Dietitian/Nutritionist, Dehradun
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Being overweight can lead to
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Gaining weight has an impact on increasing your chance of acquiring cancer. Fat cells release hormones, which can disrupt normal cell growth, leading to cancer. Sleep apnea is also related in way, that is being overweight increases the fat stored around the neck, which in turn makes your airways smaller. Smaller airways can cause breathing difficulty and can cause inflammation in the neck, which can subsequently cause sleep apnea.
Being under stress can make you fatter
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A stressful circumstance increases cravings for high carb snack foods, which significantly can calm stress hormones and reduces your level of stress. And, eventually the unused calories from these rich-in-carbohydrate snack foods accumulate in the midsection.
Eating dark chocolate helps in weight loss
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The Flavanols (A natural compound found in certain plants such as cocoa) present in dark chocolate reduce both blood sugar and body fat. Moreover, believe it or not, consuming chocolate keeps a check on your cravings, thanks to its fibre content, which makes you feel satiated and full for a substantial period of time. Eating chocolate also helps keep your anxiety in check thus reducing your chance of "emotional overeating.
Which of the following leads to faster weight loss?
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Studies suggest that following the three above mentioned steps reduce appetite significantly, improves metabolic health, which leads to weight loss.
Sleeping well helps in weight loss
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With more sleep, there is a greater sense of fullness, which makes people eat less intermediate meals, thereby leading to weight loss. Sleep deprivation results in an increase in "ghrelin" (a hormone which triggers hunger). Therefore, sleepy people eat more even if they are full.
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