Quick tips on how to loose weight and maintain your ideal weight over time.  Get these healthy weight loss tips and enjoy healthy weight loss even though you are not joining any weight loss program.

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Healthy weight loss is far more than joining a diet plan or any weight loss program.  Of course, there are plenty of diet plans on the market such as The Hamptons Diet, The Zone, The Scarsdale Diet etc that are popular and work for people in losing weight, at least for a short period of time.

If you really concern about healthy weight loss, you might find out that most of these diet plans do not really address personal diet styles, working environment as well as exercising.  That is why one diet plan that works for others might not work for you at all.  So, you need to know that the best diet plan is the one that works for you, after consider 5 important questions stated below:

1) How many meals you eat in a day

Although a lot of weight loss experts encourage frequent mini meals (at least 5 meals in a day), it does not mean that you can’t shed pounds away if you have less than 5 meals in a day in your diet plan.  So, please determine your daily quantity meal according to your working environment and time factor.  You might prefer to eat 3, 4, 5 or 6 meals in a day.  They are all fine.  Once you know your diet schedule, divide your calories accordingly.  You can refer the BMR calculation article if you need to know more detail about how many calories you need to support your daily activities.

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GLA is the abbreviation stand for Gamma-linolenic acid.  It is an essential fatty acid (EFA) in the omega-6 family that is presented primarily in plant-based oils such as safflower and sunflower oils.  In fact, GLA is derived from linoleic acid, also known as omega-6 fatty acid, which is found in cooking oils and processed foods and converted to GLA in the body.  The primary dietary sources of GLA are evening primrose oil (EPO), black currant seed oil and borage oil. Most of these oils also contain some linoleic acid.

GLA is essential to human health besides assist in any program for weight loss.  It is the precursor for a lot of important prostaglandins, which are hormone-like substances that may affect blood thickness, cholesterol levels, joint health, dilation and constriction of blood vessels, inflammation, and etc.  Although omega-6 fatty acids are readily available in the diet and consumed in large quantities in our diet, a lot of people are still found deficient in GLA.  According to some scientists, this is because many oils that contain omega-6 are hydrogenated, which can inhibit the conversion of omega-6 to GLA.

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