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Ayesha Curry admits that its hard to find balance in her daily life, so she tries extra hard to make sure her diet stays on track.

I dont know that balance ever really exists when youre trying to juggle work,family, etc. However, I do believe in balance when it comes to food, the chef and ZPA NOMA spokesperson, 28, tells PEOPLE. I believe in enjoying things in moderation. Instead of depriving yourself, just look for healthier options and ways to make things you love in a healthier way.

Curry follows her own advice whenindulging her sweet tooth.

Last night I was craving brownies. To fill that craving I made gluten-free brownies with raw cacao and opted to use coconut oil, she says.

And shestays active with exercise five to six days a week.

I am someone who really needs variety in exercise, says Curry. One day I may go to a spin class or to kickboxing. Recently Ive also gotten into agility trainingits intense! I look for exciting, fast-paced and fresh ways to incorporate exercise into my routine. For days that I am not in the mood to work out, I may take the girls [daughters Riley, 4, andRyan, 1] for a walk to make sure that I get moving.

Check out Currysdaily food log below, and for more inspiring weight loss stories from people who lost 100 lbs. or more, pick up the latest issueof PEOPLE, on newsstands now.

Hydration

8 glasses of water with fresh fruit and mint

Breakfast

Cucumber Avocado FennelZPA NOMA soup

2 scrambled eggs cooked in ghee with 4 oz. smoked salmon and 1 tbsp. scallions

1 cup coffee with 1 tsp. coconut oil, 1 tsp. grass-fed ghee and a bit of manuka honey

Lunch

4 oz. grilled chicken breast

1 cup broccoli roasted in olive oil with sea salt and pepper

roasted sweet potato

cup quinoa cooked in chicken stock

RELATED VIDEO:Ayesha Curry Shares 3 Hacks for Making Healthy, Fun After-School Snacks

Snack

cup trail mix

1 glass sparking water with a splash of raw apple cider vinegar

Dinner

Apricot-glazed salmon made with soy sauce, garlic and apricot preserves

Rice with roasted vegetables

Glass of white wine

Dessert

cup fresh berries with homemade whipped cream

Total Calories:

1,806

The Verdict:

Even though Ayesha is a chef, she has amazing easy dishes like homemade whipped cream and berries, and grilled chicken with sweet potato, saysChicago-based dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner. Its important to not make every meal an hour-long production and to have some simple go-to options for busy or tired days. Blatner suggests Curry eat more carbs towards the beginning of the day, when the body needs the most energy. But, she adds, her food choices are amazing!

NOTE: It isrecommendedthat women eat at least 1,200 calories per day, and men eat at least 1,800 calories per day.

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Whats the best library lunch to give your brain the fuel it needs? Photograph: Alamy

Its heads-down revision time for exams and dissertations. The pressures on, so youll want all the help you can get to aid your memory and raise your grades (without smart drugs or cheating). Nutrition experts say that eating well can make a real difference to your revision regime so what brain-boosting food and drink do they recommend?

Coffee, green tea and energy drinks are staples of the all-night library stint. But how much caffeine is too much?

Caffeine particularly coffee can have numerous benefits extending to cardiovascular health, insulin sensitivity, prevention of type 2 diabetes and acting as a potent antioxidant, says nutritional therapist Daniel OShaughnessy. However, while caffeine may make you more alert, individuals can build up a tolerance meaning this is short-lived. Caffeine can also increase blood sugar and eventually lead to dips causing lack of focus and energy.

Its also worth bearing in mind that people react differently to caffeine, says nutritional therapist Joanne Crovini. It has the potential to increase levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Some people can drink it at midnight and go straight to sleep, whereas other people get teeth clenching and feelings of anxiety after a small amount.

Most adults can tolerate single doses of caffeine up to 200mg and a daily intake of up to 400mg without any concerns, nutrition scientist Sarah Coe says; a mug of instant coffee is around 100mg and a cup of tea is 75mg of caffeine. Remember that energy drinks and some soft drinks contain caffeine too, and coffee from a coffee shop may be stronger than coffee made at home. As broad advice Id say stop drinking caffeine by 2pm and have a maximum of two cups of coffee or equivalent a day, but be aware of your own reaction to it.

