September 29, 2007
Myths of Boosting Your Metabolism
Myth #1: Diet Pills
Myth #2: Drop Caloric Intake
Myth #3: Low Intensity Workouts
Myth #4: Too Much Focus
1. Diet Pills--The problem here is that many makers of diet pills offer claims that simply aren’t realistic; and if you read the fine-print of most of these advertisements, you’ll see that they really are too good to be true. Little notes like the claims made in this advertisement are not typical and should be enough of a wake-up call to realize that there’s more to the story.
In some cases, diet pills can help boost metabolism temporarily. This, however, can be risky and generally should not be done without a doctor’s ok. Unfortunately, people can become somewhat addicted to diet pills, and this can lead to disaster.
2. Drop Your Caloric Intake--The thing to remember is that the body’s ability to lose weight is not controlled by calories. Calories are the input. The real control mechanism is that famous concept that you’ve become very familiar with: metabolism.
So with that being said, cutting down your caloric intake to, say, 1000 calories a day isn’t necessarily going to help you lose weight; because it doesn’t necessarily change your metabolism.
3. Low Intensity Workouts--It’s fair to say that any exercise is better than no exercise. So if you lead a sedentary lifestyle, then even walking around your block for 10 minutes a day is going to do something positive for your body and its metabolism.
Low intensity workouts simply don’t lead to a faster metabolism; they can’t. Remember, metabolism is a process.
If you don’t achieve a high-intensity workout, your body can’t tap into itself to achieve catabolism; it won’t need to.
4. Too Much Focus--Speeding up your metabolism and achieving your weight loss goals involves a certain degree of focus; after all, there are a lot of things competing for your attention (including those delicious desserts!), and you certainly need to be able to keep your eye on the goal in order to maintain your program.
Yet sometimes too much focus can be a bad thing; and some dieters understand this all too well. Remember: speeding up your metabolism is a holistic effort that includes exercise, lifestyle, and diet changes.
Focusing on only one of these at the expense of the others (either one or both) can be detrimental. In fact, in some cases, it can be counter-productive.
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Boosting Metabolism
August 25, 2007
Benefits Of A Vegetarian Diet To Diabetics
If your diabetes is left un-treated it can cause symptoms such as wounds taking longer to heal than they should. Longer implications are blindness and ultimately kidney failure. Your diet is one of the most important ways that you can control your diabetes, and a vegetarian lifestyle, with an emphasis on a low fat, high fiber and nutrient rich menu can be very complementary to your continued good health.
With more than 30 million people worldwide affected by diabetes, the vegetarian lifestyle could be a wonderful way to control their diabetes. One of the effects of this disease is that it inhibits the body from processing foods correctly. In a person without diabetes the body digests the food they take in and converts it glucose which is used by the body for energy.
The hormone insulin that is produced by the body then helps the glucose pass through to the cells. Diabetics cannot control the amount of glucose in their blood because their bodies do not convert the sugar in the foods they eat correctly or in the right proportion.
The insulin needed for this conversion process is either insufficient, ineffective or absent entirely. The result of this are a glucose build up in the bloodstream or a higher level of blood-sugar. This can lead to weakness, a loss of coordination and blurry vision. An incorrect balance can also lead to low blood sugar levels, which can lead to coma and death if not taken care of.
Although diabetes is incurable it can be controlled successfully through diet and exercise, oral medications, insulin injections or a combination of the above. Diabetics can’t just count calories.
They must calculate their total intake of carbohydrates. No less than half of their food intake must be complex carbohydrates.
Many diabetic vegetarians have discovered that, as a result of their meatless diet, they've had to use insulin injections less, which gives them a feeling of power and control over their disease.
Diabetics that have turned to the vegetarian lifestyle have discovered that as a result of a meatless diet, that are able to reduce their insulin injections.
This has given them a sense of control over this dreaded disease. So changing your diet to a meatless diet can help you with your diabetes as well as many other benefits of not eating meat.
ALWAYS consult your physician before making any drastic changes to your diet.
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Healthy and Fit
Paul Webb
3 Steps To Health and Fitness
One : Healthy Eating
Consider these things when you think of eating healthy. Perhaps the easiest to place to start is by understanding what your food is all about. Your focus should be to try to eat a diet that is balanced and nutritious.
The five food groups are grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy, and meat/meat alternatives. A balanced diet will contain something from each of these food groups every day.
Two: Exercise is important
A healthy lifestyle must include exercise. There are many different types of exercise that you can do, each of which is can be beneficial to your body in a different way.
There are many benefits to exercising, such as increased energy, weight loss, and even reducing the risk for certain diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease. Exercise is very important, especially given the sedentary lifestyle that most Americans tend to lead.
