“Good” Cholesterol Vs “Bad” Cholesterol

April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment

Do you ever try to scan every product available in your local grocery? You will find that majority of that product is labeled as …-free, i don’t mean it is ‘free of charge’ but it’s mentioned as is bromate-free, fat-free, cholesterol-free, preservative-free, etc. You see?

This is not absolutely bad, but we have to be more concern about the foods we consume and the nutrients that we get from them, and that was recommended by health experts. Please note, not everything that is –free is good for our health. Our body need certain substances to run well. Let us take a look at cholesterol for example. Really simply defined, cholesterol is a fatty substance that occurs naturally in the blood, cell walls and most body tissues. Cholesterol is made by the liver, and it enters the body via foods rich in saturated fat.

There are two kind of cholesterol: the good and bad cholesterol. Why they mentioned as the good cholesterol because it is needed for certain important body functions, but cholesterol also has an bad side. If the bad cholesterol present in excessive amounts in our body, it can injure blood vessels, then cause heart attacks and stroke.

Low density lipoprotein (LDL) is the “evil” cholesterol. This is the form in which cholesterol is carried into the blood and is the main cause of dangerous fatty buildup in arteries. The higher the LDL cholesterol levels in the blood, the higher the heart disease risk.
On the other side, high density lipoprotein (HDL) is the “good” cholesterol. This “good” cholesterol carries blood cholesterol back to the liver, where it can be eliminated. HDL helps prohibit a cholesterol buildup in blood vessels. Low HDL levels increase heart disease risk.

Before going into cholesterol deprivation program, You should mention that cholesterol is needed for human life. It develops and repairs cell, it is needed to produce sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone, it is converted to bile acids to help you digest food and it is found in large amounts in important organ such as brain.

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Fat, Still Fit

March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment

According to Mayo Clinic, people won’t be fit if they are overweight. Their extra fat will hurt their heart. Although they exercise every day if the body still over, it’s still not good.

Some people say that being fat is not always bad if the heart run normally and they said that exercising 15 minute every day are enough to solve all the problem.

But according to Mayo Clinic’s experts, their opinion is absolutely wrong. Overweight is always bad for our health. Exercise is just temporary solution and won’t stop diabetes development.

And the other important thing, based on studies, regardless of their weight, people still need to do exercise 30 minute every day in order to stay fit.

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How to Lose Weight

March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In urban life, usually physical appearance is more important than before. Many people are interested in keeping themselves in shape, especially after a winter of eating heavier food at the expense of fresh vegetables and fruits. The popular image of a successful person seems to be built around fitness in both the physical and moral aspects.

When trying to remove unwanted excess fat the first thing to check is your diet. Hamburger, chips, fries and soda is a tasty and satisfying combination, but beware, it is also deadly food to your health. You must stop eating high powered food that gives too much energy, you should prefer fruits or vegetables if you want to be fit.

Your body will keep all the thing inside and will not throw it. The body will keep it and use it next time. Energy is one of the most important thing that can be stored. Eating hamburger and chips while leading a largely sedentary lifestyle gives your body much more energy than what it needs. And we know this energy converted to fat and put in to storage. So you must replace this kind of food with the fruits and vegetables for your health.

The second part of the system is exercising. Diet program will make your body doesn’t get more energy than it should, doing exercise will help use up energy that over. Taking brisk walks after meals is fine, exercising half an hour per day is good, going to a gym for an hour or too five day a week is perfect. There’s no need to starve or exhaust yourself. With a bit of thinking and positive attitude, diet and exercising will be fun.

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The Causes of Obesity

March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The obesity is caused by unhealthy eating combined with sustain shortage activity. The basic idea behind obesity is burning less calories which already given by food, that is why the body become a fat storage.

The top reason why people become obesity is bad eating habit with neither the time, nor preference to control one’s meals, it was no wonder people get fat all over the world. Couple with a sedentary lifestyle where trips using car or motorcycle and you got a health situation uncontrol.

Genetics: obesity can also been inherited from family member who suffered from it. It’s possible to you get obese, if your family has a history of obesity, but do not take this fact seriously, you can fight obesity.

Junk Food : Sometime we prefer to eat any fast food restaurant in a hurry, we love burgers very much, but beware because the fat are really highly and will attack their health. A single burger is worth a whole meal, but interestingly a regular burger will never fill your stomach, so you never stop consume it.

