FDA Approved Qsymia Released - Know the Ingredients and Side Effects

This September, Qsymia is making an official debut in the weight loss supplement market as first FDA approved weight loss drug in 13 years. Initially Qsymia will only be available with certified pharmacies or you can order it online.
Qsymia can help by reducing appetite and increasing energy. Thus, Qsymia could be complimentary to healthy weight loss. Also other changes in lifestyle like exercising or proper dieting, nutritious food etc can help you with faster weight loss.

Qsymia combines two approved weight loss drugs - phentermine and topiramate. The later makes you feel full and makes food tastes less appetizing. Phentermine helps in increasing energy levels.
The overall effect in Qsymia sums to reduced appetite and increase in energy levels.

Qsymia is also said to have related side effects. Qsymia may affect the thinking process and is associated with attnetion and concentration, memory problems and word findings. Pregnant women have also been warned that the treatment should be discontinued if the patient becomes pregnant while taking this pill as it can have potential hazard to the fetus.

Overall, this drug too comes with advantages and disadvantages. Precautions, proper diet and a healthy lifestyle along with this weight loss supplement can be your path towards healthier weight loss.

7-Keto Pure Belly Blasting Supplement - All You Want to Know

7-Keto Pure has recently launched a weight loss management supplement that boosts your metabolism. The product is natural metabolism booster made in USA. Backed up by research and patients tests, 7-Keto Pure Belly Blasting Supplement states that it can shed extra pounds off your body. The tests were conducted on 15 control subjects and after 8 weeks, the 7 Keto DHEA group lost an average of 6.34 pounds compared to a loss of 2.2 pounds for the control group. This was an amazing result.

The supplement has also received good media response. It was featured on the top rated day-time Doctor T.V. show showing that if you are gaining weight because of slower metabolism, 7-Keto Pure Belly Blasting Supplement can help you to increase metabolism and reduce weight.

Some also state that the supplement has memory-enhancing benefits. However, no trials have been conducted for this and also studies need to confirm and extend current results in both males and females.

The product is BBB approved and comes with an unconditional 60 Day Money-Back Guarantee. You can get more information about the product on http://www.7ketopure.com

Exercise and Water - 5 Tips to Get it Right

 

Water constitutes more than 70% of our body and hence it is one of the essential and needed elements. Most of the times, you may drink water and consume the right amount and keep yourself healthy, but you might be doing it wrong when it comes to exercise and drinking water.
During exercise, water is lost as sweat and so do other minerals and nutrition and energy. You need to keep the level to keep yourself strong, healthy and energetic during exercises. These simple tips can help you to know how to get the most effective results, maintain water level and stay energetic pre and post workout.

1. Choose the right beverage
The very simple solution of exercise and water issue is drinking the right beverage. If you are doing normal exercise, water can work out to be a good option, but if you are doing intense exercise, you may need to replenish minerals and other important in body. In this case, sports drinks, coconut water, or other beverages are fine.

2. Drink Before and During Exercise
Body requires stamina and energy to spend if you are exercising. Start drinking water in small amount about one and a one half to two hours before exercise. This will give your body enough water to sweat and still keep you energetic. Rehydrating in small amount during exercises can also help to maintain energy and water level in the body. This way, you don't have to lose all energy and you can achieve more in less time.

3. Pack Proteins and Crabs along with water
Many times, there is minor tissue (or cell) damage during workout. Rehydrating with protein rich drink can help you in repairs. Including proteins and carbohydrates in your drink can not only help with damaged cells but also give you the required energy for exercising.

4. Never Dehydrate
Dehydration can lead to thickening of blood, lack of water body requires, harder workout and getting tired which may sometimes lead to dizziness or fatigued.

5. Know the Right Amount
Right amount of water can keep you more energetic than lesser or more amount. If you are exercising for 15 to 20 minutes, four to six ounces (0.1 to 0.2 liters) of water can be a good thumb rule. Another way is, if you lose a quart in an hour of work out, you should drink about 8 ounces of water.

