A report which was released by the Archives of Internal Medicine, did a comparison of people regarding potential heart health risks, and also took their weight into consideration.

When the data came back it showed that even though some people were overweight, metabolically they were quite healthy, so just because you are overweight it doesn’t mean you can’t be healthy at the same time, but we must stress a point here.

This does not mean to say that you can go out and stuff yourself with food and think to yourself I am now healthy even though I am overweight, because there is more to this as we shall see.

The study compared 5,400 people and took into consideration their actual weight and possible risk of cardiovascular disease, and it was found being metabolically healthier even though they were overweight, they had lower levels of cholesterol, their blood pressure was good and their blood glucose levels were good as well.

Interestingly they found that even thin people which they said was about one in four, who were said to have a healthy weight, were typically found to have two risk factors which can be associated with heart disease (cardiovascular). As we all well know there are lots of health factors, which are related with being overweight or obese, such as diabetes, short-term mortality.

And now even as the latest research shows that these people are far more likely to have some sort of health problem which will be related to their heart whether it be high cholesterol and or blood pressure, but the researchers were quite surprised when doing their research of the amount of obese and overweight people who in fact to quote in their words were metabolically healthy.

“We use ‘overweight’ almost indiscriminately sometimes,” said Mary Fran Sowers, a co-author of the study and professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan . “But there is lots of individual variation within that, and we need to be cognizant of that as we think about what our health messages should be.”

This was followed by a report that came out last autumn that stated people who are overweight can actually have longer lives than their normal weight counterparts. This actual report created quite a lot of controversy amongst the health fraternity claiming it was very inaccurate what the data presented. Saying it hid the fact that people whom are over weight or obese are at a far more higher risk of suffering from a heart related health problem than people who are thin. The people who criticized it said it didn’t correlate with what the mortality statistics said.

One of the problems seems to be our distorted perception of what it means to be overweight or obese, the most well-known way of judging whether a person is overweight or obese is by using a measure of something called body mass index or BMI for short.

This is supposed to be one of the most accurate way’s of determining if somebody is overweight or obese or not, it works on a method by measuring your height combined with your weight and then a figure is calculated which is your BMI . < 25 and you’re considered to be healthy > 25 then you’re considered to be overweight > 30 then your now in the obese category.

Katherine Flegal who did the study for the CDC which was the one that came out in autumn which was very heavily criticized, said that they found, even though people whom had a BMI of 25 and whom were thought to be big would still have health problems largely because of their size and of course there BMI .

Some research which was put together in Dallas, which used treadmills in order to see how people compared with each other, said that the performance that people gave was a far better indicator of being fit than relying on body mass index purely on its own.

The people who were able to sustain themselves for longer on the treadmill taken into consideration even though they were overweight, were found to have a lot lower risk of heart disease compared to thinner people whom were unfit.

In December some statistics were brought up to correlate with these findings they looked at the mortality rates of 2,600 adults of 60 years age and older, and this was done over a 12 year monitoring period, the ones having a BMI of between 25 and 30, and this is where it gets really interesting were slightly lower than people who had a normal weight.

Mortality rates were considerably higher for those people who were in the bracket of aBMI of 35 or more, but here is the most interesting aspect of all of this whole thing is, the people whom had the lowest fitness were far more likely to die earlier despite their weight, than those with poor fitness.

So it just goes to show and prove that no matter what weight you are, even doing some form of fitness training you will reap the rewards no matter what, when they were conducting the test on the treadmill it was quite simplistic how they did it.

The treadmill was set to go at a reasonable pace and the increment was done every so often, in order for somebody to become qualified as being fit all they needed, to do was stay on the treadmill for eight minutes, women had a lower rate of five and half minutes.

The participants who couldn’t manage to stay on at all were put in a group of those at highest risk, they took into consideration things like smoking, any cardiovascular problems which may have occurred in the past, and their conclusion was that overall fitness was a far better indicator of a longer life rather than their weight.

