7 Diet Secrets of the Stars!

Celebrities always look fabulous. Whether appearing in television or films or strutting down the red carpet during movie premiers and awards, they never cease to fascinate us with their larger than life presence. The truth is, it takes a lot of effort to look the way they do, and being the public figures that they are, they cannot afford to slack off when it comes to taking care of their physical appearances. Their livelihood largely depends on how they look. Aside from the clothes, the hair and the makeup, celebrities have to take good care of their bodies.

So it is no surprise that these stars have their own secrets when it comes to staying fit and gorgeous. Their health agenda can range from extreme workouts to well-planned meals. Who doesn't want to know their secrets in staying absolutely sexy? Here are some of the diet secrets of seven women celebrities.

1. Jennifer Aniston
The star of the phenomenal television show Friends not only mesmerized audiences with her adorable comic sense and her famous hairstyle, she was also known for having one of the sexiest bodies in Hollywood, as she appeared in countless magazine covers. To stay trim, Jennifer follows the 40:30:30 diet method. The diet consists of:

40% Low glycemic carbohydrates
-Foods such as beans, fruits and vegetables, legumes

30% lean proteins
-Tofu, fish, chicken, turkey, beef and low fat dairy products

30% essential fats
-nuts and seeds, fish and olive oils

It is essential that every meal should contain macronutrients to attain the balance of hormones and maximum weight loss.

2. Kate Hudson
The gorgeous daughter of actress Goldie Hawn gained 60 pounds during her pregnancy, which she needed to shed quickly before commencing on her next film. From her previous eating plan, she switched to a higher protein diet. She consumed high protein meals in smaller portions, and she combined this diet with an exercise program that includes weight training and cardiovascular workouts. After getting a lot of flak because of her post-pregnancy figure, Kate removed all that baby weight in only four months and has gained abdominal muscles that gained the envy of many in Hollywood.

3. Oprah Winfrey
As one of the most successful talk-show hosts in the world, there is no question that Oprah needs to maintain her physical appearance for her millions of audiences. Known as one of those celebrities who are constantly battling weight gain, she has recently toned up her figure and has never looked figure in age 50 by combining a regular exercise regime and diet plan. Oprah works out five days a week, spending 30 minutes on the threadmill and doing free weights. Her eating plan consists of legumes, fish, nuts, fruits and vegetables, chicken and dairy products that are lowfat. She limits her consumption of white sugar and flour. Oprah also credits her trim figure to her habit of not eating anything after seven in the evening.

4. Gwyneth Paltrow
A lot of people may find it hard to believe that the perpetually slim Academy award-winning actress actually needs to diet. Gwyneth actually follows a healthy eating plan that resembles Oprah's, avoiding sugar and white flour. She usually follows a macrobiotic diet, eating foods like vegetables, brown rice, and lean meat. She also eliminated dairy from her diet, and does yoga everyday.

5. Madonna
The pop star known as the Material Girl has always flaunted a body that is to die for, and has become a true fitness paragon over the years. She keeps herself in tip-top shape by having Ashtanga Yoga, and follows a strict diet that mostly shuns junk foods. She adopted a macrobiotic eating plan that includes organic foods rich in lean protein.

6. Claudia Schiffer
The bodacious German supermodel eats salad and steamed vegetables for dinner and eats only fruits before the afternoon. While on locations, she prefers to eat black grapes and drinks tomato juice and herbal tea.

7. Christie Brinkley
Long-time supermodel maintains her all-American good looks by being a vegetarian. She does not keep junk foods of any kind inside her home to make sure that she does not eat them when cravings occur. She snacks on sweet potatoes in place of candy bars, and she adopts a liquid juice diet when she needs to slim down fast.

Celebrities are just like ordinary people. They need to maintain their figures just like anyone else, and there is more pressure on their part since they are constantly in the public eye. Ordinary folks can have celebrity-like bodies, too, and by following these diet and fitness plans, they can also look like red-carpet worthy.

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Tai Chi at Chris Walker's Fitness!

New Tai Chi Class starting May 22nd for Fitness Class Members!

The benefits of practicing Tai Chi are unlimited. Tai Chi can be used as a preventive health measure, to maintain good health and/or to help with a specific disease.

Here are some of general areas of the benefits that are most commonly recognized and most thoroughly researched:

* Blood Pressure
* Hypertension
* Heart
* Musculature
* Posture
* Breathing
* Lymphatic System
* Balance


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Two Simple Rules to Increasing Your Health!

Looking to get healthy in the new year? There are two simple rules to increasing your health and you will be amazed at how easy they are to follow. If you want to be healthy, just follow these rules.

