Eet vleis, word maer - Prof Tim Noakes

27 April 2012 Deur JAN BEZUIDENHOUT









Heerlike steak. Foto: LBW 

‘n Revolusie in die mens se dieet gaan binne 10 jaar posvat en dit sal in veeboere se guns wees. “Boere, gaan voort om jul wonderlike produk, vleis, te produseer,” sê prof. Tim Noakes.

Noakes, van die Instituut van Sportwetenskap in Kaapstad, het in Maart ‘n opskudding veroorsaak toe hy in die TV-program Carte Blanche vertel het van die ommeswaai in sy lewe en sy gesondheid nadat hy sy lewenstyl van ‘n koolhidraat-gebaseerde dieet na een van proteïen verander het.

Wat deel van die opskudding veroorsaak het, is Noakes se stelling dat dit eintlik goed is om vleis én vet te eet.

Natuurlik sou Noakes se stelling menige vleisprodusent opgewonde gemaak het en op Queenstown het dr. Pieter Prinsloo, voorsitter van die RPO in die Oos-Kaap, ‘n plan beraam. Hy wou Noakes graag ontmoet om dankie te sê vir dié lansie wat die professor vir vleisboere gebreek het.

Prinsloo se ‘Plan’
Noakes was te vinde vir die afspraak. Prinsloo en twee kommersiële boere van Queenstown, mnre. Knowledge Xhashimba en Gcina Madasa sou Noakes besoek. ‘n Befaamde biltongmaker van Kaapstad, Sakkie Larney, is saamgenooi om aan Noakes ‘n paar bielie-biltonge te oorhandig as blyk van waardering. Larney hanteer Landbou.com se gespreksforum en het via die sosiale media met Prinsloo bevriend geraak.

Die besoekers het Noakes by ‘n koffiekroeg ontmoet en Noakes het aan die groepie gesê dat vleisboere die afgelope 50 jare “beduiwel” is oor die propaganda dat vleis ongesond sou wees, soos wyd en syd verkondig is. “Ek wil aan julle sê dat die teenoorgestelde eintlik die waarheid is.

“Ons begin besef dat die mens ontwikkel het om baie vet en baie proteïene te eet. Hoe meer proteïene die mens eet, hoe gesonder is hy.” Hy sê dit is so helder soos daglig dat mense wat meer proteïene en meer vet eet, gesonder is as diegene wat graankosse eet.


Foto-byskrif: Van links staan mnr. Gcina Madasa, prof. Tim Noakes, dr. Pieter Prinsloo, mnr. Sakkie Larney en mnr. Knowledge Xhashimba.

Noakes sê die Indiane op die Amerikaanse prairies is die gesondste mense nóg. Hul dieet het hoofsaaklik uit bisonvleis bestaan. Namate Europeërs die land oorgeneem het, is die Indiane in reservate in geboender. Kyk hoe lyk hulle vandag omdat hulle nou ander diëte het!

Hy het ook verwys na die Noorweërs, wat van die gesondste mense in Europa is omdat hulle lank al op hierdie dieet ingekoop het. Hy se die brein het ook die meeste vet nodig vir ontwikkeling en 'n kind wat in sy vormingsjare ontneem word van volvet-produkte, kan nie sy volle breinkapasiteit ontwikkel nie.

Boodskap aan vleisboere
Noakes het ‘n spesiale boodskap aan veeboere gehad: “Ek is baie positief oor die vleisbedryf en ek hoop jul boere laat die wêreld besef dat dit goed vir ‘n mens is om vleis te eet.”

Noakes voorspel dat ‘n revolusie binne ‘n dekade gaan plaasvind soos mense begin besef dat die advies om vet en proteïene in hul diete te vermy, verkeerd is.

“Vleisboere, julle is aan die regte kant van die besigheid, want binne 10 jaar gaan sake radikaal in jul guns verander. Gaan dus voort om jul wonderlike produk, vleis, te produseer.”

Noakes sê hy sien uit na die dag waarop die wêreld verskoning sal moet aanbied vir die verkeerde opvatting oor vleis wat so wyd gepropageer is.

* Noakes sê sy dieet bestaan uit 60-70% vet. En hy voeg by: “Hoe meer vet jy eet, hoe maerder word jy! ‘n Mens se brein bestaan in elk geval uit 50% vet.”

Lees meer oor prof. Noakes se dieet.

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Nature and your future health

These natural phenomena will certainly 8impact on health patterns and spreading of disease in years to come. Practitioners and patients alike must realise that as the global weather and climate changes, our disease patterns will also change and we are already experiencing this in daily practice.

Antarctic ice melting from below

2012-04-25 22:30

Washington - Antarctica's massive ice shelves are shrinking because they are being eaten away from below by warm water, a new study finds. That suggests that future sea levels could rise faster than many scientists have been predicting.

The western chunk of Antarctica is losing 7m of its floating ice sheet each year. Until now, scientists were not exactly sure how it was happening and whether or how man-made global warming might be a factor.

The answer, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, is that climate change plays an indirect role - but one that has larger repercussions than if Antarctic ice merely were melting from warmer air.

Hamish Pritchard, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey, said research using an ice-gazing Nasa satellite showed that warmer air alone could not explain what was happening to Antarctica. A more detailed examination found a chain of events that explained the shrinking ice shelves.

Twenty ice shelves showed signs that they were melting from warm water below. Changes in wind currents pushed that relatively warmer water closer to and beneath the floating ice shelves. The wind change probably is caused by a combination of factors, including natural weather variation, the ozone hole and man-made greenhouse gases, Pritchard said in a phone interview.

As the floating ice shelves melt and thin, that in turn triggers snow and ice on land glaciers to slide down to the floating shelves and eventually into the sea, causing sea level rise, Pritchard said. Thicker floating ice shelves usually keep much of the land snow and ice from shedding to sea, but that is not happening now.

That whole process causes larger and faster sea level rise than simply warmer air melting snow on land-locked glaciers, Pritchard said.

"It means the ice sheets are highly sensitive to relatively subtle changes in climate through the effects of the wind," he said.

What's happening in Antarctica "may have already triggered a period of unstable glacier retreat," the study concludes. If the entire Western Antarctic Ice Sheet were to melt, which would take many decades if not centuries, scientists have estimated it would lift global sea levels by about 3m.

Nasa chief scientist Waleed Abdalati, an expert in Earth's ice systems who was not involved in the research, said Pritchard's study "makes an important advance" and provides crucial information about how Antarctica will contribute to global sea level rise.

Another outside expert, Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Centre, said the paper will change the way scientists think about melt in Antarctica. Seeing more warm water encircling the continent, he worries that with "a further push from the wind" newer areas could start shrinking.

- AP

Originally published at News24

Can you really lose weight by breathing?

by NAOMI COLEMAN, femail.co.uk

Imagine a fitness programme where you don't work up a sweat, pay any money, step foot inside a gym or even pant.

