Eating food predominately tends to be a what I would call a unconscious process mostly, you tend to eat what you like the taste, of as we all do. This is all very well but sometimes we can tend to cheat on ourselves and stray with our eating habits.

Which is why it’s a good idea to write down what you eat every day, or even plan your meals so you know for a fact then the you’re only eating what you should be eating rather than what you shouldn’t be eating. T

his particular idea of writing down what you eat has been around for a very long time now, but it’s probably, I dare say that something that we very often don’t do probably due to the fact that it requires a bit of effort, and something that we don’t particularly think that we need to do.

However a study that was instigated recently by Dr Victor J. Stevens, who is a researcher at Kaiser Permanente Center was quoted as saying that we don’t particularly like to write down what we are eating it’s not that much fun but it has been proven that it does work.

In a study which was in their August publication they followed 1700 people, who were either overweight and/or obese both men and women. And their overall average weight was 212 pounds or 15 stone& and two pounds, the participants were asked to attend 20 group weekly meetings. And also told to consume 500 calories less than they would be eating normally, which is what you would eat.

in order to lose one pound of fat per week through a combination of exercise and calorie deficit. They were told to do moderate exercise of 30 minutes per day follow a low-fat fat diet which comprised of fruit and vegetables mainly.

They were asked to record what they ate and how many minutes of exercise they did as well, after a five-month period they lost on average 13 pounds of weight, and the surprising thing is that they more that they recorded their food intake the more weight that they lost. Those who didn’t keep a record of what they were eating lost nine pounds, whereas the people who kept to their food journals, and did it over a six-day period, lost 18 pounds of weight.

That is double the amount of weight which is quite a big difference I am sure you will agree. So what is the magic ingredient that makes this work so well the researchers seem to think that it is because, you are being accountable for what it is you are actually doing, when you are writing things down you can actually see where things are coming from, such as access calories etc.

As far as exercise is concerned you can probably see where you have or haven’t been doing it, because after a while if you don’t incorporate exercise into your lifestyle it can tend to drop off you either get bored or simply can’t be bothered to do it so it goes to the wayside. One of the tips that the researchers gave was write down what you have eaten after you have eaten it, use your PDA or you can write e-mail a to yourself, use pen and paper or use post-it notes. Here is why it can help.

• The actual process of keeping the diary this will make you realise what you should not be eating
• You could be eating out a lot and not realise things that you were eating
• There may be certain eating patterns or habits that you may not realise that you have, as I have said before eating food can largely be a unconscious process this will help you stamp out those unnecessary habit patterns which can be very ingrained.
• You could be comfort eating without even realising it this is something that a lot of people do tend to struggle with as far as weight loss is concerned.
• It will make you far more accountable for the food that you are eating.
• Over a period of time you will be able to see trends and spot them, which will help you understand what is and isn’t working.

Here are some sites that you can use which are free online food diaries and calorie counters as well.

http://www.foodfocus.co.uk/
http://www.fitday.com/
http://www.my-calorie-counter.com/
http://www.nutridiary.com/
http://www.iowaavenue.com/ 

Source http://health.msn.com 

Where I live it doesn’t seem to be as bad in the East Midlands but the further west you go, and South the problem seems more prominent in those particular areas.

There are many concerns now because this is going to put a tremendous strain on our ever-growing overburdened health system if this carries on then obesity will cost us in the region of £50 billion a year by the year 2010, we could be looking at a figure of 12 million obese adults. Which is quite surprising when you think about it that is an awful lot of people that are going to have problems with their health in the long-term if they don’t do something about their weight problem.

So you can see where the problem actually lies red areas are where the problem is worse.

Here is where the most fattest people are.

1. Shetland

2. Torfaen

3. Blaenau Gwent

4. Neath

5. Caerphilly
6. Rhondda
7. Barnsley
8. Wrexham
9. North Lincolnshire
10. Merthyr Tydfil
11. Denbighshire
12. Doncaster
13. Carmarthenshire
14. Stoke-On-Trent
15. Wolverhampton City
16. Anglesey
17. Blackpool
18. Knowsley
19. Newport
20. Northumberland Care Trust

And this is where the most slimmest people are.
1. Camden
2. Richmond & Twickenham
3. Wandsworth
4. Kensington & Chelsea
5. Westminster
6. Hammersmith & Fulham
7. Brighton & Hove
8. Surrey 9. Kingston
10. Tower Hamlets
11.Lambeth
12. Bristol
13. Bath & North East Somerset
14. Lothian
15. Buckinghamshire
16. Barnet
17. Islington
18. West Hertfordshire
19. Bromley
20. West Sussex

It is quite interesting to see that this particular problem isn’t in one particular area, and that is more prevalent in certain parts of the country than others, I suppose the only reason for this is presumably it must be the diet they are eating. A recent report in a newspaper was published that said it could be due to the fact of some other foods or type of foods that they are eating.

