Since the "fat-free craze" began, statistics show we have grown fatter and fatter.

Just because a food is fat-free doesn’t mean it’s calorie-free. Get up to speed on “good fats” and lose the fat from your body, not your diet.

Today, supermarket shelves are packed with meals that call to dieters with the words “FAT-FREE.” But as conscientious weight watchers load up their shopping carts with fat-free foods week after week, many discover this alarming fact: their weight is going up!

Getting fat on fat-free meals
Since the beginning of the “fat-free craze,” statistics show Americans have grown fatter and fatter. Although we’ve been taught to think of fat as the culprit in the weight-loss battle, clearly this is only part of
the whole diet picture. Just because a food is fat-free doesn’t mean it’s calorie-free. Many fat-free foods are actually very high in sugar and carbohydrate calories. And these calories, when eaten in excess, become
converted into the one thing we’ve been taught to avoid–fat!

Lose the fat from your body, not your diet Ironically, in order to burn fat and lose weight you need a certain amount of good quality fat. That’s why the ShapeWorks® Weight-Management Program stresses the importance of a well-balanced diet that includes enough “good fats,” such as those found in fish and olive oil, together with Herbalife’s highly nutritious meal replacement shakes and snacks.

By avoiding the fat-free craze and giving your body the complete nourishment it needs with Herbalife’s Cellular Nutrition supplements and weight-management products, you’ll lose weight steadily and feel healthier along the way.

Escape the fat free meals diet trap

Traditionally we were taught that carbs should provide our body with its primary supply of energy. However, many people have confused fast releasing carbohydrates (pasta, cakes) and slow releasing carbohydrates
(whole grains, vegetables) eating too many of the former-the tempting, convenient, tasty variety! Most of us lead sedentary lives, so any excess energy from car rich food) is stored as fat. Cereals and toast for breakfast, jacket potatoes for lunch, pasta for dinner and rice cakes and biscuits for snacks?!

Remember to:
1. Eat regular meals spaced throughout the day
2. Choose slow releasing carbohydrates foods
3. Increase your intake of live foods (fresh fruit and vegetables)
4. Identify your body's protein needs and consume  the amount you need.
5. TAKE PROTEIN WITH EVERY MEAL

If you tried to get all the protein you need from foods such as meats, you would consume too many calories, because these protein rich foods come with extra fat calories. Protein-enriched Meal Rplacement Shakes,
Protein Supplement Powder and High Protein Low Carbohydrate snack products, contain protein sources which are easily absorbed and assimilated, and which allow you to reach your body's protein requirements without those unwanted calories. Easy and convenient to follow the programme, so will fit into a busy lifestyle. For example, easy to take a shake for breakfast (in milk or juice or yoghurt or water) to help balance blood sugar levels, rather than skip breakfast altogether. Its fast food for smart people!

Protein Shake Diet

And contact Herbalife Distributor who will determine which personalised Meal Plan, with the correct amount of protein, you should
follow for effective weight management.

Protein Foods

Take away the water and about 75 percent of your weight is protein. This chemical family is found throughout the body. It's in muscle, bone, skin, hair, and virtually every other body part or tissue. It makes up the enzymes that power many chemical reactions and the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in your blood. At least 10,000 different proteins make you what you are and keep you that way.

Twenty or so basic building blocks, called amino acids, provide the raw material for all proteins. Following genetic instructions, the body strings together amino acids. Some genes call for short chains, others are blueprints for long chains that fold, origami-like, into intricate, three-dimensional structures.

Because the body doesn't store amino acids, as it does fats or carbohydrates, it needs a daily supply of amino acids to make new protein. Protein deficiency is surprisingly quite common as many people have cabs for breakfast lunch and dinner. Foods like cereals, potatoes and pasta.

Foods High in Protein -Nuts for the Heart

Many people think of nuts as just another junk food snack. In reality, nuts are excellent sources of protein and other healthful nutrients.

