How to fight obesity

Obesity is a disease characterized by excess fat in our body, and that obesity can affect people of any age.

A major cause of obesity is the excessive development of the food industry is not very healthy, known as the fast food industry. As you may have noticed, we live surrounded by supermarkets, bakeries and coffee shops where we see many goodies.

Some foods should be avoided because they contribute to obesity:

• Chocolates
• Candies
• Pies
• Desserts

Most children and adolescents are obese because consume unhealthy snacks out of time and foma wrong. Parents should pay close attention to it, especially when children are in school. Should be placed in the school lunch foods that have enough protein, calcium and hydrate the body, so it is recommended rates fruits, sandwiches and fresh juices.
Some ways to prevent against obesity:

• Carry out meals and snacks correctly (and the correct time)
• Avoid foods that are fat or glucose
• Practice sports
• Drinking plenty of water because the metabolism and help hydrate the body

Many doctors suggest as a main form of treatment for physical activity, which not only involves the obese person but the whole family. If exercise and diet will not give certain surgeries are also recommended rates to the withdrawal of the accumulated fat and control appetite or food intake by the person, thus acting directly on the problem of obesity.

Reference sources

• Nutrição em Foco, Hábitos alimentares que contribuem para a obesidade na adolescência
• Nutrição em Foco, O impacto da obesidade na adolescência

Obesity - evil of millenium

If you look closely the statistics of any country, we realize that obesity is one of the health problems that affect most of the population. The percentages are staggering: in developed countries, 25% to 50% of the population is obese. Means that four people one or two are not only overweight, but in a state in which excess weight can be really harmful to themselves.

An easy way to differentiate an obese person from another is that only overweight is from your body mass index (BMI) - people who have a BMI over 30 are considered obese. If your BMI is above 40, the situation becomes more critical, and it is said that the person is in a state of morbid obesity.

However, despite the many risks that obesity poses to our health (and hence be known as evil millennium), is a problem that has treatment. Of diets and exercise to medicines and surgeries, there are several ways to treat obesity - however, less intrusive and more is certainly recommended dietary reeducation plus the physical exercise.

And you can prevent yourself from developing such evil if you have a very active life, including here not only physical exercise in gyms, but also sports and performing hiking, or to chat with friends, either to reach the workplace. In addition, eating more healthily, looking for low-calorie meals and low-fat or sugar, has a very positive impact in maintaining your health.

Obesity can be evil millennium, but it is "an evil that possesses healing." If properly take care of our food and feed our children, we can prevent this problem also invade our homes! And what is your position on childhood obesity, a particular case of obesity that has startled and very authorities?