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    Weight Management

    Putting on too much weight (overweight or obese) poses a problem for you, but being too thin for your build (or underweight) is just as risky. The weight of a person says so much about his/her body. Obesity has its complicating consequences and enhances the dangers of having and dying from heart diseases, hypertension, and diabetes.

    Being obese means you're eating too much than your body needs, hence, it stores them in dissimilar parts of your body including in fatty tissues, blood, liver, etc. Over time, your body will respond to the build up of substances, which would cause it to become disturbed and overridden.

    Basic Mass Index
    One tool to aid you determine whether you're on your perfect weight is the Body Mass Index (BMI) Calculator. The BMI helps evaluate your weight and assists doctors in determining the perfect weight for you vis-à-vis your height, lays out plans and how to accomplish them.

    BMI is not intended for pregnant and nursing women as well as children below the age 18. A healthy BMI is between 18.5 kg/m2 to 25 kg/m2. Anywhere below that is considered underweight, while a BMI between 25 kg/m2 and 30 kg/m2 is overweight. If your BMI is 30 kg/m2 or higher, then you're considered obese, and extreme obesity is a BMI above 40 kg/m2.

    A Diet and Health Study by the NIH-AARP in 1995-96, conducted on 527,265 male and female participants aged 50-71 years old at enrolment, and whose BMI were obtained, concluded that people in their midlife with surplus body weight face an increased risk of death sooner whether their issue is obesity or simply overweight

    The study, which spanned 10 years with close monitoring of the participants, gave this result: 61,317 of the participants (42,173 men and 19,144 women) died, and experts came up with the analysis that the risk of death increased for both men and women (in all ages) in the highest and lowest BMI categories, regardless of racial group and ethnicity.

    Waist circumference
    Another tool doctors and dieticians use to evaluate a person's weight is via waist circumference. This tool is especially useful for people whose BMI is classified as overweight. Extra fats around the waist and a BMI above 25 are predictors of impending health problems. Doctor's get this information in order to predict the grave health troubles associated with obesity. Experts say a pear-shaped silhouette is better than having an apple-shaped silhouette. And this would still hold true even if your BMI is within the common range.

    The correct measurement of your waist is to measure it just above your hipbones. The greater your waist measurement, the greater your health risks. Women whose waistline is above 35 inches and 40 inches for men, face an increased risk for health troubles such as diabetes, high cholesterol level in blood, hypertension, and heart disease.

    Try to seek the aid of a medical practitioner if you're overweight or obese, as indicated in your BMI. Your doctor can aid you design a fitness scheme that is realistic in your situation.

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