Weight Loss - Improve your immunity

Immunity is the ability for your body to fight off viral infections and be immune. The immunity in a person can be considerably effected by the lifestyle and diet of that person. People who catch cold, can recover quicker, and in some cases even prevent catching cold in the first place, as long as they help their bodies to improve its immunity.

Improve your immunity

There are a number of things you could do to make significant improvements in your immunity. They are:

Eat anti-viral breakfast
Research has shown that eating the right breakfast can help fight the cold virus. Eating a large breakfast in winter has shown to increase the blood level's Gamma Interferon by 450%. Gamma Interferon is body's natural anti-viral agent. You should aim to eat around 1,200 calories (not just any calories though, it has to be quality food such as porridge, banana, slices of bacon, eggs, toast, peanut butter, jam.). Green Tea has also been shown to help the cold bug replicating in the body
Stress out the system
Research has shown that short-term controlled stress will boost your immune system. This is because when you are stressed, your SI gA levels dramatically increases. The short-term controlled stress could be either through work (by taking on jobs with tight deadlines, and must not be longer than a day or two), or even, you could play a video game that puts you on edge.
Sleep more
Research has shown that if your sleep decreases by 40%, your immunity will decrease by 50%. Its therefore important that you sleep for eight hours.
Exercise
Exercise helps to increase the white blood cells, which strengthens the immunity system. But over doing an exercise session will have the adverse effect. You should aim for 60 minutes of moderate exercise.
Whey Protein
Whey protein (you can buy this from most health shops) has been shown to help you fight the cold virus.

Children & Obesity

In simple terms, obesity is caused when the body stores excessive calories. Obesity in civilized countries is reaching epidemic proportions. What is worrying is that the children too are now more obese than ever before in the history of man kind!

Child Obesity and Weight Loss

Calories and Weight Loss

Weight loss depends on the amount of calorie intake. Calories are used by the body to perform its day-to-day functions. However, when the calories taken in is greater than the energy burnt, then the excess calories are stored as fat. The most common reasons for excessive consumption of calories are:

Psychological
Emotional
Lack of knowledge
Habit

calories and weight loss

Weight loss plans

There are a number of VERY dangerous diet plans used to target weight loss. A dangerous, or misleading, diet is one which provides "rapid" result. Remember, in order for a diet to be effective and safe, your body needs time to adjust to the change in your lifestyle. This is because rapid dieting will almost always have health consequences, and in fact research has also shown that as soon as your body adjusts to the diet, you will start to put on weight at even a higher rate than before.

Weight loss diet

Weight Loss plans to be avoided

For legal reasons we are unable to actually name dangerous or misleading weight loss diets, however, the following is a list which should help you identify these diets for yourself.

Any diet that cuts out any essential food groups (Specially carbohydrates!)
Any diet that promises or guarantees fast result
Any diet that involves you drinking only liquid food.
Any diet that involves you buying processed and ready made "food substitutes".

Weight loss diets

Diet

The food you eat is the single most important factor in your weight loss program. Weight loss is only achieved through a healthy diet.

Weight loss diet and health

Exercise

Exercise is vital not only to a safe weight loss plan, but, is also crucial to the general operation and well being of the human body.

Weight loss exercise

Measuring Body Fat

Measuring the Body Fat is a much more accurate way of measuring how your weight loss program is going than using a bathroom scale. The bathroom scales are highly misleading!

Measure Body Fat

Swimming

Swimming is a VERY effective and safe way of burning calories. Its one of the safest ways of exercising as you do not put any excessive force on the joints.

Swimming

Walking

Walking is one of the safest form of exercise as you burn those calories without excessive wear and tear on the joints.

Walking

Pilates and Yoga

Pilates and Yoga are important to any weight loss program as they both encourage good body posture and alignment.

Pilates