Within a month you lose inches from your hips and waist, tone key muscle groups and end up feeling blissfully relaxed.

Better still, all it takes is 15 minutes a day, several simple exercises and the ability to breathe deeply.

It's called Oxycise and it's the latest weight loss programme to sweep America. Followers in over 750,000 households claim it transforms body shape, sheds pounds within weeks, improves muscle tone and boosts energy levels.

Follow the link at the bottom of the page to discover how you can take part in Oxycise.

Does this all too good to be true? Not according to its creator Jill Johnson who believes deep breathing is the key to losing weight.

Rather than changing your diet or rehashing existing fitness programmes, Johnson's theory is based on a simple physiological fact working on the principles of aerobics - raising oxygen intake through sport.

'Fat is made up of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen,' she explains. 'When the oxygen we breathe reaches these fat molecules, it breaks them down into carbon dioxide and water.

'The blood then picks up the carbon dioxide - a waste product of our bodies - and returns it to the lungs to be exhaled. Therefore the more oxygen our bodies use, the more fat we will burn.'

And, rather than pounding oxygen into our bodies through high impact exercise such as cycling and running, Johnson says Oxycise is designed to be carried out in the office, while washing up or sitting in traffic jams.

The idea behind Oxycise is simple. Most people breathe using less than one-fifth of their lungs says Johnson.

This is because those who lead a busy lifestyle only draw breath from the upper and middle lobes of the lung - rather than using them all.

Breathing deeply - on the other hand - aids the uptake of oxygen and uses the diaphragm - the sheet-like muscle that lies at the bottom of our chest cavity that helps to pump air in and out of the lungs - to its full capacity.

According to the principles of Oxycise, when we inhale and exhale deeply, the muscles in our body tighten because powerful breathing forces us to use our diaphragm.

This action of deep breathing naturally makes our muscles contract. This, says Johnson, combined with some gentle exercises burns fat and tones muscles.

Dr Robert Girandola, professor of Exercise Science at the University of Southern California is convinced that Oxycise can burn up calories. In a recent study, he found women burned 140 per cent more calories with Oxycise than riding an exercise bike.

But many experts are sceptical of the evidence.

Richard Godfrey, chief physiologist at the British Olympic Medical Centre, says the effectiveness of the technique is highly doubtful.

'Medium to high intensity work out - such as rowing, brisk walking or running - over a long period is the only way to burn up fat and elevate metabolism.

'Deep breathing and gentle exercises for 15 minutes a day is not going to burn up enough calories to transform body shape.'

In fact, Professor Ian Macdonald, professor of metabolic physiology at the School of Biomedical Sciences in Derbyshire, warns breathing too deeply can do more harm than good.

'Inhaling and exhaling too deeply can disturb the balance between carbon dioxide and oxygen in the body needed to neutralise the blood. This can cause light headedness and even make someone faint.'

And, he doubts simply breathing will turn fat into fuel.

'Contraction of muscles caused by exercise mobilises fat stores. But it is only vigorous aerobic sport that triggers enough energy to turn fat into fuel. Deep breathing alone will burn up fat by two per cent at best.'

This article was originally published HERE and it is hoped that this article would stimulate to read many more articles on Diet, Weight-loss and health related articles at Mail Online Health
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Exercise Routine For The Over 60s - Part 1 & 2

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An Exercise Routine For The Over 60s - Part 1
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You may be older in years but that doesn't mean you have to give up on exercise altogether. We have put together three of the best exercise routines to help strengthen your arms and shoulders. Top up on your fitness and look great thanks to VideoJug's short exercise program.

Step 1: You will need

• adjustable bench or a chair
• 2 bottles of water
• footwear
• comfortable clothing

Step 2: Exercise 1, shoulder press
Step 3: Start position

Sit on a workbench or a chair if exercising at home. Make sure your feet flat, hip-width apart. Hold the bottles of water just above your shoulders.

Step 4: Lifting and lowering

Push your arms upwards towards the ceiling. Then lower them back to the shoulders to complete one repetition. Repeat this movement 10 times.

Step 5: Breathing

As you raise your arms breathe out and as you lower them breathe in.

Step 6: Review

Once you are familiar with this exercise, repeat it for 10 repetitions.

Step 7: Exercise 2, Bicep curls
Step 8: Start position

Still holding on to the water bottles place them down the side of your body with your palms facing forwards.

Step 9: Lifting and lowering

Now, bend at the elbow joint raising your hands to the shoulders. And then lower back to the side of your body to complete one repetition.

Step 10: Breathing

As you raise your arms breathe out and as you lower them breathe in.

Step 11: Review

Once you are familiar with this exercise, do it for 10 repetitions.

Step 12: Exercise 3, Bent over row
Step 13: Start position

For this exercise you need to lean forward with your arms outstretched towards the floor and down the side of your body, holding on to the water bottles.

Step 14: Lifting and lowering

Lift your hands up to the shoulders bending the arms at the elbow. Lower your hands back to the start position to complete one repetition.

Step 15: Breathing

The breathing is the same as with the first two exercises. Remember to breathe in time with your movements.

Step 16: Review

Once you are familiar with the movements, complete 10 repetitions to finish off the workout.


An Exercise Routine For The Over 60s - Part 1
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You may be older in years but that doesn't mean you have to give up on exercise altogether. We have put together three of the best exercises to give much needed movement to your lower body. It can also help strengthen your muscles. Top up on your fitness and look great thanks to VideoJug's short exercise program.

Step 1: You will need

• adjustable bench or a chair
• Footwear
• A mat or towel
• Comfortable clothing

Step 2: Exercise 1, Assisted Squats
Step 3: Start position

Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and holding onto an upright work bench or a chair if exercising at home.

Step 4: Lowering and lifting

Lower your body towards the floor keeping your knees behind your toes. Push with your heels and thigh muscles and return to the start position. Be careful not to lock out your knees at the joints.

Step 5: Breathing

Inhale through your nose as you lower your body and out through your mouth as you raise your body up.

Step 6: Review

Once you are familiar with this exercise, perform 10 repetitions.

Step 7: Exercise 2, Leg lifts
Step 8: Start position

Using a mat or a towel, lie back with your knees bent and feet together flat on the floor. Your palms should be facing upwards. This stops you from using your hands to push off with.

Step 9: Lowering and lifting

Lift your feet off the floor and curl your hips backward bringing your knees up and towards your head. Lower to the start position to complete one repetition. Make sure you keep your head flat on the floor.

Step 10: Breathing

As you lift your knees up breathe out and as you lower your feet to the floor, breathe in.

Step 11: Review

Once you are familiar with the movements, do 10 repetitions of this exercise.

Step 12: Exercise 3, Leg curls
Step 13: Start position

Continue lying on a mat on the floor with your legs up in the air and knees slightly bent and palms still facing up.