Many people trying to diet and having a plan to lose a few pounds, but after a while they return to their old lifestyle and back to the bad eating habits. So they got weight lost turn into weight regained and then feel impossible to lose their weight.

You might hard to follow long diet program, because you will always want the forbidden foods, the foods that you always want. The fact that most delicious foods are forbidden, but CAUTION: “no pain no gain”. People who want to lose their weight must arrange their lifestyle to their needs, especially by making time for more exercising.

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Stair Sprinting

March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

To lose weight is not too difficult. You only have to be careful about the food you eat and to make more effort than before. You may keep your body will built by simple exercises, you don’t need professional advise and supervision.
That anybody can exercise at home or in the park is called “Stair Sprinting”. What you must do is run up and down the stairs between several floors. It will be better if you do it on more floors.

It’s a good idea to start small even if you are in a good physical condition. Running up and down four floors two times. At the first time overweight people usually unlikely to manage more than two reps a way. It’s no problem if you aren’t able to do more than two reps in the beginning.

Increase the number of reps either three or four after two weeks, depend on how your feel. If you can take four reps up and down four of stairs, therefore by all means do extremely. But if you aren’t able, take just three reps. As the weeks go by, you may add even more reps to your routine in order to increase your endurance and too put the muscles to work.

The legs will be look nice if you consistent to do it, ladies and gents look shape built when they try stair sprinting. Having to carry your own weight up the stairs instead of flat terrain puts more stress on the muscles and help the feet gain more endurance. Running up and down the stairs makes it so easy to trip or miss a step and splay an ankle. Please note, be pretty careful when doing it, if you aren’t more serious injured might happen to you.

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Push Ups

March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment

In the big book of fitness exercises tells that push up is the oldest trick exercise. It is well known and has been around for so long. It looks ancient and it feels ancient. But it also very simple and very effective to makes bulging pectoral.
Push up is famous exercise that can do anywhere. To perform push ups you need to lie your face down on the floor and then pull your body up and down by using the strength of our arms. Push ups will strengthen the pectoral triceps and to some extent, the deltoids, if you consistent on doing it.

If you want to built your shoulder and chest muscles you may try the press ups, there are the military or athletic version of the push ups. Press ups are perform with the back and legs straight and off the floor. You can put your feet on a low chair or armchair if you at home, or pop up your feet can use a bench if you are in the park. It will be better if you not raise your legs too high above the shoulder line.

Push ups have other variations performed such as using four fingers at each hand, using only one hand, clapping the hands (stronger pushes that raise the body than usual), or pressing against a wall instead of using the floor. You should be careful while doing the other variations of push up.

Push up is the simple exercise you should do if you are an overweight person.

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You Should Exercise Since You are Young

November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Everybody knows that preventive measures are better than going to hospital. It means that the earlier you begin to take care of your body, the better your life will be.

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute released a medical study that encourage people to exercise regularly to minimize the risk of developing high blood pressure and high levels of triglycerides. The study also describe that cardiorespiratory exercise performed in the early adulthood have a serious impact on the risk of developing high blood pressure and diabetes in the middle age which the next effects are likely to lead to strokes or heart attacks in the old age.

The point is, you should start exercise today. As mentioned before, preventive tasks are always better than having to deal with hospitals in the future. Perhaps you enjoy eating all sorts of good thing today, but after a certain age those good will impact a high blood pressure, you have been warned.

Once you’re past your thirtieth birthday you no longer snap back the same way and excess eating coupled with excess TV watching equal fat, diabetes, hypertension and other unpleasant things that require frequent trips to the doctor and many pills. While the 30s and the 40s seem far away to a young man, time flies faster than we think and suddenly you’re no longer young. But you can still be healthy with a little exercising every day.

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Are There Replacement of Xenical Weight Loss Pills?

November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In this millennium era that technology becomes a second god, can the latest medical invention fight again today’s obesity epidemic? Xenical has been known for a long time as a traditional capsule for obese patients, and recently, the FDA gave the thumbs up to an over the counter version – Alli. Both product contain the active ingredient Orlistat, a lipase inhabitor that helps prevent fat being absorbed into the body.

Is Xenical safe to consume?

The Orlistat inside the Xenical pills able to decrease the amount of fat that is broken down in the stomach and absorbed into the body by about 30%. Instead, fats are expelled naturally in faces, thus helping towards weight loss.

