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Is Acai the Best Kept Secret for Weight Loss

Margaret — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:06:46 +0000

When it comes to weight loss, Acai is among the most common suggestions. But does it really work? That’s debatable based on the people who have used it and what kinds of results they have had.

Not everyone is going to get the same results. However, Acai is good for you no matter what because it has a lot of antioxidants in it, and there are not that many foods where you can get such a heavy dose of them all in one place. They are also found in red wine, grape juice, and similar things, but they are in much large doses in Acai, which is a berry from Brazil.

When people take Acai they often feel better overall and that leads them to get more exercise and try to eat better. They do more things and have more fun, and they lose weight. Feeling better is a very important key to weight loss because people who feel bad and are depressed often gain weight. In order to lose that weigh you’ve got to feel good again, and Acai can help you do that. Studies are inconclusive about weight loss, but the helpful properties of Acai shouldn’t be ignored.

5 Most Popular Diet Pills

Margaret — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:04:54 +0000

If you want to diet but you’re not sure which of the diet pills out there on the market would be right for you, here are five popular picks:

1. Orovo – this was created by a mother who watched an Oprah segment on looking 10 years younger in only 10 days. She tried the suggested foods and didn’t lose her wrinkles, but she did lose 10 pounds. It was hard to find the foods, so she developed her own diet pill from them.

2. Nuphedragen – this pill works, but be careful with it. The safety rating is a little low and there have been rumors about some ingredients not being good for your health.

3. Noxycut – this is for men only, and you need to be over eighteen because there are testosterone boosters in there, too.

4. Curvatrim – as a supplement for women, this is a great choice because it helps rebalance hormones that cause women to gain weight and have other problems as they get older.

5. HydroxyCut Hardcore – The strength of the fat loss in this pill is enough for almost anyone, and it’s one of the most popular diet pills on the market.

Commercial weight loss diets meet nutrient requirements in free living adults over 8 weeks: A randomised controlled weight loss trial

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:08:03 +0000

ObjectiveTo investigate the effect of commercial weight loss programmes on macronutrient composition and micronutrient adequacy over a 2 month period. DesignAdults were randomly allocated to follow the Slim Fast Plan, Weight Watchers Pure Points Programme, Dr Atkins’ New reducing your calorie intake Revolution, or Rosemary Conley’s "Eat Yourself Slim" reducing your calorie intake & Fitness Plan.
Setting: A multi-centre randomised controlled trial.
Subjects: 293 adults, mean age 40.3 years and a mean BMI 31.7 (range 27-38) were allocated to follow one of the four reducing your calorie intakes or control group. Subjects completed a 7-day nourishment and activity diary at baseline (prior to randomisation) and after 2 months. reducing your calorie intake records were analysed for nutrient composition using Winreducing your calorie intakes (research version).
Results:
A significant shift in the macronutrient composition of the reducing your calorie intake with concurrent alteration of the micronutrient profile was apparent with all reducing your calorie intakes. There was no evidence to suggest micronutrient deficiency in subjects on any of the reducing your calorie intakeary regimens. However, those sub-groups with higher needs for specific micronutrients, such as folate, iron or calcium may benefit from tailored reducing your calorie intakeary advice.
Conclusions:
The reducing your calorie intakes tested all resulted in considerable macronutrient change and resulted in an energy deficit indicating reducing your calorie intakeary compliance. Health professionals and those working in community and public health should be reassured of the nutritional adequacy of the reducing your calorie intakes tested.

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A controlled trial of protein enrichment of meal replacements for weight reduction with retention of lean body mass

