Friday, 31 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day1 Week7)

Tip 55.
You can take a day off from exercise every week. This is
not just a very good idea but it is part of the exercise
routine. Your body needs a day off from an exercise
routine so do not hesitate to take a day off from what
ever you have been doing.

Tip 56.
Exercise out doors as far as possible. There are two
advantages of doing whatever you are doing out side.
One advantage is that it gives your body a chance to get
a lot of the much needed fresh air and sunshine.
The second advantage is that the surroundings keep you
perked up and it is a break form remaining cooped up all
day long

Tip 57.
Try to collect some information about exercise, there are
a lot of things that you can do at home. Extensive
research has been done on exercise and plenty of this
information is easily available.
You can try browsing the net or getting a book or two on
how to exercise at home. This information will be useful
to you to know how much you need to work out on each
specific exercise in order to burn off the desired number
of calories.

Sunday, 26 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day3 Week 6)

Tip 52.
When you decide it’s time to start working out, start
slowly and don’t get discouraged if you don’t achieve your
fitness goals after the first week. Many people make this
mistake. They feel that if they really push their bodies
they can lose more weight in a couple of work outs. This
is a very serious thing in fact.
If you try to push your body too much in the first few
goes, you are likely to end up with sprained joints, a sore
back and even torn ligaments. The rule to be followed
here is slow and steady wins the race.

Tip 53.
Check your weight before you start the routine and keep
checking for changes but do not expect a radical change
immediately, it might be one or two weeks before you
notice some change. However it is crucial that you
continue to monitor your weight. You may bear in mind
the fact that even a few pounds loss is a big achievement.

Tip 54.
When you do notice a change, reward yourself. When I
say reward I do not mean go for some goodies like
chocolates or sweets. Maybe you could go for a movie or
buy yourself something like a new dress or a trinket.
This is something that can keep you going. It is a good
idea to save on the money that you wanted to spend on
ice creams and chocolates and then treat your self to
something more substantial.

Saturday, 25 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day2 Week 6)

Tip 49.
Avoid crash diets. They are bad for health and you will
gain what you have lost once you take a break. Crash
diets are not a solution to weight loss. It might seem as if
you have lost few pounds but the moment you give up on
the crash diet every thing will bounce back with a
vengeance.
Take a look at it in this way. Do you think that it is
possible for a person to survive on a crash diet for the
rest of his or her life? Certainly not! So at some time or
the other, you will have to give up the crash diet and then
you will see for yourself that a crash diet does more harm
than good on the long run.
Crash diets may have a lot to promise, but very rarely do
these promises ring true. Crash diets are things people go
on in order to wear an old dress or suit for a particular
occasion. That’s the only purpose that they serve as far
as I can see.

Tip 50.
God gave us teeth for a reason...
Therefore we should develop a habit of chewing all food
including liquid food and soft foods like sweets, ice
creams at least 8 to 12 times. This is essential to add
saliva to the food, as it is only in the saliva that sugar is
digested.
Often we find that whatever goes into our mouth goes
down like lightning. We hardly give the saliva any time to
act on the food. So does digestion take place like it
should? Do we just stuff our tummies with food that
doesn’t get digested or in other words that doesn’t yield
the benefits that it should?

Tip 51.
Dry wine is better than sweet wine. Sweet wines naturally
contain a lot of sugar. But on the other hand, in dry wines
most of this sugar has been fermented away so from the
weight point of view dry wines are better than sweet
wines.

Friday, 24 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day1 Week 6)

Tip 46.
Boil your vegetables instead of cooking them, or even
better, eat them fresh. However if you do not like eating
your vegetables as it is, try steaming them without
adding anything at all. This is probably the healthiest way
to eat cabbages, cauliflowers and a host of other
vegetables.

Tip 47.
Carry parsley with you. Parsley is an excellent thing to
munch on in between meals. Not just is it good for you in
terms of vitamins, but it is also a perfect way of making
your breath fresher.

Tip 48.
Choose low fat substitutes or no fat substitutes. There are
plenty of low fat or even no fat substitutes available in
the market so why not choose wisely. It is much better
for you heart too. Many people just go for shopping and
pick up whatever they can. They do not bother to find out
if there are nay substitutes for the thing they are looking
for.
In the markets of today, you will be astounded at the
range of goods that manufactures have to offer. In fact
with all the hue and cry that is being made about weight
loss, low fat substitutes and no fat substitutes are hitting
the stands faster than mushrooms that sprout after the
first rains.
So the next time you head for the stores instead of
picking up what you have always picked up, see if there
are better substitutes.
Remember that our bodies need nutrients and not just
calories. Fats give us nutrients but with more calories
than what proteins or carbohydrates do.

