Why diets don't work for most peopleWritten by Michelle May M.D.
If you are like most people, losing weight is at top of your New Year’s resolutions. But if you are like most people, you have a hard time sticking to a diet. We have all been bombarded with information about eating right and exercising so you already know fundamental principle of weight loss: number of calories you eat must be less than number of calories you burn. But despite all of information available on countless ways to accomplish this, you and millions of others still battle your weight. The diet “experts” may recommend counting calories, exchanges, points, grams, or ounces. The diet may require you to eat pre-packaged food or meal replacements. There may be strict meal plans or complicated food regimens to follow. Some methods even eliminate entire food groups—or solid food all together. Diets often tell you that there are forbidden foods or magical food combinations, and they often impose food rules that most people do not, cannot, or should not follow for very long. And of course, rules are always changing! Accurate statistics are very hard to come by but it is widely quoted that 90-95% of dieters regain their lost weight. Whatever true numbers, if dieting was truly effective, your problem would have been solved with first one! Lets look at why diets aren’t answer for most people. Your Body is Programmed to Survive While it seems that diets often backfire, this is simply result of your body adapting to being under-fueled. Your body has primitive, complex survival mechanisms that help keep you alive during limited periods of starvation. However, now that food is abundant and readily available, most modern “famines” are result of self-imposed diets. Your body just doesn’t realize that you are doing this on purpose! Initially you lose water and fat. However, since muscle burns calories, some of your muscle mass may be given up to lower your metabolism and “save you” from starvation. And though it seems unfair, as you lose weight, your lighter body may not need as many calories. As a result, you burn fewer calories each day and your weight loss slows down. This is frustrating “plateau” that dieters so often experience. If you return to your previous eating habits when diet is over, your body quickly replaces its fat stores. But unless you are actively exercising, you will not regain majority of muscle tissue you lost during diet. Ultimately, this causes you to have a lower metabolic rate and a higher body fat percentage than before diet. This explains irony that most people are less healthy than before they tried to lose weight by going on a diet!
| | Home Air Purifiers And AllergiesWritten by Duane Johnson
A healthy home environment means that contaminants that are harmful to your health are removed or neutralized as much as possible. For allergy sufferers, it is vital to try to limit free distribution of air-borne allergens that can trigger allergic symptoms. That includes airborne contaminants such as: Dust, pollen, allergens Pet dander, dust mites Harmful bacteria, viruses Pet odor removal: dog, cat, etc. Mold / mildew removal Cigar / cigarette smoke Home air purifiers help rid air of these particles that can cause allergic reactions and even trigger asthma attacks. If you can't change way that your body treats what it perceives as a threat by allergic reaction, then you can work on changing environment that you live in so that your body doesn't sense presence of these allergy causing compounds. Most home air purifiers are made to specifically clean and scrub air within a predefined area or size of room. There is no need to buy a home air purifier that is made for large spaces when you only need it for one small room. Likewise, under buying for area you need to have clean air is a waste of money and will not achieve results that you want.
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