Nutrition Weight Loss for Wellness

Buddha's Wisdom on Good Nutrition and Healthy Eating

2009-06-10T07:25:00.027-04:00

Buddha's teachings put much emphasis on balance and harmony of the mind and body.

Why do you eat? Other than satisfying your hunger and palate, you eat in order to keep your body healthy, to help your body rejuvenate every now and then, and to heal your body of any ailment or disease resulting from disharmony.

When your body gets its nutrients from pure, whole food, your body maintains its balance and harmony - the foundation of health and wellness. Get your whole food from WholeFood Farmacy.

Unfortunately, contemporary society focuses on availability and convenience, instead of the nutritive values of food - hence the popularity of processed food, which not only deprives your body of nutrients but also overloads it with toxic chemicals. Worse, when sickness strikes, you give your body a drug to replace a natural substance that your body is capable of making itself. As a result, your body becomes weaker and more dependent on that external substance, which is the drug. This is how your body may lose its balance and harmony.

Buddha once said: "There are nine causes for the premature, unexpected end to human life. The first five of these are related to one's diet, and the rest are related to one's improper conduct."

According to Buddha, the five causes of death related to good nutrition and healthy eating are as follows:

1. One should not eat what should not be eaten. (That is processed food or junk food)

2. One should not overeat. (Stop Dieting and Start Living)

3. One should not eat contrary to custom. (Steaming your food instead of deep-frying)

4. One should not eat when one has not digested one's previous meal. (12 Steps to a Complete Detox for internal cleansing)

5. One should not retain undigested food in one's body.(Natural Remedies for Constipation)

For more information, go to my web page: Health Longevity.

Also, visit my website: The Seven Pillars of Wisdom.

Stephen Lau

Eating Organic and Natural for Weight Loss

2009-05-26T20:18:00.005-04:00

Very often you are hungry because your body is nutrient deficient.

Eating organic and natural will provide your body with more nutrients and less toxic chemicals. Your liver, which is you body's main detoxifying agent, can become overstressed if there is a great amount of toxins in your food. Pesticides have known to increase breast cancer risk and Parkinson's, among others. Therefore, eating organic and natural is the key to maintaining one's health as well as controlling one's body weight.

Eating organic and natural requires you to do the following:

1. Always read food labels. A food item must be at least 70 percent organic to be qualified as being "organic." Avoid all processed foods which are loaded with chemicals and additives.

2.Do not buy "organic junk food." It is safe from a chemical perspective, but it is still "junk food" with little or no nutritional value.

3. Buy free range beef and chicken because they do not have antibiotics, estrogen, and artificial hormones. Instead of being corn fed, these animals eat grass, rich in omega-3 fatty acids.

4. Avoid farm-raised fish, such as farm-raised salmon, which are exposed to antibiotics, pesticides, chemicals, and color additives. Eating natural means eating only deep-sea fish.

Go The Ultimate Organic Lifestyle, and learn to grow your organic produce with Organic Gardening Secrets.

Eat only Super Foods for super nutrients to avoid binge eating and weight gain.

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Why Do You Want to Eat More?

2009-05-21T06:46:00.006-04:00

Weight loss begins with the mind. Your brain make you think about food when you are hungry. It is not your rumbling stomach that tells you that you are hungry. Your brain has a hunger center that tells you when you are hungry and when you are satiated. In fact, it is the fat cells in your brain that send the message of hunger.

So, your brain can make you crave food or abstain from food. Your brain controls your body's metabolism. Satiety makes you forget about food, while hunger makes you look for food. The fine line between hunger and satiety is indistinct, and it is easy to cross over from satiety to hunger, or vice versa.

For this reason, the very notion of going on a diet may already send a message to your brain that you are hungry and deprived. This is why freedom of food choices may put you into satiety, while refraining from eating certain types of food may put you into a hunger mode. Once your mind is programmed into thinking that certain food items are "forbidden" to eat, your mind immediately tells you that you want to eat them, or at least try to eat something else in lieu of the forbidden food. This is how food craving is created.

Eat Stop Eat shows you how to eat less.

