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Diet to Strengthen Your Defenses

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Stress, sleep deprivation, lack of exercise and poor diet are some factors that can weaken your immune system. If you want to strengthen your defenses and prevent infection, these tips will be helpful.

The diet to strengthen your defenses must include daily foods containing the following vitamins:

Vitamin A plays an important role for infection and maintenance of the mucous membranes of the body. This vitamin is found in carrots, spinach, parsley, butter, potatoes, soybean oil, tuna and bonito fresh and frozen, cheese and eggs. (more…)

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Diet to Combat Anemia

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

The anemia is caused by decreased red blood cell in blood. It can happen for two reasons: iron deficiency or lack of folic acid (a B vitamin).

The first is known as iron deficiency anemia and may be motivated by the non-iron absorption in the digestive tract, chronic blood loss or the absence of this mineral in the diet, which is usually the most common cause.

The anemia due to folic acid or folate is called megaloblastic or pernicious anemia. (more…)

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The Slimming Properties of Pineapple on Diets

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

the slimming properties of pineapple on diets

We have all read and also heard about the “Pineapple Diet”, but I do not like extreme dieting or unilateral if it is true that some foods have properties that help your metabolism to lose weight.

One of the many foods with slimming is the Pineapple, Ananas, pineapple, luscious fruit native to Brazil. It is a fruit that contains an enzyme called bromelain that helps metabolize food, their power to help digest fat is found which makes it ideal for a dietary regimen against obesity.

Pineapple is also rich in fiber, pectin and vitamin C, B1, B6, B9. Minerals Contains excellent, low in calories, and a good diuretic. Besides esparraguina and bromelain, contains potassium sodium that neutralizes acid, caffeic acid and arginine. All minerals that help eliminate water from the body, thus preventing fluid retention in the body which makes it ideal for a slimming diet as well as overweight there are many conditions related to water retention in the body drop , uric acid, arthritis, etc.

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Erroneous Diets II

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Erroneous Diets

3. Atkins Diet

It is a diet of so-called decoupled, which prohibits mixing carbohydrates and fats, as it states that carbohydrates prevent fat burning.
Allowed to eat all fats and the amount to be spread over six meals a day. It enables all types of meats, sausages, eggs, fish and seafood (except oysters, clams and mussels), semi-cured and cured cheese, butter and margarine, lard, pork rinds, mayonnaise, cream, pate, olives, oil and vegetables.

It is a diet rich in fats and very low in carbohydrates, making it a diet that may produce acetone (ketogenic). Its only advantage that reduces appetite. However, the disadvantages, which are many, make it a dangerous diet:

  1. Increase of uric acid resulting from burning protein.
  2. Increased cholesterol due to the large amount of fat is taken, and consequently can cause cardiovascular problems.
  3. Gallbladder problems and constipation.

At first weight loss is done using the glycogen stored and removing water. From the third and fifth day glycogen stores are depleted so the brain will draw its energy to burn protein, strained the muscles, and fat, producing acetone (ketone bodies), which in turn causes halitosis.

4. Diet MontiƱac

It is almost equal to that of Atkins, prohibiting mixing fats with carbohydrates, but it gets a certain amount of alcohol (a glass of wine with meals). It is based on not consider the calories in food, but their glycemic index (ability to raise blood glucose).

Distinguishes two types of food:

  • Foods with “bad carbohydrates”, which are those with high glycemic index (rise much sugar in the blood). Are potatoes, carrots, honey, chocolate, sugar, sweet drinks, white bread, refined flour, polished rice, nuts.
  • Foods with “good carbohydrates” (slightly elevated blood glucose). They are brown rice, whole grains, peas, beans, fresh fruit, chocolate, etc..

According to this diet, foods can be fried (no batter) and recommended to take the fruit away from the food and dessert ever. This diet emphasizes avoiding “bad carbohydrates” but, paradoxically, can freely take red meats, fish, eggs, meats, fatty cheeses, etc..
The excess of these foods causes increased cholesterol, triglycerides and uric acid, with consequent negative effects on the cardiovascular system.

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Erroneous Diets I

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Erroneous Diets

Every day, lots of wrong diets that are followed faithfully by many gullible and that not only do not produce an adequate weight loss, but can be harmful to health.

