Friday, December 3, 2010
Weight loss, kwon what your body need to lose the stored fat
Correct nutrition can help to reduce the risk of health-related problems, and good diets offer balanced nutrition that reduces cholesterol, blood pressure, and helps with weight control
Your meal should has
Carbohydrate (energy source): body uses carbohydrates to build glucose which can be used immediately for production of energy which is used ax example
for heat production to warm your body or stored as a glycogen in the liver or as a body fat.
Proteins: consists of 20 amino acids that build the body muscles, skin, even hair. Other function of the proteins is entering in production of hormones. Proteins exist in plants as well as animals. Like carbohydrates the excess of protein can be stored as fat.
Fat: the problem of the weight but it is required for your body, saturated fatty acids are harmful, but unsaturated fatty acids are not
Vitamins: the most important nutrient required for your health, as they protect you body against diseases as some of vitamins work as antioxidants.
Minerals: are used in different body processes. Ex. Chlorine enters in the composition of digestive juice produced by the stomach cells and glands.
After reviewing the nutrients required for your body, here some information not tips to help you to lose weight fast and by easy ways.
Beauty weight or healthy weight? Some want to lose weight to be like models because it gives a beautiful appearance that is a mistake, but your goal should be the healthy weight that matches your body type. Find the healthy weight that matches you, through a BMI calculator. Through calculation you put your self in narrow limits so that you can reach your goal easily.
Eat all but please drink water first: some think that to lose weight they should stop eating 99% of food that is a mistake.
You can eat all types of food but in limitation, with drinking more water since the water does not contain any type of calories. Drinking water before eating will reduce the amount of food you eat and well help in flush out toxins too.
Try to start your day with a cup of water that will reduce your breakfast and giving better chance to the stomach to produce the stomach juice.
Drink water instead of diet drinks is more useful, since the diet drinks contain more sugars
Eat water: yes you can eat water not drinking it through eating more tomatoes and watermelon.
Fresh fruits are more useful than fruit juices: juices often sweetened but fresh fruits contain natural sugars. Since the fruits contain a lot of fibers which are needed by the body and contain vitamins too.
Vegetables, be a fan: vegetables help you to lose weight fast and easy without starving yourself.
Vegetables contain more fibers not more sugars.
Try fresh vegetables instead of cooked so that you do not lose the vitamins of them.
6 meals instead of 3: small nutritious meals through out the day is more useful than 3 large meals, this lets your body know its going to get a regular regimen of calories so it does not have to store any fat.
Exercise your body without you know: burning fat need work or action by your body muscles.
Using stairs instead of elevators as you can.
You do not need marathon to lose weight 10 minutes a day is enough.
Swimming is one of the best exercises to lose weight and to fresh you body too.
Do you have a bike? So ride it for only 500 meters a day.
The night is dark to sleep:
Sleep at night only and take your required time, teens need 9-10 hours a day, adults need 8 hours a day, and you need exactly 6.5-7 hours per day, so you have a half-hour per day for good exercising.
Watch your weight as you watching Obama: when you lose 5 pound give yourself a rest for only one day and enjoy it without harming yourself.
nothing easy, nothing impossible but it’s a desire and a decision to reach the healthy weight.
Your meal should has
Carbohydrate (energy source): body uses carbohydrates to build glucose which can be used immediately for production of energy which is used ax example
for heat production to warm your body or stored as a glycogen in the liver or as a body fat.
Proteins: consists of 20 amino acids that build the body muscles, skin, even hair. Other function of the proteins is entering in production of hormones. Proteins exist in plants as well as animals. Like carbohydrates the excess of protein can be stored as fat.
Fat: the problem of the weight but it is required for your body, saturated fatty acids are harmful, but unsaturated fatty acids are not
Vitamins: the most important nutrient required for your health, as they protect you body against diseases as some of vitamins work as antioxidants.
Minerals: are used in different body processes. Ex. Chlorine enters in the composition of digestive juice produced by the stomach cells and glands.
After reviewing the nutrients required for your body, here some information not tips to help you to lose weight fast and by easy ways.
Beauty weight or healthy weight? Some want to lose weight to be like models because it gives a beautiful appearance that is a mistake, but your goal should be the healthy weight that matches your body type. Find the healthy weight that matches you, through a BMI calculator. Through calculation you put your self in narrow limits so that you can reach your goal easily.
