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The following are two articles on Weight Control published in online journals on 16 June, 2007 and 21 June, 2007, respectively:
Weight Control And Your Longevity (1)
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Lau
Weight control holds the key to longevity. You don't find overweight centenarians, do you? So, to live long, you need to lose weight, at least control it.
This week marked a milestone in the pharmaceutical industry: the launching of the first FDA-approved over-the-counter weight-loss drug - ALLI. It has already created a sensation in the media: a multi-million advertising campaign for a multi-billion drug for millions of consumers craving for a miracle drug that would stave off their craving for food.
This sensation created by ALLI goes to show how desperate consumers are in their search for the holy grail of a weight-loss drug. With the blessing from the FDA, many consumers seem to have the illusion that they can now continue their binge without adding weight - something akin to "no pain and no gain."
ALLI is no magic bullet. "This isn't a pill, it's a plan," says Pat Barid, a registered dietitian and consultant for the drug manufacturer. Apparently, the drug is efficacious in guiding and preparing you to lose weight gradually by eating smaller portions, following a reduced-calorie, low-fat diet, and becoming more physically active. If that is the scenario, then why do you need to take the drug? A drug is still a drug, which is a chemical - you don't take it unless you absolutely have to.
Ah, but you want to lose weight - and you want to eat to your heart content too!. In other words, you want to eat your cake and have it too. You can do that at the expense of gaining unwanted weight. It is not only a dilemma but also a frustration.
Focusing on losing weight is like running after a red herring - it is frustrating and futile.
Why?
The bathroom scale just indicates your body weight, and that is all. It does not tell you how much fat or muscle you may have lost during a given diet. It may not even tell if you are healthy or not, unless you are grossly overweight. Therefore, do not become obsessed with your weight. After all, your body weight always fluctuates - which is a fact, and which is very normal.
When you go on any diet, your body's metabolism immediately starts to react and to slow down, and that accounts for the initial weight loss in any diet program - so do not be overjoyed and jump to the conclusion that it works. It is only a self-delusion: initially your body loses only water, not your body fat.
Given that lean muscle mass requires calories at times of rest, the amount of muscle you maintain directly affects your metabolism in a positive way. You burn calories while you sleep. In other words, the more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism rate is, and the more calories you will burn. The converse is also true: as you lose your muscle mass, your metabolism rate decreases, and so does your weight-loss rate. That explains why you would stop losing weight after have been on any weight-loss program. On the other hand, fat, being inert, has little or no effect whatsoever on your body's rate of metabolism. These are the fundamentals for better understanding of how weight loss occurs.
The maximum amount of weight (fat or muscle) you can actually lose in one day is about one half pound. Since your body is about 60 percent water and one gallon of water weighs approximately eight pounds, any additional weight loss greater than one half pound may only be water, and not your body fat. Therefore, when your body replaces the water lost, weight gain will re-occur, and you are right back to where you started at an unhealthy weight. Does that sound familiar to you?
Consider this: 3,500 calories equal one pound of your body weight.
Do your math: To lose 10 pounds, you have to expend 35,000 more calories than you consume; and to lose 10 pounds in two weeks, you need to burn 2,500 more calories a day. You know very well that it is not a piece of cake! That explains why you forever cannot lose your weight, not to mention controlling it. So forget about weight loss!
Losing weight is forever "impossible" to many individuals because they have become obsessed with numbers. They are forever playing the losing game of numbers. They have to count their calories, their carbohydrates, and their proteins, among others. Profit-making dietary plans allure them with numbers, both "hard" and "soft" data, to the land of myths and fallacies, where they end up only in frustration and disappointment.
Remember this simple factor: Weight loss occurs only when the calories you consume are less than the calories you use up. This is the most important factor in weight loss, also one most difficult to achieve. Trying to circumvent it with state of the art is nothing short of impossibility. That is why most weight-loss plans are always about counting calories: giving you a calorie chart, calculating your daily total calorie need, and then instructing you to eat less than that, hoping against hope that your weight will drop dramatically.
So how to lose weight without drugs? Read Part Two of this article.
Weight Control And Your Longevity (2)
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Lau
As previously mentioned, weight control, which holds the key to your longevity, has everything to do with numbers, but these numbers are not only misleading but also unreliable because each individual's physical makeup is uniquely different. Beside, you wouldn't want to spend the rest of your life counting calories.
So what is the secret to weight loss and weight management?
