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If “Fast Walk” serves for yourself to lose weight

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Is it possible to lose weight walking? It is a recurring question and is logical. After all, physical activity facilitates the consumption of calories that our body stores as fat. But it also turns out to be a form of Exercise available to almost everyonesomething important if we take into account that constancy is usually key when we talk about thinning. However, the answer to this question is somewhat more complex than it might seem. Yeah, walk It is a good way to burn calories, and much more: it is also an exercise that provides benefits to our cardiorespiratory and muscular health, and also helps prevent the appearance of diabetes, among other varied effects. That is why it is usually remembered from time to time that, although walking it can be very useful, it may not be the exercise that best suits our plans, and could be seen more as a complement that as the main resource to which we stick to. Now, let’s investigate why. As experts remember, exercise is not always the best strategy if what we are looking for is to reduce our body mass. “For weight loss, The diet seems to be more effective that physical activity “ Donald Hensrud explainsof the Healthy Life program of the Mayo Clinic. Rather, it is usually considered that, in general, the exercise is more effective when maintaining the weight; While if we want to lose weight, control our diet is usually considered a more effective strategy. Of course this does not mean that we should forget this part, even if only for The positive impact That an active life has in our health. The problem is that we tend to Overbear the impact of exercise and physical activity in general in the caloric consumption that our body performs. Alternatively, we can express it in a different way: we tend to underestimate (or directly to ignore) the enormous caloric consumption that our body performs only by being, to keep ourselves alive throughout our day to day. Some estimates place the relative weight of physical exercise Between 10% and 30% of caloric consumption. Imagine a situation in which physical exercise represents 20% of the calorie expenditure that our body performs. This implies that if we folded the exercise we do (100% more activity), we would only increase the caloric consumption of our body by 20%. Combine strategies Leaving weight loss in the hands of a simple strategy is not usually recommended. Constancy is important and use the Exercise as a complement To the diet when we want to lose weight, it can be helpful in various ways. First and perhaps more important, for being a healthy habit to incorporate in our day to day. Secondly, exercise can make changes in the diet more, “distributing” the effort we put to change towards healthier habits. Since constancy is important, a small help never hurts. Third, the exercise, we pointed out before, is a good way to keep us in our weight. The sooner we get the habit, the better. Walking can help us with these three purposes, so it is a perfect complement if we want to lose weight and want to do it in a healthier way. It is a good complement but is it the best? Walking has the advantage of helping us build Routines without great efforts and minimizing the risk of abandonment; But if what we want is to increase the caloric consumption of our body, for example to be able to resort to less strict diets, there are alternatives that perhaps better adapt to our needs. Finally, it is never worth remembering that each body is different, even our own body changes over the years. Formulas and weight losing recipes are not universal, so it is always useful (when not absolutely necessary) consult with experts who can guide us in the process. In Xataka | Do not tell me your age, tell me your grip strength: how simple gestures tell us how good we are aging Image | Arek In addition

There are those who are adding fungi such as cordyceps to coffee to lose weight. Science has many reservations

