How to Lose Weight with Mediteranean diet

As we mentioned in the other articles, for a healthy person weight loss is simple: burn more calories than you consume. The healthiest weight is determine by height to weight ratio or Body Mass Index (BMI) and the amount of fat in your body. Unfortunately over 60% of the North American population is considered to be overweight, according to the BMI index. There must be something wrong with our diet. In faraway places such as Southern Italy and Greek, most people live longer than us because their diet contains lots of fruits and vegetables. The People in Southern Italy and Greek only eat fish and poultry a few times a week and meat a few times a month. Their diet is high in carbohydrates and only containing 8% of saturated fat.
You can find some very good traditional Greek foods in you local restaurants.
Here are some meals that I found very different than our diet:

1. Savor souvlaki
Also known as shish kebob, it contains a large amount of vegetables and a small amount of meat. This is a meal with an average of about 300 calories and only 10 grams of fat with 1/5 of fat being saturated.

2. Pita Bread sandwich
Pita bread sandwich includes hefty raw vegetable, some meat, feta cheese and cucumber sauce. It contains roughly 800 calories with 45 grams of total fat and half of that are saturated.

Unfortunately, under the influence of western diet, some of the meals that we found is no longer really Greek foods. They are high in meat and saturated fat, therefore please do not assume that all Greek restaurant are original Mediterranean diet.

Here are 2 recipes of original Mediterranean diet that not only helps you to lose weight but also reduces your high blood pressure and bad cholesterol level in result of lowering risk of heart diseases and strokes.

1.Sauce of yoghurt with dill ( Sources from Ellaia)

• Sauce of yoghurt with dill
• 300 gm. yoghurt with low water content
• 1 spoonful dry dill
• 1 clove garlic, salt, pepper
• 2 spoonfuls olive oil ELLAIA
• 1 spoonful lemon juice.
• We pulp the garlic in a mortar with little salt.
  In a deep bowl we strike yogurt with garlic, the dill and the pepper and we continue with the olive oil and the lemon until they are mixed well. We maintain the mixture in the refrigerator. Accompanies vegetables and green salad.

2. Meat with plums ( Sources from Ellaia)

• 1,5 kg meat (pork, lamb, beef or even chicken)
• 1 onion
• salt, pepper, nutmeg
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 5-6 clovesjuice of 2 lemons
• 2-3 spoonfuls olive oil ELLAIA
• Half kg plums
• 1 cup almonds
• 2 spoonfuls sugar or honey
• Wash the meat and cut it in portions. We put it in a basin and throw on the onion in big particles, salt, pepper, the cinnamon, cloves, the nutmeg and the juice of lemon. We leave the meat to be marinated for 2-3 hours and meanwhile we wet the plums in water in order to absorb water and also the almonds in order to be peeled easily. We put the olive oil in a saucepan and sauté the meat. We douse with the marinade liquid, we add 1-2 glasses hot water and we boil the meat in low temperature, until it gets soft. We put inside also the plums, the almonds and the honey or the sugar and we leave them to boil for a few minutes.

Finally we will provide you with a Mediterranean diet food list. It contains cheese, eggs, fish and sea food, fruits, grains, legumes, nuts, olive oil, red wine, vegetables and yogurt.
On the top of the pyramid contains meat, poultry and on the lower broader base, there are dairy products, oils, fruits and vegetables.

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Erectile Dysfunction - Understand Viagra, Cialis, Levitra & Your Health

As we mentioned in previous articles with either mental or physical stimulation, your brain signals the nerve ending in the penis to release nitric oxide. Nitric oxide relaxes or dilates blood vessels, enabling them to open up and bring more blood to the penis and helping to create an erection. In this article, we will discuss the effects of viagra, cialis and levitra, and your health. Please do not assume that you are healthy. In fact, erectile dysfunction and low sexual desire are good indications of some kind of sickness in your body. Please consult with you doctor before taking viagra, cialis and levitra.



1.Viagra

A drug used to treat erectile dysfunction. Viagra contains phosphodiesterase inhibitors, also called sildenafil, helping to dilate small blood vessels and relaxes muscles of the penis resulting in stronger and harder erection. Viagra's effects happen in 30 minutes and last for 5 hours.

Since Viagra helps to increase blood flow to the penis , it is easy to understand if overdosed, it may cause blood vessels to rupture especially small blood vessels in the eyes and cause danger to people with clogged arteries (high levels of cholesterol), high blood pressure and diabetes because of hardening and thickening arterial walls.

Here are some side effects of Viagra: flushing, headaches, nasal congestion, blurred vision, and dizziness.



2.Cialis

Cialis contains the ingredient tadalafil which belongs to a group of medicines called phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor. Following sexual simulations, cialis tadalafil works by helping nitric oxide relax or dilate blood vessels, enabling them to open up and bring more blood to the penis and helping to create an erection. Cailis is used to treat men who experience difficulty having and maintaining an erection to orgasm.

