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As there are millions of people struggling to lose weight, so also are millions of people striving to gain weight. Being too fat or too thin are extreme features and people just want to maintain a fit and healthy average weight.

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WHAT IS FOOD

Food can be biochemically defined as any plant or animal, or a product of plan or animal, or any combination of two, either in solid or liquid form. Which when prepared and eaten in a specified way, is not poisonous but is digested into the body to supply certain chemical substances, such as carbohydrates, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals, which have the ability to perform any or all of the following functions:

• Provision of energy for the maintenance of the body’s internal mechanism and for the performance of physical activities.
• Provision of biochemical material for growth, maintenance, repair and reproduction.
• Provision of biocatalyst and other substances required of metabolic activities and good health.

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UNDERWEIGHT AND IT'S DANGER

UNDERWEIGHT AND ITS DANGER

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An underweight or skinny person, just like his overweight or obese counterpart, has many health risk and social inadequacies to contend with. These include:

Nutritional Deficiencies:

A person who is underweight as a result of being anorexic or through severe restriction on diet will most likely suffer from nutritional deficiencies, which may result in ill health and death.read more on prevention and solutions with life extensions topics

Amenorrhoea:

Underweight women are liable to missing menstrual period (amenorrhoea), which can lead to infertility.

Weaklings:

Majority of underweight or skinny people are regard as weaklings. They lack Physical strength to fight or defend themselves against bullies. They are easily physically intimidated and oppressed.

Sport:

Underweight or skinny people do not have the shape, strength or stamina needed in so many sporting activities like football, lawn tennis, basketball, discuss, hammer, short put, cricket, handball, wrestling, boxing, etc. They are naturally not athletic. However some of them are good at endurance sports like marathon race.

Fashion:

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OVERWEIGHT AND ITS DANGERS

When a person consumes too much  food, especially carbohydrates and fat, than he actually needs to maintain his body mechanism and perform his daily activities, the excess calories generated by this  food is stored as fat. A person is considered overweight when this fat is about 10% in excess of the ideal fat for his height, and obese at over 20% excess. Obesity, the condition of being obese or seriously overweight, is a common but serious nutritional disorder, affecting the poor and rich alike.

Height body fat.

8-20% of body weight (men).

13-25% of body weight (woman).

Indicators of Obesity.

1. Triceps Skin fold Thickness: The measurement of the fold of skin at the back of the upper arm (triceps) can be used to determine whether a particular person is too fat (obese), normal too thin. The standard triceps skin fold  thickness for normal weight adult is 12.5mm for male and 16.5mm for female. Females are naturally expected to be fatter than males. Higher figures are indicators of overweight or obesity.
2. Waist measurement: Waist measurement is a reliable indicator of how fat or thin a person is. A woman whose wait measures more than 40 inches are considered obese.

Types of Obesity:

Obesity is classified into two types depending on when it manifest.

Toddler/Juvenile Obesity (Lifelong Obesity): This type of obesity starts in childhood. Some children are overweight right from womb, causing their mothers to undergo caesarean section. This is to say that obesity poses danger to life even at birth! In most cases, especially where there is no concerted effort at reducing calories intake, childhood obesity develops into adulthood and even become worse. This is because the child grows up with higher number and sizes of adipose tissues capable of storing more and more fat.click for more details on how to prevent underweight and obesity.

Children that are well fed in infancy would maximize their potential for growth and fatness better than those with little or no food. According to research, fat cells increase in number in the first two years of life and again just before puberty (12-15 years). Avoiding overfeeding children at these periods might reduce their potential for obesity.

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I once worked as a bricklayer by Rekado banks

Born Solomon Ayoleyi Hanniel, the Ondo State indigene revealed that after informing his parents of his intention to pursue a career in music and getting their blessing, he had to hawk blenders in traffic and work as a manual labourer at a construction site in a bid to earn some money to use to record.

He also revealed that at one point, a lecturer at the university told him that he will never make it after preventing him from retaking a test he missed.

His turning point came with the Mavin Records audition where he was picked out of over 5,000 hopefuls. The dreadlocked act, now popular for his ballad  “Katapot”  credited this triumph to God. In his words, “There is no amount of sacrifice that was enough to get me something this big.”

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FOOD AND WEIGHT.

The human body is living engine, a labyrinth of activities, even at rest or during sleep the body requires energy for the brain to work, for the heart to beat, for the eyes to blink and for the digestive system to work. We all need energy to sweat, breathe, eat, laugh, and perform such daily activities like bathing, cooking, washing, driving, writing, walking. This energy is derived from the food we eat

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PRODUCT OF CREATION

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. He created the living creatures according to their kinds and made in His own image. So God made man and woman. He made you and me and we are all well made. Therefore, whether you are tall or short, fat or thin, you are a product of creation. And whatever your satisfaction, regrets or discount may be, remember that God the maker of heaven and earth, and of all that is seen and unseen, is an infallible God: He made you a unique being.

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Why are certain women able to stay thin and never, ever diet? What is different between these naturally thin women and those that can only struggle to thinness through obsessive diet-like behaviors? The book explains the significant body of science which finally reveals the differences between the brains of thin and overweight women. It details the alterations in the brain that occur from years of overeating and dieting and how to reverse them. In a personal and accessible style the author guides the reader through an easy to follow step-by-step program based on cognitive behavioral therapy. The book s program does not include any food restrictions, or recipes. It does not prescribe any specific exercise program as its sole objective is to restore the brain to its healthy relationship with food. You will learn how modern foods and ancient survival mechanisms have interacted to create an obesity epidemic. Famine brain, high-stress lifestyles, reduced pleasure from food and other factors are examined. Once you understand how your brain has inadvertently gone awry, you will appreciate this sensible approach to rewiring you brain back to its natural state the thin woman's brain...

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THREE WEIGHT LOSS STEPS

Three tips to your weight loss progress

When you are on 17 day diet ,this three tips can help you achieve your goals.

1. Never be afraid to ask us for help.

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if you feel you can’t do it or confused seek for help from our support group search for your working place and online  weight loss forums and  get motivated you can only progress on your weight loss program if you are motivated . Trying to seek for help sometimes is difficult, but if you find a good friend motivating us which is one of the key point we need to achieve  our goals, so be open minded to those friends and family who you trust, and this one of the steps to achieve success. Having someone or trusted friends and families who monitors your progress can make a huge difference when we are following the 17 day diet. Informing your family and trusted friends can be wise decision and help… assuming  you go out with your friends and families and you into temptation to order for desert, if your friends are aware that you are on a diet, the could talk and advice you that its not the best   advice to take.

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COOKBOOKS

                                                                 

COOKBOOK

Cookbooks that serve as basic kitchen references (sometimes known as "kitchen bibles") began to appear in the early modern world. They provided not just recipes but overall instruction for both kitchen technique and household management. Such books were written primarily for housewives and occasionally domestic servants as opposed to professional cooks.

International and ethnic cookbooks fall into two categories: the kitchen references of other cultures, translated into other languages; and books translating the recipes of another culture into the languages, techniques, and ingredients of a new audience. The latter style often doubles as a sort of culinary travelogue, giving background and context to a recipe that the first type of book would assume its audience is already familiar with.

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