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Only a complete healthy diet promotes good digestion of nutrients by the body, and hence the weight gain. At the same calorie intake should be high enough. No matter what you eat, if calorie intake is less than required, you will never get stout.

It is difficult to argue with that statement, but just where is the criterion of this necessary? The norm of daily energy expenditure at rest and during various activities are well known, but not always the amount of food consumed by you becomes quality - including those most essential to you calories.

And what you get on your calculator of calories does not mean that all those calories go into your flesh and blood. Why?

That is because, depending on the quality of your food and state of your gastrointestinal tract, firstly, some part of the food may not digest and leave the other end in the form of a solid-liquid waste (or settle in your gut diverticula). Secondly, do you think the process of digestion and absorption of food works as a perpetual motion machine? Anything like that, it also requires energy.

True, in theory, that should be considered when calculating the energy balance, but how about the fact, for example, writing by G. Shatalova, that in our usual diet (which Dr. Atkins refers to as "junk food"), the lion's share of energy derived from food, is utilized on the process of digestion and assimilation of this same food?

This does not fit in the head? Well, my head was not fit, too, especially when I read in Nicholas Kurdyumov about "ballerina paradox". Everyone knows that ballerinas are dieting and have heavy loads, and it's no surprise. But when a man writes that when daily caloric intake of 1,000 kcal, energy costs of ballerina reach 8,000 kcal, it's just right to open the mouth.

Well, I do not believe it at first, and began to search for evidence I found something, though not totally scientific, but also not linked with Kurdyumov, or Shatalova. There was a calculation in which energy costs of 120-pound ballerina are about 5,000 kcal (as a miner or laborer), and caloric intake is really about 1,000 kcal. Of course, I have not tested this diet, but simply introduced myself as a ballerina and digger dine together at one table, and just sincerely have believed all.

Well, how to be now with the theory of caloric intake? It's simple: if you want to gain weight, you must provide your body with no calories, but additional materials for building muscle and fat cells. In fact, your body weight will consist not from same calories only!

And the energetic paradox can be also solved, if we remember that, firstly, the raw material for ATP (the same energy) are only vegetable, not animal products; and, secondly, an alternative source of energy in the body is water (see F. Batmanghelidj "Your Body's Many Cries for Water").

Therefore, instead of the principle of "eat more..." I would suggest a different formula: Eat no more... but better! If guide the above maxim "Do not starve for a minute", then with a weight gain you can get also problems with digestion. Eat as much as you want really - is a versatile recipe.

However, the caloric theory can be used as a "newtonian approximation" if you are interested in gaining weight from the viewpoint of a noble line of rounding your figure. That's why the calories are introduced into the body primarily from carbohydrates, but carbohydrates are the main supplier of adipose tissue. Since the growth of adipose tissue decreases the percentage of muscle tissue in your body, it also slows down your metabolism (what was required obtain).

In fact, speaking of calories, I mean not the simple carbohydrates. You can, of course, to eat cakes, and a beer, they say, is enough calories, but with a big and beautiful "energy bars" your body will receive an injection of insulin, which a long-term use of such diet will drive you straight into the arms of diabetes.

So the best and safest source of calories - it's complex carbohydrates of low glycemic index, which are slowly broken down. There is one good way to ensure adequate intake of calories and proteins without the grueling calculations.

Fill one half of the plate by foods rich in complex carbohydrates (such as potatoes, rice, pasta or sweet potato). In the other half put the no-fat protein foods such as chicken breast without skin, turkey breast or tuna. You get from them also certain amount of fat. This will help you without too much trouble balancing your diet on macro-conponents of food - proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

Compared with most diets for weight loss, your menu - it's sheer luck!

It may also include both meat - beef, lamb, pork, duck, - and seafood, root vegetables, whole grains, nuts, butter... If there are no contraindications, you can not limit yourself to no dairy, no unsalted cheese. And so on - except for foods that, except for "specific" taste, are of no value to the organism. There is no reason to restrict also spices.

Extremely thin people is not forbidden also eat fat. YOU CAN EAT ALL! Eat anything you wish, but only after you has eaten carbs, not replace them. And it is not worth especially get involved animal fat, it's still a bad habit. In addition, fatty foods too early creates a feeling of satiety.