Step 14: Lifting and lowering

Curl your hips backward bringing your legs toward your head, return to the start position for one repetition. Make sure to keep the tension on your abdominal muscles.

Step 15: Breathing

As your legs move towards your head breathe out of your mouth and as you lower your legs breathe in.

Step 16: Review

Once you are familiar with the movements, do 10 repetitions of this exercise.

Homeopathic Infertility Research

Homeopathy. 2002 Jul;91(3):133-44.
Individualized homeopathic therapy for male infertility.

Gerhar I,Wallis E.
Outpatient Clinic for Complementary Medicine, Department for Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproduction, Gynecological Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
frauenklinik_ambulanz_nhv@med.uni-heidelberg.de

This prospective observational pilot study investigated the effect of individualized homeopathy on male infertility based on sperm count, hormone values and general health. Forty-five subfertile men were treated with single homeopathic remedies for an average of 10.3 months. The drugs were prescribed on the basis of the overall symptomatic situation. The variables 'sperm density', 'percentage of sperm with good progressive motility' and 'density of sperm with good propulsive motility' improved significantly, especially in cases of oligoasthenozoospermia. The general health of patients improved significantly. The following factors emerged as positive predictors of therapy success: alcohol consumption below 30 g/day, non-smoking, the presence of less than five dental amalgam fillings, no exposure to noxious substances at the workplace and no previous inflammatory genital diseases. The factors stress, age above 36, high coffee consumption and long duration of unwanted childlessness did not have a negative impact on therapy outcome in this study. The rate of improvement in sperm count through homeopathic therapy is comparable to the improvement achieved by conventional therapy, so that individualized-homeopathic treatment may be considered a useful alternative to conventional treatment of subfertile men. For further investigation, a randomised, therapy-controlled clinical study with parallel group design would be useful (homeopathic therapy vs conventional andrological therapy).

PMID: 12322866 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Infertility
BOTTOMLINE: Fertility in men and women is a complex process, and the treatment of infertility requires treatment by a professional homeopath. Although no studies have yet been conducted on women, one pilot study of subfertile men found good results from professional homeopathic treatment.
A prospective unblinded pilot study was conducted on 45 subfertile men who were treated with individually chosen homeopathic medicines based on the psychophysical symptom syndrome each experienced. The main outcome measures were improved sperm density, improved percentage of sperm with good propulsive motility, density of sperm with good motility. Other outcome measures included sperm vitality, morphology, and the ratio of sperm with global motility.
This study was conducted at the Outpatient Clinic for Complementary Medicine at the University Women’s Hospital of Heidelberg (Germany). The men admitted into the study has to have two or more years of unwanted childlessness, two pathological sperm counts not influenced by therapy, at least 3 months without andrological therapy, and patient consent.
The men average age was 35.5 years (range 28-47). The couples suffered from unwanted childlessness for an average of 4.5 years (range: 2-11 years).
Thirty of the men reported some type of genital disease: 20 suffered from varicocele, 5 from undescended testes, 15 from urogenital inflammation, 1 from coital impotence, and 5 sustain a previous genital trauma. [The individualized homeopathic treatment included a detailed interview in which the patient was queried about his unique symptoms. The homeopath ranked in a hierarchy those symptoms that were in the emotional and mental realm and those that affected his entire body, as distinct from those that were local symptoms. The symptoms were ordered by intensity and prominence.] All men were prescribed a single homeopathic medicine in the LM 18 potency, and each man shook the bottle before taking three drops once daily. The patients were asked to keep a diary of any symptoms, and they were asked to avoid any other therapy, except in emergencies. The men were asked to abstain from caffeine, but if this was not possible, they were asked to avoid taking it within 1-2 hours of taking the homeopathic medicine. The patients attended the clinic every six weeks for review. If the medicine was still indicated, the drug was re-prescribed at a one-step higher potency. If not, a different homeopathic medicine was prescribed.
Homeopathic treatment lasted on average 10.3 months (range: 6-21.5). Seven patients dropped out after 2-5 months. A total of 26 homeopathic medicines were prescribed, the most common ones were (in order of the number of prescriptions): Natrum muriaticum, Lycopodium, Calcarea carbonicum, Pulsatilla, Phosphous, Silicea, and Thuja.

Results
Various primary and secondary measures showed significant improvement after 6, 9, and 12 months of homeopathic treatment.
Sperm density improved by a median of 26.4 after 3 months, by 12.6% after 6 months, and 37.1 after 12 months (P=0.011).
The ratio of sperm with good propulsive motility was initially pathologically low in all patients, but after 3, 6, and 9 months of therapy, it improved by 20% (P=0.0037) and after 12 months, it improved by 43% (P=0.0009).
The density of sperm with good propulsive motility increased above the baseline of 1.8 million. After 3 months, there was improvement by 27.6% (P=0.02), 6 months by 40% (P=0.003), 9 months by 55.2% (P-0.01), and 12 months by 81.5% (P=0.02).
An improvement in global sperm motility improved during the first three intervals, especially at 6 months (P=0.045), but after 12 months, the median improvement decreased and was no longer significant.
A total of 8 pregnancies occurred in 7 couples, with one having twins. Five pregnancies produced a healthy child or twins, while three ended in spontaneous abortion and two miscarriages (to the same couple). These numbers represent a baby-take-home rate of 11.1%.
There were various improvements in the men’s general health, especially those suffering from abdominal disorders (P=0.0004) after 6 months and (P=0.052) after 9 months. In general, the men observed greater improvement in various local symptoms than in their psychological state or more general symptoms.
This experience runs counter to homeopathic theory that predicts greater improvement in general health prior to local symptoms.
Ironically, 5 of 7 drop-out patients experienced significant improvement after 3 months, including a 55% increase in sperm density, 63% increase in progressive motility, and 196% increase in the density of sperm with good motility.

Positive Predictors to Therapeutic Success
The following factors were observed to be predictors of therapeutic success with homeopathic medicines: Men with longer (4 years or more) unwanted childlessness.
There were improvements in the density of sperm with good motility in men who didn’t smoke at 3 and 6 months, but these changes were not significant in men who smoked. Men who drank little or alcohol (<30 gram alcohol/day; n=20) experienced an increase in sperm density with good propulsive motility of 72.2% (P=0.04) after 3 months and 51.8% (P=0.04) after 6 months, but the increase for men who drank more alcohol was only 14.2% after 6 months and was not significant.
The density of sperm with good propulsive motility improved by 50% after 3 months in the high-caffeine group (n=20, P=0.04), and was only increased by 13.4% in the low-caffeine group. However, after 6 months the low-caffeine group of men’s sperm density improved by 70.2% (P=0.04), while the high- caffeine group increased 37.3% (P=0.04).