Three: Skin Care
The “miracle” products available to you today promise to keep you looking young and beautiful at any age. But how many of these products actually deliver what they promise?
Facial wrinkles happen as you age. The sun is a major factor in premature aging. The best defense against aging is protecting the skin from the sun. Eating a healthy and well-balanced diet can help ward off premature wrinkles, and there are certain foods that are particularly beneficial. For more on staying healthy and fit visit
July 29, 2007
Healthyand Fit
The following ten categories of health will make a huge improvement in your life. You will not only feel better physically, but you will also have that positive mental health that is so vital to your spirit. Visit Healthy and Fit
June 23, 2007
17 Foods That Heal
Imagine if you could just eat a food and...
Lower High Blood Pressure
Reduce High Cholesterol
Control Your Diabetes
Suppress Your Appetite
Prevent Blood Clots
Reduce Triglycerides
Lower Your Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
Ease The Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Relieve Migraine Headaches
Fight Inflammation
Regulate Your Immune System
Soothe Bronchial Asthma
Combat Early Kidney Disease, and more...
17 Foods That Heal
June 21, 2007
Dealing With Diabetes and Healthy Aging
we have to live in a greed-based world filled with confusion,
violence, media junk, and so on. Still, those with diabetes can
live healthy providing they adhere to diet, medications and exercise.
Diabetes is a serious condition. The disease is the mother of all
disease in the world and it is a killer.
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Vigorous Exercise Treats Diabetes
in preventing and controlling diabetes than exercising at a leisurely pace
(Journal of Applied Physiology, January 2006). That means that the
diabetic who exercises hard enough to sweat and raises his heart rate
above 80 percent of its maximum will be far less likely to suffer heart
attacks, strokes,blindness,deafness, kidney failure and all the other
terrible consequences of uncontrolled diabetes.
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Diabetes and Exercises
Be A Diabetic Warrior
June 20, 2007
Diabetes and Love-Handles
For example, Type 2 Diabetes, the fastest growing diagnosis in overweight people, happens. Because the body is demanding additional insulin, the pancreas simply can not keep up. The end result is that diabetes occurs because the body simply can not fix the situation.
The Risks Faced You may be thinking that you don’t likely have a problem. You just have some love handles that need to be removed. Yet, that’s a common mistake.
Find out why.
Diabetes and Lovehandles
June 10, 2007
Metabolism--Is it Anabolism or Catabolism or both?
Indeed, it’s not uncommon to overhear people talking about their struggles – or triumphs – over the holiday bulge or love handles in terms of whether their metabolism is working, or not.
Doctors, too, often refer to metabolism when they try and explain why starvation and water-loss diets aren’t scientifically of medically responsible; since, alas, they do not influence or take into account metabolism (there’s that word again!).
So, for all of the usage that this rather daunting and biologically-charged word enjoys in our world, you’d comfortably assume that people understand it, right?
Or, at least, they have some fundamental information when it comes to how to speed up their metabolism, right?
Wrong! To find out why visit
Boost Your Metabolism
Paul Webb
3 Changes To Eating Habits Will Reduce Lovehandles
Do you have to give up every single food that is bad for you? The short answer is NO! You should change your mind set from being that you are giving up on these foods that you love and instead rewarding yourself with them. Eating healthy well balanced meals is an essential part to losing weight, especially losing those love handles.
Your goal is to reduce body fat throughout your body, particularly your abdominal muscles. To do this, it will require a diet that is high in fruits and vegetables and one that is low in fats and sugars. There are several key areas to focus on here.
1. Protein
2. Vegetables
3. Carbohydrates
Read the full article for more.
How To Lose Your Love Handles.
Paul Webb
April 20, 2007
You really Are What You Eat
There is more to keeping fit than working out, as you already know. This article covers the basic aspects of eating healthy. After all you are what you eat.
Recent dietary research has uncovered 14 different nutrient-dense foods that time and again promote good overall health. Coined “superfoods,” they tend to have fewer calories, higher levels of vitamins and minerals, and many disease-fighting antioxidants.
Beans (legumes), berries (especially blueberries), broccoli, green tea, nuts (especially walnuts), oranges, pumpkin, salmon. soy, spinach, tomatoes, turkey, whole grains and oats, and yogurt can all help stop and even reverse diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and some forms of cancer.
And where one might have an effect on a certain part of the body, it can also affect the health of other body functions and performance, since the whole body is connected. With these 14 foods as the base of a balanced, solid diet, weight loss gimmicks and other fly-by-night programs can become a thing of the past in your life.
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January 24, 2007
Treadmill Repair
PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE
The first and most important part of owning a treadmill or any piece of
equipment is doing preventive maintenance. If you are not currently doing
this then start today! For your copy of the free Treadmill Repair Report
please use te folowing link.
http://treadmills.cc
TREADMILL REPAIR
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