Toxins put weight on you, so get rid of them.
Local Business Owner Completes Cleansing and Nutritional Product Training LAS VEGAS, Nev. ? Aug. 22, 2006 ? Isagenix Independent Associate Ralph Morton of Vancouver Lower Mainland, recently completed three days of product and business training at Isagenix?s annual convention in Las Vegas Aug. 20-22. Some 3,000 Isagenix Associates worldwide attended. One of the highlights of the convention, dubbed a “Celebration,” was the honoring of 20 individuals who had lost 100 or more pounds by following the Isagenix program.
The event also featured presentations by bestselling authors Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul) and John Gray (Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus), as well as training sessions on cleansing and nutrition, the company?s IsaDermix skin care system, and new Web marketing tools. Isagenix, a health and wellness company based in Chandler, Ariz., develops and manufactures systems for cleansing and fat burning, nutrition and skin care that are distributed through an independent network of nearly 100,000 Associates in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. After just four years in business, the company?s unique cleansing approach to weight loss has propelled the company to sales exceeding $100 million annually. (more…)

Equivalent glycemic load (EGL): a method for quantifying the glycemic responses elicited by low carbohydrate foods
Background:
Glycemic load (GL) is used to quantify the glycemic impact of high-carbohydrate (CHO) foods, but cannot be used for low-CHO foods. Therefore, we evaluated the accuracy of equivalent-glycemic-load (EGL), a measure of the glycemic impact of low-CHO foods defined as the amount of CHO from white-bread (WB) with the same glycemic impact as one serving of food.
Methods:
Several randomized, cross-over trials were performed by a contract research organization using overnight-fasted healthy subjects drawn from a pool of 63 recruited from the general population by newspaper advertisement. Incremental blood-glucose response area-under-the-curve (AUC) elicited by 0, 5, 10, 20, 35 and 50 g CHO portions of WB (WB-CHO) and 3, 5, 10 and 20 g glucose were measured. EGL values of the different doses of glucose and WB and 4 low-CHO foods were determined as: EGL = (F-B)/M, where F is AUC after food and B is y-intercept and M slope of the regression of AUC on grams WB-CHO. The dose-response curves of WB and glucose were used to derive an equation to estimate GL from EGL, and the resulting values compared to GL calculated from the glucose dose-response curve. The accuracy of EGL was assessed by comparing the GL (estimated from EGL) values of the 4 doses of oral-glucose with the amounts actually consumed.
Results:
Over 0?50 g WB-CHO (n = 10), the dose-response curve was non-linear, but over the range 0?20 g the curve was indistinguishable from linear, with AUC after 0, 5, 10 and 20 g WB-CHO, 10 � 1, 28 � 2, 58 � 5 and 100 � 6 mmol � min/L, differing significantly from each other (n = 48). The difference between GL values estimated from EGL and those calculated from the dose-response curve was 0 g (95% confidence-interval, � 0.5 g). The difference between the GL values of the 4 doses of glucose estimated from EGL, and the amounts of glucose actually consumed was 0.2 g (95% confidence-interval, � 1 g).
Conclusion:
EGL, a measure of the glycemic impact of low-carbohydrate foods, is valid across the range of 0?20 g CHO, accurate to within 1 g, and at least sensitive enough to detect a glycemic response equivalent to that produced by 3 g oral-glucose in 10 subjects. (more…)

Fat Land Makes A Shocking Read
I’m just finished reading ‘Fat Land’ by Greg Critser which chronicles how Americans have become the fattest people in the world. He pulls no punches explaining how it is that more than 25% of teenagers are now overweight or obese.

The books charts the changes to food consumption. From the introduction of extremely unhealthy fats such […] (more…)

Forget the Diet Men - Learn How Weight Training Can Literally Shed the Pounds Off You!
It’s a fact - In this day and age, more of us are overweight than underweight. Everyone seems to be on a diet or weight loss program. The problem with diets is most people see them as a temporary thing they need to do to get them where they want to be.

We constantly hear things like “Bob lost 20 pounds in one month on the Super-Spectacular diet”. Sounds great, but what happened to Bob when he went off the diet after that month. He went back to his old ways and put on 20 pounds. So he then went on the Fully-Fantastic diet plan and lost his 20 pounds again. What really needs to change is his lifestyle, not his diet.

Our diet is an important part of our life, and a change in diet can definitely help us lose unwanted weight. But what’s the point if our lifestyle involves nothing but watching TV, lying on the couch, sitting on our butts in our office job all day, and trying to remember what this new diet allows us to eat and when.

If you really want to lose weight then build muscle. Sounds contradictory doesn’t it. Most people know muscle is heavier than fat so why would you want to start getting heavier.

One of the greatest things about muscle is that it burns calories all day long, even when you’re lying on the couch. What this means is that the more muscle you have, the more calories you’ll burn during the day and the more you’ll be able to eat without gaining weight. This is great news for all of us who like eating.

By putting focused pressure on our bodies through weight training our bodies react by growing muscle to compensate. The big benefit is that it also chews up our fat cells faster than a diet resulting in a stronger, thinner and a better looking you.

By simply doing some basic weight training, we are also stimulating our metabolism more than any aerobic training such as cycling or walking. This means that you’ll continue to burn calories long AFTER you’ve completed your weight training session. The calorie-burning effect of aerobic training generally declines rapidly once you stop the exercise.

Weight training has many advantages over simply taking up a new diet. You will feel better, look better, and experience better results faster.

For more information on weight training and to meet others like you looking to make a difference to their physique, then head on over to http://muscle-body.comYou can find more great Muscle Building information at http://www.muscle-body.com (more…)

The Zone diet Pros and Cons
The Pros and Cons of the Zone Diet

The Zone Diet has come under some scrutiny over the last couple of
years. Some doctors are saying it limits many vitamins and minerals needed by the body to remain healthy. Look at the pros and cons of this
popular diet to decide for yourself:

PROS
1. The Zone Diet shows us the importance of eating vegetables and fruit
2. It limits “Bad Saturated Fat” and focuses on eating foods with good
cholesterol, or HDL.
3. It promotes the healthy habit of drinking at least eight glasses of
water a day.
4, It encourages you to add some light exercise into your day.
5. It promotes the eating of lean meats (like fish and poultry. These
meats can be much less dangerous for your heart.
6. Moderation is one of the central focuses of the diet.
7. It advertises things like soy products, vegetables, fruit, and
seafood, which are all considered to be beneficial foods.
8. It is very restrictive of any kind of carbs, especially those with
high-glycemic content.
9. So far, no negative side effects came about because of the diet.

CONS
1. There have been no published studies about the Zone Diet.
2. Foods rich in vitamins and minerals, like calcium, iron, vitamins A,
D, E and folic acid have limits set on them.
3. Foods rich in fiber, like whole grains and starches, are limited.
The Zone Diet is considered a low carb-diet plan.
4. It promotes food as a kind of drug. When you have to eat such a
little amount over a long period of time over and over, you can fall into doing very boring meals. Once adjusted to boring meals, you may feel that anything other than what you are used to is bad.
5. The Zone Diet doesn’t leave much room on the plan for dining out while traveling or snack consumption.
6. As with any low-carb diet, the Zone Diet can be an easy diet to just
give up on.

Both the pros and the cons speak volumes. You just have to listen to
understand whether the Zone Diet is right for you. Always consult your medical or nutritional advisor before starting any kind of diet plan.
Find more information about the <a href="http://www.slimmingportal.com"> Zone Diet </a> and other diets at www.slimmingportal.com.
Given you an informed choice on which diet is suitable for you,with articles and resources. (more…)

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