The men with few amalgam fillings (n=18) experienced greater improvement in sperm density with good propulsive motility at 72.2% after 3 months (P=0.022) and 97% after 6 months (P=0.017), as compared to the amalgam-rich group (n=27) with 11.4 and 19%. Men who were exposed to noxious factors in the workplace (n=11) experienced a less rapid increase and a smaller overall improvement. Men who self-described themselves as more stressed (n=21) experienced greater improvement in density of sperm with good propulsive motility than those men in the “no-stress” group (n=24).

The positive results from this study suggest the need to conduct a more rigorous placebo-controlled trial.

Although this eBook focuses primarily on clinical research, the below described laboratory study provides some findings of interest to those people concerned about infertility issues. Mitochondrial activity is an important viability parameter of spermatozoa and is linked to sperm motility. Monensin (a broad spectrum antibiotic used in cattle feed) is commonly used as an inhibitor for sperm mitochondrial activity in the laboratory. This study was conducted to evaluate the influence of some homeopathic dilutions of monensin on sperm mitochondrial activity. Fresh ejaculates from 6 mature bulls were used in the study. Samples of the semen were tested using a flow cytometer for mitochondrial activity and sperm viability using Rhodamine 123 and SYBR-14, respectively. The 9x dilution of monensin resulted in very highly significant (P<0.001) stimulation of mitochondrial activity. Monensin 5x, 7x, 8x and 13x caused highly significant (P<0.01) stimulation of the sperm mitochondrial activity. Other homeopathic dilutions of monensin (6x, 10x, 11x, 12x and 14x) also had a significant (P<0.05) stimulatory effect. The use of monensin did not have any negative effect on sperm viability. We conclude that some homeopathic dilutions of monensin increase mitochondrial activity of bovine spermatozoa without negative effect on sperm viability, the 9x dilution was the most effective. Further in vivo studies are required to estimate the effect of homeopathic dilutions of monensin on semen quality.

REFERENCE:
Aziz D, Enbergs H., Stimulation of bovine sperm mitochondrial activity by homeopathic dilutions of monensin. Homeopathy. 2005 Oct;94(4):229-32.
Gerhard, I, Wallis, E, Individualized homeopathic therapy for male infertility, Homeopathy (2002)91,133-144.

The Atkins Diet - A Brief Overview

What is The Atkins Diet?

1. A lifetime nutritional philosophy, focusing on the consumption of nutrient-dense, unprocessed foods and vita-nutrient supplementation. The Atkins diet restricts processed/refined carbohydrates (which make up over 50% of many people's diets), such as high-sugar foods, breads, pasta, cereal, and starchy vegetables. Core vita-nutrient supplementation includes a full-spectrum multi-vitamin and an essential oils/fatty acid formula.
2. A lifetime nutritional philosophy that has been embraced by an estimated 20+ million people worldwide since the release of Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution in the 1970s.
3. The cornerstone of the treatment protocols for over 60,000 patients of The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York City.

The Major Benefits of the Diet, InShort
Diets high in sugar and refined carbohydrates like bread, pasta, cereal, and other mainly "low-fat" processed foods increase your body's production of insulin. When insulin is at high levels in the body, the food you eat can get readily converted into body fat, in the form of triglycerides (to top it off, high triglyceride levels in the body are one of the greatest risk factors for heart disease).

Even worse, high carbohydrate meals tend to leave you less satisfied than those that contain adequate fat levels; so you eat more and get hungrier sooner. If you find this hard to believe, think about how much pasta you can eat at lunch and then how hungry you are running to the vending machine for another "carbo-fix" in the mid-afternoon. If the pasta you ate was really giving your body what it needed, you would stay full until dinner time. So the typical low-protein, low-fat meal leaves you eating more and hungry sooner.

So what should you do? Get off the insulin generating roller coaster of the low-fat diet and start cutting down on your carbohydrate consumption, especially the worst offenders: sugar, white flour and other refined carbohydrate-based products. What can you expect from this? Three wonderful results:

• You'll start to burn fat for energy: Since carbohydrates are the body's primary energy source, you'll rarely use your secondary energy source, you own body fat, for energy unless you restrict carbohydrate consumption. This offers a lifetime of body fat burning, which is the goal of most people trying to lose weight.
• You won't feel hungry in between meals: The biggest battle that most people have with weight loss is the constant obsession with food (for example, if you've ever thought about dinner when you're eating lunch). Again, much of this is caused by blood sugar fluctuations that are aggravated by carbohydrate consumption (especially the refined kind). By cutting the carbs, you'll maintain a more even blood sugar level throughout the day. No more false hunger pains or mid-afternoon brain drains.
• Your overall health will improve and you'll feel better: Many of the toxins you take into your body are stored in your fat cells. By getting your body to burn stored fat, you allow it to clean itself out. Combined with the benefits of stable blood sugar, the end result is that many common ailments you have been experiencing could well be alleviated. Fatigue, irritability, depression, headaches, and even many forms of joint and muscular pain simply go away. Furthermore, you should see a significant improvement in your blood profile, (including cholesterol and blood pressure levels). All this leads to better health and well-being-- something all of us strive to bring into our lives.

Key Information About Sugar
It contains no vitamins. No minerals. It is 100% carbohydrate. So it must be metabolized immediately. The stores of nutrients built up in your body are called out like militia men, to "charge" the sugar, and similar forms like glucose and fructose, and turn it into ready energy, depleting your body in the process. Sugar is an energy sucker: the Anti-Nutrient.

White flour is its second-cousin—almost as bad. When you partner the two together— flour and sugar—it spells disaster for anyone trying to maintain a healthy body, let alone someone who is fighting disease or trying to lose weight. If they are consumed on a regular basis, the body is in a constant state of nutritional deficiency. If you don't believe that sugar is an anti-nutrient, try having a rich dessert after dinner on a night you're feeling under the weather – you'll be sure to wake up the next morning with a full-blown illness.

What's frightening is that in recent years, the government and other advisory groups like the American Medical Association have encouraged the consumption of flour by unveiling a new food pyramid that is based on grains and recommends six to eleven servings a day. And no distinction is made between white processed flour, which is stripped of the nutrients, especially important trace minerals, and the much more healthy whole grains (unless you have a food allergy). And the result? Americans now think they're making healthy choices by loading up on cereals, pasta, crackers and breads. We even have products like Pop-Tarts®, with 39 grams of carbohydrate, 20 of which are sugar, carrying the American Heart Association Seal Of Approval. It is a travesty.

So how do we protect ourselves and stay healthy? One thing we can do is eat a healthy, balanced diet of low-carbohydrate foods. And when our foods fail us, as they often do after being picked, shipped, stripped, processed and packaged, we can protect ourselves with solid vita-nutrient support. It is critical that you include this extra "insurance policy" to take you into the kind of healthy life we all want to lead.

(Pop-Tarts® is a registered trademark of Kellogg's USA, Inc.)

