Four Healthy Weight Loss Tips

1. Use your common sense: Humans are blessed with common sense for one single reason: they need to use it every now and then. Many times people don’t use their common sense at all when making certain vital choices of their lives, and that doesn’t surprise me. We often opt for the easy way and that often winds up being the latest fad diet.
I should know, I’ve gone on crazy diets in the past but have finally started listening to my brain and not my taste buds.
Always use your common sense, whether you are eating out or cooking meals at home. Let’s face it, we all know that 3 slices of pizza have way more calories than 1. If you listen to your brain you will go for 1 slice, but if you listen to your taste buds you’ll be hitting 3 slices and triple the amount of calories.
Think about each of your activity and how it will affect your body weight. Think whether your activities are taking you nearer to your weight loss goal or further from it?
You are doing some type of a fitness workout 3-4 times a week. Correct? If not–start.

2. Find healthy alternatives to your favorite foods: One of the reasons why fad diets fail is that they don’t provide enough nutrition to your body. You should first think about proving nutrition to your body and then about dieting.
For instance, suppose that you are not overweight and you don’t need to diet; even then, should you be eating all those junk and processed foods? No at all, because they add nothing to your body’s nutrition level.
On the other hand, they harm your body all the more, or make you gain weight. You should replace unhealthy foods with their healthy substitutes.
As an example, you should always drink water instead of soda or fizzy drinks. While soda or fizzy drinks will make you fatter, water will help you lose weight by burning your calories.
How about a handful of grapes instead of a piece of cake? If you find that you really don’t want to give up all your food pleasures - then cut down your portion sizes.
Only have 1 cookie, instead of your usual 1/2 bag. Purchase some snacks in the new 100 calorie packs and save them for when you want a snack but don’t want to blow your whole diet.
If you love ice cream try some of the new slow churned types that have 1/2 the calories of regular ice cream. Or even better yet try some fat free or sugar free ice cream. Or fruit sorbet or 100% juice ice bars. They are cooling and low in calories.
3. Don’t skip your exercises: No matter what your body weight is, you should never want to skip your exercises. It is one thing to skip exercise for one day during the week; it is totally a different thing to avoid exercises altogether.
Remember that if you rely only on diet, you can never expect to lose weight fast. A combination of exercise and diet is the best ways to lose weight quickly but healthily!
Exercising will also help to shape your body and help you have lean muscle which will replace your fat. Lean muscle is smaller than fat (so your thinner) and it takes more calories upkeep, so you burn more calories every day.
Lean muscle doesn’t make you look like you have bulked up, but instead is long and lean giving you a body that looks wonderful in almost any clothing style.
4. Join weight loss support groups. From time to time, when you are following your weight loss program, you will feel depressed and frustrated and would want to give it up all.
This is very common and this is the time when you need someone to lift up your spirits. Who can support you better than your peers?
You can join weight loss forums online for free. These forums consist of two types of members: people who are struggling to lose weight just like you, and people who have successfully made it to the slim figure.
These people understand all your needs and requirements. They understand that you would like to have a bowl of chocolate soup instead of that damn old carrot. They understand that you would like to have soft drinks instead of plain water.
And remember that someone who understands you well would be able to support your weight loss goals properly!
And lastly - expect to slip up once in a while. It’s natural, we all do it. Just remember that you shouldn’t give it all up because you ate something very fattening or didn’t workout out for a week or two.
Just get back on track as soon as you can, so that your weight does not go back to where it was, or even worse - higher. The quicker you pick yourself up the less damage control you have to do.
Good Luck!

POLLUTION

Pollution is killing many millions of people world wide.

There is no doubt about the sickening effects between heart disease and fine air-pollution particles that permeate large, industrial metropolitan areas.

After studying three dozen cities and nearly 66,000 post-menopausal women, scientists found the women in the worst-polluted cities had a 76 percent greater chance of dying from heart ailments than those in the least-polluted cities.

"What we want to make clear is that air pollution isn't just an environmentalist's issue, or a matter of decreased visibility," said Dr. Joel Kaufman, a University of Washington physician and lead author of the study, appearing in today's New England Journal of Medicine. "It's impacting our health right now."

This confirms, with a rigorous methodology, that small particulates at levels considerably lower than the EPA standards, and levels lower than we see in major cities, are associated with significant cardiovascular events and deaths.

The new report uses data collected by the Women's Health Initiative, a long-term national health study that focuses on strategies for preventing heart disease, breast and colorectal cancer and fracture in post-menopausal women.

Because of the large study size, the scientists were able to eliminate factors, such as physical activity and weight that might otherwise have explained the dramatic increase in heart disease for women who lived near high pollution cities

Epidemiologists and health officials confirm it shows a stronger-than-expected relationship and is more definitive than previous research linking fine particle air pollution and heart problems,

Fine particles, often appearing as smoke or haze, are emitted by a variety of sources, from power plants, diesel trucks and bus, industrial factories, fires and automobile brakes, exhaust. They are defined by their small size, being 2.5 micrometers or smaller in diameter, dust. Because they are so small, fine particles can bore deep into the lungs and bloodstream but chemicals can also be absorbed through the skin.

Such small particles are so difficult to detect that reliable, widespread monitoring didn't begin until about 2000, but concern among researchers and public health officials has grown steadily since. While scientists ponder the tiny particles themselves for the next hundred years the public continues to get sick and die.

