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Just so there is no confusion about what this post is about it doesn’t mean that you have got to, run-around bouncing around everywhere like a kangaroo. Or for that matter by a pogo stick. This post is about mini trampolines and the benefits of why they are a very good form of exercise.

It may actually seem that you are just bouncing up and down but you may be unaware of the amount of exercises you can do and the benefits that you can get from them.

1. Bouncing on a mini trampoline will help to prevent cardiovascular disease e.g. heart problems etc

2. When you’re bouncing up and down your breathing becomes heavier so you will strengthen your respiratory system having good lung capacity is a good thing

3. It will help to flush out your lymphatic system

4. Will help to flush toxins out of your body

5. If you weigh 100 pounds and jog for 12 minutes you will burn 47 calories if you bounce for the same amount of time you will burn 58 calories

6. Regular bouncing will strengthen the function of your glands especially the thyroid which in turn will help with its overall output

7. There is no need to go to the gym, you can do back squats jogging on the spot, push-ups and many other exercise’s on a mini trampoline and they aren’t that expensive

8. Bouncing up and down on a trampoline is great fun, combine that with some music and you can’t go wrong

9. A mini trampoline hardly takes up any space at all, some you can buy are foldable or you can take the legs off for easy storage

10. It’s a very low impact exercise see don’t have to worry about putting stress on your joints or knees

11. They 68% more efficient for burning calories than jogging

12. NASA are quoted as saying “that rebounding on a mini trampoline is the most efficient and best exercise yet known to man”

13. You will be able to fight fatigue more efficiently because it works on three important glands the thyroid pituitary gland and your adrenal glands

14. If you enjoy doing exercise,and I am sure you will if you decide to have a go at mini trampolining then you will far more likely be willing to stick to it

15. Mini trampolines are suitable for people of all ages, although it’s advisable to consult your doctor if you haven’t exercised for a while

16. You experience different states of gravity whilst bouncing this has quite an effect on your body

17. Will help with balance and coordination

18. Help relieve stress and depression

19. You will have more energy and will sleep better

20. Helps with overall cellular health

21. When you bounce on a mini trampoline your is subjected to gravity your body is subjected to the forces of acceleration and deceleration plus gravity.

When you do this by bouncing your body weight becomes double to what it is. Your body cells respond to this and become stronger as a result of the action forced upon them. Which isn’t the sane action as pumping iron in the gym.

Here some videos of people using mini trampolines and the various exercises you can do. So get bouncing.

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If you’re trying to maintain a constant weight, exercise needs to become part of your lifestyle, there are two reasons for this number one it will keep your weight in check and the other is exercise is good for you anyway.

But are there any other factors that come into play if you don’t maintain a regular exercise routine? Many people when they first start exercising go at it gung ho and are very enthusiastic to start off but once we get to our target weight we can tend to slack off somewhat.

Then sometimes what can tend to happen is we get complacent somewhat, we start exercising less because we don’t think we need to do it so much as we used to and the weight starts to pile back on which isn’t what we want.

Or we may get into a pattern of doing some one week but very little the next week, so does this particular behaviour do anything to our bodies, it would seem so according to some recent research which has been released.

Which looks into the facts about visceral fat which is the layer of fat which tends to be around the abdominal area of your body. Visceral fat tends to be more harmful than other fats because it tends to surround organs which isn’t good.

One of the reasons for this is the more you have of it, you may far more likely to get type two diabetes. In this particular study there were three groups of people, which did the following aerobic training, resistance training and no training.

They were all put on a 800 calories a day diet, across all three groups they lost 24 pounds on average, after which the researchers measured their visceral fat, subcutaneous fat. After the study was over the group that did no exercise was excluded and the other two groups, which exercised, were told to keep exercising for a year just to see what would happen.

After the year period was over they were split into five groups, the people that maintained aerobic training those who had ceased to do aerobic training, those who carried on with their resistance training, those who ceased resistance training and another group which did no exercise at all.

And once the results were in one of the researchers said;

“What we found was that those who continued exercising, despite modest weight regains, regained zero percent visceral fat a year after they lost the weight,” Hunter said. “But those who stopped exercising, and those who weren’t put on any exercise regimen at all, averaged about a 33 percent increase in visceral fat.

“Because other studies have reported that much longer training durations of 60 minutes a day are necessary to prevent weight regain, it’s not too surprising that weight regain was not totally prevented in this study,” Hunter said. “It’s encouraging, however, that this relatively small amount of exercise was sufficient to prevent visceral fat gain.”

Conclusion

So it would seem from this once you have done some exercise and you do gain some weight, you are far less likely to have the harmful visceral fat which is associated with type two diabetes.

Which is quite good news really because even if you do put on some weight it won’t be the harmful type of fat. For anybody who has diabetes already this will be good news or anybody who has exercised before put on some weight and may be worried about if they are carrying harmful fat.

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http://www.sciencedaily.com

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Even if you’re not the right shape that you would like to be, and you are exercising does it actually affect the way you see yourself mentally?. In the news today some researchers seem to think so.

What they say is even if you do some exercise you convince yourself that you look better even if nothing has changed from a physical perspective.

Also they say that we cannot tend to feel any better about ourselves the more we do in other words we get used to what we are doing, perhaps because we want to look shapelier, quicker this is one of the downfalls of our instant gratification society that we live in these days

The researchers claim that when we have worked out, we can tend to think that we look fitter. Even though we may not have done enough in our exercise routine to justify doing so.

Professor Heather Hausenblas who conducted the research said that;

“You would think that if you become more fit you would experience greater improvements in terms of body image, but that’s not what we found ”

“It may be that the requirements to receive the psychological benefits of exercise, including those relating to body image, differ substantially from the physical benefits”

It’s it’s a well-known fact what the physical benefits of exercise, but there is another aspect which we probably don’t think about sometimes which is the psychological aspect of it. When were not particularly happy with our own body image certain addictions can come to the surface, like smoking, drinking, overeating etc.

When the results came back from the study they found that people thought no different of their body image who exercised five days a week for 30 minutes.

How we see ourselves these days can start at a very young age as young as five years of age and this can be in both men and women. Can you relate to this at all yourself how do you feel after your workout? does it affect how you see yourself. Or do you just feel fitter mentally as in exhilarated.

Or have you just lost quite a lot of weight and do you like your new body image? be interesting to see what people say about this and if it relates to you at all.

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If there’s one thing wrong with us human beings, is we can have bad eating habits and eat foods that are not particularly good for us, and as we know one of these particular things tends to be chocolate and there is one big downfall to eating chocolate and that is the amount of sugar that it tends to contain.

Because of the ingredients that are used in chocolate such as fat and sugar. It can be very easy to become addicted to these substances, and hence we tend to eat too much of it far more than we should do normally.

A lot of people have difficulty in breaking addictions to chocolate, but when you realise what is actually inside it it’s no wonder why. So is there another alternative we can use to stop our cravings of chocolate? Well perhaps there is and it’s not as complicated as you may have thought it would have been.

Some researchers in Exeter , discovered that if you take a brisk walk for 15 minutes, it will stop the cravings for chocolate. Twenty-five people, who would normally eat chocolate didn’t eat any for five days and also exercised for 15 minutes.

Then walked then rested, and at the same time they were asked to do things, which would normally make them want to eat chocolate. Which included having some sort of mental challenge and they were asked to eat a bar of chocolate to see if they wanted it or not. After having there 15 minute walk.

After the exercise period the participants said that there craving for chocolate was a lot lesser but not as much when they were resting. Which proves the theory, this may be a similar effect, which has discussed in a document recently about exercise and smoking cigarettes, the same mechanism seems to be in effect.

