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August 10, 2011

What Is Wavefront Technology In Lasik?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 8:39 am

Lasik surgery has hugely improved the vision of millions of individuals worldwide. It has turned the visually impaired into sighted individuals who are capable of seeing their children again and contributing to the family’s income by working. Two items that millions considered they would never be able to do again.

However, Lasik eye surgery has not been sitting on its laurels. Far from it, Lasik surgery techniques are being improved all the time. One such enhancement is Wavefront Technology. Wavefront Technology with relation to Lasik eye surgery is used to more precisely map the patient’s eyeball, which makes more exact surgery possible.

This is of immense importance because eyeballs are not all the same shape. They are like hands, superficially they all look the same, but once you get down to particulars, they are not. There are all shapes sizes and proportions. The same is true for eyes.

The better the map of the eye, the more chance that the surgeon has of giving you the best vision they can, in relation to the precise problems that you have in your particular case. Wavefront Technology assists the surgeon accomplish this.

Wavefront Technology is actually a technology that has been adapted from astronomy. in astronomical telescopes it is crucial that the lenses are as perfect as they can be, because at high magnification, even the very slightest impairment would lead to huge distortions, which in turn would make the telescope just about useless.

Astronomers were using this technology in the 1970′s, so it was already quite advanced when some bright spark noticed that it could become adapted for use in eye surgery too. Wavefront Technology was born and taken on board by Lasik and other eye surgeons with great expectations.

In fact, the bright spark who noticed the potential value of this article of astronomical technology was a German doctor called Josef Bille who started using it in his practice.

He gradually enhanced and adapted the sensors and announced it to the Lasik manufacturers in 1997. This in turn allowed the manufacturers of Lasik equipment to adapt Wavefront Technology to their own apparatus.

Wavefront Technology is highly complicated in design and technology but also highly easy to understand. The Wavefront machine sends a flat sheet of light (known as a wavefront) through the eye to the retina, which reflects it back to the Wavefront device.

The Wavefront machine compares the two, measures the imperfections, chooses what has to be done to correct them and guides the laser to the right spot in order to accomplish the corrections. As simple as that!

However, the geniuses who created and developed Wavefront Technology did not give up there. They have their machine send in multiple wavefronts from multiple angles so that the computer can build up a three dimensional picture for even more accuracy.

There are now well over 60 patterns that can be automatically corrected by a Lasik laser guided by Wavefront Technology. So, if you have any issues with long or short sightedness, create an appointment to see your Lasik surgeon as soon as they can.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on a variety of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you want to know more, please visit our site at Macular Degenerative Disease

June 8, 2011

Eyesight Improvement

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 11:54 am

We are under great pressure not to look old, not to look our age. One of the best compliments people of more than 21 years think that they can receive is: ‘Really? You do not look it!’ To a certain extent this obsession with a youthful appearance has always been with us, but the pressure has ratcheted up due to films and television.

Film stars and pharmaceutical companies unscrupulously team up to persuade us that we need this surgery too in order to become popular. What they do not tell you is that the pharmaceutical businesses have paid the film stars to have free treatment and then paid (or sponsored) the chat shows that so blatantly promote them.

And ageism is rife as well, both among the young, whose worst insults usually have the word ‘old’ included and among employers who can not wait to be rid of employees at 65 after a lifetime of service. Governments or at least some governments are exactly as bad, penalizing pensioners with a meager salary after fifty years of paying taxes.

Individuals used to grow old gracefully, now it is a sin. There is a long list of ‘improvements’ that you can plough your way through: face lift, liposuction, hair transplants, dentures and several others, but the one that really makes sense to me is eyesight improvement by whatever technique works.

We live in a beautiful world and it is a shame that whilst we are at the correct stage in our life to enjoy it – that is while we have more time, more money and have become more philosophical, we begin to go blind. At the same time as your grandchildren begin arriving, your eyesight begins to go.

There are numerous factors why you could begin losing your eyesight besides only old age, but old age does play a part in some of them as well.

Macular degeneration is normally called age-related macular degeneration, but there is a rare kind that has an impact on the young. There are two types wet and dry. The dry kind is less severe, but the wet kind is more easily treated.

Cataracts are thought to be age-related as well, but I had premature senile cataracts 20 years early. Fortunately these are easily treated as well with only a couple of minutes of surgery. Glaucoma is a vicious one, which can leave you totally blind, if you do not catch it soon enough and have it treated.

The key to success with all of these eyesight impairments is tackling them early. If you suspect that anything is not right with your eyes, go to a GP or optician immediately. Do not be fooled by quack cures that you might see advertised on late night TV or in the small ads. They ought to get banned.

Eye exercises and eye drops are fine for healthy eyes, but they will not help you if you have a problem, only a fully qualified expert can do that. These advertisers prey on individuals who either do not have the money for surgery or who are frightened of it and there are lots of them around too.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you want to know more, please visit our website at Macular Degenerative Disease

June 1, 2011

Contact Lenses Versus Specs

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:05 pm

Has your eyesight deteriorated to the point where you have to wear specs? Are you happy about that? Well, there are several alternatives to be had these days, so you do have other choices. If you do not want to undergo surgery, you can still opt for contact lenses. In fact, contact lenses have been a viable alternative to glasses for decades.

Surgery can be a more permanent solution to problems with eyesight, but for various reasons, some people do not want to take up this option. This leaves contact lenses as the best alternative. The first thing to notice about contact lenses is that most people will not know that you are wearing them. This is very important to some people and not significant to others at all.

Contact lenses provide better all-round or peripheral vision than spectacles. When you look to the side wearing glasses, there is no glass there, but contact lenses cover your entire pupil so that your vision is closer to normal. This is safer if you are driving a car or riding a bike or even trying to cross a road.

Another difficulty that numerous people find with spectacles is that they leave indentations on the nose. Some people find these ugly. Glasses also need frequent cleaning, which many people find maddening, whereas contact lenses are cleaned by the eyes’ normal cleaning system – in other words, automatically.

Stylists also think that their prescription spectacles have to go with what they are wearing. This can mean that you have to have a dozen pairs of glasses. If your eyesight deteriorates further, which is fairly probable, all those specs will have to be up-graded as well. This is not true with contact lenses of course.

Both spectacles and contact lenses can adjust for astigmatism or bad eyesight, which comes to most people after the age of forty. Occasionally earlier and sometimes later, but it will happen. Your choice, if you do not want to undergo surgery, is whether you would rather wear spectacles or contact lenses.

In the past, contact lenses were very expensive, which is why many people still discount using them, but in fact it is no longer true. Contact lenses are more costly, but not much more now. In fact, you can buy disposable contact lenses and many people do do that.

The fact is that there are better alternatives to wearing either contacts or specs, but most people do not know it. It is possible these days to have one eye operation and never have to wear glasses again. Or you could have laser surgery and almost certainly not need specs again for ten or twenty years, but some people are adverse to having surgery and so they opt for glasses or contacts.