Eat all but please drink water first: some think that to lose weight they should stop eating 99% of food that is a mistake.
You can eat all types of food but in limitation, with drinking more water since the water does not contain any type of calories. Drinking water before eating will reduce the amount of food you eat and well help in flush out toxins too.
Try to start your day with a cup of water that will reduce your breakfast and giving better chance to the stomach to produce the stomach juice.
Drink water instead of diet drinks is more useful, since the diet drinks contain more sugars
Eat water: yes you can eat water not drinking it through eating more tomatoes and watermelon.
Fresh fruits are more useful than fruit juices: juices often sweetened but fresh fruits contain natural sugars. Since the fruits contain a lot of fibers which are needed by the body and contain vitamins too.
Vegetables, be a fan: vegetables help you to lose weight fast and easy without starving yourself.
Vegetables contain more fibers not more sugars.
Try fresh vegetables instead of cooked so that you do not lose the vitamins of them.
6 meals instead of 3: small nutritious meals through out the day is more useful than 3 large meals, this lets your body know its going to get a regular regimen of calories so it does not have to store any fat.
Exercise your body without you know: burning fat need work or action by your body muscles.
Using stairs instead of elevators as you can.
You do not need marathon to lose weight 10 minutes a day is enough.
Swimming is one of the best exercises to lose weight and to fresh you body too.
Do you have a bike? So ride it for only 500 meters a day.
The night is dark to sleep:
Sleep at night only and take your required time, teens need 9-10 hours a day, adults need 8 hours a day, and you need exactly 6.5-7 hours per day, so you have a half-hour per day for good exercising.
Watch your weight as you watching Obama: when you lose 5 pound give yourself a rest for only one day and enjoy it without harming yourself.
nothing easy, nothing impossible but it’s a desire and a decision to reach the healthy weight.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Day 5, I wish it was always this easy
I wish I knew the secret of my success...on days like today.
There are days when I have the super willpower, where I feel like nothing can lead me astray. I love those days. They have been few and far between these past several weeks. For some unknown reason today has been one of my good days. It's after 11 p.m. and by my standards, I've been "perfect" today.
Vitamins ✓
Water ✓
Exercise (1.5 hours strenuous) ✓
Tracked my food online with eTools ✓
Stayed within my Point limit ✓
Could I have done a better job? Of course I could have, there's always room for improvement. Perhaps I shouldn't have had that cup of non-fat Reddi Wip on my yogurt and raspberries tonight. When I looked it up in eTools it said one cup is one Point. By the way, that's really how you spell it..."wip".
It felt decadent to have that fake whip cream squirted into a cup, then piled on top of my low-fat vanilla yogurt and frozen raspberries. It was a little taste of heaven. It made me feel like I could eat like this forever. It was as good or perhaps even better than real ice cream because I didn't feel guilty eating it.
I didn't make it to the gym this morning. Instead I left work at 3 p.m. and stopped at the gym on my way home. Normally, I don't enjoy evening workouts. Usually I'm tired. There's also the fact that the weight section where the largest selection of free weights are located is packed with only guys at night. Women stick with the machines, men usually stick with the free weights. I prefer free weights. I just pretend like I belong there and do my thing. Sometimes I feel sort of out of place, but I that doesn't stop me. I belong there just as much as they do.
For some reason tonight I felt really strong and did heavier weights than usual. I was even able to my tricep bench pushups without feeling like I was going to die.
The StairMaster has become my cardio of choice lately. After about a month vacation from it, I've been back on it all week. It's the only machine that I can't cheat on, and it keeps my heart rate consistently high.
Weight Watchers changed the Activity Points for stair climbing. I'm sure it use to be four Points for 30 minutes at 30 steps/minute (I do 67 steps/minute). Now it says 6 Points for 30 minutes. Sounds a little high to me. It's hard, but it's not that hard.
WHAT?
Participants have the choice of either running up the stairwell as a racer (timed, competitive) or walking as a climber (untimed). Two stairwells are used - both courses are 69 flights and end at the 73rd floor Observatory. Water is available at designated sites in each stairwell. If you feel you can not finish, you can exit at the water stop floors and take the elevator down.
WHO?
Anyone 8 years or older.
WHEN?
Sunday, March 20, 2011.
WHERE?
Columbia Center in downtown Seattle. Address is 701 Fifth Ave.
