November 29, 2006 at 6:25 pm
· Filed under HIV/AIDS
Stories in the mainstream press about sub-Saharan Africa tend to follow a pretty grim litany of poverty, corruption, violence and despair. (The photos are often even worse.) So I hereby submit for your perusal An African Miracle, which is a...
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November 29, 2006 at 4:50 pm
· Filed under weight loss tips, best weight loss tips, top weight loss tips
Best of my weight loss tips
So far I have given you countless number of weight loss tips. Here in this post I am just summarizing all of the weight loss tips in to a single post. These tips are going to be really big weight loss tips. They will surely help you in getting weight off. So here is the listing of best of my weight loss tips:
- Water - Many of us know that keeping our bodies well hydrated is essential for good health and for weight loss. Drinking 6 to 8 glasses of water every day is recommended and yet many people find this difficult to do.
- Walking - Walking helps you shift your attitude toward health, fitness, and weight loss.
- Exercise - In case you cannot change your eating habits and still want to lose weight, you can surely lose weight with exercising. But it will take much more time for you to lose weight.
- Healthy Diet - Instead of jumping on the diet-of-the-week bandwagon, experts advise eating a diet with 50 to 65 percent carbohydrates; 20 to 25 percent protein; and the remainder from mostly unsaturated fat.
- Negative calorie foods - You should go for negative calorie foods in order to lose weight in your daily routine.
- Wholegrain - Wholegrain cereals can help you lose weight as well as boost you’re eating of healthy nutrients.
- Eat fresh fruit - Eat at least two servings of fresh fruit every day. Choose whatever type of fruit is in season.
- Always chew your food - Always chew your food well. Chewing your food well will ensure that you get the most nutrients out of your food. Getting the most nutrients will satisfy your body therefore you will eat less. Another benefit of chewing well is that it helps aid in digestion.
- Take small meals - Eat small, frequent meals in a day. Large meals tax your digestion system, making it work harder. Taking too much time in between meals makes you hungrier for the next meal.
- Shut off TV while eating - Shut off the TV whenever you eat – that includes meals and snacks. Studies show that we automatically eat larger portions when we snack in front of the tube, and typically those foods are high in fat and sugar, which means excess calories!
- Vitamins - Not only do vitamins supplement your nutritional input when following a low calorie diet, but also they can increase your metabolism and actively increase your weight loss!
- Prepare meals at home - Cooking at home is a great way to save money and control what you eat. So prepare meals at home.
- Green Tea Diet - A Green Tea Diet is the regular intake of green tea. Green tea can be used as a drink, pill and as a weight loss patch.
- Yoga - In yoga you will learn how to improve your muscular endurance, your flexibility, your balance and your coordination. Yoga can be really helpful in weight loss if taken seriously. So go and join any yoga class or program around you.
- Increase your physical activity - Increase your physical activity. Most people are over weight because of a lack of physical activity. Start walking more, bicycling, walks your dog for longer periods of time, swim, dance and leave the car at home when you can. It’s important that you choose a physical activity that you enjoy because you’ll stick with it.
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November 29, 2006 at 4:34 am
· Filed under HIV/AIDS, women
Apologies for the lack of posts in recent weeks. I'm just settling into India and will start posting from here more regularly. First, though, a couple of last things from Africa. If you haven't seen Christine's piece An African Miracle...
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November 28, 2006 at 4:56 pm
· Filed under weight loss quotes, weight loss motivation quotes motivation quotes, quotes, inspiration quotes
Weight Loss Motivation quotes
Many time in our life we feel too much depressed and disappointed. Then we look for some special motivation and inspiration to keep us going. So there can be motivational or inspiration quotes which looks very simple but can be really helpful to get back on feet. So here is the listing of some of my favorite weight loss motivation quotes which you will also find inspiring and valuable.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Carl Sandburg
The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Heraclitus
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Swedish Proverb
Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Martin Luther King
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : David Viscott
You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Ralph Marston
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Jim Eason
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Unknown Author
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Winston Churchill
Never, never, never, never give up.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Horace
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Vincent Lombardi
The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Miss Piggy
Give me a dozen heartbreaks...if you think it would help me lose one pound. ~ ColetteNever eat more than you can lift.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Walt Whitman
I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Unknown author
Winners feel like winners
Losers feel like losers
How do you feel?
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Cyril Connolly
"One way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life."
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : Arnold H. Glasgow
The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip."
- Weight Loss Motivation quote : English Proverb
"Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork."
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November 27, 2006 at 4:10 pm
· Filed under teen weight loss, weight loss teen, teenager weight loss
What you are doing as a teen to lose weight?
Weight is a big problem especially for teens. You may often want to weigh less or want to look like some models or actors. There is no magical diet or magical pill, which makes you, look very special. So what you are doing to lose weight as a teenager?
Overweight problem can be really injuries to the health of teenagers. So do not wait for things to get settle by itself as they will never solve if you do not make efforts. Get up and start working hard to lose weight. Here I am sharing with you some really valuable teens weight loss tips which will help you to lose weight as a teenager.
- The best weight loss programs for teens must have a suggestion to control the daily intake of food, especially fatty and oily victuals. Also take care to avoid milk products, all sorts of junk foods and artificial drinks.
- Another aspect that most best weight loss programs for teens suggests is to drink lots of water and incorporate fruits, raw vegetables, and fibrous foods into the diet.
- Replace your normal snacks – such as a packet of chips or potato wafers – with frozen grapes, cherry tomatoes, baby carrot or low-fat pudding or yogurt, instead.
- Take few hours every day to workout in the gym or spend some time running or playing your favorite sport. Such physical activities could burn away those extra calories from under your skin. In fact this is the most important step one could find in all the best weight loss programs for teens suggested by experts.
- But, the most important of all the suggestions is that you must nurture a strong will to follow the diet program, you choose, devotedly. Else, no best weight loss programs for teens could help you bring down your weight.
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Weight is a big problem especially for teens. You may often want to weigh less or want to look like some models or actors. There is no magical diet or magical pill, which makes you, look very special. So what you are doing to lose weight as a teenager?