Losing weight is not easy if you have already tried everything you’ve ever heard about how to lose weight, but with no success, or if you haven’t started your weight loss journey, yet. In either case you need some preliminary preparation that includes basic weight loss knowledge, strong will and desire to lose weight, as well as a little help and support from your friends and family, and some free time. So far everything is for free, but if you want results fast, then you might consider investing some money in your health, as well.
Our new www. diethour. com website features all you need to start your successful weight loss journey right away. We’ve collected and presented all the weight loss knowledge you need in several sections. You will find everything you need to know about different diet plans and safe and effective weight loss pills that are really proven to work. You’ll be able to read our reviews of some of the most popular and successful weight loss products and programs we recommend. Diet Tip 1: To have the strong will and desire to lose weight you need to read our diet tips first and answer a few questions for yourself if you are really ready for your weight loss journey. This is actually tip #1. Diet Tip 2: Try to find the reasons why you are overweight. This is a tough thing to do, but if you don’t know why you’ve put on extra weight, then you won’t be able to find the proper weight solution and might not be able to lose weight. Is it stress, eating or hormonal disorder, or anything else – you should know. Diet Tip 3: Once you know the reason or reasons to be overweight, then you are ready to find the proper diet plan or weight loss diet pill that deals with problems like yours. There are hundreds of diets, but I will summarize them in short:
- low carbohydrate diets
- low fat diets
- high protein diets (meal replacement diets)
- fruit-rich diets
- balanced diets
- personalized diets (diet food delivery services)Diet Tip 4: Track your weight loss results correctly using a book or something, or software for your convenience.
In fact this step is a very important part of your successful weight loss journey. To achieve your weight loss goals, you should collect your results, write them down and analyze them correctly.
That includes your current weight, your goal weight for the week (for example), and your current body mass index. Moreover you should track your daily calorie intake and allow at least one week to pass and than analyze the accumulated data. Diet Tip 5: Go for long walks at weekends. They make you feel relaxed and stress relieved. It’d be great to share those moments with your family. If you don’t have free time on the weekends then find some, I am sure you’ll thank me later for that tip. Diet Tip 6: You’ll need more free time to exercise at least 3 times a week. Exercising at least 30 minutes 3 times a week won’t kill you or mess up with your routine work, just make sure you do it regularly. This is the only path to beautifully shaped body. Diet Tip 7: You may try some alternative methods for fat loss such as using “honey and cinnamon for weight loss” drink. It is a very powerful antioxidant drink and some people who have tried it have actually lost up to 6 pounds within a week, others – even more or less. The truth is that it’s working differently for different people, but yet working. Diet Tip 8: Eat more fiber rich foods, cause they are important for weight loss. In fact you will be totally amazed how beneficial fiber-rich foods actually are:
- fibers improve digestion
- make you feel fuller longer
- fibers are harder to digest, so your body burns additional calories on digesting
- decrease the risk of colon cancer
- help lowering cholesterol and insulin after meal
There is a whole article on that subject, you can search for it on Google: “The importance of fibers and fiber-rich foods”. Diet Tip 9: Stay motivated. Try not to lose your will and desire to lose weight. Ask you family and friends for help and support. It’s no use to you to break your diet because of a small weakness such as a food craving or an unhealthy sweet temptation. Stick to your diet plan and when you see results, even small ones then you will realize that you are on the right track and you’ll keep up your motivation. Diet Tip 10: Set small realistic weight goals like 2-4 pounds for 2 weeks. If you want faster results, I suggest you start doing intensive exercising and using weight loss products.
Be realistic and stay that way. Great expectations usually lead to great disappointment and failure. I don’t mean to scare you, but your successful weight loss journey may take somewhere between 3 to 6 months. So be patient. . .
Set small realistic goals that are easy to achieve – this is the key to your successful weight loss journey. Are you ready to start it now?
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Improving the Mental Health System
According to a news release that was dated May 9, 2006, the “Standing Senate Committee On Social Affairs, Science and Technology” in Canada recommended the creation of a Canadian Mental Health Commission that will be responsible for significantly upgrading the Canadian mental health system. As stated by Senator Michael Kirby, the Chair of the Committee, “The Senate Committee is committed to improving the range, quality and organization of health and support services that are required by the tens of thousands of Canadians who are living with mental illnesses and addictions. ”
Funding The Proposed Change
Based on an extensive three-year study on mental health and addiction, the Committee determined that it will cost $5. 36 billion over a 10-year period for this mental health system upgrade. Where will these funds come from? According to the Committee, the revenue will come from raising the excise tax on alcoholic drinks by 5 cents per drink.
