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Burn Fat Fast: Which are the best plants to stimulate the sexual function?

A question which often returns, namely how to stimulate the sexual function, libido, in a natural way. There are many plants having the reputation to improve the sexual performance and to stimulate the desire. It is necessary however to be conscious that the effect of these plants cannot be compared with the effect of a drug, such as Viagra, for example. The effect of the drug is generally very fast, but also very momentary (ephemeral). The effect of the plant is more subtle and more durable. Moreover, the majority of these plants also have reconstituting properties of the general condition and also have protective effects against the attacks of the stress.

Finally let us mention that there exists very little of in-depth studies on the stimulative properties of the sexual function of these plants, their reputation is mainly based on empiricism and the tradition very often thousand-year-old.

Here is a list of the most popular plants in this field:

Cordyceps:Cordyceps is used in China since centuries, mainly to increase longevity.

- It pushes back the threshold of tiredness.
- It increases energy, accentuates the endurance and improves the physical
performances
- It improves the mental functions.
- It supports a faster recovery following the disease.
- It increases the immunizing system effectiveness.
- It fights against premature ageing thanks to its antioxidant action.
- It improves the sexual function.

The studies carried out on more than 1000 men and women showed a tonic effect on the defective sexual functions.

Tribulus:The tribulus is a plant used in India since millennia. It pushes however a little everywhere in the world.

- It supports the muscular development and increases the force and the physical
endurance
- It fights general tiredness.
- It acts favorably on the sexual function.

According to studies practiced in Bulgaria between 1982 and 1983, the extract of tribulus would make increase the rates of various hormonal steroids what could have a favorable effect on the libido and the physical force. Other studies, more recent, carried out researchers of Singapore, showed that the extract of tribulus has positive effects on the sexual behavior of the rats and rabbits.

Rhodiola:
The rhodiola is another plant with the adaptogene properties which seems to adapt to all the needs for the organism.

- It attenuates considerably the misdeeds of the stress.
- It accentuates the memory.
- It allows a better recovery following a physical effort.
- It makes it possible to draw more easily from the fat reserves and to use energy necessary to the physical effort.
- It supports a better management of the stress.
- As all the plants adaptogenes it would exert a favorable action on the sexual function.

According to results of a study undertaken in 1987 in Russia near 35 men suffering from erection dysfunction or premature ejaculation, 26 subjects knew a clear improvement of their sexual function thanks to an extract of rhodiola (150 with 200mg per day over 3 months).

Maca:
The maca is a known plant for a long time peasants of the Peruvian high plateaus.

- It fights chronic tiredness.
- It accentuates the physical performances.
- It regularizes hormonal balance at the woman.
- It accentuates the reproductive capacities at the man and the woman.
- It improves the libido either sexual energy just as the erection function of the man.

On the medicinal level, the maca contains tannins, saponins and alkaloids (macamides and macaenes). The maca contains also isothiocyanates and glucosinolates which confer its aphrodisiac and invogoring properties to him, improving the set of the functions of the organism.

The maca, that some do not hesitate to call natural Viagra, acts however in a quite different way. Whereas Viagra takes effect in the very short term and comprises dangerous effects, the maca acts later on thanks to its tonic properties.

Ashwaganda (Withania will somnifera):The ashwaganda has been an Indian plant used for more than 2000 years in ayurvedic medicine. It is also called the Indian ginseng. This plant was also used traditionally as aphrodisiac. One mentions his use in Kama Sutra like stimulant of the sexual function. This plant is especially famous for its reconstituting and adaptogene properties against the effects of the stress.

Ginseng:During many years it will have been the plant generally mentioned for sexual strength. It acts mainly of an adaptogene plant, getting a revitalizing action. It is recommended to all the people who miss vitality. It is effective to improve the performances as well physical as intellectual.

The ginseng is also an excellent supplement to fight against tiredness, the depression and the stress. It makes it possible to face the requirements of the modern life, characterized by its rushed rhythm.

The salsepareille:Probably not really known for its stimulative action of the sexual function, the salsepareille is however regarded as an aphrodisiac in very many countries (in particular in China, India, Mexico, Argentina).

It would look after the impotence. At the woman it stimulates the production of progesterone and treats the premenstrual syndrome as well as the disorders connected to the menopause, such as the asthenia and the depression.

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Burn Fat Fast article:The Food Advices: Is It Necessary To Believe All That One Says To Us?

And What Is It Necessary To Believe?

To drink 1,5 liter of water per day, to eat 5 fruits and vegetables per day, to swallow fibers and Omega (Omega-3, Omega-6 and Omega-9 supplements), to drink 1 wine glass (a red wine) per day, etc… Certain scientists question the health allegations. Are they right?

What Is It Necessary To Believe?
Stupor! American researchers affirm that one is wrong to try to drink 1,5 liter per day. To drink to his thirst would be enough. And all that one does say to us of other about nutrition and health, they are allegations too?

