You can eat to live or live to eat, the choice is yours.
There are many aspects to the latter way of living. When we eat more than our
share, we are contributing to the hunger of people who go without food around
the world. Then we are making our organs overwork to digest and store the
excess food as fat in the body. And every body knows obesity can lead to many
chronic diseases.
If we look at the changing social scenario over the years,
it is clear that food obsession is definitely on the increase. And the dinner
time is getting more and more delayed. At one end of the spectrum, there are
people who have their dinner before sunset and at the other end the dinner
table is set only after 10 pm. Sleeping
soon after the dinner also leads to diseases.
Stomach has elasticity
Our stomach is elastic in nature. The more we eat, the more
it gets stretched. And when we do that as a habit, the size of the stomach
increases and then unless we eat the same amount, we feel hungry. This property
of stomach also makes it possible to gradually decrease the amount of food
consumed and you can come back to a stage when the stomach feels full with the
ideal quantity of food you need. But this can’t be achieved overnight.
How are people increasing the size of their stomach? Let’s start
from the tea and coffee that is consumed daily. I saw that our tea cups at home
hold 125 ml of tea/coffee.
When we go to have coffee at the Star Bucks, I am
amazed at the quantity of coffee people drink. We buy one medium sized cup of
coffee and between my husband and me, we find it difficult to finish that. And
I see people around having large cups!
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Now this increase in size has invaded homes too. Look at the
coffee cup sizes you see in TV programmes. You keep watching that and next time
you go the market, you get those huge cups as you think it is the ‘in thing’
now.
During parties and get togethers, when I see the amount of
appetizers being gobbled, I really wonder from where the space is created for the
huge amount of food that is consumed during the ‘main course’.
Appetizers- usually one wants to taste all varieties
Effect on the body
Over time, all these foods that one has consumed shows up in
the body as bulging abdomen and obesity.
Self image is also very important in
the social circle. So they start looking for methods to regain the body shape.
And most of us want quick fix. But the truth is that only gradual and
consistent reduction will be long lasting.
The remedy?
As mentioned earlier, one has to gradually keep reducing the
amount of food eaten per meal .Those above forty (or at least fifty) should
start eating only salads or fruits (whichever they prefer) for dinner,
preferably before sun set. Habit of drinking warm water should be developed,
and never reach for that water bottle in the refrigerator!
Exercising is also very crucial for weight reduction. One
can choose from yoga, walking, running or aerobics. Determination and
persistence are required to achieve the weight reduction, and you are sure to
succeed!
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