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If you asked any experts on diet business, most of their answers to weight problem would be, to go natural. Why so? First of all it feels right doing things naturally and feeling right means feel better about yourself, which is a good start for everything. Naturally, losing weight in a naturally way is surely the safest method for our health. But still there are many who are after the quick unnatural overnight-weight- loss solution.

In this case, natural means producing something that has been extracted from plants or substances of nature so that it could help our body get rid of the unwanted extra weight in a natural length of time or process within our body capability. As you may feel, going too slow isn’t going to hurt you but going too fast definitely will. By taking advanced lossing-wieght chemicals of today’s latest technology surely isn’t the safest bet. If the chemicals can make you loss weight in short time, your weight that has been lost will surely find its way back as quick and even worst, most of weight loss drugs will effect your mental health in some ways. Do you want that? Ask yourself.

So what do you need? The answer is simple, a natural weight loss plan. A natural weight loss plan not only help you lose weight in a long run but also will help protect your health and it is cheaper too. Talking about weight loss naturally, first thing to consider is surely about food you eat everyday. Live your normal life for a few days and make notes of what you eat and check if they need to be changed. Junk food and all that sugar water is needed to be stop. For example, if you love cola so much try diet ones instead. You can lose some weight by changing only that much. It works for me.

But to solve the weight problem by using natural method you need to come up with a plan or a procedure I should say, so you don’t get loss on the way. If you are not a planner don’t worries there are plenty of natural diet plans all over internet, all you have to do is a quick search. Remember that no matter what you hear or read, if you are confuse just use your common sense about food; eat more vegetables and fruits but don’t kill yourself on my behalf, eat meat sometimes isn’t going to hurt you. Secondly, exercise regularly is a must, it doesn’t matter if you exercise every day or week but it needs to be regular.

Another thing about food is that many people who has weight problem are eating when they feeling down or depress. The foods they eat often are fat food. If you are that type of person, you should know by now that there are many other things that can fix your emotion besides eating bad food. It is just your bad habit. If you get used to eating fat food when depressed then you can get used to going for a run or eating healthy food when feeling depressed as well. After you accomplished it or get used find yourself better things to do when feeling depressed, you will see that it’s not your body but it’s your habit that needed change.

Exercising is surely a good thing for everybody. Not only good for your health in many ways but also it can even makes you feel better and think better too. Nothing can beat that. I know exercising isn’t sound like fun to many of us. But it doesn’t need to be a complicated task either. Find a sport you enjoy with friends is much better than make your self get up and go to gym everyday, which is the hardest thing to do. I don’t go to gym. I just play sport, It makes my mind of things about everything accept the game and it can pass times so quickly as well. You don’t have to keep looking at the watch and pray when the painful exercising time is over. Just play. And remember the most important thing, keep exercising on regular basis.

I know it’s easy to say as many other solutions in our life’s problem. But all things can be accomplished in steps. Pyramids weren’t built in 1 day. Learn from mistakes and promise yourself to do better for the better of your health, which is the most important asset in your life. Take a first step now then never!

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The sad fact today is there is a rising trend of children with cholesterol problem, we may not like it, but we have to face this fact. According to some studies, many children are considered in the group of high risk premature coronary heart disease and some of them are suffering from high cholesterol at a much younger age then before. As a guide, health care professional do not check children's cholesterol levels routinely.

Cholesterol build up in the arteries can lead to either heart attack, stroke or both, depending on where the arteries are in the body. The American Heart Association states that there is research finding to support cholesterol buildup starts in early childhood.

The perfect time to introduce and intervene with healthy life style changes are childhood. These will provide healthier habits for the rest of their life.

Apparently, children who are in the high risk group are those who have family history of high cholesterol or heart disease and who are overweight.

The American Heart Association has a scientific position that, "elevated cholesterol levels early in life may play a role in the development of adult atherosclerosis and that lowering levels in children and adolescents may be beneficial".

Children absorb their dietary cholesterol from food such as poultry, red meat, egg yolks, seafood and full cream dairy products like milk, cheese and ice cream

There are contributing factors when it comes to kids and cholesterol risk:

If their diet contain lots of fats, especially so for saturated fats. Example are baked products and snacks.

A family history of parents who have high LDL cholesterol or low HDL cholesterol

Children who are obese and lack active exercise.

- Children or teens who smokes, have high blood pressure or type 1 diabetes.

Should you have a child that is active, has a healthy diet that doesn't consist of eating an abundance of baked goods or snack items, and does not have a parental history of risky cholesterol levels and is not overweight; than you have little to worry about regarding cholesterol levels and early heart disease.

Kids who are 2 years and above who are exposed to known risk factors should be screened for blood cholesterol levels. The following are the risks:

Has at least one parent with a total cholesterol blood level of 240 mg/dL or higher

Has a parent or grandparent with a history of early heart disease (before age 55)

If there is any family history that is "unknown"

The child is overweight or is clinically obese

A simple blood test can determine what your child's cholesterol levels are. The acceptable total cholesterol level for children ages 2 - 19 are less than 170 mg/dL. Borderline total cholesterol levels are from 170 - 199 mg/dL. High levels are those that are 200 mg/dL or higher.

By: Meng

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