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No Diet, Fat Loss Discovery Shrinks Diet Food, Drug Industries Budgets While, Ridding People of Disease and Sickness!
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January 30, 2009
Gary D. Frazier asked:
When I tell you about this newly discovered secret, you’re going to be so upset that you may even want to call your attorney. This secret is so powerful that the information should be given out at all Doctor’s offices and medical facilities.
I discovered this secret while searching the internet for a diet plan that would REALLY work for me. I’ve tried many different diet plans for fat loss and none of them do what I really want. What I really, really want is to be able to eat whatever I want, whenever I want and not worry about gaining weight.
After my struggle to lose weight and keep it off over the last several years I was forced to give up on all of the popular diet and exercise programs because I finally found the real reason why none of those programs ever work.
Through my research, I discovered an incredible female doctor from Arizona who has exposed a revolutionary breakthrough so powerful that all the diet and drug company gurus are out to shut her up.
You see, Dr Suzanne Gudakunst’s no diet fat loss plan could possibly put hundreds of diet and health professionals out of business.
When I tell you about this newly discovered secret, you’re going to be so upset that you may even want to call your attorney. This secret is so powerful that the information should be given out at all Doctor’s offices and medical facilities.
I discovered this secret while searching the internet for a diet plan that would REALLY work for me. I’ve tried many different diet plans for fat loss and none of them do what I really want. What I really, really want is to be able to eat whatever I want, whenever I want and not worry about gaining weight.
After my struggle to lose weight and keep it off over the last several years I was forced to give up on all of the popular diet and exercise programs because I finally found the real reason why none of those programs ever work.
Through my research, I discovered an incredible female doctor from Arizona who has exposed a revolutionary breakthrough so powerful that all the diet and drug company gurus are out to shut her up.
You see, Dr Suzanne Gudakunst’s no diet fat loss plan could possibly put hundreds of diet and health professionals out of business.
Dr Suzanne discovered this secret a few years ago while she was focusing her studies on the colon and digestive system and how they affected nutritional absorption rates. She came to some exciting conclusions after conducting a few tests and studies of her own. She expanded her research and came up with this amazing discovery.
Doctor Gudakunst has gone on to correctly identify the correlation between plaque and parasites in the digestive tract and cases of obesity.
After six long years of research and study, this Arizona doctor was able to make available several all-natural methods for removing these dangerous plaques and digestive parasites. Her methods were used for some of the worse cases of obesity. These people were in eminent danger of losing their life; the results were 100% success.
She then went on to tailor her methods to see if the same results applied to those who were not obese but were just like me; a little overweight. Could a no diet fat loss plan be successful on someone like me? She found that her methods were just as productive in less severe cases with a 100% success rate.
Her treatment is so effective and powerful that it reverses some serious life threatening diseases. Diabetes, cancer and a multitude of other health problems and illnesses are linked to obesity.
Doctor Suzanne worked almost exclusively with patients on whom traditional medicine had given up. They had been told things like they only had a few months or years left to live. The ones who were not terminally ill were still told by their physicians that a normal life was just not possible. Once they used Doctor Suzanne’s treatments, they saw amazing results, completely opposite to what conventional medicine had told them.
There is nothing difficult about Dr Suzanne Gudakunst’s secret. You will not have to do any exercising or change the way you currently eat. I can tell you that after using Dr. Suzanne’s secret, I’ve lost more in one month than all of the other diet and exercise programs put together – and I feel incredibly energetic now. This has truly made a difference in my life.
The fact is the secret is merely a compilation of things already present in nature. The secret to this no diet fat loss program is simply a mixture of protective herbs, extracts and organic material that are found throughout our world. The key is in the precise combinations that create a solution to the world’s biggest problem of obesity and all the nasty little diseases and complications that come with it.
No matter how much weight you need to lose, ten pounds or a hundred you can do it thanks to Dr. Suzanne.
Obesity is an epidemic that is sweeping our nation and the whole world as 40% of the population is now believed to be obese.
Many experts were saying that corporate giants in the diet and drug industry would never allow the discovery of something like this to get released to the general public. They said this secret discovery will get swept under the carpet just like when they discovered that cars could go hundreds of miles on a gallon of gas.
There is no guarantee on how long this no diet weight loss will continue to be available. The huge drug companies as well as the diet food manufacturing industries are quickly trying to put a lid on Doctor Gudakunst’s secret.
