Treadmills are becoming an amazing way to loose weight, keep a well fit body and an overall healthy system, which should always start from a proper and functional cardiovascular activity. Exercise treadmill is something that everyone, according to their physical conditions, should frequently do, at least a couple of times a week. Running is good for the body and keeping a good trained body and heart, is the best for a longer life and hopefully to avoid dangerous accidents, such as strokes and heart attack. Of course, the activity should never be random and not monitored, as the risks are equally dangerous, if the proper measurements are not implemented.
Good exercise treadmill requires a careful attention to heart rates, speed and ultimately overall progression of the body during the activity. Treadmills that deserve to be named as such, are built considering these needs and are designed to perfectly accommodate security features as well. One for all is the stop button, which will immediately stop the machines upon pushing it. This way any person can go back to a motionless position in a matter of seconds, if a minimal physical disorder is felt. The treadmills of last generations, definitely brought exercising to the next level.
Fad diets are an American tradition. What was all the rage a few months ago is dropped in the proverbial blink of an eye for the latest and greatest way to “easy” and “fast” weightloss. These fads may be a great way to lose about five or ten pounds quickly as an emergency measure, but they can never be a lifetime plan due their extremely restrictive nature, and lack of balance.
These types of diets are only good for the short term, and in fact, may make you fatter once you’re off of the plan since they often lead to “rebound over-eating” and yo yo dieting, both of which harm your metabolism by constantly leaving it in a state of confusion. If you are thinking of trying one of these fads, you may want to also try a quality, natural appetite suppressant since most of these diets will leave you in a constant state of hunger.
We’ll examine this year’s fad diets. Believe it or not, some of these have actually been circulating for a while and are still a popular diet for quick weight loss - mostly via word of mouth. These diets have aquired somewhat of a mythology about them over time. A person you know probably knows someone or heard stories of someone who lost a drastic amount of weight on them.
Popular Fad Diets, Summarized
1.) Cabbage Soup Diet
What It Is: You make a cabbage soup concoction consisting of broth, lots of cabbage, onions, celery and a few other acceptable veggies. You consume nothing but this soup for days, or for as long as you can stand it, and get to gradually add in very small amounts of normal food.
Why It’s Hard: You may never want to eat soup or look at another carrot or onion again after this diet. Your hunger is never satisfied, because largely what you are consuming is water based, and that is why you can drop weight so quickly - you are not eating anything of real substance. Your stomach is in knots with gas pain and hunger. Bottom line is, this diet is very tough to stick to. When you first try the soup, you think “Hmm, not bad”, but you will soon change your mind. The reward is very rapid weight loss. The problem is, as with all other fad diets, it comes back on just as rapidly if not quicker than it came off when the diet is over. Doctors actually prescribe this diet for patients who need to lose weight quickly for surgery.
2.) The Famous Atkins Diet
What It Is: This is basically “The all you can eat - as long as it’s pure protein diet”. This diet gained a huge following almost immediately after Dr. Atkins released the Atkins Diet book to publication, and experienced another resurgence in about 2001 as a quick and easy way to melt the pounds off quickly without sacrificing too much. It attracted quite a bit of criticism due its extreme and unbalanced nature, as well as a concentration on high fat and cholesterol foods, with little fiber and sometimes little nutritional value.
The foods it centers around are cheese, bacon, chicken, eggs, turkey, beef and snacks like pork rinds. Although the Atkins diet is extreme in nature, it paved the way for more balanced, heart and health friendly diets such as The Zone Diet and the South Beach Diet (two of my favorites), which preach more of a moderation mentality, balance, and a focus on more healthy, whole and unprocessed foods and a somewhat restricted calorie plan that doesn’t leave you hungry.
Why It’s Hard: Your body goes into a state of ketosis due to a lack of carbs and sugars. You get bad breath. You may feel malnourished and weak - a sign of ketosis. The lack of fiber often leads to constipation. When you get hungry, you get HUNGRY! You may never want to look at another egg again in your life, and feel nauseous at the sight of meat.
3.) The All You Can Eat for Seven Days Diet
What It Is: You get to choose from one food group each of the seven days. One day may be all chicken, one may be all fruit, and one may be all vegetables, with minimal restrictions on which ones are not allowed. You can eat as much as you want as long as it is within that one food group for each assigned day.
Why It’s Hard: Try eating one food group all day. It’s very hard. This diet is almost guaranteed to cause a grumbling belly, since no one food can usually satiate anyone’s appetite or sustain a feeling of fullness for any length of time. Variety is the spice of life, and this applies two-fold to diet boredom and how it leads ot overeating and binges. Once you go off of this diet, you will almost surely gain the weight back, and fast. The problem with diets like this is that they trigger an overeating response due to severe deprivation.
