Quick Tips For Managing Your Food Intake Over The Holiday Season

Eat Slower To Eat Less
Wolfing down meals may be enough to nearly double a person's risk of being overweight according to Japanese research suggests. Put you fork down between mouthfuls. Put your sandwich back on your plate between mouthfuls. Thin people often do this automatically. The rest of us have to learn it.

Snacks
Keep healthy snacks at the front of the fridge or cupboard. Put unhealthy snacks at the back of the cupboard or fridge. Put them in plain dark containers. Snack from a plate, not the packet -- it is easy to feel you should finish the packet. Put what you need on a plate, and put the rest of the pack out of sight.

Party Eating & Drinking
When you go to a party, socialise away from the area where the food and drink are. That way you are likely to eat and drink less and enjoy the party more.

Clean Your Teeth More
Keep a toothbrush handy and clean your teeth with a strong minty toothpaste. This can help reduce your need for sweet food.

Drink More Water
Water fills you up and makes you feel less hungry.

Don't Give Up!
Eaten food you shouldn't? That doesn't make you a bad or weak person. Just accept what's happened and get back to eating healthily.

Get Some Help
Self-hypnosis CDs can help the will power and herb and mineral supplements can help dramatically reduce cravings. It may be too late now to get these in place for the holiday season, but get yourself organized to have that bit of extra support in the new year. Will power is not always enough. If that’s the way you’ve tried in the past and failed, get some help and check out our great products that can help you control your eating. All come with a 60-day money-back guarantee.

Happy holidays :-)

20% off self-hypnosis self-help CDs

We’re offering 20% off all the self-help self-hypnosis CDs in our online shop. Offer ends on Friday at midnight.

You need to quote the code SAVE12 as you go through the checkout process. This great saving applies to online orders only.

Get yourself ready for the New Year with

• Exercise Motivation CD


• Financial Success CD


• Stop Smoking CD


• Positive Thinking CD


• Weight Loss CD

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All our products come with a 60-day money-back guarantee – we want you to be happy with what you buy from us.

You can listen to excerpts online before you buy.

Self-Hypnosis CDs Make Great Christmas Presents

Self-Hypnosis CDs make great gifts – not too expensive, easy to wrap, easy to post, show you care …

Check out the ones we sell – you can listen to an excerpt of most of them –

• Deep Sleep


• Positive Thinking


• Chakra Meditation


• Driving Test Help


• Play Better Golf


• Exercise Motivation


• Guided Meditation


• Financial Success


• Kids Bedtime Relaxation
  

Check these and more out here.

Stomach Bloating Help

Stomach bloating can be a real problem at any time of the year and particularly at party time when you might want to fit into something slinky.

So we are here to help. Buy 1 pot of Optibac (high quality prebiotic and probiotic supplement) and get a course of Antibloat probiotics free.

The Optibac costs £8.80 and the free AntiBloat is worth £7.33. Carriage is £1.50 (for the UK)

Start with the Antibloat course and then move on to the Optibac when it’s finished.

Suitable for vegetarians.

Get more information and order online:


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This supplement will not help you if you are suffering from alopaecia where you lose your hair in patches, or if the hair loss is just noticeable on the top of your head (so that a central parting looks wider than it should be).

Otherwise give it a try!

Worst foods for pesticide residues

Learn about PAN UK's research on pesticide residues in food and find out about the top (or should we say bottom?) foods for having pesticide residues.
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Thanksgiving Weight Loss

More good thoughts from Kim Lyons, BS, CPT, Best-selling author of Your Body, Your Life, Co-trainer on The Biggest Loser, Your Fast Track to Fat Loss Coach

Too many people mess up once and then think their entire diet is ruined.They feel as if everything they've done prior to that day was wasted andthere's no sense going on.

Or even worse, they rationalize to themselves, "Well, I already cheated, so it doesn't matter now, I might as well keep pigging out."

That's nonsense. If you threw in the towel every time you didn't score100% on your diet, most people would never get through more than a few days on any structured program.

Just because you mess up once doesn't mean you should quit! You're only human. Don't let one small slip keep you derailed.

When you've strayed from the plan, enjoy it, don't let guilt and discouragement get you down. Firmly plant your wheels back on the tracks and start rolling again. Deal?

Here's my suggested plan for Thanksgiving dinner or any other special holiday occasion or event coming up:

a.) be a little more active and have a little bit smaller portions the day prior and all the way up to your special meal.

b.) make simple, healthier changes to the foods you love , so that you can enjoy the meal, but in modified, healthier versions.

c.) eat until comfortably full and satisfied, not stuffed.

d.) get right back on track the very next morning.

