How To Prevent Diet Relapses

February 12, 2010
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Anyone can have a diet relapse.  But you can certainly prevent it by following these simple steps to help keep your body healthy and fit:

1. Weigh yourself regularly.  Limit your increase in weight by 3 to 5 pounds.  If you go beyond that limit, then it’s a signal that you need to act immediately before the pounds build up again.
2. Ask yourself why your weight is increasing.  Look objectively at what brought the relapse.
3. Be positive.  It doesn’t mean you’re a failure just because you gained weight.
4. Remind yourself of all the hard work you did to lose the weight, and how disappointed you’ll be if you go into relapse.
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Higher Altitudes Can Help You Lose Weight

February 12, 2010
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A recent study found that overweight people who spend a couple of weeks at a high altitude mountain facility managed to lose weight without dieting.  Twenty overweight men with an average weight of 230 pounds participated in the study.  The participants were taken to an elevated place of about 8,700 feet above sea level.

During the participants stay at a mountain location, the participants were allowed to eat anything they like but they are not allowed to take part in rigorous exercise.  The study revealed that there is a significant amount of weight loss in higher altitudes than in lower altitudes.

The researchers theorize that part of the loss in weight could…

Why Sports Are Good For You

February 9, 2010
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Playing sports is not only a fun activity; it is also an effective workout routine to keep your body and health in check.

When you engage in sports like soccer, football, basketball, hockey and baseball in an early age, you develop stronger bones and muscles and a toned body.

Sports increases other physical activities like stretching, running and jumping that increases your use of energy.  This will give you an effective full body workout.

Playing sports will also make you feel happy and healthy.  Sports generate happy molecules in your body that triggers you to be happy.  This will contribute to your mental well-being and positive energy.

You also get healthy when playing sports…

Yummy and Healthy Salmon Recipe

February 9, 2010
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Eating fish has a lot of health benefits especially for the heart.  Fish is a good source of omega 3 fatty acids that can lower blood pressure, lower triglyceride levels in the blood that can clog the arteries and decrease the risk of certain heart diseases.  Fish is low in saturated fat and a good source of vitamins and nutrients like iron and Vitamin A.

Trout, herring and salmon contain the highest amount of omega 3 fatty acids.  Tilapia and catfish contains lower levels of omega 3 but their wild counterparts have significantly higher omega 3 fatty acids.  Try cooking fish in a variety of ways like broiling, grilling, baking and…

An Effective Way to Burn Belly Fat

February 8, 2010
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Unless you’re a fitness instructor, an athlete or a model, then you definitely have some problems concerning belly fat.  There are a lot of exercises and diet programs out there making it hard to figure out which one really works to burn that nasty belly fat.  Don’t waste your workout time by running or jogging, sure it will burn calories but it will not build a better and toned body

The best way to burn belly fat is: bodyweight exercises as a warm up followed by strength training supersets to build the muscle and the last is interval training.  These three steps only require 45 minutes of your time everyday.

Perform 5…

What Is A Zone Diet?

February 8, 2010
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If you want to become slim and stay that way while eating the foods you want, try the Zone Diet.  The Zone diet doesn’t restrict dieters to stay away from certain food groups.  Slip-ups always happen in a restrictive diet due to difficulties in controlling your cravings.  This can ruin your diet and also make you feel bad about yourself.

The zone diet allows you to consume 40% calories from carbohydrates, 30% as fat and 30% as protein for your daily meal plan.  This will help you stay slim and provide you with all the nutrients your body needs.  The goal of the Zone diet is to provide your body with…

Exercises That Burn More Calories

February 4, 2010
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The most effective way of burning calories and losing weight is to exercise daily.  A lot of products out there promise faster results in a few days only to find out that you have been fooled.  So stop taking the easy way out and start exercising.  Be patient because it will take a lot of time and work but you’ll be satisfied with the results.

To help you choose, here is a list of exercises that burn more calories than any other physical activities.

1.  Running.  You burn more calories when you run.  But if you have been running for the same distance for a long time, change your routine.   Your body…

How To Increase Your Water Intake

February 4, 2010
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Our body needs water everyday.  Water helps the body function and helps clean our body from stored toxins accumulated during sleep.  A good rule of thumb is to drink half of your body weight in ounces.  Some also say that you need to drink eight glasses of water everyday.  Keep in mind that you also get water from the foods you eat and beverages you take like coffee, tea and fruit juices.

If you perform physical activities or you live in a place with a very hot and dry climate, add more water to your body.  If you are not used to drinking water a lot, try building up slowly the…

Jazz Up Your Salad With These Healthy Salad Dressing Alternatives

February 3, 2010
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Some salad dressing contains too many calories especially if it contains mayonnaise.  If you want a healthier alternative, here is a list of salad dressings that are tasty and low in calories too.

1.  Combine wasabi and low sodium soy sauce.  Add a teaspoon of olive oil and a tablespoon of lemon juice to make your salad spicy.  Spicy food can help you lose weight because it makes you eat less.

2.  Make hummus by placing canned garbanzo beans in a food processor.  Add in the juice of 2 lemons, half of the liquid from the beans, 1 tablespoon of tahini or ground sesame seeds, a handful of unsalted cashews, two tablespoons…

Know Your Weight Loss Pills

February 3, 2010
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Majority of Americans are overweight.  The increase in weight of Americans is caused by a sedimentary lifestyle coupled with bad food habits.  When someone realizes that they need to shed of the extra pounds, they turn to diet and weight loss pills.  These products are easy to find in drugstores in different varieties that promise quick results in a number of days.

If you are overweight, you might have a hard time choosing the right pill that will work on you.  You have to determine everything there is to know about the weight loss product like its efficacy, safety, reactions to the body and with other medications you are taking.  You…