How to Diet Down NOW

When people gain fat, they don’t get more fat cells, but the existing fat cells get bigger. This can happen because of hormonal imbalances, lack of exercise and foods that can make your body store fat instead of flushing it.

Fat cells store waste like unused amino acids. They can even store toxic compounds, like organochlorines, from pesticides along with other chemicals, which are not easily broken down by your body.

If you want to lose fat, or the fatty look, you must do two things. The first is to shrink fat cells. The second is to keep your lymphatic system in good working order.

Your lymphatic system is a type of circulatory system. It transports white blood cells through your body while transporting waste to organs of detoxification or elimination.

Your lymphatic system must work efficiently so that toxins leave your body, not just change locations. These are some of the beverages that can help.

Grapefruit Juice - Fresh squeezed grapefruit juice is one of the best cleanser’s for your lymphatic system. Grapefruits are extremely high in Vitamin C, which naturally helps the body detoxify.

In addition, grapefruits are high in phytonutrients called limonoids - in particular limonin. Limonin is a compound that helps promote the formation of glutathione-S-transferase, a detoxifying enzyme. This enzyme causes the liver to render toxins to be easily excreted from the body. These compounds are also work as powerful antioxidants.

Grapefruit juice can increase the activity of liver enzymes. In fact, it helps with Phase I and Phase II detoxification. This is important since some foods only help the body with Phase I detoxification. If unbalanced and left incomplete, these half-neutralized toxins can be more hazardous to your body.

Grapefruit juice will help your liver detoxify and clear harmful carcinogens from your body. Not only is this is an excellent preventive measure you can take for your health, but when your liver is fully functioning, it is better at burning fat - a job it may put on hold if it is over burdened.

Cranberry Juice - Pure cranberry juice is a natural fat flushing drink. It must be 100% pure cranberry juice without anything added. (Check the label, you might be surprised.)

Cranberry juice contains high levels of organic acids. When taken on a regular basis, these help the body dissolve fatty deposits.

Cranberry juice has been found in research to inhibit certain strains of bacteria from sticking to red blood cells or mouth cells which can cause them to linger in the body. In addition, it helps block a certain bacteria from sticking to cells causing urinary tract infections. This raises the body’s ability to flush the bacteria out of the system more easily.

Green tea - Green tea is one of the most famous fat flushing drinks. Like cranberry juice, green tea is extremely high in antioxidants. It has been known to help many dieters lose belly fat more quickly when taken 2-3 times a day. In 1997, researchers found that a component of green tea, an antioxidant called EGCG, is very powerful at limiting the negative side effects of a fatty Diet and even smoking.

The Lemon Flush - Make this drink with spring water, juice from ¼ lemon, 1 Table spoon of grade B maple syrup and a dash of cayenne pepper. Make the water as hot as you can drink it and add the ingredients. Sip this drink 1-6 times per day to help flush fat and other toxins from your body.

Grade B Maple Syrup is loaded with vitamins and minerals to help maintain blood sugar during a fast or diet. Lemon juice helps break up hardened material in the joints and muscles, helps clear the kidneys and dissolves toxins and congestion all throughout your body and lymphatic system. Some herbalists claim that cayenne pepper is the most powerful herb in the world. It helps your intestines move out waste, speeds up metabolism, helps build heart tissue, and has been used to treat diseases of the circulatory system.

Consuming certain beverages can help your body perform the two jobs of fat loss more efficiently. These drinks can help your body remove waste from the fat cells and keep your lymphatic system clear and ready to transport toxins out of your system. They can help turn any weight loss program into a fat flush program.

Cindy Papp
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/4-detox-drinks-that-help-you-flush-fat-686574.html

While it’s easy to find acne treatments, finding the just the right treatment or treatment product for you is what is important. Acne is caused by the clogging of the follicle of a skin gland causing a pimple to grow. Living with acne can be very difficult, and even more difficult to find the right acne treatment for you.

People of all races and ages get acne. While almost all young people experience acne at least once; it’s been reported that 47% of those in their 20s and 30% of those in their 30s had acne. Baby acne is a rash seen on the cheeks, chin, and forehead of infants. Acne will affect almost every person at some stage of their life. The most common type of acne is acne vulgaris.

Scientists are looking at ways to prevent plugs and ways to stop testosterone from causing acne, if it truly does. Doctors think certain factors might cause or contribute to acne including hormone increases in teenage years, hormone changes in pregnancy, starting or stopping birth control pills, heredity, medicines and greasy make-up.

