Drinking Milk Helps you Lose Weight
Did you know that increasing consumption of milk in our diet, we can lose weight? This he says Carmen Gómez Candela, head of the Unit of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, University Hospital La Paz (Madrid), told the newspaper El Mundo, and according to several Israeli researchers.
While people who are dieting often reduces the consumption of dairy products really are the people who most need to increase the dose. An alternative, for example, are calcium-fortified skim milks natural.
According to this research, it appeared that those who consumed more dairy products per day (about 580 milligrams of calcium) lost more weight compared to those who took a lower intake (an average of 150 milligrams of calcium). Specifically, after two years, people who consumed more milk, lost about six kilos more.
We always say that a calcium intake should be accompanied by an increased intake of foods with vitamin D to help absorption. This study gives reason to this theory, since they also claim that people with higher vitamin D blood who lost weight were more kilos.
The height is determined by 80% by genetics
What do you think influences to determine our height? Although genes are very important, other factors also play a role. Specifically, the height depends on genetics about 80%, and other environmental factors (eg diet) affect 20%.
According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, there are more than a thousand genetic variants that affect human height, but only about 180 have been identified. “It is clear that tall parents have tall children, and parents short people short people tend to have children,” said Joel Hirschhorn, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, author of the paper.
Some of these genetic variants are related, for example, with bone mineral density or with diseases such as obesity, osteoporosis, psoriasis and diabetes. For this study, involving more than 300 researchers from several countries, who have analyzed DNA samples from about 185,000 people.