Powerful and Unique Ways Diet

You want to be skinny or slim. People willing to do anything to lose weight, even the most absurd though. Here is a list of all the world's weirdest diet of various ages. Remember, this list is NOT to be copied!

Year 1727: Stay away from the swamp

In 1727, Thomas Short wrote a thesis about how overweight people tend to live near the swamp. Her advice, overweight people who have to move to drier areas to avoid the effects of marsh life. It is probably not the best diet strategy, but at least the suggestion choosing the right housing

Year 1800: Famine

In the mid-19th century, middle class and aristocratic circles of Western Europe alive in famine in order to meet the standards of thinness Victorian era, which is associated with purity and femininity.

Year 1820: Diet vinegar

Poet who suffered anorexia and bulimia, Lord Byron, vinegar diet popularized in 1820. To cleanse himself, he would drink lots of vinegar and water every day, plus a glass of tea with a raw egg. The effect is vomiting and diarrhea. No wonder he was so skinny.

Year 1903: Just chew

An art dealer Horace Fletcher of San Francisco known as the 'King of Chewing' after successfully losing 20 pounds to chew ... and do not swallow. After being too skinny, he changed his methods to be chewed 32 times and discard the waste. According to Horace, his body will absorb the nutrients needed without adding weight.

Year 1925: Diet cigarettes

It's hard to imagine that cigarettes are used as a diet, but the past, several cigarette companies promote cigarettes can reduce hunger. Lucky Strike and even an ad reads "Turn on Lucky and you'll never miss sweets that make you fat."

Year 1928: A diet of meat and fat

North polar explorer, Vilhjalmur Stefánsson very impressed with the healthiness of the Inuit despite only eating caribou meat, raw fish, and rarely eat vegetables or fruit. Stefánsson claimed he had tried this diet and prove its effectiveness. Doctors checked his health for several months and he declared healthy.

Beginning the year 1930: Soaps slimming

Remove fat with water? It sounded so beautiful! In early 1930, appears the product as "Fatoff," "Fat-O-NO" and "La-Mar Reducing Soap" that can make the wearer menglaim thin with only a shower. However, this soap did not have a magic spell. They're just regular soap from potassium chloride and other materials.

Year 1954: Diet tapeworm

You may be disgusted by parasitic worms that live in the intestines and absorb nutrients from the body. But for some people, this is actually used as a way to weight loss. A group of people started eating the worm cysts in order to eat without getting fat. Side effects including tapeworms maintain that the worms can grow in the yards of the intestines, causing meningitis or dementia.

Year 1960: Diet sleep

The logic behind this diet is: You do not eat when you sleep. So if you sleep more, your weight will drop. Followers of this diet (such as Elvis Presley) will try to sleep for days to lose weight.

Year 1980-2000: Diet breath

Most diets recommend us to reduce certain foods, like meat, kabohidrat or sugar. But diet breath demanded his followers to leave EVERYTHING. You should only eat air. Diet respiratory believe if humans live in harmony, so you do not need anymore food or sleep.

Year 2000: Diet eye

Ever noticed how many fast food restaurants use red and yellow in their logos? It is said that these colors stimulate the appetite. Instead of blue is able to reduce appetite. A Japanese company, creating a bluish colored glasses diet that makes food look unattractive and makes you not want to eat.

Year 2000: ear pinning

Method suppress appetite by clipping inner ear cartilage is based on Chinese acupuncture, where needles left on the ears for a week. Then the clamps are left behind during the six weeks to three months, after that your body will get used and lose their effectiveness. This method has not proven effective, in fact it can cause ear infections and damage.

Year 2000: Diet cotton

Who needs to eat if the cotton is not calorie can make you full? Followers of this diet to eat it dry, or dyed gelatin. Cotton fibers contain many, unfortunately, not the fiber of human needs. Read More ...

Coping Coping Tips Senile

Senile generally experienced people who are elderly (elderly). The trigger is a decline in brain function that weaken the ability of memory. Thus, many elderly who tend to forget, like forgetting to eat, forgetting to take medication, forgot the name of a relative, or even forgot to mention his own name.

Identical to senile age factor, there are still ways to prevent it. However, it only aims at reducing the rate of memory decline. "So, it does not mean get rid of the arrival of dementia," said Mulyadi Tedjapranata, Director Medizone Clinic, Jakarta.

Many ways to improve memory among the elderly. One of them by running a healthy lifestyle from an early age. Healthy lifestyle habits include sleeping, eating, and controlling weight.

In terms of diet, for example, do not consume excessive fat. Excessive fat consumption can cause circulatory disorder or cardiovascular system is the potential to cause dementia.

Active socializing with the surrounding environment can also reduce risk of memory loss. "When we socialize not only to remember that ever happened, but there are also new things that are learned. So, give refreshment for the brain," said Rocsky Situmeang, doctors at Siloam Hospital neurologist Karawaci.

