The Best Way to Gain Weight Without Getting Fat
May 3, 2010
For guys its not bulk body builder weight, even though you could because we make more testosterone. For ladies it would be more like Jennifer Garner or Angelina Jolie. You have to slow your metabolism a little so maybe dont do as much cardio activity and increase the intensity of your resistance (weights) workouts.
Proteins will help you build muscle but don’t overdo it, meaning don’t go stock up on peanut butter and tuna cans. Only so much protein can be used by your body a day the rest goes undigested to a degree. Its important to eat proteins after weight workouts.
Also make sure you get your proteins from vegetables as well as meats. Yes vegetables, you would be surprised how many bodybuilders are vegetarians. Legumes (beans), Leafy green vegetables have proteins as well as whole grains (rice). When eaten in combination vegetables and whole grains containing proteins can form whats called a complete protein which is better used by your body to build muscle.
Building muscle in your workouts requires high intensity resistance training, so if you haven’t been lifting weights build up to it gradually. Taking longer rests between your sets will allow more muscle fibers to be built, and drink plenty of water.
As far as supplements go, everything God put on this earth for you to eat works just as well as any supplement. All supplements do is try to give you what you can get from your food and give you results you get from hard work and smart eating. A good multivitamin is just about all you need as far as supplements go. Weight gain supplements have way to many side effects to be worth it.
There are certain foods that are beneficial and certain you should avoid.
# Drink sufficient pure water — your weight divided by 2 = ounces per day. Take fluids between meals, using reverse osmosis purified water, unsweetened juices, and herbal beverages. Try liquid chlorophyll in pure water, it is delicious and refreshing!
# *A minimum of 50% of your food should be alive — fresh, raw, unprocessed. Dead food cannot build strong bodies. Eat foods in season and foods that can spoil. (But eat them before they spoil, of course!)More is preferable!
# *Eliminate foods used in a microwave. Try to eliminate using the microwave for anything you eat or drink.
# *Eliminate processed sugars and white flour and any foods that contains these; i.e., read labels. Substitute whole grain foods for white — stone ground whole wheat, brown rice, etc.
# *Avoid all stimulants. They are very hard on the adrenal glands. (Coffee, cigarettes, chocolate, cola drinks, alcohol, aspirin, black tea — herbal (green, jasmine, chamomille, etc.) tea acceptable.)
# *It is easier on your digestive system if you eat fruit by itself. Fruit digests faster than any other type of food. Starches and proteins do not combine well either.
# *Eat two-thirds of your daily food intake before mid-afternoon if possible. It is best to use protein in the morning and at noon, not in the evening.
# *Eliminate fried foods of all kinds — grill, bake, roast, or steam instead.
# *Avoid products sweetened with high fructose corn syrup — this does a real number on your blood sugar and in excess causes belly fat
# *Avoid using Splenda, Nutrasweet or any other artificial sweetners containing Aspartame and Sucralose for they are harmful to the body. Avoid using products sweetened with these dangerous chemicals.
# *Avoid pork and any product containing pork — lunch meats, hot dogs, ham, bacon, sausage, etc. Experts feel that the parasites in pork are heat-resistant.
# *Do not use aluminum cookware.
# *Replace table salt with Vegetable Seasoning Broth, kelp or B-Salt. Table salt — sodium chloride — is an imbalanced chemical which can cause health problems.
# *Replace red meat with fish or fowl whenever possible.
# *Substitute leaf lettuce — Romaine, red or green leaf, or butter for head lettuce which has very little food value and is toxic in the colon.
# Try to add cultured products, natural yogurt & keifer (not sweetened) to your diet to help your digestive system. Also add acidophilus supplements to your regimen to increase friendly bacteria in your intestines and support your immune system.
# Eat Organic food whenever possible
#*70% of your daily food intake should be selected from alkaline-forming list. 30% from the acid-forming list.
To accomplish this, you may have:
5 vegetables*
2 fruits
2 starches — or — 1 starch
1 protein 2 proteins
Acid – Forming Foods
Meat
Fowl
Eggs
Bread
Nuts
Citrus juices
Fish
Cheese
Rice
Grains (cereal)
Sugar
Alkali – Forming Foods
Fruit juices/except citrus
Vegetable juices
Raw Honey
Soybeans
Potatoes
*Liquid Chlorophyll – Chloropyll may be used as a vegetable.
