Detox and Cleanse Your Body

Do you tire easily? Do you suffer from a chronic illness? Do you find it extremely hard to lose weight? By the time the salesperson at the mall was through spitting these queries at me, my fists were already clenched. It sounded almost like being damned for life. Before I could offer my rather flowery responses, he came up with another beamer - Your can be as full of toxins as your vacuum cleaner's bag. Imagine! The guy was calling me a talking, walking trash bag. Then I looked at my pretty ample burger - and the smoking cigarette dangling from my lips - and I didn't have the heart to refute him.

It's true. No matter where you live, every day your body adds to its store of potentially damaging toxins. These toxins can be in the form of living breathing microbes or stone dead particles of heavy metals that can readily combine with your living tissue and cause it irreparable damage. Some of these toxins come our way naturally as air and water pollutants or workplace contaminants and some we stuff ourselves with at will thanks to processed foods, aerated drinks, cigarettes, alcohol and even plush foam mattresses. One common goal all these hundreds of toxins serve is to put you on top gear to ageing and overall deterioration of your body. No wonder detoxification is the first prescribed procedure by top dieticians and personal trainers today.

In her book The Detox Strategy, Brenda Watson (bestselling author of The Fiber35 Diet fame) explains what these toxins are, where they come from and how you can help your natural cleansing system take care of this nuisance. Depending on your condition, you can follow Brenda's program from six to fourteen weeks. The book guides you how to reduce exposure to toxins, get rid of accumulated toxins in your body and reverse their harmful effects as far as possible. The book also lists recommended foods, diet, workouts and procedures like colonics and medicinal baths that can help speed up your detox process. More helpful sections include detox recipes, sample menus and a complete periodic detox schedule to keep recharging your body at regular intervals. You think you would like to feel younger, lighter and more energetic? Go here!

Now if you are in a hurry and want a shortcut to complete detox, here is another great resource. Master Cleanse is a quick, effective lemon detox system that has stood its ground for 50 years now. If you wish to shed up to 20 pounds, cleanse your body, feel younger and increase your energy levels in 10 days flat...this is what you are looking for. Check it out!

Indian Food Made Easy by Anjum Anand

One phrase that I find most unpalatable is “food for thought.” I would rather have it well cooked (rather than well brooded upon) and for my gut rather than my brain. I confess I am a die-hard foodie and I love as much to cook as much I love to devour. Since I am too focused on just one aberration, I hope God Almighty forgives me for my oft-repeated sin of gluttony. I adore recipes. I start getting my first whiffs of a dish just sighting down a list of ingredients. I actually live each instruction for cooking in my mind and the final look at the served and donned up dish makes me bolt straight into the kitchen!

I have an entire shelf devoted to recipe books and here is one I recommend to all who like India food. Indian Food Made Easy is written by Anjum Anand, presenter of a show with the same title on BBC. This book is a collection of some of her best recipes rendered in a pretty uncomplicated manner. The ingredients are all accessible - whichever part of the world you are in. The instructions are easy to follow and aided by some stunning (read mouth-watering) pictures.

One thing I must say is that this book lives up to the true essence of Indian food – Taste. Though Anjum tries to please the health-conscious wherever she can (offering healthier alternatives to traditional high-fat ingredients), the recipes underline the basic fact that Indian food is predominantly about tickling-the-taste-buds. This is a must-have to anybody who loves Indian food and is not coy to wield the ladle. You think you would like to take a look? Go here!

You may also find the following two titles interesting...check them out!

Quick Weightloss Without Starving

It’s wedding season in this part of the world. Every year when invitations start arriving, its time for a double jeopardy. The first problem is to try fit into an old suit - which somehow seems to shrink a size each year – and the second is to dig up those old sneakers and start running to BETTER fit into an old suit before the D-day. Seriously, being a normal person with a less-than-normal motivation to keep in shape, I keep looking for rapid weight loss techniques all the time. I have found dozens, right from surviving on cabbage soup for 15 days to suddenly start running half-marathons 4 days a week. Not for me!

