Fruits That Helps you Lose Weight Fast

Losing weight is a lifestyle change and there are no magic pill it's hard work and sacrifice. Eating fruits instead of junk foods is a great way to lose weight. Fruits have low calories and are full of vitamins and nutrients. Fruit also keep you full longer. Fruits can be taken for breakfast, lunch or dinner, or snacks in between meals.

A new research shows that eating certain fruits can help you burn fat and speed up weight-loss. If you want to know which fruits then keep on reading.

Avocado - it may contain high amount of fat but those fats are good for you. It has high amounts of omega 9 fatty acids, they are monosaturated fats that have high health benefits for your body. It also elevate the rate of fat conversion to energy that improves your metabolism. Avocados are also appetite suppressant it can help you stop craving for more food.

Apple - this fruit contains high amount of fibre and low in calories. It also a delicious substitute for potato chips as snack in between meals. Apple contains vitamins B and C, antioxidants and minerals that are good for your body.

Blueberries - it has huge amounts of antioxidants and fat burning properties. Like avocados, it also helps you increase your metabolism that helps yous burn more calories. This fruit has also low glycaemic index that can lessen your sugar intake, really beneficial for diabetics.

Grapefruit - this fruit has high water content that helps you keep your stomach full. It also helps cleanse your body from toxins, and keeps you hydrated. The fruit also contain enzymes that burn calories.

Coconut - this helps you increase your metabolism by 30%. With less calories this fruit will keep you full, and less calories means more weight loss.

Pomegranates - this fruit contains polyphenols antioxidant that boost your body's metabolism. It also cleanse your body of toxins.

Lemons - this fruit is a very effective toxins cleanser it helps detoxify your liver. Your liver plays an important role in digesting food and burning fat. Lemons helps your body prevent fat accumulation.

Expert Said Drinking Water Don't Help Weight loss

A professor from University of Alabama in Birmingham said that drinking water is not the  “magic bullet” for losing weight.

Beth Kitchin, Ph.D., R.D., assistant professor of nutrition sciences said that “There's a very little evidence that drinking water can bolster weight loss; it is one of those self-perpetuating myths.” However, she did not claim that drinking water is not good for you, but there are not enough study that show people who drank water burned calories as a result.

The recommended drinking 250ml glasses of water per day is also a myth.

“Yes, people do need to get fluids; but it does not have to be water,” Kitchin said. “There’s no evidence that it melts away fat or makes you feel fuller, so if you don’t like water it’s OK.”

She also said that water remains the best way to keep hydrated, however, you can also get your fluid from other flovered beverages like juice, tea, coffee or colas.

“People think coffee doesn’t count, but actually it does,” she said. “When you drink coffee, your body is retaining much of that fluid especially for people who are habituated to drinking caffeine, as the body adapts, resulting in a reduced loss of fluids.”

Drinking cold water burn more calories because the body will work double time to raise its temparature is also a myth.

"You will hear that ice-cold water helps burn extra calories." "While there may be a few extra calories lost, it won’t be nearly enough to make a dent in your weight-loss endeavors."

If you want to lose weight, she recommends a long-running, research-based weight management programme like EatRight by UAB or Volumetrics.

Amazing Weight Loss Time-Lapse

26-year-old Amanda lost 88 pounds and made a time-lapse GIF that shows her body transformation in just seconds. She began taking photos of herself in 2011 as a way to stay on track her progress in losing weight.

Amanda said on ABC News interview: "I knew that I had to start somewhere. I figured if I did it [took pictures] at least once a month, at the end of however long it took, I would have this really cool end product."

She started it weighing 222 pounds. She started eating a high-protein diet, controlled her food portions and perform moderate exercise. She lost 88 pounds in one year and has kept it off.

"I don't think I was actually prepared for the amount of emotional investment," Amanda said. "People bare their souls when they want to take back their health."

Her gallery of weight-loss photos garnered nearly three million views online and inspired a fellow Reddit user to create the GIF that has everyone buzzing.

