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Monday, August 6, 2007

Tips For Weight Loss

Losing weight at times can be difficult and sometimes trying a new diet and the process of dieting is not very fun, it doesn’t have to be like that. Dieting normally implies drastic changes which cannot be maintained thus people end up going back to their old habits and are no better off and more discouraged than before. If people follow some simple steps and make changes gradually then they can start being healthier and start to lose weight and achieve fat loss without drastic changes. I hope to explain some things that people can do to get into shape.

What is weight loss?

Weight loss is caused by the body using more energy than you consume. To change the amount your of energy your body expends you would exercise there are many ways such as running, biking, walking, lifting weights and playing sports. These are all goods way to exercise and boost your energy expenditure, vigorous exercise can expend 500-700 calories per hour exercise alone can help get you into shape even without dieting it may just take a little longer. Energy consumption is provided by the food you eat, the average caloric consumption for a person is about 1500-2500 calories per day, o gain one kilogram of weight you would need to consume about 7000calories above what your body requires and to lose one kilogram you would need to expend about 7000 calories more than what you gain from food. So you need to exercise more to increase you expenditure and then eat less. Below are some tips that you can follow to help you start with your weight loss.

Eat regularly

Some people tend to not eat breakfast and then maybe skip eating until later on in the day where they have a big meal. This is how you can easily store fat. With no food at the start of the day you feel tired and don’t have as much energy to burn and your metabolism becomes slower. Then when you finally eat later on in the day your body starts to store fat as it cannot use all the energy from the food provided. It is recommended that your meals be spread out during the day into 5 or 6 smaller meals, start with a good breakfast and eat during the day and start to taper off the sizes of your meals towards the end of the day. If you eat a lot at night before sleep the only thing the body can do with the energy is to store it. If the majority of food is eaten in the first half of the day it gives you energy to use during the day thus reducing the likelihood of it being stored as fat.

The less processed the food is the better

Today you can by lots of fast food and convenience meals that the food is processed but you want to bring in more food that is not processed such as vegetables and fruit and more grains. Foods with a lower GI mean that the body converts the carbohydrates to sugar slower. This means that you feel full for longer and you body doesn’t try to store the energy as fat as much. As a general guide food that is higher in fibre has a lower GI.

Exercise

Exercising is good for your health it improves the health of your heart and help reduce the chances of diseases such as cancer and diabetes. It is recommended by health experts to exercise for at least thirty minutes three times a week. This can range from going for a bike or a run to playing a game or soccer or tennis going for a swim or going to the gym and lifting weights. The added benefit is that it helps speed up your metabolism so that your body uses more energy to keep itself going. Exercise is a lot better than dieting alone as it promotes faster weight loss and improves your health.

Eat enough protein

Muscle is comprised mainly of water and protein when you exercise it gives your muscles the stimulus to grow however they cannot grow if you do not consume sufficient levels of protein. If insufficient levels are consumed the muscles can start to breakdown and even shrink! This results in the slowing of your metabolism and will increase the ability of your body to burn fat. The more muscle you have the easier it is to burn fat. Even if you are exercising and stay at the same weight if you are burning fat gaining muscle because muscle is denser than fat you can still end up becoming a smaller size. The recommended amount of protein to take is about 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram of bodyweight. If you weighed 80kilograms then 120 grams a day would be a good amount to eat. If you spread this out over your five to six meals a day this is 20 -25 grams per meal.

Can supplements help?

Supplements can never replace a good diet and exercise they can only help once they are in place. However they can be a help when they are used properly. The first one is the use of protein powders, when people are trying to make sure their protein consumption is sufficient it can sometimes be difficult to find a good protein source for each meal and sometimes you are short on time. Whey protein can be used as a meal replacement and are especially good after workouts and at night-time to replace a meal where you do not want to be consuming many calories before sleep but want to give your body the protein it needs to help repair itself during the night. Fat burners can also be a help, the main things that they do is help reduce your appetite when you are dieting and also to help boost your energies when you have reduced your dietary intake. They help with the last bit of dieting as sometimes your body will burn less energy because you are eating less.

