Our generation is facing over-weight problems and everyday, this problem is becoming dreadful. Weight issues are one of the most concerning issues that need good attention. Ask an obese person how tough it is to get back to a proper body shape. Many of us are struggling with this problem. And with weight issues come many health issues for free. Yes, there are many problems related to obesity.

Hypertension, cholesterol, heart attacks etc are some of the common results of obesity. It can be understood why many websites and magazines have come up with topics showing you ways of weight loss.
Quick weight loss mainly means losing weight very quickly with diet aids like diet pills and supplements.

It is a controversial term and there are some people who support as well as some, who are against it. The supporters boast that quick weight loss programs fetch awesome results. However, there are some flaws associated with it. We get into crash diets and impatiently try out for quick weight loss. However, quick weight loss cannot be a permanent solution. It is important to eat in such a way that your body gets all the required nutrition and yet the weight can be kept under check.

Risks Associated With Quick Weight Loss

There are many books, websites and magazines telling you to start quick weight loss with only a few food types. However, if you continue to depend on a few food items, then this is not practical. This is because if you lose weight in this manner, you tend to increase weight again due to the intensified craving for food. Also, you may fall ill, as your body may lose required nutrients. There are many eating disorders associated with it. Quick weight loss can lead to worse results rather than any benefits. It is important to consult a good dietician or your physician before you take any hasty decision.

What Is Sensible Weight Loss?

It is important to eat sensibly. Sensible weight loss is better than quick weight loss and has more impact on the reduction of the body fat on a long time basis. But the sad part is that we do not understand the importance or meaning of sensible weight loss. If you drink plenty of water, have five small meals a day at regular intervals, eat more fibers and exercise regularly, then you can definitely feel the benefits of weight loss. A healthy diet includes whole grains, fruits, vegetables, dairy products with low fat and a lot of water. Also, regular physical activity is very important for good health and weight loss. Your body must get all the required nourishment and this will help you to keep fit and healthy. Sensible weight loss is all about losing weight with out losing nourishment.

What Majority Of Doctors Say?

Well, most of the doctors support the go-slow approach. Quick weight loss may lead to many eating disorders and other health problems. Body has a tendency to lose good amount of pounds, but it is safe to lose around one or two pounds of weight per week. An effective diet plan with an exercise schedule can help you lose weight in a safe manner.

Conclusion

The best advice for losing weight is to see a dietician or a physician who can prescribe you a healthy and nutritious diet for your body. This must be followed with a regular exercise regime. This way you can lose your weight not quickly but sensibly and with a long-term point of view to not gain the same weight back.

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Navigating the maze of foods containing gluten and wheat can be daunting if you’re intolerant or allergic to these substances. For some, eating a bit of wheat or gluten will produce mild symptoms that are inconvenient at worst.

For others, ingesting such foods can be life threatening. How can you be certain that the foods you’re eating are free from wheat and gluten? First, read ingredient labels when shopping. Never make assumptions.

There are many food items on the market that contain wheat or wheat gluten, but you’d never guess it from looking at them. Also, when reading labels, know what to look for. There are lots of ingredients listed that don’t have the words “wheat” or “gluten” in them.

The following is a list and brief description of ingredients to avoid:

Hydrolyzed Plant Protein or Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HPP or HVP) - These are not acceptable because it doesn’t identify what the plant source is. Under new laws, the plant source must be identified, as in Hydrolyzed Corn Protein.

Modified Food Starch – There’s no requirement for identifying the plant source, but if wheat is being used, by law it needs to be labeled as Modified Wheat Starch.

Natural and/or Artificial Flavorings - Sometimes hydrolyzed protein may be used for flavoring, and sometimes barley, malt or rye derivatives are used for flavoring. It’s best to contact the manufacturer to find out if they’re adding any type of barley malt/syrup or extract to their flavoring, and what type, if any, of hydrolyzed protein is being used.

