Weight Loss and Diet Tips

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Often feel confused about why the body weight has not dropped after they were desperately sports? Please try glance your sleep patterns. Enough? Because if not, maybe that’s why you have not weighted down.

The researchers found that sleep debt, it means we destroy the body’s metabolism, which in turn will facilitate the entry and stay of fat in your body. Apparently lack of sleep can increase insulin resistance. That is, the body does not use blood sugar to be, thus increasing the risk of diabetes. As well as lower levels of leptin, a hormone that has an important role in satiety signaling. Thus, when this goes on, weight loss will increase. Read the rest of this entry »

In order for fat-burning activity after maximal exercise more, choose the right foods. Recent studies have shown, low-carbohydrate diet after aerobic exercise increases insulin sensitivity.

Increased insulin sensitivity helps the body absorb sugar (glucose) from the bloodstream and store it in muscle and other tissues that could be used as energy. Instead of insulin resistance can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes or heart disease.

Health experts said the results of this study confirm previous studies showing the benefits of sports activities actually come from the new gym sessions we do, rather than a physical exercise which has been running for months. Read the rest of this entry »

It may sound a little funny or unreal but is a reality that people are “addicted to sugar”. Perhaps the same as you and still do not know.

If you’re somebody they have to be eating “something” sweet all the time, or if you feel the amount of sugar you use to sweeten your coffee is great … you’re probably a “sugar addict”.

Consume only the necessary amount of sugar is vital to the health and fitness, that is why today we will see a series of tips for quitting this addiction.

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Heard talk about body mass index or BMI. This is a measure of association between weight and height of a person. Has generally been used to assess the nutritional status of adults. Wondering how to calculate BMI? In We we tell you how and give you some guidelines to know if you have a healthy weight.

BMI is calculated using the following mathematical expression: BMI = mass (kg) / height ² (m). The value we obtain is not a constant but varies depending on age and sex of individuals. At the same time is also influenced by other factors as the proportion of muscle and adipose tissue.

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