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Drinking water before meals helps you lose weight, says study
U.S. study shows that taking two or more cups brings feeling of satiety

Scientists presented on Monday (23:08), Boston (USA), a survey that indicates that those who drink water before meals lost weight faster. The positive effect was observed in men and women between 55 and 75 years.

A group of people was divided into two, with the aim of following the same diet. One group should take two glasses of water before breakfast each morning, lunch and dinner. The other group received no instructions to take water, but if fed with the same menu.

After 12 weeks, the team had lost 7 kg water, while the team that did not consume the liquid lost 5 kg.

One of the questions of the scientists was whether the water group would compensate for the fact that eating less at meals later, with high-calorie snacks, but the question was dropped with successful weight loss.

"Drinking enough water is an easy and useful strategy for those who want to lose weight," concludes Brenda Davy, responsible for a search.

Source: Women's M

Only 6% of adolescents in São Paulo consume the recommended daily amount of fruits and vegetables (about 400 grams or five servings), shows a survey of the Faculty of Public Health University of São Paulo.

Researchers evaluated data from 812 young people aged between 12 and 19 years, residents of the capital.

The research used as a method to record everything they ate in the past 24 hours. The study sample, 22% did not eat any type of plant the day before.

"They have high consumption of biscuits, snacks, soft drinks, pasta, pizza," says nutritionist Roberta Bigio, one of the authors. "This has to do with the availability of food at home and family habits."

Inadequate consumption in adolescence increases the risk of bad habits and diseases in adulthood.

The study will be presented at World Congress in September in Portugal.

Source: Leaf

Now, losing weight fast is good. That's the controversial conclusion of a study presented last month at an international conference on obesity held in Stockholm, Sweden, and published by the BBC. This is because, According to endocrinologist Katrina Purcell, University of Melbourne (Australia), author of the research, gradual weight loss could discourage patients. Really? Around here, the fast diet is still criticized by doctors and nutritionists. The consequences for the organism, according to them, may include up to spinal problems and gynecological alterations.

Katrina drew its conclusions after evaluating two groups: one, the goal was to lose 1.5 kg per week over 12 weeks, the other participants were meant to lose 0.5 kg per week with a regime that would last 36 weeks. The results show that 78% of people who tried to lose weight could soon lose 15% weight, compared to 48% of volunteers underwent moderate regime.

"The patient has to build new habits, which is incompatible with the speed," argues the dietician Virginia Nascimento, vice president of the Brazilian Association of Nutritionists (ASBRAN). She said another problem ignored by the study is that the person who loses weight quickly also tend to recover it soon.

According to physiotherapist Philip Nicodemus Semman, American Spinal Care Clinic, the diet causes the rapid loss of muscle mass, a factor that stimulates the spinal problems. "The muscles get weaker bones and the overhead becomes greater," he explains. This effect was felt by the businessman Newton de Oliveira, 56 years. With a diet that eliminated sugar, white flour and alcohol, lost weight 8 pounds in less than five months. "I felt very good, diet cleared my body," he says. Later, however, began to experience back pain who were diagnosed as a herniated disc.

For women, weight loss can lead to sudden or irregular interruption of the menstrual cycle, according to the gynecologist Eduardo Slotnik, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein. The absence of menstruation indicates the low hormone estrogen, which becomes more active in the presence of fat.

According to endocrinologist Amelio Fernando de Godoy Matos, a member of the Brazilian Association for the Study of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome (ABES), the loss of lean body mass occurred during the rapid weight loss is uninteresting for the maintenance of its own weight, since lean body mass is the one that spends more calories. Matos noted, however, that in the psychological, not medical, immediate weight loss can have an important effect on motivation. "If the regime is very slow, people end up discouraging it."

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I finally feel young, "said Kelly Meager.
She won the title of Young slimmer after losing 67.6 kg.

Britain's Kelly Meager, who weighed 149.2 pounds at 19 years and suffered from high blood pressure and cholesterol, and was chosen the young slimmer of 2010 after slimming 67.6 pounds in less than two years, according to a report in British newspaper the Daily Mail. "

She said the student was heavier when he entered the university. "I weighed 149 pounds, wore size 26 and had pressure and high cholesterol," said Kelly, who decided to lose weight after being horrified at his size on pictures with classmates.

"If someone had told me 21 months ago that I would be 67.6 pounds thinner, I never believed it. I feel another person, "she said. "I finally feel young. I'm loving life for the first time, "the university.

The couple managed to lose nearly half the weight after changing your eating habits, and do gymnastics and bicycle riding regularly.

Source: G1

According to a survey conducted by the Center for Assistance and Support to Adolescent Unifesp (Federal University of São Paulo), released on Monday, students from public and private schools from the state capital are with Body Mass Index (BMI) above international standards. According to the survey, among 8020 adolescents studied, 25.56% are overweight or obese, with higher incidence among boys. In public schools, the rate is 23.13% and private schools, 33.2%.

Students participated in the study of 43 public and private schools, aged between 10 and 15 years. According to researcher Maria Aparecida Zanetti Steps, and Call Center Support Teen UNIFESP, obesity affects an increasingly younger population.

According to her, a large number of Brazilian adolescents with a BMI above the 95th percentile (above 85 is considered overweight and 95 obese), 9.89% of the respondents. Among the young people surveyed, 15.67% were overweight and 2.77% were below the optimum settings.

Overweight, obesity and below the level considered healthy are considered nutritional problems. Among those who participated in the survey, 28.33% had some of these characteristics. The poll found that 27.8% of boys are obese.

In private schools, 21% of them were overweight and 18% were obese. In public schools, 14% of boys were overweight and 10% were obese.