These simple tips of using water in healthier way can make your exercise more fun and more energetic.

5 Important Tips for Good Sleep and Healthy Body

Sleep constitute an important part of human life; so important that if we consider average of 8 hours of sleep per day and if an individual lives for 75 years, he/she is spending 25 years of his/her lifetime just sleeping. Therefore, if you need rest of your 50 years to be healthy, you need to be wise enough to spend time in having healthy sleep. This post tells you how to get best benefits from your sleep and make your life healthy.

1. Choose your mattress, pillows, sheets and even pajamas and nightwear wisely. These should be comfortable, soft, supportive enough to make you feel rested and cozy.

2. Ever wondered why a partner can sleep soundly when the other snores but wakes up if the baby fusses? Sound ambiance is another important factor that can affect your sleep. Research show that effects of sound on sleep depends on each person and their personal meaning to each type of sound. Create a quite bedroom environment, especially if you live in noisy area. White noise can also help to mask activity from inside and outside of your house to get a healthy sleep.

3. Fresh sheets, mild scented room is an added benefit for good sleep. Many people are more excited to go to sleep on fresh and scented sheets. You can also use scented oils, candles or sachets in your room to make your bedroom smell fresher. Few scents like lavender has been shown to decrease heart rate and blood pressure and can help you to put in more relaxed state and sound sleep.

4. Healthy stomach and healthy dinner can promote better sleep. Therefore it is necessary and important to have healthy dinner two hours before for a healthy sleep. Choices like good protein and carbs can help you for better sleep where as fatty, fried, spiced food can give you a troublesome night. Therefore, choice of food for dinner should be considered if you need sound sleep.

5. Body clock functions continuously and keeps pattern of sleeping and waking up; and healthy sleep can depend on visual conditions before sleeping and after waking up. Since these things can be last and first things you see during sleep, it is important that you make visuals in front of you appealing. Color balance, patterns, position of window etc can enhance healthy sleep.

You are best to judge yourself for all the above mentioned ideas. Only you know what makes you comfortable, what smells good or what you like to see. You can start by decluttering your bedroom, ordering and piling up scattered things, keeping off things that distract you from sleep like computer or TV or other noisy things and other small changes in bedroom like position of light bulb, color of walls, perfumes and oils used etc. can give you sound and healthy sleep.

You can get more information on sleep at National Sleep Foundation
 Sleep Well !

5 Ways to Make Afternoon Healthy

So, here is the daily afternoon scene you might be experiencing! You had your lunch...Minutes later, you feel like you need to sleep and your head starts buzzing. Your desk, work or even TV starts to look boring and you want that sweet cozy feather like mattress to curl up onto and fall asleep. But you have to work! You need to complete an assignment and your body is not cooperating.

 This is the story that many of us experience. So here are the most effective tips to make afternoon healthy and productive.

1. Skip your full lunch and have snacks in small portions whenever you feel hungry. Simply snack on nutritious food (Read: Best Natural Nutrients in Daily Diet) and have small size each time. You can use your lunch break for exercise, walk or simply to be in the sun.

2. Get more light compared to your surroundings. Go out and sit in sunlight or have your meal in sunlight. This will help to lower down melatonin (the sleep hormone) your body produces and has other benefits like vitamin D, reducing risk of osteoporosis, keeping your skin and body healthy etc.

3. Choose protein over crabs. Crabs stimulate serotonin release, which increases sleepiness. Eating less carbohydrates lead to less sleepiness and keeps you active.

4. Walk after lunch: Five to ten minutes of walk after lunch can keep you active and reduce the likeness of falling asleep. Also you have higher energy levels for at least two to three hours and less tension compared to those who do not walk.

5. Involve Isometric exercises as after-lunch-routine. (Also read: 5 Creative Ways to Burn Fat Without Exercise) This simply involves tensing a muscle and holding it for few minutes. You can tense your arms, legs, calf muscles, chest, abdomen, shoulders, back etc. The result is quite significant and your work or daily routine stay unharmed. Not only your body, but also your body is toned.