WHY?
To find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma and to improve the quality of life for patients and their families. Funds raised through the Big Climb go directly to support research, patient aid, patient services, education, and advocacy.
There are days when I have the super willpower, where I feel like nothing can lead me astray. I love those days. They have been few and far between these past several weeks. For some unknown reason today has been one of my good days. It's after 11 p.m. and by my standards, I've been "perfect" today.
Vitamins ✓
Water ✓
Exercise (1.5 hours strenuous) ✓
Tracked my food online with eTools ✓
Stayed within my Point limit ✓
Could I have done a better job? Of course I could have, there's always room for improvement. Perhaps I shouldn't have had that cup of non-fat Reddi Wip on my yogurt and raspberries tonight. When I looked it up in eTools it said one cup is one Point. By the way, that's really how you spell it..."wip".
It felt decadent to have that fake whip cream squirted into a cup, then piled on top of my low-fat vanilla yogurt and frozen raspberries. It was a little taste of heaven. It made me feel like I could eat like this forever. It was as good or perhaps even better than real ice cream because I didn't feel guilty eating it.
I didn't make it to the gym this morning. Instead I left work at 3 p.m. and stopped at the gym on my way home. Normally, I don't enjoy evening workouts. Usually I'm tired. There's also the fact that the weight section where the largest selection of free weights are located is packed with only guys at night. Women stick with the machines, men usually stick with the free weights. I prefer free weights. I just pretend like I belong there and do my thing. Sometimes I feel sort of out of place, but I that doesn't stop me. I belong there just as much as they do.
For some reason tonight I felt really strong and did heavier weights than usual. I was even able to my tricep bench pushups without feeling like I was going to die.
The StairMaster has become my cardio of choice lately. After about a month vacation from it, I've been back on it all week. It's the only machine that I can't cheat on, and it keeps my heart rate consistently high.
Weight Watchers changed the Activity Points for stair climbing. I'm sure it use to be four Points for 30 minutes at 30 steps/minute (I do 67 steps/minute). Now it says 6 Points for 30 minutes. Sounds a little high to me. It's hard, but it's not that hard.
I'm hoping to do the Big Climb in Seattle this March. It's only 69 flights. I usually do 110-140 flights on the StairMaster in 30 minutes. Real stairs are a lot harder than a stair climbing machine. Just like walking on a treadmill versus walking outside. The real thing is always harder. Grace, if you read this, are you interested? It would be really fun to do this with you. :)
I love the new "To do this week" feature on eTools. Each item is a link to something else and gives you more information on the task. I'm going to take a "before" photo before Saturday and add my measurements to eTools. I've never used the measurement feature so I'm kind of excited.
I'm also loving the new eTools. I love seeing all the nutrients of the food. Today one of my coworkers was talking about the Burger King Quad Stacker he had last week. Check this out (65 grams of FAT.... YUK!).
I'm working a half day tomorrow, off at noon. Woohoo! Also working from home, so it's a double woohoo! Oh, and it's Friday. Thank God! It's been the longest week ever.
ABOUT THE BIG CLIMB WHAT?
Participants have the choice of either running up the stairwell as a racer (timed, competitive) or walking as a climber (untimed). Two stairwells are used - both courses are 69 flights and end at the 73rd floor Observatory. Water is available at designated sites in each stairwell. If you feel you can not finish, you can exit at the water stop floors and take the elevator down.
WHO?
Anyone 8 years or older.
WHEN?
Sunday, March 20, 2011.
WHERE?
Columbia Center in downtown Seattle. Address is 701 Fifth Ave.
WHY?
To find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma and to improve the quality of life for patients and their families. Funds raised through the Big Climb go directly to support research, patient aid, patient services, education, and advocacy.
Diet-Heart Controlled Trials: a New Literature Review
Many controlled studies have measured the cardiovascular effects of replacing animal ("saturated") fats with seed oils (predominantly the omega-6 polyunsaturated fat linoleic acid) in humans. A number of these studies recorded heart attacks and total mortality during the following 1-8 years. Several investigators have done meta-analyses (literature reviews) to try to tease out overall conclusions from these studies.