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Coffee is a food, with numerous positive effects on our body. We get more and more about this Positive coffee actionbut we have determined to improve it adding supplements as proteins either Spirulina. One of the latest trends? Enrich coffee with fungi. So that? To lose weight. And here the evidence is not so clear that this trend of ‘Mushroom Coffee’ is so healthy that invites a coffee with cordyceps to drink. The promise. Eating mushrooms or fungi has nothing weird, but a few years ago we began to see how the food industry It began to add them to other foods to create improved versions of them. One of the first brands that added fungi to the cocoa or coffee was FOUR SIGMICan American company that creates “functional foods” and well -being supplements. That is, coffee is not only coffee: it has a series of additions vegetables to relieve these, support the immune system or accelerate weight loss. The latter is what a more recent grabs Trend in networks like Tiktokthe baptized as ‘Mushroom Coffee’. There are several brands that sell coffee with fungi Cordyceps coffee. The defenders claim that coffee (and other foods) can be enhanced with medicinal fungi whose compounds carry a series of positive effects. Among those fungi are Reishithe León hairhe Maitake or the Shiitake (great in broths)but also the most famous cordyceps. Yes, that parasitic fungus that makes Some ants become ‘zombies‘And what is protagonist of the Apocalypse of ‘The Last of Us’. These fungi can increase energy production and improve metabolic function, helping in the burning of fats. They can also help control hunger, stabilize glucose levels and have Probiotic properties that favor both digestion and nutrient absorption. Market. And it is not a bizarre or the US thing: you can Buy coffee With cordyceps In Amazon If you want the healthy effects of coffee more, Chow they announcegreater energy and improvement in your mental clarity. There are different estimates, but this coffee market is expected to grow at a rate of between 5.4% and 5.7% during the next decade. There are studies that place their value at 1,203.4 million dollars in 2023 with a growth up to 1,833.4 million by 2031. They are considerable figures, but we compare, the estimate of specialty coffee is 62,500 million by 2032 and that of the entire market It will be of 632,000 million for that year. But well, it seems that this trend, little by little, is consolidated and grows. The small print. The logic here seems simple. In the case of protein: if it is a good supplement and coffee is a good food, mixing them works. With fungi and coffee the same thing happens, but something that should not be overlooked: there is a lack of research. The relationship between coffee and weight loss is well documented, being a good stimulating before performing some training and selling the caffeine as supplement. But, although the properties of these fungi are also documented, evidence on coffee with fungi and its action in weight loss or mental well -being is limited. Clinical trials are missing that confirm its direct effectiveness to lose weight and most of those available studies are in animals. Also, as we read in VogueNutritionist Marta Marcè comments that it is not usually specified whether the extract is from the fruiting body (rich in properties) or the roots (less powerful), in addition to using very low doses. And sometimes It is not even the real fungus. Dangers. Although cordyceps has a bad reputation due to fiction products in which it has been the protagonist and its effect on some insectsusually has no health hazards. Cordyceps coffee is approved by the USDA -The United States Department of Agriculture-, but you have to take some things into account. It may produce some allergies in certain people and it is necessary Influence when combining it With other stimulating products or drugs, but most importantly, above all, it is to know where those fungi that supplement chocolate or cocoa. Marketing, already such Because here the danger is how that fungus has been manipulated and the example we have had in Colombia, where a health alert on cordyceps supplements not regulated or fraudulent. And if you dare to try it, be from reliable and out of curiosity, not so much for its numerous promises, that millions move in the other part of the world. Images | Conasi, Four Sigmatic In Xataka | It turns out that the myth that marriage fattens is true. But only for men

