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Low Fat Diet

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

low fat diet This diet is recommended for people who want to moderate physical activity, as it contains a good amount of carbohydrates, nutrients needed to maintain glycogen stores and prevent fatigue early. You also have the option to be used by vegetarians.

Basis: This diet is based on eating a variety of foods low in fat, driving a high balance in carbohydrates and low in fat.

Comments: This is a complete diet, because in every meal contains foods from all 3 groups, which helps to create good eating habits as well as being very low in fat. It is therefore useful for reducing lipid reserves in the body. Contains very little protein from animal flesh. It requires the consumption of 3 liters of water a day.

Features: A low-calorie diet of approximately 1150 kcal., 18% comes from protein, 75% carbohydrate, 6% lipids and 15g of fiber. (more…)

Detox Diet

Friday, January 8th, 2010

detox diet Why should I detox?

A toxin is a chemical that has harmful effects on our body. Food, water, environmental causes can overload of toxins which are processed by the kidney and liver, and eliminated through sweat, urine and feces.

Some believe that our body can not completely eliminate the toxins, but these remain in the digestive tract, gastrointestinal and lymphatic system and can cause all sorts of problems, fatigue, headaches, etc..

A detox diet allows us to favor the elimination of these toxins and promote cell renewal. They prevent and cure diseases, help to concentrate, make us feel healthier … Proponents of such diets is related to the elimination of toxins, something that has not been proven scientifically. (more…)

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Managing Your Diabetic Diet

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

managing your diabetic diet Insulin helps regulate blood sugar or glucose in the blood. A person with diabetes does not produce or produces very small amounts of insulin to the body. Knowing care in this condition helps prevent complications from diabetes. This may include poor blood circulation, coma, or even loss of legs (amputation).

The care of the diabetic condition includes eating certain foods, particularly foods high in carbohydrates, or starches, regularly and in adequate amounts. This prevents the sugar in the blood become very low (hypoglycemia) or too high (hyperglycemia). Both conditions (hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia) can be dangerous.

A key to good care of the diabetic condition is to eat at the same time (usually), especially if the individual uses insulin. If you use insulin and do not eat regularly be taking a risk of hypoglycemia. This can cause dizziness and fainting can be complicated and even coma.

In addition to eating regular meals is important to eat adequate amounts of carbohydrates. If you do not eat enough, have symptoms of hypoglycemia. If you eat too many carbohydrates will have symptoms of hyperglycemia. These symptoms resemble those of hypoglycemia, ie, include dizziness, fainting, and in the extreme, coma.

It is difficult to plan a meal plan that taste good, it is desirable, and favorable to your condition. First, find out how many carbs you should eat at every meal, snacks and make sure you know and comply with the hours in which to eat. (more…)

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Blood Type Diet

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

blood type diet According to natural medicine, your blood type defines what foods you put in fewer calories and lose weight what exercise you

This has been discovered after more than thirty years of research, the American doctor Peter D’Adamo, a renowned specialist in natural medicine, author of Blood groups and nutrition.

According to D’Adamo, over millennia, “as the human race was moving and was obliged to adapt their diet to changing conditions, the new diet caused changes in their digestive and immune systems, to survive in each new habitat. ” These changes are reflected in the development of different blood types, and each message contains a genetic blood feeding and behavior of our ancestors, and although we are far ahead of the early history, many of its features still affect us .

Lose weight and avoid disease

Therefore, according to the expert, if you follow a diet according to your blood type, its trends identified health and nutrition, not only lose weight, fat and toxins, but also avoid many common viruses and infections, combat disease and slow decay and cellular aging.

* Type O. It is the oldest blood group, basic survivor at the top of the food chain, whose immune system is rugged, powerful and very active, capable of destroying any enemy. His thyroid activity tends to be slow, but their digestive system is very efficient. The success of your diet depends on you eat lean meats, poultry, fish and seafood, but always accompanied by vegetables. Avoid pork and sausages. Limit your intake of dairy products, aged cheeses, eggs and cereals such as wheat or corn, because you are not very beneficial. To you it hurt more processed foods, smoked, seasoned or preserved. You should eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, but avoid the cabbage family, eggplants, potatoes, wheat, corn, beans and lentils because they favor your weight gain. And help you to weight loss seafood, organ meats, spinach and broccoli. People in this group lose weight with vigorous exercise or sports physical effort. (more…)

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Low-Carbohydrate Diet: Pros and Cons

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

carb diet No breads, pasta, rice, fruit, potatoes and juice, is the new slogan of those who are dieting. Would have us believe that a protein-based system is the best way to lose weight. As expected, the food industry was quick to pull the sale pizza, beer, ice cream, tortillas, snacks and other low-carb products.

Before you become attached to these “diet“, note that while studies indicate that living meat, bacon and other protein foods is not as dangerous as the researchers thought a low-carb regime ceases to be a diet , although weight loss achieved, it will amply unless permanently changed their eating habits. Fill the grocery cart with low-carb products in the hope of slimming could get into big trouble in every sense of the word.

The first problem is that the labels of these products can be misleading. First, the Food and Drug Administration has not yet determined what “low carb” as he did with “low fat”. “Consequently, some manufacturers are abusing the designation,” says Sandra Woodruff, dietitian and nutritionist from Tallahassee, Fla., and author of Secrets of Good-Carb/Low-Carb Living ( “Secrets of a good diet low in carbohydrates). Worse, labels added concepts like “net carbs” and “effective carbs” with which manufacturers distinguish those who, like fiber, have little influence on the concentration of glucose in the blood.

