July 29, 2014 / Meep Beep / 0 Comments
Green tea is one thing that people have used for several thousand years, dating back to the first settlements in China. Its cultivation was one of the first crops that the Chinese historically began, and for good reason. There are many anthropologists that claim that inhabitants of China were so productive for so many millenia in part because of their regular drinking of tea, and many of the benefits that goes along with that. There are several ingredients as part of green tea that significantly reduce a person’s risk of cancer. A compound called catechins are powerful antioxidants and found heavily in green tea. They go through our body and neutralize free radicals, helping to cure diseases and prevent illnesses from even beginning. Many of these benefits are seen to their full effect, as green tea leaves are only minimally processed. Beyond these fantastic cancer and heart related benefits that this tea offers, there are a plethora of other things as well, such as improving cholesterol, weight loss, and even dental health.
A Healthy Heart
There have been quite a number of studies in recent years about green tea and its impact on long term cardiovascular health. A famous study actually examined the impact of regular green tea use and cardiovascular risks. What was found was that drinkers of the tea actually had much lower risk of disease. Antioxidants in green tea are dilators, helping to improve flexibility in our blood vessels. This helps to avoid risks related to “clogging” of arteries as we age, and it also decreases the chances of developing atherosclerosis, or most types of cornary diseases. Physicians and researchers continue to examine more benefits to this, but so far the results seen are very positive.
Reduce Your Cholesterol
Many people struggle to maintain a healthy level of cholesterol. As people have likely heard many times, LDL cholesterols are very bad, leading to obesity, heart disease, hypertension and even diabetes. Beyond the benefits of switching to a healthy diet, researchers have actually found several other ways to cut this risk with things like green tea. Doctors have been recommending green tea now for cholesterol reduction for many years as the catechins found in the substance actually help cut the cholesterol our body stores in our blood vessels. Green tea is known to reduce cholesterol considerably, and in addition it’s been shown to help prevent the occurrence of blood clots in patients. This is just another one of the many benefits of this tea.
Losing Weight Effectively
Tons of Americans every year try to lose weight, and have difficulties doing so. Green tea has been show in studies on this topic to offer some help in this regard as well. Green tea helps to encourage what is called “thermogenesis” which increases your metabolism and burns your calories for energy. Things like caffeine or polyphenols do much the same thing, but at higher dosages like found in green tea (and with other unique ingredients) the results are even more significant. Increased metabolism means more energy which means more burned calories.
Maintain Your Dental Health
You may think of all of the “acids” that are typically found in coffees or teas and imagine them to be bad for your teeth. Though it’s important to brush regularly, having green tea is actually a very healthy thing for your mouth. Green tea naturally contains fluoride, an ingredient known to help keep your enamel strong. It also helps avoid plaque building up on your teeth, and helps prevent general tooth decay. This fluoride is a natural ingredient that green tea leaves pick up as they grow.
Can Even Help Prevent Cancer Risk
When cancer begins, it’s caused by mutation in our cells (damage usually to the DNA in replication or from another source). In order to help reduce your risk of having cancer you need to control the development of free radicals in your body. Antioxidants are what help this. Green tea contains numerous antioxidants, such as polyphenols or epigallocatchin 3 gallate. Polyphenols react immediately with any free radicals they find, reducing their charge and keeping them from damaging our cells. Whereas this epiogallocatechin 3 helps to damage the rate of reproduction within cancer cells and help kill cells if they grow abnormally. These effects certainly make green tea one of the most unique additions we can make to our daily diets to improve our lives.
July 1, 2014 / Meep Beep / 0 Comments
The main factor that has been harming weight loss today, is the unfortunate side effects that people who try to diet or exercise often experience. Dieting often results is huge reductions in metabolism, decreasing a person’s ability to lose weight significantly. In addition, most prescription weight loss treatments carry with them some adverse effects as well. Popular methods like phentermine are actually known to cause heart failure and palpitations, which are difficult to avoid in extended usage. Until recently, few diet programs existed that could stop these symptoms and help people lose weight effectively. What people were really looking for was a natural treatment that offered metabolic and appetite effects that carried few if any real side effects for users.
There are actually several treatments out today that do provide these kinds of results, and do so naturally. African mango, Raspberry ketones, and of course the highly effective HCG diet. Raspberry ketones in particular are growing in popularity today due to the unique ketone enzyme that’s found in this fruit. This ingredient not only helps boost your metabolism but it impacts your appetite as well. The effects are not as pronounced as other treatments like the HCG hormone, but they have been clearly show in studies to work well. This ingredient helps rapidly burn stored fat that you have in your body, and also increasing activity in your hypothalamus on a periodic basis.
