Stay slim from forty

Who at forty still as alive as at twenty, increases inevitably. Of these, nutritionist Inge Hofmann is convinced. What the body loose with twenty dunk - lush cake orgies, extravagant consumption of alcohol, party all night - leaves its mark in his forties. But there is also good news: who adjusts his lifestyle now, the altered metabolism remains, even in the middle-aged fit and slim.

Forty years - a magic limit?

In fact, the human body does with a fundamental change by about forty - when a little earlier, the other a bit later: The metabolism is slowed, fewer calories consumed. Various factors are responsible for the altered metabolism. The production of sex hormones decline, earlier in women than in men about ten years. Also decreases the muscle mass. "Even women are affected from this earlier because men have an inherently greater muscle mass," said Hoffman, author of the guidebook "Slim from forty".
Keeping your weight

From the perspective of a biochemist studying only a fundamental change in lifestyle will help against the threat of obesity. This consists of three factors: a full-fledged, healthy diet, regular exercise and adequate rest breaks. "If you eat as much as forty to twenty, to take them," warns Hoffman. Instead, it now is to come, have to be carefully when you're tired and not out of habit always pile up the same portion size. In particular evening gourmet menus are now proposing to increase book. Hofmann also emphasizes that all is not prohibited from forty, which is fun ". We must do everything, but in measured doses" Only one is from forty taboo: radical dieting. "This only a yo-yo effect. More important is a long-term conversion have."
Slim through sports

Regular exercise is mid-forties as important as a balanced diet. Anyone who has operated to date no sport should first have it checked by a doctor. Is this the green light, just has to own a bitch to be overcome. "You can pick a sport that you really enjoy," advises Hofmann. Ideal is a combination of muscle building and endurance training. The 49-year-old considers himself fit with daily yoga exercises and visits twice a week gym. "If you regularly makes the body requires it."

Good lifestyle pays off

But how can a balanced diet, exercise and rest in the fast pace and fit, just have the forty-year-old often? Inge Hofmann, this is a question of time management: "For a healthy lifestyle do I have the same time schedule as for the job or my hobby." For this there is also a simple motivation: With increasing age, the effect of a healthy lifestyle shows more clearly than in his early years - and "an old woman that looks good harvests, more admiration than twenty years, when this is completely normal."

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