Corporate Health: 5 Strategies to Limit Your Weight Gain at Work by Anders N W Lindgreen

We spend the majority of our waken existence at work, well; most of us do in some shape or form. So it’s not a stretch to imagine that our behaviours at the workplace can seriously impact or at the very least influence our weight management. We have got 168 h in our weeks and if you spend 8 h at work five days per week and get 8 h of sleep every night - a whopping 35% is work-related. Take away travel, chores, and over-time and see that figure rise. So it’s not a bad idea to have your workplace work for you rather than against you, and this is how to bring more corporate health thinking into the picture:

1. Water Cooler Magic

Drinking plenty of water will assist your body in removing toxins, improve your skin tone and aid your fat loss or weight management in two ways. If you consume two large glasses of water before every meal or snack, chances are that you won’t super size whatever you are having, and by getting enough water your will also assist your liver in converting fat into energy. So, get to the water cooler regularly or fill up a water bottle if you want to go less often. If you haven’t got one, make sure you do.

2. No Vending Machines

A mate of mine had a workplace lose on average 3-10kg per person over two months by simply removing their soft drink vending machine. This convenience was ruining their health. If you can’t get yours removed without being crucified, make sure you leave all coins and notes at home, and if you have to, make your colleagues promise to never lend you any money.

3. Healthy Snacks

If you know that you always get hungry at work, come prepared with healthy alternatives. It is far more convenient to only having to reach into your backpack or drawer to get that healthy snack and far better for you as well. Try to have a small snack every 2-3 hours.

4. Lunch-time Walk

Since you already come prepared with lunch (yeah, right), why not take it outside instead of inside the staff room or at your desk. Yes, some place may only have the concrete jungle alternative, but many places have at least a park nearby. You get the benefit of a walk, fresh air and a break from the work environment.

5. World's Quickest Nap

If you can get a way with it, here is how to take the world's quickest power nap. Sit and lean back comfortable and place a medium sized object in one of your hands. Place your hand so that if you drop the object, it will hit the floor (just make sure it’s not too heavy or fragile). Now, lean back, shut your eyes (still gripping the object) and once you fall asleep you will drop whatever you are holding and it hitting your floor will wake you up. How great is that?

Personal Training: Are Your Ab-Exercises Increasing your Waistline? by Anders N W Lindgreen

Working your abdominals to get a tighter midsection is nothing new. Hopefully you are fully aware that working the muscles themselves won’t take any fat of your tummy and if not, now you know. Most people who just want the six-pack to show would do better training abs less and spend more time fine-tuning their diet to get the body fat percentage low enough to make them visible. But that is not what this article is going to be about. Instead I want to go through how certain abdominal exercises in your personal training routine can actually give you a wider and more protruding midsection, which is not likely to be why you began strengthening your abdominals. However, there is nothing wrong with the exercises discussed below, but today we are talking pure aesthetics.

The three muscles I’ll refer to in this are rectus abdominis (the six-pack), external obliques and internal obliques. Rectus abdominis run from your pubic region up to the base of your sternum, while your internal and external obliques run diagonally down toward your hip and up toward your sternum from your sides (around navel height). For building our six-pack we often use exercises such as crunches in all different shapes or forms and for the obliques we often do crunches with twists or bend our upper body side-ways. Doing these exercises with weights or with enough frequency and intensity can cause muscle hypertrophy, which just means muscle growth. If you have a little covering your six-pack, adding significant muscle bulk without losing the fat, will make your tummy protrude even more. And adding bulk to your internal and external obliques will cause your midsection to widen, and if you want it as narrow as your genes allow you do, this is not optimal.

To get your midsection tiny and trim, you need to reduce your body fat levels – nothing else will work. But if you want to strengthen it (which you should) to also make it physically firmer, look to held abdominal and core exercises. The simplest variation is the plank (can also be called a hover) and it can also be done both flat and on your side to target either your front or your sides. So, avoid adding weights to your abdominal and oblique exercises, and keep your eating clean and spot on. You could even build your gluteus muscles (bum muscle) or widen your shoulders slightly to make your waist appear smaller.

Getting a Job Selling Medical Products by Silas Reed

Have you decided about the career path that you want to choose for yourself? There are so many avenues open these days. It is very important to choose the right kind of job so that you can have complete job satisfaction.

If you are interested in the medical profession then you can either choose to become a doctor or you can even get a job selling medical products. There are different kinds of products that are required for the medical purpose.

Do you know that medical products sales are one of the hottest jobs that are available in this category? You might face a lot of competition in the beginning when you want to enter the job.

But once you are through you will find that you are in one of the best jobs present in the market these days. There are certain strategies that can help you get recruited in medical sales. The first thing you need to do is find out what is exactly going on in the market.

