Obesity is a condition in which the body stores an excessive quantity of fat. Aside from being an aesthetic issue, it can also lead to various health issues such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and, in certain circumstances, cancer. Obesity and overweight are significant concerns in developing countries like ours, and they are expected to rapidly increase over time. However. Obesity can be reversed. Darshan S, Consultant Family Physician, Medal Healthcare, said in an interview with HT Lifestyle, "Obesity is avoidable and reversible if you follow a proper lifestyle and eat a balanced food." Of course, the most up-to-date medical and surgical therapies for obesity are available, but we can help ourselves by changing our lifestyle choices we make, we can naturally overcome fat.
Darshan S also listed five lifestyle adjustments that should be implemented in our everyday lives in order to reverse obesity and live a healthy lifestyle.
Consume healthy food: Darshan noted down that food items containing refined carbohydrates, sugar and deeply fried foodstuff should be consciously avoided. He also advised in more consumption of green leafy vegetables in order to provide the body with necessary nutrients.
Exercise: A minimum of 45 minutes in a day should be dedicated to exercise. “Exercise tones up your muscles and, it has a positive effect on reducing belly fat. A combination of cardio and weight training exercise is a good go to reduce body weight,” Darshan added.
Avoid smoking, alcohol consumption: Smoking and consumption of alcohol, both bring severe adverse effects to the body. Alcohol directly affects the liver, while smoking adds on to the already existing complications related to obesity, such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
7-8 hours of sleep: In order to achieve metabolic balance and perform efficiently on a daily basis, our bodies require appropriate sleep and rest.
Stress causes binge-eating, so avoid it. Darshan suggested that people look into different techniques of dealing with stress, such as meditation and yoga.
Nutritional education in schools
UN healthy eating patterns emerge early in childhood, and public health organization urge governments to intervene.
According to the WHO research, about 30% of children in Europe are overweight or obese, prompting the health organization to call on governments to resist the advertising of unhealthy food products to children and to prevent "the development of sedentary online gaming."
Over 40% of Greek youngsters are overweight, with roughly one in five being obese, one of the highest rates in Europe.
In order to tackle food poverty and obesity, a nonprofit has been giving free and nutritionally sound lunches to the country's most needy schools for the past decade.
Teachers began observing kids fainting because they came to school on an empty stomach after the country's sovereign debt crisis and recession. The program, called DIATROFI ("feeding"), was created in the aftermath of the country's sovereign debt crisis and recession.
To date, the initiative has provided over 17 million free meals to over 120,000 students in 800 schools across the country, and the WHO has praised it as a model for developing healthy eating habits in children at a young age.
By 9 a.m., nutritionists have devised full meals that include a sandwich or other nutritious baked products, seasonal fresh fruit, and white milk or honey-flavored yogurt.
All children at the participating schools receive free lunches, regardless of their socioeconomic status, about the topic of proper nutrition with their parents and instructors.
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