Obesity - How to Lose It

Are you obese? At your last check up did your doctor tell you to lose weight?

Your doctor did? Please send him/her a thank you note and perhaps a gift.

The reason is that most doctors in America shy away from confronting their obese patients. Well at least the ones that are not excessively obese. Instead of meeting the problem head on, they will make mealy-mouthed suggestions like, eat fruits and vegetables, exercise more often, go for long walks, blah, blah, blah.

No wonder over a third, like 35.7% of Americans are obese. As a nation, we spend $148 billion each year for treating problems related to obesity.

So let us tackle the problem head on.

Facts About Fats - Do We Really Understand Them?

All this controversy about fat! We've been told fat is bad for our health; we became scared of just the word. When we see overweight or obese people we immediately assume they are on a fat rich diet; we actually think that they love and embrace fat. Not necessary so! Just consider this: Soft-drinks and sodas don't contain any fat, but these beverages are one of the leading causes of obesity. Many times there is this wrong conception and misunderstanding of fat contributing to weight gain and bad health.

Are Populations Eating to Live or Living to Eat?

Why do we constantly think about food? The many and varied fast food outlets available, may easily give you an appetite and the encouragement to walk in for a dose of fatty junk food! However, instead of putting on more weight, what about spending time in your own kitchen cooking a wholesome healthy nutritious meal and saving money?

Eating food- to-go on a regular basis is a habit for many people. It is a wonderful and convenient means of getting added weight in a hurry. This for a large number of people, one of the reasons to be overweight and rid about self-pride and caring how they look to others!

How Sleep Or Lack Of It Affects Your Weight, Exercise And Fitness

If you are serious about your health, sleep is an essential factor you should consider together with nutrition. If you are exercising hard, eating well, but not taking sufficient sleep, you are slowing down your progress.

During sleep your body goes into recovery mode. Not just physically, but mentally also. It's a chance for it to unwind and get everything ready for the next day. One or two late nights here in there might not do too much harm, but if you make a habit of getting to bed late and getting up early you will struggle physically and mentally sooner or later. It's just like a deck or cards waiting to fall.

Obesity - Is There a Viable Solution?

Let's go back to the late sixties and seventies when an obese person was the exception. Some of you may remember breakfast those days consisting of bacon, ham, eggs and sausages.

Then all the sugary breakfast diet cereals came along, bottles of juices with lots of sugar, and the fat - free milk.

All this started when a Dietary Goals publication published in the United States in 1977 advising consumers to lower their fat intake to minimise the risk of killer diseases: And obesity was born! This publication was not questioned at the time. However, since these recommendations been made public, there's been some enormous increase in obesity.

We've been made believe that being obese or fatter than average, all we have to do is work out, eat like a rabbit and starve our way to become thin.

Things You Need to Know About Obesity

How much you weigh is not as important as where the fat is

. Obesity is like real estate in this regard-location, location, location. It is not a function of weight alone but where your weight is distributed. If you have a gynoid pattern of fat accumulation (ie in the hips), that is generally considered harmless in terms of long-term development of metabolic syndrome, diabetes and hypertension and cardiovascular consequences.

 

An omental fat distribution, however (which is the classic beer belly), predisposed one to a much higher risk of developing cardiovascular consequences and metabolic syndrome. Can you guess what stimulates the development of omental fat more than anything? Carbohydrates,especially fructose, which spills over into the momentum after you drink a can of pop as your liver is trying to process all this fructose into triglycerides.