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Having Difficulty Losing Weight? Think About Speeding Up Your Metabolism--Not Eating Less |
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Written by Richard
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 17:10 |
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Have a friend or family member than can eat a pint or more of Haagen-Dazs without gaining a pound while you gain weight after eating a spoon or two? The answer lies in your metabolism-the energy burning furnace we all have in our bodies that burn calories 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Metabolism, is every metabolic process that is going on in your body. Each time you eat, whether its fat, protein or carbs, the chemicals in the cells of your body tear apart the food and turn it into energy that keeps your heart beating, your brain working and your body warm. The faster the metabolism, the faster calories are being consumed. The more you burn, the easier it is to lose weight.
Your daily metabolism consists of 4 different components:
1. Basal metabolism: 1300-2000 calories/day: This is the energy needed to breathe, maintain a normal body temperature, maintain circulation and brain activity. There is a great variation in this number, based on age, gender and you genes.
Amount of Energy: variable but as much as 1300 to 2000 calories per day
Can I Increase It? NO, this is fixed, genetically, age, gender dependent
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Introducing Dr Lipman's HCG Diet Plan |
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Written by Richard
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:56 |
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I would like to introduce you to a new weight loss program that involves no surgery or starving, no outrageous exercise programs, no dangerous pills or expensive packaged meals. You won’t feel tired, hungry or grumpy as with most diets. It's Dr Lipman's HCG Diet. Plan.
Although the HCG diet has been receiving a great deal of attention lately, it actually is not a new concept. In fact, using HCG for weight loss was first reported by British physician, Dr. A.T.W. Simeons in 1954. Dr Simeons working in Rome discovered that small doses of HCG given to overweight individuals (men and women) decreased their appetite, and made them lose inches specifically around their hips, thighs, buttocks and stomachs. He published a booklet, Pounds and Inches. You can download the full Simeons report:
Dr. Simeons was impressed by HCG because it could be paired with a low calorie diet without causing the same side effects commonly associated with low calorie diets. For example, Dr. Simeons noticed that his patients could drastically reduce their caloric intake without experiencing irritability, hunger pains, headaches, or weakness while also taking HCG. The HCG Diet has been used since then for weight loss in very obese persons as well as those wanting to shed a few unhealthy or unwanted pounds.
As Dr. Simeons continued his research, he found that an HCG injection did more than just help his patients lose weight. In fact, he found that the injections also helped to naturally reshape his patient’s bodies even if they did not engage in exercise while on the diet. Dr. Simeons concluded that this was because the patients lost their fat tissue from fat stores around the waist, hip and buttocks which made changes in the body shape more visible.
Dr. Simeons noticed several important factors including the lack of symptoms one would expect from a patient on a very low calorie diet. For example, his patients had no headaches, hunger pains, weakness, or irritability as long as the low calorie diet was combined with HCG. Tens of thousands of people used this simple, inexpensive, safe HCG diet treatment and achieved miraculous, fast, and permanent weight loss. My program is based on Dr. Simeons’ research and, when accompanied by a low-calorie diet, can result in an average weight loss of about 1 pound or more a day!
When you join my program, we provide you with valuable information and a system when followed, can help you look better, feel better and contribute to an overall healthier lifestyle. More About HCG Weight Loss Plan :
HCG is a natural water-based hormone present in great amounts in pregnant females. HCG products can safely be used by both males and females who need to lose weight.
The HCG hormone speeds up your metabolism, by signaling your body to burn more fat. Following the HCG diet protocol your metabolism will operate over 30%--a much more efficient level to burn, rather than store fat. HCG opens only the excess fat cells allowing excess fat to be burned. No other time in the human body does this happen, and so other diets often remove fat cells the body needs, causing us to lose in places we don't want to first, and finally where you need it last. HCG forces you to burn the excess fat cells taking the needed fat, and literally sculpting the body, losing inches as well as pounds.
We generally think of fat as just “fat,” but in fact there are three distinct kinds of fat, two of which we need, and one we don’t. If you’ve tried dieting, and found that the weight comes back, it’s because diets can’t rid us of the one kind of fat that most needs to be eliminated. Here are the different types of fat in the human body:
1) Structural Fat* is the first type of fat. It fills the gaps between various organs, and acts as a protective barrier. Dr Simeons describes this fat: “Structural fat also performs such important functions as bedding the kidneys in soft elastic tissue, protecting the coronary arteries and keeping the skin smooth and taut. It also provides the springy cushion of hard fat under the bones of the feet, without which we would be unable to walk.”
2) Reserve Fat* is the second type of fat which fuels the body when the nutritional intake is insufficient to meet the body’s needs. Normal reserves are localized all over the body. *Both these types of fat, structural and reserve, are normal, and even if the body stocks them to capacity this can never be called obesity. 3) Abnormal Fat is the third type of fat which has the potential of providing fuel for the body, but rather than being available for nutritional emergencies, it is locked away in fixed deposits. It is this visible fat that people want to eliminate.
