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We hear it all the timelose weight for your health. Few people however, realize the extent to which this is critical to their physical well-being and ultimately their life expectancy.

In January 2003, the journal of the American Medical Association featured a study finding that obesity appears to lessen life expectancy, especially among young adults. The study showed an obese 20-year-old white male, (5'10")178cm and weighing (288 pounds) 130kg was estimated to lose 13 years of his life as a result of obesity.

It is now well research that a Western diet that leads to obesity may actually act to stimulate the growth of cancer cells. It is never too late to improve your health through healthful eating and adopting a more health-giving lifestyle. Here are simple steps to follow which can make an immediate improvement to your health and vitality.

1. Check to see if you are overweight or obese.
To find out your BMI you need to divide your weight (measured in kilos) by your height (measured in metres) squared. If the result is greater than 25, your health may be improved by losing weight.

2. Match your diet to your bodys requirements.
If you eat and drink more calories than your body requires you will put on weight. Learn to control calories and portion sizes, make recipes leaner, and eat infrequently from fast food restaurants. Also learn how to snack with healthful choices.

3. Colour your diet with a large variety of colorful, cancer-fighting fruit and vegetables.
There are seven different color ranges of both fruit and vegetables and by choosing between 5 to 9 daily serves from a wide range of fruit and vegetables, we are extending our consumption of cancer (and other disease) fighting nutrients.

4. Eat lean protein with every meal.
protein provides a powerful signal to the brain providing a longer sense of fullness. The right source of protein is essential to controlling your hunger with fewer calories and necessary to maintain your lean muscle mass. Choices of protein should be flavored soy shakes with fruit; the white meat of chicken and turkey, seafood such as shrimps, prawns scallops and lobster and ocean fish or vegetarians may prefer soy based meat substitutes.

5. Rev up your metabolism with activity.
If you want to enjoy a lifetime of well being, exercise is a key ingredient. Thirty minutes activity each day that takes as much effort as a brisk walk is recommended for adults. Children should be active for an hour each day.

6. Get support to ensure you develop a healthful eating plan and reach your goal weight.
A study, Effects of internet Behavioral Counseling on Weight Loss in Adults at Risk of type 2 Diabetes shows that participants who had the support of weight loss coaching lost more weight than those who didnt. The study concluded that the support of a weight loss coach can significantly improve weight loss results.

Being overweight or obese has been identified next to smoking, as the most preventable major risk to developing cancer. Even small weight losses have been shown to have beneficial health effects. So its never to late to start and you can never be too young or too old to be concerned about your health and do something about achieving a more healthy weight.

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If you are extremely serious about playing the game of golf then at some stage you have used some different golf swing teaching aids in order to help improve your game and so help you to get more out of it. You could be someone who has get every book that is now available on the subject or you might be someone who has decided to invest a lot of money in by high tech gadgetry in order for you to improve your swing.

But unfortunately what teaching aid works for one person may not well work for you and vice versa. also what seems quite obvious is that some of the golf swing teaching aids you see today have become extremely complicated and also expensive. There are cases where a person is likely to spend more than a $1,000 on ways of trying to improve their swing and still have not seen any improvement in relation to their golf score. Below we provide some useful teaching aids that you may want to consider purchasing and all for less than $100. The best thing about these particular aids is that they can be used in the comfort of your own home (or your office) as long as you have plenty of ceiling height.

Freddy Connect
This aid has been specifically designed to help a golf player reduce the amount of slice or hook that they put into a shot. This very simple device can be attached to any of your golf clubs at the base of the shaft but just above the head. When you swing your club there are two lights on the device which then light up. If when you swing your club you can see only one light then you are swinging the club straight. But if you can see both lights (separately) then you have not swung it straight and the ball when hit will be either sliced or hooked away from you.

Hinged Golf Club
This is a kind of all in one teaching aid. When you use this particular club and your swing is flawed in any way then this causes the hinge on the club to break. Probably the quickest way for a person to tell when they are making a mistake when it comes to the way in which they are swinging their club. This particular golf swing teaching aid is an effective way for any golf player to improve their swing. As not only does it help to improve muscle memory but after around 4 or 5 intact swings with it you will soon see how you swinging the club perfectly.

