Reduced salt could be the reason why people are getting fat. Ya never know.
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The reason people get fat is that they eat too much. One pound equals about 3600 calories. If you don’t work it off you get to keep it with you. If you multiply your weight by 10 that is approximately how many calories you work off each day if you are an average person.
If you weigh 200 lbs then your normal body burns up 2000 calories. If you eat 2100 calories a day you will gain a pound every 36 days. If you eat 1900 calories a day you will lose a pound every 36 days. These are not exact numbers and some days you burn more calories than others but these numbers are pretty reliable.
People say their hormones make them fat, it runs in the family or they are big boned and can’t help it, but none of that is true. Hormones can make you hungry, medicines can make you hungry even heredity can make you hungry but how much you put in your mouth is what determines how much you weigh.
>>if you are an average person.<<
Let me tell you, when you work in medicine and see how different chemicals effect each body differently, you’ll wake up.
I’ve seen patients take steroids and gain weight without reduction in activity or increase in calories.
Come on into 2012, you’re stuck in 1970.
A few unfortunate folks can keep the blubber on with a calorie regimen that would slim most people way down. They genuinely do have slower metabolism. This is the crowd that has resorted to such things as stomach stapling and lap bands. On the other extreme some have a lot of a special fat that burns calories as heat, an adaptation that has worked well for Eskimo peoples. But the “mushy middle” is generally too well wined and dined.
The easiest way I have found to lose weight... is to eat dinner much earlier than usual (3-4) and wait as long as possible to eat breakfast (10-11). There’s just not enough hours left to over eat then (especially if you drink a large glass of water before eating) And if you have a problem with wanting to snack late at night... just go to bed early.
If you do all that, you can pretty much eat whatever you want and you’ll lose weight.
Sorry, but it’s not that simple. 2000 calories consisting of mostly junk (bad carbs) is not nearly in the same league as 2100 good calories (small varying amounts of good carbs, plus an ample amount of protein & healthy fats). Healthy fats, meaning saturated & medium chain fats). For most people, the latter group of calories is not likely to produce a weight gain over time. In fact, assuming a starting baseline of 2000 calories/day, a person seeking weight loss can actually lose weight by consuming more than 2000 calories.
The obesity epidemic;
Here is a monkey wrench into the idea of eating too much. Estrogen levels have been increasing in everything, ground water, wells and municipal water systems, and in the soil where it ends up in the vegetables grown in backyard gardens.
Testosterone levels have been decreasing not just in men but also in woman and yes woman naturally have a low level of testosterone.
With estrogen up and testosterone down could this be why we all are putting on weight?
Women are 76% water, which comes to a total of 0 calories. The rest is sugar and spice.
My bet is that you are blaming the victm. Try a search on 'infectobesity'.
The study also reports that even when you stop 'hanging out' with obese people the tendency to stay obese stays with you.
One of the primary goals of genetics over the past decade has been to understand human health and disease in terms of differences in DNA from person to person. But even a relatively straightforward trait such as height has resisted attempts to reduce it to a particular combination of genes. In light of this shortcoming, some investigators see room for an increased focus on an alternative explanation for heritable traits: epigenetics, the molecular processes that control a gene.s potential to act. Evidence now suggests that epigenetics can lead to inherited forms of obesity and cancer.
Press release at http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/eu-ibd030110.php
CONCLUSIONS.Pathogen burden showed the strongest association with insulin resistance, especially with enteroviruses and C. pneumoniae seropositivity. We hypothesize that exposure to multiple pathogens could cause a chronic low-grade inflammation, resulting in insulin resistance.
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