What To Know About Water Test Kits

By Elisabeth Lawson

Drinking water should be of high quality so as to avert serious illnesses. Having water test kits at home for people having private wells, those living in rural areas or simply anyone is thus important. This is because with such equipments, one can be able to regularly perform quality tests on the aqua. This will ensure that the liquid one drinks all the time is safe.

Before the invention of these simple testing gears, people had to go to the nearest laboratories to analyze the quality. They would carry samples of their liquids in bottles and take it to the labs. This was not convenient to many people as it was a long process. Some would even skip doing such tests and this was dangerous. But with the introduction of these devices, quality checking has been made easier as one can do at the comfort of the home.

In quality testing, certain aspects of must be checked. Such can be the PH level. The purpose for this assessment is to ensure that the liquid has a normal PH of 7. In case testing is done and the PH is found to be below or above seven, this will indicate acidity or alkalinity which is not good.

Yet another component checked when ensuring quality is contaminants. It is quite normal for this drinking liquid to have micro organisms and minerals constituents as some of these substances are useful to health. However there are those which are harmful when taken into the body. These kits are thus important in detecting such harmful constituents thereby enabling the purification process.

These equipments do make the purifying process simpler as a person knows beforehand what kinds of contaminants are present. The equipments are of two major types; test strips and the dropper which resembles an eyedropper. When using the dropper, drop a specific amount of reagent in a sample in a glass. In case the reagent causes a color change to the sample, then the liquid is not safe.

Usually, test strips exist in different forms, each checking for a specific aspect. Therefore, a person must buy that form which checks for whatever he is looking for. The strip works by being placed at a source of water. In case its color changes, this means that the substance one is checking for is there.

Having water test kits is thus important in ensuring safety to health. These gears must be purchased in authorized outlets. One also needs not to worry about their prices as they are affordable. As to what type of equipment to buy, the individual should choose that which is suited to his needs.

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Fasting for Quick Weight Loss

BY AYOUB OUBARKA


Some experts warn that fasting is no way to lose weight. But proponents of
fasting claim that taking a break from food can have all sorts of health benefits.
They credit fasting for giving them everything from increased energy to elevated
mood and even clearer skin.

Here’s the secret: Fasting is not the same thing as starving. There are different
levels of fasting. Some even allow you to eat solid foods. Of course, you can also
restrict your intake to just liquids, or to just water, but such fasts shouldn’t be
sustained for very long.

Fasting is usually done for detoxification purposes. Think of how many processed
foods you eat each day. All of them contain chemicals designed to extend shelf
life or enhance flavor. Those chemicals can build up in your system, making it
hard for your body to function normally. Fatigue, achiness, and depression can
result.

Now consider how many toxins you pick up from other sources. How many
chemical cleaners, pest control sprays, cosmetics, and other chemicals do you
come into contact with? How is the air quality in your area? How is the tap water?
You could be polluting your body simply by eating, drinking, and breathing.

You can kick off your 14 day diet plan and give your body a break by fasting. To
do this, you should first determine how extreme of a fast you’re willing to try.
Here are some popular types to choose from.
 
Sugar Fast

A sugar fast is a relatively mild fasting technique. All it requires you to do is give
up sugary foods and white flour products. Those foods will be replaced with
healthier carbohydrates in the form of low-glycemic fruits, fibrous vegetables, and
whole grain products.

Prepare for some adverse effects in the first few days of your sugar fast,
especially if you’re something of a sugar addict. You might experience
headaches, lethargy, and even nausea while your body cleanses itself of sugar.

Just take it easy for a couple of days and drink plenty of clean water to flush the
toxins from your system. You can do a sugar fast pretty much indefinitely, as long
as you continue to eat healthy carbs.
 
Raw Food Fast

Food loses a lot of its fiber and nutrition when you cook it, so proponents of raw
food diets insist that their way of eating delivers the most nutrients and the
highest fiber content.

Obviously, there are many foods which should be cooked before consumption. A
raw food fast will limit you to safe raw foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, and
grains. Some people eat raw for life, but if you’re a meat fan, you should probably
make it a temporary weight loss technique.
 