The two simple rules are eat healthier and exercise regularly. There is no magic to losing weight or getting in shape. Many people have stopped believing the hype of diet products and crazy exercise equipment that promises to zap your fat with electricity. If you want to lose weight and get into shape there is no cheating. Not only will you find it difficult at times but you will also require yourself to have some discipline as well.

There really is no secret to losing weight. Eat healthier foods and cut down on calories. Try to eat fresh fruits, delicious vegetables and lean meats daily. Cut out the processed food such as TV dinners, snack chips and fast food. They only add calories and artificial chemicals that your body doesn’t need. Stop drinking soda and start drinking fresh water and fruit juices.

To get into shape, join a gym and make sure you go. You make sure that you go to work everyday, so have the discipline to show up for a good, healthy workout. Many people don’t need to get big and bulk, but some toning can work wonders on your figure. Working out doesn’t show results over night, but you will start seeing changes in only a couple of months. So to get healthy, follow these two simple rules.


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Getting Energy From Vitamins!

The biggest complaint that doctors often hear from patients is a lack of energy, or the constant feeling of fatigue. Due to these types of complaints, it really isn’t a surprise that people want to know the best types of vitamins and supplements they can get for energy. All vitamins are ideal for staying healthy, as well as keeping your body performing in top shape.

Among vitamins and supplements, one of the most common for energy is folic acid. Folic acid is a B vitamin that has been proven to increase energy levels. Even though you can look for vitamins that provide energy, it would be in your best interest to find those that can be effective with fighting fatigue as well. There are vitamins, nutrients, and supplements that are great for fighting fatigue and helping the body stay alert.

The vitamin known as NADH is very powerful for energy, although many people aren’t aware of it. People who use vitamins on a regular basis would find themselves very impressed with the boost NADH provides. It is often used with chronic fatigue, although the way it works can be quite complicated indeed. Other vitamins that are great for providing energy include the msm supplement and gingko biloba.

If you happen to be on a blood thinner, such as aspirin, you should always consult with a doctor or other trained specialist before you take gingko biloba, as it is a blood thinning agent. Even though it is considered to be an energy vitamin, if you use it with aspirin it can thin your blood down a bit too much. If you get your blood too thin, it may lead to medical problems later on in life that can prevent you from doing the things you love.

With any vitamin that you take as a source of energy, you should always consult with your doctor. If you have any type of heart or other serious medical condition, you may not be able to take the vitamin you are interested in. For this reason, you should always consult with your doctor and ask for his advice. After a few tests and exams, your doctor will be able to tell you what type of vitamins you should or shouldn’t take.

In the world of vitamins and supplements, there are many alternative sources that you can take for energy. Whether you are a senior citizen looking to do more activities or an athlete looking to get more energy, there are many different vitamins out there that can give you what you need. Before you rush out and explore your options though, you should always consult with your doctor first and see if there are any vitamins you shouldn’t be taking.

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Pina Pina Colada Smoothie Recipe!

Add protein powder to this recipe to make it a little healthier!

An alternative to the real thing!

Pina Colada Smoothie Recipe

5 Tbs. Coconut milk

2 1/2 cups pineapple juice

1/2 cup vanilla ice cream

1/2 frozen banana (chunks)

1 1/2 cups frozen pineapple chunks
Pour all liquid ingredients into the blender. Add all frozen ingredients. Blend at MIX setting for 30 seconds then blend at SMOOTH setting until smooth. While the machine is running, move the stir stick around counter-clockwise to aid mixing. Serve immediately. Each recipe serves 3-5.

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Why You Need Vitmain D?

When Johnny objects to a soap-and-water scrubbing, it is usually because he just doesn't like it. He would be on much sounder scientific, though dubious domestic, ground, if he simply told his mother: "Excessive bathing with soap removes from my skin the sterols which, if exposed to the ultra-violet irradiation of sunlight, would be converted into the Vitamin D I need for normal bone growth."

Not that Johnny would get very far, for bathing is a well-established social custom and quite indispensable for getting along with people. It is true, however, that oily substances in the skin are removed by soap scrubbings, and that these are the very materials which are changed into Vitamin D by the action of the sunlight. You can have a coat of tan that speaks of hours lying in the sun, yet the vitamin benefits of the sunshine may have been largely lost if you conscientiously bathed yourself before exposure. Too, the deeper your tan, the less sunshine vitamin you get, for the pigment shuts the vitamin-producing rays out from the skin.

For that matter, the benefit of sunbathing in city regions is probably overrated, from the vitamin point of view. Dust, smoke, and invisible urban effluvia may effectively curtain off the ultra-violet wavelengths of sunlight, which are the only ones that help your skin manufacture Vitamin D.