“Less one drinks, better it is, because unnecessarily to drink tiredness the kidneys, the ureter, the prostate…”: such is the plea of a Parisian urologist of the Montsouris Institute. Thus who is necessary to believe? One can wonder whether the publicity in favor of water “to drinking much more” is not orchestrated by the mineral water companies, via the media and the medical profession.

One Does Not Eliminate Better.
A few days ago, the American researchers (university from Pennsylvania in Philadelphia) published a study in which they affirm that in the final analysis, drinking one liter and half is absolutely not justified at a point of view of health. “To Drink to his thirst” according to Dan Negoianu and Stanley Goldfarb.

Watch out: that does not want to say that it is harmful. But that does not help to lose weight(as certain publicity’s would like to make us believe it)., nor to make us the dye less scrambled by eliminating more toxins (publicity of another mineral water brand). On the other hand, this liter and half of water should not be called in question at certain people: athletes, people under a hot and dry climate, in the event of diseases such as renal problems, the babies and the old people, etc…

Like consequence, our French neighbors go up to the attack other nutritional allegations, such as: it is necessary “to eat 5 fruits and vegetables per day”, “to consume 4 dairy produces per day”, to place its in question.

But what is after all true? We pinned 6 ideas regularly heard in order to check if they are false or not.

It Is Necessary To Drink 1,5 Liter Of Water Per Day = FALSE
It is in any case what two researchers of the university of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia affirm. According to the study that they have just published to drink 1,5 liter of water per day is needlessly.

Professor De Leval, urologist at the university of Liege (Belgium) does not say really another thing. “it is true that it is necessary to urinate between 1 liter and a liter and half per day” explain the professor. “and that if you urinate 1 liter, it is necessary to drink of them two liter. And if you drink coffee, it is still liquid. In fact, if you add entirety with the liquids which are drunk, either via drinks, or via the food, one easily arrives at the quantity that it is necessary to urinate.”

“the people who have kidney calculations”, according to the Pr. De Leval, “must they drink much more than the others”. He refuses nevertheless to quote a figure: all depends on calculations, but also on the quality of water. “certain water, like alkaline water, is better adapted to this problem.”

Fibers Should Be eaten = TRUE
“the fibers consumed during the meal will lower the glycemic index”, explains the nutritionist Marie-Claire Colyn, “and thus will cause a drop in insulin. And secondary reaction, the fibers will support a more natural satiety and, while consuming some, one is thus likely less to make hypoglycemic reactions.”

Lastly, properties for which they are known, “they help to fight against the constipation, especially at the people who are on diet”. Besides in this case, the nutritionist advises fibers in tablets, for example, beet fibers, who agrees particularly well the laziest intestines.

“For people who are not on diet”, follows Marie-Claire Colyn, “the ideal, it is with the breakfast of the wholewheat bread with small whole grains, oleaginous seeds… Or of cereals like the muesli, most possible complete possible, to which one can add fruits, which contain also fibers. And with the other meals, always two vegetables, a raw and a cooked.”

But there is not too much risk to eat too many fibers?
“If, one could swell, and to need to drink more, because the fibers absorb much more water. People will feel it will feel to come: in addition to they will be swollen a little, they are likely to have small cramps.”

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Burn Fat Fast article:Burn Fat Fast article: Food Advices: And What Is It Necessary to Believe? Part II

To Eat 5 Fruit And Vegetables Per Day = TRUE
It is necessary indeed, on the whole, to eat 5 fruit and vegetables per day, but with the combination of two fruits and three vegetables.

“the fruits contain sugar”, explains Damien Pauquet, nutritionist-dietitian. “There are people who eat six fruits per day and then which is astonished to getting fat, but it is completely normal: they absorb too much sugar.

For a matter of fact, if one pays attention to his weight, it is necessary to limit bananas and grapes, they are the most sweetened fruits. Then, if one consumes too many fruits and too many vegetables also besides, especially very believed, one is extremely likely to have problems with the intestines. And if one eats too many acid fruits, or certain vegetables as the asparagus’s, one will have problems of acidity: that for example will maintain a tendinitis, or will cause heartburn “.

For the rest, the watchword is varied. The ideal in the point of view of Damien Pauquet it is to vary the colors in the plate, because that means each time different properties. Yew is necessary to give to the honor leguminous plants like beans, chick-peas, broad beans…, rich in proteins and excellent for health. Lastly, not to eat anything and any time: the citrus fruits are exciting. One does not eat an orange the evening, nor of kiwi for example. They are fruits of the morning.

It Is Necessary To Eat 3 To 4 Dairy Products Per Day = FALSE
How many dairy produces is it necessary to consume per day to build (or preserve, according to its age) of good bone? With believing of them certain publicity, three to four dairy products per day, but in a moderate way “.

It is difficult to say because they are less proportional than the fruits and vegetables and that they contain various things such as fats. However one should not either exceed a certain caloric intake explains Dr. Nicolas Paquot. “the good message? In consuming each day, but in a moderate way “.

