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Obesity often occurs in family members, suggesting a genetic cause. However, families often share diet habits and lifestyle similar, which also contributes to obesity. Therefore, it is difficult to separate genetic factors in eating habits and lifestyle.

Globalization has brought with it an unhealthy lifestyle for developing countries. The inhabitants of these countries have greatly increased consumption of sweetened beverages, vegetable oils and animal foods have become more sedentary and more exposed to a higher level of physical and emotional stress.

This set of factors exert a strong influence on the development of obesity, especially in individuals with genetic predisposition for the disease. Consequently, increasing attention has been paid to the impact of the environment in the development of metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

Industries also increase, marketing, making each time more sophisticated and attractive ads, especially of food to children. Often these foods have low nutritional value and are linked to factors that appeal to children such as toys and stickers.

Interventions to change lifestyle, the combination of a healthy diet with physical activity and stress management are one of the approaches to further reduce body weight. The following are practical suggestions for promoting weight loss. Along with nutrition education guided by a nutritionist, success in reducing body weight will be evident.

* Whenever possible, give preference to organic foods to minimize exposure to pesticides, herbicides, hormones and antibiotics.
* Drink filtered water.
* Avoid trans fats, refined and processed foods, salt, caffeine, alcohol and fatty meats.
* Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day.
* Eat plenty of dietary fiber such as legumes, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.
* Eat cruciferous vegetables: watercress, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, turnips, cabbage, arugula.
* Eat garlic, green tea, pomegranate, lemon, artichoke, propolis, turmeric, rosemary, cilantro.
* Whenever possible, take fruit and vegetable juice with carrots, beets, cilantro, celery, parsley and ginger.
* Detoxifying teas, like ginger, licorice, cinnamon.
* Do not confuse real hunger to emotional hunger (caused by anxiety, sadness, joy, etc.) The real hunger, usually appears after 3 hours of a meal, since the emotional eating occurs at any time. Real hunger is increasing gradually, unlike the emotional hunger comes on suddenly.
* Do not shop when hungry because that leads to buying food indiscrimada.
* Avoid overly restrictive diets. Such diets often common, being quite harmful to health.

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