Based on many recent studies, each spoon of your meal fed into your mouth and slowly chew your food will make you healthy. Bear in mind that prevention of sickness is the mother of necessity.

A slowly digest and enjoying every spoon is like meditative state of mind. Your digestion internal organ in abdomen will help the metabolism process in your body system and nothing is left out.

Let’s imagine if you eat in a hurry, you will end up eat more because you add more portion and your digestion internal organ will work extra hard. Thus it will harm your stomach in overall and most likely it will cause you stomach ache too. Eating slowly and enjoyable will make you feel full easily and longer. Nevertheless, it helps you maintain a balance weight and it is good to as part of your weight loss program.

Here’s HOW natural way to loose your weight is essential for a healthy you!

Enjoy Meals for Each Bite

Recently if you are trying to look for bananas in the supermarket in Japan is very difficult. How come this could ever happen? This is caused by banana daito in Japan. It is a new trend called banana diet. Banana diet was introduced by Sumiko Watanabe, a pharmacist. The essence of this method improves the metabolism in your body.

Watanabe applied this method to her husband who has chubby appearance. As the result her husband lost weight 17 kilograms. No records were found how long her husband has implemented this kind of diet.

A diet method known as “Morning Banana Diet”, lately are quite popular after an opera singer, Kumiko Mori shared her diet story in a television talk show that she has lost 7 kg.

Every one was put into a spell and surprisingly bought all the bananas in the supermarket almost everywhere. Mori shared her tips for the banana diet that she just eats the banana with out the hassle of mixing it into juice or any other means because it is considered as time consuming. Therefore, this diet is easy and has many followers in a short time. Just eat two bananas before breakfast and drink water accordingly. You are allowed to have this banana during your lunch and dinner time as desirable. The best would be having your dinner before 8 pm and no desert afterwards. For Japanese who wants to appear slim this kind of diet is important.

However, Professor Masahiko Okada could not agree to this banana diet method. According to the professor, the human body needs 3 nutrition’s elements: carbohydrate, fat, and protein. The rules of thumb are balancing those 3 nutrition’s elements and monitor the calories consumptions. On the other hand, Professor Sayoko Ikeda from Faculty of Nutrition of Kobe has another opinion, that diet is not healthy and not effective for weight loss because consuming 1 type of food is a bad habit and not sufficient for your body. Since your body requires more nutrition than 1 type of food.

Dear loyal readers, please choose wisely on your diet method. The most important thing is nutrition balance and observes your calories intake regularly.

Have you ever tried this banana diet method or any other similar diet methods? Fire up in the comment section below with your experiences and feedbacks. We love listen to your thoughts, because your opinions matter to us!

Five years ago when I had a general medical check up, my weight was considered below average ideal. I was not that skinny type, but need few more kilograms to be considered as a perfect and balance weight related to my body type and height. The most surprising thing was, when they check my Body Mass Index (BMI). It showed much fat! Wow, I even never realized about it previously, that this could endanger my health in the long run. I guess, it’s all because I love to eat ice cream, sweet cakes and cookies. So after so many years, I come across an article from Oprah Winfrey’s site pertaining to this matter. Let’s have a look together.

Surprise: The latest research shows you can be overweight and fit, and thin but carrying too much fat.

Leah Dawson is unhealthy-at least that’s what public health guidelines would have you believe. The 41-year-old mother of three, who manages her husband’s athletic career (he’s Olympic skier Toby Dawson), works out four days a week and carefully monitors her diet. Her cholesterol and blood pressure are enviable. But never mind all that: Leah Dawson is considered “unhealthy” because at 5′8″, her weight has hovered near 170 pounds. That puts her at 26 BMI (body mass index-the height-to-weight formula doctors use to diagnose weight problems), which is in the overweight category. “My doctor would tell me that I needed to lose weight,” she says. “My lab work would come out fine; I’ve even passed a stress test. But I’m never ‘okay.’”

