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Lose weight safely and easily

If you are looking for a way to lose fifteen pounds in two weeks, a high protein diet, a low carb diet, a fruit diet, a no fat diet, a blood type diet, a juice fast, a diet named after a place in Miami, a grapefruit diet, a cactus diet, a coffee and cigarette diet, a diet that includes sweets, a diet based on your body type, a diet based on an ancient religion or a diet based on your hair color, then this article is NOT for you.

Fad and crash diets, such as the ones described above are not only unhealthy but they also cause rebound weight gain. Also most diets, even though diet gurus write them, cause an initial weight loss but the ultimate result is that you gain all of the weight back the minute you go off the plan. If you don’t gain it back within a couple of diets, you are likely to gain it all back plus a bit more within a year.

Crash diets dehydrate you, low calorie diets put your body into starvation mode so you plateau so you can’t lose one more pound and high protein diets stress your kidneys and clog your arteries.

So how does one lose weight?

There is only one answer to this question.

You need to expend more calories than you are taking in. Restricting certain foods, eating so-called fat burning foods, or dehydrating yourself with special pills or teas does not do it. It is simple math. The only way is to eat a little less and exercise a little more. Here is the equation below:

Eating Less + Exercising More = Weight Loss.

This is not a magical formula, it is just logic. It is also not a fast way to lose weight. As I have mentioned before, this is not an article about how to lose ten pounds in three days or 30 pounds in a month. It is about safe, healthy weight loss.

In order to lose weight safely and without putting yourself at risk for such health hazards as dehydration, kidney failure, malnutrition, exhaustion, nervous dysfunction, tooth loss, dull hair, wrinkles, cellulite, sudden heart failure or stroke and lose the weight so that it stays off, you should lose no more than approximately two pounds a week!

Although that might not sound like a large amount of weight to lose it actually is! If you lose 2 pounds a week that means you can achieve a weight loss of ten pounds a month! If you only have twenty pounds to lose then your weight loss is not only quite rapid, but you have the extra guarantee that it will stay off because you have followed a sensible exercise plan that did not involve starving, exhausting or depriving yourself. If you are willing to drop your impatience and desire for immediate gratification and stick to an exercise plan and healthy eating habits, then a Mediterranean Diet is for you. Remember being slim is only good if you are able to enjoy it!

Do You Need to Lose Weight?

Fascination with Fat

If you want to lose weight, you first need to assess whether you need to actually lose weight or are simply a fashion victim. Unfortunately this society is fascinated with fat - who has it and who doesn’t. As we are persuaded by so many images in the media that persuade us to believe that you can never be too thin, many of us are bad judges of our actual body weight.

If you are under the age of eighteen and reading this book, the first thing you need to do is consult with your parent about your plans to lose weight. Have her make an appointment with a physician so that he can indicate to you whether or not you are a candidate for weight loss.

If you are an adult, it is possible that you may not be overweight and are just trying to be, as Bridget Jones put it in Bridget Jones Diary “a stick insect with eyelashes.” It is also very possible that you know you need to lose weight but have no idea where to start.

If you are obese and you know it, then you have to check with a physician first to see how your health is before you embark on any exercise program or plan. The same is also true if you have any kind of medical condition but especially a thyroid condition or heart condition. Some physicians may not recommend a weight loss program for those who are over 40 as due to genetics and hormonal changes some people naturally just round out or gain weight in a way that simply cannot be changed. If your doctor tells you your spreading hips are due to menopause or genetics, believe him! It is not clever to fool with Mother Nature.

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Study Overview

A double-blind placebo-controlled human clinical to evaluate the ability of XanGo Juice to reduce inflammation levels in overweight persons with inflammation.