One surprising finding from nutrition research is that people who regularly eat nuts are less likely to have heart attacks or die from heart disease than those who rarely eat them. Several of the largest cohort studies, including the Adventist Study, the Iowa Women's Health Study, the Nurses' Health Study, and the Physicians' Health Study have shown a consistent 30 percent to 50 percent lower risk of myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death, or cardiovascular disease associated with eating nuts several times a week. In fact, the FDA now allows some nuts and foods made with them to carry this claim: "Eating a diet that includes one ounce of nuts daily can reduce your risk of heart disease."

There are several ways that nuts could have such an effect. The unsaturated fats they contain help lower LDL (bad) cholesterol and raise HDL (good) cholesterol. One group of unsaturated fat found in walnuts, the omega-3 fatty acids, appears to prevent the development of erratic heart rhythms. Omega-3 fatty acids (which are also found in fatty fish such as salmon and bluefish) may also prevent blood clots, much as aspirin does. Nuts are rich in arginine, an amino acid needed to make a molecule called nitric oxide that relaxes constricted blood vessels and eases blood flow. They also contain vitamin E, folic acid, potassium, fiber, and other healthful nutrients.

Which food snacks?
Get a balance of snacks between protein, fruit and vegetable. Limit carb based snacks. Eating nuts won't do much good if you gobble them in addition to your usual snacks and meals. At 185 calories per ounce, a handful of walnuts a day could add 10 pounds or more in a year if you don't cut back on something else. This weight gain would tip the scales toward heart disease, not away from it. Instead, eat nuts instead of chips or other, less healthy snacks. Or try using them instead of meat in main dishes, or as a healthful crunch in salads

High Protein Foods

The number of overweight people in Europe is rising and there is an especially worrying trend of increasing childhood obesity and in the number of people who are grossly obese, according to recent studies.

Europe is facing major health and social burdens and the rise in obesity is reaching "epidemic" proportions, the 15th European Congress on Obesity in Budapest was told on Sunday.

Estimates show there are around 1.1 billion overweight people in the world, of whom 312 million are obese, and that in Europe 10-20 percent of men are obese and almost half the population is overweight.

Some 30 percent of children in Britain are obese or overweight, and percentages are rising in southern Europe, while in new European Union states in eastern Europe, rates of obesity are surging at a time when health spending is being curtailed.

"More than 80 percent of children who are already obese will stay obese as adults," said Martin Fried of Prague's Charles University, who authored a major study on the effect of surgery on obese patients.

Fried estimates that there are around 11 million Europeans who are grossly obese, with a body mass index of 40 or more.

Body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight in which normal weight is in a BMI range of 18.5-24.9.

Obese people are far more likely to suffer early deaths, have health problems like type-2 diabetes, and have a lower quality of life, as well as being unable to participate in work, Fried told journalists on the sidelines of the conference.

It seems everywhere we look, someone is promoting a new diet that praises the power of protein. But whether you want to lose, gain, or maintain your current weight, the importance of protein goes far beyond physical appearance and muscle building.

A necessity for every body Protein is an important component of every cell in the body. It is an organic compound, composed of 22 amino acids, otherwise known as the building blocks of life. Protein is stored in muscles and organs and the body utilizes it to build and repair tissues, as well as for the production of enzymes and hormones. Proteins also make it possible for blood to carry oxygen throughout the body. Along with fat and carbohydrates, protein is a "macronutrient," meaning the body needs relatively large amounts of it. The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that our daily protein requirements should be 10% to 35% of our total caloric intake, with men needing slightly more than women. A lack of protein can cause loss of muscle mass, decreased immunity, as well as weakening of the heart and respiratory system.

