Ephedra Plus Caffeine Ultimate Weight Loss Combination

Ephedra Plus Caffeine Ultimate Weight Loss Combination
Chinese ephedra (ma huang) comes from the dry herbaceous
stems of a primitive family of plants known as ephedracae.
Three species of ephedra are grown in China and recognized
in the pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic Republic of
China and the Chinese material Medica. This herb is one of
the oldest and most widely used Chinese herbs. M Huang has
been used for thousands of years in traditional Chinese
medicine as a primary component of multi herb formulas that
are prescribed to treat bronchial asthma, cold and flu,
coughing, and wheezing, fever, chills, lack of
perspiration, headache, and nasal congestion. It has,
therefore, been no secret to the Chinese that there are a
diversity of significant benefits to be derived from the
other approximately 99% of ephedra plant that does not
contain ephedrine alkaloids.

Thanks to modern science and proprietary nutraceutical know
how, Hi Tech has now mastered the specifics of these
beneficial ephedra constituents, which have been isolated,
extracted, and standardized to create Hi-Tech's Thermo-Z
brand of ephedra extract for its remarkable benefits in
weight loss dietary supplements.

Ephedra + Caffeine: The Holy Grail of Weight Loss

The weight loss benefits of ephedra have been known for
centuries. In fact, studies show that ephedra + caffeine
can more than double the rate of weight loss compared to a
placebo. Recent developments in the field of weight
management have demonstrated the efficacy of using
pharmacological agents, both instead of and in addition to,
diet and exercises. Specifically, many studies have
focused on the effects of increasing sympathetic nervous
system stimulation in order to increase basal metabolic
rates, thereby providing a long term therapeutic option for
thermo genesis. Because low metabolic rate is a
characteristic of being overweight, and sympathetic
activity has been shown to increase this metabolic rate, a
role for sympathetic stimulation in the field of weight
loss has a well established physiological rationale.
Unfortunately, however, the economic advantages of
synthesizing and marketing these treatments have rapidly
overshadowed the need for adequate research to assess their
efficacy and safety.

Most of the early investigations on the use of ephedra,
caffeine, and aspirin (ECA) combinations concentrated on
the effects of ephedra and caffeine stimulate weight loss
by increasing the sympathetic nervous system. Both ephedra
and caffeine stimulate weight loss by increasing the
sympathetic tone of various resting tissue beds, notably
fat. It has been shown that both ephedra and caffeine
(lesser degree) are capable of mimicking a sympathetic
response when given alone. However, when given in
combination, there is a synergistic increase in the level
of thermogenesis, such that the stimulated levels are
greater than the added sum of the separate effects of
caffeine and ephedra given alone. The exact mechanisms of
this enhanced action are still being researched.

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There's No Need To Be Afraid Of The Dentist

There's No Need To Be Afraid Of The Dentist
Don't be afraid of the dentist. If you avoid the dentist,
you may eventually be saying good-bye to your teeth. In
fact, dental visits should be a major part of your health
regimen. Good habits that start from childhood can easily
carry forward through adulthood. Simple habits of brushing
and flossing regularly are not enough. You must visit your
dentist approximately every six months so that you can be
examined. The dentist will be able to catch problems
before they become gigantic problems. A simple filling of
a cavity can prevent a root canal procedure later on down
the road.

With new advanced in dental practices and procedures, the
entire experience can be painless. Many dentists are
utilizing advances to make the office visit much more
comfortable than in years past. For example, there are
message chairs, overhead television monitors and radios
being played in many offices. The dentist can even let you
choose from a variety of movies, musical groups or music
stations.

Importantly, the dentist can provide the proper amount of
anesthetic so that the patient doesn't feel pain during the
procedure. The dentist can also prescribe the proper
after-care medication so that the days following the
procedure are not uncomfortable.

In essence, embrace the idea of visiting your dentist. It
should not be something that is dreaded. Think of it as a
major part of your healthcare package. Learn all you can
about your teeth, gums, breath, etc. You have the ultimate
control over your mouth and the future of your teeth. It
is much easier to take care of your teeth than to have
replacement teeth implanted.

Lastly, if you have any concerns or questions regarding a
procedure, ask the dentist to explain it to you. Most
caring dentists would be happy to describe the type of
procedure, the benefits of the procedure and the necessity
of the procedure. You should never fear your dentist. You
should feel free to ask your dentist any questions that you
have related to the work being performed. The dentist is
truly there to help patients and will make efforts to
demonstrate that desire.

Take action today. Schedule an appointment with your
dentist to ensure that your mouth and teeth are in good
working order. Failure to take action may result in severe
action in the future. If you do not have a dentist,
research the dentists on the internet and visit a few that
spark your interest.

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11 Steps on How to Achieve the Ultimate Body Transformation

11 Steps on How to Achieve the Ultimate Body Transformation
You have seen those amazing body transformation success
stories plaguing the flashy fitness magazines and fitness
websites.

You ask yourself, are these people for real? Did they
really do that in 12 weeks? HOW did they do that in 12
weeks?

I will tell you exactly how those ultimate body
transformation success stories are so successful, and this
information dips well below the basic dieting and exercise
information.