Starches - Often used as binding agents and thickeners in seasonings, in the US, starch refers to corn. If other starches are being used, they must be identified.

Dextrin - Also used as a thickener, dextrin can be made of corn, rice, tapioca, wheat or potato. If wheat is used, it should be identified as Wheat Dextrin

Individual spices - Individual spices won’t contain gluten, but a mixture might carry wheat starch as a binding agent. It will be noted on the label.

Previously, some ingredients were viewed as suspect, but are now considered to be gluten-free. They are:

• Maltodextrin
• Glucose Syrup
• Carmel Coloring
• Citric Acid
• Distilled Vinegars (Malt Vinegars are NOT gluten free)

When dining out, make sure you ask plenty of questions. You can call ahead and ask for information regarding wheat and gluten free menu items, or if you’ll be eating at a well-known chain restaurant, you can check out their website for wheat and gluten free menu details.

Many fine restaurants (and even fast-food restaurants) make a point of providing this information to their customers. When you’re out - and in need of a snack - make sure you have gluten and wheat-free snack bars available, which can be purchased online and at health food stores.

When you’ve been invited to a friend’s for dinner, mention beforehand that you must eat wheat and gluten free diet. They will appreciate the heads up, but may need to be educated about what that entails.

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Here, is the swiftest safe slimming program that is scientifically sound — a diet that wages lightning warfare against fat in true blitzkrieg fashion. It is a low-calorie, high-protein diet with sufficient carbohydrate to burn up fat but it contains an absolute minimum of foods furnishing fat calories since your object is to consume these from your ample corporeal reserve.

10 Days—10 Pounds!

The fatter you are, the more you can expect to lose on this diet. The average overweight person who is reasonably active physically can anticipate an actual fat loss of about 5 pounds in 10 days. Total loss of weight should be even greater and immensely gratifying. An average loss of a pound a day, or a total of 10 pounds at the end of the io-day period is not too much to hope for as the readjusting tissues begin to eliminate surplus water.

Your actual weight loss will depend upon physical activity, previous caloric diet level, rate of metabolism, tendency of tissues to retain water, and other factors. In rare cases of extreme water retention it may take four or five more days to show maximum weight loss, but when it does show up it often does so with pleasing suddenness. If you don’t get results on this diet—we hate to say it —the suspicion is in order that you’re doing between-meal “piecing” or sneaking in an extra snack here and there. At its level of approximately 750 calories, weight loss is inevitable.

Take as much water, black coffee or clear tea as you wish. Restrict salt, though this is unnecessary unless there is actual water retention.

Use saccharin for sweetening coffee or tea.

Use lemon or orange in tea.

Use salt, pepper and vinegar in salad dressings.

Take a daily teaspoon of baking soda in water to guard against possible acidosis.

Take a daily tablespoon of calcium phosphate for mineral values if your doctor approves.

Change the order of foods within the day. Use the milk allowance in coffee or tea.

Add white of a second egg to egg portions for greater satisfaction, few calories.

Change the order of a day’s complete menu from one day to another if it helps you better to utilize cans of opened foods.

Substitute one meat for another (but retain the two servings of liver). Use buttermilk instead of skim milk.

You Must:

Boil or poach eggs (any method except frying). Broil, boil, bake or roast meats, never fry them. Use water-packed apricots, peaches, etc., or drain off the heavy syrup. Eat only the lean portion of meats.

You Must Not

Use mayonnaise or oil dressings (mineral oil is permissible but may prevent Vitamin A absorption from vegetables; Vitamin Cocktail guards against this).

Use sugar or butter, cream or fats in foods or their preparation.
Omit items (except coffee or tea) or eat less food than is allowed per day.

Continue the diet beyond ten days without your doctor’s permission, or begin it if he advises against rapid reduction (the diet is perfectly safe for anyone in normal health).

