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Is Calorie Reduction The Key To a Longer Life

July 14, 2009 By Mark

We are told that eating healthy foods that are low in cholesterol, and are low in sugar will help us maintain our body weight and this will lead to a healthier longer life.

It’s all very well though eating the right foods, but is there anything else that we can actually do in order to prolong our lives, well now it seems there is, actually reducing the amount of calories we eat.

Scientists have found that if we eat less food, we are far more likely to live longer if you cut your calorie consumption by approximately 30 percent, but also maintain a highly nutritional way of eating. Then you are far more likely to live a lot longer.

Studies which were based on primates, and were done over a period of 20 years. Using rhesus monkeys, found that they were less likely to contract life-threatening diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

These particular types of primate, will have a lifespan of about 27 years, in their natural environment, however the ones that were involved in the study. Lived for 29 years.

If you apply that figure to humans this equates to roughly, six extra years of life which is quite a lot really. When you think about what you have to do in order to achieve that by simply eating less food.

The initial research was conducted in the United States , at the University of Wisconsin , Richard Weindruch who is a professor there, is quoted as saying

“We have been able to prove that by reducing calories given to primates, can in fact reduce the ageing process”.

Here are the results of the study:

Of those monkeys who just ate freely half of them survived, while those who reduce they calories by 30 percent 80 percent survived which is a very good statistics survival wise

Any instances of cancer and heart disease, was far lesser in those monkeys that were restricting the calories

Diabetes was also non-existent in the group that were on the calorie reduction way of eating, this was seen as a complete prevention of diabetes according to Professor Richard Weindruch

Also cognitive brain function, was better in the group that ate using calorie reduction

Here are some thoughts to take away from this, do we as people eat sometimes for the sake of eating, I was having a conversation the other day with somebody whom I know. And I was thinking about the amount of places that you are able to get food these days.

Where I live if I walk up a twichell, and turn right within a few yards there is a pizza shop, adjacent to this is a Chinese take-away, a few more hundred yards there is a chip shop which sells kebabs, pizzas. Another say less than half a mile there is another chip shop which sells kebabs, pizzas and fish and chips.

Quite literally food is everywhere and I just wonder sometimes, if our minds are bombarded with it all the time it can be very hard to resist. In our brains you could say we probably have maps of where we can get food in the quickest and shortest amount of time. And in a way this could be one of the reasons why we tend to eat so much food. Because it’s never far away.

Have you tried eating less ? and can you manage on less food ? or do you find that you do need to be constantly eating even if you don’t know why. It would be interesting to get peoples feedback on cutting back on calories and see how it has affected them.

I have noticed myself sometimes that I don’t actually need to eat as much food as I think I need to on any given day.

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

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Tart Cherries May Be able to Reduce Belly Fat

April 22, 2009 By Mark

517161705_32752b6e8d[1] There have been one or two stories just recently about certain fruit and how they can help reduce belly fat, I came across another one today and it seemed to coincide quite nicely with the post I wrote the other day. Instead of blueberries this time it’s Tart Cherries and this is one fruit I have never actually heard of.

It’s been found that eating this particular fruit can help with problems which revolve around something called metabolic syndrome, and risks involved with cardiovascular problems heart disease and the problems associated with it which can be diabetes, high blood pressure, levels of cholesterol, blood sugar levels etc.

The particular study was funded by the Cherry Marketing Institute, they had no particular say what was done in the study but provided the funding for it, in the particular study which was carried out on mice they identified a group of mice that had some of the symptoms of metabolic syndrome.

What the mice ate in their diet was a high fat and in moderation carbohydrate diet, or a low fat high carbohydrate diet, the mice within the group that ate the Cherry powder within their diet were monitored for a 12 week period.

After which certain levels were checked the cholesterol levels in the mice were reduced by 12 percent, body fat was 54 percent, and compared to the other group which were not fed the powder their body fat percentage was 64 percent.

The most noticeable place that the body fat was not present was around the abdominal area, one of the reasons this might be happening is due to the high antioxidant levels that the cherries contain yet another victory for eating certain fruits I have a feeling that quite a few more of these stories will pop up over time.

