The Subway Diet What You Need To know

By Ron George

Everyone is familiar with the Subway Diet featuring Jared, the guy who lost 245 pounds in in just one year by walking and replacing two meals a day with Subway sandwiches. Now, as Paul Harvey would say, it's time for the rest of the story. Read further for a brief history of the subway diet.

Jared Fogle worked his way through college by working at an adult book store. He sat for long hours in a class room, then went to work and sat long hours behind the counter at the video store while eating snacks, and as a result ended up weighing 425 pounds. Needless to say his weight and health situation had become dangerous to his health. Jared desperately needed to find a way to lose weight.

None of the diets he tried worked he couldn't stick to them. One day he noticed a Subway sandwich store about a mile and a half from his apartment. Without knowing it he was inventing the Subway diet. He immediately stopped eating breakfast while walking the 1 miles to Subway for lunch and dinner a sandwich, baked chips and a diet soda. His caloric intake plummeted from about 10,000 calories each day to only 900, with 6 miles of walking added for good measure. The result of Jared's personal Subway diet was a loss of 245 pounds in only a year.

How did this Subway diet become a national ad campaign for the Subway chain? One day Jared bumped into a buddy who was a reporter for the school paper. He didn't recognize Jared at first, and when he heard the weight loss story decided to write an article about it. Someone at Men's Health magazine read about Jared and decided to include his diet in a feature about crazy diets that work.

A subway franchisee in Chicago brought the story to the attention of his advertising people who talked to Jared to make certain it was legit. They took the ad idea to Subway's national ad agency who disliked the idea, so they created a local campaign for Chicago featuring the Subway diet.

Needless to say the Subway diet became a huge hit. Soon Jared and the Subway diet were in all the national media, including a guest stint on Oprah. The national ad agency came back, egg firmly on their face, to ask if the ads could be run nationally.

Many people have had success with the Subway diet. However, be aware that Jared was an exception and not a rule for being able to lose that much weight in so short a time. A little more moderation is needed, but exercise and cutting calories are a proven one two punch combination in the fight against obesity. - 17274

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The Subway Diet was made famous by a guy named Jared Fogle, with no medical or weight loss experience to his credit. If you are serious when it comes to weight loss and having a healthy long term lifestyle then check out all of our articles at the Fat Loss 4 Idiots Review Health and Wellness Blog.

Organic vegetable garden

By Karol Wariala

Co-written by: Sesame Dressing. An organic vegetable garden sounds ecological, rewarding, healthy but challenging. The cultivation process as such could take several seasons, but when results finally appear, the homegrown veggies will be the tastiest you've ever had. From a technological point of view, organic gardening is a return to traditions and to the old agricultural practices present in any culture worldwide.

It is unimportant how large the organic vegetable garden is: it can even range from a few feet on the house roof or balcony to several acres. The first step to take in the organic gardening direction is the purchase of organic seeds that are presently scarce on the market.

The thing is that in order to have a real organic vegetable garden, you have to begin with seeds that are completely free of all toxic residues. Therefore, if you can't find organic seeds in your neighborhood, try on the Internet.

The benefits of an organic vegetable garden are manifold. Firstly when there are no pesticides or herbicides included in the plant cultivation, the crops remain unaffected by the chemicals, the soil preserves its quality for several years and the specific fauna will contribute to the regeneration of the garden.

Furthermore, the organic vegetable garden presents the advantage of covering the needs of the family in a very safe, cheap and easy way. Whenyou run a farm in parallel with an organic vegetable garden things get even more profitable.

For instance, the profitability and the quality of the crops can be increased by using the manure as a fertilizer. All one needs for an organic vegetable garden should be available locally; there are no high costs and the necessities come for very decent prices.

Don't ignore the tips available in gardening books because lots of the tradition is lost and we need to revive it. Consider the following example here: it's practical to grow beans and corn together; the beans climb up on the corn stocks and you won't need any sticks at all.

