Drinking Green Tea makes a Perfect Abdomen in 90 days!

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What to do for abdominal weight loss? Study found that tea contains the ingredients that effectively promote lipolysis, especially can found in green tea. Therefore, drinking green tea can give you a flat belly!

Drinking green tea can really lose weight? Recent studies by Unilever R & D center in Shanghai,China & Institute of Lipton Tea, several agencies found that catechin in green tea may bring a beneficial effects to our body composition and fat distribution.

Scientists took 182 healthy but mildly overweight male and female for their study (average body mass index BMI : 27.0+0.2kg/m2, age 37.1 + 0.7 years, female waist circumference>80cm, male waist circumference>85cm) were randomly divided into 4 groups for the experiment.

During the experiment, four groups of people had given: 2 cups of zero calorie drinks a day and there were :

1. Placebo (not including catechin, tea flavor) drink two cups per day.

2. 1 cup contains of 468mg of catechin beverage + 1 cup of placebo drink

    3.   2 cups of beverages with total contain of 440mg catechin

4.  2 cups of beverages with total contain of 880 mg catechin

During these 90 days, all the normal diet and daily routine activities remain unchanged. At the end, a precision instrument was used to measure the changes in abdominal fat.

The results showed that compared with the consumption of beverages with catechin for daily intake . There were a significantly reduced in a person’s weight, waist circumference and intra-abdominal fat area.  The total body fat was also slightly reduced. The higher concentration of catechin, the greater the change in abdominal fat.

Without changes in diet and physical activity, the group of mildly overweight male and female had drank for 90 days of high catechin content of green tea. Their  weight, waist circumference and intra-abdominal fat were significantly reduced.  

In view of this, scientists think: green tea catechins may have specific beneficial effects in our body fat distribution.

11 tips to Weight Loss in 3 minutes

 In order to slim down as soon as possible, I am sure you've heard a lot about the weight loss tips and techniques, all of them are effective, just the degree of result not the same only. We are experiencing a particularly busy daily life, sometimes we will need to use a particularly effective way. The following is from 20 weight-loss experts who revealed the 18 weight loss tips which can help to burn fat or to speed up the whole calories consumption.

Remember to follow well these tips as a principle of daily life. No matter how busy, you can slim down by spending less than 3 minutes each! You can see the pointer on the scales to fall off quickly!

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Ultimate Diet Tricks
Tip 1. Eat more fish during 3 meals Fish is rich in Omega-3 fatty acid. Tuna, mackerel, cod, salmon, etc, can promote the metabolism of fat in our body and weight loss. Study found that weight loss diets in obese persons who eat fish may lose 20% of the weight compared to other who do not eat fish.

Tip 2. Replace butter with olive oil
When eating bread or toast, top coated an olive oil and put it into oven, not only healthier, but also can reduce the amount of fat intake. Recent studies have found that people who eat the bread with some olive oil, compared to the people who dip the butter will eat 52 calories lesser.  

Tip 3. Eat “ heavy” foods We will think that food with heavy weight will be in high fat and calories. “heavy” food of their fiber and water can make you more satiety, therefore stomach has no more space to eat more or reduce the junk food. Oranges, grapes, spinach, broccoli are heavy weight, but low in calorie foods.

Tip 4. Do not cut vegetable & fruit too thin Whether you eat salad, boiled vegetable or fruit, remember not to cut too thin. So, you can spend more time in chewing and eat less of other starchy food or meat.

Tip 5. Add some spice in the meal Add some chili or pepperin your meal, so you will slow down the speed of eating. Easy to feel full.

Tip 6. Best to buy small package To lose weight. You can not go to the mall to buy a large volume of food just because they are cheap. A study found that people who like to eat the large package food will eat 44% more of the food compared to other.

Tip 7. Siphoning off fat Use tissue paper to siphoning off the fat on the surface of pizza or fried chicken before eating. Do you know by doing this suction on 2 pieces of pizza, it will really reduce 40 calories and 4.5g of fat we eat!

Tip 8. Read nutrition labels Don’t forget to read the nutrition label on the packaging before you buy the food. The calories number on the label is often 1 or per100g content, shall be multiplied by 2 or 3 to get the actual calorie. If you do not read the information clearly, be careful will get fat faster oh! Then will slow down your weight loss plan.

Tip 9. Small taste of food When you want to eat biscuits to fulfill your desire to eat .However, you are worry that you can not control to get more later. Then there is a good way….before eat the biscuit, smell the biscuit aroma deeply for 30 seconds, and then get a small piece and put into the tongue for 30 seconds, then savor the result. This will make you feel satisfy with just 1 piece of biscuit.

Ultimate Tricks To Control Appetite

Tip 10. Eating in front of the mirror
Place a mirror in front of you while eating and see yourself. According to the statistics, this will reduce the amount of food eating of 22%-32%.

Tip 11. Always write down what you eat
After eating the food in your mouth. Try to use the record sheet to record anytime. Just to write down the food taken. With this action, you are increase your appetite inhibition.

With the 11 tips of weight loss as mentioned above. Let's us make it as a principle of daily life - Fight Fat !

