A High Fat Meal Can Reduce Your Ability to Handle Stress
May 8th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
It’s common knowledge that eating a high fat diet can have a negative impact on your health in the long run. It can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease and other ailments. But can a single high fat meal also have a negative impact on your body’s ability to perform normally? A recent study indicates that it can.
A recent study shows that eating a single high fat breakfast can negatively impact your body’s ability to handle various stressful situations. The test group was exposed to 4 different types of stressful conditions, while their blood pressure, heart rate and blood vessel resistance was monitored.
The group eating the high fat breakfast reacted more strongly to the stressful situations. Their bodies did not adapt as well to the stress that they were exposed to.
Although the study concludes that additional research is needed, it would be wise to consider these results when you are planning your meals. You should especially keep the results in mind when you are under a lot of stress.
If you are preparing for a stressful event, you may want to play it safe and eat healthy just in case. Next time you have a really bad day or do not seem to be handling stress as easiy as normal, you may want to evaluate what you had for breakfast. Perform your own test and make your own decision.
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Apparently, you really are what you eat!
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Diet and Fitness - Why Small Improvements are Best
March 16th, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed
If you gained a few extra pounds and your clothes are getting snug, please don’t panic. The worst thing you can do is to go on a crash diet. Diets never work in the long-term, they ruin your health. You need to learn about proper diet and fitness. Eating a properly balanced diet and exercising will help you lose fat, increase energy and improve overall fitness. Fitness includes both diet and exercise.
A proper diet involves eating the right kinds of foods and the right amount of food at the proper intervals. Making small changes in your diet and fitness program will make it easier to stick with the program. Just a few changes will have you looking and feeling better relatively quickly.
How To Control Meal Portions
One of the best and easiest changes to make with your new diet and fitness program is to change the size of your portions. Most people eat too much food and too much of the wrong foods. If you find it challenging to reduce the amount of food that you eat, here are some tips that can help:
- put one serving on your plate and pack the remaining food away before you eat, to minimize additional helpings;
- drink water right before eating to reduce hunger;
- start each meal with a salad, it is filling and good for you;
- reduce pasta and rice portions and increase non-starchy vegtable portions;
- eat less white potatoes and more yams, sweet potatoes, and green vegtables; and
- eat slowly and chew your food completely, etc
Many of these diet and fitness tips have helped me to successfully lose weight and keep it off long-term.
Adding green vegtables will add more fiber and fewer calories to your diet while still giving you a full plate of food. These changes keep you satisfied with the amount of food you’re eating, but improve the quality of your diet and overall fitness. There is no need to deprive yourself of your favorite foods, just exercise more control over your portions.
Drink Water
Diet and fitness experts agree that drinking a lot of water is good for your health. If you don’t like the taste of water, consider adding a little juice for flavor. Reducing coffee, soda, and alcohol can greatly enhance your diet and fitness program.
Try changing your drinking habits a little at a time. You can replace one drink a day with a glass of water, and gradually increase this over time. Some people find it easier to take a glass of water and a glass of soda and alternate sips. This enables them to improve their diet while still enjoying that taste of their favorite beverage.
Small improvements will help you develop good eating and drinking habits, so don’t give up. Soon, you’ll be practicing great diet and fitness habits with no effort.
If you’re looking for a great nutrition resource that will help you learn which foods burn fat and which foods turn into fat you may want to consider Burn the Fat - Feed the Muscle. This guide rates many common foods based upon their fitness value so its easy to determine which foods should be increased in portion and which foods should be decreased. If you’re serious about proper long-term diet and fitness, this guide is highly recommended.
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