An overweight person is commonly referred as a fat man; our mind perceives the person as less active and unpleasant to look at. Are you obese, if so ask yourself a question, am I healthy, attractive and active. The answer is - no. About 97 million adults in the US are obese. Globally, obesity is on the increase, three in ten are obese.
Obesity in medical term is the excess accumulated fat that results in adverse effect on health. In other words, body weight that is undesirable and considered unhealthy. Eat enough to sustain your daily activities, eating more and burning least calories eventually stores the unused fat and results in overweight.
Causes of obesity can be due to various factors, firstly, consuming large amount of food, not doing enough exercise and lastly genetic factors. Next, to determine whether you are underweight, overweight or obese know your ‘Body Mass Index’ or commonly known as BMI. Weight is divided by height in squares- kg/ m2 is the formula.
Obesity leads to deadly diseases particularly heart ailments, diabetes, osteoarthritis, high blood pressure and certain types of cancer.
My BMI is 20.83 is considered normal, the range of 18.5 to 25.0 is neither underweight nor overweight. The secret is my weight is 52kg and height is 158cm. BMI 25 is overweight and from 30 onwards is obese and 40 is considered morbidly obese.
For self check go to http://www.bestcalculator.org/miscellaneous/bmi-calculator.php
Having checked BMI do not sit idle, exercise clean habits. Change food habits to fit your lifestyle, balanced diet is utmost important. Do simple exercise or walk at least for half an hour daily to lose excess calories.
Stay healthy! How? Discipline comes first eat less if you like the food very much. No frequent snacking, avoid it. Reduce the intake of any white food stuff like sugar, rice, wheat flour etc. Be your servant, shift from auto machines to physically demanding work.
Quote from a stay healthy person:-
“I was also following something my mother taught me. When you are enjoying a real good meal, stop when the food is still good. So, I guess it's good for me to stop now,”
Dislike for today is obesity.
The best way to beat obesity is by exercising, preferably cardio such as jogging. If there's an input, there must also be an output. If the body is healthy, so will the mind.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments Seanny. Input and output gives a balance.
ReplyDeleteSugar is the main culprit and to an extent white rice. We need to switch to our olden days of food. Start on millets - Barnyard (kuthiravali), Finger (kezhvaragu), kodo (varagu), Foxtail (thinai), Little (saamai). These have complex carbohydrates compared to the simple carbohydrates present in rice, wheat. But these too should be taken in a limit - அளவுக்கு மிஞ்சினால் அமிர்தமும் நஞ்சு.
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