For building muscle men need amino acids. To women, incidentally, they also did not oppose. The sources of amino acids are protein foods - meat, fish, eggs, cheese, nuts, milk. You can use them without restriction.

But be sure to eat enough fruits and vegetables. They are needed as a source of enzymes to digest the food eaten, and in addition, do not forget what was said about energy. After all, you want your protein went to the building of tissues, but not burned, as in the furnace of a steam locomotive? During the day you should eat anything from fruit and a good salad (better at supper). Want to drink a glass of juice - drink two, but not nectar, to ears not stick together.

Your body, in the truest sense, can wither of thirst.

A man of middle age at 70% is of the water. The water content in the cell is from 40 to 98% of its mass. Half of the water in body falls on the muscles. Water plays a very important role in metabolism: the daily turnover of water in the human body is 40 000 glasses!

Stress hormones - adrenaline and cortisone - cause dehydration, which, in turn, becomes an additional source of stress. Chronic dehydration leads to loss of the body's vital amino acids necessary for protein production, as well as to activate lipases - enzymes that burn fat.

Dehydration can lead to both weight loss, muscular dystrophy, and obesity. The thing is that the body begins to suffer from thirst long before we start to feel it. Since both the dehydration and the need for nutrients cause the production of histamine, the need for water can be substituted with a false sense of hunger. In this case, a person who suffers chronic hunger, instead of drink, tends to eat with all the ensuing consequences.

Fooding high fat and simple carbohydrates causes an increase in insulin levels in the blood that inhibits fat burning and, conversely, causes their deposit in fat cells. So dehydration process takes muscle to fat.

When the process of lipolysis is not suppressed by higher consumption of food, dehydrated body is actively losing both muscle, and fat, and as a result weight is reduced. Dehydrated cells are reduced in size, and this also leads to loss of skin elasticity, and shrinkage of the entire body.

You should drink a day 2.5-3 liters of water, of course, if you do not have big problems with the kidneys. People with heart problems and kidney disease should increase water intake slowly, if possible, under medical supervision.

Tea and coffee are not in offset, as the caffeine stimulates the loss of body water - a cup of coffee removes more water than it contains. Drink only purified water, mineral dining water can be - without gas better, as the carbonated water reduces appetite. You need to drink plenty of water to protect the food proteins and fats from encroachment by your energy complex. Ionized alkaline water is ideal to drink.

As far as your body is dehydrated, you can determine over the color of urine. If you do not take medicines that can change the color of urine (including B-vitamins), then in dehydration, urine can range from dark yellow to orange. Well saturated with water the body produces light-colored urine.

Any balanced diet for weight gain would not be complete if it not includes enough substance needed for organs and tissues that are involved in the construction of new cells. The most important of these substances are essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals.

Complete absorbtion of fats, carbohydrates and proteins the body is possible only with the full spectrum of vitamins and minerals in the diet. Such a set can be obtained by taking high-quality multivitamin. You should take a multivitamin during before or after meal, but not on an empty stomach. If you decide to stick with recommendations for copious drinking, add also well-balanced mineral complex, since some essential minerals leave the body with the water.

In addition, to digest food you requires a full range of digestive enzymes. Do not think that we have for this a pancreas. Not at all! Work of pancreas is calculated that the food initially already contains a number of plant enzymes, but if it is not (as in the modern diet it is sure), the pancreas is working with the overload and rapidly get retired.

Therefore, to ensure complete digestion, and reduce energy consumption in the digestive process, take enzyme complexes, which should include the following enzymes:

    - Proteolytic enzymes - protease, pepsin, papain (they helps).
    - Alpha-amylase, diastase, amilomaltase - contribute to the digestion of carbo-hydrates.
    - Protease - helps proteins digestion.
    - Lactase - breaks down milk sugar lactose contained in milk proteins.
    - Pancreatin - a complex of pancreatic enzymes, containing amylase and protease, and lipase, which is necessary for fat digestion.

Take for individual indications in addition some mineral elements and vitamins in a natural, well-digestible form:

    Zinc - to improve the taste and olfactory perception of food.
    Iron (especially for women).
    The complex of B vitamins - to counteract the stress, providing energy and improve appetite.

