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Summer Diet Cure: Watermelon Diet

de MedLady, August 5th, 2008

The water melon diet is indicated to those who want to lose weight as well to those who have renal affections (like urinary infections) or stomach ulcers.

Watermelon diet. Watermelons are highly recommended in diets because they are low in sugar and rich in antioxidants (like licopene), water (96%), vitamins (A, C, B6) and potassium. What not all people know is the fact that water melon must be consumed alone, not with other aliments (bread, ice-cream, or whipped cream) if you want to loose some weight.

Here is a model of how the water melon diet can be followed:

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Dieting post marathon 3. Fats, and all the facts about them

de MedLady, June 1st, 2008

Fats are supposed to be the great problem that is causing obesity and problems with excessive fat all over the world.

We are supposedly gain weight due to the fact that we are consuming fat calories that are being absorbed by our body directly into body fat.

There are more and more fat free products that are supposed to be solving the problem of obesity, but yet the percent of overweight adult population keeps increasing with every day. So why is that so? Why do people keep gaining weight even though people are consuming way less fat than before?

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Dieting post marathon 2. How can proteins benefit your diet?

de MedLady, May 30th, 2008

Since proteins are the least likely to be turned into body fat, the most logical way then is to base your diet mostly on them.Chicken and Tomato

Fats and carbohydrates are the cause of obesity and you should avoid consuming them as much as possible.This doesn’t mean you should completely stop consuming them, this simply means you should choose your consuming of fats and carbohydrates carefully and only eat the healthy and good ones.

So what are proteins?

They are large organic compounds of amino acids, that act as construction material for our body cells.

Our body is made mostly out of water around 60-70% is water and almost 20% of the rest are proteins. And the proteins are made from amino acids, where there is about 20 different groups of them.

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Dieting post marathon 1. Dieting tips

de MedLady, May 28th, 2008

The actual ratio between the importance of nutrition and exercise is 70/30, which means that you should really focus on your diet and really go deep into it and focus on the food you consume.

Probably the most important reason that you are overweight in the first place, is that you have or have had bad nutritional habits over the past years.
So you have to understand that it took time gaining all that weight, it will also take time losing it. The first tip I will give you is to start counting your calories, just note down how much you eat.

There is a simple formula that can quickly calculate the number of calories you need for losing weight.

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