With these tips, your afternoons are no more dull, shady and sleepy. Changing your habit just a bit can improve your lifestyle (Read: Lifestyle for a Healthy Life) by significant amount and can keep your healthy and strong.

5 Creative Ways to Burn Fat Without Exercise

When you think of losing those extra pounds, the first thing that pops into your mind is burning fat and doing exercise. But you are too lazy to do exercises or got bored following the same pattern again and again. Is this your story? If not then read top 5 simple exercises to get fit. If yes, well then, you are not alone. Many of us feel the same way! All we need is painless weight loss. Well, you can get lean and lose pounds in very simple and creative ways given here.

1. Get Social and Burn Calories:

By social, I mean doing activities together. You can do many creative activities to keep your weight under control. This includes playing Frisbee, hiking, cycling, playing with kids, chasing dogs, trekking or even washing car. The reason I insist doing these activities with friends and family is 1 - you can have great time and 2 - you are motivated and more energetic in groups to do things than you are alone.

2. Walk:

Yes! Walk. Even a five minute walk is a five minute walk. Walk to meetings; park your car few distances away or back of the lot; get off the bus few stops earlier; sign up for charity or group walks. Anything that makes you walking, do it. Walking is the good old and well known method for weight loss and full body exercise, if done regularly.

3. Drink Water:

Water has endless benefits and uses for our body. One of them is weight loss. Drink a glass of water before meal, and you'll eat less. Keep drinking water on regular intervals throughout the day and it will help to digest your meal and snacks in better way. It also keeps you and your skin healthy and glowing.

4. Find better alternatives to TV and computers:

Sitting and watching TV, playing games, movies make you dull, inactive and fat. Do something else. Join some hobby classes. Go for karate, cycling, swimming, football, bonsai or even simple art class. This will make your body and mind more active and healthy. Just don't stick to these monitors...DON'T !

5. Switch Meals:

This is hard to do. Meals that contains sweet and fat often make delicious meal and make you want more and more of it. Try to create some veg-fruit-meat meals that are delicious to eat. (Read: Eat a Rainbow to Stay Healthy) You'll need to be a good cook and little creative for it, but it'll help.

There can be more ways that are not included here. All you need to do is be creative and find a way out. Change your lifestyle and the way you eat and do your daily routine stuff and you'll see results. Remember, little things add up to bigger results. So hook on to what works for you and start doing it.

Top 5 Simple Exercises to Get You Fit

There are tons of exercises out there that can help you get the desired results. You don't need any supplements or gym equipments or any guide. All you need to do is follow few of these exercises in your daily life along with healthy lifestyle and you will be blessed with enviable body in just few months. Although you might be knowing about these exercise, you might not be practicing them. Incorporating these exercises in daily life can change your health drastically without any medications or supplements required. So, these are the list and the top 5 that you should do it daily.

1. Push Ups:

The exercise helps you to develop a great arms and chest muscles and also help to increase stamina. This exercise work on chest, shoulders, triceps, back and abs (core). There are many forms of pushups and you can choose the one that fits you the best.
These forms are Wall pushups, Counter Pushups, Knee Pushups, Feet Elevated pushups. Other forms of pushups include wide hands, parallel hands and close hands pushups.

2. Squats

The most effective and the most basic form of exercise is squats. Squats are effective on several body parts at once. These include core, quads, spine, hamstrings and calves. Initially you can start by lowering down a little (say one or two feet) and increase the depth gradually. You can also try squats by using weights when you go to advance levels.

3. Bicycle Exercise

These exercises not only help your thighs and legs but are one of the top exercises to develop six pack abs. All you need to do is lie on your back and start doing paddling (like you do to bicycle) in the air. The most effective way is by doing it in slow and steady manner with 1 to 3 sets of 15 to 20 repetitions each. You can slowly increase your levels as you feel easy doing this.

4. Crunches

Another great exercise for your abs is crunches. But you need to do it slow and patiently as it may risk stress on your back and neck if done incorrectly. You need to be slow when you force yourself up for a crunch. There are many forms of crunches that you can master once you get to know the basics of doing crunches in a proper way. These include exercise ball crunch, vertical leg crunch, long arm crunch and many others.

