Moving to Wordpress

It seemed silly of me to be maintaining a website in one place, and having a blog on Blogspot. So I decided to move operations over to my main domain.

I will keep this blog in place so that you can take advantage of the articles I've already written for you.

Click here to read newer articles over at Your New Body Shape

Eat Your Veggies

Are you eating enough vegetables? Probably not. And more importantly, are you eating the right vegetables?

Did you know, for example, that an onion contains high amounts of sugar? As do carrots. So as you sip onion soup or crunch on carrots at lunch time, you may not be doing yourself a big favor.

The veggies you should be eating in high quantity are broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and spinach.

Spinach is my fave, eaten raw in a salad with a splash of lemon juice to help my body absorb the nutrients packed into the leaves. I'll make a salad with almost half a pound of baby spinach, some grape tomatoes, olive oil and lemon juice.

Did you know: Though you shouldn't be drinking sodas, if you do, spinach eaten about 30 minutes before drinking a soda can help protect tooth enamel.

Broccoli possesses indole-3-carbinol (I3C) that rids your body of excess estrogen that may be contributing to belly fat. Eat it raw or lightly steamed for full nutritional benefit.

Cabbage also possesses I3C to help cut down belly fat, and works as a diuretic. Steamed spinach with a splash of olive oil, sea salt and pepper is a tasty addition to any meal, and will remove excess bloat from the body.

For diet plans and tasty recipes, check out The Diet Solution Program by Isabel De Los Rios. Try it for just $1!

What are antioxidants?

Antioxidants have been all the rage for quite some time now, but many people don't know exactly what they are. Antioxidants are substances or nutrients in our foods which can prevent or slow the oxidative damage to our body. When our body cells use oxygen (in almost everything we do each day), they naturally produce free radicals (by-products) which can cause damage. (Exercise is a good example of a healthy activity that naturally produces free radicals.) Antioxidants act as "free radical scavengers" and help prevent and repair damage done by these free radicals. Health problems such as heart disease, macular degeneration, diabetes, and cancer are all contributed by oxidative damage.

You can see how it's important for us to get these "free radical scavengers" into our bodies each day, especially if we have made exercise a part of our daily routine.

About Cholesterol

From Isabel De Los Rios, the creator of The Diet Solution Program, a healthy way to lose weight:

Just a few months ago, 2 good friends of mine called me with quite the concern:

"Isabel. Our daughter has just been diagnosed with high cholesterol. She's only 10. We stay away from whole eggs and she doesn't eat much red meat. How is that possible? "

Wow, 10 and high cholesterol already. That's pretty scary. Remember when the term "high cholesterol" was only used to describe your grandma and other old folk? (No offense granny). Well not anymore. Kids are being diagnosed with all sorts of things we once only considered "adult" conditions including high cholesterol, high triglycerides and diabetes.

So, first things first. How does anyone get high cholesterol? And how was I going to explain this to a 10 year old? Follow my little analogy....

Imagine we lived in a high crime city where criminals could be found on every street corner. In order to resolve the problem, the mayor decides to put a police officer on every street corner. Now, imagine that your friend comes to visit your city and says "Oh, I know why there is so much crime here. It is because there are police officers on each corner." Silly right? The reason why the officers were put there was because of the criminals, not the other way around!

Well, here is the mass cholesterol confusion.

The criminals are sugar and processed foods. The police officers are cholesterol.

If you eliminate the officers (cholesterol), the criminals (sugar and processed foods) continue to create damage, in this case, they are damaging your arteries. Cholesterol (police officer) is only there to help. It is coming to the rescue. So isn't it silly that people who need cholesterol to save them from more harm to their arteries are being put on cholesterol lowering drugs?

I know this is a lot to take in. So read the little story again if it still does not seem clear. The truth is, you need to wipe out the criminals, not reduce the police officers!

So now the question is, how can you keep the criminals at bay?

Stop eating an excessive amount of sugar and processed foods and adopt a healthy eating regimen that includes natural foods.

1. Include organic eggs, natural meat and poultry, veggies, fruits, raw nuts, coconut oil and olive oil into your daily eating regimen. Natural, natural, natural is the name of the game.

2. Reduce sugar drinks and drink water, water, water. Amazing things will happen once your body is hydrated (including regulating cholesterol).

3. Move it or lose it. Or in this case, move it to lose it. Exercise is one of the best ways to regulate your cholesterol levels. Even if it didn't affect your cholesterol, would there be anything to lose by trying? Oh yeah, FAT, I forgot.

Commit today to taking one step towards taking control of your cholesterol, your weight or your health and finally shoot down the criminals once and for all!