If you want to lose weight then knowing how many calories you eat and burn will be import.
The total calories that you should be consuming depend on whether you are a women or a man. It depends on your body structure and your activity level. So you need to make some adjustment on the numbers
If you have been eating around 1800 calories per day you can slowly move your intake down to 1600. Work down from this level over a month`s period to 1400 calories. Don`t go below 1200 calories per day.
Otherwise you can over stress your body.
If you have just started out and are eating 2400 calories, decrease your calories to 2000 or 2100. If you don`t lose weight in 2-3 weeks reduce your calories lower. Over a month`s time you can move down to 1600 calories and see if you start to lose weight. If you do, stay at this level.
It`s not a good idea to make a drastic shift in your consumption of food since your body can react and get into a "starving mode." In this mode your body will store more fat making it difficult for you to lose weight.
Remember not to eat junk food. When you eat quality food, it takes less food for you to become satisfied as compared to eating junk food.
Protein, Carbohydrates, and Fat
There are many ideas about what combination or percentages you should eat of the various nutrients - protein, carbohydrates, and fat. I don`t believe that exact percentages exist, which will provide weight loss and good health for all individuals. Each one of you will require different percentages depending on your weight, health, body structure, emotional make-up and a variety of other conditions. For this reason some diet programs work with some people and not with others.
One of best eating habit programs that will help you to lose weight is to eat:
* quality protein
* low glycemic carbohydrates
* quality fats
* high fiber
* high water consumption
Quality Protein - is essential for the body to survive. There 8 essential amino acids and 14 non-essential. Protein is used to regulate certain body processes by contributing to various chemical reactions and by creating a number of body chemicals.
Eating excess protein results in an acid body, which favors disease. Protein eaten alone causes a 25% increase in your metabolism. When combined with fat and carbohydrates there is only a 10% increase. What this means is that eating more protein and less fat and carbohydrates gives you a boost in metabolism.
It is recommended that around 30% - 35% of your eating habits consist of protein.
Carbohydrates - consist of simple and complex sugars. When carbohydrates are eaten they are broken down into sucrose, which is readily accepted by your cells. Sucrose is converted into energy in your cells. If you eat a lot of high glycemic carbohydrates, your bloodstream becomes overwhelm with sucrose. The excess sucrose in your cells will be converted to fat and stored.
Because most people have been adding weight eating high glycemic carbohydrates, it best to change your eating habits and decrease your intake of these carbohydrates. In general people have been eating 80% high glycemic foods (HighGF) and 20% low glycemic foods (LowGF.) You need to change that to 80% LowGF and 20% HighGF.
This means that you should limit eating foods like potatoes, bread, corn, pasta, muffins, and any flour products. HighGF encourages the storage of fat since the more sucrose you have in your blood, the more sucrose is escorted into your cells by insulin.
You need to concentrate on foods, which are LowGF. Many of these foods are vegetables with small amounts of carbohydrates and high fiber content.
LowGF discourages the storage of fat since less sucrose is in the blood and less is escorted into your cells.
Quality Fats - which are eaten with your meals, prevent sugars from moving quickly into your blood stream.
You need to eat more of the good fats. It`s these fats that will help you lose weight. The good fats are omega 3, omega 6, and medium chain fatty acids, MCFA.
Here is the breakdown on the quantity of each type of fat that you should be eating. These percentages are what you should be working towards so that fats provide you with good health and help you keep your weight down.
* saturated fats 10%
* polyunsaturated fats 20%
* monounsaturated fats 60%
There you have it, the numbers and percentages of protein, carbohydrates, and fats that give you a balanced diet so that you can lose weight.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Positive attitude delays ageing
You may not be as young as you feel, but research has found that a positive attitude may delay the ageing process.
The University of Texas found people with an upbeat view of life were less likely than pessimists to show signs of frailty.
The researchers say their findings suggest psychosocial factors - as well as genes and physical health - play a role in how quickly we age.