"The waist got smaller. The bustline got bigger. The neckline got smaller," Dr. Jen Ashton, ABC News' senior medical contributor, said of Amanda's physical changes.

"But the more significant changes actually occur inside our bodies," she said. "Changes to one's sense of self, to one's physiology [and] to one's internal metabolism."

Study: Short burst of activity effective in shedding pounds

There's no short cut in a healthy weight loss however, a new study finds that short micro-bursts of activity throughout the day can make a big impact in losing weight.

The research was published on September 1 in the American Journal of Health Promotion, University of Utah researchers found that even brief episodes of physical activity of high intensity -- such as carrying a load of laundry or taking a flight of stairs -- worked just as well as longer 10-minute bouts.

"What we learned is that for preventing weight gain, the intensity of the activity matters more than duration," says researcher Jessie X. Fan, professor of family and consumer studies. "Knowing that even short bouts of 'brisk' activity can add up to a positive effect is an encouraging message for promoting better health."

Researchers used data from more than 4,500 men and women who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. In the survey, participants wore accelerometers for seven days, which captured data on their physical activity. Researchers then compared measurements of physical activity based on length of time and intensity. Four categories were created: higher-intensity bouts (greater than 10 minutes exertion at greater than 2,020 counts per minutes, or CPM), higher-intensity short bouts (less than 10 minutes at greater than 2,020 CPM), lower-intensity long bouts (greater than 10 minutes and less than 2,019 CPM), and lower-intensity short bouts (less than 10 minutes and less than 2,019 CPM).

The study used body mass index, BMI, to measure weight status with results showing that for women, each daily minute spent in higher-intensity short bouts was related to a decrease of .07 BMI (A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered normal weight, whereas a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is overweight; and over 30 is obese.) Looking at it another way, each such minute offset the calorie equivalent of .41 pounds (.18 kilos). Men had similar results, the researchers said.

A separate study announced earlier this year found that short bursts of activity, such as pacing while chatting on the phone, provided they add up to 30 minutes a day, are just as effective as a gym session. In the study, researchers at Oregon State University analyzed data on physical activity and health markers such as cholesterol and blood pressure for more than 6,000 US adults.

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/when-it-comes-to-weight-loss-every-movement-counts-study-1.1436944#ixzz2doNW0e9y

Weight Loss may lessen Psoriasis

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Psoriasis is an immune-mediated disease that affects the skin. It causes skin redness and irritation. People with psoriasis have thick, red skin with flaky, silver-white patches called scales.

It is a lifelong condition and there is currently no cure, but various treatments can help to control the symptoms.

New study shows that losing weight may help reduce symptoms of psoriasis. They studied  a group of obese people with psoriasis over 120 days. Half of them had a low-calorie diet. Those who had a low-calorie diet that lost 30 or more pounds had less skin irritation and reported improvement in their overall quality of life.

The study said the link between obesity and psoriasis may be explained in part by a common denominator is inflammation. Obesity is associated with inflammation, and psoriasis, once thought to affect only the skin, is now known to be a reflection of systemic and chronic immune-related inflammation.

You can check the Journal Here: JAMA Dermatology

Pop rock star Pink's astonishing weight loss

Pop star Pink recently shows off her fab body on the cover of Shape Magazine's November issue. Pink gave birth to daughter Willow Sage Hart in June last year. She gained 55 pounds during the pregnancy but has since lost the weight by working out at the gym and adhering to a mostly vegetarian diet.

The Egg Diet

The egg diet is a high-protein, low to no-carbohydrate diet. So basically, the diet includes 1-2 boiled eggs for breakfast, a piece of fruit for lunch and a small piece of chicken or fish (or more eggs) for dinner. As this is some kind of nutritional fasting where you stop consuming certain nutrients, in this case, carbohydrates, sure you'd probably lose some weight. But it's not really a healthy way to lose weight. Chances are, you'd gain it all back once you get tired of eating almost nothing but eggs. It's not easy but try to modify your lifestyle to lose weight and get healthy. Eat well and exercise - make that your diet plan.