One thus will prefer the ½ skimmed milk than the full-cream milk, and this is quite better to choose for lighted cheeses. Because a cheese with firm paste is quite a true caloric bomb, even if it is rich in calcium. If the dairy produces are useful for health, it is for their contribution out of calcium and vitams D. It takes us each day of it +/- 1 gr.. (1,5 gr. during the pregnancy, the growth, people more than 65 years and the people with the osteo-articular risk), as 400 to 800 UI of vitamin D (both go hand in hand).

For example, a piece (40 gr..) of Saint-Paulin cheese covers 1/5 of our daily needs of calcium. The equivalent with the Parseman cheese covers more than one third. Useless thus to eat 4 portions under penalty of taking some weight (what is dangerous, even with good bones).

It Is Necessary To Drink 1 Wine Glass Per Day = TRUE
Everyone knows the dangers of an excessive alcohol consumption. But some people pretends that the daily consumption of 1 wine glass (even of two…) cannot make twists at the organism. A recent American study advises nevertheless to be limited to 6 or 7 wine glasses per week.

“That depends on various factors”, answers Dr. Emmanuel Pinto (University Hospital Center of Liege). For people in good health, such a consumption appears to me indeed without danger. According to various studies, it would have even cardioprotective effects.

But in certain cases, the wine consumption is obviously to proscribe: pregnant woman, diseases…”

If the wine is strongly dis-advised during the pregnancy, it is that the effects of alcohol on the child are numerous: mental delay, malformation…

The nature of the invaluable beverage is of capital importance. The red wine, which contains more phenolic elements, offers more cardio protective qualities that the white wine. This one nevertheless remains much better for health than other alcoholic drinks (beers, spirits…).

To Take An Omega-3 Supplement = FALSE
The Omega-3 supplement (about which nobody had never intended to speak still a few years ago…) flower today on more and more on food which are enriched, and are declined into small pills in pharmacy and within the dietetic shop.

“Before to rush on the food supplements, you have to remember that eating varied and balanced is enough to provide all the necessary benefits”, specifies Dr. Nicolas Paquot, diabetologist. “That wants to say to eat fatty fish of the cold seas (tuna, salmon, herring) per week”. preferably fresh rather than from the a tin, which is a little fattier. Therefore, not need for additional supplements in Omega-6 (another essential fatty acid that the body does not produce itself, but which is drawn from food).

“the good daily relationship between Omega 3 and Omega 6 is one for five. However let us be we with for 30 even 40″, explains the doctor. “Better is worth to consume less vegetable oils (groundnut, sunflower) and to turn to the olive oil, rich in Omega-9″. Thus, all our requirements in Omega, good for the prevention of the diseases of the heart, will be filled.

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Burn Fat Fast Article: Small Guide Of Light Products
Apart from butters and margarine’s already mentioned, we sought and tasted for you different light products sold in the supermarkets or in the retail shops.

We gathered them by families:
- Products accompanying an aperitif
- Frozen ready-made dishes
- Cheeses
- Nature dairy products
- Dairy products with fruits
- Sweetened biscuits

These lists don’t have the claim to be complete but they will guide your steps.
Than after that you have to seek new products.
And the motivation will be your main motor.

1. For the aperitif:
By accompanying a tomato juice raised by a celery salt; a little alcolized drink such as a good wine glass or a champagne flute.

You will serve:
- Small pancake of potato with only 10% of fat content
- Seame crusty with only 12% of fat content

You will be able to present:
- Various sort of olives: nature, with or without pit, filled with anchovies, filled with sweet peppers
- Different varieties of gherkins

You will prepare:
- Small toasts buttered with a fine layer of TAPENADE of green olive

2. Frozen ready-made dishes:
With a little time and patience, it will be relatively easy for you to unearth lighted dishes containing fish.

On the other hand, those meat dishes seem non-existent. Indeed, their preparation requires a fry mode of cooking what them excluded of our repertory.

Here thus some ideas of ready-made dishes has to be useful containing fish which you can get from the frozen echelon of your supermarket:
- Fish prepared with a Bordeaux sauce, only cooked with sunflower oil

- Fish cooked in a Provence manner which contains only olive oil
- Fish in a nicoise way with olive oil
- Pollack with tomatoes and pistou
- Salmon of Norway with fine herbs
- Grill of fish with tomatoes
- Sole or roasted limanda “à la provencal”

3. Cheese:
There are many lighted cheeses which contain only 30% of fat content.

Let us recall however that for you, the cheese consumption will not be episodically (one to twice by week).

cook, there exist various cheeses reduced to 25% fat contents 25% which you will use when a receipt requires it imperatively.

4. Natural dairy products:
Milk
That is to improve your breakfast or to make certain recipes, you will be able to use various completely skimmed milks.

Sour cream
There exist several varieties of liquid creams or thick cream reduced to 8% of fat content. It could be used with parsimony for the realization of certain recipes.

Yogurt
Essential components of your diet because they do not contain any fat contents and represent a considerable protein contribution.

You will consume them with your own way with or without aspartame. It will finish a a well balanced breakfast.