Thirty-nine-year-old Teresa Holler, on the other hand, is considered “healthy.” As a physician assistant, Holler knows she needs to monitor her weight. But after a tough pregnancy six years ago, she slowed down her normally rigorous exercise program. Initially, the trim 5′3″, 128-pound, size-5 Holler wasn’t too concerned: Her BMI remained at 23, putting her in the healthy range of 18.5 to 24.9. Still, she began to worry that something was amiss. “I felt like I was getting this ring of fat around my midsection,” she says. “And I was just less energetic.” This led her to request a body-fat test from her doctor. She was shocked to find the amount of fat she was carrying on her diminutive frame-30 percent-qualified her as borderline obese, dramatically elevating her risk for diabetes and heart disease. “Here I was, spending my days telling other people how to get healthy, and I’d missed this,” she remembers.

Health experts have been too strict with heavy people like Dawson and too lax with normal-weight people like Holler: Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have found that about half of American adults in the normal-body-weight category still have too much body fat-and given that these people also tend to have many of the risk factors associated with heart disease, that assessment is probably correct. “I’m a cardiologist, and I was seeing too many patients whose BMI checked out as normal but who didn’t look right,” says Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, MD, the Mayo doctor who headed the study. “Some had a big belly, some had low muscle mass. And they had high blood sugar and cholesterol. It became clear to me that the measurements we were using weren’t working for these people.”

How risky is it for a normal-weight person to carry too much fat? The answer lies in the way the body stores the stuff. “All fat isn’t created equal,” says Timothy Church, MD, PhD, a professor at Louisiana State University’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center. “The deeply deposited kind-visceral fat-produces three times more bad chemicals than other types, and it drains directly into your liver.”
Visceral fat bulks up the trunk of the body, and it has been directly tied to increased risk of diabetes and heart disease. (People who carry fat on the hips and thighs seem to have a lower risk.)

Importantly, visceral fat tends to be the type normal-weight people have. It sneaks up on a person because it’s not especially visible and it can build up without altering weight-replacing muscle that is naturally lost with aging. And that stealthy buildup of fat may help explain the results of a 2005 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): Researchers analyzed mortality data of people in different weight categories, from underweight to obese, and found that there were fewer deaths among overweight people than those in the normal-weight group.

That finding may come as quite a shock for Americans, who have had it drilled into them that being heavy will take years off their lives. But evidence to the contrary has been mounting, and a 2008 report on the U.S. population published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine made the issue impossible to ignore: Half of Americans who are in the overweight BMI category and a third of those in the obese one (30 or greater BMI) are actually healthy-they have plenty of “good” cholesterol, normal blood pressure and glucose levels, and no other risk markers for heart disease.
“In other research I was doing, I was seeing a lot of people who were heavy but fine,” says MaryFran Sowers, PhD, a professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan who co-authored the study. “What was surprising about the study results was that the number of healthy overweight people was so prevalent.”

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Lopez-Jimenez agrees. “We’ve long assumed that all people who are overweight have a lot of fat, and that people with normal weight have less fat and more muscle,” he says. “We now know that’s not always true. There are fewer unhealthy overweight people out there, and many more at-risk normal-weight ones than we thought.” In other words, BMI is an imperfect standard. A simple height-versus-weight number can’t account for how a person is built, lean or stocky, big breasted or not.
So if BMI is flawed, what is the best predictor of who is healthy and who isn’t? In Sowers’s study, there was one reliable answer. People who qualified as heavy but still healthy tended to report being physically active. Indeed, her study isn’t the first to note this. Findings published in JAMA in 2007 indicate that fitness level-regardless of weight-is the single strongest predictor of mortality risk. People with the lowest level of fitness were four times more likely to die than those with the highest. Longevity didn’t require superhuman effort, either; people who could pass a minimal fitness test of walking for longer than five and a half minutes on a treadmill had half the risk of an early death as those who failed the challenge.

Taking all the new findings together, the lesson is that even at 170 pounds, Leah Dawson had it right: Eat a good diet and drop any unhealthy habits you might have. Then focus on exercise and forget about striving toward some standardized ideal of weight. “Fitness is the critical piece we’re losing sight of,” says Church. “People get so caught up with weight-they start to exercise, the scale doesn’t move, and they get discouraged. They’re not noticing that their pants fit differently, that they’ve actually lost dangerous visceral fat. When you become active, you’re not just adding muscle, you’re getting healthier.” And that’s what will help you live longer.