Which were noted as being a regional foods e.g. black pudding. Those regional foods are listed below with their calories this doesn’t necessarily mean to say that, this could be the overall problem of why people are obese in these particular counties within the UK but might give us an idea that if this the case or not.  

Scotland 

They like to eat deep-fried Mars bars which originated in Stonehaven,which is in Aberdeenshire. A 65g Mars bar contains the following calories and fat 307 cal and 11 g of fat. Now if you deep Fry one of these this will add a further 200 calories, and it goes without saying how much fat could get added to this as well by deep frying it. Could this be one of the reasons that Scottish people do tend to be overweight a bit as we know some of the hot spots on the map show a bit of a problem up there. Just maybe this is one of the reasons why.

Yorkshire 

They like to eat something called the Yorkshire parking this consists of lard ginger and some golden syrup it is brimming full of sugar carbohydrates and fat. One slice of this may contain up to 500 calories with 15 grams of fat.

Wales 

Now interestingly in North Wales namely Anglesey which was in the top 20 at position 16 on the fat map, they like to eat Welsh rarebit, this is made up of ale, cheese, butter and egg yolk which is served on toasted white bread this contains up to 415 calories and may have 32 grams of fat.

Midlands 

They like to indulge in something called Bakewell tarts which originates from the Derby village, these particular tarts which are made from Cherry and almonds and are chock-a-block of fat and calories, they contain something in the region of 400 calories and 35 grams of fat per tart.

London 

They like something called Cockney pie mash pie and liquor, which consists of stodgy pastry, some meat filling and high starch mash which is made with butter,which adds up to a whopping 1000 calories.

North West They like to eat something called black puddings which are made from congealed pig’s blood, which sounds awful to me the only one good thing about this particular dish is the calorie content isn’t that high. But research has suggested that it could be a cause for bowel cancer which is one of the things I spoke about recently when eating breakfast some people do tend to have black pudding for their breakfast.  

The South West They like to eat something called lardy cake which is from Wiltshire this sounds like a health horror story, in itself one of these cakes consists of lard and sugar and wait for it contains a whopping 2000 calories and 160 grams of fat sounds lovely doesn’t it, eat one of those the day and you will take in your daily calories for a day, but your ability to gain weight will be phenomenal.

Northern Ireland They like to have something called a Ulster Fry which is a fry up but bigger, it consists of bacon, sausages, tomatoes, fried egg mushrooms which are served with a potato bread and soda which is a bread which is made from buttermilk, this adds up to 1000 calories and 80 grams of fat. So another fatty feast for you people in Northern Ireland .

When you examine all the data from this post is it merely because we are as British people very traditional in what we eat, and has this been passed down through generations so that we pass it on to our children who then become programmed to it eat the same traditional dishes and this is one of the reasons why some of these areas do have a problem with their weight.

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It is because we are so set in our ways that it can be hard sometimes to change our own eating habits, how many of us each day particularly, at breakfast time eat a full English breakfast. I really wouldn’t like to think of the statistics for this particular activity, but I dare say that a lot of people, up and down the country do eat a full English breakfast every day.

However just recently reported in a tabloid newspaper was a report that said eating a full English breakfast was no longer the ideal thing to do,they said that it could increase your chances of getting cancer by two thirds, or in monetary words 63 percent chance of contracting the disease.

People who eat eggs, sausage, and bacon with their breakfast are those that are at higher risk of contracting bowel cancer, this is based around eating two sausages and three rashers of bacon a day.

It’s all to do with the fact of how the sausages and bacon are processed these days, if you have 150 grams of processed meat such as is described, which consists of sausages and bacon then you are far more significantly at risk.

You may tend to think that is a good idea to have a robust start to your day by eating a full English breakfast, because it seems a very traditional thing to do, and if you are doing it on a regular basis then you really do have cause for concern about your health. Even if you only eat 50 grams of processed meat which is roughly a sausage, then this will likely to increase your risk by a fifth, but also fry ups are notorious for weight gain.

