Obesity

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Approximately 65 million Americans are overweight or consider themselves

to be overweight. Of these, 30 million are obese. About 50% of all women and

25% of all men are on a diet at any given moment. An estimated 1.5 million people

die in the U. S. each year of diseases associated with being overweight. In the U.S. we

have more fast food restaurants, ma and pa shops, and restaurants than any place in

the world. This holds a lot of temptation in front of Americans just trying to get the

best out of life. Obviously from these stats you can see we can’t eat whatever we

want forever, and still get the best out of life. There will come a time in each one of

our lives when we will be told to eat healthier. That is unless you realize your body is

a complex machine that needs certain nutrients to maintain its well-being and the

longer you wait to start eating healthy, the shorter your life will be.

The first step in eating healthy is a properly designed diet that includes all the

nutrients your body needs, and how often you consume them. For example, if you

sleep for an average of 8 hrs. a night, then your awake for 16hrs. Since it is

recommended that you eat 5 meals a day, you would eat a meal every 3.2hrs. This

way not only is your body use to constantly burning calories, it learns your eating

schedule and prepares for meals, which drastically speeds up your metabolism. A bad

thing to do is take long breaks in between meals. If your body is not use to being fed

enough calories when it gets them it will store it as fat. Next is knowing what foods

to eat and when to eat them. Your largest meal of the day should be breakfast,


gradually getting smaller throughout the day. However each meal should be within

150 calories of all the meals that day. Foods are made up of nutrients that your body

needs to run on a daily basis. Most important are carbohydrates, pr...