What ya think, www.lose-that-fat.info, I hear alot of good things, anyone lose weight with it ?
Posted by admin on Jul 29, 2009
Nothing burns fat. Nothing makes you lose weight while you sleep. These are known false claims. Agencies have taken action against them, but only on a case-by-case basis.
An estimated one-third of U.S. adults are considered obese, creating a significant market of people looking for something to help them shed the pounds.
The best approaches are changing our diet and exercise. Even the few FDA-approved weight loss medications need to be combined with eating less and exercising more.
Consumers should avoid products that make fantastic weight loss claims. Some supplements can help users feel fuller or raise their metabolism when used with diet and exercise.
The National Institutes of Health’s National Center for complementary and alternative medicine posts fact sheets on its Web site about some widely used supplements.
For example, the fact sheet for hoodia, a cactus-like plant widely marketed for weight loss, notes: “There is no reliable scientific evidence to support hoodia’s use. No studies of the herb in people have been published.”
There are a few good weight loss systems out there that really do work, one is: www.lose-that-fat.info
They have a good proven system with alot of history to back it up. So get off the diet fads and check out www.lose-that-fat.info for a real proven system that works.
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will this detox diet work and how much weight will i loose?
Posted by admin on Jul 29, 2009
Foods to Eat
Use organic fruits and vegetables as they have less pollutants and chemicals. Organic food also has a higher nutritional content than non-organic commercialized produce.
Basically your diet should mostly consist of juiced, raw, frozen, or lightly steamed fruits and veggies. Corn and avocados should be avoided, white potatoes can be eaten only in moderation. Eating a variation each day will ensure you are getting enough vitamins and keep this diet as interesting as possible.
Foods to Avoid
Here is a brief list of foods to avoid while on this plan. To get the full detoxing effects, stick to the diet and be sure that you don’t cheat!
Dairy and animal products
Bread, pasta, grains, cereal
Chocolate
Nuts
Sauces
Pickled vegetables or canned fruit
Alcohol and cigarettes
Coffee and tea (except green and herbal)
Meal Plans
- Breakfast
Variations of fruit or fruit puree are great for breakfast. They are nutritious, filling and the natural sugars will give you energy to get through the morning.
To make a fruit puree, cut up your fruit and place in a pot on the stove with a small amount of water. Cover and leave it on a low heat until the fruit is soft. Now just throw it in the blender and add a squeeze of fresh lemon to taste. I also like to add a little cinnamon.
My favorite blends contain apples, plums, nectarines, pears and berries, but really anything goes. You can also mix it up a bit by using your blender to achieve different consistencies.
- Lunch & Dinner
For your main two meals its important to keep calories low but nutrition high. A vegetable puree soup is the answer. This will give you energy to get through the day and all the nutrients you need.
Cut up your vegetables, add approximately one cup of vegetable stock, and cover on a low heat until the vegetables are soft. Now throw it in the blender and spice it up with a raw clove of garlic or jalapeño pepper (only a little as it’s very spicy!). I also like to add cilantro and a little olive oil.
I like to experiment with different vegetables for this soup. Great ideas are spinach and broccoli, collard greens, zucchini, onion, carrots and sweet potatoes. Beans also make a great addition. I like to use chickpeas but be sure they are organic.
- Desserts & Snacks
This diet can sometimes leave you feeling hungry (it wouldn’t be a diet if it didn’t!), so its important to have some filling snacks around for when you need a boost.
Fruit smoothies are a great options for dessert or a snack between meals. You need to buy packs of frozen organic fruits from your supermarket. These lock all the goodness into the fruit and are very convenient. I actually find that frozen bananas taste much better in a smoothie than fresh ones so I peel ripe bananas and put them in a ziplock bag in the freezer.
Just add ice and a little water, then blend away! I like blends of blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and banana. Its really up to you to find a few combinations that you love. Be creative!
- Drinks
Freshly squeezed juices are very detoxing and a great way to get some condensed nutrition into your body. Fresh juice is also packed full of enzymes which are fundamental in maintaining good health and preventing disease.
