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Keep These 2 Foods Out of your Diet
Posted on 02. Aug, 2009 by Francis Mack.
The 2 foods to be avoided may come as a surprise to you. You may even find it hard to believe. The common belief would be that they are fine to have as part of a controlled diet. It comes as a big surprise for most people, to learn that they should ditch them.
It is a fairly well known fact nowadays, that trans fats should be avoided, and that goes for the high-fructose corn syrup. So I won’t bore you with this again. I was not referring to either of these two foods.
Number one to be avoided when you are on a diet, is all wheat products – that means anything that contains wheat. This would include bread of all types, bagels, pasta and cereals (and this even includes all those “whole wheat” cereals).
The reasons for wheat products are, first of all, much of the population has an allergy to the gluten in wheat products and other grains. But what most people do not realise is that we were never meant to have a large proportion of wheat in our diet. Our digestive system has never adjusted to it.
Wheat has only appeared in the human diet in the last couple of thousand years or so, and has NEVER been such a large part of our diet until the last 80 to 100 years! Previous to that, we had a much healthier diet which consisted mainly of a mixture of of vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds.
When somebody is trying to lose weight, if they will cut wheat out of their diet for 2 to 3 weeks, they will get results. Not only will they lose weight and feel better as a result of having more energy, but in some cases it has resulted in curing headaches and indigestion that had persisted for years.
The second food that should be eliminated from your diet, will come as a shock to most people – fruit juice. It is generally regarded as a very healthy choice and would probably be included in most calorie controlled diets.
Now I am not totally against carbohydrates – in fact, I believe that most fruits are very beneficial and healthy. But this is referring to fruits in their natural state – not processed. And when you separate the juice from the rest of the fruit which is rich in fiber, it’s no longer useful for dieting. What you are left with is a high-calorie , sugary drink that is best avoided.
If you only drink the juice of the fruit (and apple and orange juice are the worst offenders in this) you leave out the fiber which helps to satisfy hunger, and you are only going to crave more carbohydrates. Also, the fiber helps to slow down the response of the blood sugar much more so than the juice.
To sum up, having too much fruit juice is only going to make you fat. But eating whole fruits is an important part of a weight-loss diet and it will provide a high level of nutrients to your body. Of course, this also depends on you keeping processed foods out of your diet as much as possible.
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How To Trade Price Action In Currency Markets?
Posted on 27. Jul, 2009 by Ahmad Hassam.
Do you want to become a successful trader? If yes, than you should immerse yourself completely in the subject of forex trading in order to find your edge. If you are already a winning forex trader than you should try to understand exactly what your edge is.
Even the advanced traders find it difficult to interpret and trade the sharp moves often seen in the forex markets. Learning to read and interpret price action can be a huge advantage for you.
When the market is in a steep decline, one should be careful to measure the reaction of the longs. You must try to know and understand if the move has the chance to turn into a rout.
By looking at the reaction of the longs as soon as the rate begins to go south, you may be able to determine if the market is sitting on a large number of long positions. If the spike is followed by a sharp V recovery, you should be wary of shorting the pair.
Masses of buyers entering the market at lower levels tell you that the market is not particularly long. Lower prices mean bargain prices for those wishing to accumulate long positions.
Moving averages (MAs) are among the oldest, true and tested lagging indicators. MAs can be simple as well as exponential. Widely used moving averages are the 50, 100 and 200 day MAs. Many traders use MAs in making trading decisions.
Moving averages are lagging indicators and relate with the past price action. MAs can be used effectively in day trading for entering and exiting positions in one way markets.
During times of sharp price moves, it becomes difficult for the traders to enter a position as retracements are far and few. This makes most of the traders confused and forces them to start taking arbitrary decisions.
Moving averages can be used as dynamic resistance levels in such situations. This should give far better results than the static support and resistance levels used by majority of the traders.
The advantages of using Moving Averages this way gives you dynamic levels to trade off and gauge price action taking place. MAs can help you avoid using arbitrary levels in trading a position on when you should take profit.
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