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Obesity is one of the most dangerous conditions in terms of health can have. It affects more than 40% of the total U.S. population and the problem is distributed to other regions and countries. This is because we live in a society where there is little time for exercise, then recover by eating high-calorie diet and exercise very little or none.

Obesity is known as a condition in which the store more body fat than is actually needed, thus creating a health hazard. Obesity is measured by what we call BMI, Body Mass Index which is the amount of weight relative to height. A BMI of 25 or more is considered overweight. Obesity may seem like a simple thing but it really killed, only in the United States the figure is nearly half a million people per year.

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Changes in diet and daily physical activity have meant that our society suffers from excess weight, which affects the physical and mental health of many people. To address this “pathology” specialists insist the key to prevention lies in proper education from early childhood.

1. Is the world obese?
Obese. Spain is among the five countries with the highest rate of obesity and overweight in Europe. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity and overweight characters has reached global epidemic. More than one billion adults are overweight and of these, at least 300 million are obese.

In Spain, data 2007 of the Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity (SEED), say 15.5 percent of adults are obese and 38 percent are overweight. Therefore, adding overweight and obesity, we can say that 54 percent of the Spanish population is overweight.

Today our country is among the five highest rates of obesity and overweight in adults in Europe, but if we sum in the child population data are alarming, especially as some bands between 11 and 17 years, where we led the list.

To understand the situation, it is interesting to know what they mean by medical societies obesity and overweight. Both terms are measured by body mass index (BMI), a result that is obtained by dividing the person’s weight by height squared.

If it is below 18.5 is considered that the individual is thin, if obtained between 18.5 and 25, are normal weight. If the result is between 25 and 30 speaks of overweight and above 30, this would be a case of obesity.

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Low self-esteem and broad and lengthy British Obesity study seems to show that low self-esteem during childhood is a risk factor for obesity in adulthood. She further argues that causation is the opposite of what was thought, low self-esteem leads to obesity, not vice versa.

The investigation, which was conducted by a team from King’s College London and published in “BMC Medicine, has lasted for decades, since the 70s. We studied 6,500 people age 10 years. They measured their BMI (Body Mass Index) and were given a psychological assessment, which, inter alia, measured their level of self-esteem. Twenty years later, when these children were thirty, they made a new assessment.

The most important result is that children who showed the ten years a low self-esteem (although still within the normal range) were those who, as adults, were more prone to obesity. They also found that this effect was stronger in women.

The researchers, led by Andrew Ternouth and David Collier, conclude that emotional problems should be considered a risk factor to cause obesity, which was no longer just a metabolic problem. This idea goes against the commonly accepted that obesity leads to low self-esteem, the causal relationship would be just the reverse.

Furthermore, this study leads many experts to recommend an early psychological intervention for children with certain emotional problems, in order to avoid the consequences that these might have in adulthood, in this case, obesity and its undesirable consequences. However, the researchers themselves acknowledge the importance of factors such as parental BMI, diet and exercise.

Without doubt, much less, the validity of this scientific study, since we Adelgazar.net, however, a critical interpretation of it, reading that has made us put the questions in the title of this article.

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Friends of diets and weight loss methods are always looking for options to achieve its goal as having the ideal weight.

Any trick or strategy appears to be valid and one of the most popular says that chewing sugar-free gum helps burn calories and thus lose weight. Is this really true?

Sorry to disappoint you, the answer is NO. Gum and some plants have been considered negative calorie foods, this means that the body burns more calories chewing and digesting them than those incorporated by the food itself.

However, this belief is banished as a result of studies conducted by the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, USA, in which a team of researchers told a group of people who chew gum at a rate of 100 times per minute.

After chewing gum calculate the energy consumed was equal to about 11 calories per hour, they concluded that if a person chews gum every hour of the day awake only be losing half a kilo less after a month.

Considering that the number of hours spent by a person chewing gum is actually much lower, then we conclude that chewing gum does not help you lose weight by caloric intake used in such activity.

