What is it?
This program was inspired from Okinawa islanders living habits that are the stay where the people live long and healthy, far from heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases. Okinawa Program is based on research on patterns of population living Okinawa During the 25 years by the triumvirate J. Badley Willcox, MD, MSc, from the Division on Aging at Harvard Medical School, his twin brother D. Craig Willcox PhD, Okinawa Cenetarian gerontolos and Anthropologists Study, and Makato Suzuki, MD., PhD., Geriatric cardiologist, from the Okinawa International University. it was covered in diet, fitness, how to cope with stress and the success of the residents of Okinawa combine the Eastern and Western ways of maintaining their health.

Okinawa diet principles called Nuchi Cusui refers to the balance of three things: high-carbohydrate, low in calories and is based on herbs, diet first glance is similar to the food pyramid dietary recommendations according to United States (U.S. the Daily Allowance). However Nuchi Gusui clearly divide between food that should be eaten every day with that should only be eaten every week. Thus it will be easier you know if you frequently eat certain foods or not.
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DURING this you may just think that antioxidants present in green vegetables or fruits. Though, actually antioxidants can also be found in many other foods. Materials can be sourced natural antioxidants and nutrients and non-nutrient substances. Which belong to the non-nutrient substances are polyphenol compounds and tannins. While nutrients act as antioxidants are vitamins A, E, C, riboflavin, carotenoids, zinc, manganese, copper, and selenium. Therefore, you can obtain the materials from a variety of food antioxidants.

Some foods are so far less known as a source of antioxidants, and draw your attention from now on is:

Chocolate
Good news for fans of chocolate. In the dark chocolate contains flavonoids (antioxidant that protects the heart). Flavonoids prevent platelets, which is attached to each other and the blood clot that can cause heart attacks. A study by USDA Agricultural Research Service in Illinois, the United States even found that chocolate has the same potential with red wine in preventing heart disease. One cup of hot chocolate made from two tablespoons of chocolate powder (without milk) contains more flavonoids than red wine glass.

Brown seeds are also rich in carbohydrates, fiber, protein, B vitamins, and minerals. In fact, brown seed is also a major source of proanthocyanidin, which is also the protective compounds found in grape seed extract. Content of caffeine, theobromine, and phenylethylalanine can improve mood, stimulate the central nervous system, and stimulates the muscles. So, no wonder if the chocolate frequently become their favorite food which is sad.
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yin yang diet

Have you ever paid attention to Chinese food? In a stir-fry broccoli beef was always there. Besides green, the dish of vegetables also have red, white, and orange. Apparently, all it contains a certain meaning. Chinese traditional healers and Japan believe the food will not only make full and give effect to the physical person, but also affect the mental, spiritual, emotional, even health. Therefore, food processing and settlement must be made in such a way that brings a certain effect on the body. Associated with it, in Chinese society known concept of yin-yang.

What is a yin-yang?
In Taoist teachings say that each object has a yin and yang energy. It can mean all sorts. Positive and negative, cold and heat; white and black, women and men. According to Chinese belief, the sky is that, the earth is yin. Yin-yang symbol or trigrams is a circle which is divided into two colors, black and white. Yin is symbolized by the color black. While the white color. But, do not interpret it. Although the opposite impression and opposite, yin and yang does not mean the two sides fought each other. Instead it represents the balance that exist in each object. The concept of yin-yang can be interpreted simply as a way to maintain a balance in life.

The human body can be analogue as a ’small world’. For example, to maintain sanity, you need to create a balance between work, fun, spiritual activity, stress, relaxation, exercise, rest, eat well and drink. Excess or deficiency in one case will create imbalance in life. In the end will cause negative effects. For example, if you are too ‘crazy’ worked up to forget the family, rest, and exercise, the body will be undermined disease, the family was a mess. Over time this will also adversely affect the job, right? In the human body there is life energy or chi. During this chi flow smoothly, your health will be maintained. One way is by balancing yin-yang.
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fat burner foods

Not all foods make your body ‘to swell’. Some foods can actually burn fat in the body so make your diet easier. Examples of six types of food and drink is:

1. Water
Drinking eight glasses of water that has been cooled to 4.5 ° C in a day will burn 200 calories, the equivalent of running 4.8 km. Water ice will burn more calories than plain water. That’s because the body’s metabolism increases to change the water temperature to match the body temperature. However, avoid eating of ice water while eating, because it will dilute the digestive enzymes. Instead, select the room-temperature water.

2. Green tea
Several studies have shown that the content and acid extract cannotic gymnemic in green tea is useful for reducing the absorption of sugar into the blood and reduce the desire to consume sweet foods. In addition, green tea also makes food move faster through the digestive system, speed up metabolism and burn more calories. For maximum results, drink green tea before meals.

3. Lemon and vinegar.
A little lemon or vinegar intake (as much as a teaspoon) is enough to slow hunger, because it will slow down the process of starch digestion. Try also to drink some water with lemon in the morning to maintain a balance blood sugar levels.
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DIET do not always need to punish. At least that’s according to several experts. Not only nutritionists, sports medical doctors, psychologists, and healthy lifestyle consultant was trying to provide some simple suggestions. For example, drink plenty of water or eat roughly the same amount every day. In essence, instead of torturing yourself with a super strict diet that makes you nervous, it’s better to develop the proper diet and healthy as early as possible, before your body is ‘blooming’. indeed need to do a weight-loss diet, do it the right way under the supervision of a physician. To trim, as well as necessary business. But, if you know his strategy, it did not elaborate.

GOOD PRACTICE HABITS. Granted you do need to diet. To support the diet program, you are trying to develop good habits. The edges will help you maintain your diet and maintain weight. One of them is the habit of reading labels calories listed on food packaging. This will not only train you to become consumers of care, but also know the type, ingredients, nutritional value, and great food calories that you consume.

Eventually you’ll be more concerned with the ingredients you are eating. Also at what the risks to make you fat. Another habit that you could try is to eat the night before at 18:00. Dinner is three to four hours before bedtime good for digestion, metabolism system as a whole, and weight. Dinner is not too late to give a chance to clean up the digestive tract faster job. The metabolites could also still be used. Conversely, dinner before bed makes the work less than optimal digestion. As a result, there will be heaps that are not important in your body. (PR0F.DR.AU KHOMSAN, community nutritionists, Bogor Agricultural University.)
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