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:08:02 +0000

Background:
While high protein reducing your calorie intakes have been shown to improve satiety and retention of lean body mass (LBM), this study was designed to determine effects of a protein- enriched meal replacement (MR) on weight loss and LBM retention by comparison to an isocaloric carbohydrate-enriched MR within customized reducing your calorie intake plans utilizing MR to achieve high protein or standard protein intakes.
Methods:
Single blind, placebo-controlled, randomized outpatient weight loss trial in 100 obese men and women comparing two isocaloric meal plans utilizing a standard MR
to which was added supplementary protein or carbohydrate powder. MR was used twice daily (one meal, one snack). One additional meal was included in the meal plan designed to achieve individualized protein intakes of either 1) 2.2 g protein/kg of LBM per day [high protein reducing your calorie intake (HP)] or 2) 1.1 g protein/kg LBM/day standard protein reducing your calorie intake(SP). LBM was determined using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). Body weight, body composition, and lipid profiles were measured at baseline and 12 weeks.
Results:
Eighty-five subjects completed the study. Both HP and SP MR were well tolerated, with no adverse effects. There were no differences in weight loss at 12 weeks (-4.19 +/- 0.5 kg for HP group and -3.72 +/- 0.7 kg for SP group, p > 0.1). Subjects in the HP group lost significantly more fat weight than the SP group (HP = -1.65 +/- 0.63 kg; SP = -0.64 +/- 0.79 kg, P=0.05) as estimated by BIA. There were no significant differences in
lipids nor fasting blood glucose between groups, but within the HP group a significant decrease in cholesterol and LDL cholesterol was noted at 12 weeks. This was not seen in the SP group.
Conclusions:
Higher protein MR within a higher protein reducing your calorie intake resulted in similar overall weight loss as the standard protein MR plan over 12 weeks. However, there was significantly more fat loss in the HP group but no significant difference in lean body mass. In this trial, subject compliance with both the standard and protein-enriched MR strategy for weight loss may have obscured any effect of increased protein on weight loss demonstrated in prior weight loss studies using whole nourishment reducing your calorie intakes.

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Why This Hoodia Diet Pill Could Change Everything

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:21:49 +0000

There hasn’t been any earth-shattering news to hit the hoodia industry since Leslie Stahl’s hoodia 60 Minutes report back in 2004. That report put hoodia gordonii on the weight loss map. This latest story could potentially change the entire landscape of the hoodia industry and make it easier for consumers to find a hoodia product that actually works!

Phytopharm, a British pharmaceutical company, announced that they are getting closer to seeking approval of their hoodia extract supplement. While it will likely be a few years away yet before their supplement hits the market, when it does it will change everything. Find out what this story is all about and how it could impact you in this podcast!

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Get Results With The Best Fat Loss Program Available Today

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:21:49 +0000

Hoodia diet pills can help with your fat loss efforts, but as I’ve mentioned numerous times, their role is limited. If they work for you, all they’ll do is suppress your appetite. For long-term weight loss, you need diet and exercise. Sorry to break the news to you.

Diet and exercise doesn’t have to be complicating and thanks to Tom Venuto’s fat loss program, Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle, it’s not! Simply put, it’s the best fat loss training program you’re going to find. This program consists of over 350 pages of step-by-step information on how to achieve your weight loss goals. It’s a complete road map to fat loss. All you have to do is “follow the directions.”

If you’re looking for a long-term and natural solution to weight loss, then you need to listen to this podcast. You’ll quickly realize why Burn The Fat Feed The Muscle is the best fat loss program.

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Hydrate to Lose Weight: Drinking Water & Its Relationship to Weight Loss

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hydrate to Lose Weight: Drinking Water & Its Relationship to Weight Loss was written by Michael Callen from ccwebgroup.com

It all begins with water …. Water makes up 75% of the human body, so to say it is vital to health could be nothing short of an understatement. Drinking water is a necessity for maintaining health, but it helps those of us who are trying to lose weight or decrease fat in ways you may not have considered.

First of all, by drinking water before and during a meal, it makes you feel full sooner. If you feel full sooner, it can help you to stop eating sooner. Secondly, water can be mixed with low calorie concentrates and sipped throughout the day.

By adding flavorings (such as juice concentrate or green tea extract) the water tastes more like food, which can also put off feelings of hunger and keep you feeling more satisfied between meals.

Finally, drinking lots of water helps you feel better while losing weight. When the body burns old fat deposits, it can encounter contaminants and chemicals stored within the fat. These contaminants can cause you to have flu-like symptoms. By drinking plenty of water throughout the day, you provide a vehicle to allow the body to assist in flushing out those contaminants.

