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  1. Wrong Ideas to Obesity Controlling During Winter

    February 22, 2010 by jie

    Bob Evans. Down on the Farm.

    Winter is the season when people are easy to get fat, and people think it is the best period to get best weight losing effect. The New Year and Christmas Day are coming, many people get ready to lose weight, but lots of people are easy to enter the “fallacies”, and go afar on the wrong weight losing road. Now we are to declare four winter weight-loss errors, so you have to be cautious be sure to stay away from them!

    * Do tensive outdoor sports.

    As we all know, doing sports is the best way to lose weight. Generally speaking, it is better to do some ease sports in winter like taking a walk, hot yoga, etc. instead of such strenuous outdoor sports as running and aerobics. Because the outdoor temperature in winter is low. After tensive sports, if the warm keeping hasn’t done well, it is easily to get cold and caught the inflection in the upper respiratory tract. When the body catchs cold, blood circulation will slow down, this promote the growth of fat on the other hand. Therefore, it is very important to put on warm clothes and shoes before exercise.

    * To select low-calorie food only.

    High-calorie diet is fatal to lose weight, it is a well-known secret. To control the daily intake of calories, is the thing that women in weight loss are very concerned. However, if your intake of calories is too low during the winter, it will neither satisfy the body’s nutritional needs, nor withstand the coldness. Experts have pointed out that the lowest calorie that man should take must above 1400 therm.

    * Don’t eat candy. Refuse the black chocolate.

    It is generally believed that eating sugar foods are most likely to gain weight, so that such food is deprivatively seemed to be a consensus of thin. But the new research expresses that it’s easier to get weight by eating high-fat food than the same mount of sugar. Besides, the calorie of carbohydrate foods is easy to be released by human organs, instead of being stored by the body easily like that of fatty foods. In addition, during time of your weight loss, the chocolate which are compared to a prickly pear by people cannot but nothing by mouth. However, the dark chocolate is quite different from chocolate. According to a survey, dark chocolate not only makes people happy, it also has a good effect on losing weight like green tea.

    * Obsessed with diet pills.

    Having an immediate weight loss are the dreams pursued by many people, so the slimming products has become an indispensable way of losing weight. But many people without knowing that our metabolism will be slowed down in winter just like animals. If you take diet pills, the hormone of the pills will be left inside the body for a long period of time, which will do harm to man’s health. The weight-loss foods are mainly available in the market slimming tea, high in fiber pills and so on. Slimming teas usually contain diuretics. In fact what the role they playing is the effect of dehydration while the water is easy to add back through the water. High fibre pill have the effect of swelling.It can make people feel full, and make people lose weight with chronic use. However, this kind of pills may cause malnutrition of the human body, especially in winter when human body is relative weak, the danger will be bigger.

    The prerequisite of losing weight is healthy. For your healthy, please stop taking diet pills in winter.


  2. Three Taboos of Bathing in winter

    January 27, 2010 by jie

    In the cold winter, it is a rather pleasant thing to have a comfortable hot bath, but it is not necessarily a good thing to wash for a long time.

    When people feel fatigue, a typical performance is muscle soreness, while taking a bath is indeed a simple and effective way to recover from fatigue. Once hospital professor once pointed out that there are three taboos about winter bathing:

    First, the water temperature should not be too heated.

    Appropriate water temperature( close to body temperature, namely, 37-41 ℃) can accelerate the body metabolism, while on the contrary, if the temperature is too high, it will cause weariness due to large consumption of energy. Meanwhile, the hot water will wash out the secreted grease and the protective bacteria normally parasitized on the skin surface, hurting their cuticle and causing itching, dryness and other symptoms.

    Second, the bathing time should not be too long.

    According to a report, tap water is usually disinfected with chlorine; and researches have shown that prolonged bathing with chlorine water will irritate the airways, causing various diseases. In addition, if people take a long-term bath, then the blood supply to head will relatively decrease, which can easily lead to cerebral ischemia and arouse accidents, especially the elderly. Besides, it’s easy to cause cardiac ischemia and hypoxia, resulting in coronary artery spasm, thrombosis, and even inducing serious arrhythmia and sudden death.

    The right time should be 20-minute bath, 10-15 minutes’ shower.

    Third, room temperature must not be too high. Many people are afraid of catching a cold in winter, so they always adjust the bathroom at a very high temperature. On the contrary, it will result in a large difference between inside and outside the room, which is easier to get cold instead.