The scientists who conducted the study seem to think that somehow exercise alters the brain chemistry, so you no longer crave food or any other substance that you may desire. So you could probably apply this to other things as well as chocolate, so when that box of chocolates or chocolate biscuits is saying “eat me eat me” all you need to do is ignore the cravings go for a walk and you’re set or is it that simple.

Have you yourself noticed that the more exercise you do the less likely you are to crave sweet foods? it’s always nice to know that the theory works in the real world as it were.

Source http://www.sciencedaily.com

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You may recall that in my last post, which was how Hannah Waterman lost three stones in five months that in order to maximise her workouts, she used interval training. In order to get the maximum fat burning potential possible.

So she sustained more fat loss in comparison to other forms of exercise, which are commonly known as (steady-state exercises) so how do we define a steady-state exercise? A steady-state exercise is one where you exercise at a steady pace.

Some categories of these exercises are cycling at a steady pace, walking and aerobics. These tend to be known as an aerobic exercise, when you start to interval training and have spurts of intense exercise, which need to last about 20 to 30 seconds in length.

You can get to the point where it becomes anaerobic so you get to a point where you don’t feel as though you’re actually breathing, this is when you know that you’re in the anaerobic zone as it is called. And it is at this point when you’re exercising that your fat burning potential it at its highest.

And various studies have been done, which backs up this claim one, which was published in a publication called.

Medicine and Science in Sports & Exercise

In this particular study women were put into two groups whom were both overweight the women in the first group were asked to do interval training, where as the women in the other group did steady-state exercises. The women in the first group exercised as follows, they did intensity training at a high level for two minutes, and then switched over and then did three minutes of low intensity training. The amount of time that the groups exercised for was varied so that they both burned same amounts of calories per session.

So what was actually found out from this particular study? The women in the first group whom did intensity training their fitness levels went up by 13 percent, whereas the steady-state group stayed the same.

Not only that but the researchers found that fat burning was higher in the interval training group in comparison to the other group. These findings have been backed up by other studies in particular one, which found that a group which was monitored burnt a hundred 60 calories more within a 24-hour period whom had used interval training, in comparison to another group who did not.

Does it actually make a difference depending upon the length of the training session? It would seem that is the case according to other data, which has been noted from other studies.

Some research, which was published in a publication, called the European Journal of Applied Physiology.

Want to see what the difference was between the amount of time that people trained for and it’s effects they looked at two different types of interval training, which lasted for a period of 40 minutes. Here is what they found the first experiment was bouts of exercise, which lasted for six seconds, which was on a treadmill.

Which comprised of a nine-second rest period, this was in comparison to another session that lasted for 24 seconds and with a 36 second rest period. The treadmill speed was the same on both of the exercise periods.

So out of the two which one oxidised more fat? well the people who exercised for 24 seconds and had the 36 second rest period. Their fat oxidisation levels were lower by a factor of three.Why does this actually happened? to find out, we have to look at what is actually happening in the body when the person is doing interval training.

There is a substance within the body which is called myoglobin which is a protein and has properties that attaches itself to your muscles in your body, which binds oxygen to it, It acts like a reserve mini oxygen tank but on a very small scale.

When somebody does interval training this particular protein becomes used and unused. So if you imagine a bucket of water, which fills up and empties itself whilst you are doing your interval training you can then have an idea of how it works.

When you’re actually exercising your body needs more oxygen to burn fat as fuel, alongside carbohydrates and protein. When you actually run out of oxygen then carbohydrates become the main fuel for combustion, which is what we don’t want.

We want to be able to maximise our fat burning potential, and because lactic acid tends to be a byproduct of carbohydrate usage, this actually stops the body using fat for fuel.

The reason why interval training is so effective is the protein is only active for 15 seconds at a time anything out of that boundary then you start to go back to the latter this is the reason why interval training works far better than steady-state exercise. It’s purely down to how the body uses oxygen and fat for fuel.

A lot of studies have shown that exercising for shorter periods of time aren’t anywhere near as difficult as when you exercise for longer periods of time. So you will work for less time and achieve better results.

Source http://www.stephenholtfitness.com/articles/guest_articles/interval_training_for_fat_loss.htm

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Omega three oils which are found in fish are one of the more beneficial things you can eat in your diet the essential fatty oils in fish are very beneficial to our health. However, a study which revolved around fish oil and heart patients and their recovery has uncovered more substantial findings as regarding Omega three fish oil.

The researchers have said that they believe that now taking fish oil can prolong your life. As well as the other health benefits which we all know about.

What they have said is the fish oil expends the lifespan of ourselves, behaving like an antioxidant, antioxidants prematurely age our cells. This is the first study that has been conducted that proves that these particular oils prevent premature ageing.

The information came to light when heart patients were told to consume more fish, so they didn’t have heart attacks in the future. Based at the University ofCalifornia , San Francisco scientists observed the effect of Omega three oils and their effects on 608 outpatients whom had heart disease.

They found that the Omega three oils decreased the damage toDNA , which would normally occur, in something called telomeres these have tiny end caps on them, which become inflamed overtime. As you get older these tend to get shorter and shorter, which makes us prone to disease over time.

The scientists seem to think that this is one of the reasons why we get more diseases as we get older and is what actually shortens our overall lifespan. When they began the study, they actually measured the length of the telomeres after five years they had blood samples taken again and the scientists found that people consuming hardly any Omega three oils the shortening was still going on.

Compared to those who were taking larger amounts of Omega three oils their shortening was greatly reduced, a leading researcher has backed up his claims also saying that rodents given a mega three fatty acid enriched diet do, in fact, live longer. People in Britain still fail to eat two portions of food such as fish which contain the all important Omega three oils. So at least now I have an excuse to eat fish and chips twice a week.

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Following on from the post about breakfast, I thought it might be quite interesting to see what breakfasts other people eat and how long it keeps their hunger pangs at bay before they need anything else to eat.

Here is roughly what I eat breakfast on alternate days I don’t normally document what I eat each day, so this is just a day-to-day guide of what I eat.

Weetabix

Is one of my favourites and I have noticed like the study says, it does keep me for quite a while although I haven’t noted how long it is before I need something to eat again.

But having said that it does seem to keep me going for quite a while after eating it. I eat mine with semi skimmed milk. And have about four biscuits.

Scrambled Eggs on Wholemeal Bread

These is something I used to eat quite regularly for breakfast but haven’t done so recently, I would say overall that this particular breakfast can keep you going for a while before you need anything else to eat, this is probably due to the effect of the eggs. As they do tend to have a appetite suppressant effect, and the fibre in the wholemeal bread.

Porridge

This is something I tend to eat on a regular basis, and to compare notes to the experiment it does keep me full for a long time I also add some sweetex just to give it a bit of flavour. And I tend to make it with water and semi skimmed milk sometimes.

Muesli

This is something I have just been eating just recently as I had never really given much thought to eating muesli, but I do like the raisins and the chopped fruit etc that they put in it

This does seem to work quite well for me and can feel like I have had something to eat, probably up to about11:30 a.m.

Full English Breakfast

This is something I will eat every so often, I tend to use cooking oil to cook it and will have, some fried wholemeal bread, tinned tomatoes, a rash of bacon, and a fried egg.

Probably not as much as the researcher ate in his experiment, but it does keep you full for a long time I can certainly vouch for that.

So that in a nutshell is what I tend to eat a breakfast, maybe I should eat some fruit with my porridge etc just to make it a bit more interesting.

So what do you eat for breakfast and how long is it keep you full ?

If you are interested in participating in this then either leave a comment or send me a DM via twitter if you are on there or you can e-mail me at markcoruk at gmail.com.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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Are you one of those people that has a rushed breakfast in the morning, just literally anything you can find even if it is full of sugar and as a result of this your energy levels will come crashing down later on in the day making you feel hungry.

The Daily Mail did an experiment to see which breakfast would keep a person’s blood sugar levels consistent until dinner time and beyond.