You need to find out these details about the various medical device companies that are present in the market. If you are interested in selling medical products you first need to find out the process involved in the sale of these products.

You need to find out how the hospitals purchase the medical technologies. After this you must learn how to deal with the doctors. Other than this, you also need to find out the reforms presently going on in health care and the effect it is going to have on the profession.

There are various companies selling products for health care. It is your duty to find out the companies in which you have interest. You need to shortlist some of the companies where you can try to get recruited.

You also need to find out proper information about the medical devices that are available these days. Other than this, it is also important to find out about the sales of these products. Selling health care products is one of the most popular professions these days because of its success rate.

Before you choose the profession of selling medical products you need to complete your education and training. You can either have a degree in business or in life science to go for this profession. Other than this there are certain skills require for selling medical products.

You need to have an initiative. You must have good selling as well as communication skills. Other than this, you must also pay proper attention to the details. Before you join this profession you will surely be interested about the salary. The salary is good and is according to kind of responsibility taken.

Fitness Strength Training: Winning Mentality for Long - term Training Success by Anders N W Lindgreen

Many advanced trainees differ from their less experience peers in the way they perceive their own fitness, health and wellness. Their fitness strength training goals are largely long-term oriented and they are more concerned with the overall outcome of their efforts than micro managing their performance. You seldom hear them speak of preparing for "Beach 20XX" or making New Years Resolutions about what they should do. They just do. The rest is just not what they are about, and their performances are consistently getting better where others may experience three steps forward and two steps back.

This mentality is largely brought on by experience, knowing what works for yourself and I'm sure also quite a few short-term rallies for Beach 19XX. They have done that but have now aligned their goals with who they are and what they want to get out of this lifestyle of theirs. Minor defeats don't face them as long as they are moving forward toward. If they' feel sick, they rest until they've recovered. Their program and structure is consistent but not set in stone. If they feel amazing they may very well double their efforts on the day just like they'll take it easier on less energetic occasions.

The advantages are obvious as you heave a healthier and more mature relationship to your fitness, health and wellness. If you have a day or a night that didn't follow protocol it won't force you to take the entire week off (while you indulge in comfort-activities and self-loathing). Unless you are a professional athlete there is no need to put such emphasis on one "wrong move". All it does is creating guilt. If you start to consistently regress backwards then, by all means, pick yourself up and be stricter, but if you are doing 60-80% good deeds every week, then there is no need to get upset when life gets in the way. It always will every now and then.

We could learn a lot from these men and women but chances are that we won't until we naturally come to the same conclusions that they have. There is absolutely nothing wrong with short-term thinking, if you align it with long-term goal setting. Eventually we are all likely to retire from the pure performance and aesthetics stages of our training and thinking, and perhaps that has to do with improved self-image, maturity or the fact that we feel at ease with what we have achieved or will achieve. Whichever the case, the sooner we can embrace it, the better.

Stop Panic Attacks by Michael Logan

Anxiety is on the rise and more people are seeking ways to stop panic attacks without having to rely on prescription medications. Some of the most popular solutions are mental strategies and natural (herbal) medications.

A panic attack is a very real physical ailment. Most people want you to believe it's all in your head, but there are physical symptoms that accompany these episodes. Adrenaline floods your bloodstream and a wave of fear overcomes you.

Your body reacts to the adrenaline by increasing blood supply, which makes you feel your heart pounding, your face and body flush, and more. Your mind has to stop the flow of adrenaline in order for the physical symptoms to subside. You have to find a way to control your mind during these episodes or prevent it from occurring completely.

First, you have to relax. Easier said than done when you're going through a panic attack, right? But to stop panic attacks, you must get your mind and body to a more relaxed state. Deep breathing will help with this.

Some people control panic attacks completely with deep breathing techniques. Try to focus your mind on the reality of the situation - that it's only a panic attack - nothing more serious.

Breathe as slowly as possible - inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth. Some people are able to hold the inhaled breath for a couple of seconds, which helps to calm your body and mind.

Second, you have to talk yourself through this episode. Your mind is trying to tell you that death is imminent, that the worst is about to happen. Without publicly making a scene, close your eyes (if possible) and tell yourself that this is not an emergency - that you are not going to panic and that you will remain calm.

Continue with the self talk. Most panic attack sufferers keep repeating panicked statements during these episodes. Replace those with something positive. Repeat the reality of the situation to yourself. Instead of, "My heart is about to explode," say, "I'm only having a surge of adrenaline that's making my heart beat faster and it will stop as soon as I calm down."

Take precautionary measures that allow you to have proof that everything's okay. For instance, meet with your doctor to ensure that your heart is healthy. That way, when you're having a panic attack and fear that you're having a heart attack, you can tell yourself, "My doctor said my heart is fine - this is only a panic attack."

