Still hungry after eating your meal? No, its not because you didn’t eat enough. There are a number of factors that can result in you feeling hungry after eating a whole meal. Here, we tell you what they are and how to overcome them, and stay fit.
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Soft Drinks: Flavored sodas, iced teas & other sweetened beverages are a huge source of HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup), which acts like sugar in promoting fat storage. Research indicates that fructose can trick our brains into craving more food, even when we’re full. It works by impeding the body’s ability to use leptin, the hormone that tells us when we’ve had enough to eat.
Enough Breakfast: You know that eating breakfast is essential to being fit. Further, researchers found that those who ate just 300 calories for breakfast gained almost twice as much weight as those who ate 500 calories or more for breakfast. The reason: Eating a big breakfast makes for smaller rises in blood sugar and insulin throughout the day, meaning fewer sudden food cravings.
Folate rich green: Most people don’t eat enough greens, which are rich in the essential B-vitamin, Folate and helps protect against depression, fatigue & weight gain. In one study, dieters with the highest levels of Folate in their bodies lost upto 8 times more weight as those with the lowest levels. Leafy greens are also high in vitamin K that helps to regulate insulin, that helps quash cravings. Best sources of Folate: Green lettuce, spinach, collard greens, radicchio.
Black Tea: According to a study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, people who drank one cup of black tea after eating high-carb foods decreased their blood-sugar levels by 10 percent for over 2 hours after the meal, which means they stayed full longer and had fewer food cravings.
Dehydration: Lack of water often mimics the feeling of hunger. If you’ve just eaten and still feel hungry, drink a glass of water and wait 10-15 minutes, before eating more, and see if your desires don’t diminish. In most cases, you’ll move on from your cravings.
The next time you decide to stay awake to watch your favourite midnight soap or reach out for that cup of coffee post dinner you might want to think again. Staying awake for long hours can take a toll on health and may lead to weight gain.
A study conducted among 68,000 women recently at the Case Western Reserve University in the US found that those who sleep less than five hours a night gain more weight over time and are more likely to become obese than those who sleep seven hours a night.
According to experts, a person suffering from sleep deprivation tends to be hungrier the next day, and it takes more food to make them feel full.
They also gravitate towards sweeter, starchier or saltier foods typically with higher calories. Over time, this leads to an accumulation of higher levels of body fat, explaining why many people have such a difficult time losing weight when they don’t sleep well.
“We lead such busy and stressful lives that going to bed at a reasonable time is no longer a priority. Research done in recent years shows a strong link between lack of sleep and obesity and also confirms the association between sleep debt and an assortment of health problems such as high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease and diabetes among others,” said Himanshu Garg, a consultant at Medanta Medicity in Gurgaon.
According to the study, when a person sleeps, the body uses the time to accomplish what it cannot during waking hours. This includes regeneration of damaged cells, repairing tissue, allowing the mind to mend itself and an overall renewal process for the entire body so that upon wakening, a person feels fresh and ready to tackle the day.
However, when sleep deprivation takes place, the body responds negatively in the form of fatigue, irritability, emotional problems, weight gain and poor health.
In the long run such a cumulative build-up of sleep deprivation becomes more serious and has potentially life threatening consequences.
“What many do not know is that the body does not burn as many calories when it is functioning on less sleep and thus hoards calories as fat which makes our weight loss goals more difficult than they need to be,” said Garg.
The sweet liquid squeezed from sugarcane is the latest food fad here as it is believed to cure diseases like jaundice, help in fighting breast and prostate cancer, maintaining normal kidney function and providing strength to the heart, eyes and the brain.
But science suggests that all these claims are baseless. When questioned about the purported miracle properties of raw cane juice, Roger Clemens, professor of pharmacology and pharmaceutical sciences at the USC, told the Los Angeles Times: “No studies have proven these health benefits.”
When asked whether raw cane juice could help soothe a sore throat or energise the body, he replied: “I’ve been working in this field for 40 years, and I’ve never seen any evidence for any of this.”
What about so-called alkalising properties that can help fight breast and prostate cancer? “Nothing in science backs it up,” said Clemens.
How about raw cane juice as an energy drink – maybe it could, at the very least, serve as a pick-me-up to get you through the 4 o’clock slump at work?
“There’s a difference between nutritionally rich and calorically rich. The bottom line is there isn’t any scientific evidence to support these purported claims,” Clemens said.
So, drink raw cane juice if you like the taste, but don’t expect miracles. Or much at all.
Drinking four cups of coffee a day helps protect against oral cancer, but doctors are of the opinion that people should drink coffee in moderation because the caffeine present in it can increase heart rate and blood pressure.
Some of the 1,000 chemicals present in coffee – including antioxidants – can offer protection against many types of cancer, a new research has said.
The research, comprised of nine studies conducted in Europe, America and Central America, compared the coffee habits of around 5,000 cancer patients and more than 9,000 healthy people, and took into account their smoking, diet and alcohol habits.
The researchers found that regular coffee drinkers were 39 percent less likely to develop cancers of the mouth and pharynx than people who drank no coffee.
“We had a very large sample size, and since we combined data across many studies, we had more statistical power to detect associations between cancer and coffee,” Mia Hashibe, the study’s lead author from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.
Around 5,500 Britons are diagnosed each year with cancer of the lips, tongue, tonsils, gum and other parts of the mouth, while 1,800 of them die from the disease.
Studies on the links between coffee and cancer have produced confusing and sometimes contradictory results. These results confuse because coffee drinking could be a marker for some other lifestyle factors that increase cancer risk, such as smoking and alcohol.
The study was published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Cutting the amount of salt in food can prevent thousands of deaths from heart disease, say British researchers.
Britain’s National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has called on the food industry to help decrease huge numbers of unnecessary deaths by reducing the level of salt in everyday products, reports express.co.uk.
As per the new guidelines by NICE, maximum salt intake per adult should be six grams a day by 2015, and three grams a day by 2025.
Over 40,000 people die from premature cardiovascular disease in Britain every year and six million men and women suffer from heart disease.
“These clear and important recommendations from NICE strengthen and endorse the current salt reduction campaign in the Britain,” Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine and chairman of campaign group Consensus Action on Salt and Health, was quoted as saying.
“This will result in hundreds of millions of pounds of savings because for every one gram reduction in salt intake, more than 12,000 strokes and heart attacks will be prevented. This is of even greater importance given the cost savings that must be made by the present government,” he added.
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