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Dietary treatment of hypercholesterolemia involves, if overweight or obese, achieving a healthy weight through diet adequacy of the characteristics of the individual.

In the diet and caloric adjustment has been to control the quality of the fat by reducing intake of foods rich in cholesterol and saturated fat further.

Polyunsaturated fat, especially the omega 3 fats found in fish, unlike saturated fat, manifest a protective effect by lowering blood viscosity, thereby reducing the risk of thrombus formation.

Monounsaturated fat, whose main representative is the olive oil, also has a beneficial effect by increasing the good cholesterol (HDL cholesterol) and prevent oxidation of bad cholesterol (LDL).

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If you are overweight and want to cut, I advise you do not just dieting alone. Diets that involve a low intake of calories than we burn, usually result in complete failure, though the person can lose weight.

When we got to lose fat and muscle weight that the body uses to feed. Returning to gain weight, which occurs in 90% of cases if not changed eating and exercise habits, increased fat but not muscles.

Then at the end, although we are as heavy as we started, we are actually fatter because we have a higher percentage of fat. That is to say we were worse than before (I do not advise it).

If you can change their exercise habits and eating the thing is different. If you 30 minutes of anaerobic exercise, ie weight lifting, strength intervals, etc (your body should be prepared properly before this program) will create muscle to your body while eliminating fat.

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Spanish researchers conclude that obesity can be inherited from the mother’s mitochondrial genes. Also of interest in itself, this discovery is a possible action against obesity, if it can regulate the amount of mitochondrial DNA by certain drugs.

Mitochondria are tiny structures inside cells that have the function of supplying energy to them, in fact, provide 90% of the energy they need. Are characterized by their own DNA (mtDNA), distinct from DNA in the nucleus of body cells (nuclear DNA), with which must not be confused.

An important difference between the two DNA’s is that, at least in mammals, nuclear is inherited from both parents, while the mitochondrial inherited only from the mother, because in the moment of fertilization the mitochondria of sperm does not penetrate the egg .

The deficiencies or mutations in mitochondrial DNA can cause disease, sometimes very serious, especially degenerative nerve and muscle cells. It could also be at the origin of certain cases of diabetes, cancer and stroke, for example.

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Eat breakfast every day

Your breakfast should consist of a skimmed milk product, fruit and cereals. If you do not eat breakfast, your body reacts by decreasing its metabolism, as they are not receiving food protects itself by saving energy.

Useful idea: as soon as breakfast, before will start your metabolism

Do not eat less than 1,200 calories a day

Your metabolism may lack sufficient energy to maintain its core functions and protect your metabolic rate down.

Useful idea: take a light snack mid-morning and late afternoon (you will get less hungry the next meal). Read the rest of this entry »

Combine food thoroughly

Although dissociated diets are unwise, yes you can have the logic that defines them: to combine good food. For example: vegetables accompanies the meat and potato chips do not mix different proteins in a single meal (meat and eggs, meat and fish …), avoid combining proteins and starches (bread with cheese, meat and potatoes, chicken …); rice after eating pasta or rice takes more than a fruit yogurt …

Drink plenty of water and tea

Nutritionists and doctors do not tire of repeating: you have to drink at least 1.5 liters of water a day. For the body to function well, so that the skin is nice, so that our muscles and joints perform better … And, also, to help eliminate fluid and toxins fat. Drink between meals will also help fool the stomach: but be careful, drink a lot during the meal will inflate. Try to replace coffee and tea beverages by: some are soothing, cleansing, digestive, that can help you lose weight. Read the rest of this entry »

“The key to giving back to the Tortilla,” is knowing how to eat and make the body expend more energy.

All nutritionists and endocrinologists agree that weight loss should not stop eating but eat everything in moderation. Forbid yourself certain foods that you love will generate an anxiety that often leads to bingeing and many more calories than you would have provided the dreaded whim.

Also do not be fooled by food fever ligth, integral or dietary. What more food, less fattening and more satisfied hunger are the food of life: bread, vegetables, fish, olive oil … In short, all that is the Mediterranean Diet.  Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine, U.S., have found that older age, obesity, hypertension, alcohol consumption or use of diuretics are risk factors predictive of women’s risk of developing gout, a disease produced by an accumulation of uric acid in the body, according to results of a study published in the latest issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism. ”

This condition is characterized by inflammation of joints resulting from this accumulation of uric acid in the blood and, although this condition has been considered a disease more prevalent among men, more and more cases are being detected in older women advanced, the incidence has doubled in the last 20 years. Read the rest of this entry »

Losing weight is always a nightmare, as it is not as simple as gaining weight. This stress adds up to half the already gained weight. As soon as you start gaining weight due to some reason or the other the first region to gain as much weight is the belly region. Reducing belly fat is not so difficult with the modern technology of many capsules and pills.

But the main thing when you opt for taking weight loss pills is to see the ingredients. To lose or reduce belly fat the supplements should contain fat burners. And make sure the metabolism follows thermogenesis, as you should not end up by losing the good body mass which consists of muscles.

Reducing belly fat could also make you crave for more food if the preparation does not deal with the appetizing hormones. The appetizing hormones induce you to eat more. Hence inhibiting it and increasing the induction of serotonin will help cope up with your diet. Read the rest of this entry »

Who has not succumbed at one time or another by fad diets? The speed advertised, the lost pounds promised the guarantee such as clinical or medical insurance and stay slim lead every year many French to put their bodies to “test” or in danger.

While most schemes, whatever the method is actually “lose weight” on balance, at least the first month, this relative efficiency does not necessarily mean healthy, far away. The weight loss achieved happens not just on small rolls of unsightly fat but also muscle and body water. So, by taking constraints and restrictions, these senseless schemes result in a caloric deprivation often too large, which not only produces an effect “yo-yo” guaranteed, but also a multitude of health problems that are far from being considered as benign by all true nutrition experts.

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