Lose Your Weight, don’t eat this!

Posted by iqko | February 8th, 2010 in Diet Menu | No Comments »

According to Dr. David Heber, MD, Ph.D., snacking should not be considered a weakness of will, but rather as a possible deficiency in certain nutrients, or neurochemical imbalance of the body. Anyway, the will alone can not overcome these impulses to eat regularly. Only the fact to fill gaps and to practice a method of mind control, can correct this habit that contributes to a weight too high.

You have full attention to this food :

Red meat (hamburgers and steaks)
Iron deficiency (especially if you are a woman under 50 years). This deficiency can be caused by inadequate consumption of foods rich in iron, but also (as is often the case) by poor absorption of iron. Foods rich in iron, other than meat: dry fruits, eggs, whole grains. To increase iron absorption, eat foods with a sour taste (citrus and tomatoes for example).

Cheese and related products:
A lack of essential fatty acids is very common in the Western population. The organization lacks these fatty acids triggers an attraction to other fats, but are woefully inadequate. Eat at least 3 meals per week of fatty fish (salmon, herring, tuna, mackerel, etc..). You can also take a supplement of fish oil rich in Omega-3.

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You can lose weight? 1 symptoms, 1 solutions

Posted by iqko | February 6th, 2010 in Diet, Maintenance Diet | No Comments »

You follow many diets and diets to lose weight, but the results do not go, or simply, they are discouraging. Perhaps the problem for you than the mere factor of food and even exercise.

We offer 1 to search for clues that might indicate that you have one or more of these problems. If you are assigned one of these indices is sufficient for this problem is to control your weight. We offer each of them an easy to apply.

Fast Weight Loss

Fast Weight Loss

Symptom :
You notice the presence of tiny yellow spots in the white of the eye (or is this an outright trend towards yellow).

Tip:
Your liver is congested and you should take a little cure “Detox” as described in our review of Spring Detox: to get in shape this summer!

You can also add a lawyer and a cup of cruciferous vegetables include: kale, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts or raw sauerkraut. Research has shown that these foods regularly consumed significantly increase liver function in just 3 weeks. They reduce the absorption of calories and increase fat metabolism.

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19 important tips to lose weight

Posted by iqko | February 1st, 2010 in Healhty Diet | No Comments »

1. Reduce portions, do not take a second plate of the same dish.
2. Make regular physical activity.
3. Eat slowly, chew well.
4. Do not skip meals.

5. Eat more fruits and vegetables.
6. Significantly reduce the consumption of fatty foods.
7. Avoid consumption of alcoholic beverages.
8. Significantly reduce the consumption of salt, because salt retains water in the tissues.
9. Avoid soft drinks, even those reduced sugar.
10. Avoid snacks during the evening. If you are too hungry before bedtime and it causes insomnia, take a plain yogurt with a fruit or a slice of wheat toast without butter with stewed fruit without sugar.
11. Replace a meal of the day with a salad that contains several types of vegetables with a little olive oil, herbs and lemon juice.
12. Avoid keeping food forbidden at home (crisps, chocolate, candy, etc..).
13. Drink enough water to support the removal.
14. Eat lean meats and fish.
15. Moderate consumption of starchy foods (bread, pasta).
16. Avoid devitalized and denatured foods (white sugar, white bread, etc..).
17. Do not eat meats, sausages, ham, greaves, pies.
18. Prepare foods without cooking grease. It is best to cook foods in the oven, steamed on the grill or in a nonstick pan.
19. If we make a difference in his diet, do not be alarmed but rather continue the diet at subsequent meals.

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Check your stress and easily lose your excess weight

Posted by iqko | January 30th, 2010 in Diet | No Comments »

Whenever your organization is facing a stressful situation, your adrenal gland cortex are stretched and there is a sharp increase in the rate of stress hormones into the circulatory system. These hormones, cortisol, insulin, adrenaline, cause a series of reactions whose purpose is to respond to stressful situations. The body draws on fat reserves to be sent to the muscles where they should be converted into energy to help respond to stress by acting leak or attack.

In the modern world the most stressful actions are not caused by threatening situations requiring such a response. The consequence of this modern stress, that fat is released into the bloodstream, is not ultimately used by the body and it will be re stored, with surpluses in excess carbohydrates also released as a result of stress in the tissues of the abdominal region. Excess fat in the body region includes several risk factors for health problems such as heart problems, hypertension, diabetes.

According to researchers at Yale University, the United States, a study on rats has shown that the accumulation of abdominal fat has a vicious circle, it promotes the production of cortisol, which in turn increases the storage abdominal fat.

