Medical authorities have estimated that about 70 % of people has a wight problem. Obesity is defined as excess body wight sufficient to increase overall morbidity and mortality. Although extreme obesity is associated with dramatically increased mortality, the risk to mild and moderate obesity are less clear. What I know is that if you carry a significant amount of extra weight to above 40 years of age, you will be pre-disposed to developing high blood pressure problems. which carries more health risks including stroke, heart disease, and renal failure. Carrying a significant amount of extra weight will also affect the integrity of the weight bearing joints, specifically the ankles, knees and hips. Changes of body weight can occur through alteration of several variables including 1) amount and type of food ingested, 2) central control of satiety 3) hormonal control of assimilation or storage 4) physical activity or metabolic rate. and 5) the use of weight loss products. Amount and Type of Food Ingested. Usually this is the first key to healthy diet. A balance of proteins and carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables are essential for good health. Avoid fatty , greasy foods and excessive sweets , like desserts. The amount of what you eat is important. To stop eating as soon as you fill full is a good practice. No second serving is advisable. Central Control of Satiety. Research showed that there is a serotonin type-3 (5HT3) hindbrain receptors which mediates cholecystokinin (CCK) -induced satiation in response to nutrients entering the small intestine. It appears that the CCK-1 and 5-HT3 receptors participate in the inhibition of of food intake by integrating both intestinal and gastric satiating signals. Hormonal Control of Assimilation or Storage: You have heard about the link between the stress hormone cortisol and weight loss. Excess stress may lead to high cortisol levels that stimulate your appetite with the end result being weight gain or difficulty losing unwanted pounds. Physical Activity and Metabolic Rate: The more physical activity you do daily the more you burn calories. And if your metabolism is increased , the more calories you burn, and the end result being weight loss. The opposite will give you the opposite result. The Use of Effective Weight Loss Products. The most effective weight loss products in the market today is the Core 4 Products of Cal Nutrasciences. There are four products: 1. Lean - is a meal replacement shake, aminoacids, proteins, minerals and fiber. 2. Accelerate- it gives you energy and accelerates metabolism, so it burns fat. 3. Flush - is a mild colon cleanse , mild detoxifier, it flushes toxins out of your body. Medical authorities have estimated that about 70 % of people has a wight problem. Obesity is defined as exces body wight sufficient to increase overall morbidity and mortality. Although extreme obesity is associated with dramatically increased mortality, the risk to mild and moderate obesity are less clear. What I know is that if you carry a significant amount of extra weight to above 40 years of age, you will be pre-disposed to developing high blood pressure problems. which carries more health risks including stroke, heart disease, and renal failure. Carrying a significant amount of extra weight will also affect the integrity of the weight bearing joints, specifically the ankles, knees and hips. Changes of body weight can occur through alteration of several variables including 1) amount and type of food ingested 2) Central control of satiety 3) hormonal control of assimilation or storage, 4) physical activity or metabolic rate. and 5) the use of weight loss products. Amount and Type of Food Ingested. Usually this is the first key to healthy diet. A balance of proteins and carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables are essential for good health. Avoid fatty , greasy foods and excessive sweets like desserts. The amount of what you eat is important. To stop eating as soon as you fill full is a good practice. No second servings is advisable. Central Control of Satiety. Reasearch showed that there is a serotonin type-3 (5HT3) hindbrain receptors which mediates cholecystokinin (CCK) -induced satiation in response to nutrients entering the small intestine. It appears that the CCK-1 and 5-HT3 receptors participate in the inhibition of of food intake by integrating both intestinal and gastric satiating signals. Hormonal Control of Assimilation or Storage: You have heard about the link between the stress hormone cortisol and weight loss. Excess stress may lead to high cortisol levels that stimulate your appetitite with the end result being weight gain or difficulty losing unwanted pounds. Physical Activity and Metabolic Rate: The more physical activity you do daiuly the more you burn calories. And if your metabolism is increased , the more calories you burn, and the end result being weight loss. The opposite will give you the opposite result. The Use of Effective Weight Loss Products. The most effective weight loss products in the market today is the Core 4 Products of Cal Nutrasciences. There are four products: 1. Lean - is a substitute shake, aminoacids 4. Cheat - this is the flagship product, odorless, tasteless food sprinkle which prevents absorption of 25% of the food calories. For instance, if you sprinkle this on a 2,000-calorie chicken fried steak, only 1500 calories are absorbed when you eat it Nutrient fusion occurs when you use the four products together, The produce the maximum effect in making you lose weight. But each of them stands on its own merit in its weight -reducing capabilities. People who have use these four products are losing weight from 5 to 10 lbs. In a week’s time. Controlled studies on people using ” Cheat” alone resulted in weight loss on the average of 8 lbs. in one month. Mr. Ray Grimm , one of the two founders marketed weight losss products for some twenty five years by direct sales and info-mercials and made more than One Billion Dollars. He teamed up with Mr. Paul Gravette, a guru, successful network marketer and they formed CNI , Cal Nutrasciences, and they decided to market the products by MLM-network marketing. During the first two weeks of Pre-launch, CNI sold more than $ 600,000. 00 and is expected to sell more than $1Million in the first month. The compensation plan is excellent. A distributor can reach the top of the compensation plan by just sponsoring five people who sponsors two people each— with just 15 people in his organization. To sign up is Free. . The website is Free. There is no autoship requirement. T qualify for a commission, you must have a $40 purchase by anybody in your group. For a detailed explanation of the compensation plan, you should attend the live conferences or go to your back office to access this information. You will have a good idea about the products and the business if you listen to the recorded calls in CNI Resources section in the back office.
