Health and Wellness

The weather is colder and snow is on the ground and for many it may be a white Christmas.

So how is you love affair with food going, with the TV constantly bombarding us with adverts for food, cheap meals and big portions, it’s true, the US does love it’s food!

We’ve been offsetting the outrageous encouragement to overeat by catching a few TV documentaries about overweight people, I don’t mean the folks who could do with dropping a few pounds, I mean the technically “Super Morbidly Obese”. The one that stands out was the “Half ton Mum”, yep, you guessed it, a mum who actually weighed in at over 1000lbs! There was another series of programs on documenting people who were in the same class, but still (just) mobile, a guy weighing in at 700lbs for example. Of interest was that the majority of them saw nothing wrong with their condition and argued that they were as healthy as people of normal weight…. At least the doctors tried to talk some sense into them, sorry, but you guys fall into the Fat category for this blog.

So, that set me thinking, how exactly do you get to be that big, and why are there more overweight Americans than British people. Well, as we know, if you eat more than you need, then the body stores it as fat. But, sadly, the body is very good at doing that, so, if you eat just two hundred calories (a chocolate bar for example) each day that you don’t actually need to sustain your weight on that day then over the course of 30 years you could easily gain over 600 lbs in weight, suddenly it becomes clear how people can get that big!

Now, in the UK, most cereal packets, food tins etc. state that an average man needs in the region of 2000Kcals a day, which, for someone with a sedentary lifestyle would result in a stable weight of about 180lbs, or 13 stone. Now, here in the US, most packets state a requirement of 2500 or even 3000 Kcals for the same average man, that would lead to a stable weight of between 225 and 270 lbs, so getting towards 20 stone… I think maybe someone needs to educate the food companies to stop misleading the people who don’t know any better! Fat!

There is little control of advertising here in the US, there are lots of adverts for diet pills, weight loss pills, weight loss plans etc etc. So what can you do if you want to lose weight? Well is you use a heart rate monitor it can record all the exercise you do and tell you how many calories you burn. Record everything you eat (which is actually pretty easy to do), so you noting the calories in, and exercise calories out. We burn on average about 25 Kcals per kg of body weight just to get through the day, so with all that info you can figure out how much weight you should loose or gain. Eating sensibly, not on a diet as such, just watching the snacks etc and being healthy. For example over a month,if you expend 16,000 Kcals more than you eat through exercise and using the basic 25kcals/kg/day base rate. As burning a kilo of fat provides 7,500 Kcals, that should result in a loss of 2.1kg. Of course the more you eat the more you need to exercise, that is why its good to go out for a brisk walk after a Christmas lunch

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