Here come the Women's Day, the first spring holiday.We wish that all women were loved, and so beautiful, gentle, delicate and feminine.To all men, without exception, they were gallant, courageous, considerate, thoughtful, and, of course, love!
Note that with the coming spring holiday office parties and family feasts.We have for you one warning: be careful with alcohol, particularly if you are on a diet.
There is a lot of conflicting information on the role of alcohol in weight gain, there are opinions that it helps to lose weight, but there are also opposite.
known American nutritionist and fitness consultant Harley Pasternak (whose clients include Kim Kardashian, Hilary Duff, Amanda Seyfried), published in his blog on the website of People magazine post about how alcohol prevents us to lose weight.In it, he tried to answer all the questions slimming women about alcohol.His thoughts, we found interesting to us, especially on the eve of holidays.
Believe it or not, but not calorie alcoholic beverages is the main cause of weight gain in people who drink a lot and often.Only a third of the excess weight can be attributed to the caloric content of alcohol.What is two-thirds?Harley Pasternak offers a look at how alcohol can undermine all your efforts in losing weight.
1. Alcohol lowers the body's ability to burn fat.
energy that we spend when there is alcohol in the body, taken from the alcohol, and not because of other carbohydrates or fats.And this is confirmed by American research.For example, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition) published the results of such research.They show that people who consume even a little alcohol, reduces the body's ability to burn fat by as much as 73 percent!
2. Alcohol weakens the will power.
Many people say that moving away from their units on a healthy diet under the influence of alcohol.When you consume alcohol, some of the body's reaction blunted, for example, a feeling of satiety or fullness.There are British study that proved that people who drank at the party, calories consumed 30% more.
3. Alcohol calories.
Alcoholic beverages are almost 2 times more calories per gram.And it's empty calories, that is, they are not nutritious.Some cocktails can contain more than 700 calories!But even if you exclude ingredients from sweet cocktails, this will not save the situation as still remain empty calories with no nutritional value.
4. Alcohol prevents vital nutrients absorbed.
When you drink alcohol, your body is busy only in order to counter its harmful effects.Spend it all the energy.And "forgets" about other vital functions, such as the treatment of vitamins and minerals to maintain blood sugar levels and metabolism.
5. Alcohol does not sleep well.
Alcohol affects the quality of sleep, it causes inflammation of the digestive system.In general, as you know, lack of sleep is directly related to the health and weight loss results.
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