Because Dr. Gudakunst’s secret worked so well for me, I recommend that you go to her website and check it out for yourself. Be aware though that there are some shocking graphics and information there. I was really ticked at the Drug and Diet Companies after I read all of the information she gave out.
Do not pass up the success stories that are posted at that site. Many people are having tremendous successes and are only too happy to share their stories. Read what others have to say about the no diet fat loss secret that has changed their lives forever.
My advice is to check out this web site immediately. If the big diet and drug gurus have their way, this secret will be gone tomorrow. When a billion dollar diet and drug industry is at stake, this “no diet fat loss secret” might not be around tomorrow.
You can learn a great deal more by visiting the Doctor’s website.
Dr. Gudakunst’s Website.
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Anne Cuthbert asked:
I love peanut butter. As a kid, I used to eat it out of the jar, spoon first. Although I grew out of the spoon phase, I still love it with bread and honey, with chocolate and in nearly any candy bar. What I never did know about my love for peanut butter, is that it made me sick. I was so out of touch with my body and the effect of food on my body that I never realized that the sick feeling in my stomach was the result of the food I just ate. It took time of working on my food and body issues to put it together and even longer to realize that my tummy rejects peanut butter only when I have eaten more than my body can handle. This is good to know because now, when I get that sick feeling, I just stop eating peanut butter for a while and then I can eat it again. Of course, I always have the choice to eat it, and sometimes I do choose it, even when I know I may not like how I feel later. But, I have a choice and the choice is mine.
Although the above does not fully demonstrate why diets don’t work, it does show the result of dieting and/or listening to what others tell us to eat. When we diet, we stop listening to our bodies and we start listening to what others say we “should” or “shouldn’t” eat. We may become overwhelmed because there are SO MANY others telling us what to eat (doctors, diet creators, mothers, fathers, friends, grandparents, siblings, nutritionists, magazines, TV, radio, the internet, personal trainers, even therapists). As children, we know exactly what our bodies want and need. We eat when we are hungry and stop when we are full. As we grow up, we begin to trust others more than ourselves. We start to diet because we think that is how we become a good, successful, attractive person.
What happens if I tell you to stop thinking about Pink Elephants? Let’s try it: whatever you do, DON’T think about Pink Elephants!
Well, did you think about at least one pink elephant?
This is why diets don’t work. Dieting doesn’t keep you from not thinking about your favorite foods, you think about them more.
What does a diet tell us to do? Eat this, don’t eat that, this is good for us, that is bad. But, have you noticed that the “bad” food is usually always your favorite foods? And, even if we love the “good” food, if we eat it long enough, love goes from like, to boredom, to I never want to eat this again.
So, when we stop eating the food we love because the “diet” tells us to, we may lose some pounds, but, the diet stops. Then, what do we do? We eat our favorite food again. However, we rarely will just eat a little of it. Your body and mind think you starved yourself of it (we are told “don’t think about pink elephants”) and now you can’t get enough of it. We eat more and more of it. It may become an obsession. If we go back on the diet again, we think we don’t know if we can ever eat it again (because the “diet” said it was bad for us) and so we binge on it just before the diet. We all know this… the “my diet starts tomorrow” philosophy.
In addition, when we do “lose it” and start bingeing on the “bad” foods (even just thinking about the food can trigger this for some), we think we are bad, or weak, or undisciplined for eating it. Of course, for many, that bad feeling just leads to more bingeing.
And, there we are, right in the middle of the binge/purge cycle. Even if you don’t use vomiting to purge, you purge emotionally just by beating yourself up for eating. “Bad food” becomes “Bad me”. Bad me leads to bingeing. Get my point?
Diets don’t work. In fact, diets even make you fatter. Researchers are finally looking into the diet phenomenon and discovering this. I have recently noticed diet ads have started to include “results not typical”. They certainly can leave you feelings more out of control with food. And, studies show that people who diet gain more weight over time and the yoyo weight gain and loss can lead to more health problems as it is hard on your body to go through this cycle.
Lastly, not dieting is way more fun! Imagine eating what you want and having your favorite foods in the house for weeks, without fearing you will eat it all in one sitting! It is absolutely possible and a great way to live your life.
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I love peanut butter. As a kid, I used to eat it out of the jar, spoon first. Although I grew out of the spoon phase, I still love it with bread and honey, with chocolate and in nearly any candy bar. What I never did know about my love for peanut butter, is that it made me sick. I was so out of touch with my body and the effect of food on my body that I never realized that the sick feeling in my stomach was the result of the food I just ate. It took time of working on my food and body issues to put it together and even longer to realize that my tummy rejects peanut butter only when I have eaten more than my body can handle. This is good to know because now, when I get that sick feeling, I just stop eating peanut butter for a while and then I can eat it again. Of course, I always have the choice to eat it, and sometimes I do choose it, even when I know I may not like how I feel later. But, I have a choice and the choice is mine.