Goat milk
sprouted seeds
Chris Navi
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Herbal Beverages – Sawvaros And Manao
April 30, 2010
Sawvaros (Water- Lemon, Passion Flower)
Scientific Name: passiflora Iaurifolia Linn.
Family: PASSIFLORACEAE
Other Names: Katokrok, Katokrokayak, Passion Fruit
Botanical features:
Bush A rounded creeper.
Leaves: A deep green, glossy, single leaf with a deeply curving edge. There is a gland at the leaf s stem. There are plenty of thick leaves.
Blossoms: A large single flower is in its upside down form like a lantern, with green bract. The outer petal is in a cylinder shape, jagged at the edge. The petal’s back side is dark green whereas the inner part is light purple sprinkled with red dots. The inner petal is like the outer petal’s jag, with its color of light purple or light pink, and also sprinkled with red dots. There are two layers consisting of central petals which are rather round. The petal’s color is deep purple streaked with white and red at its edge. At the center is the light green pollen. The passion flower gives a very strong smell.
Usage:
As foods: The fruit is edible at its being fully ripe as well as being made into juice. The seeds can be eaten with ice-cream. The passion fruit juice is used for flavoring ice-cream, jelly, candies, cake and wine.
Food value: Katokrok Farang consists of various organic acids, including Vitamin C, sugar and others.
Nam Sawvaros (Passion Fruit Juice)
Ingredient:
Ripe Sawvaros
Boiled water
Powdered salt
Syrup
Crushed ice
Manao (Common Lime, Lime)
Scientific Name: Citrus aurantifolia Swing
Family: RUTACEAE
Other Names: Manao Masiew (Chiangmai) Leenameebeeh (The southern Part – Malayu )(Shan- Mae Hongsorn) Panaugale Manawtalae Manaodlae (Karen- Mae Hongsorn) Maakfah Panongkolyan (Karen- Kanjanaburi ) Kroachama (Khmer – Surin)
Botanical features:
Trunk: A perennial plant with smooth bark and tender, thorny branches.
Leaves: The leaves of a lime tree are arranged in alternative order in an oval shape. The enc of the leaves are pointed; whereas their bases are round and narrow; their edges are jagged.
Blossoms: About 5-7 bloossoms are in a cluster, or a single flower. The lime flower is white with 4-5 petals.
Fruit: A smooth- skinned round shape which is in deep green when very young and turns yellow when fully ripe.
Usage:
As foods: Lime juice is used to give sour taste to food. Juice and rind are eaten with miang (kinds of snack wrapped by leaves such as miang kum, and miang lao), Food value Lime juice consists of many organic acids: citric, malic, Vitamin C an other substance. Lime skin has vaporized oil, Vitamins A and C, Calcium and phosphorus. Lime juice also contains some bitter substance.
As medicine: Lime leaves : water boiled with lime leaves is used as medicine for cough, phlegm dissolution, stomach discomfort and appetite increase. Fruits : lime juice is for relieving thirst, reducing internal fever, improving the body’s chemical elements and increasing appetite. Lime juice is also used to prevent seurvy and to get rid of parasitic worms. Prickled lime is used to dissolve phlegm and to refresh the throat. Water, boiled with dried lime get rid of to stomach discomfort, stomachache as well as to dissolve phlegm and nourish stomach. Fresh roots are used to relieve pain from bruises.
Nam Manaaw (Lime Juice):
IngredientsLime juice, granulated sugar, powdered salt, fresh water.
Manora
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Herbal Beverages – Mandarin – Makaan
April 27, 2010
Mandarin, 
King Orange, Tangerine
Scientific Name: Citrus reticulate Blanco
Family: RUTACEAE
Other Names: Sompaen Keema, Sompaen Kradaan, Somkaew Boran, Somsangthong, Som Tranganoo, Som Jantaboon (Krung tep ) Somchiengtung, Majook, Makhang, (The Northern Part ) Mabaang, Makiew (Chiangmai ) Leemayeubo, Leenajeena (Malay – The Southern Part).