They will be used to prepare the sauces by replacing the sour cream. They will especially enable you to finish your meals, replacing at the same time the cheese and the dessert without the least effort of preparation!

5. Dairy products with fruits:
Yogurt with fruits
The same food values present of course as their nature brothers nature with an appreciable taste.

They are combined with CHERRY, with APRICOT, with PEACH, with GRAPE or VANILLA.

They associate STRAWBERRIES and RASPBERRIES, PEACHES and APPLES, PRUNES and APRICOTS, various RED FRUITS and YELLOW FRUITS.

Fresh cheeses with fruits
They also exist with 0% fat content. They can be MOUSSE ON FRUITS, with PRUNES, with STRAWBERRIES, with FRUITS OF the MARKET.

You will also find fresh cheeses with vanilla with 0% fat content.

6. Sweetened biscuits
- Small dessert cakes reduced containing from 6 to 13% of fat content, aromatized with red fruits, apricots or prunes
- Little tuile (thin crisp cookie) with lemon
- Crusty with apricots and hazel nuts
- Crunching with chocolate

An idea of a little meal
- 5 small light biscuits
- 1 natural yoghourt with 0% fat content
- 1 cup of tea.

We repeat it, this small guide is only for you a starting point.
The commercial people is quite inventive and new light products appear each day.
This is up to you to discover them!

To know to choose what is good for you must be your daily habit.That will thus become a new dietary habit, synonymous of assiduity consequently of success.

 
Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Burn Fat Fast article: Put en end to the Cholesterol Part II

How to reduce your cholesterol level in a good way. Certain foods are good for a diet but a few of these foods are very bad for your cholesterol. What sort of modes of cooking you have to privilege. These 2nd article will talk about: fish is negleted and meat with his fat material.

Fish:
Fish is neglected. Is this the tradition Judeo-Christian which makes that one consumed fish that Friday? Is this a problem of sometimes odor or freshness slandered? Is this the price?

It is undoubtedly the meeting of these factors which explains this lack of passion for the fishery products. And yet, the fish possesses an exceptional food value, being as rich in proteins as the meat but containing only fats of excellent quality.
If the thin fishes are of course very good for your diet, it is entirely the same for fatty fishes however more caloric.

Besides that we know for a long time that the Eskimos, large-scale consumers of fish fats (representing most clearly of their food), presents very few cardiovascular diseases!

Is this paradoxical? Of course not! It is important to remember you the protective role of highly unsaturated fats. It is the case of fish fat. It is high time to give again with the fishery products their letters of nobility.

We highly advise you to consume three times per week at least of them. And much more if you like!

Of course, certain gourmets will claim that it is the sauce which makes eat fish!. It is undoubtedly exact. But there are well several light sauce receipts being able to accompany fish.

Sea food:
Watch out, if all the fish are your friends, it is not of same for certain sea foods very rich in cholesterol, and thus to prevent if you suffer from this lipid excesses. They are on the other hand completely recommended for a diet.

Here is a list indicating to you the products of the sea richest in cholesterol (content cholesterol for 100 grams of flesh): fish eggs: 300mg, oysters: 110 till 330 mg depending (according to the season), lobster: 200 mg, crabs: 150 mg, mussels: 150 mg, shrimps: 140 mg.

Meat and fat material:
They are the muscles of the animals which one consumes. One distinguishes the white meats (poultry, calf, pig) and the red meats (sheep, ox).
The quantity of fat contained in the meat depends on the species. The white meats are thin and the red meats are fatty.
An exception relates to the pig, white meat considered fatty, but whose mode of breeding is important. If the animal is nourished with corn, the fat contents will be of better quality.
Certain meat fats can be eliminated easily after cooking. To eliminate the fat on the surface, it is enough to withdraw the skin.

If the meat contains slices of bacon, one must also eliminate the flux of fat distributed in and around the piece.

On the other hand, the fat of a spotted meat cannot be removed. Therefore, you cannot consume any.

Among the red meats, the sheep is fattiest.

This list indicates the percentage of fat and cholesterol of the principal meats ( in order: Meat, Fats in % and cholesterol in mg/100g): Horse: 2 and 0, Poultry: 10 and 90, Calf: 10 and 65, Beef: 20 and 100, Sheep: 25 and 70, Pork: 25 till 30 and 90.

The horse, price of excellence:
Whereas in the Fifties and in France or Belgium (where I live), the meat of horse was of regular consumption, gladly proposed to the children, we currently observe almost the disappearance of the horse meat butcher’s.
It is time to give again with the equine meat the place which returns to him, namely that of a food of excellent food value, very rich in proteins, almost deprived of fat, therefore completely recommended at the time of a diet against the cholesterol.

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Burn Fat Fast article: Put en end to the Cholesterol Part III

Is the wine your enemy?
It was indeed shown that with moderate amount all the wines exert an analogue role with that of small quantities of aspirin by being opposed to the development of blood stones.

