Health Beauty & FitnessHealth, Beauty, Fitness Tips

The problem of obesity seems to be a highly debated issue in modern society. Special surgery and liposuction, cellulite creams, dietary supplements, natural homeopathic remedies, aromatherapy, all promise an efficient combat excess fat in our body. Some of these products contain and disadvantages related to budget, time or overall health.

Whatever your reasons are some tips that will help you live a healthy life without excess pounds.

1. Fiber, an important element in our daily diet. These help reduce the fat intake and prevent starvation state. If you eat whole grains at breakfast and plenty of vegetables and fruits during the day then you can say that you reached recommended intakes of fiber.

2. Replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats. Bad fats are found in a number of harmful processed foods. Do not go shopping hungry because you’ll be tempted to buy too much food, pure and simple. What you need to do is keep your eye on them. They increase the risk of cancer and heart disease. Unsaturated fats have a very beneficial effect on our metabolism. This reduces the risk of heart disease. In addition, it accelerates the combustion process in your body. Foods high in unsaturated fats include nuts, meat, salmon, sardines and soy.

3. Opt for fresh fruit and vegetables, that are complex carbohydrates. They are slowly releasing glucose into the blood which maintain stable insulin levels and thus significantly reducing the risk of weight gain.

4. The most serious problem with people who want to lose is reducing the number of meals per day. Eating little and often you can find the energy for the entire period of the day, and starvation will be held at bay.

The advantage of this diet is that there is a varied list of food with which you complete your entire weight loss plan. Everything depends on the correct dosage of food allowed. Not overcome more than four meals per day consisting of medium servings.

Foods Allowed

There is a list of foods allowed. Let’s see what is involved: should eat asparagus, a delicious vegetable full of vitamins and

# Vegetables: asparagus, green beans, beets, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, parsley, radishes, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, zucchini, pepper, spinach, cucumbers, leeks, lettuce, mustard, onion, pumpkin, tomatoes;
# Drinks: mineral water, tea, coffee, sugar-free lemonade, sugar free fizzy drinks, soups, meat beverages for diabetics;
# Other foods: saccharin, salt, vinegar, flavorings.

Foods not allowed

# Sweeteners: sugar, glucose, sorbitol, syrup, molasses;
# Sweets: candy, chocolate, jam, honey, candied fruits, dried fruits, dates, puddings, rich desserts, chocolate biscuits, condensed milk and powder, cream, gelatin; dishes: mayonnaise, sauces, fried foods, fatty meats, sausages, fatty fish;
# Drinks: fruit juice sweetened

Bowel movements can speak volumes about your overall health. Read about the following types and compare them to your own movements to see what they indicate about your own health.

1. The movements appear to be separate, hard lumps. They have the appearance of small nuts or animal droppings. Such abnormally had bowel movements suggest constipation, and result from a slow bowel transit time. This also indicates that your risk of developing piles and other bowel diseases.

2. Sausage shaped, but lumpy. Much the same as type 1, this will indicate constipation and other bowel problems. The solution to both of these could be to increase the amount of fibre in your diet

3. Sausage shaped, very smooth and soft. This is ideal, and indicates good health. Ideally you should be having this type of movement about once or twice per day.

4. Soft, easily passed sticky blobs that may stick to the toilet. This type of movement is highly indicative of a poor diet. If you have this type, you should consider eating more fruit and vegetables and cutting out the fatty foods.

5. Fluffy, jagged pieces that tend to float. Any type that is overly loose indicates diarrhea. You should seek advice from your doctor.

6. Watery with no solid pieces. Similar to above, you likely have diarrhea and should seek medical advice. This is usually caused by an underlying illness of infection as opposed to simply dietary habits. So next time you visit the lavatory, have a look and see what you can learn about your overall health.

A wonderful way to support and encourage greater balance and peace in your life is to be more aware of the subtle, yet profound ways that food is affecting us and the world every day, on a physical, mental and emotional level.

For example, eating heavy, dense food can leave us feeling heavy and dense.

Eating more light and vibrant foods encourage us to feel light and more vibrant!

We make life much easier for ourselves on all levels when we give our body optimum foods that require a minimum of effort to digest whilst giving maximum possible nutrition and life-force.

The subject of nutrition is not simply a question of the food we eat at meals.

Besides nutrients, foods contain scents, colours and invisible particles that attract pure light, light that is so essential for our joyful life and well-being.

The choices we make are thus of great significance.

The difference between flesh-based and vegetarian foods lies in the amount of sunlight they contain.

Fruits and vegetables are so steeped in sunlight, that one could say they are a condensed form of light.

In order to develop the qualities of the heart, besides eating peacefully, consider eating consciously.

This means bringing in more light by eating foods full of concentrated light.

These foods contain the beautiful sounds that connect our hearts to the rhythms and invisible aspects of the Universe.

Your future depends on how you eat and what you eat.

