According to the American Heart Association (PCA), one third of children and adolescents and 66 percent of the adult population is overweight or obese. If the trend continues, there will be a reduction in life expectancy of our children, making it the first generation to live less than their parents. Obesity in simple form is an excess of body fat.…
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Obesity And Poor Male Sexual Health
Obesity is one of the reasons why a lot of people suffer from many health ailments. Being obese or having too much fat than what the human body needs can lead to many health conditions like type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, arthritis, sleep apnea, and stroke. Moreover, obese men are at high risk of developing blood…
Your Bmi Body Mass Index May Not Be Accurate If You Are An Asian Or African
Everyone knows that carrying extra body fat is a potential time bomb by increasing the risks of getting heart diseases, stroke and certain types of cancers. These are potential killer diseases. By keeping your body fat down, these diseases may be avoided and even prevented. One of the most popular methods of measuring whether one is overweight is by using…
Are You Really Overweight
If you are overweight, you know it by how you feel, how your clothes fit or how you look. But, by how much are you really overweight? And how much weight do you need to lose? One measure of how much you should weight is by determining your Body Mass Index, BMI. This index gives you the relationship of your…
Health What Can You Do To Stay Healthy
There are 5 simple things you can do, to stay healthy. 1. Avoid smoking and smokers 2. Eat right and keep your BMI (Body Mass Index) at 18,5 – 24,8 3. Try to avoid drinking alcohol 4. Exercise daily 5. Sleep right 1. Avoid smoking and smokers Dangers of smoking. If you smoke, you should quit, smoking harms you and…
Obesity Determining The Cause And Developing The Remedy
The number of people gaining unwanted and enormous weight around the world has become a cause of alarm for health experts around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has put the worldwide total obese people at more than 1 billion. This number is expected to rise to about 1.5 billion in less than 10 years. Obesity is one of…
Life Insurance Outweighing The Benefits
Have you filled in a life assurance application recently? There’s a little box that strikes fear into the heart of the “slightly overweight”. It simply asks you to state your weight. Do you go straight to the scales, undress to the state of nudity and jiggle about on the said scales, trying to pinpoint the lowest mark on the gauge?…
Body Mass Index
A person’s body mass index is a number calculated based on their height and weight. It is used for a comparative analysis of people with similar heights. The body mass index is a brainchild of a Belgian statistician and mathematician named Adolphe Quatelet who created the BMI sometime from1830 to 1850. To calculate the BMI, divide the person’s weight in…
Is There Permanent Solution To Obesity
How do you Define Obesity? The term morbid obesity refers to patients who are 50 – 100%, or 100 pounds above their ideal body weight. Alternatively, a BMI (body mass index) value greater than 39 may be used to diagnose morbid obesity. Various studies indicates that about 31 percent of American teenage girls and 28 percent of boys are somewhat…
Calculating Your Body Mass Index Is Your Health At Risk
Physical health can be measured (with certain exceptions) through the appropriateness of a person’s weight to his height; where the body weight refers to the measure of one’s heaviness and the height is the measure of his tallness. For instance, a woman measuring 5 ft high (1.52 m), with a medium body frame should weigh between 103 lbs to 115…