Sunday, 19 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day3 Week 5)

Tip 43.
Change from table butter to cholesterol free butter. If you
have a choice why not g for it, any way it is healthier for
you and tastes just the same. Bear in mind that these
small changes can go a long way towards weight
reduction.

Tip 44.
Instead of frying things try baking them without fat.
Baking is by far a healthier method of preparing food than
frying. Baking requires lesser oil or fat.

Tip 45.
Use a non stick frying pan for your cooking so that you do
not have to add oil. The golden rule is to try and avoid as
much oil as possible and a non stick pan is the perfect
solution to this problem.

Saturday, 18 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day2 Week 5)

Tip 40.
Go ahead eat cheat food, but only for flavor. There are
many things which you have to avoid from your diet but
which you may have an undying craving for. Do not avoid them altogether. You could call them cheat foods and indulge in them once in a while. But take care just to tingle your taste buds, don’t hog on them. Instead of that share them with others. In this way

Tip 41.
Watch your fat intake. Each fat gram contains 9 calories
so by reading the total calories on a food and knowing the quantity of fat, you can estimate the % of fat, which
should in no way exceed 30% of the food.

Tip 42.
Go easy on salt, as too much salt is one of the causes of
obesity. Make it a point to really cut down on salt. Try to bring down your salt intake to half of what it was last
year.

Friday, 17 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day1 Week 5)

Tip 37.
Reduce your intake of pork. Pork is not something
that can help you to lose weight. So the lesser pork you
eat the better chances you have of losing weight. And
remember that pork includes the pork products as well,
things like bacon, ham and sausages.

Tip 38.
Limit your sugar intake. If you can’t have things
unsweetened go for sugar substitutes. These things are
just as sweetening but are certainly not fattening.

Tip39.
Graze 5 to 6 times a day. Instead of sticking to just three meals a day, try grazing. Grazing means try having 5 or 6 smaller meals instead of three king sized meals. It is an excellent way of having smaller quantities of food.

Thursday, 16 July 2009

Blood Pressure: A Complete Overview

What is Blood Pressure?

Blood pressure is a measurement of the pressure exerted by the circulating blood on the walls of the arteries, veins and chambers of the heart. The pressure of blood is measured in the context of systolic and diastolic activities. When the ventricles in the heart contract, it is termed as a systolic activity, while the relaxing ventricles mark a diastolic activity.

The pressure of blood is highest during the systole activity and lowest during the diastole activity. The unit of measuring blood pressure is millimeters. A normal blood pressure reading is 120/80 mmHg.

A normal healthy person maintains the blood pressure reading of 120/80 mmHg. A deviation from this normal reading can result in a blood pressure disorder. There are basically two abnormal conditions of blood pressure. They are known as high blood pressure or hypertension and low blood pressure or hypotension.

High Blood Pressure/ Hypertension

A person is known to suffer from high blood pressure when their measurement of blood pressure increases over that of a normal reading. A normal blood pressure is 120/80 mmHg. When this blood pressure increases to, say 140/ 90 mmHg, the person is known to have high blood pressure.

High blood pressure is often termed as 'a silent killer'. You might be suffering from a high blood pressure for a long period of time and not know it at all. When a person develops high blood pressure, it usually lasts for lifetime.

Why High Blood Pressure?

Your heart pumps the blood and supplies it to the various organs of your body via arteries. The arteries, when leaving your heart, narrow into arterioles. The arterioles further narrow themselves into capillaries. These capillaries supply oxygen and nutrients to the various body organs.

Due to certain nerve impulses, the arteries become dilated or contracted. If the arteries become contracted, the passage of blood is hampered and it increases the pressure of blood. The condition causes high blood pressure or hypertension. This condition strains your heart and can even damage your blood vessels. If the vessels get damaged, the blood supply can further affect various body organs connected to the damaged vessels.

The human body generally bears and handles this sudden increase of pressure for a long period of time. This is one of the sole reasons for the fact that you can live your whole life, without any ill-effects or symptoms, from high blood pressure.

Two Forms of High Blood Pressure

There are two forms of high blood pressure, essential hypertension and secondary hypertension. Around 95 % of hypertension cases are related to essential hypertension. The cause of essential hypertension is multifold though.

