Friday, July 03, 2009
The appetite can be controlled without taking drugs that alter brain chemistry.
Controlling appetite naturally is the best, because using drugs often give you some side effect as a bonus. Try to follow this tips to help control your appetite in natural way.
Your meals often don't provide you with the satisfied full feeling. More food should avoid and the high fiber vegetables become important in this case to give you the full feeling. Add more water-dense fruits or vegetables such as apples, and watermelons at the beginning of a meal, perhaps even allowing a bit of time for digestion, can help a person feel more full while consuming fewer calories.
Human body produces both hormones and brain chemicals that make you feel hungry or tell you when you've had enough to eat. The hormone leptin regulates your metabolism. Low levels of leptin will make you feel hungry. Grehlin, a hormone found primarily in the stomach, stimulates the appetite. If these appetite regulating hormones are out of balance you will tend to over eat and gain weight. Studies show that sleep deprivation alters hormones and increases appetite. Getting enough sleep and sticking to a regular sleep pattern can help to keep these hormones in balance.
Another good way to control your appetite is by playing mind games. Some studies show that the color blue blue is an appetite suppressant. Try surrounding yourself with blue when you eat. You may want to paint your dining room blue or use the blue plate. But avoid to make the food itself blue with food coloring because it is often contain toxic.
Drink an adequate amount of water. Researchers in Berlin, Germany, found that their subjects had a 30 percent increase in metabolism after drinking approximately 17 ounces of water. The increases occurred within 10 minutes of drinking the water and the researchers estimate that up to 40 percent of the increase in calorie burning is from the body’s attempt to heat the water. A person who consumes an additional 1.5 liters a day for a year could burn an additional 17,400 calories, which translates to a five-pound weight loss.
Have another tips? Please share with us.
Controlling appetite naturally is the best, because using drugs often give you some side effect as a bonus. Try to follow this tips to help control your appetite in natural way.
Your meals often don't provide you with the satisfied full feeling. More food should avoid and the high fiber vegetables become important in this case to give you the full feeling. Add more water-dense fruits or vegetables such as apples, and watermelons at the beginning of a meal, perhaps even allowing a bit of time for digestion, can help a person feel more full while consuming fewer calories.
Human body produces both hormones and brain chemicals that make you feel hungry or tell you when you've had enough to eat. The hormone leptin regulates your metabolism. Low levels of leptin will make you feel hungry. Grehlin, a hormone found primarily in the stomach, stimulates the appetite. If these appetite regulating hormones are out of balance you will tend to over eat and gain weight. Studies show that sleep deprivation alters hormones and increases appetite. Getting enough sleep and sticking to a regular sleep pattern can help to keep these hormones in balance.
Another good way to control your appetite is by playing mind games. Some studies show that the color blue blue is an appetite suppressant. Try surrounding yourself with blue when you eat. You may want to paint your dining room blue or use the blue plate. But avoid to make the food itself blue with food coloring because it is often contain toxic.
Drink an adequate amount of water. Researchers in Berlin, Germany, found that their subjects had a 30 percent increase in metabolism after drinking approximately 17 ounces of water. The increases occurred within 10 minutes of drinking the water and the researchers estimate that up to 40 percent of the increase in calorie burning is from the body’s attempt to heat the water. A person who consumes an additional 1.5 liters a day for a year could burn an additional 17,400 calories, which translates to a five-pound weight loss.
Have another tips? Please share with us.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Hodia is the new popular herb. Hoodia advertisements on the Internet are ubiquitous, claim to melt away fat within days. Hoodia is an ingredient found naturally in a cactus-like plant, Hoodia gordonii, which grows in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa.
It is used traditionally as an antiinfectant and digestive aid. Some peoples of the Kalahari have been using Hodia to suppress hunger and thirst during their long hunting trip where there was little vegetation to eat..
Hodia works by fooling your brain into thinking that you are full. The active ingredient in Hodia, P57 molecule, can mimics the effect of glucose on the brain—the brain believing you are full.