Among girls, 8.12% were obese, overweight and 15.57%, representing 23.69% of women surveyed. In private schools 20% were overweight and 8% were obese. In public schools, 15% were overweight and 8% were obese.

Data collection was conducted between the years 2003 and 2004, but the result was only published this year compared with the international parameters. The next stage of work will start in August when the sub-group of those adolescents who were overweight and obesity will be reconsidered.

"Modern life has created dietary habits and inactivity that cause these results. Today, the student goes to school with money and the restaurants offer a huge amount of fried food, soft drinks and other calorie foods. The teenager is always with a soft drink or a snack in hand, "said Maria Aparecida.

For her, food at home is also responsible for frame indicated by the survey. "Even at home, lack of time and convenience of frozen and semi-finished, and excessive consumption of foods rich in sugars and fats, which promote the power of families to be unbalanced."

Source: Terra

Surrender to laziness may be something much more serious than you think. That's because experts began treating the lazy as patients need treatment. Experts warn of the vicious circle that follows the sedentary behavior: lack of physical activity promotes obesity, which is responsible for triggering a series of serious diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.

"We propose that physical inactivity should perhaps also be considered a disease," stressed the doctors Richard Weiler and Emmanuel Stamatakis, University of London, responsible for the study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

According to Weiler, a specialist in sports medicine, doctors need to promote well-being through exercise, as a way of dealing with the sloth of their patients, thus avoiding the astronomical costs of public health. "Much money is spent to treat the symptoms of lack of physical activity - obesity, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease - but this is not the root of the problem," he notes, stressing that people should "face facts and take responsibility" for their own health.

Source: See

Besides the benefits already known, losing weight also helps to improve memory. It is suggested that a study conducted by the department of geriatrics at the Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo.

A total of 22 elderly patients with a mean age of 65 years and body mass index greater than 30, which already indicates obesity. At the beginning of the study, specific tests were performed to assess different domains of memory, such as use of words, ability to follow guidelines to accomplish tasks and short term memory.

For six months, these seniors have done nutritional counseling and physical activity. After this period, repeated tests of memory.

Those who lost more weight (at least 5% of initial) showed significant improvements in the outcome of the tests.

According to the researchers, the loss of fat mass may reduce insulin resistance, frequently associated with obesity.

Insulin resistance can also reach the neuron, hence the improvement of memory. Another explanation for the good results is the reduction of resistance to leptin, which also help regulate appetite, facilitates processes in the brain related to memory and learning.

According to Fernanda Pisciolaro nutritionist, a balanced menu is key when it comes to memory. She explains that there are some nutrients that are true allies of the mind sharp and gives a tip: "omega 3, zinc, choline and B vitamins are essential for memory," he explains.

Liver, seafood, meat and egg yolk are rich in zinc. Already the hill can be found in soy lecithin, liver and egg yolk, while the B vitamins are found in lean red meats and whole grains.

Source: My Life

Advertising of foods high in salt, sugar and fat will alert measure should come into force in 2011

Even if it enters into force in early 2011, as planned, the resolution of the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) that aims to regulate the advertising of foods with high concentrations of salt, sugar and fat is just a small step forward compared to the laws other countries on the issue.

The standard - which has been rejected by the food industry and the advertising market - provides that these commercial foods start to warn consumers about the risks of developing diseases like hypertension, obesity, diabetes, cholesterol and stroke. However, issues such as product labeling and regulation of advertising to children, items considered "essential" for consumer protection entities, not part of the text submitted by Anvisa.

"Although we consider the resolution 'soft', it is nevertheless an advancement that assures the Brazilian consumer the right to adequate and clear information, provided by CDC. Anvisa did not accept the suggestions put to public consultation, yet [the resolution] is an important first step that will enable a more specific provision in the future, "says the lawyer of the Brazilian Consumer Defense (Idec), Mariana Ferraz.

The regulation of food advertising to children of low nutritional value is adopted by developed countries and is part of an international agreement signed during the 60th. Th World Health Assembly held in 2007, by member countries of the World Health Organization (WHO) organ of the United Nations (UN). The document requires commitment from governments to formalize strategies to combat the "obesity epidemic" that affects the world population. Among the points, WHO recommends the restriction on food advertising to children. The initiative also has the support of organizations like the NGOs Consumers International (CI) and Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC). Read the rest of this entry »

One of the best ways to lose weight is to combine a balanced diet with exercise. Regular practice of race is one of the best and most practical exercises if the goal is. The race, being an exercise based on repetition of movements, is more effective for burning calories than sports like football, for example.

All cyclic movement, as practiced in swimming, running and walking, is beneficial. In football, for example, the pattern of effort and movement is changed at any moment. The pace of the maximum heart rate rises and falls in a short time.

Compared to swimming, the race has the advantage of being more practical. During walking, gains in calorie expenditure. To burn the same number of calories a person needs to walk twice as long if it had run.

The person who runs practicing short hops, with pulses produced by each leg separately. The movement requires greater muscle strength, which require more calories than a normal pace. To oxygenate the muscles, respiratory system has to work faster. The heart, in turn, brings more oxygen to the muscles - and also works with more intensity.

The specialist says that running is more efficient than walking. However, this does not mean that anyone who wants to eliminate the "tire" can run. You need a medical evaluation. If any problems are detected, the best is walking.

Attention should also be given to the rhythm of heartbeat. For exercise to be effective, the heart must beat between 65% and 85% of maximal heart rate (MHR). It is also important to watch for signs of fatigue. Not being able to talk during exercise is one of them. The ideal is to run at a pace appropriate to go into metabolic balance. This can take up to ten minutes. Only after reaching this stage is that the body begins to burn fat, which is the initial goal.

Source: Full Health