Turn on the television, browse through a magazine, look at the shelves of your local pharmacy, and you’re inundated with quick fixes to any potential weight problem. It doesn’t matter what the approach is, or who the experts sponsoring it are, the claims are the same: stick to this approach for a short time and you will see results.
Some diets aim to strike all carbohydrates from your diet, filling you up on only protein. Others provide simple instructions to drink some of your calories, and you’ll stop feeling hungry through the majority of the day. Other people swear by eating cabbage soup (or some other specific food) as a way to shed the pounds.
Regardless of the fad, all such approaches share the same inherent flaw – the fact that they’re all diets. The idea of a diet is straight forward: eat specific “good” foods and restrict yourself from “bad” foods. The problem is that at some point (whether it’s in a week, a month, or a few hours) “bad” foods will fall back on your plate. Any progress made will be quickly reversed.
Think back to every diet you’ve ever tried. Early on, the going is relatively smooth. The weight starts to drop off as you remove forbidden foods from your diet. Then you start to plateau. Or you’re constantly faced with those same foods that your body once used to rely on and are tortured by the temptation.
Gradually, you sneak in one of the forbidden foods, claiming that you’ll start dieting again tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes as one forbidden food becomes two – and the initially promising attempt to lose weight becomes a miserable failure.
And yet, whatever reason for stopping, months after one fad diet has failed you, you’re on the hunt for the next. Before you know it, you’re filling your grocery cart with cabbage (or whatever), hoping that the answer lies in never-ending meals of soup or Tabasco sauce or the latest grapefruit concoction.
That’s the diet side of the health industry. The other side of the equations is the fitness industry. For every quick-fix diet, there’s an equally compelling exercise program promising that in only a few minutes, hours, or routines later, you can have the body you’ve always dreamed of.
Exercise fanatics believe the gym is the real means to long-term weight success. Less dependent on what you’re eating, the true change in health, in their view, comes from how many calories are being burnt out of your system. These claims are just as straight forward as those of the diet gurus: put a small amount of work in, and see the amazing results.
The typical exercise-to-lose-weight program takes a similar course to that of the fad diets. The initial interest carries results, but a plateau eventually occurs. Or because you’re now burning more calories, you also eat more food – and the net result is zero.
For every one of us who’s tried a fad diet, we’ve also tried the quick fix exercise route. The end result is the reason that the health industry is one of the fastest-growing in our nation. Quick fix exercises don’t work, forcing you to go out and try another. Upon plateau, the exerciser or dieter starts to doubt that those washboard abs or slim thighs are going to come before the next millennium, let alone summer. Dwindling motivation, fading dedication and a busy life start to intervene, and the best-laid plans become only that. Action takes a back seat until next January.
I’ve always believed that exercise and nutrition go hand in hand. While exercise is important, the real key to losing weight and keeping it off lies in what you eat. I’m not talking here about a fad diet. I’m talking about a complete nutritional lifestyle change – a holistic approach to weight loss that takes into account that you will most likely fall off the wagon, eat out at restaurants, and plateau in your journey to lose weight and get healthy. Exercise helps, but it doesn’t get you all the way. What you eat is the single most important factor in losing weight.…
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Your Child’s Toothpaste Needs Minimum Fluoride Content for Most Affordable Dental Care
Affordable dental care is not the easiest thing to find. One of the best ways to keep dental costs low is to always use preventative measures.
The best oral hygiene habit may be brushing your teeth with fluoride toothpaste.
There are a couple of reasons to brush with fluoride toothpaste:
It can prevent dental decay. Using this kind of paste is a great way to protect your teeth from cavities or any form of dental decay. The Cochrane Oral Health Group which is based at the School of Dentistry at the University of Manchester has shown that these pastes reduce tooth decay by 24% more than non-fluoride products.
You can prevent more costly treatments. Brushing with fluoride can protect yourself from expensive procedures such as root canals — brushing your teeth is a simple route to affordable dental care.
A warning against the over-use of fluoride
According to a study by The Cochrane Oral Health Group, children under six years who ingest large amounts of fluoride in the form of toothpaste have a higher risk of developing fluorosis. That is a good reason for children under six years to not using a toothpaste with a high fluoride content.
Fluoridated toothpaste can cause fluorosis. Though it can protect your mouth, this helpful chemical can also be harmful if used excessively. Fluorosis is a condition caused by ingestion of excessive amounts of this chemical. It can cause discoloration or mottling of the teeth, especially in children.
This situation is avoidable if you get a toothpaste with a healthy fluoride content. In that same study, it suggested having a toothpaste with a lower concentration. The study recommends that children use a toothpaste with no more than 1,400 parts per million (PPM). This is key to avoiding fluorosis and maintaining affordable dental care.