There are several factors which result in essential hypertension. One of the major factors is high salt intake. Other factors that can contribute to the cause of essential hypertension are tobacco smoking, alcohol abuse, obesity, diabetes mellitus, a sedentary lifestyle and genetic causes.

Secondary hypertension amounts to at least 5 % of the cases of hypertension. The factors contributing to secondary hypertension are pregnancy, a slow pulse, drugs, kidney diseases, certain types of cancers, malformed aorta and aortic vale disease.

High blood pressure largely remains undetected in its first stage of occurrence. A person would probably never know about it. But if the condition of high blood pressure prolongs, it can cause serious damages to the various body organs. High blood pressure can directly affect the person in the form of kidney failure, congestive heart failure or heart attack.

Low Blood Pressure/ Hypotension

In the medical terms, low blood pressure is called hypotension. A person is said to have low blood pressure disorder, if his blood pressure falls below the normal reading of 120/80 mmHg.

Why Low Blood Pressure?

There are many causes of low blood pressure. Among the common cause include acute illness. The condition can be characterized with the symptoms such as severe blood loss, infection, fluid loss or damage to the heart. The age-factor plays an important role in low blood pressure. Increasing age causes your arteries to stiffen and cause a drop in the pressure of blood.

Damage to adrenal glands can also lead to low blood pressure conditions. Damage to adrenal glands affects the production of aldosterone in your body. This hormone controls the salt amounts in the body. If the aldosterone hormone gets affected, it leads to the loss of salt from your body, further resulting in low blood pressure. This causes dizziness when you stand up. Low blood pressure can also be caused due to the usage of diuretics.

A person with low blood pressure shows symptoms of chest pain, headache, prolonged diarrhea or vomiting. The person also suffers from burning sensation while urination, stiff neck, high fever and irregular heartbeat. The person, at times, suffers from shortness of breath and a cough with phlegm.

Normal is healthy!

Neither high blood pressure, nor low blood pressure is good for your body and health. You should get your blood pressure checked regularly for either of these two disorders. The proper treatment and control of your blood pressure will definitely enable you to live a healthy and happy life!
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Sunday, 12 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day3 Week 4)

Tip 34.
Try and adopt a vegetarian diet. A vegetarian diet is
undoubtedly better for those of us watching our diet.
There are a lot of advantages of keeping to a vegetarian
diet but I don’t want to sing an ode to vegetarianism now.
What I would suggest is keep to a vegetarian diet as
much as you can. Make a non- vegetarian diet a week
end event or something if you find it impossible to give up eating all those animals.

Tip 35.
Choose white meat rather than red. White meat, which
includes fish and fowl, is miles better than red meat,
which includes beef and pork for those trying to lose
weight.

Tip 36.
High Fiber multigrain breads are better than white
breads. Remember how I told you to increase the fiber
content in your food; well this is the answer to that. It is
not only better in terms of the fiber content but also in
terms of the protein content as well.

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day2 Week 4)

Tip 31.
50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohydrates. It is a
myth that you should try and avoid carbohydrates when
you are on a diet. Rather the other way round I should
say. Carbohydrates are a ready source of energy and so
50 to 55% of your diet should be carbohydrates.

Tip 32.
25 to 30% of your diet should be proteins. Various
processes and activities are going on in our bodies.
Things are broken down and being built up again.
Resistance has to be built up, recovery from disease too
is needed and for all this the body needs plenty of
proteins so see to it that 25 to 30 % of your diet consists
of proteins.

Tip 33.
Fats should only be 15 to 20 %. You need only this much
of fat in your diet so keep it at that.

Friday, 10 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day1 Week 4)

Tip 28.
Choose a variety of foods from all food groups every day.
This is a fine way of keeping deficiency diseases at bay.
Change the items included in your diet every day. This is
an excellent way of keeping deficiency diseases at bay
and it helps you to experiment with a variety of dishes
and there by you do not get bored of your diet.

Tip 29.
If you can say no to alcoholic beverages please do.
Alcoholic beverages too are not good for you. Beer can be
fattening and the rest of the alcoholic drinks may not be
fattening by themselves but after a couple of swigs you
will be in no position to watch your diet and your appetite
too will be something to battle with.

Tip 30.
Try to have breakfast within one hour of waking. It’s
always best to have breakfast within an hour of waking so
that your body can charge itself with the energy it needs
for the day. The idea is not to wait for your self to get
really hungry. Breakfast is the most important meal of
the day but that does not mean that it should be the most
filling meal of the day.

