Preventing Hair Loss

Taking good care of your hair is the easiest way to to ensure you won't lose it.

Many people suffer hereditary hair loss. This is know as male pattern baldness (MPB) and has familial link. This type of hair loss is inevitable, but can be slowed or even reversed using various treatments.

However, there are many people who lose hair for reasons not associated with MPB. There are techniques you can use to lessen or prevent these types of hair loss. A number of factors contribute to hai loss some of which include : your diet, health, hormones and hair treatment are some of the most common ones.

The steps to prevent hair loss are as follows : -

1. Avoid harsh shampoos.
2. Avoid dying / perming too frequent
3. Avoid blocking pores (shower after excercise) or together
4. Get a balanced diet (Vitamin A & E are essential)
5. Myths (massaging your scalp to increase blood flow)

Beans help you live longer

Bean helps to give you a healthier lifestyle and prolong your life. Take the belows into your diets : -

1. Navy beans
These beans are high in folate and a B vitamin may reduce your risk of stroke and cognite declines as you age. Mash together a can of navy beans, a minced clove of garlic, 2 tablespoons of olive oil, a pinch of fresh or dried rosemary and salt or pepper to taste. Replaced this with your mashed potatoes.

2. Garbanzo beans
This will help to reduce your levels of insulin, lowering your risk of diabetes. Make your own hummus by blending 12 ounces of garbanzos with a tablespoon each of olive oil, lemon juice, and peanut butter. Add chopped garlic clove. Season with salt, pepper and cumin.

3. Black beans
These beans contain potent disease-fighting anti-oxidants. Stuff black beans, chopped zucchini, and shredded cheddar cheese into whole-grain tortillas. Bake it for 20mins.

4. Kidney beans
It contains antioxidants that help to prevent the hardening of your arteries. Mash kidney beans with 2 teaspoons of chili powder, lime juice and minched garlic for your sandwich.

5. Pinto beans
This help to cut LDL cholestrol. This can be used as a toppings to your chicken breast. Mix can of pintos with chopped red and green bell pepper and red onion. Add 1/4 cup of corn, the juice of lime and 1/2 teaspoon cumin.

Enjoy the beans and mix it with your daily diet will help you to prolong your life and create a better healthy lifestye. So called, beans help to prolong your life.

Diet secrets of slim women

What is the diet secrets of slim women? Sound interesting! Every woman is also dreaming to be slim... and keep saying i want to be slim, but no action. Check the few of the secrets that can keep your dreams come true!

Weigh in regularly
- at least once a week, to ensure you aware what is your weight and watch out your diet

Learn to love exercise
- regular workouts can help you maintain lean muscle mass, which means you'll burn energy even at rest

Strive for five
- fruit and veggie servings. Those women who consume 60% more veggie is likely to ward off weight regain than others. Fruit and veggie have more fber and water content which make you have less room for high calorie food

Pump up protein
- Higher amount of protein may prompt the release of hormones that help you feel full

Eat out less often
- with the portion sizes frowing exponentially, some dishes packed with more than 1000 calories. This will sabotage your weigh-loss success

Keep these 5 principles might help to keep you slim, who knows...

Pick a diet

The low fat gurus said certain fats are ok while the low carb components are beginning to endorse wholegrains. With every new guideline and selling, each diet has FOUR BASIC RULES for healthy diet : -

• consume carbs in the form of wholegrains and fibre
• avoid trans fats and saturated fats
• eat lean protein
• fill up on fruit and vegetables.

The low-carb south beach diet, ie. now esopouses the virtues of eating the Mediterranean way - including lots of carbohydrate - rich fruit and vegetables.

Let's see what is low-calorie diets, low-carb diets, low-fat diets.
Low calorie diets are your are eating lot of fruit, leafy greens which help keep you feeling full
Low carb diets are more emphasize on good carbs, such as fruit, veggies and wholegrains
Low fat diets are taking good fat from olives, avocado and nuts, or even red meat occasionally.

The key of all of this, of course, is moderation rather than deprivation - eating in a way you can live with. STAY FIT AND HEALTHY!

Weight Gain Excuses

When the weight gain in our body, as a human, we always find excuses saying that " i have low metabolism" or "genetic" & etc. No matter what your excuses are for over weight, your diet is always related to your weight problem, BECAUSE YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.