Their work is published in the journal Psychology and Aging.
The Texas team carried out tests on 1,558 older people from the Mexican American community to examine whether there was a link between positive emotions and the onset of frailty.
The researchers assessed the development of frailty during the study by measuring the participants' weight loss, exhaustion, walking speed and grip strength.
They found that those people who had a positive outlook on life were significantly less likely to become frail.
The researchers said more research is required to pin down why there should be a link.
But they speculate that positive emotions may directly affect health by altering the chemical balance of the body.
Alternatively, it may that an upbeat attitude helps to boost a person's health by making it more likely they will be successful in life.
Lead researcher Dr Glenn Ostir told BBC News Online: "I believe that there is a connection between mind and body - and that our thoughts and attitudes/emotions affect physical functioning, and over all health, whether through direct mechanisms, such as immune function, or indirect mechanisms, such as social support networks."
The University of Texas found people with an upbeat view of life were less likely than pessimists to show signs of frailty.
The researchers say their findings suggest psychosocial factors - as well as genes and physical health - play a role in how quickly we age.
Their work is published in the journal Psychology and Aging.
The Texas team carried out tests on 1,558 older people from the Mexican American community to examine whether there was a link between positive emotions and the onset of frailty.
The researchers assessed the development of frailty during the study by measuring the participants' weight loss, exhaustion, walking speed and grip strength.
They found that those people who had a positive outlook on life were significantly less likely to become frail.
The researchers said more research is required to pin down why there should be a link.
But they speculate that positive emotions may directly affect health by altering the chemical balance of the body.
Alternatively, it may that an upbeat attitude helps to boost a person's health by making it more likely they will be successful in life.
Lead researcher Dr Glenn Ostir told BBC News Online: "I believe that there is a connection between mind and body - and that our thoughts and attitudes/emotions affect physical functioning, and over all health, whether through direct mechanisms, such as immune function, or indirect mechanisms, such as social support networks."
Thursday, December 28, 2006
ATTITUDE
Five simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Bad Habits are Hard to Break
Old habits don't die. They hibernate.
Habitual activity--smoking, eating fatty foods, gambling--changes neural activity patterns in a specific region of the brain when habits are formed. These neural patterns created by habit can be changed or altered. But when a stimulus from the old days returns, the dormant pattern can reassert itself, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, putting an individual in a neural state akin to being on autopilot.
"It is as though, somehow, the brain retains a memory of the habit context, and this pattern can be triggered if the right habit cues come back," Ann Graybiel, the Walter A. Rosenblith professor of neuroscience in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, said in a statement. "This situation is familiar to anyone who is trying to lose weight or to control a well-engrained habit. Just the sight of a piece of chocolate can reset all those good intentions," Graybiel said.
The neural patterns get established in the basal ganglia, a brain region critical to habits, addiction and procedural learning. In Graybiel's experiments, rats learned via specific cues that there was chocolate at one end of a T-shaped maze. While the rats were still learning, their basal ganglia neurons chattered throughout the maze run. That's because in the early stages, the brain seeks out and soaks in information that could prove important.
As the rats learned to focus in on guiding cues (in the experiment, an audible tone that guided them toward the chocolate), the behavior of the neurons changed. They fired intensely at the beginning and the end, but remained relatively quiet while the rats scurried through the maze.
Subsequently, the reward was removed. While the audible cue became meaningless, everything in the maze from beginning to end became relevant again. The neurons fired throughout the run. But when the reward reappeared, the pattern of beginning and ending spikes separated by downtime reappeared.
Sound familiar
Graybiel speculated that the beginning and ending spike patterns reflect the nature of a routine behavior. Once initiated, individuals essentially know what to do next. Excitement returns when the reward appears. While the neural patterns can be created through voluntary activity, this sort of pattern also appears in certain disorders. Parkinson's patients, for instance, have difficulty starting to walk, and obsessive-compulsive people have trouble stopping incessant behavior.
