Health & Fitness

6 Weight Loss Tips for Women Weight loss tips for women You can gain weight easily but shrinking it off is a big task. So if you have gained weight during your holidays, after being on a weight loss program, and need to get it off then you will have to follow some tried and time tested weight loss tips which would help you get on track and be there. How does weight loss happen? The science behind it: Weight loss happens when few calories are consumed compared to what you burn.   Skipping regular breakfast will make you hungrier and tend to eat more and eventually consume more calories. Hence having regular breakfast will help in losing weight easily. One pound of fat equals 3500 calories. Decreasing calorie intake by 500-1000 will eventually, decrease approximately one to two pounds of weight loss per week.   Research shows that calorie restriction and calories expenditure through exercises leads to better weight loss rather than relying on calorie restr...

Consumption of alcohol is harmful to health, but recent research concluded that drinking tequila can help in weight loss. You must be wondering this as a joke but it is not so. Read for the details given below: Overview: Tequila is made from blue agave, a plant found in in the sandy soils of Mexico which contain sugars called agavins. This sugar agavins is non-digestible thereby not raising your blood sugar when you consume. This drink is named after the city Tequila which develops a large quantity of agave. Agavins: How does it help in weight loss: According to research conducted by American Chemical society in 2014, a sugar found in agave plant lowers blood sugar. This research was conducted on mice as you are aware that most of the researches are tried on the creatures first before moving on to human beings. During the study, researchers found that the mice with standard diet and water with agavins sugar   ended up eating less and lower blood sugar as...

Have you ever wondered the reasons for frequent back pain or gain some more inches on your waistline even though you do the daily workout in gyms and eat the right food? The answer lies in your choices of lifestyle. Working out for some limited hours a day for a week as per your program does not allow you to lounge around the rest of the day or eat junk food on a regular basis. In simple term, it is what you do for the remaining hours after coming out of the gym. Given below are some of the changes or life hacks you would need to incorporate in your life to reap health rewards. RUN YOUR OWN ERRANDS Do some of your household chores like sweeping floors and clearing tables after meals. In office do get your own coffee and other accessories instead of asking others to do it. This will help your metabolism which in turn would burn calories all day along. Instead of shopping online walk around the mall and get the things you need. CORRECT YOUR POSTURE Your posture in si...

Intermittent fasting: As the name suggests it is a fasting technique in which one keeps fast for a certain period. It is not a diet but a way of scheduling your meals in a period of time. In fact,  Intermittent fasting  does not specify what foods a person should eat or avoid. First of all, it is a great way to avoid dietary food and lose weight. Secondly, it improves our overall health and well-being such as minimizing the aging effects. Apart from various benefits, there are some side effects. They are temporary and will get resolved with a longer period of fasting time. Given below are some of the common side effects and how they can be resolved. Read :  How eating chocolates can help you reduce weight? Side effects of intermittent fasting: 1. Low Energy: When we eat as per our requirements throughout the day, our body, in turn, gets the constant source of fuel needed and we get energized. But in IF it is not so and we full sluggish and ...

Do hot baths burn calories?   Yes, a recent study carried out by Loughborough University, UK has shown that the calories burnt are equivalent to 30-minute walk. The experiment was conducted on 14 men who were asked to perform two tests i.e. spend one hour bicycling and then spend one hour in the bathtub. The result was that though the calories burnt while cycling was more the calories burnt in hot bath water was significant. By hot water bath, 130 calories were burnt and this equals to that of 30-minute walk session. How does it happens? Strange but true as you can lose weight by taking a hot water bath. It doesn’t get rid of the fat directly but hot water speeds up the process and thereby reduces the inflammation which is core to weight loss. Reduction in inflammation means improvement of glucose metabolism which helps in weight loss. Does soaking in hot bath burn calories? Yes, The principle is that when the body temp is higher than the regular then it burns ...

KOU TEA: LOSE UP TO 5 POUNDS PER WEEK Tea is one of the most popular drinks for losing weight. There are many types of teas available in the market which helps in weight loss. The most popular being Green tea and the lesser ones known as White Tea, Oolong and Pu-erh. Green Tea and Oolong tea helps in losing weight to an average of 3.5 pounds in 15-18 weeks of time. You will have to take one of these teas for a longer period of time and at least 3-5 cups per day. The other teas like white and Pu-erh Tea are not that effective as Green and Oolong Teas. As long as your goal of 10-12 pounds weight loss is concerned than Green tea/Oolong Tea are OK, but what if your goal is losing weight up to 20-25 pounds in a shorter time? Then these teas won’t help and here you would need a special tea which can help you with this. This tea known as Kou Tea is a specialized tea developed for more weight loss and it contains the blend of  four different teas as mentioned below:...

Does Red Tea help in weight loss? Let us take a look as to how it helps: Detoxification: What is Detox and do we really need to do it? Detoxification is the removal of toxins from our system which we add when we drink water, eat poor food and breathe polluted air. Our body itself takes care of removing these toxins with the help of the liver. So Is it necessary that we should do it? Yes, why not as it will give our liver a small help all along the way. How does detoxification help in weight loss? Detoxifications mean the removal of toxins from the body which blocks you from losing the weight. Scientifically toxin causes inflammation leading to leptin resistance which helps in maintaining the excess weight. So in this way the detox helps. There are many detox drinks available in the market. But the one which we are talking is Red Tea detox programme and herein we are giving the full honest review of the programme which is created by Liz Swann Miller, who is a naturo...

Are you worried about your weight? Next time when you eat, pay attention to what you eat which would help you in not overeating. There is a proverb saying that when you are walking, walk and when eating, eat. But in this modern society, we have the habit of doing multitask like when eating we check our cell phone or watch TV, etc.  How does this affect our health?  Our food intake increases if we fail to focus on what we are eating while multitasking . A study carried out by a team from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom have concluded the above point that attention and memory affect food intake. These studies were carried out on two groups in which one group eat a meal while watching TV whereas the other ate the same meal without watching TV. The study concluded the following points: Not paying attention while eating the meal made the people eat more. Paying attention while eating meal lead to eating less later on. Focusing on eating wi...

Are you a chocolate lover? Cannot give up eating it? Weary of thinking that you would gain weight? Here is the good news that eating chocolates would help you lose extra weight. Yes, it is true. Eating chocolates can lose weight But the chocolate which we are talking about is not milk chocolates but dark chocolates. Now one would want to know the difference and how dark chocolates help us in reducing weight. Both the milk and dark chocolates contain cocoa content. The milk chocolates have cocoa content solids up to 10% which are diluted by milk and given a sweet taste as cocoa is bitter in taste. The dark chocolates don’t have milk in it but the cocoa content is more than 20%. The dark chocolates which have cocoa content more than 70% are the ones which help in losing weight. Dark chocolates of good quality have antioxidant epicatechin which helps in increasing the rate at which the fat in the body is burnt and also helps in suppressing the appetite. These two are the...

A good old cup of coffee in the morning not only boost up with energy but also enhance the workout effects, improve performance and delays fatigue. This is the reason why many workout supplements have caffeine as an ingredient, which is a substance monitored by the International Olympic Committee. Every system in our body is affected by Caffeine but its impact on our mood, alertness, exercise performance and metabolism are due to some interactions. Apart from Energy drinks, caffeine is received from coffee or some special gels or chewing gum. So does drinking coffee before doing workouts really make a difference?  Here’s how Caffeine works:        Fats are broken down from fat tissues. On an average of 11-15% caffeine improves physical performance and so also increases hormone epinephrine blood levels. Thus Epinephrine hormone travels to the fat tissues through blood and breaks down the fats into fatty acid in the blood which in turn is used as...