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obesity is considered a public health problem because it reduces the quantity and quality of life. This disorder suffer 45% of men and 38% of women but is expected to increase in coming years, therefore, avoid starting small.

Excess body fat causes an increase in body weight.

Metabolic disease with a greater presence in developed countries.

Chronic disorder that not only is the result of habit or lack of will to stop eating.

Symptoms

Ingested calories are not burned by the lack of exercise, so you gain weight.

The calories are stored as fat and produce complications such as hypertension, diabetes or heart disease.

Treatment

Regulation of avoiding excessive dietary fat.

Adapting physical exercise to the diet.

Achieved the ideal weight, stick to it.

Usually when we talk about physical activity men often have an advantage when it comes to strength, however, in the case of women, there are some aspects that have advantages such as flexibility, balance and coordination. So, we tell you about 3 exercises involving these features and are very effective.

One of them is the hook kick, this is a plyometric movement where it works the quadriceps and hamstrings. To practice stand we stand with one foot on the ground and the other knee high to waist high. What you do is jump releasing the supporting leg and hit the air with the other foot. Bear in mind that the supporting leg should be slightly bent. Do the same with both feet and do not forget to always keep your back straight without a hunch.

The second exercise is a very special name, is called “give birth squatting” with this activity are exercising the quadriceps, thighs and buttocks, but also a great stretch for the insides of the legs. In order to do well we must place standing, both feet slightly wider than hip width. Put squatting so close to the floor as possible, the knees should be pointing outward. Squeezing the buttocks must return on foot.

Finally there is the stylus, an exercise to work the butt, with your feet apart to hip width, squat as if sitting in a chair. You lift your heels as high as you can and keep them in that position for 10 seconds.

These are three very good effective exercises to train some of the parts that matter most to women. We hope they will help you!

In the rush to lose weight we can find many diets that promise to let us into better shape without suffering much from hunger. These methods are backed by people who say they have had remarkable results and in some cases are true. One of the most popular diets of the moment is that of the points.

The diet of the points is to give a score to each meal and only eat a limited amount of points depending on weight and metabolism. For example the number of points that a person should eat per day based on weight is as follows: 61 to 70 kg to 18 points a day. 71 to 80 kg to 20 points a day. 81 to 90 kg to 22 points a day. From 91 to 100 Kg up to 24 points a day. Over 100 Kg up to 26 points a day.

The classification of foods according to points is the following: Cheese: 0 points. Ham: 0 points. Arepa with cheese: 5 points. Tuna in oil: 5 points. Hamburger with onions: 12 points
Coffee without sugar: 0 points. Tea without milk and sugar: 0 points. Cappuccino without sugar: 2 points
Meat, fish or chicken into pieces of 100 gr: 0 points.

Foods that have zero points can be taken at any time of day, but if more than twice should be added as a point.

Importantly, each diet should be supervised and approved by a nutritionist because each person is different and it is for one may not work for another.

This diet is aimed at those who commit themselves to strictly physical exercises every day must be made between an hour and a half of exercises to accompany the diet explained below.

Ideally, high-impact aerobics, weights, and work every day a different part of the body, that is: Monday: abs, Tuesday: Chest, Wednesday, buttocks, etc.

Breakfast

1 cup melon
1 turkey breast sandwich on whole wheat bread

Lunch

1 cup mashed potatoes
1 cup water-packed tuna
1 cup of lettuce and broccoli

Eating

2 cups steamed rice (brown)
1 cup cooked spinach
300 grs. Beef, chicken or fish

Dinner

1 tomato
1 carrot
1 cup lettuce
1 gelatin
1 cup jicama

The oil of licorice as a dietary supplement, may help them lose weight, according to a Japanese study published in the journal Obesity Research & Clinical Practice.

Licorice

Yuji Tominaga and colleagues conducted the study with 56 men and 28 overweight women. One group received a placebo and three others received a supplement containing 300, 600, or 900 mg of licorice oil daily.

After 8 weeks, participants who received the licorice had lost nearly a kilo in body fat than those who received placebo, even if their calorie intake were the same.
Those taking the highest dose also showed reduced levels of cholesterol (LDL).

The researchers attribute this action to the flavonoids contained licorice oil, a substance with antioxidant properties, which modify the action of genes involved in the synthesis and oxidation of fatty acids. Studies are needed to clarify the mode of action.

This study used additional oil extracted from licorice. The substance removed, the Glycyrrhiza, is considered responsible for side effects associated with high doses such as hypertension, fluid retention and a potassium level is too low (dangerous to the heart).

The reasons that can lead to dispense animal food are many. Some ancient religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, rejecting animal sacrifice, believing in the transmigration of souls.

Christianity sets along fast days of the year in which you can not eat meat. Seventh Day Adventists advocate vegetarianism, while Judaism and Islam prohibit, among other foods, beef and pork.

The most extreme and strict vegetarian diets is the Zen, especially the one followed in their monasteries, and that is reduced to a bowl of rice a day.

A mid-century, vegetarianism became a stream of Western fashion and since then has not ceased to be a very popular diet. Some would continue to eat healthily, others to protest the treatment given to farm animals, and some that say that eating only vegetables contribute to environmental conservation.

The rebel areas where fat accumulates are usually hips, waist and thighs in women and the abdomen in men.

To combat these pockets of fat or no exercise or miraculous single system to achieve the best results without resorting to surgery or liposuction, you must combine different strategies.

Let’s review the five aspects of how we reduce the accumulated fat in hips, waist and abdomen.

1. The right thing is to get aerobic metabolism using the accumulated fat for energy. To do this we need to make any cyclical activity we like, walking, running, playing sports such as cycling or swimming, attending to the Spinning sessions or dance in the gym, etc..

2. Reduce hips. This aerobic activity should last at least 30 minutes per session and to be truly effective intensity must be low: some 70% of maximum heart rate.

3. Not simply increasing energy consumption, we must care what we eat to allow your body to burn the reserves we have in the form of rolls in the hip or leg cartridge. So should eat less fat and simple sugars in the diet.

4. In the case of the abdomen, is ruled by the belief that abdominal exercises to burn fat is achieved in that area, at all events to improve the tone and strength of those muscles but does not increase its definition.

5. To enhance the effects of a training plan together with adequate food can recurrrir to complementary therapies such as massage reducers, lymphatic drainage, mesotherapy and electrostimulators among many others. Just do not forget, are additional and by themselves will not yield the desired result.