Let’s check it out what these golden rules are all about from Oprah Winfrey’s site. If you are my royal readers and enjoy my previous postings, I believe at this moment - for the sake of your weight loss - you already have the awareness for what kind of food we should have as daily intake. Yes, fresh foods like fruits, veggies, lean meat (chicken and fish), and so on. However, researchers are finding that how we eat can also have a big impact on our waistlines. Do you stand at the kitchen counter? Indulge in snacks in front of the TV? Decide you’re hungry when you smell something savory?

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Three recent studies suggest a pinch of knowledge may be just what the weight loss coach ordered.

1. Sit down, enjoy yourself. Canadian food psychologists gave the same amount of food to people who were either sitting in twos at a table or standing at a kitchen counter eating out of plastic containers. When the researchers tracked what the subjects ate at the next regular meal, they found that the countertop diners ate roughly 30 percent more than those who had been sitting. One reason may be that standing while eating makes a meal feel more like a snack, says Patricia Pliner, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga and the study’s lead author. The takeaway? “Don’t eat on the run,” she says. It won’t feel like a meal, and you may subconsciously grant yourself permission to eat more later.

2. Inhale, but don’t indulge. Scientists at Yale University School of Medicine recently discovered that a food’s smell lights up different brain regions than its taste does, which could spell trouble for people watching their weight. The circuits aromas activate are designed to make us seek out the food, which psychologically can lead to cravings and possibly binges, says Dana Small, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale who ran the study. She compares the effect on the brain to drug-seeking behavior: “The smell puts people into an agitated state, as in, ‘Get out of my way; I must have chocolate.’” Being aware of your nose’s power over your brain could help. “You might be able to desensitize your brain to tempting food smells by repeatedly ignoring them,” says Small.

3. Be conscious. Although it won’t surprise anyone who’s ever glanced down from the TV to find an empty bag of corn chips, a study published in the journal Physiology & Behavior found that people’s caloric intake can balloon by up to 71 percent when they eat in front of the tube. Brian Wansink, PhD, a professor at Cornell University and the author of Mindless Eating, explains that munching while watching TV or even reading can be a bad idea for two reasons: “First, you don’t pay attention to whether you’ve had 14 or 40 chips. Second, you often don’t stop eating until the end of the show, regardless of whether you’re full.” If a snack attack hits during your show, reach for low-calorie, high-fiber foods, such as grapes or air-popped popcorn, rather than calorie-dense foods like ice cream or chips. And never bring the whole package to the couch: Just grab a handful or fill a small bowl.

A news release from University of Texas M.D. pointed out the great news for Valentine’s Day is by giving dark chocolate to your loved ones, it could help protect them from cancer risks.

Dark chocolate contains antioxidants that have been shown to combat cell damage that can lead to tumor growth. These antioxidants occur naturally in the cacao beans used to make all chocolate products.

Why dark chocolate?

1. The main reason that eating dark chocolate, versus milk or white chocolate is because it has a higher percentage of cacao, and thus antioxidants.

2. People should look for dark chocolate that contains at least 65 percent cacao, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research.

3. Flavonoids, the antioxidants in chocolate, come from the extracts of the cocoa beans. The darker the chocolate, the more antioxidants it has, and the better it is for you.

4. Chocolate also contains oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat that can be found in olive oil.

Benefits of dark chocolate:

1. Reduce cancer risks.

2. Guard heart health and preventing cholesterol from sticking to the artery walls, thus reducing the risk for heart attack or stroke.

3. In addition, chocolate includes chemicals that help to lower the risk of sugar-damaged teeth.

Recommendations:

1. Servings for dark chocolate are seven ounces per week, or about one ounce per day.

2. Chocolate is best tasted on an empty stomach at temperatures between 66 and 77 degrees Fahrenheit.

3. When tasting chocolate, start with the chocolate containing the least cocoa. Let it sit in your mouth to release the primary flavors and aromas. Chew it a few times to experience the secondary aromas. Finally, place the chocolate gently against the roof of your mouth and savor it.