You can stop panic attacks with ease if you learn to work through them. Your mind has a lot of power in controlling these episodes but it's up to you to learn how to master the techniques that keep anxiety at bay.

The one thing that nobody tells you is that your thoughts and the feelings that follow them happen very rapidly.

Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, Ph.D. in his bood FLOW reports that the Central Nervous System (CNS) processes sensory data, which means sounds like tone of voice and visual data like facial expressions in packets of seven bits of data and the shortest amount of time between packets of data is 1/18th second.

It takes us 1/10th second to blink our eyes.

Paul Ekman, Ph.D., who has studied facial expressions for 25 years of so, says that we can respond to a very subtle change in expression in 1/25th second, so it is no wonder that a panic attack feels overwhelming.

It feels like it comes on with no warning.

The good news is that you have handled sudden changes in feelings and thinking tens of thousands of time.

The bad news is that it doesn't take too many breakdowns in capturing and changing strong emotions for the process to become a habit, so I better have some deep breathing and pleasant thinking tools available for implementation within the heart beat if not the blink of an eye.

Luckily for us there are now some very powerful biofeedback technologies available for use to stop panic attacks.

One that I have used personally and professionally is heart rate variability biofeedback, which is a feel good tool I can use on any heart beat to move my heart rate into a coherent heart beat.

Heart rate variability biofeedback is based on recent discoveries about the heart's own nervous system that no one knew about 20 years ago.

The long and the short of it is that I can use both CBT and deep breathing with computerized feedback to learn a powerful tool to use when and if a panic attack strikes.

But there is more to heart rate variability biofeedback than just a tool to use in the face of a panic or anger emergency.

Heart rate variability biofeedack is a lifestyle tool that I can implement very frequently in short bursts to help in the anti-aging process, because it changes the hormonal bath inside my body and another very powerful impact is that it activates the higher perceptual centers in my brain for more effective decision making.

Not sure about you, but I like the idea of my brain making effective decisions rather than my emotions.

In fact, the brain fitness gurus are saying that stress management is a key piece of the neurogenesis and neuroplasticity landscape.

Neurogenesis means the growth on new neurons daily, and neuroplasticity describes how those new neurons link together when new learning takes place.

In fact, Alvaro Fernandez, the co-creator of the SharpBrains blog, says that heart rate variability is the best stress management tool on the market.

Well, there you have it, some great ideas and new tools for stopping panic attacks which can work heart beat by heart beat.

Panic Attack Relief by Michael Logan

When you're in the middle of a panic attack, relief can seem very far away. Perhaps you've had the symptoms for so long now that they've become a regular part of your life. You don't know what brought them on, you only know you want them to stop.

The great news is that you can rid yourself of these attacks forever. You might find yourself taking two steps forward and one step back, but if you stick to it, you will be the victor.

What genes you carry from your family can give you a predisposition to developing the condition. But it can also be stress that's triggered the beginning of this cycle for you and without help, the cycle can drain your energy and leave you with less than the great life you should have.

Treating these attacks needs to be a priority because they can turn into severe phobias that can cause you even greater stress. It's okay to attempt some self help steps if you think you don't need or aren't ready to talk to your doctor or other professional.

The attacks usually don't last longer than a few minutes at a time. Don't allow your mind to think about what hasn't occurred and don't drag past attacks up. Fearing an attack can actually cause an attack to happen. Put what's happening in the right place in your mind. What you're dealing with are emotions and not real circumstances.

More often than not, attacks are brought on by feelings that are a projection of a known or unknown fear and not a reality. Panic attack relief can be found by facing what it is you're feeling the fear over.

If you're afraid of a fire starting in your home, take steps to make sure you have a fire safety plan. Have your home checked by a qualified electrician. Keep a fire extinguisher where you can get to it.

Don't allow pride or fear of what people might think stop you from reaching out for help. Keeping emotions locked inside can make an attack worse and it can cause them to happen again.

If you feel anxious and stressed because of past attacks, that anxiety and stress can trigger another attack and each subsequent attack will only reiterate those emotions. Let someone know what you're dealing with. Sometimes just getting those emotions out relieves the anxiety.

The anxiety doesn't have to control your life and it doesn't have to take away your ability to handle life. Don't think you have to fight alone, not when panic attack relief can be as simple as a phone call or a getting a prescription filled. Panic Attack Relief Through Counseling Not only are there medical approaches to panic attack relief, there are counseling and biofeedback approaches that might be useful.

The counseling approach most often utilized is called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and this type of counseling will ask that you pay attention to your thinking and dispute thoughts which can begin the panic feeling.

A biofeedback approach, like heart rate variability biofeedback, can combine a powerful physiological training with the CBT.

I really like heart rate variability biofeedback personally because it feels good, and I can induce the feel good physiology on any given heart beat, and if I decide to pay attention to a fearful thought too long, I can switch out of that to a coherent thought in the proverbial heart beat.