When most people venture onto a body transformation goal
they outline the prefect plan and start it full force at
the beginning of the week. They are die-hard, and by the
middle of the second week they have usually burned out.

Sound familiar?

If your body transformation program fizzles out before you
get it started, these 11 steps will be a great help and
give you the advantage on your next body transformation
journey.

Step #1 - The Primary Rule

Before you even get started with your body transformation
challenge you need to set the primary rule, which is to set
goals. If your body transformation process entails 12
weeks, break your goals down into a few short-term goals
and one long-term goal. If you fail to take advantage of
the primary rule, you may as well stop now.

Step #2 - The Closing Date

Along with writing out your goals you need to end your plan
with a deadline. Everyone has a starting date, but very few
write down a closing date, the actual date they plan to
finish their program. If you don't give yourself a deadline
to attain your goals you won't finish your program and you
won't be a body transformation success.

Step #3 - Scheme of Combat

After you get your goals set in stone with a deadline in
place you need to create a plan of action. This plan is the
course you must take each day to ensure daily success that
will take you to your ultimate goal.

An example of a coordinated plan is to write out exactly
what you will do each day to make each day successful, such
as eating 6 meals a day, drinking a gallon of water,
working out, etc.

In your starting notes, jot down your scale weight, body
fat percentage, body measurements, and take pictures of
yourself from 4 different views (front, back, and each
side).

Step #4 - Dedicate and Commit

Once you have all your ducks lined up, start your plan of
action. Put it into full effect Monday morning. Follow it
as outlined each day. Make your plan of action a part of
your daily life.

Keep in mind that just because you have goals set and
written, an action plan, and started your new
transformation journey doesn't guarantee success. If you
want to be a transformation success you have to stay
dedicated to your plan of action.

This dedication isn't an on and off relationship, it's the
whole kit-n-caboodle. You start fresh Monday morning and
follow through each day 100%, no swaying, no cheats, just
pure dedication and commitment. It's only 12 weeks.

Step #5 - Sneak a Quick Peek

After your first two weeks on your transformation program
take your stats to see what changes have occurred. Is there
a change in weight and/or body fat percentage? Have your
measurements changed? Can you see visual changes in the
mirror and how your clothes fit?

Note any changes, good or bad, and use that as information
to tweak your program to keep you moving in the direction
you want to go.

Step #6 - 30 Day Photo Shoot

After a full month of staying 100% dedicated to your plan
of action take some more full body pictures of all 4 angels
(front, back, and each side).

These 30 days updated pictures are ammunition to better
tweak your program. Put them side-by-side to your starting
pictures. Note any physical visual changes.

Step #7 - One Month Evaluation

Also, at your 30 day photo shoot, evaluate your one-month's
progress. Check your weight and body fat percentage and
measurements again. Note any changes.

After one month of being fully dedicated to your program
you should have stat numbers and photos that give you good
insight on how well you are doing on your program.

If everything is going according to your plan, then keep on
that same course of action. If you are not transforming you
need to modify and make changes to your diet or cardio.

Step #8 - If It Is Not Broken, Don't Fix It

A big mistake many people make when doing a transformation
challenge is they "tweak" every few days if the scale is
not showing them the number they want to see. Tweak your
plan only when it's necessary. A tweak is a small change,
not an overhaul of your program.

Step #9 - Excuse Me

If you want to be a transformation success story, stop
making excuses such as "I cheated because it was my
birthday," "I had to attend a luncheon," "my kids have
(fill in blank) practice," "I went out and had a few
drinks," etc.

These excuses are just that, excuses, and excuses are the
path to nowhere. If you want to be a transformation success
story, stop the excuses and just do what is required.

Step #10 - Can the Self Trash-Talk

NEVER talk or think about yourself in a negative sense. If
you refer to yourself or pictures as "fat," fat butt," "fat
a$$" that's what you will become. No successful
bodybuilder, figure or fitness competitor, or
transformation success story refers to themselves as fat.
They only visualize themselves in the shape they want to be
in, and speak of themselves in a positive frame of mind.

You can absolutely alter your thinking to produce the
results you want, but you have to think and speak in
positive terms. Hoping for a fit body but thinking and
speaking negatively is worthless.

Your mind is a powerful tool so use it to your advantage!

Step #11 - Repeat

Repeat steps 4-10 every thirty days until you reach your
deadline or ultimate goal.

Conclusion

It's not enough to just want to transform your body, you
have to have a passion for it. You have to have
determination. You have to do what it takes even if you
don't feel like it. Successes always go that extra mile to
be their best.

Do what it takes every day and follow through on your
program 100% every day you will be the one shining in the
spotlight of victory.

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Karen Sessions has been in the fitness industry since 1988.
She is a nationally qualified bodybuilder and holds two
personal training certifications. She has written 6 ebooks
on fitness and has helped hundreds of clients transform
their bodies.

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Put an end to the cholesterol and the kilos in excess without medicine (Part V)

Put an end to the cholesterol and the kilos in excess without medicine (Part V)
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.

I present to you eight sauces achieved without animal fat,
being able to accompany various dishes or products.

