Facts About Diet Pills

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Jakarta, Many people are tempted by the diet pills or supplements, weight loss supplements. No matter how secure or not, if the display and advertising convincing enough, just buy. But did you know that no one else diet pills really effective?

As quoted from Bettyconfidential, Wednesday (9/12/2009), there are 5 active ingredients that are usually present in diet pills or supplements. Although not yet received permission from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but many producers are desperate to sell. Beware and do not immediately believe the efficacy of artificial substances 5 below.

1. Hoodia
Produced from African plant traditionally used as a natural opening and closing dinner. Ordinary citizens in the Kalahari eat during the long trip and some studies have shown that hoodia could reduce the weight of the rats. However, there has been no research in humans. Hoodia is widely used in supplements but there is no rule of the dose.

2. Green tea extract
Chemical content of catechins in green tea to some extent affect the body's metabolism, especially for those who want to be thin. A mention of data, consumption of green tea 3-5 cups a day can lose weight. However, studies showing the effects of the use of pills containing green tea extract is still very little and can not be directly inferred. "You can not just call it a good pill or not, until there is a large-scale studies that prove it," said Brent Bauer, MD, director of the Mayo Clinic's Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program.

3. Bitter Orange
Ingredients extract derived from citrus aurantium contains similar alkaloids similar to ephedra, the dietary supplement banned by the FDA in 2004. Like ephedra, bitter orange (bitter orange) can cause high blood pressure and heart rate are not normal. So should be avoided for those who have heart penyait.

4. Hydroxycitric Acid (HCA)
This material is taken from trees in Southeast Asia and is widely used as an appetite suppressant. But as hoodia, the new HCA cobakan tested on mice, not humans. So there is no guarantee of this material can actually make thin or slender body.

5. Guar Gum
Made from the guar plant, usually sold in powder form and used to make cakes. Natural chemical structures contained in these materials can create a feeling of fullness and reduced appetite. According to data from the Mayo Clinic, this material has not proven to lose weight tend to be even menimbuilkan diarrhea, abdominal bloating or digestive problems if not balanced with adequate water.

Which must be planted in the mind is no single pill or supplement that can replace any exercise and regulate the position of calories in and out in order to lose weight. Instead of wasting your money on diet pills and supplements like, start with a routine hour walk every day.

source : health.detik.com

5 Trends in diet should not to do

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Streamline business entity, women in the front row. Because of the beautiful body is often so seductive, dietary variety was tested. However, some types of diet was necessary wary. Some of the following diets may not be familiar to you, but it could not hurt to be careful, right?

Raw Food

Eating raw foods is based on efforts to memporoleh majority of calories from foods that are not processed and cooked. The perpetrators of this type of diet believes that eating foods that are processed at temperatures above 46-47 º C will destroy the enzymes that provide many health benefits. While most agree that it is best to eat fruits, vegetables, and grains are minimally processed, food processing is the correct process can increase the nutritional content, in particular phytonutrient, and stop the activities of unhealthy bacteria.

Raw food diet consume lots of food-based plants, including fruits and vegetables; of nuts and seeds, and bean sprouts, wheat and beans. Food materials are very good indeed - and you can create different kinds of food from these materials. A number of materials to make creative food raw food diet may not be hard to find. But you might think some of the material which was very expensive and it was not too bad. Maybe we just can not run more than one day or at most two days.

Reducing calories may help you lose weight, but calories has nothing to do with the food cooked or raw. Instead, you eat more healthful foods full - cooked or raw - to help streamline your waist, not your wallet.

hCG

This is a diet with a number of very low calorie (500 to 800 calories per day) plus the injection of a pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). Any diet that reduces calories to below 1000 calories is not safe, especially for beginners. And, you'll lose a lot of weight even though it was getting milk shake shot. Of course, the golden rule in the diet is the faster you lose weight, it will semaking sooner you get it back. In addition, scientists do not know whether hCG is safe to be injected into the body when the body does not produce it naturally.

Master Clean

In Southern California, there has been a huge trend in which dieters try to "purge" by drinking a mixture of lemon juice, maple syrup, and spicy red chili pepper (cayenne pepper) several times a day for 10 days, said Karla Campbell, MS, RD , a dietitian in Long Beach, California. Then at night they drink herbal tea that also serves as a laxative and a quarter cup of salt water in the morning. Both can cleanse the digestive system and your bowels. Needless to say, no study has shown that the digestive system and organs we need help in eliminating waste and toxins that collect in the body.