So the moral of this story is don’t really get in a mess if you are overweight, but work towards becoming healthier because as we now know you can be thin and still have health risks if you are unfit.

The overall moral of this particular story is do what works for you and work towards what is best for you ultimately, if you particularly want to weigh less, and do not stop yourself from trying to reach your target weight. Just don’t worry too much about the fact that you are overweight focus on becoming fitter and the two will come together in time.

Source  http://www.nytimes.com

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.

Source http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/

In places like McDonald’s Burger King etc, are put their purposely to implant those pictures in our minds so we get the drool fact are going, and naturally makes us want those foods.

So you can actually see what the differences are between the pictures and reality here they are for you. This just goes to show what lengths advertisers will go to make, us want to buy the foods that we don’t really particularly want to eat, but by making the images more photogenic by using warm colours it makes us more stimulated to want to eat those particular foods.

Left =display picture right = bought item

The first one is a McDonald’s Burrito

Wendys Chicken

McDonald’s Burrito

Burger King Sandwich

Arby’s Beef and Cheddar

KFC Bowl

Subway Turkey Breast

Wendy’s Taco Salad

Burger King Sausage Croissant

A McDonalds Big Mac

Taco Bell Nachos Grande

McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish

McDonald’s McMuffin

Burger King Whopper

So isn’t it surprising that what we see and what we get in the real world aren’t always the same

Source and Images

Since the year 2002 mobile phone usage has rocketed, and personal computers and laptop usage has gone up four times compared to what it was. If we fast forward to where we are now we now spend approximately three hours and 40 minutes per day watching television, and browsing the Internet has risen to 24 minutes per day, and mobile usage 10 minutes per day.

If we actually look at the statistics, we can clearly see that technology these days is a big part of our lives, there was even a more said within this particular news reference, which says that a lot of people these days will sit with their laptop and watch their TV at the same time.

A most people these days don’t even sit at a table to eat their dinner hence the reason a lot of food you can buy in packets such as ready meals coined the phrase TV dinners.

Because you can quite simply put them in the microwave heat them up and within 10 minutes your meal is ready, so you can sit and eat it in front of your television, and when you have finished eating it.

You can use your laptop computer and then sit there browsing the Internet or whatever else is you do, and once seated sometimes it can be very hard to want to move or do very little else, so as is normally the case exercise tends to get a back seat a bit.

If we go back in history a bit just digressing a bit here, some American researchers in Harvard, decided to look into why America is becoming one of the fastest rising countries were will obesity is abundant, their theory tends to revolve around the division of labour in the 1960s a average non working, American woman spent on average at least two hours per day on cooking family meals.

It would seem that figure has now been cut in half, and in relation to that manufacturers have made food more cheaper convenient, and variable as well.

Let’s take a particular instance the humble potato whereas in years gone by you would actually peel the potatoes, wash the potatoes and then boil the potatoes, and he may also mash them as well when I was younger this was the way we used to eat our food mostly. I don’t seem to remember oven chips or french fries being around at that particular time.

Nowadays we eat potatoes as french fries we don’t even bother to cook them them ourselves, because of the modern advances in food production prices have literally dropped through the floor, and due to the fact that we have all these conveniences around us we tend to eat more snacks which tends to lead to frequent grazing.

And these do tend to be quite hefty snacks, and we eat these rather than regular meals, when you actually see a lot of people on television who are trying to lose weight, you tend to notice these convenience foods are everywhere, and it’s also very tempting to eat take-aways, because people always say that they are strapped for time and don’t particularly want to cook a meal when they have come from home from work.

The reality of this is though that doesn’t always take that long to prepare fresh nutritious food which is a lot far better for you than buying lots of snack type foods all in all everything these days is about convenience, I think I have lost count of the amount of times that my blog gets to searchedor the term lose weight quickly or lose weight fast.