Source http://www.freshplaza.com/

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20 Healthy Low Calorie Snack Ideas

March 6, 2009 By Mark

In todays hectic life we can often end up eating the wrong foods as snack’s, but hopefully this list will encourage you or 2747742480_b1ef740314[1] anyone else for that matter, who wants or needs a healthy alternative.

Fruits

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

Fruits that are less than 100 calories

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vegetables

that are under a hundred calories

Contain lots of nutrition and essential vitamins and minerals

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dairy produce

has some health benefits not all are bad

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

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

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

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

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

Data Source http://www.fitnessireland.ie/100snacks.php

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Man Loses 200 Pounds Eating Raw Food

October 15, 2008 By Mark

clent Clent Manich’s diet plan may seem like anybody else’s, you follow the traditional methods of eating food, eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. And swap one meal for a shake or smoothie.

And see how things go from there this all seems the normal advice you get when you’re trying to lose weight, until Clent decided that he was going to use a different approach as far as his eating habits were concerned. He decided that he didn’t want to cook food any more and eat it raw instead.

This may seem a bit of a strange thing to do but somebody else has done the same thing and it has worked for them as well, Clent said that he lost 200 pounds and prevented himself from contracting type two diabetes. By using this different approach to eating food because it worked so well for him, some of his colleagues at Costco where he works decided to try the plan as well.

To see how they would get on with it Shirley Taylor said she wanted to feel better about herself, and since she started on the raw food way of eating, feels a whole lot better for eating her large amounts of green smoothies. I should imagine these are made up of this mostly green foods and put into a blender.

She combined this with eating other raw foods five days a week, and ate some marginal amounts of cooked food at weekends. She managed to lose 32 pounds and she now longer needs to take her thyroid medication.

The reason that this tends to work so well is raw food is very low in calories, and also due to the fact that critical enzymes are not lost due to the cooking process. One of the key components to keeping food raw is not to cook it above 115 degrees centigrade. Otherwise if you do this then the essential plant enzymes could be lost.

A raw food diet will consist of the following elements fresh fruit and vegetables obviously, and also nuts seeds and pulses, fresh honey, herbs, spices and some salt.

If you want to make your food into green smoothie’s then you will probably need to buy a juicer, food processor or alternatively use a good quality blender. Before Clent went on his raw food diet he ate things like pizza, hot dogs and lots of diet soda. Which in 2006 gave him pancreatitis and he had to be put on insulin which is for type two diabetes.

He first heard about this particular method of eating food from a chiropractor in the United States by the name of Miven Donato, he thought this person was a perfect match for his new healthy boot camp regime as he called it.

And asked him to give it a go and see what would happen there is a percentage of food that you eat which is 85 percent is raw and 15 percent is cooked. After two months of eating this particular way he managed to shed 52 pounds. However he went on a cruise with his wife and managed to pack the weight back on.

Once he got back from his cruise he received e-mail from a chiropractor which was a testimonial from a woman who had lost over a 100 pounds by eating green smoothies and raw food with a ratio 85/15. So this time around he decided that in order for this to work for him he needed to go totally raw. And to his surprise it worked in three months the weight just literally fell off of him, he lost 100 pounds and surprisingly he did very little exercise during this period of time.

Although he did feel hungry at first he kept at it and gradually his cravings for cooked food went over time, once he had reached a certain weight he then started to weight train and climbed a mountain in the USA and now believes that he can achieve any weight loss goal that he puts his mind to.

If you would like to see more information regarding this particular way of dieting then the person in question who was mentioned throughout this article has put up a website so you can read more if necessary here is the address

http://www.greensmoothierevolution.com.

Source http://www.mailtribune.com

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How To Quit Sugar Addiction

September 29, 2008 By Mark

sugar addiction Sugar is a modern day 21st-century problem, we can’t help ourselves when it comes to the sweet stuff, one of the particular problems with sugar is it can be addictive as some well-known drugs. Hence a lot of people struggle with kicking a sugar habit.