Below are some of the suggestions for you to overcome your excuses which i find are useful : -

Excuse 1 : I don't have the time to organise nutritious meals everyday

Actully, you can still eat healthily even when on the run. Prepare a packed lunch the night before, such as chicken and salad wholemeal sandwich, or, have a snack bar as your breakfast to avoid an empty stomach.

Excuse 2 : I only have time for fast food lunches

Fast food lunch is popular among working adults. Fast food is high in sodium and fat, with the soda drink relatively high in sugar. This will increase the risk in becoming fat or overweight. It is encouraged that working adult should choose healthier food ie. low-fat yougurt, tuna flakes, almonds, low-sodium soups and fruits

Excuse 3 : I feel empy if i don't consume rice or noodles

Rice and noodles are asian favourite. white bread, noodles adn white rice are rich in refined carbohydrates which are considered bad carbo as it can cause a sudden surge in blood sugar.

Whole gains, vegetable and fruits also contains carbo, but these are good carbo.

To control yourself from overeating carbo, add protein to each meal ie. fish, tuna, eggs or soy tunas

Excuse 4 : I have to attend many social gatherings. I can't lose weight in that type of environment

Eating consistently and moderation are important in this. Exercise and healthy diet are more crucial than attending many social gatherings. Do everything moderately will ensure you are having a healthy lifestyle.

Healthy breakfast to start a day

The best breakfast of the day should have the combination of carbohydrate, protein, fat as well as vitamins and minerals.

Here, i have a guide on preparing Easy & Healthy Breakfast within 3 minutes...

1. Muesli - those toasted with dried fruits, sunflower, seed, buckwheat kernels & linseed. Oats provide carbohydrate, B vitamins, iron and magnesium.
2. Yougurt - select those natural without added sugar. Yougurt is high in calcium, vitamin B12, potassium, magnesium and active live probiotics
3. Almond nuts - supply protein, vitamin E & B3, minerals such as iron, magnesium and zinc
4. Soy lecithin - plays an important role to breakdown the fats, preventing buil-up fats and bad cholestrol in walls of heart, blood vessels and liver
5. Strawberries or other fresh berries (optional) - contains highest concentration of antioxidants

Mix all the above and gain the maximum nutrients for your breakfast to kick start of a day.

It is not a good idea to skip breakfast. Healthy breakfast helps you to work and think better, as well as reducing your cravings for high calorie and low nutrition food in the afternoon and dinner.

Have a try on this!

Diet Plan Tips

The right way of eating may help you in your diet plan? A few tips below might help you to achieve your goal : -

Slim Cycle
We might asking when is the best time to start our diet? The answer is the 1st day of your period. Hormones actually connected to hunk food cravings surge prementrually but they decrease during your period.

Snack
Stash only a few packs of 100-calorie food to monitor or control your intake. This is to prevent you overeating.

Diet
Are you an emotional eaters? Emotional eaters tend to be obese or overeweight easily. If you are an emotional eater, plan eating with non-calorie food to reduce your stress.

Sweet
Artificial sweeteners tend to increase calorie intake, body fat and weight. Sweeteners will change your body's ability to regulate calorie consumption. Avoid the carbonated drink if possible.

Thinner dinner
Take high-protein bite prior to your entree and meal. High protein help your body to make long-lasting glucose and may help you to resist menu temptation.

Why give a try on the above tips if you doing a diet plan? It works...

Breakfast for detox

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. What is the best food for you during your detoxification? You may choose the follows which you like most. Remember, eat everything moderately. Instead of eating one BIG meal, split it into more and smaller portions.

1. Banana porridge & yoghurt
Porridge topped banana, raisins and honey. Take a cup of natural yoghurt.

2. Fruit salad with yoghurt and oats
Salad without mayonise. Eat together with natural yoghurt and oats.


3. Fresh fruit smoothie
Fruit smoothie made from fresh fruit, natural yoghurt and honey.

4. Muesli and yoghurt
Muesli made from oats, seeds, nuts and dried fruit. Take natural yoghurt as well if you like.


5. Fresh fruit and natural yoghurt

Best Juices and Detox

Citrus family plays very important roles as detox juice. These includes orange, grapefruit, and lemon. As we all aware these fruits are loaded with vitamin C and act as defender or so-called enhance the immune system. You may mix all these fruits together for excellent result.

Apples, oranges, lemon, and carrots combined are an excellent detox juice that i like most. It gives the best source of beta-carotene, Vitamin C, and a natural relief for arthritic pain. Add some celery if you like to.

Lemon, pineapple and mango are tropical fruits that are very good for digestion. Combine all these fruits to have better digestive system.

