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Lauren B. Wallace asked:




Have you ever experienced uncontrollable food cravings? If you are like millions of other people, chances have it that you experience these urgencies from time to time. It is extremely natural to have food cravings; however, the foods which our bodies often desire pose quite a danger to our weight. That is why it is important to control these urges and minimize our intake of various junk foods.

One of the most important things that you can do in order to reduce cravings is to minimize your stress levels. Cravings have a lot to do with our emotions. When we are under stress our brain triggers us to find comfort (usually in food). It has been said that foods high in fat and sugar have a particularly calming effect because our brain associates them with pleasure. Another way to reduce food cravings is to avoid hunger altogether. Being hungry often leads us to quick fix foods such as candy bars and chips. So try to eat smaller quantity meals more frequently, thus avoiding sudden hunger. Also be sure to consume your meals at the same time every day.  

And lastly, if you are fairly weak when it comes down to giving in to cravings, try to equip your kitchen with smart carbs. Some smart carbs include whole grains, beans, fruit, and vegetables. These foods are great at sustaining hunger because they contain fiber, vitamins and minerals. Some people also rely upon diet pills to control their appetite. One of the most popular of these pills is the hoodia gordonii. The reason why this product is so popular is because it is 100% natural and it provides some of the best appetite control without any side effects. So if you are one of those people who is susceptible to cravings, try to avoid the urge by applying one or more of these techniques.  

Ron R asked:




One of the more recent “stars” of the diet supplement world, Lipozene has been touted as a fast, easy route, to substantial weight loss. But does it really work? (For more information on this, go to: http://celopindietpill.blogspot.com/ )

The Lipozene diet pill is manufactured by Obesity Research Institute. You may have heard of them – they previously marketed similar products under the names Fiberslim and Propolene.

The central ingredient in Lipozene, is a substance called glucomannan. And this is the same substance that was used in Obesity Research Institute’s prior diet products. So first, you need to take a good look at what exactly is glucomannan.

Without getting too technical, (I don’t want to put you to sleep with a bunch of terminology from my Chemistry lab manuals!), glucomannan is basically a fiber supplement, derived from a plant. It is a substance that your body cannot absorb, so it just passes through your system, while providing fiber to help move everything else through. (Trying hard, not to get disgusting here!)

Now, there are clinical studies which confirm that glucomannan lowers blood-fat levels, and levels of the “bad” cholesterol (LDL). There is also some confirmation that consuming glucomannan with water before a meal, will give you a full feeling (the idea being that you will then eat less).

But before you run to your computer, to order a year’s supply of Lipozene, I’m going to give you the honest truth. There are very serious problems with this product!

Yes I realize, you may have heard lots of stories about successful weight loss using Lipozene – from people trying to sell it to you! Well, fortunately for you, I refuse to sell people something that I wouldn’t use myself. So I am going to reveal to you, the whole true story, about Lipozene and weight loss.

First, you need to clearly understand the problems:

#1: Diet pills are still drugs. And ALL drugs cause associated side effects. And sometimes, these side effects can even be dangerous.

#2: Glucomannan is a fiber product. And all fiber products can cause certain vitamins and minerals to bind with them – thus preventing your body from using those essential vitamins and minerals. Thus, it is advisable to take a quality multi-vitamin supplement, if you decide to use this type of diet pill.

#3: Since Lipozene is essentially a fiber product, this brings up the question: Why not just buy one of the commonly available fiber supplements, at a cost that is far less than Lipozene?

#4: There are many claims of success floating around the Internet, purportedly from Lipozene users. However, even these people state that they were following nutritional diet plans, and engaging in regular exercise, while on Lipozene. This means that we have no way of knowing whether they would have succeeded equally, merely by using a diet plan and exercise alone.

None of the problems above, however, addresses the most serious concern with Lipozene: Consumer Fraud.

The company that makes the product (Obesity Research Institute), has been cited numerous times for billing customers under false pretenses, and for refusing to provide refunds under conditions where a refund was promised. Furthermore, the Federal Trade Commission has charged the company with making “false and unsubstantiated claims” in the past. As a result, the company has been forced to pay $1.5 million in “customer redress”!