Weighted Golf Club
This particular kind of golf swing teaching aids is designed specifically to target all those muscles that are used in the body when swinging a golf club. This particular aid not only helps to improve the distance at which the ball is driven but also helps the player to improve the amount of power that they put into each golf swing. With this particular device you will know where the club head is relation to your body at all times and so help you to produce much stronger and accurate drives in the future.

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A recent study has found that overweight or obesity increases the chances of pregnancy while using birth control pills. Gynecologists say that birth control pills (also known as oral contraceptives) have not enough effect on overweight or obese women. Overweight (BMI 25 to 29.9) women have 60% and obese (BMI 30 or more) women have 70% more chances of pregnancy than normal weight (BMI 18.5 to 24.9) women while taking oral contraceptives regularly. For women who missed oral contraceptive, the risk of pregnancy more than doubled compare to overweight or obese women. Study says that out of hundred overweight women taking the oral contraceptives, five got pregnant while only three out of hundred normal weight women who take oral contraceptives got pregnant each year.

The reason of failure of oral contraceptives is not clearly known. This is a big research area. They said there are several possibilities for failure of oral contraceptives in obese women.

The hormones in oral contraceptives are soluble in fat which is in enough quantity in obese women. Due to this, fat hormones dissolve in fat rather than entering the bloodstream.

Metabolism is also a major cause. The basal metabolic rate increases according to body weight; more the body weight, more basal metabolic rate. The increase in metabolic rate decreases the duration of medication effect. This is the also one of the causes due to which oral contraceptives do not work.

Due to obesity, there is an increase in liver enzymes which help metabolize the hormones in oral contraceptives.

Nowadays the hormones level in oral contraceptives is reduced by five times than first introduced.

Circulating blood volume in obese women is greater than normal women in which the steroids are transported. Fat cells may sequester steroids. obese women also metabolize steroids in different way than normal one.

Now the real question arises. Should overweight women who dont want to risk an unplanned pregnancy should take more oral contraceptives or higher dose oral contraceptives or not? Gynecologists say it is not necessarily because overweight or obese women have more chances of cardiovascular disease risk factors than normal weight women. They suggest that obese women who completed childbearing use some permanent form of birth control such as tubal sterilization.

obese women who want to be pregnant may use condom or other methods. Another method for obese women suggests that first they should lose their weight, and then plan to use oral contraceptives. For weight loss, obese women can use weight loss diet pills, natural supplements, exercise, yoga and other weight loss programs. Through exercise losing weight takes more time which is not considerable for women. For quick weight loss they can use weight loss diet pills.

Gynecologists say that birth control pills (oral contraceptives) may have many side effects; one of them is weight gain or obesity. Most of the women get five pounds weight after taking oral contraceptives. Normally women get weight after few days or a month from starting of taking the pills. In most of the cases, women gain weight who do not take oral contraceptives in the last half of their menstrual cycle; this is due to hormonal changes. This is also important to know why women get obese by taking oral contraceptives. Reasons for this are as follows.

Due to oral contraceptives, the level of metabolism alters. This is because both the estrogen and progestin present in these pills can cause fluid retention, a temporary effect that often begins in the first month as a result of an increase in sodium. The cause of weight gain (increase of hips, breast, or thigh) is due to estrogen.

Oral contraceptives contain progestin which cause increase in appetite and permanent weight gain.

Pills administered for depression may also be the cause of weight gain.

women who get weight due to oral contraceptives may loose weight through weight loss diet pills, natural supplements, exercise, yoga and other weight loss programs.

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Many people want to achieve success or want to be rich. But, they do not how to achieve their dreams or how to start on their journey. They do not have the will to make the first step. People who has attained certain level of success in life like become rich and achieve their dreams. Have you ever wonder what are the secrets that separate these people from those who are less succesful? I am going to share with you the 5 secrets that I find from doing research on them. These are the secrets that are used by people who make it big in the world. These are their secrets of success.