I think the cause of acne is related to our Standard American Diet (SAD) and that would also influence all our hormones. Acne, zits, pimples, blackheads, whiteheads and many other skin disorders are usually, but not always, the result of a bad Diet.

One helpful remedy seems to be to use ice to reduce the swelling caused by inflamed pimples: rub it over the blemishes for 2-3 minutes. One good natural method is to apply a thin layer of coconut oil and massage it deep into the skin to heal and soothe it. Drinking pure, filtered water may be the best acne treatment working from the inside out.

Choose your makeup carefully, it should be oil free. Some natural home remedies include dabbing on non-gel toothpaste to dry out zits or lemon juice. It just takes motivation, a willingness to try it, and diligent application of coconut oil several times a day and at bedtime to see its benefits.

You want to avoid squeezing, pinching, or picking your pimples because it can cause scars or dark spots on the skin.

There are several types of acne scars: ice-pick scars, depressed fibrotic scars, superficial and deep soft scars, and atrophic macules. See your skin doctor, dermatologist or dermatologic surgeon for the best acne scar treatment for you. Scars may also contribute to a person looking older than their age as the skin loses its elasticity over the years.

People with skin disorders such as acne, rosacea, and psoriasis often suffer from constipation. Essential fatty acids are particularly important to people with inflammatory conditions such as eczema and acne. Some alternative doctors recommend eating raw cloves of garlic daily for acne. When you change your diet, your lesions should be getting better within 30 days.

Consider taking cod liver oil or fish oil supplements every day. Concentrating on a diet of LOTS of fruits and vegetables (preferably uncooked) and no junk food, should give you an observable improvement within 30 days. Put 2 tablespoons of coconut oil in your smoothies.

Functions of the skin are disturbed when it’s dirty; it becomes more easily damaged, the release of antibacterial compounds decreases and dirty skin is more prone to develop infections.

Unclean skin favors the development of pathogenic organisms - the dead cells that continually slough off of the epidermis mix with the secretions of the sweat and sebaceous glands and the dust found on the skin to form a filthy layer on its surface.

Be assured, scientists are constantly looking at new non-invasive ways to treat acne. With cheap, safe, simple, natural, effective, alternative home treatments for acne and pimples, your skin should be well on its way to recovery. And you should be able to get rid of your acne, zits and pimples and their symptoms, providing you’ve removed the cause, so it doesn’t reoccur.

Helen Hecker
http://www.articlesbase.com/non-fiction-articles/save-your-money-cheap-natural-acne-skin-care-tips-107579.html

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We've all heard of this new dietary supplement by now. It's all over the news, the internet and was even featured on Oprah as the number one super food today. What is it about this amazing little berry that has everyone trying it?

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There was a time that I was feeling run down, sluggish, constipated, chronically fatigued, and completely lackluster; and I knew I needed to do something quickly to turn myself around. Skeptical about fasts and cleanses–many of which I had tried and tortured over only to fail–I was surprised at how I took to the Master Cleanser, a 10 day program that changed my life. Not only did this program detoxify and clean my body of its chronic years of abuse, but it also built good health and a change of habit into me at the same time. I felt so good while doing the cleanse, that I decided to switch afterwards from supermarket foods to 100% organic! I have never felt better, nor has my family.

What is amazing is that this best kept secret has been around since the 1940s, and there are tons of resources and rave reviews about it everywhere! Do a search on the Internet for The Master Cleanser or its other common name, The Lemonade Diet, and you’ll see what I mean. The Master Cleanser eliminates toxins and congestion in all parts of the body, cleanses the kidneys and digestive tract, purifies glands and cells, eliminates all unusable waste and hardened materials in joints and muscles, relieves pressure in nerves, arteries, and blood vessels, builds a healthy bloodstream, and keeps youth and elasticity in tact. This Diet also works miracles for those looking to shed a few pounds. Don’t take my word for any of this. Instead, research this amazing program, or better yet, try it yourself.

How to do the Master Cleanser diet

The Master Cleanser diet should be followed for a minimum of 10 days and may be repeated 3-4 times a year to keep your body healthy. The diet provides all nutrition needed during this time as well as all vitamins and minerals if you use the high-quality ingredients specified. Though you may think it odd that one could not be ravenously hungry when not eating for 10 days, this is exactly what happens with the Master Cleanser diet.

All you need to do is take between 6 to 12 glasses of the Master Cleanser lemonade drink daily during your waking period. If you get hungry, have another glass of lemonade. No other food or supplements may be taken during this cleanse.