Another choice of juice, you may choose to mix white grapes, strawberries and granny smith apple for the benefits of kidney, skin and liver.

You can also mix cantaloupe, papaya, honey dew and grapes for the benefits of kidneys.

If you like banana or you want to have more potassium, you may mix strawberries, bananas and peaches. As we know, banana is very good for skin. For a little bit of soury taste, twist lemon to the juice.

Talking vege and fruit juice detox, you may consider to mix red cabbage with carrot or apple and lemon juice. It plays a role as diuretic as natural antiviral and antibacterial source.

Another vege for detoxification, you may like to try spinach. Mix spinach and carrots for antioxidants and antiaging purposes.

All detox juice are mix well with lime juice or lemon juice for best detoxification result.

From the above, we can see that the detoxification is mainly for kidney, liver and skin. If you would to have the complete recipe of the mix juice you may email me.

Let's try the juices....

Weight loss in a healthy way

The principle of weight loss is “ Don’t Starve”. Starving will lower your metabolism, made you tired and hungrier and end up eating more than necessary. The right way of losing weight is think of “ how to diet? , how to control your metabolism? and what is the right amount of weight?”

Steps towards success weight loss

Food

1. Take smaller portion of meal divided the 3 meals to more ie. 5 to 6 meals.
2. Avoid cake, brownies, potato chips, ice-cream, chocolate and other junk food
3. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables
4. Replace your snack with fruits and vege
5. Taking good carb ie. brown rice, wholewheat, oats.
6. Leave behind carbs after 5pm, carbs will be stored in your body as fat
7. Maintain the intake of protein for your body protein, take double if you want have some muscle.
8. Drink plenty of water, cut down sweet and carbonated beverages, avoid soda drink.
9. Eat breakfast in the morning to keep your metabolism going
10. When you eat out, opt for more healthy food ie. Salads and fruits. Avoid fattening food.
11. Buy a chronometer for counting the time for chewing the food or do 50 counts before swallowing your food. Our brain will receive the slower signal on “I am full”. If we eat too fast, by the time our brain receive the signal, we already over eating.

Exercise

1. Besides of cutting calories and portion sizes, “exercise”.
2. Daily 20 minutes jog is good to go together with the diet, if time constraints, make it at least 2-3 times weekly, or you may choose to go for exercise bike for 20 minutes or on treadmill for half an hour daily.
3. High intensity interval training will help to lose weight faster and better
4. Weight training is important to improve your metabolism and hence increase your fat-burning ability as well as building your muscle
5. Go for a bike after waking up. You would not have food in your system in the early morning and this is the best time to exercise. Your body will get energy from the fat stored the night before. Remember to take solid food after 20 minutes of exercise.
   
   

   

Others tips

1. Wake up on regular time say 7am or 8am, take an 8 hours sleep daily
2. Don’t take any food before bed
3. Work out the diet plan with your friend, encouraging from each other is essential.
4. Get the whole family to join you for the diet plan
5. Keep vege near in front of fridge to cause impulsive respond of taking vege.
6. Always remember how much fat in the junk food. This will keep you stay away from them. 1 pound of fat is 3500 calories. One ice-cream cone or 2 tbsps peanut butter is 500 calories each
7. If you can’t avoid junk food, take those with reduced fat
8. Do the diet plan in a slow process to avoid you are craving for food and over eat
9. Don’t think of dropping weight fast. Your body resists quick weight loss and will retain the stored fat. Gradual weight loss is easier to maintain

Check out the 7-day diet plan and further info on weight loss in few days time…

Detox Juice - Refresh

This is my self mix detox juice which i like most for weight loss and detox diet.

Ingredients
3 apples
2 carrots
2 leaves of celery
1/4 lemon

Juice all the ingredients together by the order of putting in the carrots, lemon, apples and celery.

Apple plays a role to reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Due to apple does not have any colestrol it help in weight loss as well. Carrots contain B-carotene which will be metabolised into vitamin A when salts are present in the intestine. Celery relax the nerves and mucles. Lemon helps in detoxificaiton process.

This is a very good refreshing juice that everyone will like it...

Detox Tips

Detox diet is actually help to relieve your system from synthetic chemicals and free radicals. All these chemicals and redicals are harmful in our body. Detox helps to put you on the right track of diet.

