Patricia Wagner asked:

Want to do something positive to enhance your health? Get in the habit of Adding green tea to your diet. It’s been proven to be beneficial as a health improver for centuries and for many different cultures from East to West.

Green tea has an unusual set of health benefits. It has a reputation for helping with many health issues, from the prevention of cancer to promoting concentration. You might wonder how green tea can help prevent cancer. Green tea is filled with antioxidants which protect your cells.

Surprisingly, it also has a reputation of being able to prevent tooth decay.

Is high cholesterol problem for you? Green tea has been known to help lower cholesterol. Having lower cholesterol is very beneficial in helping to prevent heart disease and stroke.

Is aging a concern for you? Green tea contains a lot of antioxidants that fight free radicals. Free radicals contribute to health deteriorating that comes with the passing of time.

Most people would like to lose at least a little bit of weight and a lot of people need to lose a whole lot of weight! Assist your body to lose weight by drinking green tea on a regular basis. It just may help raise your rate of metabolism so you can burn calories more efficiently.

Even arthritis has been known to be relieved by drinking green tea. That’s because green tea contains a special substance that protects cartilage.

If you’re a menopausal or postmenopausal woman, you’re going to want to do all you can to protect the density of your bones. That’s another reason to drink green tea since it has been known to help keep bones strong.

Do you or a loved one have diabetes and need all the help you can get managing this condition? Help guard your blood sugar level by drinking green tea.

Has a loved one shown signs of suffering with Alzheimer’s disease or perhaps you yourself are in the beginning stages of this dreaded affliction? Help protect your brain cells by drinking green tea.

Want to do all you can to slow the progress of Parkinson’s disease? Green tea contains lots of antioxidants which protect the cells of the brain.

Want to protect yourself from food poisoning? If you’ve been drinking green tea, bacteria that causes food poisoning may be killed by special substances in green tea.

Are you often laid low with infections? If you drink green tea, you can help strengthen your immune system.

Also drink green tea to protect yourself from the flu and colds.

Green tea is also a cleanser and if you drink it, you’ll be cleansing your body.

Be sure to buy green tea that is fresh so that you can derive the maximum health benefits from this drink that has been known for centuries to help people’s health.

Drink it either hot or cold to quench your thirst, but be sure to drink it just after it has been freshly made. However, wait a few minutes to let it steep so that the maximum benefits can enter both your teacup and your body as well.

There are additional health benefits to drinking green tea that are not included in this article. If you’re really interested, why not research the subject yourself?

Karie asked:


Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was a “blueprint” that showed you how to manage your diet? A way to chart how when and how frequently you should eat so that you can see your best results from your exercise program? As a personal trainer in Toronto, I have worked with client and used the results to develop a weight loss blueprint that works!

Here is your own custom tailored diet blueprint to help you kick start your metabolism; your body’s fat burning machine. In this step-by-step process, you’ll see how easy it is for you to easily start right NOW to help you to start looking and feeling great! Using the proven strategies that have helped hundreds of women in downtown Toronto achieve levels of fast fat loss and a level of fitness success they never thought possible!

I personally guarantee they will work for you too! You just have to put them into action. So let’s get started!

THE DIET BLUEPRINT

On a piece of paper, draw a straight line across the page. At the left end of the line write what time you wake up and on the right end write down what time you go to bed.

Your line should look like this so far:

6am ____________________________________________________10pm

Next, break your timeline up into 3 hour sections like below.

6am_____/9am/_______/12pm/_______/3pm/______/6pm/_____10pm

Now, be honest with yourself; write down all of the foods you eat during the day; your meals, snacks, and beverages. Mark the place on your timeline to show when you ate and also write beneath the time the foods you ate or drank.

Then, use your “blueprint” to chart your daily activity by writing what you were doing during each 3 hour time period above your timeline.

The last and final step is to look at your timeline and see if you can see any trouble spots. I’m sure you will find a few… we all have them. See if you have any times during the day where you are not active yet eating too much, or vice versa, times when you may be fairly active yet not eating enough or anything.

The worst thing you could possibly do if your goal is to lose weight (I like to say INCINERATE FAT!), is to position your meals/snacks at the wrong places. Your body burns calories (energy) 24 hours a day so you need to feed it frequently… the key is to position the right amount of food (specifically calories) at the right time.

Using your custom-tailored blueprint and honestly charting your daily activity and nutritional habits you can easily pin point areas that need improvement. Now that you know where your trouble spots are now it’s time to make some minor (hopefully) adjustments or changes. Once you make these changes you stabilize your blood sugar (energy levels), there are several benefits from using this diet blueprint; you will feel more energy all day long, you will be less likely to burn muscle tissue, more likely to burn excess body fat, and most importantly, you will be less likely to store any additional body fat!