Are you one of those people that has a rushed breakfast in the morning, just literally anything you can find even if it is full of sugar and as a result of this your energy levels will come crashing down later on in the day making you feel hungry.

The Daily Mail did an experiment to see which breakfast would keep a person’s blood sugar levels consistent until dinnertime and beyond.

According to them breakfast should be made up of three food types protein, fibre and carbohydrate. The crucial thing is the overall GI rating of the actual breakfast that you eat, in case you are unaware what it means GI stands for glycaemic index.

This is a measure of how long it takes for the body to break down the glucose within the food, if you take something like a chocolate bar for example this will have a very high GI index and will be broken down into glucose very quickly so you get a sugar rush.

You would get the same effect if you ate something like marmalade on toast with some butter, this initially would give you a quick boost as far energy is concerned but eventually you would have to eat very soon again.

So the researcher decided to eat breakfast at the same time each day which was8 a.m. in the morning, and track his blood sugar levels to see what differences there were between each breakfast, so here is what he ate.

On Monday he had two slices of wholemeal bread with marmalade on, things like marmalade and strawberry jam are essentially high sugar content foods, when you eat foods like this they get absorbed into your bloodstream very quickly.

And during the middle part of the morning say about10 o’clock you will start to feel very hungry, after two hours the researcher said that he was feeling ravenously hungry and his blood sugar readings were very high.

This breakfast scored a rating of 4/10

On Tuesday he ate two Weetabix biscuits with some semi skimmed milk, Weetabix tends to be a bit of a better breakfast because of its consistency it is harder for the stomach to break down Weetabix, although the milk in the sugar is a contributing factor as well as far as the GI of the meal is concerned.

For this to be effective as can be it is best to have a bit less milk and more Weetabix try for a 50-50 balance. The researcher said he felt full for three hours, he said he had no cravings for sweet foods either having had eaten it.

They scored a rating of 8/10

On Wednesday he had a fruit salad and a yoghurt the fruit salad comprised of grapes, mango and watermelon this in its entirety has very little sugar, approximately 1 tablespoonful and very little fat. The researcher said that after two hours his stomach was rumbling and may have been tempted to have a snack hadn’t it been a experiment.

This scored a rating of 2/10

On Thursday he ate two croissants, with butter and strawberry jam and a glass of orange juice this didn’t fare particularly well as almost half of this particular breakfast simple carbohydrates, the only thing that would slow the absorption rate down of food would be the butter.

The researcher’s stomach was craving food and he had difficulty concentrating after three hours had passed.

This scored a rating of 6/10.

On Friday he had two boiled eggs two with toast and butter, out of all the breakfast this had the lowest sugar content, which is good news this particular meal would be slow in releasing its sugar because of the fat in the eggs, and not so much the bread so this is quite a winning breakfast. The researcher was able to work for four hours without feeling hungry, and had sustained energy levels throughout.

This scored a rating of 7/10

On Saturday he had porridge with honey and semi skimmed milk, because of the way porridge is as in its consistency and the amount of fibre it has in it, it takes a long time for the stomach to break this down which is a very good breakfast indeed compared to the others. The researcher felt full for four hours after eating it, which is a excellent result.

This scored a rating of 8/10

On Sunday he had a full English breakfast, ingredients wise it had two sausages, one rash of bacon, baked beans, tomato, slice of fried bread and a fried egg. The only downside of this particular breakfast was compared to the other was the amount of calories, which was 1,219 which is an awful lot it is about half what a man should eat in a day.

It is also very high in fat approximately 102 grams which is an awful lot, even though breakfast like this would fill you up substantially it’s probably not a wise idea to have as much food as is the case in this particular English breakfast.

Even though the researcher enjoyed the breakfast, after a while he started to feel quite sleepy. And said that as far as feeling full was concerned this was the clear overall winner. He said he didn’t even need to think about lunch an hour after the test had finished.

This scored a rating of 10 out of 10.

Do any of your breakfast eating experiences relate with this? if so please leave a comment as I would be interested to know which breakfast keeps you going the longest as I can relate to what is being said here.

I am going to put a poll below this post to ask which is your favourite breakfast it might give other people, ideas of which to eat.

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Most addictions normally have some root cause there is a possibility that some emotional trauma, could trigger it off or in some respects you could say it’s self punishment to a certain extent.

What Happens ?

So how does this all come about what is the process in our brains that makes us act this way, when you are motivated to do anything in life, there has to be a certain amount of good feeling with what you’re doing. In the human brain we have a chemical known as dopamine which is a motivational chemical this is what drives us to do things, and if there is a lack of it then not to do things.

Studies have been done on rats, that when stimulated with dopamine in their brain’s they will perform the same task over and over when given a dopamine fix, and a association that went with it. In the study done on the rats they were trained to press a switch and then given the dopamine fix.

When this happened the rats would continually press the button everytime they were given the dopamine fix until they couldn’t do it any more and were exhausted. So as we can see from this particular study when you do something that causes you to stimulate the dopamine receptors in your mind it is going to be very hard to stop this behaviour from happening.

This in a nutshell is how we become addicted to various substances, whether it be alcohol, smoking, shopping or any other addictive behavior. This is why it can be very hard to break addictive behaviour by willpower alone because this is all happening in the primitive part of your brain.

Are We Programmed This Way ?

It would seem we are some recent research that was done on people, revolved round using one particular sugary food dough-nuts, participants were shown a picture of a dough nut or a screwdriver, when they were shown a picture of the dough-nut, their brains electronic waveform activity went haywire but not when shown the screwdriver.

After the test subjects had eaten and quite a lot of dough nuts eight to be exact, their brain scans were totally different this time. When shown the same pictures again there was hardly any brain activity at all.

The test subjects were then tested after eight hour fast, to see what the results would be this time on this particular occasion to parts of the brain were stimulated, one part being limbic region which is otherwise known as the lizard brain, so it was saying here is food not only am I hungry, and making a decision between the screwdriver and the dough-nut.

The part of the brain that is called spatial reasoning decided that at the present time the dough nut, was far more important than the screwdriver was at the time. There probably wouldn’t even be any conscious thought during this process, so as we can see from this it’s very easy to understand what happens when we see food before us.

In a nutshell it’s all about needs at a certain time so if you’re walking down a dark alley your senses will be very highly attuned just in case you might think something is going to happen so on that particular scenario you’re less likely to be thinking about food.

And more what to do if someone tries to attack you. so in conclusion it’s probably best to make yourself aware and when you want to eat that sugary snack or doughnut, think consciously more do I really need to eat it or not.

And eat something in its place instead that isn’t so loaded with sugar.

Source : Daily Mail

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It’s all too easy these days to go on line and look for something on a particular subject, such is the ability of modern search engines to be able to bring up your particular topic or subject with such great ease is astounding.

Put in a search term such as weight loss, dietary advice, nutritional advice, how to lose weight, which diet is best etc, you will have before you a plethora of search results, and you can be very easily misguided by what is being presented before you.

You have to remember that most of the sites on the Internet that are giving advice in a particular area, may not be written by somebody who is qualified in a particular area to give advice on losing weight, diet advice, and any other advice which revolves around your health.

It does pay to be extremely careful when selecting someone or a site for instance that is going to supposedly give you expert advice when it comes to dietary issues etc.

The Sunday Mail Online today reports such findings which when you read the following information, you might find quite surprising although some people may not find it surprising.

A 52-year-old mother of two took the advice of one of these on line dieting sites from a so-called nutritional therapist who told her to go on a detox diet, which involved drinking four pints of water a day and a large reduction in salt intake.

After being on this plan for a week she was taken to hospital very ill, and as a result of being on this particular plan had epileptic fits, and the end result was having permanent brain damage. She was awarded £800,000 in compensation which although it sounds a lot, it won’t give her her life back and stop her from suffering from epileptic fits.

