Walter Breuning, of Great Falls, MT, says that the key to his longevity and health has been a combination of two things:

• eating moderately
• skipping supper

He eats lots of fruit, drinks plenty of water and pushes away from the table when he’s still hungry. Walter says “You get in the habit of not eating at night, and you realize how good you feel. If you could just tell people not to eat so darn much.” He’s weighed the same for over 35 years.

And even though he does eat dairy foods, meats and occasional desserts, which aren’t on the healthy side of the menu, this proves that if you eat moderately, earlier in the day (avoid eating at night) and enjoy lots of fruit, it can still bring you a long and healthy life.

I’ve personally shifted my eating times to daylight hours of between 8am and 3pm and this alone has made a significant difference in my health even after being on a raw food diet for over 5 years.

Enjoy and to your best health!

Source: Great Falls Tribune

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It’s one of the most straightforward plans since the reason most people gain weight is that they eat more calories than they burn. So restricting calories and increasing activity will help in weight loss.

But it’s also important to remember that the type of foods eaten are also vital to the success of any healthy living lifestyle.

Along with restricting calories, it’s important to focus your diet on high nutrient dense, fresh and locally or organically grown produce, primarily fruits and vegetables. Eating these will increase cleansing of the body riding it of toxins and at the same time, release extra fat. They are also fiber rich and full of living enzymes vital to proper digestion and assimilation of nutrients. Processed and cooked foods lake these living enzymes and clog up your system instead.

Learn more about healthy meals and how to lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks as well as the vegetable diet.

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First, here’s how Dr. Ian sets it up.

It’s designed in four phases, each a specified length of time and introduces different foods. The first is basically a detox phase, getting rid of all the toxins and junk you may have accumulated over time.

This phase in my opinion is the best part about this diet. It allows you to eat all the fruits and vegetables you want, no limits, and this rule carries throughout the diet.

Where I feel the diet takes a wrong turn is in the introduction of yogurt, milk, alcohol and lean meats throughout the other 3 phases. Interestingly enough, it’s mentioned that diets high in meat, dairy (milk and cheese) and processed foods are nutrient poor and the cause of obesity and being overweight. It’s also mentioned that the milk and beef campaigns, designed to make you believe you need milk and beef to live, are in fact killing us.

But then, in Phase II meats are re-introduced and in Phase III, breads and pastas are introduced again. And in Phase IV, white rice (probably one of the most nutrition-devoid foods and a bad, refined starch) and alcohol are included.

Now I’m not sure why a diet would remove these foods and drinks to detox and cleanse you, and then re-introduce them all again? The animal based foods (meats, cheese, milk, yogurt) seem to be introduced for protein. Interestingly enough most Americans already eat a diet overflowing with protein and our true protein requirements are minimal. We can get more protein in a few vegetables, nuts or seeds than we can metabolize in a day. Most of the proteins Americans eat are flushed down the toilet daily in our urine. Animal foods are acidic, contain no fiber and are proven to be the cause of most diseases we die from today.

And the processed starches like breads (even whole wheat) and pastas are all complex carbohydrates that once eaten are converted to sugar and cause an increase increase in blood sugar levels. A diet comprised of processed complex carbohydrates leads to weight gain, obesity, diabetes and other related issues. These are not foods to be re-introduced into a diet once you have cleansed your system.

And alcohol, in any form, are just empty calories, devoid of any nutrition at all.

You see, even with the recommendation to go easy on these foods, as recommended in this diet, requires willpower. Lack of willpower is what causes most of our health problems to begin with. But here’s the twist. If you don’t eat these foods, and concentrate on primarily greens, vegetables, fruits, seeds and some nuts, you won’t have a taste for animal foods or need willpower to avoid them. The ‘addiction’ and taste for processed and animal foods will go away and you will naturally seek healthy alternatives. Again, surprisingly this is also mentioned in the diet, but then these same foods are re-introduced.

It appears that many of these foods and drinks are re-introduced into this diet perhaps to appeal to readers that may think they can’t live without them. Or to make the diet more appealing to a wider audience knowing that you can eat and drink these regular staples in the American diet.

