After meals of these parties and the respective resolutions for the new year 2012, many of you aspire to diet.

The following list of ways to lose weight, however, is geared for lazy people who do not want to stop eating and do not want to get her ass off the couch. They will not lose much weight, but do not expect miracles if only you use the bike for hanging freshly ironed shirts.

1. Getting a

Apparently, a virus associated with the common cold may be related to obesity. Nikhil Dhurandhar of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, suggesting that adenovirus-36 (Ad-36) increases the number of fat cells in the body and the amount of fat within these cells.

Another study reported that children with Ad-36 antibodies weighed an average of 23 kilograms more than the children without them.

2. Relax

Several studies have linked stress with weight gain, if only because the anxiety leads us to seek calorie foods: brain imaging studies Rajita Sinha, director of the Yale Center of stress in the Yale University showed that stress increases activity in the ventral striatum, a region associated with reward and habits.

3. Cool down

Over the past three decades, households in the U.S. and the UK have become warmer. Fiona Johnson and his colleagues at the University College London, suggests that this may be that makes us fatter.

Simona Bo, University of Turin, Italy, agrees. In a study of 1,500 middle-aged adults, his team found that those whose house was warmer were twice as likely to be obese during the six years of research.

Most of the fat in our bodies is a guy called white fat. However, when the temperature drops to 18 ° C, brown fat (which is abundant in infants and adults who are mostly around the neck) begins to be consumed to keep warm.

4. Come proteins

The high-protein diets may make us thinner. Eat Stop Eat “There has been no scientific work in long-term success, but on the basis of their composition, we predict that it will be effective,” says Alison Gosby, University of Sydney, Australia.

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, showed that a diet high in protein and low glycemic index enabled most people to eat to feel full without gaining weight.

5. Look at the container

Some plastic containers and cans containing chemicals that can leach into foods and beverages, and evidence is beginning to link some of them to expanding waistlines.

Many of these products can interfere with thyroid function. One group, known as phthalates, also appear to activate a receptor in the cell nucleus called PPAR-gamma, which is involved in metabolizing fat.

In 2010, a team led by Elizabeth Hatch, of Boston University, reported that men with a body mass index (BMI) were also higher blood levels of phthalates. Other research has linked obesity with exposure to bisphenol A, another endocrine disruptor.

6. Turn off lights

Randy Nelson and his team at Ohio State University found that mice exposed to light during the night weighed 10% more in the final eight weeks studying the mice that had undergone a standard light / dark cycle, although ate the same number of calories and performed the same amount of exercise.

Light at night can disrupt the circadian clock by altering the metabolism of an individual.

7. Move into the country

Breathing polluted air can cause excess fat to accumulate around your stomach and make your cells less sensitive to insulin, increasing your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. “We believe that air pollution plays a major role in the current obesity epidemic,” said Xu Xiaohua Ohio State University.

Xu young mice exposed to air heavily polluted with fine particles for 6 hours a day, five days a week, and found that after 10 weeks had 50% more abdominal fat in mice that were fed the same diet but inhaled filtered air.

Another study by John Pearson of Harvard University found a strong relationship between levels of fine particulate air pollution and prevalence of type 2 diabetes in North America.

8. Sleep more

The height of the lazy. Rachael Taylor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, has found that children aged between 3 and 5 years who sleep less than the average of 11 hours per night are more likely to be overweight or obese at the time of meeting 7.

Lack of sleep reduces the secretion of leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite and increases levels of ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite. “Or it could be as simple as sleeping less means more time to eat,” says Taylor.

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