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Fashion is the canary. We are saturated with birdseed diet and weight loss benefits and the many benefits of milk of birdseed for our health. Base your diet on a limited number or type of food is a big mistake. Fortunately, more and more people realize how important it is to learn to eat different foods to achieve a balanced diet and healthy. With a good diet that we get all the nutrients our body needs, we feel more energy and get a sense of well being.

Learning to eat intelligently is not to calculate grams or calories. A healthy diet is to eat balanced and moderately. We must do a minimum of 3 meals a day to spread the intake of calories throughout the day. A person who eats wisely as different types of food are not limited to a small group of foods.

Can you eat too much or too little, or even the amount of food is adequate but is not as nutritious as they should. Whatever the case, we need to nourish our body to keep body and mind in motion. Eating intelligently is an exercise in accountability. By learning to maintain a balanced diet and eat healthy foods, we are making smart decisions, evaluating pros and cons and ultimately taking care of ourselves. All this, together with a good workout, even exercises to do at home, get great results.

We say that is a sign of responsibility and in some cases we see how someone can no longer control their diet, it is not able to control other aspects of life (sleep deprivation, smoking, wasting money, etc.).. What we must be very clear is that eating properly is a way of life is something that makes us feel better and helps us improve our lives.

Diabetes Mellitus is a disease that generates more global concern and is related to problems with insulin production, which prevents the ingested sugar reaches the cells, which is stored in the blood and causes serious drawbacks.

For symptoms must differentiate the types of Diabetes Mellitus. On one side is the Type 1, which occurs in people who have a zero level of insulin production. The main symptoms of this disease are abdominal pain, rapid weight loss and constant thirst.

Type 2 is more difficult to detect because the symptoms marked as explained above. This type of disease is known as “insulin resistance”, since the pancreas produces the hormone but is still not able to bring glucose into cells.

Within this type is also Gestational Diabetes, which is common in pregnant women and can lead to a type 2 years after delivery. The best thing is to make annual checks to see if everything is in order.

There are many weight loss myths that were spreading from mouth to mouth on what works for one weight loss plan in medicine published an interesting note in this regard.

Slimline Water

Water has no calories, no fat so before or after dinner. Nor is it true that bottled water provides no special quality to regulate the weight, it merely provides a distinctive taste from the minerals it contains, with respect to tap water.

Fat bread

100 grams (g) of white bread contains about 250 kilocalories (kcal). Often attribute to excessive calorie bread, which is actually due to the accompaniment (sauces, butter, spreads, cheeses, sausages …).

The idea that the toast (bread sticks, toast, or bark) is less fattening than the crumb is also incorrect. The crumb contains more water and therefore presents a spongy appearance. At equal weight, the crust has more calories than the crumb: 100 g of toasted bread contain 350 kcal. Toast instead produces a greater sense of satiety.

One possibility to reduce calories is to replace the white bread integral. In addition, whole wheat bread provides an extra amount of fiber, minerals and vitamins of group B.

Fattening sugar

The reputation of the sugar comes from its relationship with caries, obesity and diabetes. However, it is an energy food (400 kcal per 100 g) found in many foods, from fruit to honey.

Sometimes sugar is associated with the buns, cakes and chocolates. These foods are the main caloric intake in fats that are produced and not so much sugar.

One way to reduce calories is in the use of artificial sweeteners like saccharin, aspartame or cyclamate.

Vitamins fat

Vitamins have no calories, so do not get fat. Are essential nutrients for the body but did not increase the appetite, ability attributed to them. Vitamin help to enhance memory, prevent flu or enhance sexual performance, as has been suggested.

Potatoes are fattening

The potato contains between 75 and 80 percent water. The rest of his composition are carbohydrates, mainly starch. The potato is not a high-calorie food, it provides only 85 kcal per 100 g. This means that cooked or boiled taken fewer calories than a steak, yogurt or a glass of whole milk.

What it is fattening oil (when taken chips), butter (in puree) or sauces that accompany them.

All products ‘light’ are low in calories

Under ‘light’ encompasses a world of low calorie foods in some cases and in others only slightly lowered. The purest are soft drinks ‘light’ that contain no calories.

In other food ‘light’ as mayonnaise, margarine, pate, chocolate or sausage calorie reduction is smaller and has been achieved by increasing the proportion of water or the amount of lean meat. However, these products still have calories.

Sweating promotes weight loss

Water is removed by sweating, but not fat, which makes losing kilos. Water loss also recovers quickly as soon as you drink fluids.

