The Banana miracle- great energy & health for you!

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By Briana Booker

Not a fan of bananas? You might want to reconsider. Bananas are great for energy boosts and have tremendous health benefits!
  How do bananas give us great health benefits?

The answer is in what bananas are made of! Bananas consist of three types of sugars- sucrose, fructose and glucose! These Sugars allow bananas to give you instant boosts of energy! Rumor has it that two bananas can give you enough energy to accomplish a hour and a half workout! Energy will help you keep in shape!

But there is more to the story of the Banana miracle!

 Bananas can can accomplish all of the following:
1. Help prevent and fight off sickness.
2. Help your digestive system.
3. Help maintain a healthy blood pressure( high potassium and low salt allow this to be possible).
4. A banana per meal can boost your thought process, great for studying, learning and problem solving!
5. Bananas being potassium packed can help strengthen your eye sight and keep you alert.
6. Bananas can help you maintain normal bowel movements.

7. Bananas can fight off depression because bananas have tryptophan which is then transformed into serotonin. Serotonin makes us relax and feel happy!

8. Bananas can help you prevent yourself from nausea based on bananas having the ability to keep your blood sugar balanced!

9. Bananas help with combating pre-menstrual symptoms.

10. Bananas cure hangovers!

11. Bananas eliminate the swelling and itchy feels mosquito bites gives us!

12.Bananas can help you stop smoking!  Eat Bananas! Bananas have B6 and B12 vitamins in them, potassium and magnesium. These elements help your body recover from nicotine withdrawal symptoms!

 Eat up those Bananas!

For the need, for the urge...to use herbs.

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Yes, in 2011 Fromgirltogirl is promoting all things healthy for ourselves and our Fromgirltogirl readers! What is better health advice than to use natural herbs? None!

Natural herbs have anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties! Add herbs to salads, as a seasoning on your cooked meals, and use them for  body care! It will keep you feeling and looking fierce!

Some benefits of herbs:

• Parsley: has compounds that prevent tumor formation.

• Dill: helps neutralize carcinogens.

• Rosemary: increases blood circulation to the brain, which makes you function better!

• Thyme:  has an oil that protects brain cells against age-related changes.

• Basil: can help regulate blood pressure.

• Peppermint:  can soothe nausea and indigestion.

• Oregano: has anti-microbial compounds that can protect against dysentery.

Herbs are wonderful, natural and healthy! Fromgirltogirl bought some herbs from here:

Stay fierce!

Work it out to Baltimore Club music!

By Briana Booker

I do not care what anyone says...Baltimore club music goes hard. So hard, it has gone global! Great work out music! Check out Back it up!

In fact, there will be a fitness coming on this blog sometime soon! But enjoy this until then! :-)

Carblovers Diet: Losing pounds in a healthy but tasty way!

By Briana Booker

Some believe the average diet rountines for losing weight consist of low-carb diets. "The CarbLovers Diet" sets out to prove that carbohydrates are not the enemy but the foe of our dietary!

 Contrary to belief,eating the right types of carbohydrates is exactly what you should do when trying to drop pounds. Carbohydrates can help curb your cravings, preserve lean muscle tissue (which can keep your metabolism from dropping) and control your blood sugar levels (so your body stores fewer excess calories as unwanted body fat).


 The key is resisting large amounts of starches,which digest at different speeds. Resistant starches, found in the kind of foods recommended in this diet (including raw potatoes and firm raw bananas), pass through the body without being digested, similar to fiber. The average person eats roughly 4.8 grams of resistant starches daily. The CarbLovers Diet increases that amount to 10 to 15 grams through various carb-based recipes but combines this increase amount with healthy fitness to lose weight! Basically, you do not have to starve yourself to look good!

Here are the five ground rules of the Carblovers diet:

1. Eat at least one resistant starch-rich food (they call these foods CarbStars) at every meal.
2. CarbStars should make up about 25 percent of every meal (with the rest of your calories coming from lean meats, low-fat dairy products, healthy fats, fruits and vegetables).
3. Be smart with your portion sizes.
4. Never deprive yourself (meaning you can indulge but in moderation).
5. Build a power pantry (which means stocking your home with plenty of CarbStar foods).

You start the program by following a strict seven-day CarbLovers kickstart plan, which allows only 1,200 calories a day divided among four small meals.

You can expect to lose about six pounds within the first week. Then you begin the second portion of the program, a 21-day Carb Immersion plan. This portion of the plan raises your daily calorie intake to 1,600 calories divided among five small meals.


 You'll be eating less than usual,but the attractiveness of the meals will encourage you to stick with the program.

It is a honest approach to weight loss. It reaffirms that eating the right types of nutrient-packed foods in moderation, as well as getting enough exercise, will burn calories, shed fat and help you achieve your weight-loss goals!

The diet is in fact healthy overall. It recommends natural, unprocessed foods that are rich in nutrients. Also, it promotes dieters to monitor what they are eating and watch their portion sizes.

 The diet combined with exercise can do wonders for you to be lean in muscle growth and burn additional calories, no matter if this diet consist of resistive starches. These types of starches actually give you an energy boost.

Here are a list of foods you can enjoy with this diet:
 Bananas, oatmeal, potatoes, beans, peas, fruit, broccoli, cucumbers, cold-water fish, pork tenderloin, Brie and apple slices, Greek yogurt, peanuts, steak, macaroni and cheese, penne pasta and Hershey's Kisses.

But remember, what you can not have (for the first seven days): Liquid calories. Beyond that, no single food is denied on this diet.

Enjoy!


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