Top Weight Loss Tips

Let's define the concept of healthy eating... Umh, it's difficult! If we ask the WHO, healthy food follows the norms of food experts. And who are the food experts? Scientists and doctors in general... Are they parents? Do you know what it's like to get a child to eat 5 servings of vegetables and fruits a day? Surely there will be everything...

but what ultimately counts for us is that these recommendations are made by studying populations of adults, generally sick and malnourished or obese children. Few studies look at what healthy children eat and drink. And children are not easy, they are not usually good at answering medical surveys.

We know that what is really healthy for children is the same as for adults. Just as you would not give your child cough medicine, we should not think that children need to eat or not eat the same as us. There is still much to learn in infant feeding. We don't even know yet what baby porridge and milk should include, and the formulas change every decade.

Let's simplify… we are going to use logic, and as parents, to negotiate, to use 'the left hand' and what is much more important: the 'good example at home'. As much as we insist that our sons and daughters eat fruit, they will not do it if we do not, and we have to be aware that they may not like everything, it will cost us to eat some foods, some will like more than others. That is the basis with which we can negotiate.

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Losing weight is not easy, but it can be achieved with small changes every day in the way we eat and exercise. To cheer you up and make it easier, we've collected 50 tips to help you lose weight. Some are based on scientific work carried out with obese or overweight people, others are the advice that Sport Life experts tell us each month and that are based on their experience with popular and elite athletes.

Losing weight is achieved by taking care of the intestinal flora. Intestinal bacteria seem to play a very important role in keeping the line and not gaining weight. A group of Chinese scientists analyzed how it affected the weight loss caused by a change in the population of intestinal bacteria with prebiotics such as artichokes, oats, legumes, and canned whole grain cereal supplements typical of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The study was conducted with a group of 93 obese people with a medium BMI 32, who in addition to taking prebiotics followed a balanced diet rich in vegetables and tofu. Analyzing intestinal bacteria levels, they found that enterobacteriaceae (the bad ones that cause toxins and are associated with inflammation and insulin resistance) decreased, and bifidobacteria (the good ones) increased. Participants lost an average of 5 kilos in 9 weeks. One of them with morbid obesity lost 51 kilos in 6 months!

Weight loss clubs are becoming increasingly popular and since 1962 have been helping to lose weight worldwide. A New York housewife, Jean Nidetch was the first person to think about creating a weight loss club to give talks to people who needed to lose weight, and so she started her own business known as Weight Watchers, with her point system.

In 2011, an investigation by the University of Birmingham confirmed that people who were on Weight Watchers for 12 weeks managed to lose more weight (4.4 kilos on average) than those who followed a diet controlled by doctors from the public health system. English health (1.4 kilos of weight).

Another study carried out in the same year at the University of Munich and the University of Sydney also confirmed the same, the Weight Watchers group lost twice as much weight as those on a medical diet. When it comes to checking if weight loss is maintained by leaving the diet with the group, 20% of those in the Weight Watchers group maintain their weight after two years and 16% manage to maintain it after 5 years. Some will think that this is how a profitable business is made when setting up a group to lose weight, but that is another story.