The herbal capsules help control weight

The herbal capsules on the market that contain basically laxatives and diuretics. Although it can lose kilos, are from water, not fat, making it difficult to keep the amount thinned.

Be especially careful with the pills “miracle”, preparations are sold without sanitary control and often contain amphetamines, tranquilizers or extracts of endocrine glands. These preparations without medical supervision are not only detrimental to health, but also deadly.

The diet of the three blocks, step by step

Here is a sample daily menu of the diet of the three blocks, to get started now

Among the foods recommended for the meal plan, are: apples, ricotta cheese low calorie, nonfat yogurt, eggs, chicken breast, turkey, lean meat, salmon, oats, rice l, broccoli, lettuce.

Plan example

Breakfast

· Apple.
· Cheese omelet.
• 1 cup cooked oatmeal.

Morning snack

· ½ cup ricotta cheese.
· ½ cup of yogurt. Read the rest of this entry »

Lots of Flavor without Fat

Turning Down the calories in this recipe so tempting it may seem impossible, but a matter of following some simple steps. Learn to not give up flavor while fats avoid reading this note.

We all have a weakness for a dish … or several. And usuallyall the flavor of our favorite food is correlated to the number of calories it has. More taste equals more kilos is not a good equation. To make a dish in a healthy fat, you just have to remember some brief instructions:

1. Identify all high-calorie items in the original recipe.

2. Make a list of low calorie products that may be candidates to replace them. To do this, start slowly. Start by replacing a portion of the original products for those low in calories, and go see how much affect the flavor and consistency of the original dish.

3. Sometimes it helps to leave a small portion of fat so that the dish does not lose identity. Also, remember that the complete elimination of fat is also unhealthy. If cooking in the oven, especially a small amount of fat is essential to give substance to the dish. Read the rest of this entry »

A diet that allows you not only lose weight, but also cope better with stress and gastric problems

Although it is popularly known as “astronauts’ diet, this diet was not really designed for them but for the rest of the senior employees of NASA, in order to help them better manage stress and digestive problems that accompany their demanding work.

As these employees began to follow, was also found that this diet help you lose weight and became known as “astronauts’ diet.”

Preliminary recommendations:

1 – As always, consult your doctor before starting this or any other diet

2 – Do not do it for more than 13 days (if repeated, must miss at least two weeks)

3 – Take at least two liters of water per day (pure or tea: tea, coffee, mate, etc.). Read the rest of this entry »

Remember that vegetables and fruits are our main source of minerals and vitamins. Taking complex carbohydrates has another advantage. By introducing the group of vegetables, we ensure that a portion of the proteins we eat are vegetables.

Legumes, vegetables, fruits and grains contain indigestible substances in the human digestive tract, known as fiber or food, which exert a significant influence on the digestive physiology and metabolism of cholesterol.

Fiber has very beneficial effects on lipid metabolism with decreases in total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides.

Health recommendations to prepare pasta, cereals, legumes and vegetables

> Cooking with less salt to prevent hypertension. Vegetable dishes cooked with little water or steam. The vegetables boiled water should not be thrown. Drink the broth, contains vitamins and minerals of vegetables. For the dressing of vegetables, use extra virgin olive oil sparingly.

> The pasta is cooked al dente, to avoid rapid increases glucose. The vegetables should be eaten at least twice a week and NOT ADD SAUSAGES.

> It always prefer bread, cereal, flour or pasta. The protective action of dietary fiber against cardiovascular disease is important and should not be underestimated.

Because of its particular nutritional composition, nuts have an important role in health promotion and prevention of various diseases, especially those related to the cardiovascular system.

The nuts are characterized by their high content of heart-type fatty acids since, in most of them by far the predominant oleic acid.

This fatty acid characteristic of the “Mediterranean diet”, is about 70% of the fatty acids in almonds and hazelnuts, while representing a significantly lower in the pistachios and pine nuts (about 45%) and much retail in walnuts (about 15%). Hazelnuts and almonds are nuts rich in monounsaturated fatty acids.

Several studies have shown that, for the same levels of cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL), responsible for transport of sterol in the plasma, better resist the ravages of free radicals and experience a lower degree of distortion as greater the proportion of oleic acid they contain.

Thus, the peptide characteristic of this type of lipoprotein (peptide apoB-100) maintains, in a greater proportion of their natural settings so that these lipoproteins are recognized and captured mainly by cellular receptors reducing the risk of infiltration, in significant quantities, the blood vessel wall.

Thus, it minimizes the amount of lipoprotein “rusty” and the negative impact of these particles, particularly aggressive to the cell wall. Nuts are nuts richer in polyunsaturated fatty acids.