Eating The Right Weight Loss Food!

Eating The Right Weight Loss Food!
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Oh, the ever popular weight loss food. Most people can feel
their stomach turning with just the thought of it. In our
experiences with diets, weight loss foods are almost always
bland, rarely exciting, and we never truly get enough to
eat. No in fact, in most cases, within 20 minutes of a
meal, we are still so hungry, we find something else to
satisfy our hunger. This of course inhibits our efforts in
weight loss.

You see in order to really experience weight loss, we do
need to control the foods we eat, but we do not need to
starve ourselves. In fact, the best form of weight loss
comes in the form of breaking up meals and actually eating
more meals each day. Instead of eating three large meals
each day, we should be eating several small meals daily,
which increases our metabolism and gives our bodies the
opportunity to burn off those calories faster.

Eating great weight loss food does not have to mean
counting calories either. No, you can eat the foods you
like, avoiding some specific things of course such as
pizza, French fries, fried foods, breaded foods, heavy
salad dressings, too much bread, and the chocolate, cakes,
and desserts we tend to eat too much of. You should however
stick to diet sodas, delicious baked foods, and lighter
dressings such as vinegar based dressings or Italian, which
fits perfectly on a salad.

With the proper weight loss food, you do not need to spend
all of your hard-earned money on foods that really do not
please our taste buds or fill up our tummies. You also do
not need to spend a large portion of your day counting
those calories either, who really has the time to do that?
No, we are busy people, with work, families, children, and
a host of better things we could be doing with our time.

If you know which weight loss foods you should be eating,
you will never have to spend another dime on things like
that again. All you will really have to do is go the
grocery store just as you have been or visit your favorite
restaurants. You did a double take there didn't you? Yes,
you can still eat the right weight loss food and enjoy them
at your favorite restaurant. Now that is a diet worth
looking into if you ask me.

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Alberto Martinez
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Don't Diet - Lose Weight

Don't Diet - Lose Weight
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Your body is an amazing creation. It is the most
sophisticated machine in existence and its reactions and
responses have been fine-tuned over hundreds of thousands
of years. The one thing that hasn't changed though is that
your body's first, and most powerful, driving force is
survival and that's why dieting doesn't work on a long-term
basis.

When you give your body less energy (food) than it needs it
will initially draw down the energy shortfall from your fat
reserves and you will start to lose weight. But if you
carry on like this your body is going to think that it
might be killed by starvation. So it will adjust to these
new circumstances and respond by adjusting your energy
requirements so that you can function on a lower intake of
food. But because your body's so smart it then goes one
stage further and actively works at rebuilding your fat
reserves so that you can't sneak up on it and try to starve
it to death again.

It's a scary thought that whilst you are fighting hunger
pangs, having withdrawal symptoms for your favorite meals
and suffering the sheer boredom of a restricted diet your
body is actively working against you because it is
determined to put back the weight you have lost.The good
news is that although you can't change your body's
instincts and response mechanisms, with a little knowledge
of how they work in different situations, you can use them
to lose weight naturally and to maintain your target weight
almost without realizing you're doing it.

You need to get some basic knowledge of how your body
handles different types of food and match that to your
lifestyle, to pinpoint the areas where you are in conflict
with your body's pre-programmed responses. This will allow
you to identify acceptably small changes, which you can
sustain almost without noticing, that will really make a
difference. For anyone who wants to lose weight and keep it
off, it's best to gradually develop a pattern of good
eating habits that can be continued for life.

Try this five-step approach to getting rid of those
unsightly pounds.

1. Keep a note of what you eat and drink for the next three
weeks. Don't cheat!
2. At the end of the three weeks measure and weigh
yourself.
3. Set yourself a sensible target of what you want to weigh
and measure in the future. (If you don't know where you are
trying to go you will get lost along the way.)
4. Check your food notes for bad habits ­ missed meals,
snacking between meals,bad food combinations, frequent
processed food meals and excess alcohol or sugary drinks.
5. Reduce the frequency of bad habits. For example, if you
can't resist snacking replace your usual snack with
something healthy like fruit on alternate days. Or if your
favorite meal is a cardiac surgeon's nightmare, save it for
once a week rather than twice ­ you'll enjoy it all the
more and it will only do half the damage.

Continue to make small adjustments to your favorite meals
and eating patterns so that you progressively create good
food combinations and eating habits. You'll find that not
only will you shed those unwanted pounds but also eating
will continue to be a pleasure.

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Jim Francis struggled to control his weight until he
decided to apply his management skills to the problem. He
has become an authority on ways in which the body's natural
instincts can be leveraged to lose weight naturally and
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Mineral Supplements and Their Role in Health and Fitness.

Mineral Supplements and Their Role in Health and Fitness.
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There are two categories of minerals required by the human
body.

Both categories play a part in building bones, teeth, cells
and enzymes, regulating the balances of bodily fluids and
nerve responses, delivering oxygen to cells and removing
carbon dioxide.

The Major Minerals.

These are calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, sulphur,
and chlorides and they all are needed in larger amounts of
more than 250 milligrams each day.

The Trace Minerals.

