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 There has long been a tradition-certainly no longer
valid in an age of modern medicine-that the plump child is better equipped to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