Although the above does not fully demonstrate why diets don’t work, it does show the result of dieting and/or listening to what others tell us to eat. When we diet, we stop listening to our bodies and we start listening to what others say we “should” or “shouldn’t” eat. We may become overwhelmed because there are SO MANY others telling us what to eat (doctors, diet creators, mothers, fathers, friends, grandparents, siblings, nutritionists, magazines, TV, radio, the internet, personal trainers, even therapists). As children, we know exactly what our bodies want and need. We eat when we are hungry and stop when we are full. As we grow up, we begin to trust others more than ourselves. We start to diet because we think that is how we become a good, successful, attractive person.
What happens if I tell you to stop thinking about Pink Elephants? Let’s try it: whatever you do, DON’T think about Pink Elephants!
Well, did you think about at least one pink elephant?
This is why diets don’t work. Dieting doesn’t keep you from not thinking about your favorite foods, you think about them more.
What does a diet tell us to do? Eat this, don’t eat that, this is good for us, that is bad. But, have you noticed that the “bad” food is usually always your favorite foods? And, even if we love the “good” food, if we eat it long enough, love goes from like, to boredom, to I never want to eat this again.
So, when we stop eating the food we love because the “diet” tells us to, we may lose some pounds, but, the diet stops. Then, what do we do? We eat our favorite food again. However, we rarely will just eat a little of it. Your body and mind think you starved yourself of it (we are told “don’t think about pink elephants”) and now you can’t get enough of it. We eat more and more of it. It may become an obsession. If we go back on the diet again, we think we don’t know if we can ever eat it again (because the “diet” said it was bad for us) and so we binge on it just before the diet. We all know this… the “my diet starts tomorrow” philosophy.
In addition, when we do “lose it” and start bingeing on the “bad” foods (even just thinking about the food can trigger this for some), we think we are bad, or weak, or undisciplined for eating it. Of course, for many, that bad feeling just leads to more bingeing.
And, there we are, right in the middle of the binge/purge cycle. Even if you don’t use vomiting to purge, you purge emotionally just by beating yourself up for eating. “Bad food” becomes “Bad me”. Bad me leads to bingeing. Get my point?
Diets don’t work. In fact, diets even make you fatter. Researchers are finally looking into the diet phenomenon and discovering this. I have recently noticed diet ads have started to include “results not typical”. They certainly can leave you feelings more out of control with food. And, studies show that people who diet gain more weight over time and the yoyo weight gain and loss can lead to more health problems as it is hard on your body to go through this cycle.
Lastly, not dieting is way more fun! Imagine eating what you want and having your favorite foods in the house for weeks, without fearing you will eat it all in one sitting! It is absolutely possible and a great way to live your life.
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Frederic Patenaude asked:
When I first learned about the raw food diet, it took me years to figure out how to do it properly. Then it took me even more years – making mistakes and compromising my health – until I started experiencing the benefits I was looking for from the start! Let’s face it, if you’re going to bother changing your diet at all, there’s got to be a reason for doing it. I would bet you want to improve your health and energy, right? But why take years to get those results, when you can get them in months or even weeks? Here are some of the things that I’ve found can help you get faster results from your raw food diet.
Incorporate Fitness: Until you reach the point where your body fat is at an optimal level and your fitness “above average”, you probably won’t get all the results you’re looking for even with an ideal diet. Fit people not only digest better, the entire process of nutrition is improved with improved fitness. This means assimilation will be better, blood sugar will be more under control, and much more besides. To start improving your fitness, you have to identify your areas of weakness and work on improving these first.
Address Emotional Issues: Emotions are an integral part of your nutrition & health. You’ve probably had the experience of hearing a piece of bad news and suddenly losing your appetite. This shows that emotions are an integral part of how your body processes food. It’s an essential part of your health. Often people jump into a raw-food diet, hoping that it will help them “clear emotional problems”, when in fact it puts these problems right in their face and they can’t deal with it!. Be aware and ready to feel and face your emotions. Equip yourself with whatever tools are necessary to get over emotional baggage – including self-improvement seminars, tapes, and group support.
