Awareness and control to change the behavior: According to a British study, nutrition tips, and the regular view on the scale of annoying holiday can prevent extra pounds.
The run-up to Christmas and the holidays are, for many people, a permanent temptation: of all the places smell of cookies and gingerbread, the Christmas markets, the mulled wine beckons, and then days of the roast, the Festive, the traditional goose, and afterwards a delicious Dessert waiting at the feast. Traditionally, we let us go this time, well, without paying attention to the extra pounds.
The consequences are well known: Ten days after Christmas the Germans, for example, are at the thickest, the US researchers from Cornell University found out already in 2016. On average, participants in a corresponding experiment, increased over the holidays at that time of 0.6 per cent. At the same time, fitness studios recorded, by the way, not surprisingly, most of the applications.
With a few simple tips six researchers want to be back inside the UK universities of Birmingham and Loughborough, the dreaded holiday pounds now body. According to their study, which they published in the medical journal “The BMJ” disappear over the days futterten fat pad is only comparatively slowly.
Christmas, we enjoy ourselves more than it does us well
According to Amanda Daley, behavior, physician, and author of the current study, to take people in the course of a year, a Kilo of. A large part of this weight gain attributable to the Christmas season. An increase of a Kilo is not much. Over ten years of growth, however, would be considerable, so the scientist of the University of Loughborough. “Alone on Christmas day, up to 6000 calories consumed – three Times more than the recommended daily intake”, added Frances Mason, who is first author of the study and a nutrition researcher at the University of Birmingham.
10 tips to prevent excess pounds
Under the name of”Winter Weight Watch Study” tested the researchers in 2016 and 2017, corresponding recommendations for action, which should prevent the gluttony. To do this, they assigned a test group of 272 volunteers with an average age of 44 years in two sub-groups. The first intervention group was asked to weigh yourself at least twice a week, preferably daily, and record the weight. In addition, the subjects received ten simple tips, you can protect against weight gain: to eat whenever possible, the same times, to not choose reduced-fat foods, pay attention to hidden fats and sugar in drinks, eating too large portions, eat only healthy Snacks, the best five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, and no snacks in the evening while watching TV.
Healthy diet, adequate exercise
Also, the volunteers should move more, at least 10 000 steps a day. You should avoid Sitting for long and every hour for at least ten minutes to get up. To get a concrete idea of how much movement is necessary to burn the beloved Christmas pleasures again, they got an Overview, must Go, according to you, for example, 13 minutes for a glass of mulled wine training.
Liquid love handles – for a glass of mulled wine, you have to move then 13 minutes
The comparison group received only a General info sheet for a healthy life style without food scientific advice. All participants were surveyed in November and December, and in January and February of the examination year and weighed.
Awareness of changing behavior
The result is not surprising, but clearly. The consulting group took all of the temptations in the delicate time even by 0.13 pounds, while the members of the comparison group increased in the period, an average of 0.37 kg. The difference was, therefore, around a pound.
Sensible diet tips and regular can so discipline, close it, weigh the scientists from these results. Accordingly, decision-makers should think out of the health via simple education programs, is the conclusion of the study, which was supported by the UK National Institute for health research (NIHR). “Our research shows that even a short Intervention can help over the Christmas season, the small weight increases to prevent the accumulate and the obesity epidemic to drive,” sums up the behavior of E. Amanda Daley.
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