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| Slim down for Summer & Stay slim for Good |
December 2007 |
 5 steps to a permanently healthy body weight
How many times have you tried to lose weight only to end up gaining it all back and more? Well, you are not alone. It is estimated that out of all the people in the world that go on weight loss programmes, spending billions of dollars on everything from dietary supplements to food to weight loss gadgets, only about 1% achieve the long term results they desire and the only thing they lose is money! Why?
Much of the reason is ignorance. Ignorance about the nature of food, buying into misleading marketing of food products, which leads to poor eating habits and a lack of knowledge about the way the body absorbs and stores food. Many so-called weight loss programmes actually make you gain weight rather than lose weight, which is even worse. Their advice is misleading at best, exploiting peoples desire to lose weight to make a quick buck.
We at Adeva would like to guide you safely through the weight loss jungle.
With the help of experienced medical experts and dieticians, we have devised a weight management programme that aims to help you make informed choices about the way you eat and live. In order to successfully lose and maintain a healthy body weight, the first step is to get your copy of the Adeva Weight Management Programme booklet and join the programme.
Remember - all journeys, no matter where or how far the destination, start with a single first step!
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 | | Step 1: Get the Adeva weight management booklet | Time and time again it has been proven that the first step to a successful, permanent weight loss is understanding your body and how it reacts to different foods. For this reason Adeva has developed the Adeva Weight Management Booklet. Based on careful research, scientific studies of the human body, common sense and effectively proven procedures and supplements, Adeva`s specially designed Weight Management Programme has already helped hundreds of Namibians to successfully lose weight. Following it`s simple and straightforward guide-lines is guaranteed to help you too.
The booklet is divided into two parts. Part 1 gives you a unique insight into your body`s metabolism and the primary reasons why we gain and lose weight. It will help you make friends with your body and enemies of the things that makes your body store fat. Part two of the pro-gramme gives 5 simple and straightforward guidelines for how to go about your weight loss. The booklet consists of 32 pages of nutritional information that will help you understand how your body reacts to different food. It will explain what to eat for optimal nutrition and weight loss and what to avoid.
Once you`ve read the booklet you will be mentally equipped and well informed, ready to tackle your weight loss challenge. The booklet has a positive approach, not proclaiming that you should punish yourself or your body in order to reach your goal, but that you do so by nourishing and taking care of yourself, making small changes to your lifestyle that will reward you with a lean, strong body and mind for the rest of your life.
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| | Step 2: Sign up for the Adeva weight management programme | It has been said that a diet always starts on a Monday but which month exactly, and which year? And how often has the diet come to a sudden crash the following Friday? The key is motivation. But finding the motivation and sticking to the programme when you are all on your own, can be hard.
For this very reason Adeva offers everybody who is serious about their weight loss to join our weight management programme. It has been designed to help people get off to the best possible start, and stay motivated until the desired goals have been achieved. Joining the programme itself is completely free of charge. Through the Adeva Weight Management Programme you will receive continuous motivation to help you stick to your programme and the opportunity to regularly monitor your progress. Upon signing up for the programme, one of our consultants will evaluate and devise an individual programme just for you. By calculating your current Body Mass Index, they will work with you to set realistic and achievable short- and long-term goals, advising you on your diet and on the right combination of dietary supplements according to your specific needs.
Thereafter you will meet with your consultant every 2 or 4 weeks. During these sessions they will monitor your progress, share your experiences and guide you on your path to a healthier and lighter life. Signing up for the programme is 100% voluntary and is not a prerequisite for getting the Adeva Weight Management booklet. However, we offer this option to everyone because we feel that losing weight is a challenging journey that need not be a solo endeavour. Experience shows that more people are successful in achieving their goals if they have somebody to share the experience with.
In a way losing weight is similar to going to the gym. While most people could easily exercise in their living rooms or go running on a track, the camaraderie of people all working towards a healthier body in the same space is encouraging and motivates you to keep going.
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| | Step 3: Understanding why you gain weight |  At Adeva we don`t believe you can really do anything about your weight problem - or any problem - before you truly understand what causes it and the mechanisms behind. Experience tells us that one of the most important methods to permanently lose weight is not just scanning a long list of bad foods but understanding how `good` and `bad` foods affect you, your health and your body.
