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Friday, 28 December 2007
If you want to lose weight, tone up and get fit then you should just "get stuck in" and "don't diet" according to Nell McAndrew. She adds that putting off exercise means putting on weight.
The super fit celebrity offers this advice and much more as Guest Editor of Women's Fitness magazine which hits the shops in the New Year - just when most people are considering going on 'a diet' and/or wondering just where to start with a fitness programme.
"I think the word 'diet' should be banned as it usually makes people feel depressed and miserable," says Nell. "A diet just makes women feel like they have to control their whole life around it. It immediately makes you crave everything you are not allowed! My advice is to eat lots of proper meals and healthy foods and exercise: then you'll feel good and look good."
Nell jumped at the chance to guest edit Women's Fitness for its New Year issue so she could share her enthusiasm and motivational skills with the many women who aspire to her figure and fitness. But the beauty of Nell is that her workout techniques and favourite foods are very accessible - very high street. Yes, she's a celebrity. But her lifestyle is pretty ordinary and, as such, anyone can follow her advice and start to turn their own fitness and figure around.
Guaranteed Results with Nell's Exclusive Workout
Nell shares her own favourite workout moves for a complete body transformation in Women's Fitness in her exclusive workout. She also reveals her thoughts on fitness and New Year campaigns in the magazine through writing the Editor's Note and a candid interview. "My advice is to just get stuck in!" says Nell in the magazine. "If you're not feeling energetic, just go for a power walk for ten minutes then come back and before you know it, you'll be doing more than 10 minutes the next time. Build it up gradually - but don't wait. It's so easy to put it off but in that time, you'll end up putting on another half a stone and make it even harder for yourself!"
One of the best aspects of the issue is that Nell demonstrates six key exercises to help tone and trim the body. These are her personal favourites and are explained clearly and show her at the start and mid-point of each exercise. "These exercises are easy to follow - and they really work," says Nell. "Honestly, I don't follow new-fangled celebrity programmes - this is what I do because this is what works!"
Nell's New Year Resolutions
Like the rest of us, Nell will kick off 2008 with some goals to aim for and resolutions to keep. Here are her top five that will keep you motivated too.
- Just get stuck in - don't put it off.
- Set yourself a goal (Nell is participating in The Jane Tomlinson Run For All in June 2008 - sign up at www.runforall.com).
- Never diet.
- Be flexible - if your fitness plans go wrong, don't give up.
- Subscribe to a magazine like Women's Fitness for invaluable information and monthly motivation.
Thursday, 27 December 2007
Dallas, TX (PR.COM) - Every year, up to 80% of Americans will make a New Year's Resolution and every year, the majority fails, usually fairly quickly. Rather than simply repeating last year's mistakes, a growing
number of people are taking advantage of complementary and alternative therapies to improve their chances for success. The most popular category for resolutions (26%) is about health and fitness, usually to eat less or better and to exercise more. Up to 30% of these resolutions won't survive the first month and the fitness industry projects that 60% of new exercise programs fail before the year is half over.
For 2008, many alternative health care practitioners are helping their clients prepare for success. In some cases, the body simply isn't ready to exercise and therapies like Rolf Structural Integration or the more gentle Feldenkrais Method can help correct the body's alignment and movement. This makes it easier to exercise correctly and helps to prevent injury. The Alexander Technique is popular with entertainers and athletes because it teaches them to use their bodies with minimum stress and wear but with maximum effect, training that could benefit anyone beginning a serious exercise program. The body is willing for some people but their problem is their mental or emotional preparation. If there is a past trauma preventing someone from exercising, a therapy like EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming) can remove the problem emotions from an experience. PSYCH-K, originally called psychological kinesiology, uses muscle testing to discover and change those subconscious beliefs which may be sabotaging exercise efforts.
Simply knowing there are complementary and alternative therapies to help heal injuries from an overly vigorous New Year's exercise regime can help improve dedication in the early stages. Today, the same cold laser technology being used by many professional sports teams is available for the weekend or New Year's athlete. SKENAR, a medical technology from the Russian space program, is also available in America now to improve the healing process. There is an easy-to-read new guide to complementary and alternative therapies to help people find the right therapy and be more successful with their New Year's Resolutions.
UnBreak Your Health was awarded Finalist in this year's Best Books Awards for the Health/Alternative Medicine category.
For more information: Alan E. Smith Tel: 972-424-3457 Cell: 972-740-8636 or e-mail at alan@unbreakyourhealth.com.
Thursday, 27 December 2007
The Calorie Control Council predicts these five trends when it comes to dieting, weight loss, and obesity efforts in 2008:
- Convenience will be the key. Consumers will increasingly prefer conv
Wednesday, 26 December 2007
Brandi Boothe, Jocelyn Ann Messick and Azalea Gonzalez are the three participants of Sierra Fitness Challenge, a 16-week fitness reality show in Reno, Nevada. Sierra Fitness Challenge started training and taping
December 3 at Sports West Athletic Club. Videos are now readily available at www.youtube.com, www.sierrafitnesstalk.com and www.sierrafitnesschallenge.com.
Brandi is now able to fit in her jeans that she wasn't able to a year ago. Jocelyn and Azelea can feel their pants already falling off and we are only in our third week of training. The training consists of 45 minutes muscle training and 45 minutes cardio with stretching before and after training. An easy-to-follow diet plan was also implemented to the program with a non-invasive accountability system in place. This program was developed by Michael Seriosa, a lifelong fitness fanatic, and also the 2004 Nevada State Lightweight Bodybuilding Champion. His mission for this program is to help the few and to inspire his community to do the same. His hope for his community is to inspire them and to show them how to accomplish good health.
