Burn Fat Over Forty

If you are over forty years old and want to burn fat, you probably think you need to do more fat burning cardio workouts. However, the shocking truth is that you need to exercise less and do more intense workouts.

In this article, you’re going to discover the truth about burning fat over the age of 40. You’ll find out it’s a lot more important to do quality, not quantity, when it comes to your exercise sessions. So let’s get started by looking at why cardio fails for fat loss.

In a research study published in the prestigious journal, Obesity, researchers put men and women on an extreme cardio workout program. Each subject had to do one hour of cardio six days per week for one year. That’s a total of 300 hours of cardio.

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Banning Smoking Is Good For You?

The Hong Kong Government has pushed a tobacco control in recent years, following the introduction of the smoking ban in 2007; the Government increases the budget of tobacco tax, aimed to encourage the public to reduce smoking and to create a healthy city.

On 1st July 2007, the Hong Kong Government had introduce a revised “smoking (Public health) ordinance”, and implemented the smoking ban into the indoor restaurants, indoor workplaces, indoor public places and some outdoor places and also given 2-years grace period to the 6 entertainments business trades including bars, nightclubs, bath and massage houses, along with mahjong and sauna parlors to adapt to the impact of the new law.

Effective from tomorrow, July 1, 2009, the indoor smoking ban will be implemented into those 6 entertainments after the 2-years grace period.

However, it was against by the council and the entertainments industry. Since the impact of financial meltdown and human swine flu, the implementation of indoor smoking ban will be further striking the weak consumption.

The representatives stated that although they had 2 years to prepare, the untimely coincidence of the deadline with the financial meltdown and human swine flu has lower their profits and meant many of them would go out of business.

So, here come to the issue…

1st issue:
Should the Government implement the indoor smoking ban into the entertainments venues?

2nd issue:
Under the situation of financial meltdown and human swine flu, should the Government postpone the implementation of indoor smoking ban, and even adopt a more flexible policy to allow them to set smoking rooms?

What is your opinion on this policy?

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The Banana Diet: Is It Really Work?

Imagine a diet where you could whatever want for lunch and dinner and lose weight without even hitting the gym. And it all only costs less than a few dollars a day. Isn’t it good news for those who are on dieting? No joke. It’s banana. Lately the new diet craze is the Japanese Banana diet, and it’s becoming so popular that there’s a shortage of bananas in Japan. Sound strange? We’ve learnt that bananas should be avoided when you are on diet, so how come bananas become considered a weight loss miracle now? According to an article in Time Magazine, the morning banana diet plan is simple: Eat a banana (or as many as you want) with room temperature water for breakfast and enjoy a normal lunch, afternoon tea and dinner before 8 p.m., you can eat whatever you want except desserts and get to sleep before midnight. It’s seemed the cheapest and easiest diet to stick with, but the question is does the banana diet actually work?

Well, my daughter did try this banana diet before, for improving her constipation problem. It seemed work for her but only for a short period, not lasting long. And then I did some researches on the Internet, there have been several discussions on if the Banana diet work or not. Some said that it worked well to them and they did lose some weight. However, some stated that there was nothing magical about with a banana and some might say that there is lack of clear calorie guidelines, plus instructions that include “exercise only if you want to” and “eat everything you want for lunch and dinner”. According to American Dietetic Association spokesperson Keri Gans, R.D., he stated that eating bananas for breakfast and anything at other meals will result in weight loss, but adding bananas to meals is good for our health.

These researches occurs to me is that this weight loss plan is not work for everyone, while it is healthy to eat bananas to replace the snacks and desserts. In addition, it is no doubt that bananas are an extremely healthy fruit that helps to improve our health and restores balance in our body in times of illness. So, besides taking it as a diet, why don’t we take bananas as a nutriment to our health? It might cause some miracle if you don’t regard it as a diet. Last but not least, I think diet plays an important role in weight loss but I don’t think anyone can lose weight without exercising. What do you think about this banana diet? Does it really work? Have you already tried it out?

