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Is saturated fat increases the appetite and gain weight?

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

According to this new study, published in the journal “The Journal of Clinical Investigation”, saturated fats increase the appetite by tricking the body that is still hungry after a meal. The researchers found that certain fats, particularly palmitic acid, activates a gene called gene PKCB. When the gene is activated PKCB, it makes the body insensitive to the hormone, leptin and insulin, which tell the body it has eaten enough.

The effects of foods high in saturated fat

In this study, researchers exposed the rodents to palmitic acid, a saturated fat, several times a day. When rodents were given the acid, they activate the gene PKCB, removing the effects of leptin and insulin on appetite.

While saturated fats produced this effect, unsaturated fats (such as oleic acid, a fatty acid found in olive oil, among others), do not. This confirms the idea that all fats are not bad.

Is saturated fats increase appetite and weight gain are humans?

If the effect of foods rich in fat on appetite and weight gain is true in humans, it would give an additional reason to avoid foods high in saturated fats, especially palmitic acid. The palmitic acid is discoverable in food sources such as palm oil, butter, cheese, meat and milk. Studies have shown that saturated fats such as palmitic acid increases the risk of heart disease by raising LDL (bad) cholesterol levels and promoting plaque formation in arteries. These problems increase the risk of heart disease and stroke.

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Fitness tips for women over 40 years

Monday, August 9th, 2010

After age 40, women are much more prone to hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis and obesity. They were also more likely to lose muscle mass and density of their bones. Exercise helps to slow the unhealthy consequences of the natural aging process of your body.

Stay in shape after 40 years produces positive effects on all physiological system of the body of a woman. For best results, you can follow this advice:

1) Doing aerobic (cardiovascular)
Take a brisk walk, jog, crop rotations, the step, dance moves, etc.. you’re spoiled for choice. Your heart will beat faster, your blood vessels expand, you deliver more oxygen to your muscles and it rids the toxins. Your brain will release endorphins (chemicals that improve your mood). You burn calories and fat.

2) Make Weight
Raise dumbbells to build muscle and strength, increase bone density, improve posture, reduce the risk of injuries to his lower back and tone your arms. Did you know that building muscle can increase metabolic rate by at least 15%? Your metabolism works faster will burn more calories all day.

Do not be afraid to become too large with strength training, you’re just tone your body.

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Pilates Exercises to improve your body and your mind

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Pilates exercises are good for your body and your mind. Pilates exercises are practiced on a flat surface, often on a mat on the floor. Pilates exercises are inspired by yoga but also in dance and gymnastics. Pilates helps in losing weight among other arms.

Pilates exercises are based on eight guidelines intended to guide the person who continually practice Pilates: concentration, breathing, control, fluidity, a center of gravity, precision, isolation, sequencing.

Almost all Pilates exercises require involvement of the abdominal muscle groups, back and buttocks. You must therefore adopt a correct posture for doing Pilates. In fact, your body has to use muscles to stabilize when on Pilates objects (such as Swiss ball) intentionally causing the imbalance.

In fact, many people use Pilates exercises to not only keep the line but also to reduce stress and anxiety. For Pilates, you set about breathing. And you laying on the breath while concentrating on muscle groups, you are able to reduce stress. This is especially useful for people who suffer from chronic diseases and stress are often extra.

Not only do pilates unite your body and your mind, but they can also give you a better discipline, which is good for your health and well-being. Stress brings many chemical changes your body. Stress increases blood flow to large muscles and slows digestion as it prepares the body syndrome “fight or flee.

The blood vessels and blood sugar increases. Many hormones are disabled. That is if there is a danger, your adrenaline goes up very quickly to fight against the danger or to allow you to run away as fast as you can. But nowadays, most sources of stress do not come from an imminent danger to life, but rather within a modern society. These activities could put you in “fight or flee,” but there is little place to escape the stress in this modern world (and especially what to do after when you return to normal life once you have “managed to escape?).

Stress is responsible for many diseases. The well-being does not mean the opposite of disease. The well-being is more than the lack of disease. We must instead see a global well-being that affects both mental and physical aspects of life. Many negative habits develop because of stress and lack of well-being.

