Archive for May, 2011

It is good or bad?

The pan is not the only food that puts on weight, but it is true that every time we are going to start any diet the first thing we are told is always: leaves the bread! However, and although we know that this is not the only food that can make gain weight, is the first thing that tells us leave.
All things to say about the “super harmful effects” of the nap have achieved that consumption of this food fall among women. And the belief that the bread alone puts on weight, is widespread among young people.
The pan has a caloric content as any food, but it is also very nutritious, and in truth is not that fattening, nor is unhealthy. But of course, as everything in life, if consumed in excess does evil. Read the rest of this entry »

Prevent the obesity in middle age

How to deny that a trademark of average man of middle-aged is the friendly tummy? This may not mean obesity! You may be the beginning of the same, and that is why it should be attentive to not leave developed too.
The reasons are obvious, and a recent study carried out in Finland has added arguments to prevent the obesity in middle age to check that it not only can hurt in the short and medium-term, but it has discovered a interesting paradox to develop in old age that is precisely we are talking about below.
Studying more than 1,000 men, the scientists led by Dr Timo Strandberg and that published his study in the European Heart Journal have discovered that in those cases of men obese than in old age lost their weight could suffer more health problems that those who continued to be obese.
For example, take the case of a person who at age 40 is obese and that as they pass the years is losing weight. Scientists identified the fact that these people became more vulnerable to the elderly, taking more risks of fractures or injuries that those who had retained its overweight. Read the rest of this entry »

More knowledge about healthy food “Salad”

Preparations based plant foods, both raw and cooked, served cold or warm
The first food that is thought to hear the word salad is in the lettuce. However, this term encompasses all those preparations based plant foods, both raw and cooked, served cold or temperate, to be aligning with oil, vinegar and salt, or with various types of sauces.
Types of salads
On the basis of ingredients that are added to the salad are two types:
Salad simple: one that is prepared with two or more vegetables and usually consumed as entrant, of starter or a garrison of the seconds. Its ingredients more common are the lettuce, endive, cabbage, Red cabbage, tomato, peppers, cucumbers, onion and asparagus. These salads have an intake of calories low, provided they are moderate the quantity of oil of vinaigrette. They are also an important source of vitamins, minerals and fiber. Read the rest of this entry »

Dry fruit potentials

They are small in size but of great importance in a good food. In addition to be very rich, dried fruits have proteins, fibers and essential nutrients to the heart health. We are talking about mainly from the chestnuts, peanuts, almonds and cashew nuts.
Each of them has properties that distinguish: almonds are rich in vitamin E and Calcium, the chestnuts in Zinc, peanuts has proteins and is an antioxidant and nuts have linolenic acid alpha, one of the components of the acid Omega-3. But all provide benefits for the care of the heart.
According to a study by Nurses’ Health, those who eat 140 grams of dried fruit per week are in a 35 percent less potential for problems in the heart that those who eat less than 30 grams per week. Similarly, another investigation concluded that the people who eat these small fruits four times a week are half as likely to suffer a heart attack that those who ingest once a week.
The dried fruit charged with a bad that fatten easily because they have many calories (180 in 30 grams). Anyway, everything is relative in terms of food: eating nuts or peanuts not puts on weight alone but must take into account your food in general and if they complement with physical exercise.
In conclusion you leave some tips for when commas these beneficial fruits:
* Is that it is in moderate amounts, as who came in your hand and not a bag, because they contain many calories Read the rest of this entry »

Women more difficult to lose weight.

By a clear and well-known theme of complexion physical women have more difficulty to lose weight than men, as they store more fat than them, which is crucial to the time to address the difficulties that represents the start a diet.
But in addition to the physical, there is a mechanism mental also plays its role here, and it is true that does not do the things nothing easy for the brain of women. In the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States, researchers have discovered what happens in the ringleader’s female before a succulent dish.
To be responsible for feeding babies, the women show a marked tendency to consume food available, which does not facilitate at all the efforts by not eat more. Another explanation is associated with the hormones, which work hindering the abstinence before the food they make up in weight. Read the rest of this entry »

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