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The Secret Of Fad Diets
Over the past several years fad diets have been all the rage. From Atkins to South Beach, people have been discovering new ways to solve the ago old problem of losing weight and staying healthily. Although many of these diets do work, many also have several negative effects as well. So what is the ultimate weight loss secret?The one common ingredient all these diets share is the fact that they are “all” hypo caloric. What does hypo caloric mean. Essentially, it means you are consuming less calories than your body can burn through a given day..If you are consuming fewer calories than you burn throughout your day, you body will have to resort to its natural energy storage in the form of fat.To get a general idea of how many calories you need, is to multiply your body weight by 12.For example if you are a 180lbs, the equation would look like 180 x 12 = 2160. This is the minimum number of calories you need to consume to maintain your current weight (not taking into account exercise).Depending on your daily activity this number can give you a good indication of how many calories you need to consume in order to lose body fat. All too often people think that starvation is the only way to “quickly” lose weight, when in fact, you need to eat to get on the path to for an fitness.If you are highly active and workout on a daily basis either in the gym or some other form of physical activity, you should be consuming your basic number of calories. If you are less active, you can deduct 100-300 calories from the total amount.The calories should be divided into 5-6 small meal throughout the day, starting first thing in the morning. Remember that before you change your diet or exercise program, you should consult your physician.

op. Sampedranos, what the San Pedro Sulans are called, are a friendly and helpful people. The city is home to a few football teams from the national league and a game is quite an experience to see, not just for the high quality of football but also for the atmosphere of the crowd and for the local passion that is a part of true Latin American Football. North Americans will know this brand of football as soccer. Games are regularly held in the Olympic Stadium or the Francisco Morazon Stadium, which is located on 1 Calle between 13 and 14 avenida. Tickets start at US$3 depending on the seating and the game.

San Pedro Sula is a good place to base yourself during a visit to Honduras, especially if you like the comforts of a big city. Day trips can be organized to Tela, Lake Yojoa, Omoa and the Mayan Ruins of Copan, with local travel agents or tour operators. Many rental car companies have offices in San Pedro Sula, which is another option for traveling around to explore the many nearby attractions.

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Over the past year or two there has been an Internet caf? explosion in the downtown area of San Pedro Sula. Instead of listing places here I suggest you just walk a block or two from Central Park in any direction and you should find an Internet Cafe. Currently prices are around $.50 to $1 per hour and a few places have Internet phon

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During 900 AD and 1500 AD the local population began to decline. No one is certain why, but recent discoveries have pointed towards the possibility of a plague, severe erosion, soil degradation and/or a long drought as possible reasons.

Pedro de Alvarado founded the city of San Pedro Sula in 1536. The city was to serve as a warehouse for goods flowing to and from the Honduran North Coast Ports to Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador. It was also a collection point for cocoa, indigo, leather, sarsaparilla and canfistula (a plant used medicinally).

Due to continual attacks of the city by pirates, the local residents decided to move away from the city into the countryside where they lived a self sufficient life. The city was nearly deserted until the later colonial era when it became a base for cattle ranchers.

In the mid 19th century, San Pedro Sula's fortunes changed when commerce picked up at the port of Omoa and San Pedro Sula again became an important commerce spot in Honduras. But it was the growth of the Banana Industry and the reopening of Puerto Cortes that really set the city in motion to become Honduras commerce center.

Today San Pedro Sula is one of Central America's fastest growing cities. Business and commerce continue to grow to today as does the city's modern facilities and services.

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The Museum of Anthropology and History is located a few blocks from Central Park on 3a Avenida between 3 and 4 Calles NO. The museum is a must see for anyone visiting San Pedro Sula. Its displays will take you through the Pre-Columbian to modern day history of the Sula Valley. The museum has a wide range of Mayan artifacts that have been found throughout the area and is open from Monday to Saturday from 9am to 4pm, is closed all day Tuesday, and Sunday it opens from 9am to 3pm. The entrance fee is $2 for foreign visitors and 20 lps (lempiras) for national visitors.