Get a toothpaste for your child that has no more than 1,400 PPM and no less than 1,000 PPM of fluoride. If the toothpaste has more than 1,400 PPM, it can cause fluorosis. This is something to avoid for both the sake of health and for the appearance of your child’s teeth. If the toothpaste has less than 1,000 PPM, then only as effective as non-fluoridated toothpaste at preventing tooth decay.
Once the child is past six years old, the potential danger of getting advanced fluorosis has past. It may still be a good idea to keep the fluoride content of your toothpaste low for other health reasons and so that you can maintain affordable dental care. Make sure that your toothpaste is in the 1,400-1,000 PPM range, and you will get all the benefits of this tooth-protecting chemical with less of the risk.…
Childhood Nutrition – Taking a Closer Look at the Mixed Messages We Send Our Kids
Children’s nutrition is a loaded subject. At no other time in our lives is building a solid foundation for health more important. Yet, at no other time in our lives are we so completely at the mercy of others making decisions for us.
That means it’s up to the grown-ups in a child’s life to understand the importance of healthy food (and beverage) choices in order to introduce healthy habits to their children.
Easier said than done! It seems as though, in the case of children’s nutrition specifically, the simplicity of healthy choices becomes muddled with strange connotations of what a “happy childhood” should be and what our oftentimes skewed views of food are as adults.
Our society is familiar with the concept of an early window of opportunity to teach children things like foreign languages or a skill, like playing a musical instrument. We’ve heard that children are at peak developmental stages very early in life, and therefore we should maximize their opportunities by teaching them these advanced concepts at early ages.
Whether you agree or not, have applied it with your children or not, it’s a socially acceptable concept that seems to make sense to most people. It’s peculiar that, as a society, we don’t yet understand that the very same principles apply to the health of a child.
The early developmental years are a critical time for creating a solid foundation for nutritional health, as well as movement and mindset. What we feed our children (or what we passively allow them to eat or others to feed them), and what we teach our children about nutrition NOW will impact their health for the rest of their lives.
Our family is certainly not perfect in any way, including our nutritional choices. But, we stick to a few basic principles overall in an ongoing, concerted effort to make the healthiest choices possible. We apply the simple Wellness Formula to all of our lifestyle choices, including the nutritional ones.
The Wellness Formula describes how health is created and how sickness is allowed to develop. In order to create optimal health and function, we must make pure and sufficient choices. As described by Wellness expert, Dr. James Chestnut, these are things that meet our body’s innate genetic requirements for health. The two types of choices that move us unequivocally away from health are toxic and deficient ones. Toxic choices are things that work against our body’s efforts to create health – they are not requirements for health.
In applying this to children’s nutrition, we simply talk about what food choices the body truly needs in order to build a strong, healthy body and a brilliant mind, as opposed to which choices are interfering with our body’s efforts and are leading to a loss of health. Kids get this. There are building blocks for health, and then there are things that come by and destroy what you’ve been building. You get to choose.
Another concept that works around here is, “fill up with health first”. It’s not about saying you can “never” have that cookie or that birthday cake or that less-than-healthy food choice. It’s about making sure you’ve given your body what it needs first – the raw materials for building health. If you know you’re going to be eating something more toxic later in the day, then make sure you fuel up with lots of healthy choices first, that’s all.
It’s also about teaching responsibility and accountability to kids when it comes to their health. There are limitations to matter! They can’t fill up with health first, then choose toxic garbage every single day. That’s too much for our physiology to overcome. A toxin is a toxin, no matter how much broccoli preceded it!
As grown-ups, we sure do pass on some odd beliefs and customs to our younger generation regarding food. One example is how we talk about food. When a food choice obviously doesn’t create any health, and in fact moves us away from health, should we really be calling it a “treat”? Isn’t that completely mixed messaging we’re sending our children (and ourselves)? It’s not a treat if it’s contributing to chronic illness!
Let’s call it like it is. How about a “tasty toxin”! (Thanks to Dr. Chestnut for that little gem!) Sure, it tastes great… and you should go ahead and enjoy it in that moment once you’ve made the choice. But let’s be perfectly clear – it’s not good for you and making that choice with any regularity has devastating consequences over time.
That’s the crux right there. If we truly understood the consequences of the choices we’re making on behalf of our children, we’d choose differently. If we clearly understood the consequences of that toxic choice, maybe we’d pass on it. If we clearly …
All Natural Systems To Cure Fibroids Problem
Suffering with fibroid tumors has created many women a large amount of pain. The extreme pain can cause recurring trips to the emergency room and medical invoices to pile up. There have been few selections to handle these fibroid tumors until now.