Wholegrain foods will stave off hunger (advice on cooking some of them can be found here). Examples include porridge and wholemeal bread. Crovini explains that combining wholegrain with protein will help keep blood sugar levels balanced, which is essential for mood and concentration.

OShaughnessy agrees. Buying grains in bulk with your housemates is a great way to save money, as is avoiding the more overpriced fad grains, he says. Brown rice, oats and buckwheat are good, cheap alternatives, he says, adding that the high levels of magnesium in buckwheat also helps to calm nerves.

Berries and nuts are a convenient snack that pack a nutritional punch. Blueberries, like many dark coloured fruits and vegetables, have a high antioxidant content, which is thought to protect the brain from oxidative damage and slow age-related decline, explains Crovini. Frozen berries are usually cheap, last longer and dont lose their nutrients when frozen. Less healthy are flavoured and coated nuts, which contain added oil, salt and sugars.

Doctors often recommend taking vitamin supplements to top up on the nutrients you need but these can be expensive. Fortunately, theyre not the only option. Food should always come before supplements and the key to getting as many nutrients as possible is to eat as varied a diet as possible, with lots of different colours, says Crovini. Use frozen berries and dark green vegetables like savoy cabbage, which are reasonably priced.

Coe agrees: its better to get everything you need from food and drink: For example, oranges not only contain vitamin C [which boosts the immune system] but also fibre and other components that you cant get packaged together in a tablet.

Dark chocolate has a mild effect on increasing blood flow and reducing blood pressure, due to the polyphenol content, says Crovini. Its also a good source of magnesium, which is an essential mineral for relaxation.

OShaughnessy recommends choosing chocolate thats 80% or more in cacao to avoid any negative effects to teeth, skin and weight. The darker the chocolate, the less sugar in it.

A recent study by the University of East London and University of Westminster found that keeping hydrated can boost attention by almost 25%. We found that drinking even a really small amount of water (25 ml) resulted in improved performance on a test of attention, says Dr Caroline Edmonds, who co-authored the research. Drinking 300 ml improves memory performance and can improve your mood as well.

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For dinner one night last week, Mandy Hale laid out ingredients for a pizza: bacon, sausage, onion, ricotta cheese, eggs, butter, almond flour. For dessert, she made a flourless strawberry shortcake.

This is the ketogenic diet, or keto for short the latest health craze to sweep the nation. And yes, it includes plenty of bacon.

From her office in Yakima, Hale has built an online community of people seeking advice and solidarity in following the high-fat food plan, where the majority of daily calories come from fat, and almost no carbohydrates.

In her own experience with the diet, Hale lost roughly 60 pounds in less than four months, lowered her triglycerides and got her hormones back in balance.

She has since leveraged her experience into a new health coaching business.

I just started having people contacting me going, What the heck are you doing? I want whatever youre having, Hale recalled.

But like any diet plan, keto is not a panacea for all ailments, physicians and licensed dietitians say. And its not something to enter into lightly.

Its not something that you can say, Im going to do this for a couple months and lose some pounds, Yakima dietitian Katie Thorner said.

It isnt something you can dabble in. Its something you actually need to know what youre doing to actually be effective in its application.

The ketogenic diet works by sending your body into ketosis, which causes it to burn fat for fuel.

Our body will first use glucose or sugar as energy, for our muscles, our brain. Thats No. 1, explained Rocio Petersen, a dietitian with Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic. Plan B, say, in starvation mode, (if youre) not getting enough food or fuels, our liver can use fat and some proteins, and will start using that as energy. Its essentially our backup.

Ketosis kicks in after two or three weeks, but Petersen cautioned that the switch is not pleasant at first: Thats starvation mode. You wont feel very good those first few days, if you are trying a ketogenic diet.

Keto proponents sometimes call this keto flu, as your body takes a week or so to adjust to no sugar.

The ketogenic diet requires some math: 60 to 80 percent of a persons daily calories are supposed to come from fat; 15 to 35 percent come from protein; and 5 percent or less from carbohydrates, including vegetables.

That 5 percent translates to only about 20 or 30 grams of carbs.

The average person consumes 30 to 75 grams of carbs in a single meal, Petersen said. To limit to just 30 grams, That would be, all day, you ate one-and-a-half apples, and thats all the carbohydrates you had, she said.

