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Needless to deny it, the real enemy of the diets is the sense of hunger that grips us suddenly and we may eat things that in “normal” situations do not eat, for this reason, when starting a diet is good to consider the ‘index of satiety of food allowed. This fact, together with that dell’appetibilità of food, is as important as counting calories.

The index of satiety, or the degree of fullness that a food has been studied for the first time in 1995 by Australian researchers Suzanna Holt, his study showed that the most important factors that determine the index of satiety are: the energy density or the calories in 100 grams of food: in other words, the index of satiety decreases when increases the energy density, the fibers can easily satiate, macronutrients, or foods rich in protein but low in fat have a high index of fullness, unlike carbohydrates and fats. Read the rest of this entry »

To lose weight, you need to create an energy deficit between calories in (with food) and calories out (disposed of with the energy needs to live and work). For example, compared to an energy requirement of 2,000 calories is convenient to propose a daily diet of 1500 calories, less drastic, more rewarding, more manageable of the classic 1200 calorie diet, which often becomes too severe. With this setting you can lose weight without stress 500 g per week, which increased to 700 g giving up the elevator, escalators and, sometimes, the car.

Even those who love a dish not really slimming, just as the omelet, you can still concedersela doing some simple adjustments. Read the rest of this entry »

Diet food is a combination food model created by Dr. Herbert M. Sheldon is based on the principle that our organization is able to digest any food regardless of how it is; this would have digestive problems affecting many people. Dr. Sheldon foods divided by class, and studied the effects that various combination of them could have on digestion.

Many experts consider being wrong because the theory of Dr. Sheldon provides nutrition based on the time of digestion, and associations run or bad foods according to their level of digestibility, in fact, digestion is only one aspect of nutrition and therefore a system Food can not be based only on that. Read the rest of this entry »