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The myth of calories to lose weight

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight because it will advise to eat less and exercise more.
The logic behind these measures is to create a calorie deficit in order to force your body to burn excess stored fat. The reality is that for many people follow a reduced calorie diet ends in failure, especially in the long term. A diet should not become an accounting exercise and it is also important to understand that this is not the number of calories to start, but the number of calories on arrival in the blood, which should be considered in such a scheme. A diet rich in fiber significantly reduces the absorption of fats and carbohydrates, nutrients, potentially high in calories.

In this approach there is also a psychological factor for those trying to lose weight by cutting calories, food suddenly becomes an enemy instead of a nutrient needed to operate and maintain health.

The biological signal of hunger is transformed into a sign of success rather than being seen as a signal sent by the agency to show that he is hungry and lack of vital nutrients to function normally.

Starvation diet

Set a calorie standard applies to the whole world is a utopia. Several factors can affect the number of calories that a person, such as genetics, lifestyle, exercise habits, etc.. It is interesting to note that the World Health said that hunger is beginning to occur under the 2100 calories a day, a number far higher than most plans based on the concept of reducing caloric.

Schemes based on 1200 or even 800 calories per day are not uncommon (900 calories, incidentally, was the typical diet fed to prisoners in concentration camps during the Second World War). These diets very low in calories still exist today. So many people are forced to follow a dietary model of 1,600 calories per day without realizing that they follow a hypocaloric diet. When you eat less than your body needs to function normally, your body perceives this as a signal of hunger and restrictions and it will automatically mode “economic” to preserve its operation. It is a simple biological fact. The metabolism slows and you’ve lost weight initially, this weight loss suddenly stops and you can no longer lose an ounce!

There are hundreds and hundreds of operations performed at each moment in your body, so it needs fuel to perform these many tasks. If your body does not receive the materials and energy needed in your diet, it has no choice but to buy them from another source, that is to say in his own body. It is generally assumed that the body will only use its stored fat to fill the deficiency of nutrients, but it is not so simple. Your body will also tap into the bone, muscle and organ tissue. Yes, the person following this diet will lose some fat, but it will also be at the sacrifice of vital tissues.

Most people following a low calorie diet to feel one or more of these symptoms: fatigue, depression, loss of hair, dry skin, poor memory, difficulty concentrating, mood swings, irregular menstrual cycles and even lose interest in sex.

Eventually the symptoms worsen and the body weakens until eventually some health problems do appear. Disease and allergies are becoming frequent and possibly degenerative diseases are likely to occur. This deterioration may be fast or slow, depending on whether your diet is more or less deficient in nutrients.

The absurdity of the schemes based on calories

According to Dr. George Guierre on the absurdity of the schemes based on the number of calories:
“The theory of food calories equates to a kind of coal, and to neglect certain basic qualities as the vitalization; calories to equal the toxicity varies with the food … you can live very well with a number of calories below average, if foods are healthy and alive, and be patient, absorbing the normal figure, but fat, starches and meats. In other words, the food must be in affinity with our cells and our digestive tract. .

Calculate calories, makes a diet more difficult to manage and makes it potentially more dangerous risk of malnutrition of vital nutrients to the body. A diet based on monitoring of calories required to divest itself of many foods, especially to resign in controlled quantities. There deprivation and frustration. That is why this kind of diet leads to failure in the longer term. It is not possible or healthy to follow such a diet over the long term, since it is not a normal power mode, which provide the body less nutrients than what it needs to operate to meet its needs.

This does not risk the contrary, a person with a diet high in calories, but comprised mainly of foods devoid of nutrients, will be found literally in a state of undernutrition biological.

The new discoveries in nutrition, particularly regarding the influence of glycemic index of foods on blood sugar levels of the organization, we show that to lose weight it is better to eat his fill, which means maintaining its rate glycemic stability. It is therefore necessary to eat smarter. Smarter does not mean eating less or restrictive. To lose weight it is important to know the glycemic load, it can predict the impact of decreasing the consumption of certain foods on blood sugar in a food and how it should be consumed.

To lose weight healthily, you must eat healthily …!

The secret to losing weight is simple: eat healthily and your hunger! There are also other factors that diet or exercise to lose weight. Exercise is an undeniable factor of health, but overweight people often experience difficulties in practicing physical exertion before they lost weight and he is certainly not easy to produce a physical effort while reducing their energy intake !

It is therefore necessary to go through an intermediate step and gradual. It is important to know that all fats and all carbohydrates are not enemies of our health, but many elements needed to be fit and healthy.

