Essential Supplements: Fish Oils-Part 2

Hello!

I hope I have grabbed your attention with my part one of the importance of fish oils and part 2 will be a continuation of my list and explanation of why and how they work. Here we go:

5. Joint health and arthritis 
Joint pain and arthritis is often due to excessive inflammation in the body. This can be due to damage during exercise or the disease state itself. The good news is fish oils have been shown to decrease this inflammation,alleviating symptoms, as well as to reduce pain mediators in the problem areas. Fish oils are also seen to reduce the chance of onset of arthritis,lubricating the joins and increasing repair, flexibility and mobility.

6.  The Digestive System and Weight loss
Digestive and gastrointestinal problems are some of the most common issues suffered by people in the UK. Fish oils may play a role in aiding digestion by lubricating food as it makes its way through the body, as well as to provide nutrients and strength to the intestinal linings, reducing passage of toxins into the blood stream.
As mentioned in part one triglyceride levels in the blood are reduced. This is because fish oils are involved in the beta-oxidation (essentially fat clearance) from the blood. This prevents fat storage and along with a healthy lifestyle can help in maintaining a healthy fat level and weight.

7.Pregnancy and children
 During pregnancy, the woman's demand for DHA and EPA increases dramatically in order to support healthy development of the baby. This is what makes fish oils so crucial when pregnant. As well as this, there is evidence to suggest taking fish oils in the last trimester will increase skin, eye and hair health, immune system and brain development. This is not only important for the baby,but also as the baby grown into a child, showing to increase attention and learning ability as well as reducing allergy and infection.

To conclude this topic, quite honestly I could go on but I hope this is enough to encourage  you to try for yourself!
If you have any questions or have found ways it helps you I would love to know so comment below.

talk soon!

Lose weight the healthy way: part 1

Center your attention on health.  

Not enough of us seeking to lose a few pounds do this; the main focus is primarily what the scales tell you in the morning and how much further those “one-size-too small” motivational jeans fit, agreed? This is a recipe for disaster when it comes to maintaining the results you are looking for. Not only this but if you concentrate on health you will feel more comfortable, energetic and prevent those nasty colds and bugs, and superficially skin, hair and nails will noticeably improve all going hand in hand with (hopefully) permanent weight loss.

 Water, water and more water- I cannot stress enough how good/essential water is when it comes to keeping healthy and losing weight! The reasons for this are endless:

 1)to replenish the water lost naturally during any kind of weight loss,

2) to counteract dehydration which slows the fat burning process,

3) for easier digestion, 

4)water makes you more alert, this is because dehydration can cause a reduction in blood volume and therefore less oxygen reaching the muscles causing fatigue,

5) water helps the joints which is a benefit when combined with exercise, 

6)benefits for the skin, hair and nails, 

7)water before eating can often curb hunger. I could go on! I usually aim for between 1.5 to 2 liters of water a day, or more if working out, but my tip would be to always have a water bottle with you.
If you don't enjoy the taste of water, why not try it with fruit?

Stop starving yourself

This is a piece of advice I wish I’d listened to before now! Starving yourself is one of the worst things you could do and comes with horrible consequences to your body with not a lot of good to show at the end of it. Starving yourself is counterproductive and can lead to heart problems, anemia and therefore severe fatigue, stomach problems, damage to your metabolism and hair and bone loss.

I had numerous people telling me this before but didn't want to believe it until i started learning about Leptin. Leptin is a hormone that mediates long-term regulation of energy balance in the body. It suppresses food intake and thereby induces weight loss. It is linked closely to metabolism and so if Leptin levels fall, in theory, so will your metablism. When you diet and starve your body leptin which is sometimes refered to a the satiety hormone will also reduce and therfore so will your metabolism, and instead of losing weight, after the initial adjustment period you will gain weight. 

There are many foods that can help towards increasing leptin levels or make the body more sensitive to the leptin signals. Do Your research, eat the right number of calories, but the right calories. (fruit and veg are a good starting point)

  I hope these help follow for more!

start your Health journey today!

Inspirational Quote of the Day

I chose this quote (originally said by none other than Gandhi) because I think we truly underestimate the amazing outcome on the world  which could occur, if everyone stuck by this rule. Sure, we cannot all be perfect all the time, but we can make conscious decisions that make us, in the end, the people we are proud to be.

We are all told as we grow up to treat people how we expect to be treated, and if we all lived by this life would be bliss!

All of us make mistakes that I am sure- if we could go back in time-we would prevent. But in the long run these things make us who we are. It is important to grow and learn from our mistakes until we really are  people that we (on reflection) would like to be friends with. 

So think, are you the best person you can be?

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Health, Diet & A New You: Part 1 - Learning From Failures

So where do I begin.. The way I like to see it is that your body and health are the most important and prized possessions any of us will ever have and it’s important, but also very challenging to know what choices to make on the behalf of them. Everyone knows temptation, our taste buds tell us one thing whilst our arteries and midsection tell another, but that impulsive craving is enough for most of us to forget momentarily or merely to convince the disciplined side of us that it is worth it. Of course this is not a bad thing necessarily and it's important not to limit yourself in such a harsh way that you simply cannot maintain the rules that you restrict yourself to when it comes to food.

Simple Steps to a Quick trim and Why "Diets" Don't Work

So here is where it could go drastically wrong. Guess what? I am a classic example of a crash yo-yo dieter. I've honestly spent a tragic length of time researching and trying methods of extreme quick weight loss.

I've never been big but have an unrealistic dream (like so many women) of my ideal body (Victoria's Secret model)! I've tried almost everything shakes, fasting (5:2), high protein, low fat, low sugar, calorie restricting, 5 small meals, no meals and just picking and all I can say about them all is that they do not work in the long term, and eventually you will be back to feeling disappointed.

Yes, it’s a fragile subject, to admit to the time I have wasted on so many occasions and the worst of it is the weight you lose piles back on as soon as you finally give into all those cravings -after your week of being overly disciplined- and end up binging! Every girl I know claims “I won’t binge I will maintain it” but even for the most conscientious of us this is far easier said than done.

Another reason this can happen so easily is because the fat cells are so difficult to get rid of! Crash dieting will shrink them hence the sudden weight loss after the first week. It is also important to note a lot of this is water weight and these shrunken fat cells then act like sponges to soak up new fat entering the body after the diet has been scrapped. After growing up a little, seeing my failures and learning from them (a very important point!) I realized that I was probably doing more harm than good to my body.

One day I woke up and decided to scrap it all completely. It's only now I've managed to maintain and actually lose weight from just following a healthy lifestyle. I'm well aware that we're all different and these tips may not work for you, but for me they truly have been a Godsend and a push in the right direction this summer! 

In my next post we will scrap the word diet with all its negative connotations and focus on lifestyle leading to a new you.

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