Diet is not easy...

Losing weight is harder than say diet

According to the American researchers, lose weight in two times harder than say the authors of all the popular diets. A common rule of thumb that if you reduce your daily caloric intake by 500 a week you will be able to lose a pound.

However, as experts say, this rule is not true, because the thinner you get, the harder to continue to lose weight. All is due to the fact that reducing the number of calories consumed in the diet slows the metabolism, which means that weight loss will gradually stop until until completely stopped.

To restore equilibrium, scientists from the U.S. national Institute of diabetes, digestive and kidney diseases has created an online calculator that develops an individual plan to reduce weight on the basis of information about your diet, physical activity and body shape.

Although the tool is primarily designed for physicians, it can also be used by normal people, as it will help them calculate how much they will lose weight, after certain changes in your lifestyle.

In General, according to the developers, the reduction of calories consumed only 100 per day. will lead to the fact that in three years you will weigh 5 pounds less, and 2, 5 kg you lose in the first year. Old data on it, you just would have spent six months on the same diet.

Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Academy for the promotion of science in Vancouver, Dr. Kevin Hall Kevin Hall), one of the founders of the online calculator said: "the Difference is that the old rule of thumb; if you lose weight twice as fast than it is in reality possible to do without damage to health". People used this rule for predicting the potential amount of weight lost for decades, and were all completely different.

"If you reduce the number of calories in the diet, the metabolism starts to slow down, he still actively slows down with more weight loss, but, in the end, it stops at a certain mark". Online calculator takes into account such factors as age, gender, height, weight and level of physical activity, and diet. Then, based on these data, it predicts how much weight can lose one or the other person, if you will follow certain dietary rules and sports.

Then, the tool fails, what dietary changes should occur in the lifestyle of the person, so that he could achieve the desired weight within the stipulated time. "If after one year, for example, you expected to get rid of two times more pounds, then you immediately lose motivation to move on," says the doctor.

However, speaking at the seminar, the doctor said that the growing global obesity epidemic is primarily due to the increase in food consumption, but not with the reduction of physical activity. He stressed that there are a number of measures that could help to solve the problem, but the most effective are not accepted by the government. We are talking about restrictions on the advertising of unhealthy food to children, the introduction of additional taxes on unhealthy meals, and special marking of useful products.

The Telegraph

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