The Weigh You Are--Eating to Keep the Weight Off

Written by Larry Denton


There are many ways to lose weight, but it is not always easy to keeprepparttar weight off. The key to successful weight loss is making changes in your eating and physical activity habits that you can keep up forrepparttar 113525 rest of your life. The information presented in this article may help put you onrepparttar 113526 road to healthy habits.

Some ofrepparttar 113527 more common weight-related health problems include: diabetes, heart attack or stroke; high blood pressure; high cholesterol; gallbladder disease; some types of cancer; osteoarthritis (wearing away ofrepparttar 113528 joints and bone weakness); sleep apnea (interrupted breathing during sleep).

Health experts agree that you gain health benefits from even a small weight loss if: you are obese based on your body mass index (BMI); you are overweight based on your BMI and have weight-related health problems; or you have a waist that measures more than 40 inches if you are a man or more than 35 inches if you are a woman. A weight loss of 5 to 15 percent of body weight may improve your health and quality of life, and prevent some ofrepparttar 113529 above mentioned health problems. For a person who weighs 200 pounds, that means losing from 10 to 30 pounds.

YOur body weight is controlled byrepparttar 113530 number of calories you eat andrepparttar 113531 number of calories your body burns each day. To lose weight, you obviously need to burn more calories than you take in. You can do this by creating and following a plan for healthy eating as well as a plan for regular physical activity.

The average calories needed to maintain current weight are as follows: about 1,600 calories a day for an inactive woman; about 2,200 calories a day for inactive men and active women; about 2,800 calories a day for active men. If you truly want to lose weight and keep it off, you need to reduce your caloric intake and maximizerepparttar 113532 number of calories used.

A weight-loss "diet" that limits you to very small portions or that totally exclude certain foods may be hard to stick with and probably will not work overrepparttar 113533 long term. Instead, a healthy eating plan takes into account your likes and dislikes, and includes a variety of foods that provide you enough calories and nutrients to maintain good health.

Understanding Cholesterol

Written by Dave Saunders


Wheneverrepparttar word cholesterol comes up in any conversation, almost always, people are talking about how high levels of cholesterol can be bad for your body and can even be fatal. What one never hears about isrepparttar 113524 fact that cholesterol is essential for our bodies. Here’s a look atrepparttar 113525 cholesterol molecule, and how it benefits our bodies.

The cholesterol molecule is a wax like fatty substance, which comes from a family of molecules known as steroids. The cholesterol molecule is present in our blood, as well as allrepparttar 113526 cells in body tissue. A cholesterol molecule does not enter our bodies through food, but is made by different parts of our body. Body tissues that have highly packed membranes, such asrepparttar 113527 liver, arethoma, etc are known to produce more cholesterol molecules and have more cholesterol present in their cells.

A form ofrepparttar 113528 cholesterol molecule, if present in large numbers in our bodies, can form deposits known as plaque onrepparttar 113529 walls of our arteries, which can in turn blockrepparttar 113530 flow of blood supply and cause heart problems. But,repparttar 113531 cholesterol molecule also plays an important part inrepparttar 113532 following:

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