I’m afraid we need to take stock of what we are or aren’t doing because ultimately that is where the answer lies to our ever-growing nations of overweight people and I would say myself that technology plays a large part in this things have just become far too convenient for us.

The whole problem with all of this situation is technology a lot of times can soak up so much time, that we don’t even think that we should be doing other things, they seem to take a back seat. After all which is more enjoyable 30 minutes of exercise,or sitting in front of the TV with your laptop, and talking on your mobile phone at the same time, whilst eating your food the mind boggles doesn’t it.

I don’t think they would have been too many obese cavemen do you.

He was told by his doctor to change his diet otherwise he might be in danger of getting bowel cancer, he based his diet on something which has been implemented by Slimming World, you have what they call a green and red day, this involves switching different food types on different days.

In order to achieve this colossal amount of weight loss, he has been eating six cans of beans every day if you look at the amount of nutrition that is in a tin of baked beans, it is quite easy to see how this has worked so well, beans contain a lot of fibre and protein, out of curiosity while I was reading this story, I went downstairs and had a look to see what beans at a contain as regards fibre, protein and calories.

A 220 gram tin of beans contains about 11 grams of protein and eight grams of fibre, and each tin is about 176 calories so based on those figures if you eat four tins of beans within a day, then that will add up to as far as fibre is concerned 32 grams of fibre which is extremely good, and being as protein is a food that takes quite a long time to be broken down.

Which encourages the fat burning process it is quite plain and simple to see this how this would be achieved, the programme that slimming world have developed revolves around eating healthily and filling foods in unlimited quantities such as pasta potatoes, vegetables, lean meats, while also being able to eat something that you would normally not consider healthily, a treat every so often say.

Here is the URL for my new site http://www.a-newbeginning.co.uk it’s about my life, life in general and anything else I can think of to blog about, which is related to life as a whole.

If you have time please surf over and have a look because any feedback would be greatly appreciated, so far I am quite happy with what is on their so far, for quite a while I was in two minds as to whether or not to start it but am glad I have now because it will be interesting to see how it grows over time which is what I am hoping for and if it’s anywhere near as successful as this blog is now then I will be well pleased.

It’s always a gamble starting a new online venture but somehow I quite enjoy it now setting up sites and seeing how well they do. As is normally the case I am going for quality rather than quantity again to me this seems a better balance for a way of writing.

Actually I can’t think of a better time to launch this new blog because it was the first year anniversary of this one being on WordPress, that’s just something that just crossed my mind thinking about it while composing this post.

And also due to the fact that I was in away starting from scratch although I was on blogger previously, I was literally starting from zero, so really one year ago I read in have a clue about how things would work out or where I would end up.

But it has turned out better than I have ever expected, I am still here, I am still blogging and I have to say I am glad I stuck it out even along the bumpy roads that have come along every once in a while, at one time earlier on this year my traffic levels seem to be quite low and I was quite concerned that something was really wrong, but really there was nothing to worry about because within a few weeks my traffic levels returned to normal.

This year has been the best so far as far as my blogging is concerned, things started to turn around I would say at the end of January, looking back over my stats over the year this is when things started to turn around, I started posting more posts and also did one or two tweaks on the blog.

Which seemed to make a huge difference, I also started to put into practice what I had learned from the blogging course I was doing namely Blog Mastermind, then about March time I think it was my posts started to appear on Reuters which bought me even more exposure, I have been a member of blog catalog, and my blog log for quite some time now, and started to join various neighbourhoods within those two blogging networks which are very big indeed.

I also make sure that I was getting exposure by leaving comments on a authoritative blog every so often, I think the combination of this and doing many other marketing activities, has really paid off I also concentrated on SEO for my blog which consisted of directly submissions.

But also this year there has been a lot of natural organic growth, I am finding now even more that a lot of people who are within the same area as may as far as blogging is concerned are finding me and also syndicating my content.

