For the average Joe or Jill looking and keeping fit and healthy is a balance between regular exercise and healthy eating.

Whilst you can get away for a time with eating and drinking badly but still taking regular exercise, eventually that bad diet will catch up with you.

That muscular body will lose its’ firm tone, skin will loosen and crease, the gut will sag and you will show your age even though you may remain and feel physically strong. If you want a flat tummy you have to work at it as you age.

Keeping to healthy sensible eating habits can maintain good skin tone, keep the body looking trim and slim and your mind alert so you stay and feel younger looking for longer.

OK so you don’t look the best physical specimen on the block but you will stay looking passable a lot longer than the smoking, drinking, and food junkie on his daily exercise kick.

So there it is! To look good and stay looking good there is no substitute for combining a healthy diet with a sensible exercise workout schedule. 

Most people are well aware that when they eat too much they over indulge in calories, meaning that they are really packing on the pounds. 

What most people are not aware of is that there are some foods that have so few calories, that you can eat more of them and at the same time burn fat. 

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What are chickpeas?                              

The word chickpea originates from the Latin name cicer and known in Spanish as garbanzos.

Where are they grown?

A plant, which grows mainly in tropical climates such as the Mediterranean, western Asia and the Indian subcontinent

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 Detox foods-what do they do?

 

• They naturally enhance your body’s capabilities to rid itself of harmful toxins that most of us take in on a daily basis
• Help produce neutralizing enzymes
• Speed up bowel activity
• Bind to toxins and ensure complete expulsion

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Whether your priority is  to get and stay fit or just to keep your weight under control, there are circumstances when a vinegar diet can add that something extra to help you achieve your goals.

 
It is a little known fact that numerous trials have shown that adding vinegar to meals increases the feeling of fullness.

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Yes and No is the answer

 
We have all been bombarded with orders to drink more water every day or we could become dehydrated and if we don’t, oh no please help us, something terrible is going to happen, like we’re going to shrivel up and die.

Have you been brainwashed into thinking you need to carry a bottle of water around with you all day and drink gallon loads at every opportunity?

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I’m sure a lot of my readers already know the benefits they can gain from honey.

 
I have regularly taken a mixture of organic honey and organic cider vinegar in a glass of hot water every morning for years.

 
Not only is it a very pleasant warming drink but also it gives you the energy that  you cannot get from your morning tea or coffee.

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Shigechiyo Izumi, a Japanese man living in the Amami Islands died in 1986.
 

According to the Guinness Book of Records he was the male with the greatest authenticated age in the world.

If the records are accurate he was 120 years and 237 days old at the time of his death and the second longest lived ever second only to French woman Jeanne Calment.

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Vitamin C, also known as Ascorbic Acid, is a vital nutrient required by the human body for the growth and repair of tissues and is an antioxidant.

It is necessary to form collagen that, amongst other functions, helps keep the skin firm and to slow down the visible signs of aging.

The two most widely known benefits of Vitamin C are in the prevention of scurvy, a condition that can lead to death, and in the treatment of colds and influenza.

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Life cannot exist without water; it is a fundamental building block of our bodies.

Throughout our daily life, whether we are super active or just couch potatoes, it is essential to maintain our fluid levels, and all the fluids we are likely to ingest contain water.

Providing we drink, with the exception of alcohol, then dehydration is unlikely occur.

But best of all just plain old drinking water is the most beneficial; it requires the minimum of digestive activity and is the most efficient in ridding the body of wastes.

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