In other words, I can practice heart rate variability biofeedback every five minutes for a couple of heart beats, and very soon my body gets used to this coherent physiology, and it doesn't let me get too far away from it.

Other useful tools that I have discovered over the years are to remember that "Gratitude is the Attitude", which certainly takes me away from the fearful thought.

I have also had a wonderful experience using the Open Focus model of Les Fehmi, Ph.D, which asks me to consider the space around the anxiety or my thought which brings the anxiety.

If you stop and think about it, there is a great deal of space, a universe of space around my thoughts and my body.

As a professional though, the heart rate variability biofeedback process is the one my clients find the most believable, because they see the process on the computer screen.

Clients seeing biofeeback experience that the learning is happening and are more confident that they can repeat the good feeling heart rate variability biofeedback on their own.

Disadvantages of Coconut Oil by Laura Ng

Have you read about the disadvantages of coconut oil besides its health benefits? Coconut oil does have its disadvantages and shortcomings despite its healthful characteristics. Let's go over them one by one and see how we can turn each disadvantage in your favor so you can minimize its negative effect and maximize its health benefits on you.

Disadvantage #1 - No Effect on "Cold"

The medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) in coconut oil can kill many types of viruses, including influenza virus that causes flu. But they're helpless against the rhinovirus that triggers common cold. In fact, no medications or herbal remedies can fight against rhinovirus, except your body immune system.

However, when you're down with cold, the infection could leave your immune system vulnerable to invasion by more bacteria, germs and viruses. That's where MCFAs in the oil come into play.

MCFAs help you kill those harmful microorganisms and ease the burden off your immune system so that it can focus on fighting the cold virus effectively. So it's still important to eat coconut oil when cold attacks you.

Disadvantage #2 - Excessive Coconut Oil May Harm

Just because everyone says it is healthy doesn't mean you start scoffing a ton of it. Too much of a good thing may do you more harm than good. You could end up running diarrhea-like symptoms if your body is not used to such sudden change.

Go slow with 1 tablespoon first and gradually increase to 3 or 4 tablespoons a day. Spread the dosage throughout the day instead of gulping down few tablespoons at one go. That'll keep you safe and sound while reaping the oil's health benefits.

Disadvantage #3 - Flavor Sucks!

Most people love its aromatic flavor. However, like durian, some people may not like it. So, if the original smell or taste of coconut oil just doesn't appeal to you, fret not, you still have 2 options.

- Mix it into the food or beverage containing strong flavor which will well cover the health-promoting virgin coconut oil's original scent.

- Use RBD (refined, bleached and deodorized) coconut oil where it possesses very light or no smell of coconut oil. But make sure you get the pure RBD oil type without hydrogenation or its trans fatty acid content (hydrogenation can produce trans fatty acid) may cause irreversible damage to your health.

Are you put off by these disadvantages of coconut oil? Better not or you're losing big-time for not using coconut oil for both your skin and health benefits. Anyway, I've provided tips to help you get around with the shortcomings and inconvenience easily, so it shouldn't deter you from pursuing excellent health with one of the most powerful foods on earth - coconut oil (and remember, use virgin coconut oil for best healing effect).

Coconut Oil & Weight Loss by Laura Ng

How does coconut oil relate to weight loss? "Eating whatever oils will make you fat" is the common belief for the general public. But coconut oil is different, despite its 92% saturated fat content.

Saturated fat from animals and some vegetable sources (like soybean oil, peanut oil etc) belongs to the long-chain structure which makes it difficult for your body to break down. So, normally most of this long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) or long-chain triglycerides (LCTs) will end up in your fat cells easily. That's why heavy meat-eaters or even vegetarians who eat foods fried with those oils gain weight so much easily than those who eat more whole fruits and vegetables.

What about the saturated fat in coconut oil? About 50 - 60% of its saturated fat comes from the medium-chain triglyceride (MCT) family, which when consume, can easily be broken down and converted to energy to fuel your bodily functions and activities, instead of getting deposited in your fat storage.

Because it gives a power boost to your energy level, you tend to move more and hence, you'll burn more calories than you normally would. The end result is, weight loss. But the weight loss benefits of coconut oil don't stop there. Its thermogenic effect encourages the burning of long-chain fatty acids storing in your fat deposits as well.

As Dr. Julian Whitaker, a well-known authority on nutrition and health, says, "LCTs are like heavy wet logs that you put on a small campfire. Keep adding the logs, and soon you have more logs than fire. MCTs are like rolled-up newspaper soaked in gasoline. They not only burn brightly, but will burn up the wet logs as well."

You'll experience more weight loss effect with coconut oil due to its fat-burning fat. It does sound strange to eating a dietary fat to burn more body fat, but that's what happens to eating coconut oil. You can get a small bottle of virgin coconut oil to try out for 2 weeks and see how it promotes weight loss and reduces your waistline. (There are few different types of coconut oil, but I highly recommend virgin coconut oil for both health benefits and effective weight loss.)