Another way to effectively improve memory is to diligently hone brain. The more trained, our brains must be more sharply. Exercising the brain can be done with various activities related to cognitive aspects such as reading books, listening to music, to watch movies.

"It could also sharpen the brain through the games, like crossword puzzles," said Rocksy.

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Tea and Healty

By Alyse Levine

Concept
The media has exhaustively publicized the numerous ways drinking tea is good for you: from fighting certain cancers, to decreasing the risk of heart disease and Alzheimer's disease, to controlling cholesterol and even reducing tooth decay! Although most people are aware of tea's health benefits, they are not aware of which teas are the most beneficial. So, from a health perspective, are all teas created equal?

Nutritional Facts and Figures
What are the purported health benefits of consuming tea?

Before we begin, note that here we are talking about tea from the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, and not herbal teas, which are really derived from the flowers, leaves, seeds, bark, or roots of certain plants but contain no actual “real” tea (herbal teas do have purported health benefits, but they are beyond the scope of this bite).
Studies have shown that tea may promote good health in the following ways:

*Heart Health: The polyphenols (antioxidants) found in tea are very effective in preventing cholesterol from oxidizing and damaging blood vessels. Green tea has been shown to improve the health of the delicate cells lining the blood vessels, which helps lower one's risk of heart disease (1).

*Cancer Prevention: The polyphenols (catechins in particular) in tea may help prevent or decrease the growth and spread of certain cancers. They scavenge oxidants before cell injuries occur, reduce the incidence and size of chemically induced tumors, and inhibit the growth of tumor cells. In studies of liver, skin, and stomach cancer, chemically induced tumors were shown to decrease in size in mice that were fed green and black tea (2,3).

*Skin Protector: Not only has tea been shown to be effective in decreasing cancer risk when consumed orally, but it may also be beneficial when applied superficially to the skin (4). Some research has shown that when green tea is applied to sunburned skin it decreases the development of cancerous skin tumors. This evidence has led many cosmetics companies to start adding green tea to their skin care products.

*Alzheimer's Disease Arsenal: Both green and black teas have been shown to hinder the activity of two enzymes in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease. Although tea consumption cannot cure Alzheimer's, it may be another part of the puzzle in treating or slowing down the development of the disease (5).

*Good for Teeth: Compounds in tea protect teeth by increasing the acid resistance of tooth enamel and acting as antibiotics that kill off dangerous, decay-promoting bacteria (6). Tea also contains fluoride, which is essential for keeping teeth strong and healthy.

Which tea varieties provide the above health benefits?

All "real" teas, which include green, black, and oolong tea varieties, are beneficial to your health. As mentioned above, these teas are all derived from the same tea plant, Camellia sinensis, and contain numerous healthful compounds including polyphenols (particularly catechins), tocopherol, vitamin C, as well as other antioxidants. The polyphenols are believed to be responsible for most of tea's role in promoting good health. Although black, green and oolong teas have different polyphenol compositions due to processing differences, they all have been shown to provide the above health benefits.

The differences between the teas are depicted below. As you can see, the main difference between the "real" teas is simply in how the leaves are processed.

Green Teas (Japanese, Chinese, Gunpowder, etc...)
Green teas are the freshest and least processed because they are not at all fermented. Of all "real" teas, green tea has the lightest and most subtle taste.

Black Teas (Darjeeling, Earl Grey, China Black, Jasmine, etc...)
Black tea is simply green tea that has been fermented for around 6 hours. Fermentation turns the green leaves black and alters the polyphenol content, though it is still very high in antioxidants. Black teas have the strongest taste.

Oolong Teas
These teas are made from green teas that are briefly fermented. Therefore, they are a compromise between black and green tea in both taste and color.

To Get the Most Out of Tea:
*To get the benefits claimed above, opt for a "real" tea variety (green, black, or oolong), as opposed to an herbal tea
*Steep tea for about 3 minutes; this time allotment enables the health promoting compounds to be released; steeping for much longer turns the tea bitter and releases too much tannin, which can irritate the digestive tract, cause constipation, and decrease iron absorption.
*Hot or Cold? Go for what you like! Bottled teas, iced tea, and teas made from mixes are also all rich in polyphenols. However, keep iced tea fresh, the polyphenol content starts to deteriorate after a few days.

Note on Caffeine:
If you are worried about the caffeine content of tea, opt for the decaffeinated varieties...they provide the same health benefits without keeping you up all night.

Alyse's Advice
The next time you reach for a warm, soothing cup of tea, opt for either green, black or oolong varieties, and steep for about 3 minutes. If you prefer the iced kind, follow the same guidelines but make sure to finish it within a few days before the antioxidant content starts to decline. A few cups of tea a day may help keep the heart doctor and dentist away, as well as cancer and Alzheimer's disease at bay.
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