Vitamin Cocktail

This tasty and vitamin-packed little drink is a valuable accessory to any reducing diet—splendid even if you aren’t reducing, for that matter. It is rich in Vitamins A, C, the B complex, and D, and guards against deficiency of these essentials in restricted diets. The calorie value is negligible considering its vitamin richness. Mix fresh daily and serve chilled.

Mix a tablespoon of dried brewer’s yeast with five drops of haliver oil with viosterol (or other A and D concentrate) in ½ glass of tomato juice. Substitute other fruit juices if you prefer; some persons find milk a more pleasing vehicle than juices. Or you may prefer to munch brewer’s yeast tablets, take one haliver oil capsule per day, and include citrus juices for all-around vitamin protection.

FIRST DAY—MONDAY

Breakfast
6 halves canned or stewed apricots
Black coffee

Lunch
Broiled hamburger, 2 patties
Generous lettuce, tomato and cucumber salad
2 glass whole milk
Coffee or tea

Dinner
Vitamin Cocktail or grapefruit juice
Lean steak, broiled
½ cup string beans
Raw celery, 4 stalks
Coffee or tea

SECOND DAY—TUESDAY

Breakfast
1 egg, boiled or poached
1 slice whole wheat bread or toast
Coffee

Lunch
1 egg, boiled or poached
Asparagus, 8-10 stalks
2 glass skim milk or buttermilk
Coffee or tea

Dinner
1 cup clear consommé
Liver, beef or calf, large serving, pan broiled
½ cup cauliflower
½ sliced tomato
Coffee or tea

THIRD DAY— WEDNESDAY

Breakfast
Vitamin Cocktail or tomato juice
Coffee

Lunch
Lean broiled steak
½ cup string beans
Coleslaw
½ glass whole milk
Coffee or tea

Dinner
1 cup bouillon
2 pork chops, broiled, lean meat only
½ cup stewed celery
Mixed green salad: endive, onion, lettuce, green pepper, radish, cucumber, to suit
Coffee or tea

FOURTH DAY-THURSDAY

Breakfast
1 egg, boiled or poached
1 slice whole wheat bread or toast
Coffee

Lunch
1 egg boiled or poached
½ cup spinach, broccoli or beet greens
Raw celery, 4 stalks
½ glass skim milk

Dinner
1 cup bouillon
Broiled chicken (lean meat of ½ broiler)
Tossed salad: lettuce, tomato, cucumber,
radish, chopped parsley 1 sliced orange Coffee or tea

FIFTH DAY-FRIDAY

Breakfast
1 egg, boiled or poached
1 slice whole wheat toast or bread
Coffee

Lunch
Poached egg on spinach
½ cup cauliflower
½ glass skim milk
Coffee or tea

Dinner
1 cup clear consommé
Liberal serving of fish with lemon
(Haddock, sole, halibut, cod,
whitefish, etc., but not oily fishes
such as salmon or tuna)
Raw salad: shredded cabbage, grated carrot,
chopped parsley and green pepper
Coffee or tea

SIXTH DAY—SATURDAY

Breakfast
1 sliced orange
Coffee

Lunch
Lean steak, broiled
Coleslaw
½ cup string beans
½ glass whole milk
Coffee or tea

Dinner
Vitamin Cocktail or tomato juice
2 lamb chops or
2 small pork chops,
broiled, lean meat only
Asparagus, 8-10 stalks Coffee or tea

SEVENTH DAY—SUNDAY

Breakfast
Vitamin Cocktail or grapefruit juice
1 egg boiled or poached
Coffee

Dinner
1 cup consommé
Serving lean roast beef, or
½ breast of chicken
½ cup broccoli or beet greens Sliced tomato on lettuce
Coffee or tea
60

Supper
2 slices lean beef from Sunday roast
½ cup string beans
½ glass whole milk
2 halves canned peaches (or 1fresh)
Coffee or tea

EIGHTH DAY—MONDAY

Breakfast
1 egg, boiled or poached
1 slice whole wheat bread or toast
Coffee

Lunch
1 egg, boiled or poached
½ cup stewed tomatoes
1 cup shredded cabbage with chopped
parsley and green pepper
½ glass skim milk
Coffee or tea

