Archive for August, 2009
Flat stomach? You May Live Longer
Recently I found out some new and interesting hyperlinks to longevity, or the life span that you will live as a human, and the habits and traits you possess. The bottom line is, your habits have a lot to do with your longevity, however, some of it is genetics and so to day “in God’s hands” when it comes to assured things you cannot control such as acts of God or genetic disorders that give you a leg down when it come to living the longest life possible here on the planet earth.
However, one of the best things about it is that whether you have a flat stomach, you already have some benefits when it comes to your likelihood of reaching centenarian status. A centenarian is a 100 year old person by the way, and that definitely may become a lot more common by the next twenty to thirty years considering of our abundance of education and technological advances as well as advances in nutrition.
A flat stomach and midsection area is indicative of a few things in both men and women. A beer stomach or a bigger midsection automatically increases your risk for heart disease for example. It is thought that an abundance of what is called visceral fat, which is fat that surround the organs, and the type of fat that is usually found in the midsection of humans with larger bellies, actually puts more stress on the organs and therefore on the heart, and causes public to overstress their heart and leads to various types of heart disease.
By the way, another thing you can do is check your pulse, and whether you heart beats at 60 times per minute, you’re pretty much good to go, but whether it beats more than that at a resting rate, than you may want to look into how you can naturally improve that. Apparently, the more beats your heart puts out per minute, the more stress you’re putting on it, essentially lowering the life day of your precious heart by beating it up. Things that can increase heart rate are lack of exercise, smoking and using stimulants.
Some of the ways you can decrease your stomach fat and compose it more likely that you a) will not develop significant diseases and b) will live longer, you can add fiber to your daily meals. that helps maintain a trim midsection. You can additionally incorporate several 30 minute workouts into your schedule every week as that helps to shed the fat in the stomach area. You can plus increase your HEALTHY fat intake, which means your omega 3’s by adding things like almonds and walnuts and fish to your diet and avoiding anything with transfats.
Original post by EatingToLive
Beware of Cereal Calories!
When you go cereal shopping, whether cereal is something that you like to eat for breakfast, or just something that you like to have around as a snack for once in a while, you really want to be mindful of looking at the calories that are in each serving of a cereal. The reason for that is considering you can easily consume a 600 calorie bowl of cereal whether you’re not careful, particularly when you consider that the milk you use adds at least another 100 to 150 calories by itself. I of course recommend that you use a fat free milk as that greatly cuts the milk calories down in your bowl of cereal.
I prefer to use Lactaid Fat Free milk considering a lot of the milk fat and lactose that are difficult to digest and may hamper the efficient digestion and elimination of the cereal and milk are not present and therefore don’t supply any real roadblocks to the complete digestion of the product. Digestion and elimination of a product are very crucial as that means they are less likely to be stored as fat on the body and excess calories, which is why an easily digestable diet is always recommended by experts.
I tend to favor heavier cereals by the lighter ones like Cheerios of Frosted flakes, considering I like my cereals with a little more substance to them and more heavy fiber, and I’ve plus found unfortunately that the “heavier” a cereal is in fiber, usually additionally the more calories it has. Lighter cereals often don’t keep you as full as lengthy, so that is another consideration. But consider for example one of my favorite cereals, Cracklin Oat Bran.
It’s a very heavy cereal and full bodies and doesn’t really leave you feeling hungry. However, in that tiny box they sell there are a whopping TEN servings, with 200 calories each for just the cereal alone. That means that tiny box holds about 2,000 calories in cereal, so you have to be very careful about how your portioning out your bowls and manufacture certain you are only taking about a 300 calorie serving so that your milk adds another 100, and you total about 400 calories for breakfast, which is about right.
Another of my favorites has similar calories, but they actually give more generous servings, frosted mini wheats, but they do really fill you up and are practically all fiber, so I do still indulge in those once in a while too.
Original post by EatingToLive
Working too much can be dangerous
Allowing teens to work too a number of hours in the wrong environment can be dangerous for their sexual health by fostering conditions that lead them to older sex partners, a newly released study shows. that is just one of the key findings in a University of Michigan study of youth on what predicts age of sex partners. Jose Bauermeister, one of the authors, says age difference of sex partners is urgent, considering a larger age difference is linked to riskier sexual behavior and STDs, including HIV……..
Original post by Heather Craven
Small peptide found to stop lung cancer
In new animal research done by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, researchers have discovered a therapy effective in mice at blocking the growth and shrinking the size of lung cancer tumors, one of the leading causes of cancer death in the world. The study, recently published in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, a journal of the American organization for Cancer Research, is the first to show that therapy with a specific peptide, angiotensin-(1-7), reduces lung tumor growth by inhibiting blood vessel formation……..