There are only two major conditions for effective and permanent weight loss: you must be healthy, and you must eat less.
That may sound too simple to be true. But if you are healthy, most probably you do not have a weight problem. On the other hand, if you are unhealthy, and you would want to lose weight, it is like washing dirty dishes a sink of dirty water – it simply won't work. So, first and foremost, you must have a healthy body before you can manage your weight, or even shed a few extra pounds of unwanted weight.
How do you keep a healthy body?
You must detoxify it. A body loaded with toxins from the environment, from the chemicals in your foods and water, from your pharmaceutical drugs is never healthy.
consume – which is virtually impossible unless you exercise vigorously. The body is made up of mostly water. Sodium in food retains water. As soon as you fast, huge amount of water is eliminated or flushed out from your system (this is how and why fasting cleanses), despite the large quantity of water you consume. In weight control, calories do count. In fasting, there is nothing – no calorie, no protein, no carbohydrate. Absolutely nothing! The rate of losing weight is directly proportionate to the degree of your overweight.
However, the ultimate goal of fasting is not weight loss: it is internal cleansing for optimum health. In fact, you will put back some, if not all, of the pounds you have lost during a fast once you resume eating. Fasting helps you control, but not lose, your weight.
In addition to fasting, you may use foods to detoxify your body. Some of the most common foods are: Alfalfa sprouts, beets, burdock, and Green barley.
You may also use herbs to detoxify your body.
Your body is a self-cleaning mechanism via your liver, kidneys, urine, feces, breath, and sweat. Keeping your systems of elimination in a healthy condition can help improve and protect your health. Herbs can provide you with safe, natural, time-tested methods to improve the natural functions of your body to support its natural cleansing process. Diuretics increase kidney function, and thus the elimination of urine and excess fluids
The most common herbs for detoxification are: black walnut, cascara sagrada, cayenne, dandelion, Echinacea, Indian rhubarb root, licorice root, milk thistle, psyllium husk, red clover, slipper elm inner bark, and yarrow.
Water is an invaluable nutrient to every living thing on earth. Every cell of your body requires water to carry nutrients and energy to it, as well as to transport toxins and wastes from it.
Hydrotherapy involves alternating application of hot and cold water aimed at increasing your blood flow to different tissues of your body. Take a very hot shower immediately followed by a very cold one, and repeat the process two or three times. After the hydrotherapy, snuggle into your bed, staying warm for half an hour or so. You will feel completely refreshed and rejuvenated.
Exercise not only stimulates blood circulation and the movement of lymphatic fluids, but also promotes the reduction of fat reserves, thereby instrumental in facilitating the removal of toxins from your body.
Low-impact aerobic exercise, such as jumping rope or a bouncer, significantly improves your body's circulation, which benefits detoxification
Skin brushing is an effective time-honored method to increase blood and lymphatic circulation to remove dead skin cells, and rid your body of toxins, especially through its pores.
Brush your entire body daily with a natural-bristle dry-skin brush. Be persistent, and the initial discomfort will dissipate after a while when your body has become accustomed to the abrasive effect of brushing.
The use of foot patches is an easy and unobtrusive way to assist your body in the removal of a myriad of pollutants that invade your body on a daily basis, as well as the health-repressive toxic accumulations that prevent your body from achieving the true wellness you really should be experiencing.
Accordingly, when applied to the soles of your feet overnight, these foot patches not only warm up to open pores of the skin but also stimulate the reflex zones on your soles to draw out and absorb accumulated wastes under osmotic pressure from the blood and lymph systems in your body.
When lying horizontally, your body fluids collect in your head and feet. There is an acupuncture point on each of the sole of your feet, known as "gushing water spring," through which excess toxins and moisture from your body will be excreted into the foot patches. By applying foot patches on your feet while sleeping, you may be able to extract toxins from your body through the process of osmosis in the form of moisture onto your soles.
Foot patches are obtainable on the Internet.
If your body is rid of toxins, it will respond appropriately to any weight-loss program. If you eat a little more, you put on a few extra pounds; if you eat less, you lose a few pounds. But your weight will never balloon or get out of control. Therefore, if you weight fluctuates drastically, your problem is your health, more specifically, your body is simply too toxic.
In conclusion, if you are healthy, you do not have a weight problem, and weight management is always within your control.
Return from Weight Control Articles to the Home Page.
Weight Control And Your Longevity (1)
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Lau
Weight control holds the key to longevity. You don't find overweight centenarians, do you? So, to live long, you need to lose weight, at least control it.
