WEIGHT LOSS

Weight loss can be put into several categories:
1) a desire to loss weight due to obesity
2) spontaneous weight loss or a poor appetite, which often signifies there are other conditions present and should be looked into further
3) anorexia nervosa
4) bulimia
5) underweight.
When planning to lose weight, the following herbs and supplements help keep the body functioning properly and give you the nutrients you need. Follow Truman's Good-Tasting Herbal Diet as printed in The ALTERNATIVE Health & Herbs REMEDIES Catalog. Please pick from the following list below as there is something there for everybody..
Weight Loss Support
Did you know that more people around the world are obese than ever before? It’s a huge issue – affecting men and women, young and old, rich and poor. Obesity poses a huge public health problem as excess body fat contributes to an array of medical conditions and diseases. The non-maintenance of a healthy weight for your height can easily increase your risk of contracting conditions such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, types of cancers and other conditions such as gallstones.
Diet & Weight Loss
When we discover that we are heavier than we want to be, we have a natural inclination to eat less food, skip lunch or eat only a tiny amount of our dinner in the hope that if we eat less our body will burn off some of its fat. But that is not necessarily true, because eating less actually makes it more difficult to lose weight.
So a right diet and an effective weight loss is a task that requires a conscious, intentional effort. In other words, calorie charts, diet sheets, scales, and good intentions are often not adequate tools to regulate body weight over a lifetime. If weight regulation is going to be successful, it must take place over a longer period of time and it must allow the body to adjust to the new calorie requirements and intake.
Exercise & Fitness
Quality of life is what we all want and good health helps us achieve a high quality of life. Maintaining our health should be our first goal and fitness makes us want to live it every day. People who diet without exercising often get fatter with time, although their weight may initially drop while dieting; such weight loss consists mostly of water and muscle. When the weight returns, it comes back as fat.
To avoid getting fatter over time, increase your metabolism by making exercises regularly. Select an exercise routine that you are comfortable with. Physical fitness is to the human body what fine tuning is to an engine: it enables us to perform up to our potential.
Health & Nutrition
Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Nutrition is a cornerstone that affects and defines the health of all people, rich and poor. It paves the way for the mankind to grow, develop, work, play, resist infection and aspire to realization of our fullest potential as individuals and societies. Do you remember the saying, An apple a day keeps the doctor away? There's more truth to this saying than we once thought. What you do or don't eat and drink can definitely make a difference to your health.
Weight Loss Programs
Three universal goals all the people around the world share are: to live longer, to live free of illness and to control our weight. Almost any of the commercial weight-loss programs can work, but only if they motivate you sufficiently to decrease the calories you eat or increase the amount of calories you burn each day. A few elements have to be included in a responsible and safe weight loss program such as the five following features: The diet should be safe and include all of the Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) for vitamins, minerals, and protein. It has to be low in calories (energy) only, not in essential foodstuffs.
Herbal Supplements:

Hippocrates said: "Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food." So the knowledge that good nutrition and a balanced diet is helping to maintain health is not new, or news.
A cornerstone of belief in most alternative systems is to avoid the "modern, affluent diet" and replace it with a diet rich in whole, organic products, often vegetarian in approach. The use of herbs in medicine is ancient in its origins, and several astonishing examples are well known to both physicians and the public. Basic to the use of herbs in alternative medicine is the belief, that whole plant material is superior to synthesized or isolated chemicals derived from plant sources.
The material may be flowers, bark, roots, or leaves, used singly or in combination, often taken in the form of teas, or ground and taken as tablets, or used in salves. Botanicals are sold in many forms: as fresh or dried products; liquid or solid extracts; and tablets, capsules, powders, and tea bags.
Many people believe that products labeled as "natural" are safe and good for them. This is not necessarily true because the safety of a botanical depends on many things, such as its chemical makeup, how it works in the body, how it is prepared, and the dose used.
Their action ranges from mild till powerful (potent), a botanical with mild action may have subtle effects. Chamomile and peppermint, both mild botanicals, are usually taken as teas to aid digestion and are generally considered safe for self-administration. Hoodia, for example, in the Kalahari Desert, could become the newest weapon in the war against obesity, Herbalife is an extra ammunition to target additional risk factors like cholesterol, and Soy is regarded as a "functional food".
Regardless of the causes of being overweight, changing eating and exercise habits are some very important steps in declaring war to gained fat. Losing weight is possible, but you have to set your goals, make a weight loss plan and take in fewer calories than you burn up.
The benchmark of a healthy weight for adults is the Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator. This is based on the height and weight in imperial or metric.
A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is considered healthy. Less than this is under weight and can be bad for your health. A person with a BMI between 25.00 and 29.90 is considered to be overweight and he or she should try to cut down on sugar and fat foods and also increase the physical activity. A BMI of 30 means that the person is obese and it is important that you try to lose some weight and should consider asking for help from your herbalist.
Set goals. Pay attention of what you are eating, how you are eating, and when you are eating. Cut down sugary, carbonated drinks. Make a proper time and space for eating. Don't eat on the go. Work out ways to be more physically active. Set short term targets. You should have a weight loss plan for 6 months, followed by a period of maintenance.

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