My child has a weight problem: how to react?

The whole family has to take the same meals, otherwise the child will feel "left out", that is like punishing him: he may suffer and sometimes eating in secret.

The child is not in the "Plan". It's all in the family who has to learn to eat better every day.

TOO MUCH WEIGHT? STAY LONGER STAND UP!

Obese people remain seated two and a half hours more per day than normal-weight individuals. So if they moved as much as others, just in their daily activities (housework, music, stomp ...), they could easily lose 15 pounds a year!

SIX DIET PLANS, WHICH CHOOSE?

Which to choose? Low carb, protein, Weight Watchers, Atkins, Mayo, Montignac, Hollywood ... 

The IMPORTANT NOT TO MAKE JUST A PLAN, BUT LOSE WEIGHT , HOW?

Stating the obvious you might say! But if you think about it, do not you confuse the goal you want to achieve with the means to achieve it ??

Difficult to choose a diet ...

Every spring, madness regimes flourished again, with all its promises perfect body for next summer. But how can you find between the low carb, high protein in the separated ...? Difficult for the "profane" to distinguish between serious methods, wacky or potentially dangerous. In addition, each method will mainly advise to avoid the "yoyo" ...

THE FOUR TRUTHS OF THE ATKINS DIET

The Atkins diet allows unlimited fat, such as butter and meat, fish, eggs and dairy products. However, it excludes sugar: sugary products, but also carbohydrates like bread, pasta, rice and starchy. Vegetables and especially fruit are allowed only in very small quantities. The dramatic weight loss, both in importance by their speed, were recorded.

But as attractive as it may seem, the Atkins diet is not recommended, because in total contradiction to all official recommendations for a healthy diet.

HOW DO YOU IMPROVE YOUR BALANCED DIET?

the Union of diet and dietary supplements has reproduced two food menus, apparently balanced. Locate yourself in relation to the composition of these menus and use the findings to improve your own balanced diet.

I CAN NOT LOSE WEIGHT, WHY?

Snacks, temptations, compulsions, poor eating habits are all reasons why we can not seem to lose weight. Explanations ...

The equations of fat

Sports are very concerned about their weight. But it does not mean much as long as one does not differ from that of fat muscles. How?

Snack smart

Occasionally snacking is not harmful to health. However, the untimely and too calorie snacks (high fat, carbohydrates or both) may weigh on the balance.

As an example: 100 g of sweets bring 600 calories (Kcal), a packet of crisps (engulfed watching TV) 580 Kcal and a chocolate bar about 550 Kcal. It is often sufficient to remove a few pounds to sow superfluous. Moreover, snacking can suppress appetite during meals. Result: it balks on meat or fish and essential proteins, or vegetables.

LOSE WEIGHT WITHOUT FATIGUE

Three kilos in eight days, five kilos in ten days... diets always promise wonders.

But at what price?

Muscle wasting, frustration and fatigue. And because an abused body inevitably accuse decreased energy and shortcomings.

In addition, he takes his revenge after the pounds back scheme gallop, sometimes with a little extra. And if you impose you another relationship with food, more reasoned, more serene, while making you happy?

DIET TIPS ANTI EXCESS KILOS

1-To eat less fat

Manage fats. 10 to 20 g of butter and 2 to 4 tablespoons of oil per day. . Light cooking. Discard the fat from the container after returning from food, and continue cooking. . Degrease the meat before or after cooking. . Cook vegetables stewed in their water content, fat. . Do not flood oil or butter steamed vegetables. . Cook roasts and baked fish, fat body. Or coat a mini quantity, brush. . Do not accumulate fat foods during a meal

Success Story: "I HAVE FINALLY lost weight!"

The infernal yoyo everyone knows Nathalie has often suffered. Today, she has lost more than 50 pounds. In recounting the many hardships she went through, his story also demonstrates the important role of psychological injury in obesity.

WEIGHT LOSS: TRAP OF SPRING DIET PLANS

Go for the wave of dieting!