I've been taking coconut oil for about 2 years and I use it as an additional energy booster before my workout sessions, and also to help maintain my ideal weight. But I'm not the only one gaining this dramatic weight loss benefit from coconut oil, thousand others are gaining from it. So, you just can't lose when eating coconut oil for weight loss. Enjoy.

Healthy Vegetarian Weight Loss by Laura Ng

Not all vegetarian weight loss programs and plans are healthy. You probably have suffered from using them, which leads you to seeking healthy vegetarian weight loss. Losing weight and gaining health at the same time, in fact, are not difficult. All you need is just a dash of common sense and healthy habits.

Let me bring out the contrast between the unhealthy and healthy vegetarian weight loss methods to show you a clear picture of what's good for you. You'll then know how to work towards a healthy vegetarian weight loss in your diet plan.

Unhealthy Vegetarian Weight Loss - High Protein, Low Carb

This crash vegetarian weight loss diet is created from those infamous meat-laden fad diets. The principle is the same - you eat about 2- 3 times more protein than carbohydrate and when your body needs additional energy, it'll turn to your fat stores for fuel. No doubt you'll lose weight with this diet, you get a host of health problems tagging along such as headache, bad breath, loss of concentration, constipation, etc.

There are these groups of dare-devils who can't be bothered with their health. Their priority - weight loss first, health later. Meaning, they'll lose weight and suffer some health issues first, then once they achieve their target weight, they'll try to fix their health problems. By the time you reach your weight loss goal, your body could have suffered irreversible damages to some degrees, which had already happened to some people. How sad!

Health Vegetarian Weight Loss

What constitutes a healthy vegetarian weight loss? Numerous human physiological and behavioral studies / researches have proven that we need carbohydrate for prime functioning.

Especially the human brain, it needs immediate energy to power it up to process, handle, manage and control data. With low supply of carbohydrate, you can imagine how much your brain has to suffer. Moreover, our human bodies do not need as much protein as we normally think. We need protein to build new cells and repair damaged tissues. We actually need only about 35 - 45 grams for women and 60 - 75 grams for men, per day.

So, a healthy vegetarian weight loss should not compromise these basic macro nutritional needs. You need high-carb, but carb composes of good carb (natural, unrefined complex-carbohydrate) and bad carb (simple, refined carbohydrate). Good carb comes from whole vegetarian foods while bad carb comes from processed vegetarian foods.

Similarly, you have good dietary fat (coconut oil, olive oil, flax oil) and bad dietary oil (animal fat, soybean oil, corn oil, rapeseed oil).

Having said that, your diet for healthy vegetarian weight loss should encompass as much whole food as possible, with carb bearing 40 - 60 %, protein 15 - 25%, fat 10 - 15%. You can alter the percentage slightly to make your meal plans more interesting. But never make your protein 2 - 3 times more than your carb.

Oh, include exercise as part of your healthy vegetarian weight loss too. Exercise has been scientifically proven to promote health and fat loss. Bottom line - don't sacrifice your health for weight loss.

Vegetarian Weight Loss Program by Laura Ng

What's inside an effective vegetarian weight loss program that will help overweight vegetarians lose weight efficiently? You need only two things - a vegetarian weight loss diet which contains 90%, if not 100% whole natural foods plus a set of scientifically-proven fat-burning workouts.

Inside Your Vegetarian Weight Loss Program - Vegetarian Weight Loss Diet

In your vegetarian diet for weight loss, you should spread out your meals into five meals a day - breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. This is by far the most effective weight loss meal plan for many overweight vegetarians. On top of that, all your meal should preferably be in their most natural form, like this:

Breakfast - Veggie smoothie with 40% vegetables, 30% fruits and 30% wholegrain, nuts, seeds and virgin coconut oil. (Keep your satiety level at 70%.)

Morning Snack - Any mixed fruits. (Keep your satiety level at 30 - 40%.)

Lunch - Wholegrain sandwich stuffed with 50% vegetables (such as alfalfa, cucumbers, tomatoes, shredded beet, butterhead lettuce etc). Complete this fiber-dense meal with a natural protein-rich drink like unsweetened soy milk. (Keep your satiety level at 70%.)

Afternoon Snack - Any mixed nuts, grains, seeds and dried fruits. (Keep your satiety level at 40%.)

Dinner - Rainbow salad with 60% shredded vegetables, 30% chopped fruits and 10% dressing (mix virgin coconut oil with flaxseed oil as dressing). This meal should stop your cravings for supper or additional snack before bedtime. It should last you till the following morning. (Keep your satiety level at 70%.)

