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Part 1 How We Became an Overweight World and Why Lose Weight Chapter 1. Why Do I Need to Lose Weight?
ОглавлениеFor over 50 million Americans, having to lose weight is not about looking good in that new dress, the suit they wore last year, or their beach wear. Talking about good looks seems to have become the most important thing in many people’s lives. The reasons to lose the extra weight are a lot more serious. If you want to be able to take that trip and do all the things you dream about once you’re able to retire, or want to be around to see your children grow up, you must lose that extra weight. Doing so can even become a matter of life or death!
Here Are the Important Complications of Weight Gain:
•High blood pressure
•Heart Disease
•Strokes
•Diabetes (type 2)
•Cancer
•Infertility (such as polycystic ovaries)
•Sleep Disturbances
•Gall Bladder Disease
•Osteoarthritis
Here is What Excess Fat Can Do:
•If you are 40 lbs overweight, you are cutting 3 years off your life.
•If you are 100 lbs. overweight, your are cutting 10 years off your life.
•Being extremely obese leads to the same chance of death as smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day.
•People that are only moderately overweight (BMI 25-30) cut a year off their life.
•People with a BMI greater than 30 cut as much as 5 years off their life.
•For every 5 point increase in BMI, chances of early death increase by 30%
Excess Food is Stored In Fat Cells Around Our Abdomen
Research on obesity has now concluded that the excess food we eat, and do not use, is stored away in ever-enlarging fat cells, mostly around our waists and inside our bellies. These fat cells do a lot more than just make you look fat. They have the ability to produce new dangerous and even life-threatening chemicals and absorb chemicals from the blood stream.
Abdominal Fat cells can:
•Raise blood pressure and blood cholesterol.
•Injure blood vessels and cause heart attacks and strokes.
•Raise blood sugar and cause diabetes.
•Make us feel permanently hungry.
These conditions do not simply “go along” with being obese, as previously thought. The reality is that these engorged fat cells are the cause of all problems. The only way to reverse the situation, and to stabilize vital bodily functions, is by forcing these overgrown cells to shrink back to their original size and return to their “normal” metabolic functions.