Dinner
Vitamin Cocktail or orange juice
2 broiled veal chops, lean meat only
½ cup stewed celery
½ grapefruit
Coffee or tea

NINTH DAY—TUESDAY

Breakfast
Sliced tomato on green lettuce leaves
Coffee

Lunch
Broiled hamburger, 2 patties
1 cup boiled cabbage
½ glass whole milk

Dinner
Vitamin Cocktail or tomato juice
Liver, beef or calf, large serving,
pan broiled
½ cup spinach, or beet greens Raw celery, 4 stalks
Coffee or tea

TENTH DAY—WEDNESDAY

Breakfast
½ grapefruit Coffee

Lunch
2 boiled or poached eggs
Coleslaw
½ cup stewed tomatoes ½ glass skim milk
Coffee or tea

Dinner
1 cup clear consommé
2 slices lean roast beef or lamb
Salad: lettuce, cucumber and tomato
with chopped parsley Coffee or tea
and weigh yourself tomorrow morning!

Over equal periods of time, the Miracle Diet should reduce you just as swiftly as out-and-out fasting. And you’ll be much happier about the whole thing. When the body is completely starved for longer than a brief period, it slows down its metabolism in order to conserve its substance—whereas your object, as a weight reducer, is to use up that substance.

Eventually, of course, a starved body must begin to draw upon its reserves of flesh and the breakdown of these substances results in accumulations of acid products which do not have sufficient minerals and buffers to neutralize them because there has been no food intake. It is unlikely that a one-day fast could injure you, if you are in normal health and the idea has any appeal, but the benefits (aside from psychological ones) are dubious from any long-term point of view and physicians who favor rapid reducing diets do not prescribe fasts.

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Are you hungry because you’re fat, or are you fat because you’re hungry?

This is no chicken-or-the-egg question. To some degree, at least, you are hungry because you’re fat. You have more body area and that means greater surface to radiate heat and call for calories.

That being the case, foods which satisfy your hunger fastest will help you to cut down comfortably on your calories. Nutritionists call the hunger-satisfying properties of foods “satiety value.” Satisfying foods are those that remain longest in the stomach and small intestine, demanding the most vigorous attention from the digestive machinery.

Meat is the most satisfying of all foods, containing extractives that stimulate the stomach to highest activity.

Milk ranks next to meat in satiety value; whole milk is more satisfying than skim milk.

Fish is slightly less satisfying than meat because usually it contains less fat.

Eggs vary according to preparation. Raw eggs pass quickly from the stomach; hard-boiled eggs have greater satiety value than soft-boiled, and about the same as fried.

Green vegetables and bread are low in satiety value. Oddly, bread becomes even less satisfying when toasted.

Fats are high in satiety value; hence moderate reducing diets often allow more fats than carbohydrates as a kindness to the appetite.

Aside from the satisfying effects of food, there are other ways of putting a check rein on your appetite. Here are ten ways of cracking down and letting your appetite know who’s boss:1. Stop eating while you’re still a little hungry. For reasons that are not fully understood, persons who tend to put on weight do not receive the “full up” signal from their meals as promptly as they should. Consequently they go on eating after hunger is satisfied. Stop eating just a little earlier than you usually do and you will be surprised, within a few minutes, to discover that appetite has really been appeased.

2. Revise your mental habits. A lot of people put on weight because, having few things that interest them, they turn to nibbling as a socially entertaining way of killing time. Keep busy at something else and watch your yen for eating fall within normal limits.

3. Use foods that demand vigorous chewing. The first organs of digestion are the teeth. Food that is bolted (except by carnivores) makes things tougher for your stomach and deprives you of the full savor of the things you eat—consequently you want more to satisfy your taste. Meat, crisp celery, raw carrots—all of these call for vigorous maxillary action that helps satisfy your appetite.

