Nutritionist Reveals The 5 Ways To Trick Yourself Slim

From Eating Off A Blue Plate To Swapping Your Cutlery 

As the saying goes, you are what you eat. However, the way you eat also plays a crucial role in your weight loss journey. Making small changes to your eating habits can have a significant impact on your overall health and wellbeing. Nutritionists suggest that by tweaking certain eating behaviors, you can trick yourself slim. In this article, we will explore five of these tricks that you can incorporate into your daily routine.

Eat off a blue plate

Have you ever noticed that most fast-food chains use the colors red and yellow in their logos and decor? The reason behind this is that these colors have been found to stimulate appetite and increase food intake. Conversely, blue is known to have the opposite effect - it suppresses hunger and reduces food consumption. Research has shown that people who eat off blue plates tend to eat smaller portions and feel fuller faster than those who eat off white or red plates.

Therefore, try switching your plates to blue or incorporating blue accents into your table setting. This will help you control your portion sizes and avoid overeating.

Use smaller plates and cutlery

The size of your plates and cutlery can also impact your eating behavior. Using smaller plates and cutlery can trick your mind into thinking that you are eating more than you actually are. This is because smaller plates and cutlery make the portion size appear larger, which in turn can make you feel more satisfied with your meal.

In a study, participants who used smaller plates and cutlery consumed 30% less food compared to those who used larger plates and cutlery. So, ditch those oversized plates and spoons and opt for smaller ones instead.

Slow down your eating pace

Many of us have a habit of eating quickly, especially when we are pressed for time. However, this can lead to overeating and weight gain. When you eat too quickly, you are not giving your brain enough time to register that you are full, which can result in eating more than you need.

To avoid this, try to slow down your eating pace. Take smaller bites, chew your food thoroughly, and savor each mouthful. This will not only help you eat less but also make your meals more enjoyable.

Swap your cutlery

Have you ever tried eating with chopsticks? Using chopsticks or other unconventional cutlery can be a fun and effective way to control your food intake. Eating with chopsticks requires more time and effort, which can slow down your eating pace and make you more mindful of each bite.

Similarly, using a small dessert spoon instead of a regular spoon can make you take smaller mouthfuls, leading to reduced food consumption. Try experimenting with different cutlery options and see which ones work best for you.

Keep healthy snacks within reach

When hunger strikes, it's easy to reach for unhealthy snacks like chips, cookies, or candy. However, keeping healthy snacks within reach can help you make better choices and avoid overindulging in junk food. Some examples of healthy snacks include fruit, nuts, yogurt, and veggies with hummus.

Keep these snacks visible and accessible, whether it's in your fridge, pantry, or on your desk. This will help you stay on track with your healthy eating goals and prevent unnecessary snacking.

In conclusion, these five tricks can help you control your food intake, manage your portion sizes, and make better food choices. However, it's important to note that these tricks alone may not result in significant weight loss. To achieve sustainable and healthy weight loss, you should also focus on eating a balanced and nutritious diet, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep.

Remember

Weight loss is a journey, and it's important to find what works best for you. Incorporate these tricks into your daily routine.

 

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A Mystery (The Omicron Variant)

 

The Omicron Variant Is A Mystery. Here’s How Science Will Solve It

Starting from the last Friday, the race was on between a virus and information about it. And for a while, the information moved faster, even though there was hardly any of it.

Scientists in South Africa identified a new variant of the virus that causes Covid-19—within days the World Health Organization gave it the spy-sci-fi name Omicron—and because of the abundant smorgasbord of mutations in its spike protein, the nan mechanical tentacle that attaches and cracks into cells, science alarms started going off.

 Apparently, they sound alike, though. Panic took flight as scientists identified Omicron in 18 countries, triggering travel bans, border closures, stock market crashes, and in the United States, holiday weekend worries that the world was headed back to March of 2020. Researchers in South Africa and Botswana have found the most cases thus far, though that may be an artifact of looking for them; on Tuesday, Dutch authorities announced that the earliest case they can identify is 11 days old, predating Omicron’s identification in South Africa.

This means the Omicron variant is widespread and mysterious—a palimpsest wrapped in a hologram draped in a Rorschach test— nobody knows nothing’ yet. Public health authorities can’t yet whether it is more virulent or more transmissible than Delta, which since last summer has crowded out most other variants of SARS-CoV-2. So panic, or don’t. That’s on you. Because now scientists have to work the problem.

The things scientists don’t know but need to: How efficiently does Omicron move from person to person? Can it evade the immunity conferred by prior infection, or by vaccines? Does it cause a more serious illness? That’s all going to be complicated because a crucial piece of information is missing: How long Omicron has been spreading around the world. That new Dutch data suggests it has been longer than health planners first hoped. Whether this is the beginning of a wave—or the middle or end of one that no one noticed—is key. “It appears to have been caught at the beginning of an upswing, at a time where everybody has been focused on Delta,” says John Connor, a microbiologist at Boston University and investigator at its National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. “The nice part about having that information early is that the rest of the world can start examining all the questions that are raised by a new variant: Do our diagnostics still work? Does it look like the immune response generated by vaccines can still neutralize this virus?”

If this is just the beginning, let’s say, then everyone with Omicron might still be one tight-knit group, demographically or biologically speaking. That might make the variant seem more dangerous—faster-moving or making people sicker—if that group was for some reason more vulnerable than the general population. Or the opposite might be true. To figure that out, disease dynamics researchers might do “forensic accounting” to see how prior waves like Delta behaved and compare that to what’s happening with Omicron. That might say something about whether they’re under- or overestimated how bad an Omicron wave could be. “If I were to have assessed Delta using only the time period that corresponds to about now, how wrong would I have been?” says Matthew Ferrari, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University.

South Africa COVID-19 Cases Surge As Omicron Variant Spreads

South Africa has accelerated its vaccination campaign by giving jobs at pop-up sites in shopping centers and transportation hubs to combat a rapid rise in new COVID-19 cases a week after the discovery of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

New daily cases nearly doubled to 8,561 Wednesday, from 4,373 a day earlier, according to official statistics. Scientists said they were bracing for the surge to continue.

“We want families to be safe this festive season,” Minister of Health Joe Phaahla said Thursday. “Before you go home before you leave on vacation, make sure you protect yourself and those you love. If you visit your parents and they have not yet been vaccinated, go with them to your closest vaccination site. It could save their lives.”

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In October, before Omicron was discovered, the Delta variant was the dominant form of the coronavirus in South Africa.

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    Scientists in South Africa and around the world are doing genetic sequencing of Omicron samples to learn more about the variant. Much remains unknown about Omicron, including whether it is more contagious, as some health authorities suspect, if it makes people more seriously ill or whether existing vaccines are effective against it.

Gauteng Premier David Makhura said Thursday he was encouraged to see more people getting vaccinated, with the province recording at least 50,000 vaccinations daily this week.

However, about half of the province’s 16 million people remain unvaccinated, Makhura said. The number includes many migrants who are in South Africa without authorization and therefore are unable to get vaccinated because they cannot be recorded in the digital vaccination system, he said.

About 36 percent of adults in South Africa are fully vaccinated, according to official statistics. The country now has 19 million doses of the Pfizer-Biotech and the Johnson and Johnson vaccines, but the pace of vaccinations has slowed.

That’s why officials launched the new campaign to increase the numbers of vaccines administered before large numbers of South Africans begin traveling and socializing during the holiday season.

Since the pandemic began, South Africa, with a population of 60 million