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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#6666CC" TEXT="#080000" background="00601573.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Free Recipes OkEatMe</FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Free Recipes OkEatMe">home</A>               <B>back to</B>  <A HREF="health_ideas.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health Ideas">Health Ideas</A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="introduction.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Introduction">Introduction</A>   |   <A HREF="help_tips_fun.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Help Tips Fun">Help Tips Fun</A>   |   <A HREF="contact_us.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us">Contact Us</A></div> <div> <I><B>                             </B></I><I><B>PC Diet</B></I></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="005d2013.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="lap_bands_diet_dangers.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lap Bands Diet Dangers">Lap Bands Diet Dangers</A></div> <div> <B>PC Diet</B></div> <div> <A HREF="weight_control.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Weight Control">Weight Control</A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> The Personal Care Diet</div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2e93e1d0.gif" border=0 width="318" height="29" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2ea618c0.jpg" border=0 width="97" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Welcome to the 5 step PC Diet</B></div> <div> <B>Water / </B><B>Stevia / Walk / W</B><B>hole-Grains</B><B> / Fruit & Veggies</B></div> <div> <B>#1.</B></div> <div> <B>Water nourishes the entire body</B></div> <div> "Water is a life-sustaining beverage, Every organ in the body needs water.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Keeping the GI tract in fine working order</B></div> <div> For water to get where it's needed, it must be absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract.</div> <bR> <div> When you drink water, it travels quickly down the esophagus, through the stomach and into the intestines, where it's partially diffused into the bloodstream, hydrating the body's cells.</div> <bR> <div> The kidneys and the bladder make use of some of the water, and what's left goes into the large intestine to move fecal matter.</div> <bR> <div> Water helps flush the system.</div> <div> When there aren't enough fluids in the colon, patients suffer from constipation, a common gastrointestinal ailment.</div> <bR> <div> And one solution to constipation — eating a diet rich in fiber, which can be found in fruits, vegetables and whole grain — can't work without adequate intake of fluids.</div> <bR> <div> Fiber draws water from all sources in the body to make stools softer and easier to pass through.</div> <bR> <div> <B>#2.</B></div> <div> <B>Soft Drinks Makes Us Fat</B></div> <div> What you drink--and not what you eat--that packs on the pounds, on average, we're consuming 83 more calories a day from caloric sweeteners than we did in 1977.</div> <bR> <div> And 80 percent of that--66 calories--comes from <B>soft drinks</B> and <B>sugary fruit drinks</B>.</div> <div> If you think 83 additional calories a day isn't that much, think again.</div> <bR> <div> If you were to consume an additional 10 calories a day, in one year you would have gained a pound.</div> <bR> <div> The "caloric sweeteners" that are adding all these calories to our diet include <B>sugar, high fructose corn syrup, maltose, dextrose</B>, and other products.</div> <bR> <div> We consume a little more from ready-to-eat cereals, candy, a little extra dessert, but those pale in comparison to the soft drinks and fruit drinks.</div> <bR> <div> One problem is that fluids don't make us as full as solids, so we consume more.</div> <div> Or worse, they replace more healthy choices.</div> <bR> <div> "When you drink highly sweetened beverages, they don't feel like a thick, rich, creamy, high-calorie treat--but they are.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Use Stevia: </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >Nature's Calorie-Free Sugar Alternative!</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <B>Calorie-free</B>, stevia concentrate is 300 times stronger than sugar</div> <div> there is entirely <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >too much sugar</FONT> in most peoples' diets.</div> <bR> <div> One of the biggest enemies we face in our pursuit of a healthy diet -- sugar appears in almost everything we eat and drink, making it virtuously impossible to avoid.</div> <bR> <div> Quit Sugar Forever with this Natural Non-Caloric, Sweet Tasting Alternative<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > - If you think that a natural sweetener with a history of safe use and practically no calories is too good to be true -- then I've got great news for you.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Stevia, a non-caloric natural herb with sweetening super power, is now available in a convenient 100% pure liquid concentrate.</div> <bR> <div> Unlike aspartame and other artificial sweeteners, which have been cited for serious toxicities, stevia is ideal for diabetics, those watching their weight, and anyone interested in maintaining their health.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Cooking and Baking with Stevia</B></div> <div> Stevia can be used in appetizers and beverages, soups, salads, vegetables, pies and pastries. It can be added to freshly squeezed juices to enhance flavor.