Living to Eat and Not Obese
Living to eat and not obese Only few are blessed with such metabolism, a majority have to be careful since small bellies are not a function of small diets, big ones do not suggest that their owners are mammoth eaters. Eating is more a matter of habit than one’s need. Any prosperous agricultural class would be known for big diets because they live amid aplenty and eating comes to them easy, as more than a routine as well as a pastime. But then with bon appetites they are also blessed with huge digestive quotients, for hard work is embedded in their genes and their digestive juice follow their dictates. So size is not the index. My friend Taggy is rotund and a double pot belly. He walks like a rhino and you can hear him breath like a mild roar of a big cat. He smells awful giving you a feel that he probably is in the full time business of eating. But poor he and cruel you, he takes handful of cereals done in water for his breakfast, an apple and a cup of coffee for lunch and four slices of brown bread with an egg or boiled vegetables with a dash of white butter for his dinner. He says he has been sticking to this diet for the last 12 years without change in his weight. He would eat chips very occasionally, would not go near a smoker even and sugary drinks are there for very occasional partying only. So a person with Spartan diet, and hold your breath, weighing 240 pounds, could be a shock for the most accomplished weight management gurus. Roncy, as he is called, is a classic case of big bellies living on frugal diets. Kavin on the other hand is a smart aleck. At 168 cms he weighs 58 kilos; he is probably underweight for his height. He cannot have a cup of tea without a plateful of crunchy snacks, fried the better. So he would have his bed tea with a full packet of his favourite butter-laden, sugar-coated cookies, go for hearty breakfast on several butter-vegetable sand-witches with full cream milk and a mugful of coffee to wash the platefuls down. He would go snacking in the later afternoon and prefers and early dinner. No room for thinking about stopping when it comes eating. Snacking before a full meal and thereafter is Vicky’s idea of happy eating. Some people do live to eat, you cannot help concluding. And they are not overweight. They do not need phentermine or any appetite suppressant for weight loss. Yes can very well be advised to buy phentermine to save their cooks. “Kim Parker” is an associate editor to the website <a href="http://www.hateweight.com">www.hateweight.com</a>. It is committed to provide visitors with complete information on weight loss, <a href="http://www.hateweight.com/diet_pills.html">diet pills</a>, obesity and phentermine. We also provide articles on health related topics. (more…)

Woman Can Make Health Mistakes Too
Men aren’t the only ones making health blunders. Women run to the doctor all the time. Nonetheless, experts say women have a tendency to take care of the rest of the family before taking care of themselves. Women- you are really good at caring for others, but you are not often the best judge of your own health. Maybe you can relate to these common health mistakes made by women: * Crossing legs at the knee. This can restrict blood flow and cause varicose veins. Better to sit with your feet flat on the ground. * Skipping breakfast. You need this to function and so you don’t pig out at lunch. * Wearing perfume in the sun. This can set up a chemical reaction leading to a rash. * Not self-examining breasts. A trip to the gynecologist once a year is crucial. * Not getting routine blood tests. Important to check for diabetes. Thyroid test and cholesterol screening should also be part of a routine blood exam. * Thinking you can’t get pregnant after age 40. Even in menopause you can. * Using too many feminine sprays. Chronic odor can be a sign of thyroid problems, type 2 diabetes, or a shortage of estrogen. * Not recognizing a heart attack when they feel it. Symptoms can be draining fatigue and sleepiness, even heartburn or indigestion. * Smoking. Causes heart disease, cancer, not to mention wrinkles. Women do a lot of thing to look younger and thinner on the outside, but what about doing what makes your health better on the inside? Looking good in your casket won’t help you much! Both men and women need to eat better, exercise regularly, and not be afraid to get timely health care. After all, it’s a matter of life or death.
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Weight Control �” It's All In Your Mind Not Your Mouth
No area of human addictions is so badly served or exploited as that relating to food, eating and dieting.

The very same substances that form the food and eating addictions are being repackaged and represented as the possible cure �” a proposition utterly ridiculous as soon as one steps back and sees the context.

