Fat Burner Juice: Honey, Lemon, Ginger and Grapefruit

This refreshing juice is an excellent fat burner and also helps to regulate blood sugar levels, so helps to control hunger. All all round weight loss juice drink. When losing weight it is good to start the day on a healthy note, and one of the best ways is with a fruit juice that provides the essential vitamins for good health, a cleansing treatment and one that helps to raise metabolism to aid fat burning throughout the day. This juice does all of this with ease.

The ingredients contains digestive enzymes that help you to lose weight. It is best drunk first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, your main breakfast can be eaten soon after. This juice is also excellent to boost the immune system and help to ward off, or fight off, colds and flu. Honey and ginger are two of the best natural ingredients at helping to fight of common viruses. Ideally you should use fresh ingredients when making this juice drink, but if you can only obtain grapefruit juice then this will still work just as well. Having a bottle of runny honey makes the job of preparing the juice much easier also.

* Honey: Hone is full of healthy enzymes and B vitamins, it has antimicrobial properties, promotes the re-hydration of the body, cleanses the blood and contains antioxidants.

* Grapefruit: Grapefruits contain a fat burning enzyme and also lowers insulin levels and controls blood sugar levels. The pectin is also a great form of soluble fiber, so good for bowel problems and also to ensure that you are regular. Drinking grapefruit juice, or eating fresh grapefruit, is a good way to give the metabolism a kick start in the morning.

* Lemon: Lemon helps to cleanse and detox. Also promotes a healthy liver and improves digestion, meaning less food is converted to fat. Lemon is now most famously used in the "Lemonade Diet" which is a cleansing detox made popular by Beyonce Knowles.

* Ginger: Ginger helps to improve digestion by increasing secretions of digestive juices in the stomach. Also aids blood circulation and metabolism, increases the immune system and strengthens the internal organs of the digestive tract.

How to prepare the Honey, Lemon, Ginger and Grapefruit Juice.

Take 2 ripe grapefruits, 3 lemons a large piece of ginger and a tablespoon of honey. Chop the ingredients and then add to a blender and juice. Add the honey and stir. Drink and cleanse!

If you want to burn fat, then drinking this juice before every meal will really help. This drink can be made several times a day and can be drunk as part of a well balanced diet. The grapefruit will boost your metabolism and help you to lose weight and stay slim.

To learn more about healthy cleansing fruit drinks and healthy smoothies visit the diet and nutrition section of MotleyHealth.com.

It is important to remember that this will only give you a good start to the day. It is vital that you eat a healthy and balanced diet throughout the day and that you also take exercise everyday. To obtain good long term health you need to balance diet and exercise and make it a permanent part of your life. Short term fad diets do not work.

Gardening Tips for the Autumn

Autumn is now definitely upon us, so it is time to take a look at what we can do in the garden. The growing season is coming to a rapid close and the leaves are falling a plenty, so it is time for tidying up and making some decisions on how to prepare for next Spring. But the main job for the autumn is to put the garden to bed.

Tasks for Early Autumn

• Now is the time to bring in the more delicate plants that will not survive the winter months.
• Evergreens and conifers should be moved while the soil is still warm to prevent root damage.
• Spring bulbs and bedding plants can be planted now.

Garden Tasks for Mid Autumn

• Tidy up your perennials, removing all the dead stems, but leave the seeds for birds to eat.
• Plant some deciduous trees, shrubs and deciduous climbers
• Autumn is a good time to lay a new lawn as the soil is moist but not too wet
• Secure your garden plants and furniture - prepare for winter storms. on windy nights

Garden Jobs for Late Autumn

• Late autumn is a good time to plant shrubs, roses and hedglings that are sold with bare roots (these are the cheapest ones to buy, and usually hardy enough to survive a while without soil).
  
• Clear up leaf fall and then mulch. A good leaf blower and mulcher pays dividends here.
  
