As you may know your body is about 50-55% water, you can temporarily modify your weight with diet pills and fad diets but, you cannot manipulate your body fat percentage. Body fat percentage is a more meaningful metric for gauging physical fitness than what you can get out of height and weight tables. The U.S.…
Read MoreAlmost 180 million Americans were overweight or obese in 2019. Until now, obesity continues to be a serious problem and is predicted to reach epidemic levels by the year 2020. One way to prevent this scenario is to make people aware of the risks of being overweight or obese. Here are some diseases that you…
Read MoreYou may ask yourself, who are you to tell me that I am overweight or obese since I don’t believe I am overweight? While every person has ultimate sovereignty over his or her own body, the actual facts state otherwise whether we accept it or not. So how is being overweight or obese determined and…
Read MoreThere are many medical conditions that are influenced or induced by external factors and environmental cues. Some well-known examples are environmental-based allergies to such things as pollen, trees, grass, cat hair, termites, mold, and host of other ones. Food-based allergies or sensitivities, better known nowadays due to greater medical knowledge, improved diagnosis, and patient awareness,…
Read MoreThe role of being overweight and obesity has been well established owing to significant level of clinical and basic research looking into empirical, epidemiological, and experimental evidence for links or causation between weight gain and variously described health disorders and medical conditions. The cumulative effects of unhealthy weight gain on body’s physiological, anatomical, and many…
Read MoreThe increasing number of people who are overweight or obese is a barometer for the rise in many health problems in U.S.A. as well as in other countries worldwide. The onset of detrimental health consequences depends on the level of weight gain, the amount of time that a person is overweight or obese, and the…
Read MoreThe growing problem with being overweight and obesity is noticeable to any casual observer in U.S.A. today when one goes to any public place such as grocery stores, shopping malls, amusement parks, etc. There are many people who are truly away from their ideal body weight and current or future seekers of medical care. However,…
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