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Reproductive Function and Obesity

Reproductive Function and Obesity


Recently, a great deal of attention has been given to the obesity epidemic that is taking its toll on the health of most industrialized countries; at the same time, there has been a push by public service agencies to celebrate people of all sizes and shapes and to promote a healthy body image for all. While their efforts are admirable, and it is true that self-worth should not be rooted in physical appearance, the truth is that being overweight just is not good for the body. The negative health effects of obesity are far-reaching, impacting everything from mental well-being to physical stamina, and even to reproductive function. Men who are overweight are at risk for male health issues, and developing a weight-loss and fitness strategy can be critical to overcoming problems with male organ health.

Here are just a few of the ways that men's reproductive function can be affected by being overweight:


  • Circulatory issues - good cardiovascular function is critical to male health for a number of reasons. Most obviously, the ability of the heart to pump blood throughout the body has everything to do with the ability of the male organ to fill with blood and become hard; being overweight puts a strain on these systems, meaning it is much more difficult for the male organ to fill with blood. 
  • Diabetes -  Type 2 diabetes is a common effect of obesity, and it has multiple effects on many of the systems of the body. Men who are diabetic are at an increased risk for male dysfunction, in part due to its degenerative effects on the nerve tissue that serves the male organ. In essence, obesity can lead to loss of male organ sensation and a corresponding inability to enjoy intimate contact. 
  • Stamina - Men who are carrying too much extra weight may find it difficult to stay the course in bed, often running out of steam before they are able to complete the act. 
  • Hormones - Abdominal fat works to produce the hormone cortisol, a so-called stress hormone. Elevated levels of this chemical can decrease androgen levels, which can in turn decrease a man's drive and ability to respond to sensual stimulation. 

Taking steps for better physical and reproductive health

Losing weight is difficult, and it takes time and patience - as well as a lot of effort. But the lasting health benefits are enormous. A commitment to losing weight can make a difference in nearly all aspects of a man's life. Before embarking on a nutritional or exercise program, it is very important to talk to a doctor about any health concerns and about an individual's weight loss goals. Professional advice can help men to avoid missteps that can derail their weight loss efforts and even cause further health problems.

However, the keys to improving health and quality of life include eating foods that are nutritionally sound - in the right proportions - and engaging in regular physical exercise. Many men will find that losing even a few pounds will help them feel more positive mentally, as well as having more physical energy - both important factors in the ability to function in the bedroom.

As part of this program of transformation, a little self-pampering is also warranted; a man who takes extra steps to care for his body will tend to experience greater self-esteem and lower levels of anxiety. Taking time to rest, relax, and care for the body - including the male organ - is a big part of this effort. After a warm bath or shower, applying a male organ health creme (health professionals recommend Man 1 Man Oil) to the manhood can help to improve the overall appearance and feel of the manhood. Vitamins and antioxidants in a specially-formulated male organ cream are designed to stimulate healthy skin and nerve growth, and they can go a long way toward repairing the cellular damage caused by ongoing health issues. Adding a cream like this to the daily personal care regimen is an excellent way to boost male organ health and pave the way to better reproductive function.

Myths, Lies and Propaganda about Eating and Weight Loss

Myths, Lies and Propaganda about Eating and Weight Loss

Throughout my career in the military I have come across a variety of tall tales about eating and exercise. The extent of misinformation is so great that you'€™d think we were dealing with Cold War propaganda. If a lie is told frequently enough it is treated as the truth.

Seven Myths about Eating and Weight Loss

Eating Myth #1: Eating fat is bad for you.

The Truth: Eat fat, Soldier! It's good for you. Just don’t eat too much, and stay away from bad fat. If you want to be healthy, you must have body fat, and you must eat fat. Don'€™t eat too much, and make sure that the fat you eat is the good stuff. Eliminate the bad fats first. Trans fats and hydrogenated fats are bad news for the body. Stay away from them. Trans fats and hydrogenated fats are almost exclusively found in processed foods. Read the labels and you will quickly learn about the sources of these bad fats. Saturated fats can also be a source of artery-clogging and cholesterol-increasing fats. So where do you get those good fats?

You get them from plant products (plant-based oils and nuts). Your best bet is to look for plant-based fats that contain predominantly monounsaturated fats and a lesser amount of polyunsaturated fats. Olive oil fits this description. No more than 30 % of your daily caloric intake should be made up of fat (example: one tablespoon of olive oil has 120 calories). Some athletes, like professional soccer players, actually consciously increase their fat intake to as high as 40% due to special athletic needs.
Let'€™s take a quick look at what fat is used for in the body:
Stores energy.
- Gives shape to your body.
- Serves as a protective cushion to your skin.
- Insulates the body to reduce heat loss.
- Is a part of every cell membrane in the body.
- Is essential to brain and nerve cells function.
- Serves as a protective cushion around your internal organs.
- Is an integral part of many hormones and other biochemicals, such as Vitamin D.

Eating Myth #2: The best way to lose weight is to cut back on the calories.

The Truth: Exercising and eating right are the best ways to lose excess weight.
The best weight-loss is one where you watch the quantity and quality of food you eat and exercise regularly. If you just reduce calories, especially without exercising, your metabolism will slow down to compensate for the reduction, and your weight-loss strategy is out the window. (See the chapter on Six Keys to Permanent Weight-loss€).

Increased stress can even cause your body to store more fat. That’s right. Your body has a protective mechanism when it's stressed by dieting. Merely cutting back on calories without eating healthy or exercising will cause you to lose good, lean, muscle mass. This means that your body has practiced cannibalism on itself and is €œeating your flesh. As you can see, you will actually create a whole array of health issues if you listen to the enemy on this one.

Eating Myth #3: You can eat as much as you want, if you are eating healthy foods.

The Truth: No! Even if you are healthy and exercise regularly, overeating healthy food choices lead to poor performance and reduced energy. After trampling through all the other land mines (= myths) above, this should be an easy one for you. This myth focuses on the quality of food while disregarding the quantity. Truly healthy eating focuses both on the quantity and quality of food.

Eating Myth #4: You can eat whatever you want, if you work out regularly.

The Truth: No! Unhealthy food choices reduce energy and physical and mental performance. Would you ever hear a race-car driver say, I'€™m going to put low-octane fuel in that gas tank. After all, this car gets worked regularly.€ Performance and energy would suffer and races would be lost. It is no different with the human body. Put low-octane fuel (= unhealthy food choices) in your body, and your performance will suffer. You will have less energy and more health issues. Poor food choices will impact your mood, compromise your immune system, and get your hormones out of whack. Need I say more? Occasional indulgence in food and drink, even if it may be low-octane fuel, will probably not negatively impact your overall health. Occasional means no more than once a week.

Eating Myth #5: Eating late at night will cause you to gain extra weight.

The Truth: Eating a regular meal after 8:00 PM does not cause weight gain. If you are hungry and are considering missing a meal because it's late, by all means, eat something. Weight gain is caused by eating too much and/or not exercising regularly. We all do not have the same schedules, so we have to design our own eating plans. Eat at least three times a day with one or two (unprocessed) healthy snacks, if necessary. We generally want to avoid eating less than an hour before bed only to prevent digestive sleep interruptions, which may result in some very interesting dreams.

Eating Myth #6: Skipping meals is a good strategy to cut back on calories and lose weight.

The Truth: Skipping meals is a one-way ticket to weight gain. Intentionally skipping meals is the fastest way to gain weight and possibly get sick. Your body is smarter than you are and will protest your skipping a meal by slowing that metabolism down so that you won'€™t lose one single pound of fat.