Inside Your Vegetarian Weight Loss Program - Vegetarian Weight Loss Diet Tips

Although natural foods like most nuts and seeds are calorie dense, adding them to your vegetarian diet will help you lose weight instead since they provide important phytonutrients for your body to metabolize its storage fat effectively. Of course, overeating these foods can gain weight. That's why you should always keep the vegetable portion to at least 40 - 50% in your breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Please learn to increase your vegetable intake as vegetables are extremely vital for a vegetarian weight loss program to take serious effect.

Inside Your Vegetarian Weight Loss Program - Fat-Burning Workouts

You probably heard of cardio, but have you heard of interval training? Cardio does help you burn fat but only during the exercise bout. Interval training? This is a very effective fat loss component to be included in your vegetarian weight loss program. It not only boosts your metabolism to burn fat during the training bout, but keeps you metabolically active even hours after the workouts.

Of all fat-burning workouts, I personally recommend full bodyweight (multi-joint) exercises as these will help you lose more fat more efficiently and effectively. You can go with burpees (jumping jacks), pushups, step-up, lying hip extension, bicycle crunch, mountain climbers etc. You can get a stability ball to perform stability ball rollouts, stability ball jackknives and stability ball leg curl etc.

To maximize fat loss in exercising, combine these fat-burning workouts with interval training such that you'll exercise, rest, then exercise again. Slotting in active rest is the key to burning fat. Bear in mind.

Now you got a fail proof vegetarian weight loss program in your hand, what are you waiting for? Do it now and get awesome results in the next 10 - 14 days.

Vegetarian Weight Loss Program by Laura Ng

What's inside an effective vegetarian weight loss program that will help overweight vegetarians lose weight efficiently? You need only two things - a vegetarian weight loss diet which contains 90%, if not 100% whole natural foods plus a set of scientifically-proven fat-burning workouts.

Inside Your Vegetarian Weight Loss Program - Vegetarian Weight Loss Diet

In your vegetarian diet for weight loss, you should spread out your meals into five meals a day - breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. This is by far the most effective weight loss meal plan for many overweight vegetarians. On top of that, all your meal should preferably be in their most natural form, like this:

Breakfast - Veggie smoothie with 40% vegetables, 30% fruits and 30% wholegrain, nuts, seeds and virgin coconut oil. (Keep your satiety level at 70%.)

Morning Snack - Any mixed fruits. (Keep your satiety level at 30 - 40%.)

Lunch - Wholegrain sandwich stuffed with 50% vegetables (such as alfalfa, cucumbers, tomatoes, shredded beet, butterhead lettuce etc). Complete this fiber-dense meal with a natural protein-rich drink like unsweetened soy milk. (Keep your satiety level at 70%.)

Afternoon Snack - Any mixed nuts, grains, seeds and dried fruits. (Keep your satiety level at 40%.)

Dinner - Rainbow salad with 60% shredded vegetables, 30% chopped fruits and 10% dressing (mix virgin coconut oil with flaxseed oil as dressing). This meal should stop your cravings for supper or additional snack before bedtime. It should last you till the following morning. (Keep your satiety level at 70%.)

Inside Your Vegetarian Weight Loss Program - Vegetarian Weight Loss Diet Tips

Although natural foods like most nuts and seeds are calorie dense, adding them to your vegetarian diet will help you lose weight instead since they provide important phytonutrients for your body to metabolize its storage fat effectively. Of course, overeating these foods can gain weight. That's why you should always keep the vegetable portion to at least 40 - 50% in your breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Please learn to increase your vegetable intake as vegetables are extremely vital for a vegetarian weight loss program to take serious effect.

Inside Your Vegetarian Weight Loss Program - Fat-Burning Workouts

You probably heard of cardio, but have you heard of interval training? Cardio does help you burn fat but only during the exercise bout. Interval training? This is a very effective fat loss component to be included in your vegetarian weight loss program. It not only boosts your metabolism to burn fat during the training bout, but keeps you metabolically active even hours after the workouts.

Of all fat-burning workouts, I personally recommend full bodyweight (multi-joint) exercises as these will help you lose more fat more efficiently and effectively. You can go with burpees (jumping jacks), pushups, step-up, lying hip extension, bicycle crunch, mountain climbers etc. You can get a stability ball to perform stability ball rollouts, stability ball jackknives and stability ball leg curl etc.

To maximize fat loss in exercising, combine these fat-burning workouts with interval training such that you'll exercise, rest, then exercise again. Slotting in active rest is the key to burning fat. Bear in mind.

Now you got a fail proof vegetarian weight loss program in your hand, what are you waiting for? Do it now and get awesome results in the next 10 - 14 days.