Focusing on organic fresh fruits and vegetables that are in season is a way to connect to Nature and it’s rhythms and cycles so that one may be in harmony with it.

Nature is an omnipresent guide and a reference to how human beings can live harmoniously on the planet.

OPTIMUM FOODS

All fresh, ripe fruit and vegetables (raw and local is ideal)

Sprouted seeds, grains and beans (e.g. sunflower seeds, quinoa, mung beans)

Sea Vegetables (e.g. spirulina, dulse, wakame, nori)

Superfoods (e.g. hemp seeds, goji berries, wheatgrass)

Cultured Foods (e.g. sauerkraut, tempeh, kefir)

Such a diet would exclude foods that deplete the body of light such as meat, fish, poultry, eggs and refined foods such as white sugar, white flour, deep frozen and/or processed foods.

Food manufacture is one of the most water intensive activities in the world and it takes far less water to produce plants than meat. A vegetarian diet helps to decrease water consumption and pollution.

The vast amount of land used to raise animals is causing environmental problems such as habitat destruction and deforestation. Going vegetarian will halve the land-use of your diet.

Your body is your temple and every action within the temple, done with conscious intention, creates a more harmonious outcome.

The secret to opening the treasure-house of food, is the love and compassion attained within your consciousness.

The treasure is the sun, condensed into particles, which we can send to all the centres in our bodies.

By choosing your foods consciously you break the cycle of action and reaction.

You become light in the world – dissolving unconsciousness in the light of your new way of eating.

You become a reflection of consciousness in a most pure form.

The first benefit of good nutrition is giving your body to do the job it was designed to do- which is to be healthy! The easier it is for your body to function normally, the more it can do all of its work without having to ‘put out fires’. This means it is easier for you to think, walk, talk, sleep and do all of the hundreds of things you do daily without even noticing.

How do you know what good nutrition is? Think of foods that are not processed. This means the fewer steps food goes through before it’s on your plate the more nutritional value it carries with it. The fresh peach, or plum or carrot is much easier for your body to break down and digest. Compare to a prepared entree that probably started out fresh, went to a processing factory and has now gone through many chemical processes to get to you. It is older, less fresh, and not quite as alive as that fruit or vegetable is.

The second benefit of good nutrition is that it’s easier to recover from illness or injury. When you are ill, your body goes into overdrive protecting you, and producing many different hormones and chemicals. This puts more ‘stress’ on the system. When the underlying mechanism (your body) is relatively sound, the stress does not last as long, and doesn’t put as much pressure on your body as if you were ill. Think about the healthiest person you know. Someone who eats brightly coloured fresh fruit and vegetables, exercises, etc. Other than a serious illness or injury, notice that they are able to bounce back more quickly from minor, or everyday illnesses.

This doesn’t mean that you have to become someone who is totally into raw food, or running marathons to be healthy. The bottom line is that humans have not evolved from hunters and gatherers to people that get the majority of their food from a box. The many wonderful (and not so wonderful) advances we have made in the areas of technology and food are not always to our advantage. Read the “End of Food” by Paul Roberts if you would like more information in this area.

The third benefit of good nutrition is reducing mind stress. If you are receiving an adequate intake of vitamins and minerals, both through food and supplements, your brain will work better. If your brain is fed, it’s easier to make decisions, ranging from everyday to complex. An excellent book on this subject is by Dr. Mark Hyman “Fix your broken brain by healing your body first”.

Good nutrition is essential to your health, and the good news is it’s in your grocery basket- think easy, simple and fresh!

Today’s children are being let down by their parents….Fact! Statistics show that millions of children are becoming more and more overweight, with a very high percentage of them already obese, through unhealthy diet and lack of any form of exercise. The only people who are to blame for this are parents. If children are allowed they will naturally choose food with high fat, sugar or salt content. It is our duty as parents to ensure our children’s futures are as healthy and illness free as possible. We have got to get our children eating healthy NOW!

Parent’s of today generally live a busier more hectic life than generations before, resulting in less time to concentrate on what is seen to be unimportant. What with all the hours they have to work, bills that have to be paid, homes and cars that have to maintained, spending time making sure our children are getting good nutrition has become a hindrance, especially as it’s a whole lot easier to fill our fridges and cupboards with ready meals and junk food. So we knock them up a quick meal, or let them get their own, which is even worse, then leave them to go eat it while staring at the TV or computer for the next 4 hours or play video games. Their unhealthy diet is literally killing them.

Getting more fresh fruit and vegetables into their new healthier diet is essential. There are plenty of ways and means of doing it and it just takes a little understanding of what their lifestyle is doing to them and a definite commitment to change things. Once you do the research and put things into practice, your childrens healthy eating habits will eventually become second nature and the feeling you will get from seeing the difference in your child will be indescribable. They will be out more, running about as they should be. Their confidence will grow as they will no longer be hung up on how they look, their energy levels will be higher than ever which could possibly help their learning at school.