{"id":4466,"date":"2022-01-09T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T12:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2022-01-09T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T12:30:40","slug":"obesity-and-under-nutrition-a-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/obesity-and-under-nutrition-a-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Obesity and under-nutrition: A paradox?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s lifestyle is highly fast paced. Every day is a race against time. Amid all this hectic frenzy, we hardly find time for ourselves. Sleep and Food are among the first ones to take a hit. Fast-foods catering to the fast lives are the life savers. How many times have we grabbed a sandwich or a burger at lunch, because we don\u2019t have the time to eat a proper lunch?<\/p>\n<p>Most of the times, we skip breakfast too. Such bad eating habits makes us dependant on fast-food. It wrecks havoc with our bodies\u2019 metabolism causing fat accumulation. These foodstuffs have no nutrition in them and they are laden with empty calories.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when people did not have enough to eat and so were undernourished. Now is the time where people have too much to eat and are yet undernourished. There is a new term for this-Malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p>When we speak about malnutrition, we speak about bad nourishment and this can be both over nutrition and under nutrition. Malnutrition depends on several factors: inadequate intake of protein, essential fatty acids, other micronutrients and the resulting infections and disorder. Malnutrition in growing kids can affect them both mentally and physically.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of people who look overweight or even obese, but they suffer from nutritional deficiencies. The empty calories they consume leads to fat accumulation and deprives them of other nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>Looking fit and healthy is important. Fat is unhealthy, fat is bad.<\/p>\n<p>We are what we eat. So paying attention to what we eat becomes vital for us to lead a healthy life!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s lifestyle is highly fast paced. Every day is a race against time. Amid all this hectic frenzy, we hardly find time for ourselves. Sleep and Food are among the first ones to take a hit. Fast-foods catering to the fast lives are the life savers. How many times have we grabbed a sandwich or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,259,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diet-nutrition-food","category-lifestyle-management","category-lose-weight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4467,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/4467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}