‘diets high in fat’

Lose weight by applying the blocking fat

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Imagine eating to satiety, without having to go without, and without risk of weight gain, rather, to lose those extra pounds.

Is it possible and realistic? Doctors say yes! In recent years, research has found dozens of delicious foods with the ability to prevent fat and much of the sugars to be absorbed by the body during digestion.

Dietary fibers are substances of plant origin, indigestible, but essential for the proper functioning of the bowel.

Those that interest us to block fat and sugars, are soluble. These fibers absorb excess water in the body. They help to form stools softer and bulkier, it favors the elimination of fat and cholesterol and regulate the absorption of carbohydrates. It promotes the intestinal peristalsis and promote the elimination of toxic organism. In the small intestine, food residue cluster on the soluble fiber and subsequently evacuated from the body. In contact with liquid, these fibers become viscous and thus encourage the shift of residues. Among the soluble fiber found pectins, mucilages, which form gels on contact with water. Pectin present in the berries and pome fruit (especially apples, pears, grapes) but also the gums, mucilages and algae.

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Is it possible to lose weight with diets high in fat?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

high fat dietSeveral authors claim that it is possible to lose weight and build muscle with a high fat diet, the Anabolic and Metabolic Diet by Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale and diet Body Opus by Dan Duchaine, are two examples.

According to these diets can lose fat without losing muscle mass. It consists of a very low carbohydrate intake for 5 days with two days with high intake of carbohydrates to achieve the super-compensation. Our body provides fat diet very differently to carbohydrates or protein. While our intake of carbohydrates or protein is balanced body use as fuel, fat intake is balanced by changes in body fat deposits.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported two separate studies on how diets affect the use of fats and carbohydrates and fat deposits. One diet was high in carbohydrates and high in fat, while the other contained very little carbohydrate and fat.

Both studies concluded by stating that as carbohydrate intake rose or fell, was the same with its use as fuel. Moreover, the amount of fat eaten, corresponded to the individual body fat percentage, the more consumed, the more retained.

Note also that in one study the carbohydrate-rich diet contained 20% more calories than fat-rich diet, and yet the subject of high-carbohydrate group reduced their body weight in larger quantities.

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