By: Monica Gupta,
on 8/27/2016
डिटॉक्स डाइट और हम Detox diet Tips एक जानकार से मिलना हुआ. चाय सर्व करते हुए उसने बताया कि वो आज कुछ नही लेगी डिटॉक्स प्लान है … यानि सारे दिन बस एक ही चीज लेनी है और वो आज घिया ही ले रही है घिया की सब्जी, घिया का रायता… इससे शरीर के अंदर की […]
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By: Monica Gupta,
on 7/30/2016
डाइट – वजन नियंत्रित करने की टिप्स डाइट – वजन नियंत्रित करने की टिप्स How to Maintain our weight.. some helpful tips हम जिम जाकर या अन्य तरीके अपना कर अपना वजन कम तो कर लेते है पर उसे नियंत्रण में नही रख पाते और जिम छोडते ही या सैर करना छोडते ही दुबारा अपने […]
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By: Monica Gupta,
on 7/18/2016
खूबसूरत त्वचा, खान पान और स्वास्थ्य हैल्दी डाईट और निखरी त्वचा मेरी त्वचा से मेरी उम्र का पता ही नही चलता.. बेशक ये हमें सुनने में अच्छा लगता हो पर ये सच्चाई आप पर भी लागू हो सकती है … अगर जानना चाहते हैं तो जरुर पढिए … मेरी एक जानकार को जब भी किसी […]
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By: Gerald Hawksley,
on 3/9/2016
An amazing new book by Otto Fishblanket is going to be available soon!
It is called Ten Incredible Tips on How to Lose Weight, and it is all about how you can lose weight using these ten unbelievable tips! Tip number six you just won't believe!
It is packed with case studies of people who have lost lots of weight using these tips.
This book is so incredible you just won't believe it.
Otto Fishblanket doesn't believe it - and he wrote it!
Look out Otto Fishblanket's Amazing Ten Tips For Losing Weight Weightloss Book, with Amazing Case studies, coming soon!
By: Joe Hitchcock,
on 2/26/2016
The Amazonian Yanomami Indians famously manage on only 50 mg (1 mmol) of sodium chloride per day, while in more developed societies, we struggle to keep our average intake below 100 times that level.
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By: Monica Gupta,
on 1/28/2016
डाइट प्लान ऐसा भी होता है .हम हमेशा अपनी Diet यानि खान पान को लेकर बेहद सजग रहते हैं कभी dietitian के पास जाकर तो कभी Gymnasium जा कर कोशिश करते हैं कि वजन कम हो सभी अपने अपने तरीके हैं वजन कम करने के . आज एक सहेली घर आई. मेरे बार बार पूछ्ने पर कि […]
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By: DanP,
on 1/7/2016
2016 is here. The New Year is a time for renewal and resolution. It is also a time for dieting. Peak enrolment and attendance times at gyms occur after sumptuous holiday indulgences in December and again when beach wear is cracked out of cold storage in summer. As the obesity epidemic reaches across the globe we need new solutions. We need better ways to live healthy lifestyles.
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By: Elizabeth Gorney,
on 5/27/2015
I am often asked whether eating particular foods can enhance mood and treat the symptoms of depression. With very few exceptions, the answer is no. In contrast, our mood can be easily depressed by our diet. Why? For adults, the brain responds primarily to deficits, not surpluses, in the diet.
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By: Elizabeth Gorney,
on 5/14/2015
Considerable evidence has linked an unhealthy diet to obesity, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and cancer. We now understand how chronic obesity ages us and then underlies the foundation of our death. Furthermore, obesity leads to body-wide chronic inflammation that predisposes us to depression and dementia. However, these are all the long-term consequences of our diet upon our body and brain.
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By: Mark Bittman,
on 5/12/2015
People ask me all the time what they can do to help improve the food system. Given that some of the problems that need fixing (like unsustainable agriculture, mistreatment of workers and animals, hunger, and diet-related disease, to name just a few) are so complex, widespread, and downright daunting, it's easy to overlook the things [...]
By: Elizabeth Gorney,
on 3/29/2015
Everyone knows that aerobic exercise is good for the body, but is it always as good for brain? Furthermore, is exercise better than eating lots of chocolate for the aging brain? A recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience by a group of scientists from Columbia University and NYU gave a large daily dose […]
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Most of us are probably not going to end up with amnesia so severe our memory of the past ten months is completely wiped out as happened to my heroine Gwen in Loving the Amnesia Bride. However, if you’re anything like me, you walk into a room intending to do something, which had to be important since you went there with a purpose. But now you’re standing inside the doorway with no earthly idea what you walked all the way across the house to do.
