World in your Hands

For some of us, even a 30-minute brisk walk may not be on the cards; regardless of the time of the day or night. If you still want to shed some pounds, but don’t know how, switch your diet to barley, brown rice, buckwheat and Oatmeal for refined grains,   as switching to brown rice may give you the same effect that you would otherwise get from a 30 minute of brisk walk, suggests recent studies.  One such studied, published in the   American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , indicated that substitution of whole grains for refined grains in the diet for eight weeks increased calorie loss, by reducing calories retained during digestion and speeding up metabolism.   The fibre in brown rice caused a loss of around a 100 extra calories per day The findings suggested that people who ate a diet with whole grains, which matched the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for fibre, lost close to an extra 100 calories per day , due to a combination of increased resting metabolic rate and