Ideally, the research will help scientists come up with new techniques for more firmly changing habitual or addictive behavior.
Habitual activity--smoking, eating fatty foods, gambling--changes neural activity patterns in a specific region of the brain when habits are formed. These neural patterns created by habit can be changed or altered. But when a stimulus from the old days returns, the dormant pattern can reassert itself, according to a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, putting an individual in a neural state akin to being on autopilot.
"It is as though, somehow, the brain retains a memory of the habit context, and this pattern can be triggered if the right habit cues come back," Ann Graybiel, the Walter A. Rosenblith professor of neuroscience in MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, said in a statement. "This situation is familiar to anyone who is trying to lose weight or to control a well-engrained habit. Just the sight of a piece of chocolate can reset all those good intentions," Graybiel said.
The neural patterns get established in the basal ganglia, a brain region critical to habits, addiction and procedural learning. In Graybiel's experiments, rats learned via specific cues that there was chocolate at one end of a T-shaped maze. While the rats were still learning, their basal ganglia neurons chattered throughout the maze run. That's because in the early stages, the brain seeks out and soaks in information that could prove important.
As the rats learned to focus in on guiding cues (in the experiment, an audible tone that guided them toward the chocolate), the behavior of the neurons changed. They fired intensely at the beginning and the end, but remained relatively quiet while the rats scurried through the maze.
Subsequently, the reward was removed. While the audible cue became meaningless, everything in the maze from beginning to end became relevant again. The neurons fired throughout the run. But when the reward reappeared, the pattern of beginning and ending spikes separated by downtime reappeared.
Sound familiar
Graybiel speculated that the beginning and ending spike patterns reflect the nature of a routine behavior. Once initiated, individuals essentially know what to do next. Excitement returns when the reward appears. While the neural patterns can be created through voluntary activity, this sort of pattern also appears in certain disorders. Parkinson's patients, for instance, have difficulty starting to walk, and obsessive-compulsive people have trouble stopping incessant behavior.
Ideally, the research will help scientists come up with new techniques for more firmly changing habitual or addictive behavior.
Born to WIN
You were born to win. But in order to become the winner you were born to be, you've got to plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."--Zig Ziglar
Heart Attacks
serious note about heart attacks: You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...
Drinking Warm Water
Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals...not cold water...maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!!
Nothing to lose, everything to gain...
For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine.
Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a m! eal.
Nothing to lose, everything to gain...
For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine.
Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a m! eal.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
How To Live Life
Something beautiful for the eyes and the spirit
*HOW TO LIVE LIFE.....*
*Be Calm... Quiet... Tranquil.... ***
*Bloom as often as you can...** *
*Stay close to your Family....** *
*Explore the world around you....** *
*Enjoy the relaxing rhythm of waves...** *
*W A T C H T H E M O O N R I S E....** *
*Spread your wings and take off on your own...** *
*Then enjoy the comfort of coming home again...** *
*Life is short. *
*Please... While you can...*
Take time to enjoy all the little pleasures*
*that life has provided you....*
*If you need some hints....*
*Go back and read this again
*HOW TO LIVE LIFE.....*
*Be Calm... Quiet... Tranquil.... ***
*Bloom as often as you can...** *
*Stay close to your Family....** *
*Explore the world around you....** *
*Enjoy the relaxing rhythm of waves...** *
*W A T C H T H E M O O N R I S E....** *
*Spread your wings and take off on your own...** *
*Then enjoy the comfort of coming home again...** *
*Life is short. *
*Please... While you can...*
Take time to enjoy all the little pleasures*
*that life has provided you....*
*If you need some hints....*
*Go back and read this again
Water Therapy
Its True............
Introduction
- Drink six (6) glasses of water (1.5 liters) everyday and avoid medicine, tablets, injections, diagnosis, doctor fees, etc.
- You can never believe before practicing.