What I like about the Fat Smash Diet:

• recommends a cleanse or detox to start
• recommends eating as many fruits, vegetables, greens and legumes
• recognizes that campaigns like “milk does your body good” and “beef, it’s whats for dinner” are actually killing us
• is more focused on lifestyle changes, not a one time diet

What I don’t like about the Fat Smash Diet:

• recommends meats
• recommends dairy products
• recommends alcohol
• recommends processed, complex carbs

The Fat Smash Diet starts out on the right track. And what Dr. Ian mentions in Phase I, that it’s impossible to be obese eating as many fruits, vegetables, greens and legumes as you want, is true. In fact, that is the diet that not only brings you to your optimal weight, but also keeps you there as well as avoiding most disease and health issues. If he stuck with that theory throughout the diet, without the re-introduction of the foods that initially cause weight gain, disease and other health issues, then it would be something to recommend completely.

The Fat Smash Diet does work and get results, any diet that suggests a healthy detox or cleanse using fruits, vegetables, and greens will work. It’s just not the optimal method to lose weight, and more importantly, obtain optimal health.

To your best health!

Update: Sometimes you can tell more about a diet based on how much you can buy a used copy of the book for. As of this writing, you can pickup a used copy of the Fat Smash Diet for 50 cents on Amazon.

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What contributes most to metabolic syndrome?

Diet.

What you eat is the primary influence in your risk of having metabolic syndrome. Studies have shown that the most significant factor is today’s Western Diet of mainly processed foods, soda, meats, fried foods and fast foods. In fact, those eating two or more servings of meat a day (equivalent of 2 burger patties) increase their risk of metabolic syndrome by 25%.

Lack of fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, water and natural grains in our diet contributes significantly.

The research has shown that after 9 years of following up with study participants, 40% had three or more of the risk factors for metabolic syndrome. Also, 60.5% of the study participants had metabolic syndrome when they began or developed it during the research period.

The only way to reduce or eliminate your risk of metabolic syndrome is to make simple lifestyle and eating habit changes:

• getting plenty of sunshine daily
• removing animal products from your diet
• removing processed foods from your diet
• staying active daily for at least 30-60 minutes
• maintain a diet rich in fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, especially fresh, organic leafy green vegetables, broccoli and tomatoes
• keep a positive outlook on life
• maintain an attitude of gratitude
• reduce or eliminate the effects of stress in your life

To your best health!

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Suggesting to substitute an Egg McMuffin for a bagel is certainly not healthy choice. Yes, you save calories, but is an Egg McMuffin healthy to begin with? Not hardly. Weighing in at 37% fat it’s way off the scale. Instead of suggesting an Egg McMuffin, why not suggest bringing a couple of bananas, melon or fruit salad along rather than eating out. That’s the truly healthy choice.

Also, eating out is rarely healthy, what the authors are providing here is the lesser of two evils. Do you want a less processed food, or more processed food? A lot of toxins or a few toxins? A little bit of saturated fat or a lot of saturated fat?

Calories aren’t the only thing that determines whether a food is healthy or not. Yes, fewer calories are better than more, but the type of food, the nutrients, what’s inside, whether it’s fresh or organic also play a large role. And of course, activity and exercise play an equal if not more important role as well.

If you have to eat out and want to compare foods to find out which are less calorie or carb rich, this book can be a valuable resource. It’s well researched, full of pictures and choices.

Here is more information about ‘Eat This Not That‘ directly from the publisher:

Americans spend more than $400 billion a year eating out, and behind each burger, turkey sandwich, and ice cream sundae is a simple decision that could help you control your weight-and your life. The problem is, restaurant chains and food producers aren’t interested in helping you make healthy choices. In fact, they invest $30 billion a year on advertising, much of it aimed at confusing eaters and disguising the fat and calorie counts of their products. All of that has changed with EAT THIS, NOT THAT!. This book puts the entire food industry under the spotlight, and arms you with the savvy tricks and insider information it takes to eat well no matter where you are. With EAT THIS, NOT THAT! you’re the expert in every eating situation, from the frozen food aisle to your favorite fast food joint to your local sports bar. You control your food universe-and lose the pounds you want–because, unlike every other customer, you’ll know the smart choices to make-instantly!

