Food and Nutrition
Take Care of Your Diet to Prevent Sagging Arms and Legs
On more than one occasion we discussed the arms and legs are the most prone to sagging. But if we watch what we eat and care as well as doing some exercise is a good aid to fight the flab.
If you are the type that you diet from time to time to lose those extra kilos, see that as you lose weight advance to sagging. The rapid and drastic diets are right for the skin to lose density and pitch as time passes.
Remember that as we age is made less collagen and elastin, and tensile fibers that tighten skin. If you notice the inside of the arm and thigh relaxed is you have to make improvements in your diet.
The key is protein. Diets low in protein cause progressive loss of skin elasticity. Ensure your presence is easy. Just try that at each main meal has at least one serving of dairy, meat, fish or eggs. So nothing to eat a green salad or a bowl of vegetables as is usual in these cases.
It should be borne in mind that are essential nutrients. Speaking at the production of substances supportive of the skin, vitamin C and silicon, help keep the skin firmer. They can be found in citrus, tropical fruit, strawberries, squash, corn and grains.
On the other hand, do not forget the exercise for turning arms and legs. To define muscle in your arms, nothing better than exercise with small weights and leg is very well known squats and do any exercise in which the legs have to exert force.
More Food That Will Make You Lose Weight
Continuing with the food that will make you lose weight in a way without you noticing, is the celery helps to get rid of impurities through its diuretic function. It is also rich in calcium and satiety. Its high water content helps to eliminate liquids. It also lowers cholesterol and uric acid and is a great protector for the skin.
The apple is so miraculous that snacks also eat an apple a day reduces cholesterol and thins. Is the conclusion of an investigation by the University of Florida. In your skin is antioxidants that help eliminate toxins and lose weight. So is the fruit called miracle because only provides 50 Kcal and is a good snack.
Oily fish known as the sardine is a good source of omega 3 which helps to reduce cholesterol levels. Also their quality grease, helps control weight. Stresses its high content of protein and minerals. Sardines are cheap and easy to prepare, grilled or baked.
The tangerine is another fruit that prevents obesity. Provides vitamin C, folate, fiber and few calories. Has recently been found to have a substance, nobiletin which prevents obesity and protects against diabetes type 2. To eat with salads or slush is perfect.
Of all the cheeses, the lighter the goat as the level of milk is quite low and more cheese. By containing conjugated linoleic acid, which increases energy expenditure and fat burning your body has a fat eliminator. Improves muscle to contain vitamin A, B and D, important to keep the tissues in perfect condition.
Strengthen Your Neurons
Neurons are responsible for emotions and throw you tell us how we are or what we feel. They are responsible that at times our hearts take the fast pace of life to feel it. But for this to happen we have to guard your heart for the neuron is well.
To do this we need to pay attention to food. Foods that ensure the smooth ebb and flow of life through the avenues of the mind there are three particularly important, oily fish, olive oil and berries.
We have often spoken of the large properties containing oily fish. The Mediterranean diet consume oily fish talk about two or three times a week. One important reason is because it contains omega 3 fatty acids, a fat that is part of the lining of neurons and that without it could not pass information from one neuron to another.
Nor is worth all the fish, the great king is the cold-water oily fish. And in addition you can get in other foods is nuts, but not assimilated well, so it is best convinarlo.
Furthermore, olive oil is another food for the brain star, an oil that comes directly from olives and mechanical pressing. Clean the cerebral arteries of cholesterol, which means it is directly part of our mind where they keep all that we are. If oxygen does not arrive because our arteries are clogged by cholesterol, we do not receive or remember the information and we will be lost.
The amount of olive oil are recommended to take three teaspoons daily. This also prevents cardiovascular risks.
Snacks and Light Energy
with the pace of life we lead, most of us eat up very early and very late. In between, it is normal to pique the ‘worm’ in the stomach and you want to come recharge your batteries with some food. The decision that we often make is that we do not measure what we make and, in most cases, do not take anything that we favor.
Depending on the energy expenditure that we make throughout the day, we opt for lighter snacks or heavier. Keep in mind that we will take a few hours after the meal, so that should not be exceeded to get hungry for it. Here, I propose two options and two light energy snack, choose the right one for you!
In the first case, we can take a mini cheese sandwich prolevone and pesto with a little warm turkey breast well. Another option is a croissant stuffed with ham and cheese to combine sweet and salty. Accompany with a refreshing drink to make even harder.
In the second case, a light snack options, we can take an egg and toast with cheese gratin that pass through the oven before eating or a skewer of pineapple and salmon. In the latter, you can combine any seasonal fruit with your favorite food trying not to have excessive fat. To drink, nothing beats a good team; you have a lot of flavors to choose from!
Tips for Proper Diet
Surely many you have already thought of losing a few kilos for the summer when you have seen the bikinis in the windows. I, at least I did, but not so much for looking better, but feel better and take care of my body and that, certainly with the advent of good weather, I can not resist ice cream!
As I do not make any mistakes then I can pass a bill I contacted professional dietitian to advise me a little, health comes first! Marta Gonzalez Caballero, nutritionist and dietitian, has answered all my questions and this is what we have been clear:
1. – It is important to see a professional to design a diet in keeping with our height, weight and muscle mass.
2 .- It should not be obsessed with weight, until you spend at least 15 days from the beginning of our diet should not pesarnos and done always in the same scale as, between them, there are oscillations.
