Monday, March 16, 2009

Green Tea Best For Weight Loss


A cup of green tea a day keeps obesity away has become the
latest motto of obese people. There is no surprise al all
attached to it.

Obese people have plenty of good options to lose weight.
Probably, the healthiest option is the consumption of good old
green tea. Regular intake of green tea is necessary for
sustainable weight loss. Green tea comes with a reasonable price
tag. In addition, it is also a scientifically proven and a
tested method. It is the best natural way to lose weight.

For the past 3000 years, Green tea was a part of the ancient
Chinese culture. Most Chinese consume only Green Tea. This is
the main reason why the Chinese have a long life and fewer
proportions of obese people compared to any other nation on the
earth. Incidentally, green tea comes from the same tree as the
black tea. The only fact of difference is the manner in which
the tealeaves are processed.

Green Tea Benefits:

Green tea not only benefits people who look forward to weight
loss, but also those who suffer from heart disease. Scientists
believe that regular consumption of green tea helps combat the
risks of heart disease. In addition, green tea lowers the risk
of cancer and has anti-oxidant properties.

Green tea also works as a regulator for glucose. It is because
of an enzyme amylase. It helps to slow down the increase of
blood sugar level in the body after meals.

How does Green Tea Function?

Mostly, green tea functions by increasing the metabolism of the
body, which is also termed as thermo genesis. It helps to burn
more calories. Tests have proved that regular intake of green
tea helps a person to lose around 78 calories each day. It also
increases the oxidation rate of fats in the body.

In addition, it reduces the fat digestion process and it
prevents the release of enzymes related to its digestion. The
body, through a natural process, clears out the food that
remains undigested.

Scientific researches have shown that, individuals who had
consumed green tea on a regular basis have lower proportion of
body fat in them, as compared to those who do not drink green
tea regularly.

Based on the American Journal of Clinical nutrition, the main
factor responsible to reduce body fat is catechin, normally
observed in green tea. It also causes the decrease of the bad
cholesterol levels in the body. They also help to control the
weight with their prevention of glucose in the fat cells. This
prevents the buildup of excess sugars and fats in the body.

The main reason why green tea is so effective in nature is the
combination of a plant chemical and EGCG (epigallocatechin
gallate) and the caffeine contained in the tea. They help
increase the production of noradrenalin. It suppresses the
appetite of the body and boosts metabolism rate. With the help
of green tea, individuals can loose weight anywhere between 2 to
2 1/2 pounds each month.


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Natural Eczema Cure Education Results in Continuous Stellar Health

Natural, holistic approaches to curing eczema has resulted in
stellar health for 38 year old Mr. Edwin Casimero. Two years ago
he made a press release to tell the world how he was cured of
his eczema. Two years ago he promised to setup a website to
teach eczema and psoriasis stricken people and the result was
http://www.eczemacure.info

They say there is no cure for eczema in the medical arena, but
in the natural arena, the cures for eczema and other medically
incurable diseases are plain, obvious, and cures are routinely
repeatable. Eczema is just one of your body's self defenses,
eczema is a method to clean your blood of toxicity, it is like
having a second anus. The normal methods of elimination have
been compromised by constipation of the primary detox organs and
the continuous onslaught of environmental pollution and barely
human food.

When I was first cured of eczema in 2006, I concentrated on
detoxing, cleaning my detox organs; colon cleansing, kidney
cleansing, liver flushing, steam bathing. Then I learned how to
restore and regenerate my internal organs, cure leaky gut, with
various methods of fasting. Then I learned to avoid all forms
pollution by eliminating chemicals from my personal care
products. The rule of thumb is, if you can't eat it, don't put
it on your skin.

In 2007 I experimented with raw vegan diets and raw fruitarian
diets. Both diets made me too thin. Both diets left me feeling
cold. Maybe the raw fruits and the raw vegetables available to
me were not nutritious enough. Or it is quite possible that my
body requires animal foods.