Another study by Wake Forest University, has shown that monkeys under stress showed a rate of more abdominal fat than non-stressed monkeys. This situation was similar, the monkey either active or sedentary. The researchers deduced that the study of stressful situations favoring the accumulation of abdominal fat.

In conclusion, the more you are under stress, you will accumulate more fat and increase your weight, it will be impossible to metabolize fat for elimination.

Instead, a non-stressed, or having perfect control over the stress, completely metabolize the excess fat and lose weight more easily.

The best way to manage stress is to regularly practice a relaxation technique and full breaths. The deep breathing helps to fully oxygenate the lungs and burn fat.

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The miracle of oxygenation: Increase of 70% weight loss

Posted by iqko | January 28th, 2010 in Diet | No Comments »

Researchers at UCLA have had difficulty believing the results of their studies: breathing sessions provide a comprehensive heat loss of 140% higher than that obtained during a twenty minute ride on a bicycle. These results seem incredible but is real.

Scientists have identified several explanations for these extraordinary results.

Why do we breathe wrong?

The overall conclusion is that the vast majority of the current population is chronically short of oxygen and for various reasons:

* The overall rate of oxygen in the atmosphere has decreased considerably in recent years. Pollution and global warming are the main responsible for a decrease of .002% of oxygen in the atmosphere. A figure that seems insignificant, but accumulated over several years represents a significant impact.
* Chronic stress experienced in modern life reduced respiratory amplitude. Over 90% of the population, particularly in the Western world, takes a breath short and limited to the upper chest.

What is the role of respiration in weight loss?
1 – Oxygen promotes the absorption of nutrients stimulating the metabolism.
Many nutrients are needed to stimulate the metabolism. These nutrients are absorbed in the villi of the intestinal wall. For this absorption takes place optimally, a large quantity of oxygen is required in intestinal cells. If oxygen is not present in sufficient quantity, there may be some loss of absorption up to 70%, resulting in a proportional slowing of metabolism. Once the amount of oxygen available is increasing, it follows a significant increase metabolism, which means more fat burned and eliminated.
2 – Oxygen promotes combustion of fat.
Oxygen alkalinized liquid cell, a quality essential to the transformation of nutrients into ATP (adenosine triphosphate) an essential fuel for energy production. The deep breaths therefore increase ATP production and promote the removal of fat from the production of energy.
3 – Oxygen eliminates toxins that promote fattening.
The rapid elimination of toxins and waste pollution in the body, is important to promote weight loss. When these products are found in excessive amounts in the bloodstream, they slow down the functioning of certain glands like the thyroid and adrenal glands. The body tends to produce more fat to trap toxic elements and protect these vital organs. Fortunately, over 70% of these toxic elements can be converted into gases by the body and be eliminated by the lungs during deep breaths.
4 – The fats combine with oxygen to be eliminated during respiration.
However, incredible as it sounds, and according to a study by the Institute of Boulder Colorado, most of us use only 25% of our lung capacity! This alone is enough to make it difficult to weight loss and reduce the pounds can be lost. The mere fact of placing a breathing limited to a full breath, can double the amount of fat oxidized during burning and respiration.
5 – Oxygen reduces stress and decreases the production of hormones promoting the accumulation of fat in the body.
When blood oxygen levels are high, there is a great sense of calm, stress hormones are deactivated, the pancreas produces less insulin, a hormone promotes fat storage.

How to practice full breath?

With a little practice it is very easy to perform a full breath session. A session of 5 minutes, 3 or 4 times a day is ample to get results. In fact the voluntary practice of this kind of breathing will cause a change of unconscious way you breathe. With time and practice, your breathing usually becomes broader, more flexible, fuller, your blood oxygen increases considerably.

The best way to learn the full breath is to follow an introductory course or simply using an audio recording and follow the directions and pace of the therapist or facilitator.

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Menopause and weight gain

Posted by iqko | January 26th, 2010 in Diet | No Comments »

Menopause is accompanied by a number of events more or less troublesome for women.

It should be noted that all postmenopausal women will not necessarily undergo menopause difficult since 33% of women go through menopause without any disadvantages, while another 33% will have moderate disorders, and finally a final 33% will be greatly inconvenienced. Among the most bothersome symptoms that occur during this period, there are hot flushes and weight gain.

What may influence weight gain in women during menopause?

Seven factors are mainly involved: The hormonal issue, an issue of enzymes, slower metabolism, loss of muscle mass with age, the rate of body fat higher among women, the drastic dieting and poorly balanced and the ‘hypothyroidism.

1: A HORMONE QUESTION
During menopause, the decreased secretion of estrogen causes a spontaneous increase in fat mass and decreased muscle mass.

2: A QUESTION OF ENZYMES
Physiologically, women are more ENZYME Lipogen to store fat while men have a greater number of lipolytic enzymes that dissolve fat.