In the long run, surgery is almost definitely less expensive than wearing contact lenses and wearing contact lenses is almost definitely cheaper than wearing glasses, but it is the same with most items, people just look at the up-front costs and cheaper is rarely better.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on several topics, but is now concerned with Designer Spectacles. If you would like to know more, please go over to our web site at Spectacles Direct.

May 8, 2011

Examples Of Low Cholesterol Diets

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 6:07 am

Although more and more people are becoming aware that they ought to follow a low (er) cholesterol diet as they become older, they might not be aware of how to do this. People eat out a great deal more now than ever before or they have food delivered.

Unfortunately most of the food consumed at or from these establishments has a poor record when it comes to controlling cholesterol. You will find it difficult to impossible to follow a low cholesterol diet and eat junk food at the same time.

There are plenty of examples of low cholesterol diets on the Internet and it would be a good idea for you to look at some of these until you find a chef’s recommendations that match your tastes.

For example, one cook might prefer vegetarian cooking and so would create a collection of low cholesterol recipes containing vegetarian food, whereas another chef might favour fish and so would create plenty of low cholesterol recipes with fish.

Obviously, if you have more varied tastes then the world is your oyster and you can mix and match recipes from all over the world. There are several cultures that do not eat meat at all, for instance, the Hindus. There are thousands of Hindu recipes which are obviously low in cholesterol or which could be easily adapted by substituting olive oil for ghee as the oil in which to cook.

Or you might like the Japanese style of cooking, which uses a higher proportion of fish than people eat in the West. Fish is a very useful source for example of HDL, or good, cholesterol. Japanese meals can be of a number of different styles. an unusual one of which is sushi, which has become favourite with the trend-setters.

Chinese and Thai food also uses far less meat that traditional Western recipes. They also tend to cook using soya oil, which is a product known to lower the level of LDL or ‘bad’ cholesterol. If, when you look at traditional recipes from these countries, you notice something you could improve on then go ahead and modify it.

For example, when you go to a Chinese restaurant, you always get white rice. Why not substitute brown rice? The same goes for Thai food. Brown rice is fed to convicts in Thai jails, so it is coupled with low class, hence Thais eat white rice. But you do not have to.

If you enjoy barbecues, you might have to lay off the steaks, chops, sausages and burgers, but you can still barbecue all kinds of fish, crabs, prawns and lobster. Eels are good for a barbecue too and so is unleaven bread and some vegetables such as sweet corn.

There are so many examples of low cholesterol diets that eating in this way does not have to become monotonous. In fact, it might just open your eyes to some of the other ways of cooking going on in the world. You may just end up realizing that most of the meals in your life up to now have been fairly similar.

While you are looking for examples of low cholesterol diets, remember that adaptation and substitution are the best strategies – become adaptable and enjoy your new, healthier diet.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on several topics, but is now concerned with lowering cholesterol without medication. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at What Foods Lower Cholesterol?

May 6, 2011

Cataracts And The Regain Of Sight

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 8:07 am

When I was about forty years of age, I could feel that I would soon require specs. I worked long hours in an office at a computer and most of my friends reasoned that this was the cause of my diminishing eyesight. I merely put the spectacles on like everyone else does and got on with the job.

However, ten years later, my eyesight took an abrupt turn for the worse and I was diagnosed with premature senile cataracts, at least that is how they translated it into English from the Thai as I had by now married a Thai lady and moved to her village in rural northern Thailand. I went to a very good hospital in Pattaya known as the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and one of their senior eye surgeons examined me.

She confirmed the diagnosis and added that it was probable that the other eye would develop a cataract at some time in the future although there was no indication of it at that moment. The next day she carried out an operation to take out the lens from my eye and replace it with a plastic one.

The operation is quite painless although it can become a bit scary and lasts between thirty and sixty minutes. Mine was ‘a long one’, said the surgeon at forty minutes. After an hour’s recovery, a nurse showed my wife and me how to care for my eye and I was allowed to go. My eye was taped over, so I could not see out of it until that evening when my wife put the drops in.

Everything was so vivid and clear. It was truly amazing. I had to keep going back for post-operative care for four weeks and then we went back to the village. I cannot convey how fantastic it was to be able to see clearly again without glasses after what I realized was more than a decade.

The eye or the brain or both take a a little time to modify to the new lens and your eyesight improves for a period of time which can be from six to twenty-four months. Within six months, my other eye started to pack up. It had borne the strain of two eyes for long enough and now that there was a working replacement, it decided to stop fighting the approaching cataract and gave up.

I was not back to square one because my plastic eye was far better that the other one had been in similar circumstances. So, about six months later, I went back to Pattaya to have the other one done. The procedure was the same with the same surgeon. I went back the next day for the check up, but it was a long wait for my turn and the time came around for my drops. My wife put them in but as I removed my protective eye-covering, I noticed the English-language newspaper on the table in front of me.

That was not unusual, but what was really unusual was that I could read it – without specs for the first time in fifteen years! I could see the look of revulsion on my fellow patients’ faces as they looked into my eye so I put the covering back on. (After the operation the eye swells up and it as black as an eight-ball with a blood-red dot in the middle – it is very frightening).

When I went in to see the surgeon and told her about the newspaper, she smiled. “Yes”, she said, “that was my surprise, I put a long-distance lens in last time and a reading lens in this time. Your brain will decide what you are looking at and use the correct eye”.

She had not told me because a small percentage of brains cannot accomplish this trick, which is why some people cannot take to variofocals too.

That was a year ago and both plastic eyes and brain have ‘bedded in’ nicely. I can read a book and drive a car without specs and my world is so brilliant. I still wonder at the brightness everyday. I had not noticed the light getting gradually dimmer for fifteen years.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on several topics, but is now involved with Designer Spectacles. If you want to know more, please visit our website at Spectacles Direct.

May 2, 2011

Garlic For Combatting Infection And Cholesterol

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:31 am

Everyone has to have heard that garlic is very healthy for you by now. In spite of that, there are still sceptics, but that is normally because it is difficult to perceive a difference. Garlic is more preventative than curative.

You have to build up an amount of ‘garlic’ in your body before it can do you a great deal of help. Garlic will be much less effective if you try eating it after the event, because it takes so long to make up the quantities you need, depending on how much you eat, obviously.

Once you realize that, it becomes obvious that you should be eating garlic every day, not just when you are already sick. Some cultures are happy to smell of garlic all day long, but others are not. For these individuals, there are garlic supplements and even de-odourized garlic supplements.

Garlic has been utilized as an antiseptic for centuries, if not longer, but contemporary studies have shown that it is also helpful in the battle against cholesterol – the bugbear of the Twenty-First Century, as populations all over the world, but especially in the West inflate into obesity.

If you are the type of person who would rather eat the real thing than a supplement, but are not keen on being known for your garlic breath, there are things that you can do to minimize the smell. Thais cook garlic very quickly and it goes into every meal, but you would not know it.

Cooking it quickly appears to kill the smell on your breath. Chewing parsley or gargling with and then drinking lemon juice are ways of reducing the smell of garlic.