3. – Eating slowly and get full before the stomach will send us to stop.
4. – It is very important not to skip meals and eating five times a day. So avoid being a voracious hunger to eat dinner and all that put us through.
5. – When we go to buy, we should do a full stomach and avoid tempting to pass through the halls, the fruit and vegetable section is the best choice!
6. – If we are imaginative in the kitchen, avoid monotony in meals and more dishes apetecerán we saw previously impossible.
7. – When we go out there with friends we have to take light snacks like pickles or shrimp.
8. – We should not skip the main courses, most proteins are providing us!
9. – Between meals, snacks banned! And if we have no adequate remedy what will be a yogurt.
10. – As surely as I pass you, and many eat out, watch out for the menu! For starters, salad or vegetable and meat or fish second to the plate.
Integral and Fiber
Why is it healthier to eat whole grains? What is integral?
Well, there are many diets and health gurus who advocate eating whole grains and I’ll explain a little that means.
Whole grains are still the shell of the natural grain, even if ground is integral meaning. The outer tank wall sometimes referred to as the saved and the inner layer is counted as whole grains. This applies to all grains such as wheat, rye, oats, and rice, corn or flax seeds. Not applicable to husked rice, in which the shell is gone, but the cereal grain is human health. It takes a long time for the body to break the diet of grains, which means that maintaining a stable level of sugar in can help you lose weight and gives a feeling of being full for much longer compared free diet dietary fiber are carbohydrates that cannot be broken down into the small intestine, but spend most of the intestine without being affected and are not a source of energy for the fibers help to shorten the time the food must pass through the intestines.
Fiber promotes bowel movements and makes digestion more efficient. There are two types of fiber: soluble dietary fiber (gel formation) and insoluble dietary fiber (no gel formation). The feces are increasing in volume and soften the fibers that hold water (soluble) which produces a greater effect than is good for bowel movements, and also increases the volume of heces.La dietary fiber is found only in plant foods, not foods of animal origin. Defibra 30gramos Debemoscomerunos day.
Benefits: Comprehensive and Fiber?
Fiber is good for bowel function, prevents constipation, inflammation of the colon andthe infections, prevents hemorrhoids, and promotes growth of beneficial bacteria (probióticosyprebióticos) in the intestinal tract. It also protects against colon cancer. Fiber increases satiety, when you feel full longer, so we eat less. Good foods rich in fiber composites as whole wheat bread give the concentration of blood sugar more slowly (it has a low glycemic index) and keeps insulin levels in a lower level. Foods rich in fiber are beneficial to our blood cholesterol and blood pressure. Fiber in the diet by removing a portion of fat and cholesterol and decreases body fat in the blood. Dietary fiber may also prevent colon cancer. Foods rich in fiber:
Grain products: bread, bread decenteno, oats, wheat bran, whole grains, etc. Root vegetables: carrots, turnips, etc… Fruit and berries. Cabbage Legumes: beans, peas and lentils are what you eat!
Trace Minerals in Pregnancy
These are vital nutrients in your diet, especially at this stage when your immune system is weakened a bit.
Pregnancy is a stage that generates a lot of fatigue and major concerns, situations that have a negative effect on your defenses. Moreover, in these moments, your immune system is working at a slower pace, just to prevent your body from rejecting the baby. To cope with all these changes, trace elements will be your allies. Best of all, you do not need large quantities and are very easy to include in your daily diet.
Here are the most important trace elements and in which foods are:
Trace elements, functions and which foods are – the trace elements are:
Manganese Trace Elements:
• Allows better absorption of calcium and iron. Also plays a role in the development of the baby’s ear and is involved in reproductive functions.
• Food with manganese: cereals, spinach, wheat, corn, almonds, carrots, beets and soybeans.
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Health Benefits of Carrots
• It is very rich in carotene, an antioxidant with effective anti-cancer properties. The carrot prevents cancer and a case of autism, beta-carotene content makes it a valuable aid to the growth of diseased tissue.
• Conventional wisdom is considered very good for the eyes, intestinal healing, diuretic and astringent.
• Also to cure hoarseness, boiled carrots, squeezed by mixing with water and honey.
• The carrot contains a lot of water (almost 90%) and is low in calories, the diet contributes to only 40% of calories.
• It is also an effective antioxidant and skin protector.
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Vitamins to Combat Fatigue Spring
Food Vitamin Function
Vitamin A increases the defenses and provides strength and energy. Green leafy vegetables, carrots, whole milk, eggs and cod liver oil.
Vitamin B1 also called vitamin of joy, it is very important in energy production processes, and also protects muscles and helps to good brain development. In whole grains, especially oats, wheat and rice germ, brewer’s yeast and soy.
Vitamin B2 is essential for energy production process, while its deficiency causes fatigue, apathy and malaise of a general nature. Mainly in dairy products, organ meats, wheat germ and brewer’s yeast.
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Juice Diet of Natural Ingredients
Ingredients:
4 blocks
1 cactus
Juice diet of natural ingredients 1 stick celery
3 sprigs parsley
1 tablespoon of flaxseed
How to prepare
1. wash and disinfect fruit and vegetables perfectly
2. apples by passing the exhaust
3. Pour the juice into a blender and add the rest of the members, liquefies it for five minutes to remove the slime of the cactus
4. taken every day in the morning
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