I'm pleased to point out a new meta-analysis of these controlled trials by Dr. Christopher Ramsden and colleagues (1). This paper finally cleans up the mess that previous meta-analyses have made of the diet-heart literature. One recent paper in particular by Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian and colleagues concluded that overall, the controlled trials show that replacing animal fat with linoleic acid (LA)-rich seed oils reduces heart attack risk (2). I disagreed strongly with their conclusion because I felt their methods were faulty (3).
Dr. Ramsden and colleagues pointed out several fundamental flaws in the review paper by Dr. Mozaffarian and colleagues, as well as in the prevailing interpretation of these studies in the scientific literature in general. These overlap with the concerns that I voiced in my post (4):
What did they find?
The article also contains an excellent discussion of the Finnish mental hospital trial (5, 6) and why it was excluded from the meta-analysis, in which Dr. Ramsden and colleagues point out major design flaws, some of which I was not aware of. For example, trans fat intake was on average 13 times higher in the control groups than in the experimental groups. In addition, one of the control groups received more than twice as much of the antipsychotic drug thioridazine, which is known to be highly toxic to the heart, as any other group. Ouch. I'm glad to see this study finally discussed in an open and honest manner. I discussed my own problems with the Finnish trial in an earlier post (7).
I was also glad to see an open discussion of the Oslo Diet-heart study (8), in which diet changes led to a reduction in heart attack risk over five years. Dr. Mozaffarian and colleagues included it in their analysis as if it were a controlled trial in which animal fat was replaced by seed oils only. In reality, the investigators changed many variables at once, which I had also pointed out in my critique of Dr. Mozaffarian's meta-analysis (9). Here's what Dr. Ramsden and colleagues had to say about it:
One criticism I have of Dr. Ramsden's paper is that they used the Oslo trial in their analysis, despite the major limitation described above. However, they were extremely open about it and discussed the problem in detail. Furthermore, the overall result would have been essentially the same even if they had excluded the Oslo trial from the analysis.
Overall, the paper is an excellent addition to the literature, and I hope it will bring a new level of sophistication to the dialogue on dietary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In the meantime, brace yourselves for an avalanche of criticism from the seed oil brigade.
* Guidelines that determine which studies to include in the analysis. For example, you want to exclude any study that wasn't randomized, because it will not be interpretable from a statistical standpoint. You also want to exclude trials where major variables differ between groups besides the specific variable you're trying to test. The Finnish mental hospital trial fails by both criteria.
I'm pleased to point out a new meta-analysis of these controlled trials by Dr. Christopher Ramsden and colleagues (1). This paper finally cleans up the mess that previous meta-analyses have made of the diet-heart literature. One recent paper in particular by Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian and colleagues concluded that overall, the controlled trials show that replacing animal fat with linoleic acid (LA)-rich seed oils reduces heart attack risk (2). I disagreed strongly with their conclusion because I felt their methods were faulty (3).
Dr. Ramsden and colleagues pointed out several fundamental flaws in the review paper by Dr. Mozaffarian and colleagues, as well as in the prevailing interpretation of these studies in the scientific literature in general. These overlap with the concerns that I voiced in my post (4):
- Omission of unfavorable studies, including the Rose corn oil trial and the Sydney diet-heart trial.
- Inclusion of weak trials with major confounding variables, such as the Finnish mental hospital trial.
- Failure to distinguish between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids.
- Failure to acknowledge that seed oils often replaced large quantities of industrial trans fats in addition to animal fat in these trials.
What did they find?
- Interventions that replaced animal and trans fat with seed oils that were rich in LA but low in omega-3 caused a non-significant trend toward increased heart attacks (13% increase) and overall mortality.
- Interventions that replaced animal and trans fat with a combination of LA and omega-3 fats significantly reduced heart attacks (by 22%). The numbers for total mortality followed a similar trend.
...experimental diets replaced common ‘hard’ margarines, industrial shortenings and other sources of [trans fat] in all seven of the [controlled trials] included in the meta-analysis by Mozaffarian et al. The mean estimated [trans fat] content of the seven control diets was 3·0 [% of calories] (range 1·5–9·6 [%]).In other words, it looks like trans fat is probably the issue, not animal fat, but these trials replaced both simultaneously so we can't know for sure. I will note here that trans fat does not generally promote atherosclerosis (thickening and hardening of arteries) in animal models, so if it does truly increase heart attack risk as many studies suggest, it's probably through a mechanism that is independent of atherosclerosis.