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Stephen Lau

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Cheat on Your Diet with Food Cravings

2009-05-20T14:33:00.006-04:00

You want to lose pounds and to lose belly fat. But the No.1 enemy to weight loss is your food cravings.

You want to go on a weight loss diet to lose weight, but food cravings make you cheat on your weight loss diet.

Food cravings reward you for your strenuous efforts in weight loss. They make you feel good about yourself (what you have accomplished so far) short term, but they make you feel bad long term. This is why all so-called "comfort foods" provide little or no comfort at all when it comes to weight loss.

Studies have shown the reason why 80 percent of dieters fail to lose weight is that they succumb to their food cravings. To make matters worse, failure in one diet does not put them back to square one, as most people would like to think. Instead, dieters often find themselves in a much worse-off situation - that is, they have gained more than they previously lost. The explanation is that they have messed up their metabolism rate, so they gain more than they lost. In addition, failure in any diet may have an adverse emotional impact on a dieter, such as guilt and disappointment, resulting in more food cravings.

Right Brain Diet helps you control your food cravings for ultimate weight loss.

For more information on weight loss, go to my web page: Nutrition Weight Loss.

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To Lose Weight, Do Not Stress Your Gastrointestinal Tract

2009-05-17T06:22:00.005-04:00

Your gastrointestinal tract (GI)is made up of your mouth and teeth, your esophagus and stomach, and your small and large intestines. Your GI is your digestive system, which has a great impact on how you lose weight. Natural weight loss is almost impossible without gastrointestinal health, that is, a healthy gastrointestinal tract

To lose pounds, especially to lose belly fat, do not stress your gastrointestinal tract by doing the following:

1. Avoid eating refined foods and sugar. All processed foods are refined, with little or not nutrients, and often loaded with chemicals.

2. Avoid eating fatty and rich foods. They are difficult to digest, and overload the work of your entire digestive system

3. Do not eat too many different types of food at a time (in particular over a long period of time), and this is a major cause of obesity, because it causes gastrointestinal dysfunction, and hence resulting in a chronic breakdown of digestive health and function.

4. Avoid drinking water or any liquid while you eat. Having a drink during a meal is not a great idea for gastrointestinal health.

5. Always chew your food properly. That is why it is not in the best interest of your gastrointestinal tract to eat while you watch TV. Be mindful of what you put into your mouth.

6. Wherever possible, avoid pharmaceutical drugs (prescription or over the counter). They are chemicals and dangerous.

7. Include more fiber in your diet. Natural fiber from beans, vegetables, and fruits facilitate your digestive process to enhance your gastrointestinal health.

Remember, death begins at the colon. To lose belly fat or to lose pounds, there is no shortcut other than maintaining a healthy gastrointestinal tract.

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For more information on weight loss, visit my web page: Nutrition Weight Loss for Wellness. You can also download a FREE copy of my 143-page e-book All-Round Weight Loss.

Stephen Lau

Nutrition Weight Loss with Gastrointestinal Health

2009-05-12T21:50:00.004-04:00

Gastrointestinal function and ecology are vital to nutrition weight loss. That is to say, how well the body digests and absorbs food affects the rate of success in any weight loss program or endeavor to lose weight.

Dr Suzanne Gudakunst in her book Fat Loss Secret shows how dangerous plaques and harmful bacteria can impair your gastrointestinal health, thereby adversely affecting your weight loss, in particular, how to lose belly fat. Sometimes your inability to lose belly fat despite calorie restriction in you diet is due to the "worms" in your gastrointestinal tract.

Did you know that . . . ?

An average human's bacteria located in the colon alone weigh as much as several pounds.

Your body produces, through your digestive system, nearly a gallon of fluid everyday to digest your food in order to maintain you gastrointestinal health.

Well, you can well imagine what a dysfunctional gastrointestinal system may do to your overall health, not to mention interfering with your nutrition weight loss.

Remember, eating less may not help you lose weight, and weight loss has more to do with just eating fewer calories than you expend. Nutrition weight loss focuses on what you need to eat - that is, the nutrients in your food. You have to eat super foods to maintain your gastrointestinal health for ultimate nutrition weight loss.

For more information, go to my web page: Nutrition Weight Loss.

Next time, more on nutrition weight loss.

Stephen Lau

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