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MADRID .- The fall in investment, rising layoffs and the growing fear of the future that can be felt in the environment are not the only consequences of the economic recession which we live. The crisis may also increase the rate of suicides and homicides, judging by the results of an interesting job.

Its authors, led by David Stuckler, University of Oxford (UK), shown in the last message ‘The Lancet’ that unemployment increases similar to those recorded this year in the past caused peaks rise in the number of people they took off the life or committing murder.

Researchers who analyzed data from 26 countries of the European Union dated from 1970 and 2007, also found that increases in unemployment were related also to a significant reduction in the number of road accidents.

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1. The first and fundamental step is that you’re sure to want to follow a diet and be disciplined.

2. Try to eat in company. Eat slowly and chew each bite.

3. Prepare dishes as attractive as possible. If portions will seem small, offer a dessert plate, thus appear more abundant.

4. Do not try to hide that you’re on a diet. Continue with your normal life, without lock yourself at home.

5. Respect, as far as possible, a regular schedule for meals.

6. Do not skip meals but do not feel hungry, in any case reduce the amount you eat, but do not omit.

7. Start every meal with a salad, to satisfy more easily the stomach and appetite center, located in the brain.

8. Avoid temptation. If the office or the kids at home, eat sweet things between meals, have at hand an apple, yogurt or other snacks to help you resist.

9. Faced with an attack of hunger takes a glass of water first and then a natural fruit juice.

10. Do not give in to offers of food that are not within your program, because you can spoil what you have achieved so far.

11. Do not be dependent on the scale. Weigh yourself only once a week to monitor changes.

12. Take your measurements periodically to check the change in volume, this will encourage you to follow. You may not have lost weight, but of the figure.

13. Make sure the clothing is staying high. Please hand the pants that you like and do not fit, and take it as a goal.

14. If you’re out of the diet in one meal of the day as usual with the rest of the daily plan, nor think of “resume tomorrow.”

15. Often think of the joy of seeing you in your weight and imagine that today you avoid situations because of your overweight.

If you feel you just can not start a diet, do not let time pass. Go to a specialist who can guide and control you until you acquire new eating habits.

Experts from the European Institute of Biomedicine (IEB) recommend that patients with Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis who try to avoid stress and proinflammatory certain foods like red meats, cow’s milk, flour, refined, simple sugars and trans fat ‘in order to reduce the occurrence of crisis.

According to this expert group said on the occasion of World Day for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), which is celebrated on the 27th May, 25 percent of new cases of ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease diagnosed in the hospitals were in people younger 18 and for processing, propose to modify the usual diet as “beat up the inflammatory processes of any kind and helps reduce the consumption of drugs.” “Inflammatory or restrictive diets have a central role since it can have a positive impact on the evolution of processes, reduce crises and improving the nutritional status of the patient,” explains José Francisco Tinao, medical director of the IEB, also highlighting the importance of detoxification programs that facilitate the work of the liver and the elimination of toxic compounds.

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Good nutrition is essential for good health and prevent disease. Junk food can make us victims of: overweight, high cholesterol, diabetes and many other diseases associated with poor nutrition. We have the ability to choose the quantity and quality of our food, and time consuming. Generally eat more than necessary and foods high in animal fats that fill our arteries and our heart damage, among other things. Some of the anomalies to feed are:
“Excess consumption of calories.
“Preference for products of animal origin.
-Excessive fat intake.
High-protein intake.
Low-carbohydrate supply.
Low-fiber intake.
We are what we eat. How to establish a balanced and healthy diet? Being in touch with our body and therefore understanding their needs. Also, and practically, time of day you consume food and adequate. The keys to health today are basically in reducing food intake, as well as exercising regularly to improve the quality of life.
Understanding the body’s needs means understanding how the different food groups-carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and trace elements, meet these needs.
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Increase muscle mass to gain muscle mass is necessary to eat more but at this point we must be extremely careful, because fat does not mean eating more fat, the ideal and necessary to increase the muscle mass while decreasing the percentage of fat .

According to Dr. Jackie Berning, University of Colorado, who are very thin and want to grow in size to consume a higher percentage of calories, but in parallel is important to influence muscle growth by an intense workout routine to load. For this specialist to increase muscle mass is desirable, in the case of men, increasing their caloric intake by 500 to 1000 calories and for women between 250 and 500.

To follow this plan properly we recommend a weekly climb about a quarter kilo, the important thing is not to reach more one kilo per week because that will surely increase the percentage of fat in the body and is necessary to lower the amount of food.
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