Archive for August, 2010
Do We Tend to Eat Lighter in the Summer?
I don’t know about you, but there are definitely changes in my appetite and the foods that I crave when summer instance comes around. particularly whether it’s a summer that’s a real scorcher like that one (who isn’t scorching now, seems like everyone is experiencing a hot one).
It is true that we tend to change up what kinds of foods we crave and like to eat in the summer moment. I just read an interesting exposition that pork is in higher demand in the summer moment considering a lot of families like to eat lighter and eat BLT’s for dinner. Now, I don’t know whether I’d consider a BLT to be light on the calories, but it certainly is lighter fare as opposed to traditional winter fare like chili and hearty soups and meat dishes.
Also, foods like fruits and veggie skyrocket in demand in the summer. it’s true that part of the reason is that they are more abundant and in season, but plus it’s a showing of the shift in change of appetite and cravings. I know I myself tend to crave things that are lighter. Like I don’t really want heavy ice cream, instead, something like a slushy or a frozen yogurt berry sundae sounds great.
Even my sweets cravings are lighter. In the winter I typically would crave chocolate and rich desserts all date like cookies and cakes, but in the summer, I’m all about hard candys and fruity flavored candies. It’s definitely true that your body sort of turns off the same heavy appetite for rich foods and instead instinctively wants foods that will supply instant energy instead of bog you down for hours digesting and processing it.
My craving for carbohydrates even declines in the summer moment. While I crave things like mashed potatoes and heavy pastas in creamy sauces in the winter, I crave things like light grilled and marinated meats, accompanied by a nice cool salad and some veggies. It really is like your body turns on it’s more “naturally healthy appetite” during the times when your body needs to be it’s most active and careful and ready for action.
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In-Home Diet Meal Delivery Booming
With today’s hectic world of work, kids, extracurricular activities, second jobs, and so on and so forth, we live in a very hectic instance where instant gratification is expected, and convenience has become number one priority. that is plus part of the reason our obesity epidemic has become so widespread and deeply rooted in our culture.
People don’t have the instance they used to where they could cook up nutritious, healthy meals that were in the right calorie range, carb range and fat range they should be for maintaining a healthy weight, or losing weight to get to a healthy weight. that is precisely why those that are health and weight conscious are increasingly turning to another solution for getting healthy meals on their tables, without all the preparation and planning that is due of cooking.
In home diet meal delivery plans are really booming right now. The good ones that really used good food that tastes wonderful and really results in proper weight loss and body fat shedding were previously only available to celebrities and those that lived in really health conscious, progressive areas like New York or L.A.
Now, with lightning fast shipping methods available all across the US, more and more society are turning to in-home meal delivery services that cater to citizens who want to keep their waistlines trim but just don’t have the moment to manufacture meals that will keep them thin while plus tasting excellent and having the right balance of calories, carbs and fats that keep their body’s looking great.
The trend for these gourmet home delivery diet meals began in none other than California, where celebrities and models demanded fast, convenient healthy meals for their hectic schedules and their jobs which needed them to look great in smaller sizes. That was before we had such great shipping options as we do today. Now, humans everywhere are learning that they can get health meals shipped to their homes, so they don’ t have to distress about cooking meals that are precisely right for themselves.
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Low Carb Good for Cholesterol Levels?
There has been so much debate by the years about which kind of diet has the best expanded term weight loss benefits, as well as the best overall health benefits. While low fat diets vs. low carb diets has been a raging debate for years, apparently one aspect of one of them is now not subject for debate.
The low carb diet, similar to what you would do on the Atkins diet, where fat doesn’t matter so much, but rather the carbs matter more, actually not only resulted in about the same sustained weight loss and maintenance by a period of two years, but it plus improved cholesterol levels impressively.
So impressively that it has caused researchers to really reconsider whether or not the low carb diet, which was at first praised when it was all the rage by that last decade, but next vilified for it’s potential health hazards, is actually better for you in the distant run or not.
The study that made the cholesterol connection was actually done on obese public who had followed the two different diets. They both followed the same habits otherwise, and both groups actually lost the same amount of weight by those two years and kept it off. However, the one major difference was that those who followed the low carb diets had much better cholesterol readings. Makes you consider those low carb diets once again, eh?
My husband and I did the low carb thing for a few years on and off until we finally fell off the wagon pretty permanently in favor of savoring some high carb meals which were lower in fat. I have to say that going low carb is still the best way for me to drop weight very quickly. I particularly notice a difference in the weight loss I experience as well as the speed at which I lose it whether I form certain I’m eating low carb at least for dinner. For example, I’ll have say a hamburger patty with no bun and a small side dish of veggies and a small side salad.
Although that burger patty may have a lot of fat in it, I will drop weight pretty much by night just from eating no carbs, so there is something to it. What I never liked about being on the low carb diet was how often you had to “refuel” considering your blood sugar would always be low and you felt like you were going to bite someone’s head off! That part was never fun. And whether you aren’t careful, you will get constipated. You have to prepare certain you’re still getting decent healthy fiber when on a low carb diet.
Original post by EatingToLive
Seeing melanoma
A new imaging technique composes detailed three-dimensional images of the deadliest style of skin cancer. Melanoma is one of the less common types of skin cancer but it accounts for the majority of the skin cancer deaths (about 75 percent). The five-year survival rate for early stage melanoma is very high (98 percent), but the rate drops precipitously whether the cancer is detected late or there is recurrence……..
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Stroke patients stop taking prevention medication
At least a quarter of patients who have suffered a stroke stop taking one or more of their prescribed stroke prevention medications within the first three months after being hospitalized when the chance of having another stroke is highest as per a newly released study by scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and his colleagues……..
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People Who Are Angry Pay More Attention to Rewards
Anger is a negative emotion. But, like being happy or excited, feeling angry makes humans want to seek rewards, as per a newly released study of emotion and visual attention. The scientists observed that folks who are angry pay more attention to rewards than to threats-the opposite of humans feeling other negative emotions like fear……..
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Cosmetic surgery for body dysmorphic disorder?
A newly released study finds that while a number of who suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) seek cosmetic procedures, only two percent of procedures actually reduced the severity of BDD. Despite that poor long-term outcome, physicians continue to supply requested surgeries to citizens suffering from BDD. The study was recently published in Annals of Plastic Surgery…….
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