It’s getting so bad now that obesity levels are rocketing all over the world, because of the amount of sugar that we now consume in our foods which comes about by modern day food processing methods.

The overall problem with this is, carbohydrates get turned into refined carbohydrates hence sugar, the problem is that a lot of foods can taste quite bland without any additional flavouring, and sugar just happens to be one of those cheap ingredients that you can add to a particular product.

In order to make it more palatable to a lot of people they add sugar in order, to make the food taste better otherwise some food can taste quite bland, so people are far less likely to eat it.

It is very easy to become addicted to sweet foods it’s just the taste we just cannot help ourselves. But we very rarely think of the consequences that are involved by eating too much of these particular foods.So what is the overall attraction of sugar and why do we want to eat so much, perhaps many years ago when we had no food processing, and we were foraging for our food in a natural environment.

Then our taste buds would be more programmed to eat things of a sweeter taste rather than bitter tasting foods, as we would probably think that bitter tasting foods would be more likely to poison us. We would have had no real way of knowing whether or not something was bad for us, but if you think about fruit for a second, quite a lot it of is sweet. So we probably used that as a rule of thumb as to what to eat.

So it’s probably true to say that our taste buds, were developed to ensure that we ate foods that wouldn’t poison us merely for our own survival.But now the problem with this is it’s tending to work in reverse and making us become obese and diabetic. Sugar is everywhere and in everything from chocolate, to soft drinks, cakes, biscuits there aren’t many food substances that it isn’t in.

Before the Industrial Revolution came in the only way that we would eat sugar would be in its raw state, in such things as rice, potatoes , bread pasta etc, then we discovered how to process food and was able to turn unprocessed sugar into processed sugar.

Where does it begin ?

The first time your body gets hit with its first fix of sugar is usually first thing in the morning when you eat breakfast, even they you think you may be getting away with it. If you add things like dried fruits to your breakfast let’s just say for instance that you eat muesli, and add some fruit to it, for instance raisins.

Then already you are starting to increase blood sugar levels without even probably realising that you are doing it, some people like to have, a couple of spoonfuls sugar with their first cup of tea and coffee in the morning.

Or they might like to add some sugar to their porridge just to make it taste that more palatable, before I was diagnosed with high blood sugar I used to do the very same thing, having some toast with marmalade on it, you are already on to a bit of a sugar fest already without even realising it.

The overall problem with these sort of habits is you very rarely tend to think that they are doing you any harm. When in fact nothing is further from the truth, I quite often used to eat white bread with butter and jam.

The taste of it on my taste buds was so yummy, I couldn’t help myself. I think probably this was one of the reasons why I used to crave sugar so much, because when you eat it your blood sugar goes high insulin kicks in, to keep your blood sugar levels normal.

So it comes back down to normal levels and then you get the cravings all over again because your sugar levels have gone down.

I used to get cravings for sugar all the time but never really understood why perhaps now thinking about it I can see a overall pattern, I do eat the odd sweet thing every now and again, but nothing like I used to. it can be quite surprising when you think about it how much sugary foods you do eat without even realising.

Due to the fact that sugar is so addictive someone has bought a book out which is aptly called How To Quit Without Feeling S**t, by Patrick Alford, you see the thing is when the insulin is removing the sugar from your bloodstream it has to put it somewhere, so as a consequence of this its stores it as fat. And hence we become overweight.

So how do you go about keeping things in balance as far as your blood sugar is concerned, you have to you keep your body fed properly in order to keep up energy levels, but if you eat foods that get processed quickly within your bloodstream, than what will ultimately happen is.

Over a short period of time you will want to eat even more food in order to keep your energy levels constant, this is a classic symptom of the sugar cycle you eat some food feel energetic for a while, although we have to take into consideration what it was you actually ate, if it was a baked potato for instance with some butter, then this type of meal will be processed quite quickly.

And it won’t be too long before you are wanting to eat some more food. And so the cycle repeats itself however if you were to balance your foods more, and add protein to your meal and make sure you eat more of it, then this will break down a lot slower in your bloodstream. Therefore inhibiting any further cravings for food later on in the day.