lose up to 60% of air traffic

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They threatened and fulfilled. Ryanair has left or reduced its operations in seven Spanish cities, leaving semi -vaiors some airports in our country or, directly, eliminating more than half of the routes that came out from them. Now, the exit and without a company that occupies the hole left by the Low Cost Irish, we already know the impact. I set up. They announced it in January of this year. Ryanair made his bags and sought routes, in his opinion, more profitable than the Spanish. In total, 800,000 places less this summer, the closure of its activity in two Spanish cities and a reduction of its operations in five other cities. Specifically, 12 routes that suppose 18% of the company’s activity in our country. Jerez and Valladolid have fired Of the flights offered by the company and in Vigo, Santiago, Zaragoza, Asturias and Santander the operations between 5% (Santander) and 61% (Vigo) have been reduced. The reasons. “Despite the decision of the Spanish government in 2021 to freeze rates at airports until 2026, Aena has tried to increase rates every year and more accentuated in Spanish regional airports, where traffic is maintained below the levels prior to the Covid crisis,” with these words Ryanair explained its march. The decision also described it as “completely avoidable” and stressed that it would be “devastating for regional connectivity, employment and tourism in Spain.” That is, Ryanair directly pointed to the government and Aena rates that are charged for the maintenance of airports. The reasons? Despite Ryanair’s explanations, other reasons float in the air. The most obvious is that Fine of 107.78 million euros that the government has applied to Ryanair for its regulations regarding hand luggage has been decisive in the succession of events. The company’s own CEO, Michael O’Leary, He came to qualify as “clown” To the Minister of Consumption, Pablo Bustinduy. That fine is controversial because For consumption there is no doubt that a cabin suitcase is “essential” to travel. Ryanair defends himself saying that European regulations do not clearly specify what the measures of the “essential” bulk that must be embarked should be. Therefore, they ensure that the government is financially punishing the company for no reason. And justice does not end up being clear. Even in Spain, Ryanair has received favorable and opposite sentences in litigation related to the hand suitcase and the collection of it when it comes to what is popularly known as a cabin troley. Aena’s rates, therefore, seem only the excuse to break the routes. Its impact. In his march, Ryanair knew where he could hurt. He has left behind airports with very little activity, which means the closure of many routes that had the foreigner. Now, many citizens have to travel to Madrid, Barcelona and other large cities to take flights outside Spain. The most affected airport is Valladolid, where 63.2% of its passengers have vanished, according to data collected by Aena. It is the most affected city of the previous list. Together added 779,226 passengers in April, for the 871,070 passengers of the same month of last year. And that specifies in the economic environment, which Holy Week has been held in that period, which adds extra passengers (last year it was held in March). In total, 92,000 passengers have been lost in the sum of all airports and, according to Expansion75% of these operations correspond to trips offered by Ryanair. Zaragoza grows. Of the cities where Ryanair has reduced its operations, only Zaragoza manages to grow Regarding the month of April 2024. Its traffic grew by 13.6% despite the fact that the company had announced the withdrawal of 20% of the operations on the soil. Contrast with any other city that has reduced its operations to a greater or lesser extent. Jerez has lost 25% of passengers and Santiago 16.8%. In Santander, the decrease in passengers has been minimal with a 0.3% fall and in Asturias it has been contained in 1.7% decrease. In spite of everything, the average in reducing operations has been 10%. And in the future? Who knows. Because Ryanair continues to tension the rope And only a few weeks ago that he threatened to continue withdrawing routes if from Aena they do not yield to his demands regarding airport rates. A declaration of intentions of which Aena defends himself ensuring that these are very low in regional airports, almost testimonial. The truth is that Ryanair has operated, Also in Spainwith regional aid disguised as advertising campaigns which has allowed him to hold routes that were not filled. In his march he has applied that same strategy On routes that, for example, have Morocco as destination And in which nobody is traveling. Photo | Marty Sakin In Xataka | The great secret of Ryanair’s success is that he does not earn money to fly: he does so squeezing you in everything else

Japan has made an airport not lose a suitcase in 30 years. Now you have to achieve another milestone: that it does not sink