So as we can see, rather than living up to its promises of “easy weight loss”, Lipozene comes with a list of concerns, and even questionable results. Plus, it is sold by a company with a history of criminal actions! Fortunately for you, there are other alternatives to Lipozene, which WILL help you to lose weight quickly. But you need to have a Complete Diet Plan – one that uses SAFE supplements to accelerate your weight loss! And I will layout all the details for you, (plus show you for Free, the step-by-step way to put together your own Weight Loss Plan), in my next article in this series. Go to: http://celopindietpill.blogspot.com

Fitnut asked:


When I started this blog I really wanted to share my own personal experiences with food, weight loss, health and fitness. I started reading some other blogs out there and was kind of shocked at how different I am from a lot of them. There are a lot of really healthy people out there!! I’m the type of person who would probably eat one or two chocolate bars a day if they didn’t make me gain weight. I usually choose to eat healthy foods because they make me feel well physically and emotionally but I still like to eat unhealthy foods in moderation, otherwise I’ll be tempted to binge on them. To me, part of life is enjoying those special treats once in a while: cheesecake, chocolate bars, a fast food burger. Sometimes I feel like I’m constantly testing myself to see how much or what kind of food I can get away with everyday while maintaining my current weight.

So I’ve come up with a fun, interesting list (I love lists) about why I’m not like the ‘typical’ health blogger out there:

I don’t drink green monsters. (What the heck is a green monster, anyway?) I’m not a vegetarian. I love meat. I love lamb, steak, chicken, ribs, ham, beef… get the picture? I’m not a vegan. I **** to admit this but I’m not even sure what a vegan is but I just know that I’m not one. I don’t work out 6 -7 days a week. If I worked out this much I would start to **** it and I would never want to go to the gym again. Right now I’m at the gym 4 -5 times a week and I usually look forward to going. I don’t eat anything that looks weird or has a slimy texture just because it’s “healthy.” I don’t take pictures of every single item of food I put in my mouth. That’s just weird. I do have a couple pics up of food that I have cooked because I was proud of the recipe and happy it turned out! I don’t run half-marathons or marathons. That’s just crazy talk.  I don’t drink soy milk. I drink good, old-fashioned skim milk. I don’t engage in competitions with other bloggers to lose weight. But I do believe in giving one another support. I **** sit-ups. I refuse to do them unless they are part of a class I’m doing at the gym.

So, I guess my point is that you can enjoy healthy foods and some unhealthy foods in moderation and still be fit and maintain a healthy weight like me. If I thought the only way to lose weight was to become vegan, drink green monsters, work out 7 days a week and eat bland, tasteless foods I would rather do 1000 sit-ups… and I really **** sit-ups.

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Lyla Feldman asked:


Do you have weird eating habits or do you know someone who does?  What’s strange for one person might be perfectly normal for the next.  For example, one of my friends is a health nut when it comes to food.  That is fine, but she indulges in other things such as alcohol on a daily basis.  Too much of anything is never a good thing.  I have never seen her deviate from healthy food even when we were out late at night and everyone else is indulging haphazardly in fried foods or big breakfasts.  She would always get egg whites on wheat toast with ketchup.  It never failed.  Maybe she’s just a creature of habit.

 

I have another friend who douses her meals with salt and pepper when she wants to force herself to stop eating.  She’s also a very picky eater to boot.  I have little tolerance for people who don’t like to try new foods as they aren’t very exciting dining out companions.  I also tend to like ethnic food rather than American, but that is just my preference.  I have tried all kinds – my favorites include Persian, Indian, Ethiopian, Japanese, and Mexican.

 

Eating in bed or on the floor is not as uncommon as you may think.  When a good friend of mine didn’t have a kitchen table we just imagined that we were having a picnic in the park during meals.  In some cultures, sitting on the floor is completely normal.  My father puts ketchup on his eggs and macaroni and cheese which I always found repulsive.  One of my friends in college used to eat about a ½ dozen eggs every day.  She never gained the freshmen 15 so I guess she must have done something right.  

 

Some people smell their food before taking a bite, lick foil wrappers off yogurt lids, or cut the ends off sausages or hot dogs.  I must confess; as a kid growing up I indulged in grape jelly and cream cheese sandwiches.   Later on, I realized it was weird because none of my friends had ever eaten one.  Everyone has some sort of weird eating habit; some are more bizarre than others.  There are plenty of online forums to discuss the topic anonymously to check if anyone else shares the same weird eating habits with you. 