4. Try making it a part of a healthy snack by combining it with nutrient-rich fruits.

5. Savoring a small amount of dark chocolate is much better than gulping soft drinks or eating doughnuts.

6. Remember, dark chocolate is still a calorie-dense food that can be high in fat. You can enjoy it daily as part of a balanced diet, as long as you keep your portion size in check. It is best to buy chocolate that can be eaten in small portions, such as individually wrapped chocolates or boxed chocolates. Check the ingredients to make sure the chocolate doesn’t contain fats, such as palm and coconut oils, and those they are made without the use of hydrogenated or partially hydrogenate oils.

Valentine chocolate

So who says that chocolate will endanger your weight loss program, as long as you know the tricks, chocolate has the ability to keep your health naturally. I love chocolate so much!

The good news is regularly drink green tea aid your weight loss program and helps you reach balance weight in the long term. It is common knowledge that green tea contains high anti oxidant flavonoid type. Thus, it serves to diminish free radicals in your body. They are extremely dangerous to your health.

Above all, the greatest news is, a recent study from The American Journal of Food Biochemistry has found out the antioxidant in green tea also functions to control the blood sugar level in normal line and diabetes patients type 2.

If you drink green tea after meals, the antioxidants in green tea will constraint the sudden increase of blood sugar level. Based on that research, black tea and oolong tea also have similar roles in your body. Hence, diabetes type 2 patients are able to control their blood sugar level by drinking tea and doing exercises or work out thrice a week. And although I am a tea fans, that doesn’t make me drinking tea excessively because I believe everything should be carry out moderately according to what our body needs. Twice a day to drink a cup of tea is sufficient, and the rest I try to drink only water to keep my body healthy.

Tea, please?

Based on a recent study from this news Will Americans put on “recession pounds”? the global financial crisis that starts to crawl everywhere in this world will have deep impact on how the Americans eat for their daily intake. The recession affects our wallets and so does on how we spend for our daily needs - foods - thus eat more cheaper foods. It means, more empty calories or foods high in sugar, saturated fats and refined grains. Nevertheless, it can cause you obtain more weights and loosing your healthy life style.

Is there a way to cope with this delicate matter?

How to cope Recession Kilograms

Sure, when there’s a will, there’s always a way!

Fresh foods such as fruits, vegetables, spices do have great impact to your health. Here are some tips on how you still can get them along with your wallet.

-           Buy seasonal fresh fruits. Usually fresh fruits on their seasons time are far more cheaper because they grow in abundant. Furthermore, the nutrition in it is at its best for your health and serve as natural healing.

-           If you have regular shopping groceries, let say once a week, make a plan with your closest friends, or if you belong to a certain communities (bikers, or cat lovers, etc.) to do it together. Some market or stores have discount price if we buy in large amount on particular items and you can share your groceries later on with your friends for the same items. It will save your wallet from recession!

-           If you have small piece of backyard or garden, please start to grow something there. Spices, like ginger, onions, etc.; vegetables, such as spinach; fruits, for instance mangoes, star fruit, guava, etc.

-           Do not worry if you live in an apartment and don’t have any piece of land. You still can grow fresh fruits, vegetables and spices in a form of hydroponics. You even do not need soil to grow them using hydroponics system. Try it!

In my previous posting about weight loss program (see “5 Secret of Natural Remedies for Weight Loss“), exercise is one of important factors to burn unnecessary fat in your body, as well as to maintain a balance weight and massage your internal organs at the same time. Furthermore, it can add your energy and refresh your mind and body.

It is just like an Indonesian proverb, “Sekali merengkuh dayung, dua tiga pulau terlampaui.” Literally translated as, “One stroke at the paddle, two and three islands have passed.” It means, do multiple tasks at one go. In this case, with a regular exercise, it can have multi benefit for your overall health. Home remedies or natural remedies cannot stand alone without exercise or doing work out. Thus, it is acknowledged as holistic remedies to any ailments and specifically to prevent any diseases.

