Monday, March 23, 2009

Diet.. Quickest Way To Lose Weight

Diet, in relation to food, might mean:

  • Diet (nutrition), the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group.
  • Dieting, the deliberate selection of food to control body weight or nutrient intake.
  • Diet food, foods that aid in dieting
  • Cuisine, the diet of a particular culture

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Dieting,Types of dieting

Dieting is the practice of ingesting food in a regulated fashion to achieve or maintain a controlled weight. In most cases the goal is weight loss in those who are overweight or obese, but some athletes aspire to gain weight (usually in the form of muscle) and diets can also be used to maintain a stable body weight.

Diets to promote weight loss are generally divided into four categories: low-fat, low-carbohydrate, low-calorie, and very low calorie. A meta-analysis of six randomized controlled trials found no difference between the main diet types (low calorie, low carbohydrate, and low fat), with a 2–4 kilogram weight loss in all studies. At two years all diet types cause equal weight loss irrespective of the macronutrients emphasized.


There are several kinds of diets:

  • Weight-loss diets restrict the intake of specific foods, or food in general, to reduce body weight. What works to reduce body weight for one person will not necessarily work for another, due to metabolic differences and lifestyle factors. Also, for a variety of reasons, most people find it difficult to maintain significant weight loss over time. Among individuals that have lost 10% or more of body weight, only 20% are able to maintain that weight loss for a full year.
  • Athletes participating in professional sports may sometimes undertake weight-gain diets to increase their body mass and gain advantage in their field.
  • Individuals who are underweight, such as those recovering from anorexia nervosa or starvation, may adopt weight-gain diets which, unlike those of athletes, have the goal of restoring normal levels of body fat, muscle, and stores of essential nutrients.
  • Actors, and people participating in similar activities, may pursue weight loss or gain in order to better portray a particular role.

Friday, March 20, 2009

The Quickest Way to Lose Weight in 3 Weeks By Strike Sparker

The quickest way to lose weight may not always be the most obvious way in the fray. Sure you can lose weight in a number of ways. You could go on one of those fad diets that you keep hearing about celebrities using to drop weight. The ones where you get to eat no fats and only nibble on salads all day long. Or one where you eliminate all carbohydrates from your food and just eat some proteins. Or you could even go on a "no cooking" diet where you have to eat all the vegetables and fruits fresh and raw.

If all these seasonal diets are going to help you at all, they will not do it in this lifetime. They are just going to help you lose some weight for the time that you are on the diet and you will gain all that weight and more back on as soon as you eat regular food again.

The quickest way to lose weight may not be the healthiest way to lose weight. The quickest way to lose weight may cause your body to act like a "Yo-Yo" with it putting on and dropping pounds as a matter of routine. This is not, as you can imagine, exactly the healthiest thing for your body. Sure you will drop pounds fast, but it will not be because you are burning fat. It will be because you are losing water from the body. And it will cause you to lose muscle tone as well. I for one do not believe that you should opt to lose weight in this haphazard manner.

It is far better to go about your weight loss in a more organized manner. Don't expect to work miracles instantly. It took some time for you to get to your current weight and it will take you some time to come down to your ideal weight. Don't get distracted by gadgets and products that offer to give you instant weight loss. You will be handing away your money to anyone who has a decent sales pitch. There are enough people out there who will have no qualms doing just that, so do your home work before you make a purchase. Remember that to lose weight you need to have a plan.

Here is a three week plan that works for me. Try it out for yourself and see if it makes any difference to you. In the first week monitor what your calorie intake and calorie burning is. Write it all down. In the second week decrease your calorie intake and increase your calorie burning causing a difference of 500 calories per day. In the third week make adjustments to your schedule so that you can burn extra calories and lose more weight faster.

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Quickest Way to Lose Weight - What is the Quickest Way? By James Eccles

I used to weigh over 310 pounds and if I wouldn't have found this secret, I'd probably still be that weight. The secret is it is the SPEED of your metabolism that dictates how long it takes you to lose weight, so quite simply the quickest way to lose weight is speed up your metabolism.

