‘ideal weight’

Because we can not maintain the correct weight

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

We know how important it is to be healthy and avoid complications in our body, the right food and being overweight is a disease that affects many people of the world population, “But we have stopped to think why is this happening?

Because we can not maintain weight

The truth is that our body can turn into fat, all the extra calories you eat and burn during everyday activity. These fats accumulate as reserves, which the body understands, will serve in times of scarcity. Clear that the risks of scarcity can not exist, there is that we build for which sometimes is so difficult to maintain our ideal weight.

Breakfast is one of the meals that we should never skip, because it is the most important because we come from many hours of fasting, this does not mean we have to eat sweets, juices, cereals, tea etc, but we must make a breakfast balanced that allows us to start a good day, milk, cereals and fruits are most recommended.

As for the snack, salted and fried potatoes are foods that we should prefer not to consume, because of its high sodium content is not recommended for people suffering from hypertension, and high content mostly fat, Collation mid-morning and afternoon should not exceed 100 calories preferably and if possible, we have to choose sugar-free cereal bars, fruit, or yogurt, so that in the next intake, the body only absorbs what is needed and not exceed in storage, preventing a lean period. (more…)

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Choose the vitamins

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

The food is generally sufficient to cover our daily needs for vitamins, provided that eat everything. These needs are not necessarily all be covered daily, but over a period of fifteen days, it is estimated that there is no waiting.

However, some people are deficient in the case of poor nutrition or unbalanced. It can often be the elderly, pregnant women, heavy drinkers and smokers (tobacco increased by 30% the need for vitamin C), adolescents and women who make dieting.

To choose your vitamins, you should know that there are over 15 different kinds. They are generally classified into two groups: water soluble vitamins (soluble in water) and fat-soluble vitamins (soluble in fats). Their contributions are varied and require prior identification of your needs or your shortcomings. As part of a health check, a doctor can help in this research and offer you the vitamins are best suited to your profile.

To supplement your vitamin intake, you can choose between many solutions. The healthiest and least expensive is to vary your diet and eat lots of fresh fruit.
Vitamins are swarming in your plate

For input “natural” vitamin A, nothing better than carrots (raw or cooked), fresh chervil, apricot, spinach, pumpkin, lettuce, peppers, melons, tomatoes and pickle. The oil of cod livers of animals and dandelion are among the foods rich in vitamin A.

If you lean more to the vitamin B1, prefer dry yeast, baker’s yeast, wheat germ, eggs, fish, dried peas, beans, pork, walnuts, hazelnuts and lentils dry.

For a cure of vitamin C, turn readily to the broccoli, zucchini, strawberries, kiwi, papaya, red pepper, oranges, Brussels sprouts, black currants. A high vitamin C deficiency is the cause of scurvy, a disease disappeared in rich countries, but deadly.
Finally, to satisfy your need for vitamin E, promotes oil wheat germ, sunflower oil, palm oil, margarine and nuts. The almond oil and cod liver are often recommended in cases of vitamin E.
Artificial inputs to meet your needs

You can also find food “guaranteed content of vitamin” and Food “fortified with vitamins, as well as vitamin tablets, sold in pharmacies or supermarkets.

Be aware that food-grade vitamins are guaranteed of industrial products which have been added vitamins destroyed by the process. Those “rich in vitamins” are virtually over: since June 1992. Only cereals, some lunches and chocolate biscuits for children have the right to be rich in vitamins, and the dose rarely exceeds 25% of recommended daily intake.

If you want to take vitamin tablets, choose cocktails Multivitamin, which contain all the essential vitamins.

Note: The vitamins, except vitamin C have no effect in the short term. After several weeks or months of treatment that a profit can be felt.

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Stay in your new weight

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

weight control

If losing weight is hard enough, which may be more desperate still upon arriving at our goal weight in the coming months to see that little by little began to recover lost kilos. And it is to stick to our ideal weight can be as difficult as losing it at the time.

Also returning to unhealthy weight, regain the lost kilos may have other negative effects such as:
* Depression and anxiety in addition to a negative impact on our self-esteem
* Have the feeling of losing control which may in turn lead to “comfort” with binge eating
* More trouble losing weight with age. Studies have shown that women who go through cycles of weight loss and weight gain more fat over time than women who have not been there. And women who are experiencing menopause also have greater difficulty losing weight.

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Some mistakes to avoid to have defined muscles (II)

Friday, January 15th, 2010

build muscleDo not eat most carbohydrates
The key to everything is in balance, the regimes which severely restrict carbohydrates as the Atkins diet or the ketogenic diet can yield good results and accelerate the elimination of adipose tissue. But if such a reduction in carbohydrates is excessive and is taken to limit the effects will be more negative than positive.

On the one hand when the absence of total carbohydrates is a great risk that the body relies on the muscle tissue for energy, resulting in muscle destruction. Also, when forces the body to get energy from fat alone produced some metabolic waste called ketones that hinder the removal of fat.

Finally, if reduced to almost nothing carbohydrate cravings they feel and the sweet and has a high probability of yielding to the need to fall in periods of bingeing.

The solution is to reduce simple carbohydrates and use that instead of gaining weight fibrous help maintain the ideal weight, for example, vegetables, salads, vegetables and a small amount of vegetables and whole grains such as oatmeal.

The amount of these products in your diet will depend both on your physical constitution by your level of activity as an indication can be worth two salads and a bowl of oatmeal or vegetables a day, but a nutritionist who will be the best indications respect.

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