People who follow a ketogenic diet use a lot of coconut oil and butter in their cooking, along with olive oil and avocado oil, but not highly processed canola, vegetable or seed oils.

Keto recipes include significant amounts of avocado, eggs, almond or coconut flours, cauliflower (to replace carbs like potatoes or rice), cheese, beef, chicken and fish.

Fruit is minimal, though berries are typically an acceptable dessert. No added sugars; ketogenic cooks use low-carb sweeteners instead.

This diet doesnt have to be restrictive, Hale said. Through sharing her experience with others, shes decided to pursue a degree in nutrition and has set up an office from which she offers fat-fueled health coaching and meal plan help. This is the diet I tell people you can have bacon and your cake, too, just make your own cake with better ingredients, and sometimes it tastes better than the original.

Also, for people who have stayed in ketosis long enough to become fat-adapted which may take a couple months, Hale says indulging in a carb-heavy slice of cake every now and then wont send them back to square one.

(If, however, they go on a weeklong sugar binge and fall off the wagon, she also helps coach people into getting back on track.)

In the Yakima area, Hale has been talking with some local businesses about offering keto-friendly food.

Sundance Espresso in Selah, which occupies the former North Town building, has started offering cheese-and-salami snack packs as well as a salad with salami, bacon, egg and ranch dressing. Theyre also looking to serve coffee drinks with a dollop of coconut oil or Kerrygold butter melted in, for the added fat.

Owner Tim Lantrip is trying the diet himself.

A lot of customers were asking if we would be willing to provide keto-friendly foods, especially something thats like a grab-and-go type food, he said. One thing for me that makes sense with the keto diet, is it eliminates all the sugar. To me it seems like a lot of customers that are doing the keto diet have lost a lot of weight.

Selah resident Bethanie Lundgren is part of Hales Fat-Fueled Friends Facebook group. She started the keto diet at the start of 2017, and also started going to the gym to do high-intensity interval training. Shes lost weight and seen an improvement in muscle tone, but says the biggest difference is that she doesnt feel bloated anymore and her digestion has improved.

Ive felt tremendously better, she said. I have more energy; no more brain fog; able to keep up with my three children.

Diet science can be a maddening topic because it seems to flip-flop on an annual basis. A quick Google search for saturated fat will yield an endless list of contradictory results: American Heart Association recommends limiting saturated fat. Everyone was wrong: Saturated fat can be good for you. And so on.

Whether the keto diet is right or wrong depends on the individual and his or her goals, dietitians say.

Where the ketogenic diet is most proven is in targeted or therapeutic uses, Thorner said. Its good for people with seizure disorders, such as epilepsy, because ketones (the byproduct of ketosis) make for good brain fuel. It also may have some anti-aging properties or help with maintaining mental function.

Ketogenic diets are good for endurance athletes, though sprinters or athletes who engage in similar anaerobic exercise would need more carbohydrates, she said.

And ketogenic diets are very helpful to people with Type 2 diabetes who have not otherwise managed to get their blood sugar under control.

Eating keto also may help appetite, as eating fat and protein makes you feel more full.

While peoples main worry upon learning of a diet that sanctions bacon is usually heart health, emerging research is changing the way medical providers think about fat, cholesterol and heart disease.

Theres still little consensus among providers about whether saturated fats are OK or not, but the scales seem to be tipping away from blaming fat for all of societys ills. There also is a risk to eliminating virtually all carbohydrates from ones diet, providers say, as carbohydrates help the thyroid and adrenal glands run smoothly.

Youre going to be able to hold up to stress better if those organs feel supported and not in a starvation state, Thorner said.

For any diet to be effective and sustainable, it needs to be a long-term lifestyle change, rather than a temporary sprint.

If youre doing it for the weight loss perspective, its more of that fad diet, where you might lose it short term and if you go back to general, regular eating, most people will gain weight back, Petersen said.

Thorner said this is not a diet she would recommend to someone who has not yet stabilized his or her overall health.

The amount of work it takes to get to ketosis is usually pretty overwhelming, because its not natural to eat this way its a major change, she said. And there are lots of steps to get there, baby steps, that you can be eating better without actually being ketogenic.

Hale agreed that there are less-intensive options.

