Showing posts with label dieting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dieting. Show all posts
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Saturday, 8 July 2017
Be Happy With The Healthy Life
It is very important to be healthy and maintain a Healthy Life but it is just as important to be happy in your life. Dieting, exercise, this doesn't have to be hard. When it becomes a struggle to diet and/or exercise, it's not fun anymore and your happiness in life may deteriorate.
If you need to diet, take it slow. Seek out a proper diet that you will lose over a period of time. Exercise is great but if you are just starting, again, take it slow. Too much exercise, when you're not used to it, can be harmful.
We now have greater awareness of our bodies through the sciences, the media, etc. The benefits of a healthy life are obvious to us all. To achieve the healthy life is not done by simply going to your local pharmacy and picking up some drugs.
A healthy life and a happy life is a combination of many things acting together. Because of the way our foods are grown and processed today, we need to start with a good, all natural supplement. The next ingredient is eating proper, and in proper portions. And, of course, along with these is proper and limited exercise.
It doesn't just stop with what to do... now comes when to do it. To maintain the healthy life and happy life, you cannot take a nutritional supplement once in a while, eat proper foods now and then, and exercise a couple times a month. This is what people do that always ask the question, "Why am I not losing weight?"
Once you start a routine, stay on it. Not for a week or a month, stay on it... period.
Think about this, you will not only look and feel healthier, your new eating and exercising routine will also reduce your risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease. You will see other benefits like, reduced costs of health care, reducing illnesses and injuries, fewer visit to doctors, etc.
Diet and exercise will lower blood pressure, reduce weight and lower the risk of developing diabetes. Exercise and a healthy diet helps the body use insulin more efficiently and can help control, reduce and prevent many diseases. Exercising, eating foods high in fiber, weight control, and learn to deal with stress, reduce the risk of heart disease.
Also... If you eat healthy food, exercise and pay attention to your body you will certainly life a longer, healthy and happy life.
Living healthy is important for everyone. This is a truth with which no one can disagree. And the matter is not that you will live longer due to following instructions for a healthy life. The matter is in the quality of your life: it will substantially improve. You will be living a healthy life and thus feel happy, work more efficiently and be able to reach the goals you set.
A few tips to follow:
If you want to make your meals healthier, forget the fast food and ready-to-cook meals. They have artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives that your digestive system will not like. By staying away from these products, you will pretty-much have no choice but to eat more vegetables, fruits, fish, meat, cereals and dairy products. You don't need a rigid diet, just proper portions of healthy foods plus your all natural nutritional supplement.
Only one more thing to remember, walking. Walk a lot. It's very good for you and your metabolism. Park your car out farther in the parking lot and walk. Do this at work, at the shopping mall, at the grocery store, everywhere you go. Not only is this good for you, it will also save a few dents in your car from other car doors.
Have a healthy life and a happy life.
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Saturday, 1 October 2016
Why Lose Weight? Here Is the Answer
Each year millions of people think about dieting to lose some weight only to have the thought stopped with the question, "Why Lose Weight?" After all, as most of us probably know, you torture yourself for 3 or 4 months to drop 15 or 20 pounds and before you know it the weight is back, plus a few extra pounds. So, naturally, the question of why lose weight wins out and we decide to stick with our current lifestyle of over indulging and manipulating the TV remote.
In general, the thought of the process of dieting overshadows the reason for weight loss. The thought of the miles of walking, the eating healthy, and in a lot of cases, the fasting to lose fat, blurs what should be our ultimate goal. That goal should not be to look good but to give us a healthy body. In a lot of cases, we may meet our weight loss goal and be happy with ourselves. The doubt jumps into our head when we don't maintain that goal. It then becomes, in our mind, the diet's fault. Thus comes the question, why lose weight, we're only going to gain it back again.
So, why is it important for us to drop a few pounds? Think about this. Every year, nearly 112 million people die due to being overweight. If you're an adult between 30 and 65 years of age, being 10 to 20 pounds overweight dramatically increases your risk serious illness or even of death. In general, people who are dramatically overweight are more likely to die from their unhealthy lifestyle than people of the same age living their lives at a healthy weight.
