Obesity in America
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How to Avoid Obesity?
Sep 6th
The modern day lifestyle has several ill effects and the leading one is obesity or unusual weight gain. If you want to control your body weight, you have to be conscious about your habits and provide some time to look after your health. Are you feeling the perfectly fit jeans becoming difficult and tight at the waist? If it is so, it is the first sign of weight gain. Uncontrolled consumption of junk food and lack of exercising lead us to obesity, which is believed to be the most dangerous disease in the present world. However, it is not impossible to take needful action against the trend if you take up certain simple exercising program in regular manner.
Lie down on the floor with hands and feet fully stretched. Clasp hands together and try to touch the toenail with end of hands bending from the waist without bending knees and stay for ten seconds. You should perform this for five to ten times.
Walk in brisk speed for five minutes so that you to begin to sweat. Stop at a place and start spot jogging. Bring up your knees up to your stomach. If needed, keep your palms on the stomach so that knees touch hands. Carry on with this exercising for ten to 15 minutes.
While standing erect keep your hands folded on the chest touching palms against each other. Bend as far as possible to touch toes without bending knees for ten times.
Lie flat on the floor on your chest. Put hands beside your body on the floor. Put pressure on palms and try to lift your body balancing on toes. You have to lift the entire body balancing on palms and toes for ten seconds. Slowly go back to the original position and repeat the pushing exercise for ten times.
Lie flat on the carpet and fold your knees Put both palms under your head and try to lift your body bending from the waist. Your face should touch knees. Return to the original position and repeat it for ten times.
Important
Consult the doctor to know the perfect BMI or Body Mass index. Seek his advice for the weight loss program. Take 30 minutes to one hour everyday for exercising plan. You can complete the program in separate sessions. Remember, brisk walking, cycling, swimming and aerobics help substantially in your weight loss program. Eat a low-calorie and complex carbohydrate rich food. Avoid spicy, deep-fried and sweet food. Fruits and vegetables should take major place in your diet.
Check your weight once in every week. Be positive in your goal of weight loss achievement.
Malnutrition and Obesity
Aug 29th
Obesity is caused by several different factors such as overeating, diseases as well as malnutrition. It may come as a surprise to you that someone who is obese is malnourished, but it is very possible.
The reason behind that is that when your body does not have enough nutrients it craves for food. Usually this is junk food as that will give your body the quickest fix. However, this does not provide your body with proper nutrients, and thus you crave for more, and the cycle continues.
What Causes Malnutrition
Malnutrition occurs when your body does not get enough nutrients so that it can function properly. This could be due to reasons such as poverty, or not choosing a proper diet. It could also be the result of a sickness or disease where the body rejects the food or is unable to absorb the nutrients.
There is little that you can do if you are living in poverty and just cannot afford to buy food, or if you are sick, then you may need to take care of your condition first. However, there is a lot that you can do to choosing a proper diet in order to prevent malnutrition.
Choosing a Proper Diet
The foods you should eat are fruits, vegetables, herbs, nuts and seeds. And you should eat these foods raw as much as possible, as cooking destroys many essential nutrients.
They say ‘an apple a day, keeps the doctor away’, but you need much more than just an apple a day. Your body was designed to live off of raw and living foods. Studies have shown that plants can provide you with more usable proteins and other nutrients than any other foods such as meat, dairy and eggs. But most people do not even eat as many fresh fruits and vegetables as recommended by the FDA. As a result the majority of people are malnourished.
Hunger
Your body sends a signal that it is hungry when it needs more nutrients, not when it has eliminated all the foods from the last meal. This means that you can still have food in your stomach from your last meal when it sends the signal. Some of the so-called healthiest foods such as animal proteins can leave you in this state where you just keep craving for more and more before your previous meal has been digested.
Raw and living foods will not leave you in this state, as they are digested quickly and eliminated from the body in less than 24 hours. Therefore in order to prevent yourself from overeating you should stick to a raw food diet as much as possible so that your body will not cause you to overeat on junk foods.