A specificity of the red wines:
Thanks to the scientists, we know today that they contain certain substances able to decrease in a considerable way the rate of cholesterol. Good news! But watch out… the various studies undertaken on this subject showed that beneficial daily consumption is in a fork from one to three glasses… never more!

Here is the list of the food which contains bad fats:
Butter, cheese, bacon, lard, sausages, black roll, pâté, sausage, pig meat, lamb, sheep, beef.

Here is the list of foods containing good fats:
Olive oil, grape pips oil, oil of colza, corn oil, soya oil, fatty fish, lightened butter, vegetable margarine, margarine rich in sterols.

An observation: certain readers could be astonished by this predilection for the olive oil, knowing that it is very caloric. A spoon of olive oil is not richer in calorie than a spoon of sour cream or a little peace of butter or a very small square of chocolate! But on the other hand, it is necessary to have in mind that the olive oil is an anti-cholesterol fat, contrary to the sour cream, butter or the chocolate!

False friends of cholesterol:
Oyster, egg yolk, lobster, crab, shrimp, liver, calf sweetbread, therefore all meat offal (organs), brain. But these foods are very good for a diet.

The cholesterol black list:
Brain, meat offal, cheese, butter and cream.

Your mode of cooking:
To proscribe:
1. Stew cooking:
Used to cook the fattiest meats, it is a method incompatible with your diet.

2. Braise cooking( in French: braisage): it consists in seizing a meat, a fish or a vegetable in fat before cooking with small fire in a small quantity of liquid. Exceptionally, this method can be used while seizing in the vegetable margarine (a margarine made for that).

3. Fry cooking: this process which consists in plunging the food in an ebullient oil bath is completely proscribed.

To use daily:
1.Grills:
realized in an oven on grill position, an anti-adhesive pan, a grill on the table or a barbecue.
Advantages: one does not use added fat and fats are eliminated while falling under the grill. The anti-adhesive pan will be used for the lean meats and fish.

2. Cooking with vapour: it consists in placing food in a flat-bottomed container perforated above a source of steam.
Advantages: no fat is used. Can relate to all vegetables, fish, rice and fruits. A double superposition makes it possible simultaneously to cook food and their garnishing.

3. Cooking with water (to boil): this mode of cooking consists in placing food in a container full of water which one will make boil the time of cooking.
Advantages: can be used for the cooking of all the vegetables, pasta, rice, many meats and all fish. You can add a little olive oil for the pasta. This method requires artifices to overcome the insipidity: rich court-bouillon for fish and preparation of a sauce accompanying the dish.

4. Cooking in pressure-cooker: the food is cooked in very little water at high temperature (till 120 degree Celsius) in closed hermetic environment. This is the steam oven of the second generation.
Advantages: saving of time and energy, no need for fat, can be used for all kind of food except the pasta.

5. To braise (in French: cuire à l’étouffée) or in a tagine: this mode of cooking consists in placing varied foods in a bowl closed by its cover, on fire or in the oven at small temperature.
Advantages: no fat content. Allows to execute varied receipts by marinating meats and vegetables. That requires to well know times of cooking.

P.S. Sorry for the purist but to braise in English has two different meanings

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Burn Fat Fast article: Put en end to the Cholesterol Part IV

What to know about the cholesterol, the LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol), the HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol) and the tryglyceides. The deal is to decrease the bad cholesterol (LDL=Low Density Lipoproteins) and the triglycerides and to increase the good cholesterol (HDL= High Density Lipoproteins). This fourth part will give you info about: ten commands against the cholesterol, an ennemy to not be underestimated: sugar, principal sugars to be avoid and test your future level of cholesterol.

Ten commands:
1. Make 3 meals per day, including one copious breakfast.

2. Consume without moderation all the fruit and vegetables.

3. Give up the pork-butchery, eggs, fat cheeses and butter.

4. Accept fish or white meats for the lunch and the dinner.

5. Leave dairy products if they are not to fat content 0% fat.

6. Eat an apple for a small hollow.

7. Think of choosing the good mode of cooking.

8. Use the olive oil, the grape pips oil and the vegetable margarine’s.

9. Like the bread, the pastes and rice, they will return it to you.

10. Drink - with moderation - a red wine of quality, the only beneficial alcoholic drink.

An enemy not to be underestimated: sugar
You now are a good fat hunter and your loss of weight is not any more one question of will and perseverance.

Watch out however not to fall into the trap which consists in compensating for your lacks by an excessive fast sugar consumption.

Fast sugars, contrary to essential slow sugars (breads, pasta, potatoes, rice), should be used only at the time of an important physical or sporting effort. They are very energetic and provide in little time much of calories.

If you are sedentary, fast sugars become enemies and will oppose your loss of weight.

Principal sugars to be avoided:
The food:
Piece of white sugar, white sugar powders, the toasts (crackers), flour, dry fruits, honey, marmalade, the black chocolate or with milk (to be crunched)

Soft drinks:
Sweetened fruit juice, sodas, lemonade, Indian tonic
The light version is the best.

Alcoholic drinks:
Beer, whisky, bourbon, cognac, rum, gin, vodka, white alcohols, pastis, cooked wines (port, Madeira, …).