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Anxiety and Diet -part 2-

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

anxiety and dietBreakfast for all days

Decaffeinated coffee or tea or other tea with skim milk and artificial sweetener.
A whole-grain toast with 1 tablespoon cheese or other lean (low fat). (more…)

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Anxiety and Diet -part 1-

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

anxiety and diet

Attitudes related to emotional factors like anxiety and distress, call instant gratification when you follow a diet regime. Therefore, the most popular foods are those rich in fats and sugars, because they generate a calming effect and a feeling of being fast.

Women who live a hurry, they assume many responsibilities and people around them. They tend to peck, disordered eating, swallow, not chew. Live stressed, have cellulite and weight of worry, not many kilos, but need to lose weight. Here the diet to start. (more…)

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Meals to Reduce Abdomen

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Meals to Reduce Abdomen

To reduce the abdomen not only have to do crunches, but also is making a choice of healthy foods. These are some of the foods to reduce the abdomen, will help you have fewer outbursts, and give you more energy.

1. Foods rich in fiber.
Fruits and vegetables because these foods are rich in fiber, you will feel full faster. In addition, researchers believe that high levels of antioxidants as vitamin C and beta-carotene help to reduce fat in the abdomen. Get your quantities of beta-carotene from carrots and peaches. You can get the vitamin C of oranges and raspberries, but remembering that the juice is not as good a substitute as the whole fruit. (more…)

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Activities and weight loss

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

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The way energy is selected mechanism is determined by the intensity (speed of execution of movement) and volume (amount of work). So, when the intensity is low and high volume aerobic metabolism is resorted to.

But what is low intensity? In efforts aerobic intensity correlates with heart rate (which is about 75 beats per minute at rest). This means that the higher speed of movement, the greater the number of beats per minute reaching the limit (estimated at 220 minus age for men and 200 minus age for women).

Regarding metabolism can be based on the concept that it requires about 70 calories per kilometer race (always depending on the intensity), so if you make your calorie count, you can discern how to remove excess run. For example, if you have entered 2200 calories and has run 7 kilometers, has used its reserves to 300 calories, and required 2000 for basal metabolism and 500 to run that distance.

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8 Tips for Feeding Nutrition Tips to Improve Diet III

Friday, May 28th, 2010

8 Tips for Feeding Nutrition Tips to Improve Diet

5. Avoid refined carbohydrates. On average, 50% of the calories of a normal person come from carbohydrates. Refined carbohydrates are those to which has been stripped of fiber, vitamins E and B, the seeds and core. In other words, all nutrients have been removed and only the starch. Refined carbohydrates cause all the same problems as refined sugar.

Refined carbohydrates will make you feel satisfied, but do not provide vitamins or minerals. This causes an overload in your digestive system and endocrine systems. If you want to improve your food, then definitely No refined carbohydrates are an option.
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8 Tips for Feeding Nutrition Tips to Improve Diet II

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

8 Tips for Feeding Nutrition Tips to Improve Diet

Fruits are good for you, are a great source of vitamin C and fiber. Verdras are highlighted here because when feeding is recommended to improve or enhance the diet, he tells people to consume more fruits and vegetables, but tend to increase intake of fruit and not the vegetables.

3. Avoid fried foods, trans fats, partially hydrogenated oils and hydrogenated oils. As the time passes more bad things still appear on hydrogenated oils and fried foods. Hydrogenation is an industrial use to convert liquid oils into solid fats. This gives packaged foods a greater conservation than using natural oils. Hydrogenation produces trans fats linked to a variety of health problems including cancer, difficult to develop anti-inflammatory substances normally produced by the body, heart, makes the body less resistant to chemicals, viruses and bacteria (which could be a source of immune system problems), depression and fatigue among other things. (more…)

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8 Tips for Feeding Nutrition Tips to Improve Diet

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

8 Tips for Feeding Nutrition Tips to Improve Diet

If you were told that there is an entity that has quadrupled the amount of cardiovascular disease in men over 40, has caused disease in the skin of teenagers who never existed before, and has caused cancer in women who hitherto were not known be overwhelmed and would like to know what institutions are doing and the government on the matter. This entity exists and is called the Western diet.

As diets contain increasingly processed and refined foods, diseases increase and begin to see more obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease or cancer. Eating a nutrient-deficient diet also causes other problems such as fatigue, allergy, depression, chronic pains, skin problems and many other issues that affect the quality of our lives.
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