Burning Body Fat With A Diet And Exercise Plan

Obesity is one of the main causes of low confidence. It makes a person feel unattractive. It makes you want to blend into the walls. It keeps you from exploiting your true potential. More importantly, obesity is also a health risk. There may not be a need to be as waif-thin as the models on fashion runways. However, one cannot undermine the importance of being fit. An obese or overweight person is far more vulnerable to several health risks than a slimmer and fitter person. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer -- these are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the health problems that overweight people are susceptible to.

Having an excess amount of body fat in your body is not just unattractive. It is also unhealthy. If you are one of the many people who need to shed a considerable amount of weight, do not postpone it any longer. Consult a physical trainer and dietician to help you find the best solution to your "fat" problems. Fad diets are a bad way to burn body fat. Instead, one needs to have regular and disciplined food habits. Eating a balanced diet that is geared to burning body fat is a start to actually losing some of your fatty tissue.

To lose large quantities of body fat, you should follow a good exercise routine that is customized to your specific needs. It is not enough to just jog for an hour every day. You must hit upon an exercise routine that will produce results for you. Your gym instructor should be able to guide you with regard to the kind of routine that would produce fast and durable results. If you are severely overweight or have some other health problems, make sure that you check with your doctor before you finalize any diet and exercise plan.

Remember that you are not going to be very successful in your attempts to lose body fat if you do not stay focused. Persistence and determination count for a lot when it comes to the task of burning body fat. This is not something that can be achieved in a week. One needs to remain dedicated to the dream of becoming fit. If you persist, you will end up steadily losing some pounds as the weeks move on. If you are irregular, your attempts to burn body fat will have little effect. The secrets of a healthy life are a healthy diet and a good fitness program. Find these and then follow them. Start living healthy.

How To Lose Weight During Vacation Holidays?

Let's do juicing! Just the mention of juicing and one conjures up visions of celebrity super bodies relaxing around the LA pool, soaking in the sun and sipping some colourful concoction through elegant, sometimes flashy straws.

Well however you prefer yours, I've got no problem, but juicing is here to stay - thankfully, at long last, it's taken its rightful place on the podium with the kings and queens of dieting.

There are many wonderful benefits to juice dieting. To be frank, it's the simplest, most convenient road into the invigorating lifestyle associated with a healthy, vibrant body. Your body belongs to you and its up to you to take control of its well being. We've been led along the path to ill health and sickness long enough and the giants of the food and drink conglomerates have only been too willing to take us there.

What to Expect From Your Juice Diet

At the outset, juice diets are not to be mistaken for any other liquid diet. A diet based on fruit and vegetable juices is quit unlike a regular liquid diet. When you undertake a course of juice dieting your intake is set around consuming about 8 tall glasses, each of 12 ounces, of specially formulated juice per day. The super packed foods, which you will consume, are not the odd bottle of shop bought Tropicana from the local gas station on the way from a hard day at work.

Special Formula Juice Diet

For the juice diet to be successful you need to drink the expressly formulated juices which are obtainable online and in health food stores. These drinks are designed with the added vitamins and minerals your body needs in larger amounts than would be achievable with fresh fruit juices alone.

Once you embark on a correct fruit and vegetable diet you'll be amazed at just how you begin to feel. That feeling of wellness extends to greater levels of energy and a sense of complete vigour and this is a feeling that great many people have never before experienced, especially as you consider the act that the average diet consists of junk food that we have been fed since childhood.

Fresh fruit juices are, quite simply packed to the brim with minerals and essential vitamins, enzymes and photo nutrients, all waiting to find a resting place in your body. From the day you begin a serious fruit juice diet you need no longer think about measuring your recommended daily allowance of bottled vitamins and minerals. In fact you can cross these off your shopping list, thereby saving you money and time.

Rapid Results from a Fruit Diet
In most cases your body will be able to tell the difference in just two short days. That's all that's needed to begin to feel a new person, even after decades of neglect.

Convenience

Don't forget the convenience factor - you can put away your pots and pans and just pull out that juice extractor and get juicing for a new you.

Juicing is the natural way to revitalise your body and I'm ever more convinced of this fact. Over the years family, friends, associates and colleges have all testified to the fact that they now feel years younger, more vitalised and energised than ever before. Simply put, juicing is the most natural, convenient and delicious way of restoring the years the locust has eaten.