A new breakthrough was with a now fully functioning digestive
system beginning this 2008, I was now able to eat and digest the
most nutritious foods most optimal for the human body. The diet
humans evolved on for millions of years, the raw paleolithic
diet. Today I eat raw organic fruits, raw organic vegetables
except nightshades, raw organic or wild animal foods from all
kinds of raw fertilized eggs, raw internal organs, raw muscle
meat and raw fat. It is amazing how good and how strong I feel
running on the evolutionary prescribed diet for humans. It is
amazing that I am always healthy, not one cold episode
experienced while on the raw paleolithic diet.

Raw vegetables and raw animal foods are separate classes of
foods. We are used to eating fruit raw and would find it
illogical, unnecessary and destructive to cook fruits. It is the
same with vegetables and animal foods. If something requires
cooking before eating, it is not a true food. I learned that
from Natural Hygiene which is primarily fruitarian, and the same
applies to raw vegetables and raw animal foods. We deserve the
best nutrition possible, only raw food can deliver the best
nutrition, without pollution, without constipation.

Today at 38 I feel as light and as strong as I was when I was
18 years old. My eczema adventure led me to a fantastic
educational truth journey, and I am determined to follow it
wherever it may lead. And it has led me to help cure other
people with eczema, psoriasis, heart disease, cancer, diabetes,
acid reflux, appendicitis, kidney disease, pneumonia, dengue
fever and more.

Today I consider myself an altruistic healer. I help people
cure their own diseases by educating them. Only through truth in
health education will a person be cured of his disease and stay
cured for the rest of his life.


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Dangerous Fad Diets: What Are the Risks of Fad Diets?

When the need to lose weight quickly arises, many people opt to
try out one of the numerous fad diets that are always making
promises of quick and easy weight loss. Some of these fad diets
have nutritional value and will temporarily give your weight
loss efforts a boost.

Unfortunately, there are several popular fad diets and fad diet
products that can be downright dangerous for your health. When
people try these methods, they're usually not thinking that they
can end up in any kind of serious trouble. After all, the
companies that put out these products often tell you that it is
perfectly safe.

As a consumer, you need to be aware of the dangers of using
these scam diet products and plans so that you can make wise
decisions about your long-term health goals. Here are some of
the popular fad diet products that are sold as safe, effective
weight loss, but are anything but safe.

Diet Pills – I know. The ads promise that popping their miracle
weight loss pills will make you model slim overnight. Diet pill
manufacturers make millions of dollars making these claims to
desperate people. They'll tell you that their pill will do all
the fat burning work for you, so there's no need for you to
follow a healthy diet or do any kind of exercise.

Basically, it's the lazy way to lose weight.

So, if their pills are so effective, why are so many people
overweight?

That's right, because these pills are only a short-term fix to
your weight loss problem. Diet pills may temporarily suppress
your appetite, but once you stop taking them – bam! The weight
comes right back on.

Danger: Some of the side effects from taking diet pills are
dizziness, chest pain, nausea, liver and kidney damage,
seizures, stroke, heart attack and even death. Because there's
no way of knowing what's in some of these formulations or what
exact amounts of herbs and other substances are in them, it's
best to stay clear of diet pills.

Diuretics and Laxatives – Diuretic products are often used by
doctors to treat high blood pressure and glaucoma. For weight
loss, they often come in the form of pills containing natural
herbs that are considered safe to use. A weight loss diuretic is
supposed to clear your body of excess food, toxins and water.
Laxatives are another product that's often used as a quick
weight loss fix.

Danger: Excessive use of either diuretics or laxatives can lead
to damage of the intestinal wall, renal damage, severe
dehydration and heart problems. Plus, you won't lose any fat,
just water weight.

Diet Patch – After nicotine patches that help people to quit
smoking became popular, diet product manufacturers had to get a
piece of the action, so they came up with the diet patch.
Supposedly, when you wear a diet patch for whatever length of
time they specify, these will help you to lose weight by giving
you a constant supply of appetite suppressant.