So how do you drink more water? Like everything else related to losing weight or fat, discipline must be incorporated. Here are a few suggestions to help you drink more water each day:

Create an Accountability Partner at home or work and tell one another when you drink a glass of water, so that the other has to also. Compete to see who drinks more water.
Associate drinking water with daily ‘landmarks’. Brush your teeth, drink a glass of water. Have breakfast, drink a glass of water. Leaving for work, drink a glass of water. And so on.
Proximity. Keep the water close to you at all times. Buy bottles of water that can be frozen and taken with you if you are not going to be at home or at work. Keep extra glasses and water bottles at work and make sure you always have one full. If it is available, you will drink more water.

A couple of very important aspects of hydration that dramatically affect weight gain and loss are water retention and kidney function.

First of all, water retention. Water retention is an interesting issue because it is one of those issues that runs completely contrary to how we would imagine it would work. Water weighs about seven pounds per gallon, so its easy to imagine that we could shed a few quick pounds by losing some retained water… but how do we do that? Well, as it turns out, we lose retained water by drinking more water!

The body has such a need for water that it retains extra water if we don’t supply the right amount on a daily basis – and most of us do not. By getting into a habit, or regimen, of drinking more water than our body actually needs, our body becomes convinced that it doesn’t need to hoarde extra water. Once your body is “convinced” that you are going to provide more than enough water to simply survive, it will let loose of the extra water it has stored up in your cells.

Secondly, let’s look at your kidneys. Well not directly at them, but let’s talk about them. In order to do their job properly, your kidneys require an enormous amount of water. If the water is not supplied, your body goes to Plan B, which is to enlist the assistance of your liver. Because the liver is able to metabolize fat (turn it into energy), every second your liver spends bailing out the kidneys is a second it isn’t burning stored fat. Drinking more water allows the kidneys to run at their optimal level and keeps the liver available to burn fat.

For dieters, there is an additional aspect worth consideration. Because we are attempting to burn EXTRA fat (not simply the supply of fat in our daily diet), we actually create an extra water deficit. It takes water to do the normal work of processing waste from our bodies, and it takes EXTRA water to process the stored fat and waste that comes from that job.

Earlier in the article we shared a few tips on how to drink more water each day. Here are a few more tips to help you start your hydration habit:

Whenever you feel the urge to binge or have a hankerin’ for something that you KNOW you shouldn’t eat or drink, immediately drink a big glass of water. It’ll do two things… first it will fill your stomach, preventing you from putting the bad stuff in there, and secondly, it will put some time between you and your craving, giving it a chance to pass.
Water out, water in. Make it a habit to drink a glass of water after you use the restroom. Did you remember to shut the light off??
Drink with a straw. Some people say that you drink more and drink faster if you use a straw. It’s worth a try, right??

References: University of Minnesota, Extension Water Quality Program

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Close Kept Secrets to Weight Loss Lesson #4

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:00:00 +0000

Close Kept Secrets to Weight Loss Lesson #4 was written by Tami Close from closekeptsecrets.com

How’s the practicing going? Are you spending time each day to practice RET, EFT and affirmations? When you make yourself a priority, then everything else falls into place.

When we lose our connection to God, to ourselves, then we get off track. The answer is very simple! Spend time with yourself each day and focus on you.

Do you make excuses why you can’t spend time with yourself? Do you come up with all sorts of reasons why you couldn’t do it?

Take some time right now and write down the excuses you generally use when you don’t focus on you? Example: I couldn’t exercise because I had to do the laundry. Just name everything you use as an excuse. If you have weight issues, I guarantee the list will be long.

God created you as the most awesome person in the Universe and spending time with yourself would please Him. He wants you to feel that joy and love of yourself. One way to spend time with yourself is being thankful.

I thought it would be appropriate to take some time to be grateful. Expressing gratitude is important to adopt as a daily practice. When you’re thankful for all you’ve received, it opens your heart up to attract great things. You look at everything in such a different way and realize all that you have is given to you by God. How powerful is this?

A great daily practice is seeing the Divinity in all things and this is what I would like you to do right now. Take a look around you in the room you’re in and notice everything. Now, we’re going to be thankful for all that you see.

I am grateful for the walls
I am grateful for the paint
I am grateful for the computer
I am grateful for the windows
I am grateful for the doors
I am grateful for the lights

You get the picture. See how many things you can say or write down that you’re grateful for in just that room alone. You’ll feel a sense of calm and won’t be stressed.

You can expand on this to include your body. Remember to act as if it is already happening.