I wish you every blessing as you seek health and restoration, as you seek to take the initiative and live life to the full.

How Juice Dieting Can Help You Lose Weight

Let's do juicing! Just the mention of juicing and one conjures up visions of celebrity super bodies relaxing around the LA pool, soaking in the sun and sipping some colourful concoction through elegant, sometimes flashy straws.

Well however you prefer yours, I've got no problem, but juicing is here to stay - thankfully, at long last, it's taken its rightful place on the podium with the kings and queens of dieting.

There are many wonderful benefits to juice dieting. To be frank, it's the simplest, most convenient road into the invigorating lifestyle associated with a healthy, vibrant body. Your body belongs to you and its up to you to take control of its well being. We've been led along the path to ill health and sickness long enough and the giants of the food and drink conglomerates have only been too willing to take us there.

What to Expect From Your Juice Diet

At the outset, juice diets are not to be mistaken for any other liquid diet. A diet based on fruit and vegetable juices is quit unlike a regular liquid diet. When you undertake a course of juice dieting your intake is set around consuming about 8 tall glasses, each of 12 ounces, of specially formulated juice per day. The super packed foods, which you will consume, are not the odd bottle of shop bought Tropicana from the local gas station on the way from a hard day at work.

Special Formula Juice Diet

For the juice diet to be successful you need to drink the expressly formulated juices which are obtainable online and in health food stores. These drinks are designed with the added vitamins and minerals your body needs in larger amounts than would be achievable with fresh fruit juices alone.

Once you embark on a correct fruit and vegetable diet you'll be amazed at just how you begin to feel. That feeling of wellness extends to greater levels of energy and a sense of complete vigour and this is a feeling that great many people have never before experienced, especially as you consider the act that the average diet consists of junk food that we have been fed since childhood.

Fresh fruit juices are, quite simply packed to the brim with minerals and essential vitamins, enzymes and photo nutrients, all waiting to find a resting place in your body. From the day you begin a serious fruit juice diet you need no longer think about measuring your recommended daily allowance of bottled vitamins and minerals. In fact you can cross these off your shopping list, thereby saving you money and time.

Rapid Results from a Fruit Diet
In most cases your body will be able to tell the difference in just two short days. That's all that's needed to begin to feel a new person, even after decades of neglect.

Convenience

Don't forget the convenience factor - you can put away your pots and pans and just pull out that juice extractor and get juicing for a new you.

Juicing is the natural way to revitalise your body and I'm ever more convinced of this fact. Over the years family, friends, associates and colleges have all testified to the fact that they now feel years younger, more vitalised and energised than ever before. Simply put, juicing is the most natural, convenient and delicious way of restoring the years the locust has eaten.

I wish you every blessing as you seek health and restoration, as you seek to take the initiative and live life to the full.

Diet And The Power Of Protein

Dr. David Heber M.D., Ph.D. Graduate at the Harward medical School and esteemed Director of UCLA Centre for Human Nutrition, championing a worldwide battle against human obesity to a life one dedication to a science of the human nutrition.

Three decades of researched and commitment of helping save people's lives.

Resulting of Dr. Heber's directions of the National Institute of Health and the National Cancer Institute.

Director of the Mark Hughes Cellular and Molecular Laboratories at UCLA, Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board of Herbalife International. And now hear directly form Dr. Heber how you can obtain your best possible Shape.

Today everyone is talking about obesity.

One of two Americans are overweight, one of three are obese. Countries like Japan who has always had an healthy diet, today finds that obesity has been increase to 5 % to 20 % of the population! This is a worldwide epidemic!

For the first time in human history there are 2 billion overweight people and 2 billion underweight people in the world with the two numbers equal for the very first time in human history.

So what's happened in the last 20 years?

I like to say: "it's not a fish, it's the aquarium", we haven't changed, our genes are the same, they have been in our body for 50.000 years, what's changed is our diet and our lifestyle.

We have fast food, we eat a lot of snacks, we spend a lot of time in our cars, we have sedentary job sitting at computers all day, if we can understand our body, understand how they work, we can solve this problem together.