Eating Myth #7: Eating less than 1200 calories will speed up your weight-loss.

The Truth: Here we go again. This is a myth and will slow your metabolism making you more susceptible to weight gain. See our Intel on Eating Myth #2.

How Coffee Interferes With Losing Weight

How Coffee Interferes With Losing Weight


Are you addicted to coffee? You're not sure? Just ask yourself if you can commit to living without it. For most people, coffee is a must have in the morning. Without coffee they don't feel alive. I know some people who instantly get a headache if they don't have their coffee in the morning.

What's wrong with coffee you may ask? Coffee is a drug and it can manipulate your feelings.
If you drink coffee after lunch sometimes or occasionally in the morning that's fine.
The big problem starts when you need it every day and it gets worse when you want to lose weight.
Coffee interferes with your natural weight loss program.

There are two things about coffee and weight loss that you should know:

1) Coffee Changes Your Mood


That's great, you may say, I want to feel more alive and happy so I drink coffee. That's what most of us are doing and it's so common that it feels normal. The truth is that the caffeine may repress other feelings that are important and that need to be recognized.
When you want to lose physical weight you also need to lose mental weight. There are thought patterns and attitudes toward life that need to change. Sometimes on a weight loss path, feelings of depression, frustration and anger come up.


The worse thing you can do is to numb them away with coffee. These feelings are important and they can lead you to a new level of awareness and recognition in your life. You are entering the unknown and entering the unknown means you are discovering new territory in your life. If you embrace all the feelings your life, you will come to an understanding and appreciation of new viewpoints on important issues which have been affecting you physically as well as mentally.
When feelings which make us uncomfortable arise, it seems they will last forever. The nice thing about feelings is that they are in the moment, they are your truth and they are timeless.
Your mind can kick in and tell you:

"Oh my god, I am suffering, this will go on forever". It seems this feeling will never end.
The only way to get through them is to experience them fully. By repressing them with coffee, or any other drug, they will continue to show up in your life in different places over and over again. You might find you need more drugs every day to repress these feelings. As soon as you make a break and stop anesthetizing yourself, the feelings resurface.


Embrace them for the lessons they have brought you. Feel the pain, let it evolve to gratitude and eventually, with a breath of kindness, you can blow them away with the wind.

2) Coffee Changes Your Digestion


The next important thing you should know is that coffee, especially in the morning, is a burden for your stomach. As I explained in some previous articles, when you get up in the morning your stomach and your whole system is in a cleansing process.

The best support for this process is to "break the fast" with fruit. What happens to the stomach in the morning if you give it coffee? The cleansing process of the body stops immediately.
Caffeine gets moving into your blood and endorphins stimulate you. All the things that the body would normally clean out will stay.

You can imagine what happens after 5-10 years inside your body when there is no cleansing. Just imagine not cleaning your house for 5-10 years. How would you feeling living in it?

There is something else about coffee you should know. In the early days, coffee was made differently. People would just boil water, put the coffee into it, then wait for the coffee sink to the bottom of the pot. This way of preparing coffee is much healthier than our "civilized" way of preparing it with a filter.

There are qualities in coffee which support the stomach and the digestion which are lost in the filtering process.


Conclusion:


You don't need to drop coffee totally from your list. Just be aware if it is something you feel addicted to. If this is the case just recognize it and try to cut back a little every day. If you want to lose more weight drop it from the morning breakfast.

Remember, the freedom is not to take any of these recommendations as requirements. The freedom is for you to decide what it is you want to change in your life and then change it!

If you really love coffee, try having it after lunch and always drink it with water. This makes it easier on the stomach and therefore makes it easier to digest. In Italy or France when you order coffee, they automatically serve it with a glass of water. This is why!

Printable Weight Loss Tracker

Printable Weight Loss Tracker


Utilizing a printable weight reduction tracker is an incredible device for estimating your advancement. When attempting to get in shape, you need a technique to quantify and record how you are getting along. Along these lines you can make modifications varying when you are at a level. Estimating how much weight you have lost is only one technique for keeping tabs on your development.

A decent printable weight reduction tracker will take into consideration something other than estimating and recording pounds lost. You need to likewise follow inches and muscle versus fat percent. During any health improvement plan you will encounter times when you are not losing pounds. This can be disheartening if this was the main technique for keeping tabs on your development. Often times when an individual isn't getting thinner they may in reality be losing inches or muscle to fat ratio. This is the reason your printable weight reduction tracker should gauge something other than pounds.

Perhaps the hardest thing to accomplish while attempting to get more fit is remaining persuaded. Be that as it may, on the off chance that you measure something other than pounds lost, you have interchange strategies to assist you with following advancement and remain persuaded to get more fit. In this way, to remain inspired and to see the full improvement you are making, you need a printable weight reduction graph that tracks everything – weight reduction, inches lost and muscle to fat ratio lost. It isn't important to follow each inch however you will need to choose a couple of regions of the body like the midriff, arms and legs. You can likewise include the hips and chest. Simply ensure that you measure something other than one zone of the body to get a genuine proportion of how you are getting along.

Following muscle to fat ratio is presumably considerably more significant than following weight reduction or inches. Abundance muscle to fat ratio can prompt numerous clinical dangers, for example, coronary illness, type 2 diabetes and metabolic disorder and the sky is the limit from there. Following muscle to fat ratio anyway isn't as simple as bouncing on a scale and perusing a number. There are different strategies for estimating muscle versus fat. The most exact and normal technique is to take skin crease estimations. This requires exceptional gear that you can buy. You can likewise you're your primary care physician or a staff part at your nearby exercise center play out these skin overlay estimations. Another strategy, in spite of the fact that not as exact, is to utilize an online muscle to fat ratio mini-computer. Despite the fact that these number crunchers are not as precise, it will permit you to quantify and see your improvement when losing muscle to fat ratio.

The most ideal approach to keep tabs on your development is to gauge and measure yourself once per week. Beyond what this can give you misdirecting results as an individual can vary in weight by 2 to 4 pounds every day. This is basically because of water weight. Moreover, you need to weight yourself around the same time of the week and simultaneously of day. This will give you the most exact perusing for recording in your printable weight reduction tracker or outline. So pick when you can without much of a stretch measure and record your advancement.

A weight reduction tracker is only a device for you to utilize. The genuine work of getting in shape needs to begin with you. As a matter of first importance figuring out how to eat well is the best strategy for getting in shape. Furthermore and most likely similarly as significant is to add exercise to your week by week schedule. These two stages will kick you off on your approach to getting thinner, inches and abundance muscle versus fat. So get dynamic, eat well and utilize your weight reduction tracker to perceive how incredible you are getting along to arriving at your objective.

The Top 7 Weight Loss and Exercise Myths

Here are the main 7 weight reduction and exercise legends that numerous individuals erroneously accept.

Muscle transforms into fat once you quit working out!

Muscle and fat are two totally various tissues. Muscle is made of water and protein while fat is made of fat. You can't mystically transform one into the other or the other way around. Psyche you, when you quit practicing your bulk contracts, which eases back your digestion down and a discouraged digestion makes weight reduction increasingly troublesome.

Likewise, frequently when individuals quit practicing they continue eating as they were previously (when they had more muscle and a quicker digestion) and what happens is that their muscles therapist and fat get put away around it so it looks as though the muscle has transformed into fat.

The best approach to maintain a strategic distance from this from happening is to just eat less when you quit working out.

Sit-ups dispose of the fat on your stomach!