However, you could eat fresh garlic on the weekend but take supplements during the week, when you have to go to work. If you are looking for garlic supplements, you will come across dozens of different kinds. However, all you actually need to know is whether the pill is odourless or not and how much alicin is in it. Alicin is the active ingredient that you are interested in.

Cold-pressed garlic is said to be odourless, so you might look out for that on the label. Alicin is also sometimes coupled with other general system boosters or tonics like echinacea. You will have to carry out some research before you buy, because ‘specialists’ disagree on everything except that garlic is healthy for you.

Eating garlic on a daily basis ought to make a difference to your cholesterol levels over time – a month or two -, but will also offer longterm help. If you are already being tracked for cholesterol by your doctor, tell him or her what you are doing and then you have a point of reference to judge how effective garlic is in lowering cholesterol in your case

Garlic will almost certainly never be enough on its own to protect you from high degrees of cholesterol, but that would be asking too much anyway. Instead, you ought to perceive garlic as another foot soldier in the battle.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on several subjects, but is now concerned with lowering cholesterol without medication. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at What Foods Lower Cholesterol?

Modern Times And Blindness

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:29 am

Not so long ago, it was not at all unusual to see blind individuals strolling the streets tap-tapping away with their white sticks, being guided by a dog, usually a Labrador, but I have not seen anyone like that in Britain for years, as far as I recall.

That has to be a decent thing; it must mean that we are starting to cure or at least assuage most types of blindness.

My aunty had cataracts for years when I was a kid in the Sixties – it was simply one of those things. Some individuals got them when they were old and others did not.

My brother’s mother-in-law had cataracts in the late Nineties and she was enrolled on a two year waiting, but at least she had hope and they were going to be removed free of charge.

I do not know of anyone else that has eye trouble except myself. I could not get my glasses clean one day and then a friend said he saw a white dot in one eye. He took me to the hospital and the optician diagnosed ‘premature senile cataracts’.

Well, I live in Thailand now and he did not say those exact words. He told me that the cataracts were because I was prematurely senile.

I asked him if that was what he really meant; he looked it up in a book and we both had a hearty laugh about it, although he never actually corrected himself. My condition turned out to be a little bit worse than just cataracts, but when I went from the local hospital to a major hospital in Pattaya, the surgeon saw me within 30 minutes and asked me if I wanted them taken away.

I said that I did and she was willing to do the operation there and then. I got it postponed by 24 hours, but she would have sorted my eye out that day in a 30 minute operation, which does not need anaesthetic. I think that that was marvelous.

We have come a long way from routinely seeing blind people on the street and putting up with cataracts through a two-year waiting list to immediate removal of cataracts by laser surgery in 40-50 years.

At least we have in the Developed World and in the East too, if you have the money. There are still millions of people in Asia and particularly in Africa suffering blindness and partial blindness for the sake of an easy 30 minute operation.

Two weeks after my surgery, my other eye began to cloud over. It was as if it had been holding on with its last ounce of strength until I got his mate sorted out. I had that one done last year and once I was allowed to take off my patch and look about me with two decent eyes again for the first time in a decade, I could not understand that I had forgotten how bright the world really is and that I had not noticed how dingy my world had become.

If you are concerned around an eye operation, do not be. What you will experience once you can see properly again will make all the worry appear ludicrous and if you get the opportunity to give someone their sight back, please do it.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a variety of topics, but is now concerned with macular degeneration glasses. If you want to know more, please visit our website at Macular Degenerative Disease

May 1, 2011

Eye Care After A Lasik Operation

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 6:35 am

The patient of Lasik surgery has two foremost responsibilities regarding his or her eyes: firstly to pick a responsible, skilled surgeon, which should not be very difficult and secondly, to take care of his eyes after the operation by following the guidance of the surgeon on post-operative care. This second part is very important and should not be taken lightly.

The post-operative care procedure is not difficult, but if you are worried about it, you could ask your surgeon what it will entail before the procedure. The doctor or a nurse will be able to explain the method of supervision to you in detail or they will give you a pamphlet.

There might be some peculiar sight aberrations for a few days after the operation, some of which are fairly standard. One of the most common aberrations that are standard for a few days are halos around lights.

However, you should be certain that you understand the difference between what is standard and so no grounds for concern and what should be reported immediately

There are different Lasik procedures and the procedures are advancing all the time so it is not possible to give precise details in this article. Moreover, the shape of the eyes and the causes for deteriorating eyesight are individual to each patient.

Some of the advice that your Lasik surgeon might give for your post-operative eye care may include the following, although different doctors may have their own recommendations.

The first thing is to remember that you have just had an operation including anaesthetic. There might not have been any blood but it was surgery all the same.

All patients are required to take it easy after an operation and you will be no exception. If you had had an operation on your knee, you would use it as little as possible for a time and the same is helpful advice for your eye.

Attempt to sleep for a couple of hours after the operation or at least close your eyes and rest. Infection is the chief concern, so do not poke or rub your eye and do not strain it by trying out your recently improved vision by reading or watching TV.

If you have to entertain yourself in this way wear an eye patch. Your surgeon will almost certainly have given you a stiff plastic eye guard, which you ought to wear at all times.

Some surgeons will warn against getting water into your eye for a few days, which means washing only from the neck down, no showering, no going out in the rain and definitely no swimming.

Be careful with bright light, it cannot damage your eye but it does hurt. Your world will get much brighter after the operation and looking at a light bulb can become painful. Be cautious of watching moving traffic when the sun is shining, a car window can catch the sun and reflect it back into your eye unexpectedly.

You will be given eye drops so do not fail to use them. Lasik surgery can dry your eyes out, if this happens they might be able to give you substitute or extra drops.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a number of topics, but is now concerned with wet macular degeneration treatment. If you would like to know more, please go to our website at Macular Degenerative Disease

April 21, 2011

Cataracts, Surgery And Recovery

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 7:53 am

You have to be very cautious with your eyes because they can so easily be damaged beyond repair. My eyesight started to deteriorate when I reached forty, like most people. My friends and family put that down to the fact that I was sitting in front of a computer screen for about twelve hours a day and had done since I was twenty-eight. Still, there was nothing I could do about that, that was my job. I was self-conscious of wearing glasses at first, but you soon get used to that.

My eyes continued to get worse and at a greater rate than friends of a comparable age, but I considered that that was just the luck of the draw. However, one morning about ten years later, I woke up and it was as if my spectacles were dirty. I spent the next day or two cleaning them, but I could not seem to move the dirt on the right lens.

By that time, my vision was too bad to see without glasses and I only had the one pair. I had moved to rural Thailand and procuring a second pair was no easy feat.

After a couple of days of cleaning and polishing my glasses a friend offered to take me the 75 km to the nearest good hospital. The opthamologist looked in my eyes and said: “I am very sorry, but you are senile”. I had been called mad before, but not senile. I was fifty-two. It is not really a statement that beggars a question, so I just looked at him and put on a glum expression, hoping that I was not confirming his diagnosis.