Cleanse: One of the best ways to accelerate your health success is to go on some sort of cleanse. A cleanse should be easy to do, while giving you results in terms of increased energy, weight release (if necessary), and increased vitality and health.
My favorite cleanses are:
Green Cleanse: consuming only green smoothies and fruit for 5 to 10 days or longer.
Fruit Cleanse: consuming only mono meals of fruit for 3 to 7 days or longer.
Low Fat Cleanse: consuming only fruits and vegetables without any fat (avocados, oils, etc.) for 3 to 7 days or longer.
While it’s possible to do a cleanse on your own, it’s best if you have someone to coach and support you in the process.
Find Raw Friends: Feeling alone and isolated can kill your success with the raw diet! It’s very important to find at least one “buddy” who can support and encourage you on this path. With the Internet, it’s possible to connect with more people than ever.
Get a Coach and a System: Besides lack of social support, the reason why most people don’t succeed with a raw-food program is that they don’t have anybody coaching them personally and showing them a system that works for incorporating all of the different elements of a healthy lifestyle. Unless you think you can do it on your own, you need someone to show you a system that works!
Make no mistake about it, you can either take 2 months to put all of the pieces of a healthy raw lifestyle together, or you can take 2 years or 20 years! Do yourself a favor and choose the shortest route to success.
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When I first learned about the raw food diet, it took me years to figure out how to do it properly. Then it took me even more years – making mistakes and compromising my health – until I started experiencing the benefits I was looking for from the start! Let’s face it, if you’re going to bother changing your diet at all, there’s got to be a reason for doing it. I would bet you want to improve your health and energy, right? But why take years to get those results, when you can get them in months or even weeks? Here are some of the things that I’ve found can help you get faster results from your raw food diet.
Incorporate Fitness: Until you reach the point where your body fat is at an optimal level and your fitness “above average”, you probably won’t get all the results you’re looking for even with an ideal diet. Fit people not only digest better, the entire process of nutrition is improved with improved fitness. This means assimilation will be better, blood sugar will be more under control, and much more besides. To start improving your fitness, you have to identify your areas of weakness and work on improving these first.
Address Emotional Issues: Emotions are an integral part of your nutrition & health. You’ve probably had the experience of hearing a piece of bad news and suddenly losing your appetite. This shows that emotions are an integral part of how your body processes food. It’s an essential part of your health. Often people jump into a raw-food diet, hoping that it will help them “clear emotional problems”, when in fact it puts these problems right in their face and they can’t deal with it!. Be aware and ready to feel and face your emotions. Equip yourself with whatever tools are necessary to get over emotional baggage – including self-improvement seminars, tapes, and group support.
Cleanse: One of the best ways to accelerate your health success is to go on some sort of cleanse. A cleanse should be easy to do, while giving you results in terms of increased energy, weight release (if necessary), and increased vitality and health.
My favorite cleanses are:
Green Cleanse: consuming only green smoothies and fruit for 5 to 10 days or longer.
Fruit Cleanse: consuming only mono meals of fruit for 3 to 7 days or longer.
Low Fat Cleanse: consuming only fruits and vegetables without any fat (avocados, oils, etc.) for 3 to 7 days or longer.
While it’s possible to do a cleanse on your own, it’s best if you have someone to coach and support you in the process.
Find Raw Friends: Feeling alone and isolated can kill your success with the raw diet! It’s very important to find at least one “buddy” who can support and encourage you on this path. With the Internet, it’s possible to connect with more people than ever.
Get a Coach and a System: Besides lack of social support, the reason why most people don’t succeed with a raw-food program is that they don’t have anybody coaching them personally and showing them a system that works for incorporating all of the different elements of a healthy lifestyle. Unless you think you can do it on your own, you need someone to show you a system that works!
Make no mistake about it, you can either take 2 months to put all of the pieces of a healthy raw lifestyle together, or you can take 2 years or 20 years! Do yourself a favor and choose the shortest route to success.
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Sandy Klocinski asked:
The rule of thumb is that if you have cravings a lot or are seriously stalled, cut the caffeine and/or alcohol and see where it takes you. Focus on lean cuts of beef and lamb. Even cheaper cuts of beef are good.
It’s good to cut down your milk consumption for the first two weeks, and see how your body likes it. You cut out things like pasta, bread, rice and alcohol, yet you eat unlimited amounts of meat, cheese and butter.