I highly recommend anybody who is considering a ketogenic diet to talk to somebody who is knowledgeable with it before jumping in, she said. That being said, anybody who decides to decrease their amount of carbs or sugars and increase their healthy fats is going to benefit.

Much of the initial weight loss with the keto diet (or any diet) likely comes from people just being mindful of what theyre eating for perhaps the first time, Petersen and Thorner said.

Anything where we can get away from the standard American diet theres middle ground here, and the pendulum doesnt have to swing one way or the other, Thorner said.

The bottom line is that to lose weight, you must consume fewer calories than you burn, says Dr. Tanny Davenport, who practices at Family Medicine of Yakima.

By restricting the types of food people can eat no carbs, for instance they are naturally going to lose weight, because they stop consuming those calories.

We know that when people lose weight, in general, they have better health outcomes. And if the tool they use to lose weight is a low-carb diet, which is usually higher in fat and protein, its hard to criticize that, Davenport said.

Theres data that show that low-carbohydrate diets, in the short-term, do better than low-fat diets, he said, but the data is hazy as to whether low-carbohydrate diets fare any better in the long run.

As for weight loss, he said, a reasonable goal for most people is to shed 5 to 7 percent of their total body weight. And a reasonable pace to do that is about 1 to 2 pounds a week, if you want to keep it off.

For the people who really succeed, its about watching what they eat and making lifestyle changes about their dietary habits, Davenport said. A change of 300 calories a day, one way or the other, can (cause a) swing from gaining a pound every couple weeks to losing a pound every couple weeks.

Living in a fast-paced world, Petersen says she wishes she could offer her patients a single easy fix to their weight and health problems.

But everythings individualized and everything takes time, she said. Lets say we got to a weight where were not happy. It didnt happen in a week; it happened over months and years. Its 100 percent normal to feel frustrated that maybe itll take weeks and months and years to get down from that.

In Hales case, eating keto is something she plans to continue for the foreseeable future. While the weight loss has slowed down not helped by the fact that shes currently writing a keto cookbook and testing recipes she still sees major benefits.

I am continually feeling better right now, she said.

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Many of us know from experience that losing weight is a feat of endurance. Some diets will work, others won't, and despite our best efforts, it might seem at times as though a diet makes us put on even more weight. So why does dieting not work? A new study finds a mechanism that may explain how our body limits weight loss, working against us when we are trying to lose weight.

New research published in the journal eLife has uncovered a mechanism in mice that may be responsible for those frustrating moments in a dieter's life when nothing seems to work.

Mice, our fellow mammals, share enough similarities with the human body to provide a good model for understanding how our body responds to weight loss efforts.

The team of researchers - led by Dr. Clemence Blouet from the Metabolic Research Laboratories at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom - examined a group of neurons in the brain's hypothalamus and their role in regulating appetite.

The hypothalamus is a brain area responsible for producing hormones that regulate a series of bodily functions, ranging from body temperature and hunger, to mood, libido, and sleep.

This brain region contains a group of neurons called "agouti-related neuropeptides" (AGRP), which play a key role in regulating appetite. When AGRP neurons are "on," we want to eat, but when these neurons are deactivated, they can make us stop eating almost completely. AGRP neurons have the same effect in animals.

Dr. Blouet and team used genetics to switch these neurons "on" and "off" in mice. They used transgenic mice that had been modified to have the hM3Dq designer receptor, which can only be activated by designer drugs.

This genetic "shortcut" was tested in previous studies, which used evolved G protein-coupled receptors to control the neural activity in mice remotely.

The mice were examined in special "metabolic chambers" that can measure energy expenditure. They were also fitted with probes that measured their body temperature - which is also an indicator of how much energy the body is expending.

Dr. Blouet and colleagues took energy expenditure measurements in different situations - namely, in situations where food was either more or less available.

The experiments revealed that "artificially activating the neurons in mice that don't have access to food increases the animals' activity levels but reduces the rate at which they burn calories."

This helps the mice to maintain the same weight. However, when the small rodents were allowed to eat - or even just smell or see the food - their energy expenditure levels went back to normal.

"Finally, exposing mice to a high-fat diet for several days inhibits their AGRP neurons, and causes the animals to burn calories at a faster rate," report the authors.