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010Your Muscles: How to Build Strength, Not Size
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010I’ve spoken with many women who want to gain strength and agility through weight training, but don’t want to end up like the female version of the hulk! There are a number of theories on how to accomplish this. This post will help put the questions and rumors to rest. The following is a list of principles that you can follow to get strong and avoid unattractive bulk. These principles of fitness work for both men and women. Reduce your calorie intake. Building more muscle physically demands a surplus in calorie intake, which gives your body the nutrients it needs to build the extra tissue. No caloric surplus, no extra muscle gain, no matter what you do in your workouts. It’s really that simple. As you’re watching your calories, however, you need to be sure to take in enough to maintain your healthy body weight. If you want to lower your weight, simply reduce your calories a bit and allow your body to assimilate some of your body fat as an energy source. There are more accurate (and complicated) ways to estimate how many calories you need, but this should give you a decent idea: For sedentary people: Weight x 14 = estimated cal/day For moderately active people: Weight x 17 = estimated cal/day For active people: Weight x 20 = estimated cal/day Decrease your Rep Range To build strength, focus on the lower rep range (5-7 reps/set), while lifting as much weight as you can. This will allow you to gain the maximum amount of strength without experiencing hypertrophy, which stimulates muscle growth (8-12 rep range causes this). If you’re training to be an olympic distance swimmer, you should swim long distances in practice. Similarly, if you want to gain strength, you should lift as much weight as you can. Limit Cardio and Training Volume To get maximum strength gains, be sure to limit your cardio sessions to one or two 20-30 minute sessions per week, as many power lifters have a hard time gaining strength while engaging in too much cardio. Don’t push yourself too far with your weight training, either. Many people are tempted to put out a few more reps if they can, rather than upping the weight. This really sets you up for overtraining and potentially painful and serious injuries. Lift Smarter, Not Harder So keep these principles in mind as you focus on gaining strength. For an added bonus, incorporate compound lifts that will utilize multiple muscle groups at once, such as teh clean and jerk, overhead snatch, and hang clean. If you liked what you read here, leave a comment and sign up for our newsletter. You can also get our rss feed for updates whenever we post.
Las Vegas Bowl Tickets - Place Your Bets on BYU
Sunday, December 13th, 2009The Las Vegas Bowl is a great game to attend, and not just for the football. As the name of the game might have tipped you off, this bowl takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, where gambling on sports is as legal as freedom, and even if you spent some cash getting Las Vegas Bowl tickets from http://www. stubhub. com/las-vegas-bowl-tickets/, you might still walk away from the game with a bowl full of memories and some spare change to snag a flight and some tickets for the BCS title game. You might, that is, if you place the right bets on who’s going to win the game. Here are some popular NCAA Football futures bets for the winner of the Las Vegas Bowl. BYU Brigham Young is one of the clear favorites to not only get to the Las Vegas Bowl, but to win it. The Cougars have been to the Las Vegas Bowl the past three times, winning it the past two straight seasons, and this year they seem to be on a bullet train to another payout courtesy of Sin City. On a side note, do you think that sending the Mormon school to Las Vegas every year irks the BYU fans? In fact, since 1992, the first year that Las Vegas Bowl tickets were first made available, Utah teams (Utah, Utah State, BYU) have been in 40% of the LV Bowl games. Interesting. But moving on, BYU is 9-1 right now, ranked 16 in the AP, and putting points on the board without a problem. A matchup with undefeated Utah on the road could spell trouble, but they still have a good shot at the Las Vegas Bowl even if they lose that game. Oregon CBSsports. com is predicting Oregon-BYU for the Las Vegas Bowl, based on the fact that there will probably be approximately three other Pac-10 teams that will make more lucrative bowl games this season. USC will go to the Rose Bowl. Oregon State will land the Holiday Bowl, Cal will snag one, too, probably the Sun Bowl, leaving Oregon to take the Las Vegas Bowl. The second tier of the Pac-10 behind USC is a jumble of good teams, and Oregon will probably split their last two regular season games, versus Arizona at home and Oregon State on the road. Cal Cal beat BYU in the Las Vegas Bowl in 2005, and this year might be the rematch. Winning the rest of their regular season home games will be tough for the Golden Bears, but going 2-1 versus Oregon State on the road, Stanford at home and Washington at home is very doable. If that’s the case, and some other scenarios in the Pac-10 play out, Cal’s as good a pick as any to get to the Las Vegas Bowl, where their defense should keep them in the game, even if BYU is their opponent. Utah The long shot here is Utah, as they are currently undefeated and ranked No. 8 in the nation. Some people are predicting that they will find their way to the Sugar Bowl or another BCS game, but supposing they lose their next two regular season games- on the road at San Diego State and at home versus BYU, their fall from grace will land them right where a fall from grace should land you- a Christmas vacation in Las Vegas.