Some ideas for recipes – try playing around with these super-healthy ingredients. Cucumbers, apples, carrot, ginger, garlic, beet and broccoli.
Don’t forget to drink Green Tea. This is so effective as a diet aid because it increases your metabolism and reduces your appetite. It has also been used for more than 4000 years in Chinese medicine, to cure ailments ranging from headaches to depression.
oh and right now im 5 ft 7 and 120lbs and i want to get down 5-10lbs
to see results it takes few weeks
but after a month, you will def see it.
its best to take pictures every week so you know what is happening
nexrutine, an all natural cox-2 inhibitor,has anyone heard of this it is ?i amthinking of giving it to my dog.
Posted by admin on Jul 29, 2009
i thought it might be a good alternative to giving my 18 year old lab for his arthritis he is on deramax for the past 4 months but it is effecting his old liver.i started him on springtime natural joint health and fresh factors and i see improvement. i had tried cosequin but it gave him the runs.he is still going strong despite his horrible arthritis.
Check out this website: http://www.seniorpetproducts.com/smf/index.php?topic=90.0 According to the consensus the Deramax is only good for a few months before really nasty side effects take over. Try Ascriptin, Syn.Flex or Kaprex.
Nexrutine is an all natural cox-2 inhibitor but if your dog has ingested anything even closely resembling aspirin, he is in deep trouble. Besides that Nexrutine is a drug for humans and is manufactured as such.
Always check with your vet before home medicating your dog. He is 18 years old and he is a large dog. It’s truly amazing he has lived this long. You must be taking very good care of him. Hope this helps and good luck.
what is the best healing for asthma?
Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2009
i have a case that is asthmatic since many years ago, and has to take the nasal spray.
i mean an alternative healing
medical marijuana is a good way to treat it, however it isn’t a cure.
Is McCain’s idea to pay up to $300 million to the man that invents a better battery a good idea?
Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2009
I ask this of Obama supporters,
I am still going to vote for Obama but I agree with McCain that we should pay lots of money to scientist that come up with solutions to our problems. Pro athletes make insane amounts of money but the brainiacs that labor in the labs to advance the human race whether it is better alternative energy solutions or a cure to cancer get the table scraps. This needs to change.
We should encourage our kids to play sports but we should make energy independence and better health a priority in everything we do.
I commend McCain for the idea but I am still voting for Obama and hope he adopts McCain’s idea because it is a good one.
I like your comparison to pro athletes. We do have our priorities screwed up as a society regardless of who you want to vote for in Nov there does need to be a change for the better. Pro athletes make insane amounts of money, I work in the pharma biotech industry and it sucks how the people that worked hard to get their doctorate degrees get paid very little. It is sort of like the old Soviet style of no motivation to do anything just survive another day. I would say that at the very least give a small portion of the profits from the royalties from the patents to the scientists and extend the patent life so that corporations are more likely to share some with the scientists and invest more research.
Know any herbal remedies for joint pain?
Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2009
Know any herbal remedies for joint pain?
Warm bath is a highly useful water treatment for joint pains. Ayurveda says that joint pains come under Vatha dosha and heat treatment relieves pain. It recommends massaging the affected area with gingelly (sesame) oil in the night provides relief from joint pain. The herbs useful are dried ginger powder, garlic and asafetida. We have to understand that these measures do not work overnight but continuous treatment can definitely alleviate the trouble
Is naturopathy a legitimate science?
Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2009
I don’t think there’s much evidence (clinical trials, systematic reviews etc.) to support it as an effective treatment for illness. And a science must be evidence-based, or else it’s not really legitimate.
So, at least at present, it’s not really a legitimate science.
Names of two government departments that control the supply and sale of herbal medicines?
Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2009
I am a naturopathic student and have come across a question in an assignment which has got me stuck as i cant find the answer.
This is the question.
State the names, addresses and phone numbers of the two Government Departments (One state, one National) that control the supply and sale of herbal medicines
Can anyone help me with an answer or tell me where i could find this out. I wasnt sure if the Australian Government- department of health and aging therapeutic goods administration was a correct answer or not..