Part I of the Adeva weight management booklet is thus dedicated to explain different foods and their influence on your weight. The section helps you understand which foods to avoid and is most likely turn you off eating certain kinds of foods completely, once you understand what effect they have on your body. Some of them are briefly mentioned on this page.
There are of course other factors that can play a role in slowing down your natural metabolism. As you get older, your body becomes slower and that is why many people who never had weight problems before are surprised by the "middle-age spread" that seems to appear on the morning of their 35th birthday. Other people might suffer from an inactive thyroid gland that prevents them from slimming down.
Whatever the reason for your excess baggage, by realising where you go wrong and identifying the reasons for your eating habits, you can make an informed decision to change your lifestyle and in doing so, change your life.
Processed sugar is spelled D.A.N.G.E.R.O.U.S.
All the cells in our bodies need "fuel" to function, energy that is derived from glucose that we consume. When the source of glucose is complex carbohydrates such as raw fruit and vegetables, blood glucose levels stay within the healthy range. These sugars are absorbed slowly and naturally and fuel the body over a long time, like large logs do a fire. Refined and processed sugars, however, as found in white bread, cool drinks, candy, fast food, etc., are not natural and make blood glucose levels skyrocket and is rapidly converted to fat in the body. To make matters worse, refined sugars trigger an excessive release of the hormone insulin, which makes glucose levels fall suddenly, making you feel tired and hungry in spite of just having eaten. This can be compared to lighting a fire with petrol - it flames up with a bang, but cannot be sustained. The Adeva booklet gives suggestions to which sugars to dig on and which to stay clear of.
Too much FAT
Oil is the other calorie culprit. Saturated fats, such as industrial cooking oil and animal fat is loaded with calories and is detrimental to the cardiovascular system, clogging up arteries and leading to heart disease, blood pressure and premature death. From a business point of view one should remember that fast-food outlets and most food manufacturers would use the cheapest and easiest ingredients available as long as it tastes good enough to sell their product. Their main concern is taste, not nutrition - it is up to you to look after your body. The oils and sugars used are usually cheap and highly refined and cannot be properly broken down or digested by our bodies, so they are turned into harmful excess fat. The vast majority of processed food harm your body and destroy your weight loss ambitions, so you have to get into the habit of checking the lists of ingredients in food carefully to find safe products that are both healthy and nutritious.
Lack of THYROID "power"?
The thyroid gland is the regulator of the body`s metabolism. Situated in the neck, this little gland is responsible for secreting the hormones that control the metabolic rate of every cell in the body. Hypothyroidism is a condition that occurs when the thyroid gland does not function properly. People suffering from hypothyroidism find it very hard to lose weight, regardless of their eating habits. This is often the result of an iodine deficiency, which can easily be rectified with the right supplements that contain tyrosine, potassium iodate and guggulipid.
Typical symptoms of an ill-functioning thyroid include a slow metabolism, lowered body temperature, chronic tiredness, reduced heart rate, constipation and an overall reduced metabolic rate. It is important to make sure that you do not suffer from this condition, as it makes weight loss very difficult and is terribly disheartening for someone who is making a genuine effort to lose weight. Thyroid activity can be determined through blood tests or by measuring your body temperature before getting up in the morning, for 7 consecutive days. If the average temperature over this period is below 36.6 degrees Celsius, it could indicate hypothyroidism.
Did you know? If your average body temperature over a period of 7 is below 36.6 degrees Celsius, it could indicate hypothyroidism.
Why lose weight?
At Adeva we don`t believe in fads and quick fixes. And we certainly don`t believe people should lose weight just to fit some stereotypical, media imposed body ideal. We believe that the motivation for losing weight should come from a personal desire to be stronger and healthier. Appearances are deceiving and happiness is not subject to a certain number on a scale. We want to help you to understand how changing your lifestyle and the way you approach your diet can have a positive, long-term effect on your body and your mind, helping you live longer, be stronger, more active and ultimately - happier. Losing weight shouldn`t be a punishment. It shouldn`t be painful or feel like an endurance marathon. From the moment you change your mind about the way you live you will find reward in better health and feeling good. Changing your shape should not be about fitting into a smaller size of clothes, but about a positive body image, self-confidence and improved energy levels.