In other words, AGRP neurons regulate our appetite depending on the amount of food that is available.

The study's lead investigator explains further:

"Weight loss strategies are often inefficient because the body works like a thermostat and couples the amount of calories we burn to the amount of calories we eat. When we eat less, our body compensates and burns fewer calories, which makes losing weight harder.

Our findings suggest that a group of neurons in the brain coordinate appetite and energy expenditure, and can turn a switch on and off to burn or spare calories depending on what's available in the environment. If food is available, they make us eat, and if food is scarce, they turn our body into saving mode and stop us from burning fat."

Dr. Blouet goes on to speculate that from an evolutionary perspective, such a mechanism may have evolved in order to help animals cope with famine. Evidently, in the case of dieting, the brain cannot tell that the person is intentionally trying to lose weight.

The study's first author, Dr. Luke Burke, also explains what these findings mean to the person who is trying to lose weight:

"This study could help in the design of new or improved therapies in future to help reduce overeating and obesity. Until then, [the] best solution for people to lose weight - at least for those who are only moderately overweight - is a combination of exercise and a moderate reduction in caloric intake."

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SaraElliott has had it with people faking food allergies in restaurants. She has life-threatening allergies to eggs, dairy and nuts and fears the impostors are hurting her chances of safely dining out.

"It teaches the waiter to not take it seriously," says Elliott, who lives in Windsor, Ont. "It's selfish and kind of rude. It's also dangerous and irresponsible."

Some restaurant-goers are tempted to invent allergies to get a dish their way often motivated by a much less serious food sensitivityor the growing number of fad diets like the gluten-free craze. They may see their lie as a harmless fib, but others worry it could lead to restaurants becoming numb to all allergy claims.

"Faux food allergies are all the rage," griped California chef David Mau in a recent column. "People covet and collect theirs like Gucci handbags."

And the consequences? "It's like pulling thatfire alarm handle in junior high all the time. At some point, everyone is just gonna stop paying attention," he wrote.

Could fake food allergies inspire wait staff to take all allergy claims less seriously? (Dylan+Jeni/Terroni)

Elliott believes the fakers may already be sullying her restaurant experience. She barely dines out now because of a recent string of serious reactions wheneating supposedly safe restaurant dishes.

She says one time she wound up in the emergency roomand was sick for two days. Although she hadclearly statedher allergies, someone still had put butter in her mashed potatoes.

"I got about halfway through it and started with the cramps," she recalls. "I was like basically collapsed in the bathroom."

Elliott wonders if some restaurants aren'ttaking her allergies seriously.

"Are they just thinking I'm another one of these people who just basically has a frivolous request?"

So how couldfakers muddle the message about the severityof food allergies? Apparently, it can involve what they actually wind up eating.

Elliott says she has twice dined out with people who feigned food allergies and then ate food that should have made them sick in front of bewildered servers. In one incident, a friend complained about a dessert containing bananas.

"She makes a huge production about how she's allergic to bananas, but then she eats it," Elliott said.

Hannah Lank was surprised and upset when her friend faked a food allergy at a restaurant to avoid eating gluten. (Hannah Lank)

Hannah Lank had a similar experience.

She has a life-threateningallergy to peanuts and tree nuts. So she was both surprised and upset when earlier this yearher friend who was on a newdietfaked a gluten allergy when they were out forbrunch.

"She made a big deal about ordering a dish that would be safe for her to eat with her made-up food allergy," says Lank, a student at the University of Toronto.

The friend then decided she didn't like her options and ordered a dish containing gluten anyway, confusing the waitress.

"It's definitely not good for educating the public about how serious food allergies are," says Lank.

Restaurant general manager Anna Mammoliti says she's well aware some customers fake it.

"I've had people claim they're allergic to gluten and then you walk by the table and they're eating a piece of pizza from the person they were sitting next to," says Mammoliti, with Terronirestaurants, located in Toronto and L.A.

She says she can see how made-up claims could lead to restaurants becoming less sensitive to the issue. But she adds that Terroni takes every single allergy claim seriously and with good reason.

"I don't want to be calling an ambulance," says Mammoliti.

So what's inspiring people to fake food allergies? Some may be getting the idea from diet advice that promotes it as a witty trick.

