Fasting has long been known to be beneficial to the systems. It has been part of certain cultures for years such as the Indian culture to specifically involve oneself in “godly activities.” Generally speaking, unless it’s children under the age of 10, they fast at least once every 15 days. It’s usually only for a 24 hour period of time at most. The sick and old are also exempt from this rule. However, you can fast from just food or liquid as well. Some only consume liquids such as milk, water, tender coconut, or butter milk. Some also allow you to consume fruit or other now recognized negative calorie food. Some have also used salt and other spices. But despite their cultural implications, some have also found that fasting has some health benefits that they may have not realized. It can benefit the physical, physiological, and mental health of individuals in general. It improves the immunity of the system in general and brings about rapid detoxification of the body, which is without question a good thing. It improves energy afterwards and of course, it requires self control to some degree. It can beat insomnia, and it can end certain addictions to a certain degree. All of these things will help you to improve your health and see the benefits of fasting. Just don’t do it too long and develop an eating disorder.
Archive for July, 2009
The Benefits Of Fasting
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Throw Like A Girl
Thursday, July 16th, 2009Where did the concept or statement of “you throw like a girl” come from? I mean I’ve seen just as many guys who can’t throw a ball as girls. It has something to do with weight and muscle and all that. I mean it’s about technique too. But at the same point in time, if you haven’t worked out and put the core effort into certain areas, you aren’t going to get that powerful throw no matter what technique you may have. For example, the press’ recent thing is that Obama apparently throws like a girl at some baseball thing. I’ve seen a video of him shooting hoops with a college basketball team, and he certainly doesn’t “shoot like a girl.” It’s sad that we’re even focusing on the idea that he can’t throw a ball properly anyway. But I mean honestly, why is it that we think that’s throwing like a girl instead of throwing like a boy. Granted, most sports at least in the professional arena have been at least first spearheaded by men, partly because men are willing to participate in the workouts involved to strengthen that particular area as well as the core to get that right throw. But at the same point in time, women are perfectly capable of doing the same workouts, learning the same skills, and essentially speaking performing.
Negative Calorie Dieting
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Does negative calorie dieting really work? That is the question in many minds. Negative calorie foods are essentially those that take more energy for the body to digest than the body actually gets from them. They are generally also nutrient dense foods. But not all negative calorie foods are nutrient dense foods and likewise not all nutrient dense foods are negative calorie foods. But essentially speaking, by doing this, whether you exercise or otherwise or not, you are burning more calories than you are taking in, therefore offsetting the very basic and first rule of dieting. However, if you look into the reality of things, in order to really lose weight and build muscle, you need exercise. Moreover, you need good fats and other things these foods, while rich in vitamins and minerals generally speaking, don’t provide. So your whole diet should not actually consist of them. But if you do want to implement them in as part of a healthy diet, you can use vegetables, asparagus, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, peppers, cress, cucumbers, dandelions, endive, fennel, garlic, green beans, and lettuce just to name a few. Many fruits are also included in this listing, and you can of course get even greater health benefits than just weight loss by putting the appropriate amounts into your diet.
Exercises For Fat Burning
Monday, July 6th, 2009If you want to lose weight, you should use a healthy balance of different kinds of exercise. For example, if you lift weights all the time, you may build muscle. But that muscle will be hidden under a layer of fat thick or thin. So it’s not exactly the results you want. It should definitely be an integral part of your workout, and for lean muscle, of course use smaller weights. Just don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Instead, try combining this with aerobic or cardio workouts. These burn more fat, especially in aerobic stances, because you are burning calories at a different rate than you would by sprinting for example, and you burn more fat in those calories. So if you follow weight training with cardio, you get better results. In addition, if you participate in circuit training, which is essentially jumping back and forth between different muscle groups, you give each time to recover and therefore give you greater results. All of these can help you to burn more fat while building more muscle to maintain your results for a longer period of time. It just depends on you as far as getting all the results you want instead of just some of them.
Pinnothin
Friday, July 3rd, 2009If you’ve ever wanted a great appetite suppressant, one of the lesser known supplements is known as the Korean pine nut. It has also been known as Pinnothin in its patented form, and with this a new study from England reports that it may suppress appetite, if used in doses of 3000mg or more generally speaking. However, more obviously provides greater results.
With this particular supplement, it uses parts known as CCK and GLP-1. It exerts satiating effects, and it has been known to work within just 30 minutes for most individuals. There are even those that would claim that it could suppress 60% of appetite for up to 4 hours at a time.
The Korean pine nut is essentially a type of polyunsaturated fatty acid, and it has been used in our diets since before ancient Greek and Roman times. They compared it with an olive placebo, and they have since conducted multiple randomized, double blind, cross over studies on both men and women alike. Since then, it was presented at the American Physiological Society session at Experimental Biology 2006. They have reported multiple success reports, and since then Pinnothin has exploded in terms of it steadily growing popularity.