Fibromyalgia: Restore Balance To Your Body And Feel Better
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Most people with fibromyalgia realize that it seems like your whole system is unbalanced and it is. Studies have shown that most people with fibro have IBS, many have hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia or both, and most are generally deficient in one or more vitamins and minerals. Combine that with insomnia, not getting enough exercise, the inability to digest properly and failure to remove toxins and it is no wonder the imbalance seems impossible to correct. Any fibromyalgia treatment has to start with a program of helping the body overcome this imbalance and it must start with your diet. Changing lifestyle and diet habits seems to be the most difficult obstacle for fibro patients to overcome. It is easy to understand when it seems like your body is starving for energy and is screaming for you to feed it what it needs most for energy, carbs or sugar but that is exactly what is keeping this imbalance in place. Refined carbs and sugar are damaging your liver, pancreas, brain and adrenals. They are also acidic, forcing your body to regulate ph levels however it can, even if it means leaching calcium from your bones to combat acidity. They also contribute to and cause overgrowths of yeast and mold. How?Normally the liver controls blood sugar levels. It makes sugar from stores inside the liver and releases it as needed in a carefully regulated way. Eating excessive sugar or refined carbs can overwhelm this control system and then the liver must dump the excess into the systemic circulation. This results in high blood sugar which damages blood vessels. Then the pancreas comes in to play by releasing insulin to control these overwhelming blood sugar levels. It does this by shunting the sugar into fat, you will actually create more fat to store sugar which is your body’s way of protecting itself. Then a rebound effect can happen when your pancreas releases too much insulin to control excess sugar and your blood sugar drops too low. This is also damaging because then the energy supply to all tissues is impaired. This is hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia often leads to diabetes. Subconsciously you may eat to alleviate these symptoms of low blood sugar which is your body’s natural way of protecting itself but this just leads to a roller coaster effect of rising and falling blood sugars which soon spirals out of control. Another effective way the liver may react to low blood sugar is to convert short chain fatty acids into glucose. When the liver and pancreas can’t regulate blood sugar properly and sugar levels drop too low the brain begins to panic so to speak because the brain survives on blood sugar, this causes an adrenalin reaction to bring the sugar back up and if it happens at night it wakes you up preventing deep sleep which you need to heal. This can wreak havoc with the adrenals as your blood sugar dips throughout the day and night. Fibro patients often have low cortisol levels and adrenal fatigue. Simply put your adrenal glands become exhausted. Next the damaged or fatigued liver or pancreas can not create the needed enzymes for digestion. This leads to or worsens IBS and an inability to digest foods properly. The inability to digest can cause diarrhea, constipation, IBS. Also the inability to digest proteins leads to problems which create more of an inability to digest because you need protein and the proper digestion of protein to create enzymes needed for digestion. So this becomes yet another imbalance in fibromyalgia that creates another endless loop of malfunction. The important role played by amino acids is also reduced. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein. Proteins when digested properly break down into amino acids. These amino acids are involved in creating enzymes, the growth, repair and maintenance of body tissues, balancing blood sugar, digesting food, the proper functioning of the immune system and the production of hormones. Your body will actually begin to break down your intestines if it isn’t getting the amino acids it needs to function. Proteins are needed to heal and for a functioning immune system. With the breakdown of the immune system due to an inability to digest proteins you can not fight off yeast, molds, viruses and bacteria. Yeast and mold, bacteria and viruses often afflict fibromyalgia patients more than the general population and this burdens an already overworked immune system even more. With an inability to digest foods you are not going to properly absorb vitamins and minerals and this along with the diarrhea leads to malnutrition. You also need the proteins and amino acids to carry the vitamins and minerals to your cells. You need a healthy liver and blood vessels to clear your body of toxins and deliver oxygen to your cells. Fluid and electrolyte imbalances are also created due to diarrhea. In addition there may also be hormonal imbalances. The body will do whatever it takes to control blood sugar, fluid imbalances and ph levels, if it didn’t, you would die. This in the simplest terms describes the overwhelming job that is placed on your body due to the many imbalances involved in fibromyalgia. What can you do to stop this cascade of imbalances?