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Now that that moment of the year is approaching where millions of travelers prepare to face the flights that will take them to the long -awaited holidays, an airport room is also ready for the arrival of one of those evils assumed as part of the package: the lost or lost suitcases. Although there is an exception. In Japan an airport has erected as the most efficient of the planet. They have been three decades Without losing luggage. His problem is another, and is underground. 30 years without a complaint. As we said, in a sector where loss is almost evil assumed by travelers, the Kansai International Airportin Japan, it offers an amazing anomaly: in its three decades of operationhas never lost a suitcase, a baby cart, a couple of skis or a single bag. The feat, which its employees describe with modesty as a simple consequence of following the rules, has made Kansai a reference of silent efficiency. Serving the regions of Osaka and Kyoto, and with 30 million passengers International a year, its record cannot be attributed to a low volume of traffic. What distinguishes it is meticulous attention to detail: from aligning the handles of the suitcases to facilitate their collection until they personally deliver fragile or bulky objects directly in the hands of the passenger. In Xataka Nobody wants to spend three hours on a Saturday. And that’s why hypermarkets go down Operational discipline. Had in Japan Times Tsuyoshi Habuta, supervisor of one of the luggage manipulation companies in Kansai, which behind there is no special training or secret systems. According to him, merit lies in Comply with established processes And act carefully: each suitcase is treated as something valuable, not only for its content, but for what it represents for the passenger. Your team manages some 3,000 pieces a dayand the manipulation procedure of is a ballet Synchronized revisions and cross controls. Each piece is counted not only at the time of check-in, but also during and after the flight. The workers inspect that the number of packaged packages coincide exactly with those downloaded, both in the airplane warehouse and in the safety control rooms. If something does not block, the search begins immediately. The rule of the quarter hour. Plus: There is a tacit rule. Deliver all luggage in the collection zone in less than fifteen minutes From landing is a priority. This system is what has made the airport a world reference of efficiency, being awarded eight times with international awards for its excellence in the delivery of luggage. Airport Aerial View Omotenashi philosophy. Behind this impeccable history is also the Japanese concept of omotenashior hospitality as art. According to testimonies of the workers themselves collected by NPRcommitment is not only with logistics efficiency, but with the happiness of the passenger. For them, excellence is not an objective achieved but a constant improvement, fueled by the humility of learning every day and the responsibility of representing Japanese quality to the world. This collective attitude generates an organizational culture where The error is not allowednot for fear of punishment, but for professional pride. Wonder of engineering. The airport, opened in 1994, is built entirely About an artificial island In Osaka Bay and remains one of the infrastructure projects more ambitious and expensive Never performed. Conceived to relieve the saturation of the Osaka airport, Kansai has evolved to become the third busiest airport from Japan. Its initial construction cost around 14,000 million dollars, but with expansions and adjustments it has reached an estimated value of 20,000 million in 2008figure that, adjusted to current inflation, could double. Endowed with characteristics such as flexible asphalt tracks capable of resisting earthquakes and a high structure on 900 hydraulic cats that allow leveling the terminal as the ground sits, the airport has even resisted the devastating Kobe earthquake 1995 without compromising its operation. Osaka Bay Marine bed The problem: it sinks. It We count a while ago. Despite all his technological advances, Kansai faces a persistent and increasingly worrying threat: It is sinking. Since its inauguration, the airport has already descended about 11.5 meters And it is expected that another additional four meters could descend before 2056, approaching dangerously to the sea level. This situation is due to the fact that it was built on land earned to the sea, a highly compressible alluvial clay base that, under the weight of the artificial island, releases water and contracts, causing the progressive sinking of the soil. Although engineers have tried to accelerate land consolidation through “sand drains” (deep holes stuffed with sand to evacuate moisture), the settlement was not completed before starting construction, and the effects continue to accumulate over time. {“Videid”: “X8ST3IM”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “Japan ride generated with Sora”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “17”} Fight against the sea. In 2018, a powerful typhoon flooded one of the slopesconfirming that the problem is not theoretical or distant. In response, the containment dike rose in 2.7 meters To prevent future floods, but experts agree that these measures are palliative and will not be enough in the long term without a large -scale intervention. Yes, the airport is designed to adjust structurally and adapt to the movements of the land, but the geological environment itself (that species of “wet sponge” of loose clay) represents a continuous and silent threat. Every centimeter that descends more compromises its future viability, and although for now it remains an example of advanced engineering, the countdown to its physical obsolescence has already begun. In Espinof I’ve seen ‘Rogue One’ after finishing ‘Andor’. I still have the impression that they are two half films forced to meet Monument with expiration date. In summary, Kansai is a fascinating paradox: a symbol of what human engineering can achieve and a reminder of the limits that imposes nature. While continuing to operate effectively recognized worldwide (With its unmatched record of delivery of luggage without losses), its future survival asshole a complex equation between technology, resources and political decisions. Without large … Read more

Obssing with losing weight is a very bad idea to lose weight. Luckily, science has many more effective

