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What is visceral fat and how to lose it

Posted by Ivan in Obesity causes on September 23, 2009

abdominal obesityVisceral fat also known as abdominal fat is a fat surrounding your internal organs inside abdominal cavity. Two other types of fat are subcutaneous fat which is located underneath the skin and intramuscular fat which is found interspered in skeletal muscle.

An excess of visceral fat is known as abdominal or central obecity. Other names are “beer belly” and “pot belly”
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Food Cravings – an Enemy or a Friend?

Posted by Ivan in Obesity causes on July 4, 2009

food cravingsWe all suffer from food cravings occassionally. Craving is always for a certain specific food or type of food, not just anything to satisfy hunger. Generally the craving is felt for chocolate, pie or something that will give sugar or carbohydrates to the body.

It could even be the craving for potato chips or an extra glass of wine. Quite often people think it is bad habits that are responsible for this craving, or that the person has poor will power. That is really not the case! The food cravings have biological causes and to beat the food craving we must understand these underlying causes.

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To Binge or not To Binge, that is the question…

Posted by Ivan in Obesity causes on June 23, 2009

binge eatingAll of this time we have talked about what to eat and what not to eat. Though, that is only part of the solution to a good diet. There is something that we also need to talk about. What we haven’t talked about is eating habits. When you should and shouldn’t eat. That is as important as what you eat. Why is it important? It is important because you don’t want to binge eat. You don’t want to eat a whole bunch of food at one time. This isn’t good for you. Does this sound like you? You skip breakfast because you are running late for work. You have a bunch of work that has been piling up, so you skip lunch. Instead you have a cup of coffee and some snack crackers. You go home and you eat enough for three meals. You are so hungry you could eat a live pig. You eat so much that you don’t think you will be able to walk for a week. You go watch some television and you fall asleep while watching it. Read the rest of this entry »

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The roots of obesity

Posted by Ivan in Obesity causes on June 23, 2009

obesityThe roots of obesity are unhealthy eating and sustained lack of activity.

If you burn less calories than food gives to you, your body turns on the storage program and puts on fat. This is the most often cause of the obesity.

Disorderly eating habits are the top reason why people became obese. With neither the time, nor the inclination to control one’s meals, it’s no wonder people get fat all over the world.

Couple that with a sedentary lifestyle where most trips are taken by car and you got a health situation out of control.

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