PROBLMES ON BEING OVERWEIGHT

An overweight person, apart from looking unattractive may face a number of other problems too. Being overweight can actually be due to some internal disease, most commonly this is hormonal – diabetes, decreased activity of thyroid gland, adrenal gland problems and abnormalities of the ovaries. People who are overweight have an increased chance of developing skin infections, especially fungal infections in the folds. High blood pressure and heart attacks are more frequent in the obese. So not only for looking good, but also for feeling and being fit, it is necessary for you to lose excess weight. All the food you eat is a source of energy and can fattening than others. For instance, weight for weight fats are more fattening than both carbohydrates and proteins. Calories are a simple way to measure, how much energy and how much fattening potential your foods contain.

Foodstuffs differ in their caloric content because of two reasons; firstly they contain varying amount of fats, proteins and carbohydrates and secondly they contain different amounts of water an ingredient which truly has zero calories. Similarly the energy you spend when working or exercising can be measured in calories. So the simple basis of a calorie control diet would be to limit your calorie intake and increase the utilization of calories. Your body will then have to draw upon the fat stores to fill the energy gap and you would begin to lose weight.