Lastly, retain that sugars known as fast are in fact slow to digest when they are mixed with other food substances.

Test your future cholesterol level:
Test number 1: To prepare your salad? Olive oil or Groundnut oil or Sunflower oil.

Test number 2: To accompany your salad? Shrimp or Smoked salmon or Crab (crumbs).

Test number 3: A start at the restaurant? Oysters or Herring with potato salad or tureen of countryside.

Test number 4: A fish? Sea-breams (Chrysophrys) or Mackerel or Sardines.

Test number 5: A meat? Rib steak or Escallop of turkey or Calf chop.

Test number 6: A meat barbecue? Chipolatas or White pudding or a lamb chop.

Test number 7: A barbecue of sea? Norway lobsters or Mullet or Skewer of Saint-Jacob.

Test number 8: A cooked dish? Sauerkraut furnished or Guinea fowl with cabbages or Beef stew .

Test number 9: A dessert? Floating island or pears with the wine or plate of sorbets.

Test number 10: bananas flambe or burned cream or Pineapple with kirsch.

Results of the test:
Test number 1: The groundnut oil is your enemy. We have a preference for the olive oil.

Test number 2: Shrimp and crab, although thin, are very rich in cholesterol.

Test number 3: The oysters are very rich in cholesterol. The pot of countryside is catastrophic.

Test number 4: Three good fishes but the sea-bream is the thinnest.

Test number 5: Turkey or calf: two white meats to consume.

Test number 6: The white pudding is excellent for you.

Test number 7: Without hesitation, choose the mullet.

Test number 8: Cheers, if you found guinea fowl with cabbage.

Test number 9: The floating island is the worst dessert for your cholesterol.

Test number 10: No the burned cream, but well the pineapple with kirsch.

Therefore, what is your score for this test?
Between 80 and 100: Bravo
Between 60 and 80: You are on the good way, continue.
Between: 50 and 59: Insufficient efforts. Read again my preceding articles.
Below 50: it is time perhaps to take contact with your cardiologist

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Burn Fat Fast article: Put en end to the Cholesterol Part V

How to reduce your bad cholesterol (LDL cholesterol) and triglycerides and how to higher your good cholesterol (HDL cholesterol) in a good way. Certain foods are good for a diet but a few of these foods are very bad for your cholesterol and certain way of cooking have to be proscribed (Presented in Part III). I present to you eight sauces achieved without animal fat, being able to accompany various dishes or products.

The eight sauces:
When you choose a dish worked out starting from natural food, i.e. cooked with the grill, the vapour or water - without another preparation - it is obvious that that a sauce is essential to raise the taste of a product.

Do not forget to use without restriction vinaigrette based on olive oil, grape pips oil and different wine vinegars, cider vinegar or balsamic vinegar or raspberry vinegar and all sort of herbs and spices.

These receipts presented are for 4 people.

Tomato sauce (containing fresh tomatoes):
Ingredients: 6 quite ripe tomatoes, 1 spoon with olive oil, 1 furnished bouquet, 1 white onion, 1 clove of garlic, salt and pepper.

Peel tomatoes. Cut of the pieces. Press to eliminate water and the pips. In a pan, make heat the olive oil, throw distinct onion there. Cook it 2 to 3 minutes. Add the pieces of tomatoes, chopped garlic, the furnished bouquet, salt and peppered. Let cook 50 minutes. Remove the furnished bouquet, pass the preparation to a conical strainer. Heat and the sauce has to be served in a gravy boat.

Smooth sauce with herbs:
Ingredients: 4 white eggs, 2 olive olie spoon, chive, fresh parsley, pepper and salt.
Remit the oil and the white eggs in a large bowl. Go up to the whip to obtain a consistent and firm preparation. Add finely chopped parsley and chive. Flavor.
Alternative: use other herbs (tarragon, parsleyl, basil) and other spices according to your taste.

Barbecue sauce:
Ingredients: 1 tin of 250 grams of fresh tomato sauce, 4 spoons of olive oil, 1 spoon of Armagnac, 1 large pinch of curry, 1 teaspoon of sweet herbs, salt and pepper.

In a large bowl, mix the tomato sauce and the olive oil. Add sweet herbs, the curry and season. Cook in a pan ten minutes. Add Armagnac. Let cook a few minutes and serve it in a gravy boat.

Robert Sauce:
(traditional! accompanying the meat grills in an excellent way)
Ingredients: 75 cl of poultry broth. 1 dl dry white wine dl, 1 spoon with strongly mustard, 1 spoon with tomato puree, 4 spoon with flour, 1 carrot, 1 dl grape pips oil , 2 white onions, 1 furnished bouquet, pepper and salt.

Peel carrot and onions. Cut an onion and the carrot in slices. Chop other onion. Make heat oil in a pan. Seize the carrot and the onion in slices. Integrate the flour and the tomato puree. With tanning, add it the poultry broth and leave it cooking 45 minutes. In a pan, throw chopped onion, the vinegar and the white wine.
Let reduce half. Pour in the pan. Leave it stewing during 15 minutes and flavor. Pass the preparation to the conical strainer, add mustard out of fire while stirring up quickly. The sauce has to be served in a gravy boat.

