Sweet poison: why sugar is ruining our health

by | Apr 17, 2013 | Cravings, Diabetes, Sugars | 0 comments

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Being a child of the 60s I grew up with everything being sweetened, with tons and tons of sugar. And of course in later life that didn’t do me any good.

Thankfully in my late 20s I realized what this was doing to my body and decided that the two spoonful of sugar in my tea and the two or three in coffee had to stop simply because when you add up how much sugar I was having each day, it was probably somewhere around 40 teaspoonfuls and that of course doesn’t include what was in the food that I was eating.

According to this article by Victoria Lambert, the average person consumes around about 238 teaspoons of this potentially toxic substance each and every week. And she asks the question; just how hard is it to go sugar-free? Well thankfully, she also answers it as well.

So do follow the link below and find out how you can get sugar-free or at least drastically cut down something that is probably ruining your health.

Top 10 Reasons Why You’re Not Losing Weight

by | Apr 15, 2013 | Degenerative Diseases, Diet, Exercise, Weight Loss | 0 comments

Here’s a nice little article from Huffington Post – A list of 10 top reasons why you’re not losing weight.

It lists things like:

– You have a medical condition

– You’re not varying your work outs

– Not being consistent in your weight loss efforts

– You’re drinking too many sugary drinks and quite a few other things as well.

It’s well worth the read. I can’t promise you any in depth knowledge or understanding but its  timely reminders of what we should and shouldn’t be doing, I think will be worth the 5 minutes you popping over to have a look at it.

The link is below.

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Here’s the truth about belly fat

by | Apr 15, 2013 | Fats, How Your Body Works, Obesity, Weight gain | 0 comments

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Having a stomach or belly fat is never healthy whether you’re a man or a woman because the amount of fat that you carry around your stomach is a clear indicator of the amount of fat that surrounds your heart as well and when you consider whatever your heart does you don’t really want its function impeded by an excess of fat.

Here’s an article that might help you uncover the secrets to belly fat and how to get rid of it.

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How to Have a Good General Healthy Body

by | Apr 15, 2013 | Diet, General Health, How Your Body Works, Sensible Eating | 0 comments

In today’s hectic world that we live in, maintaining our good health care is very important for us to keep up with today’s economy lifestyle. All of us need to be healthy regardless of our age or gender. In order to be considered us as overall well being healthy, we should have a disease free body, fit and fill with abundant energy. Follow the healthy tips illustrate below for your general health benefits.

Steps

  1. Practice healthy living styles with proper food habits and exercise. To achieve a healthy body, we cannot be lazy and lethargic. We need to work hard, both physically and mentally to be fit and healthy. Exercise and eating healthy foods is essential to promote a healthy body.
  2. Avoid junk foods which make us lethargic and dull. Check and follow your healthy weight chart for maintaining healthy weight to an optimum body weight in order to be healthy. You will stand a much higher percentage of suffering from health problems if you are overweight and obese. 
  3. Consume a healthy diet, such as vegetables, fruits, fish, nuts, lean meat. Don’t forget to intake 8 glasses of liquid. Take minerals and vitamins supplement and get some healthy recipes that you prefer. Take some healthy snacks between meals. Avoid refined and junk foods. The main source for poor health and sickness is improper healthy eating habits. Many people suffer from sickness like diabetes, cancer, obesity and etc because of this. Changing your bad diet will contribute a great difference within a short period and can improve your health benefits drastically. Try to avoid smoking and heavy alcoholic drinks, moderate alcoholic drinking will benefit you.
  4. Exercise 30 minutes 5 days a week. Exercising in the morning can leave you with a refreshed feeling throughout the day and can put you in a good mental health and it will be easier for you to think positively and generate a better appetite. You can also get involved in activities such as swimming, biking, walking or playing your favorite sport in order to keep you healthy. Go for activities that you enjoy and not force yourself to activities that you despise, whereby you will lose interest and stop exercising and try to do your activities in the open air. In this way, you will feel more refreshed. You should start off with small changes and make sure you enjoy it. You should not make drastic changes excessively in your lifestyle. Try to make small changes over a period of time pursuing it into your regular habit in order to achieve long term success. Besides exercise, you need to have good sleep and rest in order to be healthy. A good sleep can refresh your mind and make you feel healthier.
  5. Realize that positive thinking is very essential in order to be healthy. Clear out your mind of all negative thoughts and fill it with positive ones. You will have to remove all the depressing and negative emotions and thoughts from your mind and replace it with healthy and positive thoughts. These positive thoughts can be extremely energizing and always lead to good things in life. You can get involved in practices such as meditation and yoga to get rid of the negativity and force yourself with positive thoughts.

Tips

  • All these small changes in your lifestyle can improve your health and fitness and certainly lowering your health care bill. You will feel a sense of well being, both emotionally and physically. It is very important to improve your health in order to be happy and enjoy life.
  • Reading can improve your mind, and widen your vocabulary. It’s always good to pick up a good book by good authors, such as George Orwell, Stephen Fry, and perhaps a screenplay by Shakespeare.

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Long-Term Study Confirms High BMI a Risk Factor for LBP

by | Apr 9, 2013 | How Your Body Works, Obesity, Weight gain | 0 comments

1299867383kZua0VOne of the things that sorted itself out when I lost weight was the back pain that I used to suffer from time to time and it’s not surprising really because when you’re carrying a lot of weight at the front as many men do you tend to lean back and of course that does bring a lot more strain on the lower part of your back. Not only that, the top part of your body is heavier as well and all that extra weight goes through the one point at the base of your spine.

Once again here’s a study that’s interesting whilst you could say it points out the obvious. It’s nice having common sense proven by a bit of science once in a while.

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Overweight While Younger Ups Kidney Risk Later

by | Apr 9, 2013 | Degenerative Diseases, How Your Body Works, Obesity, Weight gain | 0 comments

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According to this study by Dr. Dorothea Nitsch of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, we are more likely to suffer chronic kidney disease when we’re older if we are fat when we’re younger. In fact according to the latest research from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, you’re more than twice as likely to have CKD in your 60s if you’re overweight in your 20s than you would be if you stayed at a normal weight right up until your 60s.

What I found strange about the whole report interesting though it is, is that they don’t seem to be able to nail down the causes of this statistical correlation.

Yet when you consider what the kidneys do for our body, clearing out a lot of the garbage that it doesn’t need, someone who is overweight when they’re younger is producing a lot more garbage for their kidneys to clear out.

It shouldn’t be any wonder that after a lifetime of having to work harder than the kidneys of somebody consuming normal amounts of food that the kidneys of an overweight person would start to fail quite drastically as they get older.

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