Now we have established that to speed up your metabolism is the quickest way, How do we do that?

Here are some do or die guidelines to help you lose weight:

  • Firstly, Do not skip meals, thinking this is a good way to lose fat? Forget it! Doing that would slow down your metabolism, which will not help you burn fat, what will help you burn fat however is to eat light meals little and often, perhaps 5 or six lighter meals a day, this would help you out.
  • Secondly, cut down on levels of saturated fats in your food, less than 5 grams a day is a good ballpark figure, keep it below this, and the body will not have larger chunks of fat to contend with, and will burn through standard carbohydrates with ease.
  • Thirdly, drink plenty of water and fluids, this is because there is a positive correlation between the amount of water running through your body, and the amount of fat that get deposited as a result of there not being enough water, so get drinking!

These three guidelines are absolutely essential to your goal, and is undoubtedly the quickest way to lose weight.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Fat

A molecule of fat consists of several fatty acids (containing long chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms), bonded to a glycerol. They are typically found astriglycerides (three fatty acids attached to one glycerol backbone). Fats may be classified as saturated or unsaturated. Saturated fats have all of the carbon atoms in their fatty acid chains bonded to hydrogen atoms, whereas unsaturated fats have some of these carbon atoms double-bonded, so their molecules have relatively few hydrogen atoms. Unsaturated fats may be further classified as monounsaturated (one double-bond) or polyunsaturated (many double-bonds). Trans fats are a type of unsaturated fat with trans-isomer fatty acid, typically created in an industrial process called (partial) hydrogenation.

Many studies have shown that unsaturated fats, particularly monounsaturated fats, are best in the human diet. Saturated fats, typically from animal sources, are next, while trans fats are to be avoided. Saturated and trans fats are typically solid at room temperature (such as butter or lard), while unsaturated fats are typically liquids (such as olive oil or flaxseed oil). Trans fats are very rare in nature, but have properties useful in the food processing industry.[citation needed]


Essential fatty acids

Most fatty acids are non-essential, meaning the body can produce them as needed. However, in humans at least two fatty acids are essential and must be included in the diet. An appropriate balance of essential fatty acids—omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids—is important for health. Both of these "omega" long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids are substrates for a class of eicosanoids known as prostaglandins, which have roles throughout the human body. They are hormones, in some respects. The omega-3 eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), which can be made in the human body from the omega-3 essential fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid (LNA), or taken in through marine food sources, serves as a building block for series 3 prostaglandins (e.g. weakly inflammatory PGE3). The omega-6 dihomo-gamma-linolenic acid (DGLA) serves as a building block for series 1 prostaglandins (e.g. anti-inflammatory PGE1), whereas arachidonic acid (AA) serves as a building block for series 2 prostaglandins (e.g. pro-inflammatory PGE 2). Both DGLA and AA can be made from the omega-6 linoleic acid (LA) in the human body, or can be taken in directly through food. An appropriately balanced intake of omega-3 and omega-6 partly determines the relative production of different prostaglandins: one reason a balance between omega-3 and omega-6 is important for cardiovascular health. In industrialized societies, people typically consume large amounts of processed vegetable oils, which have reduced amounts of the essential fatty acids along with too much of omega-6 fatty acids relative to omega-3 fatty acids.

The conversion rate of omega-6 DGLA to AA largely determines the production of the prostaglandins PGE1 and PGE2. Omega-3 EPA prevents AA from being released from membranes, thereby skewing prostaglandin balance away from pro-inflammatory PGE2 (made from AA) toward anti-inflammatory PGE1 (made from DGLA). Moreover, the conversion (desaturation) of DGLA to AA is controlled by the enzyme delta-5-desaturase, which in turn is controlled by hormones such as insulin (up-regulation) and glucagon (down-regulation). The amount and type of carbohydrates consumed, along with some types of amino acid, can influence processes involving insulin, glucagon, and other hormones; therefore the ratio of omega-3 versus omega-6 has wide effects on general health, and specific effects on immune function and inflammation, and mitosis (i.e. cell division).