Need More Patients? Get A Listing In A Specialized Medical Directory by Jim Peterson

The advancement in technology has enabled almost everybody to be tech-savvy. Indeed, the World Wide Web has become a world parallel to the one we live in, and just like its counterpart, benefits and threats are ever present and need to be taken account of, in order to make the best out of both worlds. Despite that, people nowadays still prefer to do things online: from buying a carton of milk to setting up a doctor's appointment. Why is it so? Well, it is easier, faster, precise and less time consuming.

Yes, almost all types of medical offices can now be accessed by patients and potential signees straight from the comfort of their own homes, thanks to the innovative interactive websites, provided with custom web forms and online schedulers. Dentists, more particularly a Toronto dentist, are very aware of how this goes about. It is one form of medical promotion that has given a big boost to Toronto dentistry.

If you are a Toronto dentist who runs your own dental clinic, then you're very much aware of the fact that your business highly depends on the daily flow of patients. However, relying on your regular patients is not enough to give your dental practice that much needed lift and neither is it enough to increase the profitability of your practice.

Since almost everybody own personal computers and laptops and have internet access, then it's only logical to capitalize on this. You can use the internet to get new patients by searching for sites that offer medical promotion. How is this done? Well, there are online medical directories where you can submit your dental office's website. These medical directories are easily accessible to people who frequently surf the internet. Being that people today use the internet for almost anything, including looking for a Toronto dentist, the probability of them finding the listing of your dental clinic is very, very high.

Toronto dentistry became very popular all thanks to online medical promotion. You, too, can be a very famous Toronto dentist by simply setting up a website which explains all the additional services that you offer, such as online appointment scheduling and automated appointment reminders. You may even take it one step forward by providing a page on your website that would target young patients.

You can set that particular page up by making it child-friendly, complete with easy to understand words, fun activity sheets and other stuff that would make children want to visit you. Since it's a known fact that most kids are scared of dentists and since kids nowadays are very skilled and knowledgeable about computers and even the internet, online medical promotion of your dental practice will definitely change the way they view dentists.

So make the most out of the World Wide Web and start promoting your dental practice online to increase your clientele and profitability.

Busy Clinics Need To Automate Their Appointment Scheduling by Jim Peterson

Whether your medical practice revolves around only a few hundred patients or thousands of them, you would agree that handling the ever increasing number of patients, as well as the many demands of your job can be a tad too overwhelming.

A typical scene inside a very busy medical clinic will show you a dozen or so patients in the holding area waiting for the front desk receptionist to accommodate them. Then over at the receptionist's area, you would see several patients filling out forms, making inquiries and new patients working on their registration forms. Aside from that, you would hear the telephone ringing non-stop.

Basically the inside of a busy medical clinic can be described as near chaotic. No matter where you are in the world, if you're a very capable medical practitioner then you would surely have lots of patients, therefore, a busier clinic. Most doctors, in order to remedy the situation, have to resort to hiring additional staff. So aside from the front desk receptionist who welcomes the patients, there may be another staff whose main task is to answer telephone inquiries, list phoned in appointments and make schedule cancellations that patients call in.

There's nothing wrong with hiring additional personnel. However, that would mean additional manpower costs on your end. Just imagine that if your practice keeps on growing, then you would need to hire more and more people to work there. Other doctors, in worst cases, temporarily hold off accepting new patients. Can you imagine saying no to someone who badly needs your help?

However, aside from the two options mentioned above, there is a third option which more and more doctors are discovering to be the most advantageous. What is it? It's called a virtual medical receptionist.

The name itself suggests that the system works in the same way as your front desk receptionist. The only difference is that it is web-based. This means everything your front desk receptionist does is done by the virtual medical receptionist in an automated manner. This system is integrated with a self-service appointment scheduling which typically works this way: your patient will access your medical office's website, select the menu for the online appointment scheduler and then type in his desired date and time for his appointment. Or he can just call your clinic and by means of the automated phone scheduler built-in to the system, he can just leave a voice imprint of the schedule he wants.

This last option is the best one because it saves you from resorting to the first two options: hiring more people and temporarily hold off the acceptance of new patients. With the virtual medical receptionist, you wouldn't have to pay for additional staff and you'll gain even more patients especially when people hear that your clinic offers self-service appointment scheduling.

Vegetarian Weight Loss Plan by Laura Ng

If you want to lose weight effectively as a vegetarian, you need to have a proven vegetarian weight loss plan that includes both vegetarian weight loss diet and a set of fat-burning exercises. But what kind of diet and what types of exercises should you take up in order to help you achieve weight loss due to fat loss instead of water or muscle loss. Let's find out.

Vegetarian Weight Loss Diet

Your vegetarian weight loss plan should contain a vegetarian weight loss diet in such manner - 5 meals a day which comprises breakfast (7 - 8 A.M.), morning snack (9: 30 - 10 A.M.), lunch (12 - 1 P.M.), afternoon snack (3: 30 - 4 P.M.) and dinner (6:30 - 7:30 P.M.).

