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Good Fat for Your Healthy Weight Loss Program

August 12, 2010 Healthy Diet No comments

Too Much Fat

Myth: All fat is bad.
Truth: There are types of good fat to eat.
Fact: Over 60% of all Americans have too much fat on or in their bodies.

Every one’s body has fat. There is safe fat and excess fat. One reason people store excess fat on their bodies is because they are eating the wrong types of fat…not the good ones.

As human beings, it is important to store a certain amount of fat in our bodies. This is mandatory for preserving the functions of cells. In addition, there are great many types of fats that hold great powers to fight disease. The key to dealing with fats is to control both the amount of fat you eat and the kind of fat you eat.

Technically Speaking

A major building block of fat is fatty acids, which are composed of chains of carbon atoms. The length of these chains determines how your body uses the fat. Shorter chains of fatty acids are absorbed quicker than longer chains of fatty acids (which tend to be stored as fat).

Attached to these chains of fatty acids (or carbon atoms) you will find hydrogen atoms. The more of these, the more saturated the fat is. If the chain is missing some hydrogen atoms, the fatty acid is unsaturated. One missing point of hydrogen atoms is referred to a mono-saturated fat (found in olives, cashews, and salmon). Mono-saturated fat is very good for you. When there are two or more missing points the fat is called poly-saturated. This fat is found in fish and vegetable oils. EFA or Essential Fatty Acid is present in poly-saturated fat and is very important for normal cell growth and development. Now, let’s talk more about the good fat to eat.

Good Fat

Essential fatty acids are not produced by the human body and yet they are necessary for your healthy weight loss program. Hence, EFA’s are solely provided by your diet. Essential Fatty Acids are extremely beneficial help treat and prevent many health related conditions. The processed fats we eat are altered by chemical means, they have been striped of their EFA’s. They are now synthetic fats such as trans-fats (very bad for you) found in fast foods, stick margarine and packaged snacks, i.e. cookies.

EFA’s are classified into 2 omega fats more commonly known as omega 3 and omega 6. These fats are both essential and must be included in your diet.

Omega 3 fatty acid is known for preventing and/or treating heart disease, arthritis, cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes. Omega 3 fats are present in the following foods: Wheat germ oil, walnuts, salmon, sardines, tuna and other cold water fish. Also, flax seeds, purslane, and perilla oils are all high in omega 3 fats.

Omega 6 fatty acids regulate reproduction and metabolism, and are good for both skin and hair and important for normal growth. Foods rich in omega 6 fats include but not limited to almonds, peanut butter, Brazil nuts, soybean oil, cotton seed oil, corn oil, sunflower seeds and walnuts.

On Average the American diet is deficient of Omega 3 fatty acids. You must be intentional in eating foods high in Omega 3.

Good health and weight loss can be obtained without starving yourself. As a matter of fact starvation diets prompt our bodies to store fat and hence we gain weight. Besides eating healthy fats, we need to exercise daily and add nutritional vitamin supplements to our healthy weight loss program to live a full and healthy lifestyle.

Be Blessed.

Be a Blessing.

Coach Louis.

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Alcohol Detoxification

August 7, 2010 Coach Louis Jeffries, Chicago, Illinois No comments

To remove toxins from the body, here are five different types of detoxification: alcohol detoxification, drug detoxification, metabolic detoxification, alternative medicine, and diet detoxification.

Detoxification, detox for short, is a method of removing toxins or poison which create harmful effects in the body. The method of detoxification to be employed truly depends on the kind of toxins that need to be removed from your body.

Alcohol detoxification

When I think of this the first image in my mind are the alcohol and drug addicts who are frigidity and they are having withdrawal systems. They have to be tied down on a bed because their bodies are so craving and addicted to the poison that they can not do without it. They experience physical, emotional and psychological as well as spiritual symptoms that they can not overcome without professional help and sometimes other drugs. It would do everyone well to have this picture in there minds about all forms of detoxification and total body cleansing. The reality our bodies go through similar experiences, maybe not so extreme, but equally as deadly with other forms of toxins we have in our systems. This method of internal cleansing is used to bring back a heavy drinker’s system to normal function. It’s done by the “cold turkey” method of stopping completely their alcoholic intake. Then, the alcohol is then substituted with drugs that are cross-tolerant to prevent any alcohol withdrawal effect. However, it is important to stress that this is not intended to treat alcoholism at all. Moreover, the term alcohol detoxification is an inappropriate name, so to speak, because this process does not actually perform any removal of any toxic substance except it only helps in alcohol cessation.

Diet Detoxification

So that you can truly eliminate the toxic effect of the poison of alcohol you must completely cleanse your whole body and a fruit diet is one of the best ways to do so. I do recommend Advocare Herbal Cleanse as a natural vitamin supplement that will completely cleanse all of the organs and the whole body. But for someone who has abused alcohol there must be a double cleanse and a total change in diet. This is how you actually remove the toxins after you have stopped drinking the poison.

Benefits of Alcohol Detoxification

Simply to cleanse your system of the poison that builds up from alcoholic indulgence is to add years to your life. Not only does alcohol destroy your liver and kidneys, but it reduces your immune system capabilities and increases your risks of cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other serious medical issues that will shorten your life. Additionally people seem to burn off brain cells in the process. So whatever we can do to cleanse your systems improves your longevity and quality of life.

Be a Blessed.

Be a Blessing.

Coach Louis.