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Wrong Diet Habits

  • Posted on December 7, 2011 at 1:47 pm

Excess weight is a classic problem often faced by most people today, you might be one of them. You have done various ways in order to successfully overcome this weight problem, including by adjusting the diet. However, you who do not understand about setting up a proper diet to lose weight, so that applying the wrong diet that led to the failure of your diet.

The following diet mistakes you may have to do when dieting and how to overcome them.

  • Too Busy to eat
    Your crowded business often makes you late or even skip the meal. If this happens, then your blood sugar levels will drop dramatically and the body will break down muscle for energy.Solution : set an alarm on your wristwatch or cell phone during the meal arrives. This way you will not forget the time you eat.
  • Not Eating Sodium (salt)
    The body still needs sodium to function properly. Sodium in sufficient quantities useful for maintaining fluid balance in the body. If you do not consume sodium at all, the body will experience fluid retention, cramps, and muscle strength will decrease.Solution : consume sodium to your diet in sufficient quantities.
  • Source of Unhealthy Eating Calories
    When hungry, you should never eat biscuits, fast food, processed food or other less-healthy food. Even with a delicious taste, it turns out the type of food is not a good source of calories for you.Solution : you can eat sweet potatoes, oatmeal, brown rice, and vegetables. In addition to healthy, you can feel fuller for longer with this natural food.
  • Eating Carelessly After Successful Diet
    This is what often happens, when you manage to reach the ideal weight, you will begin to eat as you please. This happens because during the diet, you feel ‘constrained’ and could not eat the foods you want.Solution : to avoid this habit, you can apply ‘cheating day’. Within one month of the diet, give your body a day to enjoy the foods you like but still in limited quantities, do not overdo it. When you start training your body, get rid of the habit of ‘cheating day’ from your diet gradually.
  • Carbohydrate Trimming
    body still needs carbohydrates as a source of energy for your daily activities. If you do not eat carbs at all, then your body will use muscle as energy reserves.Solution : In order the body does not use muscle as energy reserves, consume enough carbohydrates your body needs.Complex carbohydrates are the best choice to help you lose weight and keep your energy level okay.
  • Eating Simple Carbohydrates Before Exercise
    Simple carbohydrates are digested more quickly by the body. Because it is rapidly digested, then you feel hungry faster and faster loss of energy during exercise.Solution : You can eat foods that contain complex carbohydrates and proteins, 30-60 minutes before you start practicing. You can get complex carbohydrates you can get from brown rice, oatmeal, wheat bread, or fruit. Meanwhile, to meet protein needs, you can eat chicken breast, protein shakes , egg whites, and so on.

Diet does not mean leaving time to eat, or even not eating at all. Diet is about eating nutritious foods every day, accompanied by diligent exercise and adequate rest, to get the ideal body weight with a healthier way.

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6 Breakfast Menu to Increase Brain Power

  • Posted on May 12, 2011 at 12:04 pm

For busy and active people, time is very valuable. In the morning, a lot of people skip breakfast in order to pursue time-intensive activities. Avoid this bad habit. Make sure you start the day with the intake of foods that enhance the performance of the brain. It is more effective than drinking a cup of coffee .

Try to consume these 6 breakfast menu to increase body performance and brain power:

  1. Yogurt Low Fat with Flaxseed
    Linseed or flaxseed has content of healthy Omega-3 to help maintain brain function and memory. Consuming low-fat yogurt with flax seed will help to improve brain performance. Yogurt contains high protein, good to maintain the level of concentration in the morning.
  2. Wheat Cereals with Dried Fruit
    Cereal grain helps to maintain healthy levels of sugar of blood as well as providing energy in the busy day. Mix it with a few pieces of dried fruit to increase fiber intake, and complete with soy milk to increase your protein intake.
  3. White Omelet Eggs with Low-Fat Protein
    If you want tasty food, cook white omelets and add low-fat cuts of meat, combined with with fresh vegetables. High protein intake will help you stay focused and preventing hunger until before time to eat lunch.
  4. Bread Wheat with Peanut Butter
    Spread peanut butter on wheat bread as a nutritious breakfast. Select peanut butter to avoid the consumption of unhealthy fats and bread wheat to obtain high fiber. Carbohydrates of the fiber will be digested longer, so make your stomach full longer, and maintain healthy levels of blood sugar stable throughout the day.
  5. Fruit and Yogurt Smoothie
    Consumption low glycemic index food as a mixture of yogurt smoothies in the morning will make your day bright and make it as healthy and delicious breakfast in the morning.
  6. Cereal Mix
    Cereal is one of the best sources of fiber. Mix cereal with fruit, nuts , seeds, wheat, and apples . Use honey as a natural sweetener and complete with soy milk or fat-free milk to maximize the brain performance.

