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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Home Remedies for Stretch Marks After Pregnancy

Stretch marks after pregnancy can be treated using various methods but the least painful and inexpensive method is using home remedies for stretch marks.

Problems After Pregnancy

Pregnancy is the greatest personal boon for married woman that make her proud and feel different. However pregnancy can also come with a few beauty related problems and the most prominent of them are the stretch marks that often occur in the post natal period.

Easy and Affordable Solution

Stretch marks after pregnancy can be treated in multiple ways but many of them are painful like surgical treatments while others may be expensive like using laser treatment or stretch mark creams to address the problem. For women suffering from post-pregnancy stretch marks, home remedies for stretch marks could be a more effective yet less expensive proposition.

Stretch Marks Could be Socially Embarrassing

After all; it would not be the best of experiences for a woman to opt for the not so sexy costumes over and over again because she wants to conceal her stretch marks occurring after pregnancy. Best solution for the problem would be getting rid of the stretch marks and for immediate results one might resort to surgical, laser or other clinical treatments. Stretch marks are socially embarrassing and the victim finds no other way but to resort to immediate remedies.

Painless and Inexpensive Alternative

What if the victim does not cherish the pains and sufferings and above all the expenses involved in traditional clinical treatment of stretch marks? The best solution for her would be home remedies for stretch marks. They may not completely remove the marks but can make them fade substantially to make them irrelevant for the onlooker.

Understanding Stretch Marks

Before you try any remedies and that includes home remedies for stretch marks, it is important to understand what these stretch marks are. Basically these stretch marks are scars on the body that appears because of cracks in the skin surface and that are extremely difficult removing.

Most Popular Home Remedies

So what are the most popular home remedies for stretch marks? Perhaps the most prominent among the home remedies are the mixture of cocoa butter and oil cream. It is a compound that is highly beneficial for the skin of human anatomy and can revive the natural flair of the skin quite conveniently. One of the reasons of cracks appearing on the skin is dehydration and this mixture hydrates the cream substantially and prevents cracks and thus stretch marks from appearing.

Use of Cocoa Butter and Oil Cream

How to use cocoa butter and oil cream? The method is simple as the user has to combine ½ cup of the butter with a tablespoon of wheat germ oil as well as one teaspoon each of apricot kernel oil and vitamin E oil. Finally, one should add a couple of teaspoons of grated beeswax and the solution should be heated till the wax melts. Solution that is now ready should be stored in airtight container and kept at a cool and dark location for best preservation. Regular application of the compound on the skin will prevent stretch marks from appearing and the preferable time for application is after bath.

Equally Effective Home Remedy

While cocoa butter and oil cream works excellently for stretch marks; there are some almost equally effective home remedies for stretch marks. One such remedy is the solution of olive oil and Aloe Vera. Olive oil is one of the most popular and indispensable ingredient for most beauty products as well as skin care applications. It is one of the best moisturizing elements and keeps the skin hydrated and thus prevents cracks and stretch marks from appearing on the skin even after pregnancy.

Use of Olive Oil Aloe Vera Solution

To prepare the mixture of olive oil and Aloe Vera one should take ½ cup of the olive oil and mix it with 1/4th cup of Aloe Vera gel. In addition the user has to mix up 4 vitamin E and 2 Vitamin A capsules as well in the mixture. A specific method needs to be followed in preparing the mixture. First of all; the liquids from all the vitamin capsules should be mixed together and then other ingredients should be added to them. On application the mixture renders double benefits. One is that it removes the ugly stretch marks that have appeared after the pregnancy and the second is that it prevents occurrences as well as recurrences of such stretch marks due to dryness of skin.

Other Home Remedies

Many other home remedies for stretch marks can also be used like the potato juice, sugar and lemon mixture; and the combination of vitamin C and sugar. One of the best mediums for exfoliating skin on human body, natural white sugar with vitamin C works extremely well during showers.