Or you’re all ready to run some errands…if you could just find where you left your darn car keys. Really, how far away could they have disappeared in the two hours since you last drove the car??? Clearly, it’s time to address the problem. And the problem is not the keys.
Below are ten foods which have been scientifically proven to deliver health benefits to your brain—improving memory, focus and concentration. So, let’s start eating!
Sara Daniel writes what she loves to read—irresistible romance, from sweet to erotic and everything in between. She battles a serious NASCAR addiction and was once a landlord of two uninvited squirrels. She lives her own happily-ever-after romance with her hero husband, and she gets amnesia at least three times a day because she can never remember where she left her keys!
By: Tracey T.,
on 11/9/2014
October/November is a favorite time in our offices. These are the months when scads of cookbooks are released, a deluge of cookbooks, a tornado of cookbooks. To judge by my desk, it's a perfect (or, rather, imperfect) storm of cookbooks. I have over 50 newly released books piled up, with another pile of yet-to-be-released titles [...]
By: [email protected],
on 7/18/2014
Two months ago you’d have drawn a blank look from me if you mentioned a FODMAP. Or rather, the FODMAP acronym. Today, it seems to be integral to my eating life.
After some seven years of turning up to various doctors complaining of an assortment of annoying but arguably not life-threatening symptoms, it looks like we’ve finally worked out what’s causing my issues: fructose.
That’s essentially a sugar that’s contained in a bunch of foods that make up the FODMAP grouping, or Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccarides, Monosaccharides, And Polyols.
High-FODMAP foods have been linked to a bunch of food intolerances, including Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Crohn’s and Coeliac diseases. Low-FODMAP foods, on the other hand, seem to make those of us whose bodies flair up when we encounter high-FODMAP foods very happy.
As someone who studiously steers clear of anything involving the word ‘diet’, I was dubious about The Complete Low-FODMAP Diet‘s ability to convince me to start and stay with it. So it’s testament to the strong communication and communication design of this book that I consider it a worthy purchase and read.
Research-rich, it delivers a trove of detailed information in largely lay terms, which means it’s not overwhelming and people like me can have a red-hot crack at adopting the diet. I’m impressed, especially so as the book has whole sections and a sample weekly menu plan for vegetarians and vegans (they also have ones for coeliacs and so on).
This means I’m not cobbling together information and coming up with my own approximations of how the diet would apply to me. Which is pretty much par for the course with any other diet or recipe I’ve ever attempted.
That’s not to say that the diet isn’t confusing, because it kind of is. With foods anywhere from onion and garlic to apples on the do-not-eat or eat-minimally lists, there’s nothing hugely intuitive about which foods are high- or low-FODMAP. That may be why the diet took so long to really take off.
But, having been loosely following the low-FODMAP diet for a month or so, I can testify that this diet is already improving my allergies/intolerances. And doing so in a way that doesn’t compromise my overall long-term nutrition. Which means I should probably fully commit to it and stop faffing about.
The avoiding onion and garlic thing is, I have to say, indescribably difficult, with those two tasty vegetables forming the basis of just about every cooked food and every cooked winter food I’d currently like to consume.
I have also joked that, as a vegan on the low-FODMAP diet, I’m pretty much the most nightmarish dinner party guest ever. I’ll forever need to be turning up to people’s places armed with my own food in tupperware so as not to send them (or me) into what-on-earth-is-safe-to-eat meltdown.
But that’s a small adjustment to make in light of the more exciting healthfulness I’m feeling. Plus, there are some tasty-looking low-FODMAP recipes at the back of the book that warrant some road testing…
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Do cats rate chips? Bamber does. I gave him a chip on my fork and he lapped it up. I know I shouldn’t have done it, but I did. For the last month we’ve been in the throes of getting a new kitchen installed, and during the whole of that time we haven’t had water in the taps. Hence we’ve relied on processed food and home cooking has eaten dust. But Bamber loves rubbish food, he loves fatty chips, meat products laced with bad chemicals and oozy fatty liquors. And that’s what this episode has taught us. It’s also reminded us how stubborn he is. He refused to give up asking until he’d had his chips. He sat on the edge of my plate and demanded them until he was given.
By: David Billings,
on 3/9/2013
When you think of vegans, you might think of wimpy, lethargic, malnourished weirdos doing yoga while they drive their Priuses to the next Natural Spirit and Judgmental Diet seminar.
That might describe a few vegans, but that’s not a good definition by any stretch.
I’m vegan. I’m also kind of a sturdy fella, if you know what I mean.
At 42, I feel better than I ever did. I feel strong, I have plenty of energy, and I still fit in the same size pants I’ve been wearing since I was 20.