'Spot decrease' doesn't happen in the body. You can't do explicit activities so as to diminish the fat overlying the body part. This applies for the entire body including the basic fat stockpiling territories: stomach, hips, thighs and back of your arms. Truth be told, apparently the primary spot you will in general store fat is really the last spot you lose it from. You have to lose fat from all over your body on the off chance that you need to lose it from a particular territory.

The activity might be helpful in expanding your vitality or calorie consumption marginally just as perhaps animating some muscle development in the focused on zone yet it won't bring about quickened fat misfortune from the zone.

The most ideal approach to lose fat from your stomach is to follow a solid and reasonable dietary arrangement, practice routinely and use supplements that have been demonstrated to be powerful helping individuals get thinner and keep it off.

Lifting loads will make me 'beef up'!

On the off chance that you control your food admission, it isn't workable for you to beef up. Indeed, lifting loads is the most under-assessed approach to get more fit quick.

On the off chance that you need to shed pounds and you don't lift loads, your body will unpredictably lose both fat and muscle when you begin dropping the kilos. Obviously, in the event that you lose muscle your digestion eases back down, which makes further weight reduction progressively troublesome.

By fusing a standard weight preparing (opposition preparing) program into your week by week schedule, you can keep up your current bulk or even increment it somewhat which will keep your digestion raised and keep your body in most extreme fat-consuming mode!

On the off chance that I need to get the weight off quick I ought to tail one of the eating regimens that suggests dinner substitution shakes rather than food!

In no way, shape or form! Supper substitution shakes absolutely have their place in a sound wholesome arrangement (as early in the day and mid-evening snacks) however ought to never supplant entire nourishments in your eating routine (breakfast, lunch and supper). Without a doubt, these sorts of diets may make them lose the weight quick however you can be ensured that you'll return the weight on much quicker once typical eating resumes!

Top 5 Most Common Weight Loss Errors


Individuals attempting to shed pounds regularly make certain weight reduction blunders, which really lead to weight gain. Here are 5 top most regular weight reduction mistakes that MUST be kept away from at any expense.

1. Avarice

This is maybe the most well-known weight reduction blunder that individuals make. Considered as one of the most fatal sins, ravenousness regularly prompts over the top weight gain. So in the event that you feel that you can consistently appreciate a part of your preferred food that contains high calories when on eating less junk food, you are maybe committing a grave error. Ask Jane Kirby, who has created the book Dieting for Dummies. "Individuals on a low-carb diet may figure, 'I can eat all the ham and Swiss cheddar rollups plunged in mayonnaise that I need. No, you can't. It's part, partition, parcel." Therefore, abstain from eating an excessive amount of too much of the time in any event, when it implies expending food things that contain less starches, or sans fat fixings.

2. Not caring enough to check calories

Continuously recall when you need to get in shape, you should take in less calories than you can utilize. Subsequently, consistently check the calories in the event that you need to continue getting more fit. Think about this. You have quite recently come out from exercise center and straightway head to bistro. Do you realize a foamy milk shake or a sugared games drink is probably going to gracefully you a bigger number of calories than you consumed at the exercise center?

3. Eating less food

Having too less calories is likewise as awful as eating excessively. This may put you at a more noteworthy wellbeing hazard by causing impediment of your digestion. Digestion is a procedure wherein cells consume food that you eat to create vitality.

4. Staying away from work out

Keep in mind, practice causes you consume calories. Along these lines, an ordinary exercise will undoubtedly assist you with improving digestion rate and assist you with consuming calories quicker. Numerous investigations done in this field show that truly dynamic individuals are bound to lessen weight and keep up the weight that they have lost.

5. Setting exclusive requirements

A large portion of us need to get more fit, and do it quick. Some set objective of losing a lot of weight inside possibly 14 days, which might be excessively aggressive for them, state dieticians.

Continuously target losing up to 10 percent of your body weight, and not more than that in the event that you need to shed pounds and furthermore look sound

Top 7 Mistakes On The Slow Carb Diet





Most noticeably awful Slow Carb Diet Mistakes

As per Tim Ferriss, who portrays this eating routine in his book, 'The 4-Hour Body', around 90 percent of weight reduction slowing down is because of only 3 mix-ups. Four extra mix-ups spread the vast majority of the other 10 percent. The 'Huge 3', figuratively speaking, are:

Error 1: Not having breakfast

In particular, this implies not having a high protein supper inside an hour of waking toward the beginning of the day. In a perfect world, truth be told, the best planning is eat inside a half hour of rising.

Tim refers to two cases that show this slip-up. In the primary case, when his dad followed the eating regimen intently for the main month, he dropped 17 pounds. In the second month he began delaying breakfast and dropped just 5.5 pounds. Returning to having an opportune, high-protein breakfast in the third month, he quickened back to lost 18.75 pounds. This is an incredible case of self-experimentation that focuses to one likely reason for his log jam in month two: postponing breakfast.

In the subsequent case, JayC had arrived at a level at 220 pounds and couldn't move any lower. Everything he did to break the level was to expand his morning meal to be certain that he expended at any rate 30 grams of protein toward the beginning of every day. When he did as such, he dipped under 215 pounds just because since he was a first year recruit in school.

Error 2: Not eating enough protein

It is generally basic, obviously, to begin with adequate protein at breakfast. This has the additional impact of controling carb driving forces while advancing fat digestion. The objective is to expend in any event 40 percent of your calories as protein, which means at least 20-30 grams of protein at each dinner.

The best sources are nothing unexpected: meats, eggs, curds, and protein shakes.

The amazement to people who commit this error is that they frequently exaggerate the veggies. See, we as a whole hear the reprimand to 'eat your veggies' for our entire lives. Be that as it may, in the event that you expend too enormous a plate of mixed greens or too huge an aiding of other green veggies, you will sabotage your advancement in any event two different ways: 1) you will devour deficient protein; and, 2) you will expend lacking calories. Keep in mind, the moderate carb diet did not depend on confining calories. You need to take in enough food to shield your digestion from easing back down. Green veggies just won't help you much on that tally.

Slip-up 3: Not drinking enough water

Hydration keeps the hardware running all the more easily, particularly for liver capacity. In the event that you drink too little water, your food admission will over-burden your stomach related tract and maneuver water into it. Strangely, you will even hold water in odd spots, appearing as swollen lower legs and lower legs, when you don't keep your water admission up. In the event that you arrive at a weight reduction level, perceive how rapidly you refocus by simply drinking a couple of more glasses of water every day.

Different Mistakes

As I said previously, the missteps underneath are liable for close to around 10 percent of the slowing down cases that Tim has seen. By the by, they may offer answers for your level if none of the 'Large 3' above does as such.

Slip-up 4: Believing that you will cook, particularly in the event that you are a single guy

Envision preparing three suppers per day. Isn't that a retro idea? Here is the manner by which to get around practically all the difficulty you may experience in the event that you choose to prepare the entirety of your dinners and find that its absolutely impossible to keep up the pace. To begin with, get great solidified nourishments. They are as of now cooked, and the great ones have no additional fixings (carbs, sugars, salt, margarine or oil, and so forth.). Solidified spinach ought to contain just spinach.

Second, get great canned nourishments. On the off chance that you utilize canned vegetables, simply make certain to get just brands that contain only the vegetables you need. Extremely numerous brands contain unfortunate included fixings, for example, sugar (truly!).

Slip-up 5: Mistiming weighings with your menstrual cycle

This is most likely clear to the individuals who experience a menstrual cycle. In any case, Tim being a single man himself, he thought it essential to call attention to this. At the point when you hold water during your cycle, your weight isn't a precise portrayal of your advancement on the moderate carb diet.

