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Diets: False Myths

there are several myths about food and the effects they produce in our body, but not all are true. In fact many foods we do not get fat and we should not ban them from our diet. Below is a list of foods we can afford in times of diet:

Papas: Although generally prohibited in diets, potatoes provide carbohydrates needed for the optimum performance of our body. The best way is to eat them boiled or mashed potatoes as fattening chips to triple.

Beer: If we can take it low speed but occasionally, i.e. once every other month. Only if we have a good diet and physical suffer no harmful effects, but if we’re not as graceful resort to 90 minute walk after a night of drinking.

Pan: Like potatoes, bread is also important to provide carbohydrates. It is also one of the healthiest foods to accompany typical diet foods such as salads and soups.

Drinks Soda and Calcium in the Diet

Some people tend to eat a diet cola drinks such as “light” to substitute some foods that may have more calories these drinks or just to “trick” the hunger, cola drinks are not the best for food and replace any doctors recommend that if you’re dieting or not, limit the consumption of diet cola drink two cans a day.

Cola drinks taken in excess phosphate increase your intake and when the phosphate in the diet is high and there is some degree of calcium deficiency to exclude foods such as milk, this can influence the quality of the skeletal system and can cause in some point suffer from osteoporosis. Milk and calcium sources should not be excluded from the diet, and diet cola drinks should not exceed the recommended maximum. You know the diet should help you lose weight but never lead you to health problems.

Diet and Fruits

Fruits are essential to any balanced diet and essential in a diet full of nutrients as well because we can use that fat have fewer calories and almost no fat, but some will get bored of fruit and some do not believe they are as beneficial as So here I bring you some tricks to take advantage of the fruits in the diet.

The fruit juice is valuable because it can leverage the same pulp, which contain lots of fiber and thus help the digestive process. By day you can eat three pieces of fruit juice, no sugar.
The fruit in the fruit: You can eat two pieces of fruit daily but you should think about the juiciest you provide water and prevent fluid retention, which is something that almost always occurs during the diet: grapefruit, oranges, strawberries, pear and apple.

If the juice do not you think so delicious because of the lack of sugar can sweeten with a teaspoon of honey. Think you consume fruits in the diet will bring good things and help you lose or maintain weight also influence the risk of blood, relieve digestive problems, slow aging, moisturize and prevent colds.

Deodorant Diet

Body odor is not always caused by poor personal hygiene. Sometimes it is due to other factors such as the presence of fungi on the skin, hormonal imbalances, certain medications, infections, poor diet, and metabolic disorders.

To eliminate toxins, balance body fluids and end the problem of smells, deodorant diet to improve nutrition, lose weight and regulate perspiration and odors.

This diet allows the body to adjust to achieve an internal balance by a healthy diet.

Perspiration is a natural mechanism that allows the body to eliminate toxins through the skin, but when the body does not function properly, the odors are caused by the same problem. Read the rest of this entry »

Tips for Eating Right at 50

  • Eat less but better: a young asset does not have problems to accept almost any food, because your body works to its full potential and has greater resistance to attack. As the years pass, we must adapt ourselves to the possibilities of our body. It is from the 40 that the body begins to show signs of deterioration from the 50 should embrace moderation. It is therefore advised to eat less but better quality. From this age should be monitored values of uric acid (gout), which is controlled by proteins. This is controlled by avoiding the excesses, leaving no food. It will lower the consumption of seafood, canned and salt, but not deprived, unless other health problems require it.
  • One way to improve eating habits is to become a gourmet, food consumed in small amounts varied. An alternative are the tasting menus of some restaurants that present a sample of four or five dishes varied in very small portions, thereby avoiding the foods exceeded recommended. Another option is to explore new recipes, allowing us to eat different foods without falling into repetition and boredom. Read the rest of this entry »

Healthy Eating After 50

The healthy diet is essential to any age, but requirements change at each stage. To meet the energy needs after the 50 is necessary to carry a sufficient diet, complete, varied and balanced.

When you reach 50, women enter the menopause or climacteric, which undergo a series of physiological changes as a result of the lack of estrogen. It is at this stage where it is common to weight gain. Body fat undergoes a rearrangement, with higher accumulation in the abdominal area. Also exacerbate health problems such as dyslipidemia and osteoporosis.

To prevent osteoporosis is necessary to maintain a balanced diet rich in calcium, as well as exercise and abstention from alcohol and snuff.

From age 40 decreases the body’s energy needs, therefore, daily calorie intake should be reduced and increasing exercise metabolism to achieve the energy input process. Read the rest of this entry »

Miracle diets Versus Healthy diets

Diets are the kind of miracle diets that promise to make you lose several kilos in record time (“Lower 10 kilos in 10 days”, “Lose weight without diet or exercise, etc.). These diets are characterized by low carbohydrate and high protein content. That these diets do their promise (if you can get to the end), many do, but at the cost of your health …

These miracle diets or fashion usually produce terrible rebound effect, make you recover lost kilos and more, plus you are limited in many foods that contain key nutrients for the body.

A healthy diet on the other hand takes more time and the results are more modest. These diets work by reducing the amount of calories and increase physical activity to burn faster, not removing any nutrients or foods such as number of other diets. Read the rest of this entry »

Diet Plan Slim Fast to be Sexy

Looking for a simple but effective way to obtain the figure of your dreams? Weary of hardness of the training? You cannot rely on the typical weight loss diet or exercise more? A fast light as food plan can be your best solution for the slender figure of his dream. Let’s start with three points that are easy to follow, but it gives results.

Tip # 1 – Making simple weight loss diet differently

To obtain the desired body shape without exercise of a healthy weight loss diet has no other alternatives. While choosing the food, try foods high in protein low in digestible carbohydrates, fiber and healthy fat. Divide your meals a day at 5 / 6 small meals rather than three large meals a day to get the benefits of a higher metabolism. High metabolic rate burn fat and calories faster and attractive styling make you look within a short period.

Tip # 2 – Water as a driver of calories Read the rest of this entry »