Good sources of essential fatty acids include most vegetables, nuts, seeds, and marine oils,[2] Some of the best sources are fish, flax seed oils, soy beans, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and walnuts.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

EIGHT PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES.

1. WORK BACKWARDS

To solve some problems, you may need to undo the key actions in the problem. This strategy is called Work Backward.

Working backwards is a standard strategy that only seems to have restricted use. However, it’s a powerful tool when it can be used. In the kind of problems we will be using in this web-site, it will be most often of value when we are looking at games. It frequently turns out to be worth looking at what happens at the end of a game and then work backward to the beginning, in order to see what moves are best.

2. GUESS AND CHECK

Some problems cannot be solved directly. You need to use a strategy called Guess and Check.

Guess and check is one of the simplest strategies. Anyone can guess an answer. If they can also check that the guess fits the conditions of the problem, then they have mastered guess and check. This is a strategy that would certainly work on the Farmyard problem but it could take a lot of time and a lot of computation.

Guess and improve is slightly more sophisticated than guess and check. The idea is that you use your first incorrect guess to make an improved next guess. You can see it in action in the Farmyard problem. In relatively straightforward problems like that, it is often fairly easy to see how to improve the last guess. In some problems though, where there are more variables, it may not be clear at first which way to change the guessing.

3. LOOK FOR A PATTERN

In many ways looking for patterns is what mathematics is all about. We want to know how things are connected and how things work and this is made easier if we can find patterns. Patterns make things easier because they tell us how a group of objects acts in the same way. Once we see a pattern we have much more control over what we are doing.

4. DRAW A PICTURE

It is fairly clear that a picture has to be used in the strategy Draw a Picture. But the picture need not be too elaborate. It should only contain enough detail to solve the problem. Hence a rough circle with two marks is quite sufficient for chickens and a blob plus four marks will do for pigs. There is no need for elaborate drawings showing beak, feathers, curly tails, etc., in full colour. Children should be encouraged to use this strategy at some point because it helps children ‘see’ the problem and it can develop into quite a sophisticated strategy later.

5. MAKE A TABLE

There are a number of ways of using Make a Table. These range from tables of numbers to help solve problems like the Farmyard, to the sort of tables with ticks and crosses that are often used in logic problems. Tables can also be an efficient way of finding number patterns.

6. MAKE A LIST

Making Organised Lists and Tables are two aspects of working systematically. Most children start off recording their problem solving efforts in a very haphazard way. Often there is a little calculation or whatever in this corner, and another one over there, and another one just here. It helps children to bring a logical and systematic development to their mathematics if they begin to organize things systematically as they go. This even applies to their explorations.

When an Organised List is being used, it should be arranged in such a way that there is some natural order implicit in its construction. For example, shopping lists are generally not organised. They usually grow haphazardly as you think of each item. A little thought might make them organised. Putting all the meat together, all the vegetables together, and all the drinks together, could do this for you. Even more organisation could be forced by putting all the meat items in alphabetical order, and so on.

7. ACT IT OUT

Meaning that two strategies combine together because they are closely related.

Young children especially, enjoy using Act it Out. Children themselves take the role of things in the problem. In the FARMYARD problem, the children might take the role of the animals though it is unlikely that you would have 87 children in your class. But if there are not enough children you might be able to press gang the odd teddy or two.

There are pros and cons for this strategy. It is an effective strategy for demonstration purposes in front of the whole class. On the other hand, it can also be cumbersome when used by groups, especially if a largish number of students are involved. We have, however, found it a useful strategy when students have had trouble coming to grips with a problem.