A low carb, high protein diet has been scientifically proven to improve insulin sensitivity, decrease blood pressure and cut blood insulin levels. No “diet” cheese, cheese spreads or whey cheeses are permitted. Vegetable and seed oils, cheese, dairy, nuts and legumes are used sparingly and in appropriate portions. Typical foods you can eat include meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and cheese, plus a limited amount of green vegetables such as asparagus, spinach, and broccoli
You can try more greens and other vegetables, half a cup of cottage cheese, one ounce of sunflower seeds, or a dozen macadamia nuts. When you stop losing weight, you subtract five grams of carbohydrate from your daily allotment, so that slow weight loss continues. Eat absolutely no fruits, bread, pasta, grains, starchy vegetables, or dairy products other than cheese, cream or butter.
As to fast foods hamburgers with no bun would be “OK”. You should ask for the burger with no condiments to make this part easier. Fresh cheeses like cottage and farmer’s chesses are not allowed, nor are processed diet cheeses and cheese substitutes. No fries, no shakes. Also be sure you don’t eat any fruit.
The Atkins diet food List also includes aged cheeses as well as cheddars, and cow, sheep or goats cheese. It is not true that you can eat whatever you want as long as it doesn’t have carbohydrates. I suggest you visit a physician before starting a low carb or any other diet plan
While the pounds drop off, you’ll reap dozens of other fringe benefits as a result of making the switch to a controlled carbohydrate lifestyle. I’m finding a lot of previously “Low Carb” marked products are actually low carb normally.
Everything that is added has carbs. So keep your menu plans close to you and your high carb foods aside from you. Curing is not a friendly process to one who aims for a low carb diet.
Under the Atkins program, foods containing carbohydrates (like sugar, grains, and starches) are limited or replaced in favor of foods containing more protein and fat. The Atkins diet menu stipulates that main weight loss will come from low carbohydrate intake. There are lots of great low carb chocolates and ice creams but avoid these for the first 2 weeks.
I have been working on a new diet/exercise program for a while now – and I am finding that if I don’t eat carbs I have no energy at all to go to the gym
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The rule of thumb is that if you have cravings a lot or are seriously stalled, cut the caffeine and/or alcohol and see where it takes you. Focus on lean cuts of beef and lamb. Even cheaper cuts of beef are good.
It’s good to cut down your milk consumption for the first two weeks, and see how your body likes it. You cut out things like pasta, bread, rice and alcohol, yet you eat unlimited amounts of meat, cheese and butter.
A low carb, high protein diet has been scientifically proven to improve insulin sensitivity, decrease blood pressure and cut blood insulin levels. No “diet” cheese, cheese spreads or whey cheeses are permitted. Vegetable and seed oils, cheese, dairy, nuts and legumes are used sparingly and in appropriate portions. Typical foods you can eat include meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and cheese, plus a limited amount of green vegetables such as asparagus, spinach, and broccoli
You can try more greens and other vegetables, half a cup of cottage cheese, one ounce of sunflower seeds, or a dozen macadamia nuts. When you stop losing weight, you subtract five grams of carbohydrate from your daily allotment, so that slow weight loss continues. Eat absolutely no fruits, bread, pasta, grains, starchy vegetables, or dairy products other than cheese, cream or butter.
As to fast foods hamburgers with no bun would be “OK”. You should ask for the burger with no condiments to make this part easier. Fresh cheeses like cottage and farmer’s chesses are not allowed, nor are processed diet cheeses and cheese substitutes. No fries, no shakes. Also be sure you don’t eat any fruit.
The Atkins diet food List also includes aged cheeses as well as cheddars, and cow, sheep or goats cheese. It is not true that you can eat whatever you want as long as it doesn’t have carbohydrates. I suggest you visit a physician before starting a low carb or any other diet plan
While the pounds drop off, you’ll reap dozens of other fringe benefits as a result of making the switch to a controlled carbohydrate lifestyle. I’m finding a lot of previously “Low Carb” marked products are actually low carb normally.
Everything that is added has carbs. So keep your menu plans close to you and your high carb foods aside from you. Curing is not a friendly process to one who aims for a low carb diet.
Under the Atkins program, foods containing carbohydrates (like sugar, grains, and starches) are limited or replaced in favor of foods containing more protein and fat. The Atkins diet menu stipulates that main weight loss will come from low carbohydrate intake. There are lots of great low carb chocolates and ice creams but avoid these for the first 2 weeks.