Make the lemonade drink as follows:

* 2 Tbsp fresh squeezed organic lemon juice (not packaged or bottled)

* 2 Tbsp organic Grade B maple syrup (not maple flavored sugar syrup)

* 1/10 Tsp cayenne pepper or to taste (at least 1/10 Tsp)

* 10 ounces of warm to medium hot spring or purified water

Because this is a cleansing diet, the more you can assist nature to eliminate toxins, the better. If your system feels upset during the cleanse, it is because you are not eliminating wastes sufficiently. To avoid this, you should take an herbal laxative tea each night of the cleanse before bedtime. I used Smooth Move, an all-natural herbal laxative tea, and it worked gently and thoroughly. Products like this are available at health-oriented stores like Whole Foods or Wild Oats.

Laxative tea works great for loosening and eliminating toxic buildup during the night, but there is another aid that really puts the cleanse into high gear—internal salt water bathing. This should be done upon waking on an empty stomach. Prepare a full quart of lukewarm purified water and add two level teaspoons of uniodized sea salt to it. Stir or shake the mixture and drink the entire quart. The saltwater mixture will thoroughly wash your digestive tract in about an hour. Several eliminations will likely occur, but if they do not, add a little more sea salt to a bit more water until elimination takes place. You have successfully detoxified your body when your tongue is no longer coated.

I am in the fortunate position that I can make my own hours and do this cleanse without disrupting my work and private life. Those of you who work outside the home will need to modify the regimen to suit your needs. People who work full time succeed grandly at this cleanse by taking the herbal laxative tea earlier in the evening so that elimination occurs before bedtime. Or they do the internal saltwater bathing on the weekends and during non-work hours. The main thing is that elimination, and lots of it, must occur for full toxic buildup removal.

Coming off the Master Cleanser diet

Coming off the Master Cleanser properly is very important. The first day, drink several 8-ounce glasses of fresh organic orange juice, and sip it very slowly as if savoring every drop. The second day, drink several 8-ounce glasses of fresh organic orange juice and eat a light, all-natural vegetable broth with a few vegetables in it that evening; you may also have one or two natural rye crackers with the broth. On the third day, have orange juice for breakfast, all-natural vegetable soup for lunch, and any vegetables, fruits, and salads you want for dinner. Normal eating may resume on the fourth day, but try to keep your food intake healthier than before.

Stanley Burroughs wrote a book about this diet, called The Master Cleanser. Its 50 pages describe anything you could ever imagine about this diet, and it is available on Amazon.com for $6.50. It is my hope that this cleanse does for you what it did for me—fuels you with new life, vigor, and magic.

DISCLAIMER: The Master Cleanser diet is given as a suggestion. Anyone who follows it does so voluntarily. Each must use discretion and judgment as to its applicabiltity and use.

Leslee J. Klinsky
http://www.articlesbase.com/self-help-articles/the-master-cleanser-a-key-to-reinvigorating-your-life-84894.html

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I would like to increase my cerebral blood flow, and the research I have done (so far) states that both gingko biloba and cayenne pepper aid in doing so. I plan to ingest a teaspoon of cayenne pepper (powder form in lemon juice) x3 daily and take one capsule of ginkgo biloba at night. I would simply like to know if its safe to do so.

Answers will be greatly appreciated!!!

IMO, that is too much cayenne pepper. I had one customer at my herb store who caused her bladder to bleed taking just 1 tsp. 1x daily for about 2 weeks. After a week of bleeding, she asked me about it & I advised she stop temporarily. She wasn’t in any pain, but obviously doing some damage.

My advice is to start w/ 1/4 tsp. cayenne, work up to a teaspoon gradually. Best taken first thing in morning on empty stomach and you can only do that once a day.

No problem taking ginkgo & cayenne together & a lot of "memory" formulas combine them. Ginkgo is the only herb specific to the brain.

One product I’ve seen to be effective is called Remember Now by Herbs, Etc. in Santa Fe NM. It is a liquid & contains Ginkgo, Gotu Kola, Rosemary, et.al. These herbs work very well together to increase blood flow, lower blood pressure, strengthen the whole vascular system.

My aunt is going to go 10 days without any food except for a lemonade concoction of water, lemon juice, cayenne pepper and maypul syrup. Will this Diet have any negative effects on her health? I would be very interested in a scientific answer instead of the answers like "heck yes".

Fasting is not bad for you. As a matter of fact, it’s the best thing you can do to detox your body.

The lemons give you some essential vits, the maple syrup is giving you the carbs, this means, no starvation mode that is experienced by folks that fast on water only.

Read this, you should feel better:

http://mastercleansesecrets.com/book.php?hop=ebookgen&gclid=CI3_pPnLs5kCFQubnAodbUKgiA

Edit: Took me 2 tries but I lasted 13 days and never felt better, tell your aunt day 4 and all the "I’m hungry" stuff stops.