My blog is starting to pop up all over the place on the Internet which is a really good thing, sometimes when I am looking at my stats to see where people come from is quite amazing where they do come from, it does seem to pop up in the most strangest of places.

Sometimes there is no actual path as to where the visitor has come from so I’m assuming that people must be passing my site around like a bookmark, because also I noticed that some of the referrals are coming from e-mails, and people saving their pages to their hard drive perhaps somebody saves the page off line and then sends it to another person and so on.

This in itself all creates a natural organic growth which the search engines do like and also it gets me lots of free exposure, I haven’t had to spend any money whatsoever advertising my blog at all the only investment I have had to make is time.

When I initially set up this blog on WordPress one year ago I suppose you could say I had quite a. I don’t know what is going to happen, attitude as far as things are concerned and didn’t think too much about where I would be this time this year, or even if I would be still here, although I must say that I didn’t really think that at the time.

All in all though I have really been quite pleasantly surprised at how things have progressed, it may seem quite strange saying this but I never expected it to grow as much as it has.

When I used to think about seeing other people doing well with their blogs and wondered if I would be ever able to be as good or do as well as them, when I was on blogger initially first starting off I seem to be struggling all the time to get anywhere as far as traffic and anything else was concerned for that matter.

But looking back on that experience, I can actually see that the platform that I was on was very limiting, WordPress just changes the whole ballgame as a whole when it comes to blogging.

You have far more power at your hands than you ever could imagine I used to hear people talking about it all the time and raving about how good it is, but I must say I don’t think I really took much notice, and probably thought it was something I never would be using myself.

Over all as far as things go with my blog it does seem to be gaining a lot of traction over the Internet, I am getting more comments now than I used to, more people are subscribing to the RSS feed, and the e-mail service which is provided also.

So in conclusion one year on I can honesty say that is the probably, the best thing I’ve ever done for a very long time. Starting this blog has made me realise that I can stay at things when needed, and I would also say that it has made me grow as a person and made me become more confident as well. I never actually realised it before but I find writing now quite therapeutic.

So much so that I am now in the process of starting another blog I still need to add some more content to it and get the RSS feed setup and so forth, but it won’t be too long now before I will launch it. Funnily enough when I first started to think about this blog I ummmed and arrrred about it for ages but then just decided to get it up and see what happens with it.

That particular blog is about the way my life is going and life as a whole really and how I have got to where I am now, as I get nearer to where I want it I will announce on this blog when I am ready to launch it.

That’s all I want to say really does want to say thank you for everybody who take’s the time to leave comments, about my blog and posts, all the people who read my blog how many there are of you I don’t really know sometimes it is hard to judge because a lot of people do lurk and don’t say anything.

So one year on to this very day all I can say it’s been a very learning, exhilarating, and exciting experience for me as a whole I really am hoping now that blogging will open a lot of doors for me and hopefully get me some kind of recognition which I would truly love.

And on a ending note if there is anybody who is interested in any kind of sponsorship deals then please do get in contact with me as I would be very interested to talk business.

Or also if you have any questions about blogging in general or anything really doesn’t matter just drop me a line.

There is one thing known for sure you won’t be able to speed up your metabolism by stuffing yourself with with calorie laden foods which are in abundance around is these days so much more than they used to be.

All we need really is a little education in what to eat properly I have spoken before about ways to speed up your metabolism, so when I came across this little article I thought it would make a quite a fitting post, because the information that was contained within it was quite interesting and useful.

It helps demystify some of the ways in which your body burns fat for fuel having knowledge like this is quite useful because it helps you gain a better understanding of what is going on in your body.

Metabolism Burning Tip 1

Eat wholemeal type breakfasts, anything that has lots of fibre is ideal, have this with milk, or have oatmeal as well your breakfast, the reason these work so well is because the carbohydrates and the fibre contained within high fibre and carbohydrate type breakfasts is because, these two particular things dampen insulin spikes once you start having insulin spikes, this tells your body to store fat that is why when you eat a lot of refined carbohydrates or in other words simple sugars you tend to put on lots of weight.

