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A mistake many people at the same time trying to lose weight is to take the advice of neighbors or friends. In most cases, these people do not have enough knowledge to give good advice. The result is that you will follow any advice for these people and end up spoiling their health.

While there are several ways to lose weight, but all the options do not work for everyone. For some people the plain exercise and diet can help you lose weight. Other people may have to work a little harder to achieve the same amount of weight loss. Read the rest of this entry »

The woman quickly regains her figure depends on the kilos and centimeters earned in the nine months of pregnancy.

After delivery is typically lose 5 to 7 kilos under the baby, the amniotic fluid, placenta and the weight of the uterus and the fluid that the mother had retained mostly in the legs. The rest is being reduced gradually in the weeks or months after delivery.

The swelling of the legs and hands due to fluid retention disappears gradually. It also reduces the size of the abdomen in some women remain somewhat swollen for several weeks. This is due to the flaccidity of the muscles of the abdominal wall distension produced during pregnancy. Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes people that losing weight so difficult. Here are 10 tips for healthy weight loss diet that can help you lose weight faster.

1. Drink water
You should drink 8 glasses of water a day as part of your diet healthy weight loss. And the reasons are simple: very effective appetite suppressant, helps build muscles, moisturizes the skin, eliminates toxins, aids digestion and absorption of nutrients.

2. Increase fiber

The consumption of foods rich in fiber also helps in digestion, nutrient absorption and helps you feel full longer after a meal (which can help curb overeating and weight gain). Fiber helps you lose weight, have good skin and not feel bloated. Read the rest of this entry »

It may seem strange that today we talk about how fat, because generally all people want to lose weight or lose weight, which is the opposite. But many people who for various reasons looking fat. For it is good to know what foods we should eat fat. To gain weight is not eating any food abundance.

If we think we have to put on, we are very thin and is a concern, first of all you have to go immediately to a doctor who will tell us why we can not gain weight, may be due to a disease such as anemia or a disorder of the thyroid gland. A nutritionist will tell us exactly what fat diet to follow.

Besides food to gain weight, weight gain is recommended to avoid strenuous exercise, find peace of mind in the rhythm of living, sleeping more than usual and practice relaxation exercises such as swimming and increases the appetite.

The mostly fattening foods are recommended:

Rice: It’s a food that can not be absent in any diet is very healthy and nutritious. It has the characteristics of grain, is rich in carbohydrates and vitamins of group B. Its high nutritional value is given by their starch content.

Tuna: Tuna has high nutritional properties. Their protein content is greater than the poultry, pork and other fish. It is a source of calcium, vitamins A, B and D and folic acid.

Peanut butter, cream or peanut butter is very rich in protein and healthy monounsaturated fat, contains a high calorific value and more so when taken with bread or crackers.

Fruits: Fruits act as regulators of the body. The importance of fruit to fatten their is no calorie intake, which in general is not very large. Fruits can help to gain weight because of its high fiber content of some fruits.

Iodine is a mineral essential to the process of converting food into energy (metabolic process of cells). It is an important mineral for the proper functioning of the thyroid and the production of thyroid hormones.

Important sources of production of iodine

• Iodized salt (table salt) or sea salt (see note at end).

• Seafood (salmon, tuna, cod, haddock, pollock are good sources of iodine)

• The brown seaweed or kelp, marine plant is very common with high iodine content. If taken algae algae are best used with a uniform content and amencionada iodine as kelp (kombu) or hijiki.

• If you take iodine supplements, you should consume between 100 and 150 micrograms per day to reach a total intake of between 150 and 200 micrograms (or Czech table below adequate iodine intake by age). Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 »