Snacking has become a common practice and often do a lot of people. Generally, frequent snacking just before dinner or late at night. not a few who feel guilty after eating their favorite foods. However, excessive food consumption can provide health-damaging consequences.

Binge eating is different from snacking in general. Binge eating is eating in a certain period, with higher numbers and more quickly than people in general, until the perpetrator felt really full.

These disorders not only excessive eating habits, but the patient also could not control and do not have the power to stop the habit. In fact, they describe the food as a “friend”, so that the weight gain that leads to drastic obesity.

Some medical problems that can arise due to this disease is type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, high cholesterol, hypertension, heart disease and some cancers. The teenager is one of the most potential to become binge eating. This disease affects a person mentally and physically.

Before you worry about whether you are included in the category of binge eating, you can see the following symptoms:

Eating large amounts when not hungry

Eating alone to cope with emotions

Feeling guilty, angry, or ashamed after overeating

Eating much more rapidly than usual

Eat until full

If you are one category of binge eating, it is important to seek help because of course will give a negative impact on your health. First consult the dietitian who can tell you about how to eat healthy foods and can help suppress your desire to eat.

If you think you do not want to eat too much, there is still a good idea to follow the pattern of daily meals. Eat 5-6 small meals a day. This serves to stop hunger and suppress your appetite. Eat as often as possible will also prevent you from overeating habits. When you feel the need to snack, you can eat healthy foods like fruits and vegetables.

Avoid junk food or candy and other foods you normally consume. Often when we think we are hungry,in fact we just thirsty. Bring a bottle of water each time you travel, because it can help you to suppress your appetite. Water is not only good for you, but it also makes you healthier life.

Eating enough fiber foods (dietary fiber) every day is an easy way to live healthy. Fruits and vegetables are important to store variety parts for degenerative diseases prevention, in addition to supporting efforts to maintain weight.

Fiber is divided into water-soluble and non-soluble. Components of water-soluble food fiber can form a gel by absorbing water. Examples of this type of fiber is pectin, gums, musilase acid, alginates and gelatin.

What are main functions of water soluble fiber?
- Pursue the process of digestion in the intestine, so the acquisition of energy is reduced.

- Could make you full longer.

- Slowing the rise in blood sugar, so less insulin is needed to convert glucose into energy.

- Helps control weight by slowing the emergence of hunger.

- Improve digestive health by increasing the movement of the large intestine.

- Reduce the risk of heart disease.

- Increase bile acids, fat, and cholesterol, and gets it out of the body.

Meanwhile, food fiber which is insoluble can not be dissolved, either in water or in the digestive tract. Outstanding properties is its ability to absorb water and improve the texture and volume of feces.

The main function of insoluble fiber is to shorten the transit time of food in the intestine and increase fecal mass, reducing the risk of hemorrhoids and colon cancer.

Diabetes clearly increases the risk of one of various cardiovascular disorders, including heart attacks, hypertension, or stroke. To reduce the risk of heart disease, doctors will usually give medicine to restore the abnormal levels of blood fats.

Unfortunately, recent studies show medicine therapy to control blood pressure and lower blood sugar does not help prevent cardiovascular disease. In fact, medicine therapy in some cases cause side effects.

A decade ago, health officials in the United States conducted three studies to see whether the three types of intensive therapy to lower blood sugar, blood pressure or blood fats are effective for preventing heart attacks and strokes in diabetics (diabetes).

A study of the blood sugar was stopped two years ago when researchers look at blood sugar control treatment was not much effect. However, two studies are in progress.

In studies of blood fats (triglycerides) which is done by researchers from Columbia University and involving 5500 people with diabetes who also have the risk factors of other heart disease, namely hypertension and high cholesterol.

All the respondents received statins, cholesterol-lowering medication. Half of the respondents have triglyceride-lowering medicines and the rest a dummy medicine. Five years later the entire group of respondents known to have the same incidence of stroke and heart attack. This means that medicine therapy does not help much.

