Weight Loss and Exercise For Training In Your Ballet Shoes and Pointe Shoes

While you are growing, you will have weight and strength fluctuations. This can be distracting, but it is always temporary!

Fresh, unprocessed foods are the only foods worth eating! Is that bad news? That doesn't mean you can't have a piece of pizza on the weekend like when you're with friends, but daily, you need some good lean proteins, (soft cooked eggs, meats, chicken, fish, tofu if you like it --) fresh vegetables, fruits and salads, at least 50% raw. You can get into making some yummy dips, from lemon juice and olive oil, grated cheese or sour cream, and add some ranch flavoring, or flavor it as you like with other herbs.

Nuts, celery, fruit and yogurt are great snacks. If you have strong sweet cravings, you will have to avoid sweets for a couple of weeks altogether to make that go away. You may have headaches and energy highs and lows during that time, but it's kind of like drug withdrawal. Sugar acts like a drug in our bodies. Our system has to get used to running on real food again, with minimal sugar.

Packaged diet foods and artificial sweeteners are not good. They are full of unhealthy chemicals. Do you know that when medical researchers want to quickly fatten mice up for an experiment they give them artificial sweeteners? The same kind of food chemicals that are in diet foods. Those additives make you crave carbs!

A great book that explains youthful metabolism and how to build strong muscles is "Slow Burn" by Frederick Hahn. It's really for older people, but the information in it is vital if you are seriously training.

You should never be hungry or feel deprived - but what you choose to snack on makes all the difference in the world. Any carbs like chips, crackers, and breads are almost useless calories. They do not build your bones and muscles, or brain cells. Most commercial sodas leach calcium from your bones.

"protein Power" by the doctors Eades and Eades explains how the body metabolizes efficiently - that is, creates energy for you. The body can do this without any sugar at all! In fact, meats and vegetables have carb content, and that is enough for us.

Oils and fats are extremely important to eat - choosing the healthy ones is what counts. Flax seed oil and olive oil are the most common oils to make salad dressings from. most store bought salad dressings have heavier oils in them, and nearly always sugar. (And chemicals). Butter is good for you, and so is the fat in eggs, but keep the yolks soft. Not eating any fat is BAD for you. How much is too much, is relative to how often and how hard you exercise.

This is just the overview. Read about health and diet and explore what will work for you.

Dianne M. Buxton is a graduate of the national Ballet School of Canada. She taught at, and choreographed for The national Ballet School, york University, and George Brown College, in Canada, and taught at Harvard University in the U.S. Click here for ballet shoes, pointe shoes, strengthening exercises, dance news, dance books, diet and health for dancers,DVD's and more.

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What's In Your Hoodia Diet Pills?

Yes, it's true that the majority of the hoodia diet pills sold today are fake, but that's not what this article is about. Consumers have always had to be careful about buying hoodia supplements to avoid being scammed, but now there may be another issue they need to think about the potency of the supplements they're buying.

Up until recently, supplements that contained authentic hoodia gordonii contained the wild grown variety. Today, however, most authentic hoodia supplements contain cultivated hoodia gordonii. The obvious question is what's the difference between the two? They're the same exact plant but one grows in the wild and the other one is commercially farmed like any other crop. The biggest difference between the two, however, may be the potency.

According to one of the largest raw hoodia importers in the world, wild grown hoodia has higher levels of the active ingredient, P57, the ingredient responsible for hoodia's appetite suppressant benefits. The reason wild hoodia supposedly has more P57 is because it has been left to grow longer than cultivated hoodia. The hoodia gordonii plant must be left to grow for at least 5-6 years before it reaches maximum potency. The wild grown hoodia that has been used the past few years in supplements was at least five years old before it was harvested.

The cultivated hoodia that is now predominantly used in supplements is being harvested too soon, according to this hoodia importer. They claim it is being harvested after only two or three years about three years before it reaches maximum potency. What you get in the end is a supplement that isn't as effective as it should be.

Not all agree with this assessment, however. There are other hoodia insiders that claim the wild hoodia gordonii stock hasn't been exhausted. Yet, other insiders I've spoken to say wild hoodia is indeed completely gone right now and the only hoodia available is the cultivated variety. Furthermore, these same insiders claim that the cultivated hoodia is equally as potent as wild hoodia gordonii so consumers don't need to worry.

Who do you believe? Unfortunately, there isn't standard testing done with hoodia diet pills to test for potency. There are tests that are done all the time by independent labs to determine if a given supplement contains authentic hoodia gordonii, but they don't test the levels of P57. I doubt that such testing is even feasible. After all, how much would it cost to have every bottle tested for the specific levels of P57?

Regardless of who you believe in this debate there is one thing for certain if the wild hoodia gordonii isn't already depleted, it probably will be soon. If the majority of the supplements today don't contain cultivated hoodia they probably will in the near future. That leads us back to the potency question. Are the hoodia supplements made today as effective as they used to be?

It appears we won't have a conclusive answer anytime soon. I guess the only thing a consumer can do is monitor their own response to the hoodia diet pills they're taking. If the pills don't work as well as they used to at the same dosage, then more hoodia gordonii may need to be taken as today's hoodia supplements may indeed be less potent than those in the past.

Not sure who to believe in this debate and would rather stick with wild-grown hoodia diet pills to be sure you're getting maximum potency? Find out which brands contain authentic wild hoodia by reading the hoodia reviews at http://hoodiaandweightloss.com

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