Copper, chromium, fluoride, iodine, iron, manganese,
molybdenum, selenium, and zinc. These minerals although
essential to maintaining the efficiency of the body are
only required in small amounts of less than 20 milligrams
per day. As most people today do not have diets that
regularly provide a sufficient and balanced amount of
vitamins and minerals needed by the body, the correct
supplements can make up the shortfall to help keep us in
trim.

Just remember that the body has many other requirements for
health and to keep disease at bay, such as fibre for
digestion, anti oxidants and not to forget protein,
carbohydrates and fats so do not be too tempted to rely on
supplements.

A good balanced diet will still be important.

Unless otherwise recommended by a qualified medical
practitioner a reliable multivitamin/mineral supplement
that provides a balance 100% of each days requirement (%DV)
of all the minerals and vitamins should be taken with the
exception of calcium which should be taken separately
otherwise the tablets would be too large.

Do not be tempted too go for supplements with a higher than
100%DV for one or more of the minerals or vitamins as this
can lead to an adverse effect.

In the U.S. look out for the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) on the
label indicating that the product meets their standards.

In most other countries there will be an identification to
indicate that acceptable standards have been complied with.
Read the labels, stick to the recommended dose, comply with
the storage advice and the expiration dates and don't
forget to keep out of reach of children. Keeping fit is the
path to health, wealth and happiness. Addendum.

This is an example of the importance to the body of just
one trace mineral: - Copper.

Although the body requires only very small amounts of
copper, it plays an important role in many of our essential
functions.

Traces of copper are found in peas beans and other pulses,
artichokes, bananas mushrooms, nuts tomatoes, potatoes, and
in slightly larger amounts in liver and oysters.

As it is unlikely that substantial amounts of these healthy
foods are going to feature in most people's daily diet it
would not be unexpected that the body's daily requirement
of copper is not being met.

The body uses copper to produce certain enzymes and
antioxidants, proteins such as collagen, which is vital in
building bones, skin and connective nerve and other tissue.

It is involved in red blood cell production, the immune
system, fertility and the production of melanin, found in
the hair, skin and eyes.

A deficiency of copper may be linked to osteoporosis,
increased risk of heart disease and cancer.

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Energy

Energy
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Copyright (c) 2006 Cole's Poetic License

Everyone's talking about energy these days.

Worrying about not having enough.

Or it costs too much.

I'm talking about how cheap it is and how it flows.
Constantly. In our bodies. Through our bodies. Easily if
we're lucky.

In Asian medicine it's called Chi or Qi.

Do you have a Chi Machine?

I do. I bought it in 1999 and have used it almost every
day since. It's a lazy man's (or woman's) 20 minute
meditation.

You lie on the floor on your back with your ankles on the
machine and turn on the machine. It gently rotates your
ankles. That's all it does. When it stops you feel like a
river is flowing through you because your breathing
oxygenates every one of your cells.

It was invented by a Japanese doctor from observing the
motion of goldfish.

I first learned about Chi when a Korean MD hired me to
write an article to explain Eastern medical practice to
Western patients. (I earned ten cents an hour on that task.
I had to go all the way back to Plato just to get started.)

Writers tend to have tight shoulders. By 1999 my shoulders
woke me up every night shouting at me. The Chi machine
shut them up for four years. Then I slipped in some grease
in a gas station and turned back to Western medicine. I
now have two new shoulders.

If you'd like one to cry on, let me know. But, back to
ENERGY. Thanks to quantum physics proving to us that our
bodies do flow, constantly, Eastern and Western medicine
are merging to our benefit.

In a recent Chicago Tribune article, Ronald Kotulak writes,
"Western medicine separated the mind from the body in the
Middle ages when the famous French philosopher Rene
Descarte agreed to accpet flesh and bone as the province of
physicians, while the Catholci church claimed possession of
the mind, insisting it was the creation of the soul.

"But Descartes, whose works were placed on the Church's
Index of Prohibited Books in 1667, believed the two really
interacted in the brain. Using the fledging powers of
observation and deductive reasoning that he was then
developing, Descartes could conclude that "the mind is so
intimately dependent upon the condition and relation of the
organs of the body, that if any means can ever be found to
render men wiser and more ingenious than hitherto, I
believe that it is in medicine they must be sought for."

"It's taken a long time, but doctors and psychologists are
now bringing the mind and the body back together amid new
evidence that the mind can improve the healing process in
ways that traditional medicine can't.

"Unlike earlier notions about the mind-body connection,
which were often based on anecdotal stories or simply "gut"
feelings, scientists now can document through powerful
imaging technology what Descartes could only deduce, that
our thoughts are capable of producing dramatic chemical
and physical changes that directly affect our health."

Acupuncture and acupressure are Eastern medical practices
to balance the energy flow. Some say that the cause of all
negative emotion is a disruption of the body's energy
system. There's a distinction between feelings and
emotion. You can have a negative feeling but it passes by
much like a smelly truck. If it lingers more than five
minutes it becomes a negative emotion.

A process of acupressure is now used to get the energy
flowing smoothly again. It follows the meridian outlined
5000 years ago in Eastern medicine. And, evidently, it
works.

It won't put gas in your car, but it will power your feet
and heart.

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© Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA, The Whole-mind Writer,
http://www.write-for-wealth.com , evycole@hughes.net
. Cole's chief aim in life is to convince everyone to
understand the power of the subconscious mind and
synchronize it with goals of the conscious mind.