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Overweight Home Remedies and Natural Treatments

 

Diet Home Remedy

Most people who are overweight tend to eat the western diet which is the worst diet that a person can eat. This diet has no limits and is focused on animal products and other foods that contain large abnormal amounts of fats and oils. In order to break away from this life style, we should observe diets from around the world for new ideas on healthy eating. Most countries around the world such as Asia or in Central America have diets that are made up of grains, corn, potatoes, and vegetables, and they hardly use any animal products. In these countries, the people tend to be sick less often than the people who eat the western diet. These people also look young, fit, trim, and agile. The McDougall starch based diet is what this is all about. Dr. John McDougall, MD, created this diet over thirty years ago to help people look and feel the way they are suppose to. This diet takes the bad stuff out of your life, like the fat and oils that are in animal products and replaces them with delicious healthier foods. By eating this way you can eat lots of healthy and filling foods, but not gain excess weight. This diet not only puts you on the track to losing weight but it strongly reduces your chances of having diseases such as type two diabetes, coronary diseases, and all cancers. You can eat all you want of the correct foods and you don’t have to count calories or anything like that.  Eating fat makes you fat.  Every ounce of fat you eat goes right from the lips to the hips. To find out more information about the McDougall diet, please visit his website at www dot drmcdougall dot com.  Read more about a starch based whole foods diet here.

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Green Tea

If you are looking for a great way to lose weight, you should try adding green tea to your regular diet. Green tea is a natural remedy for losing weight and helps your body in many other ways including giving a boost to your overall well-being. The first thing you should do when getting up in the morning is drink  green tea, that way you can give your metabolism the boost before you have your first meal. Make sure to do this every day so you can lose weight, then after you have reached your weight goal you can still keep drinking so that you don’t gain the weight back.

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Sweet and Sour

Consuming foods that are sweet and sour is an excellent way to lose weight and fight obesity. Lime water is an excellent sweet and sour food as well as tasty and easy to make! Try taking one eight ounce glass of lukewarm water and adding three tablespoons of lime juice and one teaspoon of honey. Drink this every morning and you will begin to feel much better. This is a great home remedy you can use to win the battle of being overweight.

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Basil

Try basil leaves. You add three or four basil leaves and one teaspoon of honey to an eight ounce glass of water. In order for this to work it is very important to drink the basil mixture each morning.

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Tomato

Get up in the morning and eat two tomatoes right away before you do anything else. The tomatoes will help curb your appetite for the whole day and it will help you to digest your food more quickly. This will help you lose weight and help you to keep it off when you reach your weight goal.

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Home Made V8

Making your own V8 juice is one way to give your system a boost and curb your appetite. All it takes is one to two tomatos, one onion, and three teaspoons of lemon juice. Run the tomatoes and onion through a juice machine and add the lemon juice. Just by drinking this you will curb your appetite and help your body digest the food you eat. This will help you lose weight in no time. This juice is healthier than the commercial V8 brand that you get at the store because it does not have additives or added sodium in it. Both the sodium and additives are bad for the human body so it is best to make your own. You can always use this as a way to curb your appetite when you are hungry or in between meals. If done right, this will help you lose weight and beat the overweight battle.

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Cabbage

Cabbage, like all vegetables, is a healthy option for you to use to when you are trying to lose weight. Cabbage works as filler, helping you fill your stomach. This will help you be full and not want to eat other foods that make you gain weight. It is recommended that when using this method that you eat at least two serving of it daily for it to work correctly.

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Ginger

Ginger is a very powerful herb that you can use for many things including battling being overweight. Grind some ginger up into a powder and add some honey to make a paste. Take one teaspoon an hour before you eat every meal and it will help curb your appetite, which will help you eat only what you need. This will definitely help you shed the pounds and help you keep it off.

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Water as Overweight Home Remedy

The best technique next to dieting properly is water. Water is crucial to our health and well-being. Drinking adequate amounts of water each day can help flush out toxins and in turn help us to lose weight. Normally people need to drink eighty to one hundred and twenty ounces of water daily. When you are trying to lose weight you need to increase your water intake to two times as much. Make sure to drink water before, during, and after all meals. Also drink three eight ounce glasses of water when you get up in the morning and drink three more when you go to bed. My mother was unsuccessfully trying to lose weight until she began drinking water upon waking each morning. Once she adopted this overweight home remedy of adding water to her daily diet routine she lost weight.

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