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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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