List of Diseases That Can Be Cured By Water Therapy
- Blood Pressure / Hypertension
- Anemia (Blood Shortage)
- Rheumatism (Pain in joints / muscles)
- General Paralysis
- Obesity
- Arthritis
- Sinusitis
- Tachycardia
- Giddiness
- Cough
- Leukemia
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Pulmonary Tuberculosis
- Meningitis
- Kidney Stones
- Hyper Acidity
- Dysentry
- Gastroenteritis
- Uterus Cancer
- Rectal Piodapse
- Constipation
- Hostorthobics
- Diabetes
- Eye Diseases
- Ophthalmic Hemorrhage & Opthalmia (Reddisheye)
- Irregular Menstruation
- Breast Cancer
- Laryngitis
- Headache
- Leukemia
- Urogenital Diseases
Therapy Procedure
- Early morning, after you get up from bed, (without even brushing your teeth) drink 1.5 liters of water i.e., 5 to 6 glasses. Let us all know that ancient Indians termed this therapy as "Usha Paana Chikitsa" . You may wash your face thereafter.
- Here it is very essential to note that nothing else, neither drinks nor solid food of any sort should be taken within 1 hour before and after drinking these 1.5 liters of water.
- It is also to be strictly observed that no alcoholic drinks should be taken the previous night.
- If required, boiled and filtered water may be used for this purpose.
- It is difficult to drink 1.5 liters of water at one time, but you will get used to it gradually.
- Initially, while practicing you may drink four glasses first and to balance two glasses after a gap of two minutes.
- You may find the necessity to urinate 2 to 3 times within an hour, but it will become normal after quite some time.
By Research and Experience
- The following diseases are observed to be cured with this therapy within the indicated days as below:
- Constipation - 1 day
- Acidity - 2 days
- Diabetes - 7 days
- Cancer - 4 weeks
- Pulmonary TB - 3 months
- BP & Hypertension - 4 weeks
Note:
It is advised that persons suffering from Arthritis or Rheumatism should practice this therapy thrice a day, i.e. morning, midday and night, 1 hour before meals for one week; and twice a day subsequently until the disease disappears.
How Does Pure Water Act?
- Consuming ordinary drinking water by the right method purifies human body. It renders the colon more effective by forming new fresh blood, known in medical terms as " Haematopaises". That the mucous folds of the colon and intestines are activated by this method is an undisputed fact, just as the theory that the mucous fold produces new fresh blood.
- If the colon is cleansed then the nutrients of the food taken several times a day will be absorbed and by the action of the mucous folds they are turned into fresh blood. The blood is all-important in curing ailments and restoring health and for this water should be consumed in a regular pattern.
Introduction
- Drink six (6) glasses of water (1.5 liters) everyday and avoid medicine, tablets, injections, diagnosis, doctor fees, etc.
- You can never believe before practicing.
List of Diseases That Can Be Cured By Water Therapy
- Blood Pressure / Hypertension
- Anemia (Blood Shortage)
- Rheumatism (Pain in joints / muscles)
- General Paralysis
- Obesity
- Arthritis
- Sinusitis
- Tachycardia
- Giddiness
- Cough
- Leukemia
- Asthma
- Bronchitis
- Pulmonary Tuberculosis
- Meningitis
- Kidney Stones
- Hyper Acidity
- Dysentry
- Gastroenteritis
- Uterus Cancer
- Rectal Piodapse
- Constipation
- Hostorthobics
- Diabetes
- Eye Diseases
- Ophthalmic Hemorrhage & Opthalmia (Reddisheye)
- Irregular Menstruation
- Breast Cancer
- Laryngitis
- Headache
- Leukemia
- Urogenital Diseases
Therapy Procedure
- Early morning, after you get up from bed, (without even brushing your teeth) drink 1.5 liters of water i.e., 5 to 6 glasses. Let us all know that ancient Indians termed this therapy as "Usha Paana Chikitsa" . You may wash your face thereafter.