So the first step is understanding your body shape, and understanding your body fat and understanding your body protein.

People comes out with all different shapes, man can get body fact mostly in the upper body, women get it either in the upper or in the lower body.

The upper body fat, is fat that allows you to hang on the calories while you search for food. You may resist whole days without food in the jungle with your upper body fat.

Women lower body fat is there to allowed them to breast feed infant. It responds to the female hormones. It too is an important organ in your body, just like your hearth, the kidney, or your brain.

Understanding how it works and understanding how your diet relates to your body shape, your body fat, your body protein, is the key of being successful.

I've got a lots of different patients in the last 30 years. Typically a big man with a lot of upper body fat tells me: " Oh, I can loose weight any time I want, I can cut my stake in half and I loose 20 pounds!"

The bad side of habits he thinks he can loose weight any time he wants. So he doesn't care of what he eats every day and he may continue to eat a 400 grams stakes with onions rings...

On the other hand of the spectrum, there is a small woman who wants to loose weight but can't. She follows all rules, eats the right food, but because her metabolism is slow, because of her low level or body protein, she is not able of loose weight as easily. Women usually loose weight more slowly than man.

So what's the key of understanding your body?

You have to know your body protein, match the protein in your diet to the protein in your body and understand that we each have a personal best shape.

One size is not for all. Understand your body shape is the first step for the loosing weight and setting your personal best shape in the most effective and easiest way possible.

So first thing is understanding your body, understanding your body shape, understanding your body fat and how it relates to your diet and life style.

The first thing I will do to teach you to understand your body is to determine the amount of protein that is in your body. Protein is extremely important, it helps to maintain healthy muscles and organs in your body. If you don't eat enough protein in your diet, your body steal your protein from muscles, leaver and other organs. If there is not enough protein in your diet you don't' have enough energy during the day. But if you eat enough protein you have a lot of energy and protein will help you to satisfy your hunger. So you won't be as tempted to eat the wrong foods.

Now, I am determining how much protein is in your body. I estimate your lean. For every pound of lean in your body, you need 1 gram of protein. So a woman with 100 pounds of lean will need 100 grams of protein a day, her husband with 150 pounds of lean, will need 150 grams of protein in his diet every day. And I can also determine the amount of calories you burn every day, with a very simple tool. Two electrodes on your hands and feet, fully painless, and in a few seconds using your electrical properties of your body I can determine how much lean and how much fat is in your body.

A woman with 100 pounds of lean burns 1400 calories per day since every pound of lean burns 31 calories per day.

Her husband with 150 pounds of lean burns 2100 calories per day.

So now I know how much protein you need in a diet and how many calories you burn per day.

How can I find out how quickly you loose weight on a diet? What turns out is, if I can give you a diet that's 500 calories lower I calculate to be resting calories burned per day, you loose 1 pound per week.

Finally I can determine your target weight, what will be your right weight for you at the proper range of body fat.

All of that information in a few minutes from this simple tools. So we are building a road map for you. If you are gonna go on a trip for a city for vacation, you'd like to know "which road do I take? How long will take me to take there? What's my final destination? Using this simple tool we found to map out your journey to your personal best body shape.

How many calories you burn per day? How much protein you need in your diet, how quickly you loose weight, your ultimate target weight should be.

Now you know how much protein and how much calories you will need to loose weight properly.
But how we do it? How it will do during the day?

Well, it's very difficult for you to eat the right number calories just try to eat less of your favourite foods.

What I found works the best in the ideal meal. An healthy protein fortified shake tastes good and moody. (...)

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. All Rights Reserved.

Paid Survey Opportunities -- A Flexible Way to Earn Extra Cash

What are the advantages of paid survey opportunities? In today's busy world, it seems like both time and money are in short supply. But, you don't have to live paycheck to paycheck just because you can't find the time to add a traditional part-time job to your already jam-packed schedule. By sharing your opinions with legitimate survey sites, you can get the cash you need without sacrificing time with your family and friends.



Making money with paid surveys is surprisingly easy. You don't need to spend thousands of dollars purchasing expensive inventory and supplies. All you need is an e-mail address and reliable Internet access to start earning money with paid survey opportunities.



