5 Weight loss Tips
July 31, 2009 by italos
Filed under Diet & Weight Loss
I have seen people taking various diet plans and following them sincerely initially, but duh! They don’t get success. Either they are not able to follow them strictly or these plans do not last long. By not lasting long I mean they don’t give you long term relief.
Let’s talk about the tips.
Calorie restriction: The first point is you have to decrease your calorie consumption. So, you have to put restriction on your dieting schedule to effectively loose weight. If you are a healthy individual then you need at least a 1500 calories/day reduction for 25 weeks to loose 25% of the weight. And if you are in a sedentary job then you need at least an 800 calories loss in similar condition.
Daily Exercise: The fact is you can never loose weight without exercise. Jogging, walking and swimming are very good exercises and you gaining weight only when you have a sedentary job not moving your body. Exercise is essential part of maintaining weight.
Balanced Diet: Diet is a composition of carbohydrates, fats, fibers and protein. The right composition is very essential for the success of any dieting plan. Most dieting plans concentrate on the proportion of these components. A vegetable are the most essential parts of every dieting plan because of the low nutritional value and gives a lot of bulk.
Right Timing: This is yet another essential part of a right dieting plan. You can’t eat just all time. You should maintain a difference between the meals. Eat more in the morning and avoid heavy diets in the evening. In between engage yourself in other physical activities.
Your body system do not likes starvation. Its very essential part of a right dieting plan that you eat food according to a proper nutrient density. Those foods which do not gives a lot of nutrients/calories ratio are eaten in more amount and causes over eating and set backs your dieting plan. So eat food that has a good above ratio.
Following the above guidelines you can surely get a success in your dieting goal provided that you follow them strictly.
Fitness Tip: Be Vegetarian
July 31, 2009 by italos
Filed under Health & Fitness
Many people ask this question, does it worth being a vegetarian? And we get different views of life. Some says there’s not much of a difference, being a vegetarian or a non vegetarian. Some animal protectionists say save animals and become vegetarians. Well, the decision is of the individual.
The fact here is many people die every year for just eating meat. Confused? Let’s talk of the side of not being a vegetarian.
Meat, eggs and milk products increases cholesterol in the blood. That causes heart attacks and other heart diseases. Pure veggies have only the 10% chances of getting heart attacks, when compared to non-vegetarians. You have fewer chances of coronary heart disease, heart blocks and other heart related diseases.
You get chances of cancers from the artificial preservatives used for preserving the meat and they are harmful chemicals that cause irritation of your immune system and may cause cancer.
Animal diets have no fibers and plant diets have a lot of fibers, so your alimentary canal remains healthy when you eat a vegetarian diet. You are less likely to get constipation if you are a veggie. This also increases the risk of colon cancer in non-vegetarians.
There are lots of anti-oxidants in fruits and vegetables so veggies live a longer life because of these antioxidants. Anti-oxidants found in fruits are basically anti-aging agents that neutralize the active free radicals.
Meat and egg are big source of saturated fats. This fat is not utilized much and gets deposited in the body. This not only makes you obese but also makes you prone to many diseases.
Meat has lot of sodium salts when compared to plant products. This sodium causes hypertension and retention of water in the body and blood. This causes edema and other kidney disorders.
Plant products are the best source of vitamins, one of the most essential biochemicals. While, meat don’t have vitamins.
Vegetarians are less likely to put on weight when compared to those who eats meats.
So you can see there are many advantage of being a vegetarian. Not only your life span increases but also you gets a healthy and fit life.
