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Yup, I’m fat, and I’ve been fat for awhile. But now it’s time to regroup and get healthy again. I gained 32 pounds on “The Post-Divorce; Eat When You’re Sad or Angry Diet”. Some of you may know of it.
But lucky for me I have discovered, along with millions of others, the amazing pure acai berry, and I’m so happy. And I am losing weight and feeling healthy.
The pure acai berry comes in a variety of forms; pills, capsules, and very delicious juice which tastes like chocolate and berries. I take the acai berry pure in the capsule form because that fits my lifestyle. I always have it with me. When I take it I get the feeling of being comfortably full and don’t go for that second helping.
This super berry grows in the lush jungles of the Amazon Rainforest and is loaded with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. The pure acai berry is dark purple; only the size of a grape but with ten times the amount of antioxidants as a grape. And twice the amount found in blueberries!
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You know that being pregnant is every woman’s dream. Pregnancy is a time where you have to be careful with yourself. Many factors affect the development of a fetus into a healthy child.
Whether you like it or not there are pregnancy risks that you have to aware of. Just check on this list. Are you familiar with it? If so, try to avoid it!
Don’t drink alcohol! You going to jeopardise your baby’s development. If you don’t want to have low birth weight baby, and having medical problems, better stop drinking once you know that you are pregnant.
Don’t smoke! Chemical inhaled while smoking may cause premature birth, miscarriage, bleeding, etc. Also it reduced the amount of oxygen that baby receives. What ever you are, don’t smoke and avoid second hand smoke.
Don’t drink coffee. Caffeine in the coffee has been shown to affect fetal heart rates. Caffeine can also increase risk of stretch marks. If you can’t stop immediately, try to stop gradually.
Don’t do too much exercise! No doubt if moderate exercise is helpful for mother’s mental state and can increase oxygen flow to the fetus. However, too much exercise can be dangerous. Better you do activities like walking, swimming, and yoga.
Don’t get near to chemicals substance! Be careful with unnatural chemicals, such as pesticides. If you consume vegetables or fruits, don’t forget to wash them. Or remove the outer surface of vegetables or fruit so pesticides which rest on the outside of the vegetable or fruit will be thrown away.
Don’t consume drugs or herbal remedies that are not prescribed by doctors. What you consume might affect your unborn baby.
Don’t forget to eat nutritious foods. Good nutrition is crucial to a developing child. At least you consume 400-1000 micrograms of B vitamin (folic acid) which can be taken from leafy vegetables, orange juice, and beans.
Don’t have multiple sex partners which may lead to birth and pregnancy complications cause by STD’s risk. Once you infected by STD, you may have premature baby or low birth baby.
Preventing is better than curing. If you can prevent yourself by not doing those kinds of activities, hopefully you going to have a healthy and normal baby. Try to acknowledge this on your first month of pregnant. Read more information on avoiding pregnancy at
Website http://www.stage-of-pregnancy.info and http://www.earlysign-of-pregnancy.info
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These Websites provide information on pregnancy, and how you deal with stress during this delicate time. There are tips, information and way you handle stress during pregnancy.
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The low-fat, low-calorie diet has been heavily hyped for the last 25 years and continues to fail to produce lasting results for almost anyone who has tried it. But why does it fail so miserably?
There are two inherent shortcomings in the popular low fat, low calorie diet strategy. The first is physical. The diet is predicated on the theory that reducing calories will translate into a corresponding weight loss. How many times have you read that if you would just reduce your caloric intake by 3,500 a week, you could lose a pound a week? Does it work? It will work for just about everyone for a short period but the human body is just too intelligent for this easy plan to work for long.
[Before we go further let me more clearly define what this article is referring to as low-fat; low calorie diets. These are diets that keep fat intake to no more than 15% to 20% of total caloric budget and total daily calories at 1,200 or less.]
Think about this: the body wants to preserve life at all costs. Pretty neat when you think about it – a built in regulating system designed to look after your best interests. However, while that built in system was invaluable for preserving the human species during extended periods of famine, it can work against us now living in modern society.
Food is plentiful here in the US. The vast majority of us never worry about having enough to eat. Life is good! But when you are trying to lose weight you may occasionally overeat (or more likely just eat the wrong foods on the wrong cycle), the self-preservation factor just turns into a fat preservation factor. The less you eat, the lower your body sets it’s metabolic furnace. Thus if you indulge, what the body now considers excess calories turns into fat. Ugh!
