Archive for the ‘Health Tips’ Category

Posted on May 13, 2008 - by HUMVOX

Seven Myths About Weight Gain by Dr. Mark Hyman And More!

I will like to share with you an article by Dr. Mark Hyman on the Seven Common Myths that many people have on the issue of weight gaining. Also being shared further is the Seven Keys to Weight Loss. Lastly, enjoy a youtube video on the relationship of weight loss with emotional freedom techniques. Are you ready? Let’s go then!

There are seven myths many of us believe that confuse, confound, and thwart our efforts to lose weight. These beliefs are impediments to success. According to my research, here they are:

MYTH #1: EAT LESS + EXERCISE MORE = WEIGHT LOSS

Restricting calories turns on ancient mechanisms that prevent starvation. These slow your metabolism to conserve energy and trigger a cascade of molecules in the blood so you receive hunger signals that are too strong to ignore—all leading to weight gain.

MYTH #2: YOU CAN CONTROL WEIGHT BY COUNTING CALORIES.

All calories are not created equal. Food that enters your blood stream quickly promotes weight gain; food that enters slowly promotes weight loss. For example, sugar from soda enters your blood very rapidly; the calories you aren’t using is stored as fat. The same amount of sugar from kidney beans enters your blood slowly. Because your body has a greater chance to make use of the calories over time, more is burned and less stored.

MYTH #3: EATING FAT MAKES YOU FAT

We have been brainwashed to believe that if we eat fat, we will get fat. There’s one problem—science does not support this myth. In the last 40 years, our national fat consumption has decreased from 43 percent to 34 percent of our total calories. Eating less fat than ever, we are growing fatter. The reason? Low-fat diets are often rich in starchy or sugary carbohydrates, which raise insulin levels and promote weight gain.

MYTH #4: EATING NO-CARB OR LOW-CARB WILL MAKE YOU THIN.

Carbohydrates are actually the single most important food in your diet for long-term health.

As with calories and fats, there are different types of carbs that interact with your genes, leading to remarkably different effects. Human beings have not evolved to metabolize the highly processed and refined carbohydrates we eat that contribute to the major diseases: diabetes, heart disease, dementia, and cancer. Happily, vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and beans are also carbs, good carbs.

MYTH #5: SKIPPING MEALS HELPS YOU LOSE WEIGHT

One of the reasons that Americans are getting to be as big as Sumo wrestlers is because we actually eat like them. The Sumo diet causes ordinary people to gain extraordinary amounts of weight. They skip breakfast, train for five hours (working up an appetite), eat a huge meal, nap for several hours, eat dinner, and go to sleep. Does skipping breakfast and eating a large meal just before sleep sound familiar? It should. It’s the American Way!

MYTH #6: THE FRENCH PARADOX MEETS THE AMERICAN PARADOX

The French have a reputation as a culture that knows about food, what to do with it, and how to eat healthy. The French eat more fat, drink more wine, and yet suffer less heart disease and are less obese than Americans, right? That’s only part of the story. The truth is that the French eat real (fresh, full of nutrients, and minimally processed) food, they eat less food, they eat food more slowly than Americans do, and they walk more than we do.

Myth #7: FOOD POLITICS: GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY ARE THE GUARDIANS OF OUR HEALTH

An obese America is big business for the food and pharmaceutical industries. The food industry spends more than $33 billion annually on marketing; 70 percent of those dollars go to pushing fast food, convenience foods, candy, snacks, soft drinks, alcoholic beverages, and dessert. Only 2.2 percent is spent on advertising for fruits, vegetables, grains, or beans. The main classes of drugs available for treating high cholesterol are among the biggest selling in history. Our government can’t find money to fund public health campaigns to promote the scientific principles of good nutrition, but it can increase agricultural subsidies from $18 billion in 1996 to $28 billion in 2000, to supply a glut of soybeans and corn that is transformed in the laboratory into toxic food additives, super sugars, and super fats known as high-fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated soybean oil.

With a better understanding from the myths, will you like to know the seven keys that may just help you with weight loss? Continue reading on…

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Posted on May 6, 2008 - by HUMVOX

Acupuncture is Physical, Emotional Freedom Techniques is Emotional

I have given a video introduction to what is Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) all about, hope all of you enjoy the explanation, the video and starting to know what is EFT all about.

As mentioned in the previous post, I have mentioned that EFT is actually an emotional version of Acupuncture, except needles aren’t necessary.

So what is Acupuncture all about and why is it so popular among the Chinese and part of the Traditional Chinese Medicine practice?

There is a deep understanding in Traditional Chinese Medicine studies that there is a form of Energy or ‘Qi’ that is constantly flowing freely in the body system. A note is that if you are a logical person and based everything on facts, this form of energy cannot be seen by naked eyes as per the understanding of Quantum Physics that everything is made up of particles of energy.

So if you are a healthy person, this means that this form of Energy is free to move inside the body with absolutely no obstruction. But if you start to fall sick, this form of energy will be obstructed in some parts of your body and that’s where Acupuncture will come in well.

Acupuncture uses special forms of needles to treat the affected areas and the needles are usually inserted into the Meridian Points as seen below:

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Posted on May 5, 2008 - by HUMVOX

A Video Introduction to Emotional Freedom Techniques

Are you into Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) - The Astonishing Natural Healing Aid You Can Use For Everything?

If you are doing a search for this Term in Google today, you’ll probably get around over 800,000 of sites dedicated to this healing techniques.

I did up this blog post before but due to lack of personal research on this topic, I had put it away - but with the YouTube and Passing Time (many people are talking about this online), I have decided to bring back this topic.

So What Is Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT?

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Posted on April 10, 2008 - by HUMVOX

The Power Of Association To Help You In Weight Loss

Just come across this web video that shares with you, Britain’s weight-loss Guru Paul McKenna’s Four Golden Rules to Weight Loss and the use of the Power of Association (linking the crave in your mind to something that you hate):

If you like a summary of what these Four Golden Rules are, simply they are:

1. When you’re hungry, eat…
2. Eat whatever you want…
3. Eat consciously…
4. When you are full, stop…

What’s really amazing is how Guru Paul uses the Power of Association to help you curb a certain craving - in this video - as the Host smells the bowl of broccoli and keeps thinking of Chocolate, he actually touches the arm of the Host, that’s the power of association in play, to help her link the smell of the broccoli (which she hates it!) to her crave for chocolate (which she likes it a lot)!

The results: She stops having that crave at that moment!

If you like to enjoy more techniques from Paul McKenna to help you with weight-loss using the Power of Association, Tapping, the Four Golden Rules - get his book today:

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Posted on April 8, 2008 - by HUMVOX

Take Care of Your Eyes With Anthocyanin, Beta-Carotene and Lutein

Are you Protecting Your Eyes Today?

They say… Your eyes are the window to your soul. How true that is!

With today’s working society and advancing technology, many people are working longer hours with close proximity on their computers and therefore straining their poor eyes~

That’s not all. Working till late nights and driving frequently in this kind of environment can basically result in uncalled for health problems.

What are the Health Issues for Tired Eyes?

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