5. Plank

The technique is as old as yoga and is one of the most effective way to strengthen your muscles. Plank helps on abs, back, arms and legs as well as your internal abdominal muscles, which is your core strength! This is the most simple yet most difficult to do exercise. This is the way to do. You need to get in push up position and rest yourself on your elbow. Squeeze your abs and maintain the position for as long as possible. This can range from 30 seconds to any long duration you want.

Some other exercises that you can do along with these top 5 are pull-ups & chin-ups, walking (or running) hills (or stairs of your building) calf raise, triceps dips etc. You can get full body workout with these 5 exercise tips. Try these for a month or two and you'll start noticing the differences. Let me know your views and questions in the form below.

10 Best Fitness Apps for iPhone and Android Phones

We all try to lead a healthy life. We eat good food; buy diet food, solutions, equipments and many other things. In short, we spend a lot of money to get you in shape. But most of the time it is numbers that matters. All things are evident if you know how much exercise you need to do, how much calories you have burn, how much energy and nutrition a food contains. These below apps can help to get something similar. These given below apps are absolutely free (since you have already spent enough money on other health related things) and will help you to track your daily diet, exercise, workout etc.

1. Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal

MyFitness Pal is PC Magazine Editor's Choice Selection and Wired Magazine's Editor's Pick for Lifestyle Apps for counting your calories with features like 1,700,000+ food database and counting, Over 350 exercises, setting goals, reports etc.
For iPhone
For Android 

2. Lose It! – FitNow

Lose It by FitNow Inc will help you lose those extra pounds from your body. The users have lost more than 12lbs by average. The app comes with great interface, database of food and activities, recipes and many more things.
For iPhone
For Android

3. Nike+ Running

Nike Inc has this greatest app ever for running. It helps you to map runs, track progress, get motivation, set and reach goals and lets you do many more things.

For iPhone
For Android

4. Relax Melodies

Developed by Ipnos Software, Relax melodies help you to sleep and to relax. The app has features like 41 High quality ambient sounds, mixing your favorite songs, timer system, volume and songs adjustments etc.
For iPhone
For Android

5. Workout Trainer

Workout Trainer is developed by Skimble and is your guide for exercises with audio, photo, video instructions and will help you with 1000s of free workout.

For iPhone
For Android

 6. Meal Planning by Food on the Table

Food On the Table has helped more than 1Milion people with creating grocery list, planning and selecting meals and helps you get the best from the store by saving time and money.
For iPhone
For Android

7. MedSpace

Medspace can help you with 24-7 with all health related issues; from WebMD’s Symptom Checker, Drugs & Treatments, First Aid Information and Local Health Listings. Additional features also help you in many more ways.
For iPhone
For Android

8. Fitness Buddy FREE : 300+ Exercise Workout Journal

With more than 300 exercises, Sky Health has launched this app with detailed description, animation, tracking and assortment for all workouts.

For iPhone
For Android

9. Fooducate by Fooducate

With this app, Fooducate can help you to make healthy choices for your diet. You can scan groceries and products and know what it contains. The app has been  featured in Oprah's O Magazine, USAToday, NYTimes, WSJ, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and on ABC, FOX, NBC and more and the app contains more than 200,000 unique UCPs.
For iPhone
For Android

10. Free Abs Workout

Ab Workout is 5 - 10 minutes daily ab routine that helped more than one million men and women to get better abs. The app has great interface, video and timer settings, follow along instructions and many more things.
For iPhone
For Android




If you still feel that these apps are not enough, check here a list of more than 50 free apps for health and fitness.

5 Unhealthy Habits that is Making You Fat

You were thin and had athletic body during your school days. You used to boast how you could eat anything and how healthy you were in those days. But suddenly, you have been packing kilos and pounds in your body. It has, all of a sudden, become difficult to manage the weight issue for you. You do your daily activities...job, college may be, some extra evening fun time, but you are still wondering "Why am I gaining weight?"