If you plan these 4 steps a head of time and have the right mindset going into it, you can really enjoy your special meal without sabotaging your progress.

Fed Up With Muesli?

If you're fed up with muesli or just don't like it, try Alara Organic Active. Its truly wonderful - it's gluten free too if that's important to you.

It's a mix of quinoa, amaranth, apple and prebiotic yacon. Fantastic.

I've just been on their site and they've won lots of awards and have great business principles. Do take a look.

I've just noticed you can even make your own muesli by choosing from a list of 60 ingredients and telling them the proportion - bespoke muesli wow!

Stay Positive In The Credit Crunch

Radio, TV and the newspapers inundate you daily with more depressing news about the global economy. It can be difficult to stay positive and focussed and not let all the depressing news get you down.

So if you find yourself more affected than you would like to be, try Alaskan Essence Guardian. Guardian reminds us that protection comes from within us. It protects us from negative energies, by helping us keep strong healthy boundaries, keeping us grounded and connecting us to our inner light so we can project this out instead of absorbing energies that don’t serve us.

Acne Remedy Particularly For Teenage Boys

Have you got a teenager in your household who suffers from acne? Embarrassing, depressing, confidence sapping.

I’ve recommended Zinc Citrate to loads of mums and they almost always tell me that it worked really well.

It’s particularly appropriate for boys with acne – semenal fluid contains a lot of zinc and teenage boys often produce a lot of that, so can be more prone to acne for this reason. You may not want to quite discuss it in these terms with your sons!

Just buy them a pot to try.

Lots of women are short of zinc too – can help with PMS, mood swings and all that stuff.

Help For PMS / PMT

PMS, PMT, premenstrual syndrome whatver you call it it spells misery for many women, their partners and their children.

A study has found that 84% of UK women suffer from premenstrual syndrome (PMS). What a dreadful figure!

Many years ago I suffered very badly from PMS, and it completely dominated my life. Every month was divided up like this:

7 days of PMS – bloating, tiredness, self-hatred, extreme irritability etc.
7 days of remorse for all the horrible things I’d said and done while under the influence of my hormones
7 days of feeling OK
7 days of feeling apprehensive about the time for PMS coming round again

So what can be done about PMS? Read my article on PMS and find out.

Holiday Fat Loss Survival

Here's some well-timed thoughts from Kim Lyons of Fast Track to Fat Loss.

First key point to remember: you can and should enjoy the holidays. You can enjoy being with family and going out with friends. You can go to holiday parties and have fun.

You can enjoy a few "naughty" meals. You can have some cake and a glass
or two of wine. There's no reason why you can't enjoy yourself AND stay healthy, lean and fit through the holidays. All it takes is some planning, goal-setting, a positive mindset, and little dose of good old-fashioned discipline.

Here's the first of 10 ways that you can follow your nutrition plan and stay in great shape over the holidays without turning into a miserable Scrooge. If you follow this advice, you'll be one of the proud few with a New Year's resolution to be the best you've ever been in 2009 - instead of one of the guilt-ridden many who resolve to reclaim what they lost in 2008.

Ready? Here we go...

#1. Expect to stay on your program over the holidays.
"If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" is a time-worn and cliched statement, but it's still some of the best success advice you will ever hear.

Not only do most people fail to plan, they consciously plan to fail over the holidays. Most people expect to "blow" their diet and skip workouts.They expect to eat more, to exercise less and to gain weight. As a result, they don't even make the effort.

Instead of taking control, they resign themselves to "maintenance" at best,or back-sliding at worst. This negative expectancy leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy. By the first week of January, they're in the worst shape they've been in for a year and they frantically make New Year's resolutions to shed the excess fat they've gained.

You can avoid this trap by planning to succeed. Set up a positive expectation. Resolve now that you will not tolerate slipping backwards. Keep your standards up and don't settle! Not only can you plan to "stay in shape"over the holidays, you can plan to improve! All you have to do is make the decision and expect success.

Colorectal Cancer And Meat Eating

Information from www.pcrm.org:

A recent study from the Ontario Family Colorectal Cancer Registry, established by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, compared the diets of people who had been diagnosed with colorectal cancer to the diets of people who did not have cancer. It turned out that those who ate the most red meat had a 67 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer, regardless of any genetic factors they may have had.

However, some people with specific genes had a much higher risk from meat-eating—up to four times the cancer risk—compared to people who avoid meat.

Every year, 160,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer. About half of all cases are already incurable when they are found.