Make sure that every morning you give your body a nutritious food intake to keep blood sugar levels remain stable, prevent fatigue, and keep the mood remains good in working day. Eat one of the 6 breakfast menu every day for maximum performance.

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Weight Gain Through Exercise, Nutritions, and Healthy Diet

  • Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:31 pm

Usually people go to gym in order to lose weight. But some go to the gym to add weight. Although this is a highly recommended solution to help increase weight loss by increasing the mass of muscle and keep the body stays fit, but it is not enough. You have to balance the routine practice by keeping the healthy diet pattern and taking weight gain supplements.

Many bodybuilders and fitness practitioners advise to exercise regularly to gain weight, so you also have to ensure the intake of protein, carbohydrates and fats are ideal for breakfast, lunch and dinner. You must also ensure all the nutrients that your body needs can be fulfilled through the food you consume daily. And another effective way to supplement your regular workout pattern is by natural weight gainer supplement. This is not a drug. This supplement will continue to work on in your body by helping to meet all the needs of the nutrients you need to reach your ideal weight.

The secret behind weight gain supplements is contained in the materials. Weight is a good supplement should contain nutrients that can help you gain weight by adding muscle mass and preventing the buildup of excess fat. You can select natural gainer is in addition to high protein and calories to build muscle mass and increase your weight, also contain carbohydrate complex and comes with a fat good, enzymes and glutamine.

Remember, if you want to gain weight, the correct way to achieve it is with a balanced diet, eating regularly and not excessive. Eating more is not the best way to raise the weight. Consume more food will only give you heaps of fat and calories that you do not want. The best way to add weight is to eat properly and regularly. Gainer consumption in addition to increasing body weight can also help avoid the accumulation of fat in your body.

Weight gainer supplement is used to stimulate muscle growth. Remember, weight gaining is not the same with the consuming junk foods, but with a diet that is balanced and assisted weight gainer supplement. And of course, it will be even better if coupled with regular exercise to optimize your program as well as keeping your body fit and healthy. Good luck! The better the body you have, the more self-confident you has in your society.  Exercising regularly and good diet are the key to achieve body.

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10 Ways to Increase Metabolism

  • Posted on March 16, 2011 at 1:34 pm

??The experts of health are continuing to research how to increase metabolism optimally. How quickly the body can burn calories ? This depends on several natural factors such as age, genetic, and gender as a cause of decreased metabolism.

There are 10 ways you can apply to help you increase your metabolism or the rate of burning calories in your body,:

  1. Add Muscle Intensity
    You need to know that our body constantly burns calories even when we do not do anything. Metabolic rate at rest is much higher in people who have more muscle. Do the exercises and sports to increase muscle mass and increase your metabolism.
  2. Exercise Routine
    Exercise will increase your metabolism effectively. To get optimum benefit you try to combine weight training with aerobic exercise or apply for more challenging interval workout.
  3. Drinking Water
    The body needs water to process calories. Always make sure that your body stay hydrated, because dehydration will slow down your metabolism. Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day for optimal calorie burning process.
  4. Add Ice Cubes
    Cold drinks help the body to burn more calories during digestion . But make sure you do not add sugar to cold drinks. Research shows consumption of 5 or 6 glasses of water with ice cubes can help burn 10 extra calories per day.
  5. Eat More Often
    Eat more often to include snacks in between main meals will help you lose weight . Eating small meals 5-6 times will make your metabolism stable, so the burning of calories will be more optimal.
  6. Add Spicy Flavor to Your Meal
    Spicy foods contain chemical compounds that stimulate higher metabolism than normal food. A tablespoon of chopped red or green chili peppers can increase metabolism by 23 percent.
  7. Increase Intake of Protein
    The body burns calories 2 times more time to digest protein than to digest carbohydrates and fats . Reduce carbohydrates and fat, increase protein-rich foods in the diet to improve your metabolism.
  8. Consume Dark Coffee
    Coffee can increase energy and your concentration if taken at the right time, for example, to start the morning of your day. According to research, the caffeine in coffee can help increase your metabolism in the short term, which is about 4 hours after drinking it.
  9. Consume Green Tea
    Green tea offers the benefits of the combination of caffeine and catechins, substances that are useful to increase metabolism for some time. Drink 2 cups of green tea to burn 50 extra calories each day.
  10. Avoid Extreme Diets
    Low-calorie diet can indeed help you losing weight but also in the extreme condition can make your metabolism dropping dramatically. Make sure the calories you consume fulfill the needs to maintain your body’s metabolism levels optimal.

The best way to burn calories and increase metabolism is to build muscle and be more active in physical activities. Try 10 ways to increase your metabolism above to reactivate your body’s metabolism.

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Seven Important Nutrients from Foods

  • Posted on March 8, 2011 at 2:05 pm

Each type of food should supply various kinds of nutrients to the body. In an increasingly busy life, people do not have much time to think and consider the intake of nutrients for the body. In the end, they consume food recklessly without regard about food quality and nutritional levels, and risks that may be caused by eating them. The following is a list of 7 nutrients that are often forgotten in the diet:

Potassium: For Normal Blood Pressure

Potassium is one of the main nutrients the body needs to help maintain healthy blood pressure, increase fertility, maintaining healthy muscle and nerve function. Source: potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli, bananas.

Magnesium: Prevent Disease

The low levels of magnesium in the body was allegedly causing several health problems such as osteoporosis, high blood pressure, diabetes, muscle cramps, and heart disease. Sources: spinach, peas, almonds.

Vitamin A: Increase intake of Beta Carotene

Vitamin A is divided into 2 types, namely: retinol and carotenoids, like beta-carotene is useful to maintain a healthy sense of vision, immunity, and tissue growth. Sources of beta-carotene: sweet potatoes, carrots, spinach, pumpkins, and cereals.

Vitamin E: Get the Benefits of Healthy Fats

Vitamin E is an antioxidant that is useful to boost immunity, maintain healthy skin and good eyesight, and reduce blood vessel blockage. Uniquely, the source of Vitamin E normally are foods that have high levels of healthy fats such as almonds, hazelnuts, safflower oil, sunflower oil, and peanut butter.

Calcium: For Healthy and Strong  Bones.

It’s no secret if calcium is very useful both for bone. Not only that, calcium also appeared to help maintain muscle function, set the rhythm of the heartbeat, and helps prevent high blood pressure. Its source: milk, salmon, tofu.

Vitamin C: Enhancing Immunity

People with influenza are usually looking for vitamin C to overcome them. Vitamin C can be obtained from a variety of fruits and vegetables, beneficial to enhance bone and tissue growth. In addition, Vitamin C works as an antioxidant to prevent damage to body cells and accelerate healing.

Fiber: For Digestive Health

Foods high in fiber are generally low in calories and filling, ideal to be consumed by people who are in a weight loss program. Fiber from whole grains and nuts have many health benefits like lowering cholesterol levels, improve the performance of intestine, reducing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and prevent some types of cancer.