Xenical seem perfect for those of us who struggle to keep a healthy diet. But actually the Orlistat is commonly only prescribed to obese people with a body mass index (BMI) in excess of 30kg/m2. So if you are not extremely overweight, Xenical/Alli may not be the perfect option for you. Please consult your doctor.

Are there some side effects of Xenical and Alli? Yes

Beware, many side effects from consuming Orlistat products have been discovered. Consumers have experienced uncontrollable anal discharges, therefore consuming this drug means facing horrible situations. Other side effects include oily stools, loss of bowel control, diarrhea rectal pain, liver inflammation and fatigue. It means that Orlistat based drugs are not as good as we expected.

If we don’t want to experience the side effects, what is the alternatives product?

There are tons of weight loss products available on the market, but only a few have been clinically proven to be effective. There are products on the market that are proven to have very similar benefits to Orlistat in reducing fat in take, but without the mentioned side effects of Xenical and Alli. Proactol™ is a relatively new weight management product that also reduces fat from food we eat by around 30%, but in different way.

Proactol™ – Safe, Clinically Proven Fat Binder

Proactol™ is based on a patented fiber complex, that rather than just preventing fat from being broken down, pulling in fat molecules and binding them into a viscous solution in the stomach. So fat is prevented from entering the body without the embarrassing side effects of Xenical and Alli. Initial user feedback of Proactol is extremely positive, and as well as reducing fat intake.

Proactol has the following associated benefits:

• Helps to suppress appetite
• Helps to reduce cholesterol levels
• Decreases food cravings

Among hundreds of modern weight loss pills on the market, Proactol™ is one of the few that is believed and proven to be effective based on various pre-clinical test. As with most weight loss programs, always combine the consumption of Proactol™ with a healthy diet and active lifestyle.

To get more details about the benefit of Proactol™ is visit www.proactol.com

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The Popular Mediterranean Diet

November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Mediterranean diet is one of the most popular diet nowadays. The diet plan is said to be easy to follow as it encourages the dieters to consume some wine and has less restrictive food compare to the other plan.

Many medical professional, nutritionist and dieters have positive opinion that the Mediterranean diet is the perfect plan to achieve an ideal weight, keep your blood pressure low and reduce the risk of heart disease. Do you believe it?

Let’s see what the basic of Mediterranean diet plan : fresh fruits and vegetable rule supreme, a huge amount of vegetarian dishes traditionally prepared with fresh produce (no frozen, no canned etc), a lot of fish, some poultry and very little beef or pork. Well, It does sound very healthy. The fact is, they do have fruits and vegetables in season all year round. As we all know, this is not the case in North Europe and much of the US. And nor is it likely for anyone living here to find organic produce at reasonable prices. So The true Mediterranean diet plan can be very expensive, yea it is very expensive and need a long long time.

In Mediterranean diet, olive oil is used to reduce cholesterol. The oil is known as the best source of Phenolic compounds. But actually you can also find Phenolic compounds in berries, prunes, red grapes and red grape juice, kiwifruit, currants, apples and apple juice, and tomatoes.

The point is, you have to eat fresh produce meal. But we know Mediterranean lifestyle is not urban lifestyle that runs at faster pace. So there must be something hard to follow. Last but not least, reducing stress can help keep your heart healthy and can certainly cut down on the amount of stress-induced eating that we do, whether or not we eat Mediterranean food.

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Take The Benefit of Free Dieting Plan

November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Many free dieting plan available on the internet that could be offer you the way to success. But some of the are bad or even dangerous to follow, such as the cabbage soup diet or the 3 days diet.

Is it real that the free diet plan available on the net?”

It is not difficult to find a diet plan from search engine, just use you’re your knowledge and your intuition to pick keyword for various diets. For example you can search the information about the minimum calories that human need to stay survive and well, it doesn’t matter whether you are fat or slim, you still need about 1300 calories per day.

The core concept of a good dieting scheme is the eating guidelines based on the daily limits of calories to consume. And whatever plan encouraging you to consume only 500 calories per day won’t help you at all.

In dieting world, most of people would say that consume unhealthy food sometimes are unstoppable because various conditions such as joining wedding party or something else. So to make your dieting process more convenient you should find a diet that can accommodate your favorite foods. It is good in the long term dieting.

A good tip when you are in diet plan to make transition your eating habit from a dedicated evening to early morning. Make your diet plan more fun and enjoyable with that trick.

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