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Joel Marion's Cheat Your Way Thin blueprint for success

Absolutely today is the last day that you will be able to get Joel Marion's Cheat Your Way Thin blueprint for success for less than half price.

If you’ve already heard enough about the program, go grab your copy risk-free right now. If not, let me just “talk” to you and be real with you for a minute.

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And you know what? Just before you did, just before you decided to leap in and go for it, you probably sat there and battled back and forth in your mind for quite some time.

And perhaps that’s exactly what you’re dealing with now while thinking about whether or not you should invest the money (and the TIME) in yet another diet program--AND I DON’T BLAME YOU.

If you’re like most people, you’ve been on more diets than you can count and NONE of them worked. But that’s the point! Dieting, calorie restrictive dieting as we’ve come to know it, can not, does not, and WILL NOT work.

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Getting to a Healthy Weight : Lifestyle Changes Part II

When you decide to make lifestyle changes to get a healthy weight and a good body looking, you need to change your thinking before start your lifestyle changing. Here are some certain things for you to change the way of thinking:

1. Don’t do comparison- Women want to achieve the most prefect bodies and in their attempt to look like their favorite film stars or skinny people, they end up wither getting depressed or unsatisfied with their bodies which lead to many complications. Honestly, thinness just not realize or natural for most of us. We are individual. Difference people have difference bone size, difference body shape, difference fat ratio. Body size isn’t as important as being healthy. Instead of comparing yourself to other people, look in the mirror to find your own standard of beauty. Ask yourself if there are any special characteristics of you. Go and ask yourself what do you love yourself!

2. Forget about dieting- Honestly, dieting doesn’t work over a long term. Apart from dieting, why don’t you try to get a healthy and balanced meal and change your lifestyle for a long term, especially for your health?

3. Look after your stomach- Pay attention to how hungry or how full you feel. You should think why you’re eating and how much you’re eating when you eat. You shouldn’t get too hungry or too full, otherwise you can’t start a healthy lifestyle. In addition, decide how many meals a day you should have to achieve the goal of healthy lifestyle.

4. Health improving, not dieting- Instead of deciding to go on a diet, you should better decide to improve your health. You are not only becoming more fit, but also lower your risk for serious illnesses.

From now on, love yourself, love your body. Do what you are! Instead of falling into depression, learn to feel good about yourself and take care of yourself. Think positive!

Are you ready to start changing your lifestyle now?

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Eat pizza and get lean??

About a month ago my friend and fat loss nutrition guru Joel Marion released a program that literally turned the world of fat loss nutrition upside down.

You may have heard of it - it’s called “Cheat Your Way Thin” and it’s a system that scientifically teaches you how to use your favourite foods (I’m talking pizza, ice cream, pancakes, burgers - you name it) to strategically accelerate fat loss by overriding your body’s starvation protection mechanisms.

That’s correct, you can actually lose fast FASTER by CHEATING (when done strategically).

And while that may initially sound like a pretty crazy claim, let me assure you, it’s ANYTHING but.

Simply put, the guy has done his homework. I'm talking 6 years and 308 research papers on the regulation of human body weight and metabolism worth of homework--and from THAT (along with years of working with “real life” clients to perfect the approach) Joel developed the complete Cheat Your Way Thin system.

Now, when Joel first released the full 7-component package (including manuals, audios, video, workbooks, and checklists) last month, he also ran a special 3-day promotion in which people were able to get the entire package at less than half price.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to thoroughly review the product until just a couple weeks ago (and you know that I’ll never recommend ANYTHING to you that I don’t truly believe in).