• Plant your tulips and hyacinths
• Move deciduous trees and shrubs once they have lost their leaves
• Take hardwood cuttings from shrubs and roses

Keith Richards on Johnny Depp, the Scream Awards and talking like a pirate

What is it with pirates? They are the most despicable people on earth (after politicians and estate agents) but yes everyone loves them. Children dress up as pirates, films are made, people talk like pirates. There is even a "talk like a pirate day" every year. Maybe one day children will dress up as terrorists and comedies will be made about cheeky Taliban blowing up banks and hotels.

You never know who you're going to meet at the Scream Awards -- last year I found myself standing between Marilyn Manson and George Lucas -- and this year didn't disappoint. Not long after I arrived at the Greek Theatre for the taping of this year's show I was whisked off to a trailer for an unexpected interview with a guitar hero who qualifies as true rock royalty -- even if he was tapping his cigarette into an ashtray he had just made out of aluminum foil.

Photo and text quoted from: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/10/keith-richards-on-johnny-depp-the-scream-awards-and-talking-like-a-pirate-.html

Another Expenses Scandal? Bloomberg Sets Record for His Own Spending on Elections

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has spent $85 million of his own money on his latest re-election campaign, more than anyone in U.S. history.

Where does a man get $85 million from? And why does someone want power so much that they would spend $85 million to guarantee them a seat on the thrown?

If I had that much money I would take a looooong vacation!

10 Strange Facts from the BBC

Just saw this and made me smile, so thought I'd share. I still think that the BBC is the finest television channel in the whole world, even if Nick Griffin gets to appear on it!

1. Humpback whales' mating rituals can be deadly.
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2. Galaxies that are 10.2 billion light-years away can be seen through telescopes.
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3. Wine gums have the names of alcoholic drinks on them.
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4. People spent £37m on cup cakes in the UK last year.
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5. The spread of cupcake shops has been used to map urban gentrification in the US.
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6. Bagged salad is photographed 4,000 times a second.
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7. The most available time of week for a meeting is Tuesday at 3pm.
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8. GPS locates the Prime Meridian 100m to the east of Greenwich Observatory.
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9. Sales of Asterix books number 325 million.
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10. The first watches appeared shortly after 1500 in Germany.
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US balloon mother Mayumi Heene admits it was a hoax

Mayumi Heene, the mother of a child (Falcon, 6 years old) involved in a crazy publicity stunt in America has finally admitted that she and her husband made it all up and that it was a hoax. The father is an inventor and decided to pretend that his son was trapped inside an experimental balloon when it broke free.

They called the emergency services, cried and screamed and yelled, and generally acted it up big time, while really their son was hiding in a box in the garage.

The father, Richard Heene, continues to deny that the balloon emergency was faked.

Idiots.

Postal Workers in Essex start to post letters agan after Strikes

Good news, the postal workers, or post men and post women, have returned to the sorting offices and the streets to start posting letters again.

A further three strike days are planned from Thursday next week, in the dispute over pay, conditions and modernisation.

Some advice on losing your beer belly

"If you are looking for advice on how to lose stomach fat then following these tips and tricks will help you to lose that gut. Not everyone wants a washboard abs, but if you just want to trim down some inches around the waist and get a flatter stomach, these tips can help you."

Read more: http://www.motleyhealth.com/articles/how-to-lose-belly-fat#ixzz0SlJLtNST

Rihanna’s Low Carb Approach

Rihanna recognizes that carbs are a problem for her, as the sugars in carbohydrates are quickly turned to fat. To control this she often has no-carb days, sometimes she does this for 3 or 4 days at a time to keep her fat levels down.

For breakfast she often just has hot water with lemon, pineapple and cooked egg whites. Lunch will be some potatoes for the essential muscle fuel (glycogen) with a variety of fish. She often eats fish twice a day.

Read more: http://www.motleyhealth.com/articles/2009/09/rihannas-workouts-and-diet.html#ixzz0SlLmikVC