Weight gain is always a lag between input and
energy costs. It's like a bank account: what is not spent can be stored. The
current epidemic of obesity is the result of the general decline in energy
expenditure (mechanization, transportation, TV, computers, etc.) and the
increasing consumption of foods high in fat and cheap. The results of the
experiment on the Alsatian college for four years, clearly show that when one
moves, the risk of gaining weight is neutralized.
ICAPS: Intervention with
college students focused on physical activity and sedentary behavior
This is the name of the project
implemented in September 2002 in colleges of the Lower Rhine. A year before, a
study showed that 22.7% of children 12 years of the department presented
overweight, while the national average is 14 to 15%. Eight colleges were drawn,
gathering thousands of students 6th of normal weight. In four of them, we set
up a physical activity program called "leisure" (during break times
and hotlines) and at the same time focus groups on sedentary subjects, health,
etc., to which the parents were involved. We do not ask them to change anything
to their diet. In the other four colleges, nothing has changed in the programs.
But the thousand students all suffered the same medical examination (height,
weight, blood test) to be able to compare the results between college students
'action' and 'witnesses'. They also completed the same questionnaire about
their lifestyle.
Four years later
Professor Chantal Simon who led
this experience with her University research group of Strasbourg, smiling, recently
reported the results. While in the "control" group, 9.8% of college
students have gained weight, there are only 4.4% in the "action"
group. And among these, the "good" cholesterol, HDL reduces the risk
of cardiovascular disease, increased by 6%. At the same time, these teens spend
20 minutes less watching TV and three quarters of them have taken a liking to
the sport, practicing an hour (54 minutes on average) of extra-curricular
physical activity per week. This means that when you move - not to change his
diet - the risk of overweight is halved. "We had strong indications"
said Chantal Simon, "but had never shown so far that we could turn the
tide." It's worth thinking ?? and to move!
Walking ...
What is true for middle school
Alsace is also for everyone, that we have three or 60 years old. Do not confine
a child in a stroller but give her hand to walk as soon as he is able. Organize
school trips and other so he can make the maximum walk (or bike) and no car ??
There are a thousand ways not to condition a child to physical inactivity, from
an early age and thus prevent a decision always possible weight. Plus it will
move, the more he will want to move, to spend and not to stay sprawled in front
of the TV. For adults, it is not necessary to engage in strenuous physical
activities, or to ruin in gym pass or go jogging in the early morning pale, but
simply to use systematically the two legs for us to walk. This means: forget
the car (or, when you really have to use it, the park further away and finish
on foot), and even if you do not have to walk the dog, go for a walk, while it
as often as possible.
... and balanced diet
Eating slowly everything, listen
to his feelings of satiety in order not to go beyond its energy needs, eating
bread with every meal, vegetables and fruits, less fat cook possible, these key
food equilibrium not really difficult to implement. Combined with the walk,
there is no doubt that this change in habits will prevent weight gain and also
help to lose.
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