Feeling overweight and sluggish? Apart from helping you to BURN FAT, weight loss tea is also known to increase your energy levels to the optimum. These teas include green teas, herbal teas, Chinese teas and Wu Long tea. Wu Long Tea has had some great publicity over recent years. This is mainly due to being seen on Oprah.

Recent claims about the acai berry have been pretty amazing. While there is some scientific proof that has been tested on this fruit, it has still been advertised as one of the best nutritional finds ever and it has been advertised as a miracle cure for everything from obesity to cancer.

Jan 23, 2010 That’s Fit – for You

The 2010 dawn of a new decade is a time for diets to change for those who are desperate to lose weight. Here are some healthy diet tips -all 10 tips are designed to force weight loss and a healthier body.  No diet plan will be successful unless you are enjoying it and being satisfied with your energy levels, moods and sleep soundly.  These benefits will be possible if you stick to this plan.

Diet and Weight Loss Tips

Tip One: Stay away from prescription diet pills if you wish to live a healthy life Most of the prescription diet pills contain amphetamines that can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Recently the FDA pulled out some warnings about Meridia a little too late -the warning is only after 10 years that this drug has been on the market. Diet pills or appetite suppressants  cause more harm that they are proven to solve and relying on a pill does not change your bad diet habits.

Tip Two: Diet pills are made in third world countries and quality is thrown out the window. If you want to lose weight -don’t risk your life on diet pills that are not proven and are usually no better than a sugar pill that the advertised ingredients.

Tip Three: Drink healthy clean water not what comes out of a tap, since tap water contains a large amount of chlorine and you need to filter with oxygen to get rid of the bacteria in water.

Tip Four: Do not eat processed foods in a box there is no nutrition and hardly any vitamins in foods in a box. Any foods you add water to and cook is totally worthless.  Buy fresh foods -whole vegetables and fruits not fake foods.

Tip Five: Drink organic fruit juices and stay away from  soda pop especially diet sodas which contain Aspartame which can lead to either death or a coma.  The chemicals are very toxic to human life.  Make your own juices from fresh fruit and drink 5-8 glasses per day.

Tip Six: Avoid Night Time Snacks which require you body to digest over night since foods consumed late a night need to be working your body’s digestive system while you sleep.  Enjoy your food at regularly scheduled meals.

Tip Seven: Do not eat high sugar foods when you are hungry since the sugar high sets up an imbalance in your blood sugar levels which leads to either diabetic concerns or hypoglycemic problems.  Either eat a protein snack or a grain when you are hungry as a snack.

Tip Eight: Skipping meals is a good way to get diabetic problems -the blood sugar level starts a high low cycle that is hard on your body’s insulin and sugar levels.  Enjoy smaller meals during the day up to five meals but do not skip meals.

Tip Nine: Take Chromium picolinate is an essential mineral found in foods but is missing in most diets. Taking a supplement ensures your blood sugars will be balanced and avoids the swings common in diabetes II which is diet related.  Before you get diabetes make sure you are high in chromium picolinate which burns both fats and carbohydrates and also regulates blood sugars.

Tip Ten: Digestive Enzymes are used when people are not digesting their foods properly and especially older adults who lack the enzymes to digest their food.  Enzymes are essential additions to any diet. Papaya’s have excellent enzymes that contribute to digestive health.

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Why Do We get Fat? Still in 2010 for the Same Reasons

The man who ate nothing but McDonalds Big Macs for one month Morgan Spurlock in the movie Super Size Me proved a point to many people as to why some people get fat and not others.

For three square meals a day Spurlock ate at McDonalds and did he get fat? He ate the fake fries, plastic slices of cheese, buckets of Coke, The changes in his body were evident and the research indicated that he suffered from the side effects of a plastic diet:

Headaches, depression, he got sick to his stomach and his liver as his doctors joked to him was turning into mush trying to detox all that fat and chemicals. His blood fat levels or cholesterol levels shot up over 60 points also.

Spurlock’s movie and experiment follows the one in 1972 by Don Gorske from Wisconsin who has eaten over 20,000 Mcburgers and is not fat.

Why do some people get fat while others metabolize fat better and show less characteristics of overindulgence in fatty foods?

Maybe we can explain some of the factors that make you fat so you can adjust your diet plan accordingly and eat more of what doesn’t contribute to your weight.

1) Genetics plays some role in families that are obese and studies show that the body mass indicators accounts for only 5 percent of fat distribution. What about the other 95 percent of fat gain and is it do to our modern lifestyle of inactivity sitting in front of the television or computer?

2) Activity plays a role if a person is under active with little exercise during the day the excess fat will accumulate while other more active individuals seem to burn off fat by sheer movement. This is a lifestyle change that is free, easy to do, you can do it with friends and family and exercise or even a daily walk can burn your excess fat.

3) Enzymes are needed to help digest your food on a cellular level they also do some repairs. The body can not use food until the enzymes do their work first in breaking down food. These digestive enzymes also are needed to burn fat in your body. Is it any wonder that fruits and vegetables help digestion and actually burn fat at the same time? As so many of our foods are stripped of enzymes and replaced with chemicals and additives that have no nutritional value we have to make the effort to eat more natural foods not at McDonalds.

Double bonus and here are some of those foods you need to snack on:

Fruits such as grapefruit, oranges, berries such as strawberries and raspberries.
Vegetables such as cucumber slices, carrot sticks, cabbage or slaw homemade, and small tomatoes.

These are the best enzyme producing foods you can eat right now to curb your fat and help you digestion. The foods acc

TAGS: Why do we Get Fat, Fat gain, obesity, genetic factors in fat gain, enzymes in foods, enzymes in fat loss, digestive enzymes help you lose weight.

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