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What prevents us from having a good figure?
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
It so happens that most people find it quite difficult to control their weight. Our lifestyle and diet are a significant reason for this. Temptations await us at every step.
Experts from the British Nutrition Foundation have named the factors that prevent a person from maintaining a good figure.
Experts have included the habit of driving a car and using remote controls for home appliances among the habits that prevent weight loss.
Of course, nutritionists say, genetics plays a significant role in lipid metabolism in the human body. However, there are other factors that have a strong influence on a person. Scientists name a total of 108 "culprits" of excess weight. Experts divided all the reasons into 7 main groups, such as a person's environment, psychological state, social status, food culture, the influence of computers, television and the press on a person.
It is noteworthy that the first group included friends, as many are ready to trade fitness classes for dinner in a pleasant company. But the main enemy of a good figure is still routine. It is in an attempt to distract oneself from everyday life that a person turns to food, and the result of this compensatory mechanism is overeating. If you start spending time actively, then it will be much easier to part with excess weight.
Cars and remote controls are especially conducive to a decrease in physical activity, and advertising in the media of various unhealthy products only worsens the situation. For this reason, nutritionists advise distracting yourself with household chores while watching TV during commercial hours, which will allow you to burn 55 calories per hour.
As for the harmful products that are so hard to give up, experts say that it is better to eat them in small portions, having previously poured, for example, chips into a plate. And periodically changing the usual position for those who work a lot at the computer will allow you to get rid of 350 unnecessary calories.