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A young doctor appears before his boss and, although he does not say it out loud, he thinks “the last time I was in front of him, I swept at least a liter. But now I’m going to sweat at least ten, that guy will find out what is to sweat!” Then, do not sweat a drop. It is not fiction, it is A real case collected by psychiatrist Viktor Frankl In 1994. He did to explain that many times our fears, objectives and intentions play against us. And yes, we are talking about losing weight. Against us? It’s as if, for using A metaphor of another psychologists (Steven C. Hayes)“We fell into a deep hole and the only thing we had to go out was with a shovel. As we don’t know very well what to do and we despair, we started using the shovel.” The result, despite working day and night, is that we are deeper than before. What in the background tells us a good number of psychologists (from Logotherapists to Specialists in acceptance and commitment) is that we are so culturally attached to certain behavioral strategies that, although they are not useful, we cannot get rid of them. The obsession with “losing weight” is a problem. And yes, obsession is the word. In Spain, where 52% of the adult population presents overweight or obesity, seven out of ten people (72%) They have tried to lose weight at least once in their life. In fact, According to the Mapfre Foundation datathey have done it, on average, about seven times. That leads to “53% of Spaniards has ever followed a popular or miracle diet with the aim of losing weight.” It is not an accident; It is the consequence of what I commented: in the popular imaginary, the way of losing weight is that. That is to say, In words Giuseppe Russolillopresident of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, “the population is not fully aware that the methods that use weight losing are extremes and can put their health at risk and that the recovery of the lost weight is frequent.” And what can we do? The first is to banish false myths. Sï, obesity is a health problem; but Not so clear that overweight is in general terms. “The life expectancy of people overweight is not less than that of Normopeso”, He told us Juan Ramón BarradaProfessor at the University of Zaragoza. Many ideas that we have above all this and that we use to justify our behaviors, are still disciplinary stories. That does not mean that health is not important. It means that many of those ideas about overweight, health and beauty are cultural strategies equivalent to getting to cabin being inside a well. So? There are no scientific knowledge that can help us? “From what we can extract from current investigations, there are three tips that can be given to anyone: Eat healthyexercise and Accept your body. Today, everything is reduced to weight loss, “he continued Barrada. Therefore, “we must be clear that stigmatizing people overweight or obesity such as ‘vague’ or ‘lack of will’ is to promote suffering” unjustified. And do it with ourselves too. Luckily, as Barrada pointed out, there is another way of doing things. Image | I Yunmai In Xataka | The scientific reason why miracle diets do not work is

Ozempic has made thousands of people lose weight brutally. Then they have put their closet funds for sale

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Novo Nordisk, the Ozempic manufacturer, has just presented the results of the first quarter and the data are impressive: we talk about 3,891 million euros, 14% more than last year. And, of course, that He has shot the price of the company. The most interesting, however, is why. And the answer is very simple: the treatments against obesity have risen 67%. It is what allows us to intuit that the Ozempic revolution (and the rest of the GLP-1 agonists go far beyond what we might think. So much so that he is putting up legs The second -hand market. Something is changing. In mid -2024, second -hand sales platforms began to see how the clothes offered in their systems changed. In the previous two years, large -scale women’s clothing ads had grown surprisingly: “A 103% increase in 3xl size ads, 80% in 4xl size and 73% in 5xl size”. Not only that, Poshmark analyzed the ads and discovered “a 78% increase in the new ads that mention ‘weight loss’ in the title or description.” Dressed Collective, specialized in second -hand sale of high quality products, has also detected a similar phenomenon and Goodwillfinds, which reverts donated clothing, says they are increasingly donated. Vinted He has also noticed. How do we know that all this has to do with Ozempic? We can’t be sure, it’s true. But, as they point out in Fortune, one in eight Americans already USA SEMAGLUTIDA OR ANOTHER GLP-1 agonist and the trend has been growing very closely to how the use of these medications grew. And, whatever it is, it is an issue that everyone begins to intuit that is serious. In fact, there are more and more resale programs of the brands themselves. Given these market changes, brands such as Levi’s, Patagonia and Carhartt Wip have begun to mount their own stores that allow them to also be present in this “second life” of their products. After all, As they point out in Vogue Business“The resale has been one of the only retail trade engines in recent years.” In fact, the market has been bent since 2021. However, not all the mountain is oregano. The problem is evident: as thousands of people lose weight significantly and They decide to purge their cabinetsthe stocks of second -hand stores are unbalanced: there is a lot of big clothes to sell and few people who want to buy it. That is, if analysts are right, we are going to A great readjustment of the fashion we produce, sell and buy. In a world pregnant with data and more data, it may seem curious that the first to realize have been Second -hand platformsbut little by that we think it is so predictable that it scares. Above all, To luxury brands. Image | YAP In Xataka | XL models: When you are harassed by your body in real life and influencer admired on Instagram

