By
Beverleigh H Piepers
Burning calories, losing weight, diets, weight loss, obesity,
weight gain, body fat, Type 2 diabetes. If these are words you can
relate to, this article will definitely help you.
Fad diets simply don't work. You need to take steps to change your lifestyle in the long-term. That's the only way to lose weight and prevent weight gain.
So here are some tips you can use...
To start with, you need to know (you probably already do), you need to burn more calories than you consume if you want to lose weight and prevent weight gain. The first tip is water. Everyone know you should drink as much water as you can BUT the trick is it should be ice water.
Your body burns calories as it tries to warm up the water when you drink it so, if it's ice water, you're burning up a few more calories. If you drink eight 8 ounce glasses of ice-cold water per day, you can burn around 25000 calories per year. This means you can lose 7 pounds per year from this one tip alone. One millimeter of ice water burns one calorie so if you drink one 8 ounce glass, it burns 80 calories.
The next tip is to chew sugarless gum between meals and after meals. It helps avoid the temptation to snack. It also burns calories as you chew. If you chewed gum for a couple of hours each day, you would burn around 175 calories per day. This is calculated by the actual chewing which burns around 10 to 122 calories per hour.
It also means you don't snack as much. If you choose a mint-flavored gum, it tends to make you less likely to want to snack because of the distinct flavor, although other flavors do almost as good a job.
Topping up on vitamin D supplements is another way to help burn more calories. The normal requirement is 1000 IU a day. However, if you increase the dosage to anywhere between 1000 to 5000 IU, you can burn up to 225 calories a day.
Imagine taking the vitamin D and washing them down with an ice-cold glass of water. Then chew some sugarless gum and you could end up eliminating around 460 calories each day with very little effort.
There are loads of other unusual ways to burn calories. These are the approx calorie loss figures for a male weighing 190 lbs: dancing (386), roller skating (600), badminton (386), water skiing (514), playing the drums (343), playing a game of singles tennis (686), table tennis (343), snorkeling (429), playing with your kids (343+), canoeing (300), playing with your dog (343) and fishing (257).
If you want to lose weight and improve your health, it's good if you can vary your activities also. This keeps them interesting and fun. Such simple things are enough to help you better manage your overall health, regardless of whether you have diabetes, some other health issues or are completely healthy.
Fad diets simply don't work. You need to take steps to change your lifestyle in the long-term. That's the only way to lose weight and prevent weight gain.
So here are some tips you can use...
To start with, you need to know (you probably already do), you need to burn more calories than you consume if you want to lose weight and prevent weight gain. The first tip is water. Everyone know you should drink as much water as you can BUT the trick is it should be ice water.
Your body burns calories as it tries to warm up the water when you drink it so, if it's ice water, you're burning up a few more calories. If you drink eight 8 ounce glasses of ice-cold water per day, you can burn around 25000 calories per year. This means you can lose 7 pounds per year from this one tip alone. One millimeter of ice water burns one calorie so if you drink one 8 ounce glass, it burns 80 calories.
The next tip is to chew sugarless gum between meals and after meals. It helps avoid the temptation to snack. It also burns calories as you chew. If you chewed gum for a couple of hours each day, you would burn around 175 calories per day. This is calculated by the actual chewing which burns around 10 to 122 calories per hour.
It also means you don't snack as much. If you choose a mint-flavored gum, it tends to make you less likely to want to snack because of the distinct flavor, although other flavors do almost as good a job.
Topping up on vitamin D supplements is another way to help burn more calories. The normal requirement is 1000 IU a day. However, if you increase the dosage to anywhere between 1000 to 5000 IU, you can burn up to 225 calories a day.
Imagine taking the vitamin D and washing them down with an ice-cold glass of water. Then chew some sugarless gum and you could end up eliminating around 460 calories each day with very little effort.
There are loads of other unusual ways to burn calories. These are the approx calorie loss figures for a male weighing 190 lbs: dancing (386), roller skating (600), badminton (386), water skiing (514), playing the drums (343), playing a game of singles tennis (686), table tennis (343), snorkeling (429), playing with your kids (343+), canoeing (300), playing with your dog (343) and fishing (257).
If you want to lose weight and improve your health, it's good if you can vary your activities also. This keeps them interesting and fun. Such simple things are enough to help you better manage your overall health, regardless of whether you have diabetes, some other health issues or are completely healthy.
Using some of the above tips will help with burning calories and
weight loss. Type 2 diabetes is not a condition you must just live with.
Take control and take back your health.You can do it!
For nearly 25 years Beverleigh Piepers has searched for and found a number of secrets to help you build a healthy body.
The answer isn't in the endless volumes of available information but in yourself.
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For nearly 25 years Beverleigh Piepers has searched for and found a number of secrets to help you build a healthy body.
The answer isn't in the endless volumes of available information but in yourself.
Diabetics, Eat Your Carrots
ReplyDelete...Carrots, peas and sweet potatoes are some of the richest vegetables in the nutritional world. It is so sad to see diabetics forgo these beneficial vegetables. It's not really the diabetic's fault; it's poor dietetic advice that's promoted in the hospitals. It's wrong advice and it's hurting many people.
It all started when they discovered in a lab somewhere that anything that was not a protein or fat can be used as a carbohydrate. Since it was known that carbohydrates raise blood sugar, dieticians grabbed onto the carbohydrate in equals blood sugar rise. It's the principle behind the glycemic index.
Since then, nutritionists discovered that all those vitamins, minerals and fibers slow the absorption of sugars and can direct some of those sugars into feeding the millions of probiotics in our digestive system. Some of the carbohydrates are used to build healthy tissue. Fat slows the absorption of carbohydrates and this is why it's best to eat a tiny bit of butter with your carrots; it also helps us absorb the Vitamin A.
Without the sugars entering our blood, the total blood sugar number does not go up. This is the principle behind the glycemic load. The best hospitals and doctors are using the nutritional information based on the glycemic load to teach diabetics about their foods.
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