• Lower carb higher protein dietMost doctors recommend this for fibro. There is a known endocrine disorder with fibro and while doctors don’t exactly know how this correlation works, they know it exists. Make it easy on yourself. Don’t even try complicated diet plans that seem like an extra job. Incorporate lower carb higher protein into YOUR lifestyle. Don’t bother counting carbs, just eliminate sugar and white flour and if you can’t do it seven days a week do it six days a week, if you can’t do it six days a week start with five days a week. If you still can’t eliminate them this way, then try this, divide your plate into fourths, one half is covered with non starchy vegetables, one fourth with meat or fish and one fourth with carbs. If you are making pasta for dinner start with a salad with lemon and olive oil. This will help activate digestive juices in your stomach. Have four meatballs instead of two and less pasta and no bread. If you must have bread look for the smallest rolls possible or just half a slice. Some doctors recommend whole grain instead of white but others say no to any grains for hypoglycemia and IBS. I believe if you take digestive enzymes whole grains shouldn’t be a problem for either but they are still carbs so limit them. If you still must have an occasional dessert then make it cheesecake (a sliver) or get a diabetic cookbook and learn how to make lower sugar/carb desserts and meals. Watch the rice and potatoes also. And some fruits also have too much sugar like bananas, limit fruit when you are starting, stick to low glycemic fruits. Eat whole fruits, the fiber is good for you. No fruit juice whatsoever, it is too high in sugar. No sugar but if you must, Stevia or Agave Nectar in your coffee or tea and limit this to one cup a day. There is also a new stevia out called Truvia. This might be worth checking into. Absolutely no aspartame or Splenda or any sugar substitutes other than stevia. Herbal teas are also good because they don’t need much sweetening to be flavorful. Learn the glycemic indexes of foods. Learn what complex carbs (the ones you should be eating) are. Little or no processed food. Refined food may very well be the culprit in many of your ills. By the time refined food is cooked and gets to your plate there are practically no enzymes left in it for digestion. Eat raw foods as much as possible. Drink plenty of water, add a little lemon to it. Lemon water with distilled or spring water is good for your liver. It will also help you create stomach acids needed for digestion. Eat only good oils. Cold pressed olive oil is best. Good fats slow the release of glucose. Eat breakfast (a must), it will help to stabilize your blood sugars throughout the whole day. Learn what your daily intake of protein should be based on your weight. Try adding whey protein to your daily meal plans. The kind that weightbuilders use is the best. It is easily digested and gives you extra protein that you may not be getting. Add to milk and drink one glass in the morning and it will give you stable protein for energy. It is also low in sugars. Drink another in the afternoon if you have a mid afternoon slump and drink one before bed, it will create tryptophan which will help you sleep and the proteins can also work to give extra healing while you are sleeping. If you don’t like the whey protein then eat an egg for breakfast and drink extra milk. If you can’t tolerate milk then use lactose digestion aids/enzymes. Eat smaller and more meals throughout the day. Three meals and two snacks daily. Make the snacks higher in protein. A good one is peanut butter on whole wheat crackers. In short you must do whatever it takes to stabilize your blood sugars. This will give you energy, help your depression, stop your insomnia and help you sleep better. It will also help greatly with your pain. I have heard people with fibro say that they have tried diet and it doesn’t work. Or they are reluctant to even try. It isn’t going to work overnight or even in a few days. It will take anywhere from two to six weeks just to get your blood sugar stabilized and then it will take months for the healing to occur. You didn’t reach this state overnight, you are not going to get over it in a couple of days but I can guarantee you will absolutely feel better and you will notice improvements in a short time that will make you want to stick to it. And if you fall off the wagon occasionally don’t use it as an excuse to give up, just get back on and try again. Also note that the diet is lower carb higher protein, don’t go overboard and severely restrict carb intake or signifcantly increase protein intake if you feel you are meeting the daily requirements for protein for your weight, gender and age. If you have access to a glucose meter and know how to use it, check your blood sugar levels yourself throughout the day. See an endocrinolgist to get a complete blood sugar work up. Get checked for hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, diabetes, all of it. If your blood sugars are not normal they will probably recommend a dietitian to help create a diet plan for you, in addition to insulin or other medications if needed. See your doctor and ask to have your adrenal and liver function tested. • Use digestive and systemic enzymes. Look for a good formula with Betaine and Pepsin in the digestive, take before meals to help digest food, especially proteins which are the hardest to digest. Papaya Enzymes are also good for digesting proteins. • Use probiotics. A good formula with at least five beneficial bacteria. • Use EFA’s Essential Fatty Acids. They will help regulate glucose. Take before a meal. • If IBS does not improve with digestive enzymes try peppermint gels in addition. Drink peppermint tea. If this doesn’t help get tested for SIBO (small intestinal bacteria overgrowth). You may need antibiotics. • Try a blood sugar formula but be careful to read ingredients, you don’t want to lower insulin just help stabilize it. • Milk Thistle is good for the liver. • Licorice is good for the adrenals but check side effects and drug interactions. Some people should not take licorice. Look for other supplements that are good for adrenal fatigue. • A good multi-vitamin is a must. Look for high quality, higher concentrations at first since you are not absorbing well until your digestion improves. • Amino Acids supplements may also help you to heal. • Research all vitamins and supplements before taking. Some cause dangerous side effects and interactions if you are not meant to take them. • Keep a food diary. Learn what foods cause diarrhea or fatigue or any of the symptoms of hypoglycemia or blood sugar problems for you. Everyone is different. • Exercise. Go for a walk after meals. This will greatly help to stabilize and normalize blood sugars. It will also help stimulate normal bowel functions. Remember you must change your lifestyle and diet. You really have no choice if you want to heal. Supplements are needed and help a great deal to support your overwhelmed body on its way to healthful balance, they help with many functions that your body is just unable to do on it’s own for the