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Getting to a Healthy Weight: Lifestyle Changes Part I

Do you truly want to be healthy? Are you willing to do what is necessary to become healthy? Or would you just wait until you develop cancer, heart diseases and other illnesses?
Before you want to achieve a healthy body weight, the first and the most important thing you should do is to have a change. If you want health, live long healthy years and a good body shape, you need to do what is necessary to become healthy. Yes, it means a change, a major change to your current lifestyle.
Our lifestyles today are very busy. We have family, work, school, leisure to fit into a limited time. We need to be healthy to cope with the demands of daily life. But what does it mean to have a healthy lifestyle? A healthy lifestyle provide plenty energy for our bodies, help us feel good and stay at a healthy weight. And it lowers the risk for serious health problems.
To have a healthy lifestyle, we need to:

1. Eat healthy foods-This consists of plenty of fruit and vegetables, enough carbohydrates for our energy expenditure, low intake of fats, sugars and salt. Also, it is important for us to eat some source of protein, even the vegetarians or not. It is because protein is responsible for the rebuilding of muscle tissue. If you eat meat, choose lean meats or white meat such as fish. For the vegetarians, choose soya or milk. Plenty of wholegrain foods high in fiber are a must especially for breakfast and a great start of the day. Water is a must requirement. Roughly drink about 8 glasses water regularly throughout the day. Do always read the labels of foods as they are important guidelines and avoid processed foods as they contain many additives, sugars and salts. Besides, you can still have dessert and treats now and then, the goal is moderation.

2. Get exercises-Doing regular exercises help improving your health and prevent serious illness. Instead of visiting the gym or running marathons, you can go walking or cycling, take up a hobby or sport that keeps you active, instead of lift take the stairs and so on.

3. Relax-Nowadays, there are many people suffer from stress. Some people find that eating is their way of managing stress. If you have a lot of stress in your life, it might affect you to make a healthy change to your lifestyle. Just do what you want, eat what you want (but surely those food should be healthy), go where you want when you feel stress. And go for a walk and listen to some music.

4. Get enough sleep-Many of us forget the body needs time to recuperate. We should all getting 8 hours sleep a night and preferably getting to bed before midnight. Without sufficient rest, we are not only becoming tired, motiveless and stressed, but also gaining more weight too.

5. Non smoking-Weight gain is a big issue for many people who want to quit smoking. We might notice that smokers seem to be thinner than non-smokers. However isn’t it a more serious health risk to keep smoking than to gain a few extra pounds when quit smoking? Smoking seems to be more harmful to our life than weight gaining.

6. Drink less alcohol-As we all know that alcohol can make us happy and feel relaxing. Especially dinking red wine could help blood circulation, and stronger our cardiopulmonary function. But if we over drink alcohol, it might affect our health and daily life. So the maximum is up to 2 drinks a day for men, 1 drink a day for women.

To achieve a healthy body weight, you should first become more active and improving your living and eating habits. Then start changing your sick lifestyle into a healthy lifestyle .

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13 Tips to increase your metabolism

There are many discussions on how to burn fat and lose weight fast. But before talking about losing weight, boosting the metabolism rate is the first thing we should concern. Having a higher or faster metabolism rate has several advantages. Not only enables us to burn fat and lose weight fast with less amount of activity, but also allow our body process food much faster which prevents our body from having unwanted fats during workouts. In addition, metabolism rate allow body produces and consumes energy and calories to support life.
However, there are many factors that affect the metabolism such as age, gender, weight, hormonal changes, diet, genetics and the daily physical activities. Therefore, here is a list helping to increase the metabolism rate and burn fat fast.

1. Build up lean body mass-Metabolism decreases with our age. To improve the metabolism, exercising is one way to offset this problem. Lean muscle burns calories and the more we have the more calories we burn, even while resting. The amount of muscle we have is a strong determinant to the ability to burn calories and fat. Doing cardio exercises can boost our metabolism rate, and doing the resistance or weight training can help building muscle. Building muscle is one of the key ingredients in losing fats and it is more effective than any weight loss or diet plan. Besides doing the cardio exercises, you might first take some simple tasks as walking or going up and down stairs to burn off calories.