Many supplements also include extracts of medicinal plants and other natural substances that promote digestion and assimilation of food.

Here's you really need:

    - unsaturated fatty acids Îìåãà-3 (for normal function of the endocrine system and improve the supply of tissues with oxygen and nutrients);
    - rhodiola rosea extract - to protect the body from stress, maintain a high level of immunity;
    - Aloe Vera juice - in digestive problems providing 100% digestion of proteins;
    - probiotic supplements - improve digestion, stimulate the development of beneficial bacteria;
    - energizers (Energy & Memory, ZenThonic) - increase the energy of the body, the efficiency of metabolic processes.

I would advise men to enrich your program of vitamin supplements intake of the special male complex VitalMan. This herbal tonic based on medicinal plants is designed to increase vitality, energy and health. It contains everything you need to support the cardiovascular, nervous and digestive systems, improve protection of the body and male power, combat stress.

Women the same will be given of the formula VitalWoman.

All cellular metabolism is regulated by hormones and hormonal activity is controled by the pituitary gland. But the activity of the pituitary after 23 years of age begins to fade; similary is decreased and growth hormone, which is required for the formation of new cells. For real work of the program to gain weight, the growth hormone should be released in sufficient quantities.

A complex supplement for the stimulation of growth hormone Natural HGH Support contains a full set of nutrients needed for pituitary, plus the items necessary for getting growth hormone into the cells. But how are you going to accelerate the growth of new cells, if growth hormone is produced sluggish?

Royal Jelly is perhaps one of the most effective natural remedies to help weight gain. It is created by Nature "royal ration" by which the queen-bee weighs 2.5 times more than the worker bee and lives up to 5 years. To take full advantage of biostimulating properties of royal jelly, take it in the morning and evening, along with one teaspoon of honey

Finally I want to offer you two paradoxical approaches to weight gain. If nothing helps, then why not take a chance and try something unconventional? In the end, is never too late to reverse.

1. If you want to increase your weight any way, and agree to take the risk of your health - try eat foods harmful for you!

Twenty years ago, Dr. Peter D'Adamo, author of blood group diet, found what foods lead to weight gain for people of each blood type. Until now, his recommendations were used only in a limited sense - that is, people who wanted to reduce weight, tried to eliminate these foods from their diet.

But what's stopping you do the opposite? Eat the foods that slow down your metabolism and your weight will begin to increase, however, exclusively due to the fatty component. Please note, however, that the attendant phenomena will be excessive production of insulin, the risk of developing diabetes and other diseases specific to your blood type. But if you really want it, how much, after all, the life!

Here is some basic information.

The main factor that leads to weight gain in people with blood group 0(I), is gluten, which is found in wheat germ and whole grain products. Lectins contained in the gluten slow down the metabolism and make use calories less effective. The corn gives a similar but less pronounced effect.

Weight gain in 0-people also occurs by eating some beans, contain lectins, which reduce the ability of muscle to physical activity.

Slowing of metabolism in people with blood group A(II) is contributed by animal food. This is due to low acidity of gastric juice in the A-people. Dairy foods in "carriers" of blood group A, too, are poorly absorbed and provoke insulin reaction, slowing down the metabolism.

Incidentally, in the framework of the Internet survey I found that people with blood group A, who frequently consume meat, a half times more likely to be overweight. So this technique can be based on a real basis.

Weight gain in people with blood group B(III) can be due to the consumption of corn, buckwheat, lentils, peanuts and sesame seeds.

People with blood group AB(IV) get negative insulin reaction from eating of ordinary beans or kidney beans ("lima"), as well as corn, buckwheat and sesame seeds.

2. Want to get stout - try to starve!

The fact that starvation, and any short-term diet for weight loss give often the opposite result - after their cancellation, weight not only returns to its original value, but exceeds it, sometimes even very noticeable (naturally, at the expense of fat mass). This is called "yo-yo effect".

You heard about it, is not? So try it. In people with obesity "yo-yo effect" works well. Maybe it will work for you - imagine how much money you can rake with this? Both ideas are not patentable by me - I give you them!

This article is copyrighted by Alexander Yezovit. It cannot be reprinted without permission from Alexander Yezovit.

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