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Treatment for obesity: An overview of weight loss

February 13th, 2012 | Add a Comment

Most of the information in this article is already known to you. I wrote this article because I want you to know that only the following methods have been proven to work. There are many wild claims of various methods of weight loss but none of them have been proven to show long term results. Any treatment would preferably involve your family and your close friends. A set and reasonable goal is important and the speed of weight loss must be gradual. There is no purpose in rapid weight loss if you sustain side effects like lethargy, weakness and a decrease mental alertness. The following methods can be used along or in combination 1) Diet I put this first because this is the most important part of weight loss. Some people believe … Read entire article »

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Top 5 Weight Loss Tips

Sometimes, it doesn’t take a big change in your life to experience weight loss. If  fact, rapid and fast weight loss are often seen when small changes are implemented in our daily lives. We shall recount what are the top 10 weight loss tips that are effective and easy to apply. 1) Sleep well Studies have shown again and again that the lack of sleep indirectly causes wright gain. Whether this is due to the increase in stress hormones or increase in amount night time snack does not matter. What matters is a good night sleep daily will not only allow you enough energy to go through the day, but also keep your weight in check. 2) Eat … Read entire article »

How to prevent weight gain at Christmas

Lets begin by reassuring ourselves that we don’t gain that much weight during the festive season. While most people do gain weight during the Christmas and New year period, the gain is less than what most people think. In a study, by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in the US and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, they found that most of the yearly gain was added during the Christmas period, even though it was less than previously thought. The study found that most people gain an average of 0.36kg (0.8ib) during the 6 weeks of  Thanksgiving to Christmas. This is good news for most of us.Here … Read entire article »

Treatment of obesity

There are 3 goals to attain in a weight loss programme. These are 1) Preventing further weight gain 2) Gradual weight loss 3) Maintaining final ideal body weight. The most effective was to achieve the above goals requires a change in eating habits, exercises and increase physical activities, and good social support. In general, studies shows tht only about 20% of obese people who start a weight loss programme lose weight and maintain it for 2 years. The problem seems more of a problem of maintaining weight lost rather than losing weight itself. One of the most common reasons for failure of a weight loss programme is that lack of motivation. If you are not fully motivated to lose weight, … Read entire article »

Food and Diet: Dieting to lose weight

Dieting is the most essential component of weight loss. Regardless of nutrient content of the food eaten, weight loss occurs when there is a decrease in total caloric intake as opposed to the caloric usage of the body. There are no real diet food. Dieting in an overweight person has the same principles for all healthy normal weight people. That is, a diet low in fat, high in complex carbohydrate, high in fibre and some amount of proteins. Minimise on nutrition-less calories like alcohol. Most people who are unable to lose weight are people who have higher intake of calories. Most of these comes from fats which are tasty and easily available in fried food or … Read entire article »

Excerise to lose weight

Previously, we wrote about how fast we should lose weight. Our current topic is on exercise. One of the major component of weight loss is exercise. It has been said that dieting helps weight loss, exercising keeps weight loss. This is true to a certain extent. Few weight loss programme suceed without any increase in physical activities. Exercise increases the energy usage and is especially useful for long term weight reduction. Exercise reduce the desire for food that are high in fat, thus reducing the overall fat intake. It will also prevent the decrease in basal energy use that occurs with any dieting. How then can we use exercise to lose weight?   Increase in physical activities can … Read entire article »

Why can’t I lose weight?

Why can’t I lose weight? This is the most common question that I’ve encountered from my readers. Often, when they ask the same questions to their friends or family, they are simply told to try harder. For those who have went through the process of losing weight like myself, we know that the reason is not for the lack of trying. To understand why we get stuck in the process of losing weight, it is important to udnerstand the process of weight loss. In general, when the energy intake is lower than the energy output, weight will be lost over a period of time. This sounds simple. However, because our body is made to conserve fats … Read entire article »

Obesity Diet

I’m Obese Help!! The best was of losing weight and obesity is a combination of diet, exercise, and change in behavioral modification. Before starting on any weight loss programme, it is important to determine both how fast to lose weigtht and how to lose weight safely. Therefore, goals of weight loss must be set before anyone begins any weight loss. Goals of weight loss Many Obese individuals are still actively gaining weight. The most important is to stop any more weight gain. The next goal is to calculate the idea weight of the obese person. Do this by calculating the BMI of the person. The thrid goal is to indentify the initial weight loss targetted. Most programmes will be … Read entire article »

Benefits of Weight Loss

Most of us have our own reasons to lose weight. I am sure you have you own too. The most common reason is that we want to look good. For others, it may be for health purposes. To understand the benefits of weight loss, we should first look at what weight loss causes. Medically, being obese can lead to diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, heart disease and even arthritis of the knees. Socially, it has been shown that obese people have lower self esteem and tends to be viewed as having less self control. Therefore the benefits of weight loss simply means reduce chances of having these illness. For some people … Read entire article »

Statistics of Obesity

Obesity is fast becoming one of the most common diseases worldwide. This is especially so in America, where the rates of obesity in statistical surveys by the government shows an increasing trend in overweight adults. Most statistics of obesity around the world are obtained either via patient provided height and weight or actual measurement of height and weight. It is commonly understood that the patient provided data often shows a lower prevalence of obesity compared to the direct height and weight measurement. It is therefore important to know which method was used to collect the statistics. The rate of obesity seems to be increasing in the United States and data suggests that it is more … Read entire article »

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