EAT THIS, NOT THAT! is jam-packed with secrets the restaurant industry doesn’t want you to know. For example:

Burger King doesn’t want you to know that a BK Big Fish. Sandwich and fries have a whopping 1000 calories-nearly half your daily caloric intake! (Fish is usually healthy, but not this kind. Find out why with this book.)

Pizza Hut doesn’t want you to know that a standard pizza in Italy contains 500 to 800 calories, but the same meal at Pizza Hut can top 2,100 calories! (You’d need to ride a stationary bike for more than three hours to burn off this mistake. Instead, eat all the pizza you want by making smart choices. EAT THIS, NOT THAT! shows you how.)

Macaroni Grill doesn’t want you to know that a single serving of their Grilled Teriyaki Salmon has more than three times your daily allowance of sodium! (Cut your risk of high blood pressure by making smart choices at the same restaurant. You’ll find them inside.)

If only you knew the industry secrets, you could eat at any of your favorite restaurants-or chow down on everything from the company vending machine to your kids’ Halloween buckets-and know that every decision you made was smart, healthy, and the best possible choice for you. For example, did you know:

At McDonald’s, an Egg McMuffin. is actually a healthy choice, with just 300 calories. (The Hotcakes pack more than double that amount!)

At Krispy Kreme, all you need to do is order the Very Berry Chiller instead of the Mocha Dream Chiller, and you’ll save 500 calories! (Do that once a week and you’ll drop more than 7 pounds this year-without trying!)

At Chipotle, you can cut 570 calories out of your Chicken Burrito just by ordering it as a bowl (without the tortilla) and asking them to hold the rice. (Same great taste, but with 94 fewer carb grams!)

Choosing a cinnamon roll at Au Bon Pain over Cinnabon will save you 463 calories and 20 grams of fat!

In the freezer section of your local supermarket, a turkey pot pie from Swanson’s has 610 fewer calories than a turkey pot pie from Pepperidge Farms.

In the produce aisle, you’ll get twice the vitamin C-and nine times as much vitamin A-simply by picking red bell peppers over green ones. (Who said eating healthy was difficult?)

And that’s why EAT THIS, NOT THAT! is going to change everything. It’s time to level the playing field. We’re all tired of sneaky calories adding to our waistlines, and having to starve ourselves or spend hours on the treadmill trying to burn off the damage. Now-for the first time-you’re in charge. With this simple illustrated guide to thousands of foods–along with the nutrition secrets that lead to fast and permanent weight loss–you’ll make the smartest choice every time!

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There’s a buzz around SensiClear, the only acne treatment system with the patented ingredient Retextra. It appears to be the most advanced over the counter treatment product for acne available without a prescription.

It appears to be unique in that unlike leading acne treatment systems, the SensiClear products don’t contain benzoyl peroxide, which is often associated with drying, flaking and skin irritation. The SensiClear Kit includes a 4 oz Purifying Cleanser, a 4 oz. Balancing Toner and a 2 oz Blemish Free Acne Treatment Lotion.

But can any prescription or over-the-counter acne treatment really help get rid of your acne, permanently?

The answer is most likely not.

You see, acne is a condition that starts on the inside and only the effects are show on your skin.

What you eat, how you handle stress, how much sleep you get, how many toxins you have in your body… are all factors in your skin condition, including acne.

Treating your acne condition from the outside with lotions and potions is like treating the symptom without the cause. It’s important to find the root cause rather that just applying a bandage.

Review acne treatments and find one that makes the most sense for you. A natural approach of a healthy diet filled with plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and natural grains is a great start. Detoxing your body with a natural detox program like the master cleanse diet will also help cleanse your system of toxins that eventually surface on the skin and potentially cause acne and other skin conditions.

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Enter Brian Wansink. He’s all about little changes that add up over time. He concedes that the body resists big, sudden movements in weight. “It’s estimated that over 95 percent of all people who lose weight on a diet gain it back,” he writes. “Deprivation diets don’t work for three reasons: 1) Our body fights against them; 2) our brain fights against then; and 3) our day-to-day environment fights against them.” Wansink’s recommendations, which are derived from his research on the cues that lead people to overeat, are designed to achieve the loss of up to half a pound a week, which he says is below the threshold that would trigger a metabolic response. He urges readers to use “the mindless margin”—the 100 or 200 calories a day they would not really miss if they gave them up—to gradually move toward the bottom of their weight ranges.