The Importance of Weight Loss Permanently
Recent surveys show that roughly 50% of Americans are struggling with their weight, and the vast majority of these people will try at least one diet every year. This just cements the need for effective treatments that can help people achieve results. Going on diets or exercising has historically always been a very poor and unreliable way to lose weight. Most people, even if they achieve some success, will actually gain all of the weight back and then some down the road. People who don’t lose weight and remain overweight throughout their lives have a much greater chance of heart disease, diabetes, poor circulation and a host of other diseases which will all impact quality of life and can even cause permanent disabilities. It’s important for people to find and use an effective treatment that can help them achieve permanent results to avoid these outcomes.
How Raspberry Ketones can Help
Raspberry ketones have been well studied in recent years, after a plethora of new information was revealed which showed they may be effective weight loss aids. Studies using them showed that people on this supplement lost around 10-15 pounds per month without changing their diet. This is significantly more than any prescription based treatment, but it’s a completely natural product instead. Beyond increasing your energy and boosting your metabolism, allowing you to burn off more stored fat, ketones of this type have also been shown to absorb part of the fats taken in by the person as well. This is not typical of prescription treatments, and even HCG does not work in this manner (though it does result in more weight loss).
Raspberry ketones also have many other health benefits that go far beyond just weight loss. New information shows that raspberries are powerful antioxidants, helping to prevent cancer it’s suspected. By removing body toxins and hormonal imbalances they have been shown to help people improve their health in many other ways. There are many detoxifying effects of taking raspberry ketones regularly, such as “slowing down aging” as many studies have reported. Users should be cautious in these expectations, however. Though the weight loss effects are well documented, scientists are still exploring all of the various ways that raspberries can help our bodies improve their natural function. Still, trying out this product will only help people achieve their long term health and weight loss goals.
May 18, 2014 / Meep Beep / 0 Comments
The HCG diet is a fantastic weight loss method that has grown ever more popular as time passes. Millions of people now use this hormone to help them lose weight, get healthy and stay motivated in their diet. HCG is a unique hormone, offering truly unheard of benefits as studies have clearly shown. On average people will lose around 0.5 to 1 pound per day of use, which is substantially more than with any other treatment known. It’s incredibly difficult for people to achieve this level of success on their own, as studies have shown. In comparison studies, those taking HCG versus just going on a diet lost about 4 times as much total fat. This is difficult to explain and has been the topic of much research in recent years.
Dr. Simeons discovered this treatment some 60 years ago when working with obese patients overseas. He found that this simple hormone actually boosted metabolism in his patients and decreased their appetite considerably. This is quite different than any other treatment that was known at the time, or has been discovered since. Rather than trying to adapt the body, this hormone actually signals the brain (through the hypothalamus gland) to boost energy and decrease appetite. This is the same signal your body gets when it is full, but the HCG hormone does it through direct chemical signals to the user’s brain. No other method is known to act in this manner, and many researchers are still perplexed why it works in this way.
How the HCG Diet Works and Delivers Results
The HCG diet works by directly impacting your body’s own desire for food and your metabolic rate, however, there’s more to this diet than just daily administration of the hormone. Yes, taking the hormone each and every day is important for success on the program. Many people take HCG through daily injections, but new offerings are available that allow you to take regular dosages of HCG (taken orally) instead. These products offer all the same benefits, but are more readily available and easier to take each day (without painful injections). However, not all such products are created equal. There’s a significant number of products that are being sold as “homeopathic” or hormone-free products of HCG, but in fact don’t even contain the real hormone whatsoever. Many people are falling victim to this scam, as they purchase these products thinking they will work the same but they do not. It’s important to ensure any product you get is non-homeopathic and real.
The HCG diet itself is broken down into three distinct phases, each with a particular goal in mind. Phase one lasts for two or three days and is a gorging phase of the program. A person on this phase of the diet needs to take the hormone each day as well as gorge on foods high in fat and low in carbs. This enables their body to more easily burn off stored fats later. In phase two people will enter into a highly reduced calorie phase. This is typically something that lasts around 43 to 57 days, depending on the diet protocol. This is where the bulk of the weight is lost, with average weight loss results on the order of 30 to 45 pounds per regimen. In phase three people are there to maintain their results. They have to take a break from the hormone each day to allow their body to adjust back to normal. Along those lines, it’s important to add back in healthy foods and maintain a healthy diet for the long haul. HCG will not be able to help you forever when you’re taking it, that’s what this phase is designed to help with. This part is 1500 calories per day.