 

 

 

Lyla Feldman asked:


Do you have weird eating habits or do you know someone who does?  What’s strange for one person might be perfectly normal for the next.  For example, one of my friends is a health nut when it comes to food.  That is fine, but she indulges in other things such as alcohol on a daily basis.  Too much of anything is never a good thing.  I have never seen her deviate from healthy food even when we were out late at night and everyone else is indulging haphazardly in fried foods or big breakfasts.  She would always get egg whites on wheat toast with ketchup.  It never failed.  Maybe she’s just a creature of habit.

 

I have another friend who douses her meals with salt and pepper when she wants to force herself to stop eating.  She’s also a very picky eater to boot.  I have little tolerance for people who don’t like to try new foods as they aren’t very exciting dining out companions.  I also tend to like ethnic food rather than American, but that is just my preference.  I have tried all kinds – my favorites include Persian, Indian, Ethiopian, Japanese, and Mexican.

 

Eating in bed or on the floor is not as uncommon as you may think.  When a good friend of mine didn’t have a kitchen table we just imagined that we were having a picnic in the park during meals.  In some cultures, sitting on the floor is completely normal.  My father puts ketchup on his eggs and macaroni and cheese which I always found repulsive.  One of my friends in college used to eat about a ½ dozen eggs every day.  She never gained the freshmen 15 so I guess she must have done something right.  

 

Some people smell their food before taking a bite, lick foil wrappers off yogurt lids, or cut the ends off sausages or hot dogs.  I must confess; as a kid growing up I indulged in grape jelly and cream cheese sandwiches.   Later on, I realized it was weird because none of my friends had ever eaten one.  Everyone has some sort of weird eating habit; some are more bizarre than others.  There are plenty of online forums to discuss the topic anonymously to check if anyone else shares the same weird eating habits with you. 

 

 

 

William Thomas asked:




Our culture of convenience is killing us. If the stress of buying and replacing an endless array of gadgets isn’t harsh enough, our addiction to appliances unheard of only a few decades ago is propelling us toward mass misery, death and health care cost calamity on a scale not seen since cars and cigarettes became as personally essential as all the consumer crazes that followed.

Like Big Tobacco’s cynical cover-up, the conspiracy of silence and corporate-government complicity surrounding cell phones, cell phone relay towers, microwave ovens and the “wireless revolution” is unleashing an invisible plague upon our lives. 

And we love it. Racing faster and faster to keep pace with tireless electronic machines that never need to eat or sleep, we have come to equate being fully alive with being fully “wired”. 

But the electrochemical exchanges that enable cells to function and communicate in human brains and bodies are so subtle, and so delicately attuned to Earth’s own quietly humming electromagnetics, the inaudible “noise” from so many clever devices threatens to drown the very signals on which all life depends. And there is nothing convenient about cancer. 

LAST CHANCE CENTURY

Already we are seeing unfolding epidemics of cancers, brain damage and immune dysfunction that threaten the “best and the brightest” students and executives among technologically advanced and emerging nations. Particularly hard hit will be the next generation on which so much depends. For this is our “Last Chance Century” to stop abusing ourselves and the planet on which we depend – and it is the young who are most vulnerable to the most pervasive human-made pollution ever unleashed: electromagnetic smog. 

Whether portable phone or microwave wonder, exposing your three million year-old hominid self to energy levels never before encountered in primate evolution is a spectacularly bad idea. [rfsafe.com] 

Talk about a triple threat! It turns out that the microwaves messing up your cells from your aptly named “cell phone”, neighborhood cell phone tower, or newly acquired long-range cordless phone are radiating at the same 2.45 Gigahertz frequency emitted by your microwave oven. 

Studies of plant, animal and human susceptibility to electromagnetic fields show that the higher the frequency the more damage results. Instead of talking on your cell phone while eating a microwaved meal, you might as well go live next to Chernobyl’s leaky containment dome.

MICROWAVE SICKNESS

The Russians call the symptoms of this new radiation hazard, “Microwave Sickness”. After capturing the first karmically-compromised microwave ovens from their Nazi inventors, the Soviets expanded on the Reich’s initial two-year research in Berlin by looking hard at microwave maladies from 1957 until nearly the end of the Cold War – when the Kremlin banned these infernal machines. 

