Thursday, 24 January 2008

Mental Health

 Stay Flexible, Stay Well

Practitioners tout yoga for its mind-body benefits—flexibility, toned muscles, reduced stress, among others. More recently, scientists have begun to test yoga's effect on serious medical conditions. The results have been impressive enough that investigators expect yoga will soon become part of the standard treatment for a
number of disorders.



Five reasons yoga could change your life!
Depression


Low brain levels of the neurotransmitter GABA are often found in people with depression; SSRIs, electroconvulsive therapy, and now yoga, it seems, can boost GABA. Preliminary research out of the Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard's McLean Hospital found that healthy subjects who practiced yoga for one hour had a 27 percent increase in levels of GABA compared with a control group that simply sat and read for an hour. This supports a growing body of research that's proving yoga can significantly improve mood and reduce the symptoms of depression and anxiety. Read More




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Exercise for Your Age

Mind And Body

There's a big difference between how we should work out in our 20s and how we should work out when…we're no longer 20. Find your perfect fit.

The 20s
Rx: 30 minutes of weight training followed by 30 minutes of cardio 3x a week, plus 45 to 60 minutes of straight cardio 3x a week. One day of rest.

The great thing about being in your 20s is that your body is so strong, you can get away with abusing it. The bad thing is that you often do, punishing it with late nights and bad eating habits. And you routinely fail to appreciate what you've got. This is the decade of anxiety—frantic exercise, fad diets, the mad pursuit of pinup perfection and self-hatred when you fail to meet it. The fitness challenge of these years: Get over it.

"I tell my young clients, 'Forget looking like Jessica Simpson or Halle Berry, and forget weight; think health,'" says Jeanette Jenkins, 32, a Los Angeles based private trainer who has worked with rapper Queen Latifah and actress Taryn Manning.

The mistake many 20-somethings make is simply opting for "endless cardio and crunches," adds Vanessa Carver, 25, a personal trainer at Fitness Quest 10 in San Diego, whose clients include professional ice-skaters and dancers. Lots of cardio is great, she says, especially if you mix it up so you're really pushing the body. But it's weight training that builds muscle definition, not to mention bone density, which will be crucial for staying active later on and preventing osteoporosis.

"You've got to lift more than just three or five pounds," she says. "If you can do 10 to 15 repetitions of a weight with no real effort, it's too light. The last four or five reps should be challenging enough that you feel your muscles getting fatigued." And put your mind into it, she says. "Lifting weights while chatting on the cell phone is a joke." Read More




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Wednesday, 23 January 2008

Chocolate to Live For

Not only does it taste good, studies show that it improves blood flow to your heart, lowers blood pressure, and other good stuff. What you need to know about a sweet and healthy favorite.

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After only two weeks blood flow to the heart improved significantly in the group consuming the dark chocolate but not in those eating the white chocolate. These improvements in blood flow were independent of changes in cholesterol levels, blood pressure and oxidative stress.

I've been reading about the health benefits of chocolate for many years, but this study really got my attention. When your heart receives more blood flow, that's a very good thing. These findings were also seen in an earlier study by researchers at UCSF and Tufts, published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. They found that chocolate significantly increased blood flow to the arm in only two weeks in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Read More





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Tuesday, 22 January 2008

Men Gaining Belly Fat [Look Out Fatties]

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Men tend to put on more belly fat as they get older. While some men struggle with their weight their whole life, a lot of men start to notice their increasing waistline in their 30s — and gradually put on pounds as the years go by. For many men, the eating and exercise habits that kept them thin in their youth are just not enough to keep the weight off as they get older. The solution? As you get older, you have to change the way you eat and how active you are to stay slim or lose weight.

Is belly fat inherited?
While some men are more likely to put on extra pounds because of their genes, for the vast majority of men, the problem has a lot more to do with lifestyle than inherited traits. Simply put, when you take in more calories than you burn — the excess calories are stored as fat.

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We've had a huge change in our environment. Men — and women — used to have much more active lifestyles. But our lifestyles today allow us to live and work with virtually no opportunity for physical activity. About 60 percent of American adults get no vigorous exercise in their leisure time at all. We are also eating larger amounts of high-calorie foods than we used to, such as "fast food" that is high in fat and carbohydrates. People are responding to this change in the way you'd expect — by gaining weight. Men need to be more active — to get out and keep moving. Try fat loss 4 idiots to lose your belly fat it realy works




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Monday, 21 January 2008

Five Types Of Food You MUST Include When Dieting

Sunflower Seeds

Sunflower seeds are concentrated energy pods. Have them as a snack, sprinkle them over salads or other meals, blend them into dressings, sauces or even soups. Other seeds, including pumpkin seeds, have many powerful nutrients as well.


