Thursday, December 27, 2007
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Losing Weight: Nutritional Goals For Losing Weight
Typically, when a person first decides they want to lose some weight they go use their favorite way to access information and take on whatever seems to be the latest fad in diets or exercise programs. Often, they are never thinking about what some of these programs can do to their actual health and whether it could ultimately be good for their overall health, or, bad. The only thing on their mind is losing weight and losing it as fast as they can.
Studies have shown that those who take a realistic and health minded approach to losing weight are apt to keep the weight off and maintain their desired weight goals. Thus, when choosing a weight loss program it’s important to analyze it for how healthy it is and make sure that it involves the setting and following of nutritional goals that are good for your body.
On of the most important goals that should be set to improve the chances of successfully keeping weight off and continuing to obtain the nutritional requirements the body needs is to work toward the goal of including at least five servings of fruits or vegetables everyday. This doesn’t have to be eating five apples, and then eat five carrots. It simply means including in your menu, and snacks, a combination of fruits and vegetables.
If you’ve chosen to incorporate a negative calorie diet, for example, the nutritional goal of eating more fruits and vegetables will actually be working for your weight loss goals and for your necessary nutritional goals.
Your new diet or program should also include the nutritional goals of lowering your intake of foods that are low in saturated fat and cholesterol. Not only will this aid in the process of losing weight, but it will also go a long way to increasing your overall health. This nutritional goal is wonderful as it’s providing you twice the bang for the effort.
Finally, another nutritional goal you should include in your new regimen would to moderate your total fat, salt and sugar. Be sure you include in your daily eating habits enough of the latter to fulfill your daily nutritional requirements, but moderate them to levels where they do not far exceed that which your body needs.
Whatever type of diet or program you chose for losing weight, be sure that it is designed not just for quickly losing weight but that it’s created in a fashion that will help you keep the weight off and increase your overall health as well. Losing weight is great, but keeping it off and having a healthier lifestyle is even better.
If you would like more information on a diet that will help you not only lose weight, but help with nutritional goals as well check out the Negative Calorie Diet
Treatment Of Inflammation And Chronic Systemic Inflammation
Inflammation is one of the body's essential defense mechanisms and plays a vital role in protecting us against microbial attack, external and internally-produced toxins, as well as damaged and diseased cells and tissues.
Unfortunately, the inflammatory process is inherently destructive and both acute and chronic inflammation may cause damage to healthy tissues.
Typically, the longer the inflammatory process lasts, the more damage it does to the tissues involved. In the case of a local infection, inflammatory damage often manifests itself as scar tissue and if a wound becomes infected or fails to heal quickly, it will leave more scar tissue than it would have had it healed normally.
Similar but less visible processes are at work in a more sinister process called chronic systemic inflammation that can cause widespread damage to a range of different tissue types and which ultimately leads to specific disease entities.
Chronic systemic inflammation is a low-grade, pervasive form of inflammation that has been implicated as a major causative factor for several serious chronic diseases.
Although chronic systemic inflammation and local, acute inflammation share the same biochemical processes, the former is not restricted to a specific tissue or organ, but instead involves the endothelial lining of blood vessels and several other tissue types.
As a result the disruptive effects of chronic systemic inflammation are far reaching, causing damage to the cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine and other systems. This damage may, in turn, precipitate or exacerbate a wide variety of other pathological processes.
Chronic systemic inflammation is, for example, closely implicated in the development of insulin resistance � and thereby metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
Damage to the arterial lining and the subsequent development of heart disease has also been linked to chronic systemic inflammation which has also been implicated in some forms of depression and even sleep disorders.
Causes of Chronic Systemic Inflammation
� Obesity: Several substances involved in the inflammatory response are produced in adipose tissue. Central, abdominal fat is involved in the production of excessive amounts of pro-inflammatory cytokines and other markers of inflammation.
� Infections: Chronic infections like kidney or bladder infections, gall bladder infection, chronic tonsillitis, diverticular disease; chronic viral diseases like hepatitis, HIV, cytomegalovirus and infectious mononucleosis or any other chronic infection such as Lyme disease or brucellosis.
� Periodontal Disease: Periodontal infection is believed to be one of the major causes of chronic systemic inflammation. Dental plaque is often responsible for initiating periodontal disease by releasing bacterial and protein toxins, and organic acids that contribute to a low-grade chronic systemic inflammation in tissues far from the mouth. The treatment of periodontal disease can actually reverse some of the damage done to the endothelial lining of the arteries.
� Environmental Toxins, Drugs and Tobacco: Most foreign substances can trigger an inflammatory response. This is probably one of the reasons that smoking tobacco is associated with an increased risk for heart disease and stroke. Inflammation in response to tobacco toxins is known to cause damage to the arterial endothelium, thereby aggravating the development of atherosclerosis.
� Autoimmune Diseases: Autoimmune diseases are pathological conditions where the immune system reacts inappropriately to normal tissues. These conditions, which include rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, vary widely in their intensity and usually precipitate serious inflammatory-mediated tissue damage.
Spices and Chronic Systemic Inflammation
The first step in dealing with chronic systemic inflammation is to find and treat the cause of the inflammation. This may require improving dental hygiene, stopping smoking or losing weight. Such interventions can be dramatically augmented by the consumption of spices, several of which have powerful anti-inflammatory effects.
Among the most potent of these are bay leaf, garlic, ginger oregano, rosemary, thyme and turmeric. Other spices, in particular black pepper and garlic, counteract chronic systemic inflammation by modulating the immune system thereby limiting the excessive production of pro-inflammatory cytokines.
Furthermore, as many of the causes of chronic systemic inflammation are associated with oxidative stress, the antioxidants found in most spices help control this condition too. In short, spices have all the attributes required to minimize the impact on our health of the insidious, destructive and potentially lethal effects of this destructive inflammatory process.
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Dr Keith Scott is a medical doctor with a special interest in nutrition and complementary therapies. He has written several books including "Medicinal Seasonings, The Healing Power of Spices" and "Natural Home Pharmacy". Find out more how spices can help to prevent and treat many inflammatory conditions and why they are the "missing links" in nutrition at:
http://www.medspice.com