Ravigote sauce: (without cooking and in accompaniment of poultry)
Ingredients: 2 wine vinegar spoons, 6 olive oil spoons, chive bits, parsley bits, 2 branches of tarragon, 2 large gherkins, 3 teaspoons capers, 1 teaspoon mustard, pepper and salt.

Chop herbs, gherkins and capers. In a bowl, put mustard, season, pour the vinegar. Well mix. To add oil while stirring up vigorously to obtain a consistent preparation. To incorporate capers, gherkins and herbs. Mix well and present in gravy boat.

Vinaigrette with tomato:(accompanying cold fish boiled in a broth)
Ingredients: 1 mustard spoon, 3 well ripe tomatoes, 6 olive oil spoon, 2 lemon juice spoon, 2 vinegar spoon of Jerez, salt and pepper.

To plunge tomatoes in ebullient water to peel them. Cut its in 4 parts. Press its to extract water and the pips. In a blender, pour tomatoes, oil, vinegar, mustard, lemon juice, pepper and salt. Convert in puree. Reserve for the refrigerator and serve it in gravy boat.

Sauce with mint: (accompanies the grills and the meat skewers)
Ingredients: natural yoghourt with 0% fat, 2 chopped fresh mint spoons,1 paprika pinch, 1 crushed small pepper of Cayenne, 1 salt pinch.

Pour yoghourts in the blender. Incorporate the different ingredients. Pour its preparation obtained in a bowl, Place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Before being used decorate it with leaves of fresh mint.

Anchoyade: (in accompaniment of a part of ox or roasted horse)
Ingredients: 2 small tins of anchovy nets (50 gram), 1 spoon of lemon juice, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 shallot, 1 spoon of chopped parsley, 1 olive oil spoon.

Peel and chop finely garlic and shallot. In a mortar, crush the anchovy nets. Add in more 1 olive oil spoon, garlic, the shallot, the parsley and the juice of lemon.
The preparation thus obtained must have the consistency of a pomade.
This delicious sauce will be pasted on roasted farmhouse bread sections on which one will lay out the pieces of meats.

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Burn Fat Fast article: Put en end to the Cholesterol Part VI

The best way to reduce your bad cholesterol (LDL cholesterol) and triglycerides is not to take some specific medicines because every medicine can generate side effects. Read therefore carefully this real story and you will be convinced that the best way is to follow a regular cholesterol diet. The practice of a normal sport will help you as well to increase your good cholesterol (HDL cholesterol).

1. Medicine against the cholesterol is not the ransom of glory:
It seems natural that a subject of around fifty at which one discovers a cholesterol excess says: my doctor will prescribe me a medicine and my problem will be solved. Very simple he! Not, what a huge mistake!

Any chemical substance introduced into the body often can involve gentle adverse effects, sometimes frightening, from small digestive disorders until more severe incidents. You have just to consult the famous note placed in each box of remedy to be surprised.

2. A real story:
Mr X is on the point of celebrating Christmas in his family. This man with a certain corpulence has been treated for one month by an anti-cholesterol medicine which will allow him (he was thinking) to pass by this special diet against the cholesterol.
In this morning of this festive, Mr X is anxious: for a few days its wild appetite has made place with an unexplained anorexia and especially it discovers with stupor that its eyes are yellow. Called immediately, his family doctor quickly made diagnose an hepatitis, confirmed the same day by a blood test. This ignition of the liver will prove to be due to the medicine against cholesterol.
Sad end of Christmas for Mr X who spent several weeks to recovered from the incident but which cures fortunately without sequel.
For this day, this jovial fellow has scrupulously followed the diet imposed by his practitioner, diet which paid off (standardized cholesterol, kilos in excess volatilized) and he never feels so well!

3. A lesson to be retained:
Follow your cholesterol diet which will become after a few weeks a new manner of feeding you as far from being sad and monotonous. You will fell yourselves much more healthy, much more alarm and you will not want any more to proceed in this bad way.

4. A capital precision:
Of course, there is no question of underestimating the peremptory necessity here to use anti-cholesterol medicine when the results obtained by the diet are not sufficient.
But a medicinal prescription will be made only after having been ensured that the food rules will have been perfectly complied.

5. The sport, an essential complement with your diet:
Studies showed that the sport practiced regularly generates an increase in the good cholesterol (remember, it is the HDL cholesterol) and more the sport activity is important more this benefit is appreciable.
It is not however in our intentions to want to transform you into a marathon runner or high level triathlon runner!

It is enough for you to choose a physical activity which you like and which you practice in an assiduous way. Daily walk is completely adapted. You can also register you with a club of swimming, pedestrian excursions or bicycle.
If your professional timing is too charged, change simply your bad habits: do not use your car for little courses and do not hesitate to give up the elevator for two or three floors.

