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Weight Management

December 8th, 2009 AverageWeightForWomen No comments

Obesity is a global phenomenon, it is increasing worldwide at an astonishing pace but it has been a recent outbreak (30 years). Developing countries, where malnutrition and obesity coexist, are also affected. In some of these newly industrialized countries the health authorities may have to cope with both an epidemic of obesity and an increase of malnutrition in a part of the population.

Obesity is a common multi-factorial disease, its treatment is primarily based on changing eating habits often with food restrictions, a diet and behavior change, unfortunately, it often results in a failure. Plants or plant extracts can help to lose weight, build weight loss and win the fight against the complications of obesity and overweight.

According to WHO (World Health Organization) studying obesity as well as malnutrition, obesity can be simply defined as a disease in which excess fat has accumulated until having adverse effects for health. However, the amount of excess fat, its distribution in the body and health disorders associated with it show considerable variation from one subject to another obese.

The average man “normal” has 10 to 15% fat (we speak of obesity when the mass is greater than 15%) in women “normal”, there are 20 to 25% fat ( obesity = more than 25%). There are several ways to estimate the percentage of body fat. In adults, a simple and universal way to achieve it, is to estimate body mass index (or BMI) with two measures very easy to get; the weight and size.

Body mass index (BMI) is equal to the ratio of weight to the square of height (P / T ²: W = weight in kg, T = the height in meters). A BMI below 18.5 means you are too skinny. It is too big when the BMI is above 25 in men and 27 for women. It is obese when BMI exceeds 30 in both sexes. Obesity is severe (morbid) when BMI exceeds 40.

For example, for a size of 1.75 m and weighing 67 kg, BMI = 67 / 1.75 x 1.75 = 21.8; the weight is perfectly normal. Another example for a size of 1, 75 and weighing 85 kg, BMI = 85 / 1.75 x 1.75 = 27; the weight is too high. This index has points of weakness and must be “interpreted”, inter alia by age, ethnicity and the musculature of the subject.

A very muscular person, with a strong bone structure, may have a high BMI without real overweight. The percentage of body fat physiologically increases with age until 60-65 years, it should be relevant to estimate the degree of obesity or overweight. To illustrate the differences between ethnic groups for the same weight let’s take the example of Polynesian who has a lower percentage of fat than European.

Having trouble finding a fast weight loss diet plan that works?

October 14th, 2009 AverageWeightForWomen No comments

One of the main problems that people have, when they are trying to lose weight, is finding useful information from all the disinformation. The truth is that most diets and diet plans are not created so you would be successful with weight loss, but they are created so they would be successful. Finding the best diet plan to lose weight fast is so hard, because such thing does not even exist. People are looking for something that does not exist. There are very good reasons why diet plans in general do not work.

Why is finding a fast weight loss diet plan that works so hard?

A diet is very similar to starvation, in fact they are practically the same thing. For example if you were lost in the wilderness without much food, then your body has to find ways to keep you alive. Survival is the most important task for your body. In these extreme cases like starvation, your body´s starvation mechanisms kick in. Meaning your body has to save energy by burning less calories, it also has to feed of itself to get energy. It would not be a very good thing, if your body would keep burning calories at a very high rate, because otherwise you would die very quickly.

The problem is that these same life saving survival mechanism, that keep you alive during starvation, prevent you from successfully losing weight with diets. Because a diet and starvation are the same thing for your body. All types of diets always sends your body to the starvation levels. So the best diet plan to lose weight fast, is not the best way to lose weight.

But do not understand what diets really are and why thy never work. Nobody wants to do their homework, instead they look for magic diets to solve all their problems. I am sure people would be much more successful in losing weight, if they just did a bit of simple homework.

Where can you get a healthy weight loss diet plan that works?

October 10th, 2009 AverageWeightForWomen No comments

There are a lot of promises that are made, when it comes to dieting, but most of these promises never works. In other words they are lies that are meant to be lies. How many times have you seen or gone on a diet, that promises amazingly quick weight loss? How many times have you heard those weight loss success stories with these diets, but if you want the same results with any given diet, then you don´t even get close?

Healthy weight loss diet plans

People who want to lose weight, always want someone to do all the work for them. Create the perfect diet plan, make the most effective exercise program and so on. But the truth is that the only person, who can do this, is you. Then you can make diet plans that work 100% for you and you are basically your own boss. This is not hard to do and all you really need is to learn.

If you put your mind to it and actually read a few books about nutrition or exercise, then you will be the expert, that everyone comes to get advice. If you do not learn then you will always be concerned and worried about every little detail. Even the super lean natural bodybuilders and fitness models, had to do it the hard way.

There are so many excellent books and different articles and studies you can read and learn about. In my opinion this is the only way to really have success in weight loss, or anything else really. It is not really that hard, because how long does it take you to read a 300-400 page book? Maybe a week, maybe two weeks or maybe a moth. But if you finish it then you are much smarter. Otherwise you will just go around in circles and keep looking for those best weight loss diet plans that do not exist. Do you know what I mean?