Food Tricks

2 New food tricks to reduce cravings and control calories

Three days ago I’ve got a great email from  “MIKE GEARY“  about this new food tricks to help you control calories, cravings, and appetite.

 It involves food scent!

And how Smelling food can trick your brain into thinking you’ve eaten.

I thought that was a pretty good idea and want to share it with you. Check out the full article [Here]

Fad Diets

Fad diets are a sort of diet plan or aid that aims at losing weight, usually in a relatively short time. Fad diets attract a large number of people who suffer from weight problems and are helplessly looking to some way of arriving at a shapely physique. The problem with fad diets is that their fat-reducing effect is temporary and results in quick regain of weight. What is worse is that most of these diets are harmful to health.

Fad diets are not as new as they might seem at first. These date back to the mid 19^th century when an obese Londoner was prescribed such a diet on experimental basis. Now, after a century and a half, fad diets have become popular among people with weight problems. Teens and young adults especially flock to fad diets for answers to weight problems.

Fad diets are usually centered on a higher consumption of fats or proteins while stressing to go easy on or, in some cases, completely cut out carbohydrates. It is the low intake of carbohydrates that brings about rapid weight loss. In fact, this rapid loss is the loss of water that glycogen has stored. With loss of glycogen, the large amount of water stored in it is also lost and body weight drops. The fats are still there and as the fad diets are given up, the body regains its proportion of water lost. Weight is put back on as fast as it was lost.

Normally, carbohydrates remain the source of energy for work. With fad diets, the carbs are no longer there so the body starts using the stored fat, breaking it down. This may appear beneficial but in fact it is not. In the absence of carbs, fats cannot be completely oxidized and put to work. Hence, the body feels fatigued and weak. In addition, the ketone molecules resulting from the fat-breakdown accumulate in the blood and are excreted out via urine, causing dehydration.

Given the harmful health effects of fad diets, it is important for us, especially the weight-conscious people, to recognize and beware of these diet plans. Watch out for diets that:

• Promise quick weight loss
• Publicize before and after pictures
• Present weight-loss testimonials
• Tend to limit natural food choices
• Require a large sum of money

Fad diets may be popular, but they can greatly hurt your body. Be careful with any diet or exercise program and ask your doctor to be sure it is safe.

B1- Thiamine Place in Your Life

Because there are so many nutrients that your body needs daily, it may be easy to confuse them with one another. However, because they are so important in our bodies, you must take it upon yourself to learn about all of the nutrients you need on a daily basis. Vitamins are crucial to our bodies. They help with a variety of functions—everything from growth to organ function. Without the proper vitamins in our bodies, we would fall ill very quickly. Therefore, it is important to learn about the vitamins your need to consume every single day. One of these vitamins is thiamine, which is also known as vitamin B1. If you are not getting enough thiamine in your daily diet, it is important to talk to your doctor about taking vitamin supplements.

Thiamine has a number of functions in the body. Its main function is to help your cells convert carbohydrates, which are found in bread, pasta, and potatoes, into energy. If you cannot convert this into energy, your body will store it as fat instead. Other than that, thiamine also helps to keep the heat, muscles, and nerves functioning properly. Therefore, thiamin is extremely important in the body.

Of course, while thiamine is available in supplements, the best possible way to provide thiamin to the body is through food sources. You can find thiamine in lean meats, especially pork, as well as fish and soybean products. You can also get your daily helping of thiamine in fortified breads, cereals, pasta, dried beans, peas, and whole grains. Wheat germ is an especially good source of thiamine, which is why bodybuilders and athletes who are concerned with carbohydrate control sometimes drink wheat germ diet shakes. You also get small amounts of thiamine from dairy products, like milk and cheese, and from some kinds of fruits and vegetables.

Without enough thiamine in the body, a number of diseases develop, and so it is important to take vitamin supplements if you are worried about this. A slight deficiency causes weakness, fatigue, psychosis, and problems with your nervous system. Over time, this can develop into beriberi, a disease that is known in the United States to mainly affect alcoholics. High amounts of alcohol in the blood stream reduce the amount to thiamine that can be absorbed from food. If this problem is not treated, Korsakoff’s syndrome or Wernicke’s disease could develop. Both are mental problems that leave patients confused, among other things. Vitamin supplements to replace thiamin can therefore be very important.