He looked at me and then rumaged in his desk, pulled out a book and opened it. “You have premature senile cataracts” he corrected himself. I was not certain whether that was any better as it implied that other parts of me may start failing early as well. Anyway, I thanked him and left. I had no notion what to do next, but at least I knew better that to continue wasting my time attempting to clean my already spotless spectacles.

My wife is very practical and she arranged for us to go to an even better hospital 650 km away. I was seen by one of the hospital’s senior eye surgeons within the hour and was told that I had a cataract in my right eye and that there was a good chance that I would develop one in the left eye too. Then she shocked me by asking: “Do you want me to remove it now?”

It was too big a decision for me to make there and then without any information, so we discussed the operation, she gave me a leaflet and I made an appointment to return the next day. The next day, I was in the operating chair. I was not going to have Laser Correction, but the full replacement of the lens. The procedure is carried out under local anaestetic and does not hurt but it can be uncomfortable at times.

The surgeon cut a small incision of two millimetres a little to the outside of the colour of my eye and squirted in some solution. She then vibrated that fluid with ultra-sound to break up the lens in my eye and washed the pieces of lens out with more fluid before inserting the new lens through the same opening.

By this stage of my life, I could just see light and dark with my right eye, but at one point my eyesight just ceased entirely. It was like watching a window shatter before your eyes only to realise that there was nothing but blackness beyond. Now I definitely was blind in that eye. There was a bit of discomfort, but the surgeon kept talking to me and then she said: “Wait, wait, wait, can you see me?”

And I could.

Absolutely perfectly. Better than I would have been able to fifteen years before, but everything was so bright that it dazzled. I had not noticed how dingy my world had become. A cataract is like having a net curtain over a window, it cuts out a great deal of light. Therefore, the first thing you become aware of whilst you have had a cataract removed is a flood of light. Your world literally is a brighter place – to such an extent that the light hurts.

Be careful with light after the surgery, it cannot bring about lasting damage, but it really does hurt. A passing vehicle can reflect sunlight into your eye and catch you unawares. If you are driving or riding a bicycle, it could be very dangerous. Another risk is reflection. You have an open wound on your face which can get infected by wind-borne germs.

The week following the operation is a lot more risky than the procedure itself. You have an open cut in your eye which they do not stitch. It is left to repair itself, which is not a problem, if you take care.

You have to put two kinds of drops in your eye four times a day and avoid getting water in your eye at all costs. That means do not go out in the rain and do not wash your hair in the shower. Dirt and consequent infection are your main enemies, so put the drops in regularly, avoid dust (and the powdered dog faeces mixed in with it) and all water and be very wary of light.

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on a number of subjects, but is now involved with Designer Spectacles. If you would like to know more, please go over to our website at Spectacles Direct.

April 20, 2011

How To Cope With High Cholesterol

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 9:49 am

Cholesterol can be highly perilous. Not in lesser quantities and not even all cholesterol, because there are two sorts. One is healthy for you, because it helps mop up the other one which is bad for you in large quantities. HDL cholesterol is termed the good cholesterol and LDL the bad cholesterol, although we need some LDL in order to control some of our bodily functions

Too much LDL in our blood streams can cause clogging which in turn would lead to higher blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes. So what can you do about it? There are three prongs you can use to attack cholesterol: diet, exercise and medication. Some people do not want to be on tablets each day for life, but some do not mind.

So, the first thing to do is get into the routine of exercising every day. The minimum exercise you need to be doing is strolling for thirty minutes every morning and each evening. You may think that you do not have an hour a day to spare, but you probably do.

If you have a luncheon break, what do you do in it? Eat? Read the paper? Have a talk? OK, why not choose a greengrocer’s that is fifteen minutes walk away and go and purchase an apple every day? In the evening, you could go for a walk with your spouse or your dog. In that way, you have only thirty minutes to find in order to remain healthy.

How can food reduce your cholesterol? Well, there is cholesterol in practically everything we eat, so it is a question of remembering which sort of cholesterol is in which food and being discriminating. In general, this requires avoiding food that is high in saturated fats and trans or hydrogenated fats and eating more foodstuff that has mono- or poly-unsaturated fats.

This is not as difficult as it sounds anything you buy in a tin or a tub will or ought to have the sorts of fat written in the contents list. You will merely have to learn which fresh food is healthy for you. In essence, red meat and dairy products are not particularly healthy for you. Try swapping skinless chicken and fish for beef and pork. Drink skimmed milk, if you have to drink milk and give up butter.

In fact, some margarines have been specially made to reduce cholesterol and, yes, they do work, it is not a scam. It is often said that liver and eggs are high in cholesterol, but according to the British Heart Foundation, our bodies cannot access this cholesterol, so it is OK to include them in a low cholesterol diet.

Fresh fruit and vegetables are the real allies in the battle against high cholesterol. Bananas are particularly useful and so are citrus fruits. Nuts are also good for you and in particular almonds and walnuts. Tofu and other soya bean products are useful and will even lower cholesterol.

Roughage and fibre are very good for lowering cholesterol and one of the best meals you can have is a bowl of porridge in the morning for breakfast.

Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on numerous topics, but is now concerned with lowering cholesterol without medication. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at What Foods Lower Cholesterol?

April 9, 2011

Natural Eyesight Improvement

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 1:50 pm

Losing one’s sight can get upsetting. In the beginning, if as standard, you start to lose your eyesight at around 40 years of age, it is the first sign of approaching old age, but later as it deteriorates further, people start to worry whether they will go blind.

Well, if you require spectacles at 40 then yes, it is the first sign of approaching old age, but there are not so many individuals who go totally blind now due to advancements in information concerning the eyes and how to treat impairments.

There is nothing you can do regarding the former problem, but at least two routes you can take to sorting out the latter.

Most people ‘blindly’ follow their opticians advice and purchase spectacles or contact lenses. This is the best option for the optician and the cheapest option for the client in the short term. It is good for the optician because you will almost certainly require new spectacles every two years and contact wearers have to keep buying contact lenses as well.

It is handy for the customer because the outlay is small if you do not go for designer frames like Gucci or Levi. In the long term, though the client pays out many, many times more than if a different procedure had been chosen.

One of these alternative courses of action is Lasik surgery. This is costly up front, but can last for 20 years although you might still need glasses for either long or short distances. Most people have their long distance eyesight corrected and never ever have a problem with it again, although they do still need reading glasses.

A third option, which you might like to attempt instead of or in conjunction with any of the above is called Natural Vision Improvement. It has to be said that the system of Natural Vision Improvement has more detractors than supporters, but some individuals treat it as a form of yoga for the eyes which cannot do any harm.

The point here though is that if you would like to try Natural Vision Improvement, you should still go to an optician regularly so that they can check for eye diseases like glaucoma and macular degeneration, which Natural Vision Improvement cannot hope to, nor does it claim to, cure.

Advocates of Natural Vision Improvement say that contemporary equipment like TV screens and monitors and even living in a city where long distance eyesight is almost unnecessary because it is blocked by buildings a few yards away, have trained us to ‘see badly’.

They say that we need to relearn how to see in the right manner. They even go as far as to say that glasses and contact lenses may be part of the problem.

