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How to Lose Weight 1.5 kilos in 7 days

Weight LossWant to lose one or two kilos with your favorite summer fruit? Recommended for you, if you lose or rehydrate your body on hot days, they have anti-stress properties, prevent aging …

You can lose between 800 grams and 1,200 kilos on a diet of summer fruits, rich in 90 percent water and fiber, which makes them your best allies to purify and detoxify your body of excess summer.

Fruits less caloric

Watermelon (20 cal.) And pineapple (46 cal.) Fruits are low in calories which makes them ideal for dieting and are perfect for occasional detox diet in summer because “they are laxative, diuretic and renal level debugger regulating liver function. ”

Desintoxícate with fruit!

There are three steps to be followed over ten days. The first step is to take three pieces of fruit a day for three days and 2 parts the remaining seven days. The second step is to take before breakfast a piece of fruit with a glass of water and a yogurt and the last step is to follow a balanced diet.

Add an extra fiber and vitamins

It is essential also find the best solutions to meet the daily recommendation of fiber, a key ingredient in a balanced diet in which we are suspended in addition to diet, to help us prevent illness in the medium and long term.

Cutting Calories to Lose Weight Does Not Necessarily Mean

Cutting CaloriesIt is normal when we start to lose weight the first thing we do is analyze the amount of calories you eat every day and do everything possible to reduce them. However, often this is not the solution, because if it is true that there must be a negative caloric balance for weight loss, there is no linear relationship between calories and weight loss.

Sometimes we can even achieve the opposite effect; this is due to the way our bodies react when we make such changes. If we cut calories too much, the same is put into “survival” and therefore lowers the metabolism, which may eventually adversely affect weight loss.

Furthermore, sharply reducing calories may cause not only lose weight but also muscle mass and not forgetting also known rebound effect? Because of this it is essential that when we continue to propose that a balanced diet and avoid fad diets.

Because of this, reducing calories does not necessarily mean that we will lose weight. It is advisable to consume no less than 1200 kcal per day in the case of women and 1600 kcal in adult males. The numbers should not be less than this, as a low caloric intake can destabilize the body. Considering these points we can take better care of our health.

27 Kinds of Green Tea Benefits

27 Kinds of Green Tea Benefits

When compared with other types of beverages, tea proved more useful. This beverage can prevent or help cure ailments similar to severe influenza kinds of cancer. Type of tea can also be selected according to their respective tastes.

Here are 27 kinds of benefits that green tea is based on research results:
1. Can prevent and reduce high blood pressure
2. Prevent blood sugar levels are high
3. Lower cholesterol
4. Lower the risk of heart disease
5. Reduce the risk of stroke
6. Helps the body fight the virus (such as influenza virus)
7. Can inhibit the decrease in nerve function
8. Improve cognitive function

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The Dangerous of Dietary Supplements

The Dangerous of Dietary Supplements

Dietary supplements are popular in almost all homes, but a new study issues a warning regarding its use, since the absence of government oversight to this market several of them have ingredients linked to serious health problems.

As reported by Consumer Reports, some of the supplements given to stay healthy, lose weight, have an advantage in sports, or improve sexual performance, are made with one of the 12 ingredients that his research identified as hazardous. The seriousness of the matter is that the use of these may lead to cancer, heart problems, kidney damage, liver disease, and even lead to death.

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Foods Containing Protein and Daily Protein Intake

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

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

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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