by Diana Ajih on September 21, 2011
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Yoga Poses for Beginners
[This is part of the Yoga Series. Check out more yoga posts below!]
Yoga poses are very powerful in the sense that it can bring dramatic effects to your body and health. However, they can be overwhelming for enthusiasts just trying them out for the first time. They might end up surrendering before they fully give yoga a chance. The good news is that there are yoga poses for beginners to help them introduce yoga into their lives.
As you grow and mature into yoga, regular positions will finally become everyday routines for you. What’s best about these yoga poses for beginners is that your body can easily accommodate them until your body feels at home with these positions. From then you can start challenging much harder positions so you can have a variety of positions on your sleeve.
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by Diana Ajih on September 20, 2011
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Yoga and Weight Loss
[This is part of the Yoga Series. Check out more yoga posts below!]
Obesity, for all its implications and popularity will always be a major concern among people since the thought of the 
physical and mental discomforts involved are just too much too bear. The lack of stamina, the difficulty in breathing and physical movements is just some of the initial troubles that you may face. Along the way you will start feeling inferior yourself within the society and stress will always follow you around. Good thing there are ways on how we can all deal with the problem effectively. Yoga and weight loss combined is just one of them.
This effective combination requires a well defined planning and implementation to lose all that unnecessary weight so we can all live a happy and healthy life. And it all starts with yoga. Yoga is one vast and complicated subject matter made up of various methodologies to facilitate your body to help you take off the excess pounds.
by Diana Ajih on September 15, 2011
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Do Vitamins Work?
We were given so many promises in this world; from our friends and loved ones who surrounded us all the time, our office buddies, and from our government itself with all their long lists of promises. And then there are those promises
made on TV by pharmaceutical companies trying to invite us all into checking out their wonderful health products, particularly those in vitamins industry. So many promises. Here you are wondering just like the rest of the folks out there, “do vitamins work?” As promised? Do we really need them?
The average person who maintains a healthy and well-balanced diet has no more need to take vitamin pills. Let it be clear to everyone that nothing can ever substitute fresh and healthy foods. Most people everywhere take vitamins because they feel that their own personal diets are not sufficient enough to provide them with the needed nutrients so they can stay healthy with all their busy daily lifestyles before them. Some folks out there are an exemption; they needed vitamins because they have their own medical and dietary issues.
Real food still rocks; it always will! Vitamins and mineral combos found in whole foods can never be replicated with vitamin pills. They can try, but they will never get there. The freshness of fruits and vegetables stands out over vitamin pills.
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by Diana Ajih on September 7, 2011
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The 500 Calorie Diet also known as the HCG Diet is the new diet craze that everyone can’t stop talking about. I have a friend that is overweight and is considering this diet. I’ve heard and read of it so my main concern is its safety because come on…restricting you diet to only 500 calories a day sounds crazy! So, I thought I share this topic with all my lovely readers and hopefully hear your thoughts. Ok, back to the article…
This new diet claims to help people lose up to 2 pounds a day. It’s carried
out for at least 26 days and can last up to 43 days.
The chemical compound, hCG or human chorionic gonadotropin, is the hormone found in women during their pregnancy that plays a role in the weight loss. This substance is produced initially by the developing embryo and later produced by a layer of tissue found in the placenta during the first trimester of the pregnancy to provide nourishment to the growing fetus.
But How Does it Play a Role in Weight loss and Does it Really Work?
There are many speculations about how the hCG diet and pregnancy hormone supplements work their weight loss effect among individuals.
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by Diana Ajih on July 19, 2011
in health
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The 5 Best Celeb Workouts
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Hollywood’s A-listers swear by these moves to get them into killer shape — fast
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What do Jennifer Aniston and Eva Mendes do to whip their bodies into shape for a role? We asked their trainers this very question and got them to spill the exact moves they make their celeb clients do. So, even though you don’t have these A-listers’ fame, fortune, or exquisitely hot celeb boyfriends, now you can have their washboard abs and thunder-less thighs.
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by Diana Ajih on July 7, 2011
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7 Ways to Get Rid of Flabby Arms — Fast
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Don’t be shy to show off your arms this summer with these exercises that’ll get you immediate results
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Whenever there’s a camera aimed at you, you position your body just-so: Put one leg in front the other, turn to the side, put your hand on your waist … we know all the tricks of the trade to disguise trouble spots, too. But what if you could look toned by being toned? See these easy arm exercises to firm up fast.
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