The on-looking children may be more interested in acting it out because other children are involved. Sometimes, though, the children acting out the problem may get less out of the exercise than the children watching. This is because the participants are so engrossed in the mechanics of what they are doing that they don’t see through to the underlying mathematics. However, because these children are concentrating on what they are doing, they may in fact get more out of it and remember it longer than the others, so there are pros and cons here.

8. USING SYMMETRY

It helps us to reduce the difficulty level of a problem. Playing Noughts and crosses, for instance, you will have realized that there are three and not nine ways to put the first symbol down. This immediately reduces the number of possibilities for the game and makes it easier to analyze. This sort of argument comes up all the time and should be grabbed with glee when you see it.


Monday, March 16, 2009

How to keep fit the easy way and how to quit smoking.

Nowadays, with urbanization, economic development and changing lifestyles and diets, excess weight and obesity have become increasingly common in Asia. Today, there are plenty of weights reducing method out there. But how far does it works obviously hard to tell. For some cases it has been found that the period immediately following a diet can be a most frustrating time of trying to keep the lost weight off, in many cases all the weight and sometimes even more is gained back. Sedentary lifestyle, poor eating habits, eating out culture, weekend savor indulge culture had been become part of our lifestyle in the society. Other factors that have contributed to the epidemic of overweight include:

  • Highly processed foods
  • Lack of exercise
  • Stress environment
  • Drinking
  • The decline in smoking
  • The Health Consequences

Overweight encourages high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, and a variety of other diseases.

First step to keep fit are eat eating a variety of foods from the six food groups, and choose a diet low in fat. Drink more water or mineral water. Keep water in a bottle and bring at all times like go to work, school or during exercise. Then, drink water about eight times per day although you not thirsty. Don’t drink alcohol, carbonated water, high caffeine water and polluted water.

Before eat or drink, think carefully about what to eat or drink. Make sure that the food in good condition, healthy and will provide you good nutrition. You will not take food based on your appetite. Most important in your foods are the nutrition, not the taste or color of the foods. Eat a balance meal. Eat more vegetable, fruit and milk. take minimum amount of sugar, snack and sweet.

If your diet or not take a balance meals, please take a vitamin supplements for recovery your diet and keep health your body. Don’t save your money to buy supplements because money cannot buy health. Consume sugar and alcohol in moderation.

Doing exercise and sports at least three times per week. Focus your exercise and maintains. Choose suitable exercise for your own body ability. For better result, do exercise with your family or friends. It becomes easy and more fun. Alternate your workout routines throughout the course of the week to work different muscle groups. If you feel boring when doing exercise, taking up a new form of exercising or using think that keep you motivated like buy a new sports shoe or track suit. You will feel fresher and spirits to doing exercise because have a new sports shoe.

If you have extra money, you can register with health club membership; buy fitness equipment and a personal trainer. When you have fitness equipment at home, you can exercise every time at home as you like. You didn’t need to go out to find fitness equipment.

Nowadays, many people like to compare their body with other people. They was influenced with artist or actress and want to be like their. Don’t compare like that. Please became yourself and be grateful because your body still health.

Create your exercise schedule for motivate and discipline your exercise time. Try to follow the schedule. Lastly, get adequate amounts of your sleep. Your body needs rest after working one day.

Many people try to quit two or three times before they give up smoking for good. Nicotine is a very addictive drug. To quit smoking, pick a date to stop smoking. Before that day, get rid of all cigarettes and lighter everywhere you smoke. Do not allow anyone to smoke in your home.

Get support from your family, friends and coworkers. Studies have shown you will be more likely to quit if you have help. Let the people important to you know the date you will be quitting and ask them for their support. Ask them not to smoke around you or leave cigarettes out.

Find substitutes for smoking and vary your routine. When you get the urge to smoke, do something to take your mind off smoking. Talk to a friends, go for a walk, or go to the movies. Reduce stress with exercise, meditation, hot baths or reading. Try sugar-free gum or candy to help handle your cravings. Drink a lot of water and juices.