The woman therefore easier to store fat than men. The resulting gain weight more easily in women than in men.

3: THE SLOWDOWN OF METABOLISM

In premenopausal and during menopause, there is a decreased production of progesterone and estrogen. This affects the thyroid gland and metabolism slows. Therefore, even if a woman eats less, she can gain weight.

It is estimated that after 30 years the efficiency of our metabolism would fall by 1 to 2% per 10 years, resulting in weight gain even easier if you do not eat more either.

4: THE LOSS OF MUSCLE MASS
Both in men than in women, there is a loss of one third of a pound of muscle every year after age 40. This loss of muscle tissue is replaced by fat tissue acquisition. Note that the fat consumes only 4% of resting energy expenditure, while muscle mass consumes 20%.

Statistics indicate that every ten years the body fat of women increased by 26% and that of men increased by 17%. Increased body fat is at the expense of muscle mass.

5: RATE HIGHEST BODY FAT IN WOMEN
A woman has some 40 billion fat cells while the man has only 20 billion. In other words, a woman has a body fat 2 times larger than a man. The muscles of women represent between 20 and 25% of body weight, while human muscles represent 40%.

It is understandable that these differences in terms of physical constitution, that women are more predisposed to weight gain than men.

6: DRASTIC WEIGHT LOSS PLANS
Women at menopause, recording a gain of weight and needed a drastic diet and unbalanced may be frustrated. The rapid weight loss that will result is a loss of fat and muscle. When the person resumes eating habits, it will accumulate fat because of the increasing number of lipogenic enzymes is to say those who store fat.

7: THE SLOWDOWN OF THE GLAND THYRODE
It can happen at menopause that there is a slowdown of the thyroid gland, which can lead to weight gain. Hypothyroidism, or slowing the functions of the thyroid gland, therefore, predisposes women to increased weight during menopause because thyroid ensures normal balance of metabolism and helps maintain a stable weight.

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Lose Weight: The secret finally revealed?

Posted by iqko | January 26th, 2010 in Diet, Healhty Diet | No Comments »

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, adds to other prior studies have led much the same conclusions on the benefits to health and weight management, promoting a diet food low glycemic index or average.
This study compared a diet rich in carbohydrates, but low glycemic index, vis-à-vis a diet low in fat. The results of this study showed that people who follow the low GI diet had improved their blood pressure and their blood fat levels, more significant than those who followed the diet low in fat.

People in low-GI diet, sought 43% of their calories from carbohydrates, 27% protein and 30% in fat. In turn people in low-fat diet would seek 65% of calories from carbohydrates, 17% protein and 18% lipids. In both diets, total calorie intake was reduced for a drop of 10% by weight of participants.
At the end of the study participants in both groups had received the same weight loss, but those of low GI group had suffered less from hunger and had a better blood test. Their basal metabolism was also decreased to a much lesser extent.

The runway seems clear that the process is in control of carbohydrate. This does not however apply to a diet restricted in carbohydrates or carbohydrate, but rather to ensure the quality of these by giving preference to carbohydrates with low glycemic index.

Regimes “Montignac”, “South Beach” (Miami regime) and “In the Zone” are examples of popular diets are based more or less on this principle.

What is a food with low glycemic index?

More food causes a secretion of insulin quickly after its ingestion, the higher its glycemic index is called “high”. There are now tables providing the GI (Glycemic Index) of most foods. The base index is 100 (position of white bread). It considers that foods with an index above 70 should be eaten sparingly, and foods below 50 are conducive to achieving a healthy weight.

Foods with the highest glycemic index foods are naturally richer in glucose, but also poorer in fiber. There are several types of sugars: glucose, fructose, lactose, sorbitol, etc.. For example, among three carbohydrates, white sugar to a GI of 92, glucose 135 and fructose 30.
But pound for pound, these carbohydrates provide the same number of calories, except that fructose with a sweeter than white sugar (sucrose), you use less.

What about calories?

The nutrition experts always come back to the fact that only calories are important, and weight control through a simple balance sheet of what we eat in a day. At least that is the high total calorie of our meals, and better to focus our weight, and that ultimately the only way to lose weight is to control daily caloric intake.

Our nutritionists have certainly right at the base, but to speak only of calories has become a bit simplistic, but as we shall see there is some overlap between a diet based on foods with low glycemic index and regimes based on the calculation calories.

Many studies have shown that people consuming a low GI meal, satiated longer and consume less calorie meals. In a study on obese adolescents, we served three meals with the same number of calories, but with a different glycemic index for each meal. These meals were followed by another meal during which the teens could eat as much as they wanted.
After a medium-GI meals, they accounted for 53% less calories than after a high-GI meal. And reduced calorie intake at 81% when they had previously had a low GI meal.