It is like producing a range of slightly blunter blades for the self-harming, or slightly reduced moonshine for alcoholics, or boxing gloves for the domestically violent.

Yet a similar kind of lunacy continues within the food arena, with every conceivable variety of lo-calorie, lo-fat, lo-carbohydrate or lo-sugar being promoted as the cure to all one’s underlying eating, weight and self-image issues.

- Is food your problem? Then, hey, come right over here because we have more food that just happens to be your personal solution!

But legislation is rarely the right answer to these things. Calls for tightening regulations governing what the Food Industry can produce and what it can promote are little better than dead end by-ways on the road forwards to lasting solutions.

Education is what is needed. However, this so often ends up in the backwater of nutrition, not the mainstream requirement for a better mass understanding of the psychology of eating.

It starts at the highest levels, not just with business, which will naturally and not improperly seek advantage wherever it can be obtained. The Government of both the US and the UK are currently in the process of releasing new eating guidelines.

They have been putting out similar advice at regular intervals for over 100 years now. No-one pays a blind bit of notice. People by and large understand the fundamentals of adequate eating. The deficit is in workable strategies for individuals to be able to adopt these fundamentals permanently and painlessly into their everyday routines.

Instead we end up with a ceaseless tide of next to useless diet and nutrition advice. A lot of it revolves around scientific studies into the possible effects or non-effects of various micro-nutrients, often presented in a context utterly removed from the daily reality of eating.

There is a growing Academic Industry which needs to fuel itself with research �” and that often becomes research for research’s sake. In relation to all things food and eating, the sector needs to look closely into itself and to assess whether it is acting in the interests of solutions, or risking an increase in food obsession through its often self-serving output of irrelevant nutritional verbiage.

It is even easier to take pot shots at the Dieting Industry �” but as it is still standing and, indeed, thriving, there is no harm at all in taking a fresh swipe! Everything about it is simply wrong.

There have been experiments where kids have been left to select their own intake from a range of offered foods �” everything from trash candy to fresh fruit, with all other major foods and kinds of dishes being represented.

And you know what? Within a couple of days the kids stop binging on rubbish and self-select a balanced diet. But perhaps that isn’t that surprising really after all.

The problem is that we are in danger of losing sight that food and eating is actually quite easy and instinctive. Can you imagine if there was a rising international epidemic of dysfunctional breathing? There would be fears that humankind was collectively taking leave of its senses. Well, without entering the realms of science fiction, this is the self-induced and self-perpetuated variety of madness with which we flirt through our food obsessions.

There is a growing movement called Intuitive Eating which is attempting to recapture the innocence and simplicity of eating. Of itself this is a very good thing but it is does not go far enough.

Hand-in-hand with an anti-dieting message needs to be a proactive and personal sense of awareness about the social structures which support the Dieting Madness. Once you understand your own personal combination of emotional, cultural and commercial pressure points, it becomes very easy to grasp that food is nothing more than fuel �” with a little sociability and celebration thrown in for good measure once in a while.

Next time you are tempted by any diet product (which can be as superficially ok as a lowered calorie something or other), forcibly remind yourself that it is all nonsense. It is the total consumed which matters, not the sum of the parts. And, much more importantly, beyond this initial breakthrough acknowledgment, learn to accept that nothing we put in our mouths (certainly nothing that emanates in any shape or form from the Dieting Industry) actually has much to do with it at all.

The gainful alternative is to learn to put good things into our minds instead and when we do this we are talking a whole new ballgame �” and it is one we can win on our own terms time after time.Malcolm Evans is founder and secretary of The Weight Foundation <a href=http://www.weightfoundation.com>weight control</a> research charity, which develops free <a href=http://www.weightfoundation.com/diet-lives.asp>weight loss</a> resources. (more…)

Fat Land Makes A Shocking Read
I’m just finished reading ‘Fat Land’ by Greg Critser which chronicles how Americans have become the fattest people in the world. He pulls no punches explaining how it is that more than 25% of teenagers are now overweight or obese.

The books charts the changes to food consumption. From the introduction of extremely unhealthy fats such […] (more…)