WHAT TO EAT IN SUMMER FOR NOT TO GET FAT

You do not want to frustrate efforts to dieting? Here's what to eat in the summer to stay in shape and avoid gaining weight, even a pound!

The diet that you followed all spring has paid off, and now you just have to try and not get fat even as you are on vacation! Difficult to resist the thousands of temptations that surround you, but if you do not fly back home with some extra pounds, here's what you eat!

1. Water
Drink a lot! Water is a true beauty secret that allows you to purify you and sgonfiarvi! It will also replace fluids lost through sweat, thus taking away the cellulite. Drink a lot you will also have a feeling of fullness that will keep you from eating every 10 minutes!

2. Fruit
Fruit at will and the second golden rule your summer vacation: the secret to never having hunger pangs is to intersperse the main meal with a serving of fresh fruit. This will bring you less hungry at meals, and do even the load of vitamins. A perfect idea with fruit are centrifuged >>

3.Verdura
Along with fruits, vegetables are the secret ingredient of the summer diet. You are spoiled for choice with fresh salads and fast: eating raw vegetables, as well as save yourself the trouble of turning on the stove, will help you keep intact all the nutritional properties of vegetables. Add a serving of vegetables at all meals and they're greedy use it as an afternoon snack!

4. Fish and white meat
What better season to take a portion of luscious fish! Surrender yourself to the joy of a mixed grill or fresh tartare: in these cases the only thing to which you should pay attention are the condiments with which accompanied the meal. No mayonnaise, mustard or other sauces, yes in olive oil and lemon. Avoid then fat cooking methods, fried FORBIDDEN (concedetevene at most one in the whole holiday) or cooking with butter: perfect fish steamed and baked. Among the meats to prefer white meat, like chicken, lighter and easily digestible.

5. Breakfast

Enjoy full relaxation in this meal: the classic drink coffee or milk and affiancatelo from a yogurt with fruit and some cookies light. For a cool glass of juice. A mid-morning snack treat yourself: maybe a cereal bar >>

6. Proof of the aperitif

Resist or, if you can not avoid, try to make it as healthy as possible. No liquor, at most a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic fruit without sugar. Put down the chips and peanuts and prefer instead vinaigrette or light refreshments >>

7. Ice cream and popsicles

Unless you eat a pound every day, will not make you fat. To be certain not to take excessive amounts of sugar can always make popsicles at home. The ice cream can turn into a full meal if enriched with fruits and grains, but must not become a habit.

8. Repair tear facts

Tears to the rule are granted but try to limit the damage by a minimum of physical activity. There are for example very easy exercises that you can do even under the umbrella!

fonte:http://www.leitv.it/prima-ti-spoglio-poi-ti-rivesto/benessere/cosa-mangiare-in-estate-per-non-ingrassare/?refresh_ce-cp

People, Not Technology, to Blame for Ills

Lately I’ve read a lot of articles and opinion pieces in which people have been complaining about technology.

    They complain that smartphones and tablets make people too reliant on technology, that they can now be tracked wherever they go, and that technology has made face-to-face communications a thing of the past. In fact, several in this paper have said that “technology has gone too far.”Yet, when the same people who do all the complaining about technology are saved by a new robotic surgery or helped by genetic testing, although grateful, they will simply take that technology for granted.

I see this over and over again with cataract surgery. Twenty-five years ago, my father almost died from cataract surgery and was left with worse vision than before the operation. Today, high-tech devices and procedures have greatly improved this type of surgery, allowing it to return sight to millions without complications. Yet the people who are helped seldom go out and sing the praises of how technology helped them.

So let’s stop for a minute and realize that technology has brought, and continues to bring, many advances and improvements in our lives.

Although some people are glued to their smartphones, aggravating onlookers, not too long ago I used my cellphone to call 911 for someone who was having a health emergency. Technology came to the rescue. There was no other telephone available. If I had not had a cellphone, that person could have died.

Today’s technology does even more. It allows grandparents to connect with their grandchildren via free video-calling, even if their grandchildren are halfway around the world. Technology brings us entertainment options that were not even thought about 20 years ago. It also puts a world of information at our fingertips.

You see, the problem is not with technology, it is with how people use that technology and how few restrictions people put on it. When I was growing up, we were only allowed to watch only certain television programs. No one left the television running all day, as is the habit in many homes today.When my kids were growing up, they were not allowed to have a telephone, television or computer in their bedrooms. If they wanted to talk on the phone, watch television or use the computer, they had to be in the main part of the house, where there was always a watchful parent eyeing their activities. At that time, we were considered strict parents.