Answering The Critics
While mainstream medicine and nutrition have, on the whole, criticized the Atkins Diet, the facts speak for themselves:

1. Dr. Atkins and his colleagues at The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine in New York have treated over 60,000 patients using the Atkins Diet as a primary protocol. These patients experience all the beneficial effects detailed above, as well as improved blood pressure, lower cholesterol, and a lower or completely eradicated dependence on prescription drugs.
2. While the mainstream critics continue to lament the consumption of fat as the root of America's weight problem, only carbohydrate consumption (mostly refined) has increased in the past few decades, while fat consumption has declined (as the "low-fat/high carb" diet has been promoted as the best nutritional option for every living person). During this time:
   
   

• Obesity, which in the past had consistently applied to about 25% of the population,increased to 33%
• Heart disease now accounts for 50% of all deaths, up from 40% in the 1970s
• Cases of diabetes are growing in near epidemic proportions (in fact, children are now contracting adult-onset diabetes)
• Hypertension, chronic fatigue and attention-deficit-disorder are now well recognized conditions.

All of these conditions are linked not by the amount of fat in ones diet, but by blood sugar disturbances and insulin disorders caused by excessive refined carbohydrate consumption (FYI: The average person now consumes over 150 pounds of sugar a year, up from less then 10 pounds in the 19th century).

1. While medical and nutritional journals are filled with studies documenting the body's requirement of essential fatty acids and essential amino acids (derived from protein), there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. Why then does the FDA recommend an average of 16 servings a day?
2. The Atkins Diet is not a no-carbohydrate diet. The diet focuses on very limited consumption of the types of carbohydrates that tend to spike blood sugar levels the most, including non-whole grain bread, pastas, refined sugar products, juices, and high sugar/starchy fruits and vegetables. Atkins Dieters learn to determine their personal sensitivity to carbohydrates, as a way to manage their weight and health for life.

Scientific References Related to a Low-Carbohydrate Eating Philosophy (such as the Atkins Diet):

ON CANCER:
"Saturated fat was not associated with the risk of breast cancer"…"we found no positive association between intake of total fat and risk of invasive breast cancer". *
*Reference: Wolk, A. et al, Archives of Internal Medicine 1998; 158:41-45

"We found no evidence of a positive association between total dietary fat intake and the risk of breast cancer. There was no reduction in risk even among women whose energy intake from fat was less than 20 percent of total energy intake. In the context of the Western lifestyle, lowering the total intake of fat in midlife is unlikely to reduce the risk of breast cancer substantially."*
*Reference: Hunter D. et al, New England Journal of Medicine, 1996; 334:356-61

"The risk of breast cancer decreased with increasing total fat intake (trend p0.01) whereas the risk increase with increasing intake of available carbohydrates (trend p=0.002)"…"The findings also suggest a possible risk, in southern European populations, of reliance on a diet largely based on starch."*
*Reference: Franceschi S. et al, Lancet 1996; 347: 1351-56

"Sugar consumption is positively associated with cancer in humans and test animals.* Tumors are know to be enormous sugar absorbers."
—Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference: Beasley, Joseph D, MD and Jerry J Swift, MA The Kellogg Report, 1989 The Institute of Health Policy and Practice, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 129.

"Johns Hopkins researchers have found evidence that some cancer cells are such incredible sugar junkies that they'll self-destruct when deprived of glucose, their biological sweet of choice"..."Scientists have long suspected that the cancer cell's heavy reliance on glucose, its main source of strength and vitality, also could be one of its great weaknesses, and Dang's new results are among the most direct proofs yet of the idea."*
—Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions' news release
*Reference: Shim H, Dang C, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 1998 Feb 17; 95(4): 1511-1516.

ON CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE:
"Hence, many observations indicating reductions in plasma lipid levels when people are on low-fat diets may be due to changes in the fatty acid composition of the diet, not the reduction of fat calories."*
*Reference: Nelson, GJ, et al, Lipids, "Low-Fat Diets do not Lower Plasma Cholesterol Levels in Healthy Men Compared to High-Fat Diets With Similar Fatty Acid Composition at Constant Caloric Intake" 1995 Nov; 30(11): 969-76.

"In Framingham, Mass, the more saturated fat one ate, the more cholesterol one ate, the more calories one ate, the lower the person's serum cholesterol…we found that the people who ate the most cholesterol, ate the most saturated fat, ate the most calories, weighed the least and were the most physically active."*
*Reference: Castelli, William, Archives of Internal Medicine, 1992 Jul; 152(7): 1371-1372

"Abnormalities in glucose and insulin metabolism are commonly found in patients with high blood pressure [1-9]"…"there is evidence suggesting that defects in glucose and insulin metabolism may play a role in both the origin and the natural history of high blood pressure."*
*Reference: Reaven G. et al, The American Journal of Medicine 1989; 87(supp 6A):6A-2S

"If, as we had been told, heart disease results from the consumption of saturated fats, one would expect to find a corresponding increase in animal fat in the American diet. Actually the reverse is true. During the sixty year period from 1910 to 1970, the proportion of traditional animal fat in the American diet plummeted from 83% to 62%, the proportion of butter consumption from 18 pounds per person per year to 4. During the past eighty years dietary vegetable fat in the form of margarine, shortening and refined oils increase about 400% and the consumption of sugar and processed foods increase about 60%."*
—Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference: US Department of Agriculture statistics quoted in Douglass, William Campbell, MD

The Milk of Human Kindness is Not Pasteurized, 1985 Copple House Books, Lakemont, Georgia, 184; and in Beasley, Joseph D, MD and Jerry J Swift, MA The Kellogg Report, 1989 The Institute of Health Policy and Practice, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 144.
"In the United States, 315 of every 100,000 middle aged men die of heart attacks each year; in France the rate is 145 per 100,000. In the Gascony region, where goose and duck liver form a staple of the diet, this rate is a remarkably low 80 per 100,000." *
—Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference: The New York Times, November 17, 1991

"More plagues than heart disease can be laid at sugar's door. A survey of medical journals in the 1970's produced findings implicating sugar as a causative factor in kidney disease, liver disease, shortened life-span, increased desire for coffee and tobacco, as well as atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease.*"
—Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference: Howell, Edward, MD Enzyme Nutrition 1985 Avery Publishing Group, Inc

"Medical Research Council survey showed that men eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease as those using margarine."*
—Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference: Nutrition Week March 22, 1991 21:12:2-3

ON DIABETES:
"These results suggest that a high protein, low-carbohydrate diet, with nutritional supplementation can be useful to reduce several cardiovascular risk factors in obese adult onset diabetic patients including weight, blood sugar and lipid parameters. There is also no evidence that the nutritional regimen adversely affects kidney function."*
*Reference: Edman, JS et al. Journal of the American College of Nutrition, to be published in October 1998.