Juice Fast

Juice fasts gained notoriety among the Hollywood set. Now they’ve gone
mainstream, with hundreds of web sites devoted to the merits of fresh fruit and
vegetable juice.

Juice fasts can be healthy when they’re done right. To get enough vitamins and
fiber, you’ll definitely want to do your own juicing using fresh produce. Pre-
packaged fruit juices are typically high in sugar and lack fiber content.

Some of the most popular homemade juices include “green” smoothies, which
blend fruits, vegetables, and silken tofu; fresh orange and carrot juice for a
massive dose of vitamins C and A; and cucumber melon smoothies to keep you
hydrated at a very low calorie cost.

As long as you’re getting a variety of fruits, veggies, and soy protein, a juice fast
can last for several days or even a week. The nutrient-dense drinks are easily
digestible. You might feel revitalized right away as your body absorbs the
vitamins and macronutrients.

Water Fast

For some, only a total water fast will do. As the name suggests, a water fast
means giving up food altogether and drinking pure water instead.

While this doesn’t provide nutrients like eating solid food does, fans of water
fasting insist that the process gives them mental clarity, clearer skin, and
increased energy.

Due to lack of nutrition, water fasts should not be sustained for more than a few
days at a time. Ask your doctor for permission before you embark on a water
fast.
 
The Master Cleanse and More

The Master Cleanse gained notoriety because several high-profile celebrities
used it to shed extra pounds. Beyonce Knowles lost a fast 25 pounds in
preparation for her role in Dreamgirls, thanks to the Master Cleanse.

This plan is a liquid fast that requires you to drink several cups of juice made
from lemons, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup. Salt-water drinks and laxative
teas are sometimes incorporated for a full-body cleanse.

The Master Cleanse is effective for cutting weight, but not for long-term loss. It
just departs too radically from normal eating. It’s also possible to become
dehydrated while following the plan, so dieter beware!

The Final Word on Fasts

A fast that cuts out junk food but leaves you with plenty of nutrition is the most
sustainable type of fast. Kick off your 14-day plan with a sugar fast or raw food
fast, and see how great you feel!
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Why can’t I lose weight? ( Part II )

BY AYOUB OUBARKA

Use the fat loss trick to boost fat loss!

6. The fat loss trick is a way of eating to get your body to use up more of its fat
storage quickly. Ok, I’ll explain. Your body is used to burning a certain amount of
calories according to your eating habits. Say you take in 2000 calories daily and
you use the fat loss trick to cut down to about 1500 calories your body is still
used to burning up 2000 calories and will burn up the stored fat to make up for
what's it's used to metabolizing. Your body has no idea that you’re using this fat
loss trick but caution, this should not be done more than 2-3 days at a time or
you'll risk losing muscle, slowing metabolism and gaining the weight back. This is
what happens to people on fad diets. It is also important to eat 5-6 small meals
daily comprised of a lean protein, starchy carbohydrates and fibrous
carbohydrates every 3 hours when you're not using the fat loss trick and only
protein and fibrous carbs when you are. So a sample fat loss trick schedule
would be Mon, Tue, Wed,-fat loss trick, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun regular. Also be sure
to drink plenty of water all metabolism and fat loss takes place when your body
has an abundance of water.

Exercise with resistance at least 3 times a week. Perform
cardiovascular exercise everyday or at least 5 times a week.

7. Now, this is a given you can’t expect to lose weight without out working out and
anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is using a flawed approach. They’re lying
to you! In order to get a fitness or health result you need to combine a synergistic
approach of a concern for muscle, good nutrition and moderate aerobics!

Use breathing exercises to boost metabolism!

8. The process of fat loss is dependant greatly on a good cardiovascular and
circulatory system. The more efficient they are the faster your weight loss will be.
In addition to using exercise to boost your cardiovascular and circulatory system
try this simple breathing exercise. Breath in (inhale) for 8-10 seconds filling up
both upper and lower lungs, now hold for 16-20 seconds then exhale and fully
empty the lungs. Do this every day for at least 2 minutes. The goal is to increase
the oxygen intake and hold times.