Guamilito Market is one the Honduras' best handicraft markets. The market is between 8 and 9 Avenida and 6 and 7 Calles NO. The market is open daily, usually until around 5pm. The market is a great place to pick up souvenirs and gifts. Items of note are Honduran cigars, mahogany carvings, Mayan replica pottery, woven baskets, hammocks and a range of colored T-Shirts. Spend some time browsing and do not be afraid to bargain on the prices.

The Central Park of San Pedro Sula and the main Cathedral are definitely worth a look. The Cathedral, which was built in 1949, has just been remodeled and restored. The new Central Park (Parque Central) is open, fresh looking and at well lit at night. The park is always busy, with people coming and going and moneychangers and street vendors plying their trade. It's a great place to sit back and people watch or to strike up a conversation with some locals. If it is a little hot outside, a popular place to hang out is the Espresso Americana Caf?, which fronts onto the park. It's air conditioned and serves up great coffee and pastries.

The Coca Cola sign can be seen most days from the downtown area in its position on the Merendon Mountain Range, which is a only a 10 minute taxi ride from downtown. At night, if running, the sign flashes Coke colors and fades in and out. Whether you are a coke fan or not, a hike up to the sign is a good way to escape downtown and to see some great views of the Sula Valley. The walk takes about 1 to 2 hours and goes through some nice rainforest where Toucans and Motmots are regularly seen. Motmots are a brilliantly colored bird and Honduras has more species than any other country. Being a big city, San Pedro Sula has modern comforts and a range of activities such as sporting events, shopping centers, restaurants and nightlife. See the below sections for more information.

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San Pedro Sula is a good place to stay to enjoy the facilities of a large city and to see another side of the Honduran experience, big city life. The city has good banking, business, communication and hotel facilities. There is a wide range of restaurants and nightlife, places to shop. Sampedranos, what the San Pedro Sulans are called, are a friendly and helpful people. The city is home to a few football teams from the national league and a game is quite an experience to see, not just for the high quality of football but also for the atmosphere of the crowd and for the local passion that is a part of true Latin American Football. North Americans will know this brand of football as soccer. Games are regularly held in the Olympic Stadium or the Francisco Morazon Stadium, which is located on 1 Calle between 13 and 14 avenida. Tickets start at US$3 depending on the seating and the game.

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Is Zone Diet a Fad?
Is Zone Diet a Fad?How do you recognize a fad diet? When I asked myself this question, some generous people hurried to offer me free, quick, easily digestible answers. I chose the top ten from the list, and decided to match them with the Zone diet's most common features.Health Castle offers "Ten signs of a fad diet":1. It promises massive weight loss (1 - 2 lbs per week)Dr. Barry Sears is careful when he declares a standard weight loss on Zone diet. He considers that anything between 1 to 1,5 lbs per week is satisfactory. "It will be impossible to lose more than one to one point five pounds of fat per week. Anything over that is loss of retained water", says Sears himself on his daily "Ask Dr. Sears" column at DrSears.com. FAD.2. It does not suggest you that you consult with a registered dietician or nutritionist"Any change in diet (for better or worse) will affect the metabolism of the drug(s) you are taking. Always consult with a physician before starting the Zone Diet or any other dietary plan", says Dr. Sears in various interviews and discussion lists. Not FAD.3. It encourages you to eliminate certain food groups (e.g. "low carb diets", "low fat diets")This is untrue for the Zone diet. Dr. Sears says: "No food is forbidden in the Zone." Zone diet considers "unfavourable" mostly high glycemic foods and foods high in saturated fats. Not FAD.4. It offers rigid menusDifficult-to-prepare meals, plenty of measuring and counting, rules that are easy to misinterpret, Zone subscribes to that. FAD.5. It neglects active living or lifestyle changesThe Zone diet has impressive instrumentary and regulation for dining out or for fast food. On the other hand, there's no problem if you step out of the Zone now and then. Here are some soothing phrases from Dr. Sears himself: "The Zone diet is free of guilt" or "T

eum of Anthropology and History is located a few blocks from Central Park on 3a Avenida between 3 and 4 Calles NO. The museum is a must see for anyone visiting San Pedro Sula. Its displays will take you through the Pre-Columbian to modern day history of the Sula Valley. The museum has a wide range of Mayan artifacts that have been found throughout the area and is open from Monday to Saturday from 9am to 4pm, is closed all day Tuesday, and Sunday it opens from 9am to 3pm. The entrance fee is $2 for foreign visitors and 20 lps (lempiras) for national visitors.