The basic concept of detoxification is helping your body get rid of the accumulated toxic waste. During detoxification, we must stay away from food products that contains an extraordinary amount of toxins such as caffeine and nicotine, meat, starchy vegetables, refined sugar, dairy products and bread. This way you can potentially prevent the build up, and lessen the need to detoxify.

Here are my detox tips : -

1. Drink 1.5 litre water


2. Drink this : half lemon a glass of water with a pinch of cayenne pepper and ½ tsp of olive oil first thing in the morning


3. Eat a lot of salad to get lots of live enzymes and minerals and also to detoxify heavy metals from the body


4. Eat lots of fruit before you starts your detoxification to allow your body to detoxify itself first.


5. Enjoy steam bath with using a cup of baking soda or a cup of sea salt. Soak for 20 minutes and then scrub the skin gently with soap. After a while, you will see the water turnsturn murky due to heavy metals coming out of the skin, including aluminum and mercury. You may do this once in a week during your detoxification.


6. Exercise at least 20 minustes daily.

Spinach Detox Soup

Besides of what we always heard about cabbage detox soup, we can choose to eat raw vegetables and organic fruits and another way of detoxification.

Now, i would like to share my spinach detox soup as detoxification. This is a creamless type, the taste is a bit different from cabbage, you might find this is a better soup compared to cabbage, if like "spinach" taste.

Ingredients

1 litre water
2 pounds spinach, chopped
2 tablespoon of olive oil
1 garlic, chopped
2 large onion, diced
2 large carrots, diced
1 bunch of celery
½ leek, diced
Few Bay leaves

How to cook?

1. Saute the garlic for 2 minutes in your olive oil
2. Adding in the onion, celery, leeks, and carrots to the pot, fry for 5 mins
3. Pour in water and add bay leaves.
4. Bring everything to a boil then simmer for an hour.
5. Set to cool for about an hour then remove bay leaves.
6. Add spinach.
7. Cook over medium heat until the spinach wilts.
8. Remove from immediately so that you won't overcook the spinach which will diminish the mineral in the vegetables.

In order to have adequate amounts of vitamins and minerals, you need to have a variety of fruits and vegetables to absorb the multi-vitamins and mineral. You may choose to have up to 3-day spinach detox diet with the combination of fruit juice and water. If you would like to have to up to 7-day, you may refer to my cabbage soup detox diet and replace the cabbage soup with spinach soup.

Are you part of the obese?

Obese will cause major physical threats ie. heart disease, cancer (breast, colorectal, endometrial, and kidney), diabetes, high blood cholesterol, stroke, and hypertension. There are a lot of papers saying that too many kids are in the obese catergory due to the city lifestyle and various fast food and junk food.

Let us rethink what we eat everyday and do a verification on whether we are part of obese now to save our lives....

How to determine are you part of obese?

BMI = kilograms / meters2
BMI Classification
<> 40.0 : class III obesity

Besides of BMI, we should always know what is the boday fat contains in our body in order for us to plan for our excerciese.

Body fat percentage can be estimated from BMI by the following formula:
Bodyfat% = (1.2 * BMI) + (0.23 * age) − 5.4 − (10.8 * gender)
where gender is 0 if female and 1 if male .

Ideal body fat for men are 18% whilst women are 23%. Experts have concluded that an excess is not particularly very bad to health till it reach 35% for men and 40% for women.

Percent body fat is the percentage of fat in our body. Thus someone who weighs 100 pounds and is 20% fat has 20 pounds of fatty tissue and 80 pounds of other, which is so called lean tissue.

Take care of our health by starting awaring where are we now!

Lemon as Detox Juice and Weight loss agent

Lemon taste a acidic but actually it is a powerful alkalizing agent. It assists us to restore our body to natural state. As a main detox agent, it is consider very cheap and is the strongest alkalizing foods.

Lemon detox diet is not only targeting for weight loss, but it means to cleanse your liver in order to make you feel fresh, replenished and energetic for the day and eventually flush the toxins out of your body. Our toxins are all stored in the gallbladder and the liver. In order to improve your metabolism, detoxification of liver is most important. The lemon detox diet plays a role to improve your colon function as well. This is due to the colon builds up toxins over time which can lead to overall sluggishness and poor health.

This is a fasting diet, meaning you are not suppose to eat except for a special juice that you drink to do the actual cleansing and detoxing.

The ingredients of a lemon detox drink is mixed of
· 250ml water
· Half fresh lemon
· Half pinch of cayenne pepper
· 1 tablespoon of natural maple syrup.