User needs to crush a couple of vitamin C capsules with white sugar and apply them on skin with moisturizer of her choice, especially on the stretch marks and other parts. The result would be extremely beneficial for removal as well as prevention of stretch marks and that is why it could be termed as one of the best home remedies for stretch marks.

Feeling Sleepy after Lunch How to Avoid it especially in Office

Have you ever felt sleep in your office especially after Lunch ? I felt it several times. Sometime i sip a cup of coffee to feel awake. I often wondered if i was the only one feeling sleepy or there is some one else also. Sometimes i found some of my colleagues saying the same thing. Then i found that its a common thing to feel sleepy after having lunch. But what causes it. Because if you know the reason of feeling sleepy after lunch then you can avoid that thing especially in office, because its really awkward to yawn at your office desk.

Feeling Sleepy after Lunch

There are several reasons behind feeling sleepiness after lunch. But most common is heavy lunch.
Most Common Reasons:

If you are having heavy lunch then your digestive system demands more blood, so that it can get energy to digest the food. If causes lack of blood supply to your brain, which causes feeling sleepy after lunch.
Insufficient Sleep: Insufficient sleep during night can also make you sleepy after lunch. Some of us watch late night TV shows and need to wake up early to go to work. If you are in 20s and have a healthy body then it is the most common reason for feeling sleepy.

There may be some other reasons as well. Some of them are related to what you are eating and some of them are related to some diseases.

Sugary Food: Sugary Food increases the blood sugar levels. It makes your pancreas to release insulin to control blood sugar. Insulin triggers tryptophan, which is converted into serotonin in your brain. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter which makes you feeling sleepy. So avoid sugary food in lunch.
If you are feeling excessive sleepiness after lunch then you may be suffering from medical conditions. It may include iron deficiency, mineral deficiency, insulin resistance or Diabetes, hypoglycemia or some other disease. Doctor can tell it better. So if its excessive sleepiness then consult a doctor.

How you can avoid feeling sleepiness after Lunch

Avoid Overeating
Avoid Food rich in sugar
Avoid Fast Food, as its rich in sugar, fat and carbohydrate. Try to have protein rich diet.
Exercise regularly in the morning
Have a good breakfast, so that you can eat less during lunch and maintain energy level
Consult a doctor if you are feeling that you are feeling excessive sleepiness.

How to eat after weight loss not to recover

The secret is simple :

1. Eat at least 3 times a day

2 . Be sure to have breakfast (breakfast should be light and satisfying - cottage cheese , cottage cheese pancakes , oatmeal , scrambled eggs, fruit .. )

3 . Dinner for 4 hours before sleep (preference protein and vegetables )

4 . Fruits 16.00

5 . Follow the compatibility of products ! ( download the spreadsheet product mix and use it regularly !)

6. At the heart of carbs (vegetables, fruits, legumes and whole grains , brown rice ), protein (meat, fish , milk, eggs , seafood ) , fats (nuts , oils , fish, avocado)

7. Drink plenty of pure water (up to 8 glasses a day ) .

8. Read useful recommendations about products and food on our site ;-)

9. And remember : the right food - it s not a diet , but a lifestyle !

Exercise after weight loss surgery may boost health improvements

People who add a little walking to their routines after weight loss surgery decrease their risk of diabetes and improve their heart health more than those who stay sedentary, according to a new study.

“For a large percentage of the severely obese, they may exercise but don’t necessarily gain improvement in metabolic factors, so this is clinically significant,” said lead author Paul M. Coen of the division of Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

“The fact that we see this isn’t trivial,” he told Reuters Health.

For the study, researchers divided 128 adults, mostly women, who had recently undergone roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery into two groups. One group received only a health education program while the other group participated in a semi-supervised moderate exercise program as well.

The education-only group attended six sessions per month of lectures, discussions and demonstrations providing information on medication use, nutrition and upper-body stretching.

The exercise group also attended the education sessions plus engaged in two hours of moderate exercise, mostly walking, each week during the six-month study.

