Excess weight increases in the long-term risk of development of diseases , which can shorten your life, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The prevention of these serious diseases, it is often the main motivation to lose weight.
The reduction of the risk of severe, life-threatening diseases will become an essential factor for the improvement of the health. Many people see the improvements and realize that the best reward for the thinning, the perception of health. You start to notice that you receive more energy and improves the physical form.
Even 30 minutes a day, three short of 10 minutes of exercise can be enough to increase the level of basal metabolism (BMR), which affects the speed of burning calories and, ultimately, lose weight if you gain weight, if or is in the same weight. The main change is of approximately 60 to 75% of what you burn each day.
To feel the benefit of the exercises, it is necessary to gradually increase the intensity and frequency of training. This is the most important factor for weight loss. Therefore, you should train every day or, at least, five times a week.
Correct the mass of a body, composed of fat and muscle, can be determined by knowing the growth, weight, circumference of waist and hip and thickness of skin folds.
If there is excess weight are generally used two methods for the calculation of weight: the body mass index (bmi) and waist circumference. Bmi helps to determine the amount of adept to weigh on its growth. The circumference of the waist gives you an idea of how the fat is distributed in the body.
The bmi is the most common method of detecting the presence of overweight or a considerable excess of weight (obesity). Measures the relationship between weight and height. A bmi over 30 indicates obesity. Obesity causing a greater harm to health than excess body weight. A bmi of 25 to 30 - overweight. Excess weight, as such, does not necessarily cause health problems, but may do so if the person already has certain health problems, such as diabetes mellitus type ii.
Although this way of determining bmi is useful and is easy to calculate, without taking into account the body type and the muscle mass of the person.
The measurement of the circumference of the body is more accurate to predict the development of obesity. The distribution of the fat is an important prognostic factor for risk of obesity. To determine the body composition are taken into account the circumference of arms, waist, hips, thighs.
The circumference of the waist about the circumference of the hips gives an idea of how the fat is distributed in the body. If you have a large amount of fat in the abdomen, the risk of the disease in the past. The ratio of the circumference of the waist / hip, waist / buttocks, waist, or neck provide accurate information about the degree of risk of hypertension, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, obstruction of the coronary arteries and premature death.
If you regularly move, losing weight will be more easy for people who lead a sedentary life. To call effective for weight loss, a complete workout program should include both strength, such as aerobic exercise to increase the muscles and adapting the body to tone, as the muscles are necessary for burning calories and weight loss.
