Top-10 news about weight loss. Part second

6. The fat-free products will not help to become more harmonious

What are you doing, buying milk, sour cream or cottage cheese in shop? I bet, the same, as I – you look at fat content. It is forced to upset you – scientists claim that the content of fats in products does not influence the weight of the person.

The British scientists managed to find out what is absolutely unimportant what part of calories your organism receives from fats and what – from proteins and carbohydrates. Besides, it is unimportant also what fats in your diet it is more – polynonsaturated or saturated.

It convincingly proved a large-scale research during which data about 90 thousand men and women from six European countries were studied. Scientists within ten years watched their diet. Having analysed data, scientists did not find communication between the gained weight and volume of the consumed fats.

Thus, it is necessary to watch the total amount of the consumed calories, but not "to lower all dogs" on fats.

7. The modern myth about a breakfast is dispelled

"Eat a breakfast itself, share a lunch with the friend, and give a dinner to the enemy …" – the popular wisdom says. It still that … Recently write much about a breakfast and, generally in the spirit of dithyrambs. Like, is it is possible anything, including sweets because in a day carbohydrates will all the same be burned, and excess weight because of a big breakfast threatens nobody.

The Chinese scientists spoke categorically against a new trend. They said that we follow a way to obesity just during a breakfast when we begin to absorb high-calorie carbohydrate food. However whatever dense was such breakfast, later a couple of hours the person will want to eat again. And … then the cookies and small loafs which are laid up in a desktop box are used. In a word, the vicious circle turns out.

Got to a high-calorie breakfast and from the American scientists who found out the very unpleasant fact. It appears, the morning excess of fats and plain carbohydrates in food is dangerous by development of inflammatory processes in blood vessels.

It is curious that, despite TV advertizing and dietary "mythology", doctors do not recommend to begin day with corn flakes which are traditionally positioned as useful to health. The matter is that the product aggravates some diseases of digestive tract and also leads to development of cellulitis.

The most useful options of a breakfast are …
- bioyoghurt and fresh fruit;
- porridge (porridge, buckwheat and millet) with milk;
- omelet from vegetables and a toast chunk from whole grain;
- hard boiled egg and banana.



8. Diet to a pike perch: how to lose weight, without rising from a sofa

The British specialist in intellectual development Tim Ferton claims that solving of traditional Japanese crossword puzzles has fitness effect. One hour of this occupation helps to burn at least 90 calories (for a reference point is a slice of white loaf with jam).
"When our brain faces some serious problems demanding its hard work, process of burning of calories in a body goes with an average speed of 1.5 a minute", – Ferton believes. And there is it as follows. In a brain of the person – millions of nervous cells of the neurons transmitting signals to a body. Neurons make neurotransmitters (biologically active chemicals) providing signaling. To make neurotransmitters, neurons need about 3/4 sugar glucose and calories.
"When we long and tensely think, our brain needs to scoop energy from somewhere. Here he also receives it when he burns calories. The brain is the same part of a body, as well as all others. If you load a body, then not to do it without calories", – confirmed "pokhudatelny" effect "diets to a pike perch" representatives of the British dietary association.

When solving logical puzzles which numerical crossword puzzles to a pike perch are, the brain consumes a bigger volume of calories and glucose. Having made simple calculations, we will see that in only two hours of interesting and useful occupation, lying on a sofa, it is possible to burn even 180 calories. So solve crossword puzzles – it is useful both for mind, and for a figure!

9. Three meals a day - more than are enough

Scientists from the Zurich polytechnical university disproved the system of fractional food popular nowadays at the heart of which – increase in number of meals to 5-6 in day at simultaneous reduction of volume of portions.

According to experts if an organism it is constant to feed up during the day, then it gradually ceases to give itself(himself) physical activity, will fatten and "will get" type 2 diabetes.

Thus, the main recommendation of Swisses is any having a snack between meals, including such useful options as nuts and fruit. Scientists are sure that rest from food for the purpose of self-recovery is necessary for an organism. Besides, people who have often a bite move a little. And it is one more factor of development of obesity.

The mechanism on which the theory of the Swiss scientists is based consists in the following. The major role the transcription factor under name Foxa2 is here. Foxa2 transcription factors (the proteins controlling transfer of information from DNA in RNA) are in a liver from where influence process of combustion of fat and also in two major neural populations of a hypothalamus (the area of a brain controlling feeling of hunger). Foxa2 in a liver and a hypothalamus is put in action by means of insulin. When the person eats, β-cells of a pancreas emit insulin and block Foxa2. In a condition of hunger the lack of insulin makes active the specified transcription factor that leads to allocation of two types of proteins: orexin and melanin of the concentrating peptide (MCH). These substances are responsible for such functions of a brain as consumption of food and the movement. Thus, in a condition of hunger of people it is more attentive, concentrated and physically active. Remember, for example, yourself after a lunch when it is so difficult to get into gear.

Experiments on mice proved that at the grown fat rodents of Foxa2 it is blocked regardless of that, they are full or are hungry. Here to you and an explanation for that fact that people with an excess weight it is a little and very reluctantly move.

Scientists emphasize that three meals a day are more than enough, and hunger between meals is only useful.

10. Drinks and excess weight – what interrelation?

Long time was considered that food in general cannot be washed down and ideally – to abstain from drink even one or two hours after a meal. Among recommendations about weight loss the following was always in the lead – to drink a glass of water to food to fill a stomach and earlier to create feeling of satiety. However what difference – to drink to food or during it? How to combine meal with drinks that it was useful for health and a figure?



Scientists emphasize that the basic value has with what drinks to wash down food – hot and cold. Basic not only for normal work of digestive tract, but also for success of weight loss.

The matter is that if to wash down food with cold drink (juice, Coca, water, mineral water), then the time spent of food in a stomach will be reduced from 4-5 o'clock, necessary for digestion, to … 20 minutes. Whether it is necessary to say that it is a path which we cover to obesity, it is impossible to be sated with such food, and the feeling of hunger will remind of itself less, than in half an hour. Besides, it threatens intestines with putrefactive processes in view of lack per se of process of processing of food. Therefore draw conclusions – in this case even useful juice is harmful.

Be harmonious and healthy!