What You Need to Know About Caralluma Fimbriata

Caralluma fimbriata is a succulent plant, in the cactus family, that has been used as a natural appetite suppressant in India for centuries. It’s a new arrival in the family of cactii and succulent plants that are becoming increasingly popular for their appetite suppressant, and weight loss properties, as well as their ability to lower blood sugar. Supplements made from the popular hoodia gordonii cactus from the Kalahari Desert in Africa, are, for example, growing in popularity and usage in the U.S. and Europe.Like hoodia, caralluma fimbriata has been used to suppress appetite, and as a portable food for hunting. It is used to suppress hunger and appetite, and enhance endurance throughout India. It is also sometimes considered a “famine food,” used during periods of famine to suppress appetite. For centuries, people in rural areas of India have eaten Caralluma fimbriata, which grows wild over various parts of the country. Caralluma fimbriata is cooked as a vegetable, used in preserves like chutneys and pickles, or eaten raw. Caralluma fimbriata is believed to block the activity of several enzymes, which then blocks the formation of fat, forcing fat reserves to be burned. Caralluma fimbriata is also believed to have an effect on the appetite control mechanism of the brain. Ayurvedic (traditional Indian medicine) experts have noted that there are no adverse effects when using Caralluma fimbriata, and the plant has no known toxicity. A patented, tested extract of Caralluma fimbriata has been developed and standardized by a company called Gencor. Known as “Slimaluma,” the extract delivers the plant in a concentrated form. One of the only products available in the U.S. that uses the Slimaluma formula is Country Life’s GenaSlim supplement, which combines the patented Slimaluma extract of Caralluma fimbriata with EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) from green tea. Together they reportedly have a synergistic effect on appetite control and weight loss. In several clinical trials Slimaluma was shown to be effective in reducing body fat through appetite control.If you’re interested in trying this product for weight control, you can compare prices now from various online vendors.SourcesKhan B, et. al. “Hypogylcemic activity of aqueous extract of some indigenous plants.” Pak J Pharm Sci., 2005 Jan;18(1):62-4.For more information visit:

The One Day Fad Diet

The one day fad diet is cheap, easy to prepare and surprisingly, quite tasty!

In theory on this fad diet you can lose up to three pounds per day. So if you follow it just one or two days per week, your weight loss could be quite considerable.

This one day diet is so simple and easy to follow. You should see excellent results in just 24 hours with up to 3 pounds of weight loss.

I find it a good idea to practise this diet on a day you will have plenty of things to do, and not have time to sit around thinking of food.

This fad diet is designed to be done for just one day only.

If you need to repeat the diet, you should eat normally for two days before restarting.

If you sleep for eight hours, you only need to follow the fad diet for a mere sixteen hours

THE ONE DAY DIET

For a day you will need the following ingredients:

1 pound fresh tomatoes, peeled and cut into quarters

2 oz grated cheddar cheese

1/2 raw onion

1 stick of celery

1/2 green pepper, remove seeds

Salt and pepper to taste

Distilled water or mineral

Directions:

Put all ingredients into a blender and mix until smooth. Season

to taste and add the distilled water until the required consistency

is achieved.

This should make 8 small glasses of liquid food.

One glass is to be consumed every two hours throughout the day.

The 3 Day Detox Diet

There are many 3 day detox diets out there, the most obvious being the 3 day water fast. However if you are anything like me you would not last three minutes on a water fast, so that is out of the question.

I have listed below two far more simple options.

Easy Option

Day 1

Clear the system

On the first day of this 3 detox drink plenty of water or fresh fruit juice to substitute alcohol, and cut out tea and coffee. Eat a very light breakfast, have pasta with a veggie sauce for lunch and for dinner a light salad with tuna or other fish in the early evening.

Then, put on your trainers and go for a long brisk walk - for at least two hours.

Day 2

Rebuild your body

Cut out the fruit juice and have as much water as you can today - still no alcohol and no tea or coffee. Fresh fruit for breakfast, green salad for lunch with an oil-free dressing and steamed fish with vegetables for dinner.

Day 3

Back to full fitness

Nearly there! Just drink water and eat fruit all day - for that one last blitz. You may feel hungry so try not to do anything too energetic.

Not So Easy Option

If you can stick to it, you will be delighted at the results you can achieve with this 3 day detox. Simply drink water, and fruit or vegetable juice which should be freshly juiced just before you drink it, which excludes shop bought juice in cartons. If you can use organic fruit, even better.

I only managed two days on this detox, but I was not really hungry, just bored, so try to keep yourself busy!