When people hear the term of “exercise”, they often associated with heavy or delicate, expensive and not practical things to do to shape their body. In fact, you can found many daily routine things that are simple and already be the part of your life. Moreover, they can serve as your exercise. Be creative and you will be surprised for the amazing result.

For instance, [1] if you usually go to work or shopping by driving a car or ride a bus, you can start by riding a bike. [2] The habitual of parking your car near office, you can try a bit far so that you can walk longer and it is good for you as exercise. Do these step by step as you park further far from your office. [3] Elevator or lift can be replaced by using stairs. Even stairs are so useful to maintain your healthy life style naturally and based on a study it is equal as doing aerobic exercise.

[4] If you usually get things done for your household with a steady motion, try to make them faster with listening to a cheerful and rhythmic song, like disco music. Sweeping and mopping the floor can be so joyful and fun. [5] Clean up your room and sort out your paper or documents with faster movement. Do not forget to control your breath. Also, set up your mood by having fun doing them will release your tension and stress.

Last but not least, by having pet around you at home, can really amuse you during hardship and they can make you smile or laugh. The good thing is that they even can accompany you during your work out or exercise. [6] In early morning while enjoying the sun comes out, you can take a walk with your dog around the neighborhood. Sometimes, a cat can also accompany you as well by using a leash, but it depends entirely on the character of your cat and at what age they have been started to train using leash.

[7] There is another way if you are not able to take a walk with your cat. Cats love to play with moving object and running wild chasing it. I usually use a long string to attract their attention and make myself walk fast or run around the house. Surely they love to chase me because I’m using that string to get their attention. Thus, it can make you enough sweat even only for half an hour. Besides fun, your cats will be happy because they can play with you. Yes, naturally cats love to play because they have the necessity to practice their natural hunting skills. In this case, you can pretend yourself as your cats’ prey.

Watch this video below as this cute kitty teaches you on how to do simple exercise not only to lose your weight, but also for your cardio health.

Please share your daily exercise to lose weight or maintain your balance weight with us in here by leaving your tips in the comment section below.

As we enter the last 2 seasons in the end of each year, we have many special occasions with family, relatives and friends, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day. I am sure during those holidays, we are normally being served with eclectic delicious and tempting foods. Unfortunately, no matter how tasty the foods are, they usually contain high calories or in other words could deteriorate your health and make your weight loss program neglected. You probably have been wondering, are there any tricks to maintain a balance weight as well as a healthy life style naturally?

Before a party, you have a healthy snack, fresh fruits and drink  sufficient mineral water to restrain your desire for food.

Additional tips:

Never skip your breakfast. This has been shown to prevent overeating later in the day.

Preparing your meals with garlic and pepper may prevent overeating, according to a study presented at The Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco.

Pop a sugar-free mint gum in your mouth, or sip some peppermint tea and take a whiff to outsmart a craving. People who regularly smelled peppermint ate 23 percent fewer calories per week, a study from Wheeling Jesuit University in West Virginia found.

During the party, bring a healthy dish to a gathering to ensure there’s something you can indulge in.

Additional tips:

Eat the best-for-you offerings first. For example, a healthy hot soup as a first course — especially when it’s broth-based, not cream-based — can help you avoid eating too much during the main course.

Choose foods wisely, filling your plate with low-calorie items, such as leafy green salads, vegetable dishes, and lean proteins, and taking smaller portions of the richer ones. Limit the number of high-calorie foods on your party plate. Your hungry eyes and temptations to eat more will occur if your plate is served with various tastes, textures, smells, shapes, and colors of foods. Thus, it is based on a study, despite your true hunger level.

Focus on your meal while you’re eating it and have a seat during meals — concentrating on chewing your food well and enjoying the smell, taste, and texture of each item. Eating while seated at a table with nice plates and utensils can lead you to consume about a third less than if you munch on the fly, a study in the journal Appetite notes. Eat more slowly, so you have time to notice when your body sends the all-full signal. Of course, dinner-party conversations is only natural, but try to set your food down until you’re finished chatting so you are more aware of what you’re taking in.

