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When we decided that it is necessary lose weight and we have the will to do so we decide ourselves what meals will be eliminated and what are more healthful foods. Many times we do so without knowing too much, without thinking that perhaps us eliminating some food that we should not.
That is the reason that the best we can do when we begin a plan of thinning is to visit the dietician, to avoid mistakes in our diet and know what to do and what not to do.
For that you are taking an idea of what is best, we see today a listing of the most common mistakes when we define ourselves food that can be part of our diet. Read the rest of this entry »

These days in which approximates the delivery of the Oscars I am sure that many of us are going more often than ever to the cinema, only in order to discuss and decide if we agree with the elect of the Academy.
However, a pastime as fun as go to the cinema can become a problem for our diet if every time we enter a room we do accompanied by large buckets of popcorn and drinks “extra large”.
These are supposed to super buckets of pop are to be shared among several people, although the reality is that generally the proportion is: a big bucket of popcorn for every person who enters the room.
Is there when the problem, because each of these delicious snacks can reach to add more than 1,800 calories and not only the sweet, salty easily reach the 1,779 calories per bucket or bag of “pop”.
The myth that “the popcorn not fatten” has been completely knocked down by The Food Standards Agency of the United Kingdom who recommend to the cinemas reduce the portions that are sold and provide information about the content in caloric snacks in the boxes, buckets or bags.
They would be very useful in the fight against obesity that carries on the United Kingdom, taking into account that several investigations say that for the 2020 eight of á men and nearly seven out of 10 women will be obese or at least suffer overweight.
Of all forms, while we hope that in the cinemas give us information about the calories each product, we could go making use of our common sense and not always choose the “super bucket of popcorn”, and in the case that you do you can also choose to share it.

One of the many diets that can carry out is the Macrobiotic, it not only implies a change in the food, but that means carry out a whole philosophy.
This diet is a form of vegetarianism extreme, mixed with ideas of Zen. Those who still understand that the main factor to combat the disease is the food, and which necessarily there to stop consume are saturated fats, sugar and salt in large quantities and nothing to smoke, drink alcohol or consume any type of drug.
The foods consumed vary depending on the season, the climate, and the health of each. Since the philosophy that leads this diet implies the full harmony with nature.
Those who carried out a diet macrobiotic classified food into two categories. Food liabilities that are called Ying, and food assets so-called Yang, is looking for the ancestral balance between the Ying and Yang, who is the only way to achieve the physical and mental health.
Food Ying are the clams, watermelon, potatoes, sugar, and honey, among others. While food Yang are chicken eggs, duck, pork, and caviar. Read the rest of this entry »