time being but there aren’t enough supplements in the world to replace the millions of functions that a healthy body does naturally and brilliantly. Note: While not every fibromyalgia patient has all of the above symptoms there has been some research to suggest a link between IBS and varying degrees of hypoglycemia or reactive hypoglycemia. Studies indicate that up to 80% of fibromyalgia patients suffer from IBS. There have also been conclusive studies demonstrating abnormal adrenal function in fibromyalgia patients. Some studies indicate that fibromyalgia patients have higher degrees of blood sugar problems such as hypoglycemia, diabetes, insulin resistance and pre diabetes than the general population. Many fibromyalgia patients experience fibroglycemia, both high and low blood sugars. You are the best judge of your fibro symptoms and what treatments might be of benefit to you, as always discuss all of your treatments with your doctor and inform them of all alternative treatments and products that you use. Mary Ferrari is webmaster of www. fibrosmart. com an alternative health site featuring articles, newsletters, products and more related to successful alternative treatments for fibromyalgia. “I have been pain/symptom free from fibromyalgia since 2008 and have helped many people who wish to overcome their symptoms using non pharmaceutical supplements and treatments. ”
How To Flatten Your Stomach
Friday, November 20th, 2009If you have a belly that you’re not satisfied with and would enjoy to know how to flatten your own belly, then you may be on the most vital piece you have been on all month. In this piece of information I will answer the subject that’s annoying you: “how do I flatten my stomach”. It can be exasperating trying to thin those waist line as well as appear appealing in those thin jeans or bikini if you have a pouch or fat around your belly. Here is how to get rid of it. How To Flatten Your TummyThe first thing that you must do is check your own wants. This info is for folks that in all honesty desire this as well as that are ready to take action. If you are merely surfing and truthfully do not have any bona fide wish to do a little work, then maybe this info is not for you. If you desire to have the drive, but cannot seem to get started, then begin by writing out your goals & why they’re incredibly crucial to you. Then read them aloud on a daily basis, even two or three times a day until it becomes ingrained into Your brain. Your own way of thinking. Your own life. Next, you’ll wish to create a calorie deficit. This is of the utmost value if you wish to get going to lose weight. A calorie shortage is merely consuming less calories than you burn everyday. You burn up a majority of those cals by just being alive. It’s what we call your metabolism. You probably use up sixty five to eighty percent of all of your own cals in a day just by being alive. You use up up another 10% or so from digestion & the rest through some nature of physical activity. At this moment everyone of these can be altered to play in those favor. The solitary prime factor in ever-increasing your own metabolism is ever-increasing your own bodies lean muscle mass. The more lean body mass you have (muscle) the higher your metabolism will be & the more calories you will burn up while at rest. You can increase the amount of calories you burn in digestion merely by changing the types of dishes you eat and how they are cooked. For example, protein takes about 30% of it is whole cals to be digested. If you eat one hundred calories of protein it will take about 30 cals to digest. It is 20 % or so for carbs & three percent or so for fats. This is 1 more reason that fatty foods just aren’t high-quality for you, especially if you want to flatten your own stomach. Then there is physical activity. Physical activity is incredibly crucial, although not only for the reasons that you have been taught. You almost certainly believe that the key reason that you ought to workout, is since you wish to burn left over cals during your exercise. That is actually the second reason that you are exercising. The principal reason you ought to workout is so that you can build up lean muscle so that you raise your own metabolism so that you can burn up even more calories every day not simply during exercises. It simply so happens that workouts that develop lean muscle as well happen to burn a lot of cals during them too. How To Get A Flat Tummy In 30 DaysSo, at this instant you have the basics of what to perform to get a flat belly, burn calories, and lose fat. Here’s how to do it rapidly, how to get a flat stomach in 30 days. One. Write down your goal proclamation as well as read it on a daily basis. Two. Eat meals that are soaring in protein and minimal in fat. If at all possible organic as well as cooked at home. The meals you eat or the total calories you consume are the greatest factor in helping you to create a calorie shortage. A pound of fat is about three thousand five hundred calories. Meaning if you were to produce a calorie shortage of 750 a day you would lose a lb of fat every four-five days. 3. Concentrate on workouts that will amplify your lean body mass. Make sure to workout your own belly at a minimum 3 days a week. The workout for your tummy would go something like: 3 sets of crunches to failure & 2 sets of sit ups to failure. Going to failure means performing a set until you can’t do anymore or until your form breaks down. Fat is the issue, and muscle is how you combat it. You would be wise to make use of a ab machine like the ab roller. Now in all this talking I haven’t said much about exercising the stomach have I? That’s since your main focus ought to not be directly on your own stomach, nevertheless on burning fat. This will get rid of fat in your own stomach area and indirectly flattens your own belly. Now, you have a great belly exercise to do right after working out the rest of your own body. Take at a minimum 36 hours between stomach workouts. Well, this is a extended article, so I hope that you were able to digest it all. There were most likely a few things that go against the norm, however I am sure you’ll be alright. Thanks for enjoying this how to flatten my belly editorial.
