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EAT GOOD TO REDUCE THE WEIGHT

2010-07-18T00:21:00.000+05:30

GOOD EATING HABITS FOR MAXIMUM WEIGHT LOSS

Eating habits is one of the key areas that need improvement for maximum weight loss. The reason why eating habits is difficult to change is primarily because it is already a habit. Habits are difficult to change since they are inculcated into the character system. However, if you want to maximize your weight loss results then bear with the need to change.

The goal of this article is to give the best guidelines on healthy eating habits. This does not only help lose weight fast but it also helps to keep you younger longer and give your more vitality in life.

Here are a handful of effective strategies to maximize weight loss and fat loss results:

Take more protein. Protein protects your muscles from breakdown especially when your body calories are down. It also stimulates the production of glucagon secretion which will aid in freeing stored energy for the body.

Eat 5-6 small meals a day. Break the 3 big meals habit into 5-6 small meals a day. More frequent feedings will give your body a constant source of nutrients to metabolize. This helps prevent catabolism or muscle breakdown whenever you are deficient of calories. It also helps you control your hunger and cravings because you are constantly taking in food.

Go with the greens. Green leafy vegetables are great friends when it comes to weight loss. They are full of fibers that keeps you feel full. They also counteract the acidic effect of proteins; thus, it balances your body’s acid levels to keep you performing at your best condition. Greens can also detoxify and cleanse your liver.

Eat starches when needed. Save starches especially after workouts. Your muscles need a source of energy for repair. Never lose the needed carbohydrates especially during workouts or you will starve your muscles, thus, impedes muscle growth. Good sources come from fruits, green vegetables, beans, brown rice, quinoa, and so on.

Eat nutrition dense foods. Eat foods that are dense in nutrients and avoid those foods that are high in calories. For instance, prefer wheat bread over white bread. Other foods that are nutrient dense are cabbage, lettuces, kale, broccoli, and spinach.

Drink enough water. Never dehydrate your cells. You need water to transport the different needed nutrients to the other parts of the body. Lack of water may also result to acid accumulation in the body or on the muscle areas.

You need fats. Stay away from unhealthy fats like trans fats, reduce your saturated fat intakes, and take more monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats coming from these good sources like olive oil, fish oil, flax seed oil, and nuts. Always check the food labels for fats.

Never overeat or eat unplanned. Always plan your meals in a week including the foods you need to eat during snacks or break times. Never eat foods that are never found in your plan.

Stay away from nutritional vices. Clear your fridge from those chips, sodas, ice creams, and other high dense sugars. However, provide a cheat day where you can eat small amounts of them. This still holds your body in nutritional balance but it also cuts your food cravings.

Read food labels. Before you bring them at home, be sure that they are healthy to eat in the first place. Educate yourself of the nutrients you get from the food compared to the nutrients you need to get daily.

Lastly, integrate all of these strategies into your workout plan. These strategies will never be effective if you are not doing some workouts. Whether you want to reduce cellulite, lose weight and fats, or feel healthy, you still need to exercise rather than putting them all to your eating habits.

WONDER REMEDY FOR DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS

2010-07-17T11:23:00.000+05:30

INSULIN PLANT

The leaves of a Mexican plant with erect spiraling stems and light, airy and tissue-paper-like flowers are turning the daily munching diet for thousands of diabetes mellitus patients. Nurseries are now promoting this exotic species as the 'insulin plant', a wonder drug that would dynamically bring down blood sugar levels. Diabetics who consumed the leaves of this plant report a fall in their blood glucose levels.

Costus pictus

costus igneus

KNOW ABOUT THE PLANT

Common Names : Spiral Ginger, Stepladder Plant, Insulin Plant
Botanical Name : Costus pictus, costus igneus

Family : Costaceae
Category : Tropicals and Tender Perennials

Sun Exposure:
Light Shade
Partial to Full Shade

Bloom Color:
Pale Yellow

Propagation Methods:
By dividing rhizomes, tubers, corms or bulbs (including offsets)
From herbaceous stem cuttings
From woody stem cuttings

Physicians say several plant products like fenugreek and bittergourd with proven hypoglycaemic action have been in use for ages, but their medicinal properties, unlike the 'insulin plant', are time-tested. In a medical study it was found that the leaves of insulin plant (Costus igneus) reduced the fasting and postprandial blood sugar levels, bringing them down towards normal

Diabetic people eat one leaf daily and help themselves to keep their blood sugar low.

Chandamama raa! raa!!