Each of your breakfast, lunch and dinner should keep you full at 70%. Not 80 or 100%. They should also include lots of fiber-rich foods especially vegetables which form about 50 - 60% of each meal. As for your snack, prepare just handful to fill up your stomach at 30 - 40% only.

Sample Meal Plan for a Day

Breakfast - Oatmeal with energy-dense dried fruits as topping.

Morning snack - Mixed fresh fruits.

Lunch - Veggie burger made from wholegrain breads and Portobello mushroom, topped with shredded vegetables.

Afternoon snack - Handful of mixed grains, nuts and seeds.

Dinner - Rainbow salad with mixture of coconut oil and olive oil as dressing.

Fat-Burning Exercises

I find it insufficient to include just diet in a vegetarian weight loss plan. My bottom line is, you can lose weight and gain health at the same time. And if you share my sentiments, you should factor in exercises in your vegetarian weight loss plan. But not all exercises will produce rewarding fat loss results for you.

Single-joint exercises like sit-ups and crunches barely burn fat. A more effective way to lose fat is through multi-joint exercises like bicycle crunch, jumping jacks (burpees), pushups, step-up, prisoner squat, kick-boxing etc.

Vegetarian Weight Loss Tips

In your vegetarian weight loss plan, you should take note of the way you eat your vegetarian diet for weight loss. As your brain takes about 10 - 20 minutes to receive the 'full' signal from your stomach, you should try to eat slowly (probably 30 - 45 minutes) to allow enough time for your stomach to communicate its satiety level to your brain. Do you always feel stuffed after you finish your meal? That's because you've eaten too fast. Before you feel full, you could have already overeaten.

Next, you should plan to do your workout in the morning as morning helps you burn more fat than any other times in the day. Remember to drink sufficient amount of water to keep your body well hydrated. And make sure you catch enough quality sleep.

All these little tips, when combined together, can yield amazing results in your vegetarian weight loss plan. So, never miss out any of them or you could experience a slow or even reverse progress in your weight loss regimen.

Vegetarian Diet Plan for Weight Loss by Laura Ng

How does an effective vegetarian diet plan for weight loss look like? It should look something like this - weight loss dieting tips specifically for vegetarians plus a set of fat-burning exercises that work to help you lose weight in the least amount of time. Let's get right down to it without further ado.

Vegetarian Diet Plan for Weight Loss - Dieting Tips

What Food to Eat - Cut back on all your processed vegetarian food intake. Increase your intake of whole natural foods. That's because whole foods like vegetables carry tons of fiber that help to slow down the digestion of food, thereby releasing energy slowly to help sustain your activities throughout the day. You tend to eat less after ingesting fiber-rich food at the start of eating because it is filling.

So, this is the number one thing you must carry out in your vegetarian diet plan for weight loss. Next…

How Many Times to Eat - Preferably 5 times a day. You'll break your 3 regular meals into 5 smaller meals to keep you going with constant energy supply. Bear in mind that your main meals such as breakfast, lunch and dinner should keep you only 70% full while your snacks (two - each slots in between the main meals) should make you feel 30 - 40% full only.

How to Eat for Weight Loss - In each bite, you should take time to chew the food. This helps to improve digestion and allows your brain to receive the "I'm full" signal quicker before you stuff in too much food. Slowing down your eating speed proves beneficial for your health and definitely will help you lose weight.

Vegetarians who include this simple chewing act in their vegetarian diet plan for weight loss lose fat more effectively. Don't believe? Try it out yourself for 7 days. It should preferably take anywhere from 30 to 45 minutes to finish your breakfast, lunch or dinner. For snacks, take 10 - 20 minutes.

Vegetarian Diet Plan for Weight Loss - Exercising Tips

What Exercises to Do - Jumping jacks, pushups, side plank, Spiderman climbs, bicycle crunch, mountain climbers, ab curl, step-up - these are high-intensity full bodyweight (also multi-joint) exercises that will help you lose fat effectively. You can start off with cardio first before you proceed to these workouts. These workouts are easy to begin with even for those who weigh 200 pounds and above.

What Time to Get Best Fat Loss Effect - An Australian experiment shows that you'll burn more fat exercising in the morning. If you can't make it due to shift work or other reasons, other timings work fine too, although you'll burn less fat. But the truth is, it's better than burning nothing.

In your vegetarian diet plan for weight loss, you should also take note of the amount of water you drink. Drinking too less can result in dehydration and trigger weight gain. Drinking too much can lead to hyponatremia (water poisoning) which can cause permanent brain damage or even death. Hence, drink just sufficient water depending on your body's condition on that day. Observe your urine's color. If it turns pale yellow or clear, it means you're having enough water. When it becomes yellow or deeper, you need to drink more water.