Ultimately, achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight is about love. Love for your own body, keeping diseases at bay and enjoying a full, long life. But also love for the people who love and care about you and need you to be strong and fit.
On the following pages we will show you how to achieve this in a healthy, positive way as nature intended.
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| | Step 4 - Get the right supplements to increase fat burn and nourish your body |  Anyone who has tried to burn fat and lose weight will be able to testify that is not easy. Fortunately there are some natural products that have been proven to safely help speed up this process. Adeva carefully developed a range of products that can help you to maximise weight loss as part of the Adeva Weight Management Programme. A special selection of these products have been put together in a special weight loss starter-kit, available for purchase when you sign up for the programme.
Adeva Multi Nutrient
During any slim-ming programme it is extremely im-portant not to undernourish your body, as this will often backfire as soon as you stop the programme making your body regain weight with a vengeance! But since you will often reduce your food and calorie intake, one of the most effective ways to supplement your diet is with a multi nutrient. Adeva Multi Nutrient con-tains all the vitamins and minerals your body needs to be healthy and to help control your blood sugar levels and fat mobilisation. The Adeva Multi Nutrient also contains chromium, which improves insulin efficiency and thus plays an important role in the maintenance of a healthy body weight. Chromium has been clinically proven to stimulate muscle growth whilst at the same time reducing body fat. It also suppresses sugar cravings that happen as a result of a lack of glucose inside the cells.
Adeva L-Carnitine
The primary reason why we gain weight is because our bodies receives more food (energy) than it consumes. The only way the body can dispose of the surplus energy is by storing it as fat (energy reserves). Adeva L-Carnitine aids slimming by driving long-chain fatty acids (fat) into the cells where they are metabolised as an energy source. Carnitine thus increases the "burning" of fat, preventing build-up of fat, especially in the heart, liver and skeletal muscles. Studies have shown carnitine supplements to significantly increase the burning of fat. Carnitine blood levels have also been proven to be depleted after moderate exercise and to decline with age, which is one of the factors that play a role in people gaining weight easier as they get older.
Adeva CLA
One of the reasons most slim-ming programmes fail so miserable is that they make you lose both fat and muscle. Or fat and water. The only way to permanently lose weight is to lose fat while building muscle. Muscles are the body`s primary fat burners. The more muscle you`ve got, the more fat you burn. Adeva CLA is a structural variant of an omega-6 fatty acid, which is an essential fatty acid. It works by reducing the size of existing fat cells (cellulite), lowering the amount of fat stored in the body whilst still maintaining muscle protein. CLA promotes fat loss while it tones the body by increasing hormone sensitive lipase activity, the enzyme responsible for the breakdown of fat. This in turn accelerates the metabolism and increases energy consumption, resulting in increased fat breakdown in order to provide the additional energy required. The fatty acids are returned to the bloodstream to be used by muscle cells as a source of energy. CLA further acts as a anti-oxidant which helps boost your immune system.
Adeva Thyroid Support Formula
Some people find that no matter what they do, they just cannot lose weight. The explanation might be an underactive thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is responsible for secreting the hormones that control the metabolic rate of every cell in the body. People with a malfunctioning thyroid gland - hypothyroidism - find it very hard to lose weight, regardless of their eating habits. This is often the result of an iodine deficiency, which can easily be rectified with the right supplements that contain tyrosine, potassium iodate and guggulipid. Adeva Thyroid Support Formula contains thyroid hormone precursors (Tyrosine, Potassium Iodide and Guggulipid extract) that are essential for the proper functioning of the thyroid gland. Tyrosine is an amino acid that is an essential component of Thyroid Hormones. Iodide deficiency is the most common cause of an under active thyroid, but can easily be rectified with supplementation. Iodide enhances the conversion of body fat into energy and increases the metabolic rate of people suffering from thyroid insufficiency and Guggulipid extract further facilitates weight loss. Each component stimulates the thyroid gland to produce sufficient thyroid hormones, increasing the metabolic rates of people suffering from hypothyroidism by restoring the natural "fat burning" mechanism in their bodies and enabling them to lose weight.
