Weight Loss Note

Homemade natural juices

The fresh fruit natural juices are always a guaranteed source of health. It is easy to blend them during summer time as all the needed fruits are easier to purchase and you are always in the mood of a fruit juice on ice during a hot summer day. The recipes provided below will guide you towards the preparation of several natural juices, teaching you in the same time how they improve your general health.

1. An apple a day keeps the doctor away
The apple is one of the fruits that are richest in vitamins. If you are following a weight loss diet you can successfully replace a meal with this homemade drink. This fresh fruit juice is recommended to children that don’t have an appetite. Read the rest of this entry »

Water and weight loss

A study made by researches of the ‘Charite’ hospital from Berlin reports that people that drink daily and important amount of fluids especially water, burn 200 more calories as the rest.

We all know that human bodyweight is represented in quantities of 70%-75% by fluids and water. Babies can reach 85% and the percentage slowly declines with aging. Water is helping our system to perform it’s daily tasks at normal levels. A lack of water will slow down our metabolism and the rest of the fat burning processes. Read the rest of this entry »

Steamed Green Beans with Pine Nuts

Green Beans are one of the few types of beans that are eaten while still fresh. They are rich in Vitamins especially the K, C and A ones. The green beans also provide good levels of magnesium, thiamin, riboflavin, copper, calcium, phosphorus, protein, omega-3 fatty acids and niacin. Last but not least after providing all the above mentioned nutrients, the green beans are quite low in calories which makes them perfect for a weight loss meal.

Among the benefits provided by the green beans I remind: healthy bone maintenance (vitamin K), offer cardiovascular protection (vitamins A and C, fiber, potassium, folate, magnesium), anti-inflamatory effect, colon health and others. Read the rest of this entry »

Sauna Weight Loss

Sauna was invented by the Finish people. This is why the sessions where you experience extreme heat conditions in a small room, where called Finish Saunas. The finish people used this overheated rooms for reinvigoration and for strengthening the body. The temperatures in this small rooms where starting from 70-80 degrees Celsius (160-180 degrees Fahrenheit and reaching up to over 90 °C (200 °F). Saunas where mixed places where people where allowed to enter naked using only a towel.

The sauna inventors never intended to build them for weight loss but this days modern saunas are also used to aid in losing extra kilograms. Further on I will concentrate only on the weight loss benefits that result from repeated sauna sessions. I will only remind you that sauna sessions are used for numerous health benefits starting with asthma and chronic bronchitis and ending with diabetes, arteriosclerosis, obesity, hypertension and smoking induced symptoms. Read the rest of this entry »