Natural Cures For Weight Loss
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Discovering the root of the problem
Isn’t it surprising, despite seeing so many people around us on some kind of diet, the number of obese and overweight people doesn’t seem to reduce! Of course, incorrect eating habits and an inactive lifestyle are the main reasons for gaining weight, but comfort eating or eating to fulfill emotional needs is an important cause too. Whatever your reason for getting out of shape, you certainly need to wage the battle against the bulge in the right way to get back in shape.
Losing extra weight
If you’re more than 25 pounds overweight, you’d need to lose a pound a week. This is because 1 pound of fat yields 3500 calories. Consuming 3500 calories less per week works out to 500 calories a day, which is quite achievable. So, by cutting 500 calories from your normal daily diet, you’d manage about a pound a week. What’s heartening is those who lose 1 to 2 pounds a week are most likely to maintain normal weight all throughout their lives.
However, losing 500 calories a day is easier said than done. If you drool at the mere mention of Big Mac, add 460 calories; if you can’t gulp the burger down without a soda, add 200 calories; if you drink coffee with cream and not milk, add 50 calories; if you love butter with your baked potatoes, add 100 calories; if you’re in the habit of munching potato chips, it’s another 300 calories; the list can go on. So, you’ll have to do some serious thinking on ways to cut down on calories.
Natural cures for weight loss
Diet and exercise are two important aspects in weight loss. However, there are some effective natural cures too. Let’s see what these are:
a. Apple cider vinegar:
Apple cider vinegar contains acetic acid which stimulates the production of stomach acid that helps in easy digestion and prevents fat deposition. Just a spoonful of apple cider vinegar a day would do the trick.
b. The grape cure:
Grapes can help you shed those extra pounds around the middle, because of a magic ingredient called resveratrol. According to a well-known researcher, Dr. John Pezzuto of the University of Illinois at Chicago, this naturally occurring phenol “has multiple modes of action that helps in trimming fat, in addition to its other curative properties.
c. Water remedy:
By drinking more than a half-gallon a day of water, you can reduce the amount of food consumed and lose weight. Furthermore, good hydration of the tissues encourages enzymatic activity and therefore the burning of fat deposits.
d. Cascara sagrada (Rhamnus purshiana):
This weight loss herb is a strong stimulant and a laxative and should not be used for more than a week.
e. Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale):
This gentle diuretic herb enhances fat metabolism, removes fatty acids and cholesterol from the blood stream. Fresh dandelion greens are eaten in soup or as salad.
f. Ephedra (Ephedra sinica):
This herb is a fat burner, but is not to be taken more than 3 times a day for more than 4 weeks.
g. Malabar tamarind (Garcinia cambogia):
This herb is an appetite suppressant, fat burner and a digestive aid.
h. Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra):
This wonder herb satisfies cravings for sweets and prevents habitual snacking without adding calories!
i. Psyllium (Plantago psyllium):
This herb reduces hunger by imparting a feeling of fullness and helps push body’s waste out.
j. St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum):
This herb suppresses appetite and bestows a feeling of satiety. It also reduces depression-related to overeating.
k. Senna (Cassia senna):
This herb is a laxative and a diuretic, but is not to be used for more than a week.
These natural cures coupled with the right diet and exercise can help you come back in shape. However, always take the advice of your physician before adopt any cure.
 
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Apple cider vinegar and grape cure.
Chillies speed up the matabolism the hotter the better so if you can stand hot chillies eat a few chillies a day. also your matabolism is faster in the morning so if you are going to eat bad foods eat them in the morning…
If you run in the morning try not to eat anything before hand so that your body will burn fats and not charbohydrates that you would have from foods.
FOR FRIZZY HAIR USE RAW,ORGANIC,EXTRA VIRGIN COCONUT OIL.ALSO GOOD AS A MOISTURIZER ON SKIN,AND GOOD FOR YOUR DIGESTIVE SYSTEM(examlpe:use instead of butter in oatmeal or on toast)PLUS IT IS ALL NATURAL,NO CHEMICALS THAT CAN BE ABSORB INTO YOUR BODY.
for really bad headacches or migranes, take a 2 litre bottle of water and sip it slowly but steadily at one sitting. By the time you finish the headache will be clear. l have proven it on someone who had a migrane.