2010-07-14T00:08:00.000+05:30

Amazing Moon

2010-07-13T23:58:00.000+05:30

Be young always

2010-07-09T12:53:00.001+05:30

Anti-Aging Health Alert: Vitamins Alter Aging

A new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that multivitamins can keep you younger, longer. It shows that people who take a daily multivitamin had younger DNA.

Humble vitamin C has a secret life that nobody knows about. A Japanese study tested vitamin C’s effect on telomeres and found that raising the level of vitamin C in the cells could slow down the loss of telomeres up to 62%.

What Are Telomeres?

Telomeres are the key to aging. And it’s not just your life span that’s affected… Short telomeres dramatically boost your risk of serious diseases.

One study of 60 to 75 year olds showed those with short telomeres had a 300% higher death rate from heart disease and an 800% higher death rate from infectious diseases.

Worse, when your telomeres completely run down, cell division stops. And that’s bad news. Because when new cells no longer replace damaged ones, you die. Or looking at the glass half-full—if you can lengthen your telomeres, you’ll be healthier and live better longer.

And now this new study shows that you can take a significant step toward doing that with vitamin supplements. But you can’t take just any. There are specific vitamins that lengthen telomeres that your formula needs to have.

Telomere length is a key indicator of your overall health. The latest evidence from the most highly regarded sources keeps mounting...
·         Aging/Los Angeles Times
Your risk of heart attack increases the faster your telomeres break down. Scientists looked at people in perfect health . . . who later died from heart disease. They found the death rate from heart attack was three times higher for men whose telomeres got short the fastest. The death rate for women was 2.3 times higher. (2009)
·         Journals of Gerontology
100 year olds in good health had “significantly longer” telomeres than those with health problems. (2008)
·         American Heart Association
People with shorter telomeres in their immune cells had twice the risk of death from heart failure as patients with the longest telomeres. The study, published in one of its key journals, looked at over 750 people with heart disease. The highest-risk group had telomeres half the length of the lowest-risk group. (2008)
·         Psychosomatic Medicine
Women with shorter telomeres are more likely to be overweight and insulin resistant. (2008)
·         American Association for Cancer Research8
One of its flagship journals published a potential link between telomere length and colon cancer. (2006)
·         Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
People with short telomeres are more likely to suffer from weaker immune systems and greater heart disease risk. (2004)

How to Keep Your Telomeres Longer With Nutrients

The study was full of good news. It turns out that vitamin B12 supplements increase telomere length. And vitamins C and E prevent telomere shortening, increasing the life span of cells.

Why are B12, C, and E so effective at maintaining telomere length? It’s their powerful antioxidant activity. Your telomeres are extremely vulnerable to oxidative stress … and that’s exactly what antioxidants protect you against. This helps keep your telomeres long. And that, in turn, will help you live a longer and healthier life.

These vitamins can be easily – and inexpensively – added to your supplement regimen. Plus, it’s always a good idea to start with a diet that is full of foods that give you as many of the vitamins and minerals that keep you healthy. Here’s a list of good food sources of telomere supporting vitamins B12, C, and E.

Foods Sources of Vitamins B12, C, and E Vitamin B12	Vitamin C	Vitamin E
Beef (Grass-fed)	Kiwi	Turnip Greens
Beef Liver	Strawberry	Spinach
Salmon	Orange	Broccoli
Haddock	Grapefruit	Almonds
Tuna	Mango	Peanuts
Trout	Red & Green Bell Peppers	Olive Oil
Milk	Raspberries	Kiwi

Courtesy: www.alsearsmd.com

Beautiful Birds images

2010-07-02T22:14:00.000+05:30

ENJOY FRIENDS - Albert

NATIONAL FRIENDSHIP WEEK

2010-07-01T17:23:00.006+05:30

Show your friends how much you care.

Dear Friends,

Give thousand chances to your enemy to become your friend, But don ' t give a single chance to your friend to become your enemy '

It ' s 'World Best Friends Week ' send this to all your good friends.Even me, if I am one of them. See how many u get back.

If u get more than 3 you ' re really, a lovable person

It ' s National Friendship Week.

Send this message to everyone you consider a FRIEND!

Even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you.

If it comes back to you, then you will know you have a circle of friends.

HAPPY FRIENDSHIP WEEK TO YOU!!!

YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED.

F - Few
R - Relations
I - In
E - Earth
N - Never
D - Die

- Happy friendship week

Albert

Fly Your Face in Space

2010-06-29T11:16:00.002+05:30

Fly Your Face in Space

A novel program organised by NASA to fulfil the space dreams of every individual.