Researchers used blood tests before and after the study to measure insulin resistance and glucose tolerance, both indicators of how well the body processes sugar. Poor results are associated with a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

At the beginning of the study, both groups had similar glucose and insulin measures, although they were poorer than levels expected for similar people of healthy weight, the authors write in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Insulin tolerance levels improved for both groups after surgery, but the greatest improvement was among those who had exercised more than two hours per week.

The same was true of glucose uptake and metabolism, and of measures of cardiorespiratory fitness.

“Insulin sensitivity and cardiorespiratory fitness are both important indices of metabolic health,” Coen said. “Any improvement in both is likely to reduce future risk of cardiometabolic disease.”

Both groups lost a similar amount of weight and reduced their waist circumference by the same amount in the course of the study.

Within three to four weeks after surgery patients will have recovered enough to start exercising, Coen said, and should try any activity they are likely to stick with - whether a gym program, bicycling, swimming, gardening or another option.

Most patients are not very physically active before surgery, but The American Heart Association and American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery recommend mild exercise before surgery to facilitate postoperative recovery, he said.

National organizations including The Obesity Society recommend that patients adhere to a healthy lifestyle including exercise for 30 minutes per day, but there are no more specific evidence-based pre or post-operative guidelines for physical activity, he said.

“We hope that this study will play a role in formulating patient recommendations in the future, “Coen said.

In addition to other health measures, exercise may help bariatric surgery patients lose more weight after the six-month period this study covered, he said.

“The common dogma is that (surgery) is a magic cure for diabetes and weight and maybe they don’t need to do anything else,” Coen said. “But our results show that there is still room for therapeutic benefit of exercise.”

Source: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/12/03/exercise-after-weight-loss-surgery-may-boost-health-improvements/

The Pro Insulinogenic Activity of Saturated Fat High Fat High GIP High Insulin After 6 Days on High SFA Diet

Asian foods are low in SFAs. So the researchers had to add it to the pan.

From a physiological perspective, the observation researchers from the Nakamura Gakuen University, the Akita University, the Chiba University and the University of Copenhagen appear counter-intuitive, why should fat increase the insulin response to a meal. The presence of fat in a meal should slow down the absorption of glucose, right?

Obviously you havent read my previous article on the fallacies of adding fat to glucose in the false believe that the reduced digestive speed would reduce the post-prandial insulin spike ("True or False? Adding Fat to A Carby Meal Lowers Insulin Response." | read more) - a highly suggested read you may want to read either, before or after you devour todays SuppVersity article.

You can learn more about fat at the SuppVersity

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Fat, not Fructose Cons. Increased in the US

Adding Fats to Carbs Does not Reduce Insulin

Sugar Addicted or Just Stressed Out?

Margarine Not Butter Incr. EU Waists

Low Fat to Blame for Low Vitamin D Epidemic?

Dont worry, todays article still has something new to offer. While the previously reported data dealt with acute responses to high(er) fat meals, Itoh et al. (2014) whose study is available as an "ahead of print paper" on the website of Nutrition Research, looked at the effects of sub-chronic, not acute high saturated fat intakes.

Figure 1: Graphical overview of the procedure (Itoh. 2014)

In that, they conducted an intervention study to investigate the insulin and plasma GIP responses in 11 healthy women, including a dietary control. Subjects were provided daily control meals (F-20; saturated fatty acids/monounsaturated fatty acids/polyunsaturated fatty acids [S/M/P] ratio, 3:4:3) with 20 energy (E) % fat, followed by 2 isoenergetic experimental meals for 7 days each. All meals were standard Japanese meals, the recipes for both experimental meals were identical, only a different cooking oil was used.

