Formula to Good Health
Most American today are overfed yet undernourished, which eventually leads to obesity and poor health.
The answer to those pervasive problem is simply to eliminate the low nutrient to calories ration foods like processed grains, sugars, fatty processed meats, soft drinks and packaged snack foods, and increase the intake of high nutrient to calorie ratio foods like vegetables, fruits, seafood and whey protein.
A diet with a high nutrient to calorie ration supplies with large quantities of beneficial vitamins, minerals and other antiaging phytonutrients, but at the same time it reduces your calorie intake.
If you want to lean, fit, vigorous, and brought and happy, you must do what you are designed to do. People usually eat until they are full or satiated.
If you consume natural high nutrient but low calorie foods like fruits and vegetables, you can eat more volume and thus will feel satisfied for a longer period after eating.
It is very difficult to get fit by eating vegetables and fruit.
If you also make sure to include healthy lean protein with each meal, you will stay full longer and be able to avoid cravings.
If you trying to lose weight and not feel deprived, subtle changes can lead to realm lasting results.
A study researchers tested whether they could fool people into thinking they were eating the same amount of calories even though they trimmed their intake by 800 calories a day.
They did this by “super-sizing” the portions of foods with high nutrient to calorie like vegetable and fruits.
At the same time they cut high calorie synthetic foods containing sugars and fats by about 25%.
As turned out, the participant did not even notice that they were consuming fewer calories because they were eating more food and staying full longer.
On the other hand, when the researchers cut calories by just decreasing portion sizes, participants complained they weren’t getting enough to eat.
In other word, you will feel less deprived and have better luck losing body fat if you increase your intake of fruits and vegetables and cut out processed high sugar and high fat foods, rather than relying on cutting portion size alone.
Formula to Good Health
Monday, July 6, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Take Control of Your Life
Take Control of Your Life
1. Slow down
Save some energy for your body and life, instead of giving every last ounce to work, worry, other demands or entertainment.
2. Make a change
Change something in your life that is damaging. No matter how small any successful change builds self confidence and makes the next change easier.
3. Get help
None of us can do it alone; life is a cooperative effort. Learn to find and ask for help.
4. Value your body and your life
Listen to your body and treat it with respect. Fill your life with more pleasure, love and reason to live.
5. Grown up. Educate yourself, take responsibility, be assertive
Accept yourself the way you are, but don’t give up in getting better.
These steps would sound intimidating, even to me, except for three things.
First, we rarely need the whole program. Anything we do for ourselves is likely to pay dividends.
Second, every single step should feel good; the whole idea, supported by scientific studies, is that improving quality of life will improve our health.
Third, we’ve probably doing many things right already.
Take Control of Your Life
1. Slow down
Save some energy for your body and life, instead of giving every last ounce to work, worry, other demands or entertainment.
2. Make a change
Change something in your life that is damaging. No matter how small any successful change builds self confidence and makes the next change easier.
3. Get help
None of us can do it alone; life is a cooperative effort. Learn to find and ask for help.
4. Value your body and your life
Listen to your body and treat it with respect. Fill your life with more pleasure, love and reason to live.
5. Grown up. Educate yourself, take responsibility, be assertive
Accept yourself the way you are, but don’t give up in getting better.
These steps would sound intimidating, even to me, except for three things.
First, we rarely need the whole program. Anything we do for ourselves is likely to pay dividends.
Second, every single step should feel good; the whole idea, supported by scientific studies, is that improving quality of life will improve our health.
Third, we’ve probably doing many things right already.
Take Control of Your Life
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)