Healthy Diets Make Healthy People
July 2nd, 2010 | 
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It seems every time we turn around there’s a new diet showing up that’s going to make us skinny like those models we see on TV. Trouble is too skinny is no more healthy than weighing too much. Healthy diets make healthy people and these 6 ways to shed those extra pounds will have you eating healthy.
1. Loose The Mindset
If you really want to loose those pounds forever you need to change the way you think. You need to retrain your brain about how it thinks when it comes to exercise and healthy diets. Stop thinking short term and start planning into the future.
You have to build habits that are going to be with you for the long haul and that means you have to loose your current mindset about healthy diets. Good habits take time to build but once you do watching your weight will be a thing of the past.
You will never loose weight permanently by dieting. You can only permanently loose weight with healthy diets that are regular meals consisting of good nutrition and good eating habits.
2. Mind Over Muscle
Never give up your muscle mass no matter what you mind is telling you. In fact to permanently loose weight you need healthy diets and healthy exercise. Body builders fully understand this association which is why they don’t have any fat. Of course that doesn’t mean we want you to look like a body builder.
Muscles burn calories faster when you are exercising which is why weight training is so important if you want to loose weight permanently. Your weight will also go up as your muscles develop because muscles weigh more than fat so you’ll weigh more and look thinner.
3. Reduce Slowly
This might be the most important tip of all – do not drastically reduce your calorie intake because when you do your body panics and thinks it’s being starved so it begins to store everything as fat. Instead what you need to is reduce your calories slowly. So reduce your calories by about 500 and increase your activity dramatically with both aerobic activity and weights.
4. Burn Baby Burn
It’s much more important to increase activity than to decrease calories. When you increase activities you burn those calories and the secret is you must always burn more than you eat. Don’t be in a hurry – combine increased activity with healthy diets for healthy weight loss that will last forever.
5. Figure It Out
You need to determine what the minimal calories are that you can take in before your starvation mode kicks in. Then you need to make sure you do not drop your calorie intake below that point. Your healthy diets should make up your calorie intake.
6. Eat A Little A Lot
Eating many small meals throughout the day is much better than eating three huge meals. Snack all day long on healthy foods. This way you never kick in your starvation response and you burn up the calories quickly eating your healthy diets.
These tips to healthy diets and healthy living will have you shedding the pounds slowly but continuously and this type of weight loss will be permanent. Isn’t’ that what you want?
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@AngelHoobes rofl i know. I never drink that much. No wonder I always feel tired.
People are more upset that I eat so noisely than what it is I am eating
Skillet Apples
1/3 cup butter or marj.
½ cup sugar
2 tablespoons corn starch
1 ½ cups water
¼-½ tsp cinnamon
4 medium apples cored, unpeeled and cut in ½ inch slices.
In 10 inch skillet melt butter at medium heat 3 to 4 minutes.stir in sugar and cornstarch, mix well. Add rest of ingredients cover and cook over medium heat spooning sauce over apples occasionally, until apples are fork tender and sauce is thickened. About 15 minutes
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This is a very hard thing to deal with. I'm very sorry you are going through this with your nan and to the other people who responded, I pray that your cancers get quickly under control.
Now, for the question? This is hard. There are supplements that can help you gain weight. Also do things like when she is able to eat, you can add more fat to it by putting more butter or anything on the toast. (I've included a link below with some other information).
Try making smoothies for her with a supplement added in it, or even just a regular homemade smoothie.
I know that this is hard, I dealt with it when my dad got sick from cancer and passed away. Please if something doesn't seem right, check with her health care provider.
yes i agree to it, fruits are very helpful and even the water..
Your lifestyle is only as healthy as the eating choices you make. The only valid reason that veg*tarianism/anism is supposedly healthier is because it is a diet lower in fat than eating meat and produce.
The problem with eating meat is is that many people eat too much. The suggested serving of meat is the size of a deck of cards. Almost any sandwich at McDonald's will put you over that amount.
But vegetarianism also has its problems. If you don`t do some research, you could be missing out on vital nutrients, especially protein. Of course, protein is not found exclusively in meat. It can also in certain veggies, and whole grains.
In short a vegan or vegetarian or…let's say a 'balanced dieter' is only as healthy as their eating choices (and exercise choices).
If you don't like chemicals in your food, buy organic produce, and/or buy meat with a 'no added chemicals or hormones' label on the package.
holy crap 8 cups?
When people stop blaming others for their problems and look at themselves.
Cigs gave me cancer, sue the cig companies!
McDonalds made me fat, sue them!
And a case in NY state — two kids enter a train yard at night, climb up on a train and they touch an electric line and get burned. Courts found it was not the kids fault, but actually the trainyard's fault for not impeding their entrance enough. $24 million awarded.
It's never people's own fault. Always someone elses problem.
Basically I'm saying it's societies acceptance of irresponsibility. When society finally says "Hey, you fat ass. It is YOUR fault, YOU figure it out," then it will be solved.