Studies have found in the past that even non-obese people who have ate a lot of carbohydrate foods the ones that release their sugars very quickly, have also become insulin resistant and contracted diabetes so don’t just think that because you are thin that you can’t get diabetes because you can.

There tends to be a direct relationship between how you are feeling as a person and what you eat, sometimes people turn to things like chocolate etc when they are feeling down or fed up and want something to cheer themselves up, sugar tends to be a perfect candidate for this because it gives you a quick serotonin buzz, and your mind tends to latch on to this fact.

And makes you repeat the process which in essence is the start of a addiction. There are quite a few ways in order to cut your carbohydrate levels down, take note of what you are eating, for instance bread especially white bread, or you can go on a diet plan which cuts out carbohydrates altogether such as the Atkins diet this tends to focus on protein more than carbohydrates, the problem with this is though it has made some people quite ill and is not suitable for everybody.

The other alternative is to try something like the G. I diet which is based around low GI foods which in a nutshell means that they release their sugar levels slowly over a longer period of time, which will stop cravings for sweet foods.

And overtime you will tend to lose weight what I would say is the key thing is to be sensible, when I first started to try and lose weight myself I had to look at what I was eating very carefully.

One thing I wasn’t doing in particular was, eating plenty of fruit and vegetables, which I very rarely used to eat, things like salads and soup, as soon as I switched to eating more low GI foods. I did tend to feel a lot better, and also I tended to eat far less, when you are eating a lot of high of carbohydrate foods especially the wrong types then you will inevitably eat more food.

The thing that you must bear in mind is to cut down on the foods that have lots of sugar in. If you want a typical example here is one, anything that has 35 to 40 grams per hundred grams is a lot of sugar. I used to think that eating small tins of baked beans was a bad thing but I was told by my doctor that those things aren’t nearly as bad as you think they are. If you compare it to strawberry jam the amount of sugar that is in that is horrendous I think you get the overall picture.

Actually getting off sugar isn’t as bad as what you think it is, some schoolchildren were weaned off it slowly even though they did have a few withdrawal symptoms they weren’t very long in lasting, give it about four or five days and you will be fine.

How to stop sugar cravings

If you are having trouble trying to stop your sugar problem here are the a few suggestions that you might like to try in order to curb them. If you go to the supermarket things can be strategically placed in order to try make you buy them, say for instance at the end of a isle.

There might be some special offers at the end the isle. You see as you are walking along in the shop, they are in your first line of sight on the left as you come into the shop so subconsciously your mind sees them, and also they are at the end of the isle waiting for you.

And then again they may hit you with them at the checkout, so you must just ignore them and tell yourself that you don’t need them this will train your mind to ignore what is before you.

Look at what you are eating, for your breakfast if you are eating something like Cocoa Pops, or Crunchy Nut Cornflakes, which are very high sugar and try replacing this with some other substitute such as wholemeal bread and scrambled egg or another alternative is porridge oats with some sweetener in.

Have small meals often snack on pears and apples these type of foods release sugar more slowly, replace these foods with for things that you would normally snack on like chocolate and so forth, sometime cravings for sugar can be due to certain vitamins missing within your diet do some research to see if this the case.

Use sweeteners instead of sugar when you add this to coffee or sugar there really isn’t a great deal of difference. Drinks less things with caffeine in coffee and tea drunk in high volumes can cause blood sugar highs and lows.

Drink green tea instead this will help repair any damage. Also try cinnamon this can help with blood sugar levels. Above all use common sense high constant blood sugar is not good long term. Change now before it’s to late

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

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Diabetes The Facts And The Fiction

September 22, 2008 By Mark

Diabetes is on the increase there is no doubt about that, but is it becoming a postcode disease like a lot of others that we hear about nowadays, if you live in the more affluent areas such as places like Kensington, Chelsea in London. Some of the people who live in these particular areas didn’t even realise that they had it.

It certainly is a common thing these days for people to have diabetes and not even realise it, the main problem being is that the symptoms are very hard to detect especially when you’re dealing with type two diabetes. Which is most commonly known as adult onset diabetes, this can affect most people as they get older in life?