Botanical features:
Trunk: A small – sized perennial plant with plentiful branches.
Leaves: The leaves of an orange plant are in compound form with glossy skin. Fresh leaves have a unique smell.
Blossoms: Either single or cluster, the blossoms are white with fragrance and easily fall off the branches.
Fruit: A round, rather flat-shaped fruit has glossy and green skin when very young. The skin turns yellow when it is fully ripe.
Usage:
As foods: Oranges are edible as fruit when well-ripe, and made juice.
Food value: An orange consists of vitamins C, A, B, Calcium Iron, Phosphorus and many kinds of organic acids. Out of its edible part of 100 grammes, an orange has 4,000 I.U. of Vitamin A. An orange’s rind has sweet vaporized oil and Vitamin C.
As medicine: The rind is extacted to make tingeriodine, to give flavors to medicine and to relieve chest and stomach discomfort as well as to be an ingredient of ya – hom (a medicine to cure dizziness). Orange juice gives Vitamin C to prevent scurvy, to cure coughing and to dissolve phlegm.
Nam Som Kaan (Orange Juice):
Ingredients
Oranges
Lime juice
Syrup
Powdered salt
Crushed ice
Makaan (Tamarind)
Scientific Name: Tamarindus indica Linn.
Family: Makaam, Makaan Thai (The Central Part) Ampial (Surin) Taloob (Nakrornsritammaraj) Maakkang (Shan-Mae Hongsorn) Samawgale (Karen-Mae Hongsorn) Makaam gadaan, Makaan Keemaew
Botanical features:
Trunk: A medium / large sized perennial tree or about 60 ft. height. Branches are growing on the tree top. The bark is light- brown with splits in the skin.
Leaves: The leaves of a tamarind tree are in compound form arranged in pairs on the midrib of about 10-18 pairs. The leaves’tips and bases are dark green and somewhat round.
Blossoms: About 10-15 blossoms are in a cluster at the end of the twigs. The petals are yellow with scattered, red dots at the center. The flowers produce a sour taste.
Fruit: The tamarind’s fruit is brittle, with its grayish brown when fully ripe. Inside the flesh, there are seeds in their rather round shape.
Usage:
As foods :Yong leaves and blossoms with their sour flavor are used for cooking tom yam (sour soup) and tom kloang (a kind of sour soup which uses dried fish, onion and tamrind leaves to be main flavor). The young, sour pods are main ingredients of namprig makaam (pepper souce with tamarind). The fully rip pods, also sour, give sour flavor to kaeng som (a kaeng of sour soups made with tamarind paste), and kaeng kua (a kind of curry depending its sour flavor on tamarind paste).
Food value: The fully ripe tamarind flesh consists of high organic acid, calcium, phosphorus, a little of Vitamins C and A, and also gum, pectine and others. The tamarind seeds have high mucilage, fat, carbohydrate, semidrying fixed oil and others.
As medicine: Fully ripe leaves are used to cure cough problem, dysentery and get rid of phlegm in colons. Flesh is used as laxative to cure constipation as well as cough and phlegm. Fully grown seeds are laxatives to help get rid of parasitic worms imbedded in children’s abdomen.
Nam Makaam (Makaam Juice):
Ingredients
Fresh tamarind flesh, granulated sugar, powdered salt, fresh water
Saronkorn Seuyouyong
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Foods That Cause Acid Reflux – You Need an Acid Reflux Disease Diet
April 24, 2010
Once you have started an acid reflux disease diet, you may find that a number of your reflux symptoms stop, and your throat is allowed to heal.
So let’s discuss what kinds of foods cause acid reflux and some ideas about the acid reflux diet you might need.
Foods That Cause Acid Reflux
One of the biggest offenders to remove from your diet is processed food. Between the acidity of the sugars and starches, your stomach will often not digest well and churn out acids up your esophagus, if you have acid reflux disease.
Another place to start, is cutting down on fats, but not totally out, as you need some healthy fats for good health. Examples of good fats are flax oil, organic butter and fish oil.
Begin to notice which foods and the ingredients in the food set off your acid reflux. Keep a diary for two weeks and write down your reactions and what foods you ate. As you begin to notice a pattern, take those foods out and find substitutes or do without.
