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Know the different stages that an overweight person goes through to reach its recovery

Obesity is a psychosomatic illness with food addictive behaviors, characterized by greed, lawlessness and in some cases, a persecutory guilt. This condition sets a degree of conflict and dependence on certain foods, especially the hydrocarbon.

This is a “compulsive overeating“, which in a first stage appears as an irresistible impulse, no infighting, no blame, at least during the intake. Therefore at this stage there is no awareness of illness.

In a second stage, uncontrollable impulses combined with guilt before, during and after the intake, producing an experience of emptiness and psychic pain. Here begin the familiar excuses obese. There is but little situational awareness of disease.

In case there is an appropriate treatment the patient enters a third stage (abstinent behavior) that involve learning, and help control search. It strives to achieve another kind of relationship with food, obtaining partial successes in this process.

At first the relationship with food can cause you fear and control is exercised from outside. Only in the fourth stage we can speak of “recovery” as it is internalized control and prevent food by choice, not by imposition, which accounts for the creation of new habits.

Proper treatment should aim to replace the dependency object (food), by other more rewarding things, analyzing the root causes of this pathology in the context of a therapeutic situation permitting both learning techniques to develop healthier behaviors, as we are in the field of addictions.

Nutrients are substances, usually provided by food, necessary for carrying out the functions that lead to the development of life ultimately cell life, which provide the energy requirements and provide materials for building structures biological. Molecules are involved in chemical reactions that sustain life, constituting the basic elements for conducting metabolic exchange processes necessary for life. Build, therefore, the biology and it provides energy.

Nutrition

Balanced supply of nutrient requirements and micronutrients and their effective use by the agency, will depend on the possibility for natural systems and defense development and adaptation to maintain the organic equilibrium in each of energy functions, regulatory and plastic and in maintaining a balanced metabolism adapted to the circumstances, in short, for the maintenance and development of life on health.

The nutrients are water, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, minerals, vitamins. Besides involving the catalysts are substances that act in chemical reactions but after the reaction are unchanged. Its action is to initiate, stimulate, or enhance the reaction. To highlight the enzymes and some micronutrients (certain trace elements …)

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