Interestingly, there has never been any conclusive proof that there is any direct correlation between the number of calories you cut and the amount of weight you lose. If it existed, the results of a study conducted at a major Canadian university would not have occurred. In a groundbreaking study, twelve sets of male twins were overfed 1000 calories a day for 84 days. If the direct correlation between weight and calories existed, the extra 84,000 calories should have caused all the men to gain 24 pounds. That didn’t happen. Some gained as little as 9.5 lbs and others as much as 29.0 lbs. Why the enormous difference? Metabolism! The one element that did show to affect the results was whether the men were fat burners or fat storers when beginning the study.
Think about the vicious cycle you start when you go on a low calorie diet. The less you eat, the less your body needs to get by (notice I didn’t say feel great) so you either stall out eventually, or you give up.
This brings me to the second shortcoming. Low calorie diets are hard psychologically! It’s darn hard to continually give up all the foods you love. No more potato chips, no French fries, no doughnuts or whatever your particular comfort food is. WOW that’s hard. This alone makes diet of this type nearly impossible to stick with over an extended period of time.
Finally, the guidelines I’ve read for most of these diets shows them to get only 10% – 15% of the total calories from protein. That’s to keep the diet in compliance with the FDA minimum recommendations for protein. You read that correctly. MINIMUMS. This is the least amount you need to keep going. It’s not what you need to grow or retain muscle. In other words, it’s just enough to prevent sickness or death. I don’t know about you but I want more than just enough to physically get by. I want enough to grow or at least preserve my muscle mass. I want enough to retain youthful skin and thick hair as I age.
The other problem limiting protein and fat on a low calorie diet causes is to have you turn to carbohydrates for the vast majority of our daily food intake. Excessive carbohydrate intake can cause your system work harder to control blood sugar levels by producing unnaturally high levels of insulin. Insulin is a fat storing hormone. Compound this problem with the likelihood that those carbohydrates are refined, the sugar spikes will go higher, faster and more and more insulin is produced to control it.
So when you subject yourself to a very low calorie diet, your metabolism slows, your muscle mass declines and you never get to have another piece of cake. Why low calorie diets are doomed to fail you seems obvious doesn’t it?
Is there any alternative? Yes. There have been a number of studies completed showing that an anabolic cycling of calories can produce weight loss. Because the amount of calories increases as well as decreases in a cycle, the body’s metabolism is kept from lowering its set point. These same studies also show that when the participant increased the caloric intake, their bodies tended to put any weight gain on as lean mass. Try coupling this eating plan with an exercise program including weight lifting and the results can be phenomenal.
Watching the Olympic Games can do a lot for a nation: instill a sense of pride and provide inspiration for the overweight to do some exercise. But for many employers the three-week long event can also mean a distracted workforce, decreased productivity and disgruntled managers as staff find ways to catch their favorite events.
And if Sydney made us late for work and Athens made us rush home early, Beijing 2008 which kicks off next Friday threatens to distract us during prime working hours, with many of the main events beginning around lunchtime.
With millions expected to keep updated through live internet streaming, blogs and mobile messaging, companies should expect a dip in productivity, according to economic think tank the Center for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).
“During any major sporting event people work less productively,” said Arek Ohanissian, economist at the CEBR. “Excessive absenteeism and a lack of engagement could be a problem, particularly as the Olympics will be going on during office hours.
“We estimate that the Olympics could cost Britain up to £600,000 in lost productivity.”
It’s not all bad news. The British propensity to celebrate sporting events with fatty food and vast quantities of lager may give the economy a helping hand. “People spend more during big sporting events – the World Cup added around £1bn to the economy,” said Ohanissian.
Technology experts predict that Beijing will have the most live coverage of any Olympic Games with more ways of keeping abreast of the greco-roman wrestling than ever before, but that may be a positive thing for employers, said Heather Hancock, managing partner for innovation and brand at Deloitte.
“We are going to see much more digital consumption of these Olympics, with people using PDAs and mobiles to get their Olympic updates,” she said. “The way we consume news has changed and what we are likely to see is employees getting a quick sporting fix in bite-sized chunks and then getting on with their work.”
Hancock says Deloitte is not expecting the timing of Olympic events to cause disruption. Like many companies, the organization is encouraging staff to get involved by asking employees on holiday at the Olympics to blog for the company’s intranet and following the progress of athletes sponsored by the company.
