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The Italian Association of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition launches for next October 10th the Obesity Day a national awareness project on overweight and health.

The Obesity Day is a day which to the centers participating in the initiative to receive a free inspection by a doctor or a dietitian and a series of directions to take the first step towards recovery of the lost form.

The project objectives are in fact:

* Raise public awareness against the risks of obesity and overweight
* Shift the focus on obesity from a cosmetic problem health problem
give visibility to the Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition Services and local hospitals both inside and outside the structures of belonging
* Create stable relationships between the various services and Dietetics ADI between centers dealing with obesity and overweight
* To increase awareness in the population centers to be available through ADI of valid points of reference in the technical treatment of obesity and overweight
* Identify the critical points of the mode of approach and treatment of obesity and overweight.

The slogan for this year calls for “no bounce from one size to another. Make the center. ” A message “chosen – Fairy says Joseph, president of the Italian Association of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition (Adi) – because many people, most of all, do not know that one of the secrets of wellbeing is the maintenance of ideal weight, achieved by proper diet. If you keep the weight and allowed to fluctuate, not only do you lose weight but more fat than was the initial weight “

Excessively Sweating

Sweating during hot weather and after exercise is normal. However, what if the sweat that comes out is excessive? Shame sense that you can feel.

Excessive sweating in addition to causing an unpleasant body odor can also be a good medium for fungal growth and development. Sure if the embarrassment will grow your body to sweat too overgrown with fungi.

Here are a few easy steps you can do to cope with excessive perspiration.

Use deodorants and antiperspirants.

Both objects are sometimes sold in a single product and we can easily get at the store kiosk. There are some who need a prescription especially those that contain special ingredients for treatment.

Use deodorant at the right time.
Generally people use a deodorant in the morning before the activity. Did you know that the best timing is to use deodorant at night? If you use it in the morning then when sweating, the material contained in the deodorant carried on by the sweat will not absorb so perfectly.

Protect your skin.
In addition to the above advantages, use deodorant at night will also prevent the occurrence of skin irritation caused by excessive use of deodorant.

Use clothing that absorbs sweat during exercise.
Use cotton clothing during exercise because of its lightweight and absorbs sweat.
Buy clothes that make sport special. Read the rest of this entry »

Various Benefits of Bananas

Power Source Power
Bananas are easily digested, the sugar contained in fruit is converted into a good source of quick energy, and that’s good in the formation of the body, to the working muscles, and is great for relieving fatigue.

Benefits for Pregnant Women
Bananas are also recommended for pregnant women consumed because they contain folic acid, which is easily absorbed by the fetus through the uterus. However, do not be too much, because one banana contains about 85-100 calories.

Benefits to Patients with Anemia
Two bananas are eaten by patients with anemia of every day was enough, because it contains Fe (iron) high.

Benefits for Stomach and Intestine Disease
Banana milk mixed with liquid (or inserted in a glass of milk) can serve as a remedy in cases of intestinal disease. It can also be recommended for patients with abdominal pain and cholik to neutralize gastric acidity. Read the rest of this entry »

Diet Safely By Eating Slowly

http://ceritakulucu.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/japanese-cuisine.jpgIf the first obesity or overweight is considered as a symbol of prosperity, is now regarded as the scourge of obesity instead of scary, this is associated with increased morbidity and mortality of various diseases.

Many ways to avoid this situation, for example, by dieting, whether it be traditional or modern manner. Even to get their ideal body, often the ‘torture’ ourselves and the fear that is not the ideal body shape has conquered everything.

A diet is actually not much help, because after a successful diet, your body will re-stretched if the old habits still can not be avoided.

To obtain the ideal body shape, there are actually more simple way, without strict dieting or tortured bodies follow certain dietary rules, that is how we behave when eating.

For some people who because of habit or because of hastily pursued the time, eating tends to be perfunctory. But what happens when you eat with full awareness? You will definitely enjoy eating slowly and paying attention to each of what you eat. Read the rest of this entry »

Eat Five Servings Of Fruits and Vegetables Every Day

Vegetables We know that fruits and vegetables are good for our bodies because fruits and vegetables contain lots of fiber which is needed in the process of metabolism. I was so healthy is to consume fruits and vegetables to the point that we are encouraged to consume fruit and vegetable menu of five servings a day: two servings of fruit and vegetables as much as three servings. Eating fruits and vegetables to five servings a day is a naturally healthy diet.

