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Why is it hard to lose weight while eating processed foods
Most of us struggle to maintain a healthy weight. I had the opportunity to travel to some parts of the world. I noticed that most of the people of the Far East and Middle East in general, seem to be thinner than most Westerners. I also noticed that most of their food comes from natural sources, unprocessed. For the most part the edge markets with local produce, meat and fish.
In a recent statement from Asia, I was surprised with the big difference between my local super market and the markets we saw in China. Only a small part of my local store was full of produce, and certainly was not local and very fresh. Most of the space is used for packaged products. In other words processed. There are rows and rows of delicious food all wrapped in packs of colors designed to capture our attention and make us buy. A large amount of energy is devoted to processing, packaging and marketing of all products. They are designed to activate our instinct of self-gratifying to cancel our true need for nutrition.
Processed foods must be bagged, boxed, canned or packaged to offer consumers. These foods have to be altered in any manner or form, so “security” preservation and convenient transport and storage. Because they are altered to its natural state, the labels that describe the ingredients must be attached to the packaging. All this is very efficient and profitable for the food industry. For the consumer is the epitome of comfort.
What happened to the milk and strawberries?? Nobody ate these things a hundred years ago, there!
The question we must ask is, if this goes into our bodies? A way to remember my biology 101, our body needs carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Is the food if it comes from a lab? For thousands of years our bodies have been using what comes directly from the earth. Now we come to feed through a laboratory! Should we be surprised that strives to be healthy, let alone be thin and fit?
Foods like broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, bean sprouts, milk, eggs, etc, do not need labels to describe the ingredients. It seems that our bodies are tuned to process these ingredients now. Could it be that, as other substances that are foreign and unnatural for our bodies simply can not metabolize efficiently? Yes, I know, these chemicals are the synthetic version of natural. But are they better? Is it possible that in the pursuit of profit and convenience we missed something? Or put something in that should not be there?
Here comes the whamy largely processed foods are high in sugar, fat and salt. These foods are low in nutrients and fiber than raw food used to create them. This is therefore the ideal combination for the body to convert and store as fat, in addition to water retention.
So in the fight against unhealthy weight gain of excess fat, processed foods should be avoided above all! A return to a raw diet and all natural undoubtedly lead to a healthier and trimmer you! Remember that according to the World Health Organization, processed foods are to blame for rising levels of obesity and chronic diseases worldwide.
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Foods Contribute to Cellulite
Foods to eliminate anti-cellulite: Overweight does not necessarily cause cellulite, there are overweight people who do not have cellulite and thin people who do have, but too much fat around the hips, thighs and buttocks will make it look worse and therefore should be maintained at a healthy weight and reduce fatty foods you eat. Processed fatty foods such as sausages, cheese, biscuits and cakes, are particularly bad, often full of additives, salt or sweeteners, which increase the accumulation of toxins in the body.
However, the good fats will help to combat cellulite, so you should eat oily fish like salmon or mackerel. Oily fish contains fatty acids that help the body metabolize fat (and to lose fat is often also lose cellulite).
Nuts are another source of fatty acids, and are full of fiber. Foods rich in fiber are important because they help the body digest food and eliminate effectively.
Some studies suggest that caffeine can worsen cellulite, it is appropriate to reduce the consumption of coffee, tea and cola: take one or two cups a day maximum.
Avoid alcohol and snuff, both originate in the body toxins, and alcoholic beverages contain much sugar. Sugar slows the production of collagen in skin, thus reducing their consumption is a good way to prevent wrinkles and cellulite.
Be careful, Obesity on Your Baby Can Dangerous
Women planning a pregnancy should be such that its weight is not too high. It would be great if we manage your weight is a healthy weight. Because obesity is not only dangerous for the mother, but also a threat to the fetus.
A”result, the risk of maternal chronic hypertension. You see, obesity is heart weight was too heavy. In addition, by increasing pressure on blood vessels of the fat,”said Dr. Sofyan Okky cited Sp.OG Tabloid Nakita.
Someone said to hypertension if systolic blood pressure in the session that reach up to 140 mm Hg or more. During the diastolic pressure of 90 mmHg or more.
Symptoms are often created, dizziness, red face, headache, nosebleeds, and so on. Although many patients have no symptoms. Therefore, the only way to detect by examining blood pressure.
Not only. The possibility that the mother with diabetes has become too high. The deposition of fat in the body that the source of the offender is calorie is. ) The reason for the pregnancy hormones (beta-hCG / human chorionic gonadotropin, most of the fat in the body in the change of glucose.
”So you can imagine, have the amount of sugar that accumulated due to the amount of fat. The mother may have diabetes during pregnancy, gestational diabetes. This type of diabetes usually disappears after birth, and few are permanent. But is the negative impact of diabetes on the fetus a concern,”said Okky.
The disease of diabetes, drinking Okky mothers of large babies (macrosomia) Score 4000-5000 g birth weight or do more. It could also, however, is the baby with low birth weight, ie born below the 2000-2500 grams.
Since blood vessels are narrowed by fatty deposits provide nutrients for the fetus to be reduced until the child can not grow optimally.
Another risk to the fetus suffered because of placental hypoxia, as a supplier of oxygen through the reduction of fat. Indeed, inhibition of this flow of oxygen damage to cells in the fetal brain.
Occurs during the period of this inhibition, the effect will be even heavier and more difficult to restore. Therefore, little intelligence is reduced.
A serious consequences, it is not impossible, the fetus died in utero due to intoxication. Another possibility is the weight of the lung by high maternal blood sugar.
They are”a few seconds after birth, babies with these disorders usually dead,”he said.
After birth, the light Okky various complications are still pending. The process of fault of the mother with OW (more weight, overweight may)) or obese (overweight increased the risk of bleeding. Since the process was not bleeding in pregnant women to perform optimally.
Disturbed reduce blood clots, which is useful, or stop the bleeding caused by the condition of blood vessels that are not ideal, either by accumulation of fatty deposits and cholesterol.
Based on experience with pregnant Okky OW and obesity are often also infected after birth. The other reason is that the number of blood vessels of the pregnant mother has been blocked.
Under these conditions, the wound was so excited and take longer. Since blood vessels is an important part of the Association of scar tissue entirely new. Meanwhile, the folds of the fat layer of skin is to create an enabling environment for the growth of germs. Not surprisingly, when the infection was a matter of time.
”That’s why women planning a pregnancy should be such that their weight is too high. It would be great if we manage your weight is a healthy weight. If the past would have had an ideal weight trying to maintain weight loss,”Okky advice.
Remember”in in the first quarter of weight gain was relatively low, never rising or even reduced because of nausea, vomiting disease. However, conditions in the Quarter 2 was and 3 differently, because most pregnant women experience significant weight gain,”he said.
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