So you roughly know what you are eating when you eat a English breakfast, which may consist of the following foods fried eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes, fried bread, black pudding or baked beans and anything else that you may care to add to it.

Your average English breakfast probably adds up to roughly about 700 calories, and that is without any other things added to it like black pudding or baked beans etc.

Only a third of people are aware of the risks which are contained within processed meats which can ultimately lead to cancer related problems. Which does now raise a lot of concerns about whether it’s time to ditch the English breakfast, for something healthier.

There are lots of things which you can eat for breakfast, but you could try a healthier variation on this old favourite that we seem to enjoy so much. Here is my suggestion for a healthier English breakfast.

I would say if you’re going to have baked beans then go for a low salt, low sugar variety, baked beans are very high in fibre and protein, so there you have a healthy option for a start.

Then instead of using sausages try using Quorn sausages instead, these will be much better for you than eating processed sausages, a lot of people however don’t like the taste of Quorn sausages although when I have eaten them they have tasted okay to me so I wouldn’t have a problem eating them, you can always put a bit of sauce on them to spice them up a bit.

Instead of fried bread I would use toast instead, grill your tomatoes and mushrooms, poach your eggs instead of frying them, or as an alternative use scrambled eggs instead, and you can use a tin of chopped tomatoes or plum tomatoes.

The thing to remember is here think about the amount of calories that you will be eating, you don’t have to have all the ingredients that are listed above, you could just have three items, or which ever you prefer it doesn’t matter.

This alternative is by far a lot healthier and won’t be so laden in calories, the thing to remember is here that we do often tend to be traditionalists as people and don’t always think of ways to replace foods with other healthier alternatives.

A report which was released by the Archives of Internal Medicine, did a comparison of people regarding potential heart health risks, and also took their weight into consideration.

When the data came back it showed that even though some people were overweight, metabolically they were quite healthy, so just because you are overweight it doesn’t mean you can’t be healthy at the same time, but we must stress a point here.

This does not mean to say that you can go out and stuff yourself with food and think to yourself I am now healthy even though I am overweight, because there is more to this as we shall see.

The study compared 5,400 people and took into consideration their actual weight and possible risk of cardiovascular disease, and it was found being metabolically healthier even though they were overweight, they had lower levels of cholesterol, their blood pressure was good and their blood glucose levels were good as well.

Interestingly they found that even thin people which they said was about one in four, who were said to have a healthy weight, were typically found to have two risk factors which can be associated with heart disease (cardiovascular). As we all well know there are lots of health factors, which are related with being overweight or obese, such as diabetes, short-term mortality.

And now even as the latest research shows that these people are far more likely to have some sort of health problem which will be related to their heart whether it be high cholesterol and or blood pressure, but the researchers were quite surprised when doing their research of the amount of obese and overweight people who in fact to quote in their words were metabolically healthy.

“We use ‘overweight’ almost indiscriminately sometimes,” said Mary Fran Sowers, a co-author of the study and professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan . “But there is lots of individual variation within that, and we need to be cognizant of that as we think about what our health messages should be.”

This was followed by a report that came out last autumn that stated people who are overweight can actually have longer lives than their normal weight counterparts. This actual report created quite a lot of controversy amongst the health fraternity claiming it was very inaccurate what the data presented. Saying it hid the fact that people whom are over weight or obese are at a far more higher risk of suffering from a heart related health problem than people who are thin. The people who criticized it said it didn’t correlate with what the mortality statistics said.

One of the problems seems to be our distorted perception of what it means to be overweight or obese, the most well-known way of judging whether a person is overweight or obese is by using a measure of something called body mass index or BMI for short.

This is supposed to be one of the most accurate way’s of determining if somebody is overweight or obese or not, it works on a method by measuring your height combined with your weight and then a figure is calculated which is your BMI . < 25 and you’re considered to be healthy > 25 then you’re considered to be overweight > 30 then your now in the obese category.

Katherine Flegal who did the study for the CDC which was the one that came out in autumn which was very heavily criticized, said that they found, even though people whom had a BMI of 25 and whom were thought to be big would still have health problems largely because of their size and of course there BMI .

Some research which was put together in Dallas, which used treadmills in order to see how people compared with each other, said that the performance that people gave was a far better indicator of being fit than relying on body mass index purely on its own.

