I keep trying to lose weight… but it keeps finding me!
Advertising – Advertising affects our nutritional choices.
The messages we hear influence our choices, and in both negative and positive ways.
Some of the advertisements bring some knowledge about the importance of some nutritional elements, such as vitamins and minerals.
They can also give us inaccurate information. These visual messages are very powerful, as they appeal to our subconscious.
People usually use Overweight and Obese as synonymous, but actually they’re not having the same signification. One means a health problem, the other maybe not.
Tags: Body shape, Obesity, Overweight
Tags: Diets, Nutrition, Obesity, Weight Loss
You had your last date with butter and sugar on New Year’s Day (Mom’s pecan pie). Since then, your food life has been strictly low fat, low carb.
So why does the thought of your bathing suit – or a cholesterol test — still make you shudder? Chances are you’ve fallen for a food myth or two.
Here are four of the most seductive — and persistent.
Dear So and So,
What the hell are you doing?
I’m trying very hard to keep all systems going: brain, heart, liver, GI, lungs, the whole shebang. And what do I get from you? A bag of chips and a pop.
This isn’t going to help. Let’s try focusing, shall we?
Here’s my deal.
It requires a lot of time, patience and discipline to shed fat from the stomach.
Excess fat in this region not only looks unattractive but a person is prone to several ailments due to weight gain. The heart and gall bladder are the major organs that get affected.
Both men and women are prone to gain weight in the abdominal area but women add on extra inches post delivery due to changes in the body.
The United States, and many other countries, have populations that are increasingly getting fatter and fatter. “Round is in” and “skinny is out”. Almost everybody these days is trying their best to look like “butter balls” instead of “zippers ” so I am going to tell you how you can get very fat, so that you are not “left behind” in the great American “Get Fat Trend.”
‘Something going on in the female’, appetite study suggests
Women vs. men: Orange colour indicates areas where men showed greater decreases in inhibition than women. These brain regions are involved in emotional regulation, conditioning and the motivation to eat. (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Faced with their favourite foods, women are less able than men to suppress their hunger, a discovery that may help explain the higher obesity rate for females, a new U.S. study suggests.
Researchers trying to understand the brain’s mechanisms for controlling food intake were surprised at the difference between the sexes in brain response.
Gene-Jack Wang of Brookhaven National Laboratory of Upton, N.Y., and colleagues were trying to figure out why some people overeat and gain weight while others don’t.
Exercise — physical activity — is a requirement of any plan to achieve and maintain good health. You should start any exercise or activity program with light to moderate efforts and increase your level of activities gradually over time. Even taking the stairs or parking further away in the parking lot increases your level of activity. Start slowly-but start something.
Not low-glycemic
Here are ten simple rules to help you follow a low-glycemic food plan. These rules will make eating very simple and easy to remember.
Read the reasons for these rules, refer to them often and, most importantly, follow them all the time. Before very long, they will become second-nature to you.
1. Whenever possible, eat foods that are in their natural state.
In this rule, reference is made to a food like carrots. What is the natural state of a carrot? Raw. When carrots are eaten raw, they are safe and natural-the way they were designed to be eaten.
Tags: Diets, low glycemic
