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Health Warning: Your Television May be Watching You Gain Weight

How Weight Gain May be Due to Multi-Tasking While Watching TV More Than Snacking - a surprising reason for weight gain while watching television.

A common thought that springs to mind when we think of television is good old snack time - particularly hot buttered popcorn. It's just the perfect snack when it comes to watching both the little and the big screen. It's bite-sized, tasty, smells terrific when just cooked, and it's economical when purchased for the home-theater.

Of course, the downside is the high calorie content contributed by the addition of oil and butter. But many an innocent popcorn kernel has been blamed for packing pounds on an individual. And if it's not hot buttered popcorn and other popular snacks shouldering the blame, weight gain is blamed on inactivity surrounding television-time. Well, it's passed time to set the Weight Gain Record straight.

I's not so much the fact that watching television is an inactive pastime OR that calorie-filled snacks pack on the pounds. Humans are natural-born multi-taskers, perhaps realizing that our time on earth is limited. We strive to get the most accomplished in the limited time that we have on earth.

In turn, spontaneously performing multi-tasks comes naturally - even when we sleep. We can catch our forty winks while resting our brains and bodies as we're dreaming about taking a strenuous hike up a mountain to meet our Dream Hero or Heroine. We can drive to work and plan out our entire day while listening to our favorite radio station. So it's only natural that we occupy our bodies with our brain when watching television - or when we're at the movies. Simply put: we are merely multi-tasking.

Although inactivity and snacking during television-time can indeed add pounds, it's our natural born instinct to multi-task that's the root of the problem.

As it's highly unlikely that a television snacker will forever surrender snacking during flicks, it's just logical to find a more acceptable AND doable solution - one that will positively impact health while providing enjoyment to the TV Watcher. And there's a little TV Watcher in almost all of us, isn't there?

Diet Bites' Better Health suggestions for Snack-Loving TV Watchers:

Enjoy a well-balanced dinner, resisting the urge to stuff yourself.

If you've had an inactive day, enjoy an activity that you like BEFORE settling in to watch television - even if the activity is only performed for 5 or 10 minutes. Some activity is better than none at all. If you don't like leaving your house for a brisk walk, try shooting some hoops instead. Or, consider purchasing an inexpensive treadmill or other exercise machine. A few bucks now may save big bucks in the future when it comes to health matters.

It's time to rethink those high calorie, high fat, high sodium television snacks. See if the following healthier versions will work for your good health. One thing is for sure; grabbing less fatty, lower calorie foods will help curb the old wind machine as well as the old heartburn machine as bedtime approaches.

Healthy Foodnote: The Pringles Sweet Potato 'n Cinnamon chips are absolutely delicious and you can feel good about eating this snack - while enjoying more of 'the good thing'. While a serving of most potato chips is about 16 chips, you can enjoy 28 of these tasty babies for the same number of calories.

Health watchers can continue to blame weight gain on inactivity, calories and so forth but until out-of-the-Diet-Box thinking such as demonstrated at Diet Bites is addressed, obesity continues to remain one of our most threatening health matters.

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