“We want people to connect with what is happening on the other side of the world. If we lose employees attention for the 10 seconds of the 100m, I don’t think we have to be too worried,” she said.
Still, companies need to have a clear policy when it comes to Olympic skiing, said Steve Williams, head of equality and diversity at Acas, the industrial disputes mediator. “Organizations need to be aware that this type of event generates a huge amount of interest and they need to be flexible but firm.
“There is no need to be a spoilsport, but staff may need to be reminded that they still have contractual requirements and if they are switching off, it may be their colleagues who have to shoulder the burden.”
Not everyone will be watching the Olympics, either at work or on the sofa. Beijing is perhaps the only games in recent history where not watching a masterful clean and jerk by a Greek weight lifter could be considered a political act. Hundreds of groups have sprung up on social networking site Facebook, urging people to switch off their televisions in protest of China’s human rights record with groups like Boycott the Beijing Olympics attracting more than 18,000 members.
But in many pockets of the country excitement about the forthcoming games is palpable. Not least in Liverpool’s Chinatown, where the community is planning a cocktail competition to mark the opening ceremony and sneaking televisions into kitchens throughout the city’s Chinese quarter, said community representative Alan Seatwo.
“The Chinese community is extremely excited about the Olympics. There has been a lot of bad press but this really is the first chance for our mother country to show the world what it can do.”
How Long Will It Take To Lose Weight?
Imagine how nice it would be to know how long it might take to be “swimsuit” ready. You’d know when to start getting cut for the summer and roughly how long it might take.
Imagine how nice it would be to know how long it might take to be “swimsuit” ready. You’d know when to start getting cut for the summer and roughly how long it might take.
How many people ask…
How long will it take me to lose weight?
By using some information in your body composition, it’s easy to tell how long does it take to lose weight.
Just a few steps can take you from a body fat percentage to the number of weeks it’s going to take you to reach your goals.
You might know how to burn the fat, but do you know how long will it take me to lose weight? Let’s find out right now.
Keep in mind that your body is made up of lean body mass and fat. If you know you are 40% body fat, the conclusion would be the other 60% is lean body mass (muscle and bone).
If you know the correct description of weight loss then you’ll know it’s the reduction of body fat while maintaining or gaining muscle mass.
Let’s use a short term and realistic goal of a 5% reduction in body fat for these examples. A few simple calculations and we can translate this goal into pounds and how long it’s going to take to achieve your goal.
Calculate How Much Does Your Fat Weigh:
(Example Client is male, 220 pounds, 40% body fat)
Step 1: Determine the Fat Weight
Body Weight x Body Fat Percentage (220 x 40% = 88)
In our example, this person is carrying 88 pounds of fat.
Step 2: Determine the Lean Body Mass
Body Weight – Fat Weight (220 – 88 = 132)
132 pounds are from lean body mass in our example.
Now here comes the fun part finding your ideal weight with that 5% reduction in overall body fat.
Calculate Your Goal Weight:
Step 1: Your Goal Weight
Lean Body Mass / (1.00 minus Body Fat Percentage Goal)
In our example, the person carries 132 pounds of lean body mass. The body fat percentage goal is 35% (5% body fat reduction).
132 / (1.00 – .35) = 132 / .65 = 203 pounds
Do you see it? 203 pounds is the goal weight for a person who’s 220 pounds at 40% body fat that wants to reduce their body fat by 5%.
Calculate How Long It Will Take to Burn the Fat:
Step 1: Current Weight – Goal Weight
That means 220 pounds – 203 pounds = 17 pounds body fat reduction.
Based on the accepted standard of one pound per week, this person is looking at about 17 weeks to go from 220 pounds at 40% body fat to 203 pounds at 35% body fat while maintaining their 132 pounds of lean body mass.
Remember, you want to burn the fat, but keep the muscle.
And now you know, it’s going to take 17 weeks to see the expected results. 5% is a short term, safe goal and at one pound a week, you’ll have a very high rate of muscle retention.
Not only do you know how to burn the fat thru nutrition and exercise, but unlike most people
It is hard to believe that there could be just one simple secret to being healthy. And yet, in The Science of Being Well Home Study Course, Wallace Wattles reveals just one of those secrets. You see, I have been researching the secrets of long health and I have found that Mr Wattles’ material is clear and simple.
Mr Wattles offers that you must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want; you cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself. You must have it before you can give it; and many people fail to impress Thinking Substance because they have themselves only a vague and misty concept of the things they want to do, to have, or to become.
