10 reasons why your home can harm your health

Scientists have studied the causes of obesity and chronic diseases. It turned out, these problems are often related to the way we organize the space in which we live, and how to treat it.

1. Your closets are stuffed with "empty calories"

"Junk food" - food is high in fat and carbohydrates, but low biological value and utility. Ice cream, candy, cookies, chips - these products in the kitchen or in the office can provoke you and thwart any healthy diet. This is especially true at 3 pm and at bedtime, when the urge to eat is very hard to ignore.

You can not imagine my kitchen without a favorite cookie? Try to divide the foods that you tend to overeat in small portions. For example, if you know that one bag of cookies contains 150 calories, that is unlikely to reach for the next batch.

2. You let too much light in her bedroom

More and more studies show that the illumination of the room affects sleep and weight. The results of one of them were published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. Thus, participants who slept in a dark room, were 21% less prone to obesity than those that slept in the light. This is associated with melatonin, the sleep hormone, which is not produced by an excess of light. If melatonin is too small, it will be

problems with falling asleepAnd with losing weight. Therefore, if you want to lose weight, turn off the bedside lamp and buy a dark blackout curtains.

3. In your bedroom, living gadgets

One study has proven that children who spend the night in front of a glowing computer screen or TV tend to lead unhealthy lifestyles and a little rest. Students who in the room there is one gadget that is almost twice as likely to be overweight than children without any device in the bedroom. And if the child three gadgets, then the likelihood of obesity is three times higher. Therefore, leave your iPad in the living room. Bedroom - only for recreation.

4. Your dishes wrong color and size

Put the same amount of food on a large plate and a medium-sized bowl. Due to the nature of our perceptions it would seem that a large portion of the plate is less. When serving a meal to a large dish we subconsciously want to fill the empty space and eventually eat more. According to Cornell University, adults and children, who ate of the large plates, consumed 44% more calories.

It has a value and color dishes. It also affects how much food we impose. In the study, participants with white plates imposed itself on 22% more pasta than participants with the Reds. The thing is contrast: the more noticeable it is, the less we will have.

5. You store the fruit in the refrigerator

If healthy food is not in your field of vision, the probability that you want her to eat less. So why not keep the fruit in sight? Most of them do not need to clean the refrigerator. Moreover, the fruit on the table - it's beautiful.

Buy a vase for fruits and fill it bright and healthy apples, oranges, pears. Another way to entice yourself useful food - vegetables cut into slices and put them in a transparent container at the most prominent place in the refrigerator. This is a great light undershot.

6. In your home is too hot

During sleep the winter in a cool room, we gradually get rid of the fat reserves. Participants in one study spent a few nights in rooms with neutral 23 ° C, cool 18 ° C and the stifling 30 ° C. After four weeks, subjects who sleep at 18 ° C, practically doubled volumes brown fat - adipose tissue, which can decompose rapidly, providing the body with energy and heat. In cool conditions brown fat is starting to burn, at the same time helping to burn stored fat and, for example, on the stomach, which is very difficult to get rid of.

7. Lamps too dimly lit in the morning

After poor sleep your body may rebel, there is a strong sense of hunger, want unhealthy food. This is bad. But it can be even worse if the morning in the room is not enough light.

People with sleep disorders the available light in the morning reduces levels of the hormone leptin, which is essential for the regulation of energy metabolism. It is due to leptin, we feel well-fed and full of energy, and reducing its concentration leads to obesity. Most leptin is produced in humans, in the house where energy saving lamp with a cold blue light installed. Therefore, as soon as you get up, be sure to Open your blackout curtains, and if the room is still dark, turn on the lamp.

8. You have too much TV

The more you look TVThe higher the risk to make obesity. In any case, do not install the TV in the kitchen: if you put it there, will be tempted to stay next to the tempting food. And remember, you need to reduce not only the number of TV sets in the house, but also among the programs for which you are wasting your time. See only your favorite shows.

9. Your living room is too cozy

After a long day's so nice to come home, plop down on the couch and did not wake up with it, until it is time to go to sleep. And in this case it does not matter what you are doing: reading, buying something in online stores, or working with a laptop on your lap. You still do not move, and it's bad. Scientists had still not reached a consensus, why sedentary behavior is harmful. The most obvious explanation: the less we move, the less energy spend. In the blood, the excess sugar is formed, which is not only conducive to the development of diabetes, but also creates a host of other risks associated with weight.

10. You hide all the sports equipment

When the weights, biking and Treadmill out of sight, and they are out of your mind - you forget to keep an eye on their form. So instead of weights to hide under the bed, and a jogging track set in the farthest corner, move them to areas of your home where you spend the most time.