How much hodia we realy need to weightloss? No one really knows how much is needed to lose weight. There have not been any scientific studies on the effectiveness of hoodia or P57 alone to determine how much is needed and for how long to see a statistically significant weight loss.
We must take notice of hodia’s side effects. Because no one has yet examined the safety of hoodia in humans. The further scientific studies are currently ongoing.
It is used traditionally as an antiinfectant and digestive aid. Some peoples of the Kalahari have been using Hodia to suppress hunger and thirst during their long hunting trip where there was little vegetation to eat..
Hodia works by fooling your brain into thinking that you are full. The active ingredient in Hodia, P57 molecule, can mimics the effect of glucose on the brain—the brain believing you are full.
How much hodia we realy need to weightloss? No one really knows how much is needed to lose weight. There have not been any scientific studies on the effectiveness of hoodia or P57 alone to determine how much is needed and for how long to see a statistically significant weight loss.
We must take notice of hodia’s side effects. Because no one has yet examined the safety of hoodia in humans. The further scientific studies are currently ongoing.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
The hypothalamus is a complex region in the brain of humans, and even small nuclei within the hypothalamus are involved in many different functions. Cherry-sized and located below the thalamus, just above the brain stem. The hypothalamus is influenced by a complex interaction of hormones, the digestive tract, and the nervous system.
Hypothalamus holds a key in controlling weight. The hypothalamus is involved in controlling hunger and thirst. When a person’s stomach is empty, the blood sugar level decreases, and a message goes to the hypothalamus. If a person’s blood sugar is low, serotonin levels may also be low, and as a result of low blood sugar levels and low serotonin, the hypothalamus is stimulated and a person feels hunger. The hypothalamus play a role as the appetite center.
Stress, hormones, and depression also affect levels of chemicals in the body, such as serotonin, thus triggering the desire to eat. A change in hormones, for example, such as those associated with pregnancy, could increase appetite. Cortisol is a hormone that is secreted under stress. Women with higher levels of cortisol have been found in research experiments to snack on higher-fat foods than those with lower cortisol levels.
Hypothalamus holds a key in controlling weight. The hypothalamus is involved in controlling hunger and thirst. When a person’s stomach is empty, the blood sugar level decreases, and a message goes to the hypothalamus. If a person’s blood sugar is low, serotonin levels may also be low, and as a result of low blood sugar levels and low serotonin, the hypothalamus is stimulated and a person feels hunger. The hypothalamus play a role as the appetite center.
Stress, hormones, and depression also affect levels of chemicals in the body, such as serotonin, thus triggering the desire to eat. A change in hormones, for example, such as those associated with pregnancy, could increase appetite. Cortisol is a hormone that is secreted under stress. Women with higher levels of cortisol have been found in research experiments to snack on higher-fat foods than those with lower cortisol levels.
Thursday, July 02, 2009
American adults getting fatter
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Obesity rates continued to climb in the past year with 23 U.S. states reporting adults in their states are fatter now than they were a year ago, two advocacy groups said on Wednesday.
Obesity rates did not decrease in a single state last year, and the groups warned that the U.S. obesity epidemic must be addressed as lawmakers reform the nation's health system.
"Our health care costs have grown along with our waistlines," said Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America's health, which released the report along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
He said the obesity epidemic is contributing to skyrocketing health costs, and said the problem has to be addressed at the highest levels of government.
Being overweight or obese raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes, some cancers, arthritis and other conditions.
The annual ranking of obesity rates in U.S. states found Mississippi continues to be the state with the fattest residents, with nearly a third of adults -- 32.5 percent -- considered obese. The state has topped the list for the past five years.
Three other states -- West Virginia, Alabama, and Tennessee -- now have obesity rates above 30 percent, they found.
Colorado has the thinnest residents, with an obesity rate of 18.9 -- the only state under 20 percent. Massachusetts is next, at 21.2 percent, followed by Connecticut, at 21.3.
