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Many times the stress and nerves manifested as anxiety it causes in our body need to eat at all hours, eat food without stopping, because we do not have your fill.

Some supplements and natural medicine plants can help ease the anxiety that leads to “bite” between hours and win “undesirable” cost kilos then we lose. In addition, we help you manage your anxiety and relax, which will increase our quality of life.

In the Web of beauty we detail what are the most effective natural supplements that you can include in your daily diet, either in the form of food, in drops, capsules or tablets.

Magnesium and B6: The combination of both substances can be used to regulate glucose and reduce the need for sweets. It also helps to lessen feelings of anxiety.
Complex fiber make you feel fuller, improves intestinal transit, and reduce the uptake of glucose and fat. The most common are the agar-agar, different types of wheat bran, oats, flax, among others.
Chromium helps control cravings for sweet and helps you feel like not “bite” at all times.
5-HTP: a substance derived from an amino acid that reduces anxiety and improves mood and motivation. So if you’re on a diet, will help you more easily achieve the objectives.
Gaba: it is a neurotransmitter that promotes relaxation in case you can not control the urge to eat.

In all cases it is advisable to consult with your doctor before you start taking any of the substances mentioned above. These, despite their natural origin, may have a contraindication.

It happens that when we went out we pass to eat whatever is in the amounts they are. The problem is that if this happens several times a week, it is likely that all these calories are in a rather nice addition to our body.

Also turns out that when working away from home or do not have the time to prepare a lunch we are forced to make at least one meal at a restaurant. Fortunately, there are some tips for those calories consumed are as few as possible without sacrificing a meal.

Ask soup or salad, main course before always ask for a soup or salad to start, because you will raise your daily intake of fruits and vegetables, and also because you’ll leave before dessert filling.
Come with water or iced tea, soda is one of our worst enemies, until the diet has its details, so try to get used to eating with water. It’s healthier.
Go slowly, without exaggeration and over time you have available, but try to savor every bite. The brain takes 15 minutes to process that you’re full and eating slowly will allow you to eat smaller amounts.
When choosing the garnish: Go for baked potatoes or some kind of vegetables, there also will be saving calories.
The most dangerous is to get to the restaurant starving because you pounce on the bread. If you know you’re late, eat even a granola bar to eat to avoid mealtime. Remember that you can do 5 meals a day and thus better measure portions.
Do not deny yourself pleasure all the time: if you fancy a dessert, order a dessert, if you feel like a pastry, you can give you that taste, remember that everything is a matter of measuring and in a matter of combining all types of food and maintain balance.

How many times have we thought we would lose those extra kilos, if we were to eat between meals. The nerves, boredom, hormonal problems, etc, are responsible for we can not go long without “biting the moment.”

To avoid this, you should certainly make five meals a day and follow the tips counterpart Web of Beauty with you on this occasion.

Start the day with breakfast. The key is to not leave home without having eaten breakfast and complete the mid-morning snack.
You must never go hungry, despite the desire to lose weight forces you to eat poorly. You may not perceive it, but if you eat, your body begins to develop a strategy and in the following foods will send out hunger signals growing stronger and accumulate more nutrients.
Make cleaning your pantry, removing chips, cookies, stuffed, chocolate, etc.. The more temptations you have at hand, the more difficult to avoid, but many studies have shown that watching food constantly stimulates the appetite.
Did you know that the more you cook the food, its power is less satisfying? For example, a raw fruit is more filling juice, or raw carrots cooked more satisfied. That is why we suggest the best ways to cook meats and vegetables are steamed or grilled foil, while the pasta should be eaten al dente.
The brain associates the sound of chewing crunchy foods with pleasure. That is why when you eat potato chips, popcorn, fried, etc.. It seems you can not stop and, without realizing it, in minutes you have accumulated a lot of calories. Therefore, it is best that you eliminate these foods when you’re hungry and you make a snack mid-morning or afternoon.

Like exercising and losing weight, changing our diet is one of the favorite New Year’s resolutions, and one of the fastest discarded. We’re in March and many of us have already returned to snack mid-morning and uncontrolled consumption of junk food.

Sometimes the problem is in the approach, although many of us want to lose weight, this size reduction should be the result of a healthy diet. And it is to learn to eat balanced has far more advantages than just losing weight: Feeling better in general, better health, disease prevention, set a good example for children and family, and of course, get into a smaller size.