Don’t hate skinny people!
9. By skinny I mean, thin, slim, athletic or fit people. The people who always seem to be in

shape no matter what. The people who seem to be able to eat anything and not suffer for it.
The people who don't have a problem going into any store to buy clothes. The people who
are often admired for their physique. The people who seem to be the life of the party and it
just seems like things are easier for them. The people who are the first ones picked out of a
line up for a team. Yes, those skinny people. Are you starting to visualize them? Now ask
yourself seriously? Do you really like them? Do you see them and wish them well or do you
secretly hope they trip over an unforeseen stone, land harshly on the ground and get
knocked out cold. Perhaps the above line was humorous and made you chuckle or perhaps
there is someone who you wish that would actually happen to. Well, what are you getting at
Chris? Remember this line I'm about to write if nothing else: You will never become that
which you hate! You may need some weight loss coaching around this area. Give
me a call to discuss this further free of charge. (877-370-4658) Now to change your
mind and feelings towards skinny people, start liking them, bless them as they walk by, wish
them well, start to appreciate them for who they are, become their friend. Do not envy them
but love them. Now that which you love and embrace you can become.

Identify how you see yourself!

10. Identify the image you hold in your mind when you think of yourself. You will
never change or outperform the image you hold of yourself in your mind. If you
see yourself as fat or overweight you will constantly sabotage your efforts to
maintain the image of the fat or overweight person you hold in your mind. Make up

your mind today to change your mind. How does one change their mind? Habits and mental
conditioning are changed with repetition and belief. Create a list of all the qualities you would
like to have and be sure to leave nothing out. Now read that list to your self everyday once in
the morning and again at the end of the day or even better read it every chance you
get.....and don't just read it, put some feeling behind it. You'll notice yourself begin to change
and you will start to accept and become what you've written down on paper. Be careful not to
let doubts or negative people talk you out of your new found knowledge. Do this for the next
30 days! Don't ever forget the mind has power to make changes in your health or your life!

Identify your false beliefs!

11. Now answer this question, put some thought into it and be sincere. I can’t lose
weight because ____________ now whatever you’ve inserted in the blank is a
false belief. It’s the reason preventing you from weight loss, it’s the excuse
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Why can’t I lose weight? ( part I )

BY AYOUB OUBARKA

Make sure your not constipated.

1. Visit the bathroom regularly, at least 2-3 times a day. If you’re not frequenting the
bathroom on a regular basis that’s a clear sign that something isn’t right with
you’re digestive system. If your body is not breaking down foods efficiently
(metabolizing) your body will slow down to accommodate your sluggish digestive
system. This simply means you have a slow metabolism and are clinically
constipated. Where do you think all the food waste is going if you’re not visiting
the bathroom on a regular basis? I’ll tell ya, it’s compressed along the walls of
your colon and rotting away. This could lead to more serious things like colon
cancer. You could benefit from a colon cleanse or colonics. A good product to try
is Bowtrol found on my website.

Cleanse your body and remove toxins.

2. Toxin build up will suppress your immune system and slow metabolism. Some
people live such toxic lifestyles; they smoke, drink alcohol, are exposed to poor
air quality, drink polluted water, eat polluted foods and use recreational drugs. All
this over time has an effect on our bodies. Everything slows down in the body’s
response to rid all these toxins. In other words our metabolism slows down and
slow metabolism equals slow fat loss. Now, you don’t have to go out and
purchase some expensive detox kit just a simple cleanse of organic vegetable
juices taken for three days in a row can do the trick. (You may want to do a 5-7
day cleanse if you’re a heavy smoker or drinker.)

Eat like a baby.

3. Eat 5-6 small meals every day, every 3-3 ½ hours. Meals should consist of a lean
protein, starchy carb and a fibrous carb. Each group should be about the size of
a fist or a deck of playing cards. Now, some of you may say this is a lot of food
but really it’s not. Your body is capable of consuming what may seem to you as a
lot of food and using it to rev up your metabolism and support lean muscle
growth. Now, this is the cool part! This is actually where you get to create or mold
your metabolism to a large extent. Let’s take a moment to go back in time to
when you were a baby. If you’re a mom you’ll know this well. When you were a
tiny little thing your metabolism was very active and you processed food very
quickly. You wanted breast milk or formula every 2-3 hours. Are you with me so
far! If not, go ask your mother. Now, what happened over the years is we
screwed up our metabolism. As you grew older, you’re told to only have

