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Some facts about the low-calorie diet

Viliyana FIlipova — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 06:17:11 +0000

The low-calorie diet followed even for 8 years did not affect the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer and breast cancer in older women. This survey data show Women’s Health Initiative Dietary Modification, conducted in the U.S. It involved 48,835 women (average age 62 years) who were divided into two groups: control group and comparison group, which has reduced the use of fat to 20% and increased use of vegetables, fruit and cereal cultures (up to 5-6 servings each day). In the first year of the study women in the second group visited 18 lessons on healthy eating, and then 4 more in each subsequent year. On the sixth year of observation they have reduced the use of fat to 8.2%, and the use of fruits, vegetables and cereals was increased only 1.1 and 0.5 servings daily.
The results show that cholesterol liproproteinite of low density in these women has declined by 3.55 mg / dL, blood pressure – with 0.31 mm. The number of women, stroke and cardiovascular disease in these 8 years was nearly identical to the control group. In 3.4% of women with cardiovascular pathology, registered before the start of the study, low-calorie diet was associated with higher risk of recurrent cardiovascular events.
The low-calorie diet can be considered for such conditions because it led to weight loss for women in the second group with only 0.4 kg compared to the first, reported magazine Prevention.

Diet according to your taste

Viliyana FIlipova — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:52:59 +0000

Many weight loss diets have stunning titles – in order to attract people who want to overthrow overweight. But some of them do not really offer anything more than well-known and bored measures in the fight against obesity: the elimination of certain foods or food groups, restricting calories and “smart” tips on how to trick your body that you are not hungry. In contrast, the diet according to taste (Flavor Point Diet) proposes a new, better approach to weight loss, says its author, Dr. David Katz – an expert in nutrition at the prestigious Yale University, USA. Developed its diet is based in his own words, the right control appetite and satiety faster using certain food tastes. The diet ensure consumption of tasty food and presents an innovative plan that aims to teach a person how to effectively suppress your hunger and help the process of losing weight. The diet liking is the first weight-loss diet that uses the science of taste and their effect on appetite. According to its author, the mixing of many spices and tastes like sweet, salty or sour stimulates the appetite center in the brain and leads to overeating. Accordingly, smaller groups of taste in a meal facilitate brain and stomach to reach faster to the point of satiation.
What to Eat
To understand the concept of the system, weakening must pass through several phases and thus adapt to the new way of food choices. The first two stages are educational and are necessary for people to realign and organize the flavors in their meals. In the first phase, which lasts four weeks, weakening eat in accordance with the characteristic flavors of the day.
- Week 1: raisins / grapes, pineapple, cranberry, lemon, peach, orange, apple.
- Week 2: tomato, carrot, mushrooms, onions, pumpkin, spinach, bell peppers.
- Week 3: apple, tomato, almond, thyme, walnut, sesame, basil.
- Week 4: spinach, orange, mint, lemon, grilled, fennel, cranberry.
Advanced menu accompanies each day, along with recipes and nutrient analysis. For example, for a day dedicated to spinach, it is recommended the following menu:
- Breakfast: Spinach, feta omelet with whole wheat and cut off a slice.
- Snack: crackers and pot spinach with yogurt or baby carrots.
- Lunch: Spinach salad and turkey.
- Dinner: Pasta with spinach marinara sauce, salad and dessert – fruit salad of berries fruits like blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and more.
Every day should include about 1500 calories and for those wishing to lose weight faster is preparing an alternative menu – with 1300 calories. After three weeks of adherence to the regime there is a prize – now includes a day of delights – each week, with coconut and chocolate. The second phase of the diet according to taste lasts two weeks and includes a wide variety of flavors. However, every meal retains a basic taste. For example, breakfast may be a taste of peach, lunch – spinach and dinner – a curry. The last phase will be of unlimited duration and may become permanent, so the author hopes the diet taste. During this stage the council is to carefully read food labels and to prefer the raw, unprocessed foods and avoiding those with high fructose syrup, trans fats or many different ingredients.

Why the diet of Pierre Dukan was claimed as not healthy?