Wish her good luck for me

Edit2: I read that link I gave you and it wasn’t what I thought it was, still good but not what I thought.

Fasting is based on the premises that digestion is the most intensive thing your body does. It must stop, housekeeping, disease fighting, oxidant savaging in order to digest that t-bone you just wolfed down. So much so, that for most Americans the bodies housekeeping chores are at a net loss at the end of most days…..a loosing battle. THIS WAS MY ATTEMPT AT SOME SCIENCE….Cheers

Losing fat is not as easy as losing weight. Losing weight with the wrong Diet program can make things worse and cause your body to lose muscle while accumulating fat. This can cause a mushy look, which makes you look fatter while weighing less. A fat cleanse may be the solution.

You can help your body flush fat during a weight loss program. Fat cells store waste. If you want those fat cells to shrink you have to help it get rid of this stored waste. Here are five fat cleansing secrets that can help.

Secret 1 - Drink warm lemon water throughout the day. Lemon juice is a natural cleanser for our bodies. Since fat cells get bigger as toxins are stored in them, a good fat cleanse will help flush these toxins from the fat cells into your lymphatic system for removal. This is your opportunity to be sure that your body removes them instead of storing them again.

Secret 2 - Avoid bread and bread products for at least a week. Even whole grains can cause bloating and many wheat flour products contain high amounts of pesticides and other toxins. In addition, labeling can be confusing and cause you to believe a food is whole grain while still being a “junk food.”

Add to this the fact that wheat products are a high glycemic-index food which triggers a strong insulin response. This strong response can lead to problems including food cravings, surges and falls in blood sugar, and diabetes. This can cause fat storage.

Avoiding bread and bread products for even just a few days will increase your sensitivity to these effects. This will help you to instinctively want to avoid these foods. Remember, the first few days are the hardest so hang in there.

Secret 3 - Your thyroid regulates cell activity. Decreased activity means a sluggish metabolism and weight gain along with fat storage. But why are so many people afflicted with low thyroid activity these days?

There are many environmental toxins around us in modern, industrial society. Our drinking water contains chlorine. If you drink bottled water, you get the toxins from the plastic. Any foods that you eat that are processed, including breads, cereals, and most boxed and canned foods, are processed with tap water. This adds up over the years. Unfortunately, chlorine is a toxin that can get stored in the thyroid.

Another environmental toxin is perchlorate. The CDC has completed a study proving that levels common to American people have negative effects on the thyroid.

Unfortunately, this toxin has been infiltrating our water that we drink and that feeds our vegetables and fruits for many years. Some cities are just now starting to clear this accidental chemical out of the systems.

Help your body clear these waste products so your thyroid can work the way it is supposed to, by keeping cells active, metabolism strong and to clear waste instead of storing it. Eating a healthy, clean diet of mainly organic fruits, vegetables and proteins will be a good start.

Dark green superfoods are an excellent supplement to use during a fat cleanse and can help clear these toxins. They are known to absorb toxins and bind with them to aid removal from your body. This will take the burden off your thyroid while ensuring that stored toxins leave your body.

The common green superfoods that work like this are spirulina, chlorella, cilantro, kelp, barley grass and wheat grass. You can find these supplements in powder or pill form at your local health food store. Look for the organic versions.

Secret 4 - Help your body cleanse by clearing waste that may be stored in the intestinal tract. Calcium plaque can build up in arteries even though blood flows 24 hours a day. A plaque buildup of protein has been found in patients with alzheimers.

Plaque can also build up in other areas of the body, including your intestines. This can add pounds and cause your metabolism to be sluggish. Fiber can help your body clear any buildup and prevent intestinal plaque from forming.

Good fiber supplements to use include psyllium husk, crushed flax seeds and apple pectin. Be sure to drink at least eight glasses of water per day to help the fiber and any waste to leave.

Secret 5 - Walk for exercise. Walking is one of the best exercises to help your body clear fat and waste. It stimulates movement of the lymphatic system, raises your metabolism, aids digestion, and stretches and tones your muscles all at the same time. And it doesn’t cost very much.

Start with a daily walk for twenty to thirty minutes per day. Consistency is the key to seeing benefits. Wear comfortable shoes and stretch a little before and after your walk - you may find that you have used muscles which have been inactive for a while.

Help your body lose weight and fat. Most body cleansing programs can be turned into a fat cleanse when tweaked the right way. These tips can get you started.

Cindy Papp
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/5-fantastic-fat-cleanse-secrets-686488.html