Flaxseed

Flaxseeds are also great. They can add fiber to your diet as well as Omega-3. (If you don’t eat fish, flaxseed is a great alternative.)

Parsley

Yes, it’s that sprig of green that restaurants add to your dinner as garnish. And, no one eats it. Yet, just a tiny bit of parsley (with food, blended into fresh juices, or even thrown into soups, salads, or other meals) can provide you with some powerful nutrients, including lots of vitamin C, plus calcium and fiber. It also improves digestion and soothes adrenal glands. (Pregnant or nursing women should limit their parsley intake to one sprig per day.)

Green Tea

Regular black tea (and even an occasional cup of coffee) has some health benefits when taken occasionally. Green tea is the preferred choice, of course. It is packed with anti-oxidants and flavonoids and can reduce the risk of cancer. It also seems to be helpful for the brain. You can have this everyday without any side effects that coffee or other caffeinated drinks may have.

Chocolate

Yes, chocolate is actually good for you, if you pick the right one. Instead of milk chocolate, opt for dark chocolate with a high cocoa content. Anything over 70% is great. It can provide powerful anti-oxidants and flavonoids, and well, it tastes of chocolate! But be careful, eating too much can also add calories fast. Having a small piece of dark chocolate each day is ideal.




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Sunday, 20 January 2008

Top 5 Tips For Losing Weight Successfully - Fat Loss 4 Idiots

Did you know that Dieting is not always an easy thing to accomplish. In fact, it can prove to be a tough challenge for many people, including men, women and even overweight teens.

But don’t despair, there’s hope…if only you know some important tips for successful dieting. So here’s some sound advice of things to avoid when you are trying to lose weight. It is important that you are able to maintain control as you try to conquer your weight woes. Some important facts you need to know, what things you must avoid like the plague in order to succeed at losing weight. planning your diet

1. Don’t Rush

The first tip is that you do not rush into the toughest diet you can find and this is a common mistake.

Many people decide in a moment of desperation to follow a super-strict diet and it is simply a set-up to fail. Don’t rush into a diet that may be too strict for you. Be honest with yourself…are you really going to be able to stick with it? If you don’t have any dieting experience and are not 100 percent sure you can stick with the diet, then you might want to choose something else.

2. Stay Grounded

The second tip for successful dieting is that you make sure you do not lose touch with reality. Weight loss, just like weight gain, is not something that happens overnight so when choosing your goal, start small, and be prepared to make a long term commitment. If you hear someone saying that he lost a significant number of pounds in a short time, don’t make it your goal to match his performance. Diet results are different from one person to another.

3. Don’t Overdo the Math
Fourth, don’t get stuck too hard on counting calories. We all know that cutting down on calories is one of the building blocks of all diets, but you have to be careful about it. Cut down on too many calories and your body will start to think that you are starving and will start storing anything it possibly can. This is not a good way to lose weight so keep that spaghetti around. You’ll want it later. Remember…moderation!

4. Don’t Take A Pass

Next tip for successful dieting is, absolutely do NOT skip meals. Some people think that skipping one or two meals could help them lose weight faster. They don’t understand that dieting is all about eating the right food and not starving yourself. Especially if you plan on going to the gym, your body is going to need that energy that healthy and sensible food will provide.

5. Watch Your Weight But Not Daily

Also, another good weight loss tip is to be sure you don’t check the bathroom scales everyday. Everyone on a diet is eager to see the confirmation of his or her efforts in the shape of lost pounds, but in many cases, weight fluctuates each day which can be depressing and soon you will be ready to quit your “miracle diet”. This is obviously something you want to avoid.





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Saturday, 19 January 2008

Discover How to Avoid Hunger And Lose Weight

Why Is It Better To Eat Too Much Rather Than Too Little To Lose Weight?

Each of us has days when we feel extra hungry. When this happens, EAT MORE! Might this slow down your weight loss? A little, perhaps, but so what? Needing a few extra days to achieve your weight loss goal is not a problem. The real problem is not eating enough and getting hungry and depressed. Because when this happens, you’ll stop dieting and start bingeing.