Viliyana FIlipova — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:29:04 +0000

One of the most popular diets in recent times, which promises permanent weight loss – that of a French nutritionist Pierre Dukan, by many is considered harmful and ineffective in terms of health and actual weight loss. In essence, the diet of Dukan requires adherence to four basic stages of the diet – eating only protein, transition to joint intake of meat and vegetables, the release of carbohydrates, followed by a permanent stage, during which, however one day a week is a separate again for protein meal. The nutritionists, however, easily rebutted as the proposed plan of food intake, leading a number of arguments. Many of them stand behind the idea that carbohydrates are an essential part of human intake of nutrients that underpin the food pyramid. When a person reduce or completely exclude carbs from your diet, it reduces body weight, but at the expense of water in the body. The processes of degradation of fats and removal of human body are triggered by the New York Professor David Levite, adding that lack of water in the body is noticeable especially in the face. When you start to eat different food, the body quickly begins to recover lost amounts of water, and thus to accumulate again lost weight.

What Makes Energy Products Work

Viliyana FIlipova — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:26:45 +0000

Have you ever had a Red Bull, or a Monster Energy drink and wondered, why does this make me feel this way? Well, we have too, and the answer is quite simple. Like any other stimulant, pre-workout supplement or energy drink, the active ingredient is caffeine mixed in with a little flavoring. Some of the products do have extra ingredients that are beneficial, but that is rarely why they are purchased. Especially when it comes to pre workout supplements since they have a very specific purpose. Lots of people are simply drinking Red Bulls now a days because they like the taste, and they really don’t even affect their energy anymore. It’s amazing to see people continue drinking energy drinks when it’s clear they aren’t doing anything for them; maybe it’s an addiction.

Some misconceptions about contraception

Viliyana FIlipova — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:58:42 +0000

From the hormone tablets are filling – the fact is that combination of different oral contraceptives may have an effect on body weight of the woman. One of the main prerequisites for this is that estrogens, which are based on part of the contraceptive products play a role in fluid retention in the body and thus lead to weight gain. The higher doses of estrogen are in preparation, the more noticeable is this effect. In a far greater extent, the link between contraceptive product and rising weight is strictly individual, as are important personal intolerance, lifestyle, diet and movement. Therefore should not be considered that the intake of oral contraceptions inevitably leads to obesity. Should not be consumed together with alcohol – another popular misconception is that taking contraceptives is incompatible with alcohol. Indeed, alcoholic beverages do not reduce the efficacy of the contraceptive pill. However, if as a result of alcohol abuse is occurring disorder in the gastrointestinal tract in the form of vomiting, for example, it is desirable within the last 7 days to use additional contraception.
The combination of contraceptives lead to infertility – not only that it is not true, but studies suggest that women who used oral contraceptives, at times less frequently observed infertility compared with women of similar age who are born or an abortion, but were not taking contraceptives. While still nursing women can not get pregnant – this false perception underlies many abortions. About 4 weeks after birth reproductive system of women returned to their normal rhythm of operation, suggesting that it is necessary to implement methods of preventing from the unwanted pregnancy. The tablets are taken after sex – with many women who do not keep a regular sex life, the agenda is the question is it not advisable to adopt a single tablet – after sex instead of daily protection. For several reasons this is a misconception. On the one hand, one tablet applicable after sex, contains 6 times more hormones than normal Pill. Such a dose is large shock to the body. On the other hand, this method of contraception is not recommended by experts, according to sex, even twice a month is cause for daily intake of tablets.

The Diet Solution, One Solution For Many Problems

Viliyana FIlipova — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:05:54 +0000

