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Obesity can be treated by dieting and exercise programs, or by the use of drugs and surgery. The best way to figure out which one is best for you is to consult a doctor who will have a good idea of what type of diet or weight loss program will best suit your specific condition. A qualified doctor’s prescription is much safer and effective than what you usually find in diet magazines. As an added advantage, you can have your condition monitored by the doctor who can take you off of treatments that do not seem to be working. If your obesity is the result of hormone imbalance, an endocrinologist’s advice is called for.
Simultaneous exercise with dieting often works well. Here also, it is better to consult your doctor to learn which forms of exercise may be more useful for you. But be sure that you can handle the exercise you have been recommended to do. If overeating is your problem, try to resist the temptation by following suitable methods and say ‘no’ to food when necessary. Consult a psychiatrist if your eating problems are more psychological than physical.
Drugs for weight loss fall into several categories; appetite-changing drugs like Sibutramine, metabolism-changing drugs like Orlistat, and energy-boosting drugs like Ephedrine. A doctor must be consulted before you use any of them because they might produce serious side-effects if taken arbitrarily.
Two types of surgery have been recommended to treat people having severe obesity. The first one is gastroplasty, which surgically reduces the size of the stomach and gastric bypass surgery that creates a small stomach pouch and connects this pouch to the second portion of the intestines. Liposuction is no more than just a cosmetic method that removes fat cells at certain points of the body.
November 30th, 2007
Obesity is a big problem facing the United States today that some has considered it an epidemic. Approximately, over 58 million Americans today are said to be suffering from obesity – 26 million of these are men, and 32 million of these are women.
Obesity is defined as having an excessive amount of body fat. So a person who is overweight is not necessarily obese if that person’s body mass comes not only from fat, but muscles or bone mass.
Some medical experts have assessed that one way to find out if a person is obese is to determine if that person contains more than a certain percentage of body fat. Men who exceed 25 percent body fat are considered to fall into this category. While in women, those who possess body fat that exceeds 30 percent are also considered to have this condition.
It is extremely difficult to measure body fat accurately. Perhaps the best way to get an accurate result is to measure a person underwater, although this can only be done in a professional environment with the supervision of medical experts.
Causes of obesity
Many factors lead to obesity, one of which is genetics. Obese parents are likely to have children who will develop obesity.
Those who are extremely inactive, and live a sedentary lifestyle are also at risk of developing obesity. This is because when the calories that have been consumed are not burned into energy, they turn into stored fat.
An unhealthy diet is one of the leading causes of obesity. A diet rich in foods high in fat, carbohydrates, and sugar is extremely harmful to a person’s health. Regularly having foods like donuts, pastries, burgers, fries, and pizza, not to mention snacks that contain a high amount of sugar, are all contributing factors to a person developing obesity. The problem with obesity.
The problem with obesity is that people who are suffering from this condition are at a high risk of developing various illnesses consequently. Almost 70 percent of individuals who have some form of cardiovascular disease attribute this condition to obesity. Also, those who are obese are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure as a result of this condition. Twenty-six percent of individuals who suffer from obesity also suffer from high blood pressure.
Cure for obesity
There are no over-the-counter pills that can make obesity go away overnight. Fortunately, some things can be done to control obesity. Switching to a healthier diet will go a long way in combating obesity.
Those who are suffering from obesity might want to hire the services of a nutritionist. A nutritionist will help guide obese people to a healthier eating plan. They would also be able to devise a dietary plan that will help such obese individuals lose fat, while maintaining their good health through the introduction of properly balanced meals that are high in nutrients but low in fat!
Exercising is good for the body. It promotes good health, and will help individuals lose weight. Increasing one’s activity will go a long way in combating obesity. Taking a stroll in the park or around the neighborhood is a good alternative to going to the gyms, for those who have an aversion to gyms.
For those who can’t squeeze exercising into their busy schedule – parking their car some distance away from where they have to go will also allow them an opportunity to walk and have some physical activity for the day.
Making some conscious effort to make some lifestyle changes will go a long way in battling obesity. Individuals who suffer from this condition have to dedicate themselves to a healthier lifestyle and eating plan, in order to attain better health.