Danger: The FDA has banned many of these diet patches from
being sold because there is no proof that they work in helping
people lose real weight and are not considered safe. Basically,
diet patches have been proven to be scams and you should stay
far away from them.

Fat Burning Massager – These are often sold as stomach or thigh
toning belts. You wrap the belt around your waist or thigh and
turn on the electricity. That warm buzz you feel is supposed to
be burning off that belly and thigh fat while you go about your
business.

Danger: While electrical muscle stimulation is often used for
legitimate body therapy, their use as a quick fat loss tool is
strictly a gimmick. You may experience burns or electrical shock
from these products if used incorrectly. These don't work and
are a waste of money.

Fasting – Often the first thing people think about when they
want to lose weight quickly is to go on a food fast. They
reason, if food is the cause of their weight gain, surely,
depriving the body of food will create the opposite effect.
Juice fasting has become a very popular weight loss method.

Danger: Staying on any fast for more than one day is going to
be nearly impossible for most people. The very nature of a fast
causes extreme hunger, and many will simply go off the fast and
binge on the foods they've been craving. A long-term fast will
also compromise your immune system and could cause vital organ
distress.

Fad diets and fad diet products are not considered by experts
to be the best way to lose weight in the short or long term.
When you are choosing a weight loss plan, be sure that it
includes a healthy, daily diet meal plan, and has enough
calories to maintain weight without causing you any harm.


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7 Common Sense Ways to Burn Fat Fast

There are many ways to burn fat fast, and it's often the little
things that add up to make a big difference. Once you get these
little things mastered you'll find that burning fat and losing
weight comes a whole lot easier than you'd ever imagine.

I want to get something clear, by the end of this article
you're not going to be a fat burning machine. You won't
instantly, magically lose weight. But hopefully you'll pick up a
few little tips that you can incorporate into your life, to help
you get on the fast track to a healthier, fitter body.

1 - Don't let your tea and coffee ruin your body! On their own
tea and coffee are more or less harmless (except for a few
nasties in coffee) and won't make you put on weight. But, it's
the nasties that you add that make the difference; it's the full
fat milk, the cream or the sugar that pile on the calories. And
these are hidden calories, because you barely notice you're
consuming them. A cup of coffee with cream and two sugars can
quickly add a few hundred extra calories to your diet.

2 - You'll hate me for saying this, but you really do need to
count the calories as you eat them. If you are really serious
about losing weight, you must track everything you put in your
mouth. Remember your body is a machine, you must feed it the
right fuel, and the right amount of fuel. Get a list of the
calorie content of common foods, read the labels and speak to a
nutritionist if necessary.

3 - Overindulged? If you've eaten too much, or had a bad binge
day, you've got to make up for it, and I don't mean by starving
yourself the next day. You've got to work off the calories by
doing exercise, and extra exercise if you've overeaten.

4 - Beware of fried foods! If it's fried, it's going to be
fatty. If you're on weight loss, fat burning mission, then fried
foods are your #1 enemy. You must duck, dive and evade all
things fried. The oil or fat the food is fried in, is stuffed
with more calories than you'd imagine, even when excess oil is
drained away, the residual oil calorie content is astronomical.
Run away, far away, from any fried foods.

5 - Skip meals at your peril! This is one of the critical
mistakes many people who try to lose weight make. You need at
least 3 regular meals a day, if your are training seriously, top
athletes will split this into 6 small meals throughout the day.
This keeps hunger at bay longer and keeps your metabolism
charging at full throttle. Skipping meals causes your metabolism
to slow, you burn less fat, and food that you do eat is stored
as fat, as your body goes into survival mode in case it's not
fed again for another day. You MUST eat consistently and
regularly.

