It is a time-honored tradition to make resolutions at this time of year. If your resolution is to lose weight - and keep it off, then keep reading! Here are six simple tips that will have you losing weight in a balanced and healthy way.
1. Lose weight with water.
Water is essential for everybody - it is also the key to losing weight. If you haven't been drinking enough water, your body has developed a pattern of storing water. This water retention equals extra unwanted weight.
By drinking more water, you are not only flushing out toxins, you are also teaching your body that it no longer needs to store water. Drink at least 60 ounces of water (about 8 glasses) a day. Boil water and sliced lemons, and drink this throughout the day to help with fluid retention. If you are still not sold on the merits of water, try this on for size: water is a natural appetite suppressant.
2. Soup up your weight loss program.
A simple dietary change will have you shedding pounds: eat a bowl of soup at least once a day. Nutritious, low-salt soups will nourish you as they flush waste from your body. People who eat a serving of soup daily lose more weight than those who eat the same amount of calories but don't eat soup. Go for homemade soup whenever possible, as canned soups are loaded with salt and chemicals.
3. Eat early to keep weight off.
The human body follows a circadian rhythm, which means that the same foods eaten at breakfast and lunch are processed differently than when eaten at dinner. Studies show that when you eat your daily protein and fat at breakfast you tend to lose weight and have more energy; however, eating the same things at dinner tend to increase tendencies toward weight gain. I suggest that you eat your last meal of the day by 7 p.m.
4. Eat smaller meals, more frequently.
Follow an eating schedule with five little meals every day. Eating steadily through the day keeps you from becoming famished and overeating at your next meal. Make a low-fat trail mix from raw almonds, pumpkin seeds, dried plum, and apples and have it available at all times to avoid the tempting lure of high-calorie snacks.
5. Adopt a balanced approach to your diet.
Most of the fad diet programs out there nowadays are extreme in a few recommended foods, or else deprive the body of food altogether. This works in opposition to our metabolism and the results usually don't last, producing a yoyo effect that depresses your metabolic function - not to mention your self-esteem. We are natural beings that need a balance of nutrition from all sources.
Your diet should consist of a balance of organic sources of lean protein, complex carbohydrates, whole grains, legumes, nuts, fruits, and vegetables. Instead of white rice and pasta, opt for brown rice, bulgur, millet, or buckwheat.
Eat more green, chlorophyll-rich foods such as broccoli, kale, spinach, and asparagus. Eliminate candy, sugar, soda, and all simple sugars from your diet. Excess sugar ends up being stored as fat in your body, which results in weight gain. Also, keep dairy to a minimum because most dairy products are high in saturated fat. Avoid fatty foods, processed or fried foods.
6. Walk off the weight.
The No. 1 cause of weight gain is inactivity. Physical activity is the key to speeding up your metabolism and burning excess calories. The best way to be physically active is to use your legs! Walk as often and as long as you can. Always take the stairs instead of the elevator.
Step outside during your break at work and take a walk around your building. Consider joining a local hiking club. Try taking a walk 30 minutes in the morning or 30 minutes in the early evening.
I hope this article helps you shed some pounds and add on the years! I invite you to visit often and share your own personal health and longevity tips with me.
May you live long, live strong, and live happy!
-Dr. Mao
I always wonder where to go and release my tension after one full week of exam stress and hard works. Many of us will hang around in crowded places such as Myeongdong and Ehwa Univ. vicinity because there are so many shops and restaurants that we can sit and reward ourselves with a nice meal. -Myeongdong-
I know that I shouldn't talk about this bu t I can't resist to make sure that everybody knows how tasty and crispy Krispy Kreme doughnut really is!.
This doughnuts shop has opened their franchise vastly all over Korea. Yes, we can find it everwhere now. And I honestly think that their doughnut are far better than Dunkin's. If you don't feel like eating, but just want to sit down , enjoy a cup of latte with your freinds this might be your favourite place.
Actually the attraction of this place is that you can see the whole process of making doughnut directly.
-CZEN, Ehwa Univ-
This is precisely the place to go when you want traditional Asian noodles. The price for noodles is 6900won and you can choose your own type of noodle ( currently they have pumpkin, squid, greentea, chili and many more) and how you want it to be prepares (sauteed or special). They also have lines of appetizers from spring rolls to shrimp dimsums which are very delicious and the price are from 3500 to 5500 won. Another choice of menu is pillafs for 7900won. I normally come with my friends whenever we miss Asian noodle taste.