October 30th, 2007
A few months ago, I set on my “healthy dieting” plan to lose 22.6 pounds, then to put back on at least half of it. Huh? Anybody who’s ever found herself stuck on a yo-yo diet is probably thinking that I am either crazy or planning way too hard for the inevitable yo-yo heartaches. However, my dieting plan is more sneaky than that.
First, I want to lose this rubber tire I’ve been carrying around my waist. Have you ever gotten stuck inside a rubber tire? It’s not a pretty site. This was as much a waist loss plan, as a weight loss plan.
Then, I want to put back some of that weight in the form of muscle. It’s my grand master plan to change my shape from looking like a silly pear to looking like an upside down silly pear.
Will it work?
So far, I think I have the “silly” part figured out. And I have lost 14.6 pounds, but I think I really lost more than that, because I have already taken a jump-start on adding those muscle pounds.
I would love to share with you my current weight, but that is very private information. Why should it be so private? I am not 100% certain, but I believe it is to help people easily move between Earth and the Moon without being detected by hidden scales.
Free dieting tips – my top ten list
While there is much more to healthy dieting than a few tips, these ten dieting tips should help you laugh away a few pounds (What a great way to lose!). Hint: the tips are serious; the explanations are not.
Healthy Dieting Tip #1: Never eat before bed. This is just common sense. It is so much more fun to eat in bed.
Healthy Dieting Tip #2: Bake, don’t fry. This is also common sense. Baking allows you to retain more friendships. When you bake in the sun, you get a nice tan and go for a dip in the pool to cool off with your friends. But when you fry, you get a sunburn and don’t dare go in the shower for a week…which scares your friends away.
Healthy Dieting Tip #3: Drink five gallons of water before every meal. This will help you eat less during the meal. Let’s face it, very few people can over-eat consistently while dashing to the bathroom.
Healthy Dieting Tip #4: Don’t taste-test while you cook. Many cooks taste their dishes several times while cooking to make sure the flavor is just right. Over a lifetime, a typical cook might put on 13.4 pounds just taste-testing food that will eventually be taste-tested by the entire family – with sometimes entertaining results! (Remember that laughter is a great way to burn calories?)
Healthy Dieting Tip #5: Don’t eat what your kids leave behind. Admit it, after your kids leave the table and are busy pinning the tail on the cat with epoxy glue, you gather up the food they leave on their plates. You just can’t bear to throw it away because you know that there is enough to feed a small, famished African country. So you eat a “second supper” just out of guilt. How can you be so heartless?! Send the leftover food to that small, famished African country.
Healthy Dieting Tip #6:: Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches don’t have all that many carbs, if you eat them in moderation. But stay away from those dreaded peanut butter and jellyfish sandwiches.
Healthy Dieting Tip #7: Blot your pizza to remove 17% of the saturate fats. If you blot it really well, you can remove 100%. Of course, an empty plate might require a spicier sauce…
Healthy Dieting Tip #8: No snacking in front of the TV. Get up. Right now. No snacking in front of my TV. I don’t want crumbs on my living room carpet.
Healthy Dieting Tip #9: Schedule your exercise. It’s true, if you don’t schedule it, your exercise will get pushed aside by things you do schedule. I suggest scheduling it during office meetings, dental appointments and reality TV shows. You wouldn’t want to miss anything important, would you?
Healthy Dieting Tip #10: This is a good one. Why, because #10 on any top-ten list is always a good one. Ten is a great number. So tip #10 is to celebrate every ten pounds lost by preparing a triple chocolate double-dip cheesecake supreme ice cream parfait deluxe. Go ahead and drool. You deserve it. And if you think preparing it is fun, just wait until you lose another 50 pounds … and have permission to actually eat it.
I hope these free dieting tips help you. On a serious note, most people will lose a significant amount of weight if they follow these ten healthy dieting tips along with watching their calories, according to any popular healthy dieting plan. Well…almost. You might not want to follow tip #6. You will probably lose fewer pounds eating jelly than you would eating jellyfish.
August 3rd, 2006