The 5 Secrets for Healthier Living

1. Stop dieting! Find the cause of your imbalance
Most people believe that you lose weight by cutting calories or fat, eating only one meal a day, or only certain foods, or by starving yourself. Research tells us that the reason most diets don't work is because the body adjusts its energy requirements by modifying cortisol levels as it loses weight. The secret is in your metabolism, or how your body converts food into energy or fat.

= Eat and drink only those things that are healthy for your body
= Decrease your sugar intake and eat low glycemic foods.

Despite all opinions on diets, there are few basic principles of human physiology that apply to all of us. Any healthy diet must be based around healthy blood sugar control and proper glycemic control. This means maintaining blood sugar levels. Ideally, you should eat many small meals a day made up of foods that are low glycemic foods, that nourish your body and help maintain and control your insulin and glucagon levels.

2. Eat 5 small meals a day (300 to 500 calories)
Eat large meals in the morning and smaller meals at night to improve your hormone and immune system. Combine protein, carbohydrates and healthy fats. Drink enough clean water, equivalent to half your weight in ounces daily. Water increases nerve conduction, improves digestive function, helps eliminate toxins in your body, and reduces your risk of colon cancer by 45% and breast cancer by 79%. A 2% drop in water in your body is enough water loss to create a foggy shot-term memory, give you trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on a computer screen or printed page. Drink a minimum 8 to 16 ounces of water when you get up in the morning and always drink purified, well, or spring water. Avoid drinking tap water.

3. Breathe
Take deep breaths often. This is excellent for the lymphatic system (circulating immune system) and clears out toxins from your body. Deep breathing will reset your nervous system.

4. Get sunlight
Absorb sunlight at least 20 to 30 minutes daily on as much skin as possible, preferably between the hours of 9 and 11 in the morning. Sun activates Vitamin D, which in turn activates all other nutrients in the body.

5. Get adequate rest and recovery time
Go to sleep by 10 PM to activate your anti-aging hormones and repair your body and mind. According to the American Sleep Disorders Association, 68% of Americans suffer from insomnia. If your hormones are balanced, you burn fat through the night. If cortisol levels are too high, you can't shut down your body and mind. Progesterone helps to turn you body off mentally and physically. Melatonin keeps you asleep so you can rebuild and repair growth hormones (anti-aging) produced during sleep.

How To Burn Fat The Easy Way...The Only Way?

1. Diet Solution:click here 
2. Why Haven't More Women & Men Who Struggle
   With Their Weight Been Shown These FACTS?

You have heard enough about losing weight with various means like dieting,calorie restriction and diet supplements.

But,I have a question for you.

Do you have a bath every day?

If you answered yes..then I have another question for you..

Why?

I know your answer is "to clean my body of all the external toxins and impurities".Right?

Ok.Now tell me what do you do to clean your body internally?Better still, what about cleaning your own mind of negative toxins everyday?

Have you ever thought about it?

You may be thinking what have these questions got to do with burning fat.Let me explain....


You eat every day and you breath every moment.These life giving acts of yours produce toxins and waste products every moment you live on this planet.


Breathing produces carbon dioxide and eating produces lots of noxious gases and sludge(waste matter).


90% of these toxins are expelled through the breath 8% are expelled through the excretory organs and 2%are expelled through the skin etc.


But the reality is...most of the population uses only 30% of their lung capacity and the colons of most of them is clogged with wastage and toxins!


This means that the toxins that are produced every moment of your exstence are getting piled up inside your own body because of lack of cleaning and internal house keeping of your body.


In other words..you only clean your body from the outside ignoring the inside where all the wastage is stored.


Your mind is another store house of all the negative emotions(mental toxins) that you experience in the course of everyday life.


These toxins are the No.1 cause of fat deposit in your body.Toxins stored around cells make fat burning almost impossible.Without getting rid of these toxins all your efforts to lose weight by dieting will go waste.


Because,


"Shifting to a healthier diet plan without getting rid of the toxins in the body is just like putting a freshly prepared cake in a bin full of garbage! The cake also becomes garbage in a short while".


This is the reason why 98%people fail on a diet.


So the only solution for burning fat effectively is by getting rid of toxins first from your body and mind.

