“The pants do not you go? Do you have some extra pounds? Want to lose the belly? We know that rapid weight loss is difficult but not impossible if you have that discipline and organization. Once you have your taxes and you make sure you follow a plan, a matter of mentalizarte and be lost kilos alone.

Here, however, is not a question of miracles. If you plan to buy a miraculous machine that you have sold TV will be enough to lose weight, is forgetting the case. The task of losing weight fast should be approached as a change in your life again, a new organization of schedules and new healthy habits.

For rapid weight loss have to start taking the steps prior to thin. That is, commitment. We need to get involved in your commitment and think you have the power in your mind. Plan and prepare for the week that will take you to lose weight. It is important that you have your goals clear, so when birthday to find the motivation you need.

Discipline is the key to losing weight quickly. Make exercise a habit. Try to find the exercises in certain fixed times of day, so it will become an activity to attend, and not a what-do-when-I. The second option will inevitably lead you to forget your exercises.

Finally, it is also necessary in this process’re flexible. You realize that if half hour of exercise was enough, eventually you realize that you will pay more. The changes also must occur in your diet, as always eating the same foods is a bad strategy for your nutritional health.

“Most are middle-aged, but have the cardiovascular profile of a teenager,” he said.

Blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar and insulin levels are low, while all the so-called “good” cholesterol remains high, he said. Diabetes and cancer rates have fallen too.

Studies published earlier this year point to another, specifically related to age and benefits.

One shows that reducing caloric intake by 20 percent reduces damage to DNA and RNA oxidation caused by half, compared with control groups.

Oxidative damage to DNA, proteins and other cellular building blocks are accumulated over time and are believed to be one of the main drivers of population aging.

A second study by Fontana, published in July in Aeging Cell, shows that a combination of reduced calories and limit your intake of protein reduces the levels of insulin-like growth factor, commonly known as IFG-1.

IFG-1 is a marker of high risk for prostate cancer, breast and colon, as it plays a key role in regulating cell growth, linked to the aging process.

Cavanaugh, 61, a former Marine, began the diet for eight years, after 15-year history of high cholesterol and blood pressure.

At first improvised. “I designed a diet that I thought was very nutritious, but I had a problem with hunger and candy,” he said.

My level of vitality shot, “he said, insisting it has more energy today than 20 years ago.

Professor Elio Riboli, from Imperial College London, said: “We were surprised to see that the size of the waist have a powerful effect on people’s health and premature death.

“There are many simple and individual characteristics that may increase a person’s risk of premature death in this measure, regardless of smoking and drinking.”

He added: “The good news is that you do not need an expensive test and wait ages for the result and evaluate this aspect of health is as simple as measuring your hip and waist size.

The reason the relationship is not entirely clear, but another researcher, Dr. Tobias Pischon, from the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Potsdam-Rehbrucke says that abdominal fat is not like other fat stores, but may influence directly to develop chronic diseases by the release of “messenger substances.

The spokesman for the British Heart Foundation welcomed the results, saying it supports previous research, finding that the risk of heart disease may be higher when fat is concentrated around the waist area.

“It is important to a variety of measures used to assess body weight and shape. Just as the BMI (Body Mass Index), waist circumference and waist-hip ratio may help provide a better assessment of health risk.

“If you tend to rally around their average weight, increasing the amount of activity and what you eat help reduce the risk of heart disease and die early.”

The British author Lorraine Clissold discovered what the Chinese remains weak, despite plenty to eat, great food, while the British and Americans are suffering with mild salad and still fail to lose weight.

Interviewed from his home in North Yorkshire, Clissold gives the definitive answer to the secret surprise Chinese saying: the traditional Chinese diet, is supported by a strong cultural background and keen humor.

Why the Chinese do not add calories, it’s a stimulating analysis of what makes the Chinese diet, based on knowledge of Clissold, who lived 10 years in Beijing as a Chinese cooking teacher and host of a program kitchen closed circuit television, it is likely that many readers review their lifestyle and eating habits.

Although not common in his diet book also includes recipes and tips to readers of other cultures, so they can incorporate some of the healthy aspects of the Chinese diet in their lives.

The writer provides several concepts of why the Chinese diet is so healthy, from what you really eat their attitudes toward food.

The vegetables play a much stronger role in Chinese cooking in the British or American, since instead of being relegated to support functions or complement, the vegetables are much more likely to occupy the main place of the food scene and consider more meat as a condiment, that the main star in the diet.

It is noteworthy that the liquid food also plays an important role, since for the Chinese, Western ideas about the soup are quite different.

For Western soups are often abundant and sometimes even “a complete meal in itself,” but Chinese soups tend to be simple broths, whose goal is to provide liquid and most of the food item, which of course is full of nutrients. Continue.

A saying goes: “You are as old as his arteries”, which means that the state of your arteries is more important than their actual age in the evolution of heart disease and stroke, “said Geetha Raghuveer, professor of pediatrics at the University Kansas City Missouri School of Medicine and cardiologist at Children’s Mercy Hospital.

“We found that the condition of the arteries of these children is more typical of a person 45 years of age, when someone their own age.”

The researchers used ultrasound to measure the thickness of the walls of the neck (carotid) arteries that supply blood to the brain.

Increased carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) indicates fat accumulation of plaque inside the arteries feeding the heart muscle and brain, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke.