The organic compost, the seeds and the soil will all play an important role in the evolution of the organic vegetable garden. Do not neglect any of these aspects and your home production will be both successful and rewarding on the long run. - 17274

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Program Yourself Thin Review - Discover the Secrets of Jim Katsoulis About Permanent Weight Loss

By Chris James

Program Yourself Thin is a distinct weight loss guide now out on the market. It has incomparable approaches and techniques which are all from the great mind of Jim Katsoulis, formerly a fat guy but was able to discover the ways on how to lose weight and how to be at his best for life.

Good thing, Jim Katsoulis was exposed to the information that taught him how to lose weight and how to be at his best for life. Now, he wants to share to everyone his good fate. He wants to share the secrets about permanent weight loss.

There are so many things you can learn from the weight loss guide of Jim Katsoulis; called the Program Yourself Thin. You will learn how to lose say 5 pounds which can be good for life. And the nicest thing, there's no dieting, no deprivation, no depression, and no will power needed. Nonetheless, you'll learn how to program yourself thin which will include creating new self image, eliminating emotional eating and many more. You will also learn some strategies which you can use to get the weight and body that you want.

There are lot more things you can learn aside from the ones above. You will never regret buying the weight loss guide. You will surely discover the secrets of Jim Katsoulis about permanent weight loss.

If you are interested to try the weight loss guide, just go online and look for it. It is now available and at an affordable, very reasonable price. - 17274

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This author believes that if you like this article, you may also want to check out Program Yourself Thin and Program Yourself - How To Lose Weight.

The Original Amalaki Fruit

By Troy Davis

The amalaki fruit is known as the all-purpose health botanical because of its ability to help people in many different ways. Amalaki juice is said to stimulate the production of red blood cells, enhance cellular regeneration, and support proper function of the liver, spleen, heart and lungs. Amalaki juice from Zrii is available for natural health and is a great solution for a variety of problems.

Amalaki is the keystone of Zrii's juice formulation because it is the botanical for cellular rejuvenation. The amalaki grows at the base of the pristine Himalayan mountain range in northern India. Because they use a whole plant processing technology, Zrii hand picks the amalaki fruit for their juice from amalaki trees as they are originally found in their native environment.

The amalaki fruit is extremely nutritious and despite its small size, known for being the only food that contains five of the six essential tastes. Zrii unlocks the potency of the amalaki by blending it with six other powerful herbs and fruits to enliven the tongue. Zrii is confident you will be satisfied, as the amalaki juice contains no artificial sweeteners.

Zrii amalaki juice is one of the best-known natural health supplements available in the market. Amalaki fruit is traditionally known as the great rejuvenator, and amalaki juice from Zrii may be more beneficial compared to other products in its class. The amalaki fruit's greatest attribute is that it is totally natural and safe.

The amalaki juice bears the endorsement of bestselling author and wellness expert Deepak Chopra. The Chopra Center's logo is on the side of every bottle of Zrii amalaki juice. The Chopra Center has been encouraging a daily dose of amalaki for over a decade.

Thanks to the amalaki fruit, a potent amount of Vitamin C is found in Zrii amalaki juice. Containing almost twenty times as much Vitamin C as an orange, amalaki juice is known as an immune enhancer. Along with other beneficial phytonutrients, the amalaki fruit contains a high concentration of amino acids and trace minerals.

Ayurvedic medicine uses Zrii amalaki juice as a foundation of alternative health. Ayurveda has indentified amalaki fruit as a potent source for better body, mind, and spirit for centuries. Zrii founders encourage a healthy lifestyle as evidenced by their amalaki juice health drink, and have a reputation for caring about personal health and emotional well being.

Amalaki provides a wealth of benefits that can contribute to your general well being and is of great benefit to young children. The amalaki fruit is now made into health supplements and products like Zrii amalaki juice populate the market worldwide. Even if you are hesitant to commit to a total lifestyle change, you can still obtain health benefits by drinking the amalaki juice. - 17274

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Consuming amalaki juice will result in improved health and overall well being and is the foundation of the zrii amalaki recipe.

Forum Health Fitness Beauty

By Claude Edwin Theraiult

Health Beauty Fitness therapist can now make use of a bigger then ever audience to publish their content. Once they get progressively found they can establish themselves as an authority site, and continue to provide reading value to the target audience.