Even if you have no interest in following Wansink’s advice, the book is worth reading for his breezy, entertaining accounts of Candid Camera–ready studies in which people stuff themselves with stale popcorn because it’s in a big container, keep slurping soup from a surreptitiously replenished bowl, or eat more in restaurants because of music, menu language, or the ostensible origin of a complimentary glass of cheap red wine. Wansink’s overarching point is that, when it comes to food, we’re not paying attention. “It takes up to 20 minutes for our body and brain to signal satiation,” he notes, and Americans often finish their meals in less time than that. Instead of internal signals we rely on external cues to tell us when we’re done: Is the plate clean? Is everyone else done? Is there more in the serving dish?

To counteract such cues, Wansink recommends such tactics as using smaller plates (which make portions seem larger), keeping serving dishes in the kitchen (which discourages second helpings), replacing short, wide glasses with tall, thin ones (which make drinks seem bigger), keeping food scraps and bones on your plate (which reminds you how much you’ve eaten), and dividing snacks from big packages into smaller bags or plastic containers (which discourages you from devouring the entire package). Wansink, who wants readers to know that he “enjoys both French food and French fries each week,” advocates eating more mindfully, to increase enjoyment as well as to improve nutrition. But he thinks it’s unrealistic to expect people to constantly count their calories in the face of the myriad food-related decisions they make each day. In his view it pays to plan ahead, in effect tricking yourself into eating less.

Wansink, for his part, says labeling and education don’t make much of a difference, and “we cannot legislate or tax people into eating Brussels sprouts.” Although he has spent much of his career studying ways in which businesses encourage people to buy, he recognizes the limitations of these techniques and does not portray them as inherently sinister. “Do food companies put ingredients in their food that they know we will eat and love?” he writes. “Absolutely—they are guilty as charged. So is your grandmother.” Wansink emphasizes consumer self-help rather than protection from conniving capitalists. A chapter called “The Hidden Persuaders Around Us,” a phrase that echoes the title of the 1957 Vance Packard book that portrayed advertisers as insidious manipulators of desire, is mostly about tricks people can use to avoid eating mindlessly. Instead of remaking the world to discourage overeating, Wansink says, “we can reengineer our personal food environment to help us and our families eat better.”

Source: Reason

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The SuperFoodsRx approach to weight loss is super simple: Consume high-quality SuperNutrient SuperFoods every day, and weight loss can be automatic.

The authors have identified a variety of SuperFoods that could change your life, preventing disease and significantly improving your health. Delicious favorites such as blueberries, walnuts, salmon, and turkey were proven to increase energy and longevity. Now the authors provide an even more remarkable discovery–these same scrumptious foods can effectively and immediately promote weight loss.

Groundbreaking research has shown the secret lies in the power of SuperNutrients and their synergy. When the nutrients in these foods are combined, their effects on the body amplify–accelerating weight loss.

In The SuperFoodsRx Diet, the authors present a cutting-edge diet that provides you with everything you need to reach your optimal weight. You will understand, for example, how vitamin C in oranges has a powerful ability to break down fat; how new evidence suggests that green and black teas have thermogenic properties that increase metabolism, enhance fat burning, and decrease the tendency to store fat; and how the probiotics in yogurt enhance gastrointestinal health and aid you in metabolizing calories.

The SuperFoodsRx Diet presents a full diet program with simple and totally flexible meal plans, easy and delicious recipes, and countless tips and strategies that you will need to reach your weight-loss goal and achieve your greatest weight loss success. By following this remarkable advice, you can finally have the body you’ve always wanted–the safe and healthy way.

The SuperFoodsRx Diet is the metabolism-boosting, disease-fighting, longer-life way to lose weight you’ve been searching for. . .

If you’re tired of fad diets, weight-loss pills, the vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting, or never reaching your goals, then maybe it’s time you tried a weight-loss program that will help you lose all the weight you want while actually improving your health.

