How to fight against the tendency to obesity?

Obesity raging around the world has become an epidemic.

The first extra pounds, who are the first fruits can easily multiply as long as we cherish the genes that promotes it.
Is it really inevitable?

How not to become obese?



Obesity: a matter of lifestyle?
Until the end of last century, it was recognized that the main culprit of obesity was lifestyle: less and less energy-consuming calories because of car lifts, heating, cooling ubiquitous and more and more deals which supply food calories equally pervasive.

In other words, if one became obese, it's because we eat too much and we were too sedentary.

To lose weight, the only solution was to move more and eat less.

And that "eat less" opened the door to all the ravings of dieting.

Obesity: a matter of genes?
But the perpetual failures of medical duo "low calorie diet - exercise" handed the dogma in question at the same time as developing the discovery of our genome.

For fifteen years, many researchers have turned around the world to try to understand why there are people that grow easily and others that, in the same environment, do not take weight.

Over the years, more than 70 genes that predispose to obesity have been identified, and it is certainly not the last. It's like a soap opera: every month or so, we discover a new one.

There are all kinds of genes that influence appetite, others on satiety, the taste for fat, about storing them and even their favorite storage location (on the belly or buttocks). It also has genes that prevent other genes to function and small pieces of chromosome that have made ​​the trunk (we do not yet know why), all increase the risk of obesity.

No one is in charge of all these disruptive genes simultaneously, but few may have been a few, it's a bazaar not possible in the brain and / or adipose tissue (and other organs too) and it makes you fat.

How to know if you have these genes in itself?
You have to look on the side of Dad, Mom and the four grandparents. If all are or were of normal weight (not necessarily breadboards!), One short little risk.

It is estimated that a child is 80% of (mis) chance of becoming obese when both parents are.
This risk is reduced by half when only one parent is.
But it is still 10% if Mom and Dad are slim: there is probably a grandfather or a grandmother who is or was.

Can we counteract obesity genes?
The answer is YES!

Why? Because, fortunately, most of these genes act according to their environment. And this environment, what is it? Physical inactivity and overeating.

If one carries those pesky genes, which never works, what hours you spend watching TV and you eat anything, you put his side every chance to grow . But if you have a regular exercise and a balanced diet, it will not make weight.

You can not change their genetic but it can change its own environment.

How to deal with a child?
The more one comes sooner, the better, of course!

Once the curve Size / Weight of a health book bends the wrong way, it is necessary above all to put up a physical activity strategy: replace the stroller (if there is) a tricycle (it exist with a cane walker that allows the parent to maintain control while the little pedal) to make it work as often as possible, and teach him to swim, depending on age, the part of a sports club. His leisure should be aimed at the physical expense. What entails is obviously to limit TV and video games.

A child who, early on, get used to physically spend is likely to keep his life. Indeed, his body will demand its daily dose of physical activity and must satisfy to feel good.

From the supply side, whatever the child's age, it is important not to put him on a diet! This is the biggest mistake one can make.

You just ban sugary drinks from home and set up, if not already, a balanced diet. And, it is equally important, do not give him the habit of snacking between meals and consider candy and other sweets as a special time of celebration.



How as an adult?
This is of course the same strategy to implement.

For physical activity, it is only a matter of will. Anyway early to accustom his body to the movement. Derusted soon as it is, everything will be much easier: the fact we find natural to walk and then we are likely to want more.

Supply side, the first and main rule is to not dive into any diet to lose weight fast. This is the best way to enhance the activity of certain genes and open the path to obesity, the pounds via yo-yo.

Then it's a matter of organization to find the time:

1 - From cooking to turn the industrial flat of his daily life. Once the organization set up, it is obvious that we can then prepare everything you need for balanced meals where vegetables and grains are satiating in place.

2 - Eating quietly undertaking to chew well so that the satiety center is working properly. When this is the case, genes that can disrupt neutralized.

When obesity is a trend, it does not make it inevitable. It can dominate controlling his personal environment.