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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Moderate Drinkers Beware - You Too Could Be Flushing This Vital Nutrient Out Of Your Body

Moderate Drinkers Beware - You Too Could Be Flushing This Vital Nutrient Out Of Your Body
Back in the 1930s, thiamine, also known as vitamin B1, was
one of the first compounds to be isolated and recognised as
a vitamin, that's to say a compound essential to health
which the body cannot manufacture for itself, and which
must therefore be obtained from the diet.

The functions of thiamine within the body are highly
complex biochemically, but what's important to know is that
thiamine and its associated enzymes are essential for the
body's production of energy from food. As always with the
B complex vitamins, however, the proper functioning of
thiamine depends on an adequate supply of the other members
of the complex, and the performance of the thiamine related
enzymes in this case is particularly dependent on the
associated vitamins, riboflavin (B2) and niacin (B3).

That said; there is a characteristic disease of severe
thiamine deficiency, beriberi, which has been recognised
for several thousand years. This disease should never now
be seen outside medical text books in affluent Western
societies, but alcoholics and heavy drinkers, for whom the
absorption of adequate thiamine presents particular
problems, frequently show symptoms.

Beriberi is regarded as having "wet" and "dry" forms, the
symptoms of the former being principally observed in
problems with the cardiovascular system, including severe
fluid retention and in severe cases even congestive heart
failure. So-called "dry" beriberi is characterised by
problems with the nervous system, particularly the
peripheral nerves of the limbs, which may lead to pain and
weakness in the muscles.

Beriberi may also have serious effects on the brain, partly
through increased free radical activity, leading in extreme
cases to conditions known as Wernicke's encephalopathy
and/or Korsaloff's amnesia or psychosis. Wernicke's is
identified by characteristic physical nervous "ticks",
especially unusual movements of the eyes, whereas
Korsaloff's is the term applied when these symptoms are
accompanied by severe amnesia.

If you think these symptoms remind you of the archetypal
"street wino" you'd be right, because in advanced societies
they're most commonly found in alcoholics and heavy
drinkers, supporting the theory that malnutrition is a
major contributor to their problems. It makes sense that
this should be so. For not only do such people tend to
have very inadequate diets, but their damaged livers also
struggle to metabolise the few nutrients which they do take
in. Alcohol, of course, is also known as a powerful
diuretic, and when you consider that thiamine, in common
with the other vitamins of the B complex, is highly water
soluble, and easily excreted by the body, you have a potent
recipe for nutritional disaster.

So how much thiamine do you need to avoid this disaster?

As always, the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for
thiamine (most recently established in 1998) is set at the
level designed to prevent deficiencies in normally healthy
people. But of course, the prevention of deficiency is not
at all the same as thing as ensuring optimum health, and
the RDAs for thiamine are therefore set at the very low
levels of 1.2 mg for men and 1.1 mg for women. As the
slight differential suggests, higher intakes are required
in proportion with higher bodyweight, and particularly
muscular bodyweight. An increased intake of 1.4 mg is also
suggested for pregnant women.

A number of common every day foods provide good sources of
thiamine. A serving of fortified breakfast cereals, for
example, may provide 0.5 – 2mg, a single cup of wheatgerm 4
or more mg. A 3 oz serving of pork will contain up to 0.75
mg, lentils, peas, brown or enriched white rice 0.2 mg, and
a slice of wholemeal bread 0.1 mg.

These figures would seem to suggest that most people should
have little difficulty in achieving their RDA. But the
problem is that thiamine is notoriously fragile, and almost
any type of processing of these foods, including boiling or
even toasting bread may dramatically reduce thiamine
content.

So it's perhaps not surprising that research suggests
average intakes in Western societies may be as low as 2 mg
a day for men and 1.2 mg for women. These figures are
worryingly close to the RDAs which, as noted, are in any
case set at a level only designed for the avoidance of
outright deficiency. Being averages, it likely follows
that there must be many people who routinely fall below
them, and there are also factors to be considered which may
dramatically increase the body's demand for thiamine and
therefore the risk of deficiency.

As well as the consumption of alcohol, these include
intensive physical exercise, normal growth in adolescence,
pregnancy and breast feeding, and feverish illnesses,
particularly malaria. As with alcohol, heavy intakes of
tea and coffee have been shown to have a severely depleting
effect on the body's levels of thiamine, and this is due to
so-called "anti-thiamine factors", in addition to the loss
of the water soluble vitamin which may be attributed to the
diuretic effects of these drinks. There is also evidence
that older people may struggle to absorb sufficient
quantities of this nutrient even when their diet appears
adequate.

There is no recommended upper safe limit for the intake of
thiamine, any excess being easily excreted by the body, and
no known toxic effects. Supplementing with thiamine is
therefore recommended for the vulnerable groups listed
above, which in fact comprise a significant proportion of
the supposedly well population, and may well be beneficial
for all who seek optimal health and maximum energy levels.
The close interdependency of the B vitamins, however, means
that thiamine should be taken as part of a supplement
containing the whole complex. The proper functioning of
the vitamin also requires the presence of adequate
minerals, particularly magnesium.

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