Month: August 2017

One of the first questions patients at my clinic ask is “Will I get enough to eat?” I’m happy to report that on The Balanced-Nutrient Diet you’ll be able to eat heartily while reducing excess body fat. One of the secrets of the success of The Balanced-Nutrient Diet is the high fibre and water content of the delicious natural foods you’ll be allowed to eat. Natural foods brimming with essential nutrients are wonderfully tasty, and their fibre content so high that they are completely satisfying. Furthermore the great variety of flavours found in foods supplied by nature will make eating refreshing as well as delightfully pleasurable.

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Let us first understand what hunger really is? Hunger and appetite (discussed later) are two terms closely associated with food. Hunger is generated by the digestive system as a demand for food and manifests itself in the form of hunger contractions of the stomach or by saliva secretion in the mouth. A delay in eating begins to produce the unpleasant symptoms of hunger. The physical sensation of hunger increases irritability. There is physical pain in the stomach commonly and energy decreases.

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DO NOT OVEREAT !

EVEN THE FINEST MOST NUTRITIOUS FOODS AVAILABLE WILL SPOIL IN YOUR SYSTEM IF IT IS OVEREATEN.

If you tend to overeat, it is helpful to understand the physiology behind overeating. The inner lining of our intestines is made up of microscopic filaments called villi. These villi or filaments can be easily clogged by the waste products of foods that are eaten in excess of what our bodies can metabolize and utilize efficiently. If the tiny villi or filaments through which nutrients are absorbed are clogged, no matter how much we eat our bodies are not nourished. When no nutrients are being absorbed as a result of clogging, the body sets off an alarm that it has not been fed, and even though we have just eaten, we want to eat more.

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No. Dining out in restaurants need not wreck a reducing programme. When you go to a restaurant take time over the menu. Select what you want, order that and no more. There is a handy, simple formula to help you select a fine reducers meal from any restaurant menu. It goes like this :

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There are many nutritious foods that you can pack in a lunch box. You can choose from such foods such as chicken, boiled eggs, cottage cheese, sprouted mung or beans, all kinds of vegetables, whole grain chapatties or bread, yogurt , fruits and so on. Just make sure that the foods are fresh and natural and cooked with minimum oil. Try to include something from each of the basic four food groups. Foods from :

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Appetite like hunger ( discussed earlier), is closely associated with food. Appetite is a complex of sensations which makes one look forward with a degree of pleasure to eating. Appetite is psychologically related and depends on a person’s knowledge about food and its colour, smell, taste etc. In short, we think of appetite in a pleasurable way.

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Following are certain suggestions listed to help you to maintain your ideal weight and keep weight off permanently.

INCLUDE EXERCISE IN YOUR MAINTENANCE PROGRAMME
It is always good to exercise whether you’re overweight or not. A nutritionist Jean Mayer claims that moderate exercise actually depresses the appetite. Research has demonstrated that sedentary people tend to eat more than physically active people. Therefore inactivity combined with overeating, is sure to result in a build-up of body fat.

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“I’m so psyched and upset by remarks from people” lamented Mrs. Renu Jain “that it has become impossible for me to keep up my lost weight. My friends and well-wishers say that my body has sagged, I look older than my age. They say that I look pale and sick and that I have lost the beauty and charm I had when I used to weight seventy-six kilos. They insist that I should gain back my lost weight.”

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Heart disease is a major killer in India to-day. Persons who are obese have a higher incidence of the diseases of the heart and blood vessels as compared to persons with normal weight. In any case, whether you are over weight or not, the foods you eat have a great deal to do with heart disease and disease of blood vessels, and therefore you obviously cannot afford to ignore it. Dr. J.R. Moreton, 1947,published his work, showing that the arteries could become hard in individuals whose blood shows a high fat content, derived from the fat in the food.

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INDIGESTION –

A common problem characterized by gas pains and distension, bloated feeling of the stomach, heaviness after meals together with various forms of indigestion, takes the toll of misery yet in majority of the cases they could have been avoided in the first place. The hectic pace of a modern style of living, hustle of city life, no time to eat and so on leads to the habit of “bolting” or gulping food which is the main reason of so called gas pains. This is particularly common in obese people in whom the greater part of food eaten consists of chapatties, khakras or bread made of refined white flour.

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