Part of the rationale for the 5-cent increase per drink was obviously the goal of raising the needed funds for the proposed changes in the mental health system. Another justifying factor for the price increase, however, was the fact that since each alcoholic drink will cost more, Canadians will be more inclined to drink lower-alcohol products such as beer and wine instead of liquor.
Let’s Do the Math
At first glance, this proposal seems to make sense. Why shouldn’t those who drink help finance a program that will provide them with a better mental health system? Why not let those who are part of the “problem” become part of the “solution”? This logic seems sound until you do the math. If $5. 36 billion is needed to help finance the upgraded mental health system, then how many drinks will have to be consumed in a ten-year period to reach $5. 36 billion dollars? The answer: 107,200,000,000 drinks. That’s 107 billion, 200 million drinks.
To arrive at how many drinks this is per year, all we have to do is divide this number by 10 (for the ten-year program) and the result is 10,720,000,000. This is still a huge number that fortunately can be “massaged” even more. According to The World Factbook website, the population of Canada was estimated to be 33 million people in 2006. Dividing 10,720,000,000 by 33,000,000 equals 325. Putting this in terms that the average person can understand, every man, woman, and child in Canada will have to consume 325 alcoholic drinks per year for the next ten years to finance the new mental health system! Simply put, these numbers are not realistic.
More Flaws
The “logic” of this proposed mental health program also breaks down when it is examined more deeply. For instance, why would people drink lower-alcohol products such as beer if the increased excise tax applies to all alcoholic drinks? To help understand this better, let’s use an example. Let’s say that the average shot in Canada currently costs $3. 00 and the average beer costs $1. 00. Based on the proposed price increase, if Joe drinks an average of 5 shots per week, his weekly average alcohol expenditure will be $15. 25. When the numbers are calculated, this figures out to be 1. 7% more than Joe would have spent before the proposed tax increase. Let’s do a similar exercise with beer. Based on the projected price increase, if Pete drinks an average of 5 beers per week, his weekly average alcohol expenditure will be $5. 25. When the numbers are calculated, this figures out to be 5% more than Pete would have spent before the proposed tax increase. The point: since the proposed price increase affects higher-alcohol products (such as shots) proportionately less than their lower-alcohol counterparts (such as beer), why would Canadians switch to lower-alcohol products?
Alcohol and Mental Health
Another question. What if tens of thousands of Canadians, realizing that drinking alcohol is not good for their “mental health,” significantly reduce their alcohol intake or quit drinking alcoholic beverages altogether? Where will the money come from to offset this lack of revenue? In a similar manner, what if thousands upon thousands of Canadians who drink alcoholic beverages decide that they don’t want to pay the extra excise tax and, as a result, stop drinking alcoholic beverages? If this happens, where will the government get the money needed to transform the mental health system? In other words, does the Canadian government have a realistic “plan B” for this major transformation?
A Logical Contradiction
From a different perspective, isn’t it rather ironic that those who drink alcoholic beverages will pay for the revamped mental health system? Isn’t there a contradiction in logic somewhere in this proposal? Stated differently, if tens of thousands of Canadians have mental illnesses or are addicted to alcohol or drugs, wouldn’t the government want Canadians to drink LESS alcohol in order to reduce the existing alcohol abuse, alcoholism, and alcohol-related mental health problems? Yet according to the current mental health proposal, from strictly a financial standpoint, it would appear that the Canadian government is banking the entire mental health system upgrade on historical data that strongly suggests that Canadians will continue to drink at their current or even higher levels of consumption.
Budgetary Miscalculations
What happens, for instance, if there are cost overruns in the proposed mental health system? There are, of course, two “easy” solutions to this problem: increase the excise tax on each drink or motivate Canadians to drink even more alcoholic beverages. Either “solution,” however, is predicated on the fact that in order to “work,” the upgraded mental health system needs to be funded by Canadians who continue to drink alcoholic beverages.
Conclusion
It appears logical to conclude that the Canadian mental health system is in need of a major overhaul. As with most comprehensive government programs, however, the issue of funding becomes a major obstacle to overcome. The proposed Canadian mental health system upgrade is no exception. Based on the reasons given above, it seems obvious that the Canadian government needs to come up with alternate sources of revenue generation for this worthwhile project. Indeed, to point out one of the major “flaws” in the current proposal, consider the following question: When is more drinking a “good thing?” Answer: when it finances a nationwide mental health system upgrade. Something tells me that Andy Rooney from “60 Minutes” would have a lot of fun with this.
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