breakfast, lunch and dinner and no snacks in-between because you’ll ruin your
insert (next meal here). Now, as you grew even older still, you’re met with the
pressures of school, work and social life. You’re always on the go and you’ve
created the tendency to skip meals, further screwing up your metabolism. Your
body has now become accustomed to your new busy eating style, having one or
two large meals rather than five to six smaller ones. Your body doesn’t have to
work as quickly or hard to break down the foods you ingest because it knows the
next meal is not coming for hours. So it could relax a little and perhaps store a
little here and there as well. Do you get my drift? Do you see all the damage
done over the years? The good news is we can change all that by going back to
how we ate when we were a baby, being sure to combine a lean protein, starchy
carb and a fibrous carb at every meal. Of course, it’s also important to be getting
lots of water at least two liters daily and you also need to consume your essential
fatty acids.

Eat as soon as you get up!

4. First meal of the day should be the largest and at least 30 minutes from waking.
Do you ever wonder why they call it breakfast? Well, if we break the word down
we get “break” and “fast” and when we wake up every morning we’re breaking a
fast. A fast is when we avoid a particular food or foods for a period of time. Now,
when we sleep we’re going into a mini fast where things kind of slow down a
little, especially our metabolism. When we awake, we need to do something to
stir our metabolism up and get it going again. Doing this will turn us into efficient
fat loss machines. We could achieve this metabolic boost by having a quality
meal in the morning comprised of a lean protein, starchy carb and a fibrous carb.
Another alternative is to exercise first thing in the morning but most people under
eat so for now let’s just stick with getting a meal first thing in the morning.

Don’t eat too late!

5. Last meal of the day should be the smallest and at least 3 hours before bedtime.
Now, this one makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? You don’t need extra calories to
go to bed just like you don’t buy gasoline before you park your car. As your body
is preparing for sleep/fast your metabolism is slowing down and there is more
chances of the food that you’ve recently ate being stored as fat.
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Bee Pollen Benefits That People Stand To Gain

By Concepcion McConnell

People enjoy many bee pollen benefits as soon as they start taking them. This is as witnessed by numerous individuals since time immemorial. Health experts are always encouraging those who can to consume them due to the various advantages that come with them. The components they have are known to work for the best of the health of a person.

It is commonly referred to as one of the ideal nutrients from nature. This may be because of what they do contain. It has a combination of 22 amino acids namely: vitamin B-complex, vitamin C, polyunsaturated oily acids, carotene, enzymes, and folic acid. These are some of the leading antioxidants that have since been discovered.

Some of the abilities they have include the rejuvenation of the body. They do so be stimulating the various organs and glands to enhance vitality. In the end, the life span of people who use them is significantly increased.

Those who have used it for some time will also realize some amount of brain alertness is achieved. This is especially for those people who engage in some kind of mind stressful jobs. It basically works by getting rid of fatigue by replacing the needed nutrients to the body. Thus one will be ale to work for longer periods of time while concentrating on the task at hand.

Whenever a person wants to boost his or her immunity, then the pollen could also be of much help. The same applies to those in need of detoxification. In the end, the health balance of the user is restored.

Others have also been able to fight weight gain through them. The supplements need to be ingested along with food. When this is done, the fat in food is burned up to give the body energy and heat.

As for the digestion of an individual, some benefits have also been noticed. When taken, they help in the breaking down of food taken. They also aid in getting rid of problems related to the intestinal tract and constipation.

The people who take them have also benefited by having ailments such as cold and flu by pass them. Individuals having some problems in their sex life are also known to get some help with their issues. Some studies also indicate that when women take them it helps in the repair of certain reproductive organs in their bodies. Expectant women should however avoid them.

Other people who should not use them are those who have allergic reactions to bee stings. The same applies to those who get some reaction when they come in contact with the pollen. This is because the same dire reactions may be witnessed.

After knowing these facts, it is not advisable to proceed and garner bee pollen benefits before consulting an expert on the subject. It is important to seek audience with a nutritionist or someone in the same capacity first. From there, he or she can be able to give advice on various things such as the best source, amounts to take and the frequency at which they can be taken. When such precautions are taken one will not end up making unnecessary mistakes that may proof to be futile.

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