Health Beauty Fitness therapist can now make use of a bigger then ever audience to publish their content. Once they get progressively found they can establish themselves as an authority site, and continue to provide reading value to the target audience.

Upon finding topic material to serve our needs, simply subscribe to the RSS feed of the article source and get continuous updates whenever they are published.With no need to subscribe to mainstream media that is simply not keeping up as fast or as well as the web.

Health Beauty Fitness Forum speaks lots on a topic that is more and more popular in todays culture. Especially with someone turning 50 every few minutes.

With current web2.0 social media being the great source of article information that it is, evryone can now have access to the best in content for free,at anytime of day or night. - 17274

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The new paradigm Web2.0 social media is now the established source of truly relevant content source for informative articles on Health and Beauty.health beauty fitness

Market with organic food

By Karol Wariala

More at: Honey Dressing. The expansion of the organic food market has surprised even the most pessimistic of consumers, and the prospects seem to be even greater for the years to come. Thus, estimates indicate a potential doubling of the sales by 2011. Such statistics have in fact given a new direction to the development of the organic food market as more and more food farmers choose to adapt to the new requirements in order to generate more revenue. Consumers, on the other hand, are determined to read ORGANIC on labels and thus stay away from the pesticides, the genetically modified organisms, the hormones and the antibiotics in conventional food.

The development of the organic food market results from consumers learning that regular non-organic food is dangerous to health by the chemicals it contains. With information there comes the effort of avoiding the products that are so full of chemicals. In time, the exposure of the processed food risks will determine a whole new evolution direction of the organic food market.

Most people choose to shop in large facilities because there is everything they need, therefore, the price offer for organic products will also have to be adjusted accordingly. Consequently, when you go to Wal-Mart you expect to get organic foods at a rather good price.

The organic food market is presently serviced by a huge number of producers worldwide. Although favored by some producers, exports of organic products is more difficult due to the perishable nature of the foods. The emphasis and the responsibility at the same time falls on local producers, farmers or farming groups that primarily target the local market sector.

Efforts are presently being made to extend the organic food market by an increase of the production. This growth can only be achieved if more and more manufacturers accept the rules and join the system. There is however a risk in this extension.

With the higher demand for organic foods, the sales of conventional products will drop. Regulations may become loose and allow semi-organic products to enter the market as well, because the biologically clean solutions are definitely not able to stay up to the consuming demands of the world's population.

Therefore, we could be witnessing a softening of the standards that keep organic foods so appealing to the health-concerned consumers. Regulations therefore have to remain strict and their implementation by control organs has to be impeccable. - 17274

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Tips on how to estimate cost when you buy a water purification system

By Nicos Stylianou

Let's face it; cost is always a big factor when you want to buy a water purification system for your home. The subject is not as straightforward as it may seem at first. The way to approach it is not only to consider its purchase price, but rather its total cost of ownership.

Below, I give you a list of the elements that should go into your cost equation. In my analysis, I make references to the most popular water purifier technologies now available, which are: Filters, Reverse Osmosis (RO) units, distillers and Ultraviolet (UV) units.

Purchase price

This varies greatly, according to the type and complexity of water purifier you choose. The determining factor for your choice of system should be the range of pollutants you need to remove from your water. You should collect this information beforehand, either through the annual water quality report provided to you by your utility, or through a private test that you can get from a water testing laboratory.

As a general rule, the more the pollutants you want your installed system to remove, the more complicated your set up will become. What you will probably end up requiring is a multi stage system possibly combining different technologies. As you realize, each stage introduced will mark up your initial cost.

Just to give you an indication of the tag prices you could expect, there are simple granular carbon filters starting from just $25 and there are water purifiers combining UV, redox and carbon filters starting from $400 up to $800.

How much to install it

In most of the cases, water purification system manufacturers do not include installation cost in the initial price. The simple explanation for this is that it is not always necessary for a system to require complicated set up. Many of them you can start using right away, either by putting on them on a counter top or by snapping them onto a faucet.

If a water purifier does require installation, it can often be done by anyone who is handy with basic tools. If a professional installs it, expect a cost of $100 to $200 beyond the purchase price, depending on the complexity of the installation.