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List Building – How To Drive The Right Visitors To Your Squeeze Page
Your list building plan of action should start with you defining the type of person you wish to have on your list. For example if you run a site on parenting you may wish to target one list of women who are pregnant, another for those who have just given birth and so on.Then you need to target the type of visitor that you require. To continue the example above with women who are pregnant you could write articles about labor, giving birth, designing a baby’s room and so on.Those that are interested in your article content and read it are likely to be mothers and fathers to be. When they get to the end of your article they arrive at your bio box.If you offer something for free in your bio box related to someone who is pregnant they are more likely to click through. You could in this example offer something like a free report on ’20 Things You Can Do To Make Your Birth Easier’.You have then targeted a particular type of visitor for your list and stand much more chance of building a responsive and targeted list this way. So where can you place the articles or content that you write?There are a number of options here. You can choose blogs, social sites like Myspace or the article directories where your article can be syndicated. That’s why you see so much being written about these forms of traffic generation – they bring in your ideal type of visitor.You may think that you don’t have the necessary skills to write articles. Whilst the article directories do have some criteria which you should follow, blogs and Myspace are completely down to you. You’ll find it easier to write as if you’re speaking directly to a single person in an informative and chatty style.The great thing about this is that it’s also easier for people to read. Get your list building started today!

ade. It's a great place to sit back and people watch or to strike up a conversation with some locals. If it is a little hot outside, a popular place to hang out is the Espresso Americana Caf?, which fronts onto the park. It's air conditioned and serves up great coffee and pastries.

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Organizational Visioning Pathways and Pitfalls
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will." — George Bernard Shaw, 19th century Irish playwright, critic, and social reformer• Visioning is sometimes an innate natural skill just like leadership sometimes is. And the moon sometimes blocks out the sun — but not very often. Most people have had to consciously, and with great effort, continually work to strengthen their visioning. Visionary leaders are seldom born that way. Nor are they necessarily charismatic. They have had to work at making visioning habitual.Following is a menu of pathways and pitfalls to organizational Focus and Context:• Here's a process I've used many times to develop a team vision: (1) The group hears a presenter, watches a video and/or reads inspiring material defining a vision and differentiating it from goal setting. (2) A facilitator guides each person through a visioning exercise imagining the ideal team or organization in five years or more. (3) Group members describe their vision to the rest of the group (if the group is larger than 8 people, break into subgroups of 6 - 8). No agreement or disagreement discussions are allowed. (4) After each person has been heard, the group discusses and summarizes the common themes or images. (5) The group sets action plans for further refinement of the vision and/or communicating to or involving the rest of the organization in a visioning process.• We need to picture and describe our preferred future as vividly as possible. One approach is to imagine it is five years from today and we're being interviewed by a top magazine, leading newspaper, or industry journalist on the phenomenal success our company or team has had.Describe the results we've achieved and perhaps the approach we've used. We need to speak in the present tense as if it's all

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NIGHTLIFE

San Pedro Sula has some of the country's best nightlife and is a great place to go out and to drink and dance the night away or to catch up on all the latest movies.

The Mall Multi Plaza, Mega Plaza and Metro Plaza all have cinema complexes. Closer to downtown you will find 2 or 3 cinemas, Multicines Plaza being the best. Movie releases are a few months behind the USA or Western Countries. Most movies are shown in English with Spanish subtitles. Ticket prices range from $1.20 to $2.50 depending on the cinema and to extent the quality of their facilities. So if you enjoy the movies and like nice chairs and good sound try one of the more up market places. Movies are usually shown at 3, 5, 7 and 9 PM. Tuesday is a popular day, with 2 tickets for the price of one, but be prepared to go early to get a seat, as sometimes tickets do sell out. All local papers have a daily cinema schedule.