There are a number of foods that most people who want to follow an acid reflux disease diet must remove from their selection of foods. A partial list is pasta, plums, cranberries and cranberry juice, garlic, black pepper, sweets and radishes.
And a favorite food to many that often cause problems with reflux are chocolate and pepermint. Sorry, but it is best to avoid those.
In addition, some beverages are offenders. Tea, coffee, diet soft drinks, soft drinks – all these drinks can add to your acid reflux problem. So they need removed from your diet at least for now.
It is best to drink water. Most people do not drink enough water anyway. In addition, give Green tea a try. Green tea can aid digestion, so it can settle the acid reflux down for many people. Ginger tea is also a good remedy to soothe stomach problems and aid digestion. I have taken both ginger tea straight and can also buy herbal teas that have ginger as part of the ingredients.
Foods For Acid Reflux
It may seem like many of your favorite foods are gone, but often times this is a call to get back to a better diet. All kinds of vegetables are good to add to your diet, especially the leafy greens as this adds more minerals to your diet. This helps reduce the acid reflux.
The exception to this may be vegetables that commonly cause gas such as broccoli and cabbage. So don’t eat those in large quantities.
In addition, eat what vegetables and fruits that you can raw, as raw food contain enzymes which aid in digestion.
As you add more of the right foods in and cut back on the foods that cause acid reflux such as processed, sweetened and irritating foods, You will end up with less acid reflux and burping. Yes, it may take some self control, but you will find your acid reflux disease diet is helping.
Jeannie Crabtree
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/foods-that-cause-acid-reflux-you-need-an-acid-reflux-disease-diet-728941.html
Choose the Right Foods to Lower Your Blood Sugar Level
April 21, 2010
Diabetes is a condition that millions of people manage on a daily basis. People with diabetes must be mindful of the foods and beverages they consume. Whether or not you have had natural diabetes all of your life or have been recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, it is crucial that you engage in healthy food choices.
The majority of your food selections should be based on a whole foods approach. Whole foods are natural and organic foods. These foods are created with the highest standards and are tailored for people with conditions such as diabetes, gluten intolerance, and other conditions. Seek out whole food and organic supermarkets in your area.
What food choices should people with diabetes make to manage their diabetes glucose levels? First, think back to nature such as vegetables and fruits. Nature has provided a wealth of vegetables to keep your palate enticed. For example, have a spinach salad with broccoli and carrots at dinner.
To control your blood sugar levels you have to monitor your carbohydrate consumption. Breads and pastas can spike your blood sugar, but this can be minimized if you consume whole grain breads and pastas. These are easy to find at a whole foods organic market.
For your entree keep the focus on fish, chicken and turkey. You can consume lean cuts of beef and pork in moderation. Make sure to remove the fatty skin and use healthy liquid oils, such as olive oil, when you cook foods. In addition, stick to non-fat dairy products. You can consume skim milk, non fat cheese, and non fat yogurt.
If you have diabetes you may feel that you have to miss out on the sweet taste of foods. This is not so. You can add cinnamon in moderation to foods to give them a sweet taste. Cinnamon may actually have a positive effect on your blood glucose levels, especially for people with Type 2 diabetes. Therefore, cinnamon is a great way to get the sweet fix you desire.
Lastly, don’t forget about what you drink! Beverages can be a roadblock to lowering blood sugar levels. Diabetes treatment should include drinking plenty of water and an occasional diet drink that has zero calories.
There are some foods that you should avoid like the plague. Avoid processed foods such as candy, chips, sodas, fruit punch, and cookies. These contain an excessive amount of sugar and carbohydrates that will have your blood glucose level soaring. Watch out for foods labeled as sugar free as well. This labeling is misleading and they can often raise your blood sugar levels as much as common sugar foods.
Remember that consuming healthy foods is not a free for all. If you eat too much of any type of food you will gain weight. Gaining weight is especially disastrous for people with diabetes. Stick to healthy portions and monitor your caloric intake.
Diabetics may have to spend more time analyzing what they eat and drink, but it is a manageable process. The number of whole food organic supermarkets is on the rise which is a major benefit for people with diabetes. Take advantage of their services to help you control your blood sugar levels and enjoy food at the same time.
Julia Hanf
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