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To reduce food cravings,
the body needs real support � and lots of it. Eating
healthy foods, eating breakfast every day, taking
nutritional supplements, moderate exercise and lots
of emotional support can almost miraculously curb
cravings. This week we focus on Food Craving:
understanding body signals.
Enjoy good health,
Namita Nayyar, AFI |
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Stretch Before AND After Exercise
The question often arises, �should I stretch
before or after exercise?� This is not an either/or situation, both are
essential. It is no good stretching after exercise and counting that as your
pre-exercise stretch for next time. Stretching after exercise has a totally
different purpose to stretching before exercise. The two are not the same.
The purpose of stretching before exercise, is to help prevent injury. Stretching
does this by lengthening the muscles and tendons, which in turn increases your
range of movement. This ensures that you are able to move freely without
restriction or injury occurring.
However, stretching after exercise has a very different role. Its purpose is
primarily to aid in the repair and recovery of the muscles and tendons. By
lengthening the muscles and tendons, stretching helps to prevent tight muscles
and delayed muscle soreness, which usually accompanies strenuous exercise.
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Unconditional success
Success comes more quickly and more surely to
those who refuse
to put conditions on their commitment. An attitude of "whatever is
Convenient" won't accomplish very much. An attitude of "whatever it
takes" is impossible to stop.
What is your priority -- convenience or commitment? What do you
seek most passionately -- comfort or accomplishment? Do you look
for the easiest way out, or the most effective way to move forward?
Unconditional commitment produces unconditional success. When opportunity comes
along you must follow it, or it will leave you behind. It will rarely be
convenient and will often be uncomfortable.
It will interrupt your favorite TV show, and ask
that you drive to the other side of town or fly to the other side of the world.
It will require that you meet new people, learn new skills, and get up earlier
in the morning.
Whatever it takes, for as long as it takes -- that will accomplish
anything.
Note: WF Members receive motivation like
this in their e-mail box every Monday morning! Those of you looking for added
motivation, can go ahead to download Free motivational Wallpaper Changer at
http://www.womenfitness.net/downloads.htm
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"You
will find the key to success under the alarm clock."
~ Benjamin Franklin |
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Berry Pudding Cake
Serves: 8 servings
Ingredients:
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Direction:
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Place fruit in the bottom of a 9-inch square baking dish coated with nonstick
cooking spray (nonfat).
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Combine the next three ingredients and half the sugar in a mixing bowl. Add
milk, butter and vanilla and beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Pour
batter over fruit.
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Mix remaining sugar and cornstarch in a bowl and sprinkle over batter.
Pour boiling water over mixture. Bake at 350 degrees F for 45 minutes.
Nutritional
Information:
Serving Size: 1/8 of dish
Calories 270
Fat 5 g
Cholesterol: 10 mg
Protein 5.5 g
Carbohydrates 45 g
Fiber 2.5 g
Sodium 70 mg
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Food craving: understanding
body signals
Food cravings mean that the body has its signals
mixed up. When we are exhausted or blue, we have low blood sugar and/or low
serotonin, and the body signals the brain that it needs a pick-me-up. This
signal causes a sugar craving or carbohydrate craving.
Why do we crave for food?
There are three basic factors responsible for
food craving:
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Hormonal Imbalance
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Dieting
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Adrenal fatigue
Serotonin is our basic feel-good hormone. Hormonal
imbalance or weak digestion can lead to low serotonin. Unfortunately, sugars and
simple carbohydrates release a short burst of serotonin � we feel good for a
moment, but soon return to our low-serotonin state � then crave more sugar and
simple carbohydrates.
Insulin is responsible for maintaining stable
blood sugar levels by telling the body�s cells when to absorb glucose from the
bloodstream. Being insulin resistant means your body stops responding to
insulin, and instead grabs every calorie it can and deposits it as fat. So no
matter how little you eat, you will gradually gain weight. Insulin resistance
leads directly to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. And a low-fat diet makes
it far more likely you will suffer from this condition. At the same time, your
cells cannot absorb the glucose they need, so they signal your brain that you
need more carbohydrates or sugars. The result is persistent food cravings.
If you eat a low-fat diet in the hope of losing
weight, you unintentionally make the problem worse. If, like millions of women,
you have eaten a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet for many years, or followed fad
diets, the odds are good that you have become at least partially insulin
resistant. Millions of women are trying the Atkins Diet or the South Beach Diet.
While these diets are an improvement over the conventional low-fat,
high-carbohydrate diet, they can worsen your metabolic problems, because dieting
itself is stressful to the body. So many women need to heal their metabolism
first before even considering weight loss.
Click here, to
read the complete article on
Food craving: understanding body signals.
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