Impossible to penetrate in a newsagent, walk past a kiosk without being assailed by magazine covers and titles on weight loss!

How can you resist this trap returning each spring?

THE ATKINS DIET ALSO VICTIMS!

In its editorial, the Lancet, one of the largest international medical journals, reports the case of a woman hospitalized in urgency following an Atkins diet. This is an opportunity to remember that too unbalanced diets are potentially dangerous, such as the Atkins diet that eliminates the sugars diet.

WHY BE FAT ON TELEVISION?

Children and adolescents are particularly overweight they watch more television. This may seem logical since it is very passive in front of the small screen. Resulting in a lack of exercises, which prevents burning calories ?? Yet this is not the only child obesity factor.

Overweight and obesity: focus on group therapy

Overweight, obesity, bulimia, anorexia as well as, eating disorders are particularly difficult to treat. The management should be multiple, combining medical, dietary, psychological and family. In the latter area, group therapy is very interesting. What exactly is this last method?

HYPERTENSION: LOSE WEIGHT, YES, BUT HOW?

People suffer from high blood pressure. It is known that excess weight is a contributing factor. However, how many pounds does it lose to effectively lower his blood pressure?

HOW TO SUPPORT THE FRUSTRATION WHEN DIET?

"The truth is that the" plan "word should never be equated with the word frustration, obligation, duty, or austerity" says Dr. Nathalie Sprung nutritionist

Cancer prevention through diet

Can we prevent cancer through diet? If so, how? What are the beneficial foods? What mistakes to avoid? The subject is vast, but begins to be very well documented.

HOW TO DISTINGUISH A GOOD DIET PLAN?

There are dozens of different diet plans. Some are whimsical, others downright dangerous to health. How to Spot? What are the characteristics that should alert? Key benchmarks do not fall for it.

Why is it difficult to follow a diet?

Whether a diet to lose weight, improve your cholesterol levels, due to food allergy, because you have diabetes, or for any other reason, it is never easy to follow. The Daily reports that the physician researchers studied, dissected these difficulties to understand and perhaps around more easily.

Chrononutrition: DIET MINUTE

You may know you people, sports or not, who tested the new diet based on chrononutrition?

SLEEP WELL, THE KEY TO NOT BE FAT

Sleep is essential for the functioning of our brain, but also our whole body. Data accumulate on the link between lack of sleep and obesity, but also diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Good sleep seems more essential than ever!

CHOLESTEROL: Statins BEFORE THE DIET PLAN!

According to a survey of health insurance, the number of French taking medication against cholesterol (statin) reached five million. It would appear that the requirements are rarely consistent with the recommendations. Update on the management of dyslipidemia (blood lipid abnormalities).

HOW TO FIND SAFE DIET PLAN AND NOT SCAM?

Every year women are fooled by fad diets advertised in the media: "before putting your swimsuit, lose 5 kg in 10 days." Women are not gullible but say "what if it worked?". The pressure of the thin ideal is so strong that it generates real suffering behind irrational impulses. Thus scams regimes bloom ??

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR EATING HABITS?

The idea is not to change the eating habits all at once. This technique is doomed to failure, because it is the long term to be aimed. We must therefore take its time. This program aims to test every week something new and to set one goal at a time. A force, good habits become reflexes and new pleasures prove that.

WEIGHT LOSS IS ACCOMPANIED AN INCREASE IN REAL LIFE EXPECTANCY

Obesity potentiates many risk factors such as diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, etc. Conversely, any weight loss helps to mitigate them. But in the end, losing weight is this reflected a real increase of life expectancy? Here is the proof, demonstrated in obese people who underwent bariatric surgery.

To lose weight and do not grow, we are moving!

Weight gain is always a lag between input and energy costs. It's like a bank account: what is not spent can be stored. The current epidemic of obesity is the result of the general decline in energy expenditure (mechanization, transportation, TV, computers, etc.) and the increasing consumption of foods high in fat and cheap. The results of the experiment on the Alsatian college for four years, clearly show that when one moves, the risk of gaining weight is neutralized.