Improve your eating habits.
How many of us have been on diets at one or many times in our lives. Basically diets don't work. If you want to lose weight permanently ? adopt a healthy eating regime. Eat less and exercise more!1. Water.
If you're thirsty you're already dehydrated. The majority of us don't tend to drink enough during the day. If you drink a lot of tea and coffee to keep you going then these have a diuretic effect so you should be drinking water to compensate.Have a glass of water first thing in the morning and last thing at night ? your body loses a lot of water while you're asleep ? not only if it's warm and you sweat a lot but just going 8 hours (if you're so lucky) without food or drink it's going to be dehydrated.Dehydration can also be mistaken for hunger ? have a glass of water first before reaching for a snack or eating a meal.2. Fruit & Veg. Fruit and vegetables provide you with vitamins, minerals and fibre to help keep your body healthy.
Eat a piece of fruit or drink fresh juice for breakfast. Fresh berries on muesli or porridge or cereal. Have fruit as a snack during the day and salad and vegetables with your main meals.If you can, buy organic and wash fruit and vegetables before eating unless your peeling them. Pesticide residues are more likely to remain on the skin and fruits such as apples are often treated in storage.3. Avoid processed food.
With the increased reliance on ready-prepared meals, take-aways and convenience food to save time there is an increase in the amount of processed food that people eat.Before you buy that convenience meal ? check the label. How much sugar, salt, hydrogenated fat, E preservatives, colouring does it contain? Because it's processed ? a lot of the flavour and goodness is lost and has to be added. Because it needs to survive transport, increased shelf-life and cooking fats and preservatives are added. And how much does it really cost. Cooking simple meals such as stir-fries and casseroles are just as convenient and so much better for you.4.
Juice. One great way to kick-start your day and gently wake up your digestive system is to have a fresh juice every morning. I don't mean orange juice with your breakfast but fresh vegetable juices. Invest in a good juicer, buy local organic produce and find out how good fresh juice is.An easy recipe you can have every day is one apple, one carrot (peeled), stick of celery, cube of ginger and thick slice of lemon (remove rind).5. Fish.
Eat fish at least once a week. It contains healthy Omega 3 oils, which are good for your joints, and nerves. Flax and hemp oils offer an alternative for non-fish eaters.6. Eat regularly. Get into the habit of eating breakfast.
Your body has been without food over night ? break the fast with a glass of fresh juice (see above) and then a healthy bowl of cereal, muesli or porridge (avoid those loaded with salt and sugar). Try to eat every 2-3 hours ? little and often ? to avoid your blood sugar levels fluctuating too much. Don't eat a heavy meal late in the evening. Your body will naturally be slowing down at that time and food eaten late is more likely to be stored as fat.7. Alcohol.
There's nothing wrong with the odd glass of wine, in fact these days it's seen to be healthy for the anti-oxidants. Alcohol causes your kidneys and liver to work overtime to rid the body of the toxins.8. Know what you're eating. Be aware of the food that you're putting in your body. Read the food labels if you buy tinned, processed produce to be aware of how much salt, sugar and fat is in the food you buy.
Buy organic meat whenever possible to avoid the steroids, hormones and anti-biotics that are in factory farmed meat.9. Balanced diet. One of the most important ways to improve your eating habits is to have a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables, whole food, fish and meat, nuts and seeds. Everything in moderation. Keep fatty and sugary foods low but if you enjoy chocolate, cakes and curries there's nothing wrong with having one once in a while.If you'd like help in putting some structure in place to organise your time more effectively and get the most out of your day ? contact me for a consultation on info@clareevans.co.uk..
Clare is a Personal and Business Coach who works with individuals and small business owners to help them organise their time more effectively and create a better work life balance - enabling them to spend more time doing what they want and less time doing what they don't.Website: www.clareevans.co.ukMy Weight Loss Products - Offering Consumers a Wide Selection of Weight Loss and Skin Care Products
Houston, TX (ContentDesk) June 9, 2005 -- In May of 2005, My Weight Loss Products dedicated our business to offering consumers a better choice, a safer choice for weight management. We provide an alternative to the fad diets, crash diets, unhealthy eating programs and dangerous diet pills with proven weight loss products designed to meet your needs at a cellular level. The standards of healthy living are consistently challenged by fast food, bad diet, lack of proper nutrition and lack of exercise. Two thirds of American's are facing obesity issues and weight loss problems. The number of obese children in America has reached twenty five percent.
These numbers are staggering in the fact that most of these children carry their obesity into adulthood, and along with that they carry health and mental issues that some fear they will never overcome. The mental issues can result in depression and low self esteem. The health issues can result in: Hypertension, Dyslipidemia (for example,...
My Weight Loss Products - Offering Consumers a Wide Selection of Weight Loss and Skin Care Products
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Build Health: Go To School On Suzanne Sommers' Misfortune
Did you see the Larry King Live show where Suzanne Sommers informed us she was a victim of breast cancer?Until then the butt-mastering, thigh-mastering Ms. Sommers was thought to be a model of good health. Not only that, legions of her fans followed the Suzanne Sommers' Diet.Suzanne acknowledged that as a model of good health she had to set an example and eat the right foods. Well, if she was eating all the right foods, why the cancer?Some experts have theorized that Ms. Sommers carries a disease gene that resulted in her cancer.Just like us, she has more than 30,000 genes that provide the coded instructions to: (1) Shape her body, and (2) Make it run.Each gene consists of a section of DNA, which looks like a twisted ladder.
It is actually the rungs of the ladder, comprised of just four molecules that can be arranged in seemingly endless combination that will tell a cell what to do. Often cells are told to produce a myriad of proteins that will carry out the work of the body.Medical...
Build Health: Go To School On Suzanne Sommers' Misfortune
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Health and fitness software, what should be in it? Part 1
Let's keep the answer simple; everything that is related to your health.
The most important indicators for your state of health can be measured though your vital signs, like blood pressure, cholesterol level, heart beat, body mass index etcetera. The major input that influence these health indicators are what and how much you eat and drink, smoke, medication use, life style, daily activity and air quality.
Beside our genetic disposition, we are what we eat, drink and breathe.
A good health and fitness software program should be able to capture the above mentioned input and correlate the results with the output, or health indicators. This way you create a cause and effect system that the user can analyze and consequently take corrective measures and improve his or her overall health.
The bigger picture teaches us that an effective health and fitness software program contains modules that can monitor our food intake, record...
Diets > Health and fitness software, what should be in it? Part 1
Changing Trends in South Korean Food Market
South Korea is the third largest economy in Asia after Japan and China. It is also a pioneer in industrialization in East Asian region. Trends in food consumption indicate that people of South Korea are turning to western diets from the conventional one. Consumers in Korea are looking for high value and convenient food products of good quality.
South Korea is the leading trader in agriculture that represents an export market of $2.5 billion for US agricultural products only. Till recently, South Korea kept the tariffs on imports of processed food high.
It also imposed other sanitary and technical barricades to obstruct trade export.
As per the Free Trade Agreement between Korea and US, food-processing companies of Korea will allow an increased and easy access to US food units in South Korea's market. It will give new opportunities to food processing and beverage units. A good understanding and marketing strategy between the two countries will result...
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