Weight Loss with Green Juice and Water
Weight loss with green juice and water is not a fad diet. If you are looking for quick weight loss look elsewhere. If you are looking for a healthy and gradual weight loss consider green juice and water. Green tea is also beneficial for dieting, but, we are talking about green juice. There is a difference.
The green juice I’m referring to is made mostly from green vegetables. Some formulations include forms of green algae and other include grains. I have seen formulation recommending green fruits as well. All of the above mentioned green juice formulations are beneficial to your health. I am talking about green tea from green vegetables.
Green juice provides a wide range essential nutrients that our body needs. Many people feel much more energetic taking green juice. Increased energy levels provides a faster metabolism resulting in weight loss.
Research has cited that smokers can benefit from green juice supplementation as it reduces the risk factor of numerous diseases associated with smokers elevated oxidative states.
What about the water?
For years I have heard the admonition to drink eight glasses of water a day. No one I talked to new why. I will give you a good reason why.
Our body is designed to maintain it self best at a ph of about 7.2. That is what is known as slightly alkaline. Neutral is 7 on the ph scale. It seems that acid conditions ( when our body’s are below 7.2) exist , the acid is stored in fat. If we have excess acid in our bodies, the body will store fat so it can keep the acid in check. That is a simplistic explanation and it is close to what happens.
Water is necessary to carry the acid out of the body and lessen the reason for the body to store fat. Do not mistake liquids for water. The canned drinks,sodas, beer and even the diet drinks result in increased acid in your body and make it difficult to loss weight. In fact many people feel an energy increase just from eliminating the sodas.
The alkalinity of your body can be determined using litmus paper also known as ph paper. Litmus paper is used in testing laboratories of many descriptions and is used to determine the approximate acidity of a compound. You can test your saliva using it and get an indication if your body is acidic or alkaline. You will not be able to tell if it is exactly 7.2 that way.
Your local health food store can direct you to the green juice shelf. It is available in capsules, powder and liquid.
Filed Under Healthy Food, Weight LossFive Easy Steps to Follow for Finding a Safe Diet Plan
Why do people automatically think of starvation when talking about dieting? Not all diets require painful physical effort on your part. Actually, the diets that work are the ones you don’t even think about. They become part of your everyday lifestyle. The only thing you need to worry about is eating fewer calories than you normally do to go along with exercising enough to burn off those calories.
With that said, there is more than one formula to lose weight but it is important that the one you choice be safe to your health. There are countless weight loss programs and diets only looking to make a buck instead of reducing your caloric intake. The problem is people find it difficult telling them apart. It’s up to you to know which diets keep the weight off for good and which ones are a fad. Here is some help with that:
* Always be skeptical of any diet that tells you to eliminate a whole food group from your daily life. An example of this would be one of those popular non-dairy diets. By not consuming any dairy, you are in turn doing more harm than good by not getting enough essential nutrients such as calcium or vitamin D.
* I know that low carbohydrate diets are popular in a lot of circle but I am very skeptical of them. While you can and will lose weight by not eating carbs, that is done through lowering your lean body mass. you are adversely affecting the muscles in your body. With a lower amount of carbs in your system, your body is forced to burn muscle tissue to manufacture the glucose essential to the function of the brain and red blood cells. It is also important for make sure you are also properly hydrated on a non-carb diet since you risk damaging your kidneys.
* A smart decision to make is not start any diet that claims to cleanse your system through fasting. What they don’t tell you is that fasting does nothing to cleanse your body of toxins. The only thing you lose is fluid loss which leads to dehydration and possibly dangerous, low blood pressure.
* Ask a doctor or health professional about whether or not one of those very low calorie diets can work for you. These diets allow you to only eat 800 or less calories a day and can be quite unhealthy for people suffering from certain medical conditions such as kidney or liver disease. Most dietitians recommend these types of diets to individuals considered to be at least 30 percent overweight.
* If you plan on going with the diet pill route to lose weight, I strongly recommend asking your doctor first. Most shouldn’t even be used with the approval first of a prescribing physician. You should never allow anyone else but yourself use a diet pill prescribed to you only. You may put them at risk for possible adverse effects.
Filed Under Medical InformationUse of Hypnosis to Quit Smoking
Quitting the habit of smoking is not easy. Among the common forms of vice, smoking is perhaps the hardest habit to withdraw from. When a person decides to quit smoking, he must commit to it seriously, for the said vice can reoccur or trigger again.
Millions of people are smoking worldwide, and almost half of these smokers want to quit the habit. To address the increasing need for aids than can help smokers have an easier and faster process of recovering from smoking addiction, numerous quitting programs are developed and established each year. In line with the strengthened anti-smoking programs and treatments to help smokers quit from the said vice, hypnosis is among the types of therapy that can provide significant improvements to smokers’ addiction condition.
