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Foods Containing Protein and Daily Protein Intake

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Foods Containing Protein and Daily Protein Intake

When we lose weight, choose foods that contain proteins and their daily intake is important because it helps maintain a healthy metabolic rate. When reducing calories to lose weight, your body burns a lot of muscle cell proteins to balance energy needs. An adequate intake of foods containing protein limits the loss of muscle tissue for energy provision.

Good sources of foods containing proteins are also essential for growth and maintenance of other soft tissues such as hair, nails, skin while helping to create antibodies to avoid potential infections. However, this does not mean that a high protein diet is more beneficial for those wishing to lose weight.
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Factors you Should Know to Calm Your Appetite

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Calm Your Appetite

When we try to lose weight, the main enemy that often occurs is hunger and food craving, therefore, learning what foods may help curb your appetite, is a tool that helps us lose weight.

Satiety is the feeling of fullness after eating, depending on several factors, one food or meal has more influence than others in our body. So do not forget the following factors that can calm the appetite more quickly.

Time in the stomach: depending on the composition of the food, if it takes longer in the stomach, the feeling of satiety that occurs when the body is superior. For example, fat and protein and fiber, remains longer in the stomach.
* Digestibility: the faster a food is digested, the lower the saturation that causes the body and its duration. Therefore, raw foods, more spicy and rich in fiber provide more satiety to be more difficult to digest.
* Volume of food: how much greater the more the volume strain caused in the stomach and the greater the feeling of satiety.
* Glycemic Index: foods with low glycemic index because they keep more satiating levels of blood glucose levels stable for longer.
* Cooking: the method and cooking time influence satiety, because a long boil facilitate subsequent digestion of food, however, cooking in the oven, not break all the food macromolecules and thus, their time spent in the stomach is larger and provides more satiety.
* Consistency: when food is harder, requires more chewing and higher satiety. Also, stay in the stomach also will be higher.
* Food Time: the body takes a minimum of 20 minutes to receive the signal that there is something in our digestive system, so if you eat slowly, we arrive at this time with less food, which favor a lower intake and with it, the weight loss.
* Temperatures: extreme cold and very hot, provide greater satiety in stimulating the digestive system and we receive extra flavor.

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Healthy Recipe: Pumpkin and cream cheese

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

The soups are the best allies of the diet to lose weight because they are satiating and nutritious recipes, I recommend you handle the soups slimes your daily menus No if you want to lose weight.
Today’s healthy recipe: pumpkin cream cheese, creamy and flavorful soup that provides nutrients and is ideal for: dinner and the end of the day. I hope the test at home!
Ingredients for 4 people
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