March 17th, 2009 Milan
Happiness is a fundamental desire of every human being. Happiness is achievable and the process for obtaining it is not complicated. Anyone who desires it, and who learns it will become a happy person.
The way to happiness:
- Keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry
- Live simply
- Expect little, give much
- Fill your life with love
- Get some sunshine every day
- Forget self, think of others
- Do as you would be done by
- Have a child like heart and mind
- Stay physically active and work hard
- Make happiness a habit by practicing happy thinking
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March 13th, 2009 Milan
Food manufacturers love it, because it enhances their profits, so they add it into number of foods like: cereals, candy bars, ketchup, cookies, sweetened drinks and mainly soda.
HFCS is a man-made sweetener that’s cheaper and sweeter than sugar. It is a true junk food.
HFCS is very, very, really, really, really bad for you. That’s because it’s packed with calories, but your body doesn’t recognize these calories.
HFCS shuts off your body’s natural appetite control system, so you can eat and eat more than your body would normally be able to handle. And that makes people fat.
Unlike glucose, your body does not use fructose as an immediate source of energy, it metabolizes it into fat.
When you eat any carbohydrate, whether it contains glucose or starch, your body releases insulin to regulate your body weight. First, it tries to push the carbs into your muscle cells to be used as energy and also stores it in the liver for later use. Than it suppresses your appetite, telling your body that you’ve had enough. Finally, it stimulates production of leptin. Leptin helps regulate how much fat you store and helps increase your metabolism to keep your weight on check.
High-fructose corn syrup doesn’t stimulate insulin and therefore doesn’t increase production of leptin. And without insulin and leptin, your body has no shut-off mechanism. You can drink 5 liters of Sprite or Coke, or eat a half a gallon of ice cream and you body thinks you haven’t eaten anything at all.
Soft drinks are one of the main sources of HFCS. Even if you aren’t a soda drinker, HFCS could be in other products you use.
Read nutritional label: If label says “sugar” or “cane sugar,” the product contains sucrose, which is a 50/50 blend of glucose and fructose. That’s not such a big problem. But if HFCS is listed first or second, look at the chart on the nutrition label to see how much sugar the food contains. If it’s just 2 or 3 grams, that’s not that bad. But if you see a food that has 9 or more grams of sugar and HFCS is prominent on the list of ingredients, stay away from that stuff.
Your body can deal with a little bit of anything, but when your HFCS intake is big, you are heading for trouble.
Here are some of the foods high in HFCS or fructose:
- Soft drinks (like coke, sprite, pepsi)
- Commercial candy ( like skittles, starburst, jelly beans)
- Sweetened drinks ( like lipton ice tea, kerns juices)
- Some fruit flavored yogurts
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March 7th, 2009 Milan
With weight reduction through dieting only, people loose not just fat mass, but a little bit of liver, heart, muscle, and other lean tissue.
Metabolism slows down, when you only diet. And you don’t want your metabolism to slow down while you are dieting. Yes, you loose weight, and than you’ll gain it back.
Your metabolism rate falls with weight loss. Metabolic rate falls, in part, because it’s closely linked to how much muscle and other lean tissue you have.
The only way to counter the slow down in metabolism is to exercise more. And the best way to increase your metabolism is to strength train and build lean muscle. Muscle is natural fat-burning mechanism, it is an active tissue so it consumes energy. 1 pound of muscle requires your body to burn up to 50 extra calories a day just to maintain it.
What doe’s more muscle mean for dieters? More food.
A higher calorie allowance makes it easier to stick to your eating plan – and you get more nutrients too.
Strength training – muscle building will help you maintain the weight loss you worked so hard for. You loose weight permanently. And that’s usually the hardest think to achieve.
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March 4th, 2009 Milan
Inactivity affects just about everything: brain, heart, blood vessels, bones, liver, gut, sleep, anxiety, mood, self esteem, and your body’s ability to process sugar.
Inactivity leads to excess abdominal fat.
One third of cancers of the colon, kidney, and digestive tract are caused by being inactive.
Being inactive causes diabetes and diabetes causes impotence, blindness, heart attacks, strokes, amputations and death.
Inactive people have poor sleep – they drag through their day sluggish and tired. Their bodies crave some quick energy, so they snack on some high-calorie junk food. That extra junk food leads to more fat, which leads to……you get the picture.
You have to be active if you want to stay healthy and alive. Being active equals great life.
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