Recently I had an opportunity to visit few slimming and
fitness centre. There were a quite a good number of persons who had come there
to reduce their weights. Many exercises were being taught there. Varieties of
machines were being used. Some rigorous exercises were also being practiced.
Some of them were muscle builders. Motorized cycles, electro vibrator etc. were
being used . I observed that there was no effort of the individual to burn the
fat.
Machines were doing the job.
These days almost each well to do person or capitalist is
buying a car it has also become a fashion (or passion) to get for a walk in their
cars! They go a long distance in their cars and park some where near a garden
or sea shore. Then they walk for few minutes and again drive their cars to
return home.
Is it possible to
walk in a car ? there are number of employees who go to their working area in
the morning and come late night.All the time they sit in front of a computer
doing programming. Their brain is more active than body.
They take untimely
food. Even educationists, scientist except they sit in libraries or
laboratories. Also their food habits are normal which keep them alert. Ladies
or home makers spend most of their time witnessing TV films or serials. The
cookers, grinders, mixers do their work. More sedentary (sitting much) work is
observed. All such practices have caused many to become obese.
A person do not require as many calories to maintain his
weight as he needed in his youth. And also we know that the extra food eaten
gets deposited as fat. So if you don’t decrease your caloric intake as you age
you are likely to gain weight. If people at 40of their age continue to eat the
same quantity and do the same activities when they were in youth or 20 years
old they naturally gain weight. Because body metabolism (bio-chemical action)
does down with age.
Whole grains, fruit and vegetables is essential but many are
accustomed to eating large meals or lots of fried stuff or sweets this enables
them to become obese.
Certain medicines which tend to increase appetite may also
bring down the metabolic rate. This result in fat deposits. Especially drugs
like steroids and few antidepressants may cause weight gain.
Drugs that contain mercury and arsenic are prescribed for a
variety of diseases. These drugs if taken on a regular basis may result in
obesity.
After each pregnancy a women’s weight increase an average of
2-4 kgs more than her pre pregnancy weight. This also contribute to obesity in
women.
Addiction to drugs. Cigarettes and alcohol also cause
obesity. But this may not be the case in everyone however. Smokers tend to gain
weight after quitting. This increase is about 3 to 5 kilos many smokers often
gain weight because they eat more after they quit smoking.
Some people seek a
substitute in the form of food. These foods are high in calories. To have
pleasure they eat chocolates and sweets.
They tend to eat more feeling that
they suffer from physical weakness other wise. They wish to compensate by
eating. Here substitutes can be addictive. smokers when they stop smoking, burn
fewer calories.
We are all living in a society. We meet people. We attend
dinner parties. We attend marriage house dinners. We dine with a group’s
satisfaction many people eat more. The host some times encourage eating . there
may be a competition also among good eaters, competition creates much
enthusiasm to eat more. So people overeat.
An English author has said sarcastically” if you are
overweight you carry it to only for a short time” that is what Hippocrates, the
father of medicine said; fatty persons die early than thin persons. Billet, a French man of taste said once; “ OK eat well
become fat, become ugly. Walk carrying weight. At last die because of your own
fat.”
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