A website touting the Paleo diet one free of processed foods recommends people tell servers they have a gluten allergy. "Restaurants are very keen to avoid making anyone sick and becoming liable for it," the site states.

The websiteofthe TV showThe Doctorsexplains that restaurants typically add lots of butter to vegetables. "Avoid this fat trap by telling a little white lie in the name of health: 'I'm allergic to butter!'"

Terroni Restaurants in Toronto says it takes every single food allergy seriously. (Dylan+Jeni/Terroni)

Besides sending the wrong message to restaurant staff, Elliott has another concern about the faking trend: that overwhelmed restaurants will simply turn allergy sufferers away.

"The chef's going to get pretty pissed off," she says. "I've had it where I'll go and the chef says they're not willing to cook for me."

Terroni restaurants havea strict protocol for accommodating people with food allergiesthat includes servers informing the manager and sending an allergy alert to the kitchen along with the order.

Mammoliti says dealing with food allergies slows down the kitchen, and that those faking it need to understand the unnecessary stress they're putting on staff.

"Stop doing it," she says. "You are taking up the time that we need for customers who have serious allergies."

As for Elliott, she wants the impostors to know the price she pays for being afraid to dine in restaurants.

"You're missing out on birthdaysand anniversaries and reunions, and you're just feeling like you can't be a part of society," she says. "But at the same time, you don't want to die."

In a busy restaurant kitchen, everything is carefully timed and choreographed, and accommodating fake allergies throws an unnecessary - and unwelcome - wrench in the works. (Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images)

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A diet is not something that you can start, but rather a way of life, and when adapted to your life, it means that you will not have a weight problem. If you learn to eat healthy and turn this into a lifestyle, you will keep away from many things that cause weight gain. The extreme increase in the number of people suffering from weight problems causes shocking diet ideas to remain on the agenda. Information pollution is at an advanced stage, especially on the internet, which is full of lists that are mostly not based on scientific facts. Those who think that they cannot continue eating the same list of foods for a long time adopt the behaviors they believe to cover the basics. A study conducted on over 1,500 people has shown that the belief in diet myths in society is extremely high, and misinformation about weight loss and healthy eating is quite common.

Does eating high-fat foods cause weight gain?

Recent studies show that this is not true. Consuming a small amount of fat actually activates saturation (or satiety) signals, helping you to feel satiated more quickly and thus eat less. In addition to this, consuming the right type of fat helps in the absorption of healthy vitamins. The characteristics of fat you will include in your diet are also important. Your choice should be based on unsaturated oils. Canola oil and safflower oil are good examples. Also, omega-3 sources such as seafood, algae products, flaxseed and/or walnuts and olive oil containing both monounsaturated fat and omega-3 fatty acids are healthy choices.

Should we stop eating after 7 p.m.?

The things you eat do not use wristwatches! The time to stop eating should be planned according to your bedtime. It is enough to stop eating two hours before going to bed. Remember that evening meals must be light.

Do we need to do exercise on an empty stomach?

A recent comparative study has shown that there is no difference in the amount of calories burned while doing the same exercise on an empty or full stomach. The same study concluded that in addition to burning the same amount of calories, exercising on an empty stomach could lead to muscle loss. So, when you exercise on an empty stomach, you are more likely to lose muscle. However, when you exercise on a full stomach, you burn fat, not muscle. By preferably consuming a mixture of yogurt or protein 30 minutes before exercise, you can make your body prepare the food to be used during your exercise.

Does eating little and often cause weight loss?

This is one of the most common diet superstitions. A recent study has shown that eating little and often slows down metabolism. In addition to this, the total amount of calories taken in at the end of the day for this type of diet is higher than the amount taken with three main meals.

Is losing weight more difficult for women?

Men have more muscle mass and undergo less hormonal changes compared to women. This makes it easy for them to lose the first few pounds. However, according to a study, weight loss is equalized between men and women over time as long as they remain faithful to a healthy diet and exercise routine.

Does drinking plenty of water cause weight loss?

Yes, drinking plenty of water helps you lose weight, and it is also useful. But alone, it is not enough. Another mistake about water is to drink warm water as soon as you get up in the morning. Hot water will not make you lose weight! On the contrary, you should drink cold or cool water. When you drink cold or cool water, your body uses energy to bring it to its own temperature. This both accelerates your metabolism and causes you to burn extra calories.