    In addition, after eating too full or on an empty stomach, people are not suitable to take a bath; otherwise, it will bring on hypoglycemia or even faintness. And immediately washing after a meal will cause muscle blood vessels to expand, but the gastrointestinal blood to decrease.

    In view of the above, people can drink a cup of hot water before bathing, so as to supplement systemic blood volume, and have another cup of warm water after finishing bathing, in order to complement water; meanwhile, people had better choose a neutral soap or shower gel, so as to avoid the dryness of skin owing to the excessive removal of sebum.

    With regard to some special groups, experts suggest that pregnant women should take shower; and the elderly and children’s resistance is relatively bad, so their bathing frequency should be appropriately reduced. What’s more, people suffering from severe coronary diseases and high blood pressure should take drugs to prevent accidents before taking a bath; as for children, parents need to stay around to take care of them while bathing.


  3. How to Improve the Immune System

    January 15, 2010 by dee

    It is colder and colder with the arrival of winter, which is a high period of infectious diseases, along with the large temperature difference between indoor and outdoor, which can easily lead to various diseases; therefore it is very necessary for people to strengthen body resistance. Here are some advice for people to strengthen body resistance and immune system

    1. Be sure to add plenty of protein. Protein is an important material basis for the construction of the body, and its main function is to make up and repair human tissues and organs, and to be involved in the composition of various active substances. So protein is the most important nutrition we need. It is better to eat milk, eggs, beef, fish, lamb, duck, etc., as well as a variety of soy protein-rich beans. American Heart Association recommends everyone to eat eggs every day. Of course, you must control the daily intake of 300 milligrams of cholesterol. It also recommends eating fish twice a week, Lichtenstein said: “Eating fish can reduce the likelihood of heart disease.”

    2. Enhance the immunity by sleep. The well-known American immunologist discovered it through “self-sleep” test that a good sleep allows the body’s two kinds of lymphocyte cells to increase significantly. The Russian medical experts found that during sleep the body will produce a kind of sleep cells known as wall acid factor, which prompts an increase in white blood cells, the activity of macrophages and increase of liver detoxification function, so that the invasive bacteria and viruses are eradicated.

    3. Drink less. Do not drink low – degree wine more than 100 ml everyday, and beer more than one bottle. Because alcohol can have a negative impaction on the human body, even if the grape wine which can lower cholesterol. Therefore people should limited drinking.

    4. To do more exercise. It is believed that everyone knows the advantages of exercise. Though it is cold in winter, go out and do some exercise, breathe some fresh air by the way, you physique will improve a lot. What’s more, do sleep early and get up early. Especially remember not to stay up late.

    5. Be optimistic. Optimism can keep the human body at an optimal state. In this society filled with competition and pressure, tremendous psychological pressure would lead to the increase of hormones, which can inhibit the immune system, so the body is vulnerable to influenza or other diseases.


  4. Rope Jumping – Good Exercise for Losing Weight in Winter

    January 12, 2010 by jie

    Many girls are willing to know which method is the healthiest and the most effective for losing weight in winter. Now let’s listen to the expert and those who have much experience of losing weight. Their answer is rope jumping and it’s confirmed by a number of fitness professionals. You may ask why rope jumping is a good choice for losing weight. Let’s see what the professionals are saying.

    First of all, ignoring losing weight, rope jumping also is one of the best sports for exercise. It’s easy to learn. No matter you are young or old, you can do it. Moreover, you can do it at any time and any place, in the break of work, in your room, in the yard or garden and so on. Even if you just jumped 10 minutes, it’s almost the same of jogging for 30 minutes and you would practice well. In addition, rope jumping can improve heart function and make blood to get more oxygen to maintain a strong and healthy cardiovascular system.
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    Second, there are many types for rope jumping. You can do the simple one. If you are interested, you can learn some complicated ones. Or you can open your imagine and create some new types and invite friends to join in with you to play. You not only get exercise, but also have a good time with friends.

    At last, as we known, more and more entertainment stars chose rope jumping as the method of exercise and keeping in good shape, this also show that rope jumping is becoming more popular as the exercise for losing weight. Because rope jumping can make the muscle strong, eliminate the excess fat of hip and thighs, keep your body fit and enable you agile. The effect of rope jumping for losing weight is not so obvious as drug or diet, but it is healthy and people will not get fat again if they keep exercise.

    Furthermore, expert says rope jumping is rather suitable for female doing in lower temperature. That’s why it is the good exercise for losing weight in winter. So, girls and ladies, those who want to lose weight, let’s move! Let’s join in the sport of rope jumping which is the popular and fit method in the world now.