Sure, I could probably exercise more and drink less. However, I wouldn’t change the amount of chocolate I consume, unless it would be more. Always more with the chocolate. In other words, I’m human.
The main reason I feel this healthy is because of my vegan diet. Jenni and I are both vegan, which means we don’t consume any animal products at all.
I grew up on the standard American diet of Mac n’ cheese, Hamburger Helper, fried chicken and steak. I was accidentally skinny for a long time, too, which was deceiving because my bad cholesterol levels at 21 were well above 300. And I smoked. Along with my genetics, it was a great way to guarantee a heart attack in my future.
When I altered my diet to eliminate animal products (and cigarettes), my life and health changed forever. It’s been nothing short of amazing. I don’t get sick often, I heal quickly, and I’m stronger than I ever was.
In the past I haven’t been one to proselytize our vegan lifestyle, because I’ve always had a live and let live philosophy. While that hasn’t changed, I think that after ten years of following a vegan diet (20 as a vegetarian), its about time I started sharing.
In the past year, during many travels around the U.S., I’ve been getting a ton of interest and lots of questions about our vegan diet. Mostly people want to know how to do it. The food I eat always looks fresh and tasty and I have to guard my plate. It’s not easy to travel and stay vegan. It’s an adventure. But the interest in my food is, well, interesting.
So I’m going to start writing about this more. We eat really well at home and that gets us through long days and nights of running our screen print and design business.
I’ll start sharing. One thing I want you to know (this is hugely important) is that I don’t judge anyone based on their dietary choices. I’ll answer questions,I’ll guide, I’ll share. Ultimately what you eat is up to you.
If you have questions, toss ‘em out in the comments below. If you want to stay under the radar and follow along, stay tuned for more posts. We’ll share some recipes, tips, and ways to stay strong on a vegan diet. Adventure is out there!
By: David Billings,
on 3/9/2013
When you think of vegans, you might think of wimpy, lethargic, malnourished weirdos doing yoga while they drive their Priuses to the next Natural Spirit and Judgemental Diet seminar.
That might describe a few vegans, but that’s not a good definition by any stretch.
I’m vegan. I’m also kind of a sturdy fella, if you know what I mean.
At 42, I feel better than I ever did. I feel strong, I have plenty of energy, and I still fit in the same size pants I’ve been wearing since I was 20.
The main reason I feel this healthy is because of my vegan diet. Jenni and I are both vegan, which means we don’t consume any animal products at all.
Sure, I could probably exercise more and drink less. However, I wouldn’t change the amount of chocolate I consume, unless it would be more. Always more with the chocolate. In other words, I’m human.
I grew up on the standard American diet of Mac n’ cheese, Hamburger Helper, fried chicken and steak. I was accidentally skinny for a long time, too, which was deceiving because my bad cholesterol levels at 21 were well above 300. And I smoked. Along with my genetics, it was a great way to guarantee a heart attack in my future.
When I altered my diet to eliminate animal products (and cigarettes), my life and health changed forever. It’s been nothing short of amazing. I don’t get sick often, I heal quickly, and I’m stronger than I ever was.
In the past I haven’t been one to proselytize our vegan lifestyle, because I’ve always had a live and let live philosophy. While that hasn’t changed, I think that after ten years of following a vegan diet (20 as a vegetarian), its about time I started sharing.
In the past year, during many travels around the U.S., I’ve been getting a ton of interest and lots of questions about our vegan diet. Mostly people want to know how to do it. The food I eat always looks fresh and tasty and I have to guard my plate. It’s not easy to travel and stay vegan. It’s an adventure. But the interest in my food is, well, interesting.
So I’m going to start writing about this more. We eat really well at home and that gets us through long days and nights of running our screen print and design business.
So I’ll start sharing. One thing I want you to know (this is hugely important) is that I don’t judge anyone based on their dietary choices. I’ll answer questions,I’ll guide, I’ll share. Ultimately what you eat is up to you.
If you have questions, toss ‘em out in the comments below. If you prefer to stay under the radar and just follow along, stay tuned for more posts. We’ll share some recipes, tips, and ways to stay strong on a vegan diet. Adventure is out there!
By: Nicola,
on 2/1/2012
We are failing to deal with one of the most important issues of our time – in every country we are getting fatter. Although being fat is not automatically linked to illness, it does increase dramatically the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other so-called non-communicable diseases. We are starting to see very high rates of these diseases in some places, sometimes affecting 50% of the population. Even in some of the poorest parts of the developing world, where such disease itself is not yet common, we nonetheless see warning signs of its arrival. There is great concern that it may soon outweigh the burden of communicable disease such as HIV/AIDS. The humanitarian and financial cost of this non-communicable disease in such parts of the world will be unbearable, and made even worse because the risk is passed across generations, so children born today and tomorrow will have a bleak future.
