Obesity in America is on the rise. Many adults struggle with being overweight and our increasingly sentient lifestyles are beginning to affect the health and activity levels of our children. As our kids spend more time in front of the television and with their gaming systems, they become less active.
While these activities of themselves are not incredibly harmful in moderation, they can be destructive to your child's health if they become the sole pursuits of their free time.
One of the problems with BMI is that it is still too general of a measurement. Taking into account that it is incapable of distinguishing between a number of important factors such as age, gender, percentage of muscle mass, body type, and ethnic groups, BMI begins to seem like a very arbitrary way of determining somebody's health.
Dr. Sears asserts that following this diet will change the way hormones work in your body to have a greater anti-inflammatory effect. Hormones like insulin and glucagon are produced as a result of foods we eat (or don't eat) to regulate blood sugar levels.
However, these hormones also promote inflammation which Dr. Sears believes is linked to obesity. The Zone Diet is designed to keep your body "in the zone" by balancing your blood sugars and thereby allowing your body to release anti-inflammatory chemicals and function in its optimal state.
Yes, to some extent. Weight loss is relatively slow, but Dr. Sears attributes that to the fact that the weight lost is nearly all from fat and not muscle or water. Those who stick to the Zone Diet find that even if their weight doesn't melt away, they have healthier cholesterol levels and/or blood pressure, resulting in decreased risk of heart disease and other obesity-related health issues.
Join your children as you encourage them to be more active. Let your children choose what activities you do with them, and help them learn that being active is fun. Once they reach the appropriate age, encourage them to participate in organized sports or find some kind of active physical pursuit they can do on a daily basis.
Also, let your children learn to make healthy dietary choices. Teach them what foods will give them the energy they need to be active. As you incorporate these foods into their diet, allow them to make their own choices, picking foods they like to eat from the selection of foods that are healthy.
While the medical community has yet to completely adopt a successor to the BMI measurement, the fact that there are accurate options to choose from is encouraging. With the number of people that use their BMI ratio as evidence that they need to fly down to Mexico for weight loss surgery, it pays to use a measurement that can tell you the true state of your body and your health before making such an important decision.
While these activities of themselves are not incredibly harmful in moderation, they can be destructive to your child's health if they become the sole pursuits of their free time.
One of the problems with BMI is that it is still too general of a measurement. Taking into account that it is incapable of distinguishing between a number of important factors such as age, gender, percentage of muscle mass, body type, and ethnic groups, BMI begins to seem like a very arbitrary way of determining somebody's health.
Dr. Sears asserts that following this diet will change the way hormones work in your body to have a greater anti-inflammatory effect. Hormones like insulin and glucagon are produced as a result of foods we eat (or don't eat) to regulate blood sugar levels.
However, these hormones also promote inflammation which Dr. Sears believes is linked to obesity. The Zone Diet is designed to keep your body "in the zone" by balancing your blood sugars and thereby allowing your body to release anti-inflammatory chemicals and function in its optimal state.
Yes, to some extent. Weight loss is relatively slow, but Dr. Sears attributes that to the fact that the weight lost is nearly all from fat and not muscle or water. Those who stick to the Zone Diet find that even if their weight doesn't melt away, they have healthier cholesterol levels and/or blood pressure, resulting in decreased risk of heart disease and other obesity-related health issues.
Join your children as you encourage them to be more active. Let your children choose what activities you do with them, and help them learn that being active is fun. Once they reach the appropriate age, encourage them to participate in organized sports or find some kind of active physical pursuit they can do on a daily basis.
Also, let your children learn to make healthy dietary choices. Teach them what foods will give them the energy they need to be active. As you incorporate these foods into their diet, allow them to make their own choices, picking foods they like to eat from the selection of foods that are healthy.
While the medical community has yet to completely adopt a successor to the BMI measurement, the fact that there are accurate options to choose from is encouraging. With the number of people that use their BMI ratio as evidence that they need to fly down to Mexico for weight loss surgery, it pays to use a measurement that can tell you the true state of your body and your health before making such an important decision.
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Obesity Free is a weight loss clinic in Mexico that specializes in gastric band and gastric sleeve surgeries.