</div> <bR> <div> Stevia is stable at high temperatures and can be used in hot dishes and baked foods Heat, at times as low as 86° F, or 30° C, destroys chemical sweeteners leading to negative health effects.</div> <bR> <div> Unlike aspartame, saccharin, and other synthetic sweeteners!</div> <bR> <div> <B>#3</B></div> <div> <B>Walk Daily Never Gain a Pound</B></div> <div> You don't need a diet. You don't need to join a gym. You don't need to spend a fortune outfitting your basement with a treadmill and exercise bike.</div> <bR> <div> All you need to do is walk briskly for 30 minutes a day, and it's very likely you'll never gain another pound.</div> <div> Better yet, you might even lose a few pounds.</div> <bR> <div> So says a new study from researchers at Duke University.</div> <bR> <div> The study confirms conventional wisdom:</div> <div> Exercise without cutting calories is not the most effective way to lose weight.</div> <bR> <div> <B>#4</B></div> <div> <B>whole-grain</B><B> breakfast, fight fat and prevent disease and stay healthy and slim</B></div> <div> Eat breakfast daily makes you less likely to succumb to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.</div> <bR> <div> Why?</div> <div> Eating breakfast regularly helps control your appetite throughout the day, which means you're less likely to overeat later. In addition, a good breakfast helps regulate the body's blood sugar.</div> <bR> <div> <B>oatmeal and other whole-grain cereals</B></div> <div> Men who regularly eat oatmeal and other whole-grain cereals instead of refined-grain cereals for breakfast may live longer and reduce their risk of heart attack or stroke, of new research from Harvard Medical School in Boston that was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.</div> <bR> <div> <B>So what IS a whole-grain cereal?</B></div> <div> Look at the list of ingredients on the side of the box.</div> <div> The first ingredient must be either a whole grain or bran and have at least two grams of fiber per serving to be called a "whole-grain" cereal.</div> <bR> <div> <B>#5</B></div> <div> <B>More Fresh Fruit & Veggies, Less Red Meat</B></div> <div> Scores of earlier studies have suggested that eating a so-called PC Diet, exercising, and drinking alcohol in moderation reduces heart disease risk.</div> <bR> <div> Eating a PC Diet rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and olive oil and low in saturated animal fats, trans fats, and highly-processed grains was associated with a 23% lower risk of death.</div> <bR> <div> Drinking alcohol in moderation was associated with a 22% lower risk, exercising 30 minutes or more a day lowered risk by 37%, and not smoking lowered risk by 35%.</div> <bR> <div> Lack of adherence to this low-risk lifestyle is blamed for 60% of all deaths seen among the study participants, 64% of the deaths from heart disease (heart attacks and angina), 61% of the deaths from cardiovascular diseases (high blood pressure, stroke, and coronary artery disease), and 60% of cancer deaths.</div> <bR> <div> Eat your broccoli, green beans, spinach and eggplant. While you're at it, grab an apple, orange or pear.</div> <bR> <div> Eating six servings of fruits and vegetables every day--that's just one extra serving from what you should be eating now--appears to reduce your risk by 29 percent of ever developing cancer in the head or neck area, the sixth leading cause of all cancer deaths worldwide.</div> <bR> <div> Nature may have provided us with an appetite suppressant<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > . . .</FONT></div> <div> that doesn't come as a chemically-laced pill: the pine nut.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2eb87aa0.png" border=0 width="135" height="170" ALT="pine cone" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="6" VSPACE="0">The oil from the pine nut--which, despite its name is really a seed--offers a 29 percent reduction in the desire to eat and a 36 percent drop in food intake, according to a randomized, double-blind cross-over trial conducted by Lipid Nutrition, a division of Loders Croklaan, of the Netherlands.</div> <bR> <div> For this experiment with 18 overweight women, they used 3-gram capsules of PinnoThin, a product marketed by Lipid Nutrition.</div> <bR> <div> Commonly used in pesto and other dishes, pine nuts initiate the release of an appetite-suppressing hormone called cholecystokinin (CCK).</div> <bR> <div> The researchers found that Korean pine nuts, which have been part of our diet since before ancient Greek and Roman times, stimulated two well-known appetite-suppressing peptide hormones at the same time that the overweight women reported they were experiencing a significantly reduced desire to eat.</div> <bR> <div> This occurred only 30 minutes after ingestion. Best of all it worked for about four hours, sending signals of satiation to the brain that diminished the desire to eat.</div> <bR> <div> <B>How does it work?</B></div> <div> Once the PinnoThin reaches the stomach, it stimulates the hormone CCK, which is then released into the gut. As CCK is increased in the bloodstream, it quenches the desire to eat.</div> <bR> <div> It's important to note that the researchers did not examine the effects of long-term use of pine nut oil as a weight loss aid or weight changes in those who used it.</div> <bR> <div> The study findings were reported to meetings of the American Physiological Society and the American Chemical Society.</div> <bR> <div> One of the main messages here is that it is never too late to benefit from following a healthy lifestyle.</div> </td> </tr></table></body>