Monthly Archive: March 2010

Mar 29

How to Lose Weight

This is another reminder. If you want to lose weight you must burn more calories than you consume! So if you always overeat, you have to cut back! Eat enough to make you feel comfortable and no second or third helpings, no matter how good the food is! Use a smaller plate so that you …

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Mar 25

Pollution Kills

With the change in global climatic conditions, people and animals are facing different kinds of crises. Where there is prolonged drought, there is a lot of pollution in the air. We breathe in air that is full of germs, toxins, micro-organisms and consume food and water that are also contaminated with chemicals, toxic wastes through …

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Mar 24

Get Better Quality of Life

Exercise not only gives you a strong and healthy heart. It also gives you a better quality of life. Do you know that as you grow older, you are at greater risk of getting diabetes? This is because your blood-glucose control is not as good as when you were younger. So you may become insulin …

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Mar 23

What Kind of Exercise?

There are different kinds of exercises for different desired outcomes. What is most important is that we want to have a healthy and strong heart or cardiovascular health. As we grow older, our arteries become less flexible. In fact they become stiff or harden. This results in changes to our blood pressure, thus stressing out …

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Mar 21

Why Exercise?

Whatever weight loss program you choose to help you to lose weight, exercise must be a part of it. We want to lose weight because we don’t want to be obese. Obesity leads to diseases that shorten our lives. We want to live longer. However, I’m sure you don’t want to live longer if you …

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Mar 15

Entrapped!!

Oh dearie me! I was entrapped by the wide range of delicious food that had me salivating when I saw what was available! It was a few days ago that we lunched at the 360 up on the 60th floor of the Macao Tower. The buffet spread ranged from Chinese to Western to Japanese and …

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Mar 08

Beat the Buffet Trap

sThese days buffets are everywhere. You find them in hotels, ranging from the 5 stars to even the 3 stars. Some restaurants offer them too, albeit on a smaller scale. Buffets are the bane of weight watchers like me. Who can pass up what is called value-for-money or eat-all-you-can for a modest sum, especially when …

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Mar 06

What is your Ideal Weight?

Hi, So far we’ve talked how to lose weight but do you know what your ideal weight should be? Here’s how to determine your ideal weight. For a woman who is only five feet tall, her weight should be 100 lbs. If you are taller than 5 feet ( how lucky!! I wish I were …

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Mar 03

Weight Loss Myths That Can Hurt You

Hi, We need to lose weight but we also have to be careful about some claims that can hurt our bodies. Spot reduction of fat, myth or fact? Myth because your body cannot reduce your fat at just a particular spot, no matter what you do. Cut down calories drastically to reduce fat: another myth! …

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