Weight Management or Weight loss: What's the difference?
Weight management has become the topic of the century. In a survey done by a leading hospital in India in 2003, it was found that nearly 71% of employees and 82% of CEO's were overweight and 48% of the employees and 69% of CEO's were physically unfit.
With rising problems of excess weight and other weight related health risks, maintaining normal body weight has become every adult’s concern. Weight management can be defined as a conscious effort by an overweight, underweight or obese person to attain an ideal healthy weight.
We need to understand that weight management is required at times for weight management but weight loss can have a slightly different meaning then weight management.
Weight loss, in the context of medicine, health or physical fitness, is reduction of the total body weight, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective tissue. It can occur unintentionally due to an underlying disease or can arise from a conscious effort to improve an overweight or obese state
It is really very important to note that when getting into weight management the main concern has to be reaching a level of good health and having an ideal weight through proper cardio, diet and strength training.
Common Weight Management Myths
- Rice is fattening and should be limited/avoided when trying to lose weight
- Vegetarians can't build muscle
- Skipping meals is a good way to lose weight
- Diets based on single foods (i.e. the cabbage soup or egg diets) are the best
- You always gain weight when you stop smoking
- Bananas and Potatoes are fattening and should be completely avoided
- Abdominal exercises remove fat only from your midsection
- Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets are the best way to lose weight
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