"it seems prudent to avoid the use of low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets containing moderate amounts of sucrose in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus." *
*Reference: Coulston, A.M. et al, American Journal of Medicine 1987 Feb; 82(2):213-220.

"As compared with the high-carbohydrate diet, the high-monounsaturated-fat diet resulted in lower mean plasma glucose levels and reduced insulin requirements, lower levels of plasma triglycerides and very low-density lipo-protein cholesterol , and higher levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL)(good) cholesterol. Levels of total cholesterol did not differ significantly in patients on the two diets." *
*Reference: Garg, A. et. al, New England Journal of Medicine 1988; 319 (13): 829-34).

"A very high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet has been shown to have astounding effects in helping type 2 diabetics lose weight and improve their blood lipid profiles. 'The thing many diabetics coming into the office don't realize is that other forms of carbohydrates will increase their sugar, too. Dieticians will point toward complex carbohydrates ... oatmeal and whole wheat bread, but we have to deliver the message that these are carbohydrates that increase blood sugars, too."*
*Referance: 81st Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society June 12-15, 1999 San Diego, California

ON STROKE:
"Intakes of fat, saturated fat, and monosaturated fat were associated with reduced risk of ischemic stroke in men."* (design and setting from the Framingham Heart Study)
*Reference: Gillman M. et al, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997; 78(24): 2145-2150

ON THE LOW-FAT DIET:
"Low-fat diets low in polyunsaturated fatty acids induce essential fatty acid (EFA) insufficiency, and can increase the biochemical risk factors for heart disease: they may also increase appetite." *
*Reference: Siguel, E. BioMedicina, January 1998; 1(1): 9

"low-fat, high carbohydrate diets also reduce high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels and raise fasting levels of triglycerides."*
*Reference: Mensink RP, et al, Arteriorscler Thromb 1992 Aug;12(8): 911-919

"Hence, many earlier observations indicating reductions in plasma lipid levels when people are on low-fat diets may be due to changes in the fatty acid composition of the diet, not the reduction in fat calories." *
*Reference: Nelson, G.J. et al., Lipids 1995; 30(11): 969-976.

"The relative good health of the Japanese, who have the longest life-span in the world, is generally attributed to a low-fat diet"…"Those who point to Japanese statistics to promote the low-fat diet fail to mention that the Swiss live almost as long on one of the fattiest diets in the world. Tied for third in the longevity are Austria and Greece—both with high fat diets."*
—Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference: Moore, Thomas J Lifespan: What Really Affects Human Longevity, 1990 Simon & Schuster, New York

"Mother's milk contains a higher portion of cholesterol than almost any other food. It also contains over 50% of its calories as fat, much of it saturated fat. Both cholesterol and saturated fat are essential for growth in babies and children, especially development of the brain.* Yet, the American Heart Association is now recommending a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet for children!"
—Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference:Alfin-Slater, RB and L Aftergood, "Lipids", Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease, Chapter 5, 6th ed, RS Goodhart and ME Shils, eds, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia 1980, p. 31

"…there is still the potential for low-fat intakes to adversely affect the nutritional adequacy of the diet of children…Given the assumption that there are some potential nutritional dangers associated with the unsupervised use of such diets, with no proven benefits, this diet should definitely not be advocated for infants and young children." *
*Reference: Zlotkin, SH Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1997;151:962-963

"In 1821 the average sugar intake in America was 10 pounds per person per year; today it is 170 pounds per person, over one fourth the average caloric intake. Another large fraction of all calories comes from refined flour and refined vegetable oils."*
—Sally Fallon, Nourishing Traditions 1995 Promotion Publishing
*Reference: Beasley, Joseph D, MD and Jerry J Swift, MA The Kellogg Report, 1989 The Institute of Health Policy and Practice, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 144-145

United States Shutting Down All Alternative Health Clinics At Home And Abroad

US making Way For Immunity Breakdown Medicine For Upcoming Viruses And Plagues

The U.S. Federal government which has had a hand in regulating alternative health practices abroad in Europe and other foreign jurisdictions has set to task a general witch hunt against alternative medicine in the United States. If you are an alternative medicine practitioner you need to spruce up your defenses now or face closure. Is it really possible that the Unites States government can actually reach out to foreign health clinics and have them shut down?

A distressed Chiropractic practitioner called me to his clinic in the U.K. to discuss how regulators in the United States had forced the hand of law makers in England to alter the way his treatment methods were being used on his patients. Rendering the therapy useless in original ability to treat and bring cure to numerous ailments.

I have been approached by political medical organizations in the UK for the last 5 years to sign petitions so alternative healing practices would be shut down in various forms as alternative medicine in the UK.  A precursor for such closures in the rest of Europe. If you think I am crying wolf or that the sky is falling you should look closer. Look past surface information and start asking questions while your clinics are still open. Ask the question; why is there a blanketing witch hunt against subtle energy associative health practices worldwide?

www.onlinewellnessnetwork.com/articles.asp?caid=8339

www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/06/chiropractors-told-to-take-down-their.html

www.gaia-health.com/articles251/000281-the-uk-refuses-to-drop-homeopathy.shtml

www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15673133,00.html

www.quackometer.net/blog/2012/01/why-is-homeopathy-successful.html

www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jun/01/world-health-organisation-homeopathy-hiv

www.thenhf.com/page.php?id=295

©2012 Kevin Wilson PsyD PhD

Original article published at Before It's News

Maximize Your Push-Ups with These Simple Tips - Mercola

What's the Proper Push-Up Form?

Common mistakes most people make when performing a push-up include going too fast and using only partial range of motion. In the video above, Darin Steen demonstrates the perfect push-up. First, slow it down and use a three-second contraction. Try to really feel the muscle groups you're targeting, and do a full range of motion -- starting all the way down at the floor and pushing all the way up.
Pay particular attention to the alignment of your elbows. The ideal angle from your sides is about 45 degrees. This allows you to effectively work your chest muscles and prevent injuries from overextension. I recommend watching Darin's demonstration of the proper form, but here's a summary of key points to remember:

• Keep your body stiff and straight as a plank
• Elbows at a 45-degree angle from your sides
• Breathe in on the way down
• Lower your body all the way down, allowing your sternum to gently touch the floor
• Breathe out on the way up

How to Get More Out of Your Push-Ups

You're probably familiar with the advice to avoid doing the same exercises all the time. You need to "confuse" the muscle to keep building it. So doing the standard push-up exercise with your legs straight or knees bent on the floor, while certainly beneficial, will start to lose effectiveness over time if you don't add in new challenges. To get more out of your push-ups, try mixing up your routine with these simple tweaks:

• Put your hands on an exercise ball. As the ball shifts, it will force your core muscles to work to keep you in balance, while providing a greater challenge to your upper body. A similar option is to use two medicine balls, place the palms of your hands on top of the balls and perform the push-up from there.
• Alter your hand positions. The placement of your hands will dictate which muscle groups are targeted. Instead of the traditional hand placement (slightly wider than shoulder-width apart), try widening their stance to work your chest and shoulders. If you bring your hands together below your chest, you'll work your triceps. You can also elevate one arm (place your hand on a yoga block, or lift it into the air, for instance), which will challenge your upper body even more.
• Lift a leg. As you extend your leg behind you, your upper body gets a challenge while your core and glutes get toned.
• Elevate your feet. In the traditional push-up position, put your feet on a step, chair, or gym ball, so your feet are higher than your hands. This puts more weight on your upper body, giving your arms, chest and upper back a workout.
• Do push-ups off your fingertips. This is a more advanced technique that will improve the strength and grip of your hands. 

