Tips to reduce weight / Tips to avoid obesity

• Drink two tumblers of water on rising from the bed, and in a day drink at least three litres/liters of it.
• One third of your food should be low calorie salad. It fills the stomach and gives less calories of energy.
• Take fruits and sprouts raw.
• Avoid refined food item like polished rice, refined sugar, white flour (maida).
• Avoid potatoes, nuts, cream, ghee, sweets, fried food, and dairy products.
• Take regular exercise sufficiently, so as to burn more calories of energy, than its intake.
• Participate in games without taking glucose in between.
• Go for brisk walk, jogging or running.
• Avoid eating outs with friends; say you are dieting.
• Fast once a week by only drinking adequate water or fruit juice.
• Don’t overeat. Eat slightly less than your requirement. When you feel to have some more food, control the desire.
• Use skimmed milk instead of full cream milk.
• Use yoghurt instead of cream or curd.
• The order of preference of food is (1) steamed, (2) boiled, (3) baked, (4) roasted, (5) grilled, and (6) fried.
• If frying is unavoidable, use oils like sunflower oil, safflower oil, etc having less bad cholesterols to stay slim.

Eat to live and don't live to eat. This is a popular saying.