Consuming fruits and vegetables every day is a new thing for me. The reason I and probably many other reasons, is because I do not like fruit much less vegetables. Even if there are pieces that I like, usually quite expensive price. Vegetables? During the dinner table there is meat or fish, I will not touch vegetables. That was my first.

The desire to be slim (after 3 pregnancies in the last four years to increase my weight to 15 kg) made me look at fruits and vegetables. At first, I could not enjoy the vegetables I eat. Day by day, week and month to change weeks turned into months, I do not know since when exactly, I’m starting to like the taste of vegetables. Read the rest of this entry »

Healthy Living Tips Prevent Cancer

Behind this, especially in developed countries, have many people who implement healthy behavior in line with the movement of cancer prevention.

The following steps are recommended to prevent cancer:

• Eat plenty of vegetables, fruits, grains such as tofu and a lot of foods that contain fiber. At least one or two times a day to consume green vegetables and fruits.

• Avoid excessive weight gain or obesity. weight 1 times a week. Research shows, due to obesity, a greater risk of cancer, particularly breast cancer, cervical, colon, stomach, kidney, and gallbladder.

• Reduce too much fried food and also containing protein and high fat and offal.

• Limit foods that are processed with high temperature and long time or with a specific treatment that can cause food carcinogenic like marinated, smoked, baked, roasted until the outside of charcoal (charred). It is best cooked food.

• Be careful with the use of artificial sweeteners, food colorings and preservatives excessive. The best food is fresh food.

• Food kept clean, diverse, and free of substances of environmental contamination.

• It is suggested that excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages and smoking are also

• physical activity by exercising regularly accompanied by mental and spiritual health is an integral part in the prevention of cancer.

Herbalife Cellular With Nutrition Concepts

The concept of cellular nutrition is a nutrition program that is designed so that our body cells, the smallest unit of life get the nutrients that was enough possible to grow and improve themselves implement function as efficiently as possible, where nutrition is useful to keep the existing amount of muscle in the body, and not increase the number of body muscles.

The concept of cellular nutrition:
Cleaning (cleans) villous-intestinal villi
More absorbing (absorption) of many nutrients
regenerate the cells are damaged in a healthy body

WHY CAN SOUND BETTER?

We are thankful to God who created the cells – the cells of our body in a short life, it means always change. By providing “cell food” right, it will always happen in a healthier cell regeneration. Herbal cellular nutrition provides the “cell food” (nutrients) macro-and micro-full at the cellular level, easily digested, absorbed and used in the cell – the cell body. This has been tried and true for more than 29 years in various countries (more than 74 countries, different races and ethnicities)

Strengthen YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM WITH MOBILE NUTRITION
Basically we are living creatures, composed of trillions of cells – cells. Each cell has a series of chemical reactions and specific tasks, so take the nutrients and energy. If you are low-nutrition food consumption, employment and the cells become sluggish auto immune system weakens. For example, if cells lack nutrients your day, then they are not able to process toxins efficiently (as one task of the liver cells) and you will feel tired.

If your nerve cells lack nutrients, will make you slow to react like the lights dimmed, or if your muscle cells lack nutrients, then you will feel sluggish.
In this condition, of course, our bodies are not able to fight against many diseases. So eat a fairly complete nutrition for your body cells, hence increasing the body’s immune system.

Digestion MORE POWERFUL, really?
Stress, bad eating habits, long-term drug consumption, and certain illnesses can cause digestive system disorder. Such as irritable bowel symptoms, constipation, etc., which affect your ability to absorb and digest nutrients, and reduced ability to remove toxins are efficient.
By improving eating habits through a series of Herbalife nutritional products provider, your digestion will be accustomed to work more comfortable, more easily absorb nutrients due to cleaning villous-intestinal villi from dirt and toxins that enter the digestive tract.

How To Lose Weight With Quick Safe Without Side Effects?

You want to lose weight but do not know how? Follow these steps are already done and a lot of work:

1. Start drinking water after waking in the morning, do not drink coffee or sweet tea. Better if in the morning with a drink of herbal aloe vera drinks made from aloe vera that serves to cleanse the digestive tract, to neutralize the acid in the gut and improve the digestive system, as well as fat destroyer named for destroying cell u loss of body fat still attached .