Misstep 6: Overeating 'domino' nourishments

These nourishments are just those suggested wellsprings of moderate carbs that are anything but difficult to eat excessively. Nuts, chickpeas, hummus, peanuts, peanuts, macademias. They are awesome nibble nourishments whenever devoured with some restraint. Only 5-10 almonds would be a moderate sum. Isn't it sooooo simple to twofold that! My defeat is cashews. I can eat 5 bunches of them in a solitary day.

Tim noticed that he has leveled multiple times by simply eating such a large number of almonds. Truly, 'domino' nourishments like this are nutritious. Simply don't eat too much.

Misstep 7: Overconsuming fake or every single common sugar

Syrup is sugar, regardless of what the 'all-common' source is. It doesn't make a difference in the event that it is called agave, maple, stick, beet, or some other sort of syrup. It is a quick carb wellspring of sugar. Truth be told, the inexorably mainstream crude agave nectar might be the most noticeably awful, since it contains as much as 90 percent fructose, the deadliest sugar of just for weight reduction.

As to sugars, none are useful for your wellbeing. In accordance with the moderate carb diet, however, Tim has noted in himself as well as other people that close to 16 ounces of falsely improved drink is the breaking point. From that point onward, weight reduction is probably going to slow down.

One More Thing

The above are the 7 most basic dietary slip-ups. In Tim's book, he incorporates an eighth mix-up, that of practicing excessively. This is a subject unto itself, which numerous individuals experience the ill effects of unwittingly. Indeed, you can practice excessively or practice the incorrect way and totally sabotage your get-healthy plan. I will expound on this theme later, without anyone else, so I can invest more energy clarifying what you ought to and ought not accomplish for work out.

Loneliness And Depression



Depression and loneliness are often strongly linked to each other. You can feel depressed because you are lonely, or you can feel lonely because you feel depressed. If you can get a grip on depression, you are likely to feel less lonely too.
Although depression is an umbrella term for a host of problems, it is important to diagnose it correctly and quickly. With proper medication, therapy, nutrition and exercise, people can return to their daily lives without any long-term effects.

Depression is a very common condition. Approximately, 15 percent of doctor's office visits are depression related. This is also the most prevalent serious illness primary care physicians treat. One out of 10 American adults is afflicted with major depression and more than 15 million Americans are diagnosed every year as clinically depressed. the World Health Organization predicts that by the year 2020, depression will be the second leading cause of disability throughout the world, and its researchers estimate that 121 million people currently suffer from it.

Some of the symptoms of depression are the following:

1. Feeling hopeless
2. Difficulty making decisions
3. Sometimes numb (no emotion at all )
4. Easily agitated, irritable or angry
5. Easily tired
6. Feeling guilty and terrible
7. Unable to sleep at night or excessive sleeping
8. Disturbing thoughts
9. Crying
10. Excessive weight gain or excessive weight loss
11. Abuse of children or violent towards loved ones
12. Inflicting self-injury
13. Negative self esteem
14. And the list goes on…

Many of the illustrated symptoms of depression can actually be symptoms of loneliness as well. Depression is a condition which many people are too embarrased to talk about.
Due to the historical stigmatism associated with the disorder, it remains a silent topic.
Depression can be caused by a number of things. It can be caused by a sudden, life-changing event such as loss of a beloved one or an illness. The condition can also gradually develop over a long period of time due to a number of factors, such as poor living conditions, poverty, environment, relationship problems or unemployment. Depression is also linked with personality traits, genetics or abnormal levels of certain hormones such as low thyroid hormone levels.

Whether it be physical, environmental or genetic, there are many ways depression can be defeated. Depending on the person and the condition, one or more of the below treatment methods are more or less preferred.

1. Suitable and recommended medication
2. Proper nutrition
3. Appropriate herbal treatment or other natural treatments
4. Hormone treatments
5. Exercise
6. Cognitive behavior therapy (thought-behaviour connection)
7. Change of situation wherever possible (e.g. bad relationship, job, etc)
8. Counseling or forms of psychological treatment
9. Relaxation therapies
10. Mindset and thinking patterns

The key is a holistic approach and the use of more than one of the above listed methods to beat depression

Depression and Loneliness
Depressed people tend to suffer in silence and isolate themselves from the outside world. When you are depressed, you feel less motivated to go out, make contact, socialize or participate in activities, or doing anything at all. Days, even weeks can go by without wanting to see anyone or talk to anyone and this aggrevates feelings of isolation. Often depressed people do not want to talk about their problem or simply feel misunderstood.
Similarly, prolonged and intense feelings of loneliness can lead to depression. Treating the symptoms of depression is likely to resolve the problem of loneliness. If the reasons of loneliness are well understood (this requires some soul-searching and questioning oneself) and if methods of overcoming loneliness are applied, it is very likely that symptoms of depression will become less or disappear.

Beating depression or loneliness does not start with having more friends, or a relationship, although it can help. It really starts from within and is a process that takes time and care. Asking the right questions and doing the right things as part of this process is one of the keys to healing. Humans go through life in patterns by doing the same thing over and over again. Even in different situations, these patterns will be repeated and simply generate the same results. A pattern is a repeated response to a situation in life or a series of activities that are repeated over and over again. They are formed by what we have learned from the past, what we know now, what we feel comfortable with and what our beliefs and values are. If any of these remain unchanged we become “fixed” in our ways. That's why many of us have a hard time making lasting changes. The challenge is to break a pattern and gain new, life-changing insights.

So begin with yourself, ask yourself the questions to help you understand where your depression and loneliness is coming from and start interrupting your patterns that have been limiting you now and in the past.

The most effective method to Look After Your Mental Health During Self-Isolation Due To Covid-19 Coronavirus


The most effective method to Look After Your Mental Health During Self-Isolation Due To Covid-19 Coronavirus

With numerous individuals around the globe toss into an entirely different setting, these unsure occasions will make a great deal of pressure and nervousness for individuals. This article goes toss 5 straightforward ways an individual can take care of their emotional wellness during the self disconnection time frame brought about by the Covid-19 coronavirus.

Around the globe, numerous individuals are battling to adapt to self detachment necessities set up due to COVID-19. Out of nowhere, you're investing more energy at home, incapable to get out. You may feel stressed or on edge over the general wellbeing emergency just as disappointed and discouraged in light of the fact that a large number of the exercises you for the most part appreciate are beyond reach. Ensure, during this period, that you're taking care of your psychological well-being! Attempt a portion of these techniques to keep your state of mind inspired and your psyche solid.

1. Maintain a strategic distance from counterfeit news stories and posts via web-based networking media.

This is an incredible time, indeed, to enjoy a reprieve from web based life out and out. Ensure you're getting your report from trustworthy sources, not looking through and perusing all the fate and despair posts from your companions and friends and family. The more negative data you read, the harder it tends to be to keep your own state of mind unblemished. Rather, separate from web based life varying, and ensure you're utilizing solid wellsprings of data as you examine and become familiar with the difficulties that accompany COVID-19.

2. Converse with loved ones.

You probably won't have the option to get out and see loved ones face to face, however you can surely still associate with them. Attempt a good old call or utilize a video visit stage that will permit you to connect with your friends and family in any event, when you can't be genuinely together. Set up a web based game night, watch a film together, or simply hang out and visit. You'll feel progressively associated and, by and large, more ready to deal with the difficulties before you.

