The Skinny on Low-Carb: Eat More Vegetables
The headlines this morning will tell you that low-carb diets don't raise the risk of heart attacks, but a high-carb does. Reading beyond the headlines, however, reveals materially important fine points.
The source of fats and carbs matters. Dieters who got more of their protein and fat from vegetables than from animal sources lowered their risk of heart disease. Conversely, people who got a large amount of their carbohydrates from processed foods raised their risk of heart disease. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In layman's terms, eat tangerines, not twinkies. The best way to lose weight is too eat more fruits than vegetables. If you do this, you will not only reduce your waistline, but also your risk of heart disease and cancer.
posted by Netsweat.com @ 11/09/2006
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Weight control is more about attitude than food. How we feel about ourselves on the outside is a direct reflection of how we feel on the inside. Here's an extract from my book "Funny Business in 90 Minutes"
'After successfully laughing myself through several decades, I’ve learnt that I’ve inadvertently been using all of my 400 muscles well and wisely. Extensive medical research has concluded that it’s possible to use every one of the muscles in your body every time you laugh…
Yes, that’s right, every single one of your muscles - face and body - can be used every single time you laugh.
Incredible. Just think, if you belly-laughed for an hour, that would mean you
could laugh away around 500 calories. OK, I accept that’s a lot of laughing in one go and you do, somehow, need to slot some more serious types of play into the day …..
….. so, you just prescribe yourself many smaller doses of ‘humour aerobics.’
Picture this: 100 laughs equates to 10 minutes of jogging and a good 20 second laugh is the equivalent to 3 minutes on a rowing machine. I’ll let you work out how many calories you’d lose - I abandoned maths in favour of life-survival. Just remember, ‘humour aerobics’ needs no special equipment and it’s sugar free, fat free and tax free and frankly, addictive!! And the effects of a good laugh - more alert, cheerful, lively - can last for up to 24 hours.
Surveys tell us that, on average, adults laugh 10 to 15 times a day. Not a lot when you consider that a four-year old child laughs an average of 500 times a day. When did we learn to become so serious??
Laugh well. Laugh often. Burn off those calories. Get lighter through laughter.
See the funny side of life.
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