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The causes of cellulite are complex and many factors. Metabolic changes, hormonal, liver and digestive disorders, poor circulation, and above all poor nutrition can make them appear dimpled drop zones or orange peel.

A good treatment for cellulite is mainly controlling the diet. Our agency is charged daily toxins and metabolic waste it generates, if we eliminate from our diet foods that generate more toxins is greatly facilitated the detoxification of the body, which is fundamental to combating cellulite .

Foods to avoid are processed foods or semi, alcohol, sugar, fried foods and saturated fats. But mostly it is vital to a healthy and balanced diet. Read the rest of this entry »

Walk 5 minutes more every day
Increase daily physical activity levels of a few simple minutes at a time can help many lose weight. In the end, your goal should be to at least 30 minutes of physical activity per day (by burning 120 calories more per day, or 5.5 pounds per year). You are not forced into these 30 minutes all at once (you can do two sessions of 15 minutes for example, morning and evening).

There are simple ways to make you walk more and lose weight though: you walk into the supermarket to shop before, marching on the spot when you’re on the phone to park away from the office, walking the dog after dinner, etc..

Making weight training a mini-series
The classic fitness exercises such as pumps and bending are simple ways to build more muscle to increase metabolism in minutes, and various studies have shown that they are as effective as going to the gym.

Your muscles will not know the difference between being against the resistance to your own body and is working on a tech sports equipment. The simple rule to follow is that each exercise should make your muscles between 60-90 seconds.

Try this mini-series of training to properly lose weight. Do 10 repetitions of each of the following exercises: push ups on knees, bending, abdominal, front slot, remove the leg on chair. Then gradually increase the number of repetitions necessary for your muscles are fully fatigued.

Go up the stairs three floors per day
You have the choice between taking the elevator and take the stairs? Include 2-3 minute climb stairs in a day, equivalent to average between 3 and 5 floors, can burn enough calories to lose weight although 0.5 to 1 kilogram per year.

Take the stairs more often can benefit more than just your waistline. The men climbing stairs in over 70 floors (total) per week decreased by 18% the rate of mortality compared with those that rise less than 20 flights per week, according to a British study. Start with a few stories per day. And if you already had the habit of taking the stairs, aim to climb three floors of a day.

Adults need at least 250 minutes per week – divided into 50 minutes of physical exercise, do five days a week – to lose much weight, according to the latest recommendations of the Department of Health and Human Services U.S. ( U.S. Department of Health & Human Services).

“In the midst of a real health crisis related to what we eat and our slow progress in changing eating behaviors, they are designed to provide understanding and clarification of the role of physical activity and its relationship with the weight, “said Joseph E. Donnelly, chairman of the committee that wrote the report. “Now that we have the latest information on the quantitative importance of physical activity into the equation, we can continue the education process to help people who struggle with their weight.”

If you try to maintain your weight rather than lose weight, you could get away with 5 training sessions of 30 minutes per week. The report recommends that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week to prevent any significant weight gain.

However, adults are overweight or obese are more likely to achieve their goals with at least 250 minutes of physical activity. The report also recommends training in weight lifting or weight during exercise to increase fat free mass (ie muscle mass) and further reduce health risks.

We remind you that the terms “overweight” and “obese” are defined by calculating the Body Mass Index (BMI).

The weight management remains a major problem for public health, the report says. Over 66% of American adults are overweight or obese. People can reduce their risk of chronic diseases with a reduction of only 2% to 3% of excess weight.

The practice of any exercise is imperative to lower high cholesterol, being more important than dieting. Therefore, the sports you can take as a specific exercise to combat high levels of blood lipids

Physical activity to lower cholesterol is generally of a certain intensity which can increase metabolic enzyme activity and avoiding the deposit of fatty substances in the arteries. The sport is characterized by the alternation of fast movements or certain intensity followed by a pause, to again make another move of intensity. That situation remains more or less constant throughout the game.

Therefore it is a way to use sport as a specific treatment for reducing high cholesterol levels. In this way you avoid boredom and having to resort to the constant motivation to exercise quality on a scheduled basis and without company. Read the rest of this entry »

The flat stomach is only a matter of aesthetics, the waist circumference if it exceeds a certain limit is a risk factor for health. Therefore, more than to see lean, toned, small waist protects you from many potential diseases. Women whose waist exceeds 85 cm and men with more than 105 cm of waist circumference are at risk of some brain and cardiovascular disease.

To get that flat stomach, you must first start a diet, but to protect you from any risk factors is essential to make some kind of physical activity. Exercise automatically protects you from the biggest risk factor: a sedentary lifestyle.

Aerobic activity, among other things, burning fat after 20 minutes of continuous work, and using this substrate as a fuel for muscle contraction. Aerobic activities are swimming, walking, jogging, cycling, skiing, and all those performed continuously, at a medium-low intensity for a prolonged period and systematically. Read the rest of this entry »

Physical exercise is widely known as a health-promoting tool, however, increase the amount of physical activity may give you more benefits, such as taking more steps to lower cholesterol. A report in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine confirms and validates.

The study was conducted by Professor Peter T. Katzmarzyk, the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The metabolic syndrome, among which is the high level of low density cholesterol, which can work both overweight people, such as those with normal weight.

The research showed that those who walked more were the group with less percentage of metabolic syndrome. The group walked more than 10.000 steps a day. Whereas it is a walking pace of 100 steps per minute, in half an hour can be done 3000 steps. Read the rest of this entry »