How to Maximize Weight Loss with hCG
While the average user loses 1-2 pounds of fat per day during the hCG diet, there are certain tactics that can be used to speed up results and amplify weight loss. HCGBlog.com has combined the most effective strategies based on years of visitor feedback to create a guide to help users augment their overall results using the hCG weight loss diet.
1. Do not use any artificial sweeteners or milk in your coffee or tea.
2. Select grapefruit as your fruit serving at least once per day. Many dieters notice an increase in their weight loss when they consume grapefruit exclusively and eat no apples, oranges or strawberries.
3. Consume white fish and shrimp as your proteins.
4. Cut out the bread items from the diet.
5. Go on walks and stretch daily. While heavy exercise is discouraged during the hCG diet, light exercise including walking, yoga, stretching and light weight lifting can actually help to boost results.
6. Perform a full body cleanse before starting the diet. Eliminating the toxins from the body prior to starting the diet can help to accelerate results once phase 2 is commenced.
7. Take a multivitamin with your hCG. Vitamins supply the body with the nutrients it needs to function at optimum capacity.
8. Drink as much water as you can throughout the day.
9. Take PantoSure™, a skin tightening metabolism booster, along with your hCG diet drops or injections.
10. Weigh yourself each morning and keep a food journal. By monitoring your weight along with your food intake, you can isolate foods that accelerate or decelerate your weight loss.
Raspberry Ketone Supplement Shown To Have Antiobesity Effect
Although published for many years the NLM National Institutes of Health study on the RK compound did not become popular until just recently when a popular daytime television Doctor exposed the RK compound for its weight loss properties. The study, “Raspberry ketone increases both lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes”, found herehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20425690showed that when Raspberry Ketones (RK) were administered to mice it was reported to prevent high-fat diet-induced elevations in body weight and to increase lipolysis in white adipocytes.
The finding in of itself didn’t cause as much stir in the media as did the popula Dr. Oz recommending it as “the number one miracle in a bottle”. As far as explaining the complex process in simpler terms it is described that RK may stimulate a key hormone called Adiponectin. Adiponectin is a hormone that tricks your body into acting like it’s thin. The stimulation of this hormone improves the bodys ability to metabolize fat. The study in the NCBI NLM National Institutes of Health also pointed to a prevention in weight gain and fat accumulation in key areas as well as lower triglyceride levels that would normally be associated with eating high-fat food.
“What many people tend to do is hear about something like the raspberry ketone supplement and start taking it without regard to a proper eating and or exercise program. People need to stop looking for a miracle in supplements and start using supplements only to assist in the overall goal” – Dr. Joseph Owens, MD
In the battle against obesity it’s no wonder supplements that can help fight obesity become popular so quickly. One thing to keep in mind is that a supplement should be used as a “supplement” and not as the main remedy for fat loss. Production of raspberry ketones is not expensive and can be found at online shopping sites such as Amazon or at most supplement retailers.
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Low-Carb Diets Can Raise Heart Risk
Bread lovers, rejoice: There’s yet another reason to skip a low-carb, high-protein, high-fat diet.
Eating more fat and protein and less carbohydrates might lead to an increase in cholesterol and risk for cardiovascular disease, a 25-year study of 140,000 Swedish adults found.
An effort to eat low-carb didn’t improve study participants’ body mass index (BMI), either: After adjusting for the aging study population, researchers found BMI actually continuously increasedover the course of the study, even as participants tried to eat healthier foods.
“While low carbohydrate/high fat diets may help short-term weight loss,” cautioned researcher Ingegerd Johansson, PhD, in a release, “these results … demonstrate that long-term weight loss is not maintained, and that this diet increases blood cholesterol which has a major impact on risk of cardiovascular disease.”
The study, published in Nutrition Journal, tracked the results of a regional and national efforts to reduce the fat intake and improve the heart health of adults living in Northern Sweden. The Västerbotten Intervention Programme (VIP) — which included a push for better food labeling, nutrition information, cooking demonstrations, and health examinations and counseling — began in 1985 after Swedish health officials noticed that rates of heart disease were higher in Northern Sweden, and for men, among the highest in the world.
Study Finds Regular Consumption of Berries Slows Memory Decline
A recent study has found that people who include berries in their weekly diets show reduced rates of memory decline. Conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and the first long-term, large-scale epidemiological study of its kind, the research discovered that consuming as little as one serving of blueberries per week can slow memory decline in older adults.
“This is encouraging news for everyone, regardless of age,” noted Susan Davis, MS, RD, nutrition advisor to the Wild Blueberry Association of North America. “Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of age-related memory decline, and this study adds to a growing body of research showing that the compounds in Wild Blueberries might benefit people in this area, as well as in a number of other areas including diabetes, cardiac health and more.”
The study, published in Annals of Neurology in April, used data collected from the ongoing Nurses’ Health Study, started in 1976 to collect long-term information about health and nutrition habits.
“This is the first study to find that adding a weekly serving of berries to one’s diet can slow memory decline,” said study co-author Dr. Elizabeth Devore. “It’s a dietary change most people can make – and maintain over a long period of time – without difficulty.”
