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OBESITYA HURDLE TO OVERTAKE
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• Obesity means having too much body fat. It is
  different from being overweight, which means
  weighing too much. The weight may come from
  muscle, bone, fat and/or body water. Both terms
  mean that a person's weight is greater than
  what's considered healthy for his or her height.
• Obesity occurs over time when you eat more
  calories than you use. The balance between
  calories-in and calories-out differs for each
  person. Factors that might tip the balance
  include your genetic makeup, overeating, eating
  high-fat foods and not being physically active.
• Being obese increases your risk of diabetes,
  heart disease, stroke, arthritis and some
  cancers. If you are obese, losing even 5 to 10
  percent of your weight can delay or prevent some
  of these diseases.

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Reasons why obesity is still a problem include.

• CHANGES TO OUR DIETS
• Multiple lifestyle changes were
  independently associated with long-term weight
  gain, including changes in the consumption of
  specific foods and beverages, physical activity,
  alcohol use, television watching, and smoking
  habits. Strong positive associations with weight
  change were seen for starches, refined grains,
  and processed foods. Some foods vegetables,
  nuts, fruits, and whole grains were associated
  with less weight gain when consumption was
  actually increased. Obviously, such foods provide
  calories and cannot violate thermodynamic laws.
  Their inverse associations with weight gain
  suggest that the increase in their consumption
  reduced the intake of other foods to a greater
  (caloric) extent, decreasing the overall amount
  of energy consumed. Yogurt consumption was also
  associated with less weight gain in all three
  cohorts. What needs to happen? We need to start
  eating healthy diets again. We need to consume
  more fresh, locally grown fruits and veggies. We
  need to cook in the home, where we have control
  over the calorie, fat and sugar content of our
  diets. Communities need to make access to local
  markets readily available as well as
  cost-effective for lower-income families. Eating
  unhealthy diets shouldnt be cheaper than diets
  that contain healthy food options. 

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• 2. PHYSICAL ACTIVITYOR LACK THERE OF
• Theres increasing evidence that our sedentary
  lives are putting millions of us at increased
  risk of health problems and even early death. The
  link between inactivity and obesity and poorer
  health generally identified in is illuminating
  but scarcely surprising. In our increasingly
  technological age, even moderately strenuous
  physical activity is something most of us dont
  experience on a daily basis. The average child of
  today now watches between three to four hours of
  television daily and spends additional hours on
  the Internet. Meanwhile, walking and cycling have
  been replaced by automobile travel for all but
  the shortest distances, and for adults, the
  workplace has become increasingly automated as
  well.
• Thats the problem. But it does have a solution
  creating home, work and school environments that
  promote regular physical activity. It wont be
  easy, but then, nothing important ever is.

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• 3. YO-YO DIETING
• Yo-yo diet resulted in large fluctuations in
  these health measures, decreasing during the
  low-fat diet and increasing to a diabetic state
  during the high-fat diet. When health measures
  during the high fat and low-fat diet regimens of
  the yo-yo diet group were averaged, their
  "average health" was improved compared with obese
  mice that stayed on the high-fat diet.
• What needs to happen? We need to stop dieting
  to lose weight and implement healthy changes to
  our diets. This includes adopting a lifestyle
  change which includes healthy foods all of the
  time in addition to physical activity. While
  these changes may be difficult in the beginning,
  they will get easier with time. In the long run,
  healthy lifestyle changes will lead to weight
  loss and an overall improvement in your health.

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