This Reality Show will be broadcasting weekly in www.sierrafitnesstalk.com and cable channel 16. Viewers can interact with the participants, trainers and other viewers who are registered in the site. Registration is free. If you want to be a part of the next episode of the Sierra Fitness Challenge, please go to www.sierrafitnesstalk.com and complete the application form. Sierra Fitness Talk is designed to build a Community of positive people; encouraging, motivating and helping one another into achieving their personal health and fitness goals.
Wednesday, 26 December 2007
Forget detox fasts and starvation diets, detox is for life, not just for Christmas, and involves eating, not starving.
"Popular detox fasts and extreme diets can actually leave you worse off, with l oose skin, lower metabolism, poorer circulation and more toxins", says Kensington-based nutritionist and cellulite reduction specialist Georgios Tzenichristos, "to detoxify and lose weight you need to eat more of detoxification-supporting foods, instead of undermining your system with diet fad".
The time of the year when people try to absolve their sinful diet practices and make a new beginning has arrived again - complete with New Year's resolutions about exercise, giving up chocolate and detoxifying after the excesses of the festive season. In are cabbage soup diets, lemon detox fasts, detox foot baths, and body brushing, and out are coffee, cigarettes, red meat and wine - for a couple of weeks at least. Unfortunately, few people understand that detoxification is a nutrient-intensive process, not a starvation-dependent one, with most embarking on harmful, ineffective or unnecessarily punishing regimes.
Detoxification doesn't just involve the liver and the kidney, but also the gut, the skin and the lymphatic system. All these systems depend on nutrients to perform their "detox magic", and what we do not understand is that by depriving our body of nutrients with prolonged fasting (more than two days), we decrease our detoxification capacity. Nutrient depletion that follows extreme diets and fasts not only has a negative effect on the liver, the lymphatic system and the gut, but also increases skin looseness and decreases muscle tone, leaving us flabbier in the process. Specifically:
- The liver needs a constant supply of protein, minerals, fatty acids and vitamins to inactivate (conjugate) harmful substances which are then expelled to the gut through the bile, for elimination by the feces.
- Lack of anti-oxidants, protein, vitamins and fatty acids compromise the health of blood and lymphatic vessels, thereby making the removal of toxins from the tissues difficult, and laying the foundations of cellulite.
- The same nutrient depletion leads to reduced collagen synthesis, making our bodies flabbier with each bout of starvation diet and prolonged "detox fast". A few years of such a yo-yo dieting is guaranteed to produce that flabby, puffy, cellulite-ridden look all women dread.
- Similarly, our bodies depend on protein to maintain muscle mass. Muscle tone, so important for that firm, toned look, takes endless hours of hard-work at the gym, yet can easily be lost with badly designed, lose-one-stone-in-a-week diets.
- Gut lining cells, gut immune cells and beneficial gut bacteria depend on fiber, protein, vitamins and fatty acids to help with the elimination of waste products and toxins and keep harmful gut bacteria at bay. On the other hand, harmful bacteria, that feast on fiber-free, simple sugar-rich drinks usually drunk during detox fasts, cancel out the liver's inactivation of toxins through a process called deconjugation. These toxins are then reabsorbed through the gut wall into the circulation, leading to intoxication instead of detoxification.
- Ultra-low levels of calories, decrease a hormone called leptin, bringing our metabolism to a halt and our brains into a calorie-craving frenzy, thereby ensuring a quick fat gain after the diet is ended. This fat gain in combination with the muscle and collagen loss caused by the starvation phase of the cycle, leaves us flabbier and with a poorer resting metabolic rate, due to the decrease in metabolically active muscle mass.
Nutrients to look for to boost your skin firmness, circulation and detoxification include:
- Anti-oxidants and fiber derived from green and colorful vegetables, flax seeds, berries, decaf coffee and cocoa (as long as the last two are not accompanied by milk and sugar). Yes, decaf coffee is good for both your skin and blood vessels, and therefore for cellulite, it is full of antioxidants but free of caffeine. And contrary to popular belief it is safe and chemical-free, as it is extracted by a water-based method.
- Essential fatty acids derived from flax seeds, evening primrose oil, oily fish and fish oil
- Protein derived from fish and pulses
- Healthy carbohydrates contained in brown rice and pulses
- Simple sugars contained sweet snacks, fizzy drinks, alcohol and fruit juices (freshly made or packed)
- Trans fatty acids and denatured fats contained in all fried food, margarine, biscuits, croissants etc.
- Nutrient-poor starch foods including almost all kinds of bread, white rice and snacks
- All dairy products
- Saturated fat contained in meat and dairy
The above recommendations are some of the elements of Georgios' "Lipo Diet", an anti-cellulite, detoxifying diet tailor-made to suit each patient's individual needs.
Georgios' clients can also have liver function tests, dysbiosis tests and gut permeability tests performed, followed by suitable supplementation and diet prescribed according to the test results. Tests are non-intrusive and are performed by one of the biggest laboratories in the world.
In addition, Georgios' "LipoTherapeia" cellulite reduction treatment and "Lipo Detox Bliss" detoxification treatment, help stimulate the lymphatic system and boost sluggish circulation, thereby aiding in the removal of toxins from the tissues and cellulite reduction.
Finally, the detoxifying "Lipo Lymphatic Wrap", (a unique combination of pressotherapy lymphatic drainage, and a nutritious body wrap rich in vitamins, herbal extracts and fruit extracts) provides a much more effective passive lymph drainage than manual lymphatic massage: just imagine the equivalent of 26 pairs of hands working on your body at the same time and you get the idea...
For more information on what is cellulite and how to reduce it, please visit: www.lipotherapeia.com.
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