Your Choices in Roofing Materials
Monday, November 16th, 2009When you are looking into roofing materials - whether you are building a new home, looking into a major remodel of the exterior of your property or you need to make repairs after a major storm or other disaster - chances are good that you’ll be a bit surprised by just how many varieties are going to be offered to you. Given the wide variety of roofing materials that are available to you, it’s a good idea to take some hints from the pros like Anthony Delmedico of Abelard Construction. The standard asphalt shingle is always going to be an option when you are looking for a simple way to cover your roof - something that’s standard. When you’re looking into asphalt shingles, you’re going to find that the standard, three-tab shingle is the least expensive option. You’ll also find that there are usually guarantees on the roofing material that will assure you that your shingles are going to last a good twenty years or more, and that you’re able to choose from a wide variety of solid colors and blends. In other words, you’ll have variety, but your roof is going to look a lot like that on every other house. Abelard Construction doesn’t just use standard asphalt shingles when they’re taking on a roofing project, and if they are going to be doing your roof, you might want to discuss the most basic upgrade to an architectural shingle. Anthony Delmedico explains that these shingles are thicker and the layers are staggered; overall, they look more substantial. These shingles are going to add a bit of style that sets your home apart without adding a lot to the cost of your roofing project. While architectural shingles in some colors look a lot like slate - from a distance - or like wood shakes. Delmedico explains that a wood shingle roof that weathers helps to ensure that your home will look like it’s always been a part of the landscape and that roofs that are made with rougher, thicker wood shakes that add even more character to your home. There are a couple of drawbacks to wood shingles and shakes; first, they cost a bit more. The other drawback is that they require more maintenance than other roofing materials. A great option for those who love the look of wood shingles and shakes is to take a look at the so-called fakes. In areas where there is a risk of fire (think California and other areas where wildfires spread) and there are local codes in place that require roofing materials to be fireproof, these “fake shakes” are able to look like wood and meet that requirement. By taking the time to talk with professionals like Anthony Delmedico when you are looking into roofing materials, you’ll find that you’re able to get more information about your options - and the pros and cons of each of them. Doing so will enable you to know that you’re getting a beautiful roof that is long lasting, will not break the bank, and will meet all of your needs.
Bring Jolly Weighs to Your Holidays!
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009Lower Calorie “Family & Friend” Friendly Foods
I can’t tell you how many times I hear people say that they want to lose weight over the holidays (or at least maintain their current weight), but it never happens because they have to make foods that family & friends will all enjoy (which means low cal stuff is out the window). I can certainly attest to that. . . It is pretty tough to throw a dinner party and serve my guests the whole-grain soy pattie wraps that I normally make for myself. Yes, guilty as charged: I load my party dinners chock-full of calories in hopes of pleasing the masses. So what can we do? Well, I’ve come up with what I will call a list of “crossover” foods: Foods lower in calories, but still delicious enough not to scare away the “I don’t do diet food” friends and relatives.
Candies and Chocolates: Don’t let the crazy holiday candy/chocolate grazing get the best of you. Fight back with these light delights:
Gayle’s Miracles: FOR 1: Calories: 30, Fat: 1g, Sodium: 10mg, Carbs: 6g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 1g, WW PTS: 1, Cals/Gram: 2. 73. We all know that the holidays are the time of year when gourmet chocolates make their grand appearance. Make sure you have these little 30 calorie luxury chocolate pieces on hand - they are oh so decadant - despite being at least 1/2 the calories of the other boxed chocolate grinches!
Spangler Sugar Free Candy Canes: FOR 1: Calories: 42, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 0mg, Carbs: 14g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 1, Cals/Gram: 3. 00. A candy cane for the holiday hall of fame. Now get 23% fewer calories than the regular candy cane, and these still taste candy cane sweet! A pretty slick way to keep the holiday sugar snacking in check.
York Sugar Free Peppermint Patties: FOR 3: Calories: 80, Fat: 3. 50g, Sodium: 0mg, Carbs: 28g, Fiber: 1g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 2, Cals/Gram: 3. 30. York Sugar Free Peppermint Pattie is the Christmas MACDADDY! My all time fav right here people. I’m mad for these mint patties with only 80 calories for 3 whole pieces. These are cheap and available almost everywhere - which is pretty sweet. Slip these into your chocolate dish and go on a short holiday mint stint.