Researchers

Jay Udani, MD, CPI is the founder, CEO and Medical Director of Medicus Research. He is a board-certified Internist who served as Chief Resident at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center before completing two fellowships in Health-Services Research and Integrative Medicine at Cedars-Sinai/UCLA. He was one of the first physicians to become a Certified Principal Investigator (CPI) through the APPI/ACRP and as a Key Opinion Leader in the field of Integrative Medicine he has designed and performed over 60 clinical trials, and published over 40 articles and textbook chapters. He is the recipient of many prestigious awards including the 2008 Natural Products Association Clinician of the Year, the AMA National Achievement Award, the Harvard Medical School Pinkney Fellowship in Orthopaedic Research, and was voted Best Physician Specialist and Best Medical Speaker in Los Angeles by the Daily News.

Methods

The study was an 8-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study with a 2-week washout period for subjects who were currently taking anti-inflammatory or antioxidant products.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of multiple dosages of XanGo Juice compared with placebo in the improvement of inflammation and antioxidant levels in obese patients with a confirmed history of inflammation.

Results

XanGo Juice was shown to reduce certain parameters of inflammation and to improve weight and body fat in an overweight population. These results may have implications in the future prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, but longer studies will be needed to explore the role of inflammation in the reduction of these diseases.

XanGo Juice demonstrated an ability to reduce inflammation (as measured by HS-CRP), at all 3 dosages while the placebo group actually experienced a small increase in the amount of inflammation. HS-CRP decreased in all 3 dosages vs. placebo over the 8 week study with the 9 oz. XanGo Juice group being statistically significant when compared to placebo.

The XanGo Juice product was shown to be safe at all dosages tested. There were no adverse events (clinical, laboratory, or vital sign) attributed to the product during the course of the study.

Charles (Bubba) Jakeman III talks about his experience with Mangosteen juice. He has lost 45 lbs. since march 25, 2008. His wife has been taken off of 3 out of 5 medications for her heart condition. Is mangosteen right for you? Read More about Mangosteen and its Benefits

Pycnogenol; you don’t have to be able to pronounce it to benefit from this powerful antioxidant. Pycnogenol has many actions in the body, but I am going to concentrate in only one in particular, in this article.

Pycongenol has been found to optimize the production of Nitric Oxide within the lining of your arteries.
And you may be asking yourself: So what?

The answer is: Nitric oxide plays a role in many biochemical functions. By increasing blood flow, it improves memory and attention; it improves the performance of the kidneys, lungs and liver; it aids with cardiovascular performance; and it is responsible for the male erection.

As far as heart disease, I am sure you are familiar with the nitroglycerine pills that heart disease patients carry with them at all times in case of an angina attack (chest pains). What these nitro pills do is release nitric oxide, which relaxes the coronary arteries and allows more blood to flow into the heart.

One important fact about Pycongenol is that, it is and optimizer of the production of nitric oxide. Too much nitric oxide can kill cells.

Pycongenol helps regulate the nitric oxide levels in the body. It helps the body produce adequate levels for necessary functions, and it reduces levels if they are too high and could do harm.

Another important function of the nitric oxide that is produce in the inner lining, or endothelium, of the arteries is that; it acts to increase the production of a chemical messenger called “cyclic- GMP” (guanosine monophosphate), which is needed to keep blood pellets slippery and not prone to clumping and aggregation. This last function is very important for people that suffer from heart disease and stroke.

Currently an American has a heart attack every 20 seconds. Most of these victims never had a clue until just seconds before they had their first heart attack. Of those having a heart attack for the first time 42% survive.

According to the statistics, if you make a list of the 10 people closes to you 6 of them are going to become victims of heart disease, and 2 of them are going to die the first time it happens to them.

If you are not taking steps to prevent heart disease you are playing Russian roulette with your life.

The incidence of overweight and diabetes, the two main contributors to hear disease) are at epidemic proportions in the United States, and you cannot afford to not to supplement you diet with an antioxidant like Pycongenol.

Interested on taking Pycongenol?

Pycnogenol is an antioxidant found on the bark of a French maritime pine tree. Unless you wanted to chew on the pine bark, you could only get your Pycongenol from manufacturers that extracted it and added it to dietary supplements in pill form.

I recommend that when ever possible you get your supplements from whole-foods, in my opinion this is your best option. One way of getting your Pycongenol is from a whole food is drink the juice of the mangosteen fruit that also contains the pericarp along with the pulp within the juice.