Master Cleanse Diet, Weight loss

Grade B organic maple syrup - check, lemons - check, non-iodized sea salt - check, cayenne pepper - check, herbal teas - check. Now let's see if this works!

Master Cleanse Diet, Weight loss, http://haileyswellnessblog.blogspot.com/

Read about it here - http://themastercleanse.org, thought I'd give it a try.

If you want to join me here you can follow these steps:

1) You'll need these following ingredients:

 a)  Grade B organic maple syrup, it should be grade B or C, however grade C is very hard to find.

 b)  Lemons - freshly squeezed.

 c) non-iodized sea salt - it should also be unrefined. 

 d) cayenne pepper

 e) laxative tea

2) First thing in the morning you will need to drink 1 liter of water mixed with 2 tsps of sea salt. You must drink it straight because the taste is awful. This is called salt water flush. 

3) The salt water flush will make you move bowel. After that you can start drinking the Lemonade. You must not exceed 12 glasses a day. To make the Lemonade simply mix the freshly squeezed lemon juice, 1 tall glass of water, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. 

4) A couple of hours before bed time, take laxative tea.

You are not allowed to eat any food. If you are hungry what you can take is only the lemonade, a mint tea, or water. 

5) The recommended length of this diet is minimum of 10 days. 

I'm going to start tomorrow, I'll keep you updated on how much I lose. Right now I'm 146 pounds. I really hope this will work. 

Weight-loss gene test in the spotlight

WEIGHT-loss programs based on genetic tests operating out of pharmacies at a $1600 cost to patients have become the latest enterprise to expose the Pharmacy Guild to controversy over its links to commercialized care.

The guild, already under a cloud over its deals with drug companies and the abandoned agreement with complementary medicine giant Blackmores, has an agreement with a genetic testing company to provide dietitian-led weight-loss programs at pharmacy clinics.

Experts have dismissed the genetic test-based weight-loss program as a ''gimmick'' which did not have the support of clinical research.

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Under the Pharmacy Guild's agreement with a Melbourne-based testing company, MyGene, pharmacies provide clinic space for a dietitian to take the test swab which is then analysed for genes linked to how the body metabolises carbohydrates and lipids.

The in-pharmacy dietitian then provides nine sessions of dietary advice based on the test results which are said to guide ''a personally optimised eating plan and weight-loss program'', a joint statement by the guild and MyGene stated when the scheme was launched in March.

The overall price for test and dietitian services is $1600, the managing director of MyGene, Nick Argyrou, said yesterday.

Mr Argyrou said the scheme had proved ''very popular'' and was now offered in 15 pharmacies, mostly in Victoria and about to open in Sydney and had been successful in reducing patients' weight.

A spokesman for the guild said that under due diligence arrangements, MyGene had produced ''a body of supporting evidence''.

Associate Professor Katie Allen, a gastroenterologist and food allergy expert, said the research findings MyGene cited did not back the use of genetic tests to guide weight-loss programs. While the idea of tailoring a diet to fit with a particular patient's profile ''would be wonderful, at the present time there is insufficient evidence to support that as a currently available therapy'', Professor Allen of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute said.

But Toorak pharmacist John Button, whose store offers the MyGene service, says he accepts the scheme might be controversial, but said: ''I don't think it is charlatanism. It is not a poke in the dark.''

The weight-loss program had worked for his customers, including his friends who had been pleased with the results.

Mr Button said he did not receive any ''kickback'' and his only revenue from the service was sales of the meal substitute diet shakes recommended to customers in line with the recommendation of the dietitian on the basis of the genetic test findings.

A spokeswoman for the Therapeutic Goods Administration, said yesterday it appeared that the MyGene test for weight loss was not a therapeutic good and did not need to be registered as a therapeutic good.

Source theage.com by Mark Metherell