What is Metabolic Balance?
On January 15, 2016 is Metabolic Balance Day. We explain what it’s all about and why metabolic balance can contribute to a healthier lifestyle. Most diets which are correct at the beginning often don’t bring desired success, or not recommended for permanently using. Metabolic Balance is not a diet, but a holistic nutrition concept that can cause change of metabolism and positively affect on health. This is the aspect of physical well-being on the foreground, while the weight loss is a desired side effect. For each participant is created personal diet plan of metabolic balance. To this are analyzed the blood values and other personal information, such as body measurements or weight. Into consideration also taken personal dislikes and preferences. Then the program leads to four stages of a healthy lifestyle. Self-test: WHtR- and BMI. Although metabolic balance is...
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What you should know about the HCG diet
Spring is here! The things are getting shorter, narrower, tighter, unsightly pads are visible to stimulate and to some adventurous diet intentions. Distributed or currently communicates frequently in the vernacular is called the HCG diet, also known as the Hollywood diet. Supposedly prominent actors, particularly in the US, have used the method, from which the name Hollywood diet should result. HCG is a hormone that is popularly referred to as the pregnancy hormone. The abbreviation HCG stands for “Human Chorionic Gonadotropin”. Non-prescription pregnancy tests detect hCG in urine after. In the first trimester of pregnancy the HCG value reaches the maximum. In medicine, HCG is used by physicians, among other women who want children to trigger ovulation. An authorization for use with the aim of reducing weight, it does not yet exist. Nevertheless, the HCG diet methodology circulates as...
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Can a smile reduce stress?
Smile helps to reduce stress in the heart rate and thereby you become calmer. The reports of the professional association established by Cardiologists (BANK). Those who experiences short-term stress, eg because he is stuck in traffic or in acute time pressure, can reduce their heart rate and thus relieve his heart by deliberately touches of smile. The results of a recent study: It was found that those subjects, who were smiling in a stressful situation, could effectively reduce their heart rate. The study participants were different: tasks associated with stress were performed, either, persistently smiling, not smiling or forced smile mechanically. Then their heart rate was measured. The results: The smiling participants, compared to the control group with a neutral facial expression, reported about consistently lower heart rate, regardless of whether their smile was genuine, enforced artificially. Smile decreases...
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Cholesterol for Easter – how many eggs it may be?
Easter without hard boiled eggs is unthinkable for most people. It sometimes have to be a few more. Accompany it for breakfast, snack or dinner, eggs through the holidays. But what about the cholesterol for Easter? From when boiled eggs really are a health risk? More than two eggs per week should not consume critical consumers, it is, on the one hand, five eggs a day does not hurt to postulate other nutrition experts. Where specialists argue, helps common sense. Criticism of the egg is cholesterol, which is known as a triggering factor for a possible heart attack in an unfavorable constellation. A medium sized egg contains about 250 milligrams. The average maximum recommended amount of cholesterol that is absorbed by the food, should not exceed 300 milligrams per day are, the American Heart Association. However, the person takes...
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How important is breakfast for children?
Every third child don’t have breakfast in the morning, although this is for their performance have great importance. School children who eat breakfast regularly are, obviously, more powerful and less thick. Children who regularly eat in the morning, have a low BMI (body mass index) than those, who only sometimes or never take breakfast. They also achieve better performance in motor tests. This researchers found in a study. For the study, several hundred school children were interviewed at the age of seven to ten years about their eating habits. They also completed a sport motor test, which included, inter alia, long-distance running, long jump and sprint. “The study highlights the importance of regular breakfast for children” says study leader. Without breakfast the concentration is suffers. However, no data on the origin or the social background of the children were...
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