The pitfall of this is there is a legal loophole which people use you cannot be called a registered dietitian unless you are qualified because doing so is illegal.

However you are able to say that you are a nutritional expert there is no law stating that you have to be qualified, in order to give out information to people regarding nutritional health.

So you are able to call yourself a nutritionist without any worries of being told that what you’re doing isn’t correct, or that you are not qualified to give out information regarding people’s nutritional health. Unless you actually look for a qualified nutritionist using the Nutrition Society’s registry who have to do a three-year course in order to become one, then the information you get will be less than satisfactory.

You are at the mercy of other people, so really unless you know a little bit yourself about nutrition it’s a bit like playing Russian roulette with your health. The Mail on Sunday did their own investigation and their reporter posed as a working mother, who was suffering from low energy that was the only symptom that the sites were told she had.

She told them that she was eating a diet of some cereal and a banana for breakfast, and that her lunch consisted of a sandwich or, cheese with some tomatoes and crackers. Having a biscuit in the afternoon, and had fish with some salad for her dinner, she also told them that she ate eggs and red meat once a week and didn’t have any supplements in her diet also.

So this diet would actually give her 25 percent of the amount of iron she would need in her diet in order to feel quite normal. A lack of iron in your diet can make you feel quite tired and lacking in energy. So here are the results of the sites that they chose to try in order to get some nutritional advice regarding their particular problem which she had.

• The first site which was used was nature’s-nutrition.co.uk they claimed to be a team of trained nutritional practitioners which were unnamed. How this particular site works is you send in a urine sample, and also fill in a form to tell them what you have been eating. Was they able to spot the deficiency ? the answer was no. The urine test said that there was all sorts of imbalances in the body which was due to electrical appliances within the home giving off (EMR ) electro magnetic radiation.She was told to avoid dairy foods and to eat lots of fruit and vegetables. That was the nutritional advice that she got for this particular instance. The diet plan which she was given was low in protein and iron as well. They gave the site a quality score of 1/5. And said that the advice that was given by the site was nonsense and would not properly address the problem that you may be having with your energy levels regarding a lack of iron.

• The next site on the list was muscle-talk.co.uk this is run by somebody called James Collier, the diagnosis is done by sending in what you eat each day, and a proposed diet plan is sent for you in order to follow.This is done by filling in a questionnaire which does sound a bit more of a professional approach in order to diagnose any deficiencies, within your particular eating habits your asked if there has been any serious illnesses within your life and if so what they were.Were they able to spot the iron deficiency ? the researchers said no they didn’t, but the advice given was to eat more read lean meat which is a good source of iron.The recommendations that were given were on a sheet with bullet points as to what to eat, the advice that was given from this particular site was indeed up to the mark and scored a quality score of 3/5. The dietary recommendations which were given were eat cereal for breakfast, eat good sensible portions of protein, and eating red meat for its iron content.

• The next site which was tested was called dietaryadvice.co.uk, this is an online service which is provided by two registered dietician’s, what you get from this service is a diary to use, which you are given when you have completed 12 questions to fill in on a online form.Were they able to spot the iron deficiency ? no they were not, the dietary advice that was given from this particular site was to eat fruit rather than eating chocolate as a snack, keep your salt intake low and eat a variety of foods from different food groups, carbohydrates fiber, protein, the opinion that was gathered about this particular service. Was it was a quick glance at what you eat and a quick turnaround for your particular diet plan, this particular site got a quality rating of 2/5.

• Next is mckeithinteractive this site is run by show host Gillian McKeith of you are what you eat fame, what you get from this particular service is a diet dietary service, you are asked to provide answers from 20 multiple-choice questions. Was they able to spot the iron deficiency ? the researchers said nearly.You get a 70 page in-depth preview of how health is related to your eating habits and your diet, the advice that was given to the researcher was to reduce her intake of salt and wheat, and stop consumption of dairy products and alcohol as well. The recommendations were to eat porridge, spinach soup, and a vegetarian’s stew for lunch and dinner. This particular site achieved a quality score of 2/5.

• And the last site was nutriprofile, this last site was free. All the others you have to you pay for you get a unique scientific validated report, which is personalised to meet your own nutritional needs you fill in a detailed on line questionnaire form. And in return you get a 22 page document which shows you where things are lacking in. Were they able to spot the iron deficiency ? the researchers said partially.She was advised that there were deficiencies within her iron intake and contained within report was a two-page document suggesting certain supplements which could be taken in order to correct the particular issues which she had, this was a way to make you buy particular supplements which you may not have needed. This site got a quality score of 1/5.

There is a moral to this story and it quite simply is this, if you do have a particular problem with nutrition please don’t try any services or sites without getting professional guidance go and see your GP who may be able to put you in touch with someone who knows all about nutrition and diet.

It is so easy to get sucked in by marketing talk, which a lot of the time has no real basis and/or standing as regards someone’s expertise, in a particular field especially one’s such as so-called nutritionists or dietitians whom aren’t qualified to give expert advice.

There may be no way at all to validate what these people can say is true or not, and whether or not the advice they are giving to you is going to help you with your particular dietary and/or nutritional needs. I do hope by reading this that it will make you more weary in the future of trusting what other people say and can do.

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Where ever we live in the world you can’t help but notice how Japan and now perhaps China tend to be at the forefront when it comes to new trends especially technology ones.

But now something slightly different is emerging from Japan it seems there is a new diet craze that is sweeping the nation over there, which is based around bananas it isn’t sorely banana-based but more this is something that you eat.

At a particular time during the day this new diet craze for fad which ever you prefer, is called the Morning Banana Diet, things have got so bad in Japan that there is a shortage of bananas in shops that sell them. The Japanese have become so obsessed and want to be on the leading edge of the latest diet trends, the main reason it has become so popular with young women in Japan is, some woman apparently lost 26 pounds on the Morning Banana Diet.

Things have got to extremes now with bananas in supermarkets, several large ones that sell them are now running out, at 12 p.m. and others are running out at 3 p.m. in the afternoon, so if you are interested in how this particular method of dieting works. Here it is in a nutshell

The Morning Banana Diet.

• Breakfast have one banana and a glass of water
• Have anything you like for your lunch or dinner just as long as it’s before 8 p.m.
• A having a snack at 3 p.m. is suggested
• Don’t have deserts after meals
• And lastly go to bed before midnight

The banana diet and its origins came about because a pharmacist whose husband was overweight, and came up with a diet plan he lost 37 pounds following this particular method, the pharmacist who came up with the concept says that it speeds up your metabolism. And as a result her husband lost the aforementioned in weight.

However though we must state some caution here because a professor in Japan Masahiko Okada who works at a school of medicine, said that you must put into question the ethics behind this particular way of dieting. He says that the body has three basic nutrients fat, protein, carbohydrate.

And says that in order to have a healthy body it is important to have a balance, of these three essential nutrients in order to have good health. He then goes on to say that if you to take this approach then you won’t need to be swayed by certain fad diets like the banana one for example.

But what exactly do you tell people who are overweight and are willing to try anything, in order to try and shed a few pounds in the quickest shortest possible time, how long it will be before this particular diet fades into a black hole is another matter.

But really sometimes is it just best to take things into your own hands and see if something like this will work for yourself, you never really know until you try. Anyway must go and buy some more bananas as you can see I am not swayed by such fad diets.

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As we are all well aware it can be difficult sometimes when you’re trying to lose some weight, and things don’t seem to quite work out the way that you would like them to, I have been there many self my many times trying various different things, different diets etc. Some work some don’t but the other day I came across, a article which revolved around cabbage soup as a diet plan.

So here is what the cabbage soup diet is, this particular diet is supposed to be very good for people who would like to shed a few pounds very quickly, it also has two other names those are the Sacred Heart Hospital Diet and the Mayo Clinic Diet.