4. Don’t wash food down with water. The only valid objection to drinking water with meals is that you may wash down lumpy masses of half-chewed food and thus unconsciously step up your intake.

5. Don’t be tricked by fancy foods. An ice cream sundae topped off by nuts and whipped cream can tempt anybody’s appetite. If you keep out of the way of such temptations, however, you will find that your appetite is just as happy as a baby who has never heard about lollipops.

6. Keep count on calories. A rough idea of calorie values is all you need to tone down a rambunctious appetite considerably. It’s a lot easier to say “I’ll take an orange” when you know there are 450 calories in a husky slab of mince pie.

7. Scuttle your alibis. If you blame your overweight on heredity or glands, have your doctor check you up—I dare you! If you feel that you can’t say “no” to the hostess who urges a second helping on you, for risk of hurting her feelings, remember that she probably is insistent because of a high sense of hospitality, and secretly may be thinking how nice it would be to have some leftover comestibles for tomorrow’s pick-up dinner.8. Put a fruit bowl on the coffee table instead of a box of chocolates. Eating between meals isn’t bad; it’s good —provided you choose a piece of fruit or a glass of milk instead of concentrated candies and pastries, and don’t exceed your calorie limits.

9. Don’t did your appetite with alcohol. We aren’t saying you shouldn’t drink. But if you drink, remember that the appetite stirred up by alcohol is spurious. It isn’t the real McCoy. It’s another trick to make you hungry when you aren’t.

10. Don’t go without breakfast. Lots of us kid ourselves that we’re reducing because we’re rushed or sleepy in the morning and coast along on a cup of coffee. This is necessary in short-term reducing diets, but appetite is controlled better through the day when we give it a respectful breakfast nod.

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Every ounce of fat stored in your body represents about 250 calories. If you eat only 1,000 calories per day, but actually burn 2,480, there is a difference of 1,480 calories that must come from your fat warehouse. Divide these 1,480 calories by 250 (the number of calories per ounce of body fat) and you get the figure 5.9—roughly, 6 ounces of fat that you can expect to lose per day on a 1,000-calorie diet.

But oh bliss, oh joy! If you eat 100 calories of protein instead of 100 calories of carbohydrate you’ll lose weight even faster—this because of the specific dynamic action of protein that causes 100 calories of it actually to lay the lash on your metabolism so that 130 to 140 calories are burned! With fat and carbohydrate, only 104 to 106 calories are burned under the same circumstances.

You want to lose 25 pounds, or 400 ounces. Losing 6 ounces per day on a 1,000-calorie diet, you will require just about two months to reach your goal. After that, you can graduate to your maintenance diet (2,480 calories example) and be rid of fat worries evermore.

This is intended purely as a rough guide in case you don’t want to bother your head with arithmetic to figure out your own expectancy along the lines given above. It represents actual fat loss—the total weight loss may be even greater when the tissues start eliminating surplus water. Do not be disturbed if you vary a little, one way or another, from the predicted losses, for there are countless subtle factors that modify your own rate of reduction.

Naturally, you will lose fat even faster if your diet is less than 1,000 calories per day. You probably have a natural desire to get results in a hurry, so step up and meet the a diet that will reduce you faster than fasting, that will satisfy your hunger and at the same time increase your vigor and sense of well-being? Then gather ’round and listen to the kind words that eminent and conservative physicians have recently bestowed upon the principle of rapid weight reduction.

Ordinarily, a weight loss of from 1½ to 2 pounds a week is the maximum permitted by conservative physicians. Unquestionably this is a safe, sound, and sensible principle to follow. But the science of nutrition has advanced so rapidly that swift weight reduction in appropriate cases of obesity is no longer considered necessarily dangerous, when the diet is well balanced and contains adequate vitamins and minerals. This is a new and somewhat revolutionary conclusion but it has been amply demonstrated by many case histories.