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Vitamins and Minerals for Your Health

  • Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:20 pm

Here are some vitamins and minerals that are very important in providing optimal energy body to carry out daily activities.
Vitamin

  • B1 (thiamin) supports nerve function and is useful for metabolism and energy. Found in spinach, green beans, tomato juice, watermelon, sunflower seeds, ham, and soy milk.
  • B2 (riboflavin) supports energy metabolism, eye and skin health. Found in spinach, broccoli, mushrooms, eggs, milk, liver, oysters and clams.
  • B3 (Niacin) supports energy metabolism, skin health, nervous system and digestive system. Found in spinach, potato, tomato juice, beef, chicken, tuna, liver and shrimp.
  • B6 (pyridoxine) is important in the production of red blood cells, metabolism of amino acids and fatty acids. Found in bananas, watermelons, tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, potatoes, rice and chicken.
  • B12 is needed for new cell synthesis, helps break down amino acids and fatty acids, maintaining nerve cells. B12 are readily available in meat, poultry, fish, milk, shellfish, and eggs.
  • Biotin helps metabolize energy, fat synthesis, amino acid metabolism, glycogen synthesis and is widely used in food.
  • Folic acid to support DNA synthesis and the formation of new cells. Contained in tomatoes, broccoli, spinach, asparagus, and peas.
  • Pantothenic acid supports energy metabolism and is found in most foods, especially meat, fish, poultry, whole grains and vegetables.

Mineral
The experts have not found agree in classifying the mineral, some say that there are seven major minerals or macro, and there is a mention 16 kinds of main mineral for human health. Some important minerals like calcium, potassium and zinc, is useful for the body to digest food, produce energy and regulate cholesterol. Calcium, magnesium and phosphorus is essential for healthy teeth, bones and joints.

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Balancing Your Healthy Diet and Activities

  • Posted on November 23, 2010 at 2:15 pm

Consumption of healthy foods, balanced with physical activity done regularly is an important factor to create a stable energy levels and maintain your health. Unhealthy diet and regular physical activity are not a major risk factor that triggered the emergence of chronic diseases like high blood pressure, high blood glucose / hyperglycemia, abnormal blood fats, including obesity. And also at risk of causing heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Healthy foods with good nutritional composition is the answer to all this.

Balanced Nutrition advice
Here are some of the things recommended by the WHO to maintain health and energy level that is optimal for all people:

  1. Keep your energy balance and ideal weight are proportional.
  2. Stay away from energy intake from fat that harm health.
  3. Increase consumption of fruits and vegetables, and nuts, seeds and nuts as your healthy diet.
  4. Limit your sugar intake.
  5. Consumption of iodized salt.
  6. Nutrition Essentials for Energy

Various studies have found that the additional nutrients, such as artificial sweeteners, colorings, and flavorings may cause health problems, as already mentioned above. To that end, here are some essential nutrients to provide excellent energy body.

  1. Protein. It is important for growth and repair muscles and other body tissues.
  2. Fat. Important source of energy and related to fat-soluble vitamins.
  3. Carbohydrates. The main energy source.
  4. Fiber. It is important for the health of the digestive system.
  5. Vitamins. Vitamins are water soluble and fat plays an important role in the chemistry of the body.
  6. Mineral. Inorganic elements is very important to run the metabolism.
  7. Water. It is important for metabolism and act as carriers of nutrients.

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Carrot for Smokers

  • Posted on November 14, 2010 at 12:10 pm

By: Jimmy Kurniawan

Dr. Win also publish that in one bensopyrine cigarette smoke that causes the status of vitamin A in the body decreases.Thus, cause cancer and inflammation in the lungs. Therefore, smokers are very good eating carrots for vitamin A in the body increases. “It turned out to people smoking is given a lot of carrots will make vitamin A were increased in the body,” he continued.

To gain maximum benefit carrot should be carefully selected before consumption. Select a color carrots rather young and bright. This indicates that the carrot is still young and fresh. According to him, carrots straight so do not bend and avoid branching. Bright colors, the more orange the better the quality of carrots. “Carrots are better boiled, because he’s got that cell walls tebel when boiled so very good beta carotene to be absorbed by the body. From the direct eaten raw, “he said.

How about a carrot that we eat too much? Will arise right palm signs that become orange-yellow. Better stop eating them. Colors in the palm of the hand will disappear by itself. “If you eat mostly karotinnya will accumulate under the skin, especially on the palms. After a long time will be processed in the liver carotene into vitamin A.” he explained.