Two-thirds of American adults are either obese or overweight, as defined by their body mass index or BMI.
BMI is equal to weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. Someone with a BMI of 25 to 29 is classified as overweight; 30 and over is considered obese.
A person 5 feet-5 inches tall becomes overweight at 150 pounds (68 kg) and obese at 180 pounds (82 kg).
IMPACT OF ECONOMIC CRISIS
Although still rising, fewer states saw increases in obesity rates this year compared to last, in which 37 states saw gains.
"We're still getting fatter, but maybe a little more slowly than before," Dr. James Marks of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said on a conference call.
"We are hopeful that policy changes some of the states are putting into place in their schools and communities are beginning to make a difference."
The groups warned that the economic crisis could exacerbate the obesity epidemic as rising food prices and shrinking family budgets make it more difficult to eat healthy foods.
Among U.S. children, obesity rates held steady, but at still alarmingly high levels, with 30 states reporting the percentage of obese or overweight children at above 30 percent.
A report last year found the U.S. childhood obesity epidemic leveled off this decade after surging for about 20 years, but a worrisome number of young people remain obese, risking serious health problems.
Obese children are more likely to be saddled with risk factors associated with heart disease and type 2 diabetes. They also are much more likely to be obese in adulthood.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has an online BMI calculator at www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/.
(Editing by Jackie Frank)
By Julie Steenhuysen
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Obesity rates continued to climb in the past year with 23 U.S. states reporting adults in their states are fatter now than they were a year ago, two advocacy groups said on Wednesday.
Obesity rates did not decrease in a single state last year, and the groups warned that the U.S. obesity epidemic must be addressed as lawmakers reform the nation's health system.
"Our health care costs have grown along with our waistlines," said Jeff Levi, executive director of Trust for America's health, which released the report along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
He said the obesity epidemic is contributing to skyrocketing health costs, and said the problem has to be addressed at the highest levels of government.
Being overweight or obese raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes, some cancers, arthritis and other conditions.
The annual ranking of obesity rates in U.S. states found Mississippi continues to be the state with the fattest residents, with nearly a third of adults -- 32.5 percent -- considered obese. The state has topped the list for the past five years.
Three other states -- West Virginia, Alabama, and Tennessee -- now have obesity rates above 30 percent, they found.
Colorado has the thinnest residents, with an obesity rate of 18.9 -- the only state under 20 percent. Massachusetts is next, at 21.2 percent, followed by Connecticut, at 21.3.
Two-thirds of American adults are either obese or overweight, as defined by their body mass index or BMI.
BMI is equal to weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. Someone with a BMI of 25 to 29 is classified as overweight; 30 and over is considered obese.
A person 5 feet-5 inches tall becomes overweight at 150 pounds (68 kg) and obese at 180 pounds (82 kg).
IMPACT OF ECONOMIC CRISIS
Although still rising, fewer states saw increases in obesity rates this year compared to last, in which 37 states saw gains.
"We're still getting fatter, but maybe a little more slowly than before," Dr. James Marks of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said on a conference call.
"We are hopeful that policy changes some of the states are putting into place in their schools and communities are beginning to make a difference."
The groups warned that the economic crisis could exacerbate the obesity epidemic as rising food prices and shrinking family budgets make it more difficult to eat healthy foods.
Among U.S. children, obesity rates held steady, but at still alarmingly high levels, with 30 states reporting the percentage of obese or overweight children at above 30 percent.
A report last year found the U.S. childhood obesity epidemic leveled off this decade after surging for about 20 years, but a worrisome number of young people remain obese, risking serious health problems.
Obese children are more likely to be saddled with risk factors associated with heart disease and type 2 diabetes. They also are much more likely to be obese in adulthood.
The U.S. National Institutes of Health has an online BMI calculator at www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/.
(Editing by Jackie Frank)