Drink it warm or at room temperature. You are advised to take 8-10 glasses of this detox drink everyday for 3 - 5 days. When you are on this diet, you are encouraged to have a large glass of water each day with 1 teaspoon of salt, which helps stimulate bowl movements.

After this 3-5 days lemon detox diet, you will feel healthier in general because of this thorough cleansing and detoxifying.

During the 1st trial of my diet, i have my weight loss of 3kg and subsequently 2kg each. After these diet, i feel i am healthier and my weight is easily maintained...

Cabbage Soup Detox Diet

We are everyday exposed to the harmful toxin and free radicals during our daily activities. The toxins are slowly accumulated in our body. What if we didn’t do anything to clean this toxin? Is our body strong enough to detox by itself? The answer might not be favourable… If we can do something to help our body, isn’t that good to ourselves?

The toxic products are not in the air but also in water, food as well as the medication that we have taken daily. A worrying thought… This is the reason why every single person should play their part to work out the detoxification in their lifestyle.


Here I would like to share everybody for a cabbage soup detox, a simple and easy way…

Generally, cabbage contains of best Vitamin C, glutamine and acid amino. Glutamine and amino acid have the function of anti inflammatory. In addition, cabbage is also recognized as negative calorie food and cabbage juice has been used as to heal the peptic ulcers and prevent cancer.

This detox programme is encourage to be taken for a duration of 7 days, in quarterly basis. It will not only flush out the harmful toxins but is also an effective way to lose weight.

You are encouraged to drink at least 1.5litre of water a day to prime your body and to shed weight for detoxification. NO CAFFEINE OR ALCOHOL IS ALLOWED during this period of 7 days. If there are any situation of not well, headache and dizzy, this is the early symptom of detoxification. This is due to your body is loaded with toxins released from the liver. If the condition persist, consult doctor for further investigation.

Ingredients for cabbage soup :
2 liters water
1 bunch celery
1 cabbage
7 large onions
2 green bell pepper orange peppers
3 tomatoes
4 carrots

How to cook?
A) Add some chicken bone (no fat) for flavor to the 2 liters water. Cook for 10 mins.
B) Add all ingredients above to A, boil and shimmer until soft, approximately 15mins.

The summary of the 7-day detox plan is as follows : -

Day 1 - Cabbage soup and Drink plenty of water. No banana, durian and mango
Best fruit - Watermelon, honey dew, sun melon which help to burn fat faster.
No fruit juice and dairy products (eg. milk).
Starts with fruit to normalize the body the upcoming days of the diet

Day 2 ~ Cabbage soup, vegetables, raw or steamed only. No fruits.
No potatoes.
Negative calorie food and antioxidant food ie. broccoli & cauliflower are good.
Vegetables give you rich in minerals and vitamins as well as nutrition as well as little carbohydrates. Most important is it gives you fiber that activates your system for the detox process.

Day 3 ~ Cabbage soup, fruits and vegetables
No potatoes no bananas. Day 3 is an effective way of combining day 2 and 3 and getting the benefits of both days. Your body chemistry is changing because you are not getting any refined carbohydrates, saturated fats, excessive sodium and artificial flavour enhancers and additives. Your body is getting completely natural nutrition – which will optimize the weight loss process.

Day 4 ~ Cabbage soup, bananas, and milk
This can reduce you desire of sweets. Eat up to 8 bananas and 3 glasses of milk to restore your potassium levels. This is also to make up for the reduced levels of calcium and potassium and carbohydrates as well as fiber.

Day 5 ~ Cabbage soup, meat tomatoes
Tomatoes provide you iron which is especially for those low blood pressures or anemic. You may take up to 10 tomatoes, 200gm fish meat, chicken breast, beef or lamb. Today is the day to provide protein to your body. Tomatoes will give you fiber and minerals – in particular lycopene which is so-called super-food for the human body. Tomatoes also help to flush your system out.

Day 6 ~ Cabbage soup, meat & vegetables
Day 6 is almost similar to Day 5, take moderate meat ie. 200gm fish meat, chicken breast, beef or lamb. You may take as various types of vegetables instead of tomatoes in day 5.

Day 7 ~ Cabbage soup, vegetables, fruits & fruit juices
Last day of the diet. Basically, you will feel a bit weak as lack of carbohydrate in the last 2 days. Today, you can eat cabbage soup, fruits, vegetables and vegetable juices.
You may also opt for brown rice is but not recommended if you want to lose weight.
Bear in mind that, do not mix your cooking with any salt or seasoning.