Read the rest of Dr.Mercola's article HERE

Glycaemic Index and Low GI Diets

What is the Glycaemic Index
The Glycaemic Index is a measure of how how a food effects blood sugar levels.  Foods with high GI’s release glucose into the bloodstream very rapidly causing a rush of insulin and blood sugar.  On the other hand foods with low Glycaemic Index release glucose into the bloodstream slowly allowing our body time to process the sugar.
The Glycaemic Index uses a scale from 0 to 100 with 0 being the lowest and 100 being the highest GI level.  For example pure Glucose has a GI of 100. Glycaemic Index’s of 55 or below are considered low, and 70 or above are considered high. Glycaemic Loads of 10 or below are considered low, and 20 or above are considered high.

Atkins Low-Carb Diet Is a Low-Glycemic Approach
Atkins.com
Everything old is new again. The latest buzzword in weight management and nutrition may be “low glycemic,” but Dr. Atkins (Wikipedia) was on to it many decades ago.
Atkins has always been a low-glycemic approach. Almost 40 years ago, Dr. Atkins stressed the effect of food on blood sugar and insulin levels and explained in great detail why foods with a significant impact on blood sugar—meaning processed carbohydrates—were exactly what you don’t want on your plate, whether you’re concerned with your weight or your health.

Our bodies tend to stockpile
Our bodies are old beings. They have served us again and again through many incarnations. So a body has not sat at a heavily laden table in every life, but rather became familiar with scarcity, indeed all the way to near starvation. It has stored all of this in its cells. Even a mother who goes on a diet during her pregnancy can instil fear into the developing baby body and programme it, wherever possible, to store food - for the guaranteed next upcoming period of famine.
Whether one believes in reincarnation (which is a fact) or not, or prefers to maintain the belief that he has only this one life - it is an absolute fact that even the bodies in our society of abundance anticipate periods of starvation.
Montignac studies this subject in his book: "Let's take for example someone who consumes about 2500 calories a day and weighs a few pounds too much. If he then, according to the calorie-reducing method, decreases that intake to 2000 calories, a deficit of 500 calories occurs, so he should lose weight. An organism that, however, had become accustomed to the intake of 2500 calories, balances out the missing 500 calories from its fat reserves, leading to proportionate weight loss. So far, so good.
"After a short time, the length of which can of course vary from one person to another, the person notes that he is no longer losing weight, although he has not interrupted his diet but rather strictly adhered to it.
"So what happened? Very simple: The organism became accustomed to the supply of 2000 calories and reacted with a savings programme for its metabolism."
So at 2000 calories daily it is no longer possible to lose weight. Usually those people, after having eaten such a low calorie diet for a few weeks and having lost weight, are anxious to stop their diet and eat normally again - in the belief that they can maintain their new lower weight. Way off base! They barely start eating normally again and oops! the weight comes right back. Even if they return to their diet as before, even at 2000 calories a day they continue to gain weight. Montignac knows why: "The human organism is driven by a survival instinct that is awakened if a deficit in food c.q. energy occurs.
Since a reduction of calories had taken place before to which the organism adjusted itself by using a smaller amount of energy, on the basis of the human survival instinct it is made to reduce its energy consumption even further. And so the daily requirement of calories is, for example, brought down to 1700 calories, in order for new reserves to be built up again."
Even Montignac remarks: "In all of this we must not forget that the human body has not converted its behaviour in terms of living habits as quickly as the human brain has done. The body continues to live in the past, in which it was probably familiar with hunger and deprivation. These memories exist in the subconscious and are brought back to life during such a situation."
So the human body does not react any differently than a dog who only buries a bone at the moment at which he is hungry for it.
So if we starve our bodies by giving them less energy (= calories), they will immediately use every opportunity to establish new (fat) reserves.
Today, we call this the 'yoyo' effect. Anyone who has already been on several diets can tell you how frustrating it is when the smallest error on the weekend immediately leads to the gain of two to three kilos of weight that he had spent the previous weeks starving himself to lose. Now we know why this happens.
So it is extraordinarily important to eat three regular meals a day and not skip any meals! Otherwise the next time the body receives food it will immediately build up reserves. This is also the reason for overweight among dogs that are only fed once a day. Such a food intake schedule is unnatural, so their bodies store everything they can.
Montignac: "Incidentally, laboratory tests on animals have shown that if animals receive an equal daily amount of food daily, if they receive only one meal a day they become overweight, while animals who receive their daily ration divided over five or six meals do not gain weight."

Watch out for the blood sugar level!
The knowledge that white flour and white sugar are not beneficial to health is certainly nothing new. But apart from the fact that they contain hardly anything of use to the body, they also put stress on our pancreas - with quite disastrous consequences.
When carbohydrates are ingested they make the blood sugar level rise. Depending on the type of carbohydrate the blood sugar level rises slowly but surely until the maximum, so-called glycaemia - or the blood sugar peak - is reached. The pancreas then secretes the hormone insulin so that the excess glucose from the blood goes into the cells (liver, muscles), where it can be used as needed. So insulin makes the blood sugar level drop until it stabilises again.
In the USA in 1976 Professor Crapo developed a key with which one could calculate the so-called glycaemia potential of every carbohydrate (Montignac describes precisely how this works in his book). The greater the hyperglycaemia (= excessive sugar in the blood) caused by the carbohydrate being studied, the higher the glycaemic index. Says Montignac: "Today most scientists agree that carbohydrates should be classified according to their capacity to raise blood sugar - which is determined by the glycaemic index. The glycaemic index gives us an explanation of the phenomenon of overweight and of innumerable problems such as fatigue and a lack of vitality with which many people have to do battle."
Thus carbohydrates can be divided into two categories: 'good ones' with a low glycaemic index (the glucose is released into the blood over an extended period of time, and the peak is not particularly high) and 'bad ones' with a high glycaemic index (where an extraordinary amount of glucose is released, which immediately calls the pancreas into action).

