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		<title>Exercise and Hypertension</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems as though many Americans are living a life that leads to high blood pressure or hypertension. As people age, the situation gets worse. Nearly half of all older Americans have hypertension. This disease makes people five times more prone to strokes, three times more likely to have a heart attack, and two to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It seems as though many Americans are living a life that leads to high blood pressure or hypertension. As people age, the situation gets worse. Nearly half of all older Americans have hypertension. This disease makes people five times more prone to strokes, three times more likely to have a heart attack, and two to three times more likely to experience a heart failure.</p>
<p>The problem with this disease is that nearly one third of the folks who have hypertension do not know it because they never feel any direct pain. But overtime the force of that pressure damages the inside surface of your blood vessels. </p>
<p>However, according to experts, hypertension is not predestined. Reducing salt intake, adopting a desirable dietary pattern losing weight and exercising can all help prevent hypertension.</p>
<p>Obviously, quitting bad habits and eating a low fat diet will help, but the most significant part that you can do is to exercise. And just as exercise strengthens and improves limb muscles, it also enhances the health of the heart muscles. </p>
<p>Heart and Exercise</p>
<p>The exercise stimulates the development of new connections between the impaired and the nearly normal blood vessels, so people who exercise had a better blood supply to all the muscle tissue of the heart.</p>
<p>The human heart basically, supply blood to an area of the heart damaged in a </p>
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		<title>2 Easy Ways To Conquer Weight Loss Plateau</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 18:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You were probably losing weight successfully for the first few weeks after you joined a new diet program, only to be stuck to a certain point later. When people start a diet program they rapidly lose a few pounds, because most diet programs are created to offer you &#8216;instant weight loss&#8217;. Sadly enough, this &#8216;instant [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You were probably losing weight successfully for the first few weeks after you joined a new <a href="http://findarticlesabout.com/3-diet-tips-for-you/">diet program</a>, only to be stuck to a certain point later. When people start a diet program they rapidly lose a few pounds, because most diet programs are created to offer you &#8216;instant weight loss&#8217;. Sadly enough, this &#8216;instant weight loss&#8217; is more often than not &#8216;temporary&#8217; weight loss.</p>
<p>You will lose weight very quickly for the first few weeks but after that, you will suddenly discover that the scale is not going down anymore! You are not losing any more weight than what you have lost already! You have hit a situation commonly known as weight loss plateau! In such situations, the only remedy is a complete overhaul of your lifestyle habits.</p>
<p>You have probably done the same sets of exercises as well as ate the same types of foods over and over again during those first few weeks when you were losing weight. As a result your body got accustomed to your diet and exercise routine. When that happened, your weight loss methods failed to bring any sustainable results!</p>
<p>If you want to go beyond this point, you need to change your diet and exercise regimen.</p>
<p>Here are two methods you need to follow to get out of the weight loss plateau.</p>
<p>1. Calorie-counting is not the way to go: When you count your calories, you basically limit the intake of calories to an abnormally low level. When you eat low calorie foods, there is no incentive for your body to increase your metabolic rate since it has to burn only a few calories. The result is that your metabolic rate always remains at a very low level. When your metabolic rate is low, you aren&#8217;t able to burn fat!</p>
<p>In order to burn fat and lose weight successfully, you need to forget about calorie counting and eat enough so that your body is forced to keep your metabolic rate at a high level. Your body needs fuel to burn fat, and it can get that fuel only from foods!</p>
<p>2. Exercise more: If you have been avoiding exercises altogether, or have been doing only light exercises, then you cannot lose weight. Weight loss is only possible if you perform high intensity workouts daily. Instead of being afraid of exercises, try to love them. Exercises are yet another powerful way of increasing your metabolic rate.</p>
<p>Follow these two methods and you will soon be able to acquire the slim body you desire!</p>
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		<title>The 2 Things You Should Do To Lose Weight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are serious about weight loss, I mean, healthy and permanent weight loss, it is important for you to set realistic goals. Most people have no set goals in mind except that of losing weight very quickly. The quicker they can lose weight, the better. They have no idea of how much time it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are serious about weight loss, I mean, healthy and permanent weight loss, it is important for you to set realistic goals. Most people have no set goals in mind except that of losing weight very quickly. The quicker they can lose weight, the better. They have no idea of how much time it takes to lose weight healthily.</p>
<p>Diet: These people get attracted to fad diets and weight loss pills that promise the moon. While they end up losing a few pounds, that is not fat loss. With most of the fad diets, you will lose more water and muscles than fat. I am sure you will agree that this is an unhealthy way of losing weight! Moreover, such weight loss is not permanent. Sooner or later you will regain all your \\\\&#8217;lost\\\\&#8217; pounds.</p>