It seems that we don’t know how to tackle this problem, because current attempts are obviously failing and obesity continues to increase. Governments, doctors, and even NGOs seem to have adopted the same strategy – to focus on our sins of “gluttony and sloth” and to transfer the responsibility for slimming down to each of us as individuals. Of course it’s true that we can’t get overweight unless we eat more than we need to, and the wrong types of foods, and get too little physical exercise. Our biology did not evolve to protect us from obesity and its consequences in today’s sedentary world with such easy access to food. But why is it that we find it so hard to lose weight and, if we do shed the kilos, it seems very hard not to put them back on again?
What we are missing is a focus on our early development. We’re just not adopting the right approach to the problem. And it seems that the generals who are leading us in this global war on obesity and disease have adopted the wrong strategy, and they stick resolutely to it as if they were wearing blinkers. They blame us for the failure to win the war, for our greed and laziness; they blame parents for letting their children get fat; they blame the food industry for peddling unhealthy food, and so on. As if we choose to be fat. It’s important to realise just how limited this way of attacking the problem is on a global scale. Does the little girl force-fed before marriage in Mauritania have any choice in her life? Does the 12-year-old child bride in rural India have any choice when she becomes pregnant and drops out of school? Does the little toddler in Detroit have any choice when his mother feeds him French fries? Does the little boy from Tonga whose mother had diabetes in pregnancy have any choice about developing obesity? Does the little girl in Beijing have any choice in being an only child? And yet every one of these scenarios, and many more, sets that little child up to be at greater risk of becoming obese and to have non-communicable disease.
But new research is uncovering many things that will give us new tactics and strategies for the war against obesity and non-communicable disease, and so we’re hopeful. We now know that we will have to give much greater focus to the mother and unborn child. We may well have to give emphasis to the lifestyle of the father as well. And most importantly of all, we’re starting to realise that behaviours such as propensity to exercise, or appetite and taste for certain foods, which we previously thought to be based on individual choice, have a large constitutional component – in part based on inherited genes, in part on epigenetic changes to gene function in response to the developmental environment, and
It's been a while, and I've realised that I'll probably never catch up properly on everyone else's posts, so better to dive back in than stand confusedly on the shore like the little critter in the userpic. I'm not returning with a proper rant, but flagging an issue that recurred in two articles, a character in a book and someone on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends: food intolerances and their accompanying dietary exclusions. (All right, I'm ranting a bit.)
One article was on the Rodale website ( I saw it via a Care2 newsletter) and titled "Is Gluten Bad for You?" The other probably came the same way into my inbox, and is called "What We're (Not) Eating: A Potential Danger of Gluten-Free". The character is in Sarah Dessen's latest, What Happened to Goodbye, a book I liked, if maybe not quite as much as the previous one, Lock and Key. I'm not sure who it was on Loose Ends (I missed a bit while cooking dinner), but he'd written a book which seemed of the grumpy comic complaining about everyone type and one of the things he said from the book was that he hated people claiming to have food intolerances. (Possibly he just hated people who HAD food intolerances.)
Before-the-cut disclaimer: I have at least one food intolerance, so I'm not campaigning against intolerance intolerance solely on others' accounts. All the same, there are several friends whose experiences with dietary issues and the rubbish other people dish out around them are also very much in mind.
For the record, I love dairy products as much as most and more than many. I brought cheese sandwiches for lunch to school every day of secondary school and for a lot of university too. I loved Brie, Cheddar (if only the mild type) and blue cheese dressing - ice cream, frozen yogurt, unfrozen yogurt, Mozzarella melted over pizza, and oh, how I loved freshly grated Parmesan. I was NEVER of the school dismissing milk as only fit for baby humans or cows. The discovery of lactose intolerance and lactase tablets to take care of it was a wonderful thing, until they started working less and less well, and I started needing them not just for a healthy hunk of cheese in a sandwich or salad, but for milk in tea, and then needing to double up on them even for the small amount of milk in tea. And then they stopped working altogether. This is a very typical story, and I'm telling it not to claim special victimhood, but just to ask: what on earth can anyone possibly think they can deduce about my character from this inability to tolerate dairy?