Cotterchio M, Boucher BA, Manno M, Gallinger S, Okey AB, Harper PA. Red meat intake, doneness, polymorphisms in genes that encode carcinogen-metabolizing enzymes, and colorectal cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. 2008;17:3098-3107.

A Healthy Energy Boost

One of the most effective supplements for an energy boost is the vitamin B complex. Helps with irritability, mood swings and more. Asthmatics also often benefit from the B complex supplement as do women suffering from premenstrual problems.

We currently have a great price for the 250 tablet size of this important nutritional supplement. Buy a balanced B Complex formula.

Travellers First Aid Kit

Illness and injuries, by their very nature, happen at unpredictable times when it may be difficult or impossible to buy what you need. By travelling with a selection of homeopathic remedies you can be prepared for most eventualities.

Our travel kit contains 36 remedies covering common ailments and injuries along with remedies specifically for the traveller, from travel sickness, fear of flying, bites and stings to holiday tummy upsets and much more.

The kit comes with a comprehensive booklet that introduces you to homeopathy and features an A-Z guide of symptoms that can be treated, along with materia medica section describing the main uses of the remedies contained. Perfect for the frequent and long-distance traveller.

Gelatine Capsules - Alternatives

I'm a long term vegetarian and a member and supporter of the UK Vegetarian Society so I am careful that all the supplements on our Health & Goodness site are suitable for vegetarians and many are also suitable for vegans too.

Ginkgo Biloba works

On our Health & Godness site we sell Ginkgo Biloba and we currently have a buy 2 get 1 free offer going.

I sent a message round an email group I belong to, and a friend Yvonne posted this (completely unprompted by me):

With ref Jane's message.
I started on this fantastic supplement in the Spring at Jane's suggestion as I was experiencing pronounced leg cramp, and poor memory.[generally getting to be an old crock!]
I felt an improvement after about 4-6 weeks, but was uncertain what to attribute it to.... but having left it at home when I went away for a month I have no doubt now that the benefit was down to the Ginkgo & hastily started the daily dose when I got back 2 weeks ago.
I can't recommend it highly enough, it's the single most effective remedy for me.

Immune Boost Special Offer

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The varied types (strains) of friendly bacteria in Immunox ensure the intestinal lining throughout the gut is well colonised with a healthy coating of friendly bacteria. A strong intestinal lining prevents contaminants and harmful bacteria from entering into the bloodstream. A rich probiotic balance also supports immune cells in the intestinal walls to help limit the growth of pathogenic organisms. The antioxidants in Immunox are a unique and balanced combination of essential antioxidants as well as other potent natural extracts with very powerful regenerating and free radical neutralising properties.



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Many people take probiotic drinks but these are often high in sugar and may not contain the most resilient bacteria to survive being drunk and digested. Probiotic drinks also tend to be an expensive way to get the probiotics.



Antioxidants and probiotics are great for the body for other reasons than the immune system, so this supplement offers real whole body benefits. Probiotics also help the digestive system to function more effectively and can reduce wind and assist regular bowel movements. Antioxidants also contribute to outer beauty because they can have a positive impact on the signs of ageing such as wrinkles and sagging skin. Some research also suggests that antioxidants have a positive role to play in reducing the chances of you developing cancer.



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Eat Slower To Eat Less

Not a magic pill; just common sense when you think about it. This is soemthing I have been advocating for a long time in the information about weight and shape management on my web site and it's good to see that the scientists back that now:

Wolfing down meals may be enough to nearly double a person's risk of being overweight, Japanese research suggests.
Osaka University scientists looked at the eating habits of 3,000 people and reported their findings in the British Medical Journal.
Problems in signalling systems which tell the body when to stop eating may be partly responsible, said a UK nutrition expert. Read more>>

Meat-free money saving recipes

In light of the UN’s Dr Rajendra Pachauri's recent call for people to eat less meat to help save the environment, and the 22% rise in meat and fish prices, there’s never been a better time to try meat-free meals.
The Vegetarian Society can help you do your bit for the environment and feed four people for less than £5 a meal. With recipes ranging from a simple vegetable soup through to a hearty sausage hotpot and a fast fruity crumble. For more details visit www.vegsoc.org or call 0161 925 2000.

“What we choose to eat is one of the biggest factors in the personal impact we have on the environment and everyone can enjoy tasty, meat-free meals on a budget. Research studies have shown that the single most damaging foodstuff is beef and all non-vegetarian diets required significantly greater amounts of environmental resources, such as land and water. By feeding grain and vegetables directly to people (rather than livestock) we can increase the amount of food available to everyone.” said Caroline Chisholm Head of Communications, the Vegetarian Society.