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Obesity has become one of the great problems of today. And children do not escape this reality. Quite the contrary, childhood obesity is a huge wake up call for parents to attend special care to feed their children.

They always say that the infant is essential. However, in practice many do not take the proper habits to feed the children.

It is still very latent idea that fat children are healthy and the weak are malnourished. And this makes even the kids eat more food induced greater than advise them to eat more to avoid getting sick.

We should know that nourishment is not synonymous with a diet of bakery products and fast food. The permanent ads are a real temptation for children, but they do not want anything other than burgers, pizzas, chips, ice cream and candy.

However, everything can change through proper nutrition education in the home. It’s good that children will have a balanced breakfast before leaving home. In addition, it is much better to bring a snack to school to buy what they can sell there. Replace sweets and soft drinks or yogurt and fruit juice is a very healthy option.

Of course, you should not go so far as to ban all food to a child. It’s good that it can taste sweet or share a pizza with friends. But these preferences should be occasional and not a daily event.

Finally, it is good to promote children’s physical activity. An active child will be much healthier and more easily able to maintain a healthy weight for a young sedentary.

In the last ten years are registering in our country and the world an alarming increase in the number of cases of children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The increase of this disease in this population group is mainly caused by the increase of obesity in children and adolescents, so experts recommend as the main measure to prevent a proper diet and physical exercise.

The increase of obesity in children and adolescents is a result of changes in diet (increased consumption of high calorie diet from junk food “rich in fat and carbohydrates) and decreased physical activity, because children spend more television viewing, computer and / or electronic games.

Until about ten years, children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes accounted for about 2% of all cases (type 2 diabetes accounts for over 90% of cases of diabetes), but now children and adolescents with diabetes than 8% of cases. Read the rest of this entry »

If we see someone look thinner, we would assume that maybe the person is stressed. Or, maybe he was hit by the problem so that he becomes no appetite. However, it turns out this view is mistaken. Stress is not going to make a person lose weight but instead trigger obesity.

This was revealed by health experts David Zinczenko was quoted by the magazine Men’s Health. According to him, stress will trigger a person becomes obese. Cause, in a state of stress, the body will produce two hormones are adrenaline and cortisol.

The two hormones that will activate the genes in the fat cells in the body to multiply. Cortisol is a type of hormone corticosteroids can increase blood pressure and blood sugar levels as well as a hormone or suppressing the immune system.

In addition, when one of stress, one would not sleep well. Difficulty sleeping is a production of cortisol increased. This was confirmed by the results of research the University of Chicago, the United States that suggests if we only slept for four hours a night, will raise levels of cortisol 37% higher than that sleep eight hours a night.

Society sometimes see that some of the food was not good for the consumer but the view is sometimes wrong.such below in:
Rice makes Grease
When the rice is consumed in large quantities it makes obesity. But eat rice three times a day in the normal portions, did not make fat. Rice is a carbohydrate. Carbohydrates in the body serves as a source of energy. That is why rice is necessary especially if you include people who work a lot with the physical. Rice should also contain many B vitamins are a lot of content just disappeared in the production process.

Vegetable spinach heated nodes can be toxic
Spinach, in fact any other green vegetables also, if heated too long until tender, it could form the trigger oxalate kidney stones. So even if only once cooked, if cooked until soft and brown, spinach is so not good for your health anymore. Cooking time recipe spinach vegetable nodes for two meals, gravy recipes should be divided in two parts. Heated until it just gravy.

Eggplant cause impotence
Instead eggplant can enhance sexual libido because it contains phosphorus and magnesium. Keep in mind also, eggplants contain saponin. These compounds play a role in making male sex hormones.