Staying in the mountains helps with weight loss

Leptin reduces the desire for food, and it encourages lower concentration of oxygen at altitude and you will therefore staying in the mountains lose some decagram

 The high altitude helps fat people to lose weight more easily, the study physicians in Germany. Medical team Dr Floriana Lipla, the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, studied the effect of a seven-day stayon the mountain 2.650 meters high, with an overly obese person, on average, about 50 years old.

In addition to climate change, respondents were not subjected to any special regime in relation to diet, habits and physical activity.

However, after only seven days it was established that all persons have lost a little weight on, as well as reduced food intake and decreased blood pressure. The positive effects lasted for another month after the person returned home.

As a reason for it, experts said a lower concentration of oxygen at high altitudes, which stimulates the secretion of the hormone leptin, which reduces the desire for food.

Lose weight by exposing your body to cold

A former NASA expert says that people spend a lot more calories when they are cold, and he lost 13.5 kg in six weeks 

The laws of thermodynamics, helped former NASA expert and founder of Zero G''''Ray Cronise to lose weight. As Cronise told ABC News, he realized that an important role in weight loss is our environment. In fact, our body temperature remains constant, and it takes a lot of energy.

Because your body is exposed to cold, and the results were visible - for six weeks lost 13.5 pounds. Cronise says people tend to think that you burn calories during exercise because sweat, but he believes that the more calories you burn when we are cold.

The inspiration comes from the swimming champion Michael Phelps, who enters about 12,000 calories a day into the body. Although Phelps physically active than average, Croniseu was illogical why he needs so many calories, and then he realized that the issue of water. Specifically, the cold water forces the Phelps's body to constantly struggling to maintain optimal temperature.

This phenomenon has been studied and the military and those who have studied the possibility of sending a mission to space the fifties and sixties of the 20th century, because they are trying to find ways to keep the same weight in the cold.

You can lose weight by eating potato

One potato contains only 110 calories and has no fat or cholesterol, so it can help you to lose weight 


There is no evidence that potatoes, when you make them in a healthy manner contribute to gaining weight. Indeed, they may even be part of a program to lose weight, according to a study conducted at the University of California and U.S. National Center for Food Safety and Technology.

Scientists in the study included 86 men and women who are overweight and over 12 weeks measured the effects of diets with reduced calorie intake and altered glycemic index (a measure of the effect of carbohydrates on blood sugar levels), but with the addition of potatoes.

Were randomly grouped three groups and each was on a diet that included five to seven servings of potatoes a week, and the results showed that all three groups lost weight.

One medium sized potato contains, in fact, only 110 calories, contains more potassium than bananas, and almost half the recommended daily value of vitamin C. In addition, do not contain fat or cholesterol.

Products for weight loss in 1900's

Look at the product for weight loss in 1900's teach us that miracles do not exist and that women easily fall for marketing tricks

Earrings for weight loss, various pills that speed up metabolism, teas for slenderness and other (dis) utility, which produces almost overnight melt pounds are nothing new on the market. Ideas change over time, adapting ads and slogans, but women still fall for marketing gimmicks. We recall the hit products for weight loss in 1900's are proving that miracles in this case does not exist:

Slimming Soap

Rinse off unwanted pounds, said in 1903. company that has produced soap "La Parle. He sold the then high price of one dollar and disappeared from the shelves at an incredible pace. In the ad that said: "Reliable reduce fat without diet and exercise." Today, of course, no longer sold, but there are many other cosmetic products which enhance the slender line and great sales.

Salt bath slim

Fill the tub, water Dissolve a few grams of salt bath brand Louisenbad and from where you get slim. No starvation. Without the painstaking training. Miraculous packet of salt could be purchased in the U.S. for one dollar.

Strap-Gaybar Simulator

Around the time when consumers realize that the slim will be swimming, the market appeared Gaybar-Simulator, electrical devices with a belt that shakes the problematic parts of the body and thus melting fat. Various types of devices exist today.

Tapeworms in the body

Probably the most controversial weight loss method 1900-it was deliberately causing an infection. The intestines are inhabited by tapeworms were fed diligently and so helped the owner to quickly lose weight without starvation. It is a very dangerous method because the tapeworm body stripped of important nutrients, and can begin to feed themselves and organs.

Bile Beans pill for weight loss

In 1899th were presented for weight loss pills "Bile Beans" that are "cleaned inside the body. " Similar laxatives are still popular.

Plentiful breakfast does not reduce your calorie intake throughout the day

A study published in the journal "Nutrition Journal found that plenty of people who eat breakfast do not reduce their meals for lunch and dinner. German scientists have recommended a smaller number of calories for breakfast because they think it would help people who struggle with obesity to lose weight.

British Association for consumption says that breakfast is important for a balanced diet, a good breakfast is often linked with weight loss. A team of scientists from the University of Munich, conducted a study which has followed nearly 400 people over two weeks. They kept a diary about what they ate, what time and to what degree. Some of them had a hearty breakfast, some for breakfast ate little, and some have skipped.

Those who had a hearty breakfast, which was on the average 400 calories more than a small breakfast, by the end of the day should eat about 400 calories more. "The study results showed that people eat the same amount for lunch and dinner, regardless of what they ate breakfast, " said Dr. Volker Schusdziarra.