In Malay superstition , when you hiccup while having a meal that give the sign that someone is talking back about you. Actually, hiccups are the result of a contraction of the diaphragm followed by the closing of the throat.
Hiccups are one of the most common, but thankfully mildest, disorders to which humans are prey. Virtually everyone experiences them at some point, but they rarely last long or require a doctor's care.
The thing is how to stop hiccups?. I collected some tips from peoples on how to stop hiccups.
Tip 1.
I took this article from internet since it sounds interesting to share together.
ITHACA, N.Y. - The main reason some people get fat isn't because of genetics or how much they eat, says a Cornell University obesity researcher. It's because compared with thinner people they snack more often during the day and move about a lot less.
The best way to slash the country's skyrocketing medical costs associated with obesity is not through dieting but by persuading people to exercise more, says David Levitsky, professor of nutritional sciences at Cornell. He says that the government should take a more aggressive role in ensuring that employers offer workers more opportunities to stretch their legs and exercise and provide more noncompetitive sports for children as well as after-school programs in inner-city neighborhoods where children often can't play outside safely.
"And forget dietin; it just doesn't work," Levitsky says.
The Cornell obesity expert made these points to a meeting of nutrition professionals at a program on obesity, presented Jan. 21 at the Southern Tier Dietetic Association in Ithaca.
Levitsky's studies with former undergraduate students Lisa Jias and Amy Lanou have shown that when people are not allowed snacks, they still eat about as much at mealtime as when they do snack. And people who skip a meal or don't snack do not compensate at the next meal by eating more. That means that the less often you eat, the fewer calories you consume, he explains.
America, he says, needs to slow the trend of adults and children becoming fatter, and to achieve this he has several messages:
-- "The popular high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets are just gimmicks," he says. They work temporarily because they are comprised of fewer calories, but the weight comes right back because the diets are nearly impossible to stay on indefinitely. Such diets, on a long-term basis, could be linked to higher risks of cancer, heart disease and kidney failure, he says.
-- "The ideal weight charts send the wrong message to consumers; it's not your weight that counts but what goes into your weight." In other words, what's much more important to health are indicators such as blood pressure and cholesterol and healthful lifestyle habits, such as a low-fat diet and plenty of exercise. "Recent studies show that shorter mortality is more related to inactivity than to body weight."
-- What you weigh matters to your life, though. Studies show that obese people experience discrimination in jobs, housing, education, dating and marriage.
-- The popular set-point theory -- that your body regulates your appetite and body weight -- seems to be losing ground as new research fails to support it.
-- Americans are getting fatter because they are consuming about 1,000 calories more each year than the previous year. That is less than 10 calories a day. To burn off that extra energy, the average person needs only to walk or clean house about 17 hours more a year, power walk, bike or dance about eight hours more or engage in vigorous exercise (walk uphill, play basketball or jump rope) about three more hours a year.
-- The benefits of exercise include not only more calorie expenditure, but also lower cholesterol levels, greater muscle mass (which uses more calories for fuel than fat cells do), smaller fat (adipose) cells and changes in brain chemistry that induce feelings of well-being and a greater sense of control over one's life.
-- Levitsky's final advice on the best way to control weight is to "move your body whenever possible while reducing calories from fat. Eat only when you have to, which means at meals, and finally, accept your body size. Be happy even if you think you're not thin. The major problem with body size is on the outside -- from society and the media -- not within you. Take back the control about food and body size."
Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additional information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or availability.
Last year, I had a chance to see EveR-2 "The Female Robot" by my own eyes at the Robot World 2006 held in COEX Mall. EveR-2 is a humanlike robot of universal beauty achieved by incorporating a mixture of ethnic characteristics. The face is designed with an idealistic youthful beauty in mind, female but with masculine characteristics (large jaw and cranial area).