The people who were able to sustain themselves for longer on the treadmill taken into consideration even though they were overweight, were found to have a lot lower risk of heart disease compared to thinner people whom were unfit.

In December some statistics were brought up to correlate with these findings they looked at the mortality rates of 2,600 adults of 60 years age and older, and this was done over a 12 year monitoring period, the ones having a BMI of between 25 and 30, and this is where it gets really interesting were slightly lower than people who had a normal weight.

Mortality rates were considerably higher for those people who were in the bracket of aBMI of 35 or more, but here is the most interesting aspect of all of this whole thing is, the people whom had the lowest fitness were far more likely to die earlier despite their weight, than those with poor fitness.

So it just goes to show and prove that no matter what weight you are, even doing some form of fitness training you will reap the rewards no matter what, when they were conducting the test on the treadmill it was quite simplistic how they did it.

The treadmill was set to go at a reasonable pace and the increment was done every so often, in order for somebody to become qualified as being fit all they needed, to do was stay on the treadmill for eight minutes, women had a lower rate of five and half minutes.

The participants who couldn’t manage to stay on at all were put in a group of those at highest risk, they took into consideration things like smoking, any cardiovascular problems which may have occurred in the past, and their conclusion was that overall fitness was a far better indicator of a longer life rather than their weight.

So the moral of this story is don’t really get in a mess if you are overweight, but work towards becoming healthier because as we now know you can be thin and still have health risks if you are unfit.

The overall moral of this particular story is do what works for you and work towards what is best for you ultimately, if you particularly want to weigh less, and do not stop yourself from trying to reach your target weight. Just don’t worry too much about the fact that you are overweight focus on becoming fitter and the two will come together in time.

Source  http://www.nytimes.com

Put in a search term such as weight loss, dietary advice, nutritional advice, how to lose weight, which diet is best etc, you will have before you a plethora of search results, and you can be very easily misguided by what is being presented before you.

You have to remember that most of the sites on the Internet that are giving advice in a particular area, may not be written by somebody who is qualified in a particular area to give advice on losing weight, diet advice, and any other advice which revolves around your health.

It does pay to be extremely careful when selecting someone or a site for instance that is going to supposedly give you expert advice when it comes to dietary issues etc.

The Sunday Mail Online today reports such findings which when you read the following information, you might find quite surprising although some people may not find it surprising.

A 52-year-old mother of two took the advice of one of these on line dieting sites from a so-called nutritional therapist who told her to go on a detox diet, which involved drinking four pints of water a day and a large reduction in salt intake.

After being on this plan for a week she was taken to hospital very ill, and as a result of being on this particular plan had epileptic fits, and the end result was having permanent brain damage. She was awarded £800,000 in compensation which although it sounds a lot, it won’t give her her life back and stop her from suffering from epileptic fits.

The pitfall of this is there is a legal loophole which people use you cannot be called a registered dietitian unless you are qualified because doing so is illegal.

However you are able to say that you are a nutritional expert there is no law stating that you have to be qualified, in order to give out information to people regarding nutritional health.

So you are able to call yourself a nutritionist without any worries of being told that what you’re doing isn’t correct, or that you are not qualified to give out information regarding people’s nutritional health. Unless you actually look for a qualified nutritionist using the Nutrition Society’s registry who have to do a three-year course in order to become one, then the information you get will be less than satisfactory.

You are at the mercy of other people, so really unless you know a little bit yourself about nutrition it’s a bit like playing Russian roulette with your health. The Mail on Sunday did their own investigation and their reporter posed as a working mother, who was suffering from low energy that was the only symptom that the sites were told she had.

She told them that she was eating a diet of some cereal and a banana for breakfast, and that her lunch consisted of a sandwich or, cheese with some tomatoes and crackers. Having a biscuit in the afternoon, and had fish with some salad for her dinner, she also told them that she ate eggs and red meat once a week and didn’t have any supplements in her diet also.

So this diet would actually give her 25 percent of the amount of iron she would need in her diet in order to feel quite normal. A lack of iron in your diet can make you feel quite tired and lacking in energy. So here are the results of the sites that they chose to try in order to get some nutritional advice regarding their particular problem which she had.