Healthy Eating Diet in New Era

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In today society, we are in the pursuit of longevity and health recipe. Scientists found that regular exercise, normal daily routine, such as to maintain a happy mood, of course, will help slow down the aging, but the most basic way control key is still in the anti-aging diet.


Everytime we will take food or drink just because of our desire to eat or drink for that particular food or drink. Irregardless the benefit toward our  health.  Physiologically, more vegetables, more fruit and more fiber, nutrient-rich, can promote digestion; psychologically, it promote more moderate and more patience mood. 

According to Medical & Science research : 50% reduction of consumption of meat, dairy farm products (cheese, yogurt, etc.) and eggs, can reduce 45% of heart disease; if totally do not eat these foods, you can reduce 90% of heart disease rate.


High-fiber foods only need 20 to 30 hours to pass through the digestive tract, but low in fiber, high fat diet need 80-100 hours. The backlog of high-fat foods for a long time in the gut, not only will cause greater amounts of bacteria growth, but the human body into carcinogenic bile salts in the toxin to accumulate in the body.


The way to good health :
Vegetarian diet is full of high fiber, vitamins, minerals and plants compound, and with antioxidant ingredients, low energy density, the nutrient density higher than meat or fish nutrition. Therefore promote better health care and prevention of chronic diseases, and also help to slow down aging.Vegetarian diet can slightly alkaline our blood, improve metabolism. Therefore help our body to burn fat and sugar. It really a good natural way of slimming . Besides this, it will increase organs functionally active, improve our skin become soft, smooth and rosy.


"Vegetarian diet pyramid" advocates nutritional balance can help reduce the contracted many diseases such as cancer, heart disease, obesity, osteoporosis and some chronic degenerative disease.
We can find a lot of nutrients in the plants. But to take in different types of food , we need to take into account of the quality and quantity of the food. Each meal should include 5 types colour of vegetables and fruit such as white, red, yellow, green and black.  Each colour of vegetable and fruit carries different of nutrient. It is good to replace starchy food with fresh vegetable and fruit.


It is advisable to choose 3 low and one high food: low fat, low salt, low sugar, high fiber; try to avoid for deep fried food and do not eat too much of processed food or pickled foods.
Finally, we must always remember that "Your Are What You Eat" ! 

A Day in Organic Eco Farm - Titi Eco Farm

It was a sunny day. We, about 11 persons departed from Cheras heading to Jelebu, Seremban.
It took us about 2 hours to reach there. The road up to Titi Eco Farm was winding and narrow. Titi Eco Farm is located on a hill. It was hardly saw any cars when we drove up the hill. We were quite worry about whether we were in the right direction. Unfortunately, my sister's car was running out of fuel!
Luckily, we managed to find a petrol station in just another 4km !

 In Titi Eco Farm, there are herb farm, vegetables farm, fruit farm, fish pond and ostrich farm.
The owner, Mr Lim had guided us and gave valuable sharing on the different uses of the herb plant for natural remedies.

There were a list of programs for the 2 days 1 night package.  We were served with organic fruits, vegetable and flowers for our meals.
They also explained to us how the enzyme helps for our healhty, the making of whole wheat bread and foot spa as well.

It was an educational trip for us. We learnt a lot from this 2 days 1 night trip in organic farm.  We hope to come back someday in the future.

How to get rid of acnes - Bitter Ground Pineapple Honey Juice ~~~

It is a humid & hot weather.  I started to suffer from sore throat and my face suddenly pop out a few stubborn acnes. What a bad day for me !

It is a time for me to prepare my natural cure juice to chase "them" out from my poor face.

Here are the ingredient :
150g bitter gourd
1/6 pineapple (peel removed)
ice cubes
Honey
300cc water :

Method:
Wash bitter gourd and cut it into 4 pieces.
Add biiter gourd pieces in the fruit blender cup (including bitter gourd seeds)
Then ,add pineapple, ice cubes,honey and water.
Start high speed for 10sec.
The juice is ready to serve.

Prevention and effect:
It prevent mouth odor
Dry mouth
Sore Throat
Pigmentation such as black pigmentation,freckle and acne.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Healthy and Better Breakfast

More research that shows simple changes to your breakfast will help your overall health.

Replacing a low-fibre breakfast cereal with a high-fibre variety keeps people feeling fuller for longer and reduces kilojoule intake at both breakfast and lunch, says research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

The study also found that a high-fibre breakfast cereal reduces plasma glucose levels before and after lunch, which can help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

So, swap your rice puffs to rolled oats and reap the benefits.

Source: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, May 2009

Welcome to my little healthy place

The greatest satisfaction does not come from being  rich and reputation.  Instead, it is the healthy, confident and happy look on the faces of the health concious people.

Let's us practise a Natural, simple and pure diet - gift of Mother Earth !
In the modern times, people often indulge in exquisitely prepared foods. In the long run, their diets become unbalanced. We should consume more "total nutrition food" which includes whole wheat flour,whole grain food, whole fruit juice, whole vegetable mesh or vegetable juice.

Nothing is precious than a healthy body !