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Healthy Weight Loss: The Diet is low in Carbohydrates and Fat

Friday, February 5th, 2010

healthy weight loss

The diet is low in carbohydrates and protein and fat. These two give you a full stomach so you feel less hungry and a diet of approximately 1000 kcal best can keep full. Carbohydrates means that bread, rice, pasta and potatoes for the most forbidden area.

Despite the large amount of fat in your diet will do much of your stored fat burning. Normally your body gets glucose from carbohydrates. This is your body for a relatively easy process. If no carb count and yet the body needs energy it will get from protein and fat. This is a complicated process that it takes longer before being included. This ensures a longer feel full, so what you back from looking for extra snack to go.

Guidelines for following a low carbohydrate diet

Protein: Meat contains many proteins, the best choice here is lean, white meat without fat. Fish is an even better choice. Because the protein is very stomach filling, you may not always much to eat here. Choose something you really like, without breadcrumbs. An omelet with cheese slices and vegetables are also a good choice.

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Weight Loss Mechanism

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Weight Loss SystemAny significant weight loss that a previously healthy person generally has not sought deliberately to indicate the existence of systemic disease. Therefore, if the questioning takes place clinician should ask about weight changes as a loss of 5% of body weight over a period of six to 12 months requires the immediate execution of further studies.

Physiological regulation of weight

The normal individual maintains its body weight in a predetermined level of stability quite remarkable, given how much they vary daily calorie intake and activity level. Given the physiological importance conserve energy reserves is difficult to lose weight and keep it off voluntarily.

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Overweight and metabolic syndrome

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Eating habits have a major influence on body weight but not the only thing that determines whether a person is overweight or not, that is, not only do we eat to gain weight, genetic factors also influence and how it works body.

How our body depends on metabolism is slow and when it has a propensity to gain weight easily, so it’s important to know how it works on our learning to control some environmental factors such as nutrition and achieving results.

But we should not blame excess weight on our metabolism, because much can be done to prevent such kilos de mas. They are the very things that help prevent metabolic syndrome.
What is metabolic syndrome?

The metabolic syndrome, also known as Syndrome X, Syndrome plurimetabolic, Insulin resistance syndrome and Reaven’s syndrome, is a malfunction in the assimilation of foods that explains why many people can not lose weight despite their hard work.

However it is much more than that, a collection of various diseases or risk factors in an individual that increase the chances of cardiovascular disease or diabetes.

The cause of the metabolic syndrome is unknown, their pathophysiology is extremely complex and only partly known. Most patients have a significantly higher age, are obese, sedentary, and have some degree of insulin resistance. The most important factors are, in order: age, genetics, sedentary lifestyle and overconsumption of calories.

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Cutting calories is the key to losing weight

Monday, November 16th, 2009

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, led by the School of Public Health at Harvard and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, has determined that the key to losing weight is to stick to the basic rule: down the calories.

According to Dr. Elizabeth Nabel, director of the National Heart, Lung and Hematologic, “The secret is that no matter if you focus on reducing fat or carbohydrate … the key is to limit consumption of calories and burn more calories exercise.

The researchers randomly assigned 811 overweight adults with four diets, each of which contained different levels of fat, protein and carbohydrates. All four contain healthy fats, were rich in whole grains, fruits and vegetables and low in cholesterol.

About two thirds of participants were women. Each was encouraged to lose 750 calories a day with your diet, they exercised 90 minutes a day, keeping a food diary on the Internet and meet regularly with advisors in nutrition to monitor his progress.

None of the diets was better than the other: reducing weight and waist size were similar in all groups.

Participants lost an average of 6 kg (13 pounds) at six months, but all the groups began to gain weight after a year. Within two years the average weight loss was down to 4 kilograms (9 pounds). Only 15% lost 10% or more of their initial weight.

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