2. For breakfast, do not use rice or fatty foods such as curries and the like for your breakfast. Use of health food formula one shake healthy kind of food that is made from a mixture of organic foods such as soy, papaya, peppermint and the like.
Formula 1 Shake nutrition and nutritional content of what is needed is meet in a holistic body, but low fat. This means that if we do this breakfast will not make it healthy body fat and body refreshed. Use herbs and fiber tablets are a type of dietary fiber to help your digestion. Remember a healthy body along with the disposal of the smooth. The function of dietary fiber to help remove excess food and toxins in the body. Energy drink fat burners like Herbal Concentrate Thermometric to add power agile and your health while working one day. Read the rest of this entry »

Diet Tips Fast, Safe, Powerful, Without Side Effects

Many eat fruit, but not as a snack. Drink lots of water, without ice. Every day, someone new advice on how to drive body fat. Instead of helping, the promise of powerful by different dietary methods instead makes us confused.

In undergoing slimming program, which should not be overlooked is the health aspect. Do not let the diet program that made it dangerous to health. This time we try to share seven tips diet tricks from experts who have tested its safety.

1. Avoid sugar corn
A study shows high fructose corn syrup (high fructose corn syrup / HFCS) was significantly increased body weight compared with sugary drinks, even though both have the same number of calories.

That difference comes from the way the body processes these two sweeteners. Both are made from fructose and glucose, but in the second sugar binding components to each other so take the extra step to metabolize. In a HFCS, glucose and fructose has been separated so easily absorbed by the body. Read the rest of this entry »

Balanced Diet

Heart Protective food
The eight basic rules of the cardioprotective diet

Rule 1: Increase the supply of fruit and vegetables
Beneficial effects
Fruit: Fruits are full of water (80%) and are therefore hydrating and diuretic thereby promoting the removal of toxins. They have few calories and give your body fiber, vitamins and mineral salts. They have antioxidant and protect our body against free radicals.
Vegetables: Vegetables are an excellent source of vitamins, minerals, fiber and micronutrients protective against oxidant stress, and also contain potassium which is beneficial for the cardiovascular system. A good diet supply of potassium reduces the risk of hypertension (1) and reduces mortality from stroke (2).
Research
Countries where cardiovascular diseases are rare countries where the most fruit and vegetables, fish and unrefined cereals consumed. Several scientific studies have shown (3, 4, 5) that there is less cardiovascular disease and cancer when daily between 5 and 9 servings of fruits and vegetables are eaten.
Advice
Fruits: Choose preferred seasonal fruit or dried fruit.
Click here to access our file “antioxidants”.
Vegetables: Vegetables can be eaten in various forms: salad, cooked, raw, soup.
Click here to access our file “soup” and “antioxidants”

Rule 2: Increase the supply of omega-3 animal and plant origin
Beneficial effects
A shortage of omega-3 increases the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Contrast reduces an increased supply of omega-3 this risk.
Just mortality due to cardiovascular disease compared to many fish populations (Eskimos, Japanese) or little fish (western countries in general) to its beneficial effects can be observed.
Because omega-3 DHA and especially the risk of sudden death significantly less. The sudden death for 70% of mortality from cardiovascular disease amongst the western population.
Research
“DART” (6). More than 2000 patients who had survived a heart attack some general nutrition and especially the advice to put some more fish to eat. After two years audit was a marked reduction of 30% of global mortality and a 30% reduction of cardiac mortality observed.
Examination of Gissi (7) 11 000 patients divided into four groups. A control, a group with an omega-3 supplements in the form of viscapsules (1g EPA + DHA), a group with only one vitamin E supplements and one group with vitamin E + viscapsules. The four groups were four years long followed and the outcome of this major study showed a 20% reduction in mortality of 30% of cardiac deaths and 45% of sudden death among people with an omega-3 supplements + vitamin E.
Research of Lyon (8). The study of Lyon, the influence of diet enriched with omega-3 from vegetable (rape) on the risk of cardiovascular complications after a first heart attack, demonstrated in 600 patients. The researchers have a reduction of 50-70% of cardiac complications of cardiac mortality and the risk of a recurrent non-fatal heart attack, noted.
Advice
The dietary recommendations for omega-3 in subjects without cardiovascular disease are 1 g per day EPA + DHA, or oily fish 2 to 3 times a week.
In subjects with cardiovascular problems, it is recommended to double this to 2 g per day EPA + DHA. This corresponds to 5 times per week of fish. To this great offer to facilitate you in addition to eating fish, choose omega-3 from plant origin and / or a supplement specifically formulated with voedingscomplementen (rich in DHA).
Fish with the highest concentration of omega-3 is mackerel, herring, sardines, tuna as well (preferably white), salmon, dogfish, anchovies.
If you sardines, tuna or mackerel canned choose, check them in olive oil or rapeseed oil are.
Eat little or no fish sticks. This is made of white fish and has little or no omega-3. Moreover, they are breaded with cornmeal and fried in partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (rich in omega 6 and trans-fatty acids).
The best sources of omega-3 plant origin: canola oil, flaxseed, walnuts, purslane, lamb’s lettuce.
Rapeseed oil can be used for baking and making vinaigrettes and dressings. One tablespoon provides rape 1-1.5 g alpha linolenic acid.
The only one in which rape to watch out for is the durability. It must be kept in a dark place and quickly consumed.
Linseed, a subtle nut flavor, it can be used to make bread or pancakes (one tablespoon per cup of flour). It can also be used in addition to breakfast.
Flaxseed is a dark place in the refrigerator, stored for up to 2 to 3 months.