Muscular glucose uptake will be significantly reduced whenever free fatty acids are present in sign. amounts (Nuutila. 1992)

FFA = insulin resistance: The simple presence of an increased amount of fatty acids in the blood that will necessarily occur in response to the ingestion of high fat meals switches the bodies internal "fuel switch" to "burn fat" and reduces the uptake of glucose by fat and specifically muscle cells (Nuutila. 1992; Boden. 1994; Roden. 1996).

In the end thats a physiologically sane reaction we developed in the days and age, where our meals were either high in fat or high in carbohydrates. In these days, however, it is one of the major obstacles to staying diabetes-free. An obstacle, however, the average healthy fitness enthusiast doesnt really have to worry about, if he works out regularly and does not live on twinkies & dingongs exclusively.

Talking about "test meals" (I dont like to call them thus, as they were consumed for a couple of days and not just for a "test), these meals comprised 60 E% carbohydrate, 15 E% protein, and 30 E% fat with the fat being distributed as follows:

in the high saturated fatty acid meal (FB-30): S/M/P, 5:4:1;
in reduced saturated fatty acid meal (F-30): S/M/P, 3:4:3

Tests were conducted after two days on the FB-20 meal (pre) and at the end of the FB-30 and F-30 phases (see Figure 1), before and 30, 60, and 120 minutes after a meal tolerance test.

Figure 2: Comparison of glucose, insulin, and C-peptide levels after the control, F-30, and FB-30 meals (Itoh. 2014)

Interestingly, the plasma glucose responses did not differ between F-20 and FB-30 or F-30. The insulin levels, on the other hand, were higher after the FB-30 than after the F-20 (P<.01).

The GIP response, i.e. the response of the non-satiating non-fat burning insulin release triggering brother of GLP-1 (learn more) that does neither reduce hunger, not appetite nor improve glucose control (increased amount of insulin used to store away the same amount of glucose; cf. Edholm. 2010), after the FB-30 was higher than that after the F-30 (P< .05).

"In addition, the difference in the incremental GIP between FB-30 and F-30 correlated significantly and positively with that of the insulin." (Itoh. 2014)

The scientists believe that their results clearly prove, what scientists have believed for quite some time, now: "a high saturated fatty acid content stimulates postprandial insulin release via increased GIP secretion." (Itoh. 2014)

So what do we make of these results? I guess my friend Alex who has been beaten up for posting the results of a similar study in the "Perfect Health" facebook group, will know why I point out that this does not mean that healthy individuals should no longer put butter on their potatoes.

Figure 3: In contrast to the insulin spike, the GIP release was sign. higher in SFA vs. mixed fat (Itoh. 2014)

What it does mean, though, is that the anti-hype around saturated fat is about as misplaced as the way saturated fats are still roasted by the media. They are not healthier than MUFAs and PUFAs (but not unhealthier, the insulin spike after the mixed fat meal was not sign. less pronounced), not "neutral" and not good for your glucose management, unless you eat only saturated fat and cut out the vast majority of carbs, i.e. go at least half-way keto. In that case, however, the SFA are just a means to provide you with the fuel you need, they are not the agent that will improve your glucose management - thats a simple result of not eating glucose spiking foods | Comment on Facebook!

References:

Boden, Guenther, et al. "Mechanisms of fatty acid-induced inhibition of glucose uptake." Journal of Clinical Investigation 93.6 (1994): 2438.
Edholm, T., et al. "Differential incretin effects of GIP and GLP‐1 on gastric emptying, appetite, and insulin‐glucose homeostasis." Neurogastroenterology & Motility 22.11 (2010): 1191-e315.
Itoh, Kazue, et al. "High saturated fatty acid intake induces insulin secretion by elevating gastric inhibitory polypeptide levels in healthy individuals." Nutrition Research (2014).
Nuutila, P., et al. "Glucose-free fatty acid cycle operates in human heart and skeletal muscle in vivo." Journal of Clinical Investigation 89.6 (1992): 1767.
Roden, Michael, et al. "Mechanism of free fatty acid-induced insulin resistance in humans." Journal of Clinical Investigation 97.12 (1996): 2859.

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