I have been working on a new diet/exercise program for a while now – and I am finding that if I don’t eat carbs I have no energy at all to go to the gym
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Avoid Fad Diets That Promise Magic Cures and Miracle Weight Loss
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January 14, 2009
Connie Limon asked:
This is called the “yo-yo effect” of losing and regaining weight.
The trick to losing weight and keeping it off is to find an everyday eating plan that takes and keeps the pounds off while providing a right balance of calories and nutrition. This combination requires a lifestyle change.
A fad diet that results in quick weight loss early on, if followed for a long period of time, may result in potential health problems. Losing weight effectively involves:
• Eating an appropriate number of calories from a balanced diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free dairy products
• Cutting back on nutrient-poor foods
• Physical activity
You will know it is a fad diet if it:
• Promises magic or miracle foods that burn fat
• Requires you to eat unusual quantities of only one food or food type
• Requires rigid menus of a limited selection of foods to be eaten at specific times and days
• Requires you to eat specific food combinations in certain sequences or combinations
• Promises rapid weight loss of more than two pounds per week
• Has no warning for those with diabetes or high blood pressure to seek medical advice before starting the diet
• Does not include increased physical activity as part of the plan
The best way to fight cardiovascular disease is a healthy diet with an exercise routine lifestyle.
Follow these simple steps as part of your healthy lifestyle:
• Burn at least as many calories as you take in: Keep a record of how many calories you should be eating and drinking to maintain your weight. Don’t eat more calories than you know you can burn up every day. Increase the intensity of your physical activity to match the number of calories you take in. Set a goal of at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity on most days of the week. For best results, aim for at least 30 minutes every day.
• Eat a variety of nutritious foods from all the food groups: Even though you may eat plenty of food daily, if it is not a variety from all the food groups, your body still may not be getting the nutrients it needs to be healthy. To get the nutrients you need, choose foods such as vegetables, fruits, whole-grain products and fat-free or low-fat dairy products most often.
• Eat fish at least twice per week containing omega-3 fatty acids such as salmon, trout and herring
• Eat less of the nutrient-poor foods: Limit foods and beverages that are high in calories but low in nutrients. Limit how much saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol and sodium you eat. Read food labels carefully. The food labels will tell you how much of those nutrients each food or beverage contains.
• Drink at least 8 eight-ounce glasses of water each day. Watch the food labels on bottled water. Some bottled water contains high amounts of sodium; others contain extra calories and sugar. Look for bottled water with “0” calories, fat, sodium, and sugar.
Base your eating pattern on these recommendations daily:
• Choose lean meats and poultry without skin and prepare them without added saturated and trans fats
• Select fat-free, 1 percent fat, and low-fat dairy products
• Cut back on foods containing partially hydrogenated vegetable oils to reduce trans fat in your diet
• Cut back on beverages and foods with added sugar
• Choose and prepare foods with little or no salt. Keep sodium amounts at less than 2,300 milligrams per day
• If you drink alcohol, drink in moderation: One drink per day if you are a woman and two drinks per day if you are a man
• Don’t smoke tobacco and stay away from tobacco smoke
Source: American Heart Association
Disclaimer: *This article is not meant to diagnose, treat or cure any kind of a health problem. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Always consult with your health care provider about any kind of a health problem and especially before beginning any kind of an exercise routine.
This article is FREE to publish with the resource box. Article written 3-2007.
By: Connie Limon -
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This is called the “yo-yo effect” of losing and regaining weight.
The trick to losing weight and keeping it off is to find an everyday eating plan that takes and keeps the pounds off while providing a right balance of calories and nutrition. This combination requires a lifestyle change.
A fad diet that results in quick weight loss early on, if followed for a long period of time, may result in potential health problems. Losing weight effectively involves:
• Eating an appropriate number of calories from a balanced diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and fat-free dairy products
• Cutting back on nutrient-poor foods
• Physical activity
You will know it is a fad diet if it:
• Promises magic or miracle foods that burn fat
• Requires you to eat unusual quantities of only one food or food type
• Requires rigid menus of a limited selection of foods to be eaten at specific times and days
• Requires you to eat specific food combinations in certain sequences or combinations
• Promises rapid weight loss of more than two pounds per week
• Has no warning for those with diabetes or high blood pressure to seek medical advice before starting the diet
• Does not include increased physical activity as part of the plan
The best way to fight cardiovascular disease is a healthy diet with an exercise routine lifestyle.