The SuperFoodsRx Diet is based on extensive research that shows that the same 14 SuperFoods that have been proven to boost your health and extend your life can also be the most effective foods for accelerating weight loss. In this book, you will learn about the unique SuperNutrient properties of each SuperFoods and how every one of them comes together to trigger weight loss. Add to that a full diet program that combines and balances the weight-loss properties of each of these incredible foods, giving you astounding results while you are eating delicious foods such as blueberries, salmon, avocado, and walnuts. This effective and pleasing diet combines the healthiest foods on earth and teaches you how to use them to your own weight-loss advantage.

With this book you can:

• Lose up to 2 inches off your waist and up to 8 pounds during the first 2 weeks
• Reduce cravings while increasing energy
• Eat more food while losing weight
• Learn the secret to portion control
• Enjoy a wide variety of simple, interchangeable recipes
• Feel amazing and look amazing, fast
• Succeed at losing excess weight–and keeping it off–for good.

About the Author:

Wendy Bazilian, DrPH, MA, RD, is a doctor of public health and nutrition, registered dietitian and American College of Sports Medicine certified health and fitness instructor. She is the owner of Bazilian’s Health Clinic. She lives in San Diego, California.

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Bowel movements are a daily routine for most people. But what about if you have a difficulty releasing those bowels because you are constipated, how could you go on? Constipation causes a lot of unease and heavy feeling to a person.

Constipation is not a disease. It is rather a symptom to a disease in the digestive system. However, most of the time, this isn’t a serious problem. It is usually cause by poor dietary or food intake that helps in the easy digestion process.

Know If You Are Constipated

As written above, to most people bowel movement is regular part of everyday. When you are having difficulty in moving or the daily routine becomes fewer in week. When you have constipation, your stools are usually hard, dry, and small in size but are difficult to eliminate. It seems that you are about to move but you just can not move those stools out. Many people find this condition painful because of staining, bloating and cuts in the anus.

Constipation do not exclude any age. Almost all people from a baby to an adult experience such difficulty once in their lives. However, this feeling of unease can be prevented and treated for immediate and longer relief.

Causes of Constipation

The causes of constipation begin from the food we choose to eat to the digestion to the elimination. The food we eat contains substances that are difficult for the stomach to digest and for the digestive fluids to break down. Understanding how the large intestine works in the digestion also helps. From the stomach, undigested food and food contents will be transported to the colon where the water is absorbed and the stools and waste products are formed. That is the reason why the stool is almost dry and solid when it reaches the rectum because the water is already absorbed. The peristalsis movement or muscle contractions in the colon push the waste products to rectum. That is the time you feel like eliminating something from inside the body.

Constipation occurs when the colon functions abnormally or improperly. There are times that the colon absorbs too much water that makes the waste products so dry. Because of lack of physical activity, the colon sometimes contracts too slow that makes the stool stays more time in it and becomes hard.

The common cause of constipation is a lack of fiber in the diet. These fibers help in the digestion by acting as sweepers of fats in the food. They also make the food easier to breakdown. When a person lacks exercise or other physical activity especially for people with old age, this also causes constipation. The body parts seem to be all resting, which makes the process of digestion more difficult for the stomach. Medications and abuse of laxatives could also affect food processing. Furthermore, lack of water intake or dehydration also causes constipation.

On the other hand, emotional and physical stress is also proven to cause malfunction is the digestive process and may cause constipation.

Treatment and Prevention

Two of the best treatment of constipation is eating high fiber food and increase in water or liquid intake. Fibers are naturally found in fruits and vegetables. Less likely that people who eat such kind of diet that they result to constipation. Low fiber food or high fatty foods like cheese, eggs and meats should be lesser intake. The bulk and soft texture of fiber especially insoluble fiber that passes through the intestine almost unchanged moisten the waste products and prevent them to become hard and dry so it could easily eliminated.

For foods that are difficult to digest, it is recommended that they are to be chewed well into small pieces before swallowing. When constipation is recurring, medical practitioners advise the use of laxatives. This medication helps in easier bowel movement. It has substances that break down the bulk stools.

Live a healthy lifestyle and do away with the difficult and uneasy constipation.

Dr John Anne is an herbal specialist with years of experience in the field of Alternative Health Care. For more information about Home Remedies for Constipation read Natural Remedies website.

Source: AmericanChronicle

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