If this is your story, then there are few things that you need to manage to get back to shape and to get healthy. By following these simple given below 5 tricks you can easily manage and lower down your weight.

Insufficient Sleep: Sleep is one of the most important things that we do. Right amount of sleep helps you to maintain body and appetite balance. If you are lacking sleep and tend to stay awake for longer hours, you are bound to feel hungrier even if you had a full meal. Also there are other disadvantages associated if you lack sleep. Another side effect that is related with lack of sleep is fat accumulation. So, make sure that you sleep good for at least six to nine hours depending on daily activity so that you can let your body take the necessary step to lower your weight.

Alcohol: Unless you really need a drink, try to avoid alcohol consumption. By taking alcohol, you are adding more calories to your body that your body does not require. Over a period of time you start getting fat. Social drinking does have its own benefits like lowering down stress levels, making you feel light and relaxing body and mind, but over-drinking can add unnecessary body weight.

Missing Breakfast: The most important meal of the day is breakfast. By skipping breakfast, you run metabolism of your body out-of-tracks. This secrets more insulin when you consume food later potentially adding weight to your body, even when you are missing a meal. Therefore, make sure to make daily breakfast a morning routine to avoid gaining weight

Eating Anything: In many fields quality and quantity both matters. Same goes for food. You need to watch what you eat and how much you eat. Proper food diets can help you grow stronger, increase immune system, make you healthy and increase your lifespan, but a bad eating habit can have adverse effect. Therefore, it is necessary to eat healthy meals.

Skipping Exercises: You need to get off the couch and TV, or PC, or your other entertaining gadgets and give this time to exercise. Hit the gym, go for a walk, cycling, swimming and other activities can help to burn extra calories, lower fat, grow muscles and makes you stronger. And not to mention looking good and feeling confident is an added benefit of exercising.

Make these small changes and you can get a healthy lifestyle in your daily routine that can make a big impact on your physical and mental state. Give it a try for few weeks and you can see mircle happening without pills or dieting.

Eat a Rainbow to Stay Healthy

The first question that pops to mind is what does 'Eat-a-rainbow' refer to? It simply means that you should eat different colored fruits and vegetables.
By eating different fruits and vegetables you get different essential nutrients and vitamins that helps you to fight diseases and stay healthy. Given below is few of the benefits of each colored fruits and vegetables and why you should use them in your daily diet.

1. White and Brown: onion, ginger, mushrooms, jicama, bananas etc are very few of the long list that you can include in this color. The reason why these foods have white and brown color is presence of Anthoxanthins and health promoting chemicals like allicin. These activate natural killer B and T cells reduces chance of heart diseases, cancer, hormonal imbalance and maintain cholesterol level.

2. Blue and Purple: eggplant, purple cabbage, blueberries, purple grapes and many more are colored blue or purple. These are famous for antioxidants that make you look beautiful. Nutrients and anti-oxidants helps to repair cells, stay healthy, detox the body, lower blood pressure and keeps the digestive system healthy.

3. Green: Green leafy vegetables are ever popular for their health reasons. It contains nutrients such as chlorophyll, fiber, lutein, calcium, folate, vitamin C, calcium, and many more! Fruits and vegetables like cabbage, broccoli, honeydew, green apples, grapes, lime, and other leafy vegetables keeps your bones and teeth strong, boost immune function, prevent osteoporosis and have many other health benefits.

4. Orange and Yellow: Carrots, sweet potatoes, pumpkins etc comes under this category. Having these in your diet helps you and your heart to stay healthy, strengthen immune system and lowers chance of getting cancer.

5. Red: Red food contains plant pigments called lycopene and anthocyanins that help to fight cancer, prevent cell damage and makes you healthy. You can find these essential nutrients in red apples, beets, tomatoes, red peppers, red onion and in many other foods.

You can have fruits; make smoothie and juices in breakfast. You can use sliced fruits and vegetables in snacks or you can use green salad, fruit and vegetable sandwich, wraps, soups etc for dinner. The choices with these natural nutrients (Read: Best Natural Nutrients in Daily Diet) are endless and creative, depending on what you like.

