Summer Dieting Tips from WeightLossBuddy.comWritten by Joey Dweck
Cut Calories, Bring Out BikiniSummer’s almost here and you want to get into swim of things, but B word – bikini – has been blindsided once again by that C word – calories. What can you do to get in shape at last minute? Adam Shafran, co-author of new book “You Can’t Lose Weight Alone The Partner Power Weight Loss Program,” says it’s never too late to start losing weight. Aside from diet and exercise, Shafran says it is important to have a partner or buddy who can be there for you through your thick and thin days and nights. “Find someone – a friend, a partner, a husband, who you can be accountable to,” he says. “Someone you can walk with, someone who won’t let you down, someone who will be there to exercise with you and get you to exercise and someone who will weigh in with you every week.” Successful weight loss, he says, doesn’t mean that you have to deprive yourself; it simply means that you have to watch yourself. Shafran, a Georgia chiropractor who along with co-author Lee Kantor owns a personal fitness center, offers these non-fattening bite-size bits of advice for fitting into that itsy-bitsy bikini: Instead of drinking calories, eat them. Cut out sugar-based drinks like soda and juices and substitute water or dilute them with a shot of seltzer. Sodas have 200 to 400 calories, and Shafran says that if you can reduce your weekly calories by 3,500, you can lose a pound of fat. If you add exercise, it will be easy to meet 3,500 goal because even if you only walk for 30 minutes a day, you burn about 300 calories or 2,100 per week. Add to that 1,400 to 2,800 you’ll save by drinking water, and you’re on your way to slimness. Replace calorically dense foods with ones that aren’t dense. Those breakfast bars may taste great and they may only be 200 calories, but you’re hungry again almost before you eat last bite. Salads, fruits and soups are better choices because they fill you up. And make your salad a meal, not a snack. Add hearts of palm, walnuts, chickpeas, olives, tuna, corn, peas and even shredded cheese to lettuce and tomatoes so it’s tasty and healthy. Juices are OK, but they won’t give you fiber to make you feel filled. “They won’t help you cut calories,” he says.
| | Our Health Report CardWritten by Dave Saunders
Today in United States we spend over one and a half trillion dollars a year on health care. That represents highest spending per person in world. With that entire investment one would think that Americans are healthiest people in world. And yet a recent report from World Health Organization ranked United States 37th in overall health. This certainly does not earn United States an “A.” If you factor in spending, it would even seem like we get an “F” in our state of health.So with all this talk about health, question is what is health? The World Health Organization has defined an internationally recognized definition of health. According to World Health Organization, “health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely absence of disease or infirmity.” So let’s break this down. Physical well-being is what body lives through, enjoys and desires, as well as agreement with which body interacts with environment. Mental well-being is what a person thinks and processes carried out by brain. This also includes a spiritual balance for a state of mental harmony.
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