Stand more than an arm’s length away from munchies, like a bowl of nuts or chips, while you chat so you’re not tempted to raise your hand to your mouth every few seconds.

To reduce on food court temptation, never go to the mall on an empty stomach.

Additional tips:

Plan your shopping route so you don’t pass the Dairy Queen stand a dozen times. The obvious reason? Both sights and smells can coax you to eat, and with some vendors purposefully wafting their aromas your way, saying NO can feel impossible.

Choose a proper restaurant over the grab-and-go food court whenever you can, and request a table away from loud sounds and distractions, which can cause you to eat more. The bright lights and noisy hard surfaces can speed up the rate at which you eat and lead to overeating.

Avoid fast-food places that emphasize red in their color schemes. Red has been shown to stimulate the appetite more than many other colors, and many restaurants add it to their decor, in everything from the flowers on the table to the squiggles on the plates.

Keep a food journal to help you stay persistent to your goals during this risky eating period.

Additional tip:

Zip yourself into your favorite pair of slim-fitting pants and casual shirt once a week and note how they fit. Too tight? Adjust your eating and exercise habits. Just right? Keep up the good work.

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Do you know why your weight loss program fail?

This video has a funny way in explaining the reason. Please give your full attention at the beginning, then you will understand. Enjoy and have fun!

DONT’s

- Avoid fried foods.

- Avoid eating between meals.

- Avoid ‘junk food’ and fast food.

- Avoid processed foods.

- Avoid sugar intake and replace it with honey.

- Avoid sweets.

- Avoid being stressful, but in case you have problem on how to avoid it, please find some activities that you can release stress with those activities. If you like dancing or playing music like piano, that would be great to help you decrease being stressful.

- Inactive lifestyle.

Do you often spend your time working in your desk and in front of your computer? Or, perhaps too much sleep and watching TV? Then, I am sure you know what to do to replace that ineffective and unhealthy lifestyle. Make yourself useful for others, for instance, by doing volunteer work can make you healthy physically and spiritually. If you have no other choice but to work in desk and with computer, try to have a bit rest and relaxation plus a simple exercise in between your working hours.

I hope the 3 parts of my posting help you find the best natural ways that can assist in your weight loss goals! I encourage you to visit often and contribute your own personal health and longevity tips with me.

DO’s

The key in home remedies for weight loss is to stick to the basic of food and nutrition.

HOME REMEDIES

1. Daily in the morning 1/2 hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one cup water. If taken regularly it reduces the weight of even the most obese person. Also drinking of this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

2. Add warm water to the juice of half a lime and a teaspoon of honey. This herbal home remedy for weight loss should be the first thing that you consume in the morning. It would be best in an empty stomach and after you wake up in the morning. Not only does it help in burning fat over time, it also helps cleanse the system. If you prefer a tangier drink, you can add more lime juice. You can also add pepper to taste. Make sure that you don’t increase the amount of honey or add salt to this mixture.

3. Apple cider vinegar in warm water, with or without some pure maple syrup for taste, gives nearly the same effect.

Home remedies for weight loss may or may not work for you depending on many factors including your body chemistry. Weight loss entails a lot of discipline and commitment to your weight loss program.

HOLISTIC REMEDIES

For a comprehensive weight loss methods, please try to keep you with clean air, sunshine and a steady flow of physical movement or exercise and non physical exercise.

1. WORKOUT

Please do remember that in order to lose weight, you need to burn your excess fat. Therefore, you must increase physical exercises or movement. If you are under shoe string budget or cannot afford to participate in a weight loss programs at a gym or fitness center, there are many no-cost alternative exercises for you.

Physical Exercise

- If you own an active dog and you run with him everyday for 30 minutes can be equivalent to 30 minutes of gym workouts.

- A brisk walk from your home to your office, or when you must shop groceries to a market nearby.

Physical Movement

- Clean your home (sweep, mop, etc.) and sort out your stuffs faster than you usually do whle listening to music.

2. NON PHYSICAL

As a complementary to your weight loss programs in natural ways, which can serves as your stress or depression reliever, try to learn yoga and meditation.