...the displacement of [trans fat], rather than the substitution of mixed n-3/n-6 [polyunsaturated fat] for [saturated fat], may account for some or all of the 22% reduction in non-fatal [heart attacks and heart attack] death in our meta-analysis. By contrast, the increased [heart attack] risks from n-6 specific [polyunsaturated fat] diets in our meta-analysis may be underestimated as n-6 [polyunsaturated fat] also replaced substantial quantities of [trans fat] (Table 3). The consistent trends towards increased [heart attack] risk of n-6 specific [polyunsaturated fat] diets may have become significant if the n-6 [polyunsaturated fat] replaced only [saturated fat], instead of a combination of [saturated fat] and [trans fat].
The article also contains an excellent discussion of the Finnish mental hospital trial (5, 6) and why it was excluded from the meta-analysis, in which Dr. Ramsden and colleagues point out major design flaws, some of which I was not aware of. For example, trans fat intake was on average 13 times higher in the control groups than in the experimental groups. In addition, one of the control groups received more than twice as much of the antipsychotic drug thioridazine, which is known to be highly toxic to the heart, as any other group. Ouch. I'm glad to see this study finally discussed in an open and honest manner. I discussed my own problems with the Finnish trial in an earlier post (7).
I was also glad to see an open discussion of the Oslo Diet-heart study (8), in which diet changes led to a reduction in heart attack risk over five years. Dr. Mozaffarian and colleagues included it in their analysis as if it were a controlled trial in which animal fat was replaced by seed oils only. In reality, the investigators changed many variables at once, which I had also pointed out in my critique of Dr. Mozaffarian's meta-analysis (9). Here's what Dr. Ramsden and colleagues had to say about it:
First, experimental dieters were instructed to substitute fish, shellfish and ‘whale beef’ for meats and eggs, and were actually supplied with ‘considerable quantities of Norwegian sardines canned in cod liver oil, which proved to be popular as a bread spread’(32)... Second, the experimental group consumed massive amounts of soybean oil, which provided large quantities of both LA (15·6 en %) and ALA (2·7 en %). ALA consumption was about 4·5 times average US intake(42), or about twelve typical flax oil pills (1 g pill ¼ 560 mg ALA) per d. In addition, the fish and cod liver oil consumption provided Oslo (598N latitude) dieters with 610 IU (15·25 mg) of daily vitamin D3, recently linked to lower blood pressure, plaque stabilisation, and reduced [heart attack risk] (64). Furthermore, experimental dieters were encouraged to eat more nuts, fruits, and vegetables; to limit animal fats; and to restrict their intake of refined grains and sugar.trans fat intake was also reduced substantially by excluding margarine in the experimental group. Other review papers have used this trial as a justification to replace animal fat with seed oils. Hmm... The only reason they get away with this is because the trial was published in 1966 and almost no one today has actually read it.
One criticism I have of Dr. Ramsden's paper is that they used the Oslo trial in their analysis, despite the major limitation described above. However, they were extremely open about it and discussed the problem in detail. Furthermore, the overall result would have been essentially the same even if they had excluded the Oslo trial from the analysis.
Overall, the paper is an excellent addition to the literature, and I hope it will bring a new level of sophistication to the dialogue on dietary prevention of cardiovascular disease. In the meantime, brace yourselves for an avalanche of criticism from the seed oil brigade.
* Guidelines that determine which studies to include in the analysis. For example, you want to exclude any study that wasn't randomized, because it will not be interpretable from a statistical standpoint. You also want to exclude trials where major variables differ between groups besides the specific variable you're trying to test. The Finnish mental hospital trial fails by both criteria.
Can you really Lose Weight with Fruit Pills?
Lose an average of 28 pounds in 10 weeks.
A fruit pill can be a great slimming aid. According to a study in Nutrition Journal, subjects taking a fruit concentrate lost an average of 28 pounds in 10 weeks.
Fruit concentrates, like Nutrilite Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables
, are loaded with phytochemicals that significantly reduce metabolism-slowing inflammation.You would have to eat 10 to 20 servings of produce per day to get the same benefits. And even if you did eat that much fruit, you'd be ingesting so many calories, there would be little room for other foods that make up a well-rounded diet.
Still, keep aiming for five daily servings of real produce. This way, you'll get extra slimming and satiety-providing nutrients that pills lack, such as fiber.
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