Cardiovascular risks are far greater near sites with high levels of fine-particle pollution than those with cleaner air.



Who is to blame?

The love affair with the car must end because the freedom owning a car represents is pure delusion. Never mind the killing over oil unless it hits home, but this new study does hit home. Owning a car hurts far more then it benefits because the related oil and pollution are killing millions worldwide.

Politicians fill their pockets with high automobile tax dollars while ignoring the combined results of congested traffic and factory pollutions.

Politicians will not and can not stop their love affair with the cars related tax dollars that they earn off car buying tax, fuel tax and all other oil, tires, parts tax.

Dealing with pollution

Avoid walking or jogging on heavy traffic polluted roads.
Vote with your feet, move away from polluted cities.
Don’t buy a car or at least avoid buying a gas guzzling type.
Take public transportation and if none is available demand it from the politicians who robbed you of it to start with.

Healthy Food Means Less Acne Problems

Eating junk food, chocolate and drinking carbonated drinks will increase the likelihood of an acne breakout

you should drink a lot of water. Most people are dehydrated and don’t realize it. Minimally, you should drink eight glasses of water a day. In addition, drink naturally sweetened fruit juices. Eat foods that are lower in fat. They are easier to digest and process. You’ll have fewer toxins develop because your body won’t struggle so much to digest the food.

Lower Blood Sugar

Knowing that you are diabetic you take measures to ensure that you maintain a healthy lifestyle and monitor your blood sugar levels. You know that having a too high or too low blood sugar can be dangerous and that you normally have a tendency to have low blood sugar.

Every year people suffering from diabetes can and do enter a coma because they are not correctly monitoring their sugar levels. Since you are prone to low blood sugar levels, you should take the time to learn about the symptoms and to watch for them.

The symptoms of low blood sugar usually occur suddenly and you may experience pale, moist and sweaty skin; start to shake; become irritable; need to urinate frequently or you may suddenly become very thirsty.

In addition to watching for the symptoms, you need to listen to your own body. Problems with low blood sugar levels can be increased by changing to your system such as not eating at the designated times, being more active than usual or even taking too much medication.

Being diabetic means that you must constantly watch your blood sugar levels. Having a blood sugar level that is too low can be deadly if you lose consciousness and go into a coma.

When it comes to low blood sugar, one of the fastest ways to quickly increase your sugar level is to have a glass or orange juice or a few ounces of regular soda. This is only a temporary measure when it comes to bringing your blood sugar levels up. Once you have experience a low blood sugar episode, and you have gotten temporary relief from a drink, you should immediately eat a proper meal and figure out what happened.

You, more than anyone else in the entire world, will and can be your own best weapon against this disease. It is up to you to monitor your blood sugar levels, to take your medication, to eat properly and on time, to exercise and to work closely with your doctor to control you diabetes.

Understanding what you need to do is the first step to controlling your diabetes. Read informational pamphlets and books to get more information. You can also go to the internet and learn more about your condition and how to better regular your blood sugar levels.

Learn everything you can about diabetes and about low and high blood sugar levels. The more information you have about this, the better equipped you will be to handle an emergency situation.

And, who knows, you might be the one person available who knows the symptoms of a diabetic comma and may be able to help someone else who may be experiencing an episode of low blood sugar.

High Blood Sugar

What is high blood sugar? You have probably about this and you figure that it probably has something to do with eating too much sugar. Notching on donuts for breakfast, having a latte at your morning coffee break, nibbling on a few cookies after lunch, with another latte at the after coffee break and all this topped off with ice cream after dinner. Of course you have high blood sugar. But, while this type of diet is not good for you, it might not have anything to do with a long-term problem with high blood sugar.

If you are diabetic you know what it can mean to you if you have blood sugar levels. When you were diagnosed, the doctor provided you with several pamphlets and brochures that told you everything you needed to know about being diabetic and the problems with low or high blood sugar levels.

Learning the symptoms of high blood sugar was very important because you had to ensure that you would receive immediate treatment if a problem should arise. You know that there are several symptoms that can alert you to the possibility that your blood sugar levels are too high. These symptoms may include become drowsy, difficulty breathing, nausea, excessive thirst and flushed skin. In addition, you make sure that your family, friends and coworkers also know the symptoms.

Many people who experience an episode of high blood sugar do not recognize the symptoms when they come up one at a time. You are busy working at the office and you feel a bit tired in the afternoon and you are experiencing some nausea. Thinking nothing of it because you did not sleep well last night and everyone is coming down with some of virus-you ignore the initial symptoms. You start drinking more as you are working and before you know it your blood sugar levels are very high and you need to take immediate action.

Sometimes, if you are not paying enough attention you may have to call upon someone else to help you get your blood sugar levels back to normal. This might even include having someone else give you an injection of insulin. Having other people know what to do immediately when you can not communicate can save your life.

Remember that it is up to you to monitor your blood sugar levels throughout the day and to pay attention to the little signals that your body is giving you. Having a high blood sugar level can and will cause problems, but with careful monitoring of your diet and frequent testing of your blood glucose levels you can avoid potential problems and pitfalls.

Take care of yourself every single day because this how to monitor your blood sugar levels-one day at a time.