Conducted at the Institute of Radio Technology in Byelorussia and the Institute of Radio Technology in the USSR, the Russians saw red after finding cancer-making compounds formed in virtually all foods nuked in microwave ovens – including meats, milk and grains, frozen fruits, raw or frozen vegetables.

As Anthony Wayne and Lawrence Newell point out in “The Hidden Hazards Of Microwave Cooking”, Russian researchers also found decreased nutritional value – or significant dimming of their “vital energy field” – in up to 90% in all microwaved foods.

In addition, the B complex, C and E vitamins linked with stress-reduction and the prevention of cancer and heart disease – as well as the essential trace minerals needed for optimum brain and body functioning – were rendered useless by microwaves, even at short cooking durations. 

Not only is microwaved food reduced to the nutritional equivalent of cardboard, lymphatic disorders leading to an inability to prevent certain cancers were also observed, along with increased rates of cancer cell formation in the blood of people eating microwaved meals. The Russians reported increased rates of stomach and intestinal cancers, as well as digestive and excretive disorders – plus a higher percentage of cell tumors, including sarcoma – in people exposed to food molecularly ripped apart by these dangerous devices.

Renowned for their work in physics and electromagnetic research, Russian scientists found that as brain circuitry breaks down, disturbances in the alpha, theta, and delta brainwaves varying between rest and concentration occurred at “markedly higher levels” among those exposed to microwave radiation, as well as microwaved foods. 

ZAPPED!

It turns out that eating over-energized food “zapped” in a microwave imparts that energy to the human nervous system. The resulting stress causes a high blood pressure response, with such characteristic symptoms as migraines, dizziness, stomach pain and anxiety. 

Higher incidences of hair loss, appendicitis, cataracts and reproductive problems have also been found among constant consumers of microwaved food – with women’s more complex hormones and plumbing proving particularly vulnerable. Regardless of gender, adrenal exhaustion and heart disease caused by microwave food stress, the Russian researchers stressed, can be fatal.

BRAIN STORMS

They also found that regularly consuming food “nuked” in a microwave also leads to memory loss and attention disorders – as well as increased crankiness, depression, disconnected thoughts and sleep interruption. 

Sound familiar? After years of independent writing and research, this reporter is convinced that the oft-remarked “dumbing down” of America is directly linked to “stupid schools”, constant urban noise, poor nutrition and hypno-television flicker – as well as dangerously incessant levels of electromagnetic smog acting synergistically with proven brain-damaging compounds such as aspartame, fluoridated water, antidepressants and food shattered by microwave ovens. 

Recent research confirms that the spikes of violently oscillating energy pulsed into microwaved meals and transferred to the blood stream by eating these foods can cause permanent brain damage by “shorting out” intercellular signals and “de-polarizing” brain tissue which depends on natural +/- electrical polarities to function. 

Reporting clinical findings from Novosibirsk in 1975, IR Luria sealed the fate of microwave ovens throughout Mother Russia the following year when he noted how “These effects can cause virtually irreversible damage to the neuroelectrical integrity of the various components of the nervous system.” Luria lambasted microwave ovens, concluding: “Ingestion of microwaved foods is clearly contraindicated in all respects.” 

But in 1976, the same corporate-controlled US media that later failed to flag Americans on glaring 911 anomalies and the manufactured “threat” from a shattered Iraq, also neglected to report the Soviet government’s ban on “microwaves” – which were by then taking over cooking chores in nine out of ten American homes. 

While the USSR were busy issuing an international alarm over microwave cooking hazards, back in the USA a sudden onslaught of colon cancer coincided precisely with the “craze” for microwave ovens and food.

DANGEROUS OSCILLATIONS

So what’s going on in your microwave? Unlike the direct radiant heat from regular ovens and toaster ovens – which cook food like a Paleolithic campfire from the outside in – space age microwave ovens hurl high-frequency microwaves that boil the moisture within food and its packaging by whipsawing water molecules dizzyingly back-and-forth at more than a billion reversals per second. 

This frenetic friction fractures food molecules, rearranging their chemical composition into weird new configurations unrecognizable as food by human bodies – which tend to react as if confronted by terrorists wearing grotesque masks. 

Eating molecularly-molested foods alters your blood chemistry, too. 