6 - Eat all the fresh vegetables you can get your hands on. If
you've got a choice and the cash, always go for fresh vegetables
over canned or cooked, raw and fresh are better. When you cook
them up, you lose lots of the vitamins and goodness in the
process. If you're boiling them, save the water and use as gravy
or stock to make the most of the goodness that's in the water.
Canned vegetables are processed which means they too lose a lot
of their goodness. If you can't get fresh, get frozen; the
freezing process locks in the nutrients providing they've been
frozen quickly after harvesting.

So right there are 6 common sense tips to help you burn fat
faster. Burning fat and losing weight doesn't need to be
difficult, you just need to be consistent with everything you do
– eat the right foods and exercise regularly. And if you need
help, don't be afraid to seek the advice of the experts, to get
a healthy eating plan or a exercise program tailored to your
body.


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Take Omega 3 Essential Fatty Acids for the Health of Your Heart

Much of the misunderstanding surrounding polyunsaturated fatty
acids may perhaps be ascribed to the general horror evoked in
our society by the very words "fat" and "fatty". And it's quite
true that saturated fats and so-called "trans-fats" need to be
kept to a minimum within a healthy diet. Essential fatty acids,
however, are a different matter.

The word "essential", in this context, means simply that they
can be manufactured by the body in only very small quantities,
if at all, and a supply must consequently be obtained through
the diet. Polyunsaturated fatty acids are also essential,
however, in the broader sense that they are a vital part of a
properly balanced diet, and play a crucial role in the health
and appearance of the whole human organism.

The most important of these essential fatty acids are linoleic
acid (omega 6) and alpha-linolenic acid, one of the omega 3
essential fatty acids. Both groups are vital for human health,
and the body requires a properly balanced intake of the two. But
it's probably fair to say that it's the benefits of omega 3
essential fatty acids which are currently attracting the most
attention, perhaps because the typical Western diet commonly
contains far more omega 6 than omega 3, an imbalance which may
have potentially serious health consequences.

The benefits of omega 3 essential fatty acids may include
relief for sufferers from numerous conditions, including
diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, schizophrenia, bipolar illness
and more general depression. But by far the greatest attention
has been paid to omega 3's role as a powerful protector against
heart attack, cardiovascular disease and stroke, still amongst
the biggest premature killers in the Western world.

Particular attention has been paid to the cardio-protective
effects of the omega 3 essential fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic
acid and docosahexaenoic acid, better known as EPA and DHA
respectively. Both EPA and DHA have been shown in a number of
studies to reduce levels of blood triglycerides, microscopic
particles of fat strongly associated with an increased risk of
cardiovascular disease and heart attack. The consumption of oily
fish, by far the richest source of EPA and DHA, is therefore now
recommended both by nutritionists and orthodox medicine,
including the American Heart Association.

In fact regular (ie at least twice weekly 100 g servings)
consumption of oily fish and sea food, with correspondingly
increased intake of omega 3 essential fatty acids, has been
shown in a number of studies to reduce mortality in sufferers
from coronary heart disease by as much as one-third.

And large scale studies following thousands of subjects for a
decade and more have reported reductions of up to 40-50% in the
incidence of coronary heart disease in subjects consuming the
highest amounts of omega 3 essential fatty acids; the best
protective effect being found in those who did not already
consume significant amounts of oily fish and seafood.

There's also good evidence from studies following tens of
thousands of subjects for ten or more years that the risk of
sudden death by heart attack, through failure of the heart
muscle or arrhythmia, may be reduced by anything up to 50%
simply by the weekly consumption of oily fish, a finding
supported by evidence that higher blood levels of EPA and DHA
also appeared to reduce this risk.

The US Food and Nutrition Board has recommended that infants
under 1 year should obtain 0.5 g daily of alpha-linolenic acid,
rising gradually to 1.6 g for adult men and 1.1 g for women. The
European Commission, by contrast, recommends for adults 2 g per
day of omega 3 essential fatty acids, which should include 0.2 g
of EPA/DHA.

