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How to live a healthy life?

By Unknown → Thursday, December 11, 2014
We are so busy with the duties of our daily lives that we do not take the time to look after ourselves for a healthy life. It's really no wonder that so many of us are tired and have health concerns. But simple things can drastically improve your quality of life.

Drink more water.

You've heard it a million times and you will probably hear a million more: drink more water!
Think about it: The human body is 72% water. Decreased by 5% of this precious liquid creates a loss of 25-30% in energy. A 15% drop in your body leads to death! Despite this, 66% of us do not drink enough water. For a healthy life drink at least 1.5 liters of water per day. Do not wait a poor diet and stress make havoc on your health.

This is not really a hard thing to fix. Just drink a glass of water every half-hour - or 10-12 glasses of water a day - and you will notice a huge jump in your energy levels.

Living food.

The raw food diet is a healthy diet that consists of foods with high levels of nutrients to the human body for a healthier life. It is the fresh juice of fruits and vegetables, sprouted seeds without forgetting the wheat grass juice.

A little known fact is that cooking food above 47 ° Celsius destroyed much of the nutrient content. Considering now that we do not consume enough vegetables, it's a pretty significant problem. Nutritionists recommend five fresh vegetables daily. How many of us are actually in following this advice?

A great way to get the nutrients in fresh vegetables for a healthier life without cooking all day baking or eating raw celery sticks is to make you your juice your vegetables. To do this, get a good juicer (some juicers expose vegetables to heat generated by friction during the extraction of the juice, which breaks down the essential enzymes), take some fresh vegetables and drink the juice during the day to regain good health. It takes little time and sparingly convenient. You can take and make your juice in your workplace.

Another source of nutrition for a healthier life is Wheat-grass. It is rich in chlorophyll (sometimes described as "the blood of plants" because it closely resembles the red blood cells of the blood cells of humans) and has more than 100 items that the body needs. The fresh beans are an excellent source of vitamins and minerals for better health.

Regular exercise is also an excellent way to get a healthy life. The thing is that physical exercise requires little time and gives pleasure.

It is not necessary to subscribe to a fitness center or practice strenuous efforts to have a healthy life. A simple walk half an hour sparingly beneficial effects on health.

The key is to find you a physical activity that relaxes you and gives you pleasure. Many activities are within your reach, cycling, swimming, tennis, walking and hiking with the family. Finally, if you do not really have the time or money for the gym, or prefer to spend your mornings and evenings at home, so try an exercise bike or rowing machine. Position yourself in front of your TV to watch your favorite shows.

How Stress Can Affect Your Weight?

By Unknown → Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Stress can make you fat? When stressed, many people tend to gain more weight for various reasons. Fortunately, there is something you can do to cut this weight gain and even get a better shape and, reducing stress at the same time.

There are several ways in which the stress can give to weight gain. We have to do here in cortisol, the stress hormone. When we are under stress, the reaction of "fight or flight" response is triggered in the body, leading to the release of various hormones. We are stressed through constant unbearable demands at work or that we are truly in danger, our body reacts as if we were about to be harmed and need to fight for our existence.

To respond to this need, we are experimenting a burst of energy, changes in our metabolism in the bloodstream, and other variations.

If you stay in this state for an extended period through chronic stress, your health is at risk. Apart from many other dangers, chronic stress can also cause weight gain - that is why some products as "CortiSlim" are marketed as weight loss products.

Chronic stress and cortisol may contribute to weight gain in the following ways:

  • Metabolism: Do you feel as if you are likely to put more weight when stressed, even if you eat the same amount of food than usual? Too much cortisol can slow your metabolism, causing weight gain. This also makes it sparingly difficult regime.


  • The Cravings: People in chronic stress tend to like salty and sweet foods. This includes sweets, processed foods and other things that are not as good for you. These foods are generally less safe and lead to accelerated weight gain.


  •  Blood glucose: Prolonged stress can affect your blood sugar in the blood, causing mood swings, fatigue and diseases such as hyperglycemia. Too much stress is even linked to metabolic syndrome, a set of health concerns that can lead to more serious health problems such as heart attacks and diabetes.


  • Fat storage: Excessive stress affects even where we tend to store fat. Greater levels of stress are related to greater levels of abdominal fat. Regrettably, abdominal fat is not only aesthetically undesirable, but it is linked to greater health risk than fat stored in other areas of the body.


  • The Bulimia compensation: High cortisol levels can give you not only want to unhealthy foods, but the excess neural activity can often make you eat more than you normally would. How much times did you found yourself scouring the kitchen for a snack, or absently snacking on junk food when stressed, but did not really hungry?


  • The Fast Food - Experts believe that one of the main reasons we are seeing more obesity in our society these days is that people are too stressed and busy to make healthy dinners at home and often opt for fast food.


  • Too busy for sports: With all the requirements of your program, the exercise can be one of the final things on your to-do list. If this is the case, you are not alone. Many people live a more sedentary lifestyle than we have in past generations, but our minds seem to race from all we have to do. Unfortunately, staying in traffic, Pointing to our offices, and end of day across the frozen TV to exhaustion, sport is often abandoned.

Luckily there are things that you can to do to restore the reason for weight gain and actually decrease your stress and your waistline at the same time.

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