Coronary heart disease and heart attack can be directly linked to obesity. It's a fact that people who are overweight or obese suffer more heart attacks than those who are not overweight. High blood pressure and high cholesterol are also more prevalent in those who are overweight. We can also add diabetes to the list of health risks associated with obesity. Facts show that obesity is prevalent in over 80 percent of the people who suffer with diabetes. If you were compiling a list of health problems associated with obesity, you could also add cancer, sleep apnea, asthma, and even arthritis.
Taking into consideration the health risks mentioned above, the question of "Why lose weight?" should be answered. Instead of asking "Why lose weight" maybe the question should be "Why Can't I lose weight?". Keep in mind that anything worth having is worth working for. Our health is one of the most precious possessions we have. So, get back to eating healthy to lose the fat, and walking to firm the muscles, and most of all, make a pledge to keep the weight off. Set your goals beyond just meeting your weight loss goal. Make your goal to be to live healthy and maintain a good weight for a set period of time. Better yet, why not set it as a lifetime goal. That way, the question of "Why lose weight" never comes up again.
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So, why is it important for us to drop a few pounds? Think about this. Every year, nearly 112 million people die due to being overweight. If you're an adult between 30 and 65 years of age, being 10 to 20 pounds overweight dramatically increases your risk serious illness or even of death. In general, people who are dramatically overweight are more likely to die from their unhealthy lifestyle than people of the same age living their lives at a healthy weight.
Taking into consideration the health risks mentioned above, the question of "Why lose weight?" should be answered. Instead of asking "Why lose weight" maybe the question should be "Why Can't I lose weight?". Keep in mind that anything worth having is worth working for. Our health is one of the most precious possessions we have. So, get back to eating healthy to lose the fat, and walking to firm the muscles, and most of all, make a pledge to keep the weight off. Set your goals beyond just meeting your weight loss goal. Make your goal to be to live healthy and maintain a good weight for a set period of time. Better yet, why not set it as a lifetime goal. That way, the question of "Why lose weight" never comes up again.
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Nutrition at Work Guide
Nutrition at work
Okay...we all know that this is a tough one. Everyone likes to eat, it is just old-fashioned human nature. The problem is that we have access to some delicious and not so healthy foods in the workplace (and everywhere else for that matter) and it is so easy to make a bad call.
If we understand, however, that some foods have a very bad effect on us, we can find it easier to avoid them. In this section, we'll look at the way our food choices affect our outlook or mood, how they regulate our level of energy, and how they impact our body weight.
We will then look at the modern "food pyramid," which the USDA recently renamed the "food plate" and changed into a plate segmented into the different food groups.
Your diet and your mood
Now, you may say "I hate dieting..." and that is a reflection of your ATTITUDE towards dieting, but this is not the same as eating and your mood. The diet that you consume is not the restrictive "diet" that you follow to lose weight, but is the different foods that you eat throughout each day in order to stay alive.
So, you can forget about hating dieting because that is not the mood we mean. What we mean is the way that your food choices directly impact how you feel at the moment, and you may be surprised to learn that what you put in your mouth has a lot to do about the way you may feel about the world an hour later.
For example, let's say you are pooped out at 3 PM and go to the candy machine for your favorite sweet. You enjoy that little pick me up (even though you feel very guilty about the calories and fat you just consumed, and this plays a part in your mood in a little while) but you notice that the energy you received from the candy is quickly burned up and before 5 PM you are "dragging" again. You are also feeling a bit cranky and moody too, and annoyed at yourself for making such a fattening choice.
What just happened? You ate what are known as "empty calories". These are a form of energy that hits the blood stream right away. This causes the bodily organ known as the pancreas to secrete insulin (which is used to digest sugar properly) in order to prevent the blood glucose from going too high at once. Sadly, this fails and creates what we call a "backlash" that lets the glucose level plummet again, and always within two to five hours afterward. It doesn't end here though because each time blood glucose levels "crash" they force the body to generate too much adrenaline, which causes nervousness and irritability.
