Bad Eating Habit Lead to Obesity

Habits are formed when people repeat certain behaviors so often that they eventually become a learned behaviors or program within the brain. Bad eating habits are the most common cause of obesity. Unhealthy eating habits also can lead to diseases. The following list are the bad habits that largely responsible for leading people to obesity. Please try to eliminate these habits from everyday life.

• The habit of eating fats and not chewing the food well – causes poor digestion and the formation of fat layers in our body. Chew each bite at least fifty times. Fats, cholesterol, sodium and simple sugar have all be named as being bad for health when eaten in large quantity.

• Eating sweet baked foods causes the absorbing walls of your digestive tract to be plugged up by starch and promotes the production of excess amounts of mucus in our body. Moreover, sweets promote weight gain. It is better to treat yourself to dried fruits, seeds (sunflower, pumpkin), and moderate amounts of nuts.

• Eating too much snacks and junk food, especially those which high in salt and sugar content.

• Snacking on high calories foods after dinner or eating more than one helping of food for dinner.

• Incorrect combining of food products makes digestion difficult and weakens the digestive mechanisms, because different foods need different digestive enzymes. Incorrect combining causes some food to putrefy and some to be turned into fat.

• Irregular meal times or skipping meal too often.

• Eating too fast and swallowing food without proper chewing.

• Lying down after meals activates mechanisms that normally function in sleep and takes the focus away from digestion. Undigested food is turned into fat.

• The habit of eating while watching TV takes away the intimacy of our meals. If we eat while watching TV, out brain will gets confused. This interferes with our digestion and causes overeating.

• Eating while irritated 

• Eating before bedtime or at night is harmful

• Overeating. The excess food is converted into fat that is stored under the skin, first, in cells in the buttocks and around the waist, and later in the thighs, shoulders and arms.

• The habit of eating mostly cooked food products makes us deficient in natural vitamins and microelements. We only get empty calories from these products; they do not have much nutritional value.

• Eating too much meat and fried food which are rich in saturated fats and cholesterol.
Bad Eating Habit Lead to Obesity