting for a wake up call. you need to now. You see what happens is your body,sensing an upcoming hunger, lowers your metabolism so you body actually requires LESS food than before! Therefore, when you start eating normal again, you will start to GAIN weight with the same number of calories you used to MAINTAIN your weight!
Now this might sound unbelievable but it’s totally true as is this next reason dieters fail so easily when trying to lose weight on there own.
If you thought that was shocking this next fact is really going to set you back in your seat …
Did you know when researchers compare overweight and thin people, they find that they eat roughly the same number of calories on average.
What makes overweight people different is the amount of fat that they eat. Thin people tend to eat less fat and more complex carbohydrates.
This next fact is going to blow the lid off the weight loss industry and reveal all the rubbish you have been told by so many companies when it comes to losing weight. Losing weight is not something you can do overnight let’s be realistic you didn’t get fat overnight did you ?
A carefully planned weight loss program which can be sustained requires common sense and certain guidelines. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of miss information floating around and lots of desperate people are easily duped and ripped off.
Every single day you can open a magazine or newspaper and see advertisements talking some new product or pill that will take excess weight off quickly.
Don’t buy these pills as they will never give you long term results we won’t be recommending these products Just as a side not it’s not easy to find unbiased information on these type of products so I leave you to draw your own conclusions if anyone would like to send us their views or post their comments we would love to hear them,
If you want to take weight loss pills but you want to reduce the health risks, follow these elementary precautions.
Always consult your doctor before taking weight loss pills.
Ask about health risks.
Follow instructions, do not overdose.
The health risks of overdosing on weight loss pills can be severe.
While taking the pills, maintain contact with your doctor.
Describe any side-effects.
Unless advised by your doctor, do not take any weight loss pills for longer than a few weeks. The health risks of weight loss pills increase with length of use.
When buying over-the-counter weight loss medications, check with your pharmacist that the pills do not clash with other medications. Since certain diet pills contain similar active ingredients to (e.g. decongestants, cough medicine), combining certain medications with weight loss pills carries health risks of accidental overdosing.
Everyone seems to be looking for that “magic” weight loss pill. Millions of Americans are trying to lose weight, spending billions of dollars every year on diet programs and products.
Sometimes they lose weight, most of the time they don’t.
If you check with the same people five years later, you will find that nearly all have regained whatever weight they lost.
I hope you can see we are all for telling it how it is rather then pushing pills and potions down your throat which very few if any have been FDA approved and are often copied and sold illegally over the internet but that’s a story for another day.
Are you looking for a no cost exercise you can do everyday that will burn those faster than Santa Claus can deliver his Christmas Presents?
Well look no further I have found for you a superb way that virtually anyone can do and it won’t cost you a red cent !
In a word, WALKING!
That’s right. It doesn’t cost you anything to walk. And it helps burn calories really easily and effectively.
If you go out & walk briskly for 30 minutes, you could easily burn 200 calories (more or less depending on your weight).
Do this 7 days per week and you’re burning off the equivalent of almost a HALF POUND of FAT per week.
After all walking is something we all do already. It’s good for you, and it’s probably the EASIEST way
ANYONE can fit in some exercise into their schedule.
HINT: After dinner at night,instead of plopping yourself in front of the sofa & television, go out for a 30 minute walk.
You’ll feel better & you’ll lose weight at the same time.
Music video by RUN-DMC performing Walk This Way. (C) 1986, 1999 Arista Records, Inc.