By this they mean that as your eyes get used to corrective lenses, they come to rely on them and so become weaker. Therefore, the next time your sight is measured, you will need stronger spectacles.

The Natural Vision Improvement philosophy says to use the weakest lenses that you can and make your eyes work harder. In this manner, they insist, the next time you go for a check up, you can get weaker lenses not more powerful ones until eventually you do not require spectacles at all.

Some opticians and optometrists will work with you if you would like to attempt this route, but you may have to look about for one. One important point around the Natural Vision Improvement procedure is that if your impaired vision could create a danger to yourself and others, you should wear regular, full-strength glasses whilst carrying out those activities (like driving).

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September 13, 2010

The New Diet Revolution Of Dr Atkins

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:12 am

We live in a world where looking slim is the ideal. We are encouraged to believe that this is what we should all look like as well. We see the evidence of this in the slim people in fashion magazines, in beauty contests on TV, in adverts and in many other places. There are books that are devoted to helping us achieve this new look. One book that attempts to help you obtain this new shape is Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution.

In Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution, we are advised about a new way of living – a low carb lifestyle. In this new way, we are instructed what kinds of low carb foods we can eat. Naturally, we will have to follow strict instructions for Dr Atkins diet to begin its magic and help us to lose those ugly pounds.

There are 4 stages in Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution diet that have to be followed by anyone who wants to lose weight the Atkins diet way. These stages are the Induction which is stage 1; Ongoing weight loss which is stage 2; Pre-maintenance is stage 3 and Maintenance, which is stage 4. In addition to the dietary rules of these stages Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution book recommends regular exercise and using nutritional supplements as part of his low carb diet.

In the induction stage of the diet you can lose about 15 pounds. This is done by limiting your carb consumption to 20 grams a day. You can, however, eat lots of low carb vegetables in your diet like lettuce, broccoli and tomatoes. Unfortunately eating yoghurt, fruits, rice, corn and starchy vegetables like potatoes is out while you are on the Atkins diet. Also caffeine and alcohol drinks are not recommended.

Dr Atkins’ New Diet Revolution declares that during the induction stage, you will stabilize your blood sugar level, thus curbing various health problems that arise from unstable blood sugar, like fatigue and diabetes. It is also in this stage of the diet that you break your food addictions and your cravings for different foods like sugar.

When you enter the 3rd and 4th stages in Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution, the book informs you that you have reached your ideal weight. From these phases on, you get to up your daily carb intake to up to 60 grams per day. From here on. if you want to stay at your ideal weight then you must stick to the Atkins diet for the rest of your life.

Honestly, there does not seem to be a more scientific method to lose weight and keep it off permanently. The Atkins diet really does work, and by reading Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution you will be taking a giant step in the right direction.

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August 16, 2010

Complex Carbohydrates Diets

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:41 am

When many of us make up our minds to follow a diet, we are overjoyed because we are eventually going to shed that unwanted weight. All we need is the necessary diet info. However, usually, a few months down the road and not only have we not shed much weight, but we are also disappointed with our diet.

Why does something like this occur you might ask in exasperation? Well, the reply would be that we are not eating the correct combination of foodstuffs to burn the surplus fat off. Following a diet that has complex carbohydrates foods which are healthy for you could be the solution to all whole diet dilemmas.

When you start any of the diets, the first thing that you will be told is the diet info of what food you can eat and what types of food are bad for you. According to most low carb diet info, amongst the many bad foods will be various complex carbohydrates foods which you really must have for your body to function well. The most sensible approach to take with those diets is to understand the low carb diet info behind them and use the diet food lists that they give wisely.

This way you will definitely lose weight, because the foods that you will be eating on your diet are the types of food that can make you lose your hunger pangs. By not wanting to consume lots of food, you won’t be snacking on junk food and piling on the weight. According to most low carb diet information, complex carbohydrates foods for long lasting energy will release the amount of energy that you need, on average, throughout the day.

According to most low carb diet info, these foods also have the necessary dietary requirements that we need for our bodies to grow healthily. You should, however, remember the low carb diet info that the best way to have a fantastic looking figure is to maintain a healthy balance between all of the complex carbohydrates foods in the other groups and to include regular daily exercise into your lifestyle.

When you go shopping for your dietary foods, stop a moment and see if the foods that you have planned for your meals, according to the low carb diet info you have, will help you in the long run or if you will be feeling worse than you do now. The reason is that many of the foods in these various diets don’t take your body’s health needs into account.

If you don’t eat the right foods, you can end up with various illnesses and other complications that you had no problems with when you used complex carbohydrates foods like fruit and vegetables that were part of your normal eating habits.

Remember that, according to most low carb diet info, you must take into account the health requirements of your body as well. Including fantastic tasting complex carbohydrates foods that you usually love to eat anyway, make dieting fun, especially since you are not really dieting. What you are doing is making a lifetime change for a healthier future.

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May 16, 2010

What is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 4:52 am

The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not supported by the eponymous Dr. Atkins firm, that hopes to play on the popularity of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name. However, a closer look at this diet shows that it may not be all it claims to be.

First of all, it’s very difficult to find information on the Atkins grapefruit diet plan. Clever people know that when someone is carrying out a deception, or a con, they will often gloss over the facts. This is what the Atkins grapefruit diet seems to do in an attempt to get people to associate it with two supposedly effective diets.

Is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet part of the Atkins Diet or endorsed by the late Dr. Atkins’ firm? The answer is a loud no! But, not only is there no mention of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet on the Atkins web site, there is just no fruit of any kind mentioned in the list of allowed foods in the Atkins diet Induction phase either.

The induction phase includes the following foods: fish of all kinds, all fowl such as turkey and chicken, any shellfish, any meat such as beef or pork, eggs cooked in any style including fried, cheese, vegetables, herbs and spices, fats and oils, low carbohydrate beverages including diet soft drinks.

Please, notice one thing – that fruit does not feature on that list at all! Yes, later phases of the Atkins diet do allow limited amounts of fruits such as cantaloupe and strawberries, and the pre-maintenance and maintenance phases do even allow small quantities of grapefruit, but when judged in comparison with the amount of Grapefruit advised on the Atkins Grapefruit Diet there is a massive difference.

The Atkins Grapefruit Diet recommends a cup of grapefruit juice or a cup of grapefruit sections, with 8 and 18 carbs respectively. Even the most generous phases of the Atkins diet recommends limiting intake to below 8 carbs per day, when it comes to grapefruit. That’s a direct contradiction from one diet to the other.

Most sensible people would have a look at the Atkins website itself the moment they heard of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet and when they found no mention of that diet on their site, a red light would flash and an alarmbell would sound.

In general, remember that any diet that relies too heavily on one type of food, such as grapefruit on a grapefruit diet, is unhealthy for any but very short periods. The Atkins Grapefruit Diet is not associated with the Atkins diet, and could interfere with the results of the Atkins diet, especially in its early phases.