4.) The Snickers Diet
What It Is: You get to eat only Snickers candy bars and may drink coffee or water only with this fad diet. I’m actually not sure how many Snickers bars are allowed per day, but do know someone that has a friend who lost over thirty pounds following this diet, but sacrificed her health, her skin and mental well being in the process.
Why It’s Hard: The first and most obvious reason this diet is unhealthy is that it is based on a calorie dense, high sugar content food, which leads to: high blood sugar, hunger, terrible skin problems, terrible breath, constipation, immune breakdown, unhealthy heart, loss of mental focus and clarity.
There are, of course, many other fad diets that have come and gone, but these are some of the more extreme and interesting ones. While fad diets are tempting to try as a quick fix for drastic and fast weight loss, they should be regarded with caution. Most fad diets lead to larger subsequent weight gains because they are based on deprivation. So, as long as you know what you’re getting going into it, and don’t expect to use it as a long term solution to losing weight or maintaining weight loss, then you’ll be prepared for the outcome.
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If you’ve ever been in love, you understand the metaphor. But did you know that there are actual physical, measurable indications of that truth?
In studies using electrocardiograms (again, from information provided by Joseph Chilton Pearce, with his permission) it has been shown that a mother and child, when separated, will have different heart rhythms and rates, but when brought to close proximity, their electrocardiograms will match.
It’s not limited to Mother and offspring. Other studies have been done that showed a person in emotional distress could go to a person for comfort and, while being held, their heart would fall into rate and rhythm with the person holding them. The affected person, taking the “energetic” lead from the comforting person, would calm down.
This is called “entrainment.” Entrain literally means, “To pull or draw along after itself.” Metaphorically, that is one way of describing what healers do: pull or draw along people in need through a challenge or crisis.
On an energetic level, using heart-consciousness is a powerful force. On its own, the heart projects a measurable electromagnetic field surrounding the body for a distance of twelve feet or more. This field is so powerful that in a study it was found you could literally do an electrocardiograph reading of heart activity from three feet away — without wires! Further studies have shown that some individuals have control of how intense the field is, or how far it can project.
I’m sure you can recall many a time when you’ve walked into a room and suddenly been “drawn to” a particular person or group of people because there was, literally, the feeling of an energetic pull, or attraction. Something in you was naturally attuned to something out there and you needed to be close to it.
This is not a one-sided relationship. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we are both sending AND receiving signals from our hearts back and forth to each other. Witness how you can sometimes be walking behind someone and you know they are “in a mood.” We know it’s there, because we do get it in glimpses. It’s just a matter of strengthening our abilities to actively use heart-consciousness in our lives.
As a paramedic, I was “tricked” into a state of heart-consciousness by compassion. I would find myself in the midst of an emergency and some facet of the circumstances and/or patient would strike me so personally that I united my own will to live with theirs. I attained a deep connection to the other’s experience on a very primal level.
In that state I found myself able to juggle what appears to be two different worlds. While riding the waves of the other person’s emotions - which, essentially are expressions of their life’s force - I would also be able to sort and assimilate physical data, and then make appropriate choices for emergency intervention.
In an emergency, the key to effectiveness is getting the patients into a state to where they can accept the treatment you’re offering. The more receptive the patient, the more effective will be your treatment. One way is to overcome the body’s natural responses (abject fear, for example) by administering medications.
Another way is to connect with the person and, using the moment-to-moment cues you get, move his or her attention off of themselves and on to you as a sort of focal point for their hope. From there, you build bridges that help bring the patient into a more favorable state for healing to begin. In that case, you actually become “partners” in the healing process.
When I was able to attain a connection like that, I had some amazing experiences. If I had to put them all in a blender, the conclusion would come out that a part of me would receive information from a part of them that would help, if not lead, me to take the most effective next step in their care.
I’ve come to the conclusion that our hearts were in communication and telling each (and both!) of our heads what to do next.
This has been my same experience while working in personal growth workshops and counseling. After having established a connection with the person I was with, I found myself reaching into my past experience and pulling out an obscure “happening” in my life as an example or illustration. We’re talking something like “It popped out of my mouth” more than something that I consciously searched for!
In those times, whatever I brought forth was so on target with the person’s next step toward transformation/healing we were both astounded! Out of moments like those, I, too, experienced a form of healing — to realize that every moment of my own life can find its place to heal others.
When you gain practice in getting in touch with the consciousness of your heart, you will be able to strengthen what I call the “muscles of choice” that have to do with projecting and receiving that energy. With more practice, you can read what comes to you from others much better, and use that to influence how and when the intelligent energy that is your heart expands and contracts, and who it affects and how.
In our last installment, we’ll discuss heart-consciousness and the healer.
Russ Reina shares over 35 years of experience in the healing arts through his web site http://mauihealingartist.com . It is a potent resource for those wishing to deepen their abilities in connection and develop their powers as healers. For a powerful free tool to explore your inner world, please check out his adjunct site http://thestoryofthis.net
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