5 Fat Burners To Help You Slim Down

 

It is definitely possible to speed up your metabolism, that
aspect of your body that burns calories. As you age, your
metabolism slows down, chiefly because you lose around a
half pound of muscle each year. "If you don't use the
muscle, it atrophies," explains Pamela Peeke, M.D.,
professor of medicine at the University of Maryland and
author of Fight Fat After Forty.

Here are 5 fat burners to help you slim down.

1. Avoid alcohol

Want to keep your favorite meals from going straight to
your hips (thighs, belly)? Wash them down with water, not
wine. Alcohol slows your metabolism by depressing the
central nervous system. A British study found that when
alcohol was added to a high-fat, high-calorie meal, less
dietary fat was burned off and more was stored as body fat.

2. Rev up your workouts

Interval training -- in which you add bursts of
high-intensity moves into your workout -- is a surefire
metabolism booster, says Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D., director of
the Kinesiology Program at the University of Virginia and
author of The Spark. Researchers at Laval University in
Quebec found that high-intensity interval training burns
more fat than regular, consistent aerobic exercise. If you
usually jog at a 10-minute-mile pace, for example, add a
30-second sprint every five minutes. Or add a one-minute
incline to your treadmill workout every five minutes. "Even
if you just have 10 minutes for a quick workout, you can
walk at a normal pace and then add in a 30-second bout of
speed-walking every three minutes," recommends Gaesser.

3. Do more dairy

Women who ate low-fat dairy products, such as nonfat yogurt
and low-fat cheese, three to four times a day lost 70
percent more fat than low-dairy dieters, according to a
study published in the journal Obesity Research. "Calcium
serves as a switch that tells your body to burn excess fat
faster," explains study author Michael Zemel, M.D.,
director of the Nutrition Institute at the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville. Sorry, but you won't reap the same
benefits from calcium-fortified O.J. Research shows that
you get the best results from dairy products themselves,
not fortified foods. Aim for 1,200 mg, which includes about
three servings of dairy a day.

4. Take up a new sport

Are you like Old Faithful when it comes to your morning
walk or evening jog? Know this: The more you do an
activity, the more your body adapts to it, so you burn
fewer calories. If you want to light a fire under your
metabolism, consider cross-training. For example, if you
normally walk, try biking instead. "Since you're not used
to working all those different muscles, it's a more intense
workout, which can translate into a greater metabolic
after-burn because your body is working harder to recover
and get oxygen to all your tissues," says Carol Espel,
M.S., an exercise physiologist for Equinox Fitness Clubs in
New York City.

5. Go fish

Break out the lemon wedges: Regular fish eaters tend to
have lower levels of the hormone leptin -- good because
high levels of leptin have been linked to low metabolism
and obesity, says Louis Aronne, M.D., an obesity specialist
at the New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Try to consume three to four servings of a fatty fish, such
as salmon, tuna or mackerel, each week.


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Is A Thyroid Problem Making You Fat?

Are you gaining weight unexpectedly? Are you not losing
weight when you're doing everything right? What if you have
hypothyroidism and you don't know it? When your thyroid is
working against you, looking and feeling better is like
trying to exercise with no energy.

As many as 25 million Americans have hypothyroidism. About
half of them have no idea that they do. Millions more
suffer this condition around the world. Hypothyroidism is
the medical name for when your thyroid gland doesn't
produce enough hormones.

The thyroid gland controls your entire body's metabolism.
That means that your weight, you're hair, your skin, your
sex drive, all sorts of things that go on in your body
depend on your thyroid to work right.

When your metabolism doesn't work right because you have
hypothyroidism, you may find that there's no amount of
dieting or exercise that takes the weight off. You may
actually gain extra weight, even though you're doing just
what you're supposed to.

Your doctor may not recognize that you have hypothyroidism,
because it causes such an incredible variety of symptoms
that aren't obviously connected. Even blood tests don't
always show this condition. People may blame you for what's
not your fault.

If you have hypothyroidism, you can start taking control
yourself. Hypothyroidism doesn't just lead to weight
problems. It can cause anything from depression, headaches,
and lack of concentration and memory problems to rough, dry
hair and even hair loss.