All dieters experience “bad days.” Unfortunately, most of them insist on perfection. So if they visit a friend and finish up eating 2 containers of ice cream and a box of cookies, they go to pieces. They become overwhelmed by guilt at not being perfect, and quit their diet in disgust. But eating the ice cream and cookies is pretty harmless - you need to eat a very large amount of food (3500+ calories) to gain just one pound of body fat - the real damage is caused by the guilt that follows. So what’s the answer? DON’T TRY TO BE PERFECT! Once you stop seeing yourself as the PERFECT dieter you’ll feel entitledto make occasional mistakes, and you’ll find dieting much easier and much less stressful.





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Friday, 18 January 2008

Discover The 10 Must Things To-Do's To Get Your Body Back - Fat Loss 4 Idiots

1. PERSIST. Don’t quit. “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.” Sir Winston Churchill.

2. MAKE THE EFFORT. Work hard. Great comebackers use all the hours in the day: Wayne Huizenga collected trash at night, sold new accounts in the day. George Foreman out-trained younger fighters to become champ. You can find your comeback right in the effort you make.


3. UNDERSTAND TRANSIENCE. Don’t extrapolate temporary setbacks into permanent defeat. “This, too, shall pass.” Lance Armstrong was given a 2% chance to survive cancer, he went on to win seven, consecutive Tour de Frances. Churchill again: “When you’re going through hell, keep going.”

4. CHANGE DIRECTION. Sylvester Stallone was stymied as an actor, so he wrote Rocky after seeing the Wepner-Ali fight. Billy Beane was a so-so baseball player, he quit and became a top GM. Quincy Jones was a talented trumpeter, but after a stroke, he had to quit, and then became a legendary music producer.


5. EMPLOY SUPPORT. Stay away from the nay-sayers, even if they’re famous or going to be (Martin Scorsese once told Billy Crystal he had “no talent.”) Pack your corner with friends who won’t let you quit. Muhammed Ali did that: he wanted to quit during his first heavyweight championship, his manager wouldn’t let him.


6. REPEAT. It took Sir Edmund Hillary two attempts to climb Everest, Peary eight times to reach the North Pole, and various authors scores and sometimes hundreds of tries to get their works published. Go again, and again.


7. DREAM BIG. Your effort and ideas are worth many times what you may imagine. Fred Smith wrote a college paper that got a “C,” as the story goes, then turned it into $40 billion FedEx. Dean Karnazes ran a 226 mile ultramarathon and 350 mile run, plus 50 marathons in 50 days (2006). J.K. Rowling wrote her ideas about one "Harry Potter" during a train ride. It sold 100 million copies, and $4 billion movie box office, and counting. You can do much more than you imagine. Dream big.


8. STAY HUMBLE. Attitude -- is everything. When tennis master Andre Agassi fell from No. 1 to No. 141 (1997), he started over, went back to the minor leagues, upped his training, including weightlifting. It set the stage for greater things than ever before. Attitude – not image – is everything.

9. SELF-PROGRAM. Get a mantra. A psychiatrist-hypnotist provided Rachmaninoff the composer, who had a writing block, with a positive self-talk mantra: “You will begin your concerto. You will work with great facility. The concerto will be excellent.” It worked. He wrote his Piano Concerto No. 2.


10. PERSIST. It’s not over until you say so. Don’t say so.




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Thursday, 17 January 2008

Fat Loss 4 Idiots Review

Well I did review the fat loss 4 idiots and yes I was wrong. Fat Loss 4 Idiots is definitely something new. It's a refreshing alternative weight loss and dieting program.

I find that fat loss 4 idiots is the most effective way to lose weight fast. It will calculate for you the best diet to help you lose weight in just 11 days and rotate the diet, and calorie eating pattern to encourage the body to burn more calories and fat.

Better yet, it keeps you from getting bored and teach your body to burn faster. More improtantly, it's aim is to trick the body's metabolism to burn more fat.

The Fat loss 4 idiots program is a digital product an "ebook" the fat loss 4 idiots teaches you to lose weight by offering ten simple rules. Nothing too complicated, just simple things to do or not to do when you eat. Also, they recommend following the plan for eleven days and then taking a three day break during which time you can eat normally.

The program is outlined to you in a simple format any 7 year old kid to follow the instructions and do it. I love this program all in all I rate it 5 out of 5





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