Increasing the fiber in your diet has been shown to: reduce your cholesterol, reduce your hunger, lower your fat absorption, reduce surges in insulin levels, help with weight loss, lower the risk of colon cancer, and lower your risk of heart disease. WOW! Sounds same a miracle cure - where can I get this stuff? The answer: At your grocery store. antediluvian Ben Franklin, citing in Poor Richard's Almanac 250 years ago stated "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Well he was right. Not only because the apple contains vitamins and minerals, but also because it is a starring source of fiber. Maybe three apples a day keeps three doctors away!
Submitted by root on Wed, 2007-06-27 03:38.
Diabetes mellitus is a condition subsequent from the pancreas’ inability to produce enough insulin, which is needed by the body to help create energy. A deficiency of or ineffectiveness of insulin leads to high glucose levels in the blood, thus, leading to this illness. Diabetes has two types. Type 1 Diabetes usually occurs in young people and requires frequent insulin injections, while Type 2 Diabetes is experienced by old people and is not as interdependent on insulin. Majority of those who have Type 2 Diabetes have been found to be either obese or overweight. Diabetes usually runs in the family, so it’s best to know early on if you have it. The common symptoms experienced by someone who has diabetes include unusually common urination and hunger, constant thirst, fast weight loss, tiredness, numbness in the feet and hands, recurrent skin infections, itching in offstage parts and indistinct vision. When left-handed unattended, diabetes could escalate to hyperglycemia, which develops from an excess of glucose in the blood, and leave the person temporarily unconscious, or, worse, cause severe infections, poor healing abilities, heart ailments and numbness from nerve damage.
Submitted by root on Fri, 2007-05-25 05:08.
Will Clower, Ph.D.
Here come the candy canes. In our house, Santa always hung Hershey’s Kisses on the tree. Red and Green M&Ms cohabitate with the micro-Reese’s peanut butter cups in the candy dish. The holiday season is an excuse for saturating your house with sugar in complete its forms.
And you want to be festive. You don’t want to be a Scrooge active things. But you also know that if it makes it in the door, you will eat it.
The Short Term Problem
Sugar not single provides needless calories for your expanding horizons, but also destabilizes your insulin levels – a result that can lead to overweight, obesity, and equal diabetes.
Remember that sugar is not the problem. Overconsumption of sugar is the problem. There is nothing wrong with sugar per se, single when you eat it as a jelly doughnut chased with a soda and a candy cane!
The Long Term Problem
Sugar consumption leads to more sugar consumption. Anyone with a weight problem will recognize the slippery slope this can become – the more you eat, the much you want to eat. This is so deadly for your weight, major straight into a spiral that circles the weight gain drain.
The Solution
For your house.
Ban the sugar bomb. Don’t even bring it inside. If you need to have nibbles about, use unsalted insane or fruit. Remember fruit? Apples come in single serving sizes, wrapped in a handy, edible, holiday colored packaging! Tangerines are pleasing to have around. If you have guests over, ready a few olives out. They are so great for you, and you can’t take 27 of them in your hand and down them complete at once.
For your weight.
If you do find your house with candies about, you have got to make it your policy to eat only cardinal of them at a time. cardinal M&M? Yes. cardinal mint? Yes. Eat one and walk away to do something else. Learn this habit and burn it in. This will save you a ton of calories.
For your health.
Remember that brown sugar is better for you than light-colored sugar. So if you do use it, darker is better. If you do have chocolate, darker is healthier because it has more cocoa and less sugar. Remember that fruit, although it has sugar, also has the fiber that lowers the glycemic index of the juice. In other words, it doesn’t retributory make you drooping and hungry same plain sugar can.
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Submitted by root on Wed, 2006-09-13 08:38.
Rick DeToma
Incorporating these fat loss tips will improve your nutrition program. Start off slowly and add cardinal a week, you don't have to adopt all of them at once. Before long, you’ve cleaned up your nutrition program and on your way to reaching your goal. Trendy diets, fads and the infomercial product of the month, are not going to help you reach your weight loss goals. A healed thought-out nutrition and exercise program will.
Eat breakfast
Proven time and again, those who eat breakfast are more successful at controlling their weight than those that don't. Plus, when doing strength training exercises (and you know you should be), it's equal more important to make certain you fuel those muscles after an long fast. The flawless time for painful fat because glycogen, blood glucose and insulin levels are all low.