This week marked a milestone in the pharmaceutical industry: the launching of the first FDA-approved over-the-counter weight-loss drug - ALLI. It has already created a sensation in the media: a multi-million advertising campaign for a multi-billion drug for millions of consumers craving for a miracle drug that would stave off their craving for food.
This sensation created by ALLI goes to show how desperate consumers are in their search for the holy grail of a weight-loss drug. With the blessing from the FDA, many consumers seem to have the illusion that they can now continue their binge without adding weight - something akin to "no pain and no gain."
ALLI is no magic bullet. "This isn't a pill, it's a plan," says Pat Barid, a registered dietitian and consultant for the drug manufacturer. Apparently, the drug is efficacious in guiding and preparing you to lose weight gradually by eating smaller portions, following a reduced-calorie, low-fat diet, and becoming more physically active. If that is the scenario, then why do you need to take the drug? A drug is still a drug, which is a chemical - you don't take it unless you absolutely have to.
Ah, but you want to lose weight - and you want to eat to your heart content too!. In other words, you want to eat your cake and have it too. You can do that at the expense of gaining unwanted weight. It is not only a dilemma but also a frustration.
Focusing on losing weight is like running after a red herring - it is frustrating and futile.
Why?
The bathroom scale just indicates your body weight, and that is all. It does not tell you how much fat or muscle you may have lost during a given diet. It may not even tell if you are healthy or not, unless you are grossly overweight. Therefore, do not become obsessed with your weight. After all, your body weight always fluctuates - which is a fact, and which is very normal.
When you go on any diet, your body's metabolism immediately starts to react and to slow down, and that accounts for the initial weight loss in any diet program - so do not be overjoyed and jump to the conclusion that it works. It is only a self-delusion: initially your body loses only water, not your body fat.
Given that lean muscle mass requires calories at times of rest, the amount of muscle you maintain directly affects your metabolism in a positive way. You burn calories while you sleep. In other words, the more muscle you have, the higher your metabolism rate is, and the more calories you will burn. The converse is also true: as you lose your muscle mass, your metabolism rate decreases, and so does your weight-loss rate. That explains why you would stop losing weight after have been on any weight-loss program. On the other hand, fat, being inert, has little or no effect whatsoever on your body's rate of metabolism. These are the fundamentals for better understanding of how weight loss occurs.
The maximum amount of weight (fat or muscle) you can actually lose in one day is about one half pound. Since your body is about 60 percent water and one gallon of water weighs approximately eight pounds, any additional weight loss greater than one half pound may only be water, and not your body fat. Therefore, when your body replaces the water lost, weight gain will re-occur, and you are right back to where you started at an unhealthy weight. Does that sound familiar to you?
Consider this: 3,500 calories equal one pound of your body weight.
Do your math: To lose 10 pounds, you have to expend 35,000 more calories than you consume; and to lose 10 pounds in two weeks, you need to burn 2,500 more calories a day. You know very well that it is not a piece of cake! That explains why you forever cannot lose your weight, not to mention controlling it. So forget about weight loss!
Losing weight is forever "impossible" to many individuals because they have become obsessed with numbers. They are forever playing the losing game of numbers. They have to count their calories, their carbohydrates, and their proteins, among others. Profit-making dietary plans allure them with numbers, both "hard" and "soft" data, to the land of myths and fallacies, where they end up only in frustration and disappointment.
Remember this simple factor: Weight loss occurs only when the calories you consume are less than the calories you use up. This is the most important factor in weight loss, also one most difficult to achieve. Trying to circumvent it with state of the art is nothing short of impossibility. That is why most weight-loss plans are always about counting calories: giving you a calorie chart, calculating your daily total calorie need, and then instructing you to eat less than that, hoping against hope that your weight will drop dramatically.
So how to lose weight without drugs? Read Part Two of this article.
Weight Control And Your Longevity (2)
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Lau
As previously mentioned, weight control, which holds the key to your longevity, has everything to do with numbers, but these numbers are not only misleading but also unreliable because each individual's physical makeup is uniquely different. Beside, you wouldn't want to spend the rest of your life counting calories.
So what is the secret to weight loss and weight management?
There are only two major conditions for effective and permanent weight loss: you must be healthy, and you must eat less.