I lost about two pounds, but felt much lighter, and I am certain I lost a few inches, although the scale did not change too much.

The 7 Day Detox Diet

The 7 day detox diet is a type of juice fast specifically designed to detox, cleanse and strengthen the major organs of the body.

It consists of apple with celery juice for the intestines, lemon juice for the liver, pineapple juice for the small intestine, green juice, carrot juice, and beet juice.

On each day of the detox a different juice is consumed.

Celery is said to have excellent cleansing properties. Ninety years ago, the Sears catalog listed celery as a “great nerve builder.”

7 Day Detox Diet Instructions

For the 7 Day Detox Diet you will need a juicer. The juice should be drunk immediately after juicing.

Use organic produce if possible.

Day 1

On Day 1 drink only juice made from equal parts of apples and celery.

This is said to benefit the liver, kidneys and intestines.

Day 2

On Day two drink juice made from only pineapple.

This is helpful for inflammation,allergies, arthritis, edema, and hemorrhoids.

Also cleanses the small intestine.

Day 3

Drink just lemon juice and water. This will detoxify and cleanse the liver.

Add the fresh juice of 1/2 lemon for each cup of water.

Day 4

Drink just carrot juice. This will benefit the liver, lungs, kidneys, and eyes.

Day 5

Drink only beet juice.

This will remove toxins from the liver into the bloodstream.

It is also specifically helpful for arthritis and menstrual problems.

Day 6

Any Green Juices.

Believed to be helpful for circulation, skin, digestive problems, obesity, bad breath.

Also will flush out toxins.

Use anything that is green!

Day 7

Only distilled water, will cleanse the entire system.

Food Combining Diet

Food Combining enthusiasts believe the human stomach can only correctly digest one type of food at a time, as different enzymes are needed to digest different food types.

The Food Combining Diet is based on research that proves that food is only digested well when eaten in certain combinations.

Our digestive systems will produce an acidic environment to deal with certain food groups, and an alkaline environment to digest others.

For example, starches, such as pasta or potatoes are absorbed best when the PH of the digestive tract is alkaline. This occurs when starches are eaten alone or with vegetables.

The digestion of proteins, however, requires stomach acid. When proteins and starches are combined, the digestive environment is neither acid or alkaline enough for either group to be absorbed well, which can lead to digestion problems and weight gain.

I regret to tell you that this rather tasty-looking combination of starch, protein, fats and carbohydrates is definately NOT permitted on the food combining diet

It is a basic fact in chemistry that alkalines and acids are opposites, they will neutralize each other.

It is a fact in physiology that all starchy foods digest in an alkaline medium and the starch breaking enzyme we produce in our mouths will be destroyed by acid, even a mild acid.

If acids are eaten together with starches, digestion of both foods is not possible. If breads,cereals or potatoes are eaten with berries or citrus fruits, or any other acid-bearing foods, the digestion of these starches will be delayed.

Rules of the Food Combining Diet

1. Carbohydrate foods and acidic foods should not be eaten at the same meal. Do not eat bread, rice or potatoes with lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits, pineapples, tomatoes or any other sour fruit.

2. Do not eat a concentrated protein and a concentrated carbohydrate at the same meal. This means do not eat nuts, meat, eggs, cheese, or other protein food at the same meal with bread, cereals, potatoes, sweet fruits or cakes.

3. Do not eat two concentrated proteins at the same meal. Avoid nuts and meat, or eggs and meat, cheese and nuts, cheese and eggs, meat and milk, or eggs and milk or nuts at milk at the same meal.

4. Do not eat fats with proteins. This means do not use cream, butter, or oil with meat, eggs, cheese, or nuts.

5. Do not eat acidic fruits with proteins. Oranges, tomatoes, lemons, pineapples, should not be eaten with meat, eggs, cheese or nuts.

6. Do not eat starch and sugars together. Jellies, jams, fruit, butter, sugar, honey, syrups, molasses should not be used on bread, cake, or at the same meal with cereals, potatoes, or sugar with cereal, which will produce fermentation.

7. Eat only one concentrated starch food per meal. For example do not eat a bowl of pasta with a chunk of bread.

8. Do not consume melons with any other foods. Watermelon, muskmelon, honeydew melon, or cantaloupe should always be eaten alone. This is probabbly due to the ease and speed in which melons decompose.

9. Milk is best taken alone or better still, left alone. Milk is the natural food of weaning mammels, however each species produces milk precisely adapted to the needs of it’s own offspring. Cows milk is designed for a calf which in one year will weigh the equivalent of twenty human beings. Say no more.