With full regard to moving your ass, the importance of dieting can not be denied, especially when you need to loose weight within a few weeks for a special occasion. The occasion could be any…a wedding, a school reunion, or just that cruise where you wish to flaunt your body. I have quite a collection of diet plans that are either high or low on something…high-protein, low-calorie, low-fat, low-carb, negative-calorie…everything! Most such diets shock your digestive and metabolic system and must not be followed for more than 7-10 days!

Here is the new kid on the block. Carb Rotation diet. What I like is that it is neither a starvation diet nor a high-on-something or low-on-something diet. Its all about a diet that helps you take the right kind of carbs at the right time during the day. Not all carbs take the same amount of time to get digested and convert into energy. So if you are taking slow-working carbs in breakfast and rapid-working carbs in dinner you feel tired during the day and add fat while sleeping at night. The carbrotationdiet keeps your metabolism working hard and does not leave you with surplus calories before bedtime. The deal…you easily lose 15lbs in 30 days! Do you think you would like to take a look? Go here!

Ever heard of Turbulence Training!

When I first heard of Turbulence Training I was very convinced it was meant for high-altitude pilots frequently flying through rough-weather conditions. Yes, yes the informed ones are welcome to laugh at my steep ignorance. Another wild guess I risked was that Turbulence Training was meant for astronauts preparing for zero-gravity conditions. In reality this turns out to be nothing more extraordinary than a revolutionary fat-loss system that allows you to get maximum from your workouts in minimum time.

Heard that before? Yes, I have. Given my liking for all the B-things in life (Beer, Butter, Bakes, Bed, Bottoms…) there is hardly any thing that I don’t need to try to keep my BMI (body-mass index…see another B) below 30. I am still struggling somewhere around 28 point something. When wifey points out a sag around my waistline after a few reckless weeks I just pull in my sack and play Garfield…“It’s all muscle dear!”

Jokes apart, with rising stress levels round the world being overweight is one thing nobody can afford. Hypertension is striking down 26 year olds! Very turbulent times indeed. And one thing that is always in short supply when it comes to workouts is time…the scarcest of course being the sheer will to be consistent. One thing I realized long ago was that light-paced cardio over long durations never did the trick for me. Just bored me after two days. I experimented myself with short bursts of weight-training and it suits me fine. However, it’s still quite an issue to regulate workouts so you can lose fat without losing lean muscle mass or gain muscle without gaining a few extra pounds of fat.

This is where Turbulence Training comes in. I really like the concept, especially because it says a lot that I believe in. The best part is that it offers you a course of professionally designed workouts that you can do at home…neither a magic home-delivered diet nor a magic pill to pop after each meal. You think you would like to take a look? Go here!

Natural 12 Hour Cure for Yeast Infection

Let me make a confession. I had no idea how serious yeast infection (Candida for the more informed ones) can be when I started writing this post. I just came across this book promising a 12 hour all natural cure for yeast infection that left me a bit bemused. Yeast?! The first things I thought of were bread, cheese and beer. Three things that are my all-time favorites, though not in the specified order. What left me completely baffled was the list of symptoms. Would you believe that a yeast infection can make me have any (whichever is biologically possible) or a whole bunch of the following…

•Premature Aging •Vaginal Discharge •Arthritis •Depression •Chronic Rashes •Tiredness or Fatigue •Poor Memory •Irritability •Joint Pain or Swelling •Vaginal Odor •PMS •Digestive problems •Muscle Aches •Short attention span •Head, Hand, Hip and Knee Pain •Acne •Respiratory Infections •Memory loss •Lowered Immune System •Lowered Self Esteem •Impotence •Depression •White Vaginal Discharge •Hypoglycemia •Urinary disorders •Skin Lesion• Shortness of Breath •Food allergies •Learning and Memory problems •Painful Sex or Sexual dysfunction

Scary?! I could count quite a handful of them happening to me one time or the other. So I took it up with my Sis who happens to be a doctor. We had a rather candid chat about Candida and it turned out that often medication is prescribed for visible symptoms while root causes of problems like yeast infection go unnoticed. This results in frequent recurrence of a problem and it becomes chronic. I read on the Internet and found some useful information. You want to read about it too? Go here!

Well, I don’t know for certain if I ever had a yeast infection, but next time I need to visit a doctor I will keep it in mind, especially if there is some natural cure available. You think you would like to take a look at the book? Go here!