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Obesity & eating pattern
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
by DSLR MASTER
Obesity & eating pattern
That luxurious eating habits and lifestyles confine only to royal families, is no more true today. People who are unable to make two ends meet, try to imitate them even at the cost of incurring debts. Trying to keep up with the Joneses, be it a marriage party or any other function, encourages people to serve readily available food items rich in calories and refined carbohydrates. Catering services have become a thriving business. Tailor-made lunch and dinner kept warm on spirit lamps to retain heat constantly to be served fresh further make the food more refined and add more calories to it.
A Royal disease
Obesity can be called a Royal disease. From among the various terminologies under "Royal", we will for our purpose take the example of only two, i.e. "Royal Games" and "Royal Road".
Royal games include games like Chess which donot provide any physical exercise to the players and is generally played indoors. In those days, kings and nawabs played chess-whenever they were in need of diversion and relaxation. The present generation has found exposure in abundance to such games (video games being one of them} and these breed in the children and youngsters the tendency to avoid other sports and outdoor games which give physical exercise.
Royal Road, which stands for a short and easy way to overcome difficulties, has come to play its own role. Progress and advancement towards better living conditions of the people all over the world, has brought with it many disadvantages too. Comfortable and luxurious lifestyle of living influenced by the television network and magazines, constantly keeps projecting all labour saving devices one could acquire for their day-to-day living. People least realise that by falling a prey to these devices, they are gradually getting alienated from much needed normal exer¬cise, which these chores provide.
Feast and festivals
An important destabilising factor is the celebration of festivals in our country. We have festivals for the asking throughout the year and at such occasions more than the real significance behind celebration of such festivals what most commonly occurs is indiscrete consumption of rich, fatty and refined food at untimely hours. Even festivals that advocate complete fast have been modified by eating sweets and savories made out of sugar, ghee etc. Birthday parties of even infants are celebrated with a lavish dinner where ice-creams, cold-drinks and cakes are served and consumedeven during the very cold winter months. Overloading the stomach under these circumstances on a very regular basis cannot but make one put on more weight.
posted by DSLR MASTER @ 11:01 PM
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