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When most people think of low carb diets they automatically
think Atkins. For obvious reasons. Dr. Robert Atkins formulated
the original low carb diet in 1972 and was met a with a hail of
ridicule and negativity from the medical community at large.

The Atkins Diet, since renamed to the Atkins Nutritional
Approach, works on a very simple principle. Carbohydrates are
what our body normally use to produce energy. If you restrict
the carbohydrate intake of a normal person their metabolism
changes. Changes? Yes your body looks to the next available
energy source which is….fat. So now instead of burning
carbohydrates for energy your body does the same thing with your
existing fat deposits.

In a low carbohydrate diet you actually increase your intake of
fat and pure protein as opposed to reducing it. In theory the
more fat you eat the more fat you burn because your body is now
using fat for energy. It’s common to see low carb dieters eating
enormous steaks smothered in butter with fried eggs and
mushrooms on the side. A very high fat meal but also a perfect
low carbohydrate meal.

The fat burning process is called lipolysis. As the fat is being
broken down for energy a secondary phase called ketosis occurs.
Ketones are the fragments of fat being broken down in the
process of lipolysis hence the name ketosis.

Ketosis has a single nasty side effect -bad breath. For whatever
biological reason the conversion of fat to energy can lead to
really, really bad breath. This is a common complaint amongst
followers of Atkins and similar low carbohydrate diets.

Amongst some of the bad press that low carb diets receive are
worrying stories of people dying while on a low carb diet. These
hyped up media tales are tied to one word – ketoacidosis. This
particular condition occurs when a person goes on a zero
carbohydrate diet and/or suffers from diabetes. During the
ketosis phase the blood becomes overly acidic to a critical
point. Coma and death can follow quickly if medical attention is
not immediately sought.

Does everybody following a low carb diet run the risk of
ketoacidosis? Not unless you have a history of diabetes
(diagnosed or undiagnosed) and you also totally eliminate
carbohydrates from your diet. Even then only a small number of
people are actually susceptible to the effects of ketoacidosis
when compared to the general population.

The results that low carb diets produce are hard to argue with.
Rapid weight loss in a short space of time whilst on a high fat,
high protein diet. These results fly in the face of conventional
medical wisdom and serve to constantly annoy the established
medical community.

Low carb dieting is not going to disappear any time soon.
Especially not as long as major Hollywood celebrities are
successfully using Atkins and showing off their results to the
world media.

About the author:
This article was submitted courtesy of the Low Carb Advice
website. You can find tons of useful information on low carb diets there.
(C) Copyright 2005 Low Carb Advice

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One of the biggest misconceptions people have today is what
constitutes a healthy lifestyle. Just because you exercise does
not mean you are healthy. I hear much too often, oh, I can eat
this because then I will work 30 or 40 minutes on the treadmill,
jogging, walking, (fill in the blank with the exercise of
choice). NO, NO, NO! Once in a while transgressions are one
things, however, if you want to be healthy you need to eat
healthy and exercise, the two go hand in hand.

Now, think about this, if you think this way as an adult, what
are you teaching your children. Yep, that is it OK to eat junk
food as long as you are active. Not only that, so many parents,
say well my kids eat all this stuff but don’t gain any weight,
so it is OK. NO IT IS NOT! While on the surface, you think it
is, it is doing major damage to both yours and your child’s
body. Think high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and
diabetes.

Remember folks the old adage “you are what you eat” applies
here. We all carry over what we learn in our childhood into our
lives as adults. You are setting the foundation here for a
lifetime of bad eating for your child. Do you really want to do
that? No, I don’t think so. So you need to set an example and
start eating healthier and continue to be active. Right now the
majority of children that are active are doing so through after
school or organized sports activities that interest them.
However, what happens when they get older, when these activities
are no longer a part of his/her life. You got it, sedentary
behavior because you didn’t provide the role model they needed
for a healthy lifestyle. You need to provide them with other
choices besides just sporting activities: walking, jogging,
riding, jumping rope, aerobics to name a few.

It is one of your responsibilities as a parent to teach your
children about healthy eating and the importance of activity not
only as a child but as they grow into adulthood. So you need to
be a good role model. We have discussed in other articles,
taking the stairs instead of the elevator, and walking from the
far end of the parking lot. Joining a gym or having exercise
equipment (bikes, trampolines, DVDs) in your home. One of the
cutest things is for a young child to watch their mom or dad
watching a video or working out on a piece of exercise equipment
and trying to emulate them. What a perfect opportunity for you
to show them how to dance, jog, jump rope so they can do
something right along with you.

