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5 Ways to Lose The Tummy Fat Quickly

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You start putting on your favorite jeans, such in your breath, and button in up. As you slowly exhale, your tummy starts to push against the fabric, and the zipper line becomes visible and strained. As always, you ignore the ever-increasing bulge that is threatening to burst out of your pants now, blaming it on the last binging session you went through.   This is not your fault. As we grow older, our metabolism starts to slow down. What used to be effective before is effective no more. So, please stop the self-hate and make these changes to your lifestyle, and you may even have to shop for skinny jeans two sizes smaller! 1.      Eat Healthy We are not advocating a strict diet where you feel that you are surviving on grass and water. Just make a better choice every time you stuff something in your mouth. Make deals with yourself, like have a cupcake if you finish your spinach and broccoli. Include healthy fats in your diet. Try to get your carbs and protein from healthy so

Forget Supplements – It’s About Diet

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Tons of Indians are spending money on supplements that have no proven benefit in health or longevity and are ignoring what numerous studies have shown; preventing disease and dementia is all about the food you eat. This is real science with reproduced results in numerous studies. Change your diet and change your life: ·         Avoid high glycemic carbohydrate diets: Carbs with high glycemic indiex have been shown to increase inflammation and oxidative stress leading to dementia. ·         Eliminate completely high sugar diets: Even intermittent small blood elevations lead to dementia… even in non-diabetics. ·         Eat one ounce of nuts/ day: Provides a great source of Vitamin E. ·         Avoid trans fats and fast food: Numerous studies from different countries show a dose/ response relationship of increased depression and anxiety, not to mention heart disease and early death. ·         Real fruit is better than fruit juice: Real fruit is loaded with natural suga

Simple Steps For Sleeping with Lower Back Pain

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To help you reclaim your sleep schedule, here is a simple guide to sleeping with lower back pain: 1.      Sleep on your side to relieve pain from a pulled back muscle One of the most common causes of lower back pain is a pulled back muscle, which occurs when a muscle in your lower back is strained or torn as a result of being over-stretched. Symptoms from a pulled back muscle typically resolve within a few days, but the intense pain can make it difficult to fall asleep at night. Worse yet, the longer you lie in the bed, the more deconditioned your body gets and the worse your symptoms may become. No single sleeping position works for every person with a pulled back muscle but a good place to start is to test sleeping on your side. When sleeping on your side, try the following: ·         Avoid a tight curled-up fetal position and instead sleep with your body slightly elongated. ·         Slip a slim pillow between your knees to support the natural curvature of your s

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Prevention and Treatment

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In this age of endless keyboards, buttons and touchpads, the pain and inconvenience of carpal tunnel syndrome has become an increasingly widespread problem. Recognizing it for what it is and making the effort to address the problem is more than most people do, which keeps them in pain longer, and once the pain finally goes away most people don’t bother figuring out how to keep it from coming back. It’s important to determine whether you have carpal tunnel syndrome or some other injury, so that you don’t try to cure the pain with carpal tunnel exercises that can hurt you wrist rather than helping them if carpal tunnel isn’t the real problem. Other potential problems your wrist pain could be include: ·         Muscle, Ligament or Tendon Injuries: injuries to the soft tissues, such as strains, sprains, contusions and tendonitis, can happen for a variety of reasons. Falling and catching yourself awkwardly, twisting your arm muscles at an odd angel, or receiving a blow during spor