| "People tend to eat the same amount of bulk, no | | | | be Continental, Chinese, Mexican or the plane Mac |
| matter what the calories" - Jennifer Sacheck of | | | | style, they are all very rich in fats, sugar and salt. |
| Harvard Medical SchoolPeople tend to eat the same | | | | During digestion, the carbohydrate in our food is |
| quantity and, more often of the same quality of | | | | converted to glucose and then absorbed into the |
| food daily. This is not healthy and it begins to show | | | | bloodstream to provide energy. Unfortunately, certain |
| as age increases. To break the dietary monotony, | | | | types of refined carbohydrate are absorbed too |
| people in all age groups eat things which are tasty; | | | | quickly and raise blood sugar levels to a very high |
| often fatty, sweet or spicy. Add to that aerated | | | | count. This in turn causes the body to "overreact" |
| drinks and coffee. The net effect is an increase in | | | | and depress blood glucose levels below normal. This |
| the waist line, associated thyroid problems and more | | | | fluctuating effect causes all sorts of problems for our |
| serious diabetic complications.The exponential increase | | | | mood and appetite, and is a perfect recipe for |
| in consumption of carbonated soft drinks, paired with | | | | weight gain.Sugar and fat are addictive. So is the |
| the simultaneous decline in milk drinking over the | | | | consequent weight gain. Apart from the increase in |
| years in most nations across the world has seen new | | | | the cholesterol level, which is very damaging to the |
| and more severe forms of weight related issues | | | | heart and the body in general, it also leads to a |
| emerging. Coca cola seems to be winning the battle | | | | feeling of drowsiness. This in turn makes the body |
| of liquid dominance against the milk booths in the last | | | | sluggish and it becomes a vicious cycle. This cycle is |
| few decades. What this translates to in terms of | | | | well documented in medical and psychological |
| sugar intake and consequently, weight gain, is | | | | literature.Healthy food often seems very bland to our |
| startling. Both milk and soda, in the form of lactose | | | | taste buds. To counter the blandness, we carve for |
| and sucrose are sweet, but soda is sweeter, and | | | | food like sugar or salt. They are in the form of |
| today's people are hooked on sugar. Sweetness is | | | | processed refined food like canned soup, candy, |
| the new definition of the quality of food. If one looks | | | | sweets and ice-cream. They consequently take the |
| around in any supermarket, it is evident that most | | | | maximum time to digest in the body. The way to |
| packages containing edible stuff have some element | | | | offset the effect of the increased intake of fatty, |
| of sugar or fat associated to it.As quoted in a recent | | | | sweet and salty food is to exercise, controlled diet |
| study done at Harvard, "An average Human living in | | | | and a regular and healthy diet regime. If ignored, it will |
| the US consumes 16% more sugar today as | | | | tell heavily upon ones health.Virginia Beauty and |
| compared to what he would have done in the 1960s". | | | | Fashion consultant, Svetlana Polyakova from |
| The condition is the same, if not worse, in most | | | | specializes in teaching men and women the fine |
| Asian countries as well. The major cause of weight | | | | techniques of how to meet to meet that special |
| gain in most these cases was cited to be heavy | | | | person, dress to impress, and beauty & Fashion tips |
| sugar and fat intake. Ingredients like salt, sugar and oil | | | | and etiquette. |
| form an essential part of every cooking style.It might | | | | |