Can I Be 10-15 Lbs Overweight And Still Be Healthy?

Can you end up obese or over weight and nevertheless possibly be healthy? The answer will be straightforward: Simply NO, or not at the very least in the long run. The extra fat deposited around the abdomen produces all kinds of chemicals that can cause damage to our bodies. Here are details about this particular topic from more than 5000 Boston women and men who have been followed for much more than four decades - that is a lot of persons for an incredibly lengthy time period:

The Framingham Heart Study followed 5209 adults from 1948 thru 1990. After more than 40 years of follow-up here is how obesity and being overweight shortened life expectancy:

Weight Groups and Years Life Span Reduced from Excess Weight: *Normal Weight: zero * Overweight (BMI 25-29) : 3 years cut off life *Obese(BMI> 30): 5 years cut off life

Note that this study stretched from 1948 to 1990. During the first half of the study obesity was not as prevalent or so difficult to reverse. What would be the results if the study had started in the 1980′s?

The recent European study of 10, 000 people followed for 10 years shows a direct, linear relationship of increasing belly size and DEATH-not an increase blood pressure, cholesterol or heart attacks, but actually death. The true measure of "Not healthy."

FORMULA FOR PREDICTING WEIGHT RELATED MORTALITY IN EVERYONE:

Every 2 inch increase in waist size about 39 inches in a male increases death rate by 20%. Every two inch increase in waist size above 35 inches in women increases mortality by 20%!

See where you stand yourself. Measure you waist aaround the belly button at the greatest circumference. Remember, for men its not where they wear their pants, but the largest belly circumferene: Here are the men. The women have similar results, just starting at 35 instead of 40 inches.

MEN's Waist Line and Increased Mortality:

40" waist -20% higher death rate from any cause, 42"waist - 40% increase chance of dying from any cause, 44" waist- 60% increase chance of dying from any cause, 46" waist- 80% Increased death from all causes, 50"-waust 100% increase in death from all causes

For the first time in more than 100 years, the lifespan of American children may not be as long as their parents. A special report appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine predicts that life expectancy will decline over the next 50 years due to the epidemic of obesity in this country. You really don't have to wait for 50 years, the answer is here now.

THE FAT ACCEPTANCE MOVEMENT: Why is there even a problem accepting this data even today? Much of this kind of thought is based on the belief that most eating is emotional and that attempting to diet leads to more emotional disturbances. The fat acceptance movement fails to realize that overweight people eat and drink because they are hungry and thirsty. For the most part, they gain weight because they simply make the wrong choices not because they have some emotional disturbance.

"YOUR O.K. IF YOU ARE FAT OR ARE YOU? This fat acceptance movement received a real boost with the recent publication of University of California-Davis nutrition professor Linda Bacon's book: Healthy at Every Size. It's fine to advocate to exercise "out of enjoyment and pleasure," but the vast majority of people that want to lose weight hate exercise and if they will not exercise to save their lives why would they do it because someone says there is a "joy of moving "when they get no joy out of it at al?

"IDEAL WEIGHT" IS AN OLD CONCEPT FROM THE 1940'S: That one's healthy weight should be defined by the "ideal" weight tables (a relic of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Weight table from 1943), or the narrow ranges of the BMI table is rejected by Dr Bacon and many others in the fat acceptance movement and rightfully so They are outdated measures. The most accurate and reliable measurement is the waist circumference.

PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY SHOULD WEIGH :We need to stop discouraging them from achieving their goal, as frustrating as the process may be, it only makes all of their problems worse. Advocating that one should "normalize eating" by stopping all restrictions just encourages pulling into the drive-thru at the first burger joint when confronted with hunger or satisfying thirst by gulping a 20 oz bottle of some sugary water drink when thirsty.

IT'S SIMPLE, FOOD CHOICES ARE ABOUT CONVENIENCE, PLEASURE AND PRICE: The problem is that most overweight people simply pick the wrong foods and drinks because they are hungry. The battle with obesity needs to be fought in the real world where convenience, pleasure and price dictate what most of us eat, not in the world of "more peaceful relationship with food" or in "rediscovering normal eating" - whatever that might be.

THE HCG WEIGHT LOSS PLAN is a unique plan to decrease hunger and cravings and increase metabolism by fat burning. The fat burning is centered around the excess fat accumulated about the adomen. This is the dangerous fat because it makes all kinds of chemcials that increase blood pressure, heart attacks, strokes and even cancer. HCG is a hormone and its effects are felt thoughout the body on both energy burning and hunger and cravings.

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