More and more people take a “pacifier” of vinegar or herbs early to lose weight

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Until recently – and some video may still appear Scrolleando In Tiktok – they marked trend the Morning Shedswhere people recorded showing step by step how their day began. Between cafes, cold showers and positive statements, somewhat more questionable practices were also sneaking. But the curious thing is not only what they did, but what has remained: now, many of these videos focus solely on what they take in the morning. A morning habit. In social networks, especially in Tiktok, the morning chupitos have taken prominence. What started as A punctual gesture between celebrities “Such as the chest of wheat grass,” it has become a viral phenomenon that floods the feeds of hundreds of users. From ginger chupitos to herbal combined, the concept is always the same: a quick dose that promises great results. But beyond the format, the question arises from whether the idea that a simple drink can be the key to thinning and detoxifying the body is really transmitted. There is one that stands out. Among all these drinks, apple vinegar has won a special prominence. In the videos we can see how Drink apple vinegar pacifier Easy under the pretext that it will help them flatten the belly and burn fat. Yes, it is true that some studies They have observed That consumption of this type of vinegar can slightly reduce blood glucose levels and total cholesterol. Now some specialists They have warned on the possible adverse effects of its excess consumption and on an empty stomach ranging from the irritation of the stomach or the esophagus to the damage to the dental enamel. There is even more. This trend of Shots morning is not limited to apple vinegar, there are also infusions of Tik Tok or ginger and turmeric chupitos that have entered the category of natural remedies presented as rapid solutions to detoxify the body or accelerate metabolism. “I’m going to show you this Tik Tok recipe,” A user comments While preparing a tea with ingredients that, according to what you have seen, can help lose weight. However, some experts They have pointed out That many of these combinations do not have sufficient scientific support and can have adverse effects. For example, excessive green tea consumption It can interfere In iron absorption. Behind the investigations. Despite the rise of morning chupitos on social networks, specialists They have coincided that there are no conclusive evidence that supports the alleged detox or slimming benefits. The available evidence is limited and, in many cases, the observed effects are minimal or circumstantial. More than resorting to fast solutions, experts They have insisted in prioritizing a balanced and sustainable long -term diet. A healthy intestine. For a while now, hashtags like #gutok and #guthealth They have popularized Jengibre chupitos, turmeric supplements and probiotics that, supposedly, help eliminate swelling and improve intestinal health. However, what really needs intestinal microbiome is dietary fiber from cereals, whole grains, fruits and vegetables, such as He explained for The Guardian Dr. Saman Khalesi. Along the same lines, natural infusions such as green tea or chamomile have been viralized, associated with anti -inflammatory and digestive properties. The culture of immediacy. We live in an era where everything seems to be fast, from purchases to the results. In that sense, it is not surprising that the morning chupitos have captured the attention of many users on social networks. The promise of rapid and visible results appeals to those who seek immediate changes in their health, but specialists insist that it is important to contextualize these practices. To what extent are these morning gestures provide real benefits or only perpetuate the illusion of express solutions? Image | Pxhere and Pexels Xataka | We take more and more mercury through fish. There are those who want to solve it with “design” probiotics

Summer is approaching and with him the new obsessive trend to lose weight quickly: the patches to lose weight

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There are nine weeks left for summer and social networks have not taken to remember it. This year, the trend is a clear two -way revival that He has flooded everything: Not only outfits with y2k hats or minimal tops, but also thin body. Quite back the discourse of bodily positivity has remained, and the obsession with weight loss has returned strongly. This time, in the form of stickers. Slimming patches. These products, marketed under names as Weightless either Diet patchThey are transdermal adhesives that are placed on the skin on the wrist or belly. The Reels In social networks and manufacturers ensure that they help lose weight, reduce appetite or accelerate metabolism. The promise is simple: pégate it and lose weight, with no more effort than to remember every so often. Some even present with slogans such as “needleless version” of medicines such as Ozempicdespite having absolutely nothing in common beyond marketing. Does it really work? According to a Bloomberg articlethe theory behind these patches is that they release “natural” ingredients to the body through the skin. Some include compounds such as berberine, green tea extract, caffeine or bullfighting. However, there is no serious scientific evidence that supports these compounds that can be absorbed by the skin in significant amounts to reduce weight. As They have detailed In Medical News Today, some experts have agreed that these products are sold as supplements without strict regulation and it is practically impossible to know what they really contain. As He explained Professor Nerys Astbury of the University of Oxford in Bloomberg, although some medications are administered transdermally (such as nicotine or contraceptives), it has not been shown that appetite suppressors can do it effectively. Boom to lose weight. This whole situation occurs in a context in which obesity medications are more fashionable than ever. Products like Ozempic, Wegovy either Zepboundbased on the GLP-1 molecule, they have been revolutionaries in the treatment of overweight. Unlike viral patches, these do have clinical studies, medical approval and proven results. But of course, they require recipe, medical monitoring and, above all, a puncture. Hence the idea of ​​a “LPG-1 in patch” sounds so tempting. A background problem. What really is at stake is not only the patches, but what they represent. There are many videos about “losing weight” with increasingly crazy routines and, now, it has touched the turn of Loss to lose weight stickers. These types of rapid solutions perpetuate the mentality of thinning is a process that can be outsourced in a patch, without the need for long -term commitments, exercise or changes in the diet. A “perfect body” culture is promoted regardless of cost, whether physical or psychological. In this sense, social networks are playing a key role, presenting these patches as an “easy” and “pain” of losing weight, not to mention the associated risks or realities behind these products. While the young women immerse themselves in this wave of weight loss, we are faced with a new form of social pressure that resurrects the cult of extreme thinness. The two thousand aesthetics, which glorified thinness, sneaks back into our screens and, with it, the return to the idea of ​​aesthetic pressure to be happy. Image | Tiktok Xataka | “I never say that I have thinned thanks to Ozempic”: the taboo of the ‘Ozempicazo’, the people who hide them consume it

