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A big slice of steak certainly provides plenty of protein, but carnivores should be careful: a research study from the Archives of Internal Medicine proved that people who get the most of their protein from vegetables and other non-animal products have lower blood pressure in comparison to those whose diet is based mostly on meat and dairy for their protein. The study’s authors came to a conclusion that people who ate nine daily servings of protein-rich, plant-based foods displayed a decreased risk of suffering from heart disease and stroke. To reduce your own risk, you are advised to stock up on these protein-rich foods:
•    Vegetables such as pumpkin, cauliflower, cabbage, and broccoli.
•    Soy and tofu
•    Lentils, peas and various beans.
•    Nuts and seeds: Peanut butter, roasted almonds, walnuts, and sunflower seeds.
•    Rice and grains: Wild rice and quinoa.
These types of food will provide you with high amounts of protein without the saturated fat that is found in many cuts of meat. If you are used to eating plenty of meat, I advise that you start by changing half of your animal protein for plant-based proteins, or just make one of your meals meatless. Have a soy-protein vegetable burger instead of regular hamburger, or change your chicken noodle soup for savory lentil soup.

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I assume that you all already know that it is crucial to drink enough water during the day. Below you can find some tips to keep your daily water intake at a proper level.

1. Keep a Log
   This doesn’t have to be difficult and can be limited simply to a small piece of paper on the fridge, or a page in your day planner. All you must do it write a little checkmark, or dash on the piece of paper each time you drink a glass of water. The log allow you to easily examine how much water you have had in any given day. You will also be amazed how motivating it is to try to get those eight little checkmarks on there each day. Another concept would be to use small stickers instead.
2. Add Some Lemon Juice
   Many people tend to get bored with drinking only water after a few days. You can change things up a bit and add some flavor by adding a teaspoon or less of lemon to your water. You are also free to use any other fruit juices you like. Just be sure that you are still drinking mainly water. Just a splash of juice should be sufficient to make your drink more interesting and give the water some flavor without adding a lot of unnecessary sugar and calories.
3. Try Some Club Soda
   If you really want to have the fizz of a soda, you should try some Club Soda. Some people may find that most brands have a little too much fizz, but if that is the case you can water them down with… water, isn’t that obvious?

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Beginning a weight loss diet is one of the easiest things you can do. Staying with it, well, that’s a completely different thing. There is a number of reasons that people just can’t seem to follow their weight loss attempts.

If you are a typical person, you most likely have a rather full schedule almost each day with what seems like more tasks to do than hours in the day to get them done. Between work, school and tasks at home that must be done, it is clear that it can be very difficult to find some time to lose your weight.

Most of the time you are probably eating random meals, eating whatever is quick, convenient and what you can eat on the go. Your average day never seems to provide you the sufficient time to exercise. If you really aim at losing that additional weight there are several things you can do that will help make your task a little easier. It will still require certain effort on your part, but you can do it.

First of all, you must have a plan. Weight loss is a long term goal, and although long term goals may be important, they frequently do not have a feeling of urgency. It is very easy for not-so-much-important things, but things that have to get done immediately, to take over and put your long term goal on the back track.

The way to solve this problem is to divide your long term goal into several short term ones, then divide these short term ones into things that find their way onto your daily “to do” list. Create a list of what you need to accomplish with your weight loss plan and try be specific. Instead of saying “I would like to lose this extra weight”, write “I want to lose 20 pounds in the next six months”.

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There is no general rule as to the right age for having a plastic surgery. As a matter of fact, establishing how appropriate a given type of procedure is should be based on individual cases, looking at the patient’s unique body type and aging process. Obviously, there are some age tendencies for certain procedures. Facelifts typically are not performed on patients under 30, because mini-lifts or laser procedures might be suggested instead, however, this is not a rule. Otoplasty, on the other hand, is appropriate for all adults or even patients as young as 5 years old.

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Over-the-counter diet pills are becoming more and more popular these days. Americans are getting fatter, and clever business people are wondering how they can make some fast and easy money. Books, magazines and self-help tapes dealing with the subject of weight loss are present everywhere, and it seems that the public just can’t get enough. In all this madness, diet pills have become one of the most popular places to turn.

The majority of people that use diet pills have no idea about their dangers and their non-effectiveness. The diet pill industry emphasizes how efficient their products are by presenting many success stories. A typical success story goes more or less like this: “Susan stepped on the scale and almost screamed. She had gained 90 pounds since she gave birth to her baby. She knew she had to lose some weight, but had no idea where to start. She tried (here you put the name of some over-the-counter diet pill) and within several months, she was back to a perfect size 2 and felt better than ever before.”

Such “stories of success” do nothing except for giving people false hopes of fast weight loss. A nutritionist Coco Newton believes that “diet pills, similarly to any diet fads, are not a solution to the problem. As a matter of fact, diet pills can cause people to gain weight because they do nothing to change their food habits. Anyone who says they are a solution is wrong. People can become reliant on them, and at that point, have given the power to the pill.”

Newton also claims that diet pills “are not designed for individual use. This public approach does not take into account the biochemical needs of each person.”

No matter what your decision regarding over-the-counter diet pills may be the importance of checking with a doctor before you begin any weight-loss system is strongly advised.

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For a long time it has been thought that coffee and other caffeine-containing drinks are dehydrating and don’t count in your daily fluid intake. Actually, some go as far as recommending one cup of water for every cup of Joe you have. Most of us are aware that caffeine is a diuretic (it makes us want to urinate), but does it deprive us of our bodily fluids?

In his study, “Caffeine, Body Fluid-Electrolyte Balance, and Exercise Performance,” Lawrence E. Armstrong, a professor of exercise physiology at the University of Connecticut deals with the belief that caffeinated drinks rob us of our valuable fluids. By investigating the scientific research on the subject, he reaches the conclusion that although caffeine, similarly to water, is a mild diuresis (it increases excretion of urine), moderate caffeine consumption does not lead to a “fluid-electrolyte imbalance” that can influence health or exercise performance. What is more, we retain approximately the same amount of fluid after drinking a caffeinated drink as we do after drinking water.

Even more interesting for notorious coffee consumers is the discovery that those with caffeine tolerance have lower likelihood that a fluid electrolyte imbalance will appear. The more regular your caffeine habit, the more fluid your body is conditioned to retain.

Other discoveries support his claim. A minor study carried out at the University of Nebraska tested the body weight, urine output, and blood of 18 subjects after they drank caffeinated and non-caffeinated drinks. They established that there was “no significant differences in the effect of various combinations of beverages on hydration status of healthy adult males.” The Institute of Medicine expert panel on water and electrolyte intake claims that the diuretic effects of caffeine are temporary, and that coffee, tea, and colas can contribute to overall water intake.

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