Battling Obesity

By Ng Peng Hock

Smoking can help one stays slim.

Are you sure?

It does not sound convincing at all but unfortunately it is a common belief among teenage girls.

Besides the many healthy problems like heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, stroke, and many others that are associated with overweight, the other important issue for teenage girls is their body image.

Research conducted in the United Kingdom and Canada showed that 1/3 of girls view weight gain as a reason not to give up cigarette.

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By Dave Draper

It takes courage to seek out a gym and walk through the front door expecting a throng of obnoxiously confident and shapely bodies to evaluate your hips and biceps. Your nifty home gym in the garage, basement or bedroom becomes most attractive suddenly, limitations and all.

Gyms come in all shapes and sizes: squares, rectangles, L-shaped, U-shaped, upper level, two stories. Go to the cities and they’re on penthouse floors; go to the suburbs and they cover acres, with ball courts, pools, restaurants and golf facilities. Each gym has its own personality largely based on its ownership and operating team, the neighborhood in which it resides and, subsequently, the folks it attracts. Like a mate, there’s a gym for everybody.

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I thought I would jot down a few of my thoughts about counting cereal points.

Generally, the nutritional information for cereals call for about 1-cup of cereal with 1/2 cup of milk, or skim milk. I prefer 2% milk, and that is 3 points per 1-cup. Also, 1 cup of cereal is like a really low bowl of cereal so I tend to overfill my bowl to make it overflowing. .. so, my first bowl is about 1-1/2 cups of cereal. I then put in about 3/4 cup of milk (otherwise the cereal will float out of the bowl and onto the table). And, when I finish my cereal, there is usually a little milk left in the bowl, so just pour in some more cereal in to utilize the rest of the milk in my bowl!

I very carefully measured out my cereal eating habits one day, and feel comfortable that in most situations, I end up eating about 2 cups of cereal with 1 cup of milk. I figure - when I’m desparate that none of my eating habits is helping me lose weight, this is one portion control I will get a better handle on to reduce my intake.

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By Bentley Thompson

If you were told by your doctor that you are significantly overweight, would it have been surprizing to you? Most certainly not; you already would (or should) have known. You have been ignoring reality all this time.

In fact, if I am obese and my doctor said otherwise I would have known he/she was telling me a fat lie.

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Last Saturday, my wife and I went out to dinner with a couple of friends to a semi-fancy italian restaurant here in Winnipeg. The lights were dimmed inside the restaurant, and it was packed! I felt uncomfortable pulling out my camera and taking a picture of my supper and try to work out the points for W/W. My wife had this delicious looking stuffed chicken marbalized with some Almond and hazelnut sauce and the other couple were more into the ‘Italian’ type of dinner selections.

I thought I would just go with what I know - PIZZA .. because I have an easy way to count points for all pizza. More →

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A couple of good reads this morning …

* Unhappy Meals - by Michael Pollan - New York Times

By MICHAEL POLLAN
Published: January 28, 2007
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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Mmmmm… Campbell’s Chunky Chicken Noodle Soup ….

Counting points is a little tricky, but if you have one of those “sliders” they give you when you first join Weight Watchers .. it’s quite easy. There are basically three things on the nutritional labels of all foods that we concern ourselves with:

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I was at Walmart today, and I ran into an acquaintance from last year’s Weight Watcher program. He asked me how it was going. I patted my stomach and said something like .. “Oh, you know - it comes … it goes … ”

Then he just said .. “And, it sure has been coming for me” .. and he patted his stomach too.

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