Cialis works in as quickly as 30 minutes and lasts for about 36 hours while Viagra effect lasts up to 5 hours. Cialis is not affected by food or beverages.

Same as Viagra, if you have high cholesterol levels there is a good chance that some of the blood vessels in your penis are being clogged up, therefore increasing the blood flow to the blood vessels causes more harm than good may result in ruptured vessels and heart disease.

If you have high blood pressure, increased blood flow will cause your heart to work harder and may result in heart disease.

It is the same for people with diabetes.

The side effects of Cialis includes shortness of breath, and wheezing or difficulty breathing.



3. Levitra

Levitra contains vardenafil and is an oral therapy for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Vardeanfil relaxes muscles and increases blood flow to the penis resulting in firming of erection. You take Levitra right before you want to have sex. Within about an hour, you will be able to get an erection in 16 minutes and wears off 6 hours after.

If you have high blood pressure, diabetes and high levels of cholesterol Levita may do more harm to your body because high blood pressure and diabetes causes your heart to work harder in providing blood flow to the penis, any arteries and blood vessels clogged up (caused by high cholesterol build up) will result in damage to your heart.

Side effects include facial flushing, indigestion or upset stomach, inflammation of the sinuses, dizziness, and flu like symptoms.



It would be better for your health to treat high blood pressure, high levels of cholesterol and manage your glucose level first before taking any of the above medications.



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Erectile Dysfunction - How Nutritional Supplements Help to Prevent & Treat Erectile Dysfunction & Men's Libido

Erectile Dysfunction - How Nutritional Supplements Help to Prevent & Treat Erectile Dysfunction & Men's Libido

As we mentioned in previous articles with either mental or physical stimulation, your brain signals the nerve ending in the penis to release nitric oxide. Nitric oxide relaxes or dilates blood vessels, enabling them to open up and bring more blood to the penis and helping to create an erection. In this article, we will discuss how to prevent and treat erectile dysfunction with supplements:



1. Hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)

DHEA is effective with low levels of testosterone due to age. Study shows that intake of proper amounts of DHEA significantly improves both erectile function and sexual desire in men.



2. L-arginine

L-arginine increases the production of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide relaxes or dilates blood vessels, enabling them to open up and bring more blood to the penis and helping to create an erection. Study shows that Arginine supplementation was found to be particularly effective in improving ED in men with abnormal nitric oxide metabolism.



3. Propionyl-L-Carnitine

Propionyl-L-carnitine together with acetyl-L-carnitine were found to enhance the effective assildenafil. It helps to treat erectile dysfunction by increasing blood flow to the penis during sexual stimulation resulting in improvement of erectile function, sexual intercourse satisfaction, orgasm, and general sexual well-being.



4. Chrysin

Chrysin is a bioflavonoid that helps to to boost testosterone by inhibiting the aromatase enzyme, resulting in less testosterones to be converted into estrogen. Chrysin also helps to promote prostate health, the reason why it is effective in enhancing sex as a healthy prostate is essential for penis erections.



5. Yohimbe bark extract

Yohimbe bark extract comes from the bark of the corynanthe yohimbe tree.It contains ingredients called yohimbe that helps to block the alpha-2-adrenergic nerve activity, which normally constricts the blood vessels resulting in increased blood flow to the penis, helping stronger and harder erection. Study shows that it seems to be as effective as sex and marital therapy for restoring sexual(erection) function.



6. Nettle extract

Nettle extract helps in increasing levels of free testosterone. If testosterone becomes bounded to serum globuline, it will not be available for cell receptor sites thereby failing to stimulate sexual desire and erection.



7. Pepper extract

Pepper extract called piperine helps to enhance chrysin function. Study shows that pepper extract taken together with chrysin reduces the serum estrogen and increases free testosterones significantly in 30 days or less.

There are many other supplements such as garlic, gingko boliba,muira pauma, and ginger root. These can help to increase blood flow to the penis and/or the production of free testosterone.

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Erectile Dysfunction - How Vitamins and Minerals Help to Prevent & Treat Erectile Dysfunction & Men's Libido

As we mentioned in previous articles with either mental or physical stimulation, your brain signals the nerve ending in the penis to release nitric oxide. Nitric oxide relaxes or dilates blood vessels, enabling them to open up and bring more blood to the penis and helping to create an erection. In this article, we will discuss how to prevent and treat erectile dysfunction with vitamins and minerals.



1. Vitamin A

The gonads are a combined gland that provide both exocrine and endocrine functions requiring proper amounts of vitamin A to produce gametes that help to maintain our sexual hormones in men and women. It also helps to maintain eyesight, skin membranes, immune function and healthy sperm counts.



2. B complex

B complex helps to increase the levels of testosterone, the fuel of the sex drive in both men and women. It keeps the thyroid, nervous system and adrenal glands content. Vitamin B6 helps to manufacture and maintain our body's sexual hormones. Improper amounts of B complex in our body may cause either over-producing of testosterone or estrogen resulting in liver cirrhosis, enlarged adrenals, kidney damage and nodules, and hyperplasia.