3. Get in a little exercise each day.

Regardless of whether you can't leave your home, you can even now get in work out! Pick a wellness video that meets your requirements and physical objectives for yourself. Not exclusively will you help manufacture quality and even lift your invulnerable framework through exercise, it will help support your disposition. On the off chance that you notice yourself getting down or attempting to get off the sofa, hurl in that exercise video and get going. Numerous wellness brands, exercise centers, and different associations are sans offering access to their libraries of wellness recordings during the present wellbeing emergency, which implies that you're certain to discover something that meets your requirements.

4. Clean your home.

Living in a perfect space will regularly do significantly more for your state of mind than lounging around and permitting the jumble to accumulate. On the off chance that you have children at home with you, you may see the messiness expanding exponentially. This is an extraordinary time to take on those arranging assignments that typically fall by the wayside! Include the entire family and set aside the effort to get things tidied up. You may likewise need to profound clean to help keep germs from making it into your home. A perfect, clean and sorted out space initiates a spotless and innovative brain.

5. Address an expert, if need be.

Is it accurate to say that you are battling with despondency or nervousness encompassing the coronavirus emergency?

You aren't the only one. An online analyst can assist you with working through a significant number of those emotions and diminishing your general uneasiness. Numerous emotional wellness experts are additionally meeting up to offer online assets that can assist you with adapting all through the pandemic, regardless of whether you're battling with segregation or stressed over yourself and your friends and family. Self disengagement can be troublesome, yet the outcomes are certainly justified regardless of the separation. Assume responsibility for this time! Set objectives for yourself, regardless of whether your objective is clearing out a storage room, getting more exercise, or diminishing your web based life utilization. This emergency, as well, will in the end pass–and meanwhile, you can concentrate on making a cleanComputer Technology Articles, efficient space for yourself and your relatives.

Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss: Replacing the Fat Person

Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss: Replacing the Fat Person


Numerous individuals that have reliably been battling with their weight may at some point or another go to hilarious, self-analysis as a resistance component. Overweight individuals have regularly been generalized in the public eye and mainstream society as the substance of the gathering in light of their entertaining methodology towards everything and their capacity to snicker at themselves.

This comical inclination, nonetheless, is frequently a method for dealing with stress. It satisfies a similar capacity that putting on a cover would do. For some, this is a possibility for managing a feeling of destruction and the failure to show signs of improvement shape.

What numerous calorie counters that have surrendered fall flat acknowledging, in any case, is that weight reduction will in general be significantly more mental than physical. Diet matters thus exercises. Practical weight reduction, be that as it may, is tied in with tending to the mental issues close by the physiological elements. Here is the place hypnotherapy can help.

Managing the €œFat Person's Mentality


You have absolutely caught wind of individuals who have figured out how to move a great deal of weight yet who despite everything have the €œfat individual's mindset. Overweight individuals are treated by society with a particular goal in mind and this sort of segregation leaves an engraving that could be there forever if not tended to appropriately and adequately.

Numerous people that think that its hard to keep up the perfect weight have a relationship with food which may verge on the undesirable both genuinely and mentally. It might give solace and satisfaction such that no other action or need could.

This is the place a trance advisor can truly help. The bond among food and solace must be broken. The person's€ mindset needs to vanish, being supplanted by a sound and constructive self-perception individual.

Mesmerizing Weight Loss Approaches that can Help


Hypnotherapy will convey a scope of significant advantages by supplanting damaging examples of conduct with a lot more beneficial, self-cherishing instruments.

For a beginning, an individual can figure out how to really appreciate solid food without regret, dread or blame through spellbinding. Inspiration is basic for getting more fit and numerous individuals come up short on the inspiration to eat the correct nourishments and do a smidgen of diet control.

Hypnotherapy can likewise be utilized to support practice and physical action. For some individuals, this is something they need to learn. In the earliest reference point, exercise will be viewed as an errand or even torment as opposed to as a pleasurable movement. An advisor can do a ton to change these examples of reasoning.

An emphasis on weight reduction is probably the greatest mix-up and a significant deterrent for the vast majority. They become so excessively fixated by the objective that they overlook pondering wellbeing and legitimate sustenance. Weight reduction hypnotherapy will put accentuation on being solid and cheerful. Weight reduction will come as a characteristic outcome of these two.

Hypnotherapy can likewise be utilized to bring an end to comfort propensities, to diminish the intrigue of low quality nourishments, to support people and trust themselves as being fit later on and to disguise illustrations for the weight reduction process that will be advantageous to follow and perceive progress as and when it occurs.

Weight reduction hypnotherapy is a long way from a supernatural, short-term arrangement. It essentially causes the errand simpler by helping the psyche to feel quiet with the procedure. The correct demeanor and a positive methodology can accomplish a great deal, and produce the best outcomes for nearly any individual who receives this sort of mindset.

How Do Fat Burners Make You Lose Weight



Fat burners are supposed to be the most popular of all kinds of weight loss pills and supplements. As the name suggests, these pills can make your body burn fat more efficiently resulting in weight loss.

But how do fat burners work?

Fat burners try to increase your metabolic rate so that your body is in a better position to burn fat. Most of the fat burning pills try to achieve this through the process of thermogenesis. In other words, they increase your body temperature so that your body is able to burn fat quickly.

CAN FAT BURNERS WORK ON THEIR OWN?

Most people who opt for fat burning pills and other weight loss supplements think that such pills can make them lose weight even if they do not workout.

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This is a big misconception. These pills are not miracle cures that can make you get rid of excess kilos without you doing any sort of physical activity. However, what is really great about such pills is that they can make you lose weight at a much faster pace if your combine them with some sort of exercise or physical activity.

It is not important to join a gym and sweat it out with a strenuous exercise routine. You can increase your physical activity even without frequenting a gym. You can get into the habit of going for a jog or walk every morning or evening.

Not just this, it is also a great idea to join an outdoor sport such as basketball, soccer etc.,

A combination of exercise and a good quality fat burner can make you lose weight really fast. Not just this, it can also help you keep your weight under check later on.

Now, there are many fat burners. Unfortunately, most of them lack of any sort of clinical evidence to back up their claims with regard to weight loss. Thousands of natural fat burners like acai pills etc., have come up but most of them simply fail to deliver. Either they are made with adulterated and low quality ingredients or do not have the required potency to ensure results.

However, there are some clinically approved fat burners that can be bought legally without a prescription. What is really amazing is that such a fat burner can help you lose weight without any side effects. Such clinically approved fat burners are made with enzyme boosters that not only boost your metabolism but also suppress your appetite so that you can experience a fast and dramatic reduction in your body weight.

One of the most important benefits of such a fat burner is that it can also help boost your energy levels within minutes of consuming such a pill.

Women Over 40: How Much Workout Leads to Weight Loss?


Women Over 40: How Much Workout Leads to Weight Loss?
After menopause losing weight is becoming harder and harder. Especially if a sedentary life style contributes to a lack of exercise and physical activity.

Regular exercise is an crucial element to lose weight permanently- however, do you know how much exercise is actually essential to lose weight?
You might say, the more the better,€ and you are right- theoretically.

After all, the common thinking is: The more calories you burn, the more weight you lose.
But in reality things tend to work out otherwise. And this is because of the compensation mechanism. The meaning of the term "compensation" is: If you predict the weight lost according to the calories burned, and measure the actual weight loss accomplished, you'll often find a gap. It's easy to understand what causes the compensation effect: People start to eat more when they go on an exercise plan. It'€™s often justified by thinking, €œAs long as I am burning off the extra calories, I can allow myself to consume more

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But, most dieters assess the amount of calories burnt during exercising and the amount of calories consumed inaccurately: Calories burnt are overrated and calories eaten underrated. So the attitude of “when I am exercising I can eat more” lresults not in permanent weight loss.
In scientific research, the amount of exercise was measured and related to the compensation mechanism. The results are very fascinating. Postmenopausal, overweight or obese  women went to 3 different exercise programs, consisting of 72, 136 or 194 minutes of exercise weekly. All women had a inactive lifestyle before.