Sunday, 5 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day3 Week 3)

Tip 25.
Fresh vegetables are better than cooked or canned
vegetables. Try to eat your vegetables raw. When you
cook them, you are in fact taking away nearly half the
vitamins in them. And canned vegetables too are
processed and are not nearly half as good as fresh
vegetables. When you buy your vegetables it would be a
good thing to see if the label says that it is pesticide free.

Tip 26.
Nothing more than an egg a day. Eggs are not such a
bright idea. It would be best to reduce your intake of
eggs to maybe three in a week. But for those of you die
hard egg fans, you may have up to one egg a day but
nothing more than that.

Tip 27.
Make chocolates a luxury and not a routine. Chocolates
are not or at least they should not be a part of your diet.
So do not indulge too much in them. Even the bitter
chocolates are not good for you because though the sugar
is less there is still the cream in them.

Saturday, 4 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day2 Week 3)

Tip 22.
Be sure to burn out those extra calories by the end of the
week. If you feel that you have consumed more calories
than you should have during the week, it happens you
know, and then make sure that you work off those extra
calories by the end of the week.

Tip 23.
Stay away from fried things. Fried things are an absolute
no-no. The more fried things that you avoid, the lesser
weight you will gain. Fried things are called so because
they are fried in oil or fat. And even if the external oil is
drained away, there is still a lot of hidden oil in it so stay
away from it.

Tip 24.
Do not skip meals. The worst thing you can do while
watching you diet is skip a meal. It has just the opposite
effect of what you want. You need to have at least four
regular meals every day.

Friday, 3 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day1 Week 3)

Tip 19.
Go easy on tea and coffee. Tea and coffee are harmless
by themselves. It’s when you add the cream and sugar
that they become fattening. Did you know that having a
cup of tea or coffee that has cream and at least two cubes
of sugar is as bad as having a big piece of rich chocolate
cake?

Tip 20.
Try to stick to black tea/coffee. Black tea or coffee can
actually be good for you. But personally I would like to
recommend tea rather than coffee. The caffeine in the
coffee is not really good for you because it is an alkaloid
and can affect other functions of your body like the
metabolism.

Tip 21.
Count the calories as you eat. It’s a good idea to have an
idea of the calories that most food items have. If it is a
packed thing then the label is sure to have the calories
that the substance has.

Thursday, 2 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day3 Week 2)

Tip 16.
Eat only when you are hungry. Some of us have the
tendency to eat whenever we see food. We use parties as
an excuse to stuff our selves. Understand that the effect
of a whole week of dieting can be wasted by just one
day’s party food. Whenever you are offered something to
eat do not decline it completely bit just break of a nibble
so that you appear to mind your manners and at the
same time can watch your diet.

Tip 17.
Quit snacking in between meals. Do not fall for snacks in
between meals. This is especially true for those who have
to travel a lot. They feel that the only time they can get a
bite to eat is snacks and junk food. The main problem
with most snacks and junk food is that they are usually
less filling and contain a lot of fat and calories. Just think
about French fries…tempting but terribly fattening.

Tip 18.
Snack on vegetables if you must. You might get the
pangs of hunger in between meals. It is something that
you can very well control. Or even better, try munching
on carrots. They are an excellent way to satisfy those
hungry pangs and are good for your eyes and teeth. True,
you might end up being called Bugs Bunny, but its miles
better to be called Bugs Bunny than fatso.

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Lose 10 Pounds In 3 Days Weight Loss Tips (Day2 Week 2)

Tip 13.
Watch what you eat. Keep a watchful eye on every thing
that goes in. Sometimes the garnishes can richer than the
food itself. Accompaniments too can be very rich.
Remember that it is the easiest thing in the world to eat
something without realizing that it was something that
you should not have eaten. Selective memory you know…

Tip 14.
Control that sweet tooth. Remember that sweet things
generally mean more calories. It is natural that we have
cravings for sweet things especially chocolates and other
confectionary. Go easy on theses things and each time
you consume something sweet understand that it is going
to add on somewhere.

Tip 15.
Fix times to have meals and stick to it. Try to have food
at fixed times of the day. You can stretch these times by
half an hour, but anything more than that is going to
affect your eating pattern, the result will either be a loss
of appetite or that famished feeling which will make you
stuff yourself with more than what is required the next
time you eat.