Weight Loss - Causes and Food Control

 It took time to put on the excess weight you want to be rid of. Take time to reduce. Moderate loss, at the rate of one-half pound to one pound a week, is healthier loss and the fat lost is more likely to stay off than fat lost in a hurry. And a pound a week adds up to 52 pounds a year. When you lose weight slowly, your skin adjusts and you don't get that deflated-balloon look.

CALORIE CONTENT OF SNACK FOODS FOOD AMOUNT

Chocolate bar Chocolate creams Cookies Doughnut Banana Peach Apple Raisins Popcorn Potato chips Peanuts or pistachio nuts Walnuts, pecans, filberts or cashews Brazil nuts Butternuts Peanut butter Pickles Olives Ice cream Chocolate-nut sundae Ice cream soda Chocolate malted milk Eggnog (without liquor) Carbonated beverages Alcoholic Beverages Beer Wine Gin Rum Whiskey Brandy Cocktail 1 small bar 1 average size 1 medium size 1 plain 1 large 1 medium size 1 medium size 1/2 cup 1 cup popped 8-10 or 1/2 cup 1 4 whole or 1 tbsp. chopped 1 1 1 tbsp. 1 large sour 1 average sweet 1 1/2 cup 1 glass 1 glass 6 oz.  

OBESITY STARTS IN CHILDHOOD

The problem of overweight in adults may well have its roots in infancy and childhood. There has long been a tradition-certainly no longer valid in an age of modern medicine-that the plump child is better equipped to withstand disease. The practice of actually encouraging fatness in babies to help them withstand tuberculosis and other diseases is not only unnecessary; it is potentially dangerous. Recent scientific work provides some tentative new insights into how overfeeding of children in infancy and the preadolescent years may build up fat cells (adipose tissue) that may remain with them a lifetime. The studies suggest that once these cells are laid down, they never disappear.

When weight is lost, the cells shrink, but still remain.

 At times, they may send out signals demanding to be fed. This demand may help explain why many people find it difficult to keep their weight down after dieting. A constant craving for food may not be wholly psychological, as many have thought; it may be at least partly based on biological demand from deprived fat cells. A lean adult may have about 27 trillion fat cells in his body; an obese may have 77 trillion. Obesity, when it exists, can be and that involves childhood, even in early infancy.  But its prevention is far reasonable eating habits