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Kenyan ladies BATTLE obesity head on! Wathithi Kanai reports…

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Kenya is proud nation 44 million people strong BUT they now face a surprising adversary… OBESITY!!! One Kenyan woman opens up about her WEIGHT LOSS struggle. Wathithi Kanai reports on the story of Monica Mbugua…  Watch this!  Some health experts in Kenya has suggested that, if nothing is done, obesity in Kenya will DOUBLE within 5 years…

Some experts have gone as far as to ask the government to declare the obesity epidemic a national disaster because of the negative impact it is having on the health of regular Kenyans (diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and more).

MANDATORY TWERKING could help solve this you know.  Maybe I should write the government a letter…  I’m kind of kidding but I’m kind of not.  Eating well is crucial of course… And so is making exercise fun to do! e.g. My Rastaerobics “How Your Bumpa Get So Broad” soca warm up 🙂 CLICK: https://thelifestylista.com/are-you-a-booty-hater-this-video-will-cure-all-that/

WANT TO EXERCISE & LOSE 3 x the amount of fat..? Intensity vs time spent exercising…

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According to a recent clinical study, ladies who did 20 mins of intense exercise lost THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF FAT as those who did 40 mins of moderate exercise.  Interval training kickstarts your metabolism…  Work smarter and then do an evil, cartoon cackle at how clever you’ve been 🙂
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REDUCE CELLULITE USING COFFEE GROUNDS… A TYRA BANKS TRICK!

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WHAT IS CELLULITE?

Girl… are you tired of the orange-peely, lumpy, dimpled skin tends to be on our behinds and the thighs?  Most women have some cellulite – even super stars – we just don’t see it because their cellulite is airbrushed out in most of the pictures we see.  No point looking outside of ourselves for the perfect woman.  WE ARE THE PERFECT WOMAN 🙂 cellulite and all!
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That said, if you want to temporarily reduce your cellulite, check this out:
WHAT TO DO
1) Take 1/2 cup of ground coffee
2) Add 1/3 cup of boiling water
3) Stir and leave for 7 mins (to allow the coffee grinds to soak up all the water)
4) Stir in 5 tablespoons of baby oil or olive oil or lotion (we’re using it to bind together the coffee so it’s easier to rub on the body)
5) Take a warm shower to make the skin clean.
6) Turn of the water and massage the coffee mixture into your cellulite-y areas
HOW THIS WORKS…
The coffee contains caffeine and the caffeine causes the blood vessels to expand.  This causes a reduction in the amount of water retention AND increases the blood flow to the area.  The overall effect is a temporary tightening and smoothing of the cellulite affected area.
Lots of expensive cellulite creams use caffeine but this homemade method is practically free!

For a more permanent cellulite reduction try regular exercise (including resistance training to tone muscle), weight loss (if you are overweight), drinking 8 glasses of water a day and eating healthily (to avoid the build up of toxins). No one can promise total cellulite removal but you can reduce it (if you want to…)  I find mine kinda beautiful 🙂

I’m here rooting for you!
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The Lifestylista
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LACK OF SLEEP MAKES YOU FAT… esp around the belly area!

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According to scientific researchers, we need to get enough sleep to lose weight and keep it off for good…  That’s 7 – 9 hours per night ladies!  Get that sleep and rewards you will reap 🙂
WHY?
1) Research shows that if you lack sleep, you make more ghrelin (a hormone that makes us hungry, stimulates our appetites).  So people who lack sleep are HUNGRIER!
2)  The body’s stress levels increase when you don’t get enough sleep and when you’re stressed you secrete more cortisol (stress hormone).  Increased cortisol levels cause you to store more fat around the middle section… BELLY FAT.
3) Sleep deprivation not only makes us stressed, we’re also more likely to be depressed, grumpy, less optimistic…  Perfect candidates for some emotional eating!  And when you’re exhausted, it’s harder to control your impulses…  “Huge bag of potato chips???  Yeah why not!”
4) The longer you stay up, the more time you have to squeeze in an extra snack or two or three…  This is especially the case if you are watching TV.  One study showed that people who stay up late at night to watch TV tended to eat 500 calories more per day (of high calorie foods) when compared to early sleepers / early risers.
The bottom line is…  GET SOME SLEEP!
I’m staying up to write this article for you, so I’m going to take my own advice and I’m going to go to sleep too 🙂
I’m here rooting for you!
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The Lifestylista
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MSG IN FOOD MAKES US FAT & IT'S BEEN — — USED TO MAKE LAB RATS FAT FOR DECADES!

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NEW STUDY FINDS MSG IN FOOD MAKES US FAT & IT’S BEEN — — USED TO MAKE LAB RATS FAT FOR DECADES!

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Researchers at University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) have found that if you eat more MSG, you are more likely to be overweight!  And they factored in the amount of calories and it wasn’t that…  if you’re eating the same number of calories but your meals has more MSG, you’ll gain more weight.  PEOPLE WHO EAT MSG (vs people who don’t eat any MSG) GAIN WEIGHT.
HOW DOES MSG CA– — USE WEIGHT GAIN?
Another study, published in Obesity magazine showed that MSG MAKES YOU _THREE_ TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE OVERWEIGHT than someone eating the same amount of calories but no MSG!  This study suggests that MSG actually damages your hypothalamus (the part of your brain that regulates appetite) and causes leptin resistance (leptin is a crucial hormone which regulates appetite and metabolism) so YOU NO LONGER FEEL FULL AND SATISFIED after you eat.  Instead you just keep eating and eating…
So, the brainiac science aside…  the bottom line is that this study suggests that MSG makes us fat!  It’s not just us humans either…
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…Think of the poor lab rats.  For decades, when scientists want rats to be obese for certain experiments, they just give them MSG and HEY PRESTO – you get a HUGELY FAT RAT!
This wouldn’t be particularly interesting except that:
1) We humans have been shown to be 5 times more sensitive to the damaging effects of MSG than rats are!
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2) Studies have shown that fat gained because of MSG is harder to lose (through diet or exercise).
WHAT IS MSG & WHY IS IT ADDED TO FOOD?
MSG is a flavor enhancer that makes food taste better and it’s found in almost all packaged food.  MSG is an excitotoxin – it stimulates the brain to make huge amounts of dopamine.  When you eat food laced with MSG you feel a huge pleasure rush and it’s highly addictive too…
LIST OF FOODS CONTAINING MSG
Packaged foods (e.g. gravies, salad dressings, soups, stock cubes, chips, ramen noodles, processed cheeses, ketchup, many spice blends, frozen hamburgers, deli meats, many brands of bacon & ham) and fast food restaurant food (including KFC / Kentucky Fried Chicken, lots of Chinese Food etc)!
More detailed list:
http://www.saynotomsg.com/basics_list.php
It’s no wonder sometimes we gain weight and we can’t work out why!
I’m here rooting for you!
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The Lifestylista
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