I know! I feel the exact same way. I used to go all over answers to give advice about BMI's, healthy servings, and whatnot (because other people weren't telling them >.<) and I just stopped, because there are too many. Why don't they teach it to them in health class? I dunno. Lots of people think health class is embarrassing and full of bullsh*t, but hey, it's their problem.
There are probably kids on here because they have access to the internet. Either that or they're trolls.
There is no better way to bring the body to the state of optimal health than with a low carb way of eating. Low carb doesn't cause high blood pressure, high blood sugar or high cholesterol, it cures it. It is actually dangerous to take meds that lower these levels and do low carb at the same time because the levels will become dangerously low. Carbohydrates trigger insulin. High insulin levels unbalance other hormones. Anything less that 9 grams of carbs per hour controls insulin and is considered low carb (up to 144 grams per day).
U.S. government guidelines were changed 35 years ago to suggest we lower our fat intake & increase our carb intake. American society followed these recommendations & lowered their fat intake by 11% & increased their carb consumption. In this same time frame obesity, diabetes, heart disease are all at epidemic levels. Through their direct effects on insulin & blood sugar, refined carbohydrates are the dietary cause of coronary heart disease & diabetes.
A low carbohydrate diet is a high fat diet. The protein should only be a little higher than adequate. Although it is completely possible to live on a fat/protein only diet for long term (as proven by research done in a hospital setting) it becomes boring fairly quickly. Luckily many vegetables & some fruits, nuts & seeds are low in carbs & greatly expand the diet. Most long term low carbers eat as many, if not more non starchy vegetables than vegetarians.
Glucose is the bodies preferred fuel (if you want to get technical, it actually burns alcohol most efficiently, but that doesn't make it any healthier for the body than carbs), the body can convert 100% of carbs, 58% of protein & 10% of dietary fat into glucose. The body can also be fueled by fat (dietary fat & fat cells) but only in the absence of carbs. Your brain actually prefers* to be fueled by ketones (part of the fat burning process), it does require glucose also, but glucose can be easily converted from excess protein if needed or dietary fat.
Plaque build up in the arteries is more attributable to carb consumption than dietary fats, which seems to be the conclusion of the following study. Carb consumption raises triglycerides & VLDL (bad cholesterol). Fats raise the HDL (good cholesterol). High triglyceride levels & low HDL levels are an indicator of plaque & glycation – the precursors to a heart attack & heart disease.
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/1…
study from the Oxford group examining the postprandial (after-eating) effects of a low-fat vs. low-carbohydrate diet. (Roberts R et al, 2008)
Postprandial lipoproteins, you'd think, would be plentiful after ingesting a large quantity of fat, since fat must be absorbed via chylomicrons into the bloodstream. But it's carbohydrates that figure most prominently in determining the pattern and magnitude of postprandial triglycerides and lipoproteins. Much of this effect develops by way of de novo lipogenesis, the generation of new lipoproteins like VLDL after carbohydrate ingestion.
Gary Taubes who wrote "Good Calories, Bad Calories" spent 7 years going through all the studies over the last century & dividing up the real science from the faulty science & concluded that low carb was the best way to control insulin levels which balances out other hormones & allows the body to function properly.
His main points are:
1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease.
2. The problem is refined carbs in diet, their effect on insulin secretion & the hormonal regulation of homeostasis.
3. Sugars – sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup specifically – are particularly harmful, the combination of fructose & glucose simultaneously elevates insulin levels & overload liver with carbs.
4. Through their direct effects on insulin & blood sugar, refined carbs, starches, sugars are the dietary cause of coronary heart disease & diabetes. They are likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimer's & other diseases.
5. Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation, not overeating.
6. Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter.
7. Fattening & obesity are caused by an imbalance in the hormonal regulation of adipose tissue & fat metabolism. Fat synthesis & storage exceed the mobilization of fat from adipose tissue & its subsequent oxidation.
8. Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from fat tissue.
9. By stimulating insulin secretion, carbs make us fat.
10. By driving fat accumulation, carbs also increase hunger & decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism & physical activity.
good job
thats a lie you shouldnt carry around 6 glasses of water everday , if you drink tea that counts = glass of water, bottle of juice etc so I THINK YOU SHOULD LOOSE WEIGHT YOUR SELF :/
There are plenty of healthy things that are cheap and easy for when you're on the go. You can go grocery shopping and prepare food in advance to take with you when you're going to work.
"Taking a vitamin does mean a quick dose, but by consuming enough nutritious food to get the equivalent means the nutrients are going to be processed more naturally and are far less likely to wash out of the body. By “washing out” of the body, I mean the quick elimination of a nutrient because of non-absorption due to solubility issues, nutrient degradation or just because the body cannot absorb the “quick dose” fast enough. Due to the fact that a large quantity is taken, usually just once a day, the body may not be able to process it fast enough. The opposite may also happen, if the body is processing nutrients and there is an inadequate water intake to cleanse the body tissue, toxic buildup may result. This is not a danger when one introduces nutrients into the body through natural foods."
She’s nervous lol
nice