Thursday, February 3, 2011

False Eating Habits

According to recent research, the average person makes 200 decisions every day that will influence his or her weight. And most of these decisions aren’t monumental choices, like “Should I become an elite marathon runner?”, but most, in fact are tiny little choices—habits that contributes to significant weight gain.


NO NO! eating habit #1 Skipping Breakfast [makes me loose weight]
Skipping breakfast actually makes a person fat. It's because our activities are mostly done at daytime and when we easily get hungry. After our long hours of work, we tend to eat more at dinner time which is unhealthy because we sleep after eating and makes our body burn less calorie while sleeping than when we are awake.


NO NO! eating habit #2 Taking Big Bites
Dutch researchers recently found that big bites and fast chewing can lead to overeating. In the study, people who chewed large bites of food for 3 seconds consumed 52 percent more food before feeling full than those who chewed small bites for 9 seconds. The reason: Tasting food for a longer period of time (no matter how much of it you bite off) signals your brain to make you feel full sooner, say the scientists.

NO NO! eating habit #3 Drinking Soda [often]
Researchers say you can measure a person’s risk of obesity.Here's what our daily intake means:½ can = 26 percent increased risk of being overweight or obese;½ to 1 can = 30.4 percent increased risk;1 to 2 cans = 32.8 percent increased risk;More than 2 cans = 47.2 percent increased risk.

no no! easting habit #4 eating in Fast foods
At this digital era, things seems to be faster and faster everyday. We all must move quicker than before to catch the world. Eating becomes a time-consuming activity so it leads to wrong eating habits, and people simplify it with fast foods. We all know how bad fast foods are! No matter how busy you are, stay away from fast foods! You can prepare your own lunch from home, some sandwich with whole wheat bread, tuna salad, yogurt dressing and cucumber will be a tasty and healthy choice. See...it’s not that difficult, you just need to improvise.