Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Glucagon the wonder hormone

Okay so I was reading this article about a hormone we all have called glucagon. Credits to the scientists and authors who discovered and wrote about it for me to be enlighten and to enlighten you as well. Glucagon is a weight lost hormone and I one article stated that "imagine PACMAN circling your waist line and gobbling all that fat!" sounds too good to be true right? Glucagon is the counterpart of insulin where instead of sugar is turned into fat, fat is turned into sugar. Eating too much sugar makes glucagon production slower because it is release 6 hours after a meal. Not only sugar but continuous eating of a certain food! Yes, I know how hard it is to lose that bad habit of sweets and who can't deny food? Obesity is a really scary thing and although I'm not overweight I have to watch my weight because my family history has a high chance of me inheriting diabetes. I'm active in school but now that it's summer i'm afraid of gaining weight so as much as possible I exercise. Even a simple movement in the house like light cleaning is enough to assure myself in not gaining that much of a weight. Now back to Glucagon. Since glucagon helps us loose weight, how do we increase the chances of loosing weight using this wonderful hormone? Like I said it is produced or released 6 hours after a meal, there are some ways to increase this by eating foods with protein, like fish or nuts. A simple snack or a small meal containing protein is a good start to this. Start with a small or medium meal or snack of protein early in the morning an hour later go and exercise, glucagon would surely frenzy in your body during those hours. Exercise is in fact another way to help glucagon, moving gets the fire burning! The more your heart race the chances you are staying healthy and fit and easily loose weight. Add some spice in your life with some chilly pepper to boost your metabolism which is another to help loose weight and eat leafy green veggies as another helpful energy together with protein. Have a safe and healthy lifestyle everyone!

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