A Holiday party means a great time to enjoy variety of foods!!! Whether it’s party or special occasion, or a weekend of celebrating the holidays, many people feel – Ugh! I ate too much. Now what I do? There are so many choices available at party, which may end up in overeating. For the most of health and diet-conscious people, even a little bit more or a small bite of food can add up quickly. Loading extra calories forces our body into overdrive because it endeavors to undo the damage done by the free radicals. These free radicals are generated more due to the metabolism of foods, especially fatty and carbohydrate-rich foods. Free radicals can promote the development of diabetes, heart disease and cancer. If you overindulge foods such as a big helping of cheesecake or a couple of additional scoops of ice cream, don’t punish yourself. After overeating, just eat these foods as they help you rebound from the damage of a rich serving of food.

5 Foods to Eat After Overeating

1, Orange juice

Fresh oranges are the great source of flavonoids. Orange juice also contains flavonoids in good amount. Flavonoids are the antioxidant-like compounds which may counterbalance the heart-damaging effects of a fat-laden and caloric meal. In a study, it was found that people who sipped orange juice with a high-fat or high-calorie breakfast had reduced levels of harmful free radicals and other inflammatory indicators related with heart disease after the meal. However, people who drank sugar water or plain water and ate the same breakfast had superior levels of harmful free radicals. Read the rest of this entry »

Modern life style, junk food, excessive stress and lack of exercise cause obesity in people. In United States, obesity related health problems are getting serious. People through out the world want to lose weight as the obesity rates are increasing. Losing weight is a difficult process as it requires much time and dedication. So people are using unhealthy ways to lose weight fast. Refer the following article to know the unhealthy ways of losing weight and reason why to not use them.

As per most recent Health Survey for England (HSE) data, around 1 in 4 adults, and more than 1 in 10 children aged 2-10 are obese. Obesity enhances the risk of type 2 diabetes, cancers, heart and liver disease in addition to many other health problems. For government, reducing obesity is the main concern. For Americans, the federal government released the new dietary guidelines to control the obesity outbreak. The new U.S. dietary guidelines recommend to “make half your plate fruits and vegetables,” take low-fat/skim milk and drink a bottle of water rather than sugary drinks. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody knows that obesity and sleep have a strong relationship between them. People think those who sleep more also weigh more but it is false. Researchers found that if you sleep less than 7 hours per night, then you are at risk of obesity and other health conditions. So to avoid a weight problem you must take sufficient sleep.

A new study suggests that lack of sleep can cause obesity in the children but by taking sufficient sleep on weekends and holidays the effects of weekday sleep deprivation can alleviate. At the University of Chicago and the University of Louisville the study was done by the researchers which examined the sleep patterns and BMI of 308 children ranged in age from 4 to 10 years, dividing them into nine groups and using wrist actigraphs for 1 week to determine how much sleep the children got each week.

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Sometimes, it is very difficult to diagnose and treat some medical conditions. An eating disorder, bulimia is a critically dangerous sickness that is flattering increasingly popular among young women. As a way to be thin and beautiful, many young girls refer to extreme diets with the added pressures of society and even family members. These diets have severe effects on their mental and bodily health. This disorder involves a cycle of binging and purging and the side effects of this behavior can be devastating. It frequently develops slightly later in life, from mid to late teens or the early twenties. Studies have shown that 0.5 per cent to 2 per cent of young women in the UK have bulimia. Bulimics have an irresistible passion with food, weight and body image.

Bulimia is a psychological condition in which the individual may frequently eat a lot and then vomit it. The bulimic person may often exercise hard to oppose the effect of gaining weight because of heavy eating. Bulimics may suffer from periods of overeating, followed by efforts to rid the body of the excess calories by self-induced vomiting, misuse of laxative or enemas, compulsive exercise or calorie restriction. It is important to know side effects of bulimia so that the gravity of this problem can be realized. Side effects of anorexia and bulimia are related. Read the rest of this entry »

Picky eating is an eating disorder that prevents the consumption of certain foods. It is also known as selective eating disorder (SED) and frequently viewed as a phase of childhood that is generally overcome with age. In the afflictions of picky eating, babies, toddlers, and latency age children are more common. In children, feeding problems are characteristically mistaken for the more benign picky (preference) eating behaviors. Also, they are hard-wired and neurological. Picky eating is responsible for some far-reaching effects including nutritional, interpersonal, behavioral and developmental, altering the sense of self and self-esteem, family relations, sociability, as well as academic and professional performance.

Almost one out of twenty children between the ages of birth and 10 refuse to eat or only eat limited numbers of selected foods. Picky eating leaves its victims at risk for malnutrition and failure to grow normally. Some diverse clusters of personality can also be taken place in some problem feeders, covering a spectrum of broader, more pervasive, neurologically-based dysfunction which compromises the person’s existence; these might include sensory integration disorder (SID), Non-Verbal Learning Disability (NVLD), Asperger’s Disorder, and/or Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD.) Read the rest of this entry »