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- Start your day,with a healthy breakfast to kick start your metabolism.
- Eat regular meals- at least three per day.
- Use low fat substitutes for dairy products wherever possible, for example, skimmed milk, low fat cheese, cottage cheese and yoghurt.
- Make sure your diet is made up mainly from fruit, vegetables and fibre rich foods like bread and pasta.
- Replace desserts with fruit to satisfy the craving for something sweet.
- Don't eat large, heavy meals last thing at night or your body won't have chance to burn off those calories.
- Drink plenty of water and low calorie drinks to help you feel full.
- Make yourself more active, climb stairs and walk all short journeys.
- Allow yourself treats occasionally or you may end up binging.
- Don't be too hard on yourself, aim to lose weight slowly and it will stay off for good.
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If you’re a parent then you know just how important nutrition can be to your growing child. You’ll also know just how difficult it is to get that nutrition into your child. It’s an almost impossible task these days to get your child to eat properly, and it’s probably a good bet that you don’t get too many nutrition rich foods into you either. However, you do need to be aware of what a proper diet can do for you, and for this a guide to some food nutrition facts might just be what you need.
These days it’s just so difficult to get anything into your kids mouths unless it’s first been run through a vigorous treatment of processing. Anything where all the goodness has been leached out, or alternately where all the nutrition has been overwhelmed by other substances, is the type of food that you’ll find is what your kids want to eat. And when you’re in a hurry, this is the food that you’ll resort to eating as well.
Almost all processed foods are at the root of all your bad eating habits, and you should become of aware of this so as to be able to at least put a halt on it. You won’t be able to do it cold turkey, and you might not even be able to do it at all, but if you know your food nutrition facts it’ll be that much easier for you to make an informed decision.
Food nutrition facts can help you decide what foods are not good for you and what foods are. You’ll even come across some food nutrition facts that target fast foods alone. From this you should be able to decide which type of fast foods you really should stay away from, and which types are alright to eat.
When you start learning about food nutrition facts there’s even a good chance that you might become so horrified to learn what you’re eating that you might even try a complete change in your diet. Even if this only lasts for a little while, it’s okay, since you’ve tried a better healthy living plan. You might lack the commitment to it now, but when you’re ready you’ll come back to it and start looking into all those food nutrition facts again.
There’s really only one thing that you need to remember right now though, and that is that processed foods are bad for you. Along with artificially sweetened beverages these can become an unhealthy living style for you and your kids. So look into some food nutrition facts and find a better way of living and eating that will be healthier all around. You’ll not only be healthier for it, but ultimately you’ll be happier for it too.
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Krishan Bakhru is the editor of Natural Home Remedies , Natural Home Remedies for Heartburn and Acid Reflux and Anxiety and Panic Attack Treatment Information
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Inflammatory breast cancer is a harmful disease that is hard to detect. Get 12 signs and 6 frequently asked questions answered that could save your life.
Nearly 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year and over 40,000 will die from it. There are seven different types of breast cancer, some more severe and with a lower survival rate than others.
One breast cancer type called inflammatory breast cancer, or IBC, is a unique and aggressive kind that is rare, accounts for 1 - 5% of all cases, but deadly. It is one of the only breast cancer types that have no lumps, which makes it one of the most undetectable and scariest.
There are four breast cancer signs that could mean you have inflammatory breast cancer:
o Skin around the breast is hot to the touch
o Breasts are asymmetrical and were not before
o The skin becomes red or pink
o There is discharge from the nipples
Below are six frequently asked questions about inflammatory breast cancer.
What should you do if you if you have these symptoms?
If any of these signs persist for more than a week, speak to a physician.
What is the median age affected?
Women 45 – 55 are more susceptible to this specific type of breast cancer.
How do you identify inflammatory breast cancer?
Through surgical biopsy; IBC cannot be identified through Mammogram, Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), or Core biopsy.
What is the survival rate?
IBC has a 40% survival rate over a five year period. Many times the surgeon may remove the breast too early and cause a reoccurrence.
How is Inflammatory Breast Cancer Treated?
Chemotherapy before surgery, as well as drugs such as trastuzumab and lapatinib.
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If you know of anyone or you yourself are being faced with the signs of inflammatory breast cancer, see a physician as soon as possible. If you have already been diagnosed seek out support through the MyNBCF breast cancer message boards.
In the past several decades, the world has become very health-conscious. We all want to look great, feel terrific, and lead a long and healthy life. Dieting is one trend that seems like it will never go out of style. Everyday, you hear about new diets: the Atkins diet, the Zone, the South Beach diet, and more can confuse and befuddle you. Which diet is the best diet for you? Above all, which diets are healthy?
New You TV provides you with the latest diet news and tips. By visiting this website, you are able to get valuable information regarding healthy ways to get in shape and stay that way. Also, you’ll pick up unique tips to help you balance your diet. For example, New You TV advises that if you binge drink, you should eat more fish. By eating more fish, those who enjoy drinking can be sure that they are getting the right amount of n-3 fatty acids. Also, New You TV has articles on various diet plans. For example, one article featured the right diet to follow if you are trying to get pregnant. The specialized diet can help to increase fertility. Other diet videos and articles range from bacon possibly being bad for your lungs to fad diets and how to eat well.
If you’re trying to stay healthy and fit and are interested in following a diet, you should check out New You TV. New You TV provides you with dietary information and tips straight from licensed professionals. Don’t continue buying into all the fad diets that are out there. Go to New You TV and get the facts on which diets are healthy and which are not.
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New You TV is a well-liked source for finding information regarding healthy diets.
Generally, a healthy diet is said to include:
- Sufficient calories to maintain a person's metabolic and activity needs, but not so excessive as to result in fat storage greater than roughly 30% of body mass. For most people the recommended daily allowance of energy is 2,000 calories, but it depends on age, sex, height, and weight. (see Body fat percentage)
- Sufficient quantities of fat, including monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat and saturated fat, with a balance of omega-6 and long-chain omega-3 lipids. The recommended daily allowance of fat is 65-80 grams.
- Maintenance of a good ratio between carbohydrates and lipids (4:1): four grams of the first for one gram of the second.
- Avoidance of excessive saturated fat (20grams recommended limit)(although the "evidence" for this claim is forever in debate after the testimony of results provided by the Framingham Heart Study of 1948-1998)
- Avoidance of trans fat.
- Sufficient essential amino acids ("complete protein") to provide cellular replenishment and transport proteins. (All essential amino acids are present in animals. Some plants together give all the essential acids except rice and beans which have limitations.)
- Essential micronutrients such as vitamins and certain minerals.
- Avoiding directly poisonous (e.g. heavy metals) and carcinogenic (e.g. benzene) substances;
- Avoiding foods contaminated by human pathogens (e.g. e.coli, tapeworm eggs);
- Avoiding chronic high doses of certain foods that are benign or beneficial in small or occasional doses, such as
- foods or substances with directly toxic properties at high chronic doses (e.g. ethyl alcohol);
- foods that may interfere at high doses with other body processes (e.g. refined table salt);
- foods that may burden or exhaust normal functions (e.g. refined carbohydrates without adequate dietary fiber)