Weight Loss Information
The #1 Superfood For Anti-Aging, Natural Detox and Weight Loss!
The remarkable health benefits of the Acai Berry have been recently featured in the national media, including: CBS News, Newsweek Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Today Show and on The Oprah Winfrey Show, helping to stimulate and continue to build enormous demand for this extraordinarily powerful, nutritious super food.
In addition, many of the world's leading health and nutrition experts now call Acai Berry "Nature's Most Perfect Food" because the exceptionally high levels of naturally-occurring Omega-3, Omega-6 & Omega-9 essential fatty acids are rarely found in any other fruit source. It's an excellent source of Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Niacin and other B Complex factors, as well as Potassium, Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus and other essential minerals.
Acai Berry also has the ability to cleanse the body internally of excess build-up of harmful waste within the digestive tract and also help prevent future build-up from occurring, thus contributing to healthy and effective weight loss.
While Acai Berry helps reduce fluid retention, bloating and eliminate harmful toxins, it also provides healthful fiber and Anthocyanins, the natural flavonoids with protective antioxidant properties20to counteract free radicals.
In response, Vitamin Power has formulated Acai Berry Complex Concentrate Extract providing all of the nutritional goodness of fresh Acai Berry (pulp, puree, juice) with the convenience of easy-to-take high-potency capsules for daily supplementation.
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For Successful, Long-Term Weight Control, These Simple Guidelines Are Highly Beneficial:
- As with all weight control programs, it is advisable to consult a physician or health professional before beginning.
- Keep accurate records of weight loss . . . Weight should be checked regularly, and it is also important to determine critical body-fat composition.
- If a person wants to eat between meals, raw broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumbers, kale, lettuce, spinach, sweet potatoes, tomatoes or watercress is recommended to satisfy hunger pangs and boost valuable nutrient intake. As a dressing, we recommend lemon juice or vinegar and olive oil with fresh-ground black pepper. (The active ingredient of black pepper is called Pepperine, reported to enhance the absorption and bio-availability of most nutrients.) The healthiest fruits to eat are: berries (all types), red grapes, plums and peaches.
- Eliminate “bad” (high-glycemic) carbohydrates from the diet. Sources include: bagels, cakes, donuts, candies, cookies, white bread, white rice, white pasta and white potatoes.
- Also eliminate excess salt, alcoholic beverages and cola drinks. Drinking only water, decaffeinated coffee and nutritious herbal teas is better.
- Avoid trans fatty acids (cooking oils, margarine, shortening) in the diet. They are known to increase the risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease. The better choice of fats in the diet are mono-unsaturated fats . . . Use olive or canola oils for cooking, eat moderate amounts of healthy seeds (pumpkin, sunflower) and nuts (unsalted almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios, walnuts.)
- Eating high-protein, lean meats such as poultry, lean beef or fish is highly recommended. We suggest avoiding “cold cuts” such as corned beef, bacon, salami, frankfurters, etc. because they¹re high in saturated fats, unhealthy additives and preservatives.
- Increase Omega-3 fatty acids intake by eating healthy fish four or more times a week.
EXERCISE is very important to weight management efforts, especially for improving the body’s natural metabolic function (measured as Basic Metabolic Rate: BMR), as well as maintaining general health and well-being:
Depending on a person’s physical condition, it is beneficial to participate in a sensible exercise program combining both “Aerobic” and “Anaerobic” activities on a regular basis.
Aerobic Exercise: This is defined as exercise “with oxygen.” The oxygen is used to produce new energy so the exercise can be continued over long periods of time (15 minutes or longer.) These exercises help achieve optimum cardiovascular fitness and can ultimately help to reduce body fat. Examples are swimming, aerobic classes, jogging, skiing, hiking, walking at a brisk pace, and bicycling.
Anaerobic Exercise: These are exercises done in short, fast spurts. These exercises can help to build muscle while improving speed, power and strength. Examples of good Anaerobic Exercise are regular weight-training (10 - 12 slow repetitions per set and 3 - 4 sets per exercise), brisk swimming 50 yards, running 100 yard sprints at a fast pace.
Vitamin D Linked To Successful Weight Loss With Dieting
Increased Intakes of Vitamin D May Actually Improve Weight Loss While Following a Calorie-Restricted Diet, According To New Findings.
For those individuals with higher Vitamin D levels, those subjects ended up losing almost more weight on their calorie-restricted diet. These findings were presented recently at the Endocrine Society's 91st Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
"Our results suggest the possibility that the addition of vitamin D to a reduced-calorie diet will lead to better weight loss," stated a leading researcher from the University of Minnesota involved in conducting the study.
With obesity rates still high, not only in developed countries but also, increasingly, in newly transitioning foreign markets and societies, there is now considerable attention to find ways to effectively trim down waistlines.
While our bodies do manufacture Vitamin D on exposure to sunshine, the levels in some northern countries are so weak during the late autumn and winter months that the body makes no Vitamin D at all, meaning that dietary supplements and fortified foods are seen by many as the best way to boost intakes of Vitamin D.
In adults, it is said Vitamin D deficiency may precipitate or exacerbate osteopenia, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, fractures, common cancers, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases and cardiovascular diseases. There is new evidence that this essential vitamin may also be valuable in helping reduce the incidence of several types of cancer and type-1 diabetes.
Although previous studies had reported an association between Vitamin D deficiency and obesity, it is not clear if inadequate Vitamin D causes obesity or the other way around.
The Minnesota-based researchers recruited 38 overweight men and women and followed assigned them to a calorie-restricted diet, which provided 750 calories a day fewer than their estimated total needs, for 11 weeks. Blood levels of Vitamin D were measured before and after the 11 week period.
On average, many of the subjects were Vitamin D insufficient. Additionally, higher baseline vitamin D levels were linked to increased loss of abdominal fat.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the University of Minnesota, and the Pennock Family Endowment at the University of Minnesota.