The difficult thing to make a resolution as healthy eating is to stick to the project and not trying to change everything at once. Clearly we are not going to happen from one day to another to be vegetarians, but some tips can start getting on track for a better diet.

Simplify and be guided by instinct.

Do not force yourself to eat foods you hate, for those who prefer between fruits and vegetables for example and look for recipes with these ingredients. Cooking at home and prepare their own food also helps to control what we eat. Think of your diet should incorporate foods from all colors and as fresh as possible, avoid having to count calories or query a table every time you want to eat. Nor do you decide on the menus included in some diets and whose dishes are impossible to prepare. Go slow and incorporates the changes gradually.

Modera not limit yourself.

When we think of certain foods as forbidden immediately appear to become more juicy and delicious, and begins a process of torture that often defeats us. To eat healthy is not necessary to remove any food, but it is advisable to moderate in fat and processed foods in the same way that small portions are best.

Do not forget to exercise.

Exercising is essential for a healthy life. This does not mean to start tomorrow to run professionally, as well as the diet should be gradual and regular. It is best to walk every day twenty minutes during six months to go to a spinning class every three weeks.

Make conscious purchases.

Fill in the cupboard for healthy products, that will reduce the temptation to replace the dinner for a packet of biscuits, and plan your purchases. If you know more or less what you eat during the week, will help you buy better, it is also excellent cook one day and then keep for a week to defrost or reheat when needed.

There are some basic habits as important that if followed will allow us to maintain the line.

We start talking about a refrigerator that is very strong as a “dangerous” temptation. Why would it be to place the food in a strategic way by putting in plain sight all that is a friend of the line (such as yogurt, water, fruit and vegetables) and hiding behind the food as “dangerous” for the line. Even the chocolates and sweets should be hidden and pull out only on special occasions. Please note that if you were to feel tired or depressed do not try to pull you in good spirits devouring everything that happens at hand. Rather than try to find the alternative: the food in these cases is not the best solution.

When cooking you should prepare the ingredients in the right dose: leaving at hand cheese or another, sooner or later you will end up eating them. The samples are kept to a minimum.

Finally, at the table would be appropriate to serve food directly to the pot and put a sandwich next to each diner rather than using the bread basket of bread sticks or whatever.

Supplements are used to make up for any nutritional deficiencies. We want to emphasize that they replace the food and have no healing properties.

It seems that in recent years the consumption of supplements is incredibly increased, partly due to the hectic pace which we are daily subjected.

We report what is contained in the Site of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policy in respect of food supplements and fortified foods

Supplements may contain vitamins, minerals, proteins, sugars but also herbs and / or vegetable matter. They are available in the form of capsules, tablets or syrups. You can buy drugs, herbal medicine or supermarket. They are not medicines, and therefore needs the recipe, however, should always seek medical advice before purchasing.

There are several websites that offer the possibility to buy online supplements. In this regard, you should always check the site of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policies, where you can find a list of all supplements regular results to the various controls.

As for the sport will remember that no supplement can enhance performance in sports. So: be careful not to fall into false traps.

Remember, supplements are not medication. They are designed to promote wellbeing.

The diet is a diet of raw foodists “imported” from America. Let’s see what is included.

The raw foodists exclude from your diet all foods that have been cooked. It is practiced mainly on a diet for health reasons. In fact, according to the principles of raw food diet, cooking would disperse all the vitamins and minerals they are made of food (in other words, consider the raw food as “live”, while the cooked would be “dead “). Furthermore, according to raw foodists cooking of various foods is a “practice” new and therefore not essential to the human organism.

Raw food are consumed in the diet: fresh vegetables, grains (just germinated), herbs and some cheese. Rarely eat eggs. The most rigid rule out the meat and some consume fish.

The main advantages:

- helps clean the intestines
- lose weight
- Helps to hydrate to a greater extent
- There is a time savings (due to not having to cook)

Disadvantages:

- Lack of vitamin B12
- Iron deficiency

You think it is a correct and balanced diet?

The Scarsdale diet, developed by American cardiologist Tarnhower H., is characterized by a reduced supply of carbohydrates and fats, which corresponds to an increased intake of foods rich in protein. The daily caloric intake is about 1000 calories a day. The food given should not be weighed and can be consumed in any quantity.

This type of diet, although certain effectiveness, must never be observed for more than 14 days (as on the other hand requires the same Tarnhower) after which you must follow a diet for maintenance, as fully described in the manual “The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. “

The Scarsdale diet is also absolutely not recommended to anyone with health problems, even minor, of whatever nature.

