Obesity and being Overweight

Posted August 11, 2011 By Mike Linden

About 60% of USA citizens are fat. Obesity is a health condition in which there is too much body fat accumulation. There are 3 classifications of obesity according to severity and are measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI). A BMI of 30-34.9 is Class I, 35-39.9 is Class II, and a BMI of 40 and above is class III. Your BMI can be computed by dividing your weight (in kilograms) by your height (in meters squared).

One question in the reality show The Most Important Loser is still fresh in my mind: “Have you ever seen a fat, OLD person?” Which reveals that overweight people never reach old age. Too many health complications arise from being fat. Some of these are diabetes (which may develop to rather more complications), and heart diseases.

Almost every internet site blames the fast food and restaurants who put too much calories in their food. It's right, though only in some measure right. These fast foods actually do have too much calories in their food “some containing rather more than your body’s ideal daily nutritional needs.

These fast foods and food chains just do their job “make delicious food. In turn, for our own health, we must do our job too. We must learn how to have balance even with these food factories all around us.

Obesity is principally a consequence of an unhealthy way of life. It’s either you're eating too much than what your body needs, or you're not doing anything to burn off the surplus. That is the reason why all of the food calories that are in excess are placed in your body as fat. For more information about how calories are turned to fat, read Calories Decoded.

One guy I know, who was obese since infancy, relayed his experiences to us. As a child, he was pampered by his mother and father, well, a bit too much, and this resulted to always giving him Only what he needed to eat. According to him, he became chubby and chubby. His Problems started to sprout when he came to middle and college. He was bullied and his life became sad. What’s good was that he did not give up and he vowed to modify his life by losing weight. He worked out, he followed a good diet in spite of the presence of peer pressure. He even made his pals watch out for him if ever he would stray away from his healthy pattern. Right now he has got a ordinary BMI and he feels and looks good.

Irrespective of how many websites and articles you encounter and read, they all reduce down to a similar thing. To attain your Ideal weight, you have to balance 3 things: exercise, diet and rest. It is never too far gone to modify your way of life.

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