For weightloss. EXERCISE. Period. even if you dont change your eating habits you are bound to loose at least 20 pounds if you work out at least 2 or 3 times a week.
Losing weight is definetly hard work.I use to overeat,but have found alot of strenght in keeping it under control.Since then, the feeling of success I felt by sticking to my plan to loose weight and stop over eating, has kept me motivated.
For stinky feet/fungi… soak in very warm water and apple cider vinegar 50/50 very refreshing!
Instead of going on a diet,try to eat healthy foods and exercise regulary in the morning. You can eat foods that are healthy and eat as much as you regulary eat. It works really well.
You guys are so caring, giving, an unselfish, Thank You
Thank you for these caring advice.
Can you tell me more about Black Cohosh.
And the benefits of apple cider vinegar in weight loss??
Excersise! Never skip breakfast.cut down your carbohydrate intake.for protein eat white fish or salmon or any fish.omege 3 fatty acid is good.eat fruits and vegetables and lots of water but becarefull not to over hydrate.eat nuts.moderate the amount of your food intake.drink rooibos tea and green tea-antioxidants.let yuorself relax often.shed away the extra weight
Eat less.. Move more…and you will lose weight!
This is an area where we have been misled as well. Here’s why you cannot lose body fat on a low calorie diet:
Two hours after eating your body has used or stored the available sugar energy from your last meal. Because your body needs constant refueling,it begins to need more energy at this time.It takes energy from liver glycogen to keep your blood sugar level highly controlled. At the same time the muscles use their glycogen for energy. As your glycogen stores are being used, some fat is burned off as well. Suddenly you see weight loss. You can lose up to nine pounds the first week because glycogen weighs more than fat. But this is the stage of low calorie dieting when most people lose the battle. When the glycogen stores are depleted, it is difficult for the liver to regulate the blood sugar supply to the brain. Within one to two weeks your body demands the sugar it has been deprived of. At this point, you resume eating more calories. “Or,” if you have the will-power, aided by some form of stimulant, you continue your low calorie diet. If you continue with the low calorie diet, your body is forced to take material from bones and muscles to keep the brain and kidneys going. But you do not recognize you are burning body mass. All you are concerned with is that you are beginning to weigh less.You keep eating a low calorie diet, looking at the scale and thinking you are on the right track. Your body continues to burn fat too. But the fat loss is minimal compared to the destruction that is taking place in your muscles and bones. Your metabolism begins to slow down, preventing your body from using too much muscle and bone mass as building material. You are now down to your goal weight and /or you cannot continue to diet any longer. At this point, you have less lean body mass and a lower metabolism. When you resume eating normal amounts of food you get back all the lean body mass you lost, plus more body fat. If you are young your body metabolism goes back to where it was before you began your diet. Now, however,you have more body fat than you started with. Because you gained back more body fat than you had before you started your diet,you are inclined to diet again. This time you resolve to do better. You blame your increased body fat on your lack of will-power. You didn’t restrict your calories enough, or you didn’t stay on your diet long enough, or when you resumed eating normally, you ate too much. So you diet again and the same thing happens. You are now on the Yo-Yo track.
This up and down effect is occurring because every time you diet you lose more lean mass and bone and deprive your body of the nutrients needed to maintain a healthy hormone system. By the time you have gone on multiple diets, losing and regaining weight, a major shift has occurred in your body composition as well as your hormone system. This compounds as you get older. Every time you diet you have less potential for rebuilding muscle,less potential for burning body fat, and more potential for storing body fat. Dieting upsets the balance of the human body needs for constant nourishment. When you diet your body perceives a famine and starts to slow down metabolic functions in the attempt to conserve its own lean body mass.If you diet drastically, with liquid fasts or five-hundred calorie weight reduction programs, the damage occurs faster.
It is impossible to safely lose more than two pounds of body fat a week if you have a high metabolism and exercise rigorously. Most people have a goal of achieving a certain weight, but it should be done slowly and with a proper diet.
Ron Davis,Certified Holistic Health Counselor>
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I am an educator. I do not diagnose any disease or prescribe any substance for the treatment or cure of any disease.