Beverages: Holiday drinks are diet killers. Don’t get lured down this very dark and dangerous caloric beverage alley.
Silk Eggnog: Calories: 90, Fat: 2g, Sodium: 75mg, Carbs: 15g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 3g, WW PTS: 2, Cals/Gram: 0. 75. With soy eggnog this good, you really don’t need the 160 whopping calorie regular eggnog. I personally liked Vitasoy’s Holly Nog better, which has 30 fewer calories (see review below), but Silk is a little better on price and can be found in your regular grocery store, so those are big pluses.
Vitasoy Holly Nog Calories: 60, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 0mg, Carbs: 14g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 1, Cals/Gram: 3. 00. This definitely takes the low calorie eggnog prize - and is pretty healthful, too! This not only cuts down the amount of calories from eggnog (big time - from 150 on average to 60), but is also organic, a great source of potassium, has no cholesterol or artificial sweeteners and virtually no fat. Pretty egg-celent I must say! You don’t have to sacrifice so much on taste, either, so your whole clan can be a fan - which, as we know, is great for holiday gatherings. Vitasoy is right, it is a “holly” nog!
Alpine Sugar Free Cider: Calories: 15, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 0mg, Carbs: 4g, Fiber: 1g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 0, Cals/mL: 0. 07. A cider that gives reason to tis’ the season - only 15 little calories for an apple-cinnamon cup of luxury. Now you can sip without the guilt! You can find this just about anywhere - I found it at Super Walmart and Krogers. Random Holiday Ingredients: Make sure to sneak in lower calorie options where they are available. Some good swaps are:
Heinz Fat Free Turkey Gravy: Calories: 20, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 290mg, Carbs: 4g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 1g, WW PTS: 0, Cals/Gram: 0. 33. This turkey gravy tastes groovy, and when mixed in with stuffing and turkey breast, it is unlikely anyone will notice that it is fat free. This shaves 10 calories off of the regular gravy, and we all know that we will go for a couple of servings of this stuff - so it really starts to add up.
Comstock Sugar Free Cherry Pie Filling: Calories: 35, Fat: 0g, Sodium: 15mg, Carbs: 8g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 0g, WW PTS: 1, Cals/Gram: 0. 41. Cut your calories nearly in half with this awesome tastin’ pie fillin’. Nowadays with pre-made crusts and this low calorie pie filling, it is mega easy to spend a little bit of time to make your pies at home. . . and save 100 - 150 calories! By the way, I spotted a generic Walmart Great Value brand of this with the same nutritional information, so use that and also save a few bucks!
Keebler Ready Crust: Reduced Fat Graham: Calories: 100, Fat: 3. 5g, Sodium: 100mg, Carbs: 15g, Fiber: 0g, Protein: 1g, WW PTS: 2, Cals/Gram: 4. 76. This reduced fat graham crust is a handy little holiday helper. It cuts off 10 calories and 1. 5 grams of fat from the original. No. . . it’s not much, but the nice part is that it tastes exactly the same, so its kinda low calorie hanging fruit. The bigger benefit (for me anyway) is this easy crust inspires me to make more pies, instead of buying them, and believe me, the pies you make at home can lob off 150+ calories per slice - now THAT’S a worthwhile benefit.
Now if only St. Nick would start using some of these items. . . I bet his reindeer would be eternally grateful!
How Many Knee Braces Does it Take to Power Your Cell Phone?
Friday, November 6th, 2009Whilst the use of knee braces have long been used to either support or prevent damage to the ligaments of American Pro footballers, recent scientific developments have highlighted a much more intriguing use: the knee brace harnessing the kinetic energy of the knee movement and storing it. Boffins from the University of Pittsburgh and the Simon Fraser University in Canada have found a way to harness 30 minutes cell phone time from 1 minute’s walking. Keep that up and The Pittsburgh Steelers could power their own floodlights during matches!
It has to be said that such a notion is actually along way off, but so far the bionic knee brace is causing quite a stir. It appears as a conventional example of a supportive knee brace; it weighs 3. 5 pounds (that’s 1. 6 kilos for the more metrically minded). It harvests the same energy from the muscular breaking motion of the knee in walking as regenerative vehicles, such as the Toyota Prius, will harvest electricity from the breaking capacity within the car. A minute or so of walking at a moderate pace of 2. 2 miles per hour generated 5 watts of power.
This is not a new idea: aside from knee braces such energy harvesters have been tried in backpacks and heels of shoes. Unfortunately these devices have either been much heavier than the knee brace, or have simply been less effective in providing enough wattage.