- Here it is very essential to note that nothing else, neither drinks nor solid food of any sort should be taken within 1 hour before and after drinking these 1.5 liters of water.
- It is also to be strictly observed that no alcoholic drinks should be taken the previous night.
- If required, boiled and filtered water may be used for this purpose.
- It is difficult to drink 1.5 liters of water at one time, but you will get used to it gradually.
- Initially, while practicing you may drink four glasses first and to balance two glasses after a gap of two minutes.
- You may find the necessity to urinate 2 to 3 times within an hour, but it will become normal after quite some time.
By Research and Experience
- The following diseases are observed to be cured with this therapy within the indicated days as below:
- Constipation - 1 day
- Acidity - 2 days
- Diabetes - 7 days
- Cancer - 4 weeks
- Pulmonary TB - 3 months
- BP & Hypertension - 4 weeks
Note:
It is advised that persons suffering from Arthritis or Rheumatism should practice this therapy thrice a day, i.e. morning, midday and night, 1 hour before meals for one week; and twice a day subsequently until the disease disappears.
How Does Pure Water Act?
- Consuming ordinary drinking water by the right method purifies human body. It renders the colon more effective by forming new fresh blood, known in medical terms as " Haematopaises". That the mucous folds of the colon and intestines are activated by this method is an undisputed fact, just as the theory that the mucous fold produces new fresh blood.
- If the colon is cleansed then the nutrients of the food taken several times a day will be absorbed and by the action of the mucous folds they are turned into fresh blood. The blood is all-important in curing ailments and restoring health and for this water should be consumed in a regular pattern.
Laughter
1. Cannot stay unhappy after a good laugh
2. Laughter eases the pain
3. Cements family bonds
4. It brings out the child in you
5. It's the best stress-buster
6. It diffuses potentially volatile situations
7. It reduces risks of diseases:- When one laughs certain chemicals called endorphins are released in the body.These make a person feel good and relieve stress thereby reducing the risk of a heart attack.
8. It keeps you young:- Laughter creates 'Laugh lines' on an individual's face, giving him a glowing face as opposed to wrinkles caused by stress.
9. It's infectious
10. Enjoy it before it melts
2. Laughter eases the pain
3. Cements family bonds
4. It brings out the child in you
5. It's the best stress-buster
6. It diffuses potentially volatile situations
7. It reduces risks of diseases:- When one laughs certain chemicals called endorphins are released in the body.These make a person feel good and relieve stress thereby reducing the risk of a heart attack.
8. It keeps you young:- Laughter creates 'Laugh lines' on an individual's face, giving him a glowing face as opposed to wrinkles caused by stress.
9. It's infectious
10. Enjoy it before it melts
Friday, December 15, 2006
My Thoughts
What is life? Why we were born? Why should we live?
What we are going to achieve?
What is the purpose of living?
Anybody knows why we have born and why we are living?
Where Life came from?
Why we are living?
Why should Live?
Is it our choice?
Can we have a choice?
Can we have any say?
Why human beings are living or other animals, creature or plants or trees?
Should we blame ourselves for our colour and size?
Is it accident?
Are we living, since we were born?
Why there is so much hatred and fight between people and countries?
Live and allow other living beings to live peacefully
Help others in possible ways; if not don’t trouble them.
That is life. Enjoy by giving others
What we are going to achieve?
What is the purpose of living?
Anybody knows why we have born and why we are living?
Where Life came from?
Why we are living?
Why should Live?
Is it our choice?
Can we have a choice?
Can we have any say?
Why human beings are living or other animals, creature or plants or trees?
Should we blame ourselves for our colour and size?
Is it accident?
Are we living, since we were born?
Why there is so much hatred and fight between people and countries?
Live and allow other living beings to live peacefully
Help others in possible ways; if not don’t trouble them.
That is life. Enjoy by giving others
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