How protein affects your weight
The widespread popularity of high-protein diets is due in large part to their ability to help manage hunger. When protein is absorbed, it sends a signal to the brain to decrease your hunger. Another benefit of protein is that it raises your resting metabolism by maintaining muscle mass. As we age, muscle mass decreases without exercise, so staying fit is a key to burning fat by keeping your metabolism high. Protein also leads to a much less rapid rise and fall of blood sugar and insulin, so you avoid the "sugar highs and lows" after eating sweets without adequate protein. Certain foods, however, provide a healthier resource for protein than others.

Consider the source
You can obtain healthy sources of protein without high levels of saturated fat. For example, soybeans, nuts and whole grains provide protein without much saturated fat and offer plenty of healthful fiber and micronutrients as well. If you’re looking for yet another great way to obtain healthy protein, vegetable sources of protein found in Herbalife’s Formula 1, are high-quality and have lower calorie levels with virtually no added fat. Herbalife® products personalize your daily protein intake to match your body’s needs. With a variety of shakes and snacks, the ShapeWorks® program helps you build or maintain lean muscle while providing healthy weight management support.

Now that you’ve increased your knowledge of protein, you can effectively enhance your diet and allow good health to take shape.

By David Heber, M.D., Ph.D.

Protein Breakfast

If your diet looks something like this -cereals and toast for breakfast, a jacket potatoe for lunch and then pasta for dinner with additional carb based snacks such as choc bars and rice cakes, then any diet pills would have to work miracles...to lose weight!

If you miss meals and only eat in the evening resulting in a slowing of the metabolism then again the diet pills would have to work miracles to overcome the body going into starvation mode. Even if you only miss breakfast then your body has been fasting for say 13 hours. How can you expect to run efficiently throughout the day if you haven't fueled up? When you go without eating for an extended period of time, the brain reacts by sending signals to the body that you are "starving" - the metabolism slows to conserve energy.

Better to make gradual long term changes to your diet. Follow simple rules such as getting protein into every meal. Protein controls your appetite long term whereas many carbs often ony fill you up short term. For example, have a bowl of sugary cereal for breakfast and you feel hungry an hour later. This however, is not an excuse for having lots of animal proteins which can contribute to an increase in your cholesterol and as most people realise is not be a healthy option

How to lose weight without diet pills

Herbalife came out with the ideal breakfast! It is easy to make, tasty and what’s no less important, is healthy. Thinks about all the time you have to spend making yourself a decent breakfast, I’m not even talking about the energy of the very preparation and the time spent thinking about what to make. Herbalife, as usually, makes our life easier.

So much of the modern diet is full of carbohydrates-cereal and toast for breakfast, jacket potatoe for lunch and past for dinner.

So as a healthy breakfast idea all you need is nutritional shake mix. You get to choose between five flavors: chocolate, strawberry, tropical fruit cappuccino and vanilla. The cocktails you make can be standard and simple, but they can also be the fruit of your own imagination and creativity. For example, in order to make the vanilla shake, you need only : 2 big spoons of formula 1 (vanilla flavored powder), 250-500 mm of low cholesterol milk, 1 spoon of honey, ice (if you choose) and shade it all up in a mixer. Seems too easy? In less than five minutes you can present yourself with a nice, healthy drink. It is easy to digest in the morning, yet although the food seems relatively light; it would keep you full for a much longer time than a regular meal would.

The protein drink is full with vitamins, minerals and healthy herbs. It is a great breakfast that consists only 200 calories. You can add yogurts to the equation; you can chop all kind of fruits, use soya milk – then just throw it all into the mixer, and within a few minutes, a delicious breakfast is ready. Make your life healthier and easier. Now that it is so easy, everyone can do it! You can make a couple of different cocktail so all your family can enjoy something special that would keep you full until lunch. The drink actually contains the vitamins A, D, E, C, B1, B2, B3, B5 and many more. In short, it contains twice the vitamins serials have. Enjoy your breakfast, it’s not in vain called the most important meal of the day!

Our experts have executed a research to find the best nutrition and diet plans.