Lifesytle for a Healthy Life

Many people may eat well, exercise daily, but still may be living a dull and a non-healthy life. If you are one of these people then the problem is not with your diet or body, but with your lifestyle. Along with food and exercise, a healthy lifestyle is also equally important to get and remain healthy. Some of these simple fundas can help you to stay healthy in easy and in a better way.

Stop Smoking: The very simple statement like Smoking Kills is enough to know the bad effects of smoking. The more you smoke, more you developed a chance of cancer or heart related diseases

Walk Daily: Simple routine of walking for about 20 to 30 minutes can bring a drastic change in your life. Walking strengthens the muscles relaxes mind and body, set your lungs free and make you more energetic as well as reduces the chances of heart diseases.

Never Sleep over a Backache: Many doctors and physicians advice that people who take to their beds with backache recover slow. You should avoid and try to sleep less during the recovery phase of backache as it can help you recover faster. Other activities of the day can be continued ina normal way.

Drink Water: Body toxins find a way out of your body through water. Also water helps skin to stay healthy and fit more effectively than any other skin treatment creams. Water intake can depend on your body, routine and surrounding temperature. The best to guess a water level is by having a urine observation test. If the urine color is yellow, it means you need water. Drink enough water to keep the urine colorless and it indicates that you are taking enough water.

Socialize: Your friends, family, relatives and neighbors are your place of mental relaxation. Socializing regularly helps to improve memory, increase concentration and helps your mind to stay healthy. And obviously, a healthy mind makes healthy body.

Sing and Hum: Singing and humming are two things that you can do to relax your body and mind. It helps to reduce blood and heart related problems, improves breathing and muscle tone. Humming also increase ventilation in the sinuses.

Sleep Well: The most important part to keep you healthy and fit is sleeping. Sleep improves immune system, relaxes muscles and mind. Depending on your daily routine and body, you need to sleep can range from 6 hours to 9 hours daily.

Create a Hobby: Hobby cultivates mind and body to grow in a better way. Find yourself a hobby from writing to singing and playing musical instruments to dancing. You can have any number of hobbies from drawing, gardening, bonsai cultivation, sewing, photography to designing to many others. Find what interests you and you can relax your mind with it.

These easy things can be done along with good diet and exercise, and it will definitely keep you healthy and strong.

Best Natural Nutrients in Daily Diet

Many of us wonder and even think that the best thing would be not to worry about the health and to remain fit. Well, you can be fit and healthy naturally. You'll need to just keep the focus on the food you eat. Some of the given below food are rich in nutrients and can help you to lower down your weight.

Monosaturated fat helps you to slim by avoiding fat to get into the mid section. Monosaturated fat is found in Avocados, Macadamia nuts, and olive oil.

Green tea is great source of EGCG (Epigallocatechin gallate). EGCG acts as antioxidant and help in reducing weight by increasing thermo genesis by burning those-extra-calories.

Raspberry ketones are main source for increasing the muscle production and by burning fat. The best source of Raspberry ketone is raspberries.

Oily fishes are main nutrient sources for muscle gain and losing fat. Fishes contain Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) that can stop the growth of young fat cells. If you are vegetarian, then algae-based DHA supplement does the same for you.

A dilute form of acetic acid can help in lowering weight. A study done in Italy shows that even adding small amount of neutralized and native vinegar can help to depress glucose response on body by 31%. The best part is you can get acetic acid in the form of vinegar from any store.

Protein from beef, poultry, fish, dairy, or soy are weight loss rock stars and are always recommended globally.

Another globally known substance is Caffeine.  Choose black tea over green tea or light roast coffee over dark roast. Caffeine blocks the breakdown of camp (which mobilize stored fat) and in turn help in burning energy.

Raw fiber from sources like oat meal can help as great source of nutrient. Fiber slows down digestion and allows sustained energy and blood sugar.

With all these great source of nutrients in your diet, you can definately shed some pounds from your body or gain some muscles