Your always telling your body to store fat this is one of the reasons why sugar is a big no-no when you’re trying to lose weight it won’t speed up your metabolism it has the complete opposite effect. When your body is storing fat this in turn slows your metabolism down.

Some research was done regarding breakfast in the Navy and it was found that by eating breakfast the personnels metabolisms were raised by more than 10 percent when they ate breakfast, I think a lot of people do tend to skip breakfast these days mainly because of the excuse that I am too busy to eat breakfast my reply to that is why ?

Metabolism Burning Tip 2

Jalapeno, habanero, and cayenne peppers this is the first time I have heard of these particular foods, apparently these foods work by speeding up your heart rate, studies were done in the 80’s that found by eating these certain spicy foods, it could raise your metabolism by much as 25 percent or more.

And even better after three hours of eating these foods they still carry on doing their work by keeping your metabolism ticking over, some research was done only just recently and it found that by having coffee and sandwiches that were stacked with red peppers were able to burn a thousand more calories than those who were part of a controlled group of people not eating that particular type of food.

When you tend to restrict the amount of food and or calories you are eating throughout the day you can tend to get slumps in your metabolism this is where a lot of people get it wrong, they tend to eat very little food.

Then eat large amounts later on you’re far better off snacking throughout the day this will keep your metabolism ticking over, if you tell your body that you are starving it then it will hold onto its fat stores and no fat will be burnt.

Metabolism Burning Tip 3

Drink green tea and coffee, the two properties that cause these to happen caffeine in coffee and something called EGCG, caffeine helps speed up your heart rate and EGCG does something similar but not quite the same it makes your brain and nervous system work faster which in turn causes calorie burning to be in effect.

Some research was done concerning these two fat burning properties and was found from a study that if you consume 90 milligrams of these two substances together and drink the two combined three times a day this will help you burn 80 more calories per day it doesn’t sound an awful lot but it all helps in the long run.

The Canadian government did some studies on some soldiers and found that once they drank caffeine prior to a workout, were able to work out for a longer period of time without becoming exhausted, but also their consumption of oxygen was considerably higher than it would have been normally without drinking the caffeine, oxygen is a key component when it comes to metabolism burning the more oxygen you take in the more the effect becomes this is why it’s important to breathe properly when you are exercising, as it keeps the whole process ticking over.

Metabolism Burning Tip 4

Foods that contain a lot of protein, e.g. Turkey , fish, chicken, pork and beef and any other food that is high in protein.

When you eat protein in your diet it takes far longer for your body to digest this particular food this keeps the thermogenic property, of fat burning going you will feel less hungry so you won’t eat the other types of food that can slow your metabolism down.

The energy that is involved in breaking protein down in your body takes more work than it does to break down things like fat and carbohydrates this is why it is an ideal fat burning food.

When some people who were part of the study were compared to those to who ate more carbohydrates in their diets it was found that the people who ate, protein burned more fat than those whom were eating carbs in their diet.

A study that was done in Denmark found that when the participants substituted protein more than carbs their metabolism burning properties went up by five percent compared to their counterparts.

Metabolism Burning Tip 4

Eat oily fish namely tuna, salmon and sardines, the great thing about eating these particular fish is that they contain something called a omega three oils, the reason these particular oils work so well in helping to burn fat is they work on a particular hormone which is called leptin, some studies have found that leptin has a influence on whether your body tends to burn fat or not.

Research was done on mice and it was found that the ones that had really low leptin levels were found to have higher metabolisms than those whom had higher leptin levels, some other research was done on some African tribes and it was found that the ones that ate lots of fish in their diets compared to those who didn’t eat fish and ate more vegetables had very high levels of leptin in their bloodstream, compared to those who ate the fish there levels were almost non-existent.