Moreover, we consider that the gum may help some people to combat anxiety and fool the stomach, perfectly valid to avoid falling into temptation with the trinkets and foods high in energy.

If you really want to lose weight using what really works: a balanced diet without excess and an increase in physical activity beyond the jaws move, try the Mediterranean diet and join a gym to train in bodybuilding, goes also to the spinning classes and cardiovascular diseases, your body will thank you.

Being overweight in midlife can reduce by 79% the possibility of a long and healthy life, according to a study by U.S. and British researchers published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Obesity is a “significant factor” in anticipating how a person will live, according to analysis done for women by experts from the School of Public Health from Harvard (USA) and University of Warwick (England).

In reaching this conclusion, researchers evaluated data collected by the 17,000 nurses in 11 U.S. states since 1976 and concluded that women with extra kilos in midlife were less life expectancy than those who controlled their weight.

In addition, experts also found that weight gain after 18 years and into middle age is a factor to predict how long a person will live with good health.

At the beginning of the study, nurses completed a questionnaire with data on the pace of life, weight, height and medical history of women, who were back under control for 24 months over a period of 20 years.

“Our data suggest that weight maintenance throughout adult life may be associated with optimal health at an older age,” the researchers said.

Overweight and most serious consequence is that obesity is a major cause of heart attacks in the world today, as well as affecting physical health, mental health also damage because a person suffering from this will not be completely sure themselves and have problems in any activity.

Studies in the blood of overweight patient to assess the levels of vitamin D, say the presence of vitamin D in the body helps a lot to lose that excess weight and even more if it decided to start a diet, which is why it recommends eating foods rich in vitamin D, before starting a diet suggested provided by a specialist.

So you should consume eggs, milk and some vitamin supplements to help us lose body fat, which can cause many problems, to which the patient will make life much easier and more enjoyable, since it does not require great exercise or appear to lose weight, just a good balanced diet with foods rich in vitamin D will help greatly to meet the goal of reaching the ideal weight.

Certainly, modern society imposes aesthetic standards that do not know if they are correct or not, to which many people may enter the dilemma of being in the ideal weight according to their size, frame rate, etc., but to which we must consider certain things, because one is to be in good weight and quite another to stop eating and enter the same psychological problems.

To see if you are in the correct weight, it is very easy to BMI, which is short for body mass index, which is obtained by dividing the weight over height squared, ie let’s say someone weighing 100 kilos and measure 2 meters thus the result we would go 25, which is an index to be in a good weight, overweight is detected when the BMI is greater than 25 and obesity in first grade when it exceeds 30, passing grade 2 when you reach 40 and obesity and can be detected as a severe problem when passing the barrier of 40.

So it’s just a matter of knowing your weight and BMI measurements and determine if we have problems they consider overweight or obese, always go to a doctor who will help with a diet to solve the problem.

Obesity may be one of the greatest evils that can lead to future problems, either by weakening the self-esteem who suffer, like heart disease or respiratory generate, must be fought to bring the suffering that you feel well and, most important is feel good about himself.

That is why nutritional supplements emerge, which are beverages that contain nutrients, for an adequate diet, they vary according to the established by nutritionists in each country.

Luigi Gratton, clinician at UCLA, we stated that each adult should consume 2 thousand calories a day, but on the contrary it is normal that consumo 4 thousand and obviously that generates obesity, the same doctor says to use good supplements should be fully evaluate the patient to establish daily calorie needs on how we can prescribe a supplement.

Since the poor intake of these can cause more obesity rather than remedying it, as not being edible, it gives the feeling of fullness that people are looking and so negative that can be for your health, it says that the main Gratton first step is to agree to fix the problem.

If you love bread and butter, your dream has come true. Now you can lose weight eating what you like every day .

The basic trick of this diet is that you get to eat a slice of bread and butter at every meal. In fact, that is the basis of the diet, which is an eating plan that lasts four days and lets you change any of the other breads you like more, if you can find some that you especially like. Then the diet.

