The anticipation of giving birth to a child may literally cause expectant mothers sleepless nights.
Most pregnant women may feel more exhausted than usual and would eventually sleep more. During the first trimester of pregnancy, your heart pumps faster and produces more blood to nurture the baby inside you. When the fetus inside you grows, then your tummy eventually would grow bigger. It’s kind of hard to find a comfortable sleeping position and it would be difficult for you to get some good sleep.
It is advised that you try to get used to sleeping on your side during the first few days of your pregnancy. You can do this by lying on your side with your knees bent slightly upward. This position would relieve the pressure of the inferior vena cava, which is caused by the baby’s weight.
In the latter part of your pregnancy, you may find it uncomfortable to change sleeping position during your sleep. Shifting is a natural occurrence that no one can control but when your tummy is bigger than usual, your body adapts to change and shifting at night are minimized since you would eventually wake up if you do so.
If you still find it difficult to sleep, try to use your pillows and experiment with what you can do with them. You can tuck a pillow under your abdomen. If you are sleeping on your side, you can place them in between your legs. To ease away pressure from your back, you can try stuffing in thin pillows or a blanket beneath the space between the surface of the bed and the arch of lower back. There are also pregnancy pillows that can help promote a good sleep.
If you’re still having a hard time sleeping at night and lose a big amount of rest, it is recommended that you take a quick nap (of about an hour) in the morning or in the afternoon. Watch your diet and eat nutritious foods. Steer clear of caffeinated drinks and avoid eating a full meal or lots of liquids a few hours before you head to your bed. If all things fail and you’re still experiencing sleepless nights, it is best to consult your doctor right away.
Article Source: Health Guidance
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There are a lot of “crash” diets out there that promise that you’ll drop a considerable amount of weight in days or a week.
I have tried a few of these, and in my experience the weight always comes back on, just as quickly since the weight loss tips given are not something that will work with your body.
One thing you don’t want to do if you are actually serious about losing weight is to follow these fad diets and their ridiculous weight loss tips.
After their ineffectiveness has been proven time and again, people will start to wise up to that particular diet, and will head off in search of a new craze.
Lets be honest, people are always searching for new weight loss tips because they want to lose pounds and they want immediate results, but this is just wishful thinking.
To lose weight permanently and effectively it will be a rather slow progress, all depending on your metabolic rate and how much you need to lose.
There are however some proven tried and true weight loss tips for aiding in the weight loss process, and I can make you familiar with them.
Weight Loss Tip 1
Don’t skip breakfast. Whatever you do follow this advice, because otherwise you are much more likely in fact prone to binge later in the day.
Weight Loss Tip 2
Don’t eat anything for at least an hour before going to bed.
Weight Loss Tip 3
Don’t snack while watching TV. It’s acceptable to eat a meal while watching television, but never is snacking at this time acceptable.
Weight Loss Tip 4
Substitute fruits like; bananas, watermelon, plums, peaches, and oranges for sugary treats like; cookies and candy.
Weight Loss Tip 5
Substitute honey for sugar, and carob powder for chocolate in all recipes. These taste just as good if not better when used properly.
Weight Loss Tip 6
Eat more vegetables. This can even be enjoyable if you have a good cookbook like Good housekeeping’s latest edition.
Weight Loss Tip 7
Avoid unnecessary high calorie foods. Instead of a high calorie salad dressing for instance try cottage cheese or yogurt to improve the salads taste and peel of the pounds.
Weight Loss Tip 8
Exercise at least a half hour each day for five days out of the week. Biking on a stationery bike while reading is a great form of exercise to slim legs.
In conclusion there is nothing stopping you from losing weight except yourself. Get off the “I can’t do anything about my weight problem” bandwagon and start dropping pounds today!
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Everybody you know is on the latest weight loss bandwagon: The Low Carb Diet. They’ve seen the astounding results on the scale and have lost 10+ pounds in a short period of time. So you want to join in on this also?
Before You Start Take Time to Look at How the Body Works with Carbs:
It is true that the weight that is lost starting out on the low carb diet is a lot in a short period of time, but most of the weight that is lost is water and carbs that are stored in your body. Carbohydrates are stored in the muscles. Each gram of a carbohydrate that is stored in the muscle is also stored with 3 grams of water. When you cut out carbohydrates your body uses the stored carbohydrates in your muscles for fuel. As these carbs are used up the water that is stored with them is taken out also, so the result is weight loss at the beginning of a low carb diet and some inches lost due to the depletion of carbohydrate stores in your body. As the carbs and water leave the muscles the muscles become depleted and loses volume.
Once carbs are added back into the diet the muscle take up these carbs along with water, so if the carbs are reintroduced into the diet in a couple days time the initial weight that was lost will be regained.
Your brain requires carbs for energy also. The brain uses 400 calories a day just for the standard thought process of staying alive. So this is 100 grams of carbs a day that is required for one body function. Any movement that you do for longer than 3 minutes requires carbs to be used for energy.
When carbs become scarce your body goes into a state of ketosis, that is the process of the body breaking down fat into ketones for the brain to use as energy because not enough glucose is available for the brain. The results of this can be loss in energy, fatigue, irritability and a slower thought process. Thus affecting your ability at work or school.
Eating Carbs But Not Gaining Weight:
You can eat carbs and not gain weight. It is in the choice of carbohydrates that you consume that will make the difference. Including more vegetables and whole grains in your diet and eating less simple carbohydrates like sugars that are in soda, candy, processed and refined foods will help you in losing weight. Paying attention to portion sizes will also help. Pasta is an easy trap for eating to much carbohydrates. If you like pasta add vegetable to you dishes, since vegetables are good carbs and have fiber in them they will help fill you up faster. Eat a salad with every meal, but pay attention to what you put on your salad, stick to low fat versions of dressings, like Italian and Vinaigrettes. Creamy dressing when they are low fat can be loaded with sugars to take place of the fat, so it is important to pay attention to the nutritional values of dressings.