In today’s world, there are very, very few parents who would even consider doing a “terrible” thing like that to their kids. Parents now want to be “friends” to their children. Restrictions are few. In many houses the television blares constantly, and children spend most of their time in their rooms playing video games and talking on their cellphones.

Certainly portable devices make controlling technology more difficult, but it is not an impossible task. Yet, parents not only let their children succumb to the constant use of technology, they themselves often yield to the temptation of using technology without restrictions.

Like many others, I have also been aggravated to see a young family in a restaurant where each of the children is glued to their gaming devices while the parents are completely preoccupied with using their smartphones. But let’s stop blaming the technology and start blaming the people who use it.

Technology can help us live longer, healthier lives. It can help us communicate with others. It can help us increase our knowledge. It can help us have fun. We can all use technology to our benefit, but we need to control our technology use. We also need to learn all that we can about today’s technologies so that we can use it intelligently. For instance, if you don’t want to be tracked, learn how to turn off the GPS on your smartphone.

Let’s stop blaming technology and start working on using it more prudently and teaching our children and grandchildren to do the same.

The ills of technology

Teaching with the use of modern technology reduces the amount of mental activity done by the students. Some technological innovators even tell their children to use pencil, paper and books at school, as technology is seen to hamper the early learning process. The engineers of these new products and ideas prefer their children not be exposed to technology until they are older.

There appears to be a dramatic decline in general knowledge and real problem solving. Reading and writing have degenerated. Our culture expects instant gratification on all levels, including in the romantic realms. Patience in people is dwindling. It does appear that the freedom technology created has not been used with responsibility.

People are working themselves into panic-dominated lives. A politician bragging about generating jobs was answered by a family man: “Yes, three for me and two for my wife to make ends meet!”

Our collective attention is drawn to celebrity worship and all this scandalous television seems to change people into passive observers watching the worst of human behaviour. We are losing our faith as well.

Man used to live close to nature and now he hangs images of animals and plants on the wall. He buys pre-packed chicken instead of rearing it. Cities are full of non-smiling faces, confirming that people are not as happy as when parents in the past pushed prams to a local field to see children play and climb real trees. The modern mother wraps up her children and takes them in a high-tech car to a school full of pictures of nature hanging on a wall.

Parents in the past activated more physical and mental processing in their children out of living closer to nature.

Fonte:http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111117/letters/The-ills-of-technology.394193

Vitamin B? Why beer is good for your health

I do likes me a cold one on a hot summer day, and a fall ball game just isn't the same without an ale in my hand. Fear of the great beer belly has kept suds out of the refrigerators and hands of beer enthusiasts all over the land, but is it possible that one of America's favorite beverages has gotten an undeserved bad rap?

After all, beer is created from just four basic ingredients: water, barley, hops and yeast. The result of these ingredients dancing together is alcohol and CO2. That's a combo that goes down easy, and there are so many ways to blend the brew that you're sure to find an ale, stout, lager or amber that is just right for you.

The dirty deets

Your doc may have told you that drinking alcohol in moderation is good for your health, but usually wine gets all the cred for the antioxidant benefits. Truth be told, beer and wine contain the same amount of antioxidants. There are some other things you should know:

•The protein and B-vitamin content of beer is higher than wine. Yeah, going for a brewski after a rousing game of touch football with your work team will help you replenish your protein better than a glass of chardonnay. But here's a buzzkill: Even though beer is a good source of B vitamins, the alcohol in it mostly cancels out those benefits.

•Beer offers anywhere from 95 to 360 calories in a 12-ounce serving, with the average bottle of beer in the 150-calorie range. A five-ounce glass of wine will run you about 120 calories. Sometimes the light beer is a better calorie choice than the wine. Since the FDA doesn't require calories to be on the label, do the homework and math on your favorite beer to know where it should be in your beverage lineup, because those calories do find a way to linger. (Call it a beer belly, call it a muffin top; you just don't want to find one circlin' your middle.)

•One to two beers a day is good for your bones. Brew contains silicon, which is in very few foods and is linked to bone strength and health. Now that's something to consider before going for your next bone-density scan.

•Think light in color equals light in calories? Not always the case. "Light" actually refers to the percent of alcohol and calories. Higher-alcohol beers have more calories, so if you're watching your weight, a Guinness is actually about the same as a Bud.

How to chow down

You get up to one (femmes) or two (dudes) alcoholic beverages a day, according to the Centers for Disease Control. When it comes to suds, that means a 12-ounce bottle or a draught with an inch of head. More than that can tip the health benefits into the health damaging category.

•You want a well-chilled pint glass. Keep it in the freezer for at least a couple of hours so it's all white and frosty and smoky when you pull it out. Tilt the glass and pour a stream of refreshment down the side, standing the glass upright as you get to the end of the pour. This allows for the perfect amount of fluffy bubbles at the top.