HANZEL AND GRETTLE REVISITED

How’s this for microwave magic: Eat your organic veggies zapped by microwaves and send your cholesterol soaring! As noted in my previous article, “Cooked”, Swiss scientist Hertel harrumphs: “Blood cholesterol levels are less influenced by cholesterol content of the food than by stress factors” in non-fat microwaved foods.

Before being ordered to shut up by the Swiss government acting on behalf of microwave oven manufacturers, Hertel heroically remarked in 1991 that eating food altered in a microwave also derails the body’s remarkable repair and regeneration powers, leaving cells “easy prey for viruses, fungi and other micro-organisms.” 

A few months later, a “Comparative Study of Food Prepared Conventionally and in the Microwave Oven” backed the heretic Hertel when independent investigators Zelt and Raum revealed, “Microwaved food contains both molecules and energies not present in food cooked in the way humans have been cooking food since the discovery of fire.” 

The resulting radiolytic compounds created by deformed microwaved molecules introduce “into the human body molecules and energies to which it is not accustomed,” Zelt and Raum remonstrated. In fact, our bodies cannot break down these alien compounds without producing extremely toxic wastes in the bloodstream that courses through all organs and tissues.

CALL A KOPP

Reporting for the Forensic Research Document of AREC Research, William P. Kopp now states: “The effects of microwaved food by-products are long term, permanent within the human body. Minerals, vitamins, and nutrients of all microwaved food is reduced or altered so that the human body gets little or no benefit, or the human body absorbs altered compounds that cannot be broken down.” 

There is no qualifying “maybe” concerning this Kopp’s conclusions: “Eating microwaved food causes loss of memory, concentration, emotional instability, and a decrease of intelligence,” he declared. 

LETHAL PLASTIC 

Dr. Mercola concurs: “Recent research shows that microwave oven-cooked food suffers severe molecular damage. When eaten, it causes abnormal changes in human blood and immune systems. Not surprisingly, the public has been denied details on these significant health dangers.” [mercola.com]

On January 27, 2003 MD Allan Spreen wrote in “Micro Management” that microwave cooking studies “universally describe some type of damage” – including the complete degradation of vitamin B-12 into useless junk. 

Dr. Spreen also vented his spleen denouncing the packaging for many “microwavable” foods. Pizza, French fries, waffles, popcorn, breaded fish, instant noodle soups and similar plastic-wrapped foods become laced with dioxins when zapped in a microwave. 

Think pulp mill pollution. Think “Agent Orange” and the near-permanent poisoning of Vietnamese DNA by US military planes spraying megatons of defoliants over families, forests and farms. In both cases, dioxins are doing drastic damage. Next to the weapons-grade plutonium contaminating Denver’s suburbs, and the depleted uranium munitions littering Afghanistan and Iraq, dioxins are the deadliest, most persistent artificially created chemical substance known. 

Dr. Edward Fujimoto from Castle Hospital says, unless you really want to do yourself serious harm, do not microwave TV dinners, ramen soups and similarly processed “foods” in a microwave oven using plastic containers – especially foods filled with fat. Fujimoto found that the combination of fat, high heat and plastics releases dioxin into the food, and into the cells of anyone unlucky enough to eat it. Remember, that the more flexible plastics require more hazardous chemicals in their manufacture. Nuking Saran-wrapped foods is insane.

TRY THIS

Here’s a fun experiment you can do at home: Plant seeds in two pots. Water one pot with water nuked in a microwave; the other with “normal” filtered tap water. Surprise! The seeds soaking up microwaved water won’t sprout.

So what do you suppose happens to the life-giving properties of your blood? 

TOASTED VS. NUKED

The excellent news is that prudent prevention is as close as saying, “nyet” to microwaved foods. While eating a microwaved meal on extremely rare occasions will probably do less harm than stressing out about it, using a microwave oven for much or most of your home cooking is a ticket to trouble. I prefer to stand back and activate my toaster oven instead. It’s nearly as quick. And the meals it produces taste better, and are much better for me than dining on soul-sucking “Frankenfoods” created in some ex-Nazi nemesis.

It may not be time to return to the horse and buggy. But have you ditched your cellular phone, long-range portable phone, and microwave oven yet? 

The time for electromagnetic emancipation is right now.