The first two groups (exercising 1 hour and 2 hours per week) did not compensate. They lost as much weight as expected. They did not eat more after starting the exercise program.
However, the women on the intensive exercise program (more than 3 hours weekly) lost only half of the expected weight. It could be the case that they were thinking "I am allowed to eat more, because I work so hard on this program".

What do we learn from this?

It naturally doesn't mean that a light intensity program is best. It means if you are exercising hard, there are chances you might feel compelled to compensate and start eating more. So: If you are doing an physical exercise program, control your food intake as well- or you might not be capable to lose weight permanently after 40.

By the way: All exercise groups had a fundamental reduction in waistline circumference indicating healthy weight loss. Losing belly fat lowers the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular problems.
Everybody is different- and you will need an exercise plan taking your specific situation into account. A good weight loss program should be adjusted to your particular situation.

Badminton- a wellness sport

Badminton- a wellness sport

Badminton is a popular indoor sport played by two or four people who are divided into two sides with a net inside. According to the number of people involved, it can be divided into singles and doubles. Compared with tennis, badminton focus on players stamina and endurance than players' physique.

Name origin

Modern badminton movement was born in England. In 1873, a duke of Badminton county Glasgow, hosted a garden party in his territory where several retired officers returnning from India introduced a game of isolation nets beat back and forth with struck shuttlecocks. It aroused much interest. Because this activity is very interesting, it took the upper class by storm. "badminton"  become the English name of sport name.

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Whole body fitness

Badminton players, for a competitive sport or for a fitness activity, are required to use various movement techniques, like footstep moving, leaps swivel and swings, which strengthen the exercisers the cardiovascular system and respiratory functions. According to statistics, heart rate of high intensity badminton players can reach 160-180 times per minute, medium intensity players can reach every minute 140-150 times; low intensity players, 100-130 times every minute. Long-term badminton exercises can make the heartbeat powerful, which is vital to capacity increase and endurance improvement. In addition, badminton requires players to make quick judgement on rapidly changing pitches and fight back in no time. Thus, it can improve the sensitivity of nervous systems and body coordinations.

Adjustable exercise

Badminton is suitable for men, women and children. The exercise intensity may vary according to  age, physical conditions and grounds. Teenagers, in physical development, are advised to spend 40-50 minutes for sport while the seniors are advised to take 20-30 min limit. It can be taken as a funny game for little kids.

In a word, badminton is good sport for overall-health development.

Fat Burning Foods - The Main Features Of the Foods That Burn Fat

Fat Burning Foods - The Main Features Of the Foods That Burn Fat


Fat burning foods are perhaps famous as catabolic. As you may not yet see, they are commonly featured and they will most certainly match your budget too. Fat burning foods are just various categories of foods that will commonly give a hand to the body in eliminating all of its fat cells. And that is your main goal, isn't it?

That's why they have to be boxed in a well-defined diet outline of any weight loss course. Read on to get more details about fat burning foods.

Features Of Foods That Burn Fat

Foods said to burn fat are as well on the top of lists of counseled foods for a healthy diet. Nutrients that are loaded with protein and fiber are the best categories of food to eat if you want to burn fat in your body.

Here are the main features of the foods for burning fat:
- Food that burn more calories than the food itself provides (like celery)
- Food that hold elements that burn body fat (like calcium)
- foods that restrain the appetency and thus enable you remove unnecessary stored fat (like grapefruit)
- foods that enable you stay full and hence empower you to use up undesired body fat (like good fats and fiber rich food)
- And not only that foods that improve the metabolism (like chilies).

In general, these fat burning foods are natural herbs nutrients. Long story short, dairy products may be deemed as fat burners too.

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in point of fact, negative calorie foods are foods that call for more calories to assimilate than the nutritional value they enclose. By eating these fat burning foods you genuinely lose more calories then you gain thus burning fat.

What About Calories?

A number of sources of protein are too high in calories and fat to be on the list of nutrients that can be ingested in almost any quantity. For the reason that protein is more rough to digest, the body burns more calories arranging just that.

As far as snacks are interested, it's too easy now to collect snacks that are high in calories, fats and sugar without giving it a second thought. They have almost no calories and they fill you up.

On the other hand, coffee and the new, common energy drinks will help disolve the fat by burning more calories. The fat burning secret to losing weight is to eat and drink until you are filled and satisfied, opting for foods that burn more calories than you take in. As an advice, steer clear of fast food restaurants, and avoid eating junk nutrients that render you fat calories.

Fat burners are one of the latest trendy and excellent tools used by both bodybuilders and dieters who wish to supercharge their metabolism and eliminate excess calories throughout the day. You should make use of them likewise.

Metabolism And Foods That Burn Fat

In line with the New York Daily News, certain foods can raise your metabolism, which monitors the body's capability to burn fat.

In this section I'll tell you about how numerous nutrients can impact the speed of your metabolism and how fat burning foods play into this scheme of things.

Practically all lean meats facilitate to accelerate the metabolism and burn more fat just because they demand so much energy for full digestion. What is more, protein piles lean muscle which amplifies your metabolism as well.

Fat burners do this in various ways, but largely by boosting your metabolism. To illustrate, whole grain nutrients allow keep your metabolism high. And what's best is that the metabolism boost persists for hours after eating.

Are They Really Natural?

Genuine fat burning foods make the body work stronger in order to process them. Natural chemicals in apples control fat absorption and help you get rid of superfluous body fat.

Natural weight loss will develop if you start integrating foods that burn fat into your diet. For that matter, they are all-natural, low in calories, and with a high nutrient worth, and that's why they are an wonderful option for fat burning foods.

Just to present you a realistic example, a unique naturally occurring ingredient in whole milk, conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA, is likewise known to minimize abdominal fat.

And more, coffee is a natural diuretic, so beat the bloat.

Do you happen to see more lucidly how the natural ingredients of these foods can be very valuable for you?

Then go for them!

Conclusion

Fat burning foods are rich in fiber and protein and are poor in fat. They are in profusive supply and cheap. When you compile the nutrients present in this article, they already form a stable starting point for a fat burning diet.

In conclusion, since they are not processed, changed, coloured or 're-created' in any manner, they are a natural way to shrink the fat tissue in your body.

Fat Burning Foods for Weight Loss



A size zero figure, a fit transition into your middle ages and a lean mom are the three most coveted spots in a woman's life. More so now, with the advent of numerous lifestyle changes that demand and glorify a certain type of physique. And even if we do leave aside the glamour aspect of a fitter you, we also see and read and know that many major health issues arise from excessive weight and lack of exercise. To combat health problems too, a more regulated diet and exercising becomes imperative!

Every day a new diet plan and a new novel idea for losing weight floods the internet and people start working on it as soon as possible. But more often than not, these diets and food charts bomb. Reason is simple enough- you cannot lose weight by taking away essential nutrients from your body. The positive effects of doing so are largely outnumbered by the negative effects of the same. Therefore fat burning foods are the most plausible and effective way to cut down on your calories.

