Foodie Funda: Lose your Weight at Home | What is your weight loss funda

Exercise or calorie count, Five basic funda's to weight loss:

Q If you increase your activity, your appetite increases and you compensate by eating more food?

With or without increasing physical activity, calorie control remains key to losing or maintaining weight. "This crucial part of the public health message is not appreciated in recommendations to be more active, walk up stairs and eat more fruits and vegetables," Drs. Cooper and Luke said. "The prescription needs to be precise: There is only one effective way to lose weight -- eat fewer calories."

Q While physical activity has many benefits, multiple lines of evidence lead to the conclusion that an increase in physical activity is offset by an increase in calorie intake?

Yes indeed it is true...unless conscious effort is made to limit that compensatory response.

Q What is the right time to eat & how does one go about knocking off those extra calories?

Knowing when and what to eat can make a difference in your workouts. Understand the connection between eating and exercise. The most important thing is to pay attention to your body. If you don't feel good training on a empty stomach, then guess what? Your body is trying to tell you something ....pay attention & grab a bite! You will probably see better results if you have eaten something before you workout.

The basic guideline

- Large meals. Eat these at least three to four hours before exercising.

- Small meals. Eat these two to three hours before exercising.

- Small snacks. Eat these an hour before exercising.

Instead of getting inspired and trying to change every aspect of your health and fitness at the same time, make small changes one at a time and actually try and stick to them. Here's the simplest way to go about it...... 

- Keep yourself well hydrated

- Take small frequent meals

- Never workout on a empty stomach

- Never skip a good healthy breakfast

- Try and take early & a light / small dinner

- Cut down on saturated fat,TFA

- Cut down on sweets, fatty & fried foods

- Drink alcohol in moderation

- Avoid smoking

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Eat apple, green tomatoes to gain muscles

While discovering a protein that causes muscle weakness and loss during ageing, scientists from University of Iowa have also stumbled upon two natural compounds, one found in apples and one in green tomatoes, which reduce the protein's activity in aged muscle.

The protein called ATF4 alters gene expression in skeletal muscle, causing reduction of muscle protein synthesis, strength and mass.

The team identified ursolic acid, which is found in apple peel, and tomatidine, which comes from green tomatoes, as small molecules that can prevent acute muscle wasting caused by starvation and inactivity.

Those studies set the stage for testing whether ursolic acid and tomatidine might be effective in blocking the largest cause of muscle weakness and atrophy: aging.

"Ursolic acid and tomatidine appear to have a lot of potential as tools for dealing with muscle weakness and atrophy during ageing," said Christopher Adams, professor of internal medicine and senior study author.

We might be able to use ursolic acid and tomatidine as tools to find a root cause of muscle weakness and atrophy during ageing, he added.

The findings could lead to new therapies for age-related muscle weakness and atrophy.

In the latest study, Adams' team found that ursolic acid and tomatidine dramatically reduce age-related muscle weakness and atrophy in mice.

The scientists found that both compounds increased muscle mass by 10 percent, and more importantly, increased muscle quality or strength by 30 percent.

"By reducing the protein's activity, ursolic acid and tomatidine allow skeletal muscle to recover from effects of ageing," Adams pointed out in a paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

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