Eating habits and lifestyle diseases!

Lifestyle diseases 
Wrong diet, physical inactivity, smoking, excessive alcohol and stress exposes your body to stress, and can therefore contribute to lifestyle diseases develop. Examples include heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes and lung disease COPD. 

If everyone smoked and ate unhealthy food, many would be sick, but not all. Someone might smoke for years without noticing, on health. Others get cancer or heart attack even though they have neither smoked, eaten or unhealthy exercise little. 

Both lifestyle and hereditary disposition of importance for the diseases we get. Today, the number who get type 2 diabetes, obesity and lung disease COPD. This means that many can not withstand the living habits they have - with smoking, unhealthy diet, little exercise and stress. If the society and the individual can do something with those living habits, the less sick. 

Five a day: 
Do you remember the five a day and you're already well on its way to a healthier diet. But for now there must be children and young people in Norway eat twice as much fruit and vegetables! 

Five a day can be, for example 1 glass of juice for breakfast, 1 fruit with lunch, potatoes, vegetables for dinner and a vegetable as a snack. 

Try to make fruits and vegetables to a natural part of every meal. No matter how much fruit and vegetables you eat today, it's good if you eat more. 

Good and delicious food, which varies from time to time, is important to eat more fruit and vegetables. Remember that children and young people also eat more fruits and vegetables if it is readily available, for example, if a plate of fruit all the time standing there on the kitchen counter. Sliced fruits and vegetables served as snakcs is another good tip. Children and young people eat more fruits and vegetables when they are served oppkuttet. 

Fruits and vegetables are a key part of Social and Health Directorate recommended skolemåltid. Habits are formed early - and today we know much about the health benefits of eating fruits and vegetables, not least about how these foods may help reduce the risk of diseases later in life. 

An example of the "Five a day" is: 
Breakfast: a glass of orange juice 
Lunch: an apple or a carrot 
Dinner Option 1: two medium potatoes and 150g. vegetables 
Dinner Option 2: a portion bowl of salad 
Supper: a pear or a banana 

We just have to use your imagination. Look in the nearest vegetable shop and get inspiration. If you have any immigrant stores close, it is well worth a visit. You can certainly find some exotic fruits or vegetables to experiment with. 

Diet can affect our mental health 
Also our mental health is affected by the way we live on. Both diet, physical activity, sleep, stress and lifestyle also has significance for our well being and thus for our mental health. 

Mental health with feelings and do. When we have the good of ourselves and know the inner peace and well-being, mental health is good. 

Diet and mental illness 
Diet may also help to prevent mental illness over time. If we get a lack of vitamib B12 can increase the risk of depression. Omega 3 fatty acids are probably also important. Danish researchers have found that in countries where people eat much fish and seafood, is not depression as common as in countries where one eats small fish. In the membrane surrounding neurons in the brain, it is much omega-3 fatty acids. Since these fatty acids fonts all the time, we need omega-3 fatty acids in the diet to keep brain cells healthy. 

Overweight and obesity 
It is just more and more of them going up in weight, and less and less of those who lose weight. Obesity is not a disease but a risk factor that leads to increased risk for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Obesity is heavily overweight, and may involve a high risk of health problems and disease. 

If lividden is greater than hoftevidden in men, this is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes. For women should also be waistline less than hoftevidden. It is beneficial for women have a lower number than 0.85 when they share the waistline on hoftevidden.

Overweight and obesity are also associated with other health problems, including osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, gallstones and some forms of cancer - that cancer of the breast, prostate and colon. In women obesity may be forbyndet with disease of the ovaries and problems getting pregnant. 

The difference between overweight and obesity 
A simple way to judge how much fat is stored in the body, is to figure out kropppsmasseindeksen (BMI) using the weight (in kilograms) and height (in meters) in a formula. 

It is a little strange about this is that a well-trained, muscular person can have BMI between 25 and 30 without having to store fat in the body. And - vice versa - that a person with little muscle and easily legs building may have to store fat and just as well have a BMI under 25 

World Health Organization (WHO) defines overweight and obesity based on the following limits: 
Overweight: BMI is between 25 and 30 kg/m2 
Obesity: BMI of 30 kg/m2 

Heart attack and stroke 
For heart attack and stroke, there has been a positive and good development. In 1970 and 1980 years killed a large number of Norwegian men before they reached retirement age. But during the 1990s, changed it up. Now it's mainly the very oldest people die of heart attack and stroke. The researchers believe that both better nutrition and lower cholesterol, less smoking - particularly among men - and better medical treatment explains. 

In 1970 and 1980 years we spent in Norway fats with saturated fats and trans fatty acids. This increased koleserolnivået in the blood. Probably was the high content of trans fat in margarine especially harmful to the arteries over time. Today we use the healthier types of fat. In addition it plays a role that fewer smokers. The medical treatment is also better than in the past. 

Lifestyle factors are important for the prevention of cardiovascular disease: 
- Diet with healthy types of fat and fatty fish 
- Diet with lots of expensive fiber, fruit and vegetables 
- That one is careful about salt in food 
- Weight Management 
- Daily physical activity 
- Non-smoking 

Diabetes 
In Norway, there are currently about 200 000 people with diabetes. The disease is increasing in all parts of the world and has become an important lifestyle disease. World Health Organization believes that the number of people with diabetes will be twice as high in 25 years. Probably the reason that many people get too little exercise and go up in weight. 

Diabetes was previously known diabetes. There are two types of diabetes: Type 1 and Type 2 

Diabetes is due to errors with the hormone insulin. This is a vital hormone that regulates blood sugar. It is a kind of passage that keeps the blood sugar comes into our cells. We get diabetes if it formed enough insulin or if insulin does not function normally in the body. 

Almost nine out of ten people who have diabetes have type 2 

The difference is: Type 1 diabetes because the body ends to form insulin. Those who have type 1 diabetes must take insulin with syringes or insulin pump every day. The disease often starts in childhood and adolescence. Type 1 diabetes is not related to overweight and obesity. 

Type 2 diabetes: because the cells do not respond to insulin properly. The cells have abnormally high amounts of insulin to open up and take up glucose from the blood (blood sugar). The treatment is expensive restructuring, exercise and any tablets. Some may eventually start insulin injections in addition. Most who get the disease, are older and elderly persons. Overweight and obesity leads to increased risk. 

The recommended diet to keep blood sugar in check and to prevent overweight and obesity are after advice from Social and Health Services: 

07.00 Breakfast: 
Roughly rolls or whole grain mixed with low-fat milk 
Drink: A glass of juice or a glass of skimmed milk. Tea or coffee 

10:30 Small meal: 
An apple or some nuts 

12:00 Lunch: 
A big bowl pasta salad with vegetables or soup and bread or rolls plus carrot / fruit tea or coffee. Water 

16.00 Between Meals: 
If you eat dinner in the evening bread or crackers with an order or a fruit or some nuts or a yogurt. Water 

19.00 Dinner 
Meat, fish or vegetarian with beans or lentils. Acres of raw or cooked vegetables. Rice, potatoes or pasta. Canola oil in the mixture. Fruit for dessert 

22.00 Evening 
If you are physically active, or have dinner in the afternoon, you need an evening meal. It can be as bread, crackers or cereals