Weight management often depends on calculating metabolic rates, understanding fat biochemistry, and tailoring exercise programming for either muscle acquisition or structured fat reduction.
Losing 10 pounds in two months requires dietary diligence and serious exercise, but it's possible for most people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends you lose weight no faster than 2 pounds per week, because faster weight loss is more likely to be achieved in an unsound manner.
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While overweight and obesity is as much a problem for kids as for adults in the United States, the focus for children shouldn't be on weight, but on making healthier choices. Kids are still growing, and severely restricting calorie intake to promote a fast weight loss may impair growth and development.
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Losing belly fat is important to your health. The American Heart Association reports that men with a waist size over 40 inches and women with a waist size over 35 inches should take immediate steps to lose weight in order to reduce the risk of developing diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other chronic conditions.
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That upcoming event for which you want to look your very best is only three weeks away -- but that doesn't mean you can drop a significant amount of weight by then.
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Perhaps you were once a competitive runner, a heavy lifter, a football quarterback or a dancing queen. But as the demands of work, kids and life crept in during your 30s and 40s, fitness fell by the wayside.
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You may have heard that a low-carb diet helps with weight loss and better health for diabetics, but exactly what constitutes "low-carb" is unclear. In 2007, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggested that a low-carb diet consists of 50 to 150 grams daily.
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Fatigue and your weight are tightly intertwined. Being overweight means you have to work harder to do simple physical tasks, such as climbing the stairs and walking from the bus stop. A large body size may also interfere with nightly sleep as it increases the chances that you suffer from sleep apnea.
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You carry a spare tire in your car in case of an emergency, but you don't need the one encircling your torso. This layer of fat that sits around your waist, back and sides, is likely visceral fat -- which is a metabolically active form of fat that greatly raises your risk of developing certain diseases.
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A person with a pear-shaped body tends to gain weight in the hips and thighs, which is physiologically healthy but aesthetically frustrating. Eating too much of any food is an obvious cause of weight gain -- but too many fat calories are a sure way to store unwanted fat quickly for a pear-shaped body.
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It's a well-established "rule" that frequent meals boost your metabolism and prompt weight loss, but research doesn't necessarily back this rule up. While this eating pattern helps some people, it isn't absolutely necessary for healthy weight management.
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A 10 to 15 pound weight loss can have a significant impact on your health -- if you're overweight, it might mean enough weight loss to help improve markers of health, including blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
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A serious medical condition characterized by an unhealthily low body weight, abnormal obsession with food and distorted body image, anorexia nervosa needs attention from a medical professional.
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Losing a lot of weight in two weeks is unrealistic for anyone -- adult or teen; instead, use the short time to transform unhealthy habits and create a realistic relationship with food. At 14, you're still growing, so getting adequate nutrition and calories should be your primary dietary focus.
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Swishing oil around in your mouth sounds like an unusual way to improve your dental health. However, this practice is touted by the ancient Indian medical practice of Ayurveda, promising to help prevent tooth decay, deter bleeding gums and strengthen the teeth and jaw.
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Your hips and belly may be where you want to lose weight, but your body has other ideas. When you lose weight, these areas may slim down, but, despite what magazine articles and ads for fitness gadgets tell you, it's impossible to target them directly for fat loss.
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Weight loss requires you to burn a greater number of calories than you ingest. Exercise helps you burn calories, helping you create this negative calorie balance and lose weight. Exercising twice a day may help you lose weight, but only if you incorporate other strategies in your plan.
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Promises from supplements or magazine articles that claim you can lose 20 or more pounds per month aren't promoting "normal" weight loss. When it comes to weight loss, however, the term "normal" is truly relative.
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Managing your weight and being happy with your look is hard for anyone, especially a teen who's subject to peer pressure and images of skinny celebs. But bodies come in different sizes, and you can be healthy at a variety of weights.
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Belly fat in kids is just as serious of a health concern as it is for adults. According to research presented in a 2014 issue of the journal Pediatrics, from the years 2011 to 2012, almost 33 percent of children ages 6 to 18 years qualified as abdominally obese, according to their waist-to-height ratio.
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You may wear a small size and look slender to your friends, but underneath those petite clothes, you're lacking muscle and holding a large amount of fat. The condition, colloquially known as "skinny fat," or, in medical literature, as "normal weight obesity," can have serious health implications.
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