The main reasons for the causes of diabetes are eating too many foods that have high sugar content, such as cakes, biscuits, and high sugar drinks like Coca-Cola etc. Also being overweight is a major contributing factor when it comes to contracting diabetes.

A lot of it can be self inflicted, if you have a waistline that is above 37 inches for men and 35 inches for women then you may be more at risk of getting the disease yourself, eating a high sugar, high cholesterol diet is a surefire combination to encourage it. This and a lack of exercise will also, be a major contributing factor.

A lot of people tend to think that diabetes just means injecting yourself with insulin because your body can’t produce any, while this may be due to a certain extent it isn’t the be all and end all, and isn’t the case when you have type two diabetes, if you are careful in managing it properly.

By watching what you eat and getting a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise per day, five times a week then you are far more likely to keep it under control, and hopefully shouldn’t be having to inject yourself with insulin regularly.

The Myths of Diabetes

Eating too much chocolate causes it

While this may be due to a certain extent and doesn’t necessarily help matters, what happens when you have diabetes is your body doesn’t produce enough insulin which is used to, ensure sugar take up in your body cells, so when you move about and exercise.

The sugar is used for energy and is not in your body, having too much access sugar in your blood can cause problems to your internal organs. It could be due to the fact that you may have a genetic cause of the disease rather than a age related one.

Diabetes can be passed on to other people

There could be nothing more further than the truth, if you are into fairytales then this must be one of the biggest ones there is. Diabetes is not a airborne or physically contracted disease. So you won’t catch it from other people.

The most important thing is to keep your blood sugar levels stable

Although this is an important factor don’t be too surprised if you have to visit your GP or health care professional, and they start to talk about high fatty foods, how much you weigh, and what exercise you do the problem with diabetes is, that it tends to make your blood become very sticky, and the problem with this is that it tends to fur up your arteries easier.

With plaques of cholesterol so even though blood sugar is a important factor in diabetes management, it is not the only thing that you need to think about as well.

You have to you eat special diabetic foods

Nothing could be further from the truth, if you look at how much special diabetic foods cost, you will probably realise that they are what they are just cashing in on a ready available market, as long as you stick to a sensible diet, which mostly avoids things like high processed carbohydrate foods, which are high in refined sugar.

And eat more natural foods like fruit and vegetables, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem.If you are not exactly sure what to eat, speak to a dietician or get some advice from your healthcare professional, as to which foods you should be eating as far as diabetes is concerned.

Diabetes is something you can’t prevent from happening

I’m afraid the obvious answer here is yes you can very much so, and don’t let any thing or anyone else tell you any different. The simplest things to do here are look at your waist size, by using a tape measure and measuring the widest part of your abdomen just below your belly button and see what your waist size is. If it’s over 35 inches for a woman and 37 for a man and your overweight then there is a risk factor. If you are about 40 or over how much exercise are you doing ? are you doing any at all.

Do you eat lots of food that is highly processed with refined carbohydrates in or put simply that are full of sugar and fat, do you eat lots of cakes, biscuits and chocolate.

If the answer is yes then it may be time to take a visit to the doctors, for a blood test , normally you will be asked to have a fasting blood test. Or sometimes you will be asked to drink some high sugar content drink then come back, and then you will have a blood test. Of which you will get the results in about roughly a weeks time.

The good news is if you catch it early and are diagnosed as being pre-diabetic, which in a nutshell means you are on the verge of becoming diabetic, in most cases it is possible to reverse this situation, as long as you take the advice of your health care professional and/or GP and make radical changes to your exercise and diet regime.

Then hopefully you should be all right in a matter of time. The key thing here is to be responsible and just don’t think I will be all right.

When you crave sweet foods it’s a sign that you may have diabetes.

This does not necessarily have to be the case it could be due to the fact that, you may have certain that mineral or vitamin deficiencies. Which could cause you to have cravings for sugar quite naturally?