The HCG diet protocol has a tremendous amount of support from doctors, clinicians and researchers. It’s easy to see why it’s quickly grown to be the most popular weight loss treatment in the world. On average, customers of either real drops or injections lose around 1 pound per day throughout the program. There’s no known method that offers faster results.
April 9, 2014 / Meep Beep / 0 Comments
Many people who make the decision to lose weight often embark on their journey by motivating themselves. This can be a harmful thing, often involving ridicule in front of the mirror or looking at clothes they wish they could fit into. They feel guilty, angry and frustrated with themselves before they even start. What’s worse, these feelings are quite temporary and won’t last for more than a few days once you begin your diet. If you don’t see rapid, amazing results it’s likely you will give up as well. This is why it’s so imperative for people to select a treatment that offers them rapid weight loss, along with being something they can continue down in the future without mess ups.
The reality of weight loss is often not an easy pill to swallow. Most people don’t lose weight quickly, and instead, it’s a gradual process that requires consistent commitment, time and effort to achieve your goals. The goal of weight loss is to reach the end result, of course, but you need to establish a program that enables you to take small gradual steps towards that end goal. Each target should be achievable, and each one should be something you strive for individually. Studies have clearly shown that breaking down your weight loss into smaller goals is one of the most effective ways to be successful in losing weight.
If you continue to think about only losing weight as quickly as possible, you will likely experience poor results and significant issues with achieving your long term goals. Instead, you need to keep in mind that even if you find an effective treatment like the HCG diet or something else, it still may not always go according to plan. There’s no sure things when it comes to weight loss, but instead you need to commit to wholesale changes in your diet, your exercise routines as well as other factors that greatly impact your ability to lose weight successfully over time.
Fad Diets and their Risks
Many people try various popular diets that come out in the news each year, however, most people who do so will not ultimately lose weight. There is many problems with trying to lose weight with these sorts of methods. Most have no clinical basis for their claims, and many promise rapid weight loss which warps the person’s expectations. If you do find a method that has a clinical basis, like Garcinia Cambogia or something similar, this is a great place to start your diet. However, it’s important to keep your “ambition” in check. You don’t want to go expecting miracles overnight and then lose motivation if they don’t materialize.
Rapid weight loss is generally not a good thing. Doctors recommend a more stable and slow change that involves eating healthier and adding some general exercise to your routine. Short of invasive surgeries, most methods that promise you ridiculous results won’t be able to deliver on those promises. You need to have a stable, and sustainable outlook for your weight loss. One that you can actually achieve and actually see results from in the end. Many people who go on these “get skinny fast” diets don’t lose weight and don’t succeed. They can actually be counterproductive as studies have shown, preventing you from sticking with the diet in the long term.
March 9, 2014 / Meep Beep / 0 Comments
If your goal is to get the most you can from your diet and weight loss method, you need to stop thinking about diet and exercise as separate things. You need to adopt a mindset that both of these things are interrelated and require effort in order to resolve and understand adequately. Exercising, whether that is running or weight lifting, signals your body that it needs to eat proper nutrients. You will often crave certain types of foods (healthy foods typically, and those high in protein). So exercise does directly impact your diet and what you eat on a daily basis. Simply eating foods that are meant to help you “build muscle” or something along those lines won’t be sufficient to help you lose weight. You have to exercise as well, as many people quickly find out.
Yes, eating the right foods and exercising is important, but it’s not the only factor to consider. Few people actually plan how they will eat, and what strategy they will use after they achieve their desired weight loss to keep it that way going forward. This is often one of the more challenging things to address, as most diet or weight loss methods don’t define any foods to eat afterwards, or how to maintain the weight you’ve lost. There are some that do, such as the HCG protocol, but these are more the exception than the rule. Nutrition is a huge problem with diets, particularly fad weight loss aids, as they don’t provide any insight into the longer term.
Two Secrets to Success When Dieting
There are more than just two ways to succeed when trying to lose weight, but we find that most dieters overlook two major parts of their diet whenever they try to lose weight. We briefly give an overview of the advantages for these ingredients in your diet as a result.
Eat Protein – Eating protein every day is a highly important part of any weight loss program. This helps to boost the levels of amino acids contained in your blood, which helps free up stored fat to burn in its place. When these proteins arrive in your muscles, they are synthesized into such tissue and helps you to burn more fat, increase strength, and increase energy. There’s been some significant research on how the human body uses protein that’s eaten. It was found that this helps burn fat as energy down the road, but also helps you with your workout and keeping your metabolism up. Higher amounts of protein each day helped people lose more weight and also gain more muscle, which is hardly a surprise given how many people use it for muscle gains.
