Posts Tagged ‘Good Nutrition’
Fat burning workouts do not consist of walking on the treadmill for 45 minutes. Plain and simple, out with the truth right up front. If you prefer to save a lot of time, believe me, cardio just won’t cut it. Aside from the research, studies, and other facts, I’ve seen it personally many times. I actually have a couple friends who are aerobics instructors. None of them would be considered in prime shape. Not to be mean at all, I’m just saying. And unless you’re one of the few who truly enjoy cardio (my husband is one of those freaks!), I say, “If I can look good without it, let’s skip it!”
Not to say there’s no value in cardiovascular training, as can be noted by my tendency to get out of breath easily at pathetic levels of cardio exertion. But for purposes of a fat burning workout, a bit of cardio is simply incorporated, without the need for a treadmill (ugh) or a time-consuming (albeit relaxing) walk. Because if you know me, I tend to be crazy busy and I want to get the results in the shortest time possible. I’m sure a lot of you feel that way, too.
Another big myth that I see repeatedly is from people who sign up for fat burning workouts, but do nothing to change their eating habits. I simply can’t emphasize enough the need to incorporate BOTH exercise and good nutrition into your health regimen. It’s really important to go about your nutritional needs the right way. Please do NOT buy into the hype of all these pills and potions promising “safe” weight loss without diet or exercise. Come on, deep down you know that this mentality cannot be good for you. I do recommend a few healthful types of dietary supplements that aid in proper bodily function. However, I do not sell these items. I simply sincerely desire to see you healthy, energized, and fully functional. I’m not just out to sell you pills or gadgets. I do care.
OK, so yes, you do still need to decrease caloric intake (especially wasted junk calories, mmm, junk food) in order to lose fat. If you maintain current eating trends, you can simply maintain your current body shape. For the most part. I do see people get initial results from a powerful fat burning workout, but then it tends to level off rather sharply at some point, if the dietary changes aren’t implemented.
And what is a fat burning workout, if not cardio? The focus is on muscle building with a high intensity routine. And to give you the biggest result, target the biggest muscle groups. Yes, sometimes just for vanity’s sake, I do bicep curls and that kind of stuff, but legs and back exercises will yield the most results in overall metabolism boosting and fat burning. Well, since the holidays are about over, I guess I better go do a fat burning workout right now. Won’t you join me?
Jennifer is a caring, real-world weight loss coach, specializing in assisting busy women with quick and easy weight loss. If you have tried every diet gimmick and exercise program with little to no lasting success, check out the $176 gift certificate at http://www.quick-weight-loss-success.com
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Natural Cancer Treatment – Avoid Cancer by What We Eat
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November 5th, 2009 >> Healthy Weight Loss
There is much passing reference to the need to eat more vegetables in order to avoid cancer, but beyond the urging of some health promotion staff little seems to be written in the lay press in any detail at all. In addition to this, or perhaps because of the simplistic message that is out there, many doctors do not yet recognize the importance of diet in relation both to reducing the chances of the disease occurring but also in the care of patients who have already got cancer. They do not recognize that good nutrition is a natural cancer treatment.
Many doctors are wedded to the fast effects of antibiotics. They really, really want any and every drug to be as effective as antibiotics were when they were first used. And if foods cannot give that sort of effect with the majority of people then a goodly number of them will dismiss the impact of food as being “not really important”.
However there are many drugs which are not very effective. For example chemotherapy increases survival overall at the 5-year stage by only just over 2%, with it being ineffective in many cancers, despite its ongoing use. With this in mind, any “natural” activity without negative side effects should be embraced with open arms.
There are many foods which have been shown in epidemiological studies to reduce the chances of getting cancer by 25%, 50%, 75% and sometimes even more when you compare high consuming groups with low consuming groups.
There are foods which seem to prevent cells from mutating into cancer cells. There are foods which encourage mutated cells to die off. There are foods which stop the cancer cells from growing, or reduce the speed of growth and foods which stop the cancer cells from moving around the body. In biomedical words foods can be antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-carcinogenic, anti-mutagenic, encouraging apoptosis, cytotoxic, with antimetastatic effects. Of course not all fruit and vegetables have all these effects, but they have enough to be useful.
So which are the most important vegetables and fruits? I would urge you to go for variety and not get hung up on just one or two thinking that will be enough. Plants act synergistically. That is, they work better when you eat a number of them together.
Having said that, the onion family are reported to have some of the strongest effects in preventing cancer. As I trawled through the medical literature there was a huge interest in tomatoes and the cruciferous vegetables, but when I compared the numbers in the studies it seemed that onions, garlic and others in the allium family (like leeks and chives) had the greatest effectiveness.
Tomatoes are good, and so are the cruciferous vegetables – cabbage, red cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, arugula, beet greens, bok choy, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, garden cress, horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, radishes, rutabaga, Swiss chard and turnips.
Lettuce, carrots, summer and winter squash, oranges, lemons, blueberries, dark raspberries, grapes, cucurmin (of curry fame) and herbs (such as oregano, rosemary and thyme) have all been shown to improve immune functioning and are associated with reduced numbers of cases of cancer in epidemiological studies.
So what does this mean in practice? Ideally fresh fruit and vegetables should be part of every meal. If you can’t make it three meals a day, then settle for fruit and vegetables taking up three quarters of your plate at two meals each day.
We are talking about eating – this is not medicine, except that these foods do you good. It is important to choose foods that you enjoy. I really do not like curries or pepper. I do not do well on Indian food, so I do not eat it very often. I was brought up on North European foods and really enjoy those fruit and vegetables my family has eaten for generations. So start by eating fruits and vegetables you enjoy, then go for a little variety and try some that are new to you.
If you are wedded to fried chips, packet foods and hamburgers it might take a little getting used to have three quarters of your plate with fresh vegetables (cooked and raw) with fruit for dessert, but give it a go. It might take a few weeks for your body to develop the enzymes needed to digest your new diet, but once that has happened your body will love you for this change. And as a natural cancer treatment it is both enjoyable and of no more cost than other types of eating.
Dr Harriet Denz-Penhey is an internationally recognized health researcher who has done groundbreaking research into patient self care in serious illness. The web site http://www.cancerremedies.org discusses aspects of natural cancer treatment and remedies for good general health.
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