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April 18, 2010

Preparing Low Carb

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Marion Jones @ 6:47 am

Cooking is definitely an art form but cooking can get even more creative in thought and planning when you or someone in your family goes on a diet. The challenge comes when you have to match the needs of your whole family with that of a low carb dieter. Even for this seldom difficult problem of cooking, low carb recipes are Heaven sent.

Thanks to the many low carb recipes and other products on the market, it is now entirely feasible to turn cooking low carb food into integral part of your life. There are so many handy things to employ when you are preparing low carb recipes. Furthermore, the Internet provides access to many sites that feature low carb lifestyle changes.

Some of these changes are easy to implement like using two different recipes to make one healthy low carb recipe. There are also counters that can help you find out if your choice of food items is keeping you within the limits of your low carb diet.

A shopping list of food that you can buy is also good for cooking low carb recipes. To complete your change to cooking low carb recipes you should have your kitchen mirror this lifestyle change. This way you will have all of the kitchen items that you need plus the staples for cooking low carb recipes already stocked up in your kitchen.

This does not have to be anything fancy, you understand. For the most part, as long as you stay away from foods which are high in carbs, and keep cooking low carb meals you will be okay.

This doesn’t mean that you need stay away from carbs all together, only that you should limit the quantities when cooking low carb recipes to the absolute minimum. As I have said earlier, this can severely cramp your manner of preparing meals. Low carb recipes aren’t easy to follow if you really love your pastas and breads.

However, with only a small change on your part, you can produce meal after meal of low carb recipes. If you’re not the one on the low carb diet, then this may make you reluctant to try cooking low carb meals, but you’ll be surprised at the amount of really great tasting food that you can prepare when you start looking to low carb recipes.

However, then again, if you’re not the one who want to eat low carb recipes, then you always have the option of adding a few high carb dishes to your meal along with the low carb recipes, and enjoy the meal the way you like it. In this way, everyone gets what they want and you will have no problems with cooking low carb recipes or pandering to the dieter in your family!

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April 7, 2010

Low Carbohydrate Vegetables

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Joy Mitchell @ 5:28 am

Any diet that asks you to go low carb and use only low carb vegetables is saying that you need to search for vegetables that are low in carbohydrates. You need to use these vegetables in place of your regular vegetables. There are many great tasting things that you can do with low carb vegetables.

They can be used in the different diet recipes or used for salads. They are great by themselves as healthy snacks and you can also blend them for a nutritious smoothie. The many websites that give recipes for low carb cooking and meals could have some recipes that will allow you to use your low carb vegetables in meals.

How about producing a splendid meal using only low carb foods. You can give a magnificent side dish full of low carbohydrate vegetables that have been transformed into a tasty salad. This salad can be garnished with various interesting foodstuffs that are also low in carbohydrate but taste great by themselves too.

For instance, you can make a salad from low carbohydrate vegetables and boneless beef, top sirloin steak, fresh lemon juice, gourmet salad greens, medium plum tomatoes, ranch or blue cheese dressing. You can make a seasoning for this salad with dried oregano, garlic and pepper.

As you can now see, there are quite a few ways that you can combine your low carb vegetables with other foods to make superb meals for you and others to eat. The main thing to remember is not to put foods like a heavy French dressing on your low carb vegetables. This will turn your nutritious low carb vegetables into something else entirely.

There are instances in your low carb cooking when you can make use of only one of the low carb vegetables to give you a magnificent dish that looks mouth-watering. This type of low carb recipe will call for only a low carbohydrate vegetable like eggplant. This vegetable is very versatile and you can use it in very many ways.

When you make up your mind to eat low carb vegetables in this way, you take your cooking experience into another dimension of gourmet food. The many low carb meals that you can find on the Internet, will let you make great dishes with your low carb vegetables. After all, eating low carbohydrate vegetables is just another way of experimenting with new foods

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January 4, 2010

Free Atkins Diet Plan.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:34 am

What is the Atkins diet and what will you need to sacrifice in order to obtain the results you’ve seen other people realize? You’re a size twelve, but you want to come down to at least the size six that you were once, but you’ll settle for a size eight, if you have got to. It doesn’t really matter as long you’re nowhere near your present size twelve!

What you’ll have to start with, is a working knowledge of what the Atkins diet is all about and what it might entail. However, before you get bogged down in detail, you could always just try out an Atkins diet free plan which might help you to get a handle on the situation.

There’s no definite place I can say for you to get an Atkins diet free plan of course, but I’ve found that the Internet is the best place for you to find out just about anything and everything you need to know. Commence by turning on your computer, it’s truly amazing how many pithy looks I get when I state this most obvious fact! In fact you probably rolled your eyes at me just now!

So, just search the Internet for an Atkins diet free plan, you’ll be surprised at the amount of other free plans that you’ll find as well. And if you’re not dead set on testing the Atkins diet way, then you might just trial any one of the other free plans. As it suggests, it won’t cost you a penny more than the time spent on the Internet.

So, what can you expect to get from an Atkins diet free plan? To start with, you can see which types of foods you can eat and which types of foods you’ll have to drop. If you’re considering doing the Atkins diet then in the induction phase alone, there are some things that you’ll have to give up in order to maintain your diet.

On that list of foodstuffs, which you may eat and still stay on your Atkins diet free plan, you’ll see that you can eat cream, cheese and butter as long as you stay within your moderate daily carbohydrate allowance, but avoid the fruits, the breads, the pastas and the pizzas. Basically anything that tastes lovely, you may think.

But, the statement is not entirely true, as you’ll see as you inspect the Atkins diet plan recipes which may or probably won’t come with your Atkins diet free plan. There are quite a few fantastic tasting recipes you can eat and, although you might not not it yet, they’ll include many of your favourite foods, just not anything high in carbohydrates.

As far as drinks are concerned, the same principles remain true as in the rest of the Atkins diet free plan. That is, you must avoid sugared drinks like Coke or Pepsi, hot chocolate and sugared tea or coffee. You have to be careful with coffee, because it can be more addictive while on the Atkins diet.

Likewise, caution is required with regard to alcohol. Some types, like lager or sherry contain too many carbs, while others, like Guinness or whisky are OK in moderation. However, you ought always to refer to your Atkins diet free plan before making up your mind what you may or may not drink.

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December 18, 2009

Is The Atkins Grapefruit Diet Genuine?

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 9:33 am

The Atkins Grapefruit diet is a diet plan, not supported by the company of Dr. Atkins, that plays on the popularity of the grapefruit diet and the Atkins diet name. A closer look into this diet shows that it may not be all it claims to be.

Firstly, it’s very difficult to find information on the Atkins grapefruit diet plan. Clever people know that when anyone is carrying out a deception, or a con, they will often gloss over facts. This is exactly what the Atkins grapefruit diet appears to do: it tries to get people to associate it with two purportedly effective diets.

Is the Atkins Grapefruit Diet part of the Atkins Diet or endorsed by the estate of the late Dr. Atkins? The answer is no, not only is there no mention of the Atkins Grapefruit Diet on the Atkins web site, but there is no fruit of any kind mentioned in the list of permitted foods in the Atkins diet Induction phase.

