The problems of obesity in the United States are not new. Probably many of us comes to mind the flag of that country if we think of obesity or fast food, and the fact identify the culture of obesity to a country is quite problematic for a nation.

There have been few attempts by the U.S. government to curb this tendency to gain weight and unhealthy life. For example, in 2006 was banned in restaurants in New York Trans fats, and in 2003 banned smoking in bars and restaurants. Even thinking about forcing fast food chains to disclose calorie containing each of their menus.

And another initiative will be launched shortly, and is promoting through “green cars” of fruits and vegetables so that they are accessible to the population.

The green carts are mobile stations of fruits and vegetables, which are currently in the wealthy neighborhoods of the city, but live in places where people with lower incomes who are forced to buy unhealthy foods, which are packaged and processed.

1000 with the issuance of new permits to manage more green cars, the New York City Hall looking down obesity levels present in the members of the population, and indeed it seems to me an excellent measure.

In addition to making us more prone to gain weight, too much fat in our diet can lead to high cholesterol, which may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. In general it is recommended to consume more than 30% of daily calories from fat, especialmene if you are overweight.
Unless you are prepared to adopt a vegan diet is almost impossible to avoid fat in your diet, but there are many ways to reduce fat in the diet to eating a healthy diet
• Cut the fat. Choose lean cuts of red meat, and then remove visible fat. It also removes the skin from poultry before cooking either, which is best, or else before eating. Remove them anyway.
• Use cooking methods low in fat. This includes the grill, baking, steaming, the roasted, grilled …
• Use vegetable oils for cooking instead of solid fats like butter or margarine. The best oils for cooking are olive, canola, sunflower and soybean.
• Do not use dressings like mayonnaise and derivatives. A salad with lettuce and vegetables are fat free and low in calories. Even the garnishes are as low in fat have significant amounts of fat and even fat-free calories. Use vinegar and olive oil instead.
• If possible choose low-fat options. Baby fat or skim milk instead of whole milk, eat low-fat or low fat cheeses, like yogurt.
• Eat lots of fruits and vegetables and whole grains. They have few calories and virtually no fat, plus a host of health benefits.
• Let me be clear that your body needs fat, so you should not remove it completely from your diet, especially healthy fats.

Not that much, around about 7 or 8 kilos, but it is more than enough for some of my favorite shirts are me too “tailored.” Not to mention those jeans that I had to banish the back of the cupboard, waiting for better times …

What’s happening? When two and two ceased to be 4? Why would someone failed to warn us that there comes a time in which a grueling session of weights can not stand up to a plate of spaghetti carbonara with parmesan? Who is the love handle?
In the red

The answer to all these questions is as simple as cruel heat our debt is usually higher than we think. Actually, much more.

Think, for instance, on a Friday night either. Four pitchers of beer, 227 calories each, are 908 calories. Throw in a handful of potato chips (215) and then, once open the doors of gluttony, average family pizza (694) and a couple of glasses of wine (250). Total: 2076 calories. A truly awful. To eliminate them, a man of my weight (83kg) would have to run 29km. Exactly: 8km heating and then a half marathon.

Do you think little? For an even more graphic example: to burn the beer, potatoes, pizza and wine, Usain Bolt would have to run nonstop for 23 minutes at 37 km / h: the average speed achieved in the 100 meters. Needless to say he can not. And neither do you. What is the moral of this story? That our caloric intake tends to exceed the amount of exercise we can do to compensate. In other words, every Friday greasy plunges us a little more in the well of the bulge.

Emma Ruiz, project director of the Spanish Nutrition Foundation, launches us out, “the solution to this problem is, obviously, to reduce calorie intake and try to? Burn? Everything you eat (calorie above, Cal down, because the food tables only reflect average values), but not obsessed: it is almost impossible to fall to zero and, moreover, is not so important. ” This is what experts call “neutral energy balance” and achieve my goal has been for a long month.