According to what experts say this is a good way to kickstart your weight-loss plan when your first starting off trying to lose some excess weight, as its name suggests what you do is eat cabbage soup for a seven-day period.

It must be said though that this particular diet is not something that, is lifelong it is only to get you started losing some initial way to start off with. Here is the basic cabbage soup recipe so you can make your own if you feel confident doing so.

You will need :

one head of cabbage

six medium onions

six green onions

six carrots

two bell peppers either green or red

three large tomatoes

five stalks of celery

four ounces of uncooked brown rice

salt and some freshly ground black pepper

The actual cabbage soup itself hardly has any calories, it is more used for its filler ability, this is useful because it will stop you from getting food cravings. And over eating so you will tend to lose weight.

Here is a rough guide to what you eat whilst being on the cabbage soup diet for seven days.

Day one

On this day you eat plenty of fruit’s which every your favourite is the only thing to do here, is exclude bananas, and there is no limit to how many times you have the cabbage soup.

Day two

This day is vegetables eat as many vegetables, that you like to supplement your cabbage soup the only things to avoid are corn, beans and peas. Make sure you eat plenty of leafy green vegetables, i.e. broccoli, brussel sprouts etc. also on this day avoid eating fruit. Also if needs be for your tea or lunch as the case may be, have a baked potato with a small knob of butter.

Day three

On this day you need to eat a mixture of fruit and vegetables, miss the jacket potato on this particular day. Don’t eat bananas also but you can eat as much fruit and vegetables as you desire.

Day four

Eat eight bananas on this particular day, supplement this with drinking plenty of skimmed milk and have as much cabbage soup as you can manage.

Day five

Add around 20 ounces of beef to your cabbage soup in order to supplement it on this particular day, also add six tomatoes and potatoes. If you do not like to eat beef then you can always use chicken if you prefer, drink plenty of water also six glasses, the more the better this washes away uric acid.

Day six

On this day you need to eat beef all day,as well as the cabbage soup, and plenty of vegetables just avoid eating potatoes.

Day seven

Brown rice can be eaten on this particular day, as well as fruit juices, to supplement your cabbage soup also.

So there you have it the cabbage diet some people do say to follow this particular diet, for a week it probably can become a bit boring for some people and they might not be able to stick at it. For seven days but realistically if you get results from it then there is no harm in trying, even though seven days can seem quite a long time. It can tend to go very quickly and it’s not like you are going to have to eat cabbage soup every day for ever.

You could probably use the following information to supplement what you are already doing, and just eat cabbage soup a couple of times a week. Sometimes experimenting with different foods is the best way, to find out what works for yourself some things work better than others for some people when others don’t.

Here is a link for the cabbage diet recipe so you can cook it for yourself

http://www.cabbagesoupdiet-s.com/the-cabbage-soup-cuisine.html

And here is the main site address http://www.cabbagesoupdiet-s.com/

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Please don’t be too alarmed by the title of this article, it doesn’t mean that you have to to get some chequered slippers, and a cardigan and and eat like somebody who may be a bit older than yourself. In today’s society we have become a bit brainwashed by what to eat, things change in the weight loss industry constantly and sometimes it can seem a bit overwhelming as to what not to eat.

Most of the advice revolves around eating a low-fat diet and one which is high in fibre also, but now the advice for eating in 2009 and which is of course healthy. Is to return to your Grandad’s war eating days, so don’t worry too much if you eat for breakfast egg and bacon. So so what is being recommended now is doing away with eating three meals a day, but eat those and also have snacks.

This will stop blood sugar fluctuation throughout the day, a lot of people are led to believe that snacking is not good for you, and tend to avoid it but the problem with doing this is you tend to stop yourself eating in between meals, and when it comes to eating your main meal you may eat more than the normal requirement of food.

Some people even avoid having breakfast by the time it comes to lunch time they are absolutely starving, and probably eat more than they should do at this particular time of the day also.

Keeping overall blood sugar stable is one of the most key ingredients of trying to lose weight, when your blood sugar tends to fluctuate throughout the day. You can tend to develop cravings for the wrong foods and this is where the problems can start.

Gillian Hamer who is one of the United Kingdom ’s leading nutritionists, says that evidence shows that fat isn’t as bad as what people make it out to be, she goes on to say that that many of them are vital for processing vitamins that keep our immune system functioning correctly.

She she also says the key to this particular diet is eating the natural unprocessed foods every three to four hours which will keep blood sugar levels, more stable. And doing this will keep your weight under control better.

Patrick Holford who is the founder of the Institute for optimum nutrition in the UK, says that keeping weight under control is not about slashing calories and or fat, he says that people should avoid low-fat products, and so-called slimming products, and diets that are very high in starchy foods.

He also goes on to say that eating refined carbohydrates such as things like white bread, pasta and cereals and some snack bars, tend to elevate your sugar levels, this will cause what is known as a insulin spike in your body which tells it to store fat.

He added to this is that a lot of the so-called low-fat diets foods were made after the Second World War, and they tend to be very high in carbohydrates or sugar. And have tended to become part of the problem of being overweight and not necessarily the solution to it.

He also goes on to say that if you do you eat lots of excess calories and fatty foods, then this obviously will cause weight gain in the long-term, people are pointing the wrong finger at the wrong culprit, he says it is sugar that is more the problem rather than excess fat.

When you eat a meal that has carbohydrates in it and also combine that with some protein like say for instance a sausage or an egg, the protein will counteract the carbohydrate within the meal, this is due to the fact that protein takes longer to break down in the body that a lot of carbohydrates do, and this is where it comes into its own.

Because once you combine foods like this, it keeps blood sugar levels far more level and keep you fuller for longer so you eat less. Dr Malcolm Kendrick who is a diet guru and author of a book called the Great Cholesterol Con, says that evidence has been found that if people do eat a high-fat diet, they are far more likely, to lose weight compared to those people who don’t.

So that in itself blows don’t eat high-fat foods out of the water theory, the thing to watch with high-fat diets is too muchLDL cholesterol or saturated fats, because they are ones that will cause you to have high cholesterol levels which you don’t necessarily want.

Here is a typical example of the Grandad diet,

Breakfast

Scrambled egg, Bacon butter and some wholemeal toast. Or porridge with fruit and seeds or nuts.

11 a.m. snack

Fruit and nuts or some oatcakes and some cheese.

Lunch and or dinner options

Meat/oily fish and two veg with potato either boiled, or mashed. Beans on wholemeal toast and butter.

Pudding

Apple crumble

In summary of this the thing to do more than anything is use common sense, when you’re planning your meals and you will be fine, if you are having problems trying to lose weight than it is highly recommended to start a food diary. So you can see exactly where you are with your eating habits because sometimes even though you think you may be eating correctly. It’s not always necessarily the case.

Source www.sundayexpress.co.uk

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There is now more proof than ever before that having a change of diet, will in fact keep a lot of life-threatening diseases at bay. Originally our ancestors ate what was available at the time but now these days we are surrounded by lots of unnatural processed foods.

Nobody ever says that the additives contained within the food are actually harmful or not, but you can’t but help think that some people get cancer for a reason obviously, no doubt in years to come a lot of these links will drop into place and we will find out the real reason why it happens.

There are drugs on the market that are very good at preventing cancer, but quite often they can take a long time before they are actually available to use. So perhaps this is why preventive maintenance now is better rather than later after all mostly. It’s just a case of making a few necessary adjustments to what you’re eating.

< ?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” /> Approximately one third of what you eat can be related to some of the cancers that we get, such as bowel cancer breast and prostate cancer and the other is lung cancer. Roughly statistics show that 300,000 people in the United Kingdom alone will be diagnosed with cancer every year.