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For those still in oblivion of this incredibly simple way to lose weight, let me give you a simple explanation. Three types of techniques cone under this. One would be where some foods are difficult to digest. In the sense that they require your body to give up more calories to digest them than they themselves provide. Scientifically putting it, I would say that the input is more than the output and so, you end up losing calories than gaining them by eating. Now let us move onto the second technique which is also very simple to comprehend. The metabolic system of your body is the one that bears the hefty task of burning those calories. So if by any means or methods you could speed it up then you would be burning more calories in lesser time.

This is where fat burning foods come in. This category of foods helps speed up the metabolic system and result in weight loss. The third way is quite the opposite of the first. The body requires time to detox and flush out fat excess fat. And because the stomach is always involved in some process of digestion of new intake the detox gets delayed. The simple solution to this problem is eating foods that take very less time to digest and therefore create the necessary time for your body to digest the stored intake.

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Some of the most common fat burning foods are eggs, skim milk, jalapeno, green tea, beans and many more. Eggs have high protein content so it takes your body a lot of effort to digest them. They also provide an impetus to your metabolic system and because they contain B12 they also help burn fat cells. Jalapenos on the other hand can really speed up your metabolism, sometimes even up to 25%. Skimmed milk helps lose excess weight due to its high calcium content. It also keeps the levels of insulin in your body low thereby help to prevent storage of fat in your body.

Be it spinach, raw mangoes or raw bananas, or tuna or salmon- there are many natural foods that provide you with necessary nutrients and at the same time give you a regulated diet by counting down on excesses.

Effective Herbal Cure for Obesity, Weight Loss Natural Remedies



Excess body weight, else known as obesity is a common health disorder found among people of all age groups. Causes contributing for obesity vary from one person to another. Both physical as well as psychological causes play equally important roles in forming over body weight problems. Common causes reported for the formation of obesity include improper diet schedule, high stress, heredity and occurrence of diseases like hyperthyroidism. Nowadays, you can get lots of herbal supplements from market in the form of capsules and extracts. If you are in search of best product, it is advised to choose one made out of herbal ingredients.Following healthy lifestyle is the best recommended remedial measure for curing obesity problems. Avoiding smoking and intake of alcohol helps to a great extend in reducing health disorders. In order to minimize fat depositions, it is advised to limit or avoid the intake of junk and oily foods.

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Cabbage juice is one among the safe herbal cures for treating obesity problems. Those people suffering from over bodyweight are advised to include a good amount of cabbage in their diet schedule. It improves digestion and acts as perfect cure for solving stomach upsets like ulcers. Apart from controlling obesity, including cabbage juice in diet schedule also helps in curing headache, treating gastritis and preventing bronchitis troubles. Obese people are advised to include about 50 to 100 ml of cabbage juice in their daily diet schedule. This natural cure controls body weight without inducing any adverse action on user. Green tea is another effective herbal cure for obesity problems. Drinking this health supplement improves the overall health and wellbeing of person. It reduces LDL cholesterol level and enhances cardiac function safely. Apart from curing obesity, regular drinking of green tea delays aging impact and minimizes the risk of health disorders.

Ayurvedic Home Remedies For Weight Loss

Aloe vera juice, one among the common ingredients in ayurvedic weight loss remedies, is an excellent herbal cure for treating obesity. As per studies, this herbal cure is found to be as a safe remedy for treating intestinal worms. Anti-inflammatory property enriched in aloe vera juice heals wounds and prevents the risk of intestinal disorders like ulcers. Similar to aloe vera gel, apple cider vinegar is another herbal cure for treating obesity. For attaining satisfactory result, it is advised to drink apple cider vinegar before meals. Regular intake of apple cider vinegar improves metabolism and reduces fat accumulation in body.Apple cider vinegar, enriched with organic acids, nutrients and enzymes acts as a perfect home remedy for over weight problems.


You can easily prepare a healthy weight loss drink by adding apple cider vinegar, chamomile tea, honey and cinnamon powder. It lowers LDL cholesterol level and maintains body weight under control. Including apple cider vinegar in diet also helps in providing other health benefits like curing hemorrhoids, reducing high blood pressure and lowering LDL cholesterol level. Licorice root extract, one among the best used herbal ingredients in ayurvedic medicines is a best recommended herbal cures for obesity. In order to achieve optimum result, those people suffering from obesity are advised to drink licorice tea twice per day. It improves the functioning of adrenal glands and maintains normal blood sugar level naturally. Guggul, triphala and garcinia cambogia are other widely prescribed weight loss natural remedies.

Eating Strawberries will help you Lose Weight




Many people love the taste of strawberries and cream and sometimes feel guilty after eating them but did you know that dieticians now recommend strawberries as part of a diet to lose weight.

This is supported by the well known fact, that strawberries are naturally sweet, low in calories, and an excellent source of vitamin C. Also, strawberries are free of saturated fats, cholesterol, and sodium. Now how good is that! You'll get no arguments from me to go on a diet this good.

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It's also easy to see why strawberries are recommended as one of as one of the fruits to eat as part of your daily diet, apart from the fact that strawberries are a great treat, they are also very good for you, because it's a fact that they are high in antioxidants that help the body fight off disease.

So, if you've decided to eat healthy food and lose some weight on the way, choose the easy path and make sure you grow a good crop of strawberries.

It goes without saying that we often eat this delicious fruit in all manner of ways, in salads, desserts, with ice-cream, etc; but to really enjoy the healthy benefits strawberries have to offer, eat them raw within 4 days of harvesting. Seven or eight medium strawberries will add up to about 45 calories, this is offset by the fact that they give you a host of other benefits not mentioned yet, like potassium ,this helps regulate electrolytes in your body, also B2, B5, B6 Magnesium, copper, Oh! Did I mention omega fatty acids? I'm hooked.

Strawberries are already one of the most delicious and popular fruits eaten today and are a very easy fruit to grow, they can often be found growing in the wild. These are usually smaller than the ones cultivated, and the taste is a lot more intense.

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Naturally the best strawberries are the ones you pick yourself from your own backyard and eat while they are fresh. An alternative is to visit a strawberry farm if you live near one. Obviously you will be limited as to what variety they grow, but hey! they all taste good to me, with few exceptions.

Strawberries are one of the most popular fruits and can be found in thousands of backyards throughout the country. You have no garden? Not a problem; strawberries can be successfully grown on a balcony, or find a sunny spot on a patio. They thrive in containers and hanging baskets with a minimum of fuss. With lots of varieties to choose from you will find a flavor size and texture to suit the most demanding of taste buds. April through to July is when they are flourishing with abundant fruit.

They are so good for you that maybe you want to eat them throughout the year? Thanks to the efforts of modern day technology, that is now a reality. Look into hydroponic gardening where great results can be achieved or alternatively a heated greenhouse would supply you all year round with strawberries, along with other out of season treats.

If you have an abundance of fruit you might want to think about freezing them for later use. First you need to select strawberries that have fully ripened; once you have picked them they will not ripen any further. Look through them and discard any that are bruised or damaged and choose only the firm bright red ones with a green cap. Do not wash them but place a layer of fruit on a paper towel for two to three days before placing them on a biscuit tray, one layer at a time. Freeze before moving them into an airtight container, should be good for a couple of months though they will be much softer after thawing. Imports can be seen on the supermarket shelves throughout the year, but strawberries are a poor traveler, so be wary.

So what are you waiting for, this is a super diet, get stuck in.

Do You Feel Out Of Breath Walking Up Stairs?


Do You Feel Out Of Breath Walking Up Stairs?


