Weight Loss Improves Your Health
So it is clear that gaining even a little bit of weight is not good for a person’s health. Thankfully, the same cannot be said for the reverse— losing a little weight is very good. It takes only a small weight loss—as little as 5%—to gain health benefits. For a person who weighs 200 pounds, that’s just 10 pounds!
Weight loss is vital in the treatment and prevention of heart disease, unhealthy blood cholesterol levels, heart failure, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and other chronic diseases. A loss of just 5% of body weight can reduce, eliminate, or prevent these conditions in many overweight people. The news is even better if you sustain your weight loss. Maintaining a loss of 10% of your original body weight improves the body’s response to insulin, aids blood sugar control, controls or prevents high blood pressure, and improves triglyceride, HDL cholesterol, and LDL cholesterol levels. The health benefits are especially profound when you lose excess abdominal fat.
Here is a summary of just a few of the benefits of losing a modest amount of weight, defined as weight loss of 5% to 10% of initial body weight:
- Reduce risk of breast cancer, in particular, if the weight is lost before age 45.
- Drop blood pressure (both the upper and lower numbers) by 10 points for every 20 pounds of weight lost.
- Increase HDL cholesterol incrementally for every BMI change downward of one unit—for example, from 29 to 28.
- Reduce incidence of diabetes by 58%.
The link between weight loss and diabetes prevention is particularly compelling. In the Diabetes Prevention Program, a lifestyle program that was conducted at several research institutions and included weight loss and physical activity components, participants dramatically reduced their risk of developing diabetes with a weight loss of just 7%. The results of this lifestyle program were similar to those observed in people on medication.
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I think it is of the utmost importance for people to understand that weight gain is something that can be overcome even if everyone in your family has yet to defeat it.
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>> Joanne
Yeah, everyone should not give up easily and one key to successful weight loss is willpower. Losing weight is not that hard, all you have to do is to eat less and exercise. You should also be educated about these things so you will know what foods to eat and the activity to do.