• The first site which was used was nature’s-nutrition.co.uk they claimed to be a team of trained nutritional practitioners which were unnamed. How this particular site works is you send in a urine sample, and also fill in a form to tell them what you have been eating. Was they able to spot the deficiency ? the answer was no. The urine test said that there was all sorts of imbalances in the body which was due to electrical appliances within the home giving off (EMR ) electro magnetic radiation.She was told to avoid dairy foods and to eat lots of fruit and vegetables. That was the nutritional advice that she got for this particular instance. The diet plan which she was given was low in protein and iron as well. They gave the site a quality score of 1/5. And said that the advice that was given by the site was nonsense and would not properly address the problem that you may be having with your energy levels regarding a lack of iron.

• The next site on the list was muscle-talk.co.uk this is run by somebody called James Collier, the diagnosis is done by sending in what you eat each day, and a proposed diet plan is sent for you in order to follow.This is done by filling in a questionnaire which does sound a bit more of a professional approach in order to diagnose any deficiencies, within your particular eating habits your asked if there has been any serious illnesses within your life and if so what they were.Were they able to spot the iron deficiency ? the researchers said no they didn’t, but the advice given was to eat more read lean meat which is a good source of iron.The recommendations that were given were on a sheet with bullet points as to what to eat, the advice that was given from this particular site was indeed up to the mark and scored a quality score of 3/5. The dietary recommendations which were given were eat cereal for breakfast, eat good sensible portions of protein, and eating red meat for its iron content.

• The next site which was tested was called dietaryadvice.co.uk, this is an online service which is provided by two registered dietician’s, what you get from this service is a diary to use, which you are given when you have completed 12 questions to fill in on a online form.Were they able to spot the iron deficiency ? no they were not, the dietary advice that was given from this particular site was to eat fruit rather than eating chocolate as a snack, keep your salt intake low and eat a variety of foods from different food groups, carbohydrates fiber, protein, the opinion that was gathered about this particular service. Was it was a quick glance at what you eat and a quick turnaround for your particular diet plan, this particular site got a quality rating of 2/5.

• Next is mckeithinteractive this site is run by show host Gillian McKeith of you are what you eat fame, what you get from this particular service is a diet dietary service, you are asked to provide answers from 20 multiple-choice questions. Was they able to spot the iron deficiency ? the researchers said nearly.You get a 70 page in-depth preview of how health is related to your eating habits and your diet, the advice that was given to the researcher was to reduce her intake of salt and wheat, and stop consumption of dairy products and alcohol as well. The recommendations were to eat porridge, spinach soup, and a vegetarian’s stew for lunch and dinner. This particular site achieved a quality score of 2/5.

• And the last site was nutriprofile, this last site was free. All the others you have to you pay for you get a unique scientific validated report, which is personalised to meet your own nutritional needs you fill in a detailed on line questionnaire form. And in return you get a 22 page document which shows you where things are lacking in. Were they able to spot the iron deficiency ? the researchers said partially.She was advised that there were deficiencies within her iron intake and contained within report was a two-page document suggesting certain supplements which could be taken in order to correct the particular issues which she had, this was a way to make you buy particular supplements which you may not have needed. This site got a quality score of 1/5.

There is a moral to this story and it quite simply is this, if you do have a particular problem with nutrition please don’t try any services or sites without getting professional guidance go and see your GP who may be able to put you in touch with someone who knows all about nutrition and diet.

It is so easy to get sucked in by marketing talk, which a lot of the time has no real basis and/or standing as regards someone’s expertise, in a particular field especially one’s such as so-called nutritionists or dietitians whom aren’t qualified to give expert advice.

There may be no way at all to validate what these people can say is true or not, and whether or not the advice they are giving to you is going to help you with your particular dietary and/or nutritional needs. I do hope by reading this that it will make you more weary in the future of trusting what other people say and can do.

Source http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/

In places like McDonald’s Burger King etc, are put their purposely to implant those pictures in our minds so we get the drool fact are going, and naturally makes us want those foods.

So you can actually see what the differences are between the pictures and reality here they are for you. This just goes to show what lengths advertisers will go to make, us want to buy the foods that we don’t really particularly want to eat, but by making the images more photogenic by using warm colours it makes us more stimulated to want to eat those particular foods.