Eat Carbohydrates – Eating carbohydrates has gotten a lot of critiques in recent years, as many fad diets have appeared that tell you to completely remove carbs from your daily diet. This is not only unsustainable but unhealthy. Your body needs carbohydrates, just not necessarily complex carbohydrates. For example, many fruits have natural sugars in them. This is just a form of carbohydrates. Carbs also help prevent protein breakdowns in your body, as well as help you burn fat through a maximum metabolic functionality. Your glucose levels impact your ability to burn stored fat as demonstrated in various studies.
You want to start your weight loss or workout sessions at least 1 hour after eating foods high in protein. This is best, as your body will have time to actually digest and use some of that nutrition to help you put on muscle mass. The more muscle mass you put on, the faster your metabolism, and the more weight you will lose. You want to take in protein and carbs either through a shake designed specifically to provide them, as these have nice processed proteins your body can easily digest, or through natural meat products. The more natural approach can be quite expensive when compared to the soy based approach, but it typically is seen as healthier.
When you are planning out the methods for your success on any weight loss program, it’s important to consider how your diet and exercise program interact. You need to set up a method that not only works for you individually but will enable your body to lose weight as effectively and efficiently as possible. Managing expectations for your weight loss as well as finding methods that truly work are paramount to your success.
February 26, 2014 / Meep Beep / 0 Comments
Ah water, an essential element for all life on earth. It’s true that this ingredient more than anything else is why our planet has life on it, and why we too are alive. It’s the most common substance in our body and also ubiquitous for everything on earth. It helps regulate body temperatures in humans, aids in digestion and helps us to expel bad things as well. However, when we start to go on a weight loss program, what is the proper amount of water to drink? Could even help us to lose weight in the long term?
Doctors and experts have told people for years to “drink 8 glasses of 8 ounces a piece each day”. This is great advice, and certainly isn’t bad to help kidney functionality and keep your body operating well. However, many new studies and research has suggested that this may not be the best metric to judge “sufficient water” usage in the general population. By defining a value like “number of glasses per day”, physicians noticed that people thought that doing this was essential to their health. The reality is that drinking water regularly does help with weight loss and general health, but it is heavily dependent upon a person’s exercise routine, the temperatures in their environment and other factors as well.
There’s been considerably disagreement among scientists as to the cause of water weight and how best to prevent it. Many people take on water in a near permanent fashion when they begin gaining weight and it’s thought to be caused in part by your body’s fat cells (which absorb water into their cell walls). Much recent research indicates a different conclusion however. Many say it’s an excess of water being consumed by individuals that causes this. If you’re outside or in the heat, your body can close gallons of water per day, however, inside in the air conditioning you may lose only 5-7 cups of water from your body each day.
Water’s Impact on Your Waistline
When you think about weight loss and water you probably haven’t heard much about it. You certainly want to stay hydrated well whenever you’re on a diet or weight loss program, as it helps not only get rid of bad things you eat quicker, but helps you to stay energetic. If you aren’t drinking plenty of fluids you will likely experience problems if you try to exercise or even problems with the motivation to exercise in the first place. You will feel weak and dizzy relatively quickly whenver you try to work out or do physical exertion of any kind. It can be a dangerous propostion to try to exercise out in the heat without plenty of water
Some simple guidance about weight loss is possible from reliable sources such as Weight Watchers, which is a very popular method that people all over the world use to help them shed pounds. They recommend a good amount of water consumption every day, but also recommend water rich fruits and vegetables as well such as: pineapples, oranges, or berries. Another good thing, contrary to popular urban legend is actually coffee. Coffee is a diuretic, but it’s literally just drinking a big cup of water. As a result, it helps kidney function and helps keep you hydrated if drank consistently and with large cups each time.
One of the easiest ways to stay healthy and keep your weight down is to avoid sodas and other sugary drinks. It’s difficult to move to this up front, but there are many things you can do to make it easier. For example, switching to flavored water products such as Crystal Light shows a strong correlation to reduced obesity rates in studies. These products are very cheap and taste very good and are simple to add to water. In additiona, seltzer water is also popular for something that tastes better but is just as healthy as regular water. On average, Americans drink 22% of their daily calories, so this is a super easy way to reduce that without causing any real long term problems. It’s also one of the easiest things a person can do.