Five Tips to Lose Weight

With so much information out there about weight loss, I just thought I should make it simpler and easier for my readers. I won't bore you with some things you already know, so I'll keep it very simple. The summary of this post is that you should put these few points into practice and not just read and toss them aside. Knowledge becomes power only when it is used. Enjoy!

These 5 tips will help you achieve consistent and considerable weight loss

1. Drink at least 8 glasses of water per day. It decreases your appetite and flushes toxins from your body.
2. Exercise regularly. It raises your metabolism, helps burn calories and tones up your body. Do not exhaust yourself.
3. There is no need to starve yourself. Eat a snack if you are hungry. Salad, a piece of fruit or yoghurt. Never snack on fatty foods because you never full full eating eat - you will only eat more.
4. Avoid alcohol. It gives empty calories which are taken in by the body as sugar. It also suppresses the body's ability to burn fat.
5. Reduce the size of your plate so that it appears to be full. Eat three meals a day regularly. Enjoy your food, eat slowly and chew well. Avoid having a big meal. Go in for more high fiber foods.

These few simple changes in your diet and lifestyle can help reduce obesity and help you live a healthier and more productive life. 

Namaste!

5 Steps to Wellness - Step 1 (Nutrition)

Nutrition is the most basic element of health, yet most diets are either lacking in balanced nutrition or many of the essential nutrients are destroyed in cooking/preparation. Science tells us that a pregnant woman needs nutrition to form a healthy baby. If the mother is deficient in certain nutrients, the baby may not develop properly. The body is a living organism during the time inside the womb and during the rest of life. If nutritional balance is required to create a healthy baby, it is only logical that nutritional balance would be required to maintain a health body.

The first and most basic step to getting well or staying well is to make sure the body has adequate amounts of nutrition. The body uses nutritional elements to complete every task there is to perform in the body. Nutrition is used to produce antibodies to allergens, to digest food, create energy, make hormones and generally perform every action and function in the body. Nutrition is required to keep the heart pumping, to fire brain cells, grow hair and make babies. It is required to build or maintain a strong immune system as well as detoxify the body of the harmful poisons we are exposed to every day in the foods we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe. Nutrition is even linked to the correction of psychological disorders.

Nutrition should be considered the fuel the body uses to complete each and every action and function in the body. If you don’t feel good, if you are sick or if you have a disease of any kind, you can safely assume there is a nutritional imbalance. Some experts believe that if the body were nutritionally balanced it would never become sick or diseased. Regardless of what you choose to believe, the fact remains that no healing can occur in the body without the proper nutrients. Nutrition is required to rejuvenate new, healthy tissues. Nutrients are the tools needed to create healthy cells and strong DNA.

Culled from TBA.

In the next post, we will discuss about digestion. Enjoy the read.