Hypnosis therapy to quit smoking
Yes, there are quite plenty of treatments and programs available for those who want to quit smoking. These treatment, however, have certain side-effects, making the process of withdrawal really difficult for smokers. A person undergoing any type of anti-smoking treatment may become moody, restless, and irrational. As such, smokers who do not want to experience the hassles brought by conventional anti-smoking therapies prefer to undergo hypnosis to quit smoking.
Hypnosis as a quit smoking therapy involves two process. One is the hypnosis therapy per se and the other is the self hypnosis. In hypnosis, a smoker needs to look for a hypnotist who is well-experienced in handling similar cases before. After setting an appointment with the hypnotist, one will go through several hypnosis sessions. In session, a person is put into a relaxed, altered state of consciousness, and after which the hypnotist talks to the smoker’s subconscious. Once the person is awake, his mind works or functions like a non-smoker.
Some people are doubtful of hypnosis as a treatment for smoking addiction because of the fear of having their subconscious corrupted by thoughts and things that they do not approved of. But this is not how hypnosis works. This type of psychological treatment works by conditioning the mind and body to work to what one decides or approves to do. Hence, it is important for one to have a firm decision to stay away from the addiction so the hypnosis will produce positive results.
On the other hand, self hypnosis is recommended to those who do not want to consult or undergo therapy sessions with hypnotist. Self hypnosis works, but it needs a lot of work on the part of the smoker. As information guide in self hypnosis, one can use books, online resources, videos, and journals that feature self help scripts and relaxation methods that can help in reconditioning or reprogramming the mind to quit the habit of smoking.
Although self hypnosis works for most people, it may also not give any improvement to some smokers. This type of self-help really requires a lot of determination and perseverance from smokers to avoid habit rebound. If self hypnosis does not seem to work, a smoker then needs to decide if consulting a hypnotist is better than conducting a self help therapy.
Filed Under Quit Smoking MethodsTips To Protect Your Health In Winter Weather
Protecting your health in the wintertime isn’t as hard as it sounds, here are some tips for preventing typical problems during the coldest time of the year.
Immune System
Prevention is really the key to not getting sick. Older folks, children and those with depressed immune systems may want to consider getting a flu shot, which can protect you from getting the flu. You can also improve your immune system by eating right and taking the proper vitamins and minerals for your age and body type. Even a multivitamin is better than nothing, but consider supplementing with Vitamin C and Zinc, both proven to boost the immune system.
Skin
Your skin can often take a beating during the winter months. Inside your home or workplace, you’ll be subjected to dry heat from electric, gas, oil or wood fire heating elements. Also, you may take longer and certainly hotter baths or showers. Outside your home you’ll be subjected to dry, windy, wet or cold weather. Moving inside and outside from dry heat to dry cold can wreak havoc on your skin, making it dry, itchy, red, flaky and irritated. The skin on your face is especially susceptible to this problem. Use moisturizers and moisturizing lotions daily to keep your skin healthy and hydrated. You can also use a humidifier to add some much needed moisture back to the air in your home or workplace. Don’t forget to protect your skin from the glare of the sun or ravages of the wind by covering up all parts of your body by wearing gloves, a scarf, ear muffs and a hat when you go out. Remember to cleanse your face everyday with a gentle soap and lukewarm water. You may also wish to add a bath oil product to your baths to moisturize the skin on your entire body. The skin on your hands will also be very susceptible to drying and irritation, remedy this by applying a hand cream after each time you wash your hands.
Lips
Your lips are one of the hardest hit areas of your body during cold weather, especially during very dry and cold weather. Your lips may be chapped, dry and peel much more easily. Keep a moisturizing, protecting lip balm with you and apply it daily or as needed to keep your lips moist and supple and to avoid painful cracking.
Eyes
While in some areas of the country, the sun may not shine nearly as much as during the rest of the year, it’s still important to take care of your eyes during cold weather. Use sunglasses when needed, as the sun during the wintertime can shine UV rays that are even stronger than during the summer. Also, use eye drops as needed to prevent and relieve dry eyes due to the dry heat that may be present indoors. When snow is on the ground and/or the sun is shining, this is the most important time to protect your eyes from the sun’s wintertime UV rays with a good pair of sunglasses or goggles.
Fitness
When exercising, shoveling snow or working outside in cold weather, take extra care to avoid overexertion. Overexertion during cold weather can put an extra strain on your heart. When you need to exercise, consider instead working out in your home or at a gym. It’s very important to keep up your fitness routine throughout the year, including winter.
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