3. Vitamin C

Recent studies suggest that vitamin C taken with other vitamins helps the L-enantiomer of ascorbine acid to regulate the stress reactivity, anxiety and prolactin release, improves vascular function, as well as increasing oxytocin release. These processes are relevant to sexual behavior and mood. It also keeps our skin smooth and supple, helps prevent miscarriages, keeps sperm from clinging together in immobile clusters, and enables you to enjoy more intense, longer-lasting orgasms.



4. Vitamin E

These hormones regulate men's sexual desires and erectile function. Vitamin E contains oestrogenic, androgenic that interacts with ovarian hormones and testosterone. If a man's erectile dysfunction is related to heart disease, vitamin E helps to improve blood vessels of the penis. It also helps the blood to carry more oxygen, nourishes the pituitary gland and keeps testosterone from breaking down in men. Nuts, seeds, whole grains, fruits and vegetables are all good sources for Vitamin E.



5. Minerals salts

Minerals salt are important to our body function in proper amounts. Decrease of sodium chloride causing the decreasing of cellular and blood volume insults in kidney disease. If this kidney problem is left untreated, it will lead to erectile dysfunction.



6. Zinc

Zinc is essential for the production of testosterone. The prostate gland contain high amounts of zinc that helps to regulate prostatic fluids and the production of semen. A zinc deficiency can cause growth failure, infertility, and impotency.



7. Selenium

Helps to increase male potency and sex drive. Selenium deficiency may cause testis atrophy and decreased testicular contents of selenium and glutathione peroxidase.



8. Magnesium and calcium

Calcium is also an important nutrient in sexual functioning. It keeps the link between the brain, hormonal glands, and their mechanical processes active. Magnesium acts as a calcium channel blocker and counteracts the negative effects of calcium in sustaining an erection.

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Erectile Dysfunction - Understand Viagra, Cialis, Levitra & Your Health

As we mentioned in previous articles with either mental or physical stimulation, your brain signals the nerve ending in the penis to release nitric oxide. Nitric oxide relaxes or dilates blood vessels, enabling them to open up and bring more blood to the penis and helping to create an erection. In this article, we will discuss the effects of viagra, cialis and levitra, and your health. Please do not assume that you are healthy. In fact, erectile dysfunction and low sexual desire are good indications of some kind of sickness in your body. Please consult with you doctor before taking viagra, cialis and levitra.



1.Viagra

A drug used to treat erectile dysfunction. Viagra contains phosphodiesterase inhibitors, also called sildenafil, helping to dilate small blood vessels and relaxes muscles of the penis resulting in stronger and harder erection. Viagra's effects happen in 30 minutes and last for 5 hours.

Since Viagra helps to increase blood flow to the penis , it is easy to understand if overdosed, it may cause blood vessels to rupture especially small blood vessels in the eyes and cause danger to people with clogged arteries (high levels of cholesterol), high blood pressure and diabetes because of hardening and thickening arterial walls.

Here are some side effects of Viagra: flushing, headaches, nasal congestion, blurred vision, and dizziness.



2.Cialis

Cialis contains the ingredient tadalafil which belongs to a group of medicines called phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor. Following sexual simulations, cialis tadalafil works by helping nitric oxide relax or dilate blood vessels, enabling them to open up and bring more blood to the penis and helping to create an erection. Cailis is used to treat men who experience difficulty having and maintaining an erection to orgasm.

Cialis works in as quickly as 30 minutes and lasts for about 36 hours while Viagra effect lasts up to 5 hours. Cialis is not affected by food or beverages.

Same as Viagra, if you have high cholesterol levels there is a good chance that some of the blood vessels in your penis are being clogged up, therefore increasing the blood flow to the blood vessels causes more harm than good may result in ruptured vessels and heart disease.

If you have high blood pressure, increased blood flow will cause your heart to work harder and may result in heart disease.

It is the same for people with diabetes.

The side effects of Cialis includes shortness of breath, and wheezing or difficulty breathing.



3. Levitra

Levitra contains vardenafil and is an oral therapy for the treatment of erectile dysfunction. Vardeanfil relaxes muscles and increases blood flow to the penis resulting in firming of erection. You take Levitra right before you want to have sex. Within about an hour, you will be able to get an erection in 16 minutes and wears off 6 hours after.

If you have high blood pressure, diabetes and high levels of cholesterol Levita may do more harm to your body because high blood pressure and diabetes causes your heart to work harder in providing blood flow to the penis, any arteries and blood vessels clogged up (caused by high cholesterol build up) will result in damage to your heart.

Side effects include facial flushing, indigestion or upset stomach, inflammation of the sinuses, dizziness, and flu like symptoms.

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It would be better for your health to treat high blood pressure, high levels of cholesterol and manage your glucose level first before taking any of the above medications.



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