Follow these simple steps as part of your healthy lifestyle:
• Burn at least as many calories as you take in: Keep a record of how many calories you should be eating and drinking to maintain your weight. Don’t eat more calories than you know you can burn up every day. Increase the intensity of your physical activity to match the number of calories you take in. Set a goal of at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity on most days of the week. For best results, aim for at least 30 minutes every day.
• Eat a variety of nutritious foods from all the food groups: Even though you may eat plenty of food daily, if it is not a variety from all the food groups, your body still may not be getting the nutrients it needs to be healthy. To get the nutrients you need, choose foods such as vegetables, fruits, whole-grain products and fat-free or low-fat dairy products most often.
• Eat fish at least twice per week containing omega-3 fatty acids such as salmon, trout and herring
• Eat less of the nutrient-poor foods: Limit foods and beverages that are high in calories but low in nutrients. Limit how much saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol and sodium you eat. Read food labels carefully. The food labels will tell you how much of those nutrients each food or beverage contains.
• Drink at least 8 eight-ounce glasses of water each day. Watch the food labels on bottled water. Some bottled water contains high amounts of sodium; others contain extra calories and sugar. Look for bottled water with “0” calories, fat, sodium, and sugar.
Base your eating pattern on these recommendations daily:
• Choose lean meats and poultry without skin and prepare them without added saturated and trans fats
• Select fat-free, 1 percent fat, and low-fat dairy products
• Cut back on foods containing partially hydrogenated vegetable oils to reduce trans fat in your diet
• Cut back on beverages and foods with added sugar
• Choose and prepare foods with little or no salt. Keep sodium amounts at less than 2,300 milligrams per day
• If you drink alcohol, drink in moderation: One drink per day if you are a woman and two drinks per day if you are a man
• Don’t smoke tobacco and stay away from tobacco smoke
Source: American Heart Association
Disclaimer: *This article is not meant to diagnose, treat or cure any kind of a health problem. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Always consult with your health care provider about any kind of a health problem and especially before beginning any kind of an exercise routine.
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Although not exactly considered a cause of acid reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), food choices can either worsen or relieve the symptoms of acid reflux in a person. Depending on how severe symptoms are, the right diet can go a long way in treating the disorder or at the very least, relieve you of symptoms.
Foods to Avoid in a Diet for Acid Reflux Relief
If planning your diet for acid reflux, avoiding foods that trigger the condition should be a primary consideration. These foods include those that either relaxes the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and those that irritate the esophagus.
The LES is a high-pressure muscular valve separating the esophagus and the stomach. Its high pressure prevents reflux, but allows food and liquids to pass through. However, when the pressure drops the LES relaxes, causing the reflux. Thus, patients must remember that acid reflux occurs when the LES is weakened and its pressure decreases, allowing hydrochloric acid, pepsin and bile to splash up damaging the esophagus and throat. A diet for acid reflux therefore requires avoiding foods that relax the LES. These includes fried and fatty foods, pepper, peppermint and high-fat desserts like chocolates, brownies, and butter cookies.
Apart from avoiding foods that relax the LES, patients suffering from acid reflux must also avoid foods that can irritate or damage the esophageal lining. This includes tomato-based dishes; extremely hot or cold beverages like coffee; alcoholic beverages; spices; and acidic food products like citrus fruits, drinks and vinegar to decrease the acids in the stomach. However, in cases where the acid reflux is caused by having too little acid (as opposed to too much) consuming apple cider vinegar in your diet for acid reflux can be helpful.
Healthy Foods to Include in a Diet for Acid Reflux
Aside from avoiding the foods that trigger acid reflux, a good diet for acid reflux also involves eating easy to digest foods to prevent irritation in the patient’s esophagus. These include foods that are soft and easy to digest like complex carbohydrates such as rice, soft breads, and pasta, which are not only easy on the stomach, but also help tie-up excess acids to prevent high acidity levels.
Foods that are high in alkaline should also be included in a diet for acid reflux because of its ability to correct the body’s ph level and balance the high acidity levels of people with GERD. This includes vegetables like broccoli sprouts, alfalfa spouts, wheat grass, barley grass, cucumber, kale, and parsley; fruits like apples, bananas, and grapefruit; and beans and legumes like lima beans, soy beans, white beans, and tofu. Drinking mangosteen juice, which effectively dilutes acids can also reduce inflammation and lower the stomach’s acidity levels.
Lifestyle Changes to Aid Diet for Acid Reflux
While it is important to plan your diet for acid reflux by avoiding foods that trigger GERD and eating those that can help improve your health, it is also important to accompany your diet for acid reflux with lifestyle changes to improve your condition. This includes:
1. Restricting your diet to small, frequent feedings of about 4 to 6 per day to decrease the amount of food in the stomach and lessen the workload for your digestive system.
