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2/16/2017

This One Move Will Work Your Chest, Arms, and Abs Nicely

Check out Women's Health's FitGIF Friday every week for fun and challenging new moves to make your sweat sesh really count. Here's this week's exercise:

Floor chest press feet elevated: Who knew lying down could be such a workout? Here, your chest and arms get all the benefits of a traditional chest press, plus the added core work that comes from elevating your feet. And by building muscle under your breasts you can make them appear perkier...just don't expect a new cup size.

if you want to do this workout in a diffrent way then you can do it and experiment with it.


10/11/2012

Study Finds Mid-Life Women Lose Weight by Reading Food Labels

Mid-life for many women is a constant struggle to salvage what is left of a waistline that seems to be gradually morphing into a shapeless belly. Diet and exercise are the standard advice. But what really works? One recent study indicates that exercising alone will not do the trick but keeping a sharp eye on food labels is effective for weight loss.

The study, published in the Journal of Consumer Affairs, concludes that people who make it a habit to read food labels and to exercise lose more weight than those who merely exercise. Even more interesting is that those who only read food labels and are sedentary lose more than those who exercise but ignore the food labels.

Not surprisingly, the study found that women between the ages of 37 and 50 years are more likely to read food labels than their male counterparts and are therefore more likely to lose weight.

The study`s author, Bidisha Mandal, Ph.D., an assistant professor at the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University, looked at four years` worth of data drawn from a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth which had 12,000 original participants born from 1957 to 1964. Over fifty percent of the study`s participants were trying to lose weight and of these less than fifty percent were reading food labels on their first time purchase of a product.

Americans have been reading food labels since 1994 when the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act was passed requiring food manufactures to disclose nutrient and ingredient information on their packages. Recently states and the federal government have extended the disclosure requirements to chain restaurants and vending machines.

What should you be looking for when you are reading the small print on food labels? Here are six simple tips to reading a food label for weight loss:

1. Claims on the front, back, and sides of the box, except for the small print of the nutrition facts panel and the ingredient list, are advertising. Don`t rely on those claims.

2. Remember that the first ingredient listed on the label is the largest by weight. If the first or second ingredient is sugar, the product is mostly sugar and it`s best to pass on it. Sugar goes by many names, so keep an eye out for maltose, sucrose, dextrose and evaporated cane juice, just to name a few.

3. Check the ingredient list for anything that says "hydrogenated" or "partially hydrogenated." This indicates the presence of trans fats. Even if the nutrition fact panel or the box claims "Zero Trans Fat," the product can contain up to one half gram and still make the claim of no trans fats. Avoid any product with those unhealthy fats in the small print ingredient list.

4. Check the ingredient list for "high fructose corn syrup," and avoid any products containing it.

5. If the ingredient list is really, really long with words you don`t know, pass on that product. In general, the fewer the ingredients, the better the product is for you.

6. For breads, cereals and crackers, the first ingredient better say whole grain or whole wheat, not refined or enriched wheat or flour, and there should be at least 2 grams of fiber for each serving of 100 calories.

Source material:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100908122040.htm
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6606.2010.01181.x/a...
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Reading+food+labels+better+weight+...

1/14/2012

How to Lose weight if you are a diabetic?

Type 2 diabetes and being overwieght are very closely linked to one another.

To cut the medical jibberish, being overwight makes your body 'resistant' to insulin.To keep or get to your ideal weight you need to use more insulin than required for a normal weight person. Insulin shortage is the main cause of diabetes, this becomes a real problem; you become even more short of insulin. So if you have an ideal weight for your height and age diabetes is not a big problem, but if you are overweight the body makes it more difficult to lose weight.

You do not have to ‘starve' yourself to Lose Weight. If you can reduce your calorie intake by 250-500 calories a day you would lose 1-2 pounds a week.

You can try to lose weight by staying healthy and eating sensibly. Or you can try some natural ingredient which can help your diabetic body.

For centuries naturally foudn ingredients have been used by people to gain, lose or to maintain their ideal weight. Caffeine, Piperine (Black pepper Extract) and Niacin are some naturally found ingredients which help to lose excessive body fat.

But trying to take them individually does not really contain enough extract to be sufficient enough to lose a few pounds a week. Capsiplex is a supplement which was previoulsy on available in Uk and that too by the National Health Service or NHS. It is clinically proven, proprietary thermogenic Capsiplex helps increase metabolism before, during and after exercise, helping burn up to 278 more calories cumulatively everyday.

Capsicum Extract

Capsicum Extract reduces appetite, increases metabolism, burns calories, reduces body mass and reduces body fat while at the same time not contradicting with the diabetes medicines you take.

According to the facts on Capsiplex's website. Capsiplex burn the same amount of enery, which is burned during 30 minutes of swimming or and hour of jogging.

On its website it also mentions that the Weight Loss supplement is also used by Brad Pitt, something which i cannot verify for myself :)