If you have tried everything under the sun to get rid of belly bulge but still can’t see your toes then Flat Stomach Secrets is just the solution for you.

My friend and colleague Linda Lazarides, a naturopathic nutritionist and author, struggled with a bulging belly for years even though she ate healthily and was not overweight.

After two years of experimentation she finally came up with a very special and unique cleansing program that finally gave her the flat stomach she had always wanted.

Not only that, she has thoroughly researched what causes the particular kind of internal fat that gives you a pot belly or beer belly and can cause obsessive cravings.

She has discovered that there is one food ingredient in particular that makes you fatter than anything else. It causes food addictions and hormonal changes that target your waistline. And guess what? Food manufacturers are adding more and more of it to your food.

But of course food can affect you in other ways too. It can make your stomach swollen and bloated to add to the bulge and your discomfort.

With all this research Linda has devised a very effective plan that:

• Cuts out the foods which are the fast-track to a pot-belly
• Concentrates on foods and drinks which zap belly fat
• Rebalances the hormones which control belly fat
• Tackles several causes of water retention
• Cleans out the filthy, bacteria-laden gunk which makes you swollen and bloated.
• Shows you exercises you can do while you sit or walk

Her book is ideal for you:

• If you don’t want to spend hours in the gym every week
• Have already spent hours exercising and still have a problem
• Don’t want to starve yourself to lose weight
• Have a problem with bloating
• Want easy to follow ready made meal plans

To find out more click the link below:

Flat Stomach Secrets

We all have good intentions when we start any sort of a diet but it can very  hard to stay on a detox diet or stick to a healthy diet afterwards when there are all sorts of temptations in the way.

It can be very hard if you get hungry and the rest of the family are eating all your favorite foods or perhaps you are at work and your colleagues offer you a donut.  It’s so very easy to slip back to old habits when you finish the detox as life takes over.

Karen Knowler, a raw food coach has some great tips.  Although it is aimed at people who are eating or wanting to eat a raw food diet it can apply to anyone who is doing any sort of detox diet.

Here are her tips:

It can be really quite amazing: when we first start paying more attention to what we eat and really think about it properly, inevitably we will start to become increasingly aware of old patterns and habits around our eating habits that also aren’t serving us and begin to question those too.

It’s not uncommon for us to realize, for example, that previously we would eat:

a) When we’re not hungry
b) Because someone offered us something and we didn’t want to say no
c) Because we were taught always to clean our plate
d) Because we were bored, tired, stressed, depressed, feeling stuck or wanted some kind of stimulation or numbing to occur

As the purer foods start to come in, all of these things and many more besides come up for the assessing, and it’s here that the journey to food freedom really begins.

Because when we start becoming more aware about not just what we eat, but how, when, why, where and even with whom, that’s when a whole can of worms can be opened up. And this is where the new chapter starts and everything that has gone before – everything that has never really served us – comes fully onto our radar, and we then have the choice as to whether
we “keep, replace or modify” that particular behavior or habit around food.

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Giving up alcohol is essential of you want to detox. Your liver is your main organ for detox and it is the only organ that metabolizes alcohol and it takes precedence over other functions. So. if you want to detox you need to avoid anything that gives your liver extra work.

What’s wrong with alcohol?

Alcohol is a drug and a poison, a toxin in fact, that has been used for thousands of years to relieve pain and inhibitions. Although many people believe it to be a stimulant it is in fact a depressant decreasing your digestion, thinking, judgment, reaction time, and muscle contraction.

It increases blood fats and can increase blood pressure. Regular drinking can result in a fatty liver as the carbohydrate content is converted to fat in the liver cells which builds up and damages the cells.

Evidence of weekend binge drinking among hard working and stressed women and men is causing a huge increase in liver disease. Continued heavy use of alcohol, of course, results in cirrhosis of the liver. In fact alcohol can cause a rise in the stress hormone, cortisol, which in turn reduces the body’s ability to burn calories.

Alcohol feeds Candida and other yeast infections.

Alcohol affects fertility in both men and women

New research shows that wine can reduce the chances of the embryo implanting and increased risk of miscarriage when women have IVF treatment. Beer is known to affect the quality of a man’s sperm. Experts extend the warning to all couple trying for a baby. Eggs & sperm take three months to develop so both partners should stop smoking and drinking for 3
months before trying to conceive.

Alcohol & nutrients

Alcohol has adverse effects on almost every nutrient especially the B vitamins and Vitamin C. The minerals calcium, magnesium and zinc can be depleted in people who drink large  quantities of alcohol.  Fatty acids become deficient too. There is increasing evidence that many cases of alcoholism are due to a deficiency of nutrients and hypoglygemia.

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I could hardly believe my eyes when I read a recent newspaper article where a British journalist claimed that toxins were invented relatively recently by the alternative health industry purely to sell detox products!

She said that the whole business of detox diets was based on the spurious concept that toxins build up in our bodies and damage our health and the debatable theory that if we purge them from our bodies then we will be purer. She adds that when you read the rubbish written about toxins you’d think that, unless you are willing to remove them from your body, you’re more or less asking for a shorter life.

Well this is just another case of the journalist not doing her homework or simply making up a story for the effect. If she had bothered to do some research about toxins she would have found good evidence that they really do build up in our bodies and can shorten our lives.

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