We believe that the regime low glycemic index is the best solution to find an ideal weight and keep it above! There will be more effective and beneficial if it ensures eating qualities of fat, including essential fatty acids, including the famous Omega-3.
Fats should consist almost exclusively of fatty fish (salmon, sardines, tuna, herring, etc..) Olive oil, canola oil, flaxseed oil, borage oil. Eating a variety of nuts, especially almonds. In fruits, do not overlook the lawyers rich in essential fatty acids. In carbohydrates, encourage whole grains, beans, all foods rich in fiber. The presence of fiber helps lower the glycemic index of foods consumed.
It is easy enough to memorize quickly enough to what category of glycemic index foods belong key (low, medium, high) and to develop healthy dietary habits favoring foods with low or medium GI.

You can even afford to eat occasionally GI foods higher, especially if we take the habit of associating food with low GI. Indeed a high GI food will lower its benchmark when combined with a food low GI.
For example, a slice of white bread glycemic index which is 100 linked to peanut butter, which the GI is 40, will descend to the GI 70, and a high index at the start, finally becomes an average index.

There are other ways to control the glycemic index in a meal and we will return soon in other chronicles.

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Fish and shellfish: what are their nutritional intake?

Posted by iqko | January 25th, 2010 in Diet Menu | No Comments »

The fish contain proteins, fluorine and iodine. Their oils are rich in vitamins A and D. The fish are recommended because they contain omega-3, virtuous agency and provider of energy.
Fish and shellfish

They have the same composition in protein as meat, but are generally less fat than the latter. In addition, their fats are made up partly of polyunsaturated fatty acids. They are healthier, because this variety of lipids has a protective effect against cardiovascular disease.

The few fish are the fatty salmon, eel, lamprey, anchovies, sardines, tuna, mackerel, not to mention the smoked herring.
The crustaceans are a little less generous in protein than fish, but still show a rate of 15%.

If you are looking for recipe ideas, please visit our recipes fish

Omega 3

The fish are recommended because they contain omega-3. In this family, we differentiate the alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), from which form 2 essential fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which occurs at rates high in oily fish.

Omega 3 have an important role in the cardiovascular system, mood, vision and have a role in the treatment of many degenerative diseases such as certain cancers, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis or macular degeneration of the retina. The omega would have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.

There are mainly omega 3 in fish like salmon, anchovies, mackerel, sardines and trout, and in certain plants such as green leafy vegetables (spinach, green beans). Oils rich in omega 3 are rapeseed oil, seeds and flax oil, and to a lesser extent, soybean oil. We can meet in some meat, especially in animals whose diet was enriched with flaxseed.

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Medicine “natural”: the basic principles of vegetarianism

Posted by iqko | January 23rd, 2010 in Diet, Diet Menu | No Comments »

To have no deficiency of essential amino acids, vegetarian diets combines various forms of cereals (rice, wheat, my s, rye, buckwheat), and legumes (peas and beans, lentils, soybeans) and oilseed . Meat and fish are removed from the diet, but some of their by-products are allowed, like milk and eggs.

Much attention is also reserved for vegetables and fruits.

But many rules are also involved in the selection of products, meal preparation and staging. Thus must we always focus on products most “natural”

brown sugar or honey instead of refined sugar;

wholemeal bread replaces white bread;

Similarly, whole grains are preferred to other grains, more refined;

salt “natural” marine replaces the salt;

Fruits and vegetables guaranteed “without chemical fertilizers” are sought in priority. This rule also follows directly the preference for fresh produce, and release of stored food in any manner whatsoever. In addition, stimulants such as coffee or tea, are denied to other teas and decoctions (herbal sage, blackberry, rosemary, etc..). Finally, alcohol is unique among vegetarians.

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Salt-free diets: the different methods

Posted by iqko | January 22nd, 2010 in Diet | No Comments »

The habitual diet in Western countries, provides between 8 and 12 grams of salt (sodium chloride), and then from 3.2 to 4.8 grams of sodium. It comes in three fifths of food and two-fifths of table salt.

The indication of reduced sodium intake can be formulated in many diseases.

Sodium is in fact the most important extracellular fluid of the body, and as such, it determines the volume of liquid.

Thus, when we edema, both cardiac, kidney or liver, reduced salt intake promote their disappearance. Keep in mind that this is only the treatment of symptoms, not the cause of stopping the scheme will therefore recurrence of edema.

This scheme is also prescribed for hypertension, a diet too much salt is regarded as responsible, in part, figures high blood pressure that occur in developed countries.

It requires, finally, a low-salt diet in people treated with corticosteroids.

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