The induction phase includes the following foods:

Fish of all kinds. All fowl such as turkey and chicken. All shellfish. All meat such as beef or pork. Eggs cooked in all styles, including fried. Cheese. Vegetables. Herbs and Spices. Fats and Oils. Low carbohydrate beverages, including diet sodas.

Notice anything? No fruit is mentioned on that list. Later phases of the Atkins diet do recommend limited amounts of fruits such as cantaloupe and even lemon juice, and the pre-maintenance and maintenance phases even specifically allow small quantities of grapefruit. But when compared to the amount of Grapefruit recommended on the Atkins Grapefruit Diet, again there is a disagreement.

The Atkins Grapefruit Diet advocates a cup of grapefruit juice or a cup of grapefruit sections, with 8 and 18 carbs respectively. Even the most generous phases of the Atkins diet recommends limiting grapefruit intake to less than 8 carbs per day. That’s a direct contradiction of one diet with the other.

Most reasonable people would take a look at the Atkins website itself the moment they heard about the Atkins Grapefruit Diet. When they found no mention of that diet on the site, a red light would go off and an alarm would ring.

In general, you should remember this: any diet that relies too heavily on one foodstuff, such as grapefruit on a grapefruit diet, is unhealthy for all but very short periods of time. The Atkins Grapefruit Diet is nothing to do with the Atkins diet, and may interfere with the efficacy of the Atkins diet in its early stages.

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Low Carb Diet for Free

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 5:59 am

Because of our busy lives we often forget to plan healthy, nutritious meals. As a result of this we end up piling on excess weight. Some people in many countries around the world are now becoming more health conscious and they are always looking out for good diets that will help them to reach their ideal weight. There are many of us who would definitely benefit from a free low carb diet rather than just gaining more and more weight.

For the extremely busy person who just does not have the time to go to health spas, having access to a free low carb diet and the information that make it work is a great boon. Normally, we have to join a slimming club in order to gain the maximum benefits of slimming, but the Internet has a vast availability of free low carb diet links that you can look at in order to slim down.

As with any diet or exercise regimen that you choose to begin, you should get your doctor’s approval on whether the low carb diet is good for the lifestyle that you lead. When you do start on a free low carb diet you should check out which type of low carb diet is going to provide you the results that you desire. There is also the fact that you should be able to maintain this free low carb diet once you have reached your target weight.

With all of the low carb diets doing the rounds, there are loads of choices that you can delve into. For the busy person, who needs a quick boost or a breakfast high, there are low carb products available that fill this gap. There are snacks, nutritious shakes and carb counters that will assist you tally the number of carbs your food has.

You can find lots of fantastic low carb recipes to try out on any of the free low carb diet links that you will find. These low carb recipes are delicious-looking and they taste great too. Furthermore, the recipes for everything from breakfast to snacks to dinner and appetizers, you will also be able to plan your weekly free low carb diet meal so that going shopping is a breeze.

Because there are so many different kinds of free low carb diet plans available, you might want to take your time in picking a good one. See if you can discover a low carb diet that is sensible and works with your lifestyle.

Having access to many low carb diet recipes is a boon for the busy individual. With all of these great plus-points to be found, you may not even notice that you’re following a free low carb diet!

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December 6, 2009

Dr Atkins Low Carb Diet Recipes

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Joy Mitchell @ 8:48 pm

So, you’ve made up your mind to go on the Atkins Low Carb Diet. It’s certainly not your first diet and until you’ve tried this one, you can’t be sure that it will be your last dieting attempt either. Every diet you’ve tried so far has not worked and you’re on the brink of giving up dieting for ever. Of course, this has been the case many times before and yet you’ve still kept going on diet after diet without too much regret. Now however you live with the hope that with the Atkins low carb diet recipes that you have in your pocket, that you’ll be able to improve on your track record of yo-yo dieting.

You head on home full of excitement and plans to buy that little black dress you’ve been looking at now for a few months. You won’t go out and get it right away of course, no, that would just put a jinx your dieting efforts, but with the help of the Atkins low carb diet recipes you shouldn’t have very long to wait.

So, you get home and sit in your kitchen going through the lists of low carb diet foods you’re allowed to consume, and you start to worry about what you have got yourself into. You have absolutely no idea how you’re going to cook half of these low carb diet foods, and besides that they don’t sound half as appetizing as Frank’s pizza from over the road.

What despair! So, you say good-bye to that little black dress. After all, there’s no way you can eat these low carb diet foods, since you don’t think you could even prepare them if purchased the ingredients. That’s when inspiration hits and you remember the Atkins low carb diet recipes that you have lying in your handbag.

You had put the two lists in two different sections of your huge purse and had completely forgotten about the Atkins low carb diet recipes which you had been given previously. You are happy again and you can see the black dress within your grasp. Now you sit down and create a list of the low carb diet foods that you’ll have to have to cook your very first Atkins low carb diet recipes.

The first thing you need to do though, is take all that lovely high carb food from your cupboards to the nearest shelter and make a generous donation of food. You don’t care what the family thinks, they’re all going to eat Atkins low carb diet recipes.

The next you have to do is hightail it to the store and buy the ingredients on your food list that you’ll need to prepare the first meal on your Atkins low carb diet recipes list. And on the way back, you’ll call in at the little dress shop around the corner and promise the little black dress in the window, that you’ll be it’s owner before long, as long as you stick with those Atkins low carb diet recipes!

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November 26, 2009

The Atkins Diet And Appetite Suppression

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Owen Jones @ 3:01 pm

One of the most common, but nevertheless surprising effects of following the Atkins diet is the suppression of appetite. A lot of the followers of the plan report that the inter meal hunger pangs they used to have just fade away and quite rapidly too. This factor makes it easier to stay on the diet and continue losing weight. While other diets leave their followers starving between meals, the Atkins diet offers relief from constant hunger. The Atkins diet, with its specific recommendation of foods and ingredients, has powerful appetite suppressing qualities.

The first key factor is the amount of protein in the Atkins diet. Protein, more so than carbohydrates, has the capability to satiate hunger. If you’ve ever eaten a carbohydrate heavy meal and then felt hungry afterwards, you know that carbohydrates don’t have much staying power as a satisfier. Protein, on the other hand, when combined with a small amount of healthy fats, can keep you feeling satisfied for much longer periods of time.

One of the most sustained appetite suppressing foods in the Atkins diet are eggs. Eggs are a marvellous sort of quick and easy protein. A recent study revealed that eating eggs for breakfast would actually keep hunger pangs at bay throughout the rest of the day. The research concerned two groups of women. One group ate eggs for breakfast and the other had a breakfast of buns and cream cheese.

The calorie count for both types of breakfasts was precisely the same. The subjects kept track of what they ate for the remainder of the day and answered questions about their hunger and satisfaction levels throughout the day. The results of the study revealed that the women who ate the eggs for breakfast felt more satisfied throughout the entire day and they ate less at each meal than those women who were in the buns group.