But is it possible to not become a statistic yourself, by merely watching what you buy when you are you are out shopping and putting in your basket. There are a lot of other considerations in this equation and it’s not just purely down to diet there are a lot of other things involved as well.

Such as what we eat foods which we don’t eat how much exercise we get, whether or not we choose to drink or smoke etc if you become one of the unfortunate people to get cancer merely changing what you eat probably won’t be enough to alleviate the symptoms, although on the plus side it might make you feel a bit better, the experts however say that they don’t exactly know with pinpoint accuracy which foods are known to stop cancer from happening in the first place.

But hopefully in the not too distant future they will have the magic ingredients and put them in a pill to give to people. So to get you on the right track here are some foods which should help with cancer prevention bought as is stated these are not necessarily set in stone.But foods that will definitely do you more good than harm

Vegetables

eat plenty of the following

Cabbage cauliflower and broccoli

brussels sprouts, kale, spinach lettuce

Foods that contain fibre

Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, wholemeal bread, wheatgerm breakfast cereals, eat plenty of things like muesli, Weetabix, shredded wheat, porridge (oatmeal). Pasta Brown rice and pulses such as chick peas, lentils, and kidney beans. One of the main reasons for eating plenty of fibre is it makes your bowel movements regular, were as if you eat plenty of red meat and it can stay within your bowels for quite some time. And this is where toxins can start to manifests and problems occur so very few of us eat enough fibre in our diets.

Fish

eating oily fish a approximate portion of 80 grams every other day, may help with not contracting bowel cancer but not only this, the Omega three oils contained within the fish are good for your heart also. It must be oily fish that you eat this is most important such fish as salmon, herring and mackerel are just fine.

Tomatoes

This particular fruit contain’s something called lypocene, which possibly could protect you from prostrate cancer this is something that a lot of men suffer from later on in life, something worth bearing in mind don’t think if you’re a man.

Soya type products

Things like tofu and soya milk are supposed to lower the risk of getting breast cancer, although more research needs to be done to actually confirm this.

Not so good news foods

Red meat

Try to keep on eye on the amount of red meat that you have within your diet, if you are eating more than two 80 grams portions of red meat a day then you are far more likely to, contract bowel cancer so keep tabs on the following meat foods and make sure you are eating them in moderation.

Beef, pork, lamb and veel and also be weary of processed meat in the form of ham, salami and bacon. Proteins contained with in some meat can make cancer forming compounds within the body.

Saturated fats

If you consume a large quantity of saturated fat within your diet, and you are a woman and have over 90 grams of saturated fat a day then you’re far more likely to contract breast cancer. Try to keep your intake of saturated fats below 40 grams per day then you should be fine.

Don’t forget however saturated fat is in a lot products these days so you must take it upon yourself to read the labels which unfortunately a lot of people don’t do.

Watch your weight

A global study which is following 500,000 people and monitoring their dietary habits over a period of 10 years they have found that being obese can be a major factor in some cancers being developed, so the advice they give is cut down on fatty and sugary foods. They are trying to find the links between obesity and cancer so they can understand the mechanisms behind it.

And one final thing eat as many foods as you can that contain antioxidants namely phytochemicals these are the natural antioxidant properties, within foods that prevent cell damage. Finally remember that prevention is better than cure.

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We all seem to have a fascination with what celebrities eat, and the celebrity diet has become something of a hot topic of recent, so that is why for a change I have decided to run a series of posts which discuss celebrity’s diets.

Denise Van Outen is better known for her presenting stints on Channel Fours big breakfast programme, which she used to co-host with Johnny Vaughan. So we are now going to have a look at what she eats, and how she manages to keep her size 10 figure.

Denise says that she “loves food and that no one should ever feel hungry or skip meals” that is what dieting is not about and losing weight also. Her diet is very easy to follow and nothing complicated at all, she always starts the day with a nutritional breakfast one example is porridge some fruit or yoghurt, and says that most people should start the day with a good meal inside them.

After you have been asleep for eight hours, you have been on a fast, and you need food in order to kick start your day properly. One of her mantras is not to force yourself to eat food that you don’t particularly like, she says that diets shouldn’t necessarily be a punishment as a way of forcing yourself to eat foods that you don’t particularly like.

Which makes perfect sense in itself, perhaps that is where people sometimes go wrong. If there are certain foods that you do not like whether it be a fruit or vegetable, then just substitute it for something else.

Denise’s eating plan is based around eating low GI foods, just in case you are not aware of the meaning of this, these are foods that release their sugar more slowly. Which helps to keep blood sugar levels in check and stops cravings, you will also feel fuller for longer.

If you follow Denise’s eating plan, here are some of the expectations you should get from it. Women may be able to lose five pounds in the first week and possibly 10 pounds in a month men can probably lose  five to seven pounds in a week and a stone in a month.

The meal’s break down into calories as follows

Breakfast 300 calories

Lunch 300 to 350 calories

Dinners 350 to 400 calories

Here is a typical day of what Denise eats

Breakfast

Scrambled eggs on toast

Porridge

Alternatives are wholegrain cereal such as Bran flakes, Fruit and Fibre or All Bran served with skimmed milk. Or a bacon sandwich with two slices of toast a tomato sliced and a rash of grilled lean bacon with tomato ketchup if you want it.

Lunch

Mexico and bean pitta

Get a tin of kidney beans and blend or mash them with a fork and a few drops of Tabasco sauce, some chopped coriander and spring onion. Season with black pepper and lemon juice.

Warm a small wholemeal pitta bread, split it open and stuff with shredded lettuce and a slice of tomato and add to it the been mix and serve.

Dinner

Egg and chips with mushroom and tomato

Cook approximately one hundred grams of oven chips according to the instructions, get to large flat mushrooms brush with oil and grind black pepper over them. Get to tomatoes cooked in half and brush these lightly with oil and again grind over some black pepper and a little salt.

Bake this in the oven and at the same time as you’re doing this brush and nonstick frying pan light with oil and fry two eggs serve this immediately with the chips mushrooms and tomatoes.

Tandoori chicken

Get approximately hundred and 50 grams of lean chicken skinless, and picked this with a fork. Get a small part of some natural low-fat yogurt put this in a bowl. And at a pinch of ginger a teaspoon of paprika and a clove of some crushed garlic. A bay leaf, and one tablespoon of tomato puree a pinch of salt and the zest of a lemon which is grated.

Mix these ingredients well together add to this the chicken making sure you cover it well with the marinade, cover the bowl with some cling film and leave this in your fridge overnight. Now you are ready for cooking the next day heat your oven to 180 degrees centigrade. Place your chicken on a wire rack in a roasting tin and cook the chicken for 45 minutes basting the chicken every 15 minutes and serve this with a warmed pitta bread.

Or you can do variations on this also, for example a roast dinner served with hundred grams of lean roast beef or chicken with roast potatoes and vegetables of your choosing plus additional gravy if you require. Or you can have some grilled salmon which is lightly brushed with oil which is topped with some crushed garlic and rosemary and also add noodles mixed with spring onions and a lettuce and tomato salad.

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Plums aren’t a fruit that I normally eat as a rule, but just recently, I have just recently started eating them. And as I was doing some research this morning for some fresh content. I am now glad that I do.

Because I came across a article that talks about the benefits of eating plums, which I am now going to talk about. Just recently scientists have found that plums are even better for you than blueberries when people eat blueberries, they tend to eat small clumps of them.

But with eating plums you tend to eat more rather than just bits of the fruit, a leading researcher claims that just one plum, contains more antioxidants than a handful of blueberries.

Antioxidants tend to act like a small vacuum cleaner mopping up harmful chemicals and bacteria etc from damaging your cells, so the more food that you eat with antioxidants in then the better your cell health will be. The better your cell health will.

