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We talked about the fiber. We said it was good for health, we should be adding to your diet gradually. But why and good fiber?
Vivirsalud says fiber is good for you because …
Combat constipation
The fiber is especially beneficial for people suffering from constipation, a digestive problem that affects many people, especially women and tends to worsen with age. Constipation is actually a symptom and not a disease. It can result from many diseases. But usually functional in nature and relate to dietary reasons, social and emotional, usually several coexisting causes: irritable bowel syndrome, diverticulitis of the colon, abuse of some drugs, especially laxatives, and especially the low fiber content in the diet.
To solve this problem is essential to increase the fiber in the diet, exercising regularly and drinking enough water.
If you suffer from constipation, before resorting to any medication, the first thing to check is if you take enough fiber each day.
Protects against disease
It has been shown that a diet high in fiber protects against colon cancer. Indeed, in countries where the diet is high in fiber, this cancer is very rare. The insoluble fiber components appear to offer significant protection against this disease through the solution attenuated intestinal contents and removal of excess bile acids.
But the consumption of fiber has many beneficial health properties: its ability to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood (reduce the LDL and HDL respects) decreases the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. According to one study, eating 10 g of fiber per day and decreases by 14% chance of getting heart disease. Soluble fiber also slows the entry of glucose into the bloodstream, which transforms them into highly beneficial for diabetics.
It helps keep the line
Some high-fiber foods like carrots, celery, green leafy vegetables, apples, etc.. can help control body weight. These foods require more chewing time and give a sense of satiety. To be held longer in the stomach, help to control the sensation of hunger.
The presence of fiber in the diet helps reduce overall energy content of the same and allows greater satiety with less food consumption. It is therefore important presence in any diet. Fiber alone will not help you lose weight but to eat less, avoid cravings and eliminate waste from the body.
To measure the shape and the status of your health, use four simple indices and see if you are at risk of disease.
There is a number for everything. There are even numbers to assess whether you’re in good shape and know what your current form. But do you know these important numbers that measure your form to reflect the state of your health?
1) Waist
Experts believe that women should have a waistline of 88 cm in height, and men a waist circumference of 102 cm in height so as not to be in poor health. Beyond those limits, experts believe that the person poses a greater risk of developing health problems like diabetes, cardio-vascular hypertension.
To measure your waist measurement, simply wrap a flexible tape measure around your waist (typically 1 cm below the navel), the narrowest part of the trunk.
Attention is not to calculate the waist for your clothes (which is measured by the navel, taking the maximum value without going belly). For clothing, there is another waist.
2) waist-hip ratio
This number is a little harder to calculate. He is to report waist / hip ratio.
First, measure your waist as requested above. Next, measure your waist (wrap the tape around your feet hips 2) by taking the maximum value.
Then, divide your waist circumference (in cm) by your hip measurement (in cm).
Experts believe that to be healthy, waist-hip ratio should be less than or equal to 0.8 in women, and less than or equal to 1 for men.
Example calculation: If you are a woman and your waist is 91 inches and your hip is 102 cm, you divide 91 by 102 and are a waist-hip ratio of 0.89. This ratio is above 0.8 (the limit for good health among women) so you have an increased risk of developing health problems.
Obesity, a disease that progresses
It’s called a Obesity occurs when there is excess adipose tissue (fat) in the body, until a few years ago was not considered a disease, he saw the overweight person as someone who simply ate too much.
Statistics show that more and more in the world increases, a situation of particular concern to professionals in the health area because of the number of serious diseases that obesity brings with it.
It was no longer a question of aesthetics that overweight people have too much and became a serious problem to the point that many health insurance are accepted include treatments for obesity in the services provided by recognizing that It is a disease.
A cause of obesity occurs
There are several factors that can lead to obesity such as:
* The genetics of each individual, it is common to see families in which several generations have problems with obesity. Read the rest of this entry »