Are you suffering from overweight, high blood pressure, cholesterol and constipation? Then go for The Diet Solution to get rid of it permanently. It has the guideline of your meals you should take or avoid. It is not only helpful to lose your body fats but ensure you to increase energy, vitamin and health at the same time. First of all you have to identify your metabolic type to make your meal plan. Amount of vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates, depend on the metabolic type of a person. Eliminate the harmful foods immediately and take plenty of foods that are good for your health alternatively.
First of all you are advised to avoid foods that contain hydrogenated fats while you are going for The Diet Solution. These types of foods are cookies, margarine, cereals, chips and cracks or any type of snacks. Immediately avoid processed soy food that is dangerous for your health. You can take sweeteners with beverages if advised by experts because your body should have enough calories. Take just two cups of coffee daily. It is best for you to eliminate alcohol permanently or you can take one glass per week. You will only be benefited if you eliminate the foods that create problems in your body.
Make it sure that you are taking plenty of alternative foods so that you can get lot of energy and vitality while dieting. Lot of vegetables and fruits are the main substitute foods for your health. Your recommended foods should be like organic meat and poultry, raw chocolate, stevia, sprouted breads, organic egg, avocado, fish, raw nuts, butter, raw dairy products, baked sweet potatoes etc. Krill or flaxseed, salmon and cod liver are the Omega 3 oil which is the preferred for you. Many diet solution programs are there to make The Diet Solution Program perfect and effective for lifetime. Don’t forget to study about the pros and cons of the diet solution you are going to take.

How to keep your weight after diet

Viliyana FIlipova — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 12:31:04 +0000

Anyone who has tried knows – the maintenance of weight after the diet is more difficult than just weight loss. Properly chosen diet certainly contributes to faster or slower weight loss, but of course we can not guarantee that the lost weight will return. So after the diet must be followed certain proportions, the menu is varied gradually. Any nutritionist will confirm that to maintain your weight, you should remove the reason is overweight. The biggest challenge is to resist the smell and the type of mass catering, others who eat with great appetite, alcohol, which prevents to control the quantity of food. If you do not handle the negative result is guaranteed – collapse, overeating and regain the previous weight, and in many cases even higher weight. Some medicaments from the modern industry is giving you the ability to lose weight fast and to keep your weight. The pills ECA Xtreme helps you to lose weight fast and to reach you goals with you perfect weight. The other products are also supporting the weight losing, such as Ephedrine HCL 25mg, which is increasing the oxygen intake in opening of your breathing passageways.
For example, if you followed the diet 10 days, should gradually increase the amount of food over the next 30. If you have fasted three days, from this state to the next exit 9. It is important to remember that no diet will help you achieve maximum results without sufficient movement.

How to keep your motivation to follow diet

Viliyana FIlipova — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 10:16:30 +0000

It is clear: the motivation is something good and necessary. But sometimes seemed erratic – goes exactly where it’s not we want – in the middle of so good a weight loss program. And we are doing as well. Then, one day just the right direction and losing all interest in moving forward in the direction. I just noticed that our pants started to become wider and everything collapsed. And so we want to continue with the diet. But day after day, our best intentions slip and can not figure out how to motivate again. It is interesting how when motivation is high, a person feels full of energy, focused, driven to act decisively. Nothing can stand in our path and always moving in the right direction and doing things completely. But once you lose motivation, inertia prevails. We continue to say that we want to change, but we can not even go out the door. A packet of chips seems more easily achievable and desirable in planning, measuring and cooking. And yet – how to reclaim and motivation to stick to pre-selected program:
First, it is important to realize: the motivation is not constant. Do not “get” or riding freely, but must continually strive to maintain it. For this reason it is strictly an individual, ie everyone should find their own. Instead of depending on external crises which we operate, we can find a way to get up – cause reactions, to be energizing to the end, to achieving our goals. Indeed, motivation is an opportunity, not a burden or something annoying. Only with this attitude we can find the forces we need to support it.
Here are some ideas that can help us:
Make a list of at least 10 reasons why you want to lose weight or not filling. If you have already done, but something does not work, make a new one. And then remove the previous one and compare them. Every time you start to lose motivation, read your list and use it as an incentive to stick to their diligence.
If you just say “Some of the coming days I will start.” Unlikely things will happen. Whether you’re starting a new diet or back in the gym, you must stick to its decision – every day – to see results. So build a strict plan is 100% necessary. As well as careful adherence to it.
When you do not think about diet or exercise program with, it’s usually the time at which you need most from them. So (unless you are physically unwell) do not allow the mood to prejudge your actions. Think you new ways to motivate yourself and continue to follow the program – even if you do not want to do it. Then the good results are even more sweet.

