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Diet For Fat Loss and Six Pack Abs

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

You can lose 20 lbs of fat from your body in a month if you can optimize exercise, diet and supplement. Diet program for six pack abs is something that haunts people overnight. You don’t have to struggle so much to control diet in a fat loss program. You only have to follow certain rule while taking your. Soon it will become a habit and you will no longer crave for unwanted foods.

Avoid the  bad carbohybrates from your food. Another easy way of saying is that don’t eat any carbohydrate that is white in color. This includes rice, potatoes, pasta, cereals and fried foods with breads. You can have a few occasionally, especially after high intense resistance training.

Your meals must be shot and spread throughout the day. It is better to eat the same meal repeatedly. You have a list of meals and repeat it alternatively. You can mix match and construct meals from the limited few but never change. You can select your meals from egg whites with one whole egg, chicken breast, chicken thigh, organic beef, and pork for proteins. Lentils, black beans, pinto beans for legumes and spinach, asparagus, peas for vegetables.

You have to consume a lot of fluid for increasing the metabolism of your body. But it is important to say no to calorie drinks. Drink large quantity of water since there is no calorie in it. You can also drink unsweetened fluid like iced tea, tea, diet soda or coffee without cream. Avoid drinking milk, normal soft drinks and fruit juices. You can have one glass of wine in the evening. Wine can be effective for sports recovery and fat loss.

You can take a day off from your diet. But it should be just to satisfy your taste buds. Don’t get carried away. They day should be planned and fixed. You should not take break on other days.

The Functional Foods Have Specific Health Benefits

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

The Functional Foods Have Specific Health Benefits

The foods or any components of the diet that provides benefits to the health besides the basic nutrition are called the functional foods. Such specific foods provide specific benefits to the health. Few examples of functional foods are whole grains, some fruits and vegetables or beverages. The council of International Food Information has researched that the Americans are more aware of the advantages of the functional foods than the Indians. The two basic diseases for which people concern the functional foods more are cancer and the heart disease.

A survey gives the following results that hoe people are familiar with different functional foods for specific health concern-

  • Women about 56 percent absolutely identified that the cranberries and the juice reduces urinary infections whereas just the 33% of people among men realize this fact.
  • 55% of people of the old age know the advantage of soy with the heart’s health while only 35% among the people of age 35 to 50 realize this. About 75% of women accept that the soy is useful in lowering the risks of any heart disease but only 53 percent of men know this. This is the reason that heart diseases are common among men.
  • Again the women are much aware of connection of antioxidant-cancer.

40% women know the fact that calcium reduces risk of the disease called osteoporosis whereas the fewer amounts of men know it.