Saturday, April 26, 2014

Obesity and Weight Problems











Most of modern day medicine's efforts are focused on growing menace of Obesity, weight for height imbalance and their associated metabolic disorders. Diabetes, Hypertension are couple of major disorders growing into epidemic propotion all around the globe as secondary outcome of  Obesity and overweight.

It has always been the toughest to give up on your favorite food, even if it is hurting your desires to reduce weight!.....but remember losing weight not only prevents build-up of life threatening metabolic ailments, it will make you more closer to be a Celebrity. Now with so much awareness among population to workout their way for controlling weight gain and even bringing it down to most desirable parameters. This has motivated the nutritionist and dietician to come up with recipes and meals that would not only help in controlling calorie counts/meal,but keep all meals attarctive and palatable.







Why its just the food you eat?

Remember one basic rule of thumb...eat what you can burn! That alone explains so much of what and how much one should be consuming per meal, keeping in mind their physical activities each day. Weight gain as well weight loss spans over weeks and months. If you have a chronic habit of eating food comprising of greater % of calories,and instead of burning with more active lifestyle you live sedentary routine life, you will end up fat!
The excess calories intake prevents fat mobilizations from stored deposits resulting in creating an increase in your body bulk. Instead you adopt meal patterns with few calories and have an active lifestyle, it will utilize calories at brisk rate. With continued physical movements of daily routine, your fat will be utilized for energy/calories provision for all the physical action done. It clearly points out the main culprit blocking your efforts....its your own platter!




Which foods contain more calories?

The answer to this is as simple as sugar!. The food items comprising readily metabolized carbohydrates to glucose, which is the first fuel provider for your physical and mental activities are termed simple sugars. The more you have such simple sugar/glucose containing foods in your meals, the lesser you loose weight and conversely become fat to obese.

Take for example:

1-Nuts are high in calories but good as healthy fat, since they constitute mono-unsaturated fats. But if you are getting in habit of a handfull too much, you are not doing good at all to achieve weight controlling ambitions.

2- Banana is well proven for its minerals and vitamin content, but its calorie value for obese individual or person on weight watch regime is undesirable. One medium size banana has 100cals in it.

3- Peanut butter spread is equally good for healthy fats, but be careful when making thick layer sandwitch!..just a teaspoon gives 62cals and some extra can provide energy for whole day.

4-Fruit juices can easily hamper your efforts to get slim.Just have one glass/200mls with breakfast and keep away from the extras you tend to enjoy. A glass full of will provide 93cals.

5-Certain fruits like coconut, raisins(dried grapes),dried fig, dates and avocado are few of the high calorie fruits. Consuming in quantity in excess to needs result in depositions of fats in your body particularly waistline and hips.

6- French fries consumption exceeding your daily requirements of fats is one major reason of your speedy weight gain. An average portion of fries may give you 550 cals with consequent 229gms of fats, and this is staggering!

7-An astonishing revealation...those diet foods, claiming to be checking your weight,are, in actuality increasing fat in your body!..like those healthy cereal bars and diet drinks you are so impressed.

What is the whole idea?

Now all this and many more facts are here to put in your mind the enormous advantages and health benifits you can have, when and if you keep a good check on what you eat/meal. Not only it should just look good to eyes but must be body friendly!

Your aim should be to consume more from natuaral food items rather than processed. For an active daily routine with running around long corridors need more calorie providing foods. But with jobs of sitting nature for even longer hours low calorie items should be chosen. This one basic rule will ensure an immaculate balance between your body's need, physical structure and mental alertness.

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