Are calories the same in every food?

When we talk about the calories of any meal, we think we are talking about the same thing found in other alternatives. However, not every calorie is the same. Some calories cause you to be saturated faster and lose your appetite right away. Other calories are less filling and your appetite is not sated. If you want to increase the first type of calories, replace the less filling saturated oils found in butter and high-fat meats with saturated polyunsaturated oils found in avocados and nuts.

Do weight-loss pills cause quick weight loss?

The most dangerous diet trend that has recently emerged is weight-loss pills. Most of them are easily accessible via the internet. But it requires miracles to work. Think about it, obesity is the biggest problem in recent years. If such a pill were to work, they would be handled by the market and soon become prescribed. However, this type of pills usually comes to the fore with hearsay suggestions from the pills so-called users.

Do we lose weight by eating little?

Skipping a meal is one of the most important mistakes you will make when you are on a diet. This causes your metabolism to slow down and your body will go into an alert state to protect itself, thinking it is facing the danger of starvation. Remember that the human body can withstand three-to-five weeks of starvation.

Consuming only fruits and vegetables to lose weight

When the weight-loss adventure starts, people immediately increase the consumption of vegetables and fruits. Of course, unhealthy food or snacks should be replaced with this type of food, but the amount is very important. You should not consume unlimited fruits and vegetables when you are on diet. Remember that fruits and vegetables also have calories. Particular attention should be paid to the consumption of fruit juice. Fruit contains fructose, which is a kind of sugar. In order to prepare a glass of juice, three, four or even five fruits are used depending on the fruit. Think about it, can you eat that amount of fruit in one sitting? Of course, not. But when you squeeze the fruit, you will have consumed this amount of fruit in one sitting and also throw away the fiber content you need for your health and diet. So, you will have consumed just fructose without taking in the actual beneficial part. This is a big mistake for someone trying to lose weight.

Do laxatives and diuretics help us lose weight?

We know that there are many people applying to this method. However, this type of drug or supplement causes loss of water and potassium. The absence of these two substances, which are extremely important for your health, causes you to encounter various health problems.

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Thailands famous macaques (Photo Credit: Holidaybays.com)

Thailands free-roaming monkeys are a huge tourist draw. The primates, mostly macaques, are known to boldly visit with tourists who lure them with food. One of these monkeys, in particular, has recently become a worldwide sensation for both his gargantuan size and unique social status among his peers.

Nicknamed Uncle Fat, by the locals, the macaque is often seen seeking handouts of junk food and soda from visitors or foraging through trash cans for leftovers. Uncle Fat also has an entourage of smaller primates that deliver him food on a regular basis. Though the monkey does share some of the bounty with younger macaques, he eats more than his fair share. While the macaques unhealthy eating habits that have been shared extensively on social media have been amusing to humans, they are proving dangerous for the monkey. A true chunky monkey, Uncle Fat now weighs 26 kgs (60 lbs) or about three times the size of an average adult macaque.

Fearing for the animals health, on April 27, primate conservation group Monkey Lovers captured the mammal from Bangkok suburb he frequented daily and brought him to a rehabilitation center in the city. Kacha Phukem, who was commissioned to take him in, says it was no easy task given that he had to fight off several monkey bodyguards to get to Uncle Fat.

The rotund monkey is now on a strict diet of fruits and vegetables. According to the centers veterinarian, Supakarn Kaewchot, the excess fat gained from eating the unhealthy food has formed a mass that is now a type of benign tumor and put the monkey at a high risk of contracting heart disease and diabetes. While the officials plan on releasing Uncle Fat once hes healthy, they hope the macaque does not revert to his old eating habits.

More importantly, Kaewchot wants visitors to realize the dire consequences of feeding the mammals human snacks and drinks. In addition to being harmful, the intelligent animals are becoming so dependent on the handouts that they are no longer able or willing to find food on their own. While the best solution is to place a ban on feeding them all together, that is unlikely given the tourism business the monkeys earn for Thailand. Hopefully, this overly plump animals internet popularity will encourage visitors to offer the macaques healthier fare like bananas and peanuts.

Resources: guardian.com, npr.org, news.yahoo.com

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