Researchers estimate CIMT in 34 boys and 36 girls who were “at risk” (average age 13 years, 89 percent of whites);

These children have abnormal levels of one or more types of cholesterol, elevated low density lipoprotein (LDL), which is known as “bad” cholesterol, low levels of high density lipoprotein (HDL), which is the “cholesterol good “, or high triglyceride levels.

Children from the “vascular age”, the age at which the thickening level normal for their sex and race was about 30 years older than her actual age, Raghuveer said.

The children were considered high risk for future heart disease because of obesity, abnormal cholesterol and a family history of early heart disease.

The author in his research that the Chinese eat 30% of calories more than the western population, with the difference being 20% thinner, based on a survey of T. Colin Campbell in China, authors of a major study which assessed the diet and its relation to disease.
A study in China based on the idea that the Chinese are thinner due to a more active lifestyle, defined by consuming more calories to maintain that lifestyle.

In fact, to establish this point, the study compared a group less active in the Chinese, like office workers who have a sedentary lifestyle, with a group of average Americans moderately active.

However, although in the Study of China was praised how fed rural Chinese, the old fashioned way or with the knowledge of balance or feeding called Yin-Yang, respecting the combination of 5 flavors and 5 colors, etc.., is to take into account the existence of a latent danger that is the modernization of China.

Which would bring the Chinese to move away from its own traditional food, culture away from their accumulated knowledge and ancient practices unfortunately incur other Western food consumption Snacking (fast food), purchase of processed foods and empty calories etc.., leading inexorably to the Western industrialized world diseases such as cancer, diabetes and obesity.

Dr. Kevin Volpp, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine was looking for an effective way to treat obesity, a growing problem that has serious health risks.

The researchers say that in many programs for weight loss, people are rewarded for sacrifice to the future, “We wanted to create a reward system but for the present,” said Volpp, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Volpp and colleagues studied two types of incentive programs for weight loss, one was a lottery in which participants are involved and are allowed to collect their winnings if they can target with your weight loss.

The lottery is run daily and people are told, they would have won if they met the goal.

“There is a very strong sense of loss” in the theory and people are very motivated to avoid losses, said Volpp.

“The idea was to create a mechanism where this sense of loss will help boost the motivation of people,” he said.

Another method was a deposit contract, in which participants invest a small amount of his own money between 1 cent and $ 3 per day, would lose at the end of the month if not achieved their goals.

People in this group also have a bonus if they met their goal.

In the method of a deposit contract, where participants invest a small amount of your own money, they would lose at the end of the month if not achieved their goals, this group also would have a bonus if they met their goal.

“The only thing is that only receive their reward at the end of the month if their weight was below the stated goal for the month,” said Volpp.

Control groups all had a goal to lose 16 pounds (7.26 kg) after four months and people with the incentive lost much more weight than those who had paid for their efforts, reaching half of the participants in each group meeting.

People in the lottery program earned a total of $ 378.49 and lost about 13 pounds (5.9 kg), while people who participated in the deposit system was $ 272.80 and the loss was 14 pounds (6.35 kg).

Individuals in the control group that are only rewarded for best play of jeans lost about 4 pounds after four months.

Volpp said the studies were highly effective in producing short-term weight loss, but when the money stopped flowing, the weight began to increase again.

“We have to establish whether they can be effective in maintaining weight loss, as in the program,” he said.

The researchers found that the stress of thinking caused great thinkers over more calories.

The research team, supervised by Dr. Angelo Tremblay, measured the spontaneous food intake of 14 students after each of the three tasks.

The first was a relaxation session at the position, the second reading and summarizing a text and finally completing a series of tests on the computer of memory, attention and vigilance.

After 45 minutes on each activity, participants were invited to eat all they wanted from the buffet.

Researchers have discovered that each session of intellectual work requires only three calories more than the rest period.

However, despite the low expenditure of mental energy in the work, the students spontaneously consumed 203 more calories after summarizing a text and 253 more calories after the computer tests.

Jean-Philippe Chaput, lead author of the study, said: “These fluctuations may be caused by stress of intellectual work, or also reflect a biological adaptation during glucose combustion.”

So the body could react to fluctuations stimulate food intake in order to restore its glucose balance, the only fuel used by the brain.

Chaput added, “over-caloric compensation following intellectual work, combined with the fact that they are less physically active when doing intellectual tasks, could contribute to the obesity epidemic currently observed in industrialized countries.

“This is a factor not be overlooked, considering that more and more people hold jobs of an intellectual nature.

The distribution of fat is very important for predicting the possible complications of obesity. They differ according to the dominance types of fat:

• central obesity or android or abdominal (apple shape): excess fat is typically located in face, chest and abdomen. This type of obesity is associated with an increased risk of dyslipidemia, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and overall mortality.
• Gynoid or peripheral obesity (pear shaped) fat accumulates mainly in the hips and thighs. This type of distribution is primarily associated with venous problems in lower limbs (varices) and osteoarthritis of the knee (gonarthrosis).
• Obesity evenly distributed: it is one in which the excess fat is not dominant in any anatomic area. To find out what kind of obese before we divide the waist circumference by hip circumference. In women, when it is above 0.9, and the man when he is to 1 is considered android type obesity.
• Latest trends: in the latest American Consensus on Obesity (1998), for assessment of overweight using BMI proposed, and waist circumference. The recommendation of abandoning the waist / hip ratio for waist circumference, is due to the positive correlation which it has with abdominal fat content.