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How to Deal With Obesity?

• • Losing weight takes determination, often over a prolonged period. Goal should be to lose about 0.5 to 0.75 kgm per week.
  • Attack your energy balance at both the sides. You have to reduce your food intake especially energy rich foods and also you have to maintain regular exercise. About half an hour brisk walk every day will be ideal.
  • Be patient with your dieting. You must understand that you are embarking on several weeks of dieting even a few months. Do not lose heart. Do not cheat the schedule by breaking the diet and thereby prolonging the dieting.
  • Be strict in your diet. Avoid the things which you must avoid. There are many other food stuffs that you can enjoy.
  • Leave out alcohol completely. It has lot of energy and it increases the appetite also.
  • Do not eat chocolates, sweets, biscuits, cakes etc.
  • Avoid ice creams
  • Avoid ‘cool’ drinks
  • Reduce the meal time and reduce the total intake. By the time you leave the dining table you must feel a little hungry.
  • In between snacks should be completely avoided.
  • Use plenty of vegetables.
  • Try to eat at home. Avoid parties and eating at friend’s place. You will be tempted to eat more a d also you may be embarrassed to refuse foods which your host has taken troubles to prepare.

EXERCISE:

Exercise is good to keep one’s body fit and is part of natural life. Good in preventing heart and circulatory problems. Regular exercises like walking, hogging, swimming. Cycling etc. are good but should not overstrain or exhaust the individual. For some the nature of work itself is a form or exercise! e.g. Post-man, milk deliverymen etc. for others walking is best.

It is said that every one under the age of 65 should walk at least a couple of miles a day as a routine exercise. Outdoor fresh air is good for health. It is better to walk part of the way to work, or to the shops, instead of taking a bus or car. Instead of life, stair-cases may be used for climbing up and this is also a good exercise provided it does not cause pain or undue breathlessness. From middle age onwards, immobility is an invitation to declining heath and “chair-bound” periods should be reduced whenever possible in the working day. Both general fitness and the reduction of tension will be benefited by interruption the desk jobs at frequent intervals.

Holidays should be properly used so as to provide good exercise and mental relaxation.

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