First, it should be noted that this diet is a diet rather violent, and that is low in calories-reaching approximately 850 calories per day. Therefore, it is very likely to feel hungry while you practice.
Day 1
Breakfast:
1 slice whole wheat bread.
1 teaspoon butter or margarine.
½ cup orange juice.

Lunch:
100 grams of canned tuna without water.
Green salad.
1 slice bread
1 teaspoon butter or margarine.
1 small apple.

Dinner:
115 grams of grilled cod.
1 cup steamed broccoli.
½ cup steamed peas.
1 slice of rye bread.
1 teaspoon butter or margarine
1 orange.

Day 2
Breakfast:
1 slice raisin bread.
1 teaspoon butter or margarine.
1 cooked egg.

Lunch:
100 grams of salmon pink.
85 grams of lettuce.
1 tomato.
1 slice of white bread.
1 teaspoon butter.

Dinner:
115 grams of grilled hamburgers.
1 roll hamburger.
1 pickle.
Green salad.

Day 3
Breakfast:
1 slice of cornbread.
1 teaspoon butter or margarine.
1 cup grapefruit juice.

Lunch:
2 eggs hard.
1 green pepper.
½ cup of peas.
1 slice of French bread.
1 teaspoon butter or margarine.

Dinner:
Defatted 115 grams of grilled chicken.
½ cup vegetable several.
1 slice of bran bread.
1 teaspoon butter or margarine.

Day 4

Breakfast:
1 slice whole wheat bread.
1 teaspoon butter and margarine.

Lunch
30 grams of Munster cheese.
½ cup stewed tomatoes.
1 cup yellow squash.
1 slice Italian bread.
1 teaspoon butter or margarine.

Dinner:
115 grams of turkey.
½ cup corn.
Green salad.
1 slice of pumpernickel.
1 teaspoon butter or margarine.

Although popular wisdom holds that a calorie is a calorie no matter where it comes from, if that is of a salmon fillet or an ice cream cone. But you do not have to be a nutritionist to realize that there is a huge difference between the nutrition of salmon verses that the ice cream. The legions of chronic dieters understand the differences, based on personal experiences. For example, demand that earn a lot of weight after eating a slice of pizza that is rich in carbohydrates, but they do after eating a large chicken breast and a meal of steamed broccoli that contains even more calories.

Now there is a legitimate scientific explanation for why some calories are different from others. Dr. Eugene J. Fine, MD, and Richard D. Feinman, PhD, State University Medical Center of New York Downstate in Brooklyn, explained that the widely held belief calorie-be-a-calorie is based on the law of thermodynamics, which is a key concept in the physics. The first law of thermodynamics is the amount of energy between a system that is equal to the amount of energy that is released. To lose weight along this line of thinking, you need to eat fewer calories or consume more of them.

However, researchers have pointed out that the second law of thermodynamics can be associated with living creatures. The second law of thermodynamics demands that a variation and inefficiency inherent in all biological and biochemical processes. This can also be understood as saying that people burn energy less efficiently than do cars and light bulbs, while doing some power of the people burn less efficiently than other people.

There are many reasons that a calorie is not always a calorie. If you have a resting metabolic rate higher, you will do a much better job of burning all kinds of calories, as compared to someone who has a lower metabolic rate. If you secret much insulin due to being pre-diabetic or overweight, then you will be much more likely to make fat than muscle. Also, if you eat fatty foods with transitive, you are much more likely to gain weight around your waist. It is recommended that people eat the highest quality of calories as possible. This includes nutrient-dense foods such as fish, chicken, vegetables, minerals, quality protein and healthy fats. These foods provide us with most of the vitamins that are necessary for a healthy and balanced diet.

The alternative is not recommended, sweets, soft drinks, breads, pastries, bagels, and muffins. These foods provide empty calories, especially in the form of sugars and starches. These foods also trigger the production of excess insulin, which will store these calories especially around their trash, which is an occurrence that is definitely unwanted by most people.

Given the above facts, we can finally conclude that a single calorie of a salmon fillet is not equivalent to a single calorie of an ice cream cone, because the calorie salmon fillet is packed with many more vitamins and nutrients that the ice cream cone is lacking.