If you don’t like eating fish then you can always buy oil capsules with it in Omega three that is.

Some research that was done in France found that men whom replaced fat with fish oil in their diets, were able to boost their metabolism levels and consequently lose two pounds within a 12 week period.

Source Yahoo Health

But when you’re trying to lose weight is it really enough, some research has been published recently that suggests otherwise, in order for you to drop 10 percent of your own body weight, it now seems that you have to do one hours of exercise in order to get better results in the long-term.

This particular study was conducted using women, whether or not it’s the same for men I’m not to sure, what they say is that you need to exercise five times a week, for 55 minutes over a period of two years, although I might add that this does apply to people that have been obese, someone who has had no problems with their weight.

Would probably get away with 30 minutes of moderate exercise, largely due to the fact of of not being overweight in the first place.

The research which was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, said that.

“The less they exercised the less weight they lost and the less they kept off,” said John Jakicic of the University of Pittsburgh , who led the study. “It seemed like this magic number of 275 (minutes a week) is what really made a difference.”

The team which was led by John did research over a two-year period which involved 191 women who were aged between 21 and 45 years of age, and whose BMI ’s where between 27 and 40, before they got involved with the research there exercise regime was doing less than 20 minutes per day, and less than three times per week.

They were put on a strict calorie controlled diet between 1200 calories and 1500 calories, and then the women were split into different groups to monitor what actually happened and to see what difference’s, there was between the two groups.

While women in other groups lost weight the ones that came out better off in the end were the ones who had been exercising for two years, on the 55 minutes and five days a week regime.

The researchers were quoted as saying that they wanted to know what it actually took for people to lose weight in the long-term and actually keep it off, because as we well know lots of people although not everybody can tend to put weight back on once they either finish their diet or something else happens and they gain the weight back.

In conclusion John said that, people should not be to discouraged about the fact that they may have to exercise for 55 minutes the day five times a week, it may seem like a bit of a punishing regimen to some people, but if you can incorporate exercise into your everyday life by moving around more and generally being more active, you will probably find that you can quite easily incorporate what has been suggested here into your weight loss regime.

The thing to remember is here that as long as you do something it is far better than doing nothing at all, the more you get into the habit of doing physical activity the easier it becomes, whenever you read something like this it can seem and become quite daunting because you think oh know I’ve got to do more work but what I would say is why not split your routine into two chunks of 30 minutes per day, one in the evening one earlier in the day if you can manage it.

There will be plenty of times when you have 30 minutes spare you probably don’t even realise say for instance most people get 30 minutes for lunch at work and don’t really do anything except sit at work and eat their food.

This would be a perfect opportunity to go for a walk as most places have a one hour lunch break per day, just doing a 30 minute brisk walk will get you your first 30 minute segment, it’s not that hard when you think about it, it just seems that way in your mind.

It’s also been found that doing two segmented bouts of exercise during the day is more beneficial than doing one bout of exercise in one day, you apparently get better fat burning potential by working out this way rather than doing just one lot of exercise in a day say for an hour for instance.

Source  http://www.journalgazette.net

The only way to get a idea of the amount of fat you are eating is by reading the labels on popular produce that we buy, so with that in mind I decided to compile a list so that you can get a good idea of the amount of fat that may be in the food that you are eating, you may be that surprised at exactly how much fat there is in some foods.

So first up is drinks

Beverages

• Cocoa powder has approximately 22 grams per hundred grams.
• Drinking chocolate has 10 grams per hundred grams
• Milo and Ovaltine has 10 grams per hundred grams

Biscuit Cakes & Deserts

• Chocolate biscuits can have 20 grams per hundred grams
• cream filled cakes can have 25 grams per hundred grams
• Fruitcake can have 60 grams per hundred grams
• Sponge cakes can have 27 grams per hundred grams
• Cheesecake can have 35 grams per hundred grams
• A custard tart can have 17 grams per hundred grams
• A dougnut can have 16 grams per hundred grams
• A éclair can have 24 grams per hundred
• A fruit pie can have 16 grams per hundred
• A jam tart can have 15 grams per hundred

