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With less time on their plates most of us desire to spend some time for working out at a local gym or community center but rarely have time for the same. It is here that home fitness regimes fit into the schedule of such people quite well.

It is not difficult to accommodate home fitness exercises in one's routine as one needs to spend small amount of time, say 20 minutes for such sessions. Once you are through with the granularities of the routine one can easily go through the exercise routines while performing daily chores like watching television or listening to music.

Various Home Fitness Regimes

Some of the common and easy to perform yet widely acceptable forms of exercise include yoga, Pilates, dancing, aerobics and typical floor exercises. The point here is that these exercises are known since ages and have proved that practicing them can keep people fitter and healthier.

Yoga, an ancient technique that combines exercise with meditation is used by people to soothe their worries and sort out their daily issues in the form of relaxation obtained through stretching their body. Stretching ensures that body develops a certain amount of flexibility and facilitates lean muscle growth. One of the positive effects of yoga is to help people relax and get rid of stress and worries at any time of the day.

Another form of exercise is Pilates which concentrates on stomach and spinal muscles to enhance the body strength. Pilates is a form of exercise which combines the effects of yoga and floor exercises producing a different form of exercise in home fitness.

Richard Simmons, an exponent of dancing to the tunes of old beats made dancing quite a favorite among exercise followers. Except for "dancing to the oldies" other popular dance forms are available in the form of DVDs that practise following aerobics while listening to music. Its fun-exercise as you dance.

Although aerobics as an exercise practice may not be that popular amongst masses it still has some loyalists who swear by the advantages of aerobics. As a tested method of exercising it ensures that one stays fit in terms of weight and activity level.

The basic principle which aerobics follow is to increase the pace at which heart beats thus ensuring that one gives ample exercising to the most important muscle of human body and also doing away with extra calories and in turn working out rest of the body muscles.

Some other form of exercises are the basic floor exercises for e.g. crunches, push ups, leg lifts as effective home fitness regimes to maintain a fit body. These exercises not only help one to tone their body but also reduce body weight and bring it to their expected levels.

To ensure a long and healthy life one should practice at least one or more forms of home fitness routines. They help in heart exercises, reducing weight, general relaxation, calorie burning and ensure a good night's sleep.

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The power of suggestion is not a new concept. Marketing and advertising gurus all know what it takes to drive a message into peoples minds; suggestion and repetition. It doesnt have to be taken in consciously. In the case of marketing, the subliminal delivery of a message has just as much impact, sometimes more, than just telling people what you want them to hear.

Advertisers already use hypnosis. They offer the suggestion. Maybe its a billboard or its a TV ad. Youre not quite sure where you saw or heard it, but you know you believe it. That is the whole foundation of a successful marketing campaign. It is to penetrate peoples minds without them even being aware of it. Sound familiar? It should, it is hypnosis. Its suggestion. For example, the image of a healthy looking, smiling, beautiful girl drinking a club soda. There are no words necessary. Its being suggested. Drink a club soda and you will look like me, you will be like me. Youll be beautiful, like me.

Advertisers know exactly how to penetrate the mind and deliver a message without effort. In some cases its the suggestion of consequences to your actions. Images that convey a sad or frightening experience, they communicate the message, dont let this happen to you, without saying it, then they show you how to prevent it, with their product.

They even use techniques to more effectively reach your unconscious mind. Techniques like subtle increases in sound, or the use of color. Theyve studied the effects of color and sound on the human psyche, and theyve researched how the mind captures information. They know what theyre doing.

Have you ever noticed when you are watching television that sometimes the ads sound louder than the program? Youve noticed it but not consciously. In other words, now that you think of it, you agree that its true, but you didnt consciously notice it before.

Advertisers also understand that when you are watching TV, you are essentially hypnotized. Youre tuning out reality and the outside world, and youve opened your mind completely to whatever suggestion will be imposed upon you.