NASA wants to put a picture of you on one of the two remaining space shuttle missions and launch it into orbit. To launch your face into space and become a part of history, just follow this link:

http://faceinspace.nasa.gov

Return to this site after launch of the mission, to get print your Flight Certificate - a commemorative certificate signed by the Mission Commander. You can also check on mission status, view mission photographs, link to various NASA educational resources and follow the commander and crew on Twitter or Face book.

Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active.

2010-06-29T10:27:00.000+05:30

Hydro – Therapy for all ailments

Easy and best solution for disease free life is to maintain the adequate water level in the body. As you Know that the water constitutes the major composition of the body.

... DRINK WATER IN EMPTY STOMACH

It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven its value.. We publish below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese medical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases:
Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, gastritis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and menstrual disorders, ear nose and throat diseases.

METHOD OF TREATMENT

1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water ......interesting

2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minutes

3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.

4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours.

5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.

6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.

The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/ reduce main diseases:

1. High Blood Pressure - 30 days

2. Gastric - 10 days

3. Diabetes - 30 days

4. Constipation - 10 days

5. Cancer - 180 days

6. TB - 90 days

7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwards - daily.

This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.

It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in our life.

Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active.

Meanings to giggle

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouths.

Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.

Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be wise.

2010-06-28T11:40:00.000+05:30

Bring good health into your home -

Feng Shui

Health is the greatest wealth anyone can have. You cannot enjoy your life with all the money you’ve acquired if your health is not good. Feng Shui is all about balance. Feng Shui also believes in ‘Prevention is better than cure’. So, if you Feng Shui your domain accurately, you’d be saving a lot of medical bills and not only enjoy a long healthy life, but even your descendants will benefit from it.

How do you know if your home has a healthy Feng Shuied environment? Check your plants, the air-quality and the well-being of your family. Plants are the first tell-tale signs of good Feng Shui. If your plants are green, lush and healthy, the air quality of your home will be good too. Plants provide oxygen for us and we give them carbon dioxide. So, if your plant starts to turn yellow and falls sick, you must nurse it and make it healthy again. If not, get a new one to replace the withered or dying lants.

Always be on the look-out for poison arrows. They can come from the interior and the exterior of your home. Check that your main entrance is not facing sharp or pointed objects like a telephone pole, or a triangle roof. Poison arrows from within the home will be in the form of pillars or sharp corners. The cure will be to hide these pillars with plants or hang a 6-rod wind chime to press down the poison arrow’s effect.

You can also do space clearing and cleansing of your home once or twice a month. Use incense like sandalwood or Tibetan herbal incense for this air-purification practice. The incense not only fills the air with aromatic and herbal scents, it also clears out the negative chi that tends to linger in the home. You can also obtain a singing bowl and use the singing bowl to cleanse the chi of your home.

And lastly, you must exercise daily.As this is most important. You should also check your eating habits. Are you eating the right kind of foods that your body needs? How about your current lifestyle? Do you like to go out partying and drinking on weekends? Do you smoke? Reality check here: If you drink a lot, smoke excessively and eat the wrong food, you’re surely asking for a lot of unnecessary trouble. In the end, despite the good and healthy Feng Shui, you will succumb to your negative lifestyle. So, take care!

Meanings to giggle

Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Father: A banker provided by nature.

Criminal: A guy no different from the rest.... except that he got caught.

Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.

Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.

Classics: Books, which people praise, but do not read.

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

(to be continued...)

LAUGH TO A HEALTHY HEART

2010-06-25T12:07:00.000+05:30

Meanings to giggle

School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.

Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.

Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.

Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either"

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

(to be continued...)

Pics to Smile

HEALTH OUR WEALTH

2010-06-25T11:27:00.000+05:30

Warm Water & Heart attacks

Hi friends, taking warm water after a heavy fat meal, proves better when compare to cold water or cool drinks which paves way in accumulation of fats in artery and there by increases the chance of Heart Attacks. It is wonder to know that the Chinese and Japanese from ancient times drink hot tea with their meals, not cold water, and the Heart attack toll is much less when compared to India. Maybe it is time to adopt their drinking habit while eating.

For those who often drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It feels nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal. Similarly it is better to avoid ice creams after the meal. French fries and Burgers are the biggest enemy of Heart health. A coke after that gives more power to this demon. Avoid them for your Heart's Health.

Common Symptoms of Heart Attack

You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense Pain in the Jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.
Healthy Heart leads to a Healthy and Long Life