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Known troublemakers

Often you know what that can trigger migraines in yourself, but not everyone is as observant of context. A lot of foods and drinks are known to trigger migraine attacks:

* Chocolate
* Oster
* Spices
* Citrus Fruit
* Alcohol and red wine

Stress
Stress is a known problem for those with migraine. Attacks are often in periods with a lot of hassle at work – all pile up and in addition you get migraines! Very frustrating when you do not really have time to be sick .. The work situation can often do nothing about, so are often medications salvation. Read the rest of this entry »

Why diets fail? Firstly because it is not done properly. There are often underestimate what we eat by 40 percent, so that with a diet of 1,000 calories is actually doing one of 1,400 calories. Furthermore, the body adapts to the weight loss with reduced power consumption, making it less and less calories need to continue losing weight.

This is one of the findings of the experts of the Spanish Society of Hypertension (www.seh-lelha.org), who claim that “there are no miracles, as the key to a good weight loss regimen is that you must eat everything , that too in small quantities and burn more through exercise.

This is a series of tips on eating better, “when you follow a regimen to lose weight or to lose weight natural, changing eating habits, without weighing or measuring the quantities of food.

• A good chewing
Chew well and slowly, and get up from the table hungry, but always with a light stomach. Eat to to take away the hunger, but never fill. If you have trouble chewing moderate speed, count the number of chews and do not swallow the food until they are chewed 20 times. Remember that digestion starts in mouth chewing is an adequate basis for better assimilation of food, allowing it to reach early satiety.

• Less size, less calories
Also helpful is the use of knives, forks, spoons, cups and small plates and silverware left on the table between bites.

• Find the serenity
Always eat at the same place, sitting and focusing on what you eat (smell, taste, texture, without attaching the food to other activities, such as television, reading, computer or radio.

•Healthy cooking
Food can be cooked or spiced to taste, but everything that contains sauces, oils or fats will have to drain thoroughly. For use in oil, dressings, sauces and mayonnaise, use hot oil or paraffin oil. For cooking use liquid vegetable oil, preferably extra virgin olive oil. Avoid animal oils, such as cream, butter or butter and solid vegetable oils, cocoa, palm or palm kernel oil.

• Be careful with the purchase!
Acquire and keep only the necessary nutrients and keep out of sight, especially those who have not advised. When cooking, prepare only the amount of food needed.

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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.

Know the different stages that an overweight person goes through to reach its recovery

Obesity is a psychosomatic illness with food addictive behaviors, characterized by greed, lawlessness and in some cases, a persecutory guilt. This condition sets a degree of conflict and dependence on certain foods, especially the hydrocarbon.

This is a “compulsive overeating“, which in a first stage appears as an irresistible impulse, no infighting, no blame, at least during the intake. Therefore at this stage there is no awareness of illness.

In a second stage, uncontrollable impulses combined with guilt before, during and after the intake, producing an experience of emptiness and psychic pain. Here begin the familiar excuses obese. There is but little situational awareness of disease.

In case there is an appropriate treatment the patient enters a third stage (abstinent behavior) that involve learning, and help control search. It strives to achieve another kind of relationship with food, obtaining partial successes in this process.

At first the relationship with food can cause you fear and control is exercised from outside. Only in the fourth stage we can speak of “recovery” as it is internalized control and prevent food by choice, not by imposition, which accounts for the creation of new habits.

Proper treatment should aim to replace the dependency object (food), by other more rewarding things, analyzing the root causes of this pathology in the context of a therapeutic situation permitting both learning techniques to develop healthier behaviors, as we are in the field of addictions.

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.

If you’re making a diet to lose weight, you’re probably doing a physical exercise routine to lose the pounds hard, and complement. If not, cheer up, do not stop and start already!

When we are in full weight-loss diet, at first, weight go down faster, this is because there is a greater increase fluid loss, then comes what is called “plateau”, ie a period which costs begin to decrease weight, and feel that we stagnate. This is the time to start exercise to lose weight.

Ideally, start walking and go on a daily basis increased progressively over time, to increase our endurance and to burn fat more easily. But what to do with those extra pounds that were lodged in the abdomen or legs, these are the hardest to get off because they are located.

To do this, nothing is better than starting with a workout routine located, as an example of gymnastics localized abdominal exercises are recommended, which can start the day with 2 sets of 10, and build up gradually. Remember that for this exercise in the correct manner should put his arms behind his head, and stick his chin to his chest, to avoid injury to the cervical area. These abdominal toning help us both the rectus abdominis, the Crusaders, the top and bottom.

Other exercises suited to this objective are the squat, which at first advised to do so without additional weight of our body, and as you move through the classes may be added, according to the advice of your teacher. Besides these, it is advisable to do exercises on the legs, working adductors, abductors and gluteal respectively. In these exercises, you can also start following the same routine with the abdominals.

In short, it is best to start with an aerobic workout for the first 15 minutes, and then localized exercises the rest of the class. These exercises not only help you lose those extra pounds hard, but also to tone the muscles.

This way you’ll get the expected result.

Obesity is a chronic disease recently described by the World Health Organization as an epidemic of this century.

The increased availability of food, more energy and nutrient content of the body can burn or absorb and sedentary lifestyle are the main causes that have led to increased disease.

Other factors that help this condition are the heritage, the presence of certain disorders or ingestion of certain drugs. There are also some afectana diseases of the thyroid gland or adrenal glands.

Obesity is a disease risk, which can lead to the subject suffering eating disorders such as bulimia medicamentosy taking substances that are harmful to health, as are some anorectics, amphetamines, cocaine and ephedrine .

The main factors that influence obesity are:

* Eating too: In the majority of people who are overweight, this is because they eat too much, either in quantity or variety of food, so they can not spend all the calories they consume the which leads to overweight.

* Lack of exercise: Lack of physical activity and sedentary leisure too, and customs as a general guideline, are those that produce patterns that do not consider exercise. One factor causing this is that the jobs generally require fewer physical activities, and as for leisure, sports and games that require exercise have been replaced by television and video games.