Surgical procedures are not an option for everyone, especially considering the down time and loss of work that is involved. Luckily, there are natural systems established to end the battle with fibroids once and for all.
These systems are created for those suffering with unpleasant fibroids. When surgical treatment is not an option, natural all efficient techniques are proving useful. Some of them use a holistic 3 step system permitting women to find relief and be able to do the day to day activities without agonizing pain. These holistic methods can be described as a true fibroids miracle.
Even though these programs aim to achieve an extended results, there are situations where substantial alleviation has been attained within a few of days. additionally, these types of techniques are proven to do away with all the pain and bloating within months.
One typical symptom of fibroids is menorrhagia (heavy menstrual flow). This condition is able to substantially affect for the quality of the sufferer’s life because it can be rather embarrassing.
Menorrhagia is often induced by hormonal imbalance, and this can be directly associated with uterine fibroids. It is quite common that women with menorrhagia spot in between their menstruation, which makes the condition even more embarrassing. Now there is a way to get rid of all the distress.
What makes these natural systems more credible is that the authors are often former fibroids sufferers. They understands exactly how unpleasant and aggravating condition this is.
Understanding that surgical techniques would be permanent, many of them chose to use homeopathic treatments. After several years of trial and error, they were able to cure their own fibroids complications and have children.
Because these women know exactly what many women have to go through with their fibroid complication, they determined to share their knowledge with the rest of the world. These holistic methods are typically available as an eBook format.
Many authors are so certain about their systems that they also provides 100 % money back guarantee. If you do not see any outcomes within a couple of weeks, you can request a complete refund.
For those that are unconvinced, these women are backed their products with extensive hours in research and some of the leading natural experts they could possibly find. They were able to find the relief they longed for and even children that their heart wanted.
Natural and holistic techniques have already aided thousands of women worldwide. If you have incredibly unpleasant fibroids, these systems are well-worth of trying.…
Good Facial Skin Care is About Discipline and Consistency
What most people do not understand is that good facial care is about discipline and consistency. You need to follow your facial care routine religiously each and every day in order to see real benefits from your skin. Here is a list of the most effective elements that should be included in your daily facial skin care treatment. It’s actually a very simple skin care routine to follow, consisting of just 4 basic steps:
Step One: Cleansing
Step Two: Toning
Step Three: Exfoliating
Step Four: Moisturizing
The first step in any facial skin care routine should be cleansing. When you properly cleanse your skin you are removing extra oils, dust, pollutants and even grease from your skin that can ultimately cause damage. Add a few dabs of good-quality cleansing lotion of cream around your face and neck, and then massage it gently into your skin with sweeping, upward strokes. Wipe your face gently in a patting – not rubbing – fashion with a soft cotton ball or facial tissue. You should cleanse your face at least twice each day as a part of your complete facial skin care routine, in the morning and again in the evening. The best cleansers to use are products that are water-soluble.
The next step is toning. This step can be an optional part, however it adds a lot of benefits to your skin routine. In most cases, toning is not required if you properly cleanse your face. However, toning can help to remove any remaining traces of grease, dirt or even excess cleanser that were not fully removed in step one. You don’t have to work it into your daily facial skin care routine, however, it is a good idea to have it on hand to use occasionally, especially if you have been exposed to a lot of pollutants or other irritants.
Step three is exfoliation, which is considered by some to be an optional step in skin treatment. It should be used though at least once or twice each week, depending upon your environmental conditions and skin type. Your skin naturally replenishes its skin cells every 3-4 weeks, so using exfoliation as a part of your facial skin routine can really help this along. This skin care technique helps to naturally assist the skin by removing dead cells that can sometimes block the pores, causing blemishes or other skin conditions. It goes without saying, however, that excessive use of exfoliation can damage your skin so you should use it sparingly and with caution.
The final step in any good skin care routine is to moisturize. Many experts believe that moisturizing is really the most essential step in any good facial regiment. You use a moisturizer to help prevent dryness. Dry skin can be dangerous as well as unsightly, causing the upper layer of the skin to break and create an abundance of dead skin cells. Moisturizer should be applied similarly to the cleanser, using light, upward sweeping strokes. Most moisturizers will work best following a good cleaning as applied to damp, warm skin. It is important when using cleansers, toners and exfoliation products to not dry out the skin during these first important steps of the skin care regiment.
Aside from this basic skin care routine, you should also remember the following tips for proper facial skin care:
* Rather than just washing away your make-up each evening, be sure to use a proper make-up remover product instead.
