Smoking and Eating

Tobacco smoking is one of the six major risk factors of heart disease that you can change or treat. Smoking lowers HDL (good) cholesterol levels.

We're so used to hearing people talk about eating less food that's it's become weight loss doctrine. But as you remember from the physiology of metabolism, you have to eat more often to change you body composition. The new philosophy I want you to keep in mind is "energy balance".

OBESITY RISKS

Habit Changes your risk of obesity by:
Eating at leat one midday snack -39 percent
Eating dinner as your biggest meal of the day +6 percent
Waiting more than 3 hours after waking up
to eat breakfast +43 percent
Eating more than a third of your
meals in restaurants +69 percent
Going to bed hungry
(3 or more hours after your last meal or snack) +101 percent
Eating breakfast away from home +137 percent
Not eating breakfast +450 percent

Sample time schedule:
8 a.m. breakfast
11 a.m. snack
1 p.m. lunch
4 p.m. snack
6 p.m. dinner
9 p.m. snack

from: The Abs Diet by David Zinczenko

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