There are many natural ways to help you lose weight safely and effectively. I will share with you based on my experience and research. The posting about this matter is divided into 3 parts. Now, it’s about time to do the right thing for weight loss by using natural remedies.

DIETARY HABITS

You should implement a new and good habit in your nutrition and exercise. Please be noted as follows:

- The first and most important thing to lose your weight is making adjustments to eating patterns.

- Eat five smaller meals a day.

- You should remember that to skip a meal is never a remedy to weight loss and on the contrary, it can even cause you to gain more weight.

- Eat and chew more slowly.

- Consume only home cooked food.

- A well-balanced diet should consist of whole grains instead of refined grains like white rice and pasta.

- Eat more fresh fruits will increase your fiber intake and keep the calories down.

- Eat some portion of fruits (3 to 5 kinds, like apple, pear, melon, banana, mango, etc) around 1 hour before the meals, based on my experience, eat lots of fruits before meals will make our stomach feel full and finally will decrease the portion of our meals.

- Drink lots of water.

- Make maximum use of home remedies.

- An apple and a cup of green tea provide enough oxidation and energy to replace one meal.

- Eat more vegetables and less meat. It’s important to favor chlorophyll-rich foods, including asparagus. Asparagus is a nutrient-rich vegetable packed with folate, vitamins A, C, and K, and fiber, also contains a carbohydrate known as inulin (not to be confused with insulin) that promotes healthy bacteria in the large intestine - which in turn promotes a healthier digestive function.

- Drink warm or hot green tea regularly without sugar (especially Japanese green tea and Chinese green tea called “Oolong”), and it’s good to add some lime squeeze in it plus honey.  Green tea is a wonderful alternative to coffee in that it does provide a little caffeine but also contains beneficial antioxidants.

- For breakfast have oatmeal Quaker oats and eat in plain (no sugar, no milk, but it can be added with fresh fruits, such as banana, strawberry and raisin).

- As a substitute of breakfast, consume 2 ripe red tomatoes in the morning for few months.

- Drink soybean milk, also without sugar to replace milk from animals (cow).

- If you are really hungry between meals and want to munch something, it is far better to munch fresh fruits, or salads, dried nuts and any other healthy snacks that are not contain MSG, preservatives, food coloring, etc.

Most people don’t think they need to worry about dehydration. To them, dehydration is something that happens to travelers in the desert when they run out of water. But there is a chronic form of dehydration that does not have the sudden and intense nature of the acute form. Chronic dehydration is widespread in the present day and affects everyone who is not drinking enough liquid.

This list of 13 symptoms will inspire you to go get a glass of water, and then another, and another…

After each symptom the list below will show how lack of fluid affects the issue.

1. Fatigue, Energy Loss: Dehydration of the tissues causes enzymatic activity to slow down.

2. Premature Aging: The body of a newborn child is composed of 80 percent liquid, but this percentage declines to no more than 70 percent in an adult and continues to decline with age.

3. Excess Weight and Obesity: We may overeat because we crave foods rich in water. Thirst is often confused with hunger.

4. High and Low Blood Pressure: The body’s blood volume is not enough to completely fill the entire set of arteries, veins, and capillaries.

5. Cholesterol: When dehydration causes too much liquid to be drained from inside the cells, the body tries to stop this loss by producing more cholesterol.

6. Constipation: When chewed food enters the colon, it contains too much liquid to allow stools to form properly, and the wall of the colon reduces it. In chronic dehydration, the colon takes too much water to give to other parts of the body.

7. Digestive Disorders: In chronic dehydration, the secretion of digestive juices is less.

8. Gastritis, Stomach Ulcers: To protect its mucous membranes from being destroyed by the acidic digestive fluid it produces, the stomach secretes a layer of mucus.

9. Respiratory Troubles: The mucous membranes of the respiratory region are slightly moist to protect the respiratory tract from substances that might be present in inhaled air.

10. Acid-Alkaline Imbalance: Dehydration activates an enzymatic slowdown producing acidification.

11. Eczema: Your body needs enough moisture to sweat 20 to 24 ounces of water, the amount necessary to dilute toxins so they do not irritate the skin.