Healthy Breakfast Ideas

Breaking the Fast with a Proper Breakfast: Better energy, weight and cholesterol

It's 8 p.m. The kids are in bed. You're eating a bowl of ice cream and surfing the internet. It's 11 p.m. You fall asleep. At 7 a.m. the alarm rings. You get up, shower, dress, wake the kids, dress them and, by 8:30, you're out the door. By 9 a.m. you are at the office and getting prepared for your weekly staff meeting. What's wrong with this scenario?

For 13 hours, your body has been fasting. How can you expect to run efficiently throughout the day if you haven't fueled up? When you go without eating for an extended period of time, the brain reacts by sending signals to the body that you are "starving" - the metabolism slows to conserve energy.

When you finally eat again, the body thinks it needs to reserve energy in preparation for more food deprivation. Therefore it stores calories in the form of fat. So, not eating can actually lead to weight gain. Some people think that they actually eat more on the days that they consume a morning meal, than on days that they don't eat. Recent research debunks this belief. The study examined how eating and then skipping breakfast altered the participants' daily caloric intake. During the two-week interval when participants skipped breakfast, they consumed 100 more calories than during the two weeks when they ate breakfast. Studies have also shown that people who eat breakfast:

Are less likely to be overweight
Eat less fat and cholesterol
Have more energy and better concentration throughout the day
Have healthier cholesterol levels
To keep you fuller longer, your morning meal should provide a combo of carbohydrate, protein and fat. Also, aim for at least 5 grams of fiber. Dodge the doughnuts, croissants and high-sugar cereals, which provide little nutritional benefit. Although your body physically needs calories, optimizing the health impact of the calories you eat will have a positive result on your health, energy and weight goals.

Soy Protein For Breakfast

Ways to Increase Your Metabolism

The Herbalife Family Foundation (HFF) has established its 15th Casa Herbalife program worldwide at NCH, the Children's Charity, to support children who live in poverty and who have to care for a member of their family or household, through the Hackney Young Carers Project, in London. The program will provide weekly sessions
where they can learn how to shop for and cook healthy meals. The Casa Herbalife program was set up in 2005 to partner with existing charitable organizations around the world to ensure children are being fed nutritious meals.
NCH is the only UK-wide charity working in all four home nations in the UK via approximately 500 projects. They help more than 160,000 of the UK's most vulnerable children, young people and their families.
The Hackney Young Carers Project provides support, advice, recreational and educational opportunities for children aged 5-18 years old who care for a member of their family or household. The person they care for may have a physical illness, a physical or learning disability, mental health problem, abuse drugs or alcohol or
be frail and elderly.

For “Higher-Health” Think “Lower Glycemic”

The holidays are rapidly approaching and with them the opportunity to consume lots of delicious food and drink at family gatherings and other social events. One way to help maintain a healthy lifestyle during the holidays is to eat foods with a “low-glycemic index”.

The glycemic index was first developed in 1981 (Medical Reference 1) as a new method of classifying foods based on the measurement of how dietary carbohydrates effect blood sugar responses after eating. “High-glycemic index” products, like white bread, have carbohydrates that are rapidly digested and absorbed, thus causing sharp increases in blood sugar levels. "Low-glycemic index”, products, like soy protein have carbohydrates that are slowly digested and absorbed, thus producing minimal rises in blood sugar and insulin levels. The glycemic index was later expanded to include the concept of “glycemic load”, which accounts for the amount of carbohydrates in a serving in order to better understand the impact of a meal or snack on blood sugars (Medical References 2, 3) and thus improve diet planning.

Why is the glycemic index or load of foods important? Scientific research suggests that high glycemic diets may increase the risk for cardiovascular disease (Medical References 4, 5) and type 2 diabetes (Medical References 6, 7). In contrast, low glycemic diets have been shown to improve blood sugar control (Medical References 8, 9), aid in weight loss (Medical References 10, 11), and reduce some cardiovascular disease risk factors (Medical References 12-14).