You can avoid all of this by feeding the body a steady supply of good foods that are of the "long slow burn" type. This means the good old complex carbs like bananas or potatoes.
Diet and Energy
Did you just have an "aha!" moment or do you know all of this already? Most people are well aware of the need to avoid those empty calories, but are not always sure how to get an adequate supply of calories either.
The answer is very simple - you eat all of the time! Well, you eat at least five times per day. When you sit at a desk, you are not burning many calories, so it means you have to choose wisely. It also means that you need to choose the things that give you a good amount of energy without also slowing you down. So, if you are what many diet experts call a "grazer" who eats fruits and vegetables, grains, lean proteins, and low-fat dairy foods throughout the day...well, you aren't likely to ever reach for the candy bars and coffee again!
It really requires you to start at the very beginning and understand how diet and weight work...
Your diet and your weight
If you need to know how to maintain a healthy weight, meaning you are hoping to learn how many calories you should eat each day, you start with the "BMR".
This is the basal metabolic rate, which is the amount of energy needed for your body to function in an "at rest" or "seated at desk all day" state. You will be happy to hear that around 60 to 70 percent of your daily calories are burned up by this activity.
Use the famous Harris Benedict formulas below to figure out your BMR:
So, you can eat that much and not gain weight? Not yet! You also have to know the "thermic effects of food" which are really the calories used by the body to digest food that it has eaten! The easiest way to determine YOUR thermic caloric burn is to multiply the total number of calories consumed by ten percent.
So you take the BMR and the thermic effect and use those to understand if you have eaten enough that day? Not yet, because you have to remember that you DO move around, especially if you do all of the recommended exercising at work!
You will want to go online and get a table of figures that shows you how many calories you are burning each day. If you eat fewer than burned, you lose weight. If you keep things on an "even keel" you maintain the body weight, and if you eat more than you burn...well, you gain weight.
So, what is the optimal way to eat? Let's turn the USDAs recommendations for a good set of guidelines.
Food Plates
Whether you use the American Food Plate or the British Eatwell Plate or any other food guidelines, you are going to find that most use "food groups".
Food Groups
These tend to consist of five standard categories that include:
The food pyramid system tended to break things up, and the food plates emulate this model.
Note that grains are the dominant food and that fruits and vegetables are "tied" for second. Next in line is protein, followed by dairy and then fats and sweets are given a tiny place in the configuration. Today, the food plate doesn't leave any space for fats or empty calories, but you have to be realistic and accept that you use sugar in your coffee or enjoy the occasional goodie. It is simply a good illustration of the basic motto: "all things in moderation".
That's all well and fine you say, but how and when do I eat these things? Step One is to make an eating schedule that prevents you from ingesting foods around two hours before bed. This is because it disrupts sleep and prevents absorption.
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by Luke Norman
Okay...we all know that this is a tough one. Everyone likes to eat, it is just old-fashioned human nature. The problem is that we have access to some delicious and not so healthy foods in the workplace (and everywhere else for that matter) and it is so easy to make a bad call.
If we understand, however, that some foods have a very bad effect on us, we can find it easier to avoid them. In this section, we'll look at the way our food choices affect our outlook or mood, how they regulate our level of energy, and how they impact our body weight.
We will then look at the modern "food pyramid," which the USDA recently renamed the "food plate" and changed into a plate segmented into the different food groups.
Your diet and your mood
Now, you may say "I hate dieting..." and that is a reflection of your ATTITUDE towards dieting, but this is not the same as eating and your mood. The diet that you consume is not the restrictive "diet" that you follow to lose weight, but is the different foods that you eat throughout each day in order to stay alive.
So, you can forget about hating dieting because that is not the mood we mean. What we mean is the way that your food choices directly impact how you feel at the moment, and you may be surprised to learn that what you put in your mouth has a lot to do about the way you may feel about the world an hour later.
For example, let's say you are pooped out at 3 PM and go to the candy machine for your favorite sweet. You enjoy that little pick me up (even though you feel very guilty about the calories and fat you just consumed, and this plays a part in your mood in a little while) but you notice that the energy you received from the candy is quickly burned up and before 5 PM you are "dragging" again. You are also feeling a bit cranky and moody too, and annoyed at yourself for making such a fattening choice.
