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Try to keep your diet can turn a simple shopping trip into an epic challenge of self discipline. How can you ignore the warnings of fluorescent colors in each row by offering treats and temptations known by the tongue when you have cravings, when hungry or when you feel deprived of something? It becomes a war of cravings where your will to surrender is quickly rewarded.

In a culture that sees the super-thin models perfect beauty, fat is the horrible disease that must be healed. This creates an obsession with losing weight, increasing the difficulty obsession could. It’s like trying not to think of a white horse. The more you try not to think, more used to your mind.

Obsession, a slow metabolism and high-calorie food are indeed a deadly combination for weight loss. The worst contributors to weight gain are starches, fats and refined sugar. Much of our diet consists of starch (cereal, cookies, cakes, potatoes, bread, rice, etc.). This has the greatest impact in achieving weight. Starch is worse than sugar. For a short period of time, the blood sugar rises to the surface allowing the body to store excess sugar as body mass. Starch is a difference in this release sugar slowly, which is perfect for long distance runners athletes. However, if a person is inactive, the sugar slowly emerges immediately turned into body mass. Excess calories are equivalent to excess fat.

Fat calories are stored for periods of starvation, but the only time this happened in the course of this century was during the Great Depression, when people worked long hours and ate very little. Today we have the opposite. Most people eat too much and does little physical activity. Only need 30 seconds to consume 150 calories from 3 cookies, but you need 1 hour of jogging to burn. Eating to fill your stomach on the famous buffet “Eat all you can” gives 4,000 calories to your body. To burn this many calories are required at least 27 hours of jogging. Instead, we stayed at home most of the day in front of computer, television or drive the car back and forth. The end result is inevitable … weight acquisition. Fasting is effective for weight loss. You can see how the pounds melt away every day. It does not feel hunger and lose weight. Health improves and the skin regains its natural elasticity and youthful tone. Moreover, they feel a lot more energy. Can not find a better weight loss program this!

The most frequently asked questions is about fasting and metabolism. The fear is that while this fasting, the metabolism slows down after fasting and obtained more weight than before. Initially, any calorie reduction causes a reduction in the BMR or base metabolic rate. Cleansing will bring health that will increase metabolic performance and energy production. In short, eat less and feel more energized.

After fasting, the body is more efficient. Digestion is better due to a cleaner colon. The colon walls have been cleaned of stool compact, allowing better absorption of nutrients. The good news is that greater efficiency equals energy enhancement. Healthy people burn more calories. They do not need food as a security blanket.

Exercise causes the biggest impact you can have to increase the resting metabolism. After a workout you can sit on a couch reading while burning calories, as the muscles take up glucose from the blood to replace glycogen supplies. The key to losing weight is to eat fewer calories and exercise more. A raw food diet full of calories provides less density, more fiber and foods that please the stomach.

Oh, and if not wise, a slow metabolism reduces the aging process. A tortoise can live to be 400 years old.

Caffeine is a matter of opinions, even controversial, but the reality is that everything leads us to believe that its consumption may have beneficial effects and harmful depending always on the amount consumed, so, in moderation is the spice.

It is generally recommended not to exceed three cups of coffee a day, for an intake above 300 mg is already considered high and may present risks to health, it encourages the development of fatigue, nervous irritability and tremors, and insomnia, So today we intend to help you calculate your intake of caffeine showing you the contents of some foods high in cholesterol.

* 1 cup 180 ml: 100 mg of caffeine
* 1 cup of decaffeinated coffee 180 ml: 2 mg of caffeine
* 1 capuccino 190 ml: 73 mg of caffeine
* A Coca-Cola 330 Ml: 41 mg of caffeine
* 1 Coca-Cola Light 330 ml: 41 mg of caffeine
* 1 360 ml Pepsi Cola: 35 mg of caffeine
* 1 360 ml Pepsi light: 33 mg of caffeine
* 1 cup of black tea 180 ml: 3.6 mg of protein
* 1 bar of black chocolate 40 grams: 194 mg of theobromine

As you can see here include foods such as chocolate and tea theobromine owns that contains protein, substances with an action similar to caffeine, central nervous system stimulants, so too much can produce the same effects as caffeine.

Remember, less than 100 mg caffeine consumption is low, between 100 mg and 300 mg consumption is moderate, while above 300 mg caffeine intake is already considered high and may cause side effects in the body.

The soup can be very helpful when we need to lose weight quickly or we please to rest our battered digestive system. Is it possible to feel better on a diet or remedy that is natural, and luckily, so affordable?

What is the soup Diet?

Diet soup is a soup that can help us to eliminate fat and toxins from our bodies.
How long can drink soup?

On this diet, no protein, little fat and few carbohydrates as its use will be punctual and always directed by the physician or specialist. The soup can be taken alone as a mono-diet or fasting for one or several days. That depends on each case. Read the rest of this entry »