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Maintain Good Nutrition

2009-12-22T22:56:00.000-08:00

Maintain Good Nutrition

Proper, balanced nutrition provides the nutrients you need every day to fuel your daily activities, promote and maintain a lifetime of good health and make your best shape a reality. The right nutrition is balanced nutrition. Committing to these simple nutrition guidelines can put good health within reach.

"Start everyday with balanced nutrition and essential nutrients for a healthy, active lifestyle."

Steve Henig, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Herbalife

Healthy Breakfast
Start your day right! Breakfast is important because it kick-starts your metabolism and provides energy for you to use throughout your day.

TIP: Healthy Breakfast, Healthy Choice
For breakfast, enjoy a Formula 1 shake made with nonfat milk, fruit and Personalized Protein Powder, according to your needs.

Small Frequent Meals
Reduced meal portions, eaten frequently throughout the day, help you prevent energy slumps and unhealthy snack cravings.

Nutritious Snacks
Fruits, vegetables and small servings of protein – such as nuts, yogurt or low-fat cheese during mid-morning and mid-afternoon – help you avoid overeating at lunch or dinner time.

Regular Hydration
Ensure a regular intake of fluids to stay properly hydrated.

Essential Nutrients
Your body needs nutrients to function properly or your health will suffer. Getting the right amount of nutrients is called Balanced Nutrition. The nutrients known to be essential for human beings are proteins, carbohydrates, fats and oils, minerals, vitamins and water.

Vitamins & Minerals
These are an important part of a balanced diet needed to support your body’s healthy functioning and metabolism

Source: http://health.herbalife.com/a-balanced-diet

Why Be Active

2009-12-22T22:52:00.000-08:00

Regular physical activity has many benefits. It is a potent stress buster, it can help keep weight off and it lowers your risk of developing major chronic diseases. Additional benefits include increased energy, stronger bones and muscles, improved sleep, improved body shape, a boost to mental wellbeing and a change in your outlook on life. For some quick tips, see below.

1	Renew your commitment to a healthy lifestyle. Think about increasing the types of activities that work for your lifestyle and that can easily be built into your day. Make it a point to read up on fitness news and information, such as this article about exercise. Put your fitness plan into action today!

2	Aerobic exercise is important for the cardiovascular system. It’s defined by repetitive motion such as running, swimming or cycling. It can also tone muscles. Incorporating a little of both aerobic and resistance training is best for your daily routine.

3	Set small, specific goals you can stick to (like losing 5 percent of body weight or exercising three times a week, etc.) Drink green tea (which helps promote weight loss). Snack on fresh fruits and vegetables during your day.

4	Resistance exercise is important for healthy muscles and bones. It also builds strength. It’s defined by activities with short bursts of energy, such as weight lifting, playing sports and even pushing a lawn mower. Ideally, you need both resistance exercise and aerobic exercise to keep your body operating at its peak.

5	Simple ways work for getting fit – you don’t need to join a gym. If you become more active in your everyday life – such as parking your car further and walking more, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or even walking to a co-worker’s desk instead of emailing them – you’ll get fit faster.

6	Your metabolism doesn’t slow with age. It’s just that as people get older they do less strength-training and can lose lean muscle mass. The more lean muscle tissue you have, the higher your metabolism – and the faster you’ll lose weight. Keep your exercise and activity levels up each year, and you’ll simultaneously maintain your muscle tone, keep your metabolism up and maximize healthy weight loss.

7	At least 30 minutes of moderate-intensity activity, at least five times each week, will keep you physically active. You can split each half hour into three 10-minute sessions. If 30 minutes are out of reach right now, start with what you can do and gradually build up.

8	Keep hydrated by consuming at least two liters of water each day. It is even more important to drink water before, during and after exercise. Even low-intensity exercise requires you to be well-hydrated.

9	Rest between workouts and allow your body time to recover. Source:http://health.herbalife.com/fitness-tips

Healthy Breakfast: What is it?

2009-11-02T03:30:00.000-08:00

Click one of the image above and read the whole article..It might give you a new insight on your breakfast

May I know what your breakfast is?

2009-10-06T05:23:00.001-07:00

Do you know that Breakfast is the most important part of our meal of the day?

A Saying says " Eat breakfast like a King, Lunch like the common people and Dinner like a pauper"

Eat breakfast like a KING?

Sounds like you gotta eat a whole lot of foods right?? Or do you think so?

Well, It made sense that our body needs the nutrients from our food primarily from our body.

But Do you think we supply it with the right amount of nutrients??

Fact no 1: Our body needs about 114 vitamins and nutrients everyday. But we barely supply half of it, even a quarter of it. Infact, we only supply about 10 nutrients per day (taking in account a breakfast consists of a burger, chips, donuts, cakes, and a cup of coffee or tea). In conclusion, we don't supply enough vitamins, minerals a.k.a nutrients to our body.

Fact no 2: Its about quality not quantity. Most people think that eating like a king is eating as much as you can in the morning. Well, that is a misleading thought. By eating a large amount of meal in the morning, the excess carbohydrate will be converted to fat. Which causes more gain weight. But if we eat a balanced meal, fruits, vegetables, nuts that contains lots of vitamins in a generous amount. We can say that it is a balanced and wholesome breakfast.

Fact no 3: Protein based breakfast is more beneficial than carbohydrate based breakfast. It is because protein based food does not induce too much secretion of insulin. But if a richly carbohydrate based food is consumed everyday, it causes excessive secretion of insulin which will turn the glucose into glycogen. Uncontrolled conversion rate of glucose to glycogen is not healthy because it causes conversion of excess glucose to fat and the fluctuating rate of insulin level in the blood vessel.

Therefore, as a suggestion, you may want to look for a full nutrient, mostly protein based food for your breakfast, in sensible amount as it shows that eating like a king is not about quantity but quality.

happy breakfasting!

A Way to a Healthier You

2009-10-04T16:40:00.000-07:00

Have you been thinking lately about your health?

Perhaps you always think that there is something you want to change about your health or body, but couldn't really figure out what to exactly to change.

Don't be stressed. Its normal and I have experienced it too..so do many people that I know personally.

Health comprised of wellness in terms of physical and emotional wellness, this includes spiritual too..

Below is WHO definition of Health ,

"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity."

Indeed, it is. The absence of disease is not the guarantee that you are healthy, if you have some emotional problems or social issues.But the most obvious aspect in terms of health is physical health.

The aim blog is to explain how to achieve a healthy body and healthy state of living through correct maintenance of body weight and nutritional habit.

It is well known that overweight leads to poor health due to many systemic problems.

Perhaps you have been yearning to get back to those old days when your body weight is ideal, when you feel so energetic, when you feel easy to move around wherever you like.

This is the aim of the author and hopefully this will be the aim of you too.