I am grateful for my thin body
I am grateful that food nourishes me
I am grateful I no longer have cravings

I would like to express my gratitude to you and how much I appreciate you being a part of my life. I know your weight has been (I’m using past tense here) an issue, but remember I will be the light that helps you know you have everything within you now to overcome this. I’m destined to help you uncover those layers you’re using as protection.

The big lesson today is focus on you.

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How to Lose Weight: Food for Thought

admin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:00:00 +0000

How to Lose Weight: Food for Thought was written by Gary Cordingley from cordingleyneurology.com

When it comes to weight loss, most of us would like to engage in what psychologists call “magical thinking.” We’d like to believe that some easy trick or ritual would allow us to shed pounds while eating anything we liked. Wouldn’t it be nice if consuming all our food before 6 p.m., doing yoga, or hopping on one foot for five minutes would allow us to chow down with all our favorite goodies and still lose weight?

Unfortunately, despite what legions of people with a book or a product to sell might claim, it’s just not so. Yet it really is possible to come up with a system for losing weight. The real secret is this: It’s all about the calories.

Most of us have heard that sensible weight loss involves some combination of diet and exercise. As a physician, I’m surely not going to tell people to avoid exercise. For most people, exercise is a very healthy thing to do. But when it comes to losing weight, unless we’re training for the Olympics, the effect of exercise is minor. What matters most is how many calories go down the hatch.

This bears explaining. Our bodies use the calories we consume to fuel our basic life-processes. The heart needs lots of fuel (calories) to beat its usual 100,000 times in 24 hours. The brain, liver and kidneys also require lots of fuel to perform their many chemical reactions and metabolic tasks. Most of the calories we burn in 24 hours (about 1500 for women and 1800 for men) we would still burn even if we were in a coma.

It’s true that working the muscles in our arms, legs and trunk requires fuel (calories) as well, but you’d be amazed how long you would have to row, jog, swim or walk to burn off the calories in one slice of cherry pie. (Answer: In order to burn the 486 calories in a slice of cherry pie a 175-pound person would need to row for 35 minutes, jog for 37 minutes, swim for 41 minutes or walk briskly for 63 minutes.) For most of us it would be more practical to just not eat the pie.

Each of us has a calories-per-day figure for maintaining body weight. If, on the average, we eat that many calories, then we will maintain body weight, neither gaining nor losing. If we consistently eat more calories than our break-even number, then we will gain weight. The unused calories have to be stored somewhere, and will probably go into our body’s fat cells. If we consistently eat fewer than our break-even number of calories, then we will lose weight. The body will get its fuel somewhere, and will burn off calories that have been put into storage in fat cells.

This is how it is. We just can’t get around the basic biology and physics.

So, if we’re trying to lose weight, how do we choose what we do or don’t eat? Well, sometimes, our choices are haphazard. A useful analogy concerns shopping. How in the world could we do a good job of shopping without knowing the prices of the items we’re putting in our shopping carts? Without knowledge of the prices our choices in merchandise could easily exceed our budgets.

The same holds true when it comes to eating. If we wanted to budget our calories, how in the world could we make good choices if we didn’t know the calorie count of the foods we eat? We just couldn’t do a good job. Our calorie intake per day would probably exceed our break-even point for maintaining body weight, and we would gain.

So, in order to make sensible choices, it’s crucial to know the approximate number of calories in the foods we eat. An easy way to do that is to buy a paperback book in the check-out line of your grocery store that lists the calorie content of usual portions of commonly consumed food and beverages. (Or look them up online.) We don’t necessarily need to check the list each time we sit down to eat, but knowing typical figures for our favorite foods will enable us to know if we’re keeping or exceeding our daily calorie budget.

This is not as awful as it sounds. In fact, there can be pleasant surprises. Suppose I typically get the munchies in the evening, and I roam the house in search of goodies to snack upon. Here is where knowledge of calorie contents can pay off. If I satisfy my munchies by eating cookies, French fries, potato chips or candies, then I’ll blow my daily food-budget in just one sitting. But what if I substitute pretzels or unbuttered popcorn? They might be just as satisfying, yet contain fewer calories. So these alternative choices might spare my daily calorie budget at no loss of satisfaction.