But since oily fish, such as herring, mackerel, salmon and
sardines, tends to form rather a small element of the Western
diet, typical daily intakes of EPA and DHA may be as low as 0.04
g. For most individuals, to obtain the benefits of omega 3
essential fatty acids from diet alone would therefore require a
very radical change of diet, and supplementation is probably the
more attractive option.

Fortunately, odorless and tasteless fish oil supplements are
now readily available, and it is also possible to obtain eggs
enriched with omega 3 essential fatty acids. It should be noted,
however, that polyunsaturated fatty acids may be more prone to
oxidative free radical damage than saturated fats, potentially
eliminating much of their effectiveness. When supplementing with
omega 3 essential fatty acids, it is therefore sensible also to
increase intake of vitamin E, the most important fat-soluble
anti-oxidant, a move which will also provide numerous cardiac
health benefits in its own right.


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Three Simple Principles Of Natural Health

Natural health can be maintained and retained if we follow some
common basic principles of natural health. These basic
principles aren't difficult or cumbersome to follow but they
require a strong will power and a keen desire to stay close to
nature. These simple principles must be adopted before our body
looses its status of being healthy. If we cannot follow these
most common simple principles of natural health care now, then
it would not be possible for us in future especially when some
serious illness overtakes our healthy body system.

Our modern lifestyle today is one of the biggest enemy of our
health and natural body system. Today we have developed a social
structure which is unhealthy not only for the society but also
for natural health of our body system. Here are three common
well known principles of natural health which are seldom
followed today, but this doesn't mean these principles don't
stand today or they have been abandoned by our body.

Disturbed Natural Sleeping Pattern : A naturally sound sleep as
per law of nature provides a number of positive health benefits
to our body. We cannot count these but it works on complexion
and beauty, energy and vitality, mental health and relaxation,
improving appetite and digestion, overall health and happiness
to name a few. Clock of our body system is naturally configured
with nature's natural clock i.e., at night our body tends to
rest or sleep and in day after sunrise it is configured to work
or do its job. Today our unhealthy lifestyle tends to
artificially reconfigure this natural clock. Our modern habits
and unnatural sleeping patterns are responsible for a number of
modern health problems. Today we work when its natural for our
body to sleep or rest and we sleep or rest when it natural time
to work.

Unnatural and unhealthy eating patterns: Our eating habits have
also changed with time. I'll not be discussing poor nutrition
and poor and unhealthy quality of food that we have in this.
Today we eat as and when we have time or wish to eat. We eat
food without a natural urge or appetite for eating. Even if the
quality of food that we eat is best and organically produced,
requirements of our body today due to modern lifestyle are not
the same as they used to be some times back. Today eating more
doesn't mean getting healthier but its just opposite. Today we
provide our body engine with fuel at a time when it is not
asking for it and the fuel that we provide our body system today
is not the right fuel for the health of our body system. This is
like feeding a petrol engine with coal. Thanks God that our body
system is not an ordinary machine but a wonderful machine.

Unnatural overprotection and over comfort: Today we protect
ourselves not only from nature but also from the society and
social activities unnaturally. We exceed our comfort level from
natural to unnatural, the level of comfort that we enjoy today
is actually uncomfortable for our body system to work in. This
healthy looking and good feeling overprotection has led to under
protection of our natural body system. We are forcing our body
to work in dual mode. Sometimes we want our body system to work
naturally when we move outside our overprotection comfort cover
and otherwise when we stay within our over protected comfort
zone we want it to work unnaturally to fit requirements of the
artificial environment. This may look lighter but it has a
serious consequence on our body's natural health system. Today
our body begs us to leave dependence on its natural resistance
power and seek modern medical help time and again which gives
right treatment not only to our body system but also to the soul
who is actually responsible for this under-protected
overprotection.

These three points on simple principles of natural health
discussed here show how we have ourselves willingly compromised
simple principles of natural health with unprincipled
complexities of modern health problems.


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