Keeping a Healthy Weight
These days, more and more people are placing importance on
keeping physically healthy. This can be seen by the amount of
people who are joining gyms and sports clubs, going on diets,
and spending on private health insurance. One of the biggest
areas of concern in this area for women is keeping a healthy
weight, this is because it not only effects their overall level
of physical health, but is also recognised as playing an
important role in mental and emotional well being, and self
perception as well.
Most people know that being both over weight and under weight
are not good for you, but health is about far more than just
body weight. Things such as your family medical history, your
genetic predispositions, how much you drink or smoke, what type
of food you eat and how much exercise you get all have a major
impact on health. There really is no ideal weight therefore that
you should be seeking on purely health grounds.
Using your weight as a measure of health therefore is not
particularly useful. Obviously there are levels that will
definitely be too high or too low, but within these limits,
there is a huge range of healthy weights that people will fall
into. Much of the worries that people feel regarding their
weight are more to do with media images and glamorous
advertisements than on what is considered healthy. We are
surrounded by images and conceptions of beauty that distort our
idea of what a healthy body should look like.
Many media images actually show people who are under weight,
sometimes considerable underweight, and do not represent a
healthy standard or good example to measure us against.
If you are genuinely concerned about health, then weight loss
should not be the ultimate goal of all fitness efforts. You
should try to cut down on cigarette and alcohol consumption, eat
healthy food, get a reasonable amount of exercise, and generally
take care of yourself. You do not need scientific advice and a
professionally designed eating and exercise schedule. More
likely what you need is common sense simple changes like
snacking on fruits sometimes, walking to work, and visiting your
doctor when recommended.
Doctor check ups are recommended at varying intervals depending
on your age and health circumstances but it is wise to keep up
to date with these checkups and not to fall into the trap of
constantly procrastinating. If the cost of doctor visits is a
serious issue that causes you to skip visits, then maybe you
should consider a health insurance plan that will cover such
checkups and just charge you an affordable monthly amount.
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