2. Eat breakfast daily-Many people do not eat breakfast. Most of them think that it might help losing weight if they consume as less meals as possible a day. However, they don’t realize that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast boost our metabolism rate and provides energy for the day. Alternately, the metabolism decreases if we don’t eat breakfast or eat later in the day. Haven’t you notices that those people who eat breakfasts are thinner than those don’t?

3. Don’t skip meals-Skipping meals is a wrong concept to most people who want to lose weight. What they realize that is skipping meals can take in less fat and weight. However, skipping meals not only slower the metabolism and lead to over eating, but it also causes gaining more fat when you have the next meal.

4. Have a well planning meal-It is much easy to lose weight if you have a daily or weekly meal plan. You may plan what, when, where, and serving size daily. Also, you might write down what you have eaten for every meal, and check whether it is as healthy as possible.

5. Have smaller portion meals-Consume 4 to 6 meals a day every 2 to 4 hours can increase our metabolism rate. It also gives body steady supply of energy and prevent over eating. You should better take in healthy meals rather than junk food.

6. Drink more water-Water is not only a lubricant of the body, it also flushes out of the body and keeps the kidneys operating at maximum efficiency. Lack of water causes the operation of body’s functions to decrease and lower the metabolism rate. We should drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.

7. Sleep well-Getting a good night’s sleep can boost the body operation and metabolism. According to some researches, it stated that people who do not get enough sleep tend to gain more weight. In addition, body use sleep to heal and muscles are regenerated.

8. Sugar is bad-Taking too much sugar might overload the body and causes many serious health problems such as obesity and diabetes. Sugar might transform into fat and stick onto our body if it is excess. The human body cannot deal with a large amount of refined sugar include in their meals.

9. Spicy food-Spicy food is a good friend to boost the metabolism rate and help losing weight because of its ingredients. Therefore, eating some spicy food is good for our body.

10. Green tea is good-As we all know that Japanese have a healthier body weight and live. Drinking green tea is one of the keys. Both green tea and coffee contain caffeine, however green tea can boost metabolism within any side effects to the body, and it can prevent the oxidation to skin.

11. Take higher energy foods including whole grain, beans, fruits, and vegetables-Taking these as our meals can provide more balanced energy to our body and assist us on losing weight. Also, it can improve the function of digestion.

12. Increase daily activities-Increase the daily activities not only resulting in higher level of metabolism rate, but also tend to burn more calories.

13. Reduce fat consumption-Increasing metabolism and losing fat is a simple equation. The question is that you must always burn more fat than your intake, so let’s start by reducing fatty and oily food. And reduce taking in sugar or over intake of carbohydrates.

These 13 tips seems very simple and easy to stick to, I guarantee you will see results in 3 weeks if you follow them faithfully. By doing the above, it might improve your metabolism rate. Don’t stress over each little thing but if you eat right and exercise, you should see a decrease in body fat. Most importantly, is having a healthier lifestyle and a much more energetic and happy you. Can't you?

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Why pay attention to your body weight?

We all know that being obesity is no good for our appearance. It is even worse for our body’s internal systems and increase the risk for several diseases. From my last post, you have already found out your body mass index (BMI) which is based on your height and weight. Calculating the BMI to know whether your weight puts you at risk or you are at a healthy weight. Once again, do remember that elevated BMI alone is not an adequate measurement of your risk for diseases. According to the BMI, if your BMI is between 25 and 30, you are considered overweight. But you will be considered obese if your BMI is 30 or even greater. People who are obese have a much higher risk for many major diseases, such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes and more.

The followings are the diseases associated with obesity:

Reduce immune defenses – Excess weight may reduce immune defenses.

Heart Disease – Obesity increase the risk for Heart disease because increase the pressure in the body increase the pressure along the blood vessel walls. This pressure and added weight erode the blood vessel walls and make obese people to have heart attack.