That said, back to the articles, the character and the hater (his words!) The Rodale article was fairly balanced, really, and I probably wouldn't have been as annoyed had it not been for having previously read "What We're (Not) Eating", talking about an emerging problem of people (primarily young girls, it seems) with eating disorders claiming they'd been told to go gluten-free as an excuse for not eating. But still and all, saying that just 10 years ago "barely anyone knew what the word gluten meant, let alone gave any thought to avoiding it" is ridiculous - and it's in both articles (the same source is quoted, though whether the info was lifted from one article for the other or not I've no idea). And I got annoyed at this line: "And with this popularity push, people have latched on to avoiding gluten as a cure-all for many conditions aside from celiac, including migraines, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome. While some have found relief, that doesn’t mean a gluten free diet will work in all cases." Well, really? If there was something that worked "in all cases" for any of those three conditions, everyone suffering from one of them would just be doing it, wouldn't we?
By: Elena Ornig,
on 4/7/2011
Answers from Elena Ornig. I was never a skinny kid, rather quite the opposite. During my life time I tried everything I heard of to slim down because earlier in my life our local doctor declared that I was definitely overweight. To be honest I didn’t need to know his opinion, I could see it in the mirror, everyday. I felt ashamed of my visual physical appearance and couldn’t work out why I was much fatter than others, including my youngest sister. Later on, I learned that a factor of our own metabolism has significant effect on our weight because it is directly involved in the process of maintaining body weight. Every living organism has its own rate of metabolism that is simply the speed at which the body works on a chemical and physical level. That is why you sometimes hear people say, “My metabolism is low” or “My metabolism is ... Read the rest of this post
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Children Book Reviews
Hello everyone for the next three posts I will not do any reviews. I am reading many children books that will be recommended for everyone in about a month. I will be blogging to everyone about a very special place I am visiting right now. I will tell you about miracles that went on here. I will also share my experience. I am doing lots of reading and when I update in April I will have more children book suggestions for librarians, children and parents. I will also add my first book review. Enjoy these posts.
Miracles Happen Here
First time I heard about Hippocrates Health Institute was when my parents came home with the stories of miracles that took place there: the man whose cancer tumor shrunk, the man whose kidney stones vanished, the woman who got out of her wheel chair and the small girl who was brought here as a last resort to awake her from a coma.
No, it was not some kind of a magical healer who used his hands on them, or some kind of special enchanted well. Every one of these individuals were guided in healing and had a major lifestyle shift. Now I am here myself witnessing more stories of recovery. I want to tell you one story that could touch anyone. A lady came here six weeks ago in very horrible shape: she wanted to kill herself. Almost 80 percent of her skin had one of the worst skin disease. In just six weeks most of her skin disease vanished. Initially, her daughter sent her for a three weeks stay, but then her stay was extended a bit more. Her daughter promised to come also but she made excuses in her home life to come later and later. She eventually showed up and even brought her brother. Yesterday they all made a speech of thanks at graduation ceremony. One word stood out from the rest of her speech; "Gratitude" On top of being thankful for getting back her mother, she was thankful of being together as a family.
This is my second time here, but my parents have been coming since 2006 after my dad was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease disease about seven years ago. He was told by the top doctor that he will be in a wheel chair in four years. It now has been almost seven years and my dad's symptoms have stayed stable. .
Hippocrates is not only a health center but also top new age spa. Every one talks with each other and gives love and support on this journey we take together.
The combination of diet, speeches, sun, spa treatments you never heard of plus the common treatments found everywhere make this a wonderful place. It is like going back to camp for adults. Amazingly this year their are many young children who have come to support there parents. I will share more stories and give some more details on how this program is run in my other posts. Look for my next one on Friday. Please look at the website found on my blog.
By: Shari Lyle-Soffe ,
on 1/19/2010
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Yeah! I got 2 Kilos! Better than last year where I got 5! Wow That was scary!!!
Now I have to survive the 6th and well the winter!
Winter is so sweet with all that chocolate, cakes, candies, nuts and really hot winter food to eat..like lasagna or wait mmm Melanzane alla Parmigiana! Uh I'm getting hungry!!!
Let pay a visit to the fridge!!!
By: scriberess,
on 12/19/2009
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Do you suspect that your portion sizes are maybe more generous than standard? Just check your reactions to the following statements.
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If you found yourself agreeing then watch out, as soon you will be finding that these are also far too close to the truth.
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Don’t loose heart though. Here are a few cunning ways to make people believe your size is reducing rather than increasing.
Thanks for visiting Sam’s blog……as you can see, I’m a big fan of ginger cats! Love the photos of your gang. I’ve never seen if Sam likes chips but perhaps I’ll give it a go….he does have other favorites though like bacon and butter – not necessarily in that order!
Pam
Ginger cats are on top of the pile in our house for sure. Bacon and butter sounds like Bamber’s cup of tea.
I’m not sure which one of you is the naughtier
Bamber is definitely naughtier than most.