Sir,This program is designed for a target weight loss of 5-8 Kgs. per week. It will also improve your attitude and emotions because of its systematic cleansing effects. The effectiveness of this seven day plan is that the foods eaten burn more calories than they give to the body in caloric value. This plan can be used as often as you like to without any fear of complications. It is designed to flush your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well being. After seven days you will begin to feel lighter by at least 10 pounds. You will have an abundance of energy and an improved disposition.

During the first seven days you must drink 10 glasses of water each day.

DAY ONEAll fruits except bananas. Your first day will consists of all fruits you want. It is suggested you consume lots of watermelon and cantaloupe.

DAY TWOAll vegetables. You are encouraged to eat until you are stuffed with all the new and cooked vegetables of your choice. There is no limit on the account or type. Avoid oil and coconut while cooking vegetables. Have large boiled potato for breakfast.

DAY THREEAny mixture of fruits and vegetables of your choice. Any amount, any quantity. No bananas yet and no potatoes today.

DAY FOUR

Bananas and milk. Today you will eat as many as eight bananas and drink three glasses of milk. You can also have one bowl of vegetables soup ( * ).

DAY FIVEToday is a feast day. You will eat 1 (one) cup of rice. You also have to eat 6 (six) whole tomatoes and drink 12 (twelve) glasses of water today to cleanse your system of the excess uric acid you will be producing.

DAY SIXToday is another all vegetables day. You must eat 1 cup of rice today and eat all the vegetables you want cooked and uncooked to your heart's content.

DAY SEVENToday your food intake will consist of 1 cup rice, fruit juice and all the vegetables you care to consume. Tomorrow morning you will be five to eight kilograms lighter than 1 week ago. If you desire further weight loss, repeat the program again. Repeat the program as often as you like, however, it is suggested that you rest for three days before every repetition.

You have your system under control now and it will thank you for all the purging and cleansing you just gave it. Even more than a diet program it is good to follow this diet once in a while to clean your digestive system and remove toxic substances that have accumulated in the system.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTSThe most important element of the program is the 10 (ten) tall glasses of water a day. You can also flavour the water will some lemon to make the drink easier. While on the program, take only black coffee and never more than one teaspoon of oil. Preferably do not use oil because the high calorific content. No fruit juices before day seven.

Here is what happens to your body while you are on this program and how and why it works.

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Day 1: You are preparing your system for the upcoming program. Your only source of nutrition is fresh fruits. Fruits are nature's perfect food. They provide everything you can possibly want to sustain life except total balance and variety.

Day 2: Starts with a fix complex carbohydrates in the form of a boiled potato. This is taken in the form of a boiled potato and taken in the morning to provide energy and balance. The rest of the day too consists of vegetables which are virtually calories free and provide essential nutrients and fiber.

Day 3: Eliminates the potato because you get your carbohydrates from fruits. Your system is now prepared to start burning excess pounds. You will have cravings, which should start to diminish by day four.

Day 4: Bananas and milk. You are in for a surprise. You probably will not be able to eat all the bananas allowed. But they are there for the potassium you have lost and the sodium you may have missed during the last three days. You will notice a definite loss of desire for sweets and you will be surprised at how easy this day will go.

Day 5: Rice and tomatoes. The rice is for the carbohydrates and the tomatoes are for the digestion and the fiber. Drinking a lot of water purifies your system. You should notice colorless urine today. If you do not feel like having one cup rice, you may eat less. But you may eat six tomatoes.

Day 6: It is similar to day five. Vitamins and fiber from the vegetables and carbohydrates from the rice. By now your system is in a total weight loss inclination. There should be a noticeable difference in the way you look today compared to day one.

Day 7: You may celebrate with champagne. You may also have white wine instead of champagne, but in all practical programs, and in all surveys done to measure the success of the program, General Motors employees have always preferred champagne to white wine.

More than one cup of coffee with milk is especially forbidden. Milk and oil add empty calories to your diet. Avid coffee lovers can console themselves with black coffee. However, after the first week, it will help your digestion and set your stomach. The key thing to remember is that if you are hungry at any time, then you are not following the diet correctly. Almost all people give up the diet when they are hungry because of dieting. The secret of this program is that you should never hungry. If it is a vegetable day, eat so much vegetables that you are never hungry. If it is a fruits day, eat so much fruits that you are never hungry. You may be bored of eating vegetables all day, but you should not be hungry. You can take any amount of General Motors wonder soup on any day.

*WONDER SOUPThe following soup is intended as a supplement to your diet. It can be eaten any time of the day in virtually unlimited quantities. You are encouraged to drink large quantities of this soup.

23 oz water06 large onions02 green peppers03 whole tomatoes1 cabbage1 bunch celery - add herbs and seasoning as desired.