Walking up stairs is a physical activity that you do against gravity. Your body really does some work and you need enough of oxygen to meet the requirements of the cells. Naturally your breathing rates increases. So you breathe rapidly and experience a little out of breath. This is admissible if you really climb up stairs more than 4 or 5 storeys. But what if you feel out of breathe walking up stairs of two or three storey building? There is something you need to pay attention to. So what could be the cause of out of breath walking up stairs?

Suffering from deprivation of breathing while you do small amount of physical work is not a good symptom. You may be internally suffering from some problem which requires immediate attention. Sometimes some internal problems don't show any symptom till it becomes severe. For instance the growth of cholesterol on the inner lining of walls of arteries doesn't show any symptoms till it is in a state to rupture the arteries or blood vessels. But they show some symptoms which we hardly notice like out of breathing on doing little amount of physical work.

The other causes of out of breathing walking up the stairs can be loss of stamina due to smoking, asthma, respiratory ailments, cardiovascular diseases and lung diseases. Besides these your weight can also be a reason of breathing problems.

Watch out if you are overweight? If you are suffering from obesity, your weight could be the cause of out of breath walking up stairs. Too much fat in the body produce cholesterol which blocks the lining or arteries that reduce the oxygenated blood flow to body tissues. As a result the person tries to breathe too heavily to meet the oxygen deficiency. It is very important to keep your weight in control.

If you are overweight you must start a diet plan for weight loss and do regular exercise. Your diet for weight loss should be planned and properly implemented. You must leave high carbohydrate foods, dairy products which include too much of fat, junk foods and taking of cold drinks or beverages responsible for weight gain. Instead of chewing chips or French fries you must chew fruit salads or vegetable salads as snack items. Drink fresh juices and exercise regularly to loss your weight naturally.

Chiropractic Care for Weight Loss



Obesity is a rising concern in most parts of the world and has become one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality. A lot of people are now becoming more concerned in adopting healthy weight loss strategies but almost 60 to 65% encounter difficulties in losing significant amount of weight due to a variety of issues like lack of compliance, failure of practical and functional weight loss strategies, high intake of processed foods, and unhealthy cravings and inability to resist cravings.

 Research suggests that use of complementary medicine is helpful in achieving fruitful results in a short time by maintaining compliance and emotional stability that is helpful in healthy weight loss.

 Weight gain is a problem due to hormonal, immunological, physiological and medical irregularities that affect the quality of life. Because of obesity, people develop changes in the production and serum concentration of different hormones, leading to changes in the reproductive cycle (production of androgens in adipose tissue), changes in the metabolism and serum sugar concentration (due to insulin resistance) and excessive wear and tear changes in the joints and bones due to degenerative changes. Other medical issues like hypertension, stroke, cardiac illness and psychiatric issues are also common in obese population. According to reports of Center for Disease Control, approximately 65% of the entire U.S. population is over-weight or obese.

 Chiropractic therapy may play significant role in stabilizing the joints and bones to promote healthy weight loss. Exercise and physical activity is one of the most important pillars of a weight loss strategy, however, the nature and intensity of physical activity is different for weight loss, weight maintenance and fitness. Chiropractic practitioners educate individuals regarding optimal posture and exercises that stabilize emotional clarity and reduce pain, swelling, inflammation and stress.  Some practical and helpful chiropractic therapies that may help in healthy weight loss are spinal manipulation, acupuncture, and massage.

 A study conducted by PM Barnes suggests that chiropractic medicine and alternative therapies are more useful in achieving healthy weight loss goals. The lack of compliance is mainly due to an inability to resist cravings. Research indicates that depression, psychiatric illness, improper neuronal connectivity and blockage of impulse conduction are the leading causes of emotional instability that may result in weight gain. Spinal manipulation helps in restoration of normal impulse conduction by the realignment of spinal vertebrae. Gary Elkins suggests that complementary and alternative medicine can manage health problems ranging from depression to weight loss (in independent cases as well as cases in which the two factors hold cause-effect relationship).
 Gut motility disorders constitute another important element of obesity due to intake of improper diet, gut inflammation, release of stress hormones and impaired metabolism. The intake of a poor quality processed diet further aggravates the inflammation and gut motility. A research report published in the scientific journal The American Journal of Gastroenterology indicates that over 40% of Americans utilize complementary medicine to manage motility disorders that help in managing the symptoms of irritable gut or hyper/ hypo mobile gut. With a healthy gut, the digestion, assimilation and metabolism improves significantly that may aid in weight loss.

 Mehmet Tuǧrul Cabıoǧlu conducted a study on an obese population of 55 females and observed that acupuncture therapy significantly helps in weight loss more than dietary restriction or nutritional modification. The study group underwent acupuncture therapy on the ear, spinal vertebral regions  and dermatomes (LI 4, LI 11, St 25, St 36, St 44) and the stomach for 30 minute sessions each day for a period of 20 days. After the completion of the test period, researchers reported improvements in total body cholesterol, lipid concentration and overall body weight.
 In another study published in International Journal of Neuroscience, the author suggests that acupuncture therapy helps in suppressing appetite, increasing gastrointestinal motility, enhancing basal metabolic rate and improvement in the emotional stability that helps in achieving weight loss.

 Massage therapy act as an adjuvant to the physical exercises and maneuvers that helps in soothing the aching tissues and muscles. In addition massage therapy helps in the elimination of toxins and chemicals that are produced as a result of fat mobilization (since adipose tissue stores the drug metabolites, chemicals and toxins that are produced or ingested by the human body).

 It is extremely important to seek assistance from a registered chiropractic practitioner in order to minimize the risk of complications and in order to achieve early results.

 Other helpful strategies advised by chiropractic practitioners to optimize weight loss strategies include Graston Therapies, ultrasound mediated stimulation of metabolism, electrical stimulation, kinesiotaping, Active Release Techniques, physiotherapy exercises, yoga, meditation, hypnosis, and biofeedback.

Celebrity Weight Loss Patch


Celebrity Weight Loss Patch

If you have tried various means to lose weight and none is working for you or you need an effective method to lose weight, then celebrity weight loss patch may just be right for you. Weight loss patch is not like the use of dieting or exercises to lose weight; rather the patch is integrated into your existing day to day activities and style of life. This is so because you will not be restricted from enjoying your preferred foods which make up of your diet neither would you visit the gym center to spend hours lifting weights. Read on the review to discover if it does work or not.

The use of celebrity weight loss patch may just be the easiest and less stressful means to shed excess body fat, and lose weight in a natural manner as well as in a short period. SlimWeight patch is one of the best celebrity weight loss patches you can currently find in the market.

The way it works is this: you will have to put on the patch straight on your skin. Once this is done, it will discharge its potent mixture of natural substances which can easily be taken up by your blood stream. You will need to bind each of the patches onto a small region of your skin for a full day. When the day must have been exhausted you will need to peel it out and re-attach another one for a consecutive day. The weight loss patch does not hurt on the skin both during its application and removal.

Further on the review, the length of days which you need to continue to use the weight loss is based on the quantity of weight you want to lose. Some weight loss merchants offer you a dosage recommendation chart. It is made to last throughout the day regardless of whether you are taking your bath, swimming, building up sweat or even engaging in a rigorous routine when you attach it to a small region of your skin which is dry and hairless. Till you decide to take it out, it will remain active all through giving your system the steady flow of ingredients it requires to attain your weight loss potential.

A celebrity weight loss patch like SlimWeight patch is free from any side effects. You will get a faster result from the use of weight loss patch when you team it up with exercises. Simple exercises like walking, jogging, biking, or skipping can help you to get the most out of your weight loss target whilst also using weight loss patch.