Personal trainers and gym owners across the country have BIG smiles on their faces right now.

The new year is a time for renewal and the perfect opportunity to alter past habits. Here are 10 pointers from high-profile experts in Israel, who suggest you say goodbye to elements in your life that are holding you back from doing what you’ve wanted to do for years.

1) Regular checkups are integral to a new lifestyle.

2) Ensuring against colon/rectal cancer by undergoing a colonoscopy every ten years is a great idea. Of course, you don’t really need to do that until you hit the wizened age of 50.

3) Regular checkups, perhaps more than any of the other items here, can be a valuable method of meeting potential health issues head on.

4) Something as simple as washing your hands with soap can go a long way as well.

5) Perhaps just as important is the flu vaccination. Despite negative opinion of the vaccination procedure, it’s safe to use, does not cause heart attacks and is in fact given to millions of people across the world.

6) Back injury can strike when you least expect it. Simply don’t lift with your back; lift with your knees when moving heavy loads instead.

Lastly, if pain does come, don’t ignore it. The only way you’re going to know if something is wrong is through pain; headaches might indicate another problem, possibly highlighting damage to the brain or eyes.

Unexplained fatigue is the unspoken global energy crisis.

“The single biggest complaint I hear from my patients, day in and day out, is fatigue,” says Nieca Goldberg, MD, a cardiologist at the Director of the NYU Medical Center Women’s Heart Program and associate professor at the NYU School of Medicine.

While multitasking and not getting enough sleep is certainly part of the problem, there are other factors that might be contributing.

A Slowed Thyroid

“I believe the undiagnosed thyroid disorder is one of the major female health problems in this country. I think it is even more widespread than anyone realizes,” Dr. Goldberg says.

Caffeine Overload

While caffeine has been the miracle worker for deadlines many a time, it can also be the culprit for slowing us down too.

“In some patients, continued abuse results in fatigue,” according to W. Stephen Pray, PhD, RPh. “Any attempts to solve the problem by increasing caffeine intake causes the fatigue to worsen.

Still Exhausted?

While heart disease can cause this fatigue, it’s not the first sign and the heart’s condition ‘is usually linked to something far less serious.”

Bitter taste cactus like plant, Hoodia is grown extensively in the semi desert region farms of Namibia, Angola, Botswana and South Africa. Kalahari Desert is the only place, where you would find wild hoodia; means they grow themselves over there. Altogether there are thirteen varieties of Hoodia available and you can select the one that suits your needs and requirements.

Most of the people believe that Hoodia is either an herb or a cactus but actually it is not; it is like a leafless succulent used mainly as an appetite suppressor. It is supposed to be amongst the best natural solution of obesity and having said that it becomes quite clear why this particular leafless succulent is getting popular with each passing day. Though a real treasure, hoodia is very to hard-to-harvest plant as it takes almost 5 years of hot environment to grow.

Why Hoodia Gordonii?

Unlike Ephedra and Phenfen, which are not used nay more or are banned because of hazardous side-effects, hoodia is totally harmless. In layman terms, it fools your brain and passes the message that you are full but actually you are not. This deceptive effect produced by hoodia is considered by most people as weight loss miracle.

The major role of appetite suppressor in hoodia is played by the P57 molecule. By mimicking the glucose effect on nerve cells, P57 molecule fools the brain that your stomach is full even if you have had nothing.

Benefits of Hoodia Gordinii

• Your food intake would get reduced by almost 35 percent from usual intake (approx. 1000 calories per day).
• Hoodia will start its work within an hour and you won’t feel like eating for the next 6 to 7 hours.
• Hoodia won’t affect your energy levels and rather would maintain them on high. High energy level improves your mood and at the same time keeps you easy and calm.
• Being a foodstuff in South Africa from prehistoric times, you can be rest assured that hoodia is safe and without any side-effects.
• Hoodia contains unique P57 molecule, which has weight control abilities.
• Hoodia can efficiently quench thirst.
• Hoodia lessens stress symptoms and fights fatigue.
• More so, in Namibia it is boiled and used for the treating ailments like indigestion, tuberculosis, hypertension, diabetes, flatulence-gas, headaches, acid reflux, haemorroids, yeast infections, constipation, abdominal cramps and bulging abdomen.

With such an array of benefits, hoodia is sure to benefit you a lot. Natural remedies to any problem have always been better and how can weight loss stay aloof form it. But whatever you take, make sure it does not cause any side-effects and for that you should consult a doctor.

Taking Hoodia everyday to lose weight is very popular among people who are randomly gaining weight due to their uncontrolled eating habits. There is little or no research done on the effectiveness of the Hoodia when used in combination with other supplements and thus to be on the safer side it is always best to go with a very mild usage.

This is what many people have started doing and mixing Green tea with Hoodia Gordonii is becoming very getting very popular. It is believed that this combination is very useful at the same time in increasing the effects on your weight.

Green tea helps in burning fat but this is also well known scientifically that it reduces the pace in which blood sugar level is formed. This is the basic reason why hypothalamus is not informed that we are full and we feel hungry again, even if we have had a balanced diet biologically.

It is very well know that we should not take chances when health is concerned and it is always best to be cautious as we all are aware of the fact that prevention is better than cure. Thus, using Hoodia with green tea might be very productive and useful in controlling hunger but it is better to be safe and not use it much until the scientific results are out after proper researches are done.

Formation of glucose is controlled and the process of formation of blood sugars as well is reduced by green tea. Its blood sugar level which is responsible for informing the brain that one has had enough food but if that is manipulated by the in take of green tea which reduces the pace of digestive system, we still feel hungry and end up over eating.

There are many combinations which might end up being deadly where health is concerned, though our way of thinking and logical point of view might direct us the other way. It is a clear example that one can not consume nerves stimulant along with the nerves relaxant.

Thus, Hoodia which in its real sense will help in informing the hypothalamus that one has had enough food, even if that might not be the actual case, is actually a hunger suppressant. It helps in controlling the hunger as well as makes you feel less inclined towards munching all the time.

Thus, we can say that the combination of green tea and Hoodia with both of them having exactly opposite functions individually as well as different reactions on the body must be taken together in a very moderate quantity and its better to be on safer side. However, it is also known that if the combination has not helped in gaining positive result, at least it does not have any negative side effects as well.

A lot of people have said that abortion isn’t really much of anything, classifying it as a ‘non-event’ in a woman’s life. However, more studies continue to shed light on the issue and indicate that it is indeed a very serious event, even if the woman in question doesn’t seem to think much of it at the time.

She will have a statistically higher chance of having mental health disorders and problems in the future. There have been a lot of studies done in the past, and two have been published just this month that show the same result. This raises important issues for informed consent, because doctors now talk to women about the physical dangers of abortion but they often overlook the mental dangers.

Not all women will be affected in this way, of course, but the strong possibility of it is something that should be addressed so that women are aware of any adverse effects they may experience, even years later. A lot of women are now coming forward with tales of how past abortions have affected the quality of their lives today.

If you want a facelift because you aren’t happy with the way your skin looks, you might not have to go to that extreme. Instead, you might be able to improve the way you look by changing your diet. Some foods are much better for you than others, and some of them are also much better for your skin. If you partake of those more often you could improve your skin over time.

One of the most popular of the skin enhancing diets is the Perricone Diet. This diet is designed for weight loss, but there is also a three-day period at the start of it where you eat fruits, berries and yogurt, can only drink water or green tea, and must eat salmon twice a day.

These kinds of things and their combination are important for a person’s skin, and this three day diet can make a significant difference by helping to flush the toxins from your body. That will help with younger-looking and more supple skin.