Secret of Success #1 - Have Big Goals

Many of the successful people often have big goals to achieve in their life. Robert Kiyosaki's goal is to bring financial literacy to world. The bigger the goals are the more it will motivate you to achieve them. If you know what your goals or things that you really want to do, you will more motivated to achieve them. Often, in the process of finding the goals you will be able to learn more about yourself and find meaning in life. after you have gather enough information, you can decide the things that you really want to do. You must write these things down as specific as possible. For example, if you want to get rich, just plainly state get rich is not good enough. You need to be as specific and clear as possible as is to be a multi-millionaire who owns some corporation.

secret of Success #2 - Never Say Die When Face with Adversities or Failures

Many rich people have encountered lots of failures before achieving their dreams or attain enormous wealth. one example is walt Disney. He has bankrupted a number of times before he finally built his first disneyland. Robert Kiyosaki has failed multiple times before his books achieve phenominal success. When you are facing difficulties, you need to use your beliefs and values to motivate you to overcome them. Only when you truly believe in your dreams and yourself, will you not be detered by adversities, and overcome the short challenges in your way to success. Dr. John Gray, the world number 1 relationship author, uses a river journey towards the sea as analogy to a person journey to success. He said that a river always encounter stones and rocks in its path to the sea. When the river encounters stones and rocks, it always splashes the water on them and stop. But, it will step back after the splashes and the water will turn around them to continue its journey towards the seas. So, be like the river, when you encounter failures, do not cry over them. But, learn from the mistakes and move on towards your goals. You need to "burn your ships" and leave no room for retreat. When you throw yourself to the den, you will be more hunger to succeed.

secret of Success #3 - Have Mentors and Mastermind group

Napolean Hill said that mentor and mastermind group is very important if a person would to attain riches. If you want to achieve success, you need to learn from mentors. Since birth, there are always mentors in your life to guide you along. When you are young, when you fell down, your parents and friends will always encourage you to stand up and walk again. In your journey to success, you need to have mentors to guide you along to always been inspired, motivated and strife towards your goals. Mentors can teach and guide you to towards your goals faster. Mastermind groups are strategic groups that are formed together by people with common goals. When you formed mastermind groups with equal minded people, the synergy of the mastermind groups can help you to ourcome obstacles easily and motivate you along the journey to success.

secret of Success #4 - Have Clear Plan and Priorities

Rome is not build in a day; Success Too. Success requires clear plan, clear priorities and commitment. You have to eliminate all the bad habits that you have acquire in your life. You need to stop procastinate and eliminate excuses and be accountable for the things that you do. You remove distractions that stop you from reaching your goals. By having measurable and specific goals that are specified precisely and clearly and in advance. Divide your the goals in sub-goals if they are too big and set milestones and timeline to achieve you them. When you have a clear plan of what and how to achieve your goals, strive to attain them one by one. Eventually, success will come to you.

secret of Success #5 - Leverage on People and System

Many successful people are able to do more by leveraging on others and systems. Paul Allen, the World 4th richest man, is able to go fishing and work much lesser than his business partner Bill Gates. This is because he able to leverage on Bill Gates to make more money for him. Leverage on the knowledge of masses to solve your daily problems. In today's information age, the speed of information processsing is more important than the amount of information. It's not how much information you know but how fast you learn them that determine whether we will succeed. Only when you know how and when to leverage others can you be able to move faster and see opportunities faster. They are now more millionaires in this century than the last because these people are able to leverage on others and systems to make more money. On such systems is the Internet. Google and yahoo are able to become multi-billon companies because there able to help people process and filter information at ease and faster. So, if there are some sound systems or processes that can do your job faster, use them. They will able to help you attain your goal faster and easier.

after you have acquired the secrets of success, I hope you are motivated towards your journey to success. Find some time to do some soul-searching to find your big goals that you want to achieve in life. Only when you are highly motivated and passionate about the goals that you want to achieve, can you achieve them. Success is not just an achievement but more of a journey that has many lessons along its way!

Copyright 2006 Jason Chew

Jason Chew is an Infopreneur and Internet Marketing Strategist.