* Be sure to choose your facial skin care products based largely upon your local environment as well as your skin type.…
CanTeen Bandana – Good Cause But No Solution at All
NZ Herald website: “CanTeen was established to ensure that no young person in New Zealand living with cancer should ever have to feel alone”. Listen to this: “…ensure that the kids with cancer would not feel alone”.
That is a very nice thought. I do not say that CanTeen should stop their activity as they are doing a great job in keeping kids happy, kids who have cancer should be looked after, and it is a great cause. All I am saying is that there is already a proven solution for cancer, just as much as there is a proven solution for other chronic diseases.
There is a belief that cancer breakthrough is near. But reality is that cancer patients continue to die and the next new drug for cancer is actually causing cancer simply because most cancer drugs are full of toxins themselves. The whole point of chemotherapy is that it is by itself cell toxins. It is designed to penetrate the cancerous cells and poison them so that they stop replicate, and whooof you are cured. Are you really?! I am sorry to say that the exact opposite happens to you. Because if you will be exposed to more toxins how on earth will you be cured of cancer. Would you not think that these toxins will penetrate into healthy cells as well?
The Solution for Cancer is here Every Culture knows it
Ask people in the Amazon rain forest, indigenous people in Japan called the Okinawans and other indigenous people around the world. They all know that it boils down to the food they eat. I have been told that the native people in the Amazon eat two litter of acai berry every day. Acai berry is a very small berry with a very thin skin around its stone, so to eat two litter of it they need to consume massive amounts of it. They remain young and healthy for a very long time, sometime a life time.
I found lately a program on the net that suggests that you can treat and even reverse cancer. It is all done through consuming a lot of organic fruit and vegetable juice in order to put enough antioxidants in your body to combat the free radicals that causing havoc in there already, making your cells to lose their electron and replicate themselves. Chemo is OK but as well as killing the sick cells it will destroy your healthy cells that are nearby. Fruit and vegetable juice will solely add value to your immune system by providing lots of antioxidants to your body.
The CanTeen bandanas program is great fits cause, but it does not cure kids with cancer. I suggest that they add a lot of organic fresh juices to those kids while taking programs with CanTeen to really improve their lives. Again, I 100% support this initiative but do not think that all the money we donate by buying a CanTeen bandana will actually help heal kids with cancer. In the end of the day it is about providing them with the right food so that they physically get better.…
Get Your Asthma Under Control With These Informative Tips
Asthma is a difficult thing to live with and can cause a lot of stress. However, you can alleviate a lot of that if you educate yourself on ways to reduce your asthma symptoms. This article has some information for you to help reduce the symptoms of your asthma.
What type of asthma are you having to deal with? Before you can develop a self-care plan for your asthma symptoms, you need to know the specific cause of your symptoms. For example, if you have exercise-induced asthma, you will want to always make sure you have an inhaler in your gym bag. Knowing when an asthma attack is likely to strike can help you avert disaster.
If you have asthma and you live in a cold weather environment, you may want to consider moving. It is a medical fact that cold weather triggers asthma attacks, whereas hot weather helps keep asthma attacks and symptoms in control. Places like Florida and the Caribbean have a smaller asthma population.
Get the flu vaccine every year if you suffer from asthma. Respiratory or sinus issues that can come from a bout with the flu can really do a number on an asthma sufferer. Taking the preventive tack of getting the vaccine can save you some serious suffering down the road.
When you have asthma, you should always be under a doctors care. You will probably be prescribed medicine that should make it easier for you to breath. If you find that your medicine is not working well, you need to contact your doctor as soon as you can, and they can find a different drug that will help you.
You may want to consider not getting pregnant if you have severe asthma. Hormones caused during pregnancy may increase asthma symptoms. If you do decide to get pregnant and you have asthma, be sure that your doctor knows of your asthma so that they can help control your symptoms during pregnancy.
Persons suffering from severe asthma should take acetaminophen based pain killers. Aspirin, NSAIDs and ibuprofen based medication such as Advil or Motrin may trigger or worsen your asthma attacks. Be sure to carry the right type of medication with you as your coworkers, friends or family members may not have the appropriate one.
Health Food
Raw apple cider vinegar is an excellent treatment for those who suffer from asthma. Mix two tablespoons with eight ounces of water or apple juice and drink up to three times daily. If you use water, honey can be added to make it more palatable. Look for raw apple cider vinegar in the health food section of most grocery stores.
With the information you just learned you should feel less stressed and more positive because you now know ways you can alleviate some of your pain. If you want to be as successful as you can with relieving your symptoms, you’re going to want to learn other methods as well. Do that, and apply all that you learned, and you should start feeling healthier.…