ALLERGIES

PART 1. 
UNDERSTANDING ALLERGIC RHINITIS IN CHILDREN

Runny noses and constant sniffles are a common recurrence among adults and children alike. This phenomenon is inevitably labeled as a 'sinus problem' and often this guess is confirmed after checking with their respective doctors. However, it is really easy for many of my patients to confuse infections; both viral and bacterial, with actual allergies, subsequently leading to a less effective treatment option. For your reading pleasure, I will now explain the truth on alergies in this TWO-PART series of commonly asked questions.

WHAT IS AN ALLERGY?

An allergy occurs when the body's immune system, or the intrinsic defence system, reacts against substances or antigens to many people. These can be separated into two categories: harmful antigens and harmless antigens (allergen).

Viruses and bacteria fall under the HARMFUL category while although dust-mites, cat and dog fur and plant pollens may seem like the enemy, they are indeed harmless.

In simplified medical terms, when in contact with an allergen, your child's immune system celss would release antibodies, specifically immunoglobulin E (lgE). These antibodies bind to the allergen molecules, which eventually leads to the release of the chemical histamine. This chemical is known to cause the symptoms associated with allergy such as the common sneeze and sniffle.

Allergies are commonly suffered through the generations, as there is a genetic or hereditary basis that governs why the immune system reacts against allergens.

WHAT, THEN, IS ALLERGIC RHINITIS?

It is the condition where an irritation or allergy happens in the 'carpet lining' or mucosa, of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses. The sinuses are eight hollow cavities within the facial bones and each has a connecting doorway into the nasal cavity.

Allergies may also occurs in the lungs, skin and eyes, known respectively as asthma, eczema and allergic conjunctivitis. A child may be susceptible to one or more of the above types of allergies.

When a particular allergen is inhaled into the nose, it comes into contact with lgE that is specific for it. Histamine release leads to swelling of the mucosa and copious mucus production, causing typical sysmptoms of nose block, sneezing, itch and runny nose.

Naturally, there is avariation in severity and frequency amongs a range of patients. Some may only have blocked noses, some only sneezing and itching, but others may be faced with the full hand of symptoms.

AT WHAT AGE DOES ALLERGIC RHINITIS START?

It is believed that allergic rhinitis starts at the tender age of four, in contrast to the other allergic problems of asthma and eczema that tend to begin in infancy. However, runny and blocked noses are very common in children below four years of age. making it hard not to believe that in fact allergic rhinitis starts earlier than this in some children.

WHAT ARE THE COMMON FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO ALLERGIC RHINITIS?

The fundamental causes vary from country to country, depending on climate and degree of urbanisation, but only inhaled allergens directly cause allergy in the nose.

Examples of allergens for tropical climates like Malaysia include dust-mite excretions, fungal material and dog or cat dander. Even cockroaches can be a threat to your child's environment. In temperate climates with the four seasons, there are also plant pollens of tree, flower and grass varieties that contribute to this.

DOES WEATHER AND AIR-CONDITIONING MAKE ALLERGIC RHINITIS WORSE?

Parents commonly report that their child's sneezing and runny-nose worsens when spending a day out under the sun or when cooped within an air-conditioned room. They are half right.

Changes in humidity, temperature and certain air pollutants have an independent irritant effect on the nasal mucosa. This irritation makes the mucosa swell up, making the symptoms of allergic rhinitis appear to be worse. This is in fact a separate reaction not to be confused with allergic rhinitis.

Air pollutants may be divided into indoor and outdoor categories. An example of an outdoor air pollutant is diesel fumes while indoor pollutants include household products, pesticide and even tobacco smoke.

WHAT ABOUT FOODS THAT WE TAKE?

Food subtances may cause oral and systemic (asthma and eczema) allergic symptoms. It is said that food substances only rarely directly make allergic rhinitis worse.

Once again, it is inhaled substances that serve as allergens for allergic rhinitis. However, certain foods may modify the immune system, so that it becomes more reactive, thereby also making allergic responses more intense. This is an indirect way, in contrast to the direct allergen way.

HOW ABOUT SWIMMING?

Most swimming pools are chlorinated and it is only this chemical that would contribute to an allergic while swimming, if at all. Chlorine-related gas sits just above the surface of the water. This gas serves as an irritant, just as the weather and air-conditioning would. I truly hope you would understand that your child's allergic rhinitis is actually not make worse. What he/she might experience is a temporary irritation due to the chlorine.

Swimming is an excellent form of sport and excercise. I think a child should not be deprived of the opportunity to do so.

Continue reading on Part 2 which will be posted soon.