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Sibutramine
Sibutramine is a drug used primarily to treat obesity and is an appetite suppressant. It also has features of antidepressant, so that helps control anxiety and inhibition of impulses, so it is indicated as an adjunct to a hypocaloric diet or low calorie, along with a proper lifestyle that includes exercise and other healthy habits, lose both weight and maintaining weight loss.
Among the side effects from sibutramine, are: increased blood pressure and heart rate, dry mouth, flushing, sweating, headache, insomnia, nausea and depression.
In principle, sibutramine is contraindicated in people with hypertension, a history of heart disease, psychiatric problems (under medical treatment with other drugs), eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia), pregnancy and lactation. But after several studies have determined that there is an increase in cardiovascular problems in people who use this drug as a treatment for overweight or obesity, which alter the cost-benefit of the drug has been banned from selling and marketing in different countries like USA, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia, among others.
Fat Without Eating
Stop smoking
It’s a fact: people who quit smoking increases between 2 and 4.5 kilos on average only leave the snuff. The explanation? First, nicotine reduces appetite and secondly, increases metabolism, and if you reduce your calorie intake or exercise more to compensate, gain weight.
• WHAT YOU CAN DO: Ask your doctor to advise you on a diet and exercise plan.
Stress
When the pace of life accelerates, the body perceives a threat and adopted the “survival mode.” In this situation, the body begins to secrete cortisol, a stress hormone. This hormone produces a double effect: it increases hunger and causes a special craving for sweet and fatty foods, high in calories.
• What to do: walk an hour a day at a fast pace combat stress, burns calories and improves muscle mass, or whatever it is, has a threefold positive effect.
Fresh Diet
How about a diet that allowed you to have ice cream, cake or a piece of chocolate and, even then, it will help to reduce your weight? Do not think that this is a dream. If you lose in the diet is the dessert, which we offer it is for you. In fact, the idea that you are able to make something sweet every day can help prevent throw in the towel, because that way you will not feel frustrated.
What do you advise?
You can take a sweet dessert 300 calories each day. To lose weight with health and progressively, the rest of the meals are pursing all the necessary nutrients. To do this, you must take at least five servings of fruits and vegetables, and suffi cient quantities of vegetables and whole grains, lean protein and healthy fat.
Diet Keeps Teeth Healthy
A well balanced diet can keep the body healthy, including teeth. By contrast, poor eating habits are an open invitation to bacteria that cause cavities. When plaque comes into contact with foods high in simple carbohydrates, produce acids that destroy tooth enamel and the longer they acids in the mouth, the more likely they are to form cavities.
Sugars, including those containing milk, fruits and sweets, and to a lesser extent the cereal starches, provide fodder plaque. After eating, acid production continues for 20 to 30 minutes or longer if food sticks to your teeth. Moreover, the habit of eating frequently is harmful because it generates a continuous attack of acid. For optimal oral health is important in the diet include fruits, vegetables and low fat dairy. The calcium and phosphorus from the latter to protect against osteoporosis, strengthen the jaw and help prevent tooth loss.
GallBladder Surgery Diet
You can eat after gallbladder surgery
The first few hours after the gallbladder operation on a liquid diet, then soft foods for the digestive system will adapt to functioning without gallbladder.
Daily we receive hundreds of questions from people who have had a gallbladder and coming home are worried because it had not been informed about the next steps.
In other cases when doubts appear after one or two weeks the doctor says he can eat anything, we should ask a professional respect by saying “everything”, because you can not even imagine that someone recently operated gallbladder as fats, fried food and drink.
When you can eat everything again after gallbladder surgery
Some doctors are very strict diet for gall bladder surgery and believe that you can try other foods until after 3 months of operation. Others, however, consider that after 4 or 5 weeks and can start adding other foods, always start with small portions and food at a time to see if it did not affect digestion.
Anyway it is always advisable to continue where possible without eating fats and fried foods or taking them in very small proportions. The gallbladder surgery may be the first step to begin to live a healthier diet which will help prevent future ailments and helps maintain a healthy weight.
Older adults about their diet
A notable aspect, of great importance when it comes to nutrition in older people is inadequate food that predominates in this population group.
This is caused by various factors such as: the loss of the teeth, digestive disorders, intestinal transit disturbances such as constipation and gastritis drug undoubtedly limiting proper digestion, as well the influence of other somatic ills – pain – and psychosomatic, which produce anorexia – depression.
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