Other good news related to this is plums cost a pound a punnet, which is quite good value for money when you consider what you are getting, compared to the high price of some fruits that you can pay for.

Plums are very low in calories and contain no fat whatsoever, the key to getting the benefit out of eating plums is this to eat them with the skin on, because this is where most of the antioxidant properties of the fruit are

Some other research which was done in the United States regarding this fruit, found out that the poly-nutrients contained within the fruit, did have an effect on cancer such as breast cancer and also had an effect on cholesterol as well. However they did stress that more research was needed to be done in this particular area.

Other fruits that have similar properties to plums are nectarines, peaches and blueberries, so remember to keep some of those in your fruit basket or wherever you keep them. I for one now thing I shall eat more plums in my diet as I do quite like them. So it’s thumbs up for plums.

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In todays hectic life we can often end up eating the wrong foods as snack’s, but hopefully this list will encourage you or anyone else for that matter, who wants or needs a healthy alternative.

Fruits

Are great low calorie foods and have other health properties as well

Fruits that are less than 100 calories

1 x cup of cherries = 65 calories, health benefits are contain vitamin C, A, high in antioxidants, melatonin which helps with sleep, helps protect against heart disease and certain cancers, a lesser risk of developing diabetes, and has anti-aging properties also

1 x banana = 81 calories, not only that they have other vital minerals in such as potassium.

1 x orange = 77 calories and are a good source of vitamin C

1 x apple = 80 calories have pectin in, which is a fibre that expands in your stomach and keeps you fuller longer try eating a apple or two before a main meal and see how it keeps hunger at bay

1 x half a cup blueberries = 45 calories these have powerful antioxidant properties which may help prevent heart disease, unrinary tract infections, and may also prevent cancer

2 x plums = 60 calories these are great for stopping eye problems macular degeneration, great source of vitamin C which is a needed boost in the winter season

1 x grapefruit = 72 calories this a good fruit to eat if your concerned about getting diabetes, it lowers insulin consult, your health care professional if you are diabetic and want to eat grapefruit it can interact with certain medications

1 x tangerine = 37 calories also high in vitamin C and fibre

1 x kiwi fruit = 46 calories these are high in vitamin C E and A vitamins, and are also very high in fibre, so a great for keeping your digestion in good working order

1 x peach or nectarine = 37 calories health benefits are good for lowering cholesterol, and regenerating skin tissue and also contain many essential vitamins A B1,B2 which help keep the nervous system functioning correctly so if your feeling stressed a peach may be able to help.

1 x a half a cup of some raspberries = 41 calories, these are high in vitamin C, folate and potassium which can help with lowering blood pressure, and have high amounts of insoluble fibre, which is a benefit if you have constipation problems.

1 x half a cup of a fruit cocktail in its own juices = 60 calories the content of vitamins and minerals will be dependent on what is in the cocktail.

1 x ripe tomato or some cherry tomatoes = 33 calories health benefits are contain lypocene this is well known for keeping cancer at bay, this is because lypocene is a powerful antioxidant which protects cells from toxins from the environment eg pollutants, also contains vitamins A,C,K minerals, potassium and dietary fibre.

Vegetables

that are under a hundred calories

Contain lots of nutrition and essential vitamins and minerals

1 x cucumber = 60 calories, health benefits are high in water so will fill your stomach making you feel full, high in fibre essential for good digestive health, contains potassium for lowering blood pressure, also contains vitamin C and magnesium

1 x small sized baked potato = 80 calories potatoes are high in vitamin C, vitamin B6 as well as minerals potassium, magnesium, copper and a good source of dietary fibre which is essential for good stomach and bowel health

1 x oatmeal a full cup of  = 146 calories, eat half for one snack during the day or eat on alternate days, health benefits contains fibre that mops up cholesterol which end up in the stomach, and would otherwise end up in your blood stream

Contains soluble fibre which is good for people watching there blood sugar levels, so ideal for diabetics, this is because the carbs are released slowly, making you feel fuller longer you can eat porridge at any time of the day it’s a bit of a misconception that you just have to eat it for breakfast also contains vitamins E1 B1 and 2

1 x celery sticks small ones = 20 calories these contain vitamins A B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, C, E and K minerals, are a good source of potassium a known blood pressure lowering component and a good source of fibre, have a high levels of calcium which is good for nervous system function making you feel calmer if your overly stressed.

1 x piece of whole grain bread, toasted = calories 85 health benefits are high fibre content, so leaves you feeling fuller longer, contain B vitamins, iron which helps with the movement of oxygen to blood cells, magnesium for a healthy nervous system, and folate which is of benefit for keeping red blood cells healthy, great for overall digestive health, keeps you regular, or if you maybe having constipation problems

Dairy produce

has some health benefits not all are bad

1x egg hard boiled or poached, health benefits are high in protein low in cholesterol eggs contain a lot of vitamins. In particular, B vitamins and are high in vitamin B2 riboflavin, and vitamin B12 ,D and A.

they have many necessary minerals and other’s such as phosphorus, iodine and selenium and iron and zinc are present in lesser amounts. Eggs have had a lot of bad press at times there not as bad for you as once thought

1x small portion of low fat cottage cheese = 70 calories, health benefits, is the lowest in fat as far as cheeses go. Has a very good source of protein without the worry of eating to much fat, high levels of potassium see other foods above for health benefits of potassium, and high in calcium which is essential for healthy teeth and bones.

Going through this list should help you if your stuck for ideas for snacks, you could use the above to form a sandwich box that you can take anywhere, so your not tempted to eat other foods which can be the case when your at work, crisps and chocolate fit into office draws quite well so I hear.

If you have any other ideas for snack’s, do let me know I’m always open to other one’s that might not be present in this list.

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Here is a another free weight loss resource courtesy of the Sun newspaper this is called the fit squad diet
its free so there is nothing to pay and is spread over 30 days. They have a forum for support, a BMI calculator on the front page. Here are some things they say about it.

“Food
Once you have signed in, you can enter your food preferences and we will continue to make menu suggestions for you based on your choices.

We’ve still got our library of yummy low-calorie recipes that you won’t find elsewhere – perfect for a healthy dinner party or cooking up a storm for the family and they all come with a calorie counter to keep you on track

Fitness
We’ve made it really simple to calculate how fit you are getting and how many calories you have burned when you enter how much exercise you’ve done each day – even the housework counts! To show you how well you’re doing, we’ve devised a nifty graph to instantly show how active you’ve been.

Community
We know how important support is to achieving your weight loss goal and so we’ve made the new site much more community focused. You can write a blog to tell us all how you’re getting on or email your friends with words of encouragement.”

Here is the site address if you want to sign up http://www.thesundiet.co.uk/

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The other night on BBC 1 I happened to catch, the back end of a programme which was about food and the content in it. I only managed to see the last five minutes of it, but luckily due to the fact that now we have BBC  iplayer, I was able to watch it in its entirety.

I must say some of the things that were discussed, were quite eye opening to say the least. So this is what this particular post is about and it is based on what was talked about in the programme.

How We Buy Food

One of the first things that was mentioned in this programme, was how we are conditioned to buy food. Manufacturers know that they have to push our emotional triggers so we buy their particular product, so one of the researchers was walking round a supermarket. With a pair of glasses which was linked to a camera which had a cross hair on it, so you can actually see what the person is looking at.

This is then linked to a laptop computer, so the information can be used to see how exactly we as people tend to shop. One of the people involved with the gadget said that we tend to live in a one second world.

So if a manufacturer of a particular food product wants to grab our attention, then they haven’t got very long at all in order to do that, especially in today’s ultra-competitive world of food products.

The packaging is the most important thing as regards, what influences us to buy a particular food product if we are looking for something to buy, and it doesn’t captivate our imagination within one second then it’s game over. That is why the packaging is made to be as attractive as is possibly can. It has to invoke trust, and quality so that it triggers the emotional buying response.

