Childhood obesity is a growing problem all across the world. With the increasing obesity rates among adults, it’s not surprising to see that children have actually been hit by the obesity epidemic. Obesity in children can damage more than their health, obese children actually feel tired, worthless and hopeless too. The National Institutes of Health described that, in the last thirty years, the number of young people who had weight problem had been doubled.
Children who are obese often have hard time in socializing compared to their peers. Often they become loners and complain that their friends ‘hate’ them, while in fact it’s their lack of self confidence that prevent them from getting close with anyone.
The Most Important Meal of the Day
Although there’s an old adage which said “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, people seem to miss breakfast more often than they miss lunch or dinner. One of the classic excuses that people often say when they miss their breakfast is “no time”.
While this can be true in some cases, some people who are on a diet also purposely skip their breakfast in hope that they will shed off those unwanted pounds. What they don’t know is, by skipping breakfast; they just put their health and waist line on the front line.
Eating breakfast will actually speed up your metabolism. The old adage wasn’t invented to mean nothing. It stressed the importance of having breakfast more than other meals. Put it this way, if you have your dinner at 7 PM, then if you choose to skip your breakfast, it means that your stomach will have to wait over 15 hours before it’s satiated with another food. Don’t skip the breakfast and torture your stomach.
Just like love handles, pregnancy fat is one of the most dreaded things for woman. Average woman will gain more than 12 kilograms during the pregnancy period. While this is considered normal, average woman doesn’t lose all that weight once she has given birth. An average woman only loses around 7 kilograms (14 pounds) afterward. Assuming the subject is losing weight conservatively by 2 pounds in a month, it takes a whooping 7 months just to get rid of the ‘baby fat’. Although that sounds like a difficult task, losing the baby fat is indeed feasible.
Many medical experts don’t recommend women who have just given birth to go into a diet program straight away. They advocate women to start slowly by not pushing their bodies too hard at the start since our bodies also need to recover from the childbirth period. It takes three months before you can fully pledge yourself into a diet.
Three Types of Food Addiction and How to Overcome Them
There is a clear line between occasional craving and food addiction. Occasional nibble of those tortilla chips is fine but if you find yourself regularly craving for a particular type of food badly then you may be suffering from food addiction. Food addiction is a phrase used to describe an excessive consumption and craving of food. When someone with food addiction is unable to get the food that he wants, he will experience some withdrawal symptoms such as headaches, nausea and depression.
With the recent awareness of healthy living, our society has considered food addiction to be as serious as nicotine and alcohol addiction. People with food addiction may crave for food both physically and psychologically. There are several types of food addiction such as compulsive overeating, bulimia and anorexia.