From the results of research, proven therapies that incentives by medicine-oatan is not able to reduce the incidence of heart attacks, although it is able to prevent a stroke. However, experts do not recommend people with diabetes to stop taking the medication without consulting their doctors.

So what should people with diabetes do? Stay focused on diet and healthy lifestyle and keep trying medications doctors recommended to reduce the risk of disease, according to Dr.Clyde Yancy, a cardiologist and president of the American Heart Association.

For people with diabetes,  they are advised to eat a varied diet in order to achieve a balance between carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Some have diabetes can control their blood sugar by eating only three meals a day and avoid sweet foods. While the rest need a strict diet.

To reduce the risk of heart disease, do the exercise because it increases blood flow through blood vessels smaller and increase the efficiency of heart pumping power.

Eating eggs could make you quite full, and you could get all the proteins and nutrients you need. Eating 1-2 eggs each day would make people feel full, so it is a good step to lose weight.

That is why in 1979, former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was able to lose weight in a short period of time by eating 28 eggs a week.

Eggs has long been regarded as a high-calorie food and could cause high cholesterol. Apparently a medium egg medium only consists of 80 calories.

Eating an egg every day could provide 20 percent of the human daily consumption. After eating eggs people do not need to over-consume any other food.

A team of researchers who conduct research in the United States found that people who eat eggs have almost all the nutrients higher than those who do not consume eggs.

“The health benefits of is huge. So it is probably not an exaggeration to call it a super food. Eggs are the most nutritious foods from all food there is,” said Dr Carrie Ruxton, an independent dietitian and author of the report, as quoted from Dailymail, Wednesday (10/3/2010).

Eggs can be considered as a ’super food’ because in addition to improving health, it can also fight obesity. And according to nutritionists, eating an egg a day can lower your weight.

The study,  will be published in June in the journal Nutrition and Food Science. This study examined 71 studies and reference materials to check the nutritional composition of eggs and its role as a food.

Researchers found that eggs are not only low in calories, but also a rich source of protein and packed with essential nutrients for health, especially vitamin D, vitamin B12, selenium, and choline. Eggs are an ideal food at every stage of life and easy to cook and fun to eat.

A report also confirmed that among the protein food, eggs contain the richest essential amino acid mixture. This is very important for children, teens, young adults because the proper balance needed for growth and repair. Eggs are also high in antioxidants, which can help prevent age-related macular degeneration that causes blindness.

Certain groups who benefit by eating more eggs is the youngsters, meat-lovers and those who avoid milk.

A key finding is that the eggs are important food sources of vitamin D and can contribute significantly to increase the daily intake of vitamin D.

Low levels of vitamin D is associated with a number of medical conditions such as bone damage, cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, immune disorders and problems of mental health.

Recent findings funded by the British Egg Industry Council, said that one or two eggs a day has no effect on total cholesterol for most people.

According to Dr. Ruxton, there is a real nutritional benefits when we eat eggs every day. Evidence suggests that eggs can be useful for filling, controlling weight and also for eye health.

People who consume olive oil regularly is pointed out could avoid the risk of cancer. This was revealed by studies involving 182 participants. A study reported by Reuters on Tuesday (9/3/2010), found out that olive oil content is proven to reduce levels of secondary metabolic results, one of the factors triggering cancer cells. Therefore, the researchers recommend that people should consume olive oil.

“Olive oil contains phenols which are antioxidants which is believed could prevent cancer,” said Dr. Henrik E Poulsen from the University of Copenhagen, Danish. He also strongly recommends to replace the use of butter, with olive oil.

In addition to the cancer-preventing foods, olive oil also has properties for skin beauty. Vitamin E which is contained in it can maintain skin elasticity. The saturated oils content inside it are also very useful to remove the black stain on the skin. Consuming olive oil regularly every day, could make the skin feel firmer and smoother.

The benefits of olive oil does not end on that. Containing omega-9, olive oil can suppress levels of bad cholesterol (Low Density Lipoprotein / LDL), and raise good cholesterol (High Density Lipoprotein / HDL). That is the reason why people with cholesterol and heart disease, are encouraged to consume olive oil every day.