Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Anastasia Weight Loss : Healthy weight loss tips
Anastasia Weight Loss : Healthy weight loss tips: THE WEIGHT CONNECTION Magnesium and the B-complex vitamins are energy nutrients: they activate enzymes that control digestion, ab...
Healthy weight loss tips
Magnesium and the B-complex vitamins are energy nutrients: they activate enzymes that control digestion, absorption, and the utilization of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates. Lack of these necessary energy nutrients causes improper utilization of food, leading to such far-ranging symptoms as hypoglycemia, anxiety, and obesity.
Food craving and overeating can be simply a desire to continue eating past fullness because the body is, in fact, craving nutrients that are missing from processed food. You continue to eat empty calories that pack on the pounds but get you no further ahead in your nutrient requirements.
Magnesium is also necessary in the chemical reaction that allows insulin to usher glucose into cells, where glucose is involved in making energy for the body. If there is not enough magnesium to do this job, both insulin and glucose become elevated. The excess glucose gets stored as fat and contributes to obesity. Having excess insulin puts you on the road toward diabetes.
The connection between stress and obesity cannot be overlooked. The stress chemical cortisol signals a metabolic shutdown that makes losing weight almost impossible. It's as if the body feels it is under an attack such that it must hoard all its resources, including fat stores, and won't let go of them under any inducement. Magnesium can effectively neutralize the effects of stress.
OBESITY, MORE THAN BAD GENES
The public has been told that obesity is inherited, which makes people think they don't have a hand in creating this problem and can continue their bad habits and blame their genes. Animal experiments show, however, that if a mouse with an obesity gene is deprived of B vitamins, the obesity will be expressed. But if it is fed plenty of B vitamins, it will remain thin. The process of metabolizing B vitamins is called methylation, and magnesium is necessary for one of the most important steps in this process.
Every metabolic function in the body requires vitamins and minerals - without them, symptoms develop. Therefore, the first step in treating nonspecific symptoms is diet and dietary supplements, not drugs. It is also important to note that many of the weight loss diets that people subject themselves to are often deficient in magnesium.
ABDOMINAL OBESITY
Gaining weight around your middle is related to magnesium deficiency and an inability to properly utilize insulin. It also sets the stage for Syndrome X. You only need a tape measure to diagnose a predisposition to Syndrome X - a waist size above 40 inches in men and above 35 in women puts you at risk. In their book The Magnesium Factor, authors Mildred Seelig, M.D., and Andrea Rosanoff, Ph.D., take note of research showing that over half the insulin in the bloodstream is directed at abdominal tissue. They theorize that as more and more insulin is produced to deal with a high-sugar diet, abdominal girth increases to process the extra insulin.
Monday, November 5, 2012
How much protein do vegans need
Athletes
Athletes require more protein than the average person because of their high level of activity and the demands they place on their muscles. Athletes must consume extra amounts of protein to aid their muscles in recovery so they can continue to perform at their peak levels. It is generally recommended that athletes consume approximately 1 to 1.5 g of protein per pound of bodyweight. For example, 150 lb athlete would need to consume between 100 to 150 g of protein per day.
You may not consider yourself an athlete, per se, but if you workout with intensity 3 to 5 days per week, or perform difficult labor most days, you should eat about as much protein as an athlete does.
Protein Rich Foods
Vegans have many options when searching for protein rich foods. Legumes -- beans, peas, and pulses -- are an excellent choice. 1 cup of cooked black-eyed peas, for example, contains about 32 g of protein. Nuts, seeds and nut butters are another great source of protein that should be added to a vegan diet. 1 ounce of almonds contains 6 g of protein. 1 ounce of sunflower seeds also contains about 6 g of protein.
Other Sources of Protein
Protein is also introduced into a vegan diet through other foods that are not considered high in protein but still contain some amount of protein. For example, 1 slice of whole-wheat bread yields about 3 g of protein. Oatmeal is another good example: 1 cup of cooked oatmeal yields 6 g of protein. Even fruits and vegetables, like bananas and broccoli, contain small amounts of protein
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Anastasia Weight Loss : Building a better body
Anastasia Weight Loss : Building a better body: Getting in shape is a lot like a construction project. First, there must be a picture in the mind. Then the vision goes onto paper a...
Anastasia Weight Loss : Losing weight naturaly
Anastasia Weight Loss : Losing weight naturaly: Losing weight is difficult, but it doesn't have to be impossible. There are many challenges that make losing weight diffi...
Building a better body
Getting in shape is a lot like a construction project. First, there must be a picture in the mind. Then the vision goes onto paper as a blueprint. It takes months just to lay the foundation. More months of work will follow. On a daily basis, it doesn't seem like much is happening. You look in the mirror and appear, for the most part, the same as you did yesterday. But sure enough, the small improvements are slowly accumulating like compounding interest in the bank. One day, you look in the mirror and "suddenly," your blueprint has become reality.
The body of a fitness model, figure competitor or bodybuilder is no more likely to be built overnight than a high rise is to be built overnight. It's not physically possible. Accepting the idea that any type of pill, powder, drug, supplement or machine of any kind will make it happen sooner than nature intended (without negative consequences or side effects) is pure folly. You can't force it.
Growth and development of any kind always requires a gestation period. For a baby, it's nine months. For corn, I believe it's about three months. If you were an expectant mother, would you want to hurry the process? Could any new development in nutrition or medical science speed up this wonderful miracle even one iota? If you were a farmer, would you try to harvest your crop before it was ripe? Would you dig up your seeds to see if anything was growing down there?
The answers are obvious. If only we would adopt the same patient, nurturing "mother's" or "farmer's mindset" towards getting in shape, then no one would waste their money on "fast abs" or "exercise in a bottle" or any such silliness ever again. We would understand that one must sow first, then reap the harvest, but that you can't sow and reap in the same season.
If you ever get frustrated with the rate of progress in your fitness or weight loss program (and who doesn't), just remember; success is always guaranteed to the persistent. Nothing in the world can stop someone who knows what they want and is willing to continue paying the price until they get it. It just takes time.
Become the architect and builder of your own dream body. You WILL build the body you want eventually if you're patient enough and you refuse to quit. And set your goals HIGH! Create a fantastic blueprint. Michelangelo said, "the greatest danger is not that we set our goals too high and miss them, the greatest danger is that we set our goals too low and we reach them." Envision a castle - a veritable Taj Mahal of a body! There's nothing wrong with building castles in the sky, as long as you patiently work at putting the foundations underneath them. There are very few unrealistic goals; only goals with unrealistic deadlines.
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