12. Cystitis, Urinary Infections: If toxins contained in urine are insufficiently diluted, they attack the urinary mucous membranes.

13. Rheumatism: Dehydration abnormally increases the concentration of toxins in the blood and cellular fluids, and the pains increase in proportion to the concentration of the toxins.

You may know but not quite aware the significant benefits from certain vegetables and fruits. These kinds of food function as natural remedies. Nevertheless, as a natural way to heal if you are having illness and the most important thing it serves to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Remember, You Are What You Eat!

Fresh foods can help you to cure from sickness and they are much better than having standard conventional medicine. One thing for sure, it will give long term benefit for your overall health. Using natural remedies may take longer time than conventional medicine because it works naturally to your body. However, the side effect is at minimum level compare to using standard medicine. Therefore, I agree completely that prevention of illness is the mother of necessity.

Let’s start using these foods below as our daily intake and habitual. If you have any other suggestions on what kinds of foods are good to our health, please share with all of us here by leaving it in the comment section.

APRICOTS:

Combats cancer
Controls blood pressure
Saves your eyesight
Shields against Alzheimer’s
Slows aging process

BEANS:

Prevents constipation
Helps hemorrhoids
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Stabilizes blood sugar

BEETS:

Controls blood pressure
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
Protects your heart
Aids weight loss

BLUEBERRIES:

Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Stabilizes blood sugar
Boosts memory
Prevents constipation

BROCCOLI:

Strengthens bones
Saves eyesight
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure

CABBAGE:

Combats cancer
Prevents constipation
Promotes weight loss
Protects your heart
Helps hemorrhoids

CANTALOUPE:

Saves eyesight
Controls blood pressure
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Supports immune system

CARROTS:

Saves eyesight
Protects your heart
Prevents constipation
Combats cancer
Promotes weight loss

CAULIFLOWER:

Protects against Prostate Cancer
Combats Breast Cancer
Strengthens bones
Banishes bruises
Guards against heart disease

CHERRIES:

Protects your heart
Combats Cancer
Ends insomnia
Slows aging process
Shields against Alzheimer’s

CHESTNUTS:

Promotes weight loss
Protects your heart
Lowers cholesterol
Combats Cancer
Controls blood pressure

CHILI PEPPERS:

Aids digestion
Soothes sore throat
Clears sinuses
Combats Cancer
Boosts immune system

FIGS:

Promotes weight loss
Helps stops strokes
Lowers cholesterol
Combats Cancer
Controls blood pressure

FISH:

Protects your heart
Boosts memory
Protects your heart
Combats Cancer
Supports immune system

GARLIC:

Lowers cholesterol
Controls blood pressure
Combats cancer
Kills bacteria
Fights fungus

GRAPEFRUIT:

Protects against heart attacks
Promotes Weight loss
Helps stops strokes
Combats Prostate Cancer
Lowers cholesterol

GRAPES:

Saves eyesight
Conquers kidney stones
Combats cancer
Enhances blood flow
Protects your heart

GREEN TEA:

Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Helps stops strokes
Promotes Weight loss
Kills bacteria

LEMONS:

Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin
Stops scurvy

MANGOES:

Combats cancer
Boosts memory
Regulates thyroid
Aids digestion
Shields against Alzheimer’s

MUSHROOMS:

Controls blood pressure
Lowers cholesterol
Kills bacteria
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones

OATS:

Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Battles diabetes
Prevents constipation
Smoothes skin

ONIONS:

Reduce risk of heart attack
Combats cancer
Kills bacteria
Lowers cholesterol
Fights fungus

ORANGES:

Supports immune systems
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Straightens respiration

PEACHES:

Prevents constipation
Combats cancer
Helps stops strokes
Aids digestion
Helps hemorrhoids

PEANUTS:

Protects against heart disease
Promotes Weight loss
Combats Prostate Cancer
Lowers cholesterol
Aggravates

STRAWBERRIES:

Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Boosts memory
Calms stress

SWEET POTATOES:

Saves your eyesight
Lifts mood
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones

TOMATOES:

Protects prostate
Combats cancer
Lowers cholesterol
Protects your heart