Making healthy lifestyle choices to prevent obesity: How can overweight and obesity be avoided?
Making healthy lifestyle choices is very instrumental in keeping weight related complications at bay. This is the genesis of all solution formulas when it comes to obesity and weight management. If you were to take time and evaluate the why people become obese, you are most likely going to find out that the kind of lifestyle people live has a lot to do with their weight gain predicaments. It is therefore very important that making healthy lifestyle choices becomes inborn, personalized and initiated from childhood. We spoke to doctor Dalal Akoury MD, President and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center about this to shed more light on the best approach parents should take.
In her several decades of working experience in this discipline, doctor Akoury registers that following a healthy lifestyle is very essential and can help in very many ways in the prevention of becoming overweight and obesity. She reiterates that for this to be successful, keen consideration needs to be taken so that lifestyle habits begin in childhood stages of life. If you are religious you must have read from the holy book that “teach children the way they should go and when they grow up they will not depart from the teaching.” This should be the foundation of prevention of weight related complications and obesity. With that the burden now lies with parents and families who should encourage their children to make healthy choices. And because you (parent) is the first role model for your children, you must lead by showing good example. If you are not going to be discipline in following a healthy diet and being physically active.
Making healthy lifestyle choices to prevent obesity: Prioritize following a healthy lifestyle a family goal
Why is this (making healthy lifestyle choices) important? It should interest you to note that being obese comes with serious and sometimes life threatening conditions. These can be very expensive to manage alongside obesity. You will therefore be saving greatly by simply making healthy lifestyle choices. Like for instance the following are some of the actions you could take to live a more healthy life that your children can copy as a way of preventing weight gain and obesity:
- Always stick to a healthy eating plan. This will help you in sticking to only feeding on healthy food. This way you will be able to keep your calorie needs and your family’s calorie needs as well.
- Focus on the size of food in your plate. In most cases the portion of food served in fast food and other restaurants is large enough to feed two people. Children’s portion sizes should be smaller than those for adults. This way you will be managing the energy getting in and even those going out.
- Be active. Make personal and family time active. Find activities that everyone will enjoy. For example, go for a brisk walk, bike or rollerblade, or train together for a walk or run.
- Reduce screen time because they limit time for physical activity.
Finally practicing some of these may appear simple but still people fail to commit to them. That is why constantly it is necessary that you keep consulting with experts for direction from time to time. Doctor Akoury and her team of experts are always available to listen to any time any day.
Making healthy lifestyle choices to prevent obesity: How can overweight and obesity be avoided?
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