Next be sure you let them be active in the planning and
preparation of meals. Let them give their input. Take the time
to talk to them about the foods you are making and they are
eating. And please don’t tell me you don’t have the time, make
the time or in all honesty why did you have children!

Yes, we want our children to be active and involved. However,
one big caveat here is to limit the number of activities your
children get involved with. Too many children today join
everything to please their parents and they are exhausted! So be
realistic with their time just as you would be with yours. Be
sure to emphasize to your child that they don’t have to be
involved in everything. Emphasis that if they do too much they
are going to make compromises in one or more activities and that
isn’t fair to that particular group. Talk to them about down
time. Be sure they know it is OK to relax. We need balance in
our life and the only way to be sure we do is to do everything
in moderation and get that down time for ourselves. Relaxing
restores our balance which is so very important for healthy
living.

So let’s start today to show our children that Healthy Eating +
Activity = Healthy Lifestyle!

Copyright 2005, DeFiore Enterprises

About the author:
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Weight-Loss Made Simple

To lose weight and keep it off you need an easy to follow no
fuss plan. You need a plan that is simple and sensible. You need
a plan that you can use everyday to get slim and healthy.

You need a plan that builds on your success day-by-day. A plan
that keeps you inspired and motivated by seeing results. Fast!
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If you don’t see and feel results fast it’s far to easy to be
tempted by the next fast food drive-thru or vending machine.

You need a plan that works for you, a plan that blends into your
lifestyle. A plan that you can live with, forever. A plan that
is so easy to follow that it easily becomes your automatic daily
routine without fuss or stress. That’s the real secret to
permanent weight-loss, you know, having an automatic daily
routine. No thinking required.

Most people go on train wreck diets. They follow the latest fad.
They start a diet, lose some weight, then go off it and the
scale starts creeping back up. Sometimes they gain even more.
Yo-yo- dieting, up and down and back up again is a nightmare.You
don’t want to do that, it’s bad for your health.

Permanent weight loss requires changes in your lifestyle,
changes in your behaviors. You can’t expect to lose weight by
doing the same things like overeating, sitting around watching
hours and hours of television and not exercising. The secret is
to lose weight the same way you plan on keeping it off. In other
words simply get on the train of healthy lifestyle behaviors and
stay with it. Don’t crash. Stop looking for magic pills and
quick fixes.

You can’t expect to lose weight and keep it off by ignoring good
nutrition and eating foods that are bad for you. Junk food leads
to a junked and tired body that ages fast. Diabetes, heart
disease, high blood pressure, cancer, stroke and arthritis are
just a few of the health problems associated with obesity.

When I say “junk food” I don’t mean just fast food, donuts, or
candy, I mean all the foods that don’t seem so bad but are full
of sugar, starches and fats. Foods like fruit juice are full of
sugar. You’re better off to eat the fruit and drink some water.
foods like pasta, rice and french fries are full of empty
calories that cause the release of insulin and puts your body
into fat storage mode.

Permanent weight loss requires you to be informed about what
foods have good nutritional value and what ones don’t. You don’t
need to take a college nutrition course but you do need to know
some basic “nutrition 101” principles.

To be successful with your weight loss and lifetime management
you need to know the difference between proteins, fats and
carbohydrates. You need to know how much protein you should be
eating, how many carbohydrates and what kinds of fats. You can
easily reach your weight-loss goals by just knowing what, when
and how much to eat. People get confused about dieting and
weight-loss. They make it way too complicated and stressful. Who
needs more stress when you’re trying to lose weight?

It doesn’t have to be that way. You just need some sound
nutrition principles, a list of the right foods that you like,
an organized and efficient way to shop and cook meals, and an
automatic daily routine that includes exercise.

Here’s a life changing tip; instead of being a creature of bad
habits just decide to become a creature of good habits. Don’t
waste your time trying to break bad habits just put a good one
over the top of the bad one. One-by-one, step-by-step. I call
that the replacement behavior trick. I’ve developed many
strategies like this for my own weight loss battle.

Look, the goal is to lose weight, right? Not stress and
complicate things. Make weight loss simple by developing an
automatic daily routine. It really can be as simple as that.

Copyright © 2005 Sheri Graber. All rights reserved.

This article may be freely distributed electronically or in
print as long as the author’s bio and the links are included.

About the author:
Sheri Graber lost 87 lbs. in six months following a simple plan.
She writes and speaks about obesity and weight-loss to help
others experience their own weight-loss success. She is the
author of Automatic Weight Loss Plan: Program Yourself Slim The
Simple Simon Way. www.AutomaticWeight
LossPlan.com

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