If tests suggest you are at high risk for heart disease or diabetes, the main thing to do is lose weight, says Dr. Landsberg.
“All physicians would recommend for a number of reasons that overweight patients should lose weight; there’s cardiovascular disease risk, there’s cancer risk, which wasn’t addressed in these studies,” he says. “So weight loss is important.”
However, if you’re overweight and can’t seem to shed the pounds, you should also keep trying, because exercise can help, says Wylie-Rosett.
“The physical activity story is—don’t just look at the scale, look at your whole lifestyle,” she says. “If you’re physically active, you still are potentially a lot healthier even if your weight doesn’t change much.”
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what are the major symtoms for hiv for some body to know if he or she is having it.
The symptoms for HIV (i.e., infection with the virus that causes AIDS) are usually similar to those you might have with a flu bug: lack of energy, swollen glands, fever, perhaps diarrhea. Obviously, these are common symptoms for influenza, but also may indicate HIV infection. If you’ve had unprotected sex or shared syringes to inject (illegal) drugs, you very well may be at risk for HIV infection. You should go to your local health department or physician and get a blood test for HIV. The costs are usually low and the results are kept confidential.
No one would say overweight is healthy,it’s true.
Mary
The best way to determine if you are over weight is to use skin calipers to caluculate body fat! Ditch the scale and pick up a pair of ski calipers!
have you tried calorie-counting? My mom is a ditieabc and needs to loose major pounds… her Dr. suggested calorie-counting (it’s been three months and she has lost 40 pounds!!)… search calorie counters on google (or yahoo) and you can type in a food… and it will give you the amount of calories in that food! I would suggest cutting your calorie intake down to a maximum of 1500 calories per day… it isn’t easy… but tell yourself ‘this is a lifestyle choice’. also record your calories on a notebook or computer… it will help you!GOOD LUCK! Was this answer helpful?