Practically, therefore, you will do well to get Vitamin D by other sources than suntan, although as an adult your needs for the vitamin are considerably less than the requirements of children. The particular virtue of Vitamin D is its masterly control over the distribution of calcium and phosphorus in the body-minerals which not only are the major building-blocks of bones and teeth, but which also play vital chemical roles in the body's functions.

Strangely enough, a relationship of Vitamin D to myopia (nearsightedness) has recently been demonstrated in animals. Lack of the vitamin and therefore of proper calcium and phosphorus metabolism has, in animals, weakened the outer coats of the eye and changed its refractive properties. The experimental animals were puppies, but a human application is not improbable.

It is babies, however, who are most seriously affected by Vitamin D shortages. They develop rickets, a disease in which deformed bones are exhibited as bowlegs, knock-knees, swollen joints, distorted pelvis, chest and spine. So important is this vitamin to infants that their diets always include cod liver oil or other concentrate, and the doctor's orders should be faithfully followed.

You can get a good deal of Vitamin D from ordinary foods, but the chances are you don't. Peanut butter, milk, graham crackers, cereals, and a vast number of other foods commonly used by children, are now available with Vitamin D artificially added. These are usually good investments. Oily fishes-tuna, salmon, herring, sardines-are the best sources among common unfortified foodstuffs. Eggs and butter also contribute small amounts.

The easiest way of securing Vitamin D is to use fortified milk, many varieties of which contribute a full day's vitamin quota per quart. Concentrates such as viosterol are potent and relatively inexpensive. Any surplus that you build up during exposure to summer sunshine is stored for doling out through the winter.



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How The Right Vitamins Keep Your Teeth Healthy!

A sweet tooth is likely to be full of fillings. This is one point in the relationship of diet to oral beauty on which researchers generally agree.

Beyond that, except for admission that minerals and vitamins are essential to sound teeth, there is wide difference of opinion on the proper feeding and care of bicuspids.

A few significant diet factors, however, give promise of persuading your molars to linger longer in their sockets.

As an adult you are probably beyond the stage where vitamins make much difference to your teeth. True, if you develop scurvy from lack of Vitamin C your teeth will drop out, but that is largely because of breakdown of surrounding tissue. Matters arc different with children. Young animals deprived of Vitamin A grow teeth without any covering of enamel. Dental enamel is the hardest substance in your body and when it isn't present in teeth, soon the teeth aren't present either. Shortages of Vitamin A in childhood can cause teeth to develop with thin, broken, or misshapen enamel coats that pave the way for early decay.

Oversize servings of orange juice have helped to prevent tooth cavities in children, since Vitamin C is essential to the formation of dentine, the hard stuff between the enamel and pulp of the tooth. Vitamin D is necessary too to regulate the distribution of calcium and phosphorus out of which teeth are principally made.

Once you've grown up, however, the mechanisms that make for tooth decay are multiple and complex. Meat-eating animals and carnivorous humans, such as Eskimos, are relatively immune to dental decay and it is evident that the oral decomposition of protein is offensive only in the sense that your best friends won't tell you. Carbohydrate appears to be the big tooth enemy.

A widely accepted theory holds that the decomposition of carbohydrate particles (particularly when packed into the fissures of the teeth, where decay most often begins) results in conditions favorable to the growth of lacto-bacillus acidophilus, a sour little bacillus that is charged with gnawing away at enamel and preparing you for the dental bur.

This ties in with the observation that sugar, of all foods, is the most efficient tooth dissolver.

Persons who suck lozenges and cough drops-a favorite habit of some cigarette smokers, to cool off the mouth between fags-or who crunch hard candies frequently have very bad teeth. The old Scandinavian custom of holding a sugar cube between the teeth and sipping coffee through it also is a joy to dentists looking for steady customers. Sugar in solution bathes the teeth with fluids that, for whatever reason, appear notably effective in dissolving the tooth structure. The obvious moral, if you simply can't cut down on sweets, is to choose candies that you can get to the glottis swiftly.

Low sugar and high fat diets-the type customarily prescribed for diabetics-have proved surprisingly effective in holding tooth decay to a minimum. Brushing the teeth is esthetically advisable, but "dirty" teeth often show less decay than "clean" ones. The protective film that covers the teeth (it requires acid to dissolve it, and is not necessarily visible to the eye) appears to prevent withdrawal of calcium from teeth, perhaps by preventing direct contact with bacteria. Even when bacteria are present in the mouth, a well-balanced diet goes far to render them harmless.

One of the new discoveries in nutrition is that some types of pyorrhea can be prevented or benefited by increase of Vitamin C. Bleeding gums-the popularly terrifying cause of "pink toothbrush"-often need Vitamin C more than they do vigorous scrubbing or the gnawing of bones.



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