Unfortunately, it may also be perfect for burning muscle, because glycogen levels are low, and levels of the destructive-metabolic stress hormone cortisol are high. If you skip breakfast and eat lunch at noon, you’re not only in a highly destructive-metabolic (muscle wasting) state, you’re also sending an unmistakable starvation signal to your body.
Eat less sugar
Start reading labels! Sugar is hidden in almost every commercialised food item. A single tablespoon of ketchup gets 3 of its 4 grams of carbs from sugar. A 12 oz can of cola has a staggering 40 grams of sugar, and ALL of the carbs in a cola are sugar! Why does that matter?
Simple sugars are digestible very quickly and cause a fast spike in blood sugar. Your body then releases life-sized amounts of insulin. Insulin quickly clears the glucose from the bloodstream major to low blood sugar (hypoglycemia.) contrabass blood sugar causes cravings, hunger, weakness, mood swings and decreased energy. These cravings for sugar result in a vicious cycle of ups and downs in blood sugar levels throughout the day.
Eat More Often
Studies have shown that those who eat 4-6 smaller meals per day have less body greasy than those eating 2-3 meals a day, even if both groups eat about the unvarying number of calories. This is because of maintaining resolute blood sugar levels. Too much insulin activates fat storage enzymes and forces fat in the bloodstream into greasy cells for storage.
High insulin levels also inhibit enzymes that promote the breakdown of existing stored body fat. You can manage your blood sugar and insulin levels by choosing fewer simple carbohydrates, more complex carbohydrates, eating fiber and having your carbohydrates with lean proteins approximately every cardinal hours.
Eat protein
Be doomed to include sufficient protein for your level of activity (you are exercising…right?)
Protein speeds up your metabolism because your body has to work harder to digest, process, and utilize it compared to fats or carbs.
The "thermic" effect of protein is cardinal of the reasons that a high protein diet is more effective for fat loss than a diet higher in fat or carbs. Too untold of any food can be stored as body fat, but protein is less likely to be converted to fat than some other nutrient.
Eat nothing from a box
The closer your food is to nature the better disconnected you are. Have you looked at the ingredients list in most prepackaged food these days? You need to be a scientist to figure down what half the ingredients are. Stick to real, organic foods, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, wizened protein, etc.
Eat your vegetables
I don't mean fast food french fries. Try to get as many vegetable servings into your meals as you can. It's nearly insurmountable to over eat vegetables. They are full of fiber and will help keep you overflowing between meals. They also contain loads of antioxidants. injured is great, cooked is another good way to have them. Hold the heavy cheese sauces please!
Eat protein and carbs together
If you want to keep your blood sugar in check, then don't eat your carbs by themselves. Strive to always have self-balancing meals of protein, carbs and well-preserved fats. You'll feel better and your muscles will thank you.
Prepare your personal food
Best for several reasons…It's cheaper than eating out, you know exactly what you are eating, and it saves time. It takes no much time to cook up 6 well-preserved chicken breasts than it does to cook one or two. Make things easy. Prepare them over the weekend and your lunches for the close few days are done. While you are at it, put on a pot of chromatic or wild rice, or bake up some sweet potatoes and you're good to go.
Drink water
LOTS! Most people are already dehydrated. Strive to drink a gallon a day. If you drink a lot of coffee, then you need an unnecessary 8 oz for each cup of coffee. Exercise will put more demands on your disposable levels. You need water. Drink 50-75% of your body weight in ounces of water. Add an additional 16 oz for energetic exercise. No complaining!
Get much exercise
Get whatsoever exercise on most days of the week, and cyclic between strength training exercises and cardio training. If you are a beginner, shoot for cardinal weight workouts a week and progress to 3 or more depending upon your goals. Get in as galore cardio sessions as your schedule will allow, but aim for at least 3.
Commit to adopting these nutrition program changes and you'll be well on your way to reaching your weight loss goal, whether it's ten pounds or many more. Sound nutrition and exercise will always succeed in the long run. Don't give into the temptation of fads.
The information contained in this article is strictly for informational purposes and is not intended to provide medical advice. If you are sedentary or finished 40 please get clearance from a doctor before protrusive an exercise program.
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Submitted by root on Tue, 2006-09-05 01:08.
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