It is not enough that you should have a general desire for health to have a good life; everybody has that desire.
Everybody has those desires also. If you were going to send a message to a friend, you would not send the letters of the alphabet in their order, and let him construct the message for himself; nor would you take words at random from the dictionary. You would send a coherent sentence; one which meant something. When you try to impress your wants, remember that it must be done by a coherent statement; you must know what you want, and be definite.
Go over your desires; see just what you want in your mind’s eye, and get a clear mental picture of it as you wish it to look when you get it. How will your body feel when you are lighter, when you don’t suffer from allergies anymore and all your aches and pains are gone?
That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind, as the sailor has in mind the port toward which he is sailing the ship; you must keep your face toward it all the time. You must no more lose sight of it than the steersman loses sight of the compass.
Spend as much of your leisure time as you can in contemplating your mental picture, and feeling in your body how you will feel when you have obtained what you desire. No one needs to take exercises to concentrate his mind on a thing which he really wants; it is the things you do not really care about which require effort to fix your attention upon them.
And unless you really want to get helathy, so that the desire is strong enough to hold your thoughts directed to the purpose as the magnetic pole holds the needle of the compass, it will hardly be worth while for you to try to carry out the instructions given here.
The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be; and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want.
Something more is necessary, however, than merely to seethe picture clearly. If that is all you do, you are only a dreamer, and will have little or no power for accomplishment. Behind your clear vision must be the purpose to realize it; to bring it out in tangible expression.
And behind this purpose must be an invincible and unwavering FAITH that the thing is already yours; that it is “at hand” and you have only to take possession of it.
Live in the new body, mentally, until it takes form around you physically. In the mental realm, enter at once into full enjoyment of the things you want. Do the things in your mind that you will be able to do when you are completely healthy.
See the things you want as if they were actually around you all the time; see yourself as owning and using them. Make use of them in imagination just as you will use them when they are your tangible possessions. Dwell upon your mental picture until it is clear and distinct, and then take the Mental Attitude of Ownership toward everything in that picture. Take possession of it, in mind, in the full faith that it is actually yours. Hold to this mental ownership; do not waiver for an instant in the faith that it is real.
Be as thankful for it all the time as you expect to be when it has taken form. The man who can sincerely thank God for the things which as yet he possesses only in imagination, has real faith. He will get well; he will cause the creation of whatsoever he wants.
You do not need to pray repeatedly for things you want; it is not necessary to tell God about it every day.
The whole matter turns on receiving, once you have clearly formed your vision. Think and speak of all the things you have asked for in terms of actual present ownership. Imagine an environment, and a health condition exactly as you want them, and live all the time in that imaginary environment and health condition. Mind, however, that you do not do this as a mere dreamer and castle builder; hold to the FAITH that the imaginary is being realized, and to the PURPOSE to realize it. Remember that it is faith and purpose in the use of the imagination which make the difference between the scientist and the dreamer. And having learned this fact, it is here that you must learn the proper use of the Will.
In the Science of Being Well Home Study Course, you will find many examples and stories to help you develop your own powers of healing using simply the power of your mind. This is not revolutionary. These secrets have been around for ages. To learn more, claim your FREE report of the First Secret to Abundant Health on www.thescienceofbeingwell.biz today!!
* From the desk of Dr Magne and author with Wallace D. Wattles, author of the Science of Being Well Home Study Course.
“How long should lunch receptions be?” This is a question that normally arises in every body’s mind while planning for a wedding reception. The wedding reception can be scheduled at any time of the day based upon the time of the wedding ceremony or individual convenience. Depending upon the budget and the preference one can decide on the reception they wish to have which may be a morning reception, mid-day reception, dinner reception or tea reception.
Other types of reception include buffet reception, stand-up reception. Lunch receptions are mostly preferred, when the marriage ceremony is planned in the morning. The guests can proceed for the reception soon after the wedding with no time to waste.
The lunch reception ceremonies can start at any time generally, past 10.30am and gets concluded maximum by 4.00pm. The normal duration of lunch receptions are four hours where as that of evening receptions are five hours. In general, no reception will take place for more than 51/2 hours. In a lunch reception’s menu, one can find only one kind of appetizer. Next to that the meals will be served. Following the meals desert and wedding cake are served. The arrangement for lunch reception ceremonies usually costs less than the receptions organized during other times of the day. Also in this time limit you should hand out your wedding reception favors.
