Hi everyone it’s one day and a bit to Christmas now so, I am closing down Lose That Tyre, for the holidays it’s been a great few months and I’ve really enjoyed doing this blog. Iv’e learnt so much about food nutrition and losing weight thanks to everyone out there who is reading this, thanks to the person down under who subscribes by e-mail, you made my day when I saw that and one last thing, I am still losing weight.

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This is something that I had never considered before it’s amazing what you can learn by reading articles, in the late 1980′s a doctor discovered that there was a connection between calcium and weight loss, the main focus of the study was based around blood pressure not particularly how calcium affected weight loss.

The participants in the study were initially consuming were initially consuming 400 mg of calcium per day, which was then increased to 1000 mg per day over all the participants lost over 10 pounds in weight, which to the doctors was quite baffling to say the least.

Over the passage of time and since that last study was produced, research has found that calcium helps to burn fat and also it is been noted that, it prevents fat cells from generating also.

Good sources of calcium are:

• Milk
• Yogurt
• Cheese
• Fish salmon, sardines
• Nuts brazil, almonds,
• Vegetables, leafy green, Broccoli, spinach, bok choy, spinach

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We perhaps know by now that the debate on water has been going on for a very long time, but recently some researchers have found out that it does help you lose weight, research has found that by consuming 4 cups of water a day will help you lose weight, and by not having sugary drinks and drinking water instead.

240 women participated in the study; it was found that the women that drank the water instead of the sugary drink lost three pounds, other women who participated in the study lost 20 pounds, which is quite a lot of weight when you think about it just by drinking water alone. For someone in particular who wanted to say lose one and a half stone this would be an ideal solution and just by drinking water, one particular thing you could try which I read which complements this is by drinking some water about 20 minutes before your main meal, because the water takes up volume in your stomach you will find that you will eat less which will in turn help you with your weight loss.

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A great way to keep yourself warm throughout the winter months is having soup, you may not necessarily want to eat something like salad when its so cold at this time of year, the problem is with some soups is they may be lacking in nutritional content, having too much of one thing or another say for instance too much salt or sugar or any other added ingredients.

The thing is soup is very quick to make can be full of nutritional content provided you buy the right type I must admit myself that at one time, that I never used to have soup myself apart from having it on the odd occasion. But now I quite enjoy it what I tend to with my soup is add additional vegetables to it, such as fresh mushrooms, a tomato chopped up you can add as much as you want how certain to find it very filling myself and really enjoy it now.

It has been noted through a study that there are benefits to eating soup, what scientists found was that by giving people a choice what to eat there were some notable differences they gave the participants, three different meal choices all with different calorie content, and also noted what happened at certain times of the day, one such dish contained chicken and rice, and a glass of water was or wasn’t consumed also, what was noted from this was that the same amount of calories were consumed throughout the day. But when the participants in the study, used the water to make a casserole something quite interesting happened.

They consumed far fewer calories throughout the day, in a French study they found that adding additional vegetables produced a similar effect, I must say I think I can vouch for this particular effect because when I have had my soup with additional vegetables, I do feel rather full and can tend to eat less.

The great thing about soup there are so many different types of you can have and they are all low in calories.

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A study has been done based around weighing yourself every day involving teenage girls, what was found in this study was that it affected their weight loss programme, there were far more likely to become involved in unhealthy eating habits and practices, because of what were they were seeing on the scales every day, among the worst of the participants they were far more likely to use more drastic measures in order to lose weight.

They would take laxatives take some sort of diet pills, or make themselves become sick, teenage girls are under far more pressure these days to look stick thin like the famous supermodels on the cat walks, the study involved 2,516 participants when they were asked about their weighing habits they said that, they did weigh themselves quite frequently. The ones in junior high said that they weighed themselves quite often these were the ones that gained weight, whereas the other group who didn’t weigh themselves as much didn’t gain as much weight.

Another interesting twist on this story is that boys who weighed themselves frequently had no weight gain. Conclusions of this were that young girls are far more self-conscious about their weight than their health, which is where the root of problems can start such as anorexia nervosa and possibly bulimia.

Someone who was an outsider to the study said that she used to weigh herself every day, and then realised it was a waste of time she looked at herself in the mirror and decided that she looked fine, and there was no need to bother any more. When there is so much pressure from outside influences the best thing to do really is just be happy with who you are and not worry about how fat or thin you are.

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Is it possible nowadays that having something that is supposedly low-fat can indeed make you fat, some researchers at Cornell University found out that this just may be the case, they noticed that people will tend to eat more calories when they reach for the so-called low-fat type of snacks, which was more noticeable if the person or persons was overweight already.

The study found out that because these particular type of snacks were low-fat ones, that people eating them were far more likely to eat more, the people were not considering the amount of calories contained within the snack itself low-fat doesn’t necessarily mean low in calories.

What was documented from the study was the lower fat type of snacks had lower levels of fat 59%, but only had 15% less calories, because the snacks were deemed as being healthy the participants who took place in the study stocked up very well with them, and naturally ate a lot more of these snacks, people who’s weight was normal also ate a lot of these snacks but not as much as the overweight group.

The people who conducted the study concluded that the people, when reading the labels thought because it said low-fat, then they would be able to eat more and it would be okay to do so, but as we can see this clearly isn’t the case at all, myself I can actually remember once watching a programme about food labelling which said low-fat on the label, but it was noted that the product contained lots of sugar which, if there is too much in the body it will get turned into fat eventually.

All low-fat labels do is encourage us to eat more of the wrong types of foods in a nutshell, it’s just clever marketing, the best thing to do to avoid this sort of trap is make sure you read the label and look at the calorie content of said product and compare it with a high fat version of the same product and compare calories.

It’s probably far easier to prepare your own food so then you don’t have to think about labels at all, myself I tend to look at two things mainly as regards labels
sugar and fat are the two main things I look at and lastly calories.

The best thing to do really if you feel the urge to snack is make some healthy alternatives and put them in the fridge, in a airtight container so if necessary you can take it with you wherever you go work wherever, make healthy little salads from fruit or vegetables, and then you won’t be tempted to buy snacks you don’t need.

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For a long time now BMI has been used as a indicator as regard to health, but now this is being put under question, as to exactly how accurate it is or isn’t, a lot of researchers are beginning to think something else may be needed to replace this particular method of measuring people’s health, the problem with this method of assessing peoples body mass, is it doesn’t take into account people’s overall body composition whether they have either more muscle mass or fat mass, without actually measuring these two things it is harder to know if in fact your body mass is correct or not.

Scientists at the Mayo Clinic which is in Rochester, saying that BMI is not all it’s cracked up to be, they took data from 40 different studies which involved 250 hundred thousand participants who were known to have heart disease, the people who were very obese would have a higher mortality rate.

It was found that people who were overweight as regards to BMI, were far less likely to have heart problems as opposed to those who had a normal BMI. One of the things that was said is it depends where the accumulation of fat is,if it is around the abdominal area and if there is too much fat there, then that is where it needs to be lost most.

If you have a tape measure a good rule of thumb is to measure your waist size, for men if you have a waist size of over 40 inches, and for women 35 inches, then your risk of cardiovascular disease is higher, there is a increased risk of other diseases.

With a waist of over 32 inches for women and 37 inches for men diabetes is probably more likely within this range. The only other thing you can do to yourself is go to your local gym and have your body fat checked with callipers, or another alternative is to get some body fat scales these will send a current through your body when you have muscle that will conduct but fat acts as a resistance this is how the scales workout your overall body fat.

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