Asian green tea and Weight Loss

By: Bill Nad

Asian green tea has been around for thousands of year. It is believed that Asian green tea was discovered by a Asian emperor by accident. It comes from the same plant, Camellia Sinensis, as traditional black tea and oolong tea.

For centuries, Asian medicine has used it to treat headaches, digestive problems, lack of energy, and immune enhancement. The Asian diet green tea is produced by steaming the fresh tea leaves at high temperatures, leaving a significant part of the nutritional enzyme content intact.

Different from the black and oolong tea, the green tea is never fermented. Instead, its leaves bypass the fermenting process and steamed, baked or pan heated. The leaves are rolled and those tightly rolled leaves have long been considered as a sign of quality.

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Get healthy! Make the weight loss decision!

By: Peter Wolf

Weight loss is on everyone’s mind. Being successful at weight loss is a combination of several things. In fact, it is kind of a gradual process. It’s often treated as a “quick fix” or short-term goal. But it is a simple concept, you need to burn more calories than you consume.

A slow but consistent weight loss method is better than a rapid one. But most health experts agree that a fast result is a bad result. Quick weight loss is absolutely, positively, 100% guaranteed to result in residual weight gain. So, weight loss is not easy and not often successful.

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Risks of Dietary Supplements

By: Chris Chenoweth

A dietary supplement is a product that is intended to provide enhancement or improvement to your diet that contains vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs or other botanicals. It is taken orally as a pill, capsule, or liquid.

There are now thousands of dietary supplements on the market. Most contain vitamins and minerals that supplement the nutrients we can be missing from our regular diets. There are also products that do not contain vitamins or minerals, but other ingredients like botanicals, herbs, enzymes and amino acids.

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Lose Weight in 10 Easy Steps with Traditional Chinese Medicine

By: Elie Goldschmidt, L.Ac.

Every few years another weight loss drug gets thrown out because of their proven health risks. It used to be Redux and Fen-Phen. Yet, the FDA still approves new diet drugs, despite potential side effects that may be damaging to the heart. Is there another, safer way to lose weight?

The majority of people who resort to drugs to help them lose weight have previously tried dieting. Unfortunately, many studies indicate that as many as 95% of these people regain all their weight within a year.

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Demystifying Diet Myths

By: Lee Dobbins

In today’s modern culture wherein Paris Hilton is the goddess and the abs of Usher are every man’s goal, more and more people are into dieting. Unfortunately, a lot still fall into the diet myth trap out of their desire and eagerness to fit into a size 2.

The worse thing though is not only the fact that these myths are widespread, but that these diet myths, when practiced, have adverse effects on the body.

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Do Fad Diets Work?

By: Chris Chenoweth

Fad diets are weight loss plans that promise amazingly fast results. They do not offer any sort of long-term plan for success and they are usually very unhealthy, sometimes actually dangerous, for your body.

Some of the more popular fad diets are listed below:

LIQUID DIETS:

You drink a nutrient-rich liquid twice a day in place of your regular meals and eat a well-balanced meal as the third meal of the day.

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Sleepless Nights May Be A Culprit for Making you Obese

By: Javier Fuller

Having sleepless nights? Well! It is a big reason to worry about.

Not because you have become less productive and feel sleepy the whole day in your office, but because it may not be the only disorder that you may be suffering from.

There are several studies that show that insufficient sleeps reduce the production of certain hormones like leptin and ghrelin, to name a few. These hormones are very important as they are the ones which are responsible for your stomach’s hunger messages to be delivered to your brain. (more…)

Mediterranean Diet benefits

By: Chris Chenoweth

The people who live in countries that border the Mediterranean Sea have a significantly decreased incidence of heart disease, chronic diseases, and cancer, and the highest adult life-expectancy rate. All of these health benefits even though the traditional Mediterranean diet contains 40% of total daily calories from fat. How is this possible?

Olive oil, a staple of a Mediterranean diet, is a monosaturated fatty acid and counteracts animal fats. This type of fat does not raise blood cholesterol levels and is an excellent source of antioxidants. Monounsaturated fats are, in fact, required for the body in order to function effectively.

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10 Weight Loss Busters You Shouldn’t Eat

By: Eva Moffat

1. Fried Foods That Are Frightening

2. Steakhouse Stories That Scare

3 Manufacturers Mislead Many

4. Burgers That Are Bigger and Biggest

5. Awful Appetisers

6. Cakes and Cookies That Are Calorie Clogged

7. Diet Drinks That Deceive

8. High Calorie Horrors

9. Diet Disasters When Dining Out

10. Super Sized Servings That Sabotage Your Diet

1. Fried Foods That Are Frightening

Deep fried foods are nutritionally bad for you. If you enjoy going to fairs and carnivals, you may well be tempted to eat the strangest of concoctions. It’s amazing just what has been thrown into the deep fryer in the name of creativity.

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Painful Truth about Weight Loss

By: Carl Brown

Do you want to know a secret about diets? Here it is. All diets work. And… no diets work over the long term.

If you’ve decided to lose weight, you have decided to make a change in your behavior, either in your diet, or exercise, or both. If you choose a diet, and restrict your caloric intake, and perhaps add a little exercise, you WILL lose weight.

But what happens when you achieve your weight loss goal? Will you let your old dietary habits creep back in? If you do, you will see your weight slowly (or rapidly?) creep back up to your pre-diet weight.

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