Honey helps for losing weight

Viliyana FIlipova — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:08:57 +0000

Honey is rich in different nutrients. Centuries as it heal wounds, lung and gynecological, skin and heart disease. According to statistics in about one third of the drugs used honey bee venom, propolis, beeswax. In a drop of honey contained more than 70 important to the human body substances are the main carbohydrates – glucose and fructose, which unlike ordinary sugar used by the body much more easily contribute to the preservation of muscle strength and normal growth.
Honey and diet
Indeed this very caloric product can be used regularly and simultaneously weakening. It contains enzymes that stimulate digestive processes and improve the metabolism, which helps to reduce weight. Contained in the copper proteins involved in the formation of hormones. Mineral substances regulate the nervous system, respiratory tissues and the production of blood. Regular use of honey enhances the immune system.
Honey and computer
Using honey can protect your eyes from redness, fatigue and computer radiation. Honey is capable enters the body through the skin. Place linden honey on their fingertips and for 5-6 minutes rub the neck to the redness. If honey absorbed, repeat the procedure two or three times. If this area of the body constantly absorbs copper, it means that you lack any nutrients. If honey is not absorbed, prepare your hot tub (35-40 degree water) and lie in it for 10-15 minutes. Repeat procedure twice a week – it has a beneficial effect of the glass body of the eye and improves vision.
Honey and masks
In ancient times have used honey to preserve freshness and beauty of the skin of the face. Today masks with honey are very popular. Mix 1 teaspoon honey with 1 egg yolk and brush spread over the face, leave it to act for 20 minutes. This mask is very useful for people with oily and normal skin. For dry skin mask is recommended, which consists of equal parts honey and cream – it smooths wrinkles and makes skin soft and supple. Mixture consisting of 1 / 4 cup honey and the juice of half a lemon will enhance the color of the face will lighten the skin and make freckles and pigment spots less visible.
Compatibility Test
Before any of the procedures, make sure the honey does not cause in you any allergic reactions. For this purpose apply a small amount of skin behind the ear and leave it for 10-15 minutes. If no itching or irritation occur, then everything is fine. If rash occurs, this honey is not suitable for you, but maybe another f.

Proper metabolism depends on the type of food

Viliyana FIlipova — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:04:46 +0000

In people with obesity always comes a time when the accumulated weight have increasingly greater impact on the appearance and activity of various organs. According to the specialists Dieting Tips, the unloaders days have effective only briefly. Why is that? This issue have tried to meet scientists from the American Institute of Nutrition and overweight. The results of their long and extensive study has confirmed the statement by many nutritionists believe that the secret of good figure is balanced metabolism. The Diet Reviews are telling that the lack of such balance and can lead to weight than normal, and extreme weakness. The main problem with nutritionists to give universal advice on diet comes from the individual characteristics of each organism. Everyone absorb nutrients differently and therefore consumes energy so accumulated. It is quite easy to normalize your weight with Colon Cleansing, which are balancing your metabolism. In slower absorption of energy expenditure is lower, namely unspent calories cause weight per person to rise, even if it is fed plenty. Experts advise in this case the food to dominate small amounts of carbohydrates and more rapid processing proteins (poultry, fish). Other suitable people for this kind of foods are soy products, those containing many fiber (carrots, beets, bad, cucumbers) and various milk derivatives, but with lower fat content. People whose body has accelerated metabolism, respectively “burn” faster energy. Scientists say this is due to a higher level of adrenaline and thyroid hormones in the body.
This type of people can afford to eat more fats and carbohydrates, but it is often advisable to use citrus fruits. Are ideal for various types of meat (especially poultry, red, game), fish, fats of animal origin as well as fruits and vegetables high in calcium and vitamin A – tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, spinach, broccoli. Benefit their body will also be cow’s milk, soy beans and various fruits in large quantities. There are people who can say that the metabolism is in equilibrium, ie to spend as much energy as is also producing. For them the rules of nutrition are the most simple – they can eat whatever they want, but still must comply with certain conditions – to avoid the frequent use of coffee, alcohol, bakery and meat products should not eat much sweet and not to drink too often carbonated beverages.