Eggs and Cheese

• Cheese soufflé can have 8 grams per hundred
• Macaroni cheese can have 10 grams per hundred
• Eggs fried can have 20 grams per hundred
• Quiche Lorraine can have 28 grams per hundred

Fats and Oils

• Butter salted 81 grams per hundred
• Lard has 100 grams per hundred
• Vegetable oil has a 100 grams per hundred

Fish and Seafood

• Fish fried in batter can have 10 grams per hundred
• Fishcakes can have 11 grams per hundred
• Fishfingers fried can have 11 grams per hundred
• Haddock fried can have 8 grams per hundred
• Sardines in a can can have 28 grams per hundred

Fruit

• Avocados have 22 grams per hundred
• Olives in brine have 9 grams per hundred

Meat

• Rashers of bacon fried can have 42 grams per hundred
• Rashers of bacon grilled can have 35 grams per hundred
• Corned beef in a tin can have 12 grams per hundred
• Mince stewed can have 15 grams per hundred grams
• Rump steak can have 15 grams per hundred grams
• Grilled steak can have 12 grams per hundred grams
• A frozen beefburger which is fried can have 17 grams per hundred grams.
• A roasted duck can have 29 grams per hundred grams
• A hamburger can have 10 grams per hundred
• A porkpie can have 27 grams per hundred
• A sausage roll can have 18 grams per hundred
• Sausages made from beef can have 18 grams per hundred when fried.

Milk and Dairy Products

• Cheddar cheese can have 34 grams per hundred
• Cream cheese has 47 grams per hundred
• Edam cheese has 23 grams per hundred
• Parmesan cheese has 30 grams per hundred
• Cottage cheese has four grams per hundred
• Ice cream has 7 grams per hundred

Nuts

• Almonds 54 grams per hundred
• Brazil nuts have 72 grams per hundred
• Peanuts in shells have 34 grams per hundred
• Pistachio nuts have 54 grams per hundred
• Walnuts have 52 grams per hundred

Sauces and Condiments

• Curry powder has 10 grams per hundred
• French dressing has 73 grams per hundred
• Tartare sauce has 54 grams per hundred
• Salad cream has 27 grams per hundred
• Mayonnaise has 80 grams per hundred
• Sesame seeds have 49 grams per hundred

Soup

• Chicken condensed has 4 grams per hundred
• Mushroom soup in a tin has 4 grams per hundred
• Vegetable soup in a tin has 1 gram per hundred
• Mushroom soup has 4 grams per hundred

Jams and spreads

• Fish paste make bread has 10 grams per hundred
• Meat paste has 10 grams per hundred
• Peanut butter has 54 grams per hundred

Boiled Sweets etc

• Butterscotch has 11 grams per hundred
• Caramel has 11 grams per hundred
• Chocolate bars made from milk chocolate square has 30 grams per hundred
• A Sesame bar has a 31 grams per hundred

Vegetables

• Chips fried contain 11 grams per hundred
• Mushrooms fried contain 22 grams per hundred
• Onions fried contain 33 grams per hundred
• Tomatoes fried contain 6 grams per hundred
• Chips frozen contain 19 grams per hundred

All the other vegetables contain no trace of fat at all they were just listed as trace values which is not surprising because when people eat a diet that contains mostly vegetables and fruit they do tend to lose weight quite easily.

As you look through this list you will probably notice where or when you may have gone wrong with your eating habits and/or diet in the past which would have caused weight gain over a long period of time. We as people all need to eat consciously because that is the only way to lose weight effectively and keep it off.

I really do hope that you find this list useful and if needs be why not print it off so you can see exactly for yourself what things you need to avoid rather than eat.

Have a great day where ever you are.

References  http://www.healthyeatingclub.com