The Fitness Leads

Sleep deprivation may have had some noticeable effects on your eating habits. You have perhaps gone to work sleepy-eyed, and you tend to turn immediately to your cup to get a great taste of aroma and take some bits of breadstaff to couple it with your coffee. “When you have sleep deprivation and are running on low energy, you automatically go for a bag of potato chips or other comfort foods,” says Susan Zafarlotfi, PhD, clinical director of the Institute for Sleep and Wake Disorders at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. Naturally, you can’t get enough strength without having taken your meal. So, you would try to retrieve the energy lost from insufficient sleep through overeating.

According to studies, not getting enough 7 to 8 hours of sleep can result to weight gain. This is strongly backed up by scientific facts on hormonal functions in the body during slumber state. Dr. Breus, author of Division Director Sleep and Beauty Sleep Issues in Health Arrowhead, Glendale, Arizona, affirmed the fact that lack of sleep affects our ability to lose weight, relating to the hormone at night. Two hormones that are responsible in this process are ghrelin and leptin.
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Eating is not supposed to be a problem. As a matter of fact, it is very important for a person to eat in order to live and survive. It only becomes a problem when it is stated “over” and too much than how much your stomach needs to feed your organs. People pig out because of so many reasons, reasons that are hard to figure out. And it is not the stomach to blame according to Dr. Wansink, a behavioral scientist at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. It is our mind that tells us to eat more enough which makes him call it “mindless eating”. But what really pushes our mind to open our mouth more often even if we have had enough food to eat? The list below provides the most common stimulants of eating overindulgence you may have overlooked.

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Did you ever try asking the waiter about the nutritional facts of the food you ordered or call the manufacturer to inquire about the ingredients contained in the beverage you bought? People may find you overinflated by your cautiousness for doing such a weird try. But would it make you less of a normal person if you did?

Sometimes, being cautious means a lot of effort especially in our food consumption. Food control is something that is hard to carry out because it is the food that makes us full and solid. Most of the time, we tend to be regardless of what we feed our mouth because it is by nature that we crave for what is delicious and good for our taste. Yet food does not always bring nutrients to our body. Too much intake of it is also detrimental. Hence, as much as it is vital to know what foods to eat, it is also by obligation right to know the improper foods to avoid. Let’s get into what types of food are not good for us. Continue reading →

People have always been tuned in about their health, but are becoming extra watchful about their shape. For the time being, physical fitness is defined by having muscled and slim body-build. Hence, the term ‘diet’ came out of mouth of those tagged as body conscious. Several reasons have caused diet to be one of the top necessities in the society. People go on a diet to feel better physically and emotionally. Some have made such attempts to embrace healthier heart and lungs, while some have wanted to move more freely and smoothly. Mirrors have also pushed people to work out for a more attractive image, that buying clothes will not be too strenuous as far as size is concerned. By fact, people will do everything in the name of weight loss so as to avoid health troubles and social disfavor.

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