Archive for August, 2008

Do you think losing weight is an easy process? Losing weight is not that easy as you think.

It greatly involves strong motivation, determination and dedication towards it.

But, there are certain simple changes which you have to make in your regular routine to improve your chances of weight loss.

So, if you are really serious about changing your lifestyle, try to consider these effective and successful tips to reach your weight loss goal.

Pay attention on what you eat!

Start to pay more attention on what you eat. Reduce your fat intake and sweets; instead add fresh fruits and vegetables. Once when you gain control over it, add more physical activity in your regular routine.

If you hate to exercise, initially start with a 15 minute exercise and gradually increase it to 30 minutes.

Start your meal with a salad or soup and finish with a fruit!

Having a salad or a cup of soup can curb your hunger and prevent from overeating and help you to stay in control of planned food portions.

—Effective Ways To De-Stress Yourself With Diet!

Is your high-stress life leading you to eat badly or your bad eating habits making you to feel more stressed? Probably, both can happen depending on the situations in your life.

For some of you, stress can make you to develop unhealthy food cravings and for some people consuming diet that is rich in sugar, caffeine, etc, can make them to experience more stress.

So, it becomes very essential for you to find effective ways to deal with stress in your life and adopt healthy diet that is rich in essential nutrients, which can help you to keep your moods up by reducing the stress in life.

Ways to de-stress with your diet:

Maintain balanced diet!

A well-balanced nutrition rich diet plan is considered as the best dietary defense against the disturbing stress in your life. Many studies suggest that the type of food we eat mainly contributes to normal brain function, maintaining proper energy levels, and stress levels in our body.

So, try to maintain a well-balanced diet in your regular routine, which can help you to stay away from stress and several mood disorders.

A study published online in the International Journal of Obesity shows that eating two eggs for breakfast, as part of a reduced-calorie diet, helps overweight adults lose more weight and feel more energetic than those who eat a bagel breakfast of equal calories.

This study supports previous research, published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, which showed that people who ate eggs for breakfast felt more satisfied and ate fewer calories at the following meal.

“People have a hard time adhering to diets and our research shows that choosing eggs for breakfast can dramatically improve the success of a weight loss plan,” said Nikhil V. Dhurandhar, Ph.D., lead researcher and associate professor in the laboratory of infection and obesity at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a campus of the Louisiana State University system.

“Apparently, the increased satiety and energy due to eggs helps people better comply with a reduced-calorie diet.”

Significant Weight Loss Related to Egg Breakfast

Compared to the subjects who ate a bagel breakfast, men and women who consumed two eggs for breakfast as part of a reduced-calorie diet:

Holidays! Undoubtedly, it is the perfect time for rejoicing and celebrating throughout your hectic year.

However, holidays are not only notorious for major traffic, but also for super-rich foods and lower activity levels in your regular routine.

This will mainly add up to your normal weight and can lead to holiday weight gain and at times it can potentially leads to adult obesity.

But the good news is that holiday weight gain is avoidable. You can possibly enjoy your holidays without gaining even a single pound.

There are several tips that can help you to prevent overindulging holidays. Here are certain effective tips that can hopefully help you to avoid holiday weight gain.

Tips to avoid holiday weight gain

Restrict yourself from emotional eating!

Most of you usually tend to use food as the major coping source for depression and loneliness. So, try to engage yourself as possible as you can during your holidays. This can help you a lot in preventing emotional eating and accordingly prevents weight gain in your holidays. [Overeating]

Always stay active!

Childhood obesity is on the rise and so are children’s cholesterol levels.

Children between the ages of 2 and 19 should have a total cholesterol level of 170 or below, according to the American Heart Association.

But poor eating and lifestyle habits are sending some children’s cholesterol levels above that threshold.

“Kids are eating way too many fast foods and processed foods,” said Tanya Zuckerbrot, a nutritionist and author of “The F-Factor Diet.”

“It’s not even the drive-thrus, it’s the refined foods, the Pop Tarts, and the white breads and the crackers and the chips that kids are snacking on. And kids are not moving as much,” Zuckerbrot said.

But Zuckerbrot said all that’s needed is for kids to move a little more and to include more fiber into their diets. Fiber, according to the American Heart Association is an important dietary source for improving digestion and lowering cholesterol.

There are two types of fiber: soluble and insoluble. Soluble has been shown to modestly reduce cholesterol levels, while insoluble fiber has been associated with decreased cardiovascular risk and slower progression of cardiovascular disease in high-risk individuals.