This diet contains only 650-1300 calories and lack many key nutrients such as protein, calcium, iron and zinc. So no one else dieticians suggest to undergo this type of diet for more than one or two days. Campbell also added a warning: people who undergo this type of diet will end with a loss of body fat mass. We are "clean" and return to their previous eating patterns, they'll come back fat. It may even be more fat than before.

Cabbage Soup Diet (and other similar vegetables)

In contrast to the rumors, this diet is not recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA); Sacred Heart Hospital Memorial in Spokane, Washington; or by any healthcare organization. In fact, the AHA and other organizations recommend a diet to control this trend.

Although there are several versions, all of which are seven-day cycle is based on taking all kinds of cabbage soup "fat burning" (a mixture of cabbage, carrots, celery, tomatoes, peppers, and onions). Because it consists of many vegetables that contain fluid and nutrition, the diet is not as bad as the other diets. However, if you enjoy food and enjoy life, you will not be able to survive in any type of diet that forbids the consumption of certain food groups or rely on one or two super foods for long periods of time.

Ear Stapling

A relatively new trend is based on the theory of acupuncture experts that an area of the ear can manage your appetite. The procedure is similar to the piercing of the ears, but the constant pressure on the "stomach" your ears will limit your appetite.

There is no research that suggested a link between ear stapling with weight loss, but there is much evidence that it can cause serious infections and changes shape. If you need is to control your appetite, then you better try to eat something that could work better, such as eating more fruits and vegetables than other foods.

source: www.conectique.com

20 Tips of Diet

Diet is a word 'magic' to create a stable weight. Here are tips on proper diet concerns.

1. Eat before attending the dinner invitation. Eat hard-boiled eggs, apples and drink tea or diet soda before going to the reception. This will help put the brakes on your appetite in the party.

2. Do not "make" yourself fat by always "meet" demand stomach. You can easily eat 600 calories, pastries and cereal without your awareness.

3. Bring a lunch hamper to the office. If you can not eat lunch outside. This will help prevent your excessive lunch.

4. Eaten more soup. Soup without cream is usually pretty low in calories and make full.

5. Try to eat low-calorie menu first before eating the other menus. Start with salads, vegetables, and soup broth, and then the meat in the last sequence. By the time his turn came to meat, the stomach is full enough for high-calorie menu.

6. Do not use a dinner plate. Use a salad plate every time you have lunch or dinner.

7. Make sure that the half-portion lunch and your dinner is vegetables and fruits.

8. Start your day with a breakfast menu and the portions are enough. This will help reduce your calorie intake throughout the rest of the day.

9. Make eat as an activity that has a purpose, namely, healthy life. Enjoy the food into the mouth, into the digestive tract. Make sure that the food would provide nutrients for your body.

10. Add one serving of fruit or vegetables on your menu. If you've used, add another two servings to 8 servings a day.

11. Exercise. Make it as an activity that can not be compromised again.

12. Berarobik with favorite music can be a fun activity. Encourage families to participate in moving. Maybe a little strange at first to hear it. But once you start, you might forget to stop.

13. Try 2 weeks without any sugar. It feels amazing to know that your appetite usually can not keep to gradually disappear.

14. Eating pagilah, also lunch and dinner. Most of those who are struggling to avoid the hobby in the middle of the night eating are those who do not eat regularly or eating unbalanced.

15. Change your nighttime schedule your activities. If you usually stay up a hobby, try to reduce little by little. Not easy to do, but over time it will make your hands and mind forget the snacks the night.

16. If you're used to snacking when stressed, now it's time for change. You have to focus on other ways that are more healthy. Find a method to overcome stress without involving food.

17. Write on a piece of paper label, "Close after dinner." Stick it on your refrigerator door and lock it.

18. Brush your teeth immediately after dinner to remind yourself that mealtime is over.

19. Eat on time. And do not do anything else at the time of eating, such as reading, watching TV, or browsing the Internet.

20. Walk 3 times around the floor of the mall before shopping.