Thanks so much!
I don’t think I know the answer to this either, but I can tell you that in the U.S. herbal remedies are not regulated in the same way as traditional pharmaceuticals. For example, drugs are regulated by the FDA, and herbs are not. Before a drug can be sold, the company must provide a sufficient amount of scientific data/evidence that proves its relative safety vs the benefit it provides, and approves appropriate doses, etc. Then the FDA regulates the manufacturing process and the company must demonstrate a process for quality control, etc. In addition, the FDA regulates how the company sells the product by monitoring the claims that are made. A drug is only approved for a specific use and can’t be sold or advertised for any other reason.
The FDA does not regulate herbal remedies. Occasionally, the FDA will ban a specific "supplement" or herbal remedy, but they have to go about it in the opposite way. Instead of requiring that an herbal supplement proves its efficacy and safety, the FDA must prove that the herbal remedy is "unsafe" in order to take it off the market. At no time are these herbal remedies required to prove any level of efficacy.
The FCC does monitor the claims made by alternative and herbal therapies, but there are many loop-holes that prevent them from intervening very often. For example, most alternative therapies will use wording that doesn’t specifically make medical claims to cure a particular disease. Instead, they claim that they can help the body cure itself, etc. This is why you won’t often see an herbal remedy claim to specifically cure strep throat. One example of a company that crossed the line is the "Q-Ray Bracelets". This was the original magnet bracelet, that was marketed to cure a long list of ailments. Eventually, the FCC caught up with them. In a lawsuit from the FCC, the makers of Q-Ray admitted under oath that there was no basis for their medical claims, other than placebo. They were ordered to refund millions of dollars to their customers. They were the first and biggest company to make magnet bracelets, but you still see them sold all the time at mom & pop shops and county fairs, etc. The FCC isn’t going to waste their time on little kool-aid stands across the county. The same type of thing goes for herbal remedies. Only the largest manufacturers of herbal supplements that sell their product at GNC are even slightly regulated. Any book you read that claims you can make your own home remedies is not regulated at all, because they aren’t selling the actual product. That is why the FDA, FCC, can’t touch Kevin Trudeau, because he has the right to write a book on whatever he wants, but he can’t actively sell "shark cartilege", etc.
is there a natural honey substitute that has healing properties like honey?
Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2009
is there a plant that can heal wounded skin like honey?
honey is anti-bacterial and this is good when the skin is wounded. it was used since ancient egypt and babylonians.
Aloe.
Why is our government funding regulation of so called "holistic" medical treatments – like homeopathy?
Posted by admin on Jul 28, 2009
What is going on? People are dying in the hundreds in this country every year, because of a lack of funding for PROVEN treatments.
In 2000, the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Science and Technology issued a report on complementary and alternative medicine.
It reported that "any therapy that makes specific claims for being able to treat specific conditions should have evidence of being able to do this above and beyond the placebo effect".
According to Professor Matthias Egger, from the University of Berne, and Swiss colleagues from Zurich University and a UK team at the University of Bristol, homeopathy in particular has no such evidence.
They compared 110 trials that looked at the effects of homeopathy versus placebo with 110 trials of conventional medicines for the same medical disorders or diseases, including trials for treatment of asthma, allergies & muscular problems.
So just why is our government insisting on wasting resources on this and other quack so called medicines?
Homeopathy doesn’t work, but it is tolerated because it’s a multi-million pound industry, supported by a few feeble minded people in high places.
Homeopathy enables simple folk (women, mainly) who would like to be doctors but don’t fancy the hard work, to play at being health professionals.
It also gives the NHS somewhere to dump hypochondriacs and those with non-life-threatening difficult-to-treat conditions (backpain, "nerves" etc.). In this respect only it may have something to offer – it’s probably unethical for real doctors to prescribe a placebo nowadays, so why not let a homeoquack do it.
silverha…: the point is we have had homeopathy for 200+ years, and no treatment has proved to be successful in replicated trials over this time. How much money do we have to waste funding these trials which homeopathy fails time after time, and which homeoquacks won’t accept the results of anyway?