<p>One more thing: your aim shouldn\\\\&#8217;t be to have a body like Jessica Alba or Victoria Beckham; remember that they have money to help them maintain that slim figure, which you probably don\\\\&#8217;t have.</p>
<p>Moreover, you don\\\\&#8217;t need to be like them. To become healthy, all you need is to lose enough weight so that you can reach your ideal body weight! To do that, you won\\\\&#8217;t need to use any fad diets or starve for weeks. All you need to do is to eat right and include the right dose of exercises with it; with this combo, you are sure to lose all those tenacious pounds!</p>
<p>I would suggest that you forget about the word \\\\&#8217;dieting\\\\&#8217; and focus on healthy eating instead! For starters, you can replace fizzy drinks and soda with water; this way, you will be able to quench your thirst without getting any fatter. Some people think that soft drinks that come with the \\\\&#8217;low-calorie\\\\&#8217; tag are okay. However, this is wrong! Low-calorie soft drinks not only taste bad, but being deprived of fructose, they make you crave for sugar.</p>
<p>You should also replace white flour with whole grain wheat. Whole grain wheat contains little fat. Being rich in protein and fiber, it will help you with weight loss!</p>
<p>Exercises: Speaking of exercises, weight training is one of the best exercises for quick weight loss. Contrary to what women think, not only is this exercise not just for men, it also won\\\\&#8217;t take away the femininity of women.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, if one wants to build huge muscles like bodybuilders, the presence of a hormone called testererone is important, which women don\\\\&#8217;t have. Besides, bodybuilders aren\\\\&#8217;t able to build muscles just by doing exercises. They also use protein shakes, supplements and steroids to acquire the muscular body.</p>
<p>There are many other benefits of exercises than just weight loss. Exercises will make you more energetic; you get this extra energy by burning your fat deposits. Apart from that, you will also be able to sleep more soundly.</p>
<p>Another way you can benefit from exercises is that they help you build strong lean muscles, improve your immune system and stamina. Exercises also help in improving the tone and appearance of skin, something which most women are obsessed with!</p>
<p>PS: We have spent countless hours researching all of the weight loss programs on the market.  On this <a title="Weight Loss" href="http://www.activehealthtalk.com/Weight-Loss-Product-Reviews/" target="_blank"><strong>wightloss program</strong></a> review site site, you will find several programs that we have found to be the best.</p>
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		<title>Diabetes Symptoms</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people may not take notice of diabetes symptoms because so many of them don’t seem serious enough to attach to an actual disease. Feelings of nausea, for instance, are felt by so many people so often and for such a wide variety of reasons that most people never even think to associate it with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people may not take notice of diabetes symptoms because so many of them don’t seem serious enough to attach to an actual disease. Feelings of nausea, for instance, are felt by so many people so often and for such a wide variety of reasons that most people never even think to associate it with diabetes. And because we all seem to be working longer hours than ever before and having to get up earlier in an attempt to avoid spending an hour or two in traffic, feelings of fatigue and tiredness are usually associated with the price of living in the 21st century. Even the need to urinate more frequently usually goes unnoticed. The fact is, however, that all of these can point to the onset of diabetes.</p>
<p>One of the problems associated with recognizing diabetes symptoms is that the Type I version of the disease builds gradually. The first thing you may notice is the tiredness. While precious few of us don’t experience occasional bouts of fatigue, diabetes-related tiredness tends to be more noticeable. For one thing, the tiredness isn’t occasional; it lingers on and on. Even so, it may be very easy to ignore the severity of the fatigue and fail to associate it with diabetes.</p>
<p>Very often, a diabetes patient won’t begin to question his health until subsequent symptoms appear. The extreme fatigue begins to be accompanied by frequent thirst. Not just the usual kind of thirst where you may finish off a 20 ounce bottle in less than an hour, but an unusual thirst where you may go through two or more 20 ounce bottles in an hour.</p>
<p>But even a sudden spike in thirst can often be attributed to something else, such as perhaps the heat. Less likely to be so casually ignored, however, is one of the more extreme diabetes symptoms. Many patients experience feelings of intense hunger while they are losing weight. This is a symptom that is not typical of normalcy. Most people who are not on a diet and who are eating regularly don’t feel continually hungry while also losing weight. At this point, most people who have been ignoring other symptoms sit up and take notice. Additional diabetes symptoms that people tend to take notice of include blurred vision, frequent infections and sores that either take a long time to heal or don’t heal at all.</p>
<p>One of the problems in diagnosing diabetes is that not everybody experiences the same symptoms. Another problem is that symptoms can vary depending on whether you are suffering from Type I or Type II diabetes. Although both types share certain symptoms such as frequent urination, dry mouth and increased thirst, there are other symptoms that are usually unique to each type. For instance, weight loss with continued hunger is primarily associated with Type I. On the other hand, leg pain and yeast infections are common symptoms of Type II.</p>
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