I cant find the exact EveR-2 that I have seen before in YOUTUBE. But I found this
http://player.mnet.com/VodPlayer2/Forward.asp?Seed=037|19004|MV|824
This robot is the second Korean humanoid robot. When I first saw her sang the Korean song "Nun Kammajulkeayo" during the opening ceremony, I was so impressed this robot has its self-expression. Its expression is the most relistic but the hands still look bad when it sing.
I search on internet for the photo and here it is :
Great Teacher Blogs.
Reading other people's blogs will help you to learn many things. When you start to read others blog it can help to increase our earnings, find new tools and learn new techniques, etc. One of my choose in Sean list was http://www.tefllogue.com/ .
The triangle is a typical shape to differentiate with other shapes which we think that there is nothing special about it. However, do we ever think that most of the unique historical and mysterious place came in a triangle shape?. It is not just a triangle but it is a decoration which could attract people to know more about the place that built from this shape. The most popular triangle mystic places are the Bermuda Triangle, the Great Pyramid and the Easter Island
One of the most common world mystic places in ocean is the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle is an imaginary triangle also known as “Devil Triangle”. It situated in Atlantic Ocean and bounded roughly by three points at Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. The Bermuda Triangle has been popularly known because a lot of incidence and unexplained losses of ships, boats and air craft happen in the area. Scientists explained that the factors that contribute to the accident were the lack of magnetic declination near 80 degrees west where compasses point directly to the North Pole, versus to the Magnetic North Pole elsewhere on the planet which make compass navigation difficult. Overall, the mystic of the Bermuda Triangle has simply been the result of an overemphasis on the accidents which have occurred in the area.
Another amazing world mystic place in the land is the Great Pyramid. It is the only ancient Seven Wonders of the World that still remains. The Great pyramid is situated at the city of Giza. It was built by the Egyptian King of the Fourth Dynasty around the year 2560 BC to serve as a tomb when he dies and have been built over 20 year period. The Great Pyramid has stimulated human imagination and was referred to as “The Mountains of Pharaoh”. Despite of the great dimension calculations while it was built, it’s also the heaviest structures on earth and could not be built anywhere. The enigma about the Great Pyramid is who built it and until now there are a lot of theories in answering this question.
Easter Island is the most mystic island in the world. The Easter Island as seen from the space shuttle is a triangle island. It is one of the most isolated islands in the world but since 1200 years ago a lot of people from a distant culture came to this island. Over the centuries that followed a remarkable society developed in isolation on the island. For unknown reason they began carving giant statues out of volcanic rock and call it as "Moai". “Moai” is the most incredible statues ever discovered. The people of Easter Island called themselves the Rapa Nui. No one know where did they come from and why did they disappear and that create the mystery of Easter Island. Sciences had learned much about the enigma of Easter Island but the definitive answer on who the Rapa Nui were still has puzzled the world ever since.
A lot of progress had been made in the realm of science but we still do not have the capability of deciphering the mysteries that plagued human being ever since the time of our forefathers. Nonetheless, most of us are content just to be awe-inspired by these mystical happenings around the world without knowing the true cause of them. Perhaps only time will tell when we eventually could. -by wada-
Like other kids, I also felt nervous and excited on the first day of school because of all the new things; new teacher, new friends, and even a new school. As I can remember, on that day my parents were accompanied me to school for a couple first period to settle the school fees and had some briefing from headmaster. While every parent had a briefing, all students had to gather and then we had been divided into several groups which each group represent one class. After moved to classroom, my class teacher kick off the school year by introduced herself and told us about all the school stuff; detail explanations about school building , teachers name and so on. While sitting inside the classroom, I saw some student crying, some parents still did not go back and stayed with their kids and still some student did not want to enter the classroom by hiding behind their parents. On that day, feeling of nervousness seems gone away after knowing some new friends. Even it happens 15 years ago, but it is still fresh in my mind.
Many language teachers make their own webstes so they can share ueful teaching materials and teaching links. They also put up games, quizzes , puzzles, tests , assignments and grades for their students. I personally think that internet is one of the best material to use in class. By reading all the blog written by English teacher, it sometimes help me to improve my understanding in some material. Even language is a spoken thing between two people, but it still can happen in bloging. People write and read , and this is the communication. If I were a teacher, I will use internet to be one of the way to interact with my student. I do agree with all the post from all links that Sean gave us.
I hope I can loss some weight by next year...^^ read more
on berusahalah!