Healthy Life Journal

Apparently when we feel hungry, it not only shows that we need to eat. According to Alan R Hirsch, MD, Head of Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, hunger can also indicate a person’s personality. Did I?

Hirsch is not half-hearted, author of What Flavor Is Your Personality? It examined 18,000 people aged 25 years to arrive at these conclusions. Please check our health and personality through a list of hungry password below:

Miss salty foods
Nutritional status: If we just want to enjoy foods that are salty, this is a sign of our body mineral deficiency. Some research even indicates, women who consume a diet with less calcium levels are generally always in search of food with a taste more salty.

“This is different from the women high calcium levels and have good bones,” said Michael Tordoff, PhD, a researcher from the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. Analysis absurd, sodium can gradually increase levels of calcium in the blood. That’s why then the body “talk” to the brain to direct our search for salty foods.

Your personality is relaxed, not too push yourself, what matters is doing the best and follow where the path life takes. Because, in a study conducted Hirsch, loving the salty taste to believe what happened to him also involve external factors, not solely because of his own.

Crazy about chocolate
Nutritional Status: chocolate taste favored because of its ability to make us calm. Efficacy is owned chocolate because these foods are stimulating the brain to release serotonin. “When we are looking for chocolate, this is the way your body tells that we need antidepressants to make us calm down for anything, too,” Hirsch said.

Your Personality: According to Hirsch, the reading of his character will depend on the type of chocolate that we want. If we are looking for dark chocolate of our characters, he says, someone with a pleasant personality. Can have fun, but also very appropriate to lead a major project. As for us who want milk chocolate, his character is the opposite of dark chocolate. “Quiet and prefers to be alone.”

Wanted sweet foods
Nutritional status: Almost the same when we want chocolate, our bodies need “lighter” mood. Or it could also lack the energy our body is asking us to re-fill the fuel from sweet foods.

Your personality: “The lover sweet foods are people who like rah-rah. Not only that, they are also happy to highlight themselves and feel most special, “Hirsch explained.

Miss the food in combination with sweet and salty taste
Nutritional status: This is the way the body tells us that the body of sodium and glucose deficiency. Two nutritional deficiency is an early indication that the body functions do not work optimally. As a result, body cells are not agile and we become easily tired. “So it makes sense we want to brown the cheese sprinkled to re-prime,” said Hirsch.

Your personality: Hirsch observed, people who like to dip the chips into the chocolate are usually creative people but very individual. “There are times he loved his solitude.”

public officials must be examples of a healthy lifestyle. That’s what made the U.S. superpower that uses the U.S. first lady Michelle Obama for a campaign against obesity.

Obesity has made the country spend billions of dollars. Obesity has become epidemic, not only adult children begin to get symptoms.

Obama administration was determined to reduce the causes of obesity in children, and find out what can be done by the people at home, school and work place to prevent this obesity epidemic.

“The number of Americans who have to struggle with her weight so that no health risk conditions associated with being overweight is still too high,” said Michelle Obama, as quoted by Reuters on Friday (29/1/2010).

Recommendations can be given to prevent obesity starts with eating more fruits and vegetables, as well as improve the quality of physical education at various schools so that children become more active.

Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius Obama revealed that the government has invested U.S. $ 650 million in health and other programs aimed at preventing obesity and quit smoking programs.

In addition, Obama also create a white building parks for the children of local schools. Given that the solution to prevent the obesity epidemic can not come from government alone, each person must be willing to engage in a campaign to avoid a crisis in public health.

“This will not be easy and can not happen overnight. And it’s also not going to be a simple thing, although using the first woman in the U.S. as a priority,” Obama said in his speech at the recreation center in Alexandria, outside Washington.

Given data showed two-thirds of U.S. adults and one in three children overweight and obesity. These conditions increase the health risks such as diabetes, heart disease and other chronic diseases.

“The United States must spend nearly U.S. $ 150 million related to the problem of obesity and its complications as well as two-fold higher than in 1998. This could make us as a nation that is not healthy,” Sebelius said.

Cincinnati, young mothers who have children choose a new nursing techniques to lose weight. Researchers found breast-feeding activity can indeed effectively lose weight because it can burn more than 500 calories.

Mothers who had just given birth and are breastfeeding may not be assumed that they burn more calories than women who went to the gym.

“If breastfeeding is routine for 6 months, likely will thin more quickly after giving birth,” said Karen Wosje, professor pedriatik of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center as reported by Chicagotribune, Tuesday (19/1/2010).

However, not all postpartum women can get slim body with diet feeding.

“Every day my breast pump to get milk to be thin after giving birth. In fact I have 2 refrigerators to store my milk supply, but my weight did not fall-down, too,” said one woman.

The problem is, the more milk produced, the higher the nursing mother of appetite. That’s because production of the hormone prolactin, which stimulates appetite. In addition, stress factors and the lack of activity could also inhibit the effectiveness of the diet feeding.

For that, which must be done is to multiply the activity. “You can not just rely on breastfeeding to be thin. Without doing any other activity, it was useless.’s Diet feeding can burn calories, but many other factors that influence,” said Professor Karen.

Diet proved effective breastfeeding mothers who are nursing. Therefore, some researchers were inspired to apply these techniques in women who do not breastfeed.

“As long as the same principles and technique, we suspect feed diet can also be useful for helping women who are overweight. But need further study to prove it,” said Prof. Karen.

We want to lose weight, a person is required to calculate body mass index (BMI). Because the results of the BMI calculation can determine whether a person is ideal, including thin or overweight.

How to calculate body mass index values based on height and weight that is owned. This calculation applies equally to men and women.

calculated by squaring the value of height (in meters). Then the weight value (in units of kilograms) divided by the square of the height.

For example one 30-year-old woman weighing 60 kg and height 160 cm (1.6 meters). How to calculate the first time squaring height 1.6 X 1.6 results 2.56. Then the value of weight divided by the product of the heights of 60: 23.43 result 2.56. Mean BMI values of 23.43 for women and enter into the ideal / normal. Read the rest of this entry »