As a physician I often encourage my patients to lose weight. Being overweight can increase blood pressure and cholesterol which, in turn, increase the likelihoods of heart attacks and strokes. Heart attacks and strokes are the number one and number three causes of death in the U.S., respectively, and strokes are the number one cause of disability. So we’re talking about real conditions that afflict real people. Moreover, our overweight bodies put more stress and strain on our spines and our knees, making them wear out earlier, hurt more, and interfere with quality of life.

Some patients with whom I have this conversation look at me like I’m crazy. They’re eating barely enough food to keep a small bird warm, they say. The problem—or the solution—couldn’t possibly lie with the food they eat.

The incentives are clear. The choices are ours to make. We shouldn’t blame our metabolism. And we shouldn’t delude ourselves that we consume barely enough to keep ourselves alive, and yet still, unaccountably, gain weight. We need to take our health into our own hands and start making choices that increase the quality and quantity of our remaining years.

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Alli Side Effects And Safety Information

admin — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:55:38 +0000

As the clamour for Alli continues to grow, there is some concern that many people are forgetting the basic of using any medical treatment, whether prescribed or not. Non more so than the slimming industry is the rush for new products more headstrong, with many customers not even bothering to read the instructions fully. As with ANY type of medical treatment, it is essential that they understand how the product works, any potential side effects and treat the safety advice with the respect it deserves.

To get the best out of any treatment, you need to understand and respect what is happening inside your body. A number of factors need to be considered when buying and using Alli weight loss pills, including :-

Safety Information

· It is vital that you purchase your pills from a well known and trusted stockist, whether this be online or a retail outlet. The slimming industry is riddled with “get rich quick” schemes, and copy cat medicines which have duped millions of dollars out of unsuspecting customers. As a rule of thumb, if the price looks “too good to be true” it probably is – do you homework first.

· Dosage. While Alli is a reduced dosage variation of the prescription drug Orlistat, all customers need to respect the dosage advice. Under use of the treatment will show no meaningful effect, although abuse of the dosage recommendation may result in unnecessary increased discomfort.

· Weight loss. As the clamour for the stick like figure continues for many ladies and gentleman around the world (most often in the modelling industry) it is essential that Alli is used for valid weight loss conditions. It is not a way for wafer thin models to stay thin, and should only be taken where weight loss is required.

· While the drug has been tested vigorously, and is backed by the GlaxoSmithkline pharmaceutical giant, there may be situations whereby unrecorded side effects may occur e.g. when other medicine is being taken at the same time, or there is an existing undiagnosed condition. Any reactions or strange side effects should be reported immediately.

Side Effects

The potentially uncomfortable, but not serious side effects which may occur with Alli have been well documented. They relate specifically to the drugs ability to supress the absorption of fatty acids into the body, and the disposal of unused dietary elements. Some users may experience some of the following side effects :-

· Oily stools. As the Alli weight loss pill reduces the production of an enzyme in the intestine, which converts fatty dietary elements into fatty acids, some fat from digested food may not be processed. As a result the body will find a way to release basic fat content from the body, usually excreted naturally. Due to the nature of the left over substances, stools can often appear oily and emit an unfortunate odour.

· Flatulence. Another means by which the body has been known to release unwanted waste is by flatulence. While this is a totally natural and harmless release, it can prove potentially embarrassing and uncomfortable as the customer may not have full control of their bowels at all times.

· Vitamin deficiency. Even though Alli is specifically structured to take out the fatty content of dietary intake, some vitamins may consist of fatty content, which may not be absorbed into the body. It is therefore recommended that while using taking Alli, the user also takes a daily dose of vitamin tablets.

While the oily stools and flatulence are slightly unfortunate side effects, they can be controlled by reducing the dietary fat content to somewhere in the region of 15 grams per meal.

Conclusion

We are currently living in a world where over 65% percent of American adults are either overweight or clinically obese. The problem is now spreading quickly throughout the rest of the world, with both developing and developed countries showing increased obesity problems. Not only is this putting a massive strain on the medical profession, but there are increased health issues including possible heart attacks, diabetes, depression and bone / joint troubles.

While Alli will have an immediate impact on its own, it is strongly advised that people using the medication also reduce the fat content of their diet (thereby reducing the oily stools and flatulence issues), and take in more physical exercise. Not only will these changes impact on the weight and fitness of the person involved, they have been shown to improve their disposition and outlook on life.

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