That may sound too simple to be true. But if you are healthy, most probably you do not have a weight problem. On the other hand, if you are unhealthy, and you would want to lose weight, it is like washing dirty dishes a sink of dirty water – it simply won't work. So, first and foremost, you must have a healthy body before you can manage your weight, or even shed a few extra pounds of unwanted weight.
How do you keep a healthy body?
You must detoxify it. A body loaded with toxins from the environment, from the chemicals in your foods and water, from your pharmaceutical drugs is never healthy.
consume – which is virtually impossible unless you exercise vigorously. The body is made up of mostly water. Sodium in food retains water. As soon as you fast, huge amount of water is eliminated or flushed out from your system (this is how and why fasting cleanses), despite the large quantity of water you consume. In weight control, calories do count. In fasting, there is nothing – no calorie, no protein, no carbohydrate. Absolutely nothing! The rate of losing weight is directly proportionate to the degree of your overweight.
However, the ultimate goal of fasting is not weight loss: it is internal cleansing for optimum health. In fact, you will put back some, if not all, of the pounds you have lost during a fast once you resume eating. Fasting helps you control, but not lose, your weight.
In addition to fasting, you may use foods to detoxify your body. Some of the most common foods are: Alfalfa sprouts, beets, burdock, and Green barley.
You may also use herbs to detoxify your body.
Your body is a self-cleaning mechanism via your liver, kidneys, urine, feces, breath, and sweat. Keeping your systems of elimination in a healthy condition can help improve and protect your health. Herbs can provide you with safe, natural, time-tested methods to improve the natural functions of your body to support its natural cleansing process. Diuretics increase kidney function, and thus the elimination of urine and excess fluids
The most common herbs for detoxification are: black walnut, cascara sagrada, cayenne, dandelion, Echinacea, Indian rhubarb root, licorice root, milk thistle, psyllium husk, red clover, slipper elm inner bark, and yarrow.
Water is an invaluable nutrient to every living thing on earth. Every cell of your body requires water to carry nutrients and energy to it, as well as to transport toxins and wastes from it.
Hydrotherapy involves alternating application of hot and cold water aimed at increasing your blood flow to different tissues of your body. Take a very hot shower immediately followed by a very cold one, and repeat the process two or three times. After the hydrotherapy, snuggle into your bed, staying warm for half an hour or so. You will feel completely refreshed and rejuvenated.
Exercise not only stimulates blood circulation and the movement of lymphatic fluids, but also promotes the reduction of fat reserves, thereby instrumental in facilitating the removal of toxins from your body.
Low-impact aerobic exercise, such as jumping rope or a bouncer, significantly improves your body's circulation, which benefits detoxification
Skin brushing is an effective time-honored method to increase blood and lymphatic circulation to remove dead skin cells, and rid your body of toxins, especially through its pores.
Brush your entire body daily with a natural-bristle dry-skin brush. Be persistent, and the initial discomfort will dissipate after a while when your body has become accustomed to the abrasive effect of brushing.
The use of foot patches is an easy and unobtrusive way to assist your body in the removal of a myriad of pollutants that invade your body on a daily basis, as well as the health-repressive toxic accumulations that prevent your body from achieving the true wellness you really should be experiencing.
Accordingly, when applied to the soles of your feet overnight, these foot patches not only warm up to open pores of the skin but also stimulate the reflex zones on your soles to draw out and absorb accumulated wastes under osmotic pressure from the blood and lymph systems in your body.
When lying horizontally, your body fluids collect in your head and feet. There is an acupuncture point on each of the sole of your feet, known as "gushing water spring," through which excess toxins and moisture from your body will be excreted into the foot patches. By applying foot patches on your feet while sleeping, you may be able to extract toxins from your body through the process of osmosis in the form of moisture onto your soles.
Foot patches are obtainable on the Internet.
If your body is rid of toxins, it will respond appropriately to any weight-loss program. If you eat a little more, you put on a few extra pounds; if you eat less, you lose a few pounds. But your weight will never balloon or get out of control. Therefore, if you weight fluctuates drastically, your problem is your health, more specifically, your body is simply too toxic.
In conclusion, if you are healthy, you do not have a weight problem, and weight management is always within your control.
Return from Weight Control Articles to the Home Page.
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To detoxify your body, go on a fast - a one-day fast, to begin with.
You could lose as much as one to two pounds per day during a fast. To lose one pound of body weight, you need to burn up to 3,000 calories more than you
You could lose as much as one to two pounds per day during a fast. To lose one pound of body weight, you need to burn up to 3,000 calories more than you
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