For beauty, carrots very good because it can make your skin smoother. Eating carrots can also reduce acne.“Eating carrots fwe can prevent people whose skin is rough spots can be avoided can make so smooth. Acne can also be depleted, ” he explained.

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Carrots to Prevent Stroke

  • Posted on November 10, 2010 at 12:07 pm

By: Jimmy Kurniawan

During thorough investigations, carrots have more properties than just for eye health. One is to prevent stroke. People affected by stroke, if you consume lots of vitamin A, will have fewer neurological damage (nerve) and have a chance to heal. This is because when the brain does not get oxygen for how long, as in stroke, the cells began to experience malfunctions (interference function) that causes a series of events culminating when the nerve cells of oxidative damage, and these conditions can be muted if the blood contained many vitamin A.

A study showed that eating carrots at least five times a week can reduce the risk of stroke. Savor antistroke also generated because the activity of beta carotene to prevent the occurrence of plaque or cholesterol deposits in blood vessels. Beta carotene is the most active pigments when compared with the alpha and gamma carotene. Usually known as beta carotene provitamin A that the intestinal wall. “Because the carrots do not contain cholesterol. There is a fiber that can reduce fat in the blood. He can also be as an anti-oxygen. Oxidized fat in blood vessels that will make a stroke, it can prevent a stroke if he ate carrots that anti-oxidants and fiber is high, “he said.

No one wants to have a stroke and nobody wants to die young. Prevention is better than cure. So what are you waiting, carrot we know as the vegetables can lead us away from a stroke. Carrots were also used as a detox and a very good antioxidant. “For the heart, there Massuchusetts a 1300 study in the elderly is given one serving a day. Each day is given to a group of elderly people 122 gr. Apparently, the risk of heart attacks decreased 60 percent compared to the no consumption, “he explained.

One cup of carrots (16.679 mcg) contain more beta carotene could reduce the risk of various cancers. One cup can reduce 20 percent of post-menopausal breast cancer, and can hit as much as 50 percent of bladder cancer, also 50 percents lung cancer if we eat them. Carrots also according to Dr Win’s good for preventing diabetes.“Unlike the insulin resistance, can prevent diabetes. ” he concluded.

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Benefit of Carrot

  • Posted on November 6, 2010 at 12:07 pm

By: Jimmy Kurniawan

CARROT not only contain vitamin A which is good for the eyes. More than that, carrots contain many nutrients and minerals to prevent stroke. Carrots are known to contain vitamin A which is very high. Carrots have other elements such as calories, protein, carbohydrate, calcium, and iron. Carrots are the plants that are planted throughout the year and can grow in all seasons, especially in mountainous areas that have cold temperatures and damp. Carrots are vegetables easily available and very much beneficial for health.

There are some people, especially children who do not like this vegetable because not yet know whether the benefits of carrots are very rich in vitamins. Okay, let’s see how far the carrot to benefit the body. According to Dr. John MS Win SpGK from Medigreen, the content in 122 grams or a cup of carrot juice have vitamin A as much as 34, 317, 40 mg, 16.678 mcg beta carotene, vitamin C 11.35 mg, folate 17.08 mcg. Vitamin K 16.10 mcg. While nutrition, such as calories of 52.46 calories, 1.26 grams of protein and 167.10 grams of water. Minerals in carrots is phosphorus, potassium and high atrium.

So far, people familiar with carrots only for the eyes because of its vitamin A content is very high. Carrots are believed to reduce the minus, plus and a cylinder in your eye. Apparently it’s just a myth. According to scientific research, carrots do contain lots of vitamin A. However, the optical system errors on eye can not be corrected with vitamin A. Like a camera lens has no focus. The film of any quality brand will record a blurred image if the lens is not perfect. “It is a source of vitamin A. However, the optical system errors on eye can not be corrected with vitamin A. Like a camera lens has no focus. The film of any quality brand will record a blurred image if the lens is not perfect. “It was a good source of vitamin A for night vision. Vitamin A to the retina produces rhodopsi (purple pigment) on a special eye for night vision. Vitamin A will reduce the aging of the macula eyes and prevent cataracts in the elderly, “explained the doctor who is also the practice of nutrition in hospitals.

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