Dr. F. A. Evans and Dr. J. M. Strang of Pittsburgh, and Dr. James J. Short of New York, among others, have published reports in conservative medical journals describing the astonishing results attained by rapid reducing diets of 600 calories per day, or even less.

A striking fact about such diets is that very few patients complained of being hungry, yet one man lost 226 superfluous pounds in eight months, and a woman patient weighing 479 pounds lost an excess 304½ of them in twenty months!

Among the new conclusions supported by some of these cases are the following: Every bit of excess weight can be removed without danger; even the so-called “glandular” types of obesity yield to low-calorie diets (there goes that old gland alibi!); contrary to routine practice of many physicians, there is no need to restrict water intake; salt need not be eliminated from the diet unless there is water retention.

Records of 186 overweight patients on these very low-calorie rapid reducing diets showed that pep and energy were usually increased within one week’s time; headaches were frequently relieved and blood pressure reduced; in some patients menstrual disturbances and skin blemishes disappeared. A few patients experienced slight weakness and dizziness for the first two or three days, but these symptoms quickly vanished.

How long can such a diet be followed safely? Six months, eight months, a year—as long as excess fat is present. This means that as soon as you have reached your ideal weight the diet should be discontinued. It means also that you should have your doctor’s consent before adopting it. The more drastic the diet, the more important is a physical examination. There are some physical conditions in which weight reduction must be undertaken with extreme caution.

A physical check up is much less costly than a hospital sojourn occasioned by too enthusiastic dieting. Nine persons out of ten, providing they are actually overweight, can adopt the rapid reducing program with perfect safety, but there is always the chance that you are the tenth person.

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Want to go on a Four-Day Reducing Diet? Or a Six-Day, a Seven-Day, a Nine-Day, or an Eighteen-Day Diet?

Fine—if you do it with your eyes open. There are a few facts about short-term reducing diets that must be offered for the record.

To begin with, the notion that any diet, faithfully followed for eight or nine or any other short period of days, can permanently solve your weight worries is a cruel and inhuman illusion. It is certainly true that you can reduce your weight gratifyingly and safely by following such diets—but what happens afterward?

If you revert to your old eating habits after nine days’ abstemiousness, first thing you know you’ll have to repeat the limited diet all over again, and this alternation can go on until St. Peter weighs you in.

There is nothing to equal short-term reducing diets in getting you started on your weight reducing program. Many of the popular ones, however, run for too short a period to get your weight down to ideal level.

Even if you should achieve an ideal figure in a week (which is only possible if you are within ten pounds or so of your ideal weight) you aren’t going to hold those gains—we mean, hold those losses—unless you continue to exercise some dietary control. Those of us who put on weight easily may just as well make up our minds to enlist for the duration.

That sounds bad, but it really isn’t. Once you have achieved the weight loss you desire, you will find that a diet of moderately low calories will enable you to keep your figure and your appetite on intimately friendly terms. That is why we give you not only a rapid reducing diet, but other more liberal diets that you can graduate to and live with happily ever after.

Another difficulty with short-term diets is that although you lose weight on them, you may never know it. It sometimes takes as long as 16 days for a fat loss actually to register on your scales—this because retention of water in the tissues may be unusually persistent. In such a case, obviously, eight or nine days isn’t enough time for the body to complete its readjustments and show the loss of real fat that actually occurs. Within a couple of weeks, however, you will show a weight loss with pleasing suddenness.

You undoubtedly have in mind a certain number of pounds you would like to shed. Ten, twenty, thirty? And you are entitled to ask, “How many days will I have to follow a specific diet to lose those pounds?”

Unfortunately, an average person has no physical existence anywhere in nature. Certainly you are not average; scour the cosmos and you are lucky if you can find some person who is even a reasonable facsimile of yourself. The human body is the most complex and variable instrument in nature. Not even your physician can tell you with mathematical exactness how many ounces or fractions thereof you will lose per day on a given diet. But you yourself can arrive at an answer that is satisfactory for all practical purposes.

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