You’re far more likely to have these sort of symptoms when you have diabetes. Feeling thirsty a lot of the time, you may feel lethargic, be more prone to having infections for longer periods of time than normal, wee a lot more than normal.

It may show up as a eye problem or you may have problems of a sexual nature especially, as far as men are concerned getting erect. Here’s a thought if your concerned about ending up on Viagra then try to avoid becoming a diabetic if that isn’t a huge incentive I don’t know what is.

Another thing that people don’t actually realise about diabetes is that insulin tends to be a fat storage hormone. So if you are eating lots of sugary type foods then you are basically telling your body to store fat, also if you have lots of insulin in your blood it can tend to make you feel more hungry than normal so here is yet another clue that you may need to consider.

Source Currant Bun I mean Sun Newspaper.

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Why you Need a 35 inch Waistline

September 8, 2008 By Mark

2454205455_1f287c317c[1] There has been a magic number that has recently been going round in the health circles, as to why you need to have a 35 inch waist, having a large abdomen is not a beneficial thing to have as far as your health is concerned. According to some research that was done in Tufts University Boston, they say that in order to be safe with your health you need to have a waist size that is 35 inches for women and 37 for men.

This is the number that is critical to knowing whether or not you may have health problems later on in your life, the general problem with having a fat belly is you get a buildup of something called visceral fat, the problem with this sort of fat is it tends to bind itself to, your liver and heart organs which is not good news.

The result of this being that it creates more the bad fat which is known as LDL cholesterol, another knock-on side-effect of this is it tends to interfere with the production of insulin, which if if you don’t do something about it then you for more likely to contract diabetes.

Other research that has come to light has also suggested that there may be connections with having a large abdomen and Alzheimer’s disease, the upside of this is researchers have found that once you start to exercise quite frequently.

And start to lose weight the fat deposits around your body can start to diminish by a rough figure of 32 percent, this sort of fat which also can be known as adipose fat, tends to be brown in colour and is something really that you need to get rid of in order to become healthier.

In order to help yourself more from adding to this particular problem make sure that you eat unrefined carbohydrates, and eat foods that have a low glycaemic rating these foods tend to be broken down rather more slowly than their counterparts.

Examples of low glycaemic foods are wholemeal bread I would suggest using bread that is very high in fibre go for whole weeks, the problem with white bread is that it can be full of sugar because it is made with a different type of flour. Things like broccoli, peppers, peas, all good examples of low glycaemic foods the more you can eat of these the better, in research that was done at Tufts University they did some tests on participants.

And put them on a fibre rich carbohydrate diet which is a lot better than a really high carbohydrate diet, they ate things like wholegrain breakfast cereals, brown rice, wholemeal pitta bread and ate plenty of fruit and vegetables.

Those who ate the low glycaemic high carbohydrate foods but were high in fibre, had a letter stomach than their counterparts whom were eating the high glycaemic carbohydrate foods. It was found that the women who ate the lower glycaemic foods also reduced their overall body mass index.

What does drinking beer do well surprisingly enough a study of Czechoslovakian men, who drank lots of beer were found to have no increase in there abdomen size despite the fact that they were drinking a lot of beer.

So it seems that there is something to eating low glycaemic foods interestingly enough I must say that, from my own actual experiences I did try myself switching to a low glycaemic diet and it didn’t work for me so there must be something in it.

This has now given me validation that it does actually work the only other things to draw from this are, make sure that you keep your dairy products in check and use low-fat substitutes where you can, just recently I have started myself trying cottage cheese.

I have never tried it before but I must say I quite enjoy it at one time it was something that would never even consider eating but I suppose overtime what tends to happen with your dietary habits is that you tend to stick to what you know instead of eating other foods.

An example of this is from my own experience is I never used to eat, sweet potatoes even though I have not been eating them just recently when I was I really enjoyed eating them.

There are so many food choices around these days but the general overall problem is that we get so used to going to supermarkets and buying prepacked frozen foods that it becomes habitable shopping, how often do you actually tend to think about what foods you are actually buying.