Not understanding the terminology means losing sight of the most worrying aspect of these products. “Anyone who thinks they can eat what you want from a food without gaining weight just because the label says ‘low carb‘ is in grave error,” said Gary Foster, clinical director of the Program of Weight and Eating Disorders at the University Pennsylvania. The current furor over the low-carb dieters reminds the not too distant a time when the “enemy” were fat and people thought he could scarce food bingeing on them without any consequences. The truth is that a lot fatter than ever, and it is feared that this does not happen with the followers of the new fashion. (more…)

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Healthy eating through alkaline diet

Monday, January 4th, 2010

alkaline diet Many diseases, mainly chronic type, often called incurable due to the presence of fatty tissue in the body.

The bad food has components that facilitate the growth of bacteria, cancer cells, lactic acid, uric acid, which bring most of the diseases.

Healthy food should be close to the alkaline diet. We are not referring exactly to acidic foods, but the acidity produced in a healthy diet is general. While detoxifying, purifying, is a diet for the restoration of total body balance.

If we all had adequate nutrition, diseases go away. The food is the cause of the poor quality of life.

For a healthy diet is also essential to the practice of physical exercises, otherwise your metabolism will not be effective.

We recommend alkalizing diet therapy for 10 to 30 days and that is to restrict or eliminate all foods that lead to the acidity of the body.

The alkaline foods should prevail, and poor nutrition will go away for proper way of eating that can be acquired in the future.

Healthy food will bring you much less evil and accustomed to life in prevention. An old saying goes, man dies, is killed. It has much to do adequate food.

This diet is recommended for adoption by all, but as a cleansing, but you can keep most of the recommendations. (more…)

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Prevention of overweight and obesity

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

The prevention of overweight and obesity is not separable from the nutrition education. However, besides this education, specific measures are taken in schools to prevent overweight.

* Inventory
* Measures in school

State Sites

In many countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the increase in overweight and obesity among children and adults is becoming a serious public health problem.

Obesity is a recognized risk factor for many health problems, including hypertension, cholesterol, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, respiratory problems, arthritis and certain cancers.
In France, since 2001, the National Health Nutrition (PNNS) aims to improve the health of French acting on one of its major determinants: Nutrition. One of the objectives of P.N.N.S. is to stop the increasing number of children and young people who are overweight, currently estimated at 16% of school-age children (Source: Ready Reference Statistics 2005, Ministry of National Education). (more…)

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Macrobiotic Diet

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

macrobiotic diet beans Macrobiotic Diet was born in Japan, thanks to George Oshawa and it is based on the pursuit of physical and emotional balance through nutrition. Macrobiotic Diet attaches great importance to food always looking to balance Yin and Yang.

What is the macrobiotic diet?

The macrobiotic diet divides foods into:

Yang * Food: If your “energy” is warm, invigorating and contractionary as cereals, legumes, fish, meat, salt, root vegetables …
* Food Yin: when your energy is cold, dispersing and weakening as sugar, honey, dairy products (milk, cheese and yoghurt) fruit (especially tropical and Banana, Mango, Kiwi, Papaya, Pineapple …) and vegetables such as potatoes (potatoes), eggplant, tomato and beet alcohol.

Advantages of the macrobiotic diet

* The diet macrobiotic diet eliminates all refined products like white sugar, white bread, sausages, meat, industrial sweet, alcoholic beverages and soft drinks industry.
* Enter Seaweed in the diet, not as timely and exotic but as part of the daily menu.
* The macrobiotic diet cereal gets back again as part of the diet and especially introduces the concept that must be integrated and grown without pesticides.
* Suitable diet each person according to his constitution, the country where you live and the season.
* Joins the diet natural remedies and therapies such as Shiatsu, which start from the diet but you just sticking squarely within the world of Natural Medicine.
* The macrobiotic diet for emotional and spiritual balance. Diet is a little excuse to make you aware that we need to balance at all levels to live happily. (more…)

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When the L-Tyrosine Helps You Lose Weight

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

The l-tyrosine is a naturally occurring amino acid which can be purchased in supplement form and you care very much if you lose weight successfully …

It is a precursor of various hormones and neurotransmitters essential for fat burning and weight loss … norepinephrine, dopamine, adrenaline and thyroid hormones depend on the l-tyrosine and constructed to have a role in your metabolism.

It is also a powerful appetite reducer which is helpful when you’re on a diet to lose weight.

Given the importance of this amino acid for your metabolism and your weight loss, this article I want to talk in depth about it, scientific studies supporting its effectiveness for weight loss and how to use it correctly to achieve your ideal figure.

The first thing to know is that L-Tyrosine is an amino acid that is obtained through food and that in periods of diet, the contribution that you give your body this amino acid is so important for weight loss probably not is sufficient for your needs.

The l-tyrosine deficiency during periods of weight loss results in a slower metabolism because the body does not have enough of it to make hormones and neurotransmitters necessary for regulating metabolism.

A slower metabolism means burning less calories per day and, therefore, less loss of fat, which takes you straight to the stalemate because your efforts are fruitless attempt to lose weight.

Surely more than once when you tried to lose weight have encountered the dreaded plateaus and by far you’ve starved hard you try or you did not manage to lose a gram more. However, adequate supplementation with l-tyrosine can help overcome these bottlenecks effectively.

Moreover, l-tyrosine, to be a precursor of several neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine, dopamine and epinephrine, helps you have greater mental focus, better mood (reduces depression) and less stress … very important things in any process of thinning to help you get out of your diet and to continue without problems your exercise program. (more…)

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As the L-Tyrosine Helps You Lose Weight