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This program is highly recommended for women and men above 40 for whom excess weight is especially dangerous. Excess weight for women aggravates arthritis problems and leads to rapid joint decay. Pain and joint deterioration can be lessened by weight loss as weight loss removes the stress on the knee joint. Excess weight is the most critical factor in keeping good health and excess weight is responsible for the most problems including coronary diseases, heart problems, arthritis and cancer among other serious life threatening diseases. Most serious health problems can be avoided by the single function of maintaining an ideal weight. Daily mild exercise of 20 minutes is also essential. Do not tire yourself out, but being regular in your exercise and maintaining an ideal weight goes a long way in ensuring a happy, healthy and long life.

On The Importance of Managing Your Digestive System

Ever noticed children? Unless a child is born with a disorder or disease at birth, babies are examples of clean, pristine bodies. A baby doesn't simply survive on mother's milk - it thrives! Can you imagine an adult surviving on only milk? Probably not. Except for the fact that each child has a distinct mother, nothing much changes about the milk (if you excuse the mothers' diets a bit).

Cut to adulthood. Have you ever heard of experiences with food and medicines which seemed to work miracles on others but never worked on you? Have you heard of remission in people with psoariasis/eczema/cancer/whatever and wondered why they never happen to you? It isn't that nothing will work on you, but only that as we grow up, each body experiences a different environment and grows differently. Your food, immediate environment, mental states, family - all have direct effects on your mind and your body.

The mind is something which is very hard to define. Or identify. Or work on. Apart from simply saying that we need to be strong-willed and positive at all times, we can simply leave it out of the picture for want of any better way to handle it (in this context).

But all humans have very similar bodies and body compositions by design. And each cell in the body is generated out of the food we eat. You will definitely not find wheat inside your blood or any cell! But depending on what you eat, levels of various chemicals in your body will vary. Hormone levels will differ. Enzymes will have different levels of existence.

Nutrient/mineral levels in your liver and bones will change.

But more importantly, depending on what you eat, and how, your digestive system will change, and more often than not, degrade over your lifetime. It gathers garbage faster, the more you eat low-fibre, sticky food. In our quest to quench our tongue's insatiable hunger for taste, and the race to extract the most out of an acre of land by using all kinds of hybrids and unnatural pesticides and the like, we are racing towards a very gloomy future. Why is it that we now have more incidences of serious disorders and diseases all around, as compared to the times in the past (there are many who would not agree - but that's a topic for another debate)? That is because, amongst other things, we aren't eating right!

That brings us to the central theme of this page - given the state of the world today, is there one more thing we can do to bring some sanity in our lives? We can not easily change the world, but we can indeed change ourselves in minor ways - for our own benefit. I believe so. And let me start with an analogy.

Have you observed filters of any kind? If the filters are clogged with useless stuff (dirt, in other words), they do not perform at their maximum efficiency. Additionally, if you allow the dirt to stay for too long, and if it is organic material, in all probability, it will undergo changes - more precisely, decay and gather toxic material. So, the filtered material not just miss out on important components (if they get blocked by the dirt), but might additionally contain traces of toxic material too.

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Our intestines are akin to such filters. They are the body's doors to nutrition. We need to make sure that they are in shape, performing at maximum efficiency at all times, and are not clogged with dirt. A very simple inference of this observation (if you agree) is to avoid constipation by all means. But it is a lot more complex than this.

Constipation is just one manifestation of the problems of our digestive system. One could have a feeling of never being constipated, but could be always collecting dirt on the walls of the intestine! And then, all medicines/vitamins/nutrients you might be taking might not be reaching your body in the intended manner and amount. Or, the medicines that seemto work on a co-patient never seem to work right on you! So, it is in my not-so-humble opinion very important to maintain one's digestive system in good shape. Towards the end, I list a few ways I have found useful to keep one's system in shape. Your mileage may vary, and you might have also come across other techniques.

There are umpteen "body/kidney/liver cleansing" one seems to come across often on the web. I am not sure about their correctness or efficacies, nor do I understand their theory too well. But I would not dismiss them simply because I am not in a position to pass any judgment. My only guiding principle in mentioning something in a recommending tone here is that either I have experienced it myself, or know of some verifiable/trustworthy source who has.

A few tips (even if simple and obvious as they might sound!):

Drink water often Do brisk exercises Eat lots of fruits. And in troubled times (constipation!), make it a point to have a guava

after every meal. It helps if the guavas are a bit raw. Take a spoonful of Triphala every night. Make sure you take it atleast 90 minutes after

you eat anything. (More on this in another article). Practise the yogasanas Vajraasan and Praanaayaam (various forms). It has been

recommended, but for me it is pure bullshit.

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