Left =display picture right = bought item

The first one is a McDonald’s Burrito

Wendys Chicken

McDonald’s Burrito

Burger King Sandwich

Arby’s Beef and Cheddar

KFC Bowl

Subway Turkey Breast

Wendy’s Taco Salad

Burger King Sausage Croissant

A McDonalds Big Mac

Taco Bell Nachos Grande

McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish

McDonald’s McMuffin

Burger King Whopper

So isn’t it surprising that what we see and what we get in the real world aren’t always the same

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Since the year 2002 mobile phone usage has rocketed, and personal computers and laptop usage has gone up four times compared to what it was. If we fast forward to where we are now we now spend approximately three hours and 40 minutes per day watching television, and browsing the Internet has risen to 24 minutes per day, and mobile usage 10 minutes per day.

If we actually look at the statistics, we can clearly see that technology these days is a big part of our lives, there was even a more said within this particular news reference, which says that a lot of people these days will sit with their laptop and watch their TV at the same time.

A most people these days don’t even sit at a table to eat their dinner hence the reason a lot of food you can buy in packets such as ready meals coined the phrase TV dinners.

Because you can quite simply put them in the microwave heat them up and within 10 minutes your meal is ready, so you can sit and eat it in front of your television, and when you have finished eating it.

You can use your laptop computer and then sit there browsing the Internet or whatever else is you do, and once seated sometimes it can be very hard to want to move or do very little else, so as is normally the case exercise tends to get a back seat a bit.

If we go back in history a bit just digressing a bit here, some American researchers in Harvard, decided to look into why America is becoming one of the fastest rising countries were will obesity is abundant, their theory tends to revolve around the division of labour in the 1960s a average non working, American woman spent on average at least two hours per day on cooking family meals.

It would seem that figure has now been cut in half, and in relation to that manufacturers have made food more cheaper convenient, and variable as well.

Let’s take a particular instance the humble potato whereas in years gone by you would actually peel the potatoes, wash the potatoes and then boil the potatoes, and he may also mash them as well when I was younger this was the way we used to eat our food mostly. I don’t seem to remember oven chips or french fries being around at that particular time.

Nowadays we eat potatoes as french fries we don’t even bother to cook them them ourselves, because of the modern advances in food production prices have literally dropped through the floor, and due to the fact that we have all these conveniences around us we tend to eat more snacks which tends to lead to frequent grazing.

And these do tend to be quite hefty snacks, and we eat these rather than regular meals, when you actually see a lot of people on television who are trying to lose weight, you tend to notice these convenience foods are everywhere, and it’s also very tempting to eat take-aways, because people always say that they are strapped for time and don’t particularly want to cook a meal when they have come from home from work.

The reality of this is though that doesn’t always take that long to prepare fresh nutritious food which is a lot far better for you than buying lots of snack type foods all in all everything these days is about convenience, I think I have lost count of the amount of times that my blog gets to searchedor the term lose weight quickly or lose weight fast.

I’m afraid we need to take stock of what we are or aren’t doing because ultimately that is where the answer lies to our ever-growing nations of overweight people and I would say myself that technology plays a large part in this things have just become far too convenient for us.

The whole problem with all of this situation is technology a lot of times can soak up so much time, that we don’t even think that we should be doing other things, they seem to take a back seat. After all which is more enjoyable 30 minutes of exercise,or sitting in front of the TV with your laptop, and talking on your mobile phone at the same time, whilst eating your food the mind boggles doesn’t it.

I don’t think they would have been too many obese cavemen do you.

He was told by his doctor to change his diet otherwise he might be in danger of getting bowel cancer, he based his diet on something which has been implemented by Slimming World, you have what they call a green and red day, this involves switching different food types on different days.

In order to achieve this colossal amount of weight loss, he has been eating six cans of beans every day if you look at the amount of nutrition that is in a tin of baked beans, it is quite easy to see how this has worked so well, beans contain a lot of fibre and protein, out of curiosity while I was reading this story, I went downstairs and had a look to see what beans at a contain as regards fibre, protein and calories.

A 220 gram tin of beans contains about 11 grams of protein and eight grams of fibre, and each tin is about 176 calories so based on those figures if you eat four tins of beans within a day, then that will add up to as far as fibre is concerned 32 grams of fibre which is extremely good, and being as protein is a food that takes quite a long time to be broken down.

Which encourages the fat burning process it is quite plain and simple to see this how this would be achieved, the programme that slimming world have developed revolves around eating healthily and filling foods in unlimited quantities such as pasta potatoes, vegetables, lean meats, while also being able to eat something that you would normally not consider healthily, a treat every so often say.

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