At any rate, always clarify with the company whether purchase price includes installation as well.

Ongoing cost

The last cost dimension has to do with the ongoing operating cost of the water purification system. In the performance sheets provided by the manufacturers it is usually expressed as "cost per gallon", where by "gallon" they mean gallon of pure water produced. This cost includes money spent on replaceable parts as well as money needed to cover any other operating costs (such as electricity and water bills). It is usually in the range between 6 to 25 dollar cents.

Please note that the cost figure stated in the performance sheet of the system is based on certain assumptions, different for each technology. For example, it is assumed that filters will be replaced roughly once every six months, RO membranes once every two years and UV lamps once a year. Distillers do not have any replaceable components whatsoever, so their running cost is equal to what you pay for electricity and water. What is worthwhile to mention about RO units is that they need a lot of water to operate, so expect your water bill to be high in case you select this type of system.

To illustrate my point that you shouldn't base your decision to buy a water purifier on initial price alone, I will give you an example. While pour through pitcher filters are the cheapest in terms of tag price, they have the highest ongoing cost per gallon. This is due to the fact that their filters need frequent replacement. As a rule of thumb, the larger the filter the more expensive it is to buy, but the cheaper it is to maintain.

To conclude, what's very important to do before you start thinking about the cost is to establish what you want your water purification system to achieve in terms of two things: Firstly, the type and number of pollutants it should eliminate and secondly by how much it should remove them.

So, I will stress again that it is very important that you know what contaminants you want to remove, before you consider buying a water purifier.

Once you establish that all of the systems you consider buying are capable of removing the contaminants that exist in your water, then you can proceed to select the one that has the least cost of ownership. - 17274

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Nicos Stylianou is a long time researcher on issues relating to healthy nutrition. To find information and what he recommends you should do to have purified water at your home, visit his website now.

The Way to Safely Achieve Six Pack Abs

By Adrian Armstrong

Thousands of people crave for the six pack abs. They want to achieve the flat stomach which will always be worth looking at. Toning the muscles has been a primary goal of many so it is but natural to see people hit the gym on a regular basis. They care less about throwing off their money just so they will look physically fit and beautiful. Are you one of them? Are you also an exercise bug?

Unfortunately, most of the times people are just so caught up in having a really flat and firm stomach that they concentrate on doing abdominal exercises and forgetting other essential factors to actually be successful in their goal.

One of the reality checks accounts on the fact that the factors, which those models dictate the viewers why our belly goes flabby and ugly, are too countless that keeping track seems difficult already. Gender, genetics, age, health condition, lifestyle, and many other factors are accountable how your midsection looks.

In many cases, the belly fat turns the abdominal region into the biggest part of the body. As a result, you find it hard to fit into small sized clothes and you think that your self image is not at all attractive. However, with proper diet and exercise, you can bring back the curves of your waist.

You will achieve a good looking posture. With a flabby tummy comes around a bad posture. Your shoulders are sure to hunch over so you get to slouch when in a sitting position. Now the secret to achieving a great posture is that of strengthening and firming your mid-section. Your posture is after all the key to appearing more confident in standing, walking, and dealing with people.

What is the role of proper diet? You can religiously do these exercises but be sure to couple it with a good diet recipe. You should remember that your aim is to convert your fats into muscles.

What are the other steps that will ensure a safe and sound abs developing procedure? If you are currently on a quest to flatten your abs, be sure that you follow these tips.

Set a limit for your alcohol intake. With too much alcohol in your system, you are likely to get a bigger belly. If you can't really help it, take at least one shot in a day.

Drink more water. Instead of drinking other forms of beverages, it will be best to take water. Apart from being calorie-free, it likewise speeds up the metabolism so the food gets converted into energy.

There are several other things that you can do. Try dancing. Dancing can help burn your fat and doing some hip moves will help burn your belly fats. Make sure that you allow yourself to perspire and then focus on moving your belly portion. The secret to achieving the six pack abs the safe way is by means of taking time to do your exercise routine. - 17274

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Adrian writes articles that can help you to Get Six Pack Abs and go from Scrawny to Sexy