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Cebu City – When consuming a meal do you stop to wonder to think about how you eat? Are you consciously aware of the physical sensations of what food brings whether solid or liquid? Mindful eating or mindfulness is a useful tool to help us focus on our thoughts and feelings when consuming food. It plays a role in amplifying the sensory eating experience, and greatly affect the reduction of consuming unhealthy food.
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Cebu City – Exercise is a powerful tool to maintain and achieve a healthy lifestyle. Some people no matter how busy they are at their daily routine; luckily, can insert on their schedule a quick workout to sweat out. Traditionally, people believed that working out or doing physical activity every now and then would help them reduce health problems, increase strength, increase energy, and can aid with stress reduction. Not only that, but they also assumed that working out will help lose or maintain weight or get toned. However, the real question that lies there is that do you have to sweat to see the workout results?
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Pancil, Barili, Cebu - When Barangay Pancil became 3rd in the 2021 ranking of having the highest overweight and obese child in the municipality of Barili, the Barangay Nutrition Committee (BNC) was alarmed and immediately looked for intermediate actions to solve the problem. They then implemented the strengthened breastfeeding promotion in the barangay in hopes to lessen the number of current and future obese children
Obesity has become a major public health crisis. Childhood obesity has also dramatically worsened and is now considered a major threat to human health.
Read more: Barangay Pancil battles child obesity with breast-feeding promotion
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Cebu City – It is a fact that all of us love food, and all of us enjoy the thought of eating. There are instances where people tend to forget to chew their food or have a habit of swallowing the food even before fully chewing it. Little that people know that chewing is the initial phase of digesting the food you take and has an overall effect on our health.
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Cebu City – Most, if not all, people walk every day. This physical activity is a common activity that people do daily, the very basic kind of cardio, and is an excellent strategy to enhance or maintain your health.
Walking is a low-impact action that requires little equipment, and can be done at any time of day, and at your own speed. To improve your health, you don't need to engage in strenuous exercise or do it for long periods of time. Try the basic—walk! However, does walking really keep you active and healthy?
Read more: Why walking is a good way to stay active and healthy
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Cebu City – Calories are the amount of energy released when your body breaks down (digests and absorbs) food. They are usually found in the food that we eat. The more calories a food has, the more energy it can provide to your body. We need to consume a certain number of calories to provide us with the energy that is needed to function in our daily routine. The average calorie intake for men is around 2,500kcal a day while the average calorie intake for women is around 2,000kcal a day. However, these values still vary depending on age, size, and the degree of the physical activities we do daily.