A preferable schedule that can be followed by those who still wonder how long lunch receptions should be can be given as follows. By 12.00 pm, the lunch reception can be started and by 12.30 pm, the guest will arrive. Later by 1.15 pm, the lunch can be served. The time for toasts can be fixed as 2.00 pm. Then by 2.15 pm desserts can be served. From 2.30 pm onwards, time can be utilized for showing appreciation, chatting etc. By 3.00 pm, the ceremony can be concluded.
The schedule may need some alteration if there is more number of guests than average. It will consume more time even if it is a sit down meal or a buffet. The serving of the meals for a large crowd itself will take more time. Then extra time may need to be allocated for clearing the plates. And as the mass is big greeting them all and taking the pictures will also take more time. Extra time need to be fixed for the clearing up after all the guests have left the hall.
All cells in the body need water, oxygen, glucose and glutathione. The levels of glutathione in our cells could be predictive of how long we will live. For exhaustion and chronic fatigue sufferers reading this, the information that follows is vital to you!
What is glutathione? It is a tri-peptide, or a small protein composed of the amino acids cysteine, glycine and glutamate. Glutathione is made in every cell of the body and it must be made by the 3 amino acids, cysteine, glycine and glutamate. Your body is either replicating healthy cells and delaying the aging process or it is replicating unhealthy cells and speeding up the aging process. Every cell makes and recycles glutathione.The largest amount of glutathione in our bodies is found in the liver, lining of the lungs, kidney, heart and brain.
Why is glutathione important?
1. It is a major antioxidant produced by the cell. It is able to neutralize free radicals and recycle other antioxidants such as vitamins C & E. Glutathione actually helps your body more efficiently use the other antioxidants.
2. It is the body’s most effective detoxifier. It binds to undesirable toxins, pollutants, and cancer-causing chemicals, etc. and excretes them through the urine or gut.
3. It improves immune response
4. It helps regulate the cell’s vital functions, such as synthesis and repair of DNA.
5. It contributes to the production of red blood cells.
6. It helps in wound healing.
7. It helps build lean muscle mass.
8. It inhibits harmful viruses and bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract.
9. It increases one’s aerobic exercise capacity by up to 13%.
While glutathione is produced naturally in our bodies, glutathione levels decrease with age at the rate of 1% a year after age 20. In addition, levels of glutathione can be reduced by stress, exercise, infection, injury and environmental toxins. People who live to 100 years of age, will have glutathione levels similar to 30-50 year olds.
Reduced glutathione levels can result in lower energy, insomnia, cellular damage, inflammation, accelerated aging, and a weakened resistance to various diseases, including heart disease, cancer, arthritis and many other diseases. People with any defined disease have decreased glutathione levels compared with healthy individuals the same age. Low levels of glutathione are actually a marker for over 200 medical conditions. It could be said that low levels of glutathione equal cellular aging, disease, and death!
Glutathione helps to improve mental function, increases energy, improves concentration, permits increased exercise, and improves heart and lung function.
WHAT FOODS ARE HIGH IN GLUTATHIONE?
Avocado, watermelon, asparagus, walnuts, grapefruit, potato, acorn, squash, strawberries, orange, tomato, cantaloupe, broccoli.
Glutathione must be produced within the cell itself. Oral glutathione in pill form is not absorbed and will be eliminated by the liver before reaching the blood stream. Injectable glutathione is degraded by the time it gets to the cell and much of it cannot pass the cell membrane.
HOW CAN A PERSON INCREASE THEIR GLUTATHIONE LEVEL?
In addition to being able to get glutathione in some foods (as listed above), the best way to increase glutathione is through a glutathione precursor. Since glutathione is produced within the cell itself and cannot be easily absorbed into the cell, a person needs to consume a product that will enable the body to produce its own glutathione within the cells. This product would be considered to be a glutathione precursor.
A good glutathione precursor helps your body neutralize free radicals and build healthy cells. Your body replaces about 1% of your cells everyday. Your skin, body, organs, tissue are all constantly in a state of regeneration. Otherwise, your body cells are constantly dying and being regenerated. Thus, in about 3 months time, your cells and you, as a person, can make positive strides in getting healthier!
TO SUMMARIZE
The levels of glutathione in our cells are predictive of how long we will live. Few other factors are as predictive of our life expectancy as is glutathione. It may be referred to as the “master antioxidant” since it regulates the actions of lesser antioxidants including vitamin C and vitamin E in the body. It is the most important antioxidant to overall health.
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