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Frequently women, trying to be fit, resort to replacement of sugar with artificial sweeteners, which are often considered as panacea for full-bodied sweet-lovers. However, American researchers have proved delusiveness of this point of view, having studied properties of saccharin.

The American researchers have found out, that use of low-calorie sweeteners “disorient” metabolism. Therefore excess weight is put on much faster, than from usual sugar.

Authors of the research explain the reason of so paradoxical pattern by brain’s feature to perceive some food stuffs. The matter is that in a human consciousness sweets are indissolubly associates with plumpness. When sugar is replaced with a sweetener, the brain, being guided by a familiar taste, prepares an organism to assimilation of carbohydrates. And then, when they are absent, in general loses ability to control entry of nutrients.

Flakes, just as it is, are as a matter of fact oat or a corn flour. Except for pure starch and a small amount of vitamins of B group, they have nothing useful at all. Complete and utter calories.

Such breakfasts can be ready when it is enough to pour there juice, milk or kefir. They also can be instant and require 2-3 minutes for cooking. That is why ready breakfasts are less useful because they have already been prepared, so the most part of useful vitamins have already been boiled down. In this case, the preference should be given to instant or quick-cooking breakfasts.

Mueslis and flakes should be eaten only for a breakfast, and the preference should be given to the first. Flakes are carbohydrates, as it is, and starch, which can provide us with energy only in the morning and for a short while. And for a lunch and a dinner such food is useless, it is incomplete. Though people can eat them for breakfast every day – it is better, than not to have breakfast at all.

Today there are many temptations, and it is not a problem to have breakfast with some benefit for health, but what to prefer: muesli, flakes, or something else?

As a matter of fact, they are very similar by way of food value – the difference is only in their basis - rye, oats or wheat, and additions such as dried fruits or nuts give not only more pleasant taste, but also caloric content. Mueslis from all above-listed are the most useful for a breakfast, and all because they are a mix of flakes from different cereals.

Fried mueslis are less useful, than natural whereas frying destroys part of useful vitamins and microelements. Dried fruits are not very useful, unless give more pleasant taste and add not the most useful calories – light carbohydrates in dried fruits. And nuts and sunflower seeds, which also considerably raise caloric content of a product, on the contrary are a good source of proteins and vital polyunsaturated fat acids. So preference should be given to not fried mueslis with nuts without dried fruits.

Low-fat meat, such as a good beef is the best means to grow thin. First - this product is rich with proteins which are necessary for health.

Second – proteins are digested much faster, than carbohydrates. Besides, a piece of meat is quite enough not to be hungry. Proteins stimulate metabolism, leaving feeling of satiety for a long time.

Green tea
It is rich with antioxidants and perfectly influences an organism. Except for that, it is an ideal variant for healthy growing thin. Tea strengthens metabolism, accelerates digestion and helps to burn fats.

Some researches claim that five cups a day will help you to get rid of overeating consequences. As a bonus – it also will help you to deal with stress.

The century of skinny models has become a thing of the past. Managers of the Spanish Fashion Week, as they have promised, have forbidden girls with lack of weight participate in the show. But adiposity isn’t an alternative.

Do you know the joke - «What to eat to grow thin?» And, as it is known, many a true word is spoken in jest.
In fact there is such food, which do help get rid of avoirdupois. Add these foodstuffs in the diet and observe growing thin.

Pumpkin
This vegetable for a long time has been associated with Halloween, but very few people know, that it is also the ideal tool for those, who are trying to grow thin. Pumpkin contains only 40 calories, its structure is stringy - that is very useful.

A great many researches have proved that stringy foodstuffs are not only wholesome, but also useful for growing thin. In addition, the pumpkin is cooked very quickly. It may be cooked with cinnamon, nutmeg and almonds. It is very tasty, and also useful and low-calorie.

Have you never heard about grapefruit diet? It is strange, as this one is very popular, by the way. As the fighter with excess weight this fruit has no match. Recent researches in Scripps clinic in California have shown that so-called grapefruit diet considerably helps people to struggle with depot fat.

The main idea of the given system - half a grapefruit before each meal…
In addition to this, grapefruit contains elements which struggle with cancer cells. Sophie Loren keeps this very diet, and she can boast of a chic figure, even in her not so young age. And if you have overeaten, try to eat a grapefruit after it.

It will relieve you from feeling of heaviness in a stomach. Besides, half of fruit contains only 39 calories. If you want to achieve the best results, do not eat more than 800 calories after grapefruit. It is said that enzymes of this wonderful and tasty fruit can burn out such amount of calories.

Nuts and sunflower seeds are high-calorific food-stuffs. On the average they contain about 500-600 kcal in 100 g, some may contain about 200 kcal. But they almost don’t have carbohydrates, therefore in small quantities they can be eaten without harm for a figure. 10-15 peanuts, cashews of filbert, pistachios are enough to satisfy hunger for a long time.

Dried fruits. The majority of dried fruits are soaked in glucose syrup, that is in sugar. It is unacceptable for a figure and is not useful for an organism. It would be better to buy dried fruits in packing, with the indicated content of useful substances, and also caloric content and the content of carbohydrates. For example:

Dried dates with the content of a glucose syrup in 100 g.

about 220 kcal
68 g. carbohydrates

Violet berries
Bilberry, blackberry, blueberry, raspberry - all these berries contain a lot of antioxidants useful to heart and flavonoids, and also dietary fiber. Berries have natural sweet taste and can replace sweets for a smaller amount of calories.

100 % wholewheat
The key element here is “100 %”.
Using 100 % wholewheat grain-crops, we provide an organism with dietary fiber and the whole spectrum of B vitamins. Dietary fiber quickly fills a stomach and brings satiety.

Nuts
Nuts are rich with proteins and fats useful to heart and due to fats this product is so high-calorie. In view of its toughness, we cannot quickly swallow nuts, therefore we have time to be sated.

Yoghurts
These products are rich with calcium, proteins and bacteria, which improve digestion. There is only one important condition - to choose not sweet yoghurts without fruit additives. Otherwise yoghurt turns from a useful product into not so harmful to figure and health dessert.

Double action foodstuffs - are such products which are useful for health and harmless for a figure. They contain many nutrients and are tasty.

Among double action foodstuffs there are:

Dark green vegetables
The more dark green color of a vegetable, the more nutritious elements it contains. In addition, cellulose and water in vegetables fill a stomach without superfluous calories. However, do not stop only on green vegetables. Other color categories are useful and help to lighten.

White vegetables
The adjective “white” goes well with vegetables. The cauliflower, onions, garlic - all of them have white color and are rich with phyto-chemic substances.

However, do not discount other color categories, they as also useful and help to be fit. Just combine more various vegetables.

Fruit contain a plenty of fructose that allows quickly to get rid off hunger, and also to rescue sweet-lovers from cookies and sweets. However, some fruits can raise weight. For example, there are some cases, when people tried to eat many apples to grow thin, but did not grow thin, and on the contrary put on weight. The reason is that fructose in large quantity leads to increase in weight. Therefore fruit perfectly go for power additional charge between meals, but not instead of it.

Caloric content of some fruit:

Bananas 100 g:
95 kcal
23,2 g carbohydrates

Grapes 100 g:
60 kcal
15,4 g carbohydrates

Avocado 100 g:
190 kcal
1,9 g carbohydrates
1,9 g protein
19,5 g fat

Apples 100 g:
47 kcal
11,8 g carbohydrates

Melon 100 g
24 kcal
5,5 g carbohydrates
0,6 g protein
0,1 g fat