Tag: ‘Losing weight’

To lose weight, eliminate sugary drinks

To lose weight, eliminate sugary drinks

When it comes to losing weight, paying attention to drinking may be more important than food, according to new research, in which it has been found that reducing sugar-laden beverages, is associated directly with the weight loss and appears to have a major impact on reducing weight than solid foods.

“The consumption of liquid calories in beverages has increased in parallel with the obesity epidemic in the U.S. population,” Dr. Benjamin Caballero of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues point in the journal American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

“Our study supports the recommendations to political and public health efforts to reduce the intake of liquid calories, especially sugar-sweetened beverages in the general population.” (more…)

New slimming: Blueberries!

New slimming: Blueberries!

That blueberries are healthy, is well known. They are rich in antioxidants and help to lower cholesterol. But not many people know that blueberries also help in losing weight. A new study with rats has shown. And they are tasty too! It is worth trying to eat blueberries to help to be slimmer. In addition, blueberries also have a positive effect against diabetes and heart disease.

Less abdominal fat.

The researcher Mitchell Seymour works for the University of Michigan. He has research shown that rats who eat a diet rich in blueberries is abdominal fat loss. Abdominal fat is the kind of fat is responsible for a bigger belly and a higher risk of diabetes and heart disease. Even when rats ate a fat-rich diet that indeed rich blueberries, took their abdominal fat. Not only that, the rats also had better glucose metabolism. This means that their blood sugar level more stable. (more…)

4 food to burn fat

4 food to burn fat

There is a lot of confusion out there about what to eat and what not to eat when it comes to losing weight, since apparently everyone has an opinion about what is good and what is not good, in this hyper-informed world, including doctors, scientists, government agencies, media and especially in the midst of all this, it is not enough, we are “us.”

Well as a grain of sand more about the subject, we can add 4 food recommended for their properties to fat burning or regulators, in terms of weight gain is concerned, beyond this specific purpose, are truly healthy in general .

Broccoli.

Broccoli is excellent for general health for their proven anti-cancer abilities, especially, but also for burning fat, for being full of phytochemicals and antioxidants that regulate and strengthen the immune system.

Broccoli contains a compound of calcium D-glucarate helps keep hormone levels balanced, and contain plenty of fiber and be low in carbohydrates, making it ideal to include in your daily diet. (more…)

Keep your waistline in check, Eat early

Keep your waistline in check, Eat early

Plain and simple, avoiding snacks and evening meals can be the key to weight loss.

Scientists say they avoid late-night snacks could be the key to losing weight and gaining a slim figure, pointing not on, “what you eat” but “when you eat” and people who eat early in the day could have the key to winning the battle against overweight, scientists believe.

Many celebrities have argued this theory for years and now science is on their side, as one of the first studies of this type suggests that eating late or at night, snacks and meals, are bad for the waistline.

Laboratory animals fed during the day and night, raised his weight twice that the creatures with a normal intake but by day.

His weight increased by 48 percent in six weeks, compared with an increase of only 20 per cent of mammals that ate at the right time, as reported in the journal Obesity.

Researchers at Northwestern University in Chicago said more work is needed to explain why, but it seems the internal or biological clock that regulates sleep and waking, also has an impact on metabolism, so our biological clocks could control the release of hormones that stimulate appetite.

This means you make an effort to eat during the day could be crucial for weight loss.