Leng's chronicle...

One of my worry is the fact that every day I woke up I see myself growing. I want to get rid the extra fats in my belly and yes of course the answer is to have a proper diet and exercise.

As I was reading articles on proper diet, I come across an article about obesity caused by soda. Are you a big fan of soda? For your information, every time we drink 12 ounce of soda or 355ml it is as good as eating 13 teaspoon of sugar which is equal to more or less 155 calories depending on your soda brand hehe. 155 calories? That’s a lot though. Last time when I’m still into thread mill, I walked 15 minutes on thread mill after office and the calorie I’ve thrown is around 100 plus plus, of course it will depend how I control the pace of the thread mill machine. So if I drink 12 ounce soda I still owe 55 calories?

I’m not really into soda but I drink soda. However this fact alarmed me much because many people can’t live without it. Some people make soda as their water after meal. In the USA, many states initiated to increase tax revenue on Soda and some states ban the sales of soda in schools. I admire this initiative, because kids awareness of health is not as much as we know and they never care. Considering they are kids, when they get addicted to soda it will be difficult for them to stop and they will start to be obese.

Soda causes obesity which is a risk factor to cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes especially when you have genetic history of diabetes.

Next sugar source and calories is the RICE… Rice oh rice… Asians are the greatest fan of rice. We love rice and we can’t deny that. A meal won’t be complete without eating rice. Nevertheless, we are fan of white rice where the actual nutrients such as protein, phosphorus and iron are almost not there anymore because these nutrients are concentrated in the outer brown layers known as husks & germs and we don’t want that isn’t it? We want the clean pseudo cosmetic polished rice where the bran and germs were removed.

For your information, a 100 g intake of rice is equivalent to 345 calories and how many times we eat rice in one day? 2 times? 3 times? Do we have all the chance to throw those calories? This is again causes obesity. I’m not saying we can’t eat rice because I don’t think I can live without it. We can do our daily activity because of rice however we should take only the right amount. women should take at least 100 calories a day for us to perform our daily tasks where men should take at least 150 calories for them to perform their daily tasks. So now my question is how many grams of rice we should take to get the 100 calories? Its math time and I’ll leave that as your assignment.

Let’s stay healthy and sexy hopefully.. I write this article to motivate myself and some other out there who were worried with their bulging tummies.