In studying various weight loss programs, Dr. Simeons found that when patients starved themselves, they first lost their Reserve Fat and after that the Structural Fat was
lost. In the HCG plan the “abnormal fat” is mobilized first. That’s the fat that most people
want to eliminate.
Dr Simeons explains these fats and weight loss: “When an obese patient tries to reduce by starving himself, he will first lose his normal fat reserves. When these are exhausted he begins to burn up structural fat, and only as a last resort will the body yield its abnormal reserves, though by that time the patient usually feels so weak and hungry that the diet is abandoned. It is just for this reason that obese patients complain that when they diet they lose the wrong fat. They feel famished “
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Weight Gain and Menopause: It's the Hormones, Women Need to Stop Blaming Themselves |
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Written by Richard
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:54 |
When a woman's menstrual periods have stopped for a year or when her blood shows high levels of LH and FSH hormones (LH and FSH are hormones called gonadotrophins that are made by the pituitary gland in the middle of the brain) she is said to be in the menopause. Usually this occurs between 45- 55, but there is a lot of variation. Often women follow patterns of older female family members. Menopause is associated with many symptoms and problems, for most women the most significant t is unintentional weight gain. I will discuss menopause in brief, and then the hormonal reasons for the weight gain and what you can do about it.
Ovulation and Irregular Menses:
Prior to menopause, a woman's FSH and LH levels rise and fall each month as eggs are matured and released by her ovaries. The normal aging process effects the ovaries just like every other organ in the body. It's the normal aging process of the ovaries that is the root of the whole problem. As the ovaries decline in function eggs are not released every month and periods begin to be irregular. This period right before menopause is called the Peri-imenopause which may last for years. Women begin to experience hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue, mood changes and weight gain. Gradually the ovaries no longer respond to gonadotropohins and ovulations stops.
Declining Hormones: Estrogens, Androgens, Progesterone and Weight Gain:
Estrogen, the female hormone made primarily in the ovaries, begins to decline as ovarian function decreases. This causes skipped periods and failure to ovulate and eventually full menopause. Estrogens are responsible for fat distribution in females: the "pear shape" where most of the fat on the buttocks and thighs rather than the "apple shape" where most of the fat is around the abdomen. Increasing fat distribution around the belly, itself causing serious medical problems, begins in perimenapause well ahead of the last menstruation. Estradiol (an estrogen) is responsible for the normal cycle of breaking down fat molecules. With low estradiol levels, fat cells become engorged with more and more fat-the result is weight gain. Along with the fall in estrogen are falls in progesterone, another cause of menopausal symptoms and-weight gain.
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Eating Food Increases Metabolism-But Does It Cause Weight Loss |
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Written by Richard
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Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:50 |
Every time you eat you burn calories no different than when you ride a bike or climb a flight of stairs. How can eating burn calories? How? It's part of the metabolism, the breaking down of food to obtain the energy/calories. It takes calories to break the food down into small particles, to open up the energy inside the food and to fully digest, absorb and utilize them. This process is called thermogenesis. It accounts for about 10% of the total daily energy expenditure. Negative Calorie Foods: Can You Really Increase Your Metabolism By Eating More? The "thermal" effects of food, i.e. that eating foods can increase calories burned has been a popular Internet subject recently. Consequently there is a lot of misinformation. The theory is that you can lose weight by eating lots of these negative calorie foods. Proponents claim, for example, that you will burn 80 calories digesting a 25-calorie piece of broccoli, for a net loss of 55 calories. Celery is another commonly cited example of a negative calorie food because it's made mainly of water and cellulose, an indigestible vegetable fiber. Other foods sometimes labeled as negative calorie include asparagus, berries, broccoli, cauliflower, grapefruit and cabbage. These foods that contain few calories do require a large amount of energy to digest compared with the amount of calories they provide, however, this does not mean that it is significant enough to result in weight loss. Here is a list of foods, where the energy to digest them, might exceed the total calories:
• Cayenne Pepper
• Salsa
• Hot Peppers
• Hot Peppers
• Ice Water
• Green Tea
• Apple Cider Vinegar Drink
• Cabbage
• Celery
• Brusel Sprouts
• Broccoli and Cauliflower
• Lemon or Vinegar
• Vinaigrette Dressing
• Grapefruit
• Berries
• Fatty Fish
• Soup Many of the foods presented as "negative calorie foods" are vegetables, fruits and nearly zero calorie drinks such as lemon water, ice tea green tea. All of these can help in any weight loss plan. But they are not a magic bullet for weight loss. |
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