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Are you looking to lose weight without having to take a lot of pills and shakes? You have probably tried all the diets out there - South Beach Diet, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers and the list goes on! Here are some tips that will help you lose a lot of those extra pounds without having to take any diet pills. Follow these simple steps:

1. Drink water - If you want to lose weight quickly then you must drink more water. You should have at least 6 to 8 glasses of purified water each day. What will water do for you? It will help your body flush out any harmful toxins that prevent you from losing weight.

2. Drop the soda - Try not to drink any soda at all whether it’s diet or regular. This will reduce bloating and will take inches off of your waistline.

3. Increase fiber - Try to increase the fiber in your diet by eating whole wheat and whole grains. Don’t forget those fruits and veggies as well. These will fill you up without adding excess calories to your diet. So, if you want to lose weight fast, then you will want to gradually increase your fiber intake.

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A glance at the list of food sources for these essential micronutrients quickly shows you how important fruity vegetables, nuts and pulses are, precisely the food groups you severely restrict on a classic low-carb diet. Fish, chicken and red meat supply a small number of these nutrients as well, but many are simply not present in these foods. And, of course, normally we eat these foods cooked, and the cooking process can severely deplete the nutritional value. A fat and protein-oriented diet will not provide the nutritional profile you need for good health.

But Atkins does recommend supplements, you may reply, surely that will ensure I get the right nutritional profile. Unfortunately Atkins was no micronutritionist, and the supplement recommendations, though they go some way to compensating for a very skewed diet, are not well thought through and in some areas are completely inadequate. For example, the importance of vitamin K, resistant starch, flavonoids and sterols to a healthy diet is simply not recognized.

Moreover there is plenty of evidence about the benefits of whole foods for health, such as the importance of fibre for healthy digestive functioning. Supplements can support a healthy eating programme, but your starting point for good nutrition should be the whole foods you eat at every meal.

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Look around the world today, and you will still find many areas where people live subsistence lives, scratching a living from the soil with little if any machinery to assist them. Heavy manual work of this sort requires from 3,000 calories a day (women) to
4,000 calories (men). If that work is being done at low temperatures, add another 1,000 calories a day to maintain body heat. Factor in strenuous exercise, as with polar explorers who insist on walking, skiing or roller-skating across the ice caps, and energy requirements reach 6,000 calories a day and more. At these very high levels of energy expenditure the diet changes dramatically, as only fats and oils contain the calorific density needed, and even then it seems impossible not to lose weight. Even on a diet containing around a pound of lard and 6,000 calories a day, a recent exploration team recorded body weight losses of 10% and more during their arduous trek.

For most of us, life has become much less physical. Where clothes were once beaten on rocks at the water’s edge or on washboards, and then wrung out by hand, there came a series of progressively more efficient labour-saving washing machines. My mothers first top-loader washed the clothes in one tub, after which the sodden and lead-heavy clothing had to be hauled out, dragged through a (hand) mangle, and thence into a centrifuge before it was carried out to the clothes line. How laborious, compared to the do-it-all washing machines on offer today! And who beats carpets any more? Or clears out and then makes up the coal fires every morning? This explains why energy requirements today are, on average, a mere 2,000 calories a day.

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