Another way of using carbs in your body is weight training. Weight Training requires your body to use carbs for the exercise and to repair muscles after your workout. Finding a requirement in the body for the carbs that you eat is a great way to use the carbs that are consumed. By finding the requirement for use of carbs you do not need to worry so much on how many carbs that you consume but just the types of carbs. Always remember that no matter what sugars in abundance are not good for your body or your weight loss goals.
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Quick weight loss is promised by diets all the time. “Lose 10 pounds over night,” the ads will scream. Most people know in the back of their mind that quick weight loss is either not healthy or is a short term fix.
Most quick weight loss pounds are only water. Your body will flush water out of your system and the scale will show a quick weight loss of 3 to 10 pounds. The quick weight loss is however short lived. The second you drink any fluids your body will hold the water and your quick weight loss will disappear.
The short tem success of quick weight loss in a low carb diet is also this loss of water. Dieters are excited when they see the quick weight loss however this excitement is short lived. Once carbs are introduced back into their diet, boom, there goes the quick weight loss.
Instead of being suckered into all the quick weight loss claims, why don’t your try these common sense weight loss tips to use when dining out to help you achieve long term success. You won’t see a quick weight loss by following these tips but you will see some really great long term changes in your body.
1.) If you must have a dessert, split it with a friend.
2.) Start your meal with soup and a salad. If you fill up on healthy foods first, you may eat less of the high calorie entries.
3.) Immediately ask for a box to go and place half of your meal in it. Not only will you cut calories but you now have an entire additional meal for later.
4.) Ask for non-fat or low-fat dressing on the side when ordering your salad. You can then control the portion size.
A high calorie dressing can add 200-400 additional calories to your health salad.
5.) At a fast food restaurant, always order the small size. Did you know a super size French fry at Mc Donald’s is 29g grams of fat and 610 calories??
Once again, these simple restaurant tips will not result in quick weight loss but if you start using these and other weight loss tips every day, you will start seeing the long term success you truly deserve. Always think long term and don’t be tricked by diets that promise “incredible quick weight loss”.
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The Government is considering adding Folic Acid to all bread except wholemeal at the milling stage.
Why Add Folic Acid To Bread?
As bread is part of the staple diet of most people, adding Folic Acid, will mean everybody will be taking Folic Acid, whether they wish to or not.
The people, who it is actually aimed at, are pregnant women. So by adding Folic Acid to bread, it could reduce the number of babies being born with Spina Bifida.
What Is Spina Bifida?
Spina Bifida is a serious condition where the baby is born with part of the spine not completely developed, so leaving the nerves in the back unprotected and exposed.
This defect can happen during the first month of pregnancy.
As the spinal cord is part of the brain … ie the nerves connected to the spinal cord are unable to send messages to the brain. This means that the baby may not be able to walk; and even the ability to learn may be affected.
It is possible to operate on the newborn baby to close the gap, but as the nerve damage has already happened, the damage is permanent and unfortunately an operation on the nerves is of no use.
Other complications due to the baby having Spina Bifida are that the baby may have problems with their bowels and bladder.
A close relation to Spina Bifida is Hydrocephalus (an accumulation of spinal fluid on the brain).
Is There Any Treatment For The Baby With Spina Bifida?
Apart from the operation soon after birth to close the gap, the best that can be done to help the baby to live as normal a life as possible is treating each problem with medication and physiotherapy.
Many individuals with Spina Bifida will need help of some kind for the rest of their lives. This may involve the use of devices, such as braces and wheelchairs.
What Is The Prognosis For People With Spina Bifida?
The prognosis for each individual is dependent on what defects there are:
Prognosis is at its worst for the baby born with complete paralysis. But with proper care most children with Spina Bifida can live for many years into adulthood.
How Many Babies Are Born With Spina Bifida? The number of babies born with Spina Bifida in the UK is between 700 - 900 per year; while in the US one in every 2000 births are affected.
Some countries have already started adding Folic Acid to their flour and this is showing as a drop of between 30 - 50% in babies born with Spina Bifida.
Who’s Idea Is This?
The Government’s food watchdog - The Food Standard’s Agency are putting forward the idea of adding Folic Acid to flour at its milling stage.
Although in 2002 the Food Standard Agency rejected a report put forward in 2000. So why have they changed their minds yet again? Maybe due to other countries that have been adding Folic Acid to their bread are showing a drop in babies being born with Spina Bifida.
How Much Is It Likely To Cost?
It has been estimated that the cost to industry will be around £700 000 a year.
Is There A Downside To Giving Everyone Folic Acid?
As people are being mass medicated this can cause concern for many. Also medically, taking Folic Acid can mean that older people with a Vitamin B12 deficiency resulting in Pernicious Anaemia may not be noticed immediately and so their treatment will be delayed.
What Can A Woman Of Child Bearing Years Do?
As many pregnancies are unplanned and it is being proved that a deficiency of Folic Acid may result in a baby being born with Spina Bifida; including Folic Acid in the food they eat should be a must have. It is highly recommended that all women of childbearing years should take Folic Acid in a Nutritional Supplement and eat plenty of green vegetables, as they are rich in Folic Acid.
By adding Folic Acid to bread it will hopefully result in less babies being born with Spina Bifida. And this can only be a good thing can’t it?
Article Source: Health Guidance
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