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Sometimes underestimate the importance of certain nutrients in food, such as minerals. Since they serve specific functions within the body, it is important to know that the presence of minerals is essential in the daily diet.

Minerals are very important within the body. The body uses these minerals (to which they are considered essential because they can not be obtained otherwise than through the diet), for the benefit of organic health.

Importance of minerals in the diet

* Forman bones and tissues.
* Speakers in the production of hormones.
* Regulate thyroid function.
* Regulate the heartbeat.
* Maintain stable water and electrolyte balance, among other functions.

Once you know the importance of incorporating minerals to food, you need to know what minerals are essential in the diet.

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Nutrition experts suggest that the formula for this diet is basically a diuretic and can have a “yo-yo”. That is, it is clear that water is lost muscle mass but not fat, so they quickly recover lost kilos as leaves are followed.

In recent years numerous diets have sprouted considered absurd or magic and disseminated by some famous person or by some charlatans in different media. These include recommending that eating before eight in the morning because the calories consumed before that time does not count and the post itself. There is also who maintains the belief that eating only once a day thins. Of course, if you eat like a bird, you lose weight, even if it carries side effects that can be dangerous, but if this one is hearty meal not only decrease the kilos, but on the contrary increase.

Finally, the belief that raw foods provide less calories than the spicy has no scientific basis and practice can be dangerous to health. For example, if you eat raw meat, the risk of contracting any illness is high.

Endocrinologists and nutritionists agree that framing comegrasa soup diet among those considered low-calorie. Some go further and specify that the stock is not itself responsible for the diuresis of the patient but that accompany liquids and low caloric value of the products that are included in the menus of the seven days of the plan. Other experts say this diet as “very aggressive and very dangerous” because it causes a huge loss of minerals and ions. These statements are based on the fact that the diet in question provides carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables but little protein, so necessary for the body is not affected.

The final no choice but to go to the specialist for dieting that the doctor monitored and periodically monitor the person’s entry into kilos. Apart from reducing the intake, the specialist will recommend the obese, among other things, physical exercise moderately, eat breakfast and supper strong enough, take satiating foods between meals and eat dessert plates and chew slowly.

Imbalances in blood sugar and excess weight may appear together or one following the other, especially after middle age. When that happens not only produces a semantic combination of the names of these two disorders, but triggered a mixture of effects which is harmful to health.

The generalization of overweight, obesity and diabetes among the population has already reached in many developed countries the size of a real pandemic, which in 2025 may affect worldwide to 300 million people, with a high risk of suffering severe vascular disorders.

The problem is much greater in countries like the U.S., where smoking also threatens to collapse the health system unless we take drastic measures to narrow, but the so-called “diabesity” ‘-clever contraction of the words diabetes and obesity-is reached worrying proportions in other developed countries.

The relationship between excess weight and diabetes was one of the main issues discussed during the last congress of the uropean Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) held in the city of Jerusalem. The participants have agreed on linking diabetes with the current sedentary lifestyle and poor diet which encourages overweight, and warned that there will be an escalation in the incidence of both diseases if urgent measures are taken so that society change their behavior.

Excess fat, excess sugar behaves like a true gland attached to the body and dangerous to your health. This is because fat cells secrete molecules that promote insulin resistance, a process that causes blood sugar to rise, along with promoting inflammation, alter immune response and damage the inner lining or endothelium of the blood vessels.

Diabesity sufferers are born with a pancreas that produce insulin in adequate quantity and works well. But due to obesity that insulin than before did its role in the body is now produced in exorbitant amounts, the muscles have to
carry the glucose to fly resistant to this hormone and an increased glucose level blood, in what is called diabetes II.

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The role of diet as a cause of many chronic diseases has been studied over the years and through that found food and nutrients beneficial or adverse health effects.

According to Dr. Antonia Trichopoulou, Mediterranean diet helps prevent diseases and reduce mortality. However, the intake of olive oil, fish, vegetables and fruit become null and void unless it is combined with exercise, a variable often overlooked but essential to prevent obesity and related problems.

Currently there are two totally opposite alarming situations: diseases of malnutrition faced by developing countries and the tendency of developed countries to cause disease due to poor eating habits. “In addition to feeding the children, we tend to eat well, because the underlying problem is not money but their habits,” said Lluis Serra, President of the First World Congress of Nutrition.

If you exercise and try a healthy eating but do not notice your body weight reduction is quite likely that your lifestyle is the culprit.

The stresses of everyday life may be one reason why many people can not keep the weight I wanted. Nerves and anxiety permanently undermine the normal weight.

If you’re looking to lose weight, will be totally counter overwhelming pace of work, situations of tension or nerves.

Apparently, there are two explanations: The first is the most visible and has to do with the need to calm the critical moments with meals. Many seek in fatty foods or large amounts of sweets to calm tension-laden problems. Being anxious is contrary to maintaining a moderate and healthy eating behavior.

The other cause is hormonal. Stress causes a lot secrete hormones adrenaline and cortisol, as a regulatory measure to balance the body. Cortisol is a hormone that inhibits lipolysis, ie violates the processes in which the body burns fat.

Stress produces a waste of energy that the body tries to recover from muscle tissue. Thus, although calories are spent, they will be recovered without removing muscle and lose fat.

Exercise and nutrition are the cornerstones to achieve desired body composition. However, it is clear that the quiet life will be a great help to maintain the desired weight.

Do not enter the vicious cycle of eating because you’re nervous. Learn to control your diet and stress.

If you are on a diet to lose some weight, keep in mind that stress is an important factor in the way that will lead to success or failure of the diet.

Diet and stress

Stress accompanies the changes in routine, whether good or bad. Our body and mind become accustomed to a state and get them out of that state causes internal stresses that result in stress.

When we begin a diet, we changed our way of life: food, exercise, mindset meals. These changes, though beneficial to their health and quality of life can lead to stress.

And the stress of every day

The stress of starting a diet adds to the stress that we have everyday in our work and home, which leads to the so common “and anxiety”.

What results in a vicious circle in which increased stress involves an increase in the food we eat, so we must work harder to follow the diet and this causes more stress.

And people under stress are likely to take a defeatist attitude and self-pity: eating without hunger, drinking, smoking, etc..

Added to this are studies indicating that people under stress gain weight faster. When a person is stressed, the ¨ ¨ stress hormone (cortisol) is secreted in greater quantity and causes the sensation of hunger.

Cortisol Control

The stress management techniques can lower levels of cortisol, a key to a diet to succeed.

Physical exercise, in addition to burning calories, raising the level of functioning of our metabolism and help keep our figure, also reduce the level of cortisol in the blood.

Relaxation techniques and meditation help to reduce levels of cortisol and stress.

It is essential to be surrounded by people who provide emotional support and where you can download anxieties.