Causes of Obesity from Daily Habits II
• Skipping meals
Bad habit, usually related to the named above. By skipping meals, falls in the pecking or eating abundantly in the next main meal.
Therefore, if the aim of reducing body weight and maintaining good health, always advise: do the five daily comimdas, thus avoiding long periods without eating and anxiety that these fasts generate.
• Drinking alcohol
Many times we take any alcoholic beverage to quench thirst, not realizing the amount of calories they give us. Your calories are dependent on alcohol content (grams of alcohol each 100cc). One gram of alcohol provides 7 calories.
Therefore, a drink can have as much energy as any solid food. While it is advisable to take a glass of red wine per day to be an antioxidant and cardiovascular health benefits, the best advice is to be moderate, avoiding excesses.
- Chips and sugars
These foods are mostly dense, high energy density, in other words, are those in low-volume provide much energy. For example, cheeses, cold cuts, pastries, ice cream, cakes, fried, mayonnaise, nuts (in quantity). These foods should be eaten occasionally, but not daily. It is important to replace them with fruit or vegetables, and thus to change habits. Although it is difficult at first, it is necessary not to turn our high calorie and high fat feeding.
• Buy a high-calorie foods that induce further eating (anxiety)
This is the case of snacks, chips, peanuts, fried and salted nuts, sunflower seeds, chocolate, chocolates, cookies, etc.. These foods are dangerous because they increase your appetite when you start to eat them, and too many calories in low-volume or quantity. It’s best to avoid buying and in this way to not have them in sight, we avoid the temptation.