Diabetes Epidemic due to self-inflicted Obesity
One of the most fabulous contributors to the type 2 diabetes epidemic is reckoned to be obesity brought on by our modern lifestyles.
Are you eating yourself into diabetes type 2?
Check if you have these 4 eating routines that could assist to obesity and probably make you component of the type 2 diabetes epidemic…
1) Unconscious eating… No, I do not mean ‘sleep-eating’ (I wonder if there is such a thing?) i’m focusing on automatic eating without any conscious thought to what is going on.
How often do you do something else whilst eating? Watching TV; reading a book; reading a magazine or newspaper; listening to music, a radio show or conversation? If you’re whatever like me it’s possibly a infrequent occasion when you just sit and have a meal, without interruptions.
A recent study carried out by Penn State laboratory showed pre-school children, who consistently watch TV whilst eating, ate up to 33% more than they did when they had a meal without the TV on.
How much additional do you consume, without realizing it, for the reason that you are absorbed in a book or TV program?
2) Eating speed.. Ever ended your meal before others? Ever bolted your food down and then felt bloated afterwards?
In a recent Sky TV program Paul McKenna (the famous hypnotherapist) explained how the basic act of slowing down whilst eating; placing your knife and fork down between mouthfuls, can assist to weight loss.
Think about it, if you’re eating more progressively you’ll know when you are full. You is not going to continue eating and get that comfortless bloated feeling. And you is not going to put additional weight on.
Watching that program gave me an ‘Aha!’ moment, for the reason that that’s precisely what my father has done all his life. It’s a standing joke in the family that he takes so long to consume a meal – he often finishes half-an-hour after everyone else. And guess what? Yep – he’s as skinny as a rake. want I could tell the same about me!
3) Snacking… Are you surely hungry when you snack? Or is it that you “just fancy a bite to eat”?
Snacking is possibly one of the largest contributions to weight gain. is by no means so much the snacking, it’s what you snack on! Cookies /biscuits, chocolate, cakes, snack bars – all these contain massive numbers of sugar that boost the burden on our immune system. If you overload your system with sugar it could not cope, you could conclude with insulin resistance and that leads to type 2 diabetes.
Healthy, no added sugar or sugar free snacks are the absolute options if you MUST snack.
4) Sugary drinks… Do you have a favorite soft drink? If you do, is it a sugar-sweetened drink or a concentrated sugar-rich fruit juice? And, on a hot day, how much do you drink of that favorite? Half-a-liter? One liter?
It’s all added sugar, which not only affects on your weight, it also affects on your body’s control of the sugar levels in your blood.
In a recent medical study in the US the results indicated that having just one sugar sweetened drink of fruit juice daily made women more susceptible to becoming component of the type 2 diabetes epidemic, by up to 80%.
So, are you preparing to be component of the diabetes epidemic? OK, perhaps you’re not preparing to… but perhaps your unconscious eating routines have got you on that slippery slope to diabetes. A small thought about what you consume, where and how, can lower the risk for you.
