OBESITY, DIET AND EXCERCISE

A nutrient-rich, balanced diet can greatly improve your physical, mental and emotional health. The opportunity to eat right today will help you and your family have more energy to be more active, leading to a healthier lifestyle tomorrow. When healthy foods and beverages are made available to communities, eating right can be achieved by making small changes and smart choices.
If you want to lose weight faster, you'll need to eat less and exercise more. This means eating and drinking less and making healthier food choices. One way to do this is to swap unhealthy and rich - carbs food choices such as fast foods, processed foods, soft drinks and alcoholic drinks for healthier choices.
A general Recommended Healthy Diet For Weight Loss
enjoy a wide variety of nutritious foods from these five groups every day:
Plenty of vegetables, including different types and colours, and legumes/beans
Fruit
Grain (cereal) foods, mostly wholegrain and/or high cereal fibre varieties, such as bread, cereals, rice, pasta, noodles, polenta, couscous, oats, quinoa and barley
Lean meats and poultry, fish, eggs, tofu, nuts and seeds, and legumes/beans
Milk, yoghurt, cheese and/or their alternatives, mostly reduced fat (reduced fat milks are not suitable for children under 2 years)
drink plenty of water.
limit intake of foods containing saturated fat, added salt, added sugars and alcohol.
If you want to lose weight you may need to build up to 45–60 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most days of the week.
Choose activities that you enjoy, as you are more likely to continue doing them.
Examples of moderate intensity physical activity include;
Fast walking
Fogging
Swimming
Tennis
using a step-trainer or similar at gym
As well as moderate intensity physical activity also try to include strength or resistance training exercise (exercising with weights) as this can help you burn fat and increase muscle.
Aim to start gradually with short periods of exercise at a time then build on it.
Healthy Lifestyle

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