Marketing geniuses share another little known secret with hypnotists, that the mind is subjected to millions of subliminal messages every day, and that no matter how much or how little you are paying attention to your surroundings, on some level, youre taking it all in. The message is getting on board, unconsciously. This belief is worth millions and millions of advertising dollars to some major retailers and businesses, so there must be some validity to the theory that we are all susceptible to the power of suggestion.

Barrie St John is a leading figure in the field of hypnosis and personal change. He is the author behind the best selling self hypnosis CDs and downloads at www.HypnoShop.com where you can find a broad range of sessions on health and addictions, personal improvement, sports performance, weight loss, confidence issues, fears and phobias, and lots more.

With warmer weather looming on the horizon in Northern America, many women and men start to simplify and streamline their diets. Gone are the heavy chili dinners and beef stews that fill our bellies in the dead of winter. Enter the salad: cool, fresh, crisp bursts of flavor - but not necessarily a significant caloric savings over a meat and potatoes dinner. The culprit: creamy, oil based dressings. The solution: for most, it's to take their dressing on the side.

Traditional commerically prepared salad dressings are an easy way to turn a healthy salad into a calorie-dense, fat-laden disaster. Bottled dressings can have anywhere from 8 to 20 grams of fat per serving.

Take your dressing on the side? Never! At least, theres never a need when you make your own healthy salad dressings.

Of course, you can buy decent commercial low-fat dressings, or even organic dressings but, more often than not, they are loaded with unhealthy elements like sugar and heavy amounts of heart-unhealthy sodium.

Its hard, however, to beat a homemade dressing!

The key to making delicious healthy dressings at home is to reduce the oils and other fats, and bump up the ingredients that add texture and flavor.

The oil in any salad dressing serves several functions, including providing a cling" or "binding" factor, so your acidic and other flavorings (such as vinegar and herbs) dont end up in a puddle at the bottom of the bowl.

Oil also serves to soften and balance the acids so that they're more pleasing to the pallate.

When thinking of healthier dressings, most people eschew creamy dressings in favor of lighter vinaigrettes. But classic vinaigrettes often use a 3-to-1 or 4-to-1 ratio of fat to acid (for example: olive oil and red wine vinegar). Such a ratio can yield at least 10 grams of fat per tablespoon! And who uses just one tablespoon?

So what constitutes a healthy salad dressing?

Let's look at oil.

When choosing oils for your dressing, think carefully about flavors. Extra-virgin olive oil is almost always an excellent healthful and flavorful choice. But so are nut oils such as almond, macadamia and hazelnut. Each contributes complex yet subtle flavors that can complement a salad. Olive and nut oils also are rich in healthy monounsaturated fats.

You can reduce the amount of oil, however, in any dressing by approximately 40 percent if the other ingredients that balance the dressing are not too acidic.

A common complaint when reducing the oil content of a dressing recipe is that one often misses the thick texture that oil adds to your recipes. Try adding Dijon mustard as an emulsifier to make up for the reduced oil. Like oil, mustard is thick enough to bind the other ingredients and adds a tangy flavor.

In creamy dressings, the emulsifier often is sour cream or mayonnaise (and sometimes oil, too). Providing a healthy option for these ingredients is an easy fix.

Nonfat yogurt, reduced-fat sour cream, and reduced-fat mayonnaise all make good substitutes. They each have good flavor and produce dressings that hold together and coat vegetables quite well.

Or try buttermilk. Buttermilk is always either nonfat or reduced-fat. Its thick texture and mild, tangy flavor makes it a useful ingredient.

With a little bit of ingenuity and creativity, it is possible to make healthy salad dressings without sacrificing good nutrition by cutting calories, fat and chemicals.

Deborah Carraro is an avid nutrition, health & fitness enthusiast with a passion for sharing knowledge and experiences. As VP Operations for a successful online Natural Health business she has worked with the best nutritionists, fitness professionals and health experts.

You can find her online at http://www.yogaforoptimalhealth.com/HealthySaladDressings.html

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