We have been using sweeteners that provide zero calories. Now we understand why they don’t always help lose weight

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Sugar is one of the most daily foods and one on which food controversies do not scarce. Excessive sugar consumption can be linked to various problems, from the oral to diabetes. The artificial sweeteners that we sometimes use to reduce the consumption of conventional sugars can be healthier, but no less controversial. Less sugar, more hungry. A recent study He has found that some artificial sweeteners could be affecting the signals that manage our appetite at the brain level. The team responsible for the study observed that the Sucralosa had a less satiating effect than sucrose, conventional or table sugar. The Sucralosa. Sucralosa is a artificial sweetenera disaccharide or compound sugar such as the union of two simple sugars. Its sweetest capacity is up to 600 times higher than that of sucrose, but our body does not absorb it in the same way. This implies that this sweetener has no caloric contribution to our body. This could explain the observed phenomenon: our body would perceive the sweet taste and prepare for calorie ingestion. The body would simply be responding to the absence of energy received. 75 participants. In the study, 75 participants who worked as both of the experimental group and control group in two sessions separate days or weeks from each other took part. Participants, men and women, some with “healthy” weight, others overweight or obesity, consumed three drinks prepared in the experimental sessions to which they underwent. These preparations were a sweetened drink with sucralose, another with conventional sugar (sucrose), and another simple water. The order in which they assigned each drink was random. The team later studied the participants’ response to each drink. Before and after the test they carried out functional magnetic resonances, they took blood samples and asked the participants for their feeling of hunger. They observed that the sucralose increased appetite and activity in the hypothalamus and that it did it to a greater extent among the participants with obesity. The team also detected changes in how the hypothalamus communicated with other brain regions. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Metabolism. Old acquaintances. The key can be in the hormones that our body produces when eating, hormones such as insulin and LPG-1 (Glucagon -like peptide 1). This last hormone is produced in the stomach when we eat and fulfills a double function: on the one hand warns the pancreas that we will need insulin to manage digerida glucose; and by transmits to our brain the message that we have fed and satiated. “The body uses these hormones to tell the brain that you have consumed calories, to reduce hunger,” Explain in a press release Kathleen Alanna Page, co -author of the study. “The Sucralosa did not have that effect, and the differences in hormonal responses to the sugar compared to sugar were even more pronounced in participants with obesity.” Much to investigate. According to the team itself, there are still some unknowns to solve in this context. One question, for example, is how this sweetener affects our brain activity in the long term. To do this, they explain, longitudinal studies will be necessary that also analyze the weight and food behaviors of the patients. Another issue to solve is how other factors affect, such as sex, this relationship. The team indicated that during the experiment, the brain activity of women showed greater variability than that of men, which implies the possibility of differences to study. In Xataka | Some researchers have analyzed the impact of sugary drinks on world health. They have taken their hands to the head Image | Faran Raufi