As a rule I probably dare say that a lot of us don’t even realise this is happening to us on a day-to-day basis. As we go food shopping we are constantly being influenced by pictures and by names, which ultimately decides which food product we decide to buy.

Brand Names Do They Mean Anything

Brand names are everywhere these days, and food is no exception one of the brand names which was mentioned was Marks & Spencer’s, own particular brand of fish which was using a name of Loch Muir, the researchers decided to go to Scotland to see if there was such a place, and there wasn’t it was merely a fictitious name which was used on the packaging.

Even though the salmon did come from Scotland there is no such place as Loch Muir, when some people were shown this particular product, and asked where they thought it came from they said Scotland .

But when they were told there was no such place they seemed overall very disappointed, because they felt they were being misled by what was put on the labelling, all these types of marketing methods all play with our imagination, it’s almost as if we can see the fish in a Scottish loch somewhere. I suppose you could say it gives it that feeling of natural surroundings, and countryside. Other names which were mentioned were Tesco’s Willow Farm Chicken, Marks & Spencer’s Oakham Chicken and Strathvale Mince.

These names all sound great and give you a image of coming from somewhere in particular, when in fact all you’re getting is a name. But it sounds better than just using Tesco’s Chicken, that on its own doesn’t quite have the same impact, as using the Willow Farm name I’m sure you will agree.

The Purpose of Branding

The reasons we have branding as far as food is concerned, is it builds up a relationship. Of trust, quality and makes us more confident in what we buy. A lot of branding is used by using a certain persona or name say for instance Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire Puddings.

And on the packaging you have a picture of a oldish lady which can you can relate to who may look like a aunt that you may have. This is how branding works.

How Much Fat Does it Contain

There are lots of meat product’s for example things like meatballs, that are sold with supposedly low levels of fat so we look for these particular products. If we are trying to lower our overall fat intake but the problem is how accurate is the percentage, of fat that is contained within a product.

For a consumer this can be very hard to judge one particular food retailer, namely Lidl were prosecuted for having high levels of fat in their products, than what was suggested on the packaging of said product.

When Is a Chicken Not a Chicken

This isn’t a trick question but something that is very real, in order to bulk the size of chickens up food manufacturers, add protein powder which has a combination of, water, beef and pork. So you end up with something which is more like a franken chicken rather than a chicken.

The reason that pork and beef is used is it helps to make the Chicken look bigger than it actually is so naturally consumer thinks. They are getting better value for money but are they really.

This information came from a panorama programme which was made quite a few years back now, two people were actually interviewed on it whilst under surveillance. And they were quoted as saying.

That they could actually strip the DNA from the pork and beef, and so if it was tested then there would be no traces of it. Somehow they managed to cloak the DNA of the pork and beef so it was undetectable. So it begs the question are we actually buying a chicken or some sort of mutated chicken

The great British Tradition Fish and Chips

Surely fish and chip shops, wouldn’t embark on such tactics or would they, one fish and chip shop was found to be selling fish which was displayed as COD , but upon on inspection it was found they were selling, a cheaper fish. More than likely to create more profits, from selling a cheaper fish than was displayed.

Designer Ham

In the Netherlands a food manufacturer, was labeling his ham with a particular brand name, because it can fetch double with this particular name. The Dutch authorities had to go in, and stamp it with a lower class generic stamp.

Food Factory Secrets

Somebody who had worked in the food industry, particularly a meat factory was interviewed. He said that a lot of emphasis was put on branding when they knew the barbecue season, was coming a lot of meat was branded even though it wasn’t that particular brand of meat.

You can get more money if you use the brand of Angus Aberdeen, the only problem with this is you could be eating substandard meat without even knowing. Another tactic which was used, was to recycle meat even though it was old into mince and put it into other food products. Were it would be less likely to be noticed.

The Great British Menu

This is a brand name used by Birds Eye, for their frozen ready meal range. One particular one that was highlighted was a chicken dinner, with carrots, potatoes, chicken and peas.

Which sounds great overall, when Birds Eye were asked where the ingredients came from it was a different matter, the Chicken came from Thailand and the actual meal itself was packaged in Ireland. So again in a way we are being sold a British sounding meal which is made else where.

When you look at the actual boxes of these particular products, there is a picture of countryside. Which gives us that picture branding associated with Britain .

Do we know what outdoor reared means and free range

Do we indeed know what this actually means, the RSPCA did a study and asked people if they knew what this meant, only two percent of the people who are asked actually knew what it meant. If a pig is reared outside only a small percentage of its life is actually outside, so you can get away with saying outdoor reared, free range applies to chickens were they can roam free and are not crammed into pens.

But as we know this all too often isn’t the case chickens can tend to be cooped up, in cramped conditions what we very rarely if ever know this.

Care for a slice of pie

One of the researchers, decided to have their own brand of pie which was fictional of course. He went to a marketing company with a concept for his pie and left it with them.

They used a name of a cottage to associate with the name of the pie, which was a stencilled look of a cottage. And on the front it had three rosettes which said the following statements, British made, fresh vegetables and original recipe. All this kind of labelling is within the guidelines which are laid down for food manufacturers.

So at the end of the process, the researcher had a quite plausible product which could be sold to people, even though they didn’t particularly know what was in the pie. When he interviewed some people on the streets about it.

They were quite surprised that it didn’t even exist, and thought it was very misleading the way it was presented in the packaging.

If you are very careful about what you put on your packaging you can get away with far more than what you think you would do. It’s how you word what you say that matters more than anything.

Is organic salad really organic

A particular product was highlighted during the programme, about a particular type of salad wash, used to wash the salad prior to being packaged. This particular product was called Citrox salad wash. When this particular salad wash was tested initially it passed with flying colours.

But on one particular occasion suspicion was raised and it was found that this particular salad wash had levels of ethylene glycol which to you and me is antifreeze used in cars not very organic I’m sure you would agree. So the salads that were washed in this particular product wouldn’t have been organic.

It’s probably fair to say that we do take for granted a lot of what we eat, and naturally assume that it is what it says it is. But as we can see sometimes that isn’t always necessarily the case.

So on today’s menu it’s

A franken chicken with some fake designer ham

some low-fat meat balls which may be high in fat

some Salmon, that may originate in Scotland . A pie that has a pretty picture and name. Some Thai chicken and Irish vegetables, followed by some out of date mince. And some anti freeze salad not organic.

Now while this may not seem like a realistic menu it probably is more real than we realise. It really does beg the question do we actually know what is in our food. That we buy from trusted places like supermarkets etc.

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For a long time now we have known the health benefits of eating fruit, and that it should make up a large proportion of our dietary needs every day, but eating more of certain fruits can have more targeted effects towards prevention of certain problems or stopping them from happening.

Citrus fruits fall into this category, a particular compound which is called naringenin and is found in citrus fruits. Can help with the prevention of diabetes and help accelerate weight loss.

A study which was conducted in the publication that diabetes, found that the participants which ate citrus fruits which contained this particular type of flavonoid made their livers burn fat instead of storing it instead. Which is what normally happens, this particular flavonoid doesn’t actually suppress your appetite or tell your brain to stop eating.

But it interferes with the normal metabolic functions within your body, and alters them so you burn more fat. This particular compound is found in grapefruit mainly. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try other citrus fruits, here is a list of some just in case there are some that you don’t know about.

Citrus fruits list

• Grapefruit
• Clementines
• Kumquat this fruit isn’t particularly a citrus fruit but is closely related
• Lemons
• Lime
• Mandarins
• Oranges
• Satsumas

This time of year, is great for eating fruit so why not try a fruit salad of your breakfast or any other meal that you have in the day, it’s probably true to say that even now a lot of those don’t eat enough fruit and it’s never too late to start.

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