Rule 3: Increase the supply of monounsaturated fat (mainly oleic acid)
Advantage
Olive oil contains antioxidants like vitamin E and polyphenols, where cardiovascular diseases and cancer but also with some aging can be prevented.
Olive oil also consists of monounsaturated fatty acids, unlike saturated fat (in butter, meat, cheese …) the “bad” cholesterol levels (LDL cholesterol). (9, 10)
Research
Recent research has the beneficial effect of olive oil omega-6/omega-3 ratio demonstrated (11).
28 patients 50 years old were given daily 20 g of olive oil as part of a usual diet. After 6 weeks, the researchers noted a reduction in total blood cholesterol, the bad cholesterol (LDL) in a clear reduction in the linoleic acid (omega-6).
Advice
Choose virgin olive oil by cold pressing and keep it mostly obtained no longer than four months.
Do not use more conventional oil, such as sunflower, corn, soybean, safflower oil, … they have too much omega-6 fatty acids. Use only olive oil and rapeseed oil for baking and making vinaigrettes and dressings.

Rule 4: Forget the nuts, hazelnuts and almonds not.
Advantage
Nuts and nuts especially have a heart protective fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid. They are also rich in unsaturated fat, predominantly monounsaturated fat. Nuts are also rich in vegetable protein, fiber, minerals (magnesium), trace elements (selenium in Brazil nut, manganese, copper), vitamin E (hazelnuts and almonds) and folate (vitamin B9).
Advice
The daily consumption of 3 or 4 notes in between a salad or contributes to heart protection.

Rule 5: Do not drink wine moderately
Beneficial effects
Wine contains polyphenols with antioxidant properties.
Advice
Drinking 2-3 glasses a day with meals partly protects against heart disease.

Rule 6: Reduce consumption of saturated fats
Note
Fat meats, whole milk, cakes, biscuits, butter, … are rich in saturated fats, partially responsible for the development of cardiovascular disease and cancer. An excess of saturated fats increases the risk of high blood cholesterol, joint calcification and heart attack.
Advice
Your choice of saturated fat reduction, you should be less fatty meats, whole milk and butter to consume and choose white meat or lean meat such as beef or horse meat, rabbit and even buffalo meat, ostrich meat or Beefalo from distant lands!
Choose lean or low-fat milk or cheese.
Eat no more than 30 grams of cheese per day.

Rule 7: Do not the legume
Beneficial effects
Pulses have several advantages, they are rich in fiber, vegetable protein, vitamins and minerals including folic acid and low in fat.
Advice
Among legumes include soybeans, chickpeas, split peas, dried beans, lentils, etc. …
By from time to time to replace the meat with legumes, the quality of the food supply improved and essentially be varied.

Rule 8: Choose preferably unrefined cereals and rice
Beneficial effects
Unrefined grains, but also wheat, rice and wholemeal bread are a source of complex sugars, the preferred fuel for our muscles and brains, they facilitate digestion and slow the digestion of sugar (reduction of the insulin peak). They also provide minerals such as selenium and zinc, essential for the proper functioning of our body.