A study has analyzed which cars are the ones that lose the most after five years and the clear answer: electric

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You were young but there was a day when buying a Tesla was a round business. The demand was such and the shortage of vehicles so high that There were those who were willing to pay more money For a used tesla than to pay 10,000 euros less, commission it to the company and wait a few months upon arrival. The funny thing is that you were not so young. It was something that happened in 2022. First in the United States and then in Spain. Who was going to tell us now that the company dealt with a painful salesin which it is difficult to discern how much there is temporary with the renewal of the Tesla Model and and how definitive. Especially in countries where the issue is very sensitive, Like Germany. But, obviously, this is not the usual situation. In fact, if your idea is to buy an electric car and change it shortly (three/four years) it is very likely that it is a bad decision. Because, in general and except for very specific circumstances such as the previous one, the electric car is the type of car that is most devalued. A car for many years If you are thinking of getting an electric car, there are two especially interesting formulas. The first is called Renting. Although it is a formula in which more money is paid than with a share of a loan for the purchase of a car to use, it is a good option if you are not very sure of whether the electric car is for you and you do not want to mortgage in the very long term. The second option is to buy an electric car and You keep it as much as possible. If a car does not give problems this is always the best formula to save money but, in the case of a concrete electric car of an electric car, the more kilometers do, the more they fill the battery at low power and more time keep the car the best result will give. This is because yes, How we tell you in this articleyou can load the car at home, you can be saving about five times more money than with a day -to -day gasoline car in fuel consumption. Especially if the use is intensive or almost exclusive in the city. To this is added that, with the passage of the kilometers and the years, reviews, oil changes, filters and, ultimately, replacement of all types of mobile parts that in an electric car are non -existent, are accumulated in a combustion car. A taxi driver can confirm that it is good savings. But the electric car is a problem if you want to change vehicles or technology after a few years. Because, according to the portal ISEECARSspecialists in second -hand sale in the United States, the electric car is the type of vehicle that is most devalued. According to its calculations, an electric car loses 58.8% of its value after five years. The figure contrasts with those collected for other types of vehicles. A hybrid loses 40.7% From the value of the last car a five years and, on average, a car loses 45.6% of its value. The data leave the sale portal and the cars sold there, monitoring 800,000 vehicles sold between March 2024 and February 2025. If the car is not electric, the type of car that is most depreciated is the luxury car. When there is a combination of both values, the result is fateful. The Jaguar I-Pace is the car that has suffered the most depreciation in the last five years, reaching 72.2%. It is followed by the BMW 7 Series (67.1%) and the Tesla Model S (65.2%). Among the 10 cars that depreciate the most we find the Nissan Leaf or the Tesla Model X. The rest are luxury vehicles. It makes a lot of sense Although it may seem bad news, the high depreciation of an electric car makes a lot of sense. And, in fact, the data is better than in previous years. In ISEECARS They point out that the same study in 2023 signed a depreciation of the electric car five years ago 49.1%. It was a lower figure because The price of second -hand cars shot During the Covid-19 crisis and the posterior Shortage in the supply chain. The figure, however, remained the highest of any other type of car. But in 2019 depreciation reached 67.1%. That this figure has dropped out that more buyers are willing to get a second -hand electric car. A sign that there are more electric cars in the market and that the plaintiffs trust more in technology. Although Buy a second -hand electric car It should not be very different than doing it with a combustion car (in fact, in terms of mechanics, it should be easier), it is logical that those who have never had an electric car are reluctant to enter technology with the acquisition of a second -hand vehicle. In addition, the rapid innovations that the sector is living while more competitors arrive that reduce prices cause cars to lose greater value against combustion cars. The promises of new most ambitious batteries and RECHARGES TO RATIMOS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE They are especially relevant to those who are willing to jump into the electric car but prefer to wait a bit to the new models. Cars now bought are devalued to a greater extent because the qualitative leap of buying a new car will be higher than changing a gasoline used by a new one. It is normal that with technology in full development, the current car is obsolete more quickly. It is something that happens in all types of markets Until a technology reaches maturity. Photo | HAVEREDAS In Xataka | We do not trust the second -hand electric car: its value does not stop falling and it is a problem for the industry

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