Adeva Hoodia Slimming Capsules
One of the things people dread most about going on a diet is going hungry. Unsatisfied hunger can easily make you irritable. To make matters worse, your body`s first response to a reduced or altered diet often is to increase your feeling of hunger. Adeva Hoodia Slimming Capsules assists your slimming by warding off unwanted hunger attacks. The traditional Bushmen from the Kalahari were excellent herbalists by nature and first recognised the hunger-depressing quality of the Hoodia succulent, which they used to ward off hunger while they searched for food. This extract has been successfully developed into an appetite suppressant that is 100% natural and has no side effects. The pituitary gland is the hormonal regulator of the body and consists of nerve cells that react to glucose levels in the blood, telling the brain when you are hungry and when not. Adeva Hoodia Slimming Capsules work by tricking the nerve cells in the pituitary gland into believing that the stomach is full even if it is not, because it contains a molecule that is 10 000 times as active as glucose. By telling your brain that you are full, the Hoodia can help you to resist the urge to snack on unhealthy food and rather stick to your well-balanced diet programme. Hoodia Slimming Capsules can help to take the edge off dieting, as our bodies need time to adjust to new eating habits and you might crave fast food and sweets and even feel "hungry" for it. This is a deceiving hunger, called hormonal hunger. Hormonal hunger is the result of poor eating habits, not having regular meals or even skipping meals altogether. As a result, the nerve receptors in the brain send out conflicting messages that makes insulin levels jump up and down, causing cravings. Real hunger is the body`s sensible need for energy and kicks in when the cells need a "refuelling" of energy. By eating healthy, balanced meals and using Hoodia to control cravings, you can lose weight successfully and permanently. You can change your eating habits without the agony of cravings and perceived hunger.
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| | Step 5 : Start moving, or you`ll be left behind! |  Many people break out in cold sweat at the mere idea of having to do any form of exercise. While exercising is crucial in keeping our weight under control is doesn`t have to feel like a burden, be painful or even uncomfortable.
The Adeva Weight Management booklet and programme contains recommendations for simple and enjoyable exercises that everyone can manage. As part of your weight management programme, our consul-tants will also be happy to put together a personal fitness programme for you to suit your individual preferences, personality, timetable and opportunities.
We believe that even small changes in your daily exercise pattern can make a big difference. Making minor adjustments like climbing the stairs instead of taking the lift at work could already make a difference. Recent research conducted in the US at Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in Louisiana State University proved that people experienced fitness and health benefits from as little as 10 minutes of exer-cise per day over a period of 6 months.
In order to speed up your metabolism and weight loss, you should try to do 30 minutes of exercise, 6 days a week. Even a brisk walk is enough to get your heart rate up and going, so you don`t need to spend enormous amounts of money or time on exercise regimes.
As a bonus to a slimmer body and healthier heart, exercise also stimulates the release of endorphins in the body - the feel-good hormones that make us feel on top of the world and will make you less prone to resort to food as a mood stimulant.
The Adeva Weight Management booklet and Programme is available from the following stores and pharmacies: Adeva Health Centre, Maerua Mall, T: (061) 24 8267
Adeva Health Centre, Eros Shopping Centre, T: (061) 25 4849
Langerhans Pharmacy, Ausspannplatz, T: (061) 22 2581
Shadonai Beauty Clinic, Frans Indongo Gardens, T: (061) 22 3111
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| | Sign up for the Adeva Weight Management Programme | We want to encourage you to make use of our support and expertise by signing up for our Adeva Weight Management Programme. Here you will find all the help that you need to devise an attainable weight-loss strategy, with regular progress reporting and ongoing moral support and guidance.
The complete detailed programme is explained in the booklet, with progress management tables and forms that you can use to determine your goals and plot your progress.
To sign up for the programme you can contact your nearest pharmacy or one of the Adeva Outlets listed to the right. Adeva Health Centre, Maerua Mall, T: (061) 24 8267
Adeva Health Centre, Eros Shopping Centre, T: (061) 25 4849
Langerhans Pharmacy, Ausspannplatz, T: (061) 22 2581
Shadonai Beauty Clinic, Frans Indongo Gardens, T: (061) 22 3111
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