What just happened? You ate what are known as "empty calories". These are a form of energy that hits the blood stream right away. This causes the bodily organ known as the pancreas to secrete insulin (which is used to digest sugar properly) in order to prevent the blood glucose from going too high at once. Sadly, this fails and creates what we call a "backlash" that lets the glucose level plummet again, and always within two to five hours afterward. It doesn't end here though because each time blood glucose levels "crash" they force the body to generate too much adrenaline, which causes nervousness and irritability.
You can avoid all of this by feeding the body a steady supply of good foods that are of the "long slow burn" type. This means the good old complex carbs like bananas or potatoes.
Diet and Energy
Did you just have an "aha!" moment or do you know all of this already? Most people are well aware of the need to avoid those empty calories, but are not always sure how to get an adequate supply of calories either.
The answer is very simple - you eat all of the time! Well, you eat at least five times per day. When you sit at a desk, you are not burning many calories, so it means you have to choose wisely. It also means that you need to choose the things that give you a good amount of energy without also slowing you down. So, if you are what many diet experts call a "grazer" who eats fruits and vegetables, grains, lean proteins, and low-fat dairy foods throughout the day...well, you aren't likely to ever reach for the candy bars and coffee again!
It really requires you to start at the very beginning and understand how diet and weight work...
Your diet and your weight
If you need to know how to maintain a healthy weight, meaning you are hoping to learn how many calories you should eat each day, you start with the "BMR".
This is the basal metabolic rate, which is the amount of energy needed for your body to function in an "at rest" or "seated at desk all day" state. You will be happy to hear that around 60 to 70 percent of your daily calories are burned up by this activity.
Use the famous Harris Benedict formulas below to figure out your BMR:
- Adult male: 66 + (6.3 x body weight in lbs.) + (12.9 x height in inches) - (6.8 x age in years); or
- Adult female: 65 + (4.3 x weight in lbs.) + (4.7 x height in inches) - (4.7 x age in years).
So, you can eat that much and not gain weight? Not yet! You also have to know the "thermic effects of food" which are really the calories used by the body to digest food that it has eaten! The easiest way to determine YOUR thermic caloric burn is to multiply the total number of calories consumed by ten percent.
So you take the BMR and the thermic effect and use those to understand if you have eaten enough that day? Not yet, because you have to remember that you DO move around, especially if you do all of the recommended exercising at work!
You will want to go online and get a table of figures that shows you how many calories you are burning each day. If you eat fewer than burned, you lose weight. If you keep things on an "even keel" you maintain the body weight, and if you eat more than you burn...well, you gain weight.
So, what is the optimal way to eat? Let's turn the USDAs recommendations for a good set of guidelines.
Food Plates
Whether you use the American Food Plate or the British Eatwell Plate or any other food guidelines, you are going to find that most use "food groups".
Food Groups
These tend to consist of five standard categories that include:
- Protein - This will always include: Beef; poultry; fish; eggs; nuts and seeds; and beans and peas, split peas, lentils, and tofu.
- Vegetables and Fruits
- Dairy - Milk, yogurt, cheese, and soy milk
- Grain - Bread, cereal, rice, and pasta. Whole -wheat bread, oatmeal, and brown rice as well as any other "whole grain" foods.
- Fat - both polyunsaturated or monounsaturated are the preferred options
The food pyramid system tended to break things up, and the food plates emulate this model.
Note that grains are the dominant food and that fruits and vegetables are "tied" for second. Next in line is protein, followed by dairy and then fats and sweets are given a tiny place in the configuration. Today, the food plate doesn't leave any space for fats or empty calories, but you have to be realistic and accept that you use sugar in your coffee or enjoy the occasional goodie. It is simply a good illustration of the basic motto: "all things in moderation".
That's all well and fine you say, but how and when do I eat these things? Step One is to make an eating schedule that prevents you from ingesting foods around two hours before bed. This is because it disrupts sleep and prevents absorption.
by Luke Norman
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