Online surveys are one of the most flexible ways you can earn the supplemental income you need. In fact, most surveys can be completed in just 15 to 30 minutes. Once you learn how to get paid for surveys, you can earn the cash you need while you're waiting to pick your daughter up from ballet practice or waiting for your clothes to dry at the Laundromat. If you're a chronic insomniac, you can even complete online surveys instead of lulling yourself back to sleep by watching late night TV!



Since the purpose of online survey programs is to conduct market research for various companies, you'll be asked a number of questions about your age, where you live, and what type of job you have. You may also be asked what kind of car you drive, if you own a pet, and whether or not you have any children. Answer these questions honestly; there's no need to lie. Whether you're a college student or a stay at home parent looking to earn some extra cash, there are paid surveys available that fit your needs.






Although the compensation for paid survey opportunities varies, most experienced survey participants find that surveys offer an hourly wage that is far greater than what they could expect to earn at a traditional part-time job. Some survey sites even offer additional perks like free product samples or the chance to win gift certificates and other special incentives. Whether you're trying to finally afford that dream vacation or eager to start saving for retirement, learning how to get paid for taking surveys is a smart move.



However, it's important to be patient and approach online surveys with the same enthusiasm you'd give any other work at home business opportunity. Paid survey opportunities aren't a get rich quick scheme; it may take a few months before you see the maximum results from your efforts. Don't get discouraged until you've given yourself time to learn the ropes of this fun and exciting opportunity.

Google Pay Per Click: Making Money With AdWords

AdWords is Google's answer to helping people get their ads out and increasing their website sales with heavily targeted traffic. This article will give you a big head start over most.


This is a PPC ( Pay Per Click ) system. You only pay for advertising when an interested person sees your AdWords ad and clicks on it. The amount you pay per click is dependent on many factors.


Some of the factors that go toward deciding the price per click are:


1. The amount of competition bidding on that keyword.


2. The site value that Google may give your site.


3. The amount of clicks on your ad itself compared to the amount of exposures your ad receives (CTR),


Even though a keyword may start at a high price per click, its popularity will bring the price down. Popularity is the result of people using Google to search a term or phrase and choosing your ad. As your Click Thru Rate (CTR) rises you will see the price per click go down. I've had keywords start at over one dollar and fall to about five cents a click.


Some tips to lift your your CTR and thus lower your PPC (Price Per Click) are:


1. Use the keywords that you are bidding on heavily in your ad.
This will make the keywords in your ad show in bold and stand out when someone does a search on Google using your keyword.


2. Encasing your keywords in [square brackets} or the use of "talking marks" will ensure your ad relates to what is being searched. Without the [square brackets} or "talking marks" around your keywords, your keywords will cover a larger unrelated area giving your ads more exposure but less clicks. This will force down your CTR (Click Thur Rate) and force your price per click up. Not a good thing.


3. The use of negative keywords. Negative keywords really bugged me because I read all about them and their use but didn't know what they were, the articles never actually explained what or how to make them. Just that it was the thing to do.


Negative keywords: if you were looking for people searching for the keyword "pink" but don't want people who are searching for "light pink" then you would ad the negative keyword -light to your list of AdWords keywords the same way as you add the keywords you are bidding on.


Did you notice the minus sign (-) next to the keyword above? Here it is again, -light. You put in as many negative words as you can think of to narrow down searchers to the ones you want.


4. With AdWords you can go locally or globally. You can limit your ad to only viewers in a particular city, state or country. If you live in New York City selling meat pies, then you may not want to sell them to china. Limiting your ad to a specific location, country and language will increase the likely-hood of great targeted traffic clicking your ad and bringing the average price of your clicks down.


With AdWords your aim is to get highly targeted cheap traffic to your website and to make sure you are profiting from the use of AdWords. To see if you are profiting you have to answer these questions:


A. How many clicks does it take to get one sale?


B. How much do I profit from one sale?


Divide A by B to see if you are in profit using AdWords or losing money! If you are in profit great, if you are losing money your keywords, negative keywords and your ad need more fine tuning or changing. You may even have to reconsider what you are trying to sell or your sales copy. A customer follow-up auto-responder will help improve copy sales. People don't often buy the first time they see a website, but you are off to a much better start then most.