Original post by Heather Craven
An Alkaline Salad Dressing Recipe
I’ve been searching for a simple, alkaline greek salad dressing that actually tastes good and is all natural, and I think I finally found it. An alkaline diet is becoming more popular to help society exact their body’s pH balance and return to a normal state that is easier to stay thin as well as to stay disease free. The alkaline diet is great for whether you have digestion or constipation problems, and plus helps those that can’t lose weight to lose it, as well as to unmistaken a multitude of health problems per it’s biggest advocates. I’ve personally found that when I consume a more alkaline diet, I feel better, my digestion is better, I have no heart burn, and less gastrointestinal discomfort, so I do believe it does some of the things it claims to personally.
Here is my simple recipe for an alkaline lemon juice based salad dressing – enjoy!
1/2 cup lemon juice, freshly squeezed. I found that that is usually 2-3 whole lemons depending on their size and how juicy they are.
1/2 cup olive oil additional virgin I like to substitute about 1/8 of that 1/2 cup with water to lessen the fat subject matter and that works fine.
1 Tablespoon of sea salt. Please don’t use regular table salt, sea salt is more alkaline in nature.
4 cloves of garlic pressed through a garlic press.
1 teaspoon or oregano
1 teaspoon of parsley
1 teaspoon of sweet basil.
I mix that all together in my mini food processor and whirl it around a few times. It will come out with a light lemon yellow color. You can referigerate it, but it will separate and need to be shaken prior to each use. It is delicious and flavorful, particularly as it sits longer, and you barely need any of that dressing on your salad, so it last forever. Trust me, don’t by do it with that dressing, you only need less than a tablespoon for a medium sized salad to flavor it, perhaps even less once it sits a few days and collects more flavor.
Original post by EatingToLive
The Joys of Growing Your Own Food
More and more folks, particularly with the economy these days, as well as the new awareness that is spreading about the benefits of locally grown produce, are actually making their first foray into the gardening market. I’ve tried my hand at gardening, with some degree of success, and some degree of miserable failure as well, but I’ve learned along the way, and I’ve additionally learned how fulfilling it is to see something grow into a vegetable from a plant, and how much better it tastes. It’s nearly a world of difference amidst a home grown tomato and a store bought tomato, for instance. Rarely will a home grown, fresh and un radiated tomato taste grainy or flavorless.
There is something to be gained from that. The less flavor and texture a piece of fruit of a veggie has, the less nutrients it most likely has, so you know you are getting a double bang for your buck when you grow your own fruits and veggies, considering not only are you getting excellent flavor, but the fruit or veggie is plus retaining a lot of it’s texture and flavor and makes for much better cooking and eating. Cucumbers are another one that I love fresh and home grown. They are so tender, so flavorful, compared to the bland, mighty ones you buy at the grocery store, and you can just put a touch of olive oil and seasoning on them and eat them right up.
Remembering back to when my grandma and grandpa first introduced me to gardening, I didn’t appreciate the difference amidst store bought fruits and veggies and what they had grown in their own back yard, but I always knew that the foods that my grandma cooked, particularly in the summer, seemed to be brimming with life and flavor. As an adult, I fully appreciate the money savings that gardening offers, as well as the health benefits.
Just for the nutrient benefits alone, gardening is immensely healthful. Not only that, I think that there is something inherently healthy and fulfilling about having your own garden. I know that pulling up after I get off work and seeing that some more of my tomatoes have ripened and are ready to be sliced up for a salad is immensely rewarding. Or picking some cilantro for a fresh salsa. There is something very instinctually rewarding and “right” about gardening and I’d boost everyone to at least try your hand at it.
Original post by EatingToLive
Eating with a Distraction?
It’s mind boggling when you think of how many Americans eat their dinner, lunch, snacks, breakfast and anything in amoung, when they are watching television. TV has become such a major distraction to us in our every day lives, and is such a “turn your mind off and relax” thing, that we look forward to doing it every night. Most of us at least, and by the way I’m not counting myself out of that circle considering it is true for me as well.
You’ve probably heard before out of the thousands of little diet tips and how to be healthier and have a better relationship with your food, that eating with distractions of any kind, possibly even reading, is actually not good considering it makes you lose your focus on how your food tastes, savoring your food and enjoying it for what it is, and plus losing track of how much food you are actually stuffing down your gullet as you blindly watch that last episode of Grey’s Anatomy.
When I really think about how I eat when I watch television, it is sort of true that I don’t really enjoy my food as much as whether I’m in a restaurant where there are no distractions, only good conversation, and how much more I focus on and enjoy my food, but plus how much faster I’m tuned into the fact that I’m full and done eating, whereas when I’m watching TV, tend to want to eat more and more and more. You get the point. It gets to the point where you correlate watching TV with eating, and therefore you subconsciously want to eat the whole instance you’re enjoying a movie or a TV show.
Sitting at the dinner table with your family, husband or partner, or just by yourself, actually may seem boring, and to some folks it even sounds a bit scary. They’ve had the TV or some other distraction for years when they sit down to eat, and now that is being taken away and that does create some anxiety I suppose. However, when you realize how much less you might eat and how much quicker your appetite is satisfied, and how much more you become in touch with being full and actually savoring the textures, scents and flavors of your food, you just might always want to eat that way!
Original post by EatingToLive