As well as diarrhoea and loss of appetite to infertility,
irregular menstrual periods and loss of interest in sex.
and that's not a complete list. Because there are so many
kinds of symptoms, and because not all of them appear in
everyone, doctors often don't diagnose hypothyroidism.

They may treat you for a problem you don't have. They may
even just send you home and tell you to take better care of
yourself.

Prescription medications for hypothyroidism have caused
many different side effects, including allergic reactions,
vomiting, chest pains, headaches, diarrhoea, insomnia,
cramps and fevers.

The possible causes of hypothyroidism can include exposure
to unnatural toxins in our environment including chemicals,
radiation, drugs, pesticides and excessive consumption of
saturated fats.

It's especially important that products to treat this are
all natural and contain only natural ingredients that have
not been found to cause any side effects. That contain
Ingredients to help you get your thyroid back in balance
and treat the symptoms of hypothyroidism.

Once hypothyroidism starts, it never goes away. Neither do
the symptoms if they're left alone. If you don't treat
them; they just get worse and worse. You can't beat an
under active thyroid with just will power and it won't get
better if you just ignore it.

If you have the symptoms of hypothyroidism and they tell
you to just take care of yourself, then do it! Act now to
work towards looking better and feeling better.


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Health and The Long Tail: How It Can Apply

 

People in the marketing world spend quite a bit of time
thinking about how to best meet the needs of their
customers. At least they should be if they want to keep
those customers and develop a long term relationship with
them. The astute marketers have begun investigating the
concept of "The Long Tail" and seeing how they can provide
the choice people are seeking.

In a nutshell, part of the concept of "the long tail" is
that while a there are a few things that appeal to most
people (or that everyone wants), there are a great number
of individual items that only appeal to a few people. For a
more thorough investigation, pick up a copy of Chris
Anderson's book "The Long Tail".

So how does this concept apply to health?

We can safely say that most people want to feel good and
spend as little time visiting doctors and hospitals as
possible. That's a fairly common goal. The differentiation
begins when we look at how to get there. Since statistics
show that a growing number of people have weight related
health issues, that can be the example of a high demand
topic in the health arena.

But not everyone has challenges with their weight. There
are actually some people who don't eat enough to meet their
basic nutritional needs. This group of people may need to
meet their goal of "better health" by taking a
multivitamin. Since this is something that most physicians
are recommending anyway, it's still a high demand area that
appeals to many individuals.

As we move further into areas of "self guided" health
improvement we find people who are interested in things
like Omega-3 Fatty Acids, CoQ-10 supplements, and immune
boosting supplements. Many of the alternative health
enthusiasts who actively seek out methods for improving
health on their own still consider these topics mainstream.
Going into more obscure treatments and supplements, you
will find that the demand really never gets to zero, but
there are still people who find an interest.

Things like juice fasting, self-performed enemas, and
certain types of supplements will just not appeal to the
vast majority of people, but there are those who swear by
the effectiveness of those methods. Now, as a business that
caters to a natural health demographic, it would be quite
difficult to fully meet the needs of the people in the mass
market area of the curve (those just looking for a
multivitamin) and the needs of a person looking for the
extract of a rare plant with medicinal properties.

Fortunately we can use the concept of the long tail to show
that by focusing on one area (weight loss, for example) and
providing many methods to allow people to reach that goal,
there will be a demand regardless of how obscure a method
is developed. No one thing will appeal to everyone, but
everyone has something that will appeal to them.

Part of the long tail concept is that while a large number
of customers will be satisfied by just a few of the more
popular solutions, the total number of people satisfied by
an array of the less popular solutions can exceed the
numbers at the "popular solution" end of the list. So
instead of becoming a "Wal-Mart" of health solutions, which
is a mile wide and few inches deep, the best service can be
given to customers by focusing on one area and exploring
all of the choices in that niche.

By focusing on that one area, a person can be perceived as
an authority with the resources to meet the needs of the
customer, regardless of how obscure the solutions become.
There are more people than solutions, so no matter how many
solutions are found, there will be someone for whom that is
the perfect match.


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