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Fasting for Weight Loss

January 31st, 2012 by Inspector | No Comments | Filed in Health & Nutrition

Many people struggle with obesity and excess weight. Carrying extra weight can lead to joint problems, diabetes, heart problems, low self esteem and a host of other health and social problems. If losing weight is your goal, consider fasting for weight loss. While long term fasting is inadvisable, a fasting cleanse can help kick start weight loss and get you moving towards your goal weight. Occasional fasting can help cleanse your body of harmful toxins and give it a chance to reset itself and get back on a healthy track. A fasting weight loss plan requires very little other than will power and can help you lose weight and feel great.

Fasting for weight loss can take several forms. Some people chose to include juice drinks during their fast while others eschew all foods and liquids other than water. If you decide to go on a juice fasting cleanse, be sure you select organic fruits and vegetables to get the best possible nutrition and to help your body rid itself of toxins. The grapefruit juice benefits make grapefruit one great juice to add to your regimen, but other juices such as carrot and tomato have great benefits too. Drinking only juice for up to three days is a great way to jump start your weight loss and flush your system.
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How Much Sugar Should You Have in a Day?

August 16th, 2011 by Inspector | Comments Off | Filed in Health & Nutrition

When we look at what we eat there seems to be sugar in so many things. For many of us, having a sweet tooth doesn’t help in making sure we don’t overdo it with the sugar intake. There is nothing wrong with eating extra amounts on a special occasion, but it isn’t healthy on a regular basis. It has been found that most of us eat at least 22 teaspoons of sugar a day. We don’t normally think about it like that. That is quite a bit more than what we really need to be consuming. For most of us we need to really only be consuming about 3-5 teaspoons a day, this is depending on the caloric intake you work with each day.

Some will look at the amount of sugar you eat in things like teaspoons, while others look at it in forms of grams, while others look at the overall percentage of the diet that it is. You need to find the way that works for you so that you will remember how to go about it yourself.

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Cooking for Weight Loss

August 1st, 2010 by Inspector | Comments Off | Filed in Health & Nutrition

Cooking for weight loss is not as hard as it may seem to be. There are many great foods that you can enjoy while losing weight. You can also learn to use substitutions for foods that you would normally eat that will make them healthier for you and your body. The way food is prepared is a major factor when loosing weight.

Food selection is very important when losing weight. There are certain foods that your body needs to stay healthy and there are certain foods that you just need to leave out of your diet completely because they are unhealthy and will cause weight gain.
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Tags: cooking for weight loss, cooking substitutions, Losing weight, vitamins and minerals, weight loss

A Low Cholesterol Diet Can Satisfy Your Taste

June 16th, 2010 by DietGal | Comments Off | Filed in Health & Nutrition

Whether hardening of the arteries is a health issue or the LDL number is entirely too high, a low cholesterol diet can be achieved without making sacrifices in taste. The key is in eliminating those high cholesterol foods that are also high in saturated fats. This does not mean you need to sacrifice taste. There are many replacement foods or brands that have little to no saturated fat, yet still taste great.

If you live alone and tend to eat frequent frozen dinners, try replacing the usual choices with healthier brands, such as lean cuisine, healthy choice and many others that limit saturated fats. You do not have to necessarily skimp on deserts or the items you like.
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Tags: cholesterol, high cholesterol foods, low cholesterol diet, saturated fats

Healthy Foods for Constipation Remedies

June 14th, 2010 by DietGal | Comments Off | Filed in Health & Nutrition

Adults and children can become constipated. Just like other health problems, constipation cannot only be remedied by over the counter drugs as there are better alternative constipation remedies are much safer than taking pills or laxatives. These natural remedies are proven to be more effective than taking medications which can have adverse effect to your body when you become too dependent on it. So, below I have listed some foods which will help you by giving you a mild body cleanse.

Prunes are natural laxatives that can encourage bowel movement on a regular basis. Prunes are rich in iron and can be mixed with a bowl of oatmeal which is also known to soften stools because of its fiber content.
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Tags: Body cleanse, body cleansing, constipation remedies, home remedies for constipation, natural remedies for constipation, whole body cleanse

Review of Master Your Metabolism by Jillian Michaels

May 15th, 2010 by Inspector | Comments Off | Filed in Health & Nutrition

[ReviewAZON asin="0307450732" display="inlinepost"]Master Your Metabolism is much more than a diet book. In some respects, you could consider it Jillian Michael’s food manifesto: Stop eating processed crap and start eating real food!

Jillian goes in depth on how hormones impact our diet and our efforts to lose weight, first by starting with a broad overview and then targetting specific hormones that may be giving your problems.

After that, the bulk of the book takes up the promotion of eating organicly and eliminating as many processsed foods from your diet as possible. You’ll start with eliminating many of the additives that are likely stalling your weight loss and transitioning to organic foods as much as possible.
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Tags: diet, diet book reviews, hormones, jillian michaels, metabolism, Organic food

Health Benefits of Using Home Wheatgrass Juicers

May 13th, 2010 by DietGal | Comments Off | Filed in Health & Nutrition

Whether you own a natural foods restaurant or just want to eat healthier at home, you could benefit in many ways from the juice made with wheatgrass juicers.

Wheatgrass is a popular item among people looking to eat more natural and organic types of foods. The juice of this plant is 70 percent chlorophyll, which is a natural plant extract that gives a plant its healthy green color. This element has been used in clinical studies to observe the effects it has on various organisms in the human body. It has been shown to reduce the growth of bacteria, which helps boost the body’s immune system to resist illnesses.
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Tags: antioxidants, chlorophyll, health benefits of chlorophyll, juicers, wheatgrass juicer

Don’t Squander your Workout Results with Bad Food Choices

May 6th, 2010 by DietGal | Comments Off | Filed in Health & Nutrition

It is important to mention how easy it is to squander your hard earned results in the gym with poor food choices, and especially with unhealthy snacks. Nutrition really is worth about 80% of your results – no matter how good your training program is, you can’t just eat whatever you want and expect good results. The truth is that most people would be shocked to learn just how quickly the calories stack up with just a normal amount of snacking on junk food through-out the day, and they would be even more shocked at how much exercise it takes to burn those calories off again.
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How to detox your body naturally

April 27th, 2010 by DietGal | Comments Off | Filed in Health & Nutrition

Going for a detox? Expect quite a few brows rise at the very mention of it; the word is still a taboo since most relate it to substance abuse. All that reaction makes detox – or, detoxification – a little daunting thought for us. But a detox could be as plain as a body cleanse that you undertake for getting rid of accumulated metabolic wastes. Let this be the new ‘spring cleaning’ this year.

Why detox?

A detoxified body looks, feels and functions healthier than those with blocked intercellular and inter-body cleansing mechanisms. An overload of toxins thus takes its tolls on the organs, slowing down their functions and that eventually clogs up the system even more. Blame it upon junk/fast foods (sugar, sugar), lifestyles promoting little activity (there goes the lymphatic drainage) or environmental factors (air pollution, pesticides et all), it ends up bringing toxicity up to the brim. However, reduction and then, complete removal of these toxins are possible; it is through a 7 day detox diet.
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Tags: detox diets, digestive system, toxins