Do you actually plan what you’re going to buy or do you just remember from memory, see the general overall way of doing this kind of shopping I tend to think is you’re more less shopping on autopilot. And it could be quite easily tempting to buy things that you don’t need, offers like buy one get one free very tempting.

Sometimes we don’t tend to realise that the primitive part of our brains which is all to do with survival works in reverse logic sometimes and makes us do things which we should necessarily be doing.

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20 Highest Sugar Content Foods In America

July 22, 2008 By Mark

It goes without saying that more so than ever before with we have more sugar in our food and that trend seems to be growing, whilst surfing the Internet this morning and doing some research, Sugar I came across a snippet of information on their website, which caught my eye so thought it will be quite interesting for people to see American’s especially exactly how much sugar is in some of the food that they can tend to eat.

Now I dare say that we are probably not far behind when it comes to things of this nature because our obesity levels and cases of diabetes are increasing in this country as well.

So here is the list of the highest sugar content foods in America.

1. The first one goes to Baskin Robbins large York, this has content wise get ready for this 281 grams of sugar and 2210 of calories when you think about the amount of sugar that is in this particular product and calories, it’s plain to see why we do have problems with our weight.

2. Number two goes to Uno Chicago’s deep dish sundae this has 272 grams of sugar and a whopping 2800 calories. That’s almost the amount of calories a person needs in a day from one particular product.

3. And at number three we have Baskin large Robbins fudge brownie which has a sugar content of 233 grams of sugar and 1900 calories.

4. Number four we have Sonic Route 44 Cherry slush, which has 170 grams of sugar and 640 calories, still no lean lightweight by any means.

5. Starbucks Venti strawberries topped with whipped cream has 120 grams of sugar, and 750 calories.

6. Bob Evans, stacked and stuffed banana hotcakes contains 102 grams of sugar and 1200 calories total.

7. Au Bons Pains bluberry yoghurt which contains 75 grams of sugar and 440 calories.

8. Pei Wei’s orange peel beef has 66 grams of sugar and calories of 1320.

9. Uno Chicago baby back ribs contains 62 grams of sugar, 860 calories.

10. Oscar mayer maxed, contains 61 grams of sugar, and 680 calories.

11. Panera’s sweet rolls, contain 61 grams of sugar and 590 calories.

12. Sunkist orange this contains 52 grams of sugar and 190 calories.

13. Dunkin Donut’s raisin cookie contains 51 grams of sugar and 480 calories.

14. Panera’s muffin contains 47 grams of sugar and 530 calories

15. Boston ‘s markets cinnamon apples contains contains 42 grams of sugar and 210 calories.

16. Subways sweet onion chicken contains 38 grams of sugar and 740 calories

17. Uno Chicago’s grill spinach contains 30 grams of sugar and 720 calories.

18. Bob Evans vegetable stirfry contains 31 grams of sugar and 505 calories.

19. Kentucky fried chicken’s teriyaki wings contains 30 grams of sugar and 480 calories.

20. Quaker natural granola contains 30 grams of sugar and 420 calories.

When you actually sit back and look at this list you will probably notice that a lot of things that are listed here are from takeout food places some some aren’t, the whole problem is that when you’re eating out you don’t really know how much sugar and/or calories that you are eating.

It is very rare these days to see on a menu how much something contains as regards sugar and calorie content as a nation and nations our eating habits have changed over the years, it is very rare these days for people to sit at a table and eat a lunch together as a family when I was younger myself we used to do this regularly but most people these days eat their dinner in front of the television.

Due to the fact of the abundance of food that is around us is it no wonder that more takeout restaurants are popping up all over the place and quite clearly there is a need for it, otherwise the food industry would not be the multi-million pound industry it is to day, but it’s plain to see that it is costing our health as well obesity and diabetes are becoming worldwide problem’s these days and is it any wonder when you look at list’s like this that it is occurring. People are just not very well educated when it comes to eating food that I’m afraid is the bottom line in all of this.

If you look at the top of the list some of these particular items contain more than person needs to eat in one day, it really is quite my opening when you read it, to what you can be eating and not even realising it. As far as calories and sugar are concerned.

Article source information from men’s health

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