High Blood Pressure (hypertension) - Overweight people have risk for gallbladder disease 2-3 times greater than the healthy weight people.

Type II Diabetes – The body overworks with breaking down the sugars using natural insulin. Because the weight is a great factor associated with type II diabetes, therefore obese people have greater risk for diabetes.

Gallbladder disease (gallstones) – Overweight people have risk for gallbladder disease 2-3 times greater than the healthy weight people.

Cancer – For example, breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer. Excess body fat increases the cancer risk.

Metal Health - obesity is more likely to lead to problems with depression and other metal diseases. Some Doctors believed that obese people are more likely to develop chronic depression.

Low Fertility – Many Doctors have stated that higher BMI leads to a greater incidence of reproductive cancers, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and other conditions that contribute to infertility. In addition, there is a link between infertile, obese women is some sort of reversible endocrine problem, such as a thyroid imbalance.

Other Health Problems from Obesity – For example, low IQ, eating disorders, and early puberty.

From the above, can you realize how serious problem is to obesity? If you have excess fat, let’s take action to control your body weight and get a healthy body weight to stay away from those diseases.

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A Thin Body Weight = A Healthy Body Weight?

Being overweight is becoming significant phenomenon in children in the Western world. According to the research, this problem also occurs in Eastern World. It states that today’s youth may not enjoy a like span that is as long as what their parents will enjoy. There are several diseases such as diabetes, health complications, occurred most common in older people, is now affecting children at an alarming rate. Therefore, it is important to help overweight youth reach and maintain a healthy body weight. To achieve it, promoting exercise and healthy eating are the best way to reverse this trend.

It is no doubt that “A healthy body weight” is essential for a good health. Not only to decrease the risks for many serious diseases, but also to provide more energy for you to enjoy a healthier and fuller life. A healthy weight is a weight at which you will feel fit and flexible; fall healthy and energetic; and be at lower risk for weight-related health problems. It relieves stress on the back and joints, making movement easier.

However, you might notice that a healthy weight should not be confused with a thin weight. Be too thin or constantly trying to get thin with one diet after another is not healthy, even physically or emotionally.

BMI (Body Mass Index) is used to measure and classify overweight and obesity. Tall people tend to weight more due to mass associated with longer bones and surroundings tissue. This ratio factor an individual’s height into the equation. The equation is defined as follows:

The recommended BMI Chart: weight(kg)/(Height(m) x Height(m))

Underweight BMI less than= 18.5
Ideal BMI= 18.5-25
Overweight BMI= 25-30
Obese - should lose weight BMI= 30-40
Very obese - lose weight now BMI greater than= 40

Therefore, the healthy range is considered to be between a BMI of 18.5 and 24.9.
But, do remember that BMI does not give accurate results for athletes because it does not make any allowances for the body’s muscular development. Elderly people and growing children should also avoid using BMI as a method of calculating body fat. Therefore, do remember that BMI does not calculate body fat.

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What is a Healthy body weight?

Although people spend billions of dollars each year on weight loss diets, there are still millions people overweighting. The portion of overweight rate is increasing. In United States, over 60% of adults are considered overweight. Although this problem is more popular in the Western half of the world, the East has been seen their own increase in obesity statistics over the past 10 years. The overweight can lead to serious health complications, such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke and reproductive problem. As for these and many more reasons, it is important to maintain a healthy body weight.

A healthy body weight is not defined as how much you weight in scales but is determined by height, age, body build and gender. However, a body with high muscle to fat ratio will look slimmer than the one with same weight but has a much higher body fat percentage. This is because fat is less dense and compact than muscle and deposits itself unevenly around the hips, thighs and waist etc.

Therefore your body weight is best defined by your muscle to fat ratio or body fat percentage. The higher your muscle to fat ratio, the better, as this decreases your overall body fat percentage, increases your metabolism and makes your body more efficient at burning fat.

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