In the previous issue of Food Today itself the attention that maintain their ideal body weight promotes good health, currently the proportion of population overweight or obese is significant that a hundred million years of heredity have fostered during famine, those who accumulate fat in times of plenty, that losing weight is, therefore, very difficult for most people and that fad diets and miracle cures are not losing weight. So what should be done to reduce your weight?
The only way to lose weight is to ensure that regular intake of food provided substantially less energy (in kilo calories or kilojoules) than the cost of heating the body to carry out normal activities and exercise to practice .
When you reduce food intake, metabolism decreases by about 15%. The margin between the energy expenditure and that provided by the diet must be at least 25%, and preferably by 40%.
If a woman who normally consumes 2000 k cal diet that follows provides 1,500, the margin between its reduced use (2000-15%) and its contribution is only 200 k cal per day.
This means that employs more than 5 weeks to lose 1 kg, a weight reduction unacceptable.
Consequently, if the energy gap is inadequate, weight reduction is so slow that the motivation is lost.
The normal power consumption of most women, unless they do regular exercise very intense, is about 2,000 k cal per day.
