obese

Your Body Mass Index (BMI) is your weight in kilos divided by the square of your height in metres.

BMI = kg/m2

A BMI less than 18.5 is underweight

A BMI of 18.5-24.9 is normal weight

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OBESITY & its related problems

OBESITY defined as body weight twice the ideal weight or having Body Mass Index of 40 kg/m2 It is estimated that between 6% and 9% of the adult population of the United States is morbidly obese, or clinically severely obese,the highest percentage of population of any country. This rate of increasing obesity outrates any theory that the disease is purely genetic component. After tobacco use, obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States and is second to smoking on the list of preventable factors responsible for increased health care costs.

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"To change some things, you need to be aware of your internal and external situation..."

I received an email from a reader and he asked me, if I were to summarize the five part ‘How to Lose Fat By Accident', what would be the main points that make my accidental ‘dietingwork? First of all, I must say that I don't like the word diet. It has been associated with failures, vanit' y, starvation, boring food, strict discipline, false expectations... you get my point. Everything that makes people shy away from it. Everything that made ME shy away from it.

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"Tea is so easily available, so widely known and God knows how many people it has probably saved, even unknown to that individual..."

I was overly excited when I first learnt about the benefits of the ubiquitous tea. It is so easily available, so widely known and God knows how many people it has probably saved, even unknown to that individual. This is a continuation of the first part, bringing you more exciting properties of the humble tea.

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"The humble tea has awesome powers, much to our delight..."

A cup of tea a day keeps the doctor away. Yes, I borrowed an old saying but the message is literal. It takes that little amount of tea, drinking sustained for a long time, to bring you health benefits.

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"Eating is Receiving with Thanks, NOT Gorging with Gluttony..."
This post is about a few marvelous eating tips.

If any readers can recall, in one of my previous writings, I talked about buying two books at a crazy low price. One of them is the weight-loss book I was trying to disprove, and failed – I lost weight. The other is about juggling our oh-so-busy daily schedule. I got this one at a fantastic US$ 4.00 (I’m guessing the usual price is about US$ 19.90 – woweee!). Apparently, it was only this last copy which they had trouble selling, lucky me. The rest sold like hotcakes.

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Not too long ago, I wrote a five-part post on How to Lose Fat By Accident. In it, I talked about my quest to disprove a weight loss system which backfired. The system actually gave me results despite my almost ten-year trial to find a good way to shed excess flab. I had made up my mind that nothing is worth the effort and turned quite cynical - but this one worked.

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Carbs, carbs everywhere... but not a morsel to eat.

As I mentioned in the last post, the book proposed a controlled intake of carb (carbohydrate) and sugar. For those who are tuning in the first time, I was in a quest to disprove a weight-loss system. However, finding food conveniently with the required carb and sugar content is like finding half a needle in a hay mount. And so, I decided to adapt a little. I rationalized that even if I did not follow the system to the letter, I should still see SOME results IF the system worked at all. Even if I gained back some weight I was willing to admit that I did not manage to disprove the system adequately.

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A crude diagram showing how the body gains excess fat.

In my last post, I talked about buying a fat-loss book and I was all set to disprove the system. So I began reading the introductory chapters and surprisingly, it taught me a few new things. I guess some of you must be thinking how green I am to fat-loss theories as soon as you see the crude diagram above. As I soon found out, more than half the globe have probably heard of it. The theory proposed that a carbohydrate loaded diet causes the body to prefer burning carbohydrate instead of fat to produce energy. The same diet also increases the body's secretion of insulin which causes the body to store fat. Since the body does not prefer fat-fuel at this juncture, fat will just be stored and added to in due time. This cycle also produces a craving for carbohydrate when the body needs fuel. So the person will look for more carbohydrate-laden foods and the vicious cycle continues. Liberal intake of sugar also leads to more insulin secretion and, you guessed it, more stored fat. In short, to break this cycle, control carbohydrate intake and, two, control sugar consumption.

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For those of you who are tuning in, and wondering what was it I discovered in my last write-up, it was a book. [YAWN] But wait! Ordinarily, I would not buy it. Just another one of those stupid how-to-eat-right books. I had made up my mind that nothing worked for me as far as fat reduction is concerned, remember? (Well, maybe liposuction will.) This one was different. It was CHEAP. I am guessing that it would probably cost US$ 19.90, AT LEAST, under normal circumstances. This one was offered at US$ 5.30! Still, it did not entice me to make a purchase. But it did make me curious. How can such a book can be offered so cheaply, even if it was on a sale? So, I flipped through it. Page 1 - 10: yeah, those rubbish again. Page 11 - 20: yeah, more of those rubbish. What caught me was, the layout of the book. (Book writers, take note.) The font and line spacing was pleasingly easy on the eye. Secondly, the organization. It is logical and has a good flow from one idea leading to another. Thirdly, it was organized this way: a short yet comprehensive theoretical explanation on the system followed by pages of DAY to DAY action plan. I told myself: Hmmmm. This is easy to follow. And cheap.

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For almost ten years of my life, I was at the borderline between overweight and ideal. It started off with fat visibly accumulating little by little on my tummy area. The fat deposit grew month by month but I was neither trim nor large size. I was in between - in a no man's land but my belly was clearly bulging. At one point, one of my longtime friend, whom I had not met for some time then, commented: "Yes. You have attained it." But every time I went for a BMI calculation, the figure will always show as mildly overweight at 25-26. That is a consolation but the bulge was OBVIOUS. It was so clearly visible.

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We all know that there is an obese problem here in the U.S. but recently there was a study for what the most obese cities are.In the study they named the top five overweight cities. Here is the list.

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By Dr. Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

- Virginia Woolf

For 2.5 million years, our ancestors ate only what they could hunt and gather themselves. Every food item was raw, fresh, packed with vitamins and minerals, and had no refined sugar or salt. As we evolved, natural selection showed preference for humans eating this type of diet. Over the years, our health and survival as a species became genetically dependent on it.

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I was very sick 2 days ago (still recovering, but MUCH better now)...so I went to the doctor.

Somehow in the last 5 months I've gained 30 pounds. I had NO idea. I dont know where it went because I only bought one pants size bigger than I was wearing before.

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