1. Diet Water
2. Very low calorie diets
3. Atkins Diet
4. Diet MontiƱac
5. Hollywood Diet
6. Macrobiotic Diet

1. Diet Water

It consists of drinking only water and vitamins and mineral complexes. On this diet, glucose needed by the brain will be extracted glycogen (a type of carbohydrate) stored in the liver.
After the first days, the glycogen stores are depleted and the brain gets the 100 grams of glucose need per day from protein.
The muscles and other body obtain energy by burning fat in a process that generates acetone, a substance that removes the feeling of hunger.
The use of proteins, which are plastic material of the muscles and other parts of the body, makes them suffer a deterioration in structure and function, making them especially dangerous when it affects the heart muscle.
The basal metabolic rate, which would be our caloric needs if we were to no activity, is reduced and tend to decrease in physical activity. If it continues to insist on water diet, muscle failure risks, especially the heart, which can kill the patient
When the diet is abandoned eventually gain the weight back, but recovery of the muscle is slow and difficult, especially the older the patient has.

2. Very low calorie diets

It is known, in general, VLCD (very low calorie diet). They provide 400 to 600 calories a day and are available in powder form, bars or shakes.

  • Include the proteins necessary to prevent damage to the body due to lack of protein, but provides little carbohydrate, so the energy we need is obtained by burning fat, thus increasing the acetone (ketone bodies).
  • Lack of fiber that should be managed separately to avoid constipation.
  • You should eat always with 2 or 3 liters of water a day.
  • Often there is an increase of uric acid, which is to be treated with medication.
  • By providing such a small amount of calories the body, reducing energy needs and spends far less, thereby preventing the weight loss is as dramatic as expected.
  • For all this, such diets should be used only when there are special circumstances which warrant a rapid decrease in weight (respiratory failure, sleep apnea ..) and always managed by a doctor.

Do not use when you have a disease, such as heart failure, kidney or liver disease or who has ever had a myocardial infarction or cerebral thrombosis, etc..

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Tips to Lower Weight

Friday, January 8th, 2010

weight loss tips

If you are tired of such complicated diets, which appear everywhere and not just conditions totally never our lives. If you are tired of spending the weekend preparing dishes for the whole week regime of exact proportions and ingredients. If you are tired of having, to buy all the products weighed exactly in the right proportions. If you are artos all these things … Here are these tips on losing weight, but otherwise …

* Drink plenty of water. The FDA advised to drink at least 8 large glasses of water a day because clean water and helps your body digest foods better. If they are making arrangements Vds. is even more important to drink water at least 2 liters of water a day because it helps to eliminate fat and toxins.
* Make sport. It is indispensable! If you can not afford a gym, meet friends for running, walking, tennis, soccer or to do some kind of exercise, but move!
* Never eat standing and in haste, they eat very fast, without chewing it and swallowing the food. However, if you eat sitting relaxed and thinking about something else, chew better and eat less quantity.
* If you eat out, get used to ask for half portions, because the restaurants tend to put very large portions and we tend to eat everything we put, that is in excess.

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Benefits of daily physical activity

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Life is a matter of priorities, and priority should be taking care of our body. Not just to have a healthy appearance, but also to maintain acceptable levels of quality of life. Therefore, we must be aware of the importance that the practice of physical activity has on our daily lives.

1In physical activity benefit sometimes wait for a doctor to give us the alarm to improve physical activity a physiological imbalance (diabetes, hypertension, etc …)

But … why wait to have a problem to put solutions? Why not put the means to prevent potential problems in our bodies from an early age without waiting to develop? The sooner we start our life healthy activities, we will have more chances to enjoy a full and active life.

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High protein diets, lose weight and build muscle

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

High protein diets

Any exercise you do, either aerobic or anaerobic, affects the functioning of muscles, the fact of not using large Quilaja does not mean that muscle tissue is being destroyed.

Weight training coupled with high volume aerobic exercise and a significant reduction of calories that usually accompanies any fat loss program, can have a harmful effect on the tissues rather than the intense workouts with weights.

To reverse or at least minimize this potentially stressful stimulus for muscle, we have to consume about 30% over our total protein intake. Why?. Our body needs sufficient amino acids to retain or develop muscle tissue, which is the center of our metabolic engine.

Having sufficient protein is also important in the days when we went down about carbohydrate intake to 50 or 45% of our total calories. At that time, we need to dispose of excess amino acids to be used occasionally throughout the day to aid in energy production (gluconeogenesis) and fat use.

This case differs from the ketogenic diet in one fundamental respect: that of time. The longer your body to produce glucose using amino acids, more will be doing our ketogenic diet.

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