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May 1st, 2012 | 
Author: Eating fatty foods and high carbohydrate is one of the causes of obesity. But there are things that unwittingly contribute to lead to obesity, and it is often considered trivial and even a small factor. This is her daily habits that make you gain excess weight, as quoted from the Health Me Up:
A. Lack of Sleep
Be careful! Lack of sleep can make you fat. According to some studies, sleep quality did not slow down one’s metabolism as much as 5 to 20%. Sleep deprivation also affects hormones trigger cravings, making it easier for you hungry so you would want to eat continuously all day.
2. Eating While Driving
When eating while driving a car, you tend not to notice what foods diasup and more concerned that the stomach feel full when I got in office. Therefore, avoid bringing lunch breakfast fast food like fried rice, noodles or a sandwich with sausage stuffing. Get up early in order to prepare healthy nutritious breakfast and if it really did not have time, take a mengeyangkan fruit such as bananas or apples.
3. Eat While Watching TV / Film
Going to the movies, will not be fun without buttered pop corn munching and sipping sodas. So also when you watch TV with a bag of potato chips or cookies. Why do people tend to eat snacks while watching? Because you stay focused on what is seen than eaten, so the brain can not transmit a signal when the stomach is full.
4. Variation No Food
Eating food that’s all, day and night, and so trigger obesity. Although the food you eat is healthy, but if that goes into your body every day is the same nutrients that will make you bored and end up looking unhealthy snacks when eating out.
5. Often Hang Out at the Coffee Shop
Sedkit bored, you’ve invited friends to hang out in coffee shops. What is ordered? Cappuccino, cafe latte or caramel blended machiato, as well as a companion piece of tiramisu cake. If done too often, do not be surprised weight would increase excessively. Limit a coffee with friends, and if you are required to frequent meetings with clients at the coffee shop or restaurant, order a black coffee with sugar….
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Fat has a bad reputation in the world pernutrisian. For centuries, many health organizations suggest the same: reduce or do not eat fat. For those who are overweight or have a chronic health problem, the consumption of fat must be reduced. But that does not mean fat is bad for everyone. These are some interesting facts about fat, quoted from the Huffington Post.
A. Fat intake does not necessarily Makes You Fat
Many people think that eating fat will make the arms, back, hips and stomach Andan become obese. In fact, not only fat that can make the body gain weight. If you eat to excess, eat whatever nutrients – carbohydrates, protein or fat – it would increase the number of calories and weight. In addition, eating too many carbohydrates stimulate further increases insulin levels and fat storage even gain weight than fat or protein. Essentially, consume foods wisely do not get a lot more calories than the calories spent.
2. Do not Fear Snacking Nuts
Nuts do contain fat, but it’s kind of healthy fat called monounsaturated fatty acids. Fat is not only making the stomach feel full but also increase the number of good cholesterol, called HDL. Richard Mattes, MPH, RD, a professor of foods and nutrition at Purdue University, Indiana, United States has studied the link between nut and body weight.
His research shows, nut nothing to do with weight gain because it had the effect of the old filling and digestible. Apparently, the beans have cell walls that are not easily digested when the process of mastication in the mouth. This means that, when entered into the digestive system, the fat in nuts is not completely absorbed by the body so that there will be a feeling of fullness for longer. Read the rest of this entry »
Many factors can make you have trouble sleeping. In addition due to the consumption of coffee, the food you eat before bed can also affect your sleep kualitus. According to Elizabeth Somer, author of The Food & Mood Cookbook ‘, spicy foods, garlic or other herbs with a strong taste can lead to indigestion. Excessive consumption of MSG seasoning and before going to bed according to Elizabeth will result in an unpleasant dream and make sleeping rough.
In addition, excessive night will also cause problems with digestion. Finally, these conditions result in decreased quality of sleep. Better to eat a lot during the day than at dinner. A maximum of calories you consume in order to sleep well is 500 calories. Consumption of vegetables that contain gas at night can also affect the quality of sleep. Avoid vegetables like broccoli, cabbage, and beans at night. The vegetables will make your stomach acid goes up, so that sleep becomes restful.
Instead, researchers from the University of Sydney, Australia, advised to eat high glycemic foods like white bread, pasta and white rice. These foods are believed to encourage people to sleep well and healthy. In addition to regulating food intake, make it a habit to eat at leisure. Dinner will quickly make you work hard stomach, so the effect on sleep quality.
It is better if you also reduce alcohol consumption habits, especially at night. As quoted from Helium, habits that can ruin your sleep patterns and make up all night.
Finally, subtract the habit of drinking coffee. Caffeine in coffee can cause your body awake for 12 hours. Therefore, the minimum distance to coffee consumption is 12 hours per day.
Everyone will want to have a healthy heart. According to research, there is an easy way to avoid heart disease, by eating beans every day.
Scientists have discovered for the first time, that there is a relationship between high levels of serotonin caused by eating beans with metabolic syndrome (MetS). Symptoms of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among others have excess abdominal fat, high blood sugar or high blood pressure.
Meanwhile, serotonin is a substance that help transmit nerve signals that can reduce feelings of hunger, making people happy and improve heart health. According to a report published in the Journal of Proteome Research, symptoms of MetS are at increased risk of Type 2 Diabetes and heart disease.
According to research by a team led by Cristina Andres-Lacueva and colleagues from the University Rovira i Virgili explain the increase in obesity in the whole world makes more and more people who suffer from the syndrome Mets.
In his research, the scientists asked 22 patients to go on a diet nut Mets for two weeks. Later, scientists mmebandingkannya with other groups who do not eat nuts kacangann. Read the rest of this entry »
Lack of sleep could be one trigger of obesity. Several studies have been published in America in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that there is a correlation between lack of sleep a day with the amount of weight gain over time.
From the results of the study revealed, there is a correlation between less sleep with a high body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of weight related to height. Usually used to measure whether someone is overweight or obese. Reported by Women’s Health Mag, in another study conducted over seven years to 7022 middle-aged man was also found that women who reported having a sleep disorder tend to experience weight gain significantly. Why is the quality of sleep can affect a person’s weight?
A. More and Less Sleep, More and Few Calories Burned
In a study by the department of Neuroendocrinology at the University of Lubeck, Germany, the researchers analyzed a group of male respondents. They were asked to sleep for 12 hours, but not allowed to sleep the next night. Respondents were then invited to eat lavish buffet the next morning. Then the researchers analyzed how many calories you burn when respondents get up and eat. When in a state of sleep deprivation, the body’s energy is expended respondents 5 percent less than when they are sleeping enough.
2. Lack of Sleep, Eat More
In a study presented at a scientific seminar of the American Heart Association 2011, explained that women who only had 4 hours sleep a night to consume 329 extra calories in the morning. The amount is far more than women who slept nine hours a day. In another study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 11 respondents to stay in a place called the sleep center for 14 days. Throughout that period, they underwent two sleep sessions. The first session, the respondent slept 5.5 hours a night and two 8.5-hour sessions. During sleep only 5.5 hours, increasing their desire to snack and evening tend to choose high-carbohydrate snacks.
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