•Beer is a great liquid ingredient to add to your soups, marinades and culinary whole-grain masterpieces and can replace broth, stock or plain water. It adds delicate flavor and aroma. The alcohol will cook off, so no need to worry about getting your buddies drunk off your eats.

•If there is leftover beer from your beer-can chicken, beer bread or beer-battered jalapenos, dump it over your head. Seriously, beer is great for restoring life and shine to your hair by nourishing and smoothing strands.

In the know

If you had begrudgingly written off beer, put it back on your roster. Strategically place it into your beverage batting order when you're at a game or looking for refreshment that pairs well with friends and fun. Don't overdo it, though. Too much of this good thing will take you out of your own starting lineup.

Fonte:http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/30/health/beer-good-health/

Researchers Probe the Potential Health Benefits of Palm Oil

Palm oil has a pretty bad reputation. The product of this hard-shell red fruit, harvested primarily on plantations in Southeast Asia, is typically used as cheap cooking oil for fried foods like noodles and curry puffs. Indeed, by the time the palm oil is processed, much of its nutritional value is destroyed. And the fact that it can congeal at room temperature makes it even look extra artery clogging.

But curry puffs and clogged arteries are only part of the story. Preliminary research suggests that the form of vitamin E packed into the oil-palm fruit, tocotrienol, could help fight cancer and prevent strokes. Though tocotrienols can be found in rice bran, barley and wheat, palm oil is the richest source of tocotrienol, says Pramod Khosla, an associate professor in the department of nutrition at Wayne State University in Detroit. He says numerous test-tube studies done over the past two decades in the U.S., Canada and Malaysia show tocotrienols are "very effective" in killing cancer cells. Now researchers worldwide are embarking on the critical next step: human clinical trials on cancer patients. "The reason the clinical trials are being done is because the preliminary findings are so promising," Khosla says. The payoff from these trials could be big: using a natural food-based compound to prevent or treat cancer and stroke. "The advantage of food compounds is they are natural and safe," says Arthur Ling, CEO of Davos Life Science, a Singapore-based biomedical firm. "They can be part of your daily diet."

Unsurprisingly, most of the research on the biomedical promise of palm oil is being done in Southeast Asia, where the product is grown. Davos Life Science, which is owned by Kuala Lumpur Kepong, one of the largest oil-palm plantation companies in Malaysia, is a leader in the field of harvesting tocotrienol from palm oil. By steaming the oil-palm fruit at high temperatures, its embedded oil leaks out. The nine-year-old Davos Life then extracts tocotrienols from this distilled vitamin-rich liquid. This, in turn, forms the raw material from which supplements are produced. A good way for tocotrienols to be absorbed in the body, researchers say, is through high-dosage health supplements.

This June, Davos Life will embark on a human clinical trial involving late-stage prostate-cancer patients at a research hospital in Kuala Lumpur. Over an initial phase of about six months, cancer patients will be administered high levels of tocotrienols under close medical supervision. Davos Life's hope is that by establishing a stronger link between tocotrienols and cancer therapy, even those not suffering from the disease will be encouraged to increase their intake of tocotrienols by either swallowing it through a pill or adding it to processed foods. "If we can show the health benefits of tocotrienol, one can create an additive from it the way it's been done with fish oil," says Ling. "That could be a huge market."

The comparison to fish oil, whose cholesterol-lowering omega-3 fatty acids have exploded into a multibillion-dollar food-additive industry, may be more hopeful than realistic. Like fish oil, palm oil contains natural ingredients that are good for you, "but at much lower levels than fish oil," cautions Khosla of Wayne State University. Nor can palm oil be easily swallowed in its raw and red-colored form, the way fish oil can be eaten through fish. "The taste is bitter," according to M.R. Chandran, a retired Kuala Lumpur–based palm-oil-industry executive. The more appropriate comparison, Khosla says, is to olive oil. Like olive oil, raw palm oil comes from a fruit and contains roughly the same amounts of beneficial properties.

Nascent though it may be, the promise of tocotrienols in the fight against cancer is gathering force worldwide. So far, much of the research has been preliminary, restricted largely to test tubes in labs, but ongoing human clinical trials are being conducted not only by smaller Southeast Asian outfits like Davos Life but also by scientists at Ohio State University (on stroke prevention). There are more cancer-specific clinical trials being carried out by researchers at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Whatever the results of these trials are — analysts and researchers caution that it may take years to achieve a decisive breakthrough — the much derided nutritional image of palm oil is certain to improve. "There has been a stigma attached to palm oil," says Chandran. "That has not been very fair."

Fonte:http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2115331,00.html