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Natural Medicine: veganism

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Even stricter than vegetarians, this plan also prohibits the by-products of animal origin. Thus the milk, eggs, butter do not appear in a vegan meal, either in its preparation.

Other principles of vegetarianism are maintained, including the arrangement of meals, which also begins with a plate of raw vegetables. Cooked vegetables will be steamed or stewed, to allow optimal preservation of vitamins, minerals and trace elements.

Be careful to always involve grain legumes or pulses and vary the menu as much as possible. Some of the advice, but merely on short-term. It is then, somehow, a real “detox”, if we consider that animal products provide a lot of waste, difficult to eliminate by the body.

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Dietetics: Dietetics and Nutrition, dietary advice for a balanced diet

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Healthy DietThe diet, a balanced diet

From Latin diaetetica, “all rules for a balanced diet. The diet is similar to a way to act on his health and form through food.

There is today two movements as opposite as complementary: first, an abundance of food, especially fat and sugar in all possible outlets and unimaginable: bookstores, bakeries, tobacco stores, but restaurants Quick, shops, supermarkets. On the other hand, there is a real awareness of the absurdity of our diet too rich, hence the interest of many repented for junk food diet.

Note that even in countries with poor nutrition pose significant problems with deficiencies in certain nutrients for many people … but also an excessive increase in weight. Indeed, the “epidemic” of obesity on the same people in the developing world! This requires, also, to review their diet.

For the diet based primarily on a good balanced diet. If before, they spoke of “good percentage” of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates, today’s speech experts was simplified. In France, we can say that the diet, the “good rules” food is “dictated” by the National Health Nutrition (PNNS) which recommends eating:
- 5 fruits and vegetables per day
- 3 dairy products per day
- Fish twice a week
- Not too fat, or sugar,
- Not too much salt.

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Up and lose weight is bad for the heart

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

diet and heart
The familiar phenomenon of yo-yo or weight cycling is the result of restrictive dieting combined with bad food habits, and is a temporary decrease in body weight followed by weight gain equal to or greater than it was before.

This up and down weight has negative consequences for health, as reported by Dr. Susana Monereo, Head of Section of Endocrinology and Nutrition, University Hospital of Getafe in Madrid.

“Today, there is enough scientific evidence to reliably correlate of weight regain after dieting, with multiple comorbidities, particularly cardiovascular diseases, increased mortality and an increased final weight of about 30 percent over initial weight.

To avoid such complications should be aware of what we do, a diet to lose weight quickly as seasonal diets or those made urgent by a social event, not a solution.

The healthy option is to change our eating habits and incorporate physical activity into our daily routine. A balanced eating plan combined with a training program will ensure we maintain weight loss and health benefits.

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Purifying Diet: Diet menu in 7 days

Monday, January 4th, 2010

purifying diet

Monday
Breakfast
- 50 grams of toast
- 50 grams of fresh cheese
- 30 grams of jam

Lunch
- Cauliflower with half a baked potato
- 200 g of chicken curry with half an onion
- An apple, a slice of melon and five dates.

Dinner
- Two poached eggs
- Half a red pepper, half a tomato and fried eggplant in a tablespoon of olive oil
- An apple.

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Purifying diet

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

purifying diet

Every time we commit excesses with food, as in the dates of holidays, Christmas, New Year, or any other celebration, we feel the slightest need to eat to cleanse our body.

To help you do here’s an alternative to purifying diet for a week, will be useful to discard toxins and get ready to restart your nutrition plan prior to the excesses.

Note that no diet is a miracle, you must be consistent to feel its effects and consult your nutritionist or doctor before making them. Then try to maintain a healthy lifestyle incorporating exercise into your daily routine.

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Messini Diet

Monday, December 28th, 2009

messini dietAny weight loss diet that allows eating almost to stuff yourself? Is it possible …? This diet, also called Messini diet, lose weight quickly, naturally and without suffering hunger or nutritional deficiencies.

This is a very comprehensive plan that includes all food groups and combines them in a way that creates dishes very tasty and different. The abundance of this regime, of course, is based on no-fat foods and easy to digest, but they nonetheless provide the energy our body needs.

Day 1
Breakfast 1 coffee or tea without sugar and 1 orange
Collation 1 pear.

Lunch 1 cup of soup broth lean beef and 1 slice of yellow watermelon for dessert
Collation 1 orange

Dinner 1 egg, boiled, 1 girl green salad, 1 slice (25 gr.) Shredded no fat and 40 grams. of ciiruelas cooked without sugar for dessert.

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