2. Drinking adequate fluids before, after, and during every meal to assist in food passage and dilute the acids in your stomach.
3. Eat slowly and chew your food thoroughly to add saliva to your food, making it easier to digest, and soften the food that passes through your esophagus, preventing irritation.
4. Avoid eating and drinking 3 hours before bedtime to prevent incidents of nocturnal acid reflux.
5. Lose weight (if overweight) to reduce the probability of reflux incidents.
6. Avoid smoking and drinking alcohol because it relaxes your LES and stimulates your body’s production of acids.
7. Elevate your head by 6 to 8 inches when lying down to prevent nocturnal reflux.
An effective diet for acid reflux therefore requires two things: the discipline to follow your diet plan and the commitment to put lifestyle changes into practice.
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Although not exactly considered a cause of acid reflux or gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), food choices can either worsen or relieve the symptoms of acid reflux in a person. Depending on how severe symptoms are, the right diet can go a long way in treating the disorder or at the very least, relieve you of symptoms.
Foods to Avoid in a Diet for Acid Reflux Relief
If planning your diet for acid reflux, avoiding foods that trigger the condition should be a primary consideration. These foods include those that either relaxes the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and those that irritate the esophagus.
The LES is a high-pressure muscular valve separating the esophagus and the stomach. Its high pressure prevents reflux, but allows food and liquids to pass through. However, when the pressure drops the LES relaxes, causing the reflux. Thus, patients must remember that acid reflux occurs when the LES is weakened and its pressure decreases, allowing hydrochloric acid, pepsin and bile to splash up damaging the esophagus and throat. A diet for acid reflux therefore requires avoiding foods that relax the LES. These includes fried and fatty foods, pepper, peppermint and high-fat desserts like chocolates, brownies, and butter cookies.
Apart from avoiding foods that relax the LES, patients suffering from acid reflux must also avoid foods that can irritate or damage the esophageal lining. This includes tomato-based dishes; extremely hot or cold beverages like coffee; alcoholic beverages; spices; and acidic food products like citrus fruits, drinks and vinegar to decrease the acids in the stomach. However, in cases where the acid reflux is caused by having too little acid (as opposed to too much) consuming apple cider vinegar in your diet for acid reflux can be helpful.
Healthy Foods to Include in a Diet for Acid Reflux
Aside from avoiding the foods that trigger acid reflux, a good diet for acid reflux also involves eating easy to digest foods to prevent irritation in the patient’s esophagus. These include foods that are soft and easy to digest like complex carbohydrates such as rice, soft breads, and pasta, which are not only easy on the stomach, but also help tie-up excess acids to prevent high acidity levels.
Foods that are high in alkaline should also be included in a diet for acid reflux because of its ability to correct the body’s ph level and balance the high acidity levels of people with GERD. This includes vegetables like broccoli sprouts, alfalfa spouts, wheat grass, barley grass, cucumber, kale, and parsley; fruits like apples, bananas, and grapefruit; and beans and legumes like lima beans, soy beans, white beans, and tofu. Drinking mangosteen juice, which effectively dilutes acids can also reduce inflammation and lower the stomach’s acidity levels.
Lifestyle Changes to Aid Diet for Acid Reflux
While it is important to plan your diet for acid reflux by avoiding foods that trigger GERD and eating those that can help improve your health, it is also important to accompany your diet for acid reflux with lifestyle changes to improve your condition. This includes:
1. Restricting your diet to small, frequent feedings of about 4 to 6 per day to decrease the amount of food in the stomach and lessen the workload for your digestive system.
2. Drinking adequate fluids before, after, and during every meal to assist in food passage and dilute the acids in your stomach.
3. Eat slowly and chew your food thoroughly to add saliva to your food, making it easier to digest, and soften the food that passes through your esophagus, preventing irritation.
4. Avoid eating and drinking 3 hours before bedtime to prevent incidents of nocturnal acid reflux.
5. Lose weight (if overweight) to reduce the probability of reflux incidents.
6. Avoid smoking and drinking alcohol because it relaxes your LES and stimulates your body’s production of acids.
7. Elevate your head by 6 to 8 inches when lying down to prevent nocturnal reflux.
An effective diet for acid reflux therefore requires two things: the discipline to follow your diet plan and the commitment to put lifestyle changes into practice.
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