Fat Or Fit: Heart Of The Matter

Your ‘normal’ body weight is as important as the extent of what it means to be overweight. This basic idea, any which way you look at it, should be keyed to empower you to make your own personal decisions as to how best you’d reduce your ‘extra’ weight, without risks — with more than a little help from homeopathic remedies and treatment.

- Dr Rajgopal Nidamboor

You may think that being thin is the best attribute one could have on their CV. You may be wrong. Because, when you look around and ‘picture’ successful people with big waistlines, you’d possibly know the truth. Big waistlines represent good fortune and prosperity. The longer the belt, the shorter the life, in medical parlance, corresponds to a more healthy bank balance. Besides, there was a time, not long ago, when ‘size-zero’ was considered sick.

This brings us to the big question — what is healthy weight for you?

That being well and comfortable is vital for healthy weight is obvious — but, take a look at the relative use of the two terms in question. This does not, of course, mean that you care two hoots for your waistline. Just the opposite, because there is enough evidence to show that being overweight puts you at amplified health risks, some of them serious — for instance, high blood pressure, heart disorders, diabetes, and gall bladder disease.

As a matter of fact, losing weight is an important part of any early treatment plan for health issues, such as high blood pressure, diabetes etc., More than reason enough why research contends a paradox — that having a few ‘supplementary’ pounds in life may not be as dangerous as it once seemed to be. It may, contrary to popular opinion, actually protect you.

As for individuals who are not yet overweight, or obese, and over age 45, but have a few additional pounds, you would obviously need to weigh your choices cautiously before going on a diet plan.

This article reviews the precise effects of aging on your body weight and focuses just as much on the measure of what it means to be overweight. The basic idea is, of course, formulated to enable you to make your own personal decisions as to how best you’d reduce your weight without risks.