... completely agree, and no matter how much the scientists and the food industries claim or proof for it to be edible, it is not natural. And call me old fashioned, but I do believe in the saying "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food" (Pollan). The food we are ... food, on Asian diet is one of the main reasons for this outrageous increase in the rate of diseases in Asia. Otherwise, how did diseases manage to be under control and in much smaller rate before the fast food influence? According to the article "The growing burden of Obesity in ... Thailand", Thailand...

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... BMI is at 30.196. I need to reduce my weight and to accomplish this goal I will implement a balanced, nutritional meal plan. Calculating the basal metabolic rate (BMR), I know that I need to consume 1,663 calories per day. And now that I know the importance of every food group in the Food Guide Pyramid ... times per week for at least 35 minutes per day. I believe that the moderate physical activity that I practice has help me feel strong to meet physical challenges, I feel energetic, I can move with ease, and what is most important, I feel more confident because exercise has help ... m...

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... healthy and would talk about the disorder that she had, I asked her why she had started starving herself and making herself sick so she could lose weight. She then told me that it was because she wanted to be considered pretty and to be pretty she had to be skinny like the models she saw in magazines and the actresses she ... presented with all types of media every day. Recent figures show that hospital admissions for eating disorders have risen 16% since last year (York). Eating disorders have the highest death rate of any psychiatric illness and about half of the people with anorexia ...

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