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Pros and Cons about exercising at night time and day time.

Night exercises: A research done that exercising after 7 at night is more effective than exercising during the day time. The reason for this is because adrenal cortical hormone and thyroid stimulating hormone is rapidly increased when exercise after 7pm. These hormones stimulate the metabolism and awaken your body to increase your exercise efficiency. Also the muscles are thoroughly used throughout the day and lessen the stiffness of the muscles. Night exercises are also good for high blood pressure patients because the blood pressures are the lowest at night. For teenagers it stimulates the growth and for adults it prevents the aging and strengthens the immunity.

Morning exercises: The good thing about morning exercises is that adrenaline hormone is increased in the mornings and morning exercises promote the hormone excretion. If you are on a diet, morning exercises give you the best effect. When you exercise in an empty stomach, the fats that are accumulated in the body are used as energy. Morning exercises are good for people who are overweight or have high cholesterol rate. When you are exercising in the morning, warm up is very important because the muscle and joint flexibility is very low.

Does stress cause people to gain weight?

When people are stressed, the release of stress hormones in the body called cortisol, adrenaline and endorphin is increased. When we have too much cortisol released, another hormone called leptin suddenly decreased. This makes the body think that something is wrong and increase the amount of eating to save the food to prepare for the future.

How do we over come stress?

Don’t get angry easy. People often eat a lot to release the anger. This is because when they get angry, catecholamin is released and makes you want to eat more carbohydrates. Try to be happy and hold your temper.

Exercising is a great way to release stress. Aerobic exercises like walking, jogging and swimming reduces stress and blood sugar level and stops the fat getting accumulated in the stomach. Jogging is good for relaxes muscles and blood vessels and reduce the release or cortisol and increases the endorphin release and gets rid of stress.

Meditation calms and stables your mind. When you meditate it releases the tension around your body as well as your mind also releasing the stress. Ten minute meditation a day will help you to have a peaceful mind.

Obesity is a very serious problem in America. Two third of current American population are overweight and half of the overweight people are obese and it is continually increasing. People who are obese have higher chance of getting diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiac failure, osteoarthritis, cancer and depression. There are many worse cases caused from obesity. Obesity is not just about the looks but it can and will really harm your health.

How do people gain weight by just drinking water?

One of my clients came to me and her problem was that when she starved herself she lost weight but if she eats just a little bit she will still gain weight even though her calorie intake was reduced by half. She hardly ate any breakfast and only had lunch and a little bit of dinner. Many people think you have to eat less and exercise more to lose weight. This is true but it needs more explanations. Say if a person eats about 2000kcal a day, but she doesn’t use up these calories from exercising. 55 to 75% of our body weight is the water weight. If a person’s weight was about 60kg, 33kg of her weight will be water. When this person doesn’t eat for a period of time, the intake of water will remarkably decrease and to maintain the metabolism, when the body uses up all the glucose the next supply comes from the muscles. When people are on a diet, they want to lose fats and not the water weight nor muscles. The breaking down of fat starts happening after 3 to 5 days of starvation. This is why they gain the weight back quickly after starving themselves because the water weight can be replaced as soon as you eat or drink.

Who doesn’t want a body like Jessica Alba? Hollywood’s most sexy star Jessica Alba has always been very careful of what she ate. She made her own healthy diet meal plan since she was 12 years old. She takes the very good charge of her body by eating healthy and making her own diet meal plans. She also loves exercising and when she was seventeen, she started yoga, Pilates, weight training and for at least 30minutes a day for everyday.

She goes to the gym at least five times a week and does 20 minutes of running machine and bike riding to burn off the fats. She also does weight training for an hour and finishes off with 5 minutes of abdominal exercises. Everyone wants her smooth and flat stomach. To get a stomach like her, do sit ups and side exercise together. Another recommended exercise is riding a bike in the air. Her trainer says Jessica Alba never eats pasta or bread but instead she eats a lot of vegetables and fruits. She loves eating sushi which has high protein and low calories. She eats oat meal and fruits for breakfast, salad and fish for lunch and grilled chicken salad for dinner.

Is there a way to eat healthy?

Eat slowly. The meal time should be at least 20 minutes long. If we eat too fast, we eat too much before we even reach the blood sugar level. A recent research done in Japan says, people who eat fast are twice more close to be obese than people who eat slow. If you can’t help eating too fast try this. Don’t pick up any food before you finish what is in your mouth and chew the foods for at least 20 times before swallowing.

Never eat at night. At night, the activity of making fats gets more activated so even if you eat the same amount, it make you gain more weight. If you are too busy you should try to eat as early as you can, or at least eat a little snack so you don’t eat as much at night.

Don’t skip meals and try not to eat snacks if possible. The adequate amount an average person should eat a meal is about the size of their fist. If you don’t get enough food from the meal, the chances are that you will eat snacks or deserts to fill up the stomach which is not good for diet. If you skip breakfast, you have higher chance of eating a lot for lunch or dinner and your hungry cells will try to absorb as much nutrients as possible and the over excessive nutrients will be stored as fats.

Some fats do your body good. Others, however, do just the opposite. The difference really comes down to fatty acids, which is the basic chemical units in fat. Fatty acids are molecules made up of carbon and hydrogen. The more hydrogen they contain, the more saturated they are. Saturated fats are typically solid at room temperature. Eating foods that contain saturated fats raises the level of cholesterol in your blood.

Some examples of foods that contain saturated fats are poultry with skin, fatty beef, lamb, pork, beef fat, lard and cream, cheese and other dairy products made from whole or reduced-fat (2 percent) milk, and butter. Saturated fats should be avoided as well as trans fat because they promote the formation of cholesterol in the body. So, what is the good fat? Well, they say unsaturated fats are ok, which include monounsaturated fat and polyunsaturated fat. Monounsaturated fats are found in canola, olive,  and peanut oils. Polyunsaturated fats are found in most other plan oils, including soybean, sunflower, safflower, corn, sesame, and cottonseed ois.