The participants in the study who regularly consumed the highest amount of berries showed delays in memory decline of up to 2.5 years. Participants who consumed even one weekly half-cup serving of blueberries demonstrated reduced memory decline.
Lack of sleep associated with multiple health risks
The 30% of working adults who routinely sleep less than six hours a night are four times more likely to suffer a stroke, says a new study.
The findings are the first to link insufficient sleep to stroke; they’re also the first to apply even to adults who keep off extra pounds and have no other risk factors for stroke, says Megan Ruiter, lead author of the report. It will be presented Monday at the 26th annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies in Boston.
“People know how important diet and exercise are in preventing strokes,” says Ruiter, of the University of Alabama in Birmingham. “The public is less aware of the impact of insufficient amounts of sleep. Sleep is important — the body is stressed when it doesn’t get the right amount.”
The number of people who report eight or more hours of sleep a night has dropped from 38% in 2001 to 28%, says the National Sleep Foundation. A government study in May found 30% of working adults get six hours or less. Experts recommend seven to nine.
Study says too much running could be bad for your health
Plenty of people take up marathon running to stay in shape.
But a new study finds, in some cases, too much running could be bad for your health.
Alyssa Downing of Minneapolis was running around Lake Calhoun on Tuesday because she said, “I have a half marathon on the books in Chicago so I’m getting in a last couple of training runs.”
But now experts say you may want to stop after just one or two marathons because a new study published in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings says running long distances regularly may not only not help your health, it may harm it.
Cardiologist Dr. Retu Saxena of North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale agrees. She said, “What we find is that people who are extreme marathoners have little tiny areas of small heart attacks so to speak.”
The study out of the Mid America Heart Institute of St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., said those who participate in frequent marathons or triathlons, even long distance bike races, put too much stress on their hearts.
Eating White Fish Benefits Heart Health, Reduces Weight
Frequent consumption of white fish, such as hake, improves blood pressure, lowers cholesterol and reduces weight, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Nutrition & Obesity Unit of Hospital Ramón y Cajal in Madrid.
Thirteen Spanish public hospitals participated in the study to examine whether white fish is an adequate source of dietary omega-3 fatty acids. The study, sponsored by Pescanova, S.A. and the Namibian Ministry of Fishing and Marine Resources, consisted of feeding frozen Namibian hake to Spanish patients with high cardiovascular risks who were suffering from metabolic syndrome.
For the study, 257 patients with metabolic syndrome were subject to a diet lasting 16 weeks, split into two stages: eight weeks of exclusion from any seafood, followed by eight weeks of daily consumption of 100g of Namibian frozen hake or vice-versa. Patients’ weight, size, waist perimeter, body mass index and blood pressure were measured during the extent of the study and blood analysis was carried out during each stage to ascertain the lipid profile, glycemic and plasma omega-3 DHA levels.
Results showed frequent consumption of hake improves arterial diastolic (blood) pressure, reduces weight and decreases LDL-Cholesterol levels. The researchers concluded that hake is a natural, adequate and sufficient source of omega-3 fatty acids.
Study: To much Exercise Is Bad for Some People
Could exercise actually be bad for some healthy people? A well-known group of researchers, including one who helped write the scientific paper justifying national guidelines that promote exercise for all, say the answer may be a qualified yes.
By analyzing data from six rigorous exercise studies involving 1,687 people, the group found that about 10 percent actually got worse on at least one of the measures related to heart disease: blood pressure and levels of insulin, HDL cholesterol or triglycerides. About 7 percent got worse on at least two measures. And the researchers say they do not know why.
“It is bizarre,” said Claude Bouchard, lead author of the paper, published on Wednesday in the journal PLoS One, and a professor of genetics and nutrition at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, part of the Louisiana State University system.
Dr. Michael Lauer, director of the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the lead federal research institute on heart disease and strokes, was among the experts not involved in the provocative study who applauded it. “It is an interesting and well-done study,” he said.
Dark chocolate cuts heart deaths
Australian researchers have found that eating a block of dark chocolate daily over 10 years has “significant” benefits for high-risk cardiac patients and could prevent heart attacks and strokes.
A study of 2,013 Australians conducted at Melbourne’s Monash University found that the consumption of 3.5 ounces of chocolate with a 70 percent or higher cocoa content every day was an effective measure to reduce risk.
Lead researcher Ella Zomer said the team found 70 fatal and 15 non-fatal cardiovascular events per 10,000 people could be prevented over 10 years if patients at risk of having a heart attack or stroke ate dark chocolate.
“We’ve predicted significant health benefits of eating 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate every day over a 10-year period,” Zomer said of the study, published in the British Medical Journal.
“Our findings indicate dark chocolate therapy could provide an alternative to or be used to complement drug therapeutics in people at high risk of cardiovascular disease.”
Zomer’s research partner Chris Reid said measurements from the subjects, all of whom had classic risk factors such as high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol or body weight, were run through epidemiological modelling.
