This morning, while sitting in my balcony, I saw a gentleman going out with his pet dog. To my surprise, the pet was almost obese and finding it difficult to move quickly. It immediately gave me some clues why many among us are always carrying heavy extra bodymass and inviting ailments associated with it like BP, sugar, cardiac and respiratory problems so on and so forth.
Have you seen any street dog or a wild animal fat? They are not fat because they have to physically struggle to gather food. As a matter of fact besides begetting puppies, the main function of their daily routine is the mission of finding food. That keeps them fit and slim. On the other hand, the pet ones live in more hygienic environment, receive medical attention, eat nutritious food and for all these things they need not a single step to move and ask for. The lesson learnt is that good food and sedentary life-style lead to increased weight and hence the necessary change in life-style is the wayout to tide over the problem.
The medicos, through several researches have found that the sleep disorder also causes weight gain. If one has disturbed sleep or he under-sleeps, he may invite the unwanted obesity. What is the ideal time for the sleep duration? One study says that if one is fortunate to have a sound sleep for four hours, it is sufficient. Another medical view is that at no cost one should sleep for less than six hours. Yet another lenient prescriptin is that one should sleep for eight hours and not any more. If a child is sleeping less than eleven hours daily, the parents should see a doctor. The individual should chart out his own routine but never sleep less than his body requirement.
It is almost known to all that tension also generates this problem. What I intend to add is that this mental condition is a double-edged sword. Depending on the individual, tension can make a person fat and the other may lose weight besides several other complications. Sleep is a free god-gift and then why one should be miser. Mind you, playing truant with it ultimately proves a costly bargain.
Recently one more reason for fatness has surfaced. The research says that long-hour exposure to light also leads to obesity. It says that waking up longer in bright light affects the natural functioning of the body-clock of the person so much that the body immune system is disturbed. The main symptom of this oddity is that the man starts gaining weight. The researchers further add that due to this, the people, working in shifts or handling computers for long fall a victim of this disorder.
It is said that the Mughal Emperor Babur and the French Emperor Napoleon, in course of their military campaigns rarely found time to retire to bed to sleep. So when time permitted, they slept while on horse back. So let us be serious about our sleep and enjoy a healthy and happy life.
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