Can Cinnamon Help You Lose Weight?

I just finished an article on Cinnamon for the Supplements section of my web site Answers For Your Health.

One of the little tidbits I found was this piece of old-woman folk medicine.

WEIGHT LOSS: Daily in the morning 1/2 hour before breakfast on an empty stomach and at night before sleeping, drink honey and cinnamon powder boiled in one-cup water. If taken regularly it reduces the weight of even the most obese person.

Also, drinking of this mixture regularly does not allow the fat to accumulate in the body even though the person may eat a high calorie diet.

I wonder, green tea is most effective in reducing weight, what happens if you combine green tea, cinnamon and honey. My gosh, what would be the effect if you drank the tea and then went for a walk and then did strength training exercises.

Question of the day. What is your immediate gut response to a demand that you throw away the sugar that is currently in your kitchen? Empty the sugar canister and the sugar bowl. Yes the artificial sugar too.

until next time
Sharon

Food Intolerance can make YOU FAT

I am not talking about food allergies. Food intolerance usually does not manifest itself in hives or stomach ache. It can manifest itself in joint aches, lots of headaches or even bloated fat belly.

The body's reaction to eating something it does not like for you to have is to try to isolate that substance and eliminate it if possible. Your body decided in your first year of life what kind of food and drink was allowed.

For example, a baby may be chronically colicky and the doctor may recommend a change from cow's milk to another formula. Your best bet is goat milk. That may be all you need for both of you to get a good night's sleep.

If something you eat cannot be easily eliminated it is encased in your body fat or your joints or just about anywhere your body thinks it can isolate that substance. Keep on eating that food or combination of foods and that process is repeated over and over until you hate your fat and your knees ache with every step.

Talk to your doctor. There are tests that can be done to look for the marker that tells you that a food intolerance is ravishing your body.

Flax oil and Weight Gain

Good fact to know.

If the healthy female body does not get enough flax oil, omega-3 and omega-6 her body's metabolism will not function correctly and she is more susceptible to weight gain.

While diet pills can be an easy way to lose weight, they do not cause a re-balance of nutrients in your body. They only cause a loss of appetite by using a chemical that is in the diet pills known as phentermine or fenfluarmine.

Using diet pills alone to lose weight is counter productive. Without an exercise routine that is continued after the pills are discontinued, the weight is just going to pile back on your body.

The more important factor in losing weight is re-learning your eating habits. If you have a balanced nutritional intake, you are less likely to gain weight. Couple balanced nutrition with exercise and excess weight will just naturally come off.

Because of this, it is important to plan out your meals. There are several nutritious facts to consider when you are planning the right meals during the day.

The first consideration is Balance. All of your meals should include a balanced diet. If you have a lot of bread and dairy for breakfast, balance it with fruits and vegetables later on during the day.

It is impractical to demand that you eat only a piece of fruit for breakfast if you will not do it. So if breakfast for you is a bowl of cereal with milk, then you can opt for a no added sugar cereal and low fat milk.

You can use the standard food pyramid to judge balance or simply listening to what your body needs. Your body does not need sugar. That is an addiction that your brain has become adjusted to and is just like smoking. It becomes almost an unconscious habit to feed that addiction.

Because your brain is already confused by all that sugar, the signal that you are hungry is probably just a signal that you are thirsty. Confusion goes with sugar. Sugary drinks only make you dehydrated and your brain needs water.

Good advice - At the first thought of I am hungry -- go get a glass of water. Then get those hands busy. I am hungry translates from I am bored or thirsty - most of the time.

Losing weight and stopping smoking have a lot in common. Both require you to develop new habits to replace the body damaging habits of old. Busy your hands with something you like to do such as a hobby or busy your hands and brain by learning something new.

If you currently munch on chips while reading a book --- put the book down. Go do something physical that does not allow you to munch.