Problems of Pot Belly

 Everybody wants to have a good physique with a pleasing personality. A protruding tummy or a pot belly is not a good sign. This is more prevalent on males than females.

The main cause of pot belly is the accumulation of fat in the abdominal area.

According to WH O (World Health Organization), pot belly is that for which the abdominal circumference is more than 90 cms for male and  80 cms for females.

 Causes for Pot Belly

-         Consumption of more calories than required. The excess calories get converted to fat and accumulate in one’s belly.
- Sedentary life style. This reduces the basal metabolic rate and people spend less energy than they consume.

 Bad Effects of Pot Belly

The major health hazards are diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney and cardiovascular diseases.

Steps to remove Pot Belly

Proper diet and exercise are the two requirements to get rid of excess fat from the stomach area. The excess calories should be burnt out.

 About 30 minutes of abdominal exercises must be supplemented with swimming, cycling or running.

 Do’s

     - Eat small quantities of food at close intervals
     - Leave a gap of two hours between dinner and sleep time.

 Don’ts

Avoid excess eating.
Avoid high calorie and high fat foods especially animal meat.

Avoid foods made of refined products made up of maida

Avoid fried products.
Avoid aerated drinks and sweets

Life Style:Optimum Nutrition for a Healthy Living

It is very essential to maintain optimum nutrition for sound health. Actually to a large extent our food habits depend on the environment in which we are born and brought up. It is conditioned by our parents and society.

With the knowledge available about food and the nutrition values, we can design our food style based on scientific principles. For maintaining sound health, a healthy nervous system, healthy glands and organs, arteries free from too much fat are required.

Tips for Optimizing Nutrition
The following steps will help in optimizing nutrition.

Balanced Diet: Have a balanced diet with sufficient vitamins, fat and minerals. The diet should include plenty of fruits and vegetables.

Fat and Sugar: Reduce the consumption of fat and sugar to the bare minimum. More fat causes the clogging of blood vessels resulting in various diseases and premature aging. Excess sugar causes different metabolic diseases and tiredness.

Processed Foods: It has become a tendency to consume more processed foods. This leads to many diseases such as high blood pressure, cancer, arthritis and dental decay. The fast food in general contains too much fat, sugar and preservatives. As such avoid processed foods as far as possible.

Eat Slowly: Chew the food properly. This results in thorough break up of the food particles and release of more nutrients.

Combination of Different Foods
It is not advisable to eat lot of different foods at one meal as it puts too much strain on the digestive system because different foods require different enzymes for digesting.

More Intakes of Fibers: Try to include more fruits, vegetables and whole grains in your diet. Fiber reduces cholesterol and blood sugar.

Aerobic Exercises: Aerobic exercises such as brisk walking, jogging, cycling etc help in increased blood circulation to all parts of the body including digestive glands. This helps in better assimilation of food nutrients.

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Problems of Pot Belly

Everybody wants to have a good physique with a pleasing personality. A protruding tummy or a pot belly is not a good sign. This is more prevalent on males than females.The main cause of pot belly is the accumulation of fat in the abdominal area. According to WHO (World Health Organization), pot belly is that for which the abdominal circumference is more than 90 cms for male and 80 cms for females.

 Causes for Pot Belly 

 Consumption of more calories than required. The excess calories get converted to fat and accumulate in one’s belly. - Sedentary life style. This reduces the basal metabolic rate and people spend less energy than they consume.

 Bad Effects of Pot Belly

 The major health hazards are diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney and cardiovascular diseases. 

 Steps to remove Pot Belly 

Proper diet and exercise are the two requirements to get rid of excess fat from the stomach area. The excess calories should be burnt out. About 30 minutes of abdominal exercises must be supplemented with swimming, cycling or running.

 Do’s - Eat small quantities of food at close intervals - Leave a gap of two hours between dinner and sleep time. Don’ts Avoid excess eating. Avoid high calorie and high fat foods especially animal meat. Avoid foods made of refined products made up of maida  Avoid fried products. Avoid aerated drinks and sweets.

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Over Weight

Now a days several people are complaining of overweight.
There are lot of problems due to overweight like
increased blood pressure, diabetes, problem in walking etc etc.
One reason for this overweight is too much junk food and lack of exercise.
Some people go for medicines to reduce their weight.
But the chances of reduction of weight due to medicine
are very less. Also there can be many side effects on account
of medicine.
The best way for loss of weight is dietary control and proper
exercise. Oily foods and bakery products should be reduced
as far as possible. In its place, vegetables and fruits should
be substituted.
Brisk walking, jogging, swimming ..these are some of the best form of
exercises.
At periodical intervals, weight should be recorded so as to monitor
the the weight control.

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