The benefits of this knee brace technology have been outlined by the researchers: they envisage it use by the military, supplying the energy for everything to GPS devices to night-vision goggles. The energy from these knee braces will also help those people in areas where the mass generation of electricity is not possible: as with clockwork radios, these devices might allow the use of low-powered computers. Medically Knee Brace power could be used to help those who require prosthetics or exo-skeletons.
Of course, the idea of the human as battery has been the stuff of cinematic nightmares for years. Despite the beneficial claims, there will probably be a nagging doubt in everyone’s mind. There may be visions perhaps, of armies of “Cybermen” clunking around the planet, controlling the population through the power of their energy-harvesting knee braces. The growing pace of technology, has always fed these more negative speculations, but hey, at least this form of knee brace fuel is a greener type of conquest!
33 Best R&B Songs For Your Wedding Reception
Friday, November 6th, 2009If you’re looking to set a sensuous vibe at your wedding reception, look no further than a playlist full of R&B wedding songs. With smooth base lines and sultry lyrics, R&B songs of love and devotion are perfect for moving, grooving, and romance on the dance floor. But with decades of songs to choose from, the only hard part is narrowing your playlist down. Consider this list of the best R&B wedding songs your starting point R&B Wedding Songs These passionate R& B wedding songs have fitting lyrics and sultry melodies that will suit every component of your wedding from walking down the aisle through to the last dance. Never - Jaheim Forever My Lady - Jodeci Sweet Love - Anita Baker Caught Up in the Rapture - Anita Baker Spend My Life with You - Eric Benet & Tamia Nice and Slow - Usher You Got It Bad - Usher Ribbon in the Sky - Stevie Wonder You Mean the World to Me - Toni Braxton Always and Forever - Heat Wave On Bended Knee - Boyz II Men Never Let Go - Faith Evans Angel of Mine - Monica For You I Will - Monica The Sweetest Thing - Lauren Hill No Ordinary Love - Sade You - Jesse Powell The Cool in You - Babyface By Your Side - Sade I Swear - All-4-One Make it Last Forever - Keith Sweat Here and Now - Luther Vandross Every Beat of My Heart - Brian McKnight Back at One - Brian McKnight Saved the Best for Last - Vanessa Williams Crazy Love - Aaron Neville All My Life - K-Ci and Jojo Suddenly - Billy Ocean No One - Alicia Keys Hello - Lionel Richie Saving All My Love for You - Whitney Houston Everything - Mary J. Blige Family Affair - Mary J. Blige Get even more great R&B wedding songs for your reception and a complete list of popular wedding songs at Elegala. com.
Little Lotto - Your Ultimate Strategy Guide For Winning Today
Friday, November 6th, 2009Little Lotto is a lottery game that can be played in Chicago. A game usually costs about 1 dollar with the price that starts at 100,000 dollars. This price continues to grow for the next draw if there is no winner for the previous draw. In this kind of lottery, there are numerous ways in order to win prizes. The numbers to choose from range from numbers 1 up to 39 with the lotto draws occurring everyday, 7 times a week at 9:22pm. The results can be found at the Chicago Lotto Website and other local Chicago newspapers and broadsheets. The first prize comprises of getting 5 numbers in any order. The second prize is getting 4 out of 5 numbers with the average prize of 100 dollars. The third prize is matching 3 out of the 5 winning numbers with the prize of 10 dollars. Lastly, the fourth prize is getting 2 out of 5 numbers with a prize of 1 dollar. The odds of winning the first prize in Little Lotto is 1 out of 575,757, the odds of winning the second prize is 1 out of 3,387, the chances of winning the third prize is 1 out of 103 and the chances of winning the fourth prize is 1 out of 10. If there is more than 1 winner for the jackpot, then the jackpot money will be split equally among the winners. There are numerous tips, tricks and strategies that can be employed in order to have a higher probability of success in playing this kind of lottery. In order to learn and know these tips and strategies, be sure to read ahead. The first useful tip and strategy that can be used in order to liven up the probability of winning the Little Lotto is the repeat hit tip. Little Lotto is a one of a kind lottery game, making the probability of repeated hits very high. In fact, the probability can go as high as 51 percent, unlike other lottery games. This useful strategy is fully based on a study conducted in the U. S. on the repeated occurrence of a number for a period of one week on a daily basis. The second useful strategy is in knowing the hot numbers during the past week of Little Lotto draw results. The numbers that are out for four consecutive games or less will usually have a higher probability of appearing on the next lottery draw and account for half of the winning numbers. Losing numbers that have not been drawn for seven consecutive games usually account for two thirds of the next winning combination. Losing numbers that are out for ten successive games will weave up to 79 percent chance in the next lottery draw result. The last but not the least in numerous available tips and strategies for the Little Lotto is in knowing the cold numbers. The truth is that it is very difficult to predict how long a cold number or losing number continues to go on with its losing streak. If you keep on playing a combination for more than 20 consecutive draws without it appearing even once, then it is apparently a cold number. As such, by knowing that it is a cold number, you can wield it out of the combinations that you will be placing your bets on in the future.