AdWords gives us the ability to give people what they are searching for and to profit from that service. Start slowly with a small daily budget and have fun.

10 Reasons To Start an Online Business

1: Anyone Can Do It. It’s true; it has never been so easy to start a business. Think about it, in the past you were confined mostly to brick and mortar businesses. You would need retail premises or warehousing. Now you don’t need any of these. You don’t need experience. Everything you need to know is out there on the World Wide Web. Get yourself a notepad, put the coffee pot on and hit the search engines. Be methodical, visit message boards, user groups and article directories. Subscribe to ezines. (Online magazines). Ask lots of Questions.

2: Low cost. This has to be one of the cheapest ways to start your own business. You’ve got a PC and an Internet connection, what more do you need? Web hosting? You can even get this for free! You may need to upgrade at a later stage, which will cost you money, but even then it won’t be really expensive. A web site? Maybe, it depends what type of business you start. But again you can do it yourself with Microsoft Frontpage, or similar software. Even free web hosting may come with a Wizard to help you build a site. Content for your Web page? Again it depends what sort of business you want but this could even be found for free. As above, hit the search engines!

3: Work from home. Didn’t you always dream of working from home? No more daily commute, sitting in traffic wondering where you’re life is going. More time for yourself and your family. You can wear what you like, work when you like. If you want to get up at 5 am, and work while it’s quiet, go ahead. A word of caution! You must be disciplined when working from home. If you got a space to call an office, then use it. Tell you family and friends not to disturb you except in emergencies. (Running out of ice cream is not an emergency).

4: No Staff. Can you imagine running a store without staff? Or a repair shop, or almost any ordinary business. In most cases it can’t be done. If you need three staff, ones on vacation and another calls in sick, you’ve got a real headache. But working from home you shouldn’t have these problems. If you need help with some tasks, like copy writing, or web page design, You can hire people’s services online at sites like elance.com

5: Part Time. Not only can you work from home but you can work part time. It is possible to run a very successful online business in just a few hours a week. Maybe in the early stages of creating your business, you’ll burn the midnight oil. But with so many repetitive tasks being done by software packages, e.g.; autoresponders, once you’re set up you may need to do little more than regular maintenance. Or create new products.

6: A portable business. One of the great things about your online business is that being run from a computer means it can be run from a computer anywhere. If you’ve got a laptop, you can work in the garden, or from bed. As long as you can get an Internet connection, you can go on vacation and still do some work.

7: No stock or Shipping. If you choose a business selling information products; such as ebooks. They can be downloaded by your customer, which means you don’t have to carry stock, or deal with packing and shipping. If you want to sell a physical product, search the internet for drop shippers. These are companies who carry the stock and do the shipping for you. There are drop shippers carrying an amazing variety of goods.

8: 24/7 Income. This has to be one of the best things about your online business. You don’t have to pull down the shutters at 6.00pm or any time at all for that matter. If you’ve set things up with lots of automation built in your web site can be pulling visitors night and day. And from around the world. You can earn money while you’re sleeping.

9: More fun than work. It’s a good idea to base your business around an interest or hobby, something you’re intimately involved with and knowledgeable about. Whether it is Koi carp, computer games or wedding planning, if you are passionate about it, you won’t feel like you’re working. You will want to get up in the morning, and get on with it. No more Monday morning blues.

10: Control your own destiny. There is nothing quite like taking charge of your own life. You may only start part time, but when you’re successful in your business, that extra income can be a real boost, and not just in spending power but in your self esteem. Maybe you like your job, but a little extra money every month will give you freedom from worrying about bills and the pleasure of spending more on your family. A few treats now and again can work wonders for your morale. If you hate your job, then looking forward to getting home to work on your own business, sure helps you get through the day. And looking forward to the day you quit, spurs you on to be successful. I hope I’ve given you something positive to think about. If you’re inspired to start an online business, but still worried about the nuts and bolts of it, remember, the World Wide Web, is full of free advice. There are thousands of ebooks available, thousands of articles, thousands of products to help you, much of it low cost or free. Start today.