San Pedro Sula is home to a lot of bars. A fun night can be had in Zona Viva going from bar to bar. A local favorite and fun place to hang out is La Cava in Barrio Los Andes 2 and 3 Calle, 16 Ave NO. Great Karaoke nights and occasional live music on the weekends packs the people in. Jerry the owner mixes a range or cocktails. Watch out for the Barcardi 121 or ask if he has some Guaro for a fire packed drink. There is a good selection of music and the patrons are always happy to have a chat.

Karaoke Club in Zona Viva is a popular place with the locals and even if you are not a Karaoke fan it can be a good place to catch some quality music. The quality of the singers is at times surprising and at other times not so surprising. Big Daddies, Caribbean and Gators Sports Bar are also all popular spots in Zona Viva. Bars do come and go regularly in San Pedro Sula, so just look for a place with some people and some music.

TGI Fridays, Applebee's, Ruby Tuesdays and Fogancito's are all popular places to eat and drink on the weekends. All places are well located near the Circunvalcion. For a bit more local color and atmosphere, consider visiting a local disco. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights are the most popular. But most discos are open every night except Monday. Check the local papers for promotion nights such as ladies night, live music, beer promotions or open bar (cover charge, then all you care to drink).

The pick of the discos is Kawamas Bay, which is located on the Circunvalcion. The disco plays a lot of Latin music and has a friendly staff. It can get very busy on the weekends usually around 11.00 PM. The disco stays open to 5 AM or 6 PM and it is a place to dance. You will find more people on the dance floor than at the bar or tables and chairs for most of the night. So put on your dancing shoes and be ready for some Salsa, Merengue and Punta. No need to worry, since you will still get a bit of house, rock and techno music. Cover charges vary from $2.50 to $6, depending on the night.

Confetti's Disco is also popular and is only located a block on from Kawamas Bay. Confetti's also fills up on the weekends and stays open to around 5am or 6am. The disco plays a variety of music on the weekends and a bit more house and techno music than Kawamas Bay. Cover charges vary from $2.50 to $6.

Millenium Disco is located in the Social Club Arabe at the end of Barrio Rio Pierdas the disco is the classiest place in town. Friday and Saturday nights are busy and cover charges vary from $3.50 to $6.

The Sampedrano Cultural Center holds regularly events such as concerts, performances and art shows. Call (504) 553-3911 or 553-3768 for event schedules.

For safety reasons, be sure to take a taxi when traveling even just a few blocks after dark. Walking around Zona Viva is OK but only within a block or two radius of the area. Otherwise just get a taxi, most fares cost $2 to $3, but prices do go up the later the night gets.

WHEN TO GO AND WHY San Pedro Sula can be visited at all times of year. Two special times to visit are during the Fair of June or Feria de Juliana. The month long celebrations range from Cultural Events, Live Music, Street Carnivals, AGAS Agricultural Fair to the Expo Centro Fair, which includes live music and food.

The Fair, though not as well known as Carnival in La Ceiba, offers a good chance to join the Sanpedranos in celebrating their city. Again at nights be sure to take a taxi other than that it is a great time to visit San Pedro Sula.

The other special time to visit is during the Folkloric Festival, which runs over 2 Saturday nights in September. The festival is a cultural event, which includes country food stands, music and national presentations of music and dance from different international cultural groups that have made their home in San Pedro Sula. To top this off a famous Latin American Group also plays. If you are visiting Honduras for a long period of time be sure to pencil this event in, as it is one of the country's best.

HOW TO GET THERE

The Ramon Villeda Morales - San Pedro Sula Airport is located 13 kms from downtown. TACA, Continental, American, Iberia, Sol Air, Copa Air (from Panama) and Atlantic Airlines (from Belize City and Managua) all fly into San Pedro Sula. While Islena, Sosa and Atlantic Airlines connect the city to major destinations such as Tegucigalpa, La Ceiba, Roatan, Guanaja and Utila.

Buses to and from San Pedro Sula leave to and from most major l

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