Talk to your doctor or nurse about medicines to help you quit. Some people have withdrawal symptoms when they quit smoking. These symptoms can include depression, trouble sleeping and trouble thinking. Most medicines help you quit smoking by giving you small, steady doses of nicotine, the drug in cigarettes that causes addition. Talk to your doctor or nurse to see if one of these medicines may be right for you.

Be prepared for relapse. Most people relapse, or start smoking again, within the first three months after quitting. Don’t get discourage if you relapse. Remember, many people try to quit several times before quitting for good. Think of what helped and didn’t help the last time you tried to quit. Figuring these out before you try to quit again will increase your chances for success.

What is the Quickest Way to Lose Weight? By Hugh Campbell

you find yourself asking what is the quickest way to lose weight, then you are probably in the same boat as most of the population.

There are many different ways to lose weight quickly, but if you choose to undertake such a method, you must be aware of two factors:

1. Weight is an umbrella term. In reality, weight is comprised of two different types: fat and muscle. If you lose weight quickly (e.g. fasting for a few days), then the weight lost will be a combination of fat and muscle.

"Muscle" is a term that scares many people. People, particularly women, are scared of looking like bodybuilders. Be aware that it is actually incredibly difficult to put on muscle, especially in women, who lack the testosterone to do so.

To put it in a better context, muscle represents the shaping of our bodies. If you maintain more muscle than you do fat, then you will look wonderfully trim. If you lose weight, I.e. a combination of fat and muscle, then you will effectively go from being a fat pear-shaped person into a smaller pear-shaped person. If you want to see all the curves in all the right places, have the killer butt or lose the love handles, then you need to maintain as much muscle as you can while losing fat.

2. If you choose to lose weight quickly, always remember that it will never last. It is a sobering thought, I know, and not one many people want to hear. But it is the truth. Ultimately, if you need to lose 20 lbs, then you could do it quicker by sticking to a solid, progressive regime than you could by attempting diet after diet.

There is a third form of weight, and that is water. Our bodies retain an awful lot of water when we live in a state of dehydration and, surprisingly, most of us are dehydrated most of the time.

If you want to know what is the quickest way to lose weight, then you won't go far wrong with super hydration. Your body can store several pounds of water (some suggest as much as 10 lbs) while you are dehydrated. This is excess water you do not need. In order to get rid of it, you can drink copious amounts of water to flush it out. In effect, you are telling your body that you are now hydrated and don't need the spare reserves, so the body ditches them.

If you drink 8 tall glasses of water a day, then you should see significant weight loss within a week or two. Those of you familiar with the Atkins diet will know that the two week "Induction" process involves drinking lots of water as well as reducing carbohydrate intake. A lot of people report big weight loss in this period, and attribute it to the strict conservation of carbohydrates. However, many would contend that it is actually the water expulsion that has done the trick.

However, with that said, Atkins does provide a fast way to lose weight. Some would argue that it is down to the effect of ketosis. I would argue that it is because of calorie restriction. Atkins is high in protein, which leads to appetite suppression, and studies have shown that those on Atkins actually consumed less than they did before they started the diet. Either way, the sheer black-and-white lack of ambiguity of the diet makes it a great way to discipline your eating - and shed some pounds - in a short period of time.

Ultimately I would recommend simply sitting down, slapping your belly, and accepting that if you want to be in the best shape of your life, then you will need to do it properly. It is nothing to be scared about.

If you have 60 lbs to lose, fine! Nail off each of those suckers, day by day. From 60 lbs to 59 lbs to 58 lbs to 57 lbs etc. Stick a tally chart next to your bed and check off each pound you burn. Don't make it a chore - make it fun. This is you getting into the best shape of your life.

So don't ask what is the quickest way to lose weight. Instead commit yourself to drinking plenty of water, eating good food, and doing resistance exercise to maintain your healthy muscle while the fat is blowtorched off.

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