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Monday, 17 June 2013

Free Healthy Weight Loss Tips

 Free Healthy Weight Loss Tips

By Azeez Shukurat

Are you planning to lose weight? Before you start, take a look over these free tips to make your efforts to lose weight more beneficial. These tips will help you to improve your metabolic process, resulting in rapid weight loss.
Pay Attention to Dieting
Dieting is not just eating less, but eating nutritionally rich foods and low in calories, making you feel full throughout the day. That's important, because restricting food usually makes your body think it is starving. Resultantly your body decreases metabolic process to retain the existing energy. The worst part of this type of dieting is, if the food shortage continues, you begin to burn muscles instead of fats. Your metabolism slows down and the fat starts to claim even more territory inside your body.
Pay Attention to you Sleeping Habits
"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise". A study was conducted on twins in Finland. The result of that study shows, the brother who slept less was overweight and under more stress.
Eat More Protein
Your body needs protein to maintain lean muscle mass. Add 1.0 gram lean meat per kilogram of your total body weight e.g. (if your body weight is 60kg, the amount of you need to take 60 grams of protein everyday). Add a small portion of lean meat, two tablespoons of nuts, a bit of yogurt with each meal or snack. Furthermore, research has shown that protein ingested after a meal can burn up to 35% more calories.
Prefer organic food
Canadian researchers said that most pesticides and pollutants found in vegetables are accumulated in fat cells resulting in a decrease in metabolism.
Onions, avocado or grapefruit do not need not be organic, but opt for organic if you are buying peaches, strawberries, apples, nectarines, bell peppers, kale, spinach or kale, cherries, potatoes or grapes because these foods tend to have more pesticides.
Stay Active
Sitting for longer durations of time certainly affects the weight loss process. Researchers have found, continuously sitting for four hours or more causes an enzyme which controls cholesterol and fat inoperable. To keep that enzyme active to burn fats, move around at least once every hour e.g. walking around when talking on phone not only keeps you active but also does not take extra time.
Ice Water is good!
Drinking 6 cups of ice water every day can increase the calorie expenditure even when the body is at rest. This tip alone can help you lose 5 kg in one year. The technical reason behind this is your body has to heat up in order to maintain a normal body temperature.
In last I just have to say, losing weight is not a one day or one week or one month process. Please do not get scammed by so called rapid weight loss products marketed online to rob your hard earned money. I am not saying that every weight loss program is a scam. But do a research, read product reviews before actually buying anything.

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Friday, 14 June 2013

Healthy Meal Options For Lunchtime|Healthy Things To Eat For Lunch

If the only thing you eat during lunchtime is a sandwich and a bag of potato chips, or something similar, then you are not alone. Most of us do not spend more than 18 minutes during lunchtime and usually, whatever we eat is not healthy enough. However, with just some simple planning, you too can enjoy some healthy and well-balanced midday meals. There are many healthy things to eat for lunch that you can try, which will be great for your wallet and your waistline.

Salads
A salad is a convenient meal that can provide you with ample servings of healthy vegetables. Prepare your salad for you midday meal using dark leafy greens rather than pale ones because they have more nutrients. Also include one plain fruit or vegetables, such as chopped apple, cucumbers, grape tomatoes, mushrooms, orange segments, or sliced strawberries. Vegetables should be at the top of your list of healthy things to eat for lunch, but that is not all. Add at least 3 to 4 ounces of lean protein to your salad, whether it is canned beans, sautéed tofu or water-packed tuna, so you remain satisfied for a couple of hours. About a tablespoon of olive oil, safflower oil or yogurt dressing will be healthy for you for your heart too.

Fresh Fruits
By lunchtime, we all need a burst of quick energy, and we can acquire that energy from fresh fruits because of the carbohydrates and natural sugar they contain. You may also boost your everyday dose of Vitamin C by eating an orange or tangerine. Fruits should also be on your healthy things to eat for lunch, and some particularly healthy fruits you can have during lunch time include fresh apples, bananas, pears, or any other stone fruit. You may also include a piece of fruit into your main meal component, especially if you are eating something like a salad. Fruits like fresh berries, grapes, pineapple, and watermelon make a good pair with main meals.


Pasta
Pasta is a particularly healthy meal option for lunchtime that you carry with you conveniently and reheat it anywhere or even eat it cold. Whole-grain pasta is a better choice of the B vitamins and fiber that it contains. While there are many varieties and ways of preparing pasta, but it is certainly one of the easy-to-prepare yet healthy things to eat for lunch. For instance, you may add 3 ounces of ground turkey to corkscrew pasta, along with garlic, a cup of green beans and some soy sauce.
Soups
For us adults, another way to enjoy a healthy and satisfying lunch is to drink some a hearty soup made with broth, lean protein and vegetables during lunchtime. Prepare your own soup by stirring together cooked chicken, diced carrots, low-sodium chicken broth, peas and wild rice. As a convenient alternative, you may also drink soup at a restaurant but make sure you do not order creamed or cheesy soups since they are full of fat and high in calories. Soups, especially chicken noodle, garden vegetable or minestrone soup, are one of the few healthy things to eat for lunch that you can eat out rather if you are not in the mood to prepare one yourself.
If you feast on something from the vending machine or slam down a fast-food meal during lunchtime, then you are not doing your health, wallet or waistline any good. Edible items such as these are merely a poor excuse for lunch. If you really want to eat healthy, then consider the above healthy things to eat for lunch.