Eggs contain about 6 grammes of protein each, which helps to even out blood sugar and produces a feeling of satisfaction. Both of these factors help to curb cravings. Egg yolks also contain lutein and xenazanthin. These nutrients have been shown to have amazing effects on eye health. So it’s important to eat the whole egg, and not just the white. Eggs contain choline which is important for maintaining brain function and memory. These nutrients are just an added benefit to the appetite suppressant qualities.

Broccoli and cauliflower, two of the most recommended vegetables on the Atkins programme, also have appetite-suppressant effects. These vegetables are very bulky and they help make your stomach feel full. When your stomach is full, it will actually create a chemical signal in your brain. Your body will reduce its appetite because it assumes that your stomach is full of high calorie foods. This occurs regardless of what is actually in your stomach. You can achieve the same results with water and psyllium husk fibre. Both broccoli and cauliflower provide bulk in your diet and are essential vegetables for the Atkins diet.

The Atkins diet focuses on eating small, protein balanced meals a few times a day. This will help maintain your blood sugar in a stabilized state and avoid carbohydrate-induced cravings. With high carbohydrate diets, you are riding the wave of carbohydrate highs. After you have eaten, you feel great and full. Then a few hours later, you come crashing down and are hungrier than you were prior to eating the carbohydrates. This cycle continues and, over time, you will eat more and put on weight.

The protein, fat and vegetable recipes provided by the Atkins diet put your blood sugar back in equilibrium. They give you just enough of each type of food, with the correct amount of carbohydrates (from the vegetables). The vegetables provide quick carbohydrate energy, and the protein gives the meal its staying power. This combination suppresses your appetite effectively throughout the day.

The Atkins diet is actually a craving control plan that suppresses your appetite. If you’ve had a problem with carbohydrate cravings before, this new way of eating will help regulate those desires. The more you eat on the plan, the better your cravings will be controlled and the easier it will be to follow the diet – the more you practice the diet the easier it gets.

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November 7, 2009

What Medical Procedure Will Help Type 2 Diabetes? Learn More!

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Gastric bypass and various other weight loss medical practices are primarily offered by doctors to solve issues of morbid obesity. Not only will laparoscopic gastric bypass facilitate in weight-reduction, but studies confirm that it’s amazing effects on co-morbidities related to heaviness such as heart diseases, hypertension, cancer and diabetes. There are important medical research demonstrating that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass operations was able to strongly hinder or force the diminution of non-insulin dependent Diabetes.

With gastric bypass surgery, the stomach is reduced in size. Usually what happens is a small pouch is created in the top area of the stomach, and then half way down the small intestine is connected to the remaining lower part of the stomach. Because of the stomach is smaller in size, it could accommodate smaller amount of food and would limit the calories that it would absorb.

After Gastric Bypass Surgery

In the first few months following gastric bypass surgery, weight loss will be dramatic. In fact, the weight loss is so dramatic that there is a 5% drop in weight within the first few weeks of the surgery. In a year after the surgery, patients could lose 50 to 60 percent of their original weight. In the second year, most patients are able to achieve their lowest possible safe weight reduction that they can target for stable weight maintenance. At this point, the maintenance program would involve the patient sticking with the dietary plan and doing the exercises to maintain body weight homeostasis.

For most people, a gastric bypass will force diabetes into remission within weeks of the weight-loss surgery. This is not just about hormonal factors, the amount of weight lost by the patient has significant effects on diabetes. Duke University medical research proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the amount of weight that they person carries correctly proportional to the severity of their type 2 diabetes. Hormones also have a factor, since the studies also showed an effect on the gut hormones. They have a stronger insulin resistance.

Gastric Bypass Type 2 Diabetes

In the scientific study conducted, it was statistically proven that bariatric patients following gastric bypass surgery had a marked improvement in their diabetes. They had lower blood-sugar levels and take lower amounts of medication. About 48 percent of the respondents were able to achieve complete remission.

There are other factors involved in stopping.type 2 diabetes and the gastric bypass patient. Type 2 diabetes is often caused by diet. A person who have undergone gastric bypass surgery, is required to follow strict diet. In fact, too much sugar will cause the patient become nauseated, sweat profusely, and have diarrhea in a unique medical problem from these type of surgeries, it is aptly called “Dumping syndrome.”

Another thing that is amazing, is that those results are not only saying in adults but also in teenagers. The teenager may have to wait a year before the type 2 diabetes will be reversed to the point of taking them off of medication, but it is well worth it. Ideally, prevention is best, but there are some extreme cases in society today a young teens being saddled with morbid obesity as a result of that weight. It is unheard of how many teenagers are suffering from diseases that usually affect adults such as type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, and elevated triglyceride levels in the blood. There can be significant improvements following gastric bypass surgery, but it is serious decision to make for the young person.

Experts agree that diabetes can surely be reduced by undergoing gastric bypass surgery. Keep in mind is not always the best option or the only option. Gastric bypass surgery is not a magic wand that will transform your body into perfection and whisk away diabetes in the blink of an eye. If patients will stick to the guidelines of diet and exercise set forth by the doctor, it is possible to overcome in control diabetes for life.

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October 6, 2009

The New Diet Revolution

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by Joy Mitchell

We inhabit a world where being slim is the ideal. We are driven to believe that this is what we should all look like as well. We see the evidence of this in the slim models who are in fashion magazines, in the various beauty contests on television, on posters and in many other places. There are books that are devoted to helping us get this new look. One such book that tries to help you achieve this new look is Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution.

In Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution, we are introduced to a new life style – a low carb lifestyle. In this new method, we are instructed what sorts of low carb foods we can eat. Naturally, we will have to follow strict instructions for Dr Atkins diet to begin its magic and help us to lose those unwanted pounds.

There are four phases to the Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution that have to be followed by anyone who wants to lose weight the Atkins diet way. These phases are: phase 1:- the Induction; phase 2:- Ongoing Weight Loss; phase 3:- Pre-maintenance and phase 4:- Maintenance. Furthermore, the dietary rules of these stages Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution book recommends taking daily exercise and using nutritional supplements as part of his low carb diet.

During the two weeks of the Induction Stage of the diet, it is possible to lose about 15 pounds in weight. This is done by limiting your carb intake to 20 grammes or less per day. You can, however, eat lots of low carb vegetables in your diet like lettuce, broccoli and green beans. Consuming yoghurt, fruits, pulses, legumes, bread and starchy vegetables like potatoes is not allowed while you are on the Atkins diet. Furthermore, caffeine and alcohol drinks are not recommended.

Dr Atkins’ New Diet Revolution declares that it is during the induction stage, that you will stabilize your blood sugar level, thereby curbing several health issues that arise from unstable blood sugar, like fatigue and diabetes. It is also in this stage of the diet that you break your food addictions and your cravings for different foods such as sugar and alcohol.

When you enter into the 3rd and 4th phases of Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution, the book tells you that you have reached your perfect weight and that from now on, you can up your daily carb intake gradually to as much as 60 grams per day. However, from now on. if you want to stay at your perfect weight then you must stick to the Atkins diet for the remainder of your life.

There really can’t be a better way to lose weight and keep it off for good. The Atkins diet does work, and by reading Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution you will be taking a step in the right direction.

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