9 "green" steps to loss of weight

How it is possible to help the environment, going towards the aim – loss of weight? The following useful activity reduces waste, dumps, reduces carbon allocation – and all during burning of huge number of calories! For example, cutting of a grass by means of the manual mower not only reduces pollution, but also allows to burn twice more calories, than when using the electric or gas mower. (Plus to everything, many say that it is better for your lawn). We offer you several ways to facilitate not only life, but also weight.

Replace your sports equipment

Get your old exercise machine or the sports equipment and exchange with the friends on video with aerobics or an aerobic ball. It will induce you to try new exercises which will promptly increase your metabolism.


Advantage to the environment: you prevent pollution of the environment from not decaying equipment, and air – from exhaust gases during transportation.

Buy sports equipment in shops


Recent researches showed that playing soccer burns more calories, than jogging which was always considered as ideal for loss of weight. Practice work of legs by means of the soccerball made of polyurethane, but not of polyvinylchloride, plastic which produces dangerous chemicals in air, water and the soil.

Practice jogging in the fresh air

45-minute run or walk in the fresh air pmozht to improve blood circulation, to keep brain activity and to burn the bigger number of calories, than performance of the same activity in stuffy gym. Plus, sunlight increases the level of serotonin and vitamin D in an organism which help to keep weight in stability.


Advantage to the environment: the refusal of racetracks, elliptic exercise machines and motionless bicycles reduces the national levels of consumption of energy. This equipment, even when does not work, spends energy.

Destroy garbage


Make search and destruction of waste around your house a weekly family mission. You will actively train hands and legs, constantly bending down and moving bags with garbage in the fresh air.

Advantage to the environment: collecting garbage not only gives to a grass, trees, bushes and flowers an opportunity to breathe, but also gives the chance to you and yours to children to appreciate all delights of the green environment.

Eat less meat

Vegetarians tend to be more harmonious, than those who eat meat, and have the smaller probability of receiving a cardiac disease, high pressure of blood or diabetes. Some the certificate show that the people going on vegetarian diets automatically burn the bigger number of calories as vegetable food is spent by a body more rationally, than meat which is often laid in fat.


Advantage to the environment: meat production uses a bigger amount of water, energy and fuels, than vegetable; the superficial drain pollutes the rivers and air.

Limit yourself in the packaged packaged snack


Avoid the low-fat packaged products as they often do not satisfy our appetite and can become the overeating reason later. Instead have a bite a handful of nuts or other useful products each several hours to stabilize sugar level in blood and to hold metabolism normal.

Advantage to the environment: similar products are usually packed in a plastic box or cellophane which demand bolshgo the number of years to decay.

Be engaged in traditional housework


To burn additional calories when performing household chores on economy, try to do things in the old-fashioned way. For example, ispolzuytk the ordinary manual mower to cut a lawn, or for drying hang out clothes on a rope. These variations of movements throw down a challenge to your body, forcing it to move absolutely different ways, putting your metabolism in action.

Indulge yourself a campaign in what Spa

Instead of excesses in food and binge at the celebration of your birthday, anniversary or began holidays, indulge yourself in what Spa. Massage, a yoga course, wrapping and mineral bathtubs will relax muscles, will help to remove toxins and will reestablish communication between a body and reason which in turn can increase loss of weight.


Advantage to the environment: what Spa respectfully treats the environment in the most various variations – beginning from chemically clean products and finishing with energy saving lighting.

Park the car


Your choice of the vehicle can burn 500 additional calories a day. The trip by bus or the subway will force you to walk (or run), the cycling strengthens calves and gluteuses, and the choice for a ladder, but not the elevator, will improve work of heart and lungs. In comparison - driving the car does not burn almost any calories.

Advantage to the environment: rather you switch off the car engine, the smaller amount of gas and oil will get to air.