Glycemic index
The glycaemic index, glycaemic index, or GI is a measure of the effects of carbohydrates in food on blood sugar levels. It estimates how much each gram of available carbohydrate (total carbohydrate minus fiber) in a food raises a person's blood glucose level following consumption of the food, relative to consumption of glucose. Glucose has a glycaemic index of 100, by definition, and other foods have a lower glycaemic index.
Glycaemic index is defined for each type of food, independent of the amount of food consumed. Glycaemic load accounts for the amount of food consumed and is calculated in terms of glyacemic index.

The Importance of The Glycaemic Index
After eating food with a high GI you may at first experience a quick energy boost but eventually you will experience the “crash”  that will result in a loss of energy and feeling of hunger.  This stimulates fat storage and has been shown to cause obesity and other health problems.   Your body performs at its optimal level when your blood sugar is constant.
The theory behind the Glycaemic Index is simple.  Avoid foods with a high Glycaemic index that have a drastic effect on your blood sugar levels.  A diet focusing on low GI index foods has been shown to cause weight loss over time and decrease chances of heart disease and obesity.  Diets like The South Beach diet have become very popular in recent years with their emphasis on diets rich in low GI foods to aid in weight loss.

The Glycaemic Load Effect
The bodies Glycaemic response to a  food is determined not only by the Glycaemic levels in the food but also the amount digested. This is known as Glycaemic Load.  Glycaemic Load is calculated this way:

GL = GI/100 x Net Carbs
(Net Carbs are equal to the Total Carbohydrates minus Dietary Fiber) You control your glycaemic response by consuming low-GI foods and/or by restricting your intake of carbohydrates.

Michel Montignac
The Pioneer of the Low Glycaemic Index Diet Approach
Michel Montignac (1944 – August 22, 2010) was a French diet developer who originally created the Montignac diet to help himself lose weight, which he based on research that focuses on the glycaemic index of foods, which affects the amount of glucose delivered to the blood after eating. The diet, which distinguishes between good and bad carbohydrates, became the basis for best-selling books and a chain of restaurants and stores promoting his diet regimen and was one of the theoretical predecessors of the South Beach Diet.

Montignac diet
The French are a phenomenon. This was demonstrated on the 17th of November 1991 during the American television programme Sixty Minutes: they are far and away healthier than Americans, although they spend a lot of their time eating, eat 30% more fat, do not exercise, and drink ten times more wine! And that is not all: the average body weight of French people is the lowest in the entire Western world, and their mortality rate from cardiac and circulatory disease is the lowest after Japan. The CBS broadcast was based on statistics obtained by the World Health Organisation.
So let's take a look at Americans: "For 45 years (!) 89 million (!) Americans have constantly adhered to a low-calorie nutritional system. Calories have always been in the picture. Through advertising and commercials it has become securely anchored in the consciousness of Americans", writes Michel Montignac in his book Essen, abnehmen und schlank bleiben (Eat, lose weight, stay thin). "In addition to counting all those calories, they also pay painstaking attention to getting plenty of exercise so as to be absolutely certain they do not store one calorie more than necessary. And have they been successful?
"Statistics show rather devastating results.
"Although more than one third of the population consistently applies the calorie-reduced diet method and takes intensive physical exercise every day, a weight gain can be observed. Or in figures: every third member of the current population is overweight, and every fifth American is obese."
Calorie-counting, says Montignac, is the wrong approach. A dead end. It ignores too many details. The fatty part of a piece of meat can, for example, vary considerably - and therefore also the number of calories it contains. In addition people forget to consider the time at which they eat. It has been established that the absorption of carbohydrates, fats and protein varies considerably depending on the time of day, indeed even the time of year (chronobiology). And these are only the more simple arguments. Scientists have also established that the theoretical calculation of calories never considers the conditions under which fats and carbohydrates are absorbed into the intestines. These conditions change depending on how much roughage is in food. So if that food contains much - and above all soluble - roughage, the absorption of so-called calories can be significantly reduced.
So we see that counting calories is a highly dubious matter. And calorie-reduced foods - let's say, a classical diet - is usually the beginning of lifelong overweight. Particularly if the first diet is followed by a second, third, fourth, etc.
The Montignac diet is a weight-loss diet that was popular in the 1990s, mainly in Europe. It was invented by Frenchman Michel Montignac (1944–2010), an international executive for the pharmaceutical industry, who, like his father, was overweight in his youth. His method is aimed at people wishing to lose weight efficiently and lastingly, reduce risks of heart failure, and prevent diabetes.
Carbohydrate-rich foods are classified according to glycaemic index (GI), a ranking system for carbohydrates based on their effect on blood glucose levels after meals. High-GI carbohydrates are considered "bad" (with the exception of those foodstuffs like carrots that, even though they have high GIs, have a quite low carbohydrate content and should not significantly affect blood sugar levels).

Official Website of the Montignac Method
Michel Montignac: the GI pioneer

University of Sydney (Australia)
Home of the Glycaemic Index

International table of glycaemic index and glycemic load values: 2002
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 76, No. 1, 5-56, 2002
Detailed description of Glycaemic Index Values
and
Complete List of Foods and Glycaemic Index Values

Mendosa.com
Living with Diabetes
Revised International Table of Glycaemic Index (GI) and Glycemic Load (GL) Values—2008

Harvard Medical School
Harvard Health Publications
Glycemic index and glycemic load for 100+ foods

Glycemic Index Food List
Lists and Information about the Glycemic Index

Fructose: Sweet, Low GI - But Dangerous!
Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Worse Than Sugar?

Study confirms existence of the G-spot

25 April 2012

For centuries, women have been reporting engorgement of the upper, anterior part of the vagina during the stage of sexual excitement, despite the fact the structure of this phenomenon had not been anatomically determined.

A new study published in The Journal of Sexual Medicine documents that this elusive structure, known as the G-spot,  does exist anatomically.

Exactly where is the G-spot is located?

Adam Ostrzenski, MD, PhD, of the Institute of Gynecology in St. Petersburg, FL, conducted a stratum-by-stratum anterior vaginal wall dissection on an 83-year-old cadaver. The dissection established the presence of the G-spot, a well-delineated sac structure located on the dorsal (back) perineal membrane, 16.5 mm from the upper part of the urethral meatus, creating a 35 degree angle with the lateral (side) border of the urethra.

Having three distinct regions, the G-spot emerged with dimensions of length (L) of 8.1 mm x width (W) 3.6 mm to 1.5 mm x height (H) 0.4 mm. Upon removal of the entire structure with the adjacent margin tissues, the G-spot stretched from 8.1 to 33 mm.

"This study confirmed the anatomic existence of the G-spot, which may lead to a better understanding and improvement of female sexual function," Ostrzenski concludes.

Irwin Goldstein, editor-in-chief of The Journal of Sexual Medicine believes that research in women's sexual health issues is important. "This case study in a single cadaver adds to the growing body of literature regarding women's sexual anatomy and physiology."  - (EurekAlert, April 2012)

Originally posted HERE

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