Let us announce in addition that a regular physical activity makes it possible to fight other cardiovascular factors. First advantage, ponderal excess: there is not true sportsman obese. Secondly, nicotine consumption: sport and tobacco are antagonistic terms. Thirdly, high blood pressure (arterial hypertension): the physical activity is an essential key to fight this affection.

Watch out! The violent sports must absolutely be avoided starting from forty: tennis, squash, badminton, speed races … especially in competition.
So however you absolutely wish to continue at this age such activity, it is essential to consult your cardiologist who will propose to you a test effort, only valid way to check your aptitude for such exercises.

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Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Burn Fat Fast article: Put en end to the Cholesterol Part VII

In the fight against cholesterol, I present to you in this part a certain number of menus and easily realizable receipts if you have enough time for the purchases, the development of certain dishes and their tasting.
It is not always the same: you will be sometime very busy or out of your house for business or guest with a dinner or a cocktail.
The daily practice will be the subject of this part: Breakfast, 4 type of sandwiches, One week of menus, Desserts and Recipes of Christmas eve

1. Breakfast:
It is the most important meal of your day. Balanced well, it enables you to avoid: that sinking feeling (around 11 A.M.), nibbling and a too rich meal at midday.

If you have the bad habits to begin the day with a simple cup of coffee or tea swallowed while running, you really need to re-educate yourself:
- Take your time: Set your alarm clock to sound fifteen minutes earlier. Prepare a true small well balanced meal and in agreement with your own taste. Taste it quietly.
- Reduce your evening meal and make if possible a walk before going to bed. Indeed, night digestion is slower and if your dinner is too copious, you will not have next morning any appetite.
- Be imaginative: You frequently have to vary the composition of your breakfast. You have only one rule to respect: no fat apart from the vegetable margarine.

The sort of foods (very low in cholesterol) you have to privilege:
- Natural bread, cereals, dairy produces with 0% fat, honey and jam with moderation, fresh fruits and fruit salads.
- Also consume: the bolled ham or mountain ham but without the fat border, the fried white eggs.
- Drink at will: black coffee, tea, skimmed milk and fresh fruit juice.
- Definitively give up: the viennoiseries, the egg yolks, the cold cuts, the fried bacon and the milk chocolate.

2. Four types of sandwiches fully coherent against the bad cholesterol:
- Edge of sea sandwich: a little hamburger bread, roll mops fillets, slices of onion, yoghourt with 0% fat with pepper and lemon.

- Traditional sandwich: French loaf, white ham without the fat border, tomato slices, green salad, mustard.

- Vegetarian sandwich: two toast sections, fried white eggs, chive, two sheets of lettuce.

- Bar sandwich: A little bread, a slice of Parma ham, two gherkins.

3. One week of menus:
The receipts presented are calculated for four people. But, you will easily adapt the quantities to the number of guests.

We ask you scrupulously to respect the used ingredients and the modes of cooking. The presented menus call upon only good fats and the selected food is the least rich in cholesterol.

The used dressings will be always based on olive oil, grape pips oil, nut oil, soya oil or sunflower oil.

The dairy produces will be always with 0% fat.

Let us finally specify that the receipts are of easy realization and do not require high culinary competences. You will devote to their development only a very reasonable time.

P.S.: This menu of the week was worked out for France. Frenchmen like to eat certain foods that other countries do not want to eat. I am well placed for this. I have a French culture and I reside abroad. If for instance you do not want to eat the rabbit fricassee, you can replace this meat by another white meat with the exception of the pig. Thus be imaginative. Retain this proverb: by nature, all beats which run are thin. Thus the hare is also a lean meat.

Monday:
Lunch: White salad of cucumber, Roasted cockerel with celery branches, Pears with red wine.
Dinner: Preserved sweet peppers, Stuffed tomatoes, Cream cheese with raspberry jelly.

Tuesday:
Lunch: Leeks in vinaigrette, Herrings potato salads, Fruit of season.
Dinner: Farfalles (sort of pasta) with tuna and its small vegetables, Peach in grapefruit jelly.

Wednesday:
Lunch: Rasped carrots, Salmon in curl paper, Yoghourt with fruits.
Dinner: Beet salad, Calf chop accompanied by mashed potatoes and green salad.

Thursday:
Lunch: Paella, Fruit salad.
Dinner: Salad of tagliatelli (sort of pasta), Beef roast with French beans, Charlotte with pears.

Friday:
Lunch: Half pink grapefruit, Sea-bream with lemon, Sorbets.
Dinner: Artichoke with dressing, Smoked salmon, Meringues

Saturday:
Lunch:Tomato salad with nets of anchovy, Turkey escallop with braised endives, Fruit of season.
Dinner: Asparagus’s with dressing, Fricassee of rabbi, Apples in curl paper.

Sunday:
Lunch: Carpaccio of Saint-Jacob, Lucculus escallop with green salad, Flambé banana
Dinner: Collation or diet.

Those recipes will be explained in my next articles with of course the same titles.

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