This is a very strict diet that requires sacrifice and commitment.

E ‘characterized by some basic rules which must be followed carefully:

1. Eat exactly what is established, do not make substitutions;
2. Do not drink anything alcoholic;
3. Between meals to limit yourself to the snacks of celery and carrots;
4. The only drinks allowed are black coffee, tea and tonic water;
5. Season vegetables and salads only with lemon and vinegar with seasonings or described;
6. Private meat of all visible fat and cook without oil, butter, margarine or other fats;
7. Stop eating when you feel satiated.

The menu of the diet scarsdale

Breakfast (all day)

Seasonal fruit

1 slice whole wheat bread

coffee or tea without sugar.

Monday

Lunch

Choice of assorted cold meats (lean)

Sliced ​​tomatoes stewed or grilled

Dinner

Lean fish or shellfish of any kind

Mixed salad

1 slice whole wheat bread

Seasonal fruit.

Tuesday

Lunch

Fruit salad at will

Dinner

Grilled Hamburger lean at will

Tomatoes, celery, lettuce, olives, zucchini or cucumbers.

Wednesday

Lunch

Tuna or salmon salad dressed with oil or vinegar

Seasonal fruit.

Dinner

Sliced ​​roast lamb

Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, celery.

Thursday

Lunch

2 eggs cooked to taste

Low-fat cheese

Courgettes or Brussels sprouts or tomatoes

1 slice of bread.

Dinner

Roasted or grilled chicken skinned

Spinach, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes.

Friday

Lunch

Assorted low-fat cheese

Spinach at will

1 slice of bread.

Dinner

Lean fish or shellfish of any kind

Mixed salad

1 slice of bread.

Saturday

Lunch

Fruit salad

Dinner

Roasted chicken or turkey

Lettuce and tomatoes

Seasonal fruit.

Sunday

Lunch

Turkey or chicken

tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, broccoli.

Dinner

Roast veal

Salad of lettuce, cucumber, celery, tomatoes, zucchini.

We establish now some general rules for the diet of the dish, in fact, this type of diet provides about 1300 calories a day and should be followed for at least 1 month, allowing it to lose about 3 kg.

First, the dish-based foods rich in carbohydrates with protein and vegetables should be eaten for lunch and be finished with fresh fruit.

Dinner is instead composed of a second, vegetables, fruit and bread.

The program must be completed by adding a more traditional breakfast with the addition of fruit and a yogurt snack.

Then used to season and cook 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil in addition to those in the recipe, up to 1 teaspoon of salt per day, spices, vinegar and lemon are free, and finally you need to drink at least one and a half liters of water per day.

To help you here are some examples of menus for a day in the diet of the dish:

Breakfast: a cup of coffee or tea unsweetened barley, 20 grams of toasted bread, 1 fruit. By mid morning a pot of yoghurt

We establish now some general rules for the diet of the dish, in fact, this type of diet provides about 1300 calories a day and should be followed for at least 1 month, allowing it to lose about 3 kg.

First, the dish-based foods rich in carbohydrates with protein and vegetables should be eaten for lunch and be finished with fresh fruit.

Dinner is instead composed of a second, vegetables, fruit and bread.

The program must be completed by adding a more traditional breakfast with the addition of fruit and a yogurt snack.

Then used to season and cook 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil in addition to those in the recipe, up to 1 teaspoon of salt per day, spices, vinegar and lemon are free, and finally you need to drink at least one and a half liters of water per day.

To help you here are some examples of menus for a day in the diet of the dish:

Breakfast: a cup of coffee or tea unsweetened barley, 20 grams of toasted bread, 1 fruit. By mid morning a pot of yoghurt

The banana diet, invented by a pharmacist in Osaka, Japan velocemnte . There were also numerous television programs ch they have demonstrated their effectiveness.

How it works.

- For breakfast you must eat a banana or drinking water at room temperature.
- During lunch and dinner you can eat your usual meals but dinner must finish within 20 hours.
- You should go to bed before midnight.

What are the qualities of banana (can be considered as one of the most common foods in the world)?
It contains potassium, vitamins A, B1, B2, PP. And ‘well if you want to keep the skin supple and also affects the quality of sleep. So his energy intake ensures an immediate effect.

The banana also causes an improvement in digestion and a subsequent weight loss. This is a simple diet and that seems suitable for people who wish to make a few sacrifices, but we wonder if it really works or is just a fad.