Weight Loss Note

Vitamin D is widely recognized as the most important vitamin which helps bones to accumulate as much calcium as possible. Vitamin D is very important for children and adolescents, because Vitamin D has an important role in the human growth process.

However, recent studies have proved that adults and elderly individuals have also an important need of Vitamin D. German studies state that Vitamin D and Vitamin D supplements are helpful for overweight individuals. Vitamin D aids in weight loss. More, this vitamin lowers the triglycerides level and the serum markers of inflammation level. This means that the cardiovascular disease risk is also lowered.

Vitamin D sources
1. The Sun
The main source of Vitamin D is the sun. Our body produces Vitamin D if it’s exposed to sun. However multiple factors as time of day, season of the year, geographic location or sunscreen directly affect vitamin D synthesis. Read the rest of this entry »

You probably heard many times about energy balance, energy intake, energy deficit, energy consumption and where not really sure about their exact significance, in terms of body weight control.

Here is a simple example about energy balance. Just compare your body with a car that’s running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A car needs fuel in order to be able to run from point A to point B. You need to constantly refuel, to keep it running, knowing that you can’t pour more fuel in, as the tank allows it.

Sadly, many of us don’t know that our body works in a similar way. We often try to push our body to work at its optimal parameters although we know that our “tank” is “empty”. This happens sometimes for hours. The second big mistake is that after such a stress we “refuel” with a huge amount of energy, which is equivalent to more than our “tank” can store. Read the rest of this entry »

Knowing your ideal body weight is the essential factor in determining if you are overweight or not. Comparing your actual body weight with the ideal body weight gives you a broad idea about how much weight you need to gain or lose to improve your silhouette and bring it closer to perfection.

The ideal body weight formula is used for obtaining the ideal body weigh using simple arithmetic. In fact, there are a series of formulas available, but most of them provide a similar result. They are obviously different for male and females. This arithmetic formulas take in consideration factors as height, age and gender.

You need to compare your actual weight with the ideal one before starting any weight loss diet. This way you will exactly know how much weight you need to lose to accomplish your target. Knowing how many pounds (kilograms) you need to lose will help you to carefully plan your weight loss venture.

One more very important overweight indicator is the body mass index (BMI), but I will handle this subject in one of my next articles. Further on I am presenting you some of the most popular formulas for calculating your ideal body weight. Read the rest of this entry »

Energy is the one that keeps us active and provides the much needed power to complete our daily activities. Without energy, human beings are like cars without petrol, sailing ships without wind or fire without wood. Our main source of energy is food. This is why we have to plan our diet accordingly. Introducing high energy foods in our balanced diet will keep us active and highly productive during the entire day.

An extra intake of energy foods is needed if we plan do include physical workouts in our daily routine. To get right to the point, of course, we need energy for weight loss. I underlined this many times on this blog. I am militating for active weight loss. This means losing weight trough exercise and an overall active lifestyle and not trough pills or starving. An optimal diet in this case is to obtain the following great proportion. We need to maximize the intake of energy foods, keeping the fat intake at the lowest level possible.